Bah. Don't shift time around to satisfy an presumptive argument.
Employees don't become 'uncooperative' (i.e. unwilling to suck dick) until their employer has screwed them.
If you want cooperative employees, treat them like you want them.
Kinda like relationships. Or kids. Or uh, *customers*.
Then again, most companies nowadays screw their customers on regular basis. I guess it was only a matter of time before that mentality transferred to how they treat their employees. I bet their kids are fucked up too.
Suddenly I'm kind of glad that I work for a company whose stockholders like to have big happy families.
Well, in Maryland at least, you do receive unemployment benefits if you are fired.
Um.
No.
You can only receive unemployment benefits after being fired if you can prove that your firing was not for cause. Your former employer has to confirm this. This is true for at least WA and MA.
That's great for Maryland, though, unfortunately it's not big enough to fit all of us...
You're clearly not in ANY industry at all, if you think that the people who decided that "a few days" (or even 4-6 weeks) would be enough to transfer one's knowledge actually had clue one about how long that transfer would actually take.
Of course, if you do a shoddy job at the training, they might not give you that severance. So you'd better work EXTRA hard to give your job away.
I moved away from Boston to Seattle, and have to say that I do miss the situation there.
Strong open-source culture vs MS's back yard, historically celebrated mass transit system vs. a slew of sorely overdue and lamely insufficient one-leg transit *proposals*, gas prices befitting a major petroleum port vs. gas prices befitting a Nevada highway rest stop, diverse economy vs. one based on Microsoft and Boeing, strong research community vs a lame two-state-college quasi-rivalry...
Plus any given service, venue, or recreation is much closer, and I was making more money just before I left there than I've been able to find here (though I know that has some economic reasons).
No income tax here, but sales tax is almost 9% compared to MA's 5% (unless it's gone up since I left, doubtful under a republican governor FBOFW).
I also have a strong withdrawal from Pizzeria Uno and Dunkin Donuts. (Lattes, lattes, nothing but frickin lattes, make it stop!)
So yeah, this is my isolated case, but I had to give Boston the credit it's due.
You express problems trying to find work on 128. What about the 495 corridor? Last I was looking for a job out in MA (3 yrs ago, wow has it been that long?), seemed like nearly everyone hiring was out on 495.
I have a tape, made for me by a record store, containing 10 tracks that I hand-selected and arranged.
The tape is the product of Sony's mid-80s Personics system. It consisted of a display machine which provided a 2-line display and a pair of headphones, and a big book of tracks with associated code numbers (a la The Box). You selected the tracks you wanted, in order, and then your request was put into a queue, controlled by a PC at the checkout desk. This special PC contained an auto-reverse tape recorder which wrote desampled audio tracks onto a cassette at high speed. Meanwhile, a cheap laser printer printed out a heavy-weight case liner and cassette labels with your title and track info. The price was about $1.50 per track.
Fast forward roughly 10 years, to the latter edge of the dotcom boom. Hansol Telecom (now bust) creates the MyCD vending machine, which will, of course, revolutionize the music industry. But some five years later, I am hard pressed to find if any such machines were ever installed anywhere, and the music industry is as yet un-revolutionized.
So good luck, Starbucks. (BTW, $40/mo wifi will rake it in for just a little bit longer. And how well do those jazz compilation CDs really sell? Good game, by the way, but I would never have actually played Hoopla IN the store if it had been remotely busy that day.)
EchoStar has said it will credit each subscriber who loses CBS $1 a month. Consumers who lose the cable networks will receive a comparable-size credit.
Other stories suggest the credit will be $1 per channel per month.
Negotiations over a new contract between the EchoStar Communications Corporation and Viacom Inc. have failed to produce a new agreement, and early today EchoStar stopped broadcasting the signals of Viacom-owned CBS television stations, including those in New York and Los Angeles.
In addition to dropping the CBS signals, Echostar, which at the end of the third quarter had 9.1 million subscribers, will stop showing Viacom's cable networks, including MTV and Nickelodeon.
A court order that had required Viacom to let Echostar air the 16 stations expired today.
