It is no coincidence that Oracle has said precious little regarding MySQL (and also regarding Solaris and OpenSolaris)
MySQL is the most popular database for web deployments, if you think there is no conflict to be investigated then you are either naive or malicious, only you know.
Governments can't just decide to ignore their own rules and regulations if jobs are at stake, such attitudes would lead only to corruption and undermining of the rule of law.
The bosses of such a mission would be hung to dry if they would say that the crew would carry a healthy amount of condoms, or that in order to guarantee the success of the mission, the crew had agreed to undergo permanent sterilization.
"The 'Bionauts' were chosen on the basis of political and philosophical correctness and acceptability rather than being a properly selected and trained team."
Are you saying that the US would chose a member of the US Communist party or a person openly supporting the KKK if either has impeccable Engineering credentials?
"And guess what. You're not as good looking as you think. More than likely you look like some one in need of attention. When I look at resumes I toss instantly the ones with photo's. Why? Most likely the person has some social issues."
It is very agreeable to me to know that there are people out there that can judge the character of a human being by guessing the reasons a person had to put a photograph on a CV.
It makes you marvel at human ingenuity.
The possibility that people put a photograph of themselves for a myriad of reasons is valiantly eluded by somebody that has cracked this sociological nut, by bining CVs of otherwise worthy candidates for only this reason.
it makes me happy to be sharing the world with such enlightened folk.
There is no way in which you can meaningfully explain what you do in such a short space of time (considering headings, that you are not using single spacing and other formating caveats).
As somebody that has reviewed his fair share of CVs and interviewed lots of people I can tell you that such advice, at least in my field, is utter nonsense.
If you don't have objective proof of somebody performing poorly, why should you be able to endanger that person's living?
In any case, nowadays any company worth its salt has performance appraisals, that way people that could do better are offered the carrot of bonuses and raises
If people don't do a good job their receive a caution, there is a documented history that shows incompetence, until finally enough evidence is gathered and the person in question is fired.
In the UK is much simpler, in Germany employees representatives (not necessarily unions) may be involved.
When there is a downturn companies can fire people, but they have to do it in agreement with the employees and depending on how many people is necessary to dismiss, the company has to follow certain steps to do it properly, with several rounds of consultation.
If there is a surge in demand and people need to work longer hours people are either paid (just imagine, what a concept) or may have agreed to do so contractually, but you can't be forced, you have to agree to it. If you decide to abide by the EU working time directive (in the UK) then you can agree to work more than 48 hours per week, but in principle it is you agreeing to it, not your employer forcing you (some employers try to force you to sign, but if people know their rights there is no power that can force you to sign, and firing you for not signing is illegal).
"Maybe we take our vacation in a different form. Consider the american pre-occupation with big houses, nice cars, giant televisions, etc. These are all little mini-vacations that we experience everyday."
Europeans (and we immigrants) get all those "mini vacations" and then 3, 4 or 5 weeks of holiday a year (depending on the country).
There is no way to give the US labour arrangements a positive spin.
It is a waste, Microsoft should be working to make the software work better in the same hardware, they should not be allied with the hardware manufacturers to ensure they force you to do artificial upgrades.
The only reasons I can think of for bringing a laptop into a movie theater: 1) You want to pirate
With a laptop's camera?
2) You're an incredible internet addict that can't even escape IRC/AIM long enough to sit through a movie in the theater
Really? Then the staff can kick you out once you probe to be a nuisance.
3) You don't have a trunk in your car to lock it in - but why the hell did you have your laptop with you in the first place if you were driving to a movie? "Went to the movie directly after work" isn't a valid reason:
Driving, driving, driving. that says it all, the mentality of the car addict. Going after work may not be a valid reason for you, but it is perfectly normal for many people in the UK (where the cinemas in question are) who don;t drive to work, but still may find themselves too far away from home and need to take the laptop back home.
a) If you're going to see a movie, highly unlikely you were going to work from home that night. Lock the laptop in your desk cabinet.
Many people need the laptop to work in an emergency, and many more can do one or two hours of work (not recommended, but not impossible). IN any case, why should one change work patterns just because a cinema chain decides to be paranoid?
b) Few people want to go see a movie in their work clothes. Even if going home is out of the way, most people are going to change for comfort.
And where will you get those clothes to change? How much more impractical can you get with your asinine suggestions?
In the UK many people use public transport, specially in London (no car booth).
Your home may be one hour away from the area where you work or from where the cinema showing your movie of interest is, not infrequently even further away (no way to shower and drop the laptop, yeah, some Londoners stink actually).
