I earn twice as much as elsewhere, and is not for lack of looking around.
I have been to too many interviews and at the end the paltry salary that other industries pay "force" me to jump from one bank to the next.
I have tried with ISPs, oil industry, newspapers, Software houses, service companies, outsourcing companies and they all have offered between 20% and 50% less for a job with similar specifications and responsibilities.
As for the fancy titles it is true, everybody and his dog has them, but in general VP means somebody with managerial responsibilities.
Both of your experiences are anecdotes.
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You can't brand such a comment a lie just because your experience is different.
Please use logical thinking. The world is not ideal, it is worth listening to people with bad experiences in order to remain vigilant.
Bill Gates has got to great lenghts (immoral and illegal) to dominate the computer industry.
The company he started and for which he is moral leader is constantly under investigation in the US, Europe, Japan, South Korea and many other places for monopolic practices of all kinds.
But this same individual gives billions to worhty causes.
Do the ends justify the means? I would say no.
It reminds me of the Colombian drug dealers like Pablo Escobar and others. They use their ill gotten profits to improve life on their towns, they become benefactors of the poor, the church and the exploited and are widely admired and respected.
Illegal and immoral commercial practices are not comparable in gravity to drug dealing certainly, but it leaves a sour taste in the mouth that such a person is honoured so widly without seriously questioning why there is so much anthipathy about him and his company.
I think it is sad that we need this kind of megalomaniacs to do good deeds since goverments all around the world continue to ignore their responsibilites towards their people.
For goodness sake, usability is not checked in websites, mailing lists or blogs. The poster would be excused about following this path of action because he is not a human interface specialist, but I hope the PhD student is wiser about this.
Human interface usability is properly tested one way and one way only. By watching real people interacting with them. You can use muckups (drawn or computerized), storyboards, etc, but nothing beats putting the fat asses of a few users in front of a computer and collecting their impressions.
If you possibly can you tailor your investigation to a particular group of people, ideally one that would make the study useful to you (if you are testing usability for software in kindergartens you don't want to do your usability test in a bank's trading floor).
The laughable suggestions to use children only, experienced users only or unexperienced users only as the correct or more accurate way of gauging usability is, as the British say, a load of pants. People suggesting this should jump of a clift like the gerbills they are.
One would do such a think only if there is no choice or if one has particular reasons for doing so, but never as the preferred criteria for a generalized useful study, what may be good for children may be crap for old timers and viceversa, experienced users may find some things annoying that new users find useful and viceversa.
The first thing that many people fail to understand is that usability is a wholy subjective thing. Linus loving KDE (yeah, that Linus) is only probe that for Linus (yeah, that Linus) KDE is more usable. All the KDE zealots implying that this is the God given truth regarding usability in Linux should be forced to use Gnome untile the know better.
Usability should be studied only on groups with similar patterns of usage for it to be any useful. The wider you make your target group study, the more difficult it will be to find meaningful results.
If you target all Linux users, then you are in for the most subjective, meaningless, most likely useless study.
If you target Linux users with less than one year experience using Linux then you are into something. If you target Linux users with more than 10 years experience degrading penguins you would also find more useful results.
Target your audience and you will find good results for that group of people.
Make your sample too wide and be welcome to the scrapyard of useless studies.
The dorks, they invest years in becoming confident and comfortable using a set of applications that work for them, and the bloddy cheapstakes can't be bothered to throw all that knowledge down the toilet for some new shinning, bloated, application that does basically the same. The idiots.
No doubt they all should be beaten into their senses.
I am sick an tired of seeing this showing up on this site.
China, Vietnam and Cuba are Republics, but are not Democracies. The UK, Canada, Asutralia are not a Republic, but they are Democracies. Germany, the US, France are Rebublics and Democracies. Saudi Arabia is neither.
For bunnies sakes, stop ejaculating such obvious nonsense.
The Catholic Church mantains that having sex for fun is not to be done.
The only purpose of sex is reproduction according to them, thus any method that would allow you to enjoy sex without worrying about procreating is un-catholic.
I wish I was joking, but that is how that people see the world.
