Hmm, fooz-ball table -or- education for my children... hmmm.
You know, people my age refer to that crap as payola.
Re:Why capitalism isn't evil,and unions sometimes
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Temp Troops of High-Tech
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I hate to say it, but I can't think of any easy way out of this problem
Create employment law that protects the worker, the industry, and the community? Just a thought...
Business practices will always aim for the bottom line in a capitalist economy. In the past, we had created law to protect workers after we learned that companies will exploit people even onto death. What has happened to those laws in the past 20 years? Things changed...
"Greed is all right, by the way . . . I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself." Ivan F. Boesky, U.S. financier. Commencement Address, 18 May 1986, School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley. Boesky's words were later picked up in Oliver Stone's film, Wall Street (1987), spoken by Gordon Gecko. Boesky himself was later convicted of conspiring to file false documents with the federal government, involving insider trading violations, and agreed to pay $100 million in fines and illicit profits.
Hi,
I'm 34 years old. I've worked in the IT industry for some time. I've also been a/. reader for some years. If there is one consistent POV I've noticed with/. posters is that they are very uninformed as to their rights as a worker.
/. posters believe people have a choice, you don't like working there, go elsewhere. Where I ask? All corporations work under the same rules of employment, the lowest end I can assure you. Those very very few companies that do give their employees human consideration will be bought by Micro$oft soon.
/. posters think the standard IT contract is perfectly natural. Well, a contract that gives you bad benefits, no pension, no security, seniority, etc. is not a good contract. Just because you're making 6 thousand more than your friends are doesn't mean you'll have a job tomorrow.
/. posters believe that roaming from company to company is a normal and good career move. This drives me crazy... can you people not do the math?
/. posters should consider the big picture. Workers need to come together to assure a healthy industry and future for the technology. You think Bill Gates will do that? Larry? Steve? No, they won't. Industry is created by the workers, the engineers, the scientists, not the bean counters and marketing sharks.
/. posters seem to have not noticed that all thier IT jobs generally originate with departments or companies that are, in effect, a chunk of some greater hydra like corporation. To make thier quarter earning fit, they would fire you and burn down the building you work in. It's called downsizing.
Umm. I hate to point it out, but you are the exception pal! Not everyone has your brains, spunk, and determination. The issue is the state of employment. It's not a choice except for those dynamic individuals who rise above the supression of the masses. Like you.
Remember, the War was won so you too could work part time.
H.G. Wells once wrote a story about a heartless, commercial society where all art was crass commercialism and the foulest entertainment of the lowest common denominator variety. Set in a future 1963, his publisher refused to print it saying:"No one will believe it".
Learning how to setup a WinNT network, setup a Cisco router, or a little JavaScript is NOT an education. These schools, with waaaay too much government and business "help", have ripped off thousands throughout the 90's.
How much does it cost to go to CompuCollege? ITI? Yea, all your money are us!
These days, all these graduates [*chuckle*]work at Microsoft... but many more are wandering the streets of America wearing signs that read: Will code in VB for food".
To quote Jack Valenti...
Service in an antipiracy campaign that included raids on college campuses last month. "The great moat that protects us, and it is only temporary, is lack of broadband access," Mr. Valenti said.
Greed is all right, by the way . . . I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. Ivan F. Boesky, U.S. financier. Commencement Address, 18 May 1986, School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley. Boesky's words were later picked up in Oliver Stone's film, Wall Street (1987), spoken by Gordon Gecko. Boesky himself was later convicted of conspiring to file false documents with the federal government, involving insider trading violations, and agreed to pay $100 million in fines and illicit profits.
If I behaved as M$, I'd be in jail for the rest of my life. Defending criminals who have created chaos within a medium so beloved by a young generation is like saying you think Hitler would be OK if only he didn't kill all those Jews.
Sooo, if I need to add a "feature" or patch to an M$ program in order to, oh say - keep certain resources on a schedule, would that violate the law?
Seems I've already violated Microsoft's "license"... as it's called. Hey, I'm just trying to figure out how many years in jail we retired IT workers will have to serve.
There is always a modicum of regulation for manufacturing anything. Luckily, these laws are just for show and Corporations generally ignore them because, well, the regulation is never written to be strong enough to harm the Corporation. Might interfere with the GOP after all.;p
If there is one thing this reminds me of, is that the limits of transmitting "bits" is a real thing. Why we are trying to broadcast bits and bytes is beyond me, I see no evidence of this ever becoming a high quality, practical medium. Isn't the Internet really a lot of hype? Other than transmitting basic text around it is not much good for anything heavier. IMHO.
