If you leave your door unlocked and some robber comes and steals your stuff, the insurance company is likely to stiff you for failing to take due precautions.
The robber can be prosecuted for illegal entry/trespass and theft and/or whatever laws they throw around in the locality in question, but that doesn't excuse failure to lock the door in the first place. Burglars can easily circumvent locks, but at least if you locked it, the insurance company would consider that you tried.
That's because you bought into his anti-psychiatry propaganda. If you'd just chucked down a couple of Valium, you'd have been fine.
Bradbury had so much opposition in him to mental health it's a wonder the Scientologists didn't adopt him and make him a saint.
Granted, at the time he wrote a lot of that stuff, most psycho-active medications had all the subtlety of a 2x4 upside the head, but he really did want the monsters to survive and he really did feel that insanity was one of the primary roots of creativity.
When Robert Aspirin put together the Thieves World collaboration, he do a pre-emptive weaseling on continuity by explaining that different people had different memories and different agendas.
Which was actually a sharp idea, since that's exactly what happens in real life. Even our own memories are prone to distortion. The brain handles a lot of its memory functions not by playing back fixed detailed recordings, but by reconstruction.
Rights may not be removed, but they sure as heck can be denied.
The USA declares that all men have the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. However, the US government (among other authorities within the nation) has been known to remove life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness from countless individuals through various means and for various reasons (of greater or lesser justification).
English being what it is, we call that form of denial "taking away someone's rights".
Primaries have become a curse upon the nation. The people most likely to vote in them are the extremists, who then dump extreme-leaning candidates on the general election who then have to scramble to appear centrist since the country as a whole has a significant gap between Left and Right, regardless of how far Right the Left is considered by Europeans.
So we have primary winners who are at best panderers to our worse natures and at worst aligned with them, whose credibility is suspect - they either have to "flip flop" or they're seen as unwilling to accommodate the other side. Anyone halfway sane or centrist cannot make it to the general election where they're needed most.
Someone evidently transplanted in his brother's brain this week.
He also came out in favor of a totally voucher-driven school system. That was a bee in his bonnet while he was governor and one of the best things about his administration was that he had only limited success at it back then.
But that's because as a contractor, you're billable by the hour. Salaried employees don't usually get overtime. As my boss once said "you get paid well, we expect more hours".
To which I replied "If I wanted that effective hourly rate, I'd get a job that didn't expect overtime and a second job at a convenience store and then at least then I'd get a change of scenery every 8 hours."
The real issue is that "done!" is what Management wants.
As far as they're concerned, if you can slap together a pretty UI in 2-3 days, they're impatient to have it in production by the end of the week so you can move on and get the next thing "done!".
Forget the horrible UI, the backend is usually an unstable insecure mess. But since nobody sees that until your database shows up on Wikileaks, who cares?
Today's platforms are sufficiently abstract and helpful that detailed documentation to the level that old-time software required isn't generally required. But since documentation isn't part of the UI, it's not important anyway.
Actually, companies don't want to spend or wait for training in their specific tool stacks. They want instant plug-in programmers.
If they can select from the entire world, they are more likely to find such. Whether that's realistic or fair or not is another thing: they want what they want and lobby for it because they can.
Actually, considering the laundry-list requirements, even the entire planet isn't big enough. They're demanding statistical impossibilities.
What they get are people who are willing to lie to get the job.
Outside of a few things like politics, advertising and the executive suite, strong lying skills aren't generally considered as vital assets.
Please don't mix SSL and non-SSL on a page. It's a potential exploit vector. There's a way to get your non-critical content served over SSL too.
And PLEASE don't go popping open new windows. I freakin' hate that and the only way you'll get me to flee your site even quicker is to put a self-playing Flash object(s) on your page.
what is the c*t magazine everybody keeps speaking of? I know plenty of c*ts, but none who work at a magazine.
It's not c*t, it's "c't", Which is somebody's clever way of extremely abbreviating Computerteknic. More formally, and translated to English, Magazine for Computer Technics. A venerable German tech publication, despite the brevity.
If it paginates wrong an OpenOffice developer should fix that.
If will paginate wrong if a different MS Office setup is being used as well.
