How in gods name did my post become moderated flamebait? I'm quite, *quite* serious.
When you get an education you are making an investment in your future - in the same way that when you get stocks you are making an investment in your future.
If somebodies stocks go belly-up because a competitor company now makes $widget$ cheaper in Inida, that's OK because they were taking a risk. Somehow it is different if the investment was education instead of shares?
Or is there no incentive for a spammer to use this? Who was this guy going to sell the software to, it has no value except to a person who specificaly wants to devlue Googles adspace.
I had a skill. It was working in a factory... they sent that overseas....
went back to school to work on computers.... they sent my job overseas.
So you managed to go through education twice, and both times you chose to pursue a course of action which led you take a position in a dying industry.
How, exactly, is this anyones fault except your own (in your hypothetical situation).
If you choose to get skilled in a career which will shortly no longer exist, that's YOUR decision, you stick by it.
Maybe, instead of chasing the easy dollar into the boom-time industry (manufacturing, IT, and then you mention bio-tech) you could go for a simpler, risk free job like labouring, shopkeeping or similar.
If *you* take a risk on your future career, *you* reap the consequences... I wish people would grow up and start taking responsibility for their own actions.
I'd never ask my wife to stand on the side of a US interstate with the hood up, waiting for who-the-hell-knows to stop... that's a recipe for disaster in some parts of the country.
I don't think anyone would "ask" their wife, but this sort of thing isn't done by choice - and your quote makes it sound like you live in a sad, sad world.
We already do in the form of higher insurance payments, loss of life and limb etc.
As far as I am aware, an insurance premium does NOT pay out if you are driving under the influence, so other than those few accidents where someone DUI is not discovered to be so, your insurance premiums have NOT risen due to drink driving, they have instead risen because of the compensation culture endemic in the USA.
These guys have seriously been had.... a few piddly sound waves don't stand a chance.... hailstones of the size they're concerned with
As other posters have pointed out, these systems have been used to protect high value crops since the eighties, and furthermore, Nissan are probably concerned with ALL sizes of hail - windscreen-smashing hail is sure nasty, but smaller hail can leave small nicks in paintwork which is extremely expensive across to put right - how many cars are in a 140-acre lot?
Then I worked 40-70 hours a week for the last 7 years while also putting time in to teach myself new skills. I deserve success. I've earned it.
WHAT?!!?! You mean you've worked hard for the last seven years or so - to be succesful and "earn" it you have to demonstrate alot of value to people who are willing to give you wealth in exchange for that value. You have *not* done that, obviously, or you would not be on here bitching.
The old adage of "work smarter, not harder" has never been more applicable. If you're not getting what you want from your chosen direction, chagne it. No-one owes you anything, hell you owe OTHER PEOPLE money in the form of student loans for your education, and it looks like you made bad choices there... they were your bad choices though, and you reap the consequences.
Once the 2 billion or whatever in India become too expensive, they have 4 billion more they can exploit.
Amen brother. And when they've exploited those 4 billion others, and every country on the earth has a population with a decent overall standard of living, whom will they "exploit" then? P.S. When I looked up the dictionary definition for "exploit" it didn't say anything about paying a good wage and increasing quality of life.
1] You don't get a message unless you want to retrieve it 2] The sender has to store the mail not the receiver, so the sender has to pay to store a bajillion messages
This doesn't work because:
1] By seeing the notification, you're already annoyed and have wasted your time. 2] The sender need only store ONE copy of the mail on a customised MTA, not millions - so as long as he has a custom server, he can still spam and use only a few hundre kb of disk space per message type. 3] Retrieval of email would become extremely slow for anyone with large attachments or similar. Connectivity problems would be noticeable to the end user
Can anyone explain to me what the track from the left side of the picture, halfway down, up around the main crater in the middle of the picture could be... other than a riverbed left by some form of liquid flow + erosion?
Can anyone explain to me what the track from the right side of the picture, halfway down, up around the main crater in the middle of the picture could be... other than a riverbed left by some form of liquid flow + erosion?
I saw the Miniature Wonderland at the age of 13, and I have to say hats off to them, and thanks to you for reminding me, I hadn't thought about it in years.
It's true in that it is truly a wonderland, the size of place and the attention to details were remarkable, I had never imagined such a thing could exist until I saw it.
