There are resources up there, free for whoever gets there first. Right or wrong, the rights to those resources will be determined by the outcome of wars. People haven't changed in thousands of years and they're not about to change now.
They were happy that the company they were working for took care of them.
Large corporations don't take care of their people out of altruism. They treat their people well because if they didn't people would leave or demand more money to stay. It's (usually) good for the bottom line to treat your people well, since high turnover rates and high bonuses and salaries cut directly into the bottom line. While the founders of these companies may have genuinely cared about their employees, when a corporation grows beyond a 100 people or so, it becomes impossible for the upper management to become personally connected to the rank and file. When that happens, they treat the people below them like the guy they cut off on the freeway. And often, when the next generation takes over, they grew up with money and didn't start out poor like their father, the founder. This further adds to the disconnection.
So before you get all patriotic and teary-eyed about the company, remember that they were a big corporation before the merger, and they're still a big corporation after the merger. And they're looking out for you only so long as it's in their interests. Take care of yourself and the true friends you've made working there all those years. Because you better believe that the company won't hesitate to ax you in a moment's notice if a financial consultant tells them to.
Can someone tell me what this has to do with fusion? What are we fusing? I think fusion lighting is the bright light given off by nuclear explosions. Mixing fusion and lighting is like mixing turbos and lasers.
We're trying to destroy them sir, but they're evading our turbo lasers.
I should get a job pointing out the ridiculous. It's my calling.
1. PUBLIC - Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
And what is the public interest? I'm sure the margeteers of gator think they're serving the public.
2. CLIENT AND EMPLOYER - Software engineers shall act in a manner that is in the best interests of their client and employer consistent with the public interest.
This one's ok, but take care of yourself first. The company will do just fine looking out for themselves and couldn't care less about you. Don't look out for the company only to get screwed in the end.
3. PRODUCT - Software engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
And the kicker here is "possible". Often, you have to give the client what they're asking for, even if it's not the best way. There's doing right things and doing things right. Doing things right may not be the right thing to do. Set the expectations, communucate with the client, but in the end, give them what they think they want, and cover your ass.
4. JUDGMENT - Software engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
I think this appies to everyone.
5. MANAGEMENT - Software engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance.
Man, these people have never worked with accidenture. To bad this is not as common as is should be.
6. PROFESSION - Software engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
That sounds nice. But no body likes lawyers and they're doing just fine.
7. COLLEAGUES - Software engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
All I have to say is watch your back.
8. SELF - Software engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession and shall promote an ethical approach to the practice of the profession.
When am I allowed to take a break and stop learning? I'm a fscking swiss army knife. My resume is so big, people are actually starting to doubt that I really have actual working experience to back up that huge list of tools.
I love idealism. Asking programmers to take an oath like this is like asking my kids to swear never to stay up late, eat junk food, and leave their bicycles in the driveway. People haven't changed one bit in thousands of years, and they're not about to start. Sure, I'll recite the oath... and look over my shoulder while doing it, so that I can cash the check and keep on keeping on. In the end, what really matters is whether or not I can feed my family, pay my bills, and live a stress-free life. If that's not your focus, maybe it should be.
If any of you programmers turns down work on principle, please send it to me. Since I'm a whor^H^H^H^Hconsultant, I'm in business to make money. And I'm willing to write whatever you ask for without giving a single thought to youthful idealism.
Mine goes into a powersaver mode like a copier. The first time I print after a while, it takes a few minutes to warm up. There is a fan, but it's about as noisy as my tower or the ink jet printers it replaced. Both the canon and hp ink jets had these noisy plastic paper-handling contraptions. So it's not much noisier and it's on my desk next to my head. I could easily find a quieter spot for it.
Then there's the problem of ink jet printers grabbing too many pages from the stack and jamming. My minolta has never jammed. Not once. And I open the paper and pop in the whole stack, all 250 pages.
The minolta website says color cartriges are $142 a piece and $77 for the black. Pricewatch is cheaper. Refills maybe even less. 6000 pages at 5% coverage. The black is good for 6000 pages also. It will probably take a couple years for us to use that. The other parts had lifetimes that were much higer. So even if it's $500 in a year or two, that's still the price of a new color ink jet if you assume that our luck continues and we kill ink jet printers in 12-18 months. And we're not burning through ink jet cartriges like we were. And considering it's much faster and has ethernet, it's a no-brainer for me.