Honestly, you are a bloody all powerful entity, have nothing better to do and create these punny planet, with these even punnier beings, that are so idiotic that can't understand your designs.
You make them imperfect, with desires that you readily condemn as sinful. It is like the Engineers that made the Aibo condmen it for barking.
And then you order them to love you and respect you above anything else.
If anything all these reminds me of the Dear Leader of North Korea.
Some USians never stop to amaze the rest of the world. Many of you parade your monumental ignorance about the rest of the world as a badge of honour, not as what it is, a shameful defect.
There is a reason that the Moslems and Buddhists and Shintoists and Hindus have never built the kind of society that we are enjoying now today.
The Muslims saved Western culture buddy. While Western Europe was happily descending in the dark ages, Muslim scholars were copying and studying the Roman and Greek classics, the monks in the late middle ages that made copies of ancient texts very often made it from Arabic or from texts copied by Arab scholars. The muslims cities from Cordoba in Spain to the Moghul Empire in India were the most enlightened places for at least 500 years.
As for Shintoists and Buddhists not being able to build the society we enjoy today, I will let Sony, Toyota, Acer, Samsung, Honda, etc. know. They will have a good laugh. The Japanese people will also be amuzed. Being the 2nd economy of the world for the last 40 years after being completely oblitearated surely is because their massive, hidden, unknow conversion to Christianity.
And as for China (Buddhists, Muslims, etc., you know), it has been the most powerful country in the world for the biggest part of the last 1000 years. They had 200 lousy years, but they are comming back and the European and American dominance will be seen as a blip in history in the future.
We've been working on the idea of how to run a country the way Christ would ever since Rome became the Holy Roman Empire
Er, no Mr Fundie, the Roman Empire was that, a Teistic Empire. Modern Saudi Arabia would be the closest we have nowadays, the only difference being that the Arabian Kingdom does not have the militaristic will or capabilities to fall in the military adventurism of the succesive Holy Romam Empires (that ended in chaos and destroyed), perhaps because they hold their holly places and that makes them less prone to such attitude.
We now a days aspire to live in liberal democracies. Democracy is inspired in ancient Greek practices that predate the alleged existence of Jesus. The liberal ideals come from the French Revolution, many of whose idealists were either agnostic or openly atheistic.
That's why we can't abuse prisoners with Abu Ghraib and shrug it off easily
No Mr Fundie, you can't do that because there is a body of international agreements signed by countries of all religions or none, that dictate the minimum standards expected when dealing with prisioners in a situation of war, or with human beens in general.
These conventions were signed by Atheists, Buddhists, Muslisms, Hindus, and of course Christians. Even US Christians, that nowadays so happily forget about those commitments, but as the guy of the parable, pray ostensibly in public to let us know how god fearing people they are.
Economics is fundamentally a Christian philosophy that teaches us to not meddle in each other's affairs
Complete and absolute nonsense. Islam always had Economics theory completely independent from Western and Christian thinking, heck Economics is fundmantal to the way Muslims understand the world. But if you haven't read the holly Koran you would not know that of course.
Adam Smith, John Keneth Galbraith and Milton Freedman, just to name a few of the most noted economists, never involved religion as a factor in how economics work. That you can come with this idea is amuzing to the extreme and shows how good communicators your sect's preachers are or how an inventive troll you aspire to be.
Enough, it is always pleasent to debunk so much nonsense but is a time consuming enterprise that others can complete if they so wish.
Great mythology. Shows us how humans made up things when we did not know any better.
To ingore this mythology does not align us with any devil, one can be a moral positive person in one's community without bowing to the nonsense that religion is.
god creates imperfect creatures (the reason remains unknown), then drowns them, punishes them and in general makes life miserable for them when they misbehave (well, Doh!).
Then he (because many conservative Christians get all touchy if you amputate that pennis) sends his son (which his him also, but you have enough sects to dispute this sole idiocy) to tell us to repent and he was sacrificed for the favour.
That some how is meant to redeem us, no matter that human behaviour has changed little since then.
I can't understand how people lead their lives based on this fluff (and most importantly how people ignore the basic tenants of it, how many Christians have no problem with the death penalty or killing thousands in a war. Would Jesus have approbed of that?).
