Politicians so uncertain about their future that are forced to do deals when needed and to take care all the others don't become more corrupt than themselves, if only to make sure there is something left for them to plunder when reaching power.
Why are so many people around here afraid of their own worth?
Take a cut in your salary if you must, or become more skilled (remember, the cheap guys in India are still there: Hello guys in Mumbai!) but frankly I am not going to start to unblock toilettes for a living....
You need to provide training at all times, independently of the applications you are using, sot Free Software should not be a factor in a company properly run.
As for productivity loses, well, if you have people that are not flexible enough to use different applications then you have a liability and a business risk there. Windows applications are not fully compatible amongst themselves, so why you notice this problem only if free software is involved shows you are biased and not open to fairly evaluate the options open to you.
Ubuntu, Fedora (and thus RH) SuSE and several others solved this problem some years ago.
With thousands of applications already packaged for you the only think that needs to be done is start your package manager, search for the application you need, select it and install it (all with a graphical interface, I mention this because there is always some dumbkopf that claims all this done in a terminal).
I do work with the command line for a living, but when I get home and learn that there is a cool application out there 19 out of 20 times it is already packaged for me, ready to be installed.
PCs sold as appliances, irrespective of the OS, will have Flash, Real Player, PDF reader , Java VM and any other necessary software.
The EeePC is just like that, as are several other Linux appliances in the market.
This scaremongering is frankly tiresome, bring on real issues to have a meaningful discussion, lack of basic software is no longer an issue in most situations.
You would not state such nonsense if you knew what a Socialist and a Marxist is.
Very few people in Europe are taxed to the levels you mention, certainly taxes are higher, but it seems that many countries in Europe are better educated, healthier and happier than people in the US,
As for your assertions regarding terrorists and dictators, you are pulling that from your ass.
I was AVP (Assistant Vice President), some of my friends were VPs.
It is just a fancy title given in the financial industry in a vain attempt to standardize positions, this in order to make easier to compare salaries and benefits across the industry.
Forcing people to buy one product in order to be able to buy another is a classroom example of an anticompetitive practice, which is banned in most civilized places, unfortunately most Apple fanboys are so wide eyed playing with their expensive toys that they fail to see they are being abused by the unholy alliance of phone maker and mobile telephony provider.
As soon as some of them begin to wake up and smell the coffee complaints will follow and will, hopefully, end this most abusive "business model"...
Tying up products artificially is illegal in most civilized countries.
In Mexico some bakeries used to force people to buy other stuff (like bread, or eggs) before they would sell you milk.
It is the same thing really, Apple and AT&T are forcing you to buy each other's wares without having any technical justification (only because so far they can) and I hope that any such deals are found to be illegal in as many localities as possible.
This "business model" of screwing of people by artificial scarcity has got to stop one way or another.
Slashdot likes nothing, simply lots of people here pay attention to how the word really works instead of using loaded phrases and wishful thinking.
The legal systems of most civilized nations recognize that copying the intellectual work of others is not stealing (since you can't steal something intangible) which is why you have full bodies of law an international treaties dealing with copyright.
If copyright infringement was theft then we would not have the need for a separate body of law.
Lawmakers pretty much everywhere have reached the conclusion that copyright is not theft, so people continuing to argue this point are frankly akin to creationists and flat earth believers.
The "work" as you call it, is something intangible: ideas and thoughts (which is what programming is). By any definition you care to put forward, those can't be stolen, only copied.
Which is why there is a branch of legalese to defend the rights of creators (copyright law).
The last time I wore a suit was for my first job interview (many moons ago).
After that I always wore whatever I felt like on the day. All the companies that hired me were good ones, from any objective point of view you want to consider, of the ones that didn't, several had gone out of business, including some ass hats in the recent financial crush (I went to interviews for banks, a very conservative bunch, wearing jeans and polo T-shirts, some of the ones buying or bailing out others during the current financial mess hired me, some others, that have collapsed in recent weeks didn't. Draw your own conclusions).
I am not saying there is a direct relationship on this, but it is just my experience that people not paying attention to what will make their company objectively better are wasting their time paying attention to trivial stuff. Like dress codes.
Hygiene is of course OK to check, if by that you mean disgusting types that stink, otherwise I really don't know how you can possibly check that.
As for responses to canned questions, I fail to see how you can get anything but canned answers. If you expect me to say something insightful to the dreadful "where do you expect to be in 5 years time?" then you will be wasting both of us' time.