Don't start in with 3D online games. My point is, after my 10 years of TCP/IP, Web, Streaming, Gaming, etc. the Internet and Computers in general still look to me like the most clumsy, expensive, wasteful, way to transmit information ever created. And it all looks like shit still. Hey, Maybe you like watching movies on a 14" screen with jumpy pixilated images, I don't. The real tragedy here is that you spent far more money on it, even if you got it from some warez spot online.
The world has been taken over by aliens who look just like little TVs with keyboards. Their mission, to waste time, present images so poorly eyesight worldwide will be strained, destroy as much information as possible and when that fails - change it, pollute by dumping masses of oil based plastic, bubble the economy to outrageous proportions - causing world monetary chaos, then control information by offering online shopping.
Hey, aren't you Americans tired of seeing tax dollars, the ones that go into ARPA and University research, etc., used to developed technology for MICROSOFT????!!!?!?! ? It's called stealing. The United States Government steals technology, developed with tax dollars (what, you thought it was Corporate donations? HAHAHAHAHAHA), and gives it to industry (usually by allowing law to "bend" so as to make markets available).
In the old days, this was called payola. Now, it's called the New Economy. Jerks!
You lucky bastard! I get butkiss! I get troll ratings. Ahh, this is weird. I am beginning to wonder if the moderation system isn't susceptible to "waves" of moderations. Something. *sigh*. You know, I come to/. for the posts. There are many really intelligent people here, but man... they are gonna bolt if this keeps up. Maybe I'm over reacting but the M$ plants are really annoying. Their posts are like reading molasses.
Well,
No one has ever seen my posts regarding the mass of M$ poseurs who are moderating/. out of being relevant. The buggers keep rating me as a Troll! When did bashing Microsoft, the most hated and guilty of every possible bad thing a corporation can do short of poisoning Bhopal, become a crime on/. ?? Now, this story shows up. Hmmm. CmdrTaco please wake up!
Oh I'm soooo excited. Another shape! Ooooo. Ahhhhh. Gosh, a G4 chip! How powerful. How much RAM? What video card? HOW MUCH!?!?!?!
I'm kidding. But really, is there any reason to be this expensive? It's hardly the Rolls Royce of hardware, no matter how cleverly the motherboard is laid out. Why apple insists on creating over priced hunks of plastic is mystifying.
I'm confused. Why would I buy the most expensive software for my network? Why would I submit to a restrictive license that borders on theft of content? Why do business with a company that keeps secret/personal data on thier customers? Why would I chose software that simply cannot handle large networks with any promise of stability? Server software? Microsoft? Suuuure... leave those security issues to me 'cause it's not M$s responsibility. I could go on and on.
Let's be real, WinNT Pack5 and Win2000 Pack2 are acceptable platforms. But when considered with all the rest, it's a piss poor record as a company. In fact, they're famous for it. All that just for a decent small office network? Thanks M$, but I'd rather have the million dollars my company has wasted on you liars this past year back!
Why would I go near a company like M$? They are famous for being the biggest bastards in the history of the corporate world. They are the Monsanto of software. Let's be real.
It's not M$ bashing, it's simply a customer reaction to being treated like dirt and made to pay for it all those years. Microsoft... I'll never, ever, buy one of your products again and will recommend to everyone who will listen to use ANYTHING else! Am I wrong?
Re:No offense but people like Tom made it richer
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Info on the LOTR:FOTR DVD
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Tom is essential to the Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien once said. I'm surprised a previous poster on this thread states Tolkien once thought to remove the Tom Bombadill chapter all together.Yikes! I loved the character; his colourful cloths, and odd hobbies (what were those lilies for anyho'?). Not to mention shacking up with a beautiful elven babe named Goldberry. Yummy! His power is great, he's described at the Council of Elrond as being a candidate for hiding the Ring. Gandalf shoots this one down, describing Tom's power and place in the Universe in rather mysterious words. Tom definitely has a place in LOTR that is unique and brings whole dimension to a fully formed world.
Having said that... I would have dropped him from the movie too. I'm impressed that Jackson is playing up the evil of the Ring and the fear that underlined the book. Even with Tom Bombadill around, the story has a melancholy dread to it. Something a veteran of the Battle of the Somme would understand, as J.R.R. Tolkien was. It is an incomplete retelling of the books, (and if you wanna make a movie that detailed, good friggin' luck) but it seems that Jackson has made a complete movie. And a satisfying one to this old Gen-X reader.:-)
The AcSys Biometrics Face Recognition, unlike some, will not accept photos. It may even balk at a person standing perfectly still (if it's set at a high tolerance) as a real, moving human is demanded by the algorithm.
Some Face Rec is better than others.:)
http://www.acsysbiometricscorp.com/
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Hmm, fooz-ball table -or- education for my children... hmmm.
You know, people my age refer to that crap as payola.
I hate to say it, but I can't think of any easy way out of this problem
Create employment law that protects the worker, the industry, and the community? Just a thought...