Science has been finding that you don't need $DEITY for the Universe to work.
Once a physical law is explained, a good theory is presented, a model is proposed, one can pray as much as one wants but nature will be perfectly explainable with those and other tools without needing an invisible hand.
That is what horrifed Darwin so much about his theory. He found a godless mechanism to explain how life changes. He did not put his sights in doing so, he was a religious man, but observation took him to the only reasonable conclussion, and that troubled him so much that he delayed the publication of his book until it was completely impossible to keep doing so (since others were arriving to the same conclussions independently).
Science can't stop when it steps in the toes of religion, that would be a dereliction of duty. By explaining how, in many ocassions science is implicitly explaining the why and religious people are not finding comfort in the answers.
Jesus himself gave the ten commandments, they come from the Christ, directly from the mouth of the son of god (allegedely, I think it is all nonsense).
Jesus did many things that went against old testament teachings (like healing people on Saturday), so any Christians paying more attention to the old testament than to the teachings of Jesus are clearly not a real Christian as far as I am concerned, since they are ignoring the teachings of the deity itself.
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Good one.
I earn twice as much as elsewhere, and is not for lack of looking around.
I have been to too many interviews and at the end the paltry salary that other industries pay "force" me to jump from one bank to the next.
I have tried with ISPs, oil industry, newspapers, Software houses, service companies, outsourcing companies and they all have offered between 20% and 50% less for a job with similar specifications and responsibilities.
As for the fancy titles it is true, everybody and his dog has them, but in general VP means somebody with managerial responsibilities.
You can't brand such a comment a lie just because your experience is different.
Please use logical thinking. The world is not ideal, it is worth listening to people with bad experiences in order to remain vigilant.
Bill Gates has got to great lenghts (immoral and illegal) to dominate the computer industry.
The company he started and for which he is moral leader is constantly under investigation in the US, Europe, Japan, South Korea and many other places for monopolic practices of all kinds.
But this same individual gives billions to worhty causes.
Do the ends justify the means? I would say no.
It reminds me of the Colombian drug dealers like Pablo Escobar and others. They use their ill gotten profits to improve life on their towns, they become benefactors of the poor, the church and the exploited and are widely admired and respected.
Illegal and immoral commercial practices are not comparable in gravity to drug dealing certainly, but it leaves a sour taste in the mouth that such a person is honoured so widly without seriously questioning why there is so much anthipathy about him and his company.
I think it is sad that we need this kind of megalomaniacs to do good deeds since goverments all around the world continue to ignore their responsibilites towards their people.
... to treat them with care?
My CDs go from their case to the player and back. It feels me with horror to think of them lying on a carpet.
I have CDs 10 or 15 years old, playing fine when needed.
c) Are bands with better musicians and composers.
You mention Sir Paul Maccartney but mantion Elton John.
He is Sir Elton John to you mister.
And God save the Queeney.
They would consider real sex only intercourse using the genital area.
Clinton was using that in a slimey way to get out of trouble.
Germany, to the dismay of the local population and of people in the Balkans, sent troops out of their country since WWII
So tell your ass to shut up, it is not very accurate.
From somebody that is surely under 40.
And if he has been under 45 he would have say "don't wait until you are 45"
Or 35.
Or 55.
Complete descontextualized, ageist, useless pseudo tip, just shouting "Look! I did it before I was 40, I am so 3133t"
Argh.
An need to rip them all. Now. At once.
Why?
Because I can.
1000 CDs ~ 1000 hours of music (1.3 months of uninterrupted listening).
Fucking posseurs.
For goodness sake, usability is not checked in websites, mailing lists or blogs. The poster would be excused about following this path of action because he is not a human interface specialist, but I hope the PhD student is wiser about this.
Human interface usability is properly tested one way and one way only. By watching real people interacting with them. You can use muckups (drawn or computerized), storyboards, etc, but nothing beats putting the fat asses of a few users in front of a computer and collecting their impressions.
If you possibly can you tailor your investigation to a particular group of people, ideally one that would make the study useful to you (if you are testing usability for software in kindergartens you don't want to do your usability test in a bank's trading floor).