Unless you strictly control pagination, the exact breaking points on pages will depend on what fonts are installed on the system. Both MS-Office and Open/Libre Office get their typesetting metrics from the printer fonts, not from some hard-coded internal source.
Before TrueType came along, in fact, it was pretty much a crap shoot, since the only fonts available were the ones that came with the printers and different manufacturers/models had fonts with different metrics.
TrueType is a scalable font, so the metrics define the printer instead of the reverse. But even if you have TrueType fonts installed, the actual font selection mechanisms are fuzzy and having some other higher-scored font on the computer can cause the "wrong" font / font metrics to be used to typeset a page.
Long and short of it: you want precise pagination, use a Page Layout program, not a Word Processor. Or at least don't expect the space bar and Return key to be the determinants on where the pages break.
Yea, it actually sounds like they really failed at training. Yes, converting a document from one format to another, I've found, will often give you different page breaks. So... don't rely on the page breaks. You can use hard breaks, document sections, template formats, etc., and not deal with that issue.
That was the first thing that came to mind for me also. And what expectation can anyone have that brute-force pagination done on desktop MS-Office will be identical to what comes out of Office 365? The font metrics could be entirely different. Especially if the exact same font definitions aren't being used on both.
I was at a local Hamvention and in a bin of CDs there was a Slackware CD. Seemed simple. Create a boot diskette and root diskette and watch it LILO. And the rest was history.
On the minus side, back then prepping for a Linux install meant cracking open the box and copying down the chip numbers and DIP switch settings on your network and video cards so that you could answer the config prompts correctly. On the plus side, even then it was more friendly and better supported than what you got for OS/2, despite OS/2 having the assets of a major Fortune technology company behind it. Way behind it, alas.
Inciting violence is a good way to end up Ruby Ridge style. Or, if you're lucky, you can share facilities with the Unabomber. But probably not trade philosophies. I think they keep him pretty well isolated.
Being prepared to kill wasn't the solution that Martin Luther King chose, and he managed to advance his cause.
You cannot simply send a string "It is not 21 hours, 14 minutes, Coordinated Universal Time" across the Internet and reliably set a clock. Network latencies vary. The NTP service attempts to minimize that by working with multiple time sources and attempting to form a consensus. It will never be totally precise, but it will be better than single-source timing. It's just one possible solution out of potentially thousands, but it's the popular one.
And, like any Internet service, there are Bad Guys out there looking to exploit it. Worse, to minimize overhead, a lot of NTP's work is done via UDP, which means that it's a candidate for DDOS reflection attacks just like DNS is. In fact, I learned about this the hard way recently. Seems that the Red Hat NTP daemons haven't yet been updated to a version that's immune to that particular exploit and as a result I had my entire front-end LAN bombed.
So I think it's important that someone keeps up with things.
Considering their license fees, it certainly should be a prosperity OS. But I think you meant "proprietary".
Actually, mainframes have run many different OS's, some proprietary, some custom, a few open-source. Although up until about 1986, the source code for most IBM OS's was freely available.
Mainframes these days are most likely to run zOS, zVM and/or zVSE. These are the primary IBM licensed OS products. But as I said, other OS's have been implemented as well. I think a number of universities and military installations did so at one time or another.
IBM mainframes were commonly virtual machines. Unlike their predecessors, which had their instructions hard-wired into them, the System/360 and later boxes usually had some sort of "Initial MicroProgram Load" phase that kitted out the machine's NVRAM with the microcode that made them all run the common S/360 instruction set, regardless of underlying hardware, which could be quite radically different, depending on the make and model. Not unlike what Project Hercules provides, but on a much dumber level. In fact, the original floppy disk systems were used as IMPL storage devices on some machines.
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If you leave your door unlocked and some robber comes and steals your stuff, the insurance company is likely to stiff you for failing to take due precautions.
The robber can be prosecuted for illegal entry/trespass and theft and/or whatever laws they throw around in the locality in question, but that doesn't excuse failure to lock the door in the first place. Burglars can easily circumvent locks, but at least if you locked it, the insurance company would consider that you tried.