Business practices will always aim for the bottom line in a capitalist economy. In the past, we had created law to protect workers after we learned that companies will exploit people even onto death. What has happened to those laws in the past 20 years? Things changed...
"Greed is all right, by the way . . . I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself." Ivan F. Boesky, U.S. financier. Commencement Address, 18 May 1986, School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley. Boesky's words were later picked up in Oliver Stone's film, Wall Street (1987), spoken by Gordon Gecko. Boesky himself was later convicted of conspiring to file false documents with the federal government, involving insider trading violations, and agreed to pay $100 million in fines and illicit profits.
Hi, /. reader for some years. If there is one consistent POV I've noticed with /. posters is that they are very uninformed as to their rights as a worker.
I'm 34 years old. I've worked in the IT industry for some time. I've also been a
/. posters believe people have a choice, you don't like working there, go elsewhere. Where I ask? All corporations work under the same rules of employment, the lowest end I can assure you. Those very very few companies that do give their employees human consideration will be bought by Micro$oft soon.
/. posters think the standard IT contract is perfectly natural. Well, a contract that gives you bad benefits, no pension, no security, seniority, etc. is not a good contract. Just because you're making 6 thousand more than your friends are doesn't mean you'll have a job tomorrow.
/. posters believe that roaming from company to company is a normal and good career move. This drives me crazy... can you people not do the math?
/. posters should consider the big picture. Workers need to come together to assure a healthy industry and future for the technology. You think Bill Gates will do that? Larry? Steve? No, they won't. Industry is created by the workers, the engineers, the scientists, not the bean counters and marketing sharks.
/. posters seem to have not noticed that all thier IT jobs generally originate with departments or companies that are, in effect, a chunk of some greater hydra like corporation. To make thier quarter earning fit, they would fire you and burn down the building you work in. It's called downsizing.
"Fuck the doomed". R. Nixen
Umm. I hate to point it out, but you are the exception pal! Not everyone has your brains, spunk, and determination. The issue is the state of employment. It's not a choice except for those dynamic individuals who rise above the supression of the masses. Like you.
So back off Superman.
You don't get a choice white boy. Grow up!
Remember, the War was won so you too could work part time.
H.G. Wells once wrote a story about a heartless, commercial society where all art was crass commercialism and the foulest entertainment of the lowest common denominator variety. Set in a future 1963, his publisher refused to print it saying:"No one will believe it".
Learning how to setup a WinNT network, setup a Cisco router, or a little JavaScript is NOT an education. These schools, with waaaay too much government and business "help" , have ripped off thousands throughout the 90's.
How much does it cost to go to CompuCollege? ITI? Yea, all your money are us!
These days, all these graduates [*chuckle*]work at Microsoft... but many more are wandering the streets of America wearing signs that read: Will code in VB for food".
Well done Captain. But remember, when the script kiddies start to be lined up, you're next. ;p
To quote Jack Valenti...
Service in an antipiracy campaign that included raids on college campuses last month. "The great moat that protects us, and it is only temporary, is lack of broadband access," Mr. Valenti said.
Greed is all right, by the way . . . I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
Ivan F. Boesky, U.S. financier. Commencement Address, 18 May 1986, School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley. Boesky's words were later picked up in Oliver Stone's film, Wall Street (1987), spoken by Gordon Gecko. Boesky himself was later convicted of conspiring to file false documents with the federal government, involving insider trading violations, and agreed to pay $100 million in fines and illicit profits.
Firing for effect!
i LOVE this game!!!
If I behaved as M$, I'd be in jail for the rest of my life. Defending criminals who have created chaos within a medium so beloved by a young generation is like saying you think Hitler would be OK if only he didn't kill all those Jews.
You're a real moron you know that?
Somewhere, a rim shot could be heard.
*pfft*, I'd given it up for DaVinci's Inquest. btw...Where did X-Files jump the shark?
Sooo, if I need to add a "feature" or patch to an M$ program in order to, oh say - keep certain resources on a schedule, would that violate the law?
Seems I've already violated Microsoft's "license"... as it's called. Hey, I'm just trying to figure out how many years in jail we retired IT workers will have to serve.
There is always a modicum of regulation for manufacturing anything. Luckily, these laws are just for show and Corporations generally ignore them because, well, the regulation is never written to be strong enough to harm the Corporation. Might interfere with the GOP after all. ;p
Sarcasm [mode on]
Luckily, Microsoft has never, ever neglected security issues. Their completely clean legal standing attests to that.
If there is one thing this reminds me of, is that the limits of transmitting "bits" is a real thing. Why we are trying to broadcast bits and bytes is beyond me, I see no evidence of this ever becoming a high quality, practical medium. Isn't the Internet really a lot of hype? Other than transmitting basic text around it is not much good for anything heavier. IMHO.