RNR: Yes, I'm bitter. I need a good hit to my karma once in a while...
/.MS: HP's way to do this, posted to How To Hire Great Open Source Developers?, has been moderated Funny (+1).
LOL... I meant a negative hit. But I ain't complaining.:)
...Crap, even when I practically invite downmodding, I don't get it. I remember when I couldnt get karma to save my life. Guess that changed when all the 6-digit accounts got created.
Showing that ideas are "stolen" (what a loaded word) from blog to blog only shows the information-spreading power of the autonomous-agent-based and amorphous blog network.
Not everyone has time to read every blog. Not everyone even has time to pore over the entire AP/UPI/Reuters/Knight-Ridder feeds to pull out the stories that interest them.
No, not even blog editors.
If you were building an autonomous news-spreading network where you would create custom portals for each possible refinement of interest, it would be a standardization of what blogspace looks like right now. (It wouldn't make sense to call it "blogspace" if it wasn't an information transfer network, now would it?) You'd promote the formation of news-collecting agents that filter news towards certain prominent/popular interest areas, and then you'd promote the creation of more refined agents that took from a selection of those existing agents to create their own refined information collections.
Woohoo! Instant, decentralized (sort of), distributed information network! Better than any Old Media company has been able to implement from their linear, print-based or property-minded ways!
Just leave these things to the geeks, and keep your marketing, copyright, and decency nonsense out of it. Content is king, and blogs are nothing without content.
Monster is ineffective if your use of Monster sounds like the following:
1. Enter your resume, and then enter it again but using Monster's input boxes. 2. Search for a type of job or skill and find a list of jobs. 3. Come across an interesting-sounding job. 4. Press "Apply Now". 5. Wait for manna to fall from heaven.
However, these job boards are not without merit, but only as a means to see jobs, not as a means to apply to them.
Those who truly want a job will go the extra step of sending a personal email, with a custom cover letter, and possibly a tuned or custom resume. This method will be more effective than simply using the stock Apply Now method -- which employers now apparently routinely ignore.
Both of my jobs attained over the last two years have been gained via this method, since IT recruiting (my previous boom-time sure-fire method) fell through in early 2002.
(As a hiring manager at a small company, I'm finding it astonishing at how many people apply for positions with no cover letter, and nothing stating why they want or think they would do well in the position! I don't consider those applicants terribly seriously, because they clearly don't consider the position very seriously.)
I'm sure someone will come out and insist I'm entirely FOS on this, but...
A lot of the modern Internet eye-candy out there has limited support under Linux. One big problem is QuickTime and WMA video formats. They have limited support i.e. you can download those files and (maybe) play them, but that's quite a few steps away from the inline-web-page proprietary-plugin-dependent hypermedia world that today's wannabe-digerati (hack spit) marketers intend -- and layusers expect.
Not to mention limited or no ability to run most third-party apps out there, especially games.
OTOH, the wide majority of other desktop and internet uses are simulable on Linux -- Gaim, OpenOffice, KSirc, whatnot.
RecAll from Sagebrush can do nearly everything you need. It is a small, free, and easy to use VOX line-in recorder for Windows, and is popular for scanner monitoring.
It includes a feature where it can start a brand new wave file after a set number of seconds of silence. So basically it would create a separate audio file for each individual radio transmission (more or less).
You could then play that wav file in any audio player (like soundrec or winamp), while RecAll keeps happily recording from line-in or mic. There is an option to automatically name and date-stamp (though not time-stamp) the saved files in a particular directory.
The only caveat is that you will probably want to turn line-in volume down while you are playing back a saved file, then turn it back up when done (to hear new incoming transmissions). This shouldn't affect your recording, though.
And second, a rant. I don't know why so many people decided to attack the poster instead of solving the problem. People spend too much time trying to find the problem with the poster and not enough time trying to answer the poster's specific question. As a result, almost everyone missed the mark horribly. Sadly, so many of those self-assured, un-informed and un-helpful posts have been modded up quite highly. Ah, the ease of rating comments without context...