That's because you bought into his anti-psychiatry propaganda. If you'd just chucked down a couple of Valium, you'd have been fine.
Bradbury had so much opposition in him to mental health it's a wonder the Scientologists didn't adopt him and make him a saint.
Granted, at the time he wrote a lot of that stuff, most psycho-active medications had all the subtlety of a 2x4 upside the head, but he really did want the monsters to survive and he really did feel that insanity was one of the primary roots of creativity.
Continuity is overrated.
When Robert Aspirin put together the Thieves World collaboration, he do a pre-emptive weaseling on continuity by explaining that different people had different memories and different agendas.
Which was actually a sharp idea, since that's exactly what happens in real life. Even our own memories are prone to distortion. The brain handles a lot of its memory functions not by playing back fixed detailed recordings, but by reconstruction.
If only that were the worst offense he'd committed.
Sad that one's Magnum Opus should be so directionless.
Rights may not be removed, but they sure as heck can be denied.
The USA declares that all men have the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. However, the US government (among other authorities within the nation) has been known to remove life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness from countless individuals through various means and for various reasons (of greater or lesser justification).
English being what it is, we call that form of denial "taking away someone's rights".
Where do you think we will be building the Trump Memorial? And how are we going to make Trump's hair work on Mt Rushmore?
Plant it with kudzu.
Primaries have become a curse upon the nation. The people most likely to vote in them are the extremists, who then dump extreme-leaning candidates on the general election who then have to scramble to appear centrist since the country as a whole has a significant gap between Left and Right, regardless of how far Right the Left is considered by Europeans.
So we have primary winners who are at best panderers to our worse natures and at worst aligned with them, whose credibility is suspect - they either have to "flip flop" or they're seen as unwilling to accommodate the other side. Anyone halfway sane or centrist cannot make it to the general election where they're needed most.
Someone evidently transplanted in his brother's brain this week.
He also came out in favor of a totally voucher-driven school system. That was a bee in his bonnet while he was governor and one of the best things about his administration was that he had only limited success at it back then.
But that's because as a contractor, you're billable by the hour. Salaried employees don't usually get overtime. As my boss once said "you get paid well, we expect more hours".
To which I replied "If I wanted that effective hourly rate, I'd get a job that didn't expect overtime and a second job at a convenience store and then at least then I'd get a change of scenery every 8 hours."
The real issue is that "done!" is what Management wants.
As far as they're concerned, if you can slap together a pretty UI in 2-3 days, they're impatient to have it in production by the end of the week so you can move on and get the next thing "done!".
Forget the horrible UI, the backend is usually an unstable insecure mess. But since nobody sees that until your database shows up on Wikileaks, who cares?
Today's platforms are sufficiently abstract and helpful that detailed documentation to the level that old-time software required isn't generally required. But since documentation isn't part of the UI, it's not important anyway.
Actually, companies don't want to spend or wait for training in their specific tool stacks. They want instant plug-in programmers.
If they can select from the entire world, they are more likely to find such. Whether that's realistic or fair or not is another thing: they want what they want and lobby for it because they can.
Actually, considering the laundry-list requirements, even the entire planet isn't big enough. They're demanding statistical impossibilities.
What they get are people who are willing to lie to get the job.
Outside of a few things like politics, advertising and the executive suite, strong lying skills aren't generally considered as vital assets.
Please don't mix SSL and non-SSL on a page. It's a potential exploit vector. There's a way to get your non-critical content served over SSL too.
And PLEASE don't go popping open new windows. I freakin' hate that and the only way you'll get me to flee your site even quicker is to put a self-playing Flash object(s) on your page.
This is the 21st Century. If you only worked 80 hours a week, you're a slacker and they don't want you.
HR departments are what companies use to ensure that no one with any serious technical competence even gets interviewed.
They're designed to screen for a standardized product, but the best technical people are anything but standard.
"Computertechnik". Can't spell in German any better than I can in Eglish
Tastes kind of like charcoal to me.
what is the c*t magazine everybody keeps speaking of? I know plenty of c*ts, but none who work at a magazine.