Don't start in with 3D online games. My point is, after my 10 years of TCP/IP, Web, Streaming, Gaming, etc. the Internet and Computers in general still look to me like the most clumsy, expensive, wasteful, way to transmit information ever created. And it all looks like shit still. Hey, Maybe you like watching movies on a 14" screen with jumpy pixilated images, I don't. The real tragedy here is that you spent far more money on it, even if you got it from some warez spot online.
The world has been taken over by aliens who look just like little TVs with keyboards. Their mission, to waste time, present images so poorly eyesight worldwide will be strained, destroy as much information as possible and when that fails - change it, pollute by dumping masses of oil based plastic, bubble the economy to outrageous proportions - causing world monetary chaos, then control information by offering online shopping.
Mission successful!
Hey, aren't you Americans tired of seeing tax dollars, the ones that go into ARPA and University research, etc., used to developed technology for MICROSOFT????!!!?!?! ?
It's called stealing. The United States Government steals technology, developed with tax dollars (what, you thought it was Corporate donations? HAHAHAHAHAHA), and gives it to industry (usually by allowing law to "bend" so as to make markets available).
In the old days, this was called payola. Now, it's called the New Economy. Jerks!
You lucky bastard! I get butkiss! I get troll ratings. Ahh, this is weird. I am beginning to wonder if the moderation system isn't susceptible to "waves" of moderations. Something. *sigh*. You know, I come to /. for the posts. There are many really intelligent people here, but man... they are gonna bolt if this keeps up. Maybe I'm over reacting but the M$ plants are really annoying. Their posts are like reading molasses.
Well, /. out of being relevant. The buggers keep rating me as a Troll! When did bashing Microsoft, the most hated and guilty of every possible bad thing a corporation can do short of poisoning Bhopal, become a crime on /. ?? Now, this story shows up. Hmmm. CmdrTaco please wake up!
No one has ever seen my posts regarding the mass of M$ poseurs who are moderating
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/if troll = ignore. }
Oh I'm soooo excited. Another shape! Ooooo. Ahhhhh. Gosh, a G4 chip! How powerful. How much RAM? What video card? HOW MUCH!?!?!?!
I'm kidding. But really, is there any reason to be this expensive? It's hardly the Rolls Royce of hardware, no matter how cleverly the motherboard is laid out. Why apple insists on creating over priced hunks of plastic is mystifying.
I'm confused. Why would I buy the most expensive software for my network? Why would I submit to a restrictive license that borders on theft of content? Why do business with a company that keeps secret/personal data on thier customers? Why would I chose software that simply cannot handle large networks with any promise of stability? Server software? Microsoft? Suuuure... leave those security issues to me 'cause it's not M$s responsibility. I could go on and on.
Let's be real, WinNT Pack5 and Win2000 Pack2 are acceptable platforms. But when considered with all the rest, it's a piss poor record as a company. In fact, they're famous for it. All that just for a decent small office network? Thanks M$, but I'd rather have the million dollars my company has wasted on you liars this past year back!
Why would I go near a company like M$? They are famous for being the biggest bastards in the history of the corporate world. They are the Monsanto of software. Let's be real.
It's not M$ bashing, it's simply a customer reaction to being treated like dirt and made to pay for it all those years. Microsoft... I'll never, ever, buy one of your products again and will recommend to everyone who will listen to use ANYTHING else! Am I wrong?
Tom is essential to the Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien once said. I'm surprised a previous poster on this thread states Tolkien once thought to remove the Tom Bombadill chapter all together. Yikes! I loved the character; his colourful cloths, and odd hobbies (what were those lilies for anyho'?). Not to mention shacking up with a beautiful elven babe named Goldberry. Yummy! His power is great, he's described at the Council of Elrond as being a candidate for hiding the Ring. Gandalf shoots this one down, describing Tom's power and place in the Universe in rather mysterious words. Tom definitely has a place in LOTR that is unique and brings whole dimension to a fully formed world.
:-)
Having said that... I would have dropped him from the movie too. I'm impressed that Jackson is playing up the evil of the Ring and the fear that underlined the book. Even with Tom Bombadill around, the story has a melancholy dread to it. Something a veteran of the Battle of the Somme would understand, as J.R.R. Tolkien was. It is an incomplete retelling of the books, (and if you wanna make a movie that detailed, good friggin' luck) but it seems that Jackson has made a complete movie. And a satisfying one to this old Gen-X reader.
The AcSys Biometrics Face Recognition, unlike some, will not accept photos. It may even balk at a person standing perfectly still (if it's set at a high tolerance) as a real, moving human is demanded by the algorithm.
Some Face Rec is better than others.
http://www.acsysbiometricscorp.com/