It's entirely clear you absolutely know nothing about being unemployed.
Sure, you can claim unemployment... for a while. Eventually it runs out.
Even if you do claim unemployment, if you then decide to go into business for yourself, you cannot legally claim unemployment anymore. Even if you do keep doing your three mandatory job applications a week.
So please go back to Intro to CS and leave the real world to the rest of us. Kthx.
(Now, I'm not saying there's no point in doing any technical work while unemployed... if you take on a project while unemployed, and drive it to something presentable, it will possibly help you get a job somewhere, but you still need to focus on remaining economically viable.)
Not to mention the electricity for the computer and the internet line.
Oh yeah, and for that roof over your head, if for nothing else to keep water out of the electronics.
We'll exclude such optional items as daycare for your kids (unless you can try to get your code to compile at the same time you're trying to get your 4 year old to behave), gas for your car, any water or phone bills..
Dammit, isn't there something in the US constitution about your citizenship being revoked if you accept any royal titles from a foreign power?
(Then again, it's not like our current government really concerns itself with that Constitution thing, except as a place to threaten to insert their agenda.)
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Bah. Don't shift time around to satisfy an presumptive argument.
Employees don't become 'uncooperative' (i.e. unwilling to suck dick) until their employer has screwed them.
If you want cooperative employees, treat them like you want them.
Kinda like relationships. Or kids. Or uh, *customers*.
Then again, most companies nowadays screw their customers on regular basis. I guess it was only a matter of time before that mentality transferred to how they treat their employees. I bet their kids are fucked up too.
Suddenly I'm kind of glad that I work for a company whose stockholders like to have big happy families.
Well, in Maryland at least, you do receive unemployment benefits if you are fired.
Um.
No.
You can only receive unemployment benefits after being fired if you can prove that your firing was not for cause. Your former employer has to confirm this. This is true for at least WA and MA.
That's great for Maryland, though, unfortunately it's not big enough to fit all of us...
You're clearly not in ANY industry at all, if you think that the people who decided that "a few days" (or even 4-6 weeks) would be enough to transfer one's knowledge actually had clue one about how long that transfer would actually take.
Of course, if you do a shoddy job at the training, they might not give you that severance. So you'd better work EXTRA hard to give your job away.
(Personal note: Go Myra!)
I moved away from Boston to Seattle, and have to say that I do miss the situation there.
Strong open-source culture vs MS's back yard, historically celebrated mass transit system vs. a slew of sorely overdue and lamely insufficient one-leg transit *proposals*, gas prices befitting a major petroleum port vs. gas prices befitting a Nevada highway rest stop, diverse economy vs. one based on Microsoft and Boeing, strong research community vs a lame two-state-college quasi-rivalry...
Plus any given service, venue, or recreation is much closer, and I was making more money just before I left there than I've been able to find here (though I know that has some economic reasons).
No income tax here, but sales tax is almost 9% compared to MA's 5% (unless it's gone up since I left, doubtful under a republican governor FBOFW).
I also have a strong withdrawal from Pizzeria Uno and Dunkin Donuts. (Lattes, lattes, nothing but frickin lattes, make it stop!)
So yeah, this is my isolated case, but I had to give Boston the credit it's due.
You express problems trying to find work on 128. What about the 495 corridor? Last I was looking for a job out in MA (3 yrs ago, wow has it been that long?), seemed like nearly everyone hiring was out on 495.
Passengers who raise questions would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening.
I misread this statement at first... because it seems to be true in that sense too.
I have a tape, made for me by a record store, containing 10 tracks that I hand-selected and arranged.
The tape is the product of Sony's mid-80s Personics system. It consisted of a display machine which provided a 2-line display and a pair of headphones, and a big book of tracks with associated code numbers (a la The Box). You selected the tracks you wanted, in order, and then your request was put into a queue, controlled by a PC at the checkout desk. This special PC contained an auto-reverse tape recorder which wrote desampled audio tracks onto a cassette at high speed. Meanwhile, a cheap laser printer printed out a heavy-weight case liner and cassette labels with your title and track info. The price was about $1.50 per track.