...created Orkut.com in the past several months by working on it about one day a week--an amount that Google asks all of its engineers to devote to personal projects
Ok, that is a cool company. I wish I was working at Google. But they haven't opened a software development office in Iowa yet.
Indeed, because when you work on projects on your OWN time you own whatever comes of it... if you work on projects every wednesday while your company is paying you to do so, then THEY own whatever you come up with. Nice touch, huh?
What you may not realise is that moving elsewhere costs US real money.
Then you should have carried more research out up front before you entered into a relationship with an ISP which supports spammers. I am not responsible for your poor choices of ISP, nor for the financial consequences of your poor decision.
if the main point is to keep the code free, what would you choose something that lets anyone take the code and make it non-free?
Because it's a matter of semantics, and how you define the term "free"... I define free (as do millions of others) as being a state in which each individual has maximum choice. And quite simply, a BSD license allows people more choice than the GPL license does. The GPL allows freedom for code, the BSD license allows (more) freedom for people. The ultimate state of freedom in the realm of copyright is Public Domain - something becoming increasingly rare. If you want to allow people the most choice (and by many definitions, freedom) you can public domain your work.
Note that I believe fully in the rights of an author to determine the license to his work (only though, under the laws of copyright, which I feel need a term reduction to 20 years absolute maximum).
I find it quite unsettling to think that when I'm creating something and giving it away to the world for free, I would need to pay a price to protect my work?
Since the dawn of time, people have had to fight and often die, to protect an action which morally and unquestionably "righteous". Modern technology, democracy etc. change nothing but perception - if you want the freedom to do what is right in your life, you may often have to fight to protect that. It's not fair, it's not nice, but it's the way of the world, and I wish more people would come to understand this soon.
Why do they want to know at what time do people arrive and leave to the working place?
Because they are paying people based on how many hours they are at work, and if people are late they need to be disciplined. Why is that hard to understand for you? Some jobs have flexitime, can be worked earlier/later, some jobs can be carried out faster by some guys who get to go home early. Serving over a counter at McDonalds is NOT one of those jobs.
Talking call centers which I know a bit about, it always seems to be the case that the lower you pay someone the more control the employer wants over them.
While what you say is true, the truth is more obvious the other way around: The less your employers NEED to control you, the more you will get paid In other words, honest, hard working, exemplary and talented individuals get paid more.
You can't trust people to do the right thing, so must treat them like children or animals.
They should have pay docked by the minute if they're late. Of course if they're a early that time doesn't count, and of course if at the end of the day it takes them longer to finish than the hours you are paying them for, them that must be their fault so they shouldn't be paid for that either.
At my company, all employees wear a special hat with a cam and microphone pointed at thier faces, so that we can see and hear them at any time. If they are doing or saying anything that isn't strictly work related, we dock those minutes from their pay too. It is very efficient - it keeps our salary bills low. We do have some problems with staff retention though.
This article and the parents comment deals with signing in and out.
All of a sudden you make a leap to have cameras and microphones installed on everyone, not paying them for overtime, having an incredibly strict policy over discipline and punctuality... All those problems are ENTIRELY SEPARATE from the issue of finding out what time people arrive at, and leave, the building.
If you haven't seen The Office, it takes the subject matter Dilbert has bored us with, and makes it utterly hysterical.
That's an utterly terrible synopsis. Dilbert and The Office share only their setting (an office) and very little else. In contrast to Dilberts "engineers banging heads against the system" the office chooses to explore primarily the relationships and personalities of people in a small office and the lack of authority or system which allows an incompetent boss to reign supreme.
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How in gods name did my post become moderated flamebait? I'm quite, *quite* serious.
When you get an education you are making an investment in your future - in the same way that when you get stocks you are making an investment in your future.
If somebodies stocks go belly-up because a competitor company now makes $widget$ cheaper in Inida, that's OK because they were taking a risk. Somehow it is different if the investment was education instead of shares?
Or is there no incentive for a spammer to use this? Who was this guy going to sell the software to, it has no value except to a person who specificaly wants to devlue Googles adspace.
If you choose to get skilled in a career which will shortly no longer exist, that's YOUR decision, you stick by it. Maybe, instead of chasing the easy dollar into the boom-time industry (manufacturing, IT, and then you mention bio-tech) you could go for a simpler, risk free job like labouring, shopkeeping or similar.
If *you* take a risk on your future career, *you* reap the consequences... I wish people would grow up and start taking responsibility for their own actions.