Interviewing skills are something terribly overrated, and no wonder, since they are sold by the snake oil paddlers of the most inexact of sciences: human relationships.
Iron your clothes for the interview (jeans may be perfectly fine for it, actually it would be best if you want to find out if the company is paying attention to the right things) and be truthful.
After that the bets are off since there is no way "interview skills" can prepare you for the myriad of different people you may find interviewing you.
There are countless tales of companies that thought they would get away with it and didn't.
This defeatism is completely irrational. Big companies screw up (gosh, in the view of recent news I should not need to be explaining this) and those fancy lawyers are just fallible, sometimes greedy humans.
If something feels like an injustice it is worth exploring if it really is in the legal sense of the word, and perhaps pursue the corresponding legal redress if worth the effort.
If I had followed my passion I would be a bad piano teacher living hand to mouth day to day.
As it happens I decided to do what I was good at, even well knowing I didn't really love it, and right now I have been unemployed for several months but have enough savings that allow me to travel around the world during these difficult times.
I agree that you should think about what you will do with your life, I don't agree that is should necessarily mean you do what you love.
The amount of money wasted in law enforcement as well as the loses due to drugs related crime I am sure easily are bigger than any seizures performed by any government.
Mexico tried some degree of legalization (for possession of small amounts of drug for personal use), as well as some other measures that would have loosened unnecessary prosecutions,during the previous government, but the US protested in such strong terms that the legislation was quickly withdrawn from the Mexican legal process.
It has also been suggested that Afghanistan poppy production should be bought by the occupying countries (mostly US & UK) but the puritanical, idiotic approach to the matter by both these governments has meant that poppy production continues unabated in Afghanistan, feeding terrorism worldwide.
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There is no simpler and truer answer.
You would be breaking the law.
Politicians so uncertain about their future that are forced to do deals when needed and to take care all the others don't become more corrupt than themselves, if only to make sure there is something left for them to plunder when reaching power.
Why are so many people around here afraid of their own worth?
Take a cut in your salary if you must, or become more skilled (remember, the cheap guys in India are still there: Hello guys in Mumbai!) but frankly I am not going to start to unblock toilettes for a living....
You need to provide training at all times, independently of the applications you are using, sot Free Software should not be a factor in a company properly run.
As for productivity loses, well, if you have people that are not flexible enough to use different applications then you have a liability and a business risk there. Windows applications are not fully compatible amongst themselves, so why you notice this problem only if free software is involved shows you are biased and not open to fairly evaluate the options open to you.
So I fail to see why you would need the Gimp (keeping in mind the aim: just to show and organize pictures).
YOu can't blame Asus regarding your wishes, the movie conglomerates are the ones stopping other comapnies serving your their precious content.
Ubuntu, Fedora (and thus RH) SuSE and several others solved this problem some years ago.
With thousands of applications already packaged for you the only think that needs to be done is start your package manager, search for the application you need, select it and install it (all with a graphical interface, I mention this because there is always some dumbkopf that claims all this done in a terminal).
I do work with the command line for a living, but when I get home and learn that there is a cool application out there 19 out of 20 times it is already packaged for me, ready to be installed.
PCs sold as appliances, irrespective of the OS, will have Flash, Real Player, PDF reader , Java VM and any other necessary software.
The EeePC is just like that, as are several other Linux appliances in the market.
This scaremongering is frankly tiresome, bring on real issues to have a meaningful discussion, lack of basic software is no longer an issue in most situations.
Like if Windows was that good.
Inertia is the word you need.
People prefer to continue in the current state of suffering rather than to try something new that may or may not be better.
You would not state such nonsense if you knew what a Socialist and a Marxist is.
Very few people in Europe are taxed to the levels you mention, certainly taxes are higher, but it seems that many countries in Europe are better educated, healthier and happier than people in the US,
As for your assertions regarding terrorists and dictators, you are pulling that from your ass.
With drug traffickers running the country.
Don't put riot-based politics as a shinning example of how to do things better....
I was AVP (Assistant Vice President), some of my friends were VPs.
It is just a fancy title given in the financial industry in a vain attempt to standardize positions, this in order to make easier to compare salaries and benefits across the industry.
You can't be forced by a supermarket to buy bread in order to sell you eggs, no matter how big or small the milk producer is.
But people are not calling their bluff so far.
