if you tell them you need a mechanism for recieving immediate notification and how you currently have the system setup, ask them to supply you with a company cell or for these purposes any pager that can recieve text will do.
Software licenses are legaly binding contracts... hello.. you know how we all fight for the GPL, this is no different. What you described is no different. The offer is "these are the terms of usage". If you agree to the terms then you use the software, if you no not agree then you do not have to use that software and have the option of using another piece of software from the vendor.
Same with the GPL, did you sign anything the last time you worked on an opensource project? proably not, but when using GPLed code you are agreeing to distribute the source with any distros you make of your new creation. What if you don't agree to the terms of the GPL (the license)? Then you don't use the code.
Do you see the pattern here? With software lisences it is not like a paper contract, its a terms of usage, if a consumer does not agree they do not have to use the product.
Sure if you want to buy a $5,000 alarm maybe it can do that;) But a basic car alarm works like a home alarm.
If the alarm is armed, it WILL go off if any of the doors are opened. In the more advanced models they also sense for glass being broken etc.
Typically, the alarm does not care HOW you got the door open, if the alarm is armed it assumes the person opening the door should not be opening it. With some advanced systems like VIPER,they do have a way to turn off if following the alarm going off, you insert the key into the ignition. But if the alarm does not have that feature then if the alarm remote is not working you are pretty much SOL.
yes but to play devil's advocate, why the hell would a MCSE need ot care what HTML or COBOL is?
We take for granted that most of the people on slashdot are above the normal curve of users. Most of us are "jack of all trades" geeks, hardware/software/networking/etc. Yes i have turned down many a MCSE for hire,lol. BUT.. we take for granted that some people have a genuine interest in the technoligy and need a way into so that they may gain additional years of exp. For them MCSE was the only option they had to get their foot in the door.
I'd say half the MCSEs i met were about as useful as most MBAs are,lol..but I was cracking on a former co-worker who was a MCSE because he was asking questions to me about Solaris that were very basic, similar to email clip a few posts above this one, about login scripts,sttings,etc..but then when it came down to it, I realised he was able to configure advanced settings on a WIN2k server that I didn't even knew windows2000 did.
Just a reminder [myself included] "those who live in glass *ix houses, should not throw rocks"
When I was looking I got on average about 10 calls a week from monster.com and careerbuilder. I can't even count how many calls I got from dice.com , that was by far the best results. But I have always had great luck with them.
I guess to be fair I'll list my filed since mailage may vary.
I am 26, 11 yrs IT (yes I started coding at 15), have a secret clearence and do infosec and PKI (networking and coding).
almost every company I have applied for will do at least a credit check on you. It's usually hidden in one of the forms you sign before you start to interview. Your credit record will at least mention your last few employeers. better not to leave one out, at least make up a good reason why it was so short.
Well IF it hits the rock in the first place, then it kind of defeats to purpose of what the contest was about. Unmanned, obsticle avoidance, and at a certain speed. From what I have been reading about the work going into most of these, a rock THAt big, should have been debugged out weeks ago , well excpet for the motorcycle;)
so does that mean if you shot somebody, the cops couldn't come after you because you chose not to agree to the law?
TOS is legally binding, so whether you think you accept the TOS or not is not the issue. The fact you click on the link to enter the site after it asks you if you agree, is an explicit agreement, meaning that "I don't accept the TOS, so there for it doesn't matter if i agree'" will not hold up lagally if you were to violate the TOS while using the site. You may say you don't accept, but but just being on the website, you say otherwise.
the question is... who is going to stand up to them, they have crossed the line too many times. I'm still upset there hasn't been more talk on capital hill about the DMCA being unconstituional, since it is a clear case of blanket legislation.
Isn't that a little one sided? I mean we could easily argue that his wfie would be selfish for NOT letting her husband do it. I think the true testament to their love would be his wife letting him do this. I mean it's not like we are talking about flying him to hawaii, we are talking about the chance to set foot on mars, I mean when it comes to someones dreams and passions, is one person really worth it, no matter how much you love them?
From you last comment about his age, I'd say you are mocking his idealism based on the fact you are probably at least 20 years older and bitter because he never succeeded in your dreams.
actually my cable provider (COX) still offers VOD, and in fact just recently sent out an announcement they would be expanding it, along with additional HDTV channels.