The laughable suggestions to use children only, experienced users only or unexperienced users only as the correct or more accurate way of gauging usability is, as the British say, a load of pants. People suggesting this should jump of a clift like the gerbills they are.
One would do such a think only if there is no choice or if one has particular reasons for doing so, but never as the preferred criteria for a generalized useful study, what may be good for children may be crap for old timers and viceversa, experienced users may find some things annoying that new users find useful and viceversa.
The first thing that many people fail to understand is that usability is a wholy subjective thing. Linus loving KDE (yeah, that Linus) is only probe that for Linus (yeah, that Linus) KDE is more usable. All the KDE zealots implying that this is the God given truth regarding usability in Linux should be forced to use Gnome untile the know better.
Usability should be studied only on groups with similar patterns of usage for it to be any useful. The wider you make your target group study, the more difficult it will be to find meaningful results.
If you target all Linux users, then you are in for the most subjective, meaningless, most likely useless study.
If you target Linux users with less than one year experience using Linux then you are into something. If you target Linux users with more than 10 years experience degrading penguins you would also find more useful results.
Target your audience and you will find good results for that group of people.
Make your sample too wide and be welcome to the scrapyard of useless studies.
The dorks, they invest years in becoming confident and comfortable using a set of applications that work for them, and the bloddy cheapstakes can't be bothered to throw all that knowledge down the toilet for some new shinning, bloated, application that does basically the same. The idiots.
No doubt they all should be beaten into their senses.
I am sick an tired of seeing this showing up on this site.
China, Vietnam and Cuba are Republics, but are not Democracies.
The UK, Canada, Asutralia are not a Republic, but they are Democracies.
Germany, the US, France are Rebublics and Democracies.
Saudi Arabia is neither.
For bunnies sakes, stop ejaculating such obvious nonsense.
The Catholic Church mantains that having sex for fun is not to be done.
The only purpose of sex is reproduction according to them, thus any method that would allow you to enjoy sex without worrying about procreating is un-catholic.
I wish I was joking, but that is how that people see the world.
Honestly, you are a bloody all powerful entity, have nothing better to do and create these punny planet, with these even punnier beings, that are so idiotic that can't understand your designs.
You make them imperfect, with desires that you readily condemn as sinful. It is like the Engineers that made the Aibo condmen it for barking.
And then you order them to love you and respect you above anything else.
If anything all these reminds me of the Dear Leader of North Korea.
Some USians never stop to amaze the rest of the world. Many of you parade your monumental ignorance about the rest of the world as a badge of honour, not as what it is, a shameful defect.
There is a reason that the Moslems and Buddhists and Shintoists and Hindus have never built the kind of society that we are enjoying now today.
The Muslims saved Western culture buddy. While Western Europe was happily descending in the dark ages, Muslim scholars were copying and studying the Roman and Greek classics, the monks in the late middle ages that made copies of ancient texts very often made it from Arabic or from texts copied by Arab scholars. The muslims cities from Cordoba in Spain to the Moghul Empire in India were the most enlightened places for at least 500 years.
As for Shintoists and Buddhists not being able to build the society we enjoy today, I will let Sony, Toyota, Acer, Samsung, Honda, etc. know. They will have a good laugh. The Japanese people will also be amuzed. Being the 2nd economy of the world for the last 40 years after being completely oblitearated surely is because their massive, hidden, unknow conversion to Christianity.
And as for China (Buddhists, Muslims, etc., you know), it has been the most powerful country in the world for the biggest part of the last 1000 years. They had 200 lousy years, but they are comming back and the European and American dominance will be seen as a blip in history in the future.
We've been working on the idea of how to run a country the way Christ would ever since Rome became the Holy Roman Empire
Er, no Mr Fundie, the Roman Empire was that, a Teistic Empire. Modern Saudi Arabia would be the closest we have nowadays, the only difference being that the Arabian Kingdom does not have the militaristic will or capabilities to fall in the military adventurism of the succesive Holy Romam Empires (that ended in chaos and destroyed), perhaps because they hold their holly places and that makes them less prone to such attitude.
