The moment you rip the CD and then lend it to friends you are technically a copyright infringer.
I am not saying it should be any different, but lets not fool ourselves: legislation all around the world is aiming to make natural use of media like the one you describe illegal.
The interesting question is: if the majority of the public is most likely against this kind of pro-cartel legislation, how it comes that the few execs in the big corporations interested have more say with politicians than we, the people?
When politicians ask why people are disengaged from politics this is a perfect example of why: we know we are not the master of our elected representatives....
Honestly, I have lived and travelled extensively. The UK must be the only country in the world (ok, I don't know this, but golly, it feels like that) that closes the transport systems in Xmas and New Year's day.
I have lived in several countries and thus experienced various public transport systems.
If they stopped full lines of the underground, in lets say, Mexico City, the politicians in charge would walk out of their jobs faster than you can say London Olympics.
In Spain fast trains are contractually obliged to pay you back your money if they arrive late.
In Barcelona underground trains do not stop at 23:00 or 00:00 and continue until the small hours in the morning (it wasn't me who tried to sell London as a 24 hours city).
In Singapore you can check the departure time of the buses in computers. Needless to say they are very punctual.
Rail replacement bus service is great and all, but the Jubilee line, the newest part of the Underground system, has been closed goodness knows how many weekends this year and is scheduled to continue like that until next one.
Why do they need to do engineering works barely 7 years after the extension to East London was opened?
Very often you find that the Circle, parts of the Northern and Jubilee line. DLR and recently past of the train systems are all closed at the same time no matter what, very often on weekends when big events are taking place in town.
The Conservative governments must be blamed for the backlog in maintenance, after all it was famously Margaret Thatcher who said "there is not such thing as society" and "adults using buses are losers" (paraphrasing). But after 11 years of Labour one would expect that this problem would have been tackled committedely from the start, no the end of their administration.
If other countries can manage to provide maintenance to the rail and underground systems during the night, without blanket outages of services during the weekends, what is stopping London in particular and UK comapnies in general doing the same?
Any person that has gone through more than a pair of interviews can mask motivation all right, even if their real motivator is one of the ones you marked above.
If your starting point is not actual job competence then you are clearly starting with the wrong foot because are basing your decision in entirely subjective parameters (how do you accurately and truthfully measure or evaluate motivation)?
You can fake motivation, you can't fake technical competence.
I will give my account name to nobody. It is nobody's business what I do or write in my spare time. Library? For bunnies sakes, what has this to remotely do with the competence of a person to do a job?
Do you really ask these questions or are you making sure you live up to the reputation of your shown email address?
You need both types in your organization, so simply spec properly your job posts and the right candidates will apply for them, complementing other members of your team.
Anybody can learn proficiently to program or do any IT task really, it is prioritizing properly what differentiates the good from the bad and the outright ugly.
One can figure out in 10 minutes if somebody is technically proficient or not (hint: one does not need written tests). but it is far more difficult to figure out if somebody understands the needs of your company.
How you react to a situation is governed mostly by the context.
In a context were you are risking your life if you screw up most likely skydiving expertise may come handy.
99% of IT jobs will never be remotely involved in such a context, thus the experiences from skydiving may not translate at all to what you need for your team.
Hobbies may indicate other interest traits, mostly of social nature, but to imply that they will magically translate in certain traits in an unrelated field is completely ludicrous.
There are people out there making money selling Linux machines to people that are not necessarily computer literate.
People doing this *cough, cough* understand the market and that users need more hand holding, people are not as stupid as you want them to be, if you explain things for a couple of minutes they will understand that the sticker in front of the computer means pretty much nothing when it comes to the inner workings of the machine.
My relatives running Ubuntu know it will not run neither Windows or OSX software.
I make clear that unless the software is not specifically labelled as running on Linux it will not run on their computers.
I mention my relatives, because they are clueless when it comes to computing, nevertheless they can understand the issue at hand, my clients require no explanation about this because they are computer literate.
If you are having irate clients it is not Linux's fault, it is yours for not providing correct pre-sales advice.
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The moment you rip the CD and then lend it to friends you are technically a copyright infringer.
I am not saying it should be any different, but lets not fool ourselves: legislation all around the world is aiming to make natural use of media like the one you describe illegal.
The interesting question is: if the majority of the public is most likely against this kind of pro-cartel legislation, how it comes that the few execs in the big corporations interested have more say with politicians than we, the people?
When politicians ask why people are disengaged from politics this is a perfect example of why: we know we are not the master of our elected representatives ....
Why do we need to have practical reasons for everything?
Celibacy is a bitch, so lots of hair but heirs are more unlikely (not really, but I will not start on this topic).
Honestly, I have lived and travelled extensively. The UK must be the only country in the world (ok, I don't know this, but golly, it feels like that) that closes the transport systems in Xmas and New Year's day.