I would think you would have gotten fired for most companys for having a picture like that on your PC? In the last 5 years most companys have a zero tolerance policy for anything that may be offensive to the opposite sex. My friend got fired from a prev employer because he made the comment "man I didn't my raise, I guess I'll have to take up stripping", and one of the female managers reported him to HR because even "mentioning the word stripping is offensive" no matter what the context of it. I think it';s why at my first job they had the systems locked down so much you couldn't even change the wall paper anyway:( lol
A tip jar model might not hurt but I wouldnt not count that into your cost/earning budget. The first step would be to just get an 802.11b AP in, and and wait to see if people use it before you add a PC into the mix, unless you can just build or buy an older one for $100. As many failed Wifi providers have found is that people do not want to pay $10/hr to use it, or pay at all. The best model is to offer the wifi for free. You then ask "how do you make back your money?". With in this model, you offer the wifi for free, which means more people will come to use it, and the people already using it will stay longer. As customers stay they are likely to buy food or more drinks.
you are forgetting an important demographic, which as./ers we tend to do. Just because someone does not have a PC or does not want to spend $200 on a PC does not mean they can not afford one. A typical slashdoter would be caught saying things like "I decided to go back to only running 3 computers in my room". Where as the missing demographic may say "why should I spend $200 on a box to read email?". They may make plenty of money and may thing a $200 tie is needed, or a $200 chair for their dining room.. so lets not forget the difference between ABLE to buy a $x PC and WANTING to buy a $x PC.
it may be an annoyance to joe average or yourself but to me (a small business owner) its a HUGE problem and to large companies SPAM costs them MILLIONS of dollars every year, it is much more then a "minor" problem.
On the low end of the problem, if you get paid $20 an hour, and spend an hour cleaning spam out of your mail box everyday, you are spending over $5000 of the comapanys money a year, just dealing with spam. Not multiply this by EVERY person in the company doing this, any even accounting for the fact $20 is the low nd of your pay scale for your engineering staff. You get my drift.
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oh and we all know how well marxism worked out as an applied economic model? *snicker*
if you tell them you need a mechanism for recieving immediate notification and how you currently have the system setup, ask them to supply you with a company cell or for these purposes any pager that can recieve text will do.
Software licenses are legaly binding contracts... hello.. you know how we all fight for the GPL, this is no different. What you described is no different. The offer is "these are the terms of usage". If you agree to the terms then you use the software, if you no not agree then you do not have to use that software and have the option of using another piece of software from the vendor.
Same with the GPL, did you sign anything the last time you worked on an opensource project? proably not, but when using GPLed code you are agreeing to distribute the source with any distros you make of your new creation. What if you don't agree to the terms of the GPL (the license)? Then you don't use the code.
Do you see the pattern here? With software lisences it is not like a paper contract, its a terms of usage, if a consumer does not agree they do not have to use the product.
I am not a windows user, nor a lawyer, BUT just because you don't believe in the license model doesn't mean it;s not illegal to disobey it.
What you think you are entitled to and what you agree to when you click "I agree" when installing it most likely are not the same thing apparently.
I tried accessing his girlfriend but apparently it had exceeded the maximun number of simultanious connections :(
"...the ultimate goal is to model the entire Earth using existing terrain data and a super-accurate physics model"
Hasn't this been done before?
# ping rover.nasa.gov
Request timed out
# ping rover.nasa.gov
Request timed out
# ping rover.nasa.gov
Request timed out
# ping rover.nasa.gov
PING rover.nasa.gov (192.168.1.143): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.143: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=6043.446 ms
Sure if you want to buy a $5,000 alarm maybe it can do that ;)
But a basic car alarm works like a home alarm.
If the alarm is armed, it WILL go off if any of the doors are opened. In the more advanced models they also sense for glass being broken etc.
Typically, the alarm does not care HOW you got the door open, if the alarm is armed it assumes the person opening the door should not be opening it. With some advanced systems like VIPER,they do have a way to turn off if following the alarm going off, you insert the key into the ignition. But if the alarm does not have that feature then if the alarm remote is not working you are pretty much SOL.
yes but to play devil's advocate, why the hell would a MCSE need ot care what HTML or COBOL is?
We take for granted that most of the people on slashdot are above the normal curve of users. Most of us are "jack of all trades" geeks, hardware/software/networking/etc. Yes i have turned down many a MCSE for hire,lol. BUT.. we take for granted that some people have a genuine interest in the technoligy and need a way into so that they may gain additional years of exp. For them MCSE was the only option they had to get their foot in the door.
I'd say half the MCSEs i met were about as useful as most MBAs are,lol..but I was cracking on a former co-worker who was a MCSE because he was asking questions to me about Solaris that were very basic, similar to email clip a few posts above this one, about login scripts,sttings,etc..but then when it came down to it, I realised he was able to configure advanced settings on a WIN2k server that I didn't even knew windows2000 did.