It's not c*t, it's "c't", Which is somebody's clever way of extremely abbreviating Computerteknic. More formally, and translated to English, Magazine for Computer Technics. A venerable German tech publication, despite the brevity.
http://www.heise.de/ct/
Not necessarily. If the two jobs would not have been created if H1B workers were not available,
Wait. What?
If it paginates wrong an OpenOffice developer should fix that.
If will paginate wrong if a different MS Office setup is being used as well.
Unless you strictly control pagination, the exact breaking points on pages will depend on what fonts are installed on the system. Both MS-Office and Open/Libre Office get their typesetting metrics from the printer fonts, not from some hard-coded internal source.
Before TrueType came along, in fact, it was pretty much a crap shoot, since the only fonts available were the ones that came with the printers and different manufacturers/models had fonts with different metrics.
TrueType is a scalable font, so the metrics define the printer instead of the reverse. But even if you have TrueType fonts installed, the actual font selection mechanisms are fuzzy and having some other higher-scored font on the computer can cause the "wrong" font / font metrics to be used to typeset a page.
Long and short of it: you want precise pagination, use a Page Layout program, not a Word Processor. Or at least don't expect the space bar and Return key to be the determinants on where the pages break.
Yea, it actually sounds like they really failed at training. Yes, converting a document from one format to another, I've found, will often give you different page breaks. So... don't rely on the page breaks. You can use hard breaks, document sections, template formats, etc., and not deal with that issue.
That was the first thing that came to mind for me also. And what expectation can anyone have that brute-force pagination done on desktop MS-Office will be identical to what comes out of Office 365? The font metrics could be entirely different. Especially if the exact same font definitions aren't being used on both.
I was at a local Hamvention and in a bin of CDs there was a Slackware CD. Seemed simple. Create a boot diskette and root diskette and watch it LILO. And the rest was history.
On the minus side, back then prepping for a Linux install meant cracking open the box and copying down the chip numbers and DIP switch settings on your network and video cards so that you could answer the config prompts correctly. On the plus side, even then it was more friendly and better supported than what you got for OS/2, despite OS/2 having the assets of a major Fortune technology company behind it. Way behind it, alas.
Inciting violence is a good way to end up Ruby Ridge style. Or, if you're lucky, you can share facilities with the Unabomber. But probably not trade philosophies. I think they keep him pretty well isolated.
Being prepared to kill wasn't the solution that Martin Luther King chose, and he managed to advance his cause.
You have no clue, do you?
You cannot simply send a string "It is not 21 hours, 14 minutes, Coordinated Universal Time" across the Internet and reliably set a clock. Network latencies vary. The NTP service attempts to minimize that by working with multiple time sources and attempting to form a consensus. It will never be totally precise, but it will be better than single-source timing. It's just one possible solution out of potentially thousands, but it's the popular one.
And, like any Internet service, there are Bad Guys out there looking to exploit it. Worse, to minimize overhead, a lot of NTP's work is done via UDP, which means that it's a candidate for DDOS reflection attacks just like DNS is. In fact, I learned about this the hard way recently. Seems that the Red Hat NTP daemons haven't yet been updated to a version that's immune to that particular exploit and as a result I had my entire front-end LAN bombed.
So I think it's important that someone keeps up with things.
Mainframes run zOS, a prosperity OS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/OS
Considering their license fees, it certainly should be a prosperity OS. But I think you meant "proprietary".
Actually, mainframes have run many different OS's, some proprietary, some custom, a few open-source. Although up until about 1986, the source code for most IBM OS's was freely available.
Mainframes these days are most likely to run zOS, zVM and/or zVSE. These are the primary IBM licensed OS products. But as I said, other OS's have been implemented as well. I think a number of universities and military installations did so at one time or another.
IBM mainframes were commonly virtual machines. Unlike their predecessors, which had their instructions hard-wired into them, the System/360 and later boxes usually had some sort of "Initial MicroProgram Load" phase that kitted out the machine's NVRAM with the microcode that made them all run the common S/360 instruction set, regardless of underlying hardware, which could be quite radically different, depending on the make and model. Not unlike what Project Hercules provides, but on a much dumber level. In fact, the original floppy disk systems were used as IMPL storage devices on some machines.