I don't think anyone would "ask" their wife, but this sort of thing isn't done by choice - and your quote makes it sound like you live in a sad, sad world.
3D4 yeah?
As far as I am aware, an insurance premium does NOT pay out if you are driving under the influence, so other than those few accidents where someone DUI is not discovered to be so, your insurance premiums have NOT risen due to drink driving, they have instead risen because of the compensation culture endemic in the USA.
Yes, yes they can. They may, or may not be succesful, but to ensure that they are not, you would have to spend some of your money.
Sounds unfair, but that's the cost of justice in the USA.
As other posters have pointed out, these systems have been used to protect high value crops since the eighties, and furthermore, Nissan are probably concerned with ALL sizes of hail - windscreen-smashing hail is sure nasty, but smaller hail can leave small nicks in paintwork which is extremely expensive across to put right - how many cars are in a 140-acre lot?
WHAT?!!?! You mean you've worked hard for the last seven years or so - to be succesful and "earn" it you have to demonstrate alot of value to people who are willing to give you wealth in exchange for that value. You have *not* done that, obviously, or you would not be on here bitching.
The old adage of "work smarter, not harder" has never been more applicable. If you're not getting what you want from your chosen direction, chagne it. No-one owes you anything, hell you owe OTHER PEOPLE money in the form of student loans for your education, and it looks like you made bad choices there... they were your bad choices though, and you reap the consequences.
Amen brother. And when they've exploited those 4 billion others, and every country on the earth has a population with a decent overall standard of living, whom will they "exploit" then?
P.S. When I looked up the dictionary definition for "exploit" it didn't say anything about paying a good wage and increasing quality of life.
People assume IM2000 would stop spam because:
1] You don't get a message unless you want to retrieve it
2] The sender has to store the mail not the receiver, so the sender has to pay to store a bajillion messages
This doesn't work because:
1] By seeing the notification, you're already annoyed and have wasted your time.
2] The sender need only store ONE copy of the mail on a customised MTA, not millions - so as long as he has a custom server, he can still spam and use only a few hundre kb of disk space per message type.
3] Retrieval of email would become extremely slow for anyone with large attachments or similar. Connectivity problems would be noticeable to the end user
OOOOOPS, meant left, not right.
Can anyone explain to me what the track from the left side of the picture, halfway down, up around the main crater in the middle of the picture could be... other than a riverbed left by some form of liquid flow + erosion?
Can anyone explain to me what the track from the right side of the picture, halfway down, up around the main crater in the middle of the picture could be... other than a riverbed left by some form of liquid flow + erosion?
So where would the angel investor get his money back from if he invested in OGG?
I saw the Miniature Wonderland at the age of 13, and I have to say hats off to them, and thanks to you for reminding me, I hadn't thought about it in years.
It's true in that it is truly a wonderland, the size of place and the attention to details were remarkable, I had never imagined such a thing could exist until I saw it.
Indeed, because when you work on projects on your OWN time you own whatever comes of it... if you work on projects every wednesday while your company is paying you to do so, then THEY own whatever you come up with. Nice touch, huh?
Go back to dial-up.
If enough people do it, you won't have a monopoly anymore, you'll get some competition. As long as you keep paying the monopolist, they'll abuse it.
Or lobby your local authorities to end the monopoly?
I am not responsible for your poor choices of ISP, nor for the financial consequences of your poor decision.
Since the dawn of time, people have had to fight and often die, to protect an action which morally and unquestionably "righteous".
Modern technology, democracy etc. change nothing but perception - if you want the freedom to do what is right in your life, you may often have to fight to protect that.
It's not fair, it's not nice, but it's the way of the world, and I wish more people would come to understand this soon.
Because they are paying people based on how many hours they are at work, and if people are late they need to be disciplined. Why is that hard to understand for you?
Some jobs have flexitime, can be worked earlier/later, some jobs can be carried out faster by some guys who get to go home early.
Serving over a counter at McDonalds is NOT one of those jobs.
While what you say is true, the truth is more obvious the other way around:
The less your employers NEED to control you, the more you will get paid
In other words, honest, hard working, exemplary and talented individuals get paid more.
All of a sudden you make a leap to have cameras and microphones installed on everyone, not paying them for overtime, having an incredibly strict policy over discipline and punctuality... All those problems are ENTIRELY SEPARATE from the issue of finding out what time people arrive at, and leave, the building.