Fast forward roughly 10 years, to the latter edge of the dotcom boom. Hansol Telecom (now bust) creates the MyCD vending machine, which will, of course, revolutionize the music industry. But some five years later, I am hard pressed to find if any such machines were ever installed anywhere, and the music industry is as yet un-revolutionized.
So good luck, Starbucks. (BTW, $40/mo wifi will rake it in for just a little bit longer. And how well do those jazz compilation CDs really sell? Good game, by the way, but I would never have actually played Hoopla IN the store if it had been remotely busy that day.)
$60 is pricey? Jesus, man, no wonder so many IT jobs are being offshored
No, $60 is pricey because we're all forced to take cheaper jobs since our last decent paying ones got offshored.
From NYT story:
EchoStar has said it will credit each subscriber who loses CBS $1 a month. Consumers who lose the cable networks will receive a comparable-size credit.
Other stories suggest the credit will be $1 per channel per month.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/09/business/media/0 9CND-DISH.html :
Negotiations over a new contract between the EchoStar Communications Corporation and Viacom Inc. have failed to produce a new agreement, and early today EchoStar stopped broadcasting the signals of Viacom-owned CBS television stations, including those in New York and Los Angeles.
In addition to dropping the CBS signals, Echostar, which at the end of the third quarter had 9.1 million subscribers, will stop showing Viacom's cable networks, including MTV and Nickelodeon.
A court order that had required Viacom to let Echostar air the 16 stations expired today.
Oh god, if I had more time, I could have so much fun with this. But I'll stop at here:
...
No, it's not censorship...
[Dish is just] try[ing] to block out that kind of obvious bullshit...
I'm sorry, censorship includes blocking out the things you don't want to see, too. In fact, that's probably the worst kind.
I don't care how much people think this fiasco turns EchoStar into a Big Good Corporation; it did not make EchoStar the supreme arbiter of truth.
Jesus Christ, indeed.
But the message had a complete lack of WHY those channels were going away, if at all. Anyone have some insight?
Well my first guess is that the contents of the lawsuit would take too long to scroll.
This IS *MTV* we're talking about, after all -- the channel that is singlehandedly blamed for the ADD of the nation's youth...
Oh, maybe that's not what you were trying to ask. But still.
Jeez. Someone call the waambulance.
Besides, the article is about the battle between Dish and Viacom. The comment is ontopic. Deal.
Only if you knew they were stolen before you bought or sold them.
LOL... I meant a negative hit. But I ain't complaining. :)
Showing that ideas are "stolen" (what a loaded word) from blog to blog only shows the information-spreading power of the autonomous-agent-based and amorphous blog network.
Not everyone has time to read every blog. Not everyone even has time to pore over the entire AP/UPI/Reuters/Knight-Ridder feeds to pull out the stories that interest them.
No, not even blog editors.
If you were building an autonomous news-spreading network where you would create custom portals for each possible refinement of interest, it would be a standardization of what blogspace looks like right now. (It wouldn't make sense to call it "blogspace" if it wasn't an information transfer network, now would it?) You'd promote the formation of news-collecting agents that filter news towards certain prominent/popular interest areas, and then you'd promote the creation of more refined agents that took from a selection of those existing agents to create their own refined information collections.
Woohoo! Instant, decentralized (sort of), distributed information network! Better than any Old Media company has been able to implement from their linear, print-based or property-minded ways!
Just leave these things to the geeks, and keep your marketing, copyright, and decency nonsense out of it. Content is king, and blogs are nothing without content.
Being that the document is written by someone at HP, I expect the first steps go something like this:
1. Build an office building in India.
2. Hire an Indian.
(Yes, I'm bitter. I need a good hit to my karma once in a while... [No pun intended.])
I think I can RFID get free up-mods RFID just by RFID saying the word RFID often enough.
RFIDNORD!!!
Or you could get a radio or TV/radio card for your PC, and get Sagebrush's VCRadio software.
ReplayRadio only records online streams, and apparently only those ones that they care to list (???)
