As long as it doesn't affect the next 2 quarters of revenue on The Street, they can cash in their options and retire to the house in Santa Barbara's Spanish Hills.
Make sure he is well-trained, and to do that, make him stick to all the "approved policied and procedures" about good coding practice, good commenting, good communications with management, good deadline handling, etc, and all the ins and outs of the systems. Write highly detailed docs.
First, it'll take an awful long time, so you'll collect extra paycheck(s). Furthermore, your bosses might realise that the foreign worker can't "exactly" speak perfect english, especially when it comes to explaining complex interactions between the software and the business unit processes.
Also, the bosses will realize that you do know what the hell you are doing, and that'll come in handy later on with references.
Lastly, you will have gained a good reputation as a good trainer. This will definitely impress the next employer, since they too will wonder how you handle a layoff.
But remember: You are technically fired, because you cost too much. It has nothing to do with your personality or anything else. It's all about money. Take it like a man and handle it like a professional.
I said I would have my system check if there was a message on the sending server. I didn't say I would spend brain cycle doing that. I would write a python script to do that for me.
Now, that's a fisrt line of defense, After that, the usual spam/virus filter is applied, with automatic notification to authorities and abuse@server.com and all related entities with the name and IP of the server the mail came from. up and up the isp chain.
Of course, enough people doing that would mean that nobody would ever check mail on blacklisted servers and they would just hold mail until they got full or until expiration of the mail-holding. On second thought, a spammer with a couple of 250 gig hds could hold out a long time.
I would call it "Mozilla Internet Browser" You could shorten it to "Internet Browser", or just "Browser" in mixed conversation.
Sample conversation:
Girl A:
"...like, yesterday, my boyfriend, you know, put this internet browser on my computer, like, and..."
Girl B:
"Wow, like, really?..."
Girl A:
"Yeahhh, and, like, you know, no popups!"
Girl B:
"Rad!!! Cool, I want, like, one too, you know..."
Girl A:
"I know!!! Like tell your boygriend, like, by the way... " [fake swoon] "he's so totally hot, like, anyway..." [fake serious] " to put this, hum, like, internet browser, you know, on your computer..."
Girl B:
"Yeah!!! He's a dork!" [rolls eyes] "Like, hum, okay... Thanks! you know?..."
Speaking of stolen items: there's a reason people call them "fenced".
Anyway, there's a way to have openness and seurity.
You put a table in a field and put a log of nice candy on it. (the goodies, no fence)
Then you put an east-german martial arts instructor in a soviet-era uniform with an AK-74 and a german shepherd on a short leash next to the table. (security)
Anyone can come and browse, but I guarantee you they won't take any candy without leaving a few dimes in the jar.
Security should be obvious, and punishment should be swift and brutal.
I would set up my system to systematically check that for every notification there is an actual matching message body at the originating server. If there was not, I would just drop the notice.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I think that actually, spam does not create enough customers of legitimate products.
What email harvesters do is convince poorly informed people and businesses that by buying their $499.00 mailing list of two million valid email addresses, they will rake in thousands upon thousands of dollars in profits.
It is those poor sods who send the millions of email, using the email autosender conveniently provided on the cd-rom, who are then blacklisted to hell and lose their $49/mo super gold premium windows 2003 10MB (Front-Page enabled no less) account and wonder with growing bitterness how the jerks at "MakeMegaBuxWithEmail.Com" could have flat out lied, LIED, to them...
Then they realize they can make $499/CD by just finding another sucker...
Of course, like all good pyramid scheme, the thing will implode under its own weight, but it has not yet run its course.
A solution? Of course. A study needs to be made showing the average Joe that paying for a list of email addresses is a snake-oil scheme to lift money from their wallet.
Then people can charge money for the "Don't Be Fooled By Email Scam Artists. Send $29 And I'Ll Show You How To Protect Yourself Today!!!" and spam will be a thing of the past.