Forcing people to buy one product in order to be able to buy another is a classroom example of an anticompetitive practice, which is banned in most civilized places, unfortunately most Apple fanboys are so wide eyed playing with their expensive toys that they fail to see they are being abused by the unholy alliance of phone maker and mobile telephony provider.
As soon as some of them begin to wake up and smell the coffee complaints will follow and will, hopefully, end this most abusive "business model"...
Tying up products artificially is illegal in most civilized countries.
In Mexico some bakeries used to force people to buy other stuff (like bread, or eggs) before they would sell you milk.
It is the same thing really, Apple and AT&T are forcing you to buy each other's wares without having any technical justification (only because so far they can) and I hope that any such deals are found to be illegal in as many localities as possible.
This "business model" of screwing of people by artificial scarcity has got to stop one way or another.
Slashdot likes nothing, simply lots of people here pay attention to how the word really works instead of using loaded phrases and wishful thinking.
The legal systems of most civilized nations recognize that copying the intellectual work of others is not stealing (since you can't steal something intangible) which is why you have full bodies of law an international treaties dealing with copyright.
If copyright infringement was theft then we would not have the need for a separate body of law.
Lawmakers pretty much everywhere have reached the conclusion that copyright is not theft, so people continuing to argue this point are frankly akin to creationists and flat earth believers.
The "work" as you call it, is something intangible: ideas and thoughts (which is what programming is). By any definition you care to put forward, those can't be stolen, only copied.
Which is why there is a branch of legalese to defend the rights of creators (copyright law).
The last time I wore a suit was for my first job interview (many moons ago).
After that I always wore whatever I felt like on the day. All the companies that hired me were good ones, from any objective point of view you want to consider, of the ones that didn't, several had gone out of business, including some ass hats in the recent financial crush (I went to interviews for banks, a very conservative bunch, wearing jeans and polo T-shirts, some of the ones buying or bailing out others during the current financial mess hired me, some others, that have collapsed in recent weeks didn't. Draw your own conclusions).
I am not saying there is a direct relationship on this, but it is just my experience that people not paying attention to what will make their company objectively better are wasting their time paying attention to trivial stuff. Like dress codes.
Hygiene is of course OK to check, if by that you mean disgusting types that stink, otherwise I really don't know how you can possibly check that.
As for responses to canned questions, I fail to see how you can get anything but canned answers. If you expect me to say something insightful to the dreadful "where do you expect to be in 5 years time?" then you will be wasting both of us' time.
Interviewing skills are something terribly overrated, and no wonder, since they are sold by the snake oil paddlers of the most inexact of sciences: human relationships.
Iron your clothes for the interview (jeans may be perfectly fine for it, actually it would be best if you want to find out if the company is paying attention to the right things) and be truthful.
After that the bets are off since there is no way "interview skills" can prepare you for the myriad of different people you may find interviewing you.
There are countless tales of companies that thought they would get away with it and didn't.
This defeatism is completely irrational. Big companies screw up (gosh, in the view of recent news I should not need to be explaining this) and those fancy lawyers are just fallible, sometimes greedy humans.
If something feels like an injustice it is worth exploring if it really is in the legal sense of the word, and perhaps pursue the corresponding legal redress if worth the effort.
Professionalism is not spelled "passion".
If I had followed my passion I would be a bad piano teacher living hand to mouth day to day.
As it happens I decided to do what I was good at, even well knowing I didn't really love it, and right now I have been unemployed for several months but have enough savings that allow me to travel around the world during these difficult times.
I agree that you should think about what you will do with your life, I don't agree that is should necessarily mean you do what you love.
The amount of money wasted in law enforcement as well as the loses due to drugs related crime I am sure easily are bigger than any seizures performed by any government.
Mexico tried some degree of legalization (for possession of small amounts of drug for personal use), as well as some other measures that would have loosened unnecessary prosecutions,during the previous government, but the US protested in such strong terms that the legislation was quickly withdrawn from the Mexican legal process.
It has also been suggested that Afghanistan poppy production should be bought by the occupying countries (mostly US & UK) but the puritanical, idiotic approach to the matter by both these governments has meant that poppy production continues unabated in Afghanistan, feeding terrorism worldwide.
Drug traffickers are.
During prohibition powerful mafias grew out of the lucrative business of providing people what they wanted.
Anybody overlooking the obvious similarities must be blind, deaf and dumb.
Uhm? What is their market share again?