Monster is ineffective if your use of Monster sounds like the following:
1. Enter your resume, and then enter it again but using Monster's input boxes.
2. Search for a type of job or skill and find a list of jobs.
3. Come across an interesting-sounding job.
4. Press "Apply Now".
5. Wait for manna to fall from heaven.
However, these job boards are not without merit, but only as a means to see jobs, not as a means to apply to them.
Those who truly want a job will go the extra step of sending a personal email, with a custom cover letter, and possibly a tuned or custom resume. This method will be more effective than simply using the stock Apply Now method -- which employers now apparently routinely ignore.
Both of my jobs attained over the last two years have been gained via this method, since IT recruiting (my previous boom-time sure-fire method) fell through in early 2002.
(As a hiring manager at a small company, I'm finding it astonishing at how many people apply for positions with no cover letter, and nothing stating why they want or think they would do well in the position! I don't consider those applicants terribly seriously, because they clearly don't consider the position very seriously.)
Practically every form I get that I have to use to enter data on my tax return also gets forwarded or is otherwise already reported to the IRS.
It's not that they can't fill out my return for me, it's just that they can't handle and organize all the data for me.
I'm sure someone will come out and insist I'm entirely FOS on this, but...
A lot of the modern Internet eye-candy out there has limited support under Linux. One big problem is QuickTime and WMA video formats. They have limited support i.e. you can download those files and (maybe) play them, but that's quite a few steps away from the inline-web-page proprietary-plugin-dependent hypermedia world that today's wannabe-digerati (hack spit) marketers intend -- and layusers expect.
Not to mention limited or no ability to run most third-party apps out there, especially games.
OTOH, the wide majority of other desktop and internet uses are simulable on Linux -- Gaim, OpenOffice, KSirc, whatnot.
First of all, a solution.
RecAll from Sagebrush can do nearly everything you need. It is a small, free, and easy to use VOX line-in recorder for Windows, and is popular for scanner monitoring.
It includes a feature where it can start a brand new wave file after a set number of seconds of silence. So basically it would create a separate audio file for each individual radio transmission (more or less).
You could then play that wav file in any audio player (like soundrec or winamp), while RecAll keeps happily recording from line-in or mic. There is an option to automatically name and date-stamp (though not time-stamp) the saved files in a particular directory.
The only caveat is that you will probably want to turn line-in volume down while you are playing back a saved file, then turn it back up when done (to hear new incoming transmissions). This shouldn't affect your recording, though.
And second, a rant. I don't know why so many people decided to attack the poster instead of solving the problem. People spend too much time trying to find the problem with the poster and not enough time trying to answer the poster's specific question. As a result, almost everyone missed the mark horribly. Sadly, so many of those self-assured, un-informed and un-helpful posts have been modded up quite highly. Ah, the ease of rating comments without context...
It's entirely clear you absolutely know nothing about being unemployed.
Sure, you can claim unemployment... for a while. Eventually it runs out.
Even if you do claim unemployment, if you then decide to go into business for yourself, you cannot legally claim unemployment anymore. Even if you do keep doing your three mandatory job applications a week.
So please go back to Intro to CS and leave the real world to the rest of us. Kthx.
(Now, I'm not saying there's no point in doing any technical work while unemployed... if you take on a project while unemployed, and drive it to something presentable, it will possibly help you get a job somewhere, but you still need to focus on remaining economically viable.)
What do you need investor money for?
For fucking bread and water, numbskull.
Not to mention the electricity for the computer and the internet line.
Oh yeah, and for that roof over your head, if for nothing else to keep water out of the electronics.
We'll exclude such optional items as daycare for your kids (unless you can try to get your code to compile at the same time you're trying to get your 4 year old to behave), gas for your car, any water or phone bills..
(I don't care if you demod this, either.)
Dammit, isn't there something in the US constitution about your citizenship being revoked if you accept any royal titles from a foreign power?
(Then again, it's not like our current government really concerns itself with that Constitution thing, except as a place to threaten to insert their agenda.)