If someone shoots the thing down, do you think the Israeli platoon is going to go home and file a report ("sorry Captain, we loss the drone. We were blind out there.")? Naww, they'll come running, guns blazing, or at least put a couple of 50mm mortar rounds into the general area. I see this as a target-finding exercise. The plane gets shot down, you can at least claim that you were fired on before you mowed down the 30 civilians.
If it was me, I'd make them into small all-terrain vehicles, so you can stop and take nice still photos. Plus you could make it go fast, faster than a plane even.
> Even if you don't think they're a country with a government, the collective people can still be referred to as Palestine, and everyone will know who you're talking about.
I appreciate your taking the time to point out the thing about the mime type.
However, since it is a hosted site, how can I control the mime type except by changing the extension? For example, I use.html, and all is well. If I use.xml, then IE goes bezerk, whereas moz does fine.
Oh well, more fine tuning ont he way.
Thanks for the two referenced sites, i'll check them out.
moz first, then tweak for IE 6. That way, one html base, on css.
By the way, I do xhtml 1.1 strict, no tables.
Arguably the sites aren't eye candy, but google, linx and modem users love them. Plus, everyone in the corporate world has a modern browser, and that's my target audience.
Also, use templating with asp or php. It saves a bunch of time.
If playing CT, good players drink less because they last the round. People who die early (tunnel/bridge rushers) drink more, because they can use the left hand to tab between planers and the right to reach for, you guessed it, the life-giving drink.
Besides, you should buy it at smart and final, a 24 case is 7.00, so under 16 cents per can.
I also think that tables can make a mess of things when you are working from a text editor, because unless you have very good indentation, you have to do trial and error and that's frustrating and error-prone.
That's the reason I use tables for tabular display but not for layout.
Why would you learn how to use something that you can't actually use? Would that not be a waste of time?
And what if you did create something truly remarkable, and didn't patent it, would then the next guy to come along patent it and block YOU from using it?
So if you had to patent everything that you wanted to use, would you not spend quite a bit of time and energy patenting instead of researching?
In the end, patents stifle innovation, since you have to spend energy patenting, energy taken away from researching. And innovation comes from researching, not patenting.
Now, the counter-argument is that you will have an incentive to research because the patent will grant you an exclusivity and you will be able to "corner the market" and make a lot of money.
Of course, if everyone did that, it would indeed be very difficult for anyone to invent anything patentable that actually makes good money. So only large corporations would do research, file patents, and rake in the profits.
But that leaves out Mr Tinkerer, who, instead of tinkering with his compiler/gadget, just sits and watches TV, wallowing in his inability to create anything that can pay the rent, being depressed.
And the big companies only innovate to maintain/gain market share. So when they are the only players in the market, they slow the rate of innovation to a crawl, because research is expensive, and the less research they do, the more net profits they get, and that's ALL the shareholders (owners) care about.
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As long as it doesn't affect the next 2 quarters of revenue on The Street, they can cash in their options and retire to the house in Santa Barbara's Spanish Hills.
Short sighted? Yes. Welcome to Kapital-ism.
Make sure he is well-trained, and to do that, make him stick to all the "approved policied and procedures" about good coding practice, good commenting, good communications with management, good deadline handling, etc, and all the ins and outs of the systems. Write highly detailed docs.
First, it'll take an awful long time, so you'll collect extra paycheck(s). Furthermore, your bosses might realise that the foreign worker can't "exactly" speak perfect english, especially when it comes to explaining complex interactions between the software and the business unit processes.
Also, the bosses will realize that you do know what the hell you are doing, and that'll come in handy later on with references.
Lastly, you will have gained a good reputation as a good trainer. This will definitely impress the next employer, since they too will wonder how you handle a layoff.
But remember: You are technically fired, because you cost too much. It has nothing to do with your personality or anything else. It's all about money. Take it like a man and handle it like a professional.