Just a reminder [myself included] "those who live in glass *ix houses, should not throw rocks"
When I was looking I got on average about 10 calls a week from monster.com and careerbuilder. I can't even count how many calls I got from dice.com , that was by far the best results. But I have always had great luck with them.
I guess to be fair I'll list my filed since mailage may vary.
I am 26, 11 yrs IT (yes I started coding at 15), have a secret clearence and do infosec and PKI (networking and coding).
almost every company I have applied for will do at least a credit check on you. It's usually hidden in one of the forms you sign before you start to interview. Your credit record will at least mention your last few employeers. better not to leave one out, at least make up a good reason why it was so short.
lol ;)
let me guess, your degree is not in marketing?
by then we'll just have car to car SMS :)
Well IF it hits the rock in the first place, then it kind of defeats to purpose of what the contest was about. Unmanned, obsticle avoidance, and at a certain speed. From what I have been reading about the work going into most of these, a rock THAt big, should have been debugged out weeks ago , well excpet for the motorcycle ;)
... until it hits a rock :)
so does that mean if you shot somebody, the cops couldn't come after you because you chose not to agree to the law?
TOS is legally binding, so whether you think you accept the TOS or not is not the issue. The fact you click on the link to enter the site after it asks you if you agree, is an explicit agreement, meaning that "I don't accept the TOS, so there for it doesn't matter if i agree'" will not hold up lagally if you were to violate the TOS while using the site. You may say you don't accept, but but just being on the website, you say otherwise.
the question is... who is going to stand up to them, they have crossed the line too many times. I'm still upset there hasn't been more talk on capital hill about the DMCA being unconstituional, since it is a clear case of blanket legislation.
"...at worst they will think that you were not born with the part of the brain that allows you to form your own thoughts and ideas."
Unless the applicant was an MBA, then it would just be a given.
Isn't that a little one sided? I mean we could easily argue that his wfie would be selfish for NOT letting her husband do it. I think the true testament to their love would be his wife letting him do this. I mean it's not like we are talking about flying him to hawaii, we are talking about the chance to set foot on mars, I mean when it comes to someones dreams and passions, is one person really worth it, no matter how much you love them?
From you last comment about his age, I'd say you are mocking his idealism based on the fact you are probably at least 20 years older and bitter because he never succeeded in your dreams.
actually my cable provider (COX) still offers VOD, and in fact just recently sent out an announcement they would be expanding it, along with additional HDTV channels.
I would think you would have gotten fired for most companys for having a picture like that on your PC? In the last 5 years most companys have a zero tolerance policy for anything that may be offensive to the opposite sex. My friend got fired from a prev employer because he made the comment "man I didn't my raise, I guess I'll have to take up stripping", and one of the female managers reported him to HR because even "mentioning the word stripping is offensive" no matter what the context of it. I think it';s why at my first job they had the systems locked down so much you couldn't even change the wall paper anyway :( lol
there are only 10 types of people in the world.
Those who use digital condoms, and those who don't
A tip jar model might not hurt but I wouldnt not count that into your cost/earning budget. The first step would be to just get an 802.11b AP in, and and wait to see if people use it before you add a PC into the mix, unless you can just build or buy an older one for $100. As many failed Wifi providers have found is that people do not want to pay $10 /hr to use it, or pay at all. The best model is to offer the wifi for free. You then ask "how do you make back your money?". With in this model, you offer the wifi for free, which means more people will come to use it, and the people already using it will stay longer. As customers stay they are likely to buy food or more drinks.
you are forgetting an important demographic, which as ./ers we tend to do. Just because someone does not have a PC or does not want to spend $200 on a PC does not mean they can not afford one. A typical slashdoter would be caught saying things like "I decided to go back to only running 3 computers in my room". Where as the missing demographic may say "why should I spend $200 on a box to read email?". They may make plenty of money and may thing a $200 tie is needed, or a $200 chair for their dining room.. so lets not forget the difference between ABLE to buy a $x PC and WANTING to buy a $x PC.
it may be an annoyance to joe average or yourself but to me (a small business owner) its a HUGE problem and to large companies SPAM costs them MILLIONS of dollars every year, it is much more then a "minor" problem.
On the low end of the problem, if you get paid $20 an hour, and spend an hour cleaning spam out of your mail box everyday, you are spending over $5000 of the comapanys money a year, just dealing with spam. Not multiply this by EVERY person in the company doing this, any even accounting for the fact $20 is the low nd of your pay scale for your engineering staff. You get my drift.