I was forced to take a 'mandatory' ethics course once. The company I was working for had some problems with some of its salespeople, and instituted a company-wide ethics program in response. A pure CYA move so that the next time it happened the company could fire 'em and say "It wasn't our fault, we gave them ethics training."
You even had to provide your social security number, to prove you had attended the course. Needless to say, this was high on my lists of leaving at the exit interview.
Me: "If you thought I had poor ethics, you shouldn't have hired me in the first place!"
Interviewer: *sigh* "Yes, we've ben hearing that a lot."
Uh, uh, but where is the op-ed section on CNN, or ABC? More people get their news from CNN, as the trite adverising goes, and there's no much you can do about it.
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It's way the hell out of date in its attitudes towards homosexuality, contraception, and STDs, inlcuding AIDs.
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Yeah, and all the pencil drawings were done by a famous SF artist (I forget his name). BTW the original is out of print and the updated version "The New Joy of Sex" has photos instead of line art. It's got savage reviews on Amazon, were they say it's as out of date as the original.
Yep, 'journalists' seem to have forgotten how to 'consider the source' and blithely believe everything handed to them. I love the way the Reg trashes Gibson, but I wish somebody in the mainstream would pick up on the other side of the story.
Along the same lines, am I the only person who has a problem with Cringley? After watching his PBS show about building an airplane in thirty days, I was convinced the guy has more money than brains, and that his infamy is due more to who he knows than what he knows.
Take a look a TNN, they're halfway there. Instead of an opaque icon in the corner (which is annoying enough) they've got a damn great black banner across the bottom of the screen all the time! It's the size of the news scroll on Headline News but it's just a promotion tool. I expect ads on in the forseeable future.
CN is very good, but not exclusive. Check out TechTV's dead funny parody of the Dell ads (it's even supposed to be on their website somewhere, but I couldn't find it).
Honestly, I started off with K & R, but I really didn't get C until I read "Advanced C: Tips and Techniques" by Paul and Gail Anderson. Pity it's out of print. Does anyone else remember it?
Hinted? Hinted? My gay friend would knock you silly if she heard that. It's only 'hinted at' to us straight people. The gay community have known what's really been going on for years.
That's one cool feature in Konqueror; it let's you turn of just the javascript window.opn function. So all of javascript works, but no pop-ups, pop-unders or whatever. It would be nice if the other browser manufacturers would let you turn off certain parts of javascript, but they're advertisers, too, so you know they won't.
From the BSA website:
Here are 10 reasons why companies should participate in BSA's Software Truce Campaign today: . .
9. Proper software management saves time, money and makes employees more productive.
8. Illegal software is one of the prime sources of computer viruses that can destroy your company's valuable data.
7. Illegal software is more likely to fail, leaving your company's computers and their information useless.
6. You can expect no warranties or support for illegal software and won't have access to inexpensive upgrades.
Now, I agree that if you're going to use software that's licenced, you should pay for it, but these reasons are just asinine! I won't even bother tearing most of these apart, I leave that to a kindergarden class.
90% of software 'copying' (I will not stoop to their level by calling it 'piracy') is using the same CD to install on multiple machines. Who are they trying to kid? Don't they realize it just makes their argument weaker?
Yeah, I forgot about that, but my spam comes from msn.com not hotmail.com. msn.com seems to allow forged headers, while hotmail doesn't. Makes you wonder...
Nice idea, but my single biggest source of spam is msn.com. Do you think Microsoft is going to be proactive about blocking spam? Do you think they know how?
I'm seriously thinking of blocking the entire msn and hotmail domains from my inbox. I don't know anyone on msn, anyway.
I agree with you about Java and J2EE; I work with them every day. I think the problem with Sun is that they are primarily a server and server software company, so they don't grok the end user experience. Microsoft started out building end-user tools, so they carry this bias into the development and server arena, making the tools look easier (than they should look) to use.
That's a good point, what the hell do we need these things for, anyway? CPUs are fast enough that recompiling almost anything is a matter of minutes or seconds. And it's not like there's a zillion operating systems out there you have to support. Microsoft seemed to have learned their lesson when they put a real compiler onto Visual Basic, and now they're making their code slower? It doesn't make sense.
I use Java and I like Java, but platform independence has got to be near the bottom of the list of the reasons why.
I'm aware of the dams in Northern Ontario, but the reason the nukes were built in the first place was that the dams were tapped out. And, I wasn't implying that the generators were causing the air pollution, I think that in heavily populated areas, the majority of the air pollution comes from vehicles.
So thye billed him for the thirty days, but locked him out? And his only option was a reconnection fee (which was probably three times more than the monthly charge)?
I need a word that's a lot more harsh than 'sucks' for these people.
Huh? 'Scuse my ignorance, but how did the Code-Red worm end up on a few hundred thousand machines, if the ISPs are monitoring traffic? A lot of the infected machines where home machines with broadband access.
Everything is tops at UW, or at least it used to be (I gradudated in 1986). Back then, it was the top engineering school, the top CS school (Microsoft recruited heavily) and the physics program (that I graduated from) was a bear. It sounds like things haven't changed.