I said I would have my system check if there was a message on the sending server. I didn't say I would spend brain cycle doing that. I would write a python script to do that for me.
Now, that's a fisrt line of defense, After that, the usual spam/virus filter is applied, with automatic notification to authorities and abuse@server.com and all related entities with the name and IP of the server the mail came from.
up and up the isp chain.
Of course, enough people doing that would mean that nobody would ever check mail on blacklisted servers and they would just hold mail until they got full or until expiration of the mail-holding. On second thought, a spammer with a couple of 250 gig hds could hold out a long time.
I would call it "Mozilla Internet Browser"
...more mindless chatter...
You could shorten it to "Internet Browser", or just "Browser" in mixed conversation.
Sample conversation:
Girl A:
"...like, yesterday, my boyfriend, you know, put this internet browser on my computer, like, and..."
Girl B:
"Wow, like, really?..."
Girl A:
"Yeahhh, and, like, you know, no popups!"
Girl B:
"Rad!!! Cool, I want, like, one too, you know..."
Girl A:
"I know!!! Like tell your boygriend, like, by the way... " [fake swoon] "he's so totally hot, like, anyway..." [fake serious] " to put this, hum, like, internet browser, you know, on your computer..."
Girl B:
"Yeah!!! He's a dork!" [rolls eyes] "Like, hum, okay... Thanks! you know?..."
Girl A:
Speaking of stolen items: there's a reason people call them "fenced".
Anyway, there's a way to have openness and seurity.
You put a table in a field and put a log of nice candy on it. (the goodies, no fence)
Then you put an east-german martial arts instructor in a soviet-era uniform with an AK-74 and a german shepherd on a short leash next to the table. (security)
Anyone can come and browse, but I guarantee you they won't take any candy without leaving a few dimes in the jar.
Security should be obvious, and punishment should be swift and brutal.
Then you can have openness and security.
Or re-plug in the server. Then go back to your car and download everything out of it before anyone knows.
I would set up my system to systematically check that for every notification there is an actual matching message body at the originating server. If there was not, I would just drop the notice.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I think that actually, spam does not create enough customers of legitimate products.
What email harvesters do is convince poorly informed people and businesses that by buying their $499.00 mailing list of two million valid email addresses, they will rake in thousands upon thousands of dollars in profits.
It is those poor sods who send the millions of email, using the email autosender conveniently provided on the cd-rom, who are then blacklisted to hell and lose their $49/mo super gold premium windows 2003 10MB (Front-Page enabled no less) account and wonder with growing bitterness how the jerks at "MakeMegaBuxWithEmail.Com" could have flat out lied, LIED, to them...
Then they realize they can make $499/CD by just finding another sucker...
Of course, like all good pyramid scheme, the thing will implode under its own weight, but it has not yet run its course.
A solution? Of course. A study needs to be made showing the average Joe that paying for a list of email addresses is a snake-oil scheme to lift money from their wallet.
Then people can charge money for the "Don't Be Fooled By Email Scam Artists. Send $29 And I'Ll Show You How To Protect Yourself Today!!!" and spam will be a thing of the past.
(yeah, that's it...)
If someone shoots the thing down, do you think the Israeli platoon is going to go home and file a report ("sorry Captain, we loss the drone. We were blind out there.")?
Naww, they'll come running, guns blazing, or at least put a couple of 50mm mortar rounds into the general area.
I see this as a target-finding exercise.
The plane gets shot down, you can at least claim that you were fired on before you mowed down the 30 civilians.
If it was me, I'd make them into small all-terrain vehicles, so you can stop and take nice still photos. Plus you could make it go fast, faster than a plane even.
> Even if you don't think they're a country with a government, the collective people can still be referred to as Palestine, and everyone will know who you're talking about.
like Tibet?
then make it gpl and watch MS not be able to use it, because they would not want to release the api "improvements".
Because other things would have been added to the language that would have made it core.
Can you photocopy the stuff?