And even if the cinema was across the street, it is an asinine policy, which should be denounced as the stupid idea it is.
We are people paying to watch the movies, we want to be left in peace.
We are talking about the UK. Many (most?) people use public transport to commute to their place of work, and as you can imagine, it is not an unusual thing nowadays to carry your laptop all around the place.
So lets see you finish a hard day's work, want to watch a movie and need to take the laptop with you. Bingo. All of the sudden it dawns on you, the assholes at the cinema will not let you watch a movie.
Then you go home or elsewhere (or to other cinemas, specially independent chains that don't dish you that kind of bullshit and actually show better movies).
Are they really so monumentally stupid? Or is this another false alarm?
What have companies do to seriously create or satisfy that demand?
They try a shy toe in the water (like ASUS did), are wildly successful with a Linux only product, and then, as soon as Microsoft asks them to wag the tail, roll in and play dead they do so, in some cases with particular relish.
The demand, or at the very least, interest, is there: trade magazines, conferences, server installations and desktop installations (many of which are not publicized because they are done internally by big companies, you would be surprised to know some of the names doing this) say the demand is there.
Google Linux for bunnies sakes, the amount of information out there is astronomic. That is simply not coherent with lack of interest.
The demand for half hearted attempts to make Linux available may not be there, but I would like to see if there is no demand for a Linux machine running a well configured enterpirse distribution (RedHat, Ubuntu or even SuSe) backed up by proper marketing (Dell has spreads almost every day in free newspapers here in London, I would like to see the same kind of commitment and effort put towards a line of machines runing Linux exclusively).
Don't tell me the demand is not there when you have not tried seriously to satisfy a need.
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It is no coincidence that Oracle has said precious little regarding MySQL (and also regarding Solaris and OpenSolaris)
MySQL is the most popular database for web deployments, if you think there is no conflict to be investigated then you are either naive or malicious, only you know.
Governments can't just decide to ignore their own rules and regulations if jobs are at stake, such attitudes would lead only to corruption and undermining of the rule of law.
There is no crew ever that has been that long at sea without further contact with some other people.
No sexism in Open Source or the IT industry.
It is all a figment in the imagination of feminists.
Puritanical blind attitudes to sex are.
The bosses of such a mission would be hung to dry if they would say that the crew would carry a healthy amount of condoms, or that in order to guarantee the success of the mission, the crew had agreed to undergo permanent sterilization.
"The 'Bionauts' were chosen on the basis of political and philosophical correctness and acceptability rather than being a properly selected and trained team."
Are you saying that the US would chose a member of the US Communist party or a person openly supporting the KKK if either has impeccable Engineering credentials?
Why is that even in your CV????
"And guess what. You're not as good looking as you think. More than likely you look like some one in need of attention. When I look at resumes I toss instantly the ones with photo's. Why? Most likely the person has some social issues."
It is very agreeable to me to know that there are people out there that can judge the character of a human being by guessing the reasons a person had to put a photograph on a CV.
It makes you marvel at human ingenuity.
The possibility that people put a photograph of themselves for a myriad of reasons is valiantly eluded by somebody that has cracked this sociological nut, by bining CVs of otherwise worthy candidates for only this reason.
it makes me happy to be sharing the world with such enlightened folk.
There is no way in which you can meaningfully explain what you do in such a short space of time (considering headings, that you are not using single spacing and other formating caveats).
As somebody that has reviewed his fair share of CVs and interviewed lots of people I can tell you that such advice, at least in my field, is utter nonsense.
The fossil record documents the evolution of several species (whales, horses, and us of course).
.... that somebody in the position to go to Canada, Singapore, India or elsewhere would accept to earn a substandard wage?
It is time that people like you, that clearly know nothing about working internationally, get a big clue stick.
If you don't have objective proof of somebody performing poorly, why should you be able to endanger that person's living?
In any case, nowadays any company worth its salt has performance appraisals, that way people that could do better are offered the carrot of bonuses and raises
If people don't do a good job their receive a caution, there is a documented history that shows incompetence, until finally enough evidence is gathered and the person in question is fired.
In the UK is much simpler, in Germany employees representatives (not necessarily unions) may be involved.
When there is a downturn companies can fire people, but they have to do it in agreement with the employees and depending on how many people is necessary to dismiss, the company has to follow certain steps to do it properly, with several rounds of consultation.