The solar car project is a teriffic achievment, I only wish it had been going on when I was around. (Back then we had cars mad of wood and stone, etc)
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You even had to provide your social security number, to prove you had attended the course. Needless to say, this was high on my lists of leaving at the exit interview.
Me: "If you thought I had poor ethics, you shouldn't have hired me in the first place!"
Interviewer: *sigh* "Yes, we've ben hearing that a lot."
But I bet most of it was news to the salespeople.
Old news, Mission:Impossible already did that.
Uh, uh, but where is the op-ed section on CNN, or ABC? More people get their news from CNN, as the trite adverising goes, and there's no much you can do about it.
It's way the hell out of date in its attitudes towards homosexuality, contraception, and STDs, inlcuding AIDs.
Yeah, and all the pencil drawings were done by a famous SF artist (I forget his name). BTW the original is out of print and the updated version "The New Joy of Sex" has photos instead of line art. It's got savage reviews on Amazon, were they say it's as out of date as the original.
Along the same lines, am I the only person who has a problem with Cringley? After watching his PBS show about building an airplane in thirty days, I was convinced the guy has more money than brains, and that his infamy is due more to who he knows than what he knows.
Take a look a TNN, they're halfway there. Instead of an opaque icon in the corner (which is annoying enough) they've got a damn great black banner across the bottom of the screen all the time! It's the size of the news scroll on Headline News but it's just a promotion tool. I expect ads on in the forseeable future.
CN is very good, but not exclusive. Check out TechTV's dead funny parody of the Dell ads (it's even supposed to be on their website somewhere, but I couldn't find it).
Allchin seemed peeved about this move. "Hiding features from consumers -- I don't think that's a good thing,"
Especially when it's a Microsoft product. What a hypocrite! How can this guy sleep at night?
Ha! When lawyers are paid by the hour, and bill all their expenses? Not in your lifetime.
Honestly, I started off with K & R, but I really didn't get C until I read "Advanced C: Tips and Techniques" by Paul and Gail Anderson. Pity it's out of print. Does anyone else remember it?
Hinted? Hinted? My gay friend would knock you silly if she heard that. It's only 'hinted at' to us straight people. The gay community have known what's really been going on for years.
That's one cool feature in Konqueror; it let's you turn of just the javascript window.opn function. So all of javascript works, but no pop-ups, pop-unders or whatever. It would be nice if the other browser manufacturers would let you turn off certain parts of javascript, but they're advertisers, too, so you know they won't.
Here are 10 reasons why companies should participate in BSA's Software Truce Campaign today:
9. Proper software management saves time, money and makes employees more productive.
8. Illegal software is one of the prime sources of computer viruses that can destroy your company's valuable data.
7. Illegal software is more likely to fail, leaving your company's computers and their information useless.
6. You can expect no warranties or support for illegal software and won't have access to inexpensive upgrades.
Now, I agree that if you're going to use software that's licenced, you should pay for it, but these reasons are just asinine! I won't even bother tearing most of these apart, I leave that to a kindergarden class.
90% of software 'copying' (I will not stoop to their level by calling it 'piracy') is using the same CD to install on multiple machines. Who are they trying to kid? Don't they realize it just makes their argument weaker?
Yeah, I forgot about that, but my spam comes from msn.com not hotmail.com. msn.com seems to allow forged headers, while hotmail doesn't. Makes you wonder...
I'm seriously thinking of blocking the entire msn and hotmail domains from my inbox. I don't know anyone on msn, anyway.
I agree with you about Java and J2EE; I work with them every day. I think the problem with Sun is that they are primarily a server and server software company, so they don't grok the end user experience. Microsoft started out building end-user tools, so they carry this bias into the development and server arena, making the tools look easier (than they should look) to use.
That's a good point, what the hell do we need these things for, anyway? CPUs are fast enough that recompiling almost anything is a matter of minutes or seconds. And it's not like there's a zillion operating systems out there you have to support. Microsoft seemed to have learned their lesson when they put a real compiler onto Visual Basic, and now they're making their code slower? It doesn't make sense.
I use Java and I like Java, but platform independence has got to be near the bottom of the list of the reasons why.
Hee, hee. My friend thought he was really clever when he grabbed smith@ .com. I wonder if he regrets it now?
I'm aware of the dams in Northern Ontario, but the reason the nukes were built in the first place was that the dams were tapped out. And, I wasn't implying that the generators were causing the air pollution, I think that in heavily populated areas, the majority of the air pollution comes from vehicles.
I need a word that's a lot more harsh than 'sucks' for these people.
So when they suspend (or terminate) your service, how do they get the cable modem back? If it was me, I'd keep it, out of spite.
Huh? 'Scuse my ignorance, but how did the Code-Red worm end up on a few hundred thousand machines, if the ISPs are monitoring traffic? A lot of the infected machines where home machines with broadband access.
Canadian copyright laws seem much more sensible, I just hope they stay that way.
The solar car project is a teriffic achievment, I only wish it had been going on when I was around. (Back then we had cars mad of wood and stone, etc)