.txt file out there (or docbook, i m not picky) and formatting it for view?
As a student, you can't highlight the page.
Is there a "toolkit" for taking a
Can the thing be used to company-genereated management reports?
Wanna change that? When you go buy something, ask for it in liters, centimeters/meters, grams, etc.
Enought people doing that, and someone will sell a scale at the grocery store that dislpays both metric and imperial. (like car spedometers)
I appreciate your taking the time to point out the thing about the mime type.
.html, and all is well. .xml, then IE goes bezerk, whereas moz does fine.
However, since it is a hosted site, how can I control the mime type except by changing the extension? For example, I use
If I use
Oh well, more fine tuning ont he way.
Thanks for the two referenced sites, i'll check them out.
I concur on that.
moz first, then tweak for IE 6.
That way, one html base, on css.
By the way, I do xhtml 1.1 strict, no tables.
Arguably the sites aren't eye candy, but google, linx and modem users love them. Plus, everyone in the corporate world has a modern browser, and that's my target audience.
Also, use templating with asp or php. It saves a bunch of time.
I have to agree.
I go so I don't hear my wife bitch.
I also go because I don't want to buy the games, and I don't want to have to upgrade my machine every 6 months to run the latest and greatest.
Besides, the place I go is $2/hr. And for playing BF1942 DC or EoD with 30 foos, itz da bomb!
They sell sodas and chips. No coffee.
And, btw, I hate to have to wait on a waiting list to get to one of their 70 computers.
Real geeks drink 4-10 drinks per day/night.
(2 before lunch, 2 after lunch, 2-6 after dinner)
If playing CT, good players drink less because they last the round. People who die early (tunnel/bridge rushers) drink more, because they can use the left hand to tab between planers and the right to reach for, you guessed it, the life-giving drink.
Besides, you should buy it at smart and final, a 24 case is 7.00, so under 16 cents per can.
She said the budget was $100.
Do it "Eighty-Seven Cube"
;)
It's shorter, doesn't make you sound retarded, and is geekish as hell
Isn't that what we all aspire for?
I also think that tables can make a mess of things when you are working from a text editor, because unless you have very good indentation, you have to do trial and error and that's frustrating and error-prone.
That's the reason I use tables for tabular display but not for layout.
You answer slashdot posts to avoid missing too much work? I thought you posted to slashdot to avoid work to begin with...
mmmm
Behind every how question there is a why question.
the how was posed, I just asked the why.
>Based on the rest of your post, I'd say you have already decided not to play and take your toys and go home.
Yes, I had already formed an opinion. This whole discussion is hardly new, and has been hashed and slashed at endlessly on slash dotte already.
Why would you learn how to use something that you can't actually use? Would that not be a waste of time?
And what if you did create something truly remarkable, and didn't patent it, would then the next guy to come along patent it and block YOU from using it?
So if you had to patent everything that you wanted to use, would you not spend quite a bit of time and energy patenting instead of researching?
In the end, patents stifle innovation, since you have to spend energy patenting, energy taken away from researching. And innovation comes from researching, not patenting.
Now, the counter-argument is that you will have an incentive to research because the patent will grant you an exclusivity and you will be able to "corner the market" and make a lot of money.
Of course, if everyone did that, it would indeed be very difficult for anyone to invent anything patentable that actually makes good money. So only large corporations would do research, file patents, and rake in the profits.
But that leaves out Mr Tinkerer, who, instead of tinkering with his compiler/gadget, just sits and watches TV, wallowing in his inability to create anything that can pay the rent, being depressed.
And the big companies only innovate to maintain/gain market share. So when they are the only players in the market, they slow the rate of innovation to a crawl, because research is expensive, and the less research they do, the more net profits they get, and that's ALL the shareholders (owners) care about.
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No, that would be IANANASAE. (You can't acronymize acronyms... Oh, wait, I can acronymize it to just "I" hehe )
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