If there is a surge in demand and people need to work longer hours people are either paid (just imagine, what a concept) or may have agreed to do so contractually, but you can't be forced, you have to agree to it. If you decide to abide by the EU working time directive (in the UK) then you can agree to work more than 48 hours per week, but in principle it is you agreeing to it, not your employer forcing you (some employers try to force you to sign, but if people know their rights there is no power that can force you to sign, and firing you for not signing is illegal).
"Maybe we take our vacation in a different form. Consider the american pre-occupation with big houses, nice cars, giant televisions, etc. These are all little mini-vacations that we experience everyday."
Europeans (and we immigrants) get all those "mini vacations" and then 3, 4 or 5 weeks of holiday a year (depending on the country).
There is no way to give the US labour arrangements a positive spin.
.... and wants to strangle Darl...
How many "betters" are there?
Do you realize that saying something is better is something entirely subjective?
So bar a few improvements required to use newer hardware, there is actually nothing else.
... because the "old" hardware is very capable.
It is a waste, Microsoft should be working to make the software work better in the same hardware, they should not be allied with the hardware manufacturers to ensure they force you to do artificial upgrades.
This is the exact kind of "joke" that rightly annoys women from getting more involved in technology.
Or are you going to tell me you were the first poster?
The only reasons I can think of for bringing a laptop into a movie theater:
1) You want to pirate
With a laptop's camera?
2) You're an incredible internet addict that can't even escape IRC/AIM long enough to sit through a movie in the theater
Really? Then the staff can kick you out once you probe to be a nuisance.
3) You don't have a trunk in your car to lock it in - but why the hell did you have your laptop with you in the first place if you were driving to a movie? "Went to the movie directly after work" isn't a valid reason:
Driving, driving, driving. that says it all, the mentality of the car addict. Going after work may not be a valid reason for you, but it is perfectly normal for many people in the UK (where the cinemas in question are) who don;t drive to work, but still may find themselves too far away from home and need to take the laptop back home.
a) If you're going to see a movie, highly unlikely you were going to work from home that night. Lock the laptop in your desk cabinet.
Many people need the laptop to work in an emergency, and many more can do one or two hours of work (not recommended, but not impossible). IN any case, why should one change work patterns just because a cinema chain decides to be paranoid?
b) Few people want to go see a movie in their work clothes. Even if going home is out of the way, most people are going to change for comfort.
And where will you get those clothes to change? How much more impractical can you get with your asinine suggestions?
In the UK many people use public transport, specially in London (no car booth).
Your home may be one hour away from the area where you work or from where the cinema showing your movie of interest is, not infrequently even further away (no way to shower and drop the laptop, yeah, some Londoners stink actually).
And even if the cinema was across the street, it is an asinine policy, which should be denounced as the stupid idea it is.
We are people paying to watch the movies, we want to be left in peace.
If not, how do you know what people are carrying?
Specially now with netbooks, your initial supposition is spacious to say the least.
When I catch a movie after work, but before going home.
Really, is it that difficult to figure that one out?
We are talking about the UK. Many (most?) people use public transport to commute to their place of work, and as you can imagine, it is not an unusual thing nowadays to carry your laptop all around the place.
So lets see you finish a hard day's work, want to watch a movie and need to take the laptop with you. Bingo. All of the sudden it dawns on you, the assholes at the cinema will not let you watch a movie.
Then you go home or elsewhere (or to other cinemas, specially independent chains that don't dish you that kind of bullshit and actually show better movies).
Are they really so monumentally stupid? Or is this another false alarm?
Just wondering.
Really?
What have companies do to seriously create or satisfy that demand?
They try a shy toe in the water (like ASUS did), are wildly successful with a Linux only product, and then, as soon as Microsoft asks them to wag the tail, roll in and play dead they do so, in some cases with particular relish.
The demand, or at the very least, interest, is there: trade magazines, conferences, server installations and desktop installations (many of which are not publicized because they are done internally by big companies, you would be surprised to know some of the names doing this) say the demand is there.
Google Linux for bunnies sakes, the amount of information out there is astronomic. That is simply not coherent with lack of interest.
The demand for half hearted attempts to make Linux available may not be there, but I would like to see if there is no demand for a Linux machine running a well configured enterpirse distribution (RedHat, Ubuntu or even SuSe) backed up by proper marketing (Dell has spreads almost every day in free newspapers here in London, I would like to see the same kind of commitment and effort put towards a line of machines runing Linux exclusively).
Don't tell me the demand is not there when you have not tried seriously to satisfy a need.