We now a days aspire to live in liberal democracies. Democracy is inspired in ancient Greek practices that predate the alleged existence of Jesus. The liberal ideals come from the French Revolution, many of whose idealists were either agnostic or openly atheistic.
That's why we can't abuse prisoners with Abu Ghraib and shrug it off easily
No Mr Fundie, you can't do that because there is a body of international agreements signed by countries of all religions or none, that dictate the minimum standards expected when dealing with prisioners in a situation of war, or with human beens in general.
These conventions were signed by Atheists, Buddhists, Muslisms, Hindus, and of course Christians. Even US Christians, that nowadays so happily forget about those commitments, but as the guy of the parable, pray ostensibly in public to let us know how god fearing people they are.
Economics is fundamentally a Christian philosophy that teaches us to not meddle in each other's affairs
Complete and absolute nonsense. Islam always had Economics theory completely independent from Western and Christian thinking, heck Economics is fundmantal to the way Muslims understand the world. But if you haven't read the holly Koran you would not know that of course.
Adam Smith, John Keneth Galbraith and Milton Freedman, just to name a few of the most noted economists, never involved religion as a factor in how economics work. That you can come with this idea is amuzing to the extreme and shows how good communicators your sect's preachers are or how an inventive troll you aspire to be.
Enough, it is always pleasent to debunk so much nonsense but is a time consuming enterprise that others can complete if they so wish.
Great mythology. Shows us how humans made up things when we did not know any better.
To ingore this mythology does not align us with any devil, one can be a moral positive person in one's community without bowing to the nonsense that religion is.
Religion is not equitable with morality.
god creates imperfect creatures (the reason remains unknown), then drowns them, punishes them and in general makes life miserable for them when they misbehave (well, Doh!).
Then he (because many conservative Christians get all touchy if you amputate that pennis) sends his son (which his him also, but you have enough sects to dispute this sole idiocy) to tell us to repent and he was sacrificed for the favour.
That some how is meant to redeem us, no matter that human behaviour has changed little since then.
I can't understand how people lead their lives based on this fluff (and most importantly how people ignore the basic tenants of it, how many Christians have no problem with the death penalty or killing thousands in a war. Would Jesus have approbed of that?).
Do not tell us that once you have seen the rabbit pulled out of a hat 20 times you continue believing all is for real?
Or when they cut by half the wholesome blonde with a saw?
Or when they appear out of thin air a tiger in a cage?
We know they are all fakes, for many we have at least a good working theory of how they work.
Or what about theatre? The special effects there are orders or magnitude simpler but that does not stop our enjoyment of theater.
I think you simply are besoted with your youthful experiences.
.... but if one does not explain why one holds such opinion, one will be told what a whinny pratty little child one is.
In spite of being proped up by a couple of very well regarded critics.
Crappy movie IMNSHO.
Pissing off users will make shareholders very happy.
You USians are very funny.
Science has been finding that you don't need $DEITY for the Universe to work.
Once a physical law is explained, a good theory is presented, a model is proposed, one can pray as much as one wants but nature will be perfectly explainable with those and other tools without needing an invisible hand.
That is what horrifed Darwin so much about his theory. He found a godless mechanism to explain how life changes. He did not put his sights in doing so, he was a religious man, but observation took him to the only reasonable conclussion, and that troubled him so much that he delayed the publication of his book until it was completely impossible to keep doing so (since others were arriving to the same conclussions independently).
Science can't stop when it steps in the toes of religion, that would be a dereliction of duty. By explaining how, in many ocassions science is implicitly explaining the why and religious people are not finding comfort in the answers.
Jesus himself gave the ten commandments, they come from the Christ, directly from the mouth of the son of god (allegedely, I think it is all nonsense).
Jesus did many things that went against old testament teachings (like healing people on Saturday), so any Christians paying more attention to the old testament than to the teachings of Jesus are clearly not a real Christian as far as I am concerned, since they are ignoring the teachings of the deity itself.
So you can't copy them and distribute them freely.
The ascertion that distributing lyrics is not helping to violate copyright is untrue.
People, get off your asses. Stop consumming art from bands that adhere to the current ridiculous copyright situation.