And that is only for starters.
I have lived in several countries and thus experienced various public transport systems.
If they stopped full lines of the underground, in lets say, Mexico City, the politicians in charge would walk out of their jobs faster than you can say London Olympics.
In Spain fast trains are contractually obliged to pay you back your money if they arrive late.
In Barcelona underground trains do not stop at 23:00 or 00:00 and continue until the small hours in the morning (it wasn't me who tried to sell London as a 24 hours city).
In Singapore you can check the departure time of the buses in computers. Needless to say they are very punctual.
Rail replacement bus service is great and all, but the Jubilee line, the newest part of the Underground system, has been closed goodness knows how many weekends this year and is scheduled to continue like that until next one.
Why do they need to do engineering works barely 7 years after the extension to East London was opened?
Very often you find that the Circle, parts of the Northern and Jubilee line. DLR and recently past of the train systems are all closed at the same time no matter what, very often on weekends when big events are taking place in town.
The Conservative governments must be blamed for the backlog in maintenance, after all it was famously Margaret Thatcher who said "there is not such thing as society" and "adults using buses are losers" (paraphrasing). But after 11 years of Labour one would expect that this problem would have been tackled committedely from the start, no the end of their administration.
If other countries can manage to provide maintenance to the rail and underground systems during the night, without blanket outages of services during the weekends, what is stopping London in particular and UK comapnies in general doing the same?
But this is too inconvenient, specially if you need a season ticket.
What would be your solution?
Your numbers and context simply don't add up.
Any person that has gone through more than a pair of interviews can mask motivation all right, even if their real motivator is one of the ones you marked above.
If your starting point is not actual job competence then you are clearly starting with the wrong foot because are basing your decision in entirely subjective parameters (how do you accurately and truthfully measure or evaluate motivation)?
You can fake motivation, you can't fake technical competence.
I will give my account name to nobody. It is nobody's business what I do or write in my spare time.
Library? For bunnies sakes, what has this to remotely do with the competence of a person to do a job?
Do you really ask these questions or are you making sure you live up to the reputation of your shown email address?
Nowadays any clued up person will stand up and leave.
The proposed question is completely out of place.
What about if you are hiring for repetitive tasks?
You need to hire based on best fit for a position, something wowing you for a position that is menial may not be the best fit for it.
How do you measure quality?
And maintainability?
... young people then to reinvent the wheel.
You need both types in your organization, so simply spec properly your job posts and the right candidates will apply for them, complementing other members of your team.
When you get to such nitty-gritty level of detail you are not evaluating expertise, you are are showing off.
Somebody, regardless of age, may not be familiar with this, but may have all the necessary technical expertise to support your application.
Good interviews avoid such detailed examination while poking about more general topics that give a full understanding of a candidate's abilities.
Somebody clued up should request further clarification of the context to arrive to a satisfactory answer (C and D seem like jokes any way).
What do *you* need?
How can I possible know at this stage what *your priorities* are?
Throw nonsensical open ended questions and there are people out there that will have you for breakfast...
That is exactly what this is all about.
Anybody can learn proficiently to program or do any IT task really, it is prioritizing properly what differentiates the good from the bad and the outright ugly.
One can figure out in 10 minutes if somebody is technically proficient or not (hint: one does not need written tests). but it is far more difficult to figure out if somebody understands the needs of your company.
How you react to a situation is governed mostly by the context.
In a context were you are risking your life if you screw up most likely skydiving expertise may come handy.
99% of IT jobs will never be remotely involved in such a context, thus the experiences from skydiving may not translate at all to what you need for your team.
Hobbies may indicate other interest traits, mostly of social nature, but to imply that they will magically translate in certain traits in an unrelated field is completely ludicrous.
There are 100 things to mention.
If you want to asses the capabilities of an older candidate the worst place to start is with insinuations about his age (which may be illegal anyway).
You are just playing games with the interviewees by showing them how clever you are.
Shock! Horror!
News at 11, sorry at 10, we are in the UK.
The third party is called Intel.
The problem is that these companies now live in a symbiotic situation in which one can't live without the other.
There are people out there making money selling Linux machines to people that are not necessarily computer literate.
People doing this *cough, cough* understand the market and that users need more hand holding, people are not as stupid as you want them to be, if you explain things for a couple of minutes they will understand that the sticker in front of the computer means pretty much nothing when it comes to the inner workings of the machine.
My relatives running Ubuntu know it will not run neither Windows or OSX software.
I make clear that unless the software is not specifically labelled as running on Linux it will not run on their computers.
I mention my relatives, because they are clueless when it comes to computing, nevertheless they can understand the issue at hand, my clients require no explanation about this because they are computer literate.
If you are having irate clients it is not Linux's fault, it is yours for not providing correct pre-sales advice.