My wife and I gave up on ink-jet printers. We started with an HP. It constantly chewed up cartriges. HP has a repair code for "short cartridge life". We mailed the printer back to them. They lost it. They found it. Supposedly fixed it. It lasted another 6 months and died.
Then we got a canon bcj-6000. It bit the dust just after the warrantee ended.
Then we got real good deals on some cheapo lexmark printers. They lasted longer than the more expensive canon, but died in short order also.
We started looking at good ink jet printers which were in the $500 range at the time. Then with ink jet cartridge prices, we decided to take the plunge and buy a color laser printer.
It's been bullet-proof for a year now. It's a QMS/Minolta desk laser 2200 I think. $1000 after rebate. It's fast, quiet, reliable, does 100baseT, and images come out bone-dry. The software's a bit goofy, but now that I know how to deal it, it's great. The software's only needed for 100baseT anyway. The toner cartridges won't be cheap, but we beat the daylights out of the printer and it's still on the original cartridges.
I bet head tracking technology as a mouse replacement works a lot better in India. I mean, the dot makes an easy target for the image processing software.
It depends on what it's made of (I can't see the site either). In general, you can get lego bricks from bulk ordering sites for 1-25 cents. Of course, they go way up from there, but most aren't too expensive. I once ran a lego brick auction site. 35,000 bricks. I invested $2000 up front. I made back $4000 gross and had 6000 parts left over. To this day, I have a massive herd of lego horses.:-)
Peer to peer software company Kazaa anounced that they would enter a new e-arms-race with the U.S. government. To do this, they will utilize the unused CPU power in their client's computers. In response, the Dutch government issued a statement saying, "Hey man, this is good shit! Want a hit?"
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Hey, I wonder how much we can over-cluck these! or will they be cluck-locked? Anyone ever attach a cooling fan and heatsink to a chicken?
I bet you're all wishing you had an authentic IBM computer now! With serial drives, you'd finally be able to use that cassette basic in your bios!
Exactly the same as any teenager, just with more lubricants
I'm not so sure about that. I used an awful lot of lubricants when I was a teenager. Kleenex too.
There are resources up there, free for whoever gets there first. Right or wrong, the rights to those resources will be determined by the outcome of wars. People haven't changed in thousands of years and they're not about to change now.
Behold: the power of cheese.
They were happy that the company they were working for took care of them.
Large corporations don't take care of their people out of altruism. They treat their people well because if they didn't people would leave or demand more money to stay. It's (usually) good for the bottom line to treat your people well, since high turnover rates and high bonuses and salaries cut directly into the bottom line. While the founders of these companies may have genuinely cared about their employees, when a corporation grows beyond a 100 people or so, it becomes impossible for the upper management to become personally connected to the rank and file. When that happens, they treat the people below them like the guy they cut off on the freeway. And often, when the next generation takes over, they grew up with money and didn't start out poor like their father, the founder. This further adds to the disconnection.
So before you get all patriotic and teary-eyed about the company, remember that they were a big corporation before the merger, and they're still a big corporation after the merger. And they're looking out for you only so long as it's in their interests. Take care of yourself and the true friends you've made working there all those years. Because you better believe that the company won't hesitate to ax you in a moment's notice if a financial consultant tells them to.
Maybe they can use that Compaq reverse-engineering know-how to get around those chips in teh HP inkjet cartridges.
Can someone tell me what this has to do with fusion? What are we fusing? I think fusion lighting is the bright light given off by nuclear explosions. Mixing fusion and lighting is like mixing turbos and lasers.
We're trying to destroy them sir, but they're evading our turbo lasers.
I should get a job pointing out the ridiculous. It's my calling.
Come on, is this 2002 or 1992?
Sounds to me like 1984
Oh, it's furniture. I thought he was making a table of tables. The last thing I want to do is dereference this thing with a pointer.
said Estari CEO Dr. Crist
The competition should just give up now. They have the savior working for them! Jeez, talk about name recognition.
The paper is first made in giant rolls, then cut. The top/bottom indicates teh direction of the curl.
1. PUBLIC - Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
And what is the public interest? I'm sure the margeteers of gator think they're serving the public.
2. CLIENT AND EMPLOYER - Software engineers shall act in a manner that is in the best interests of their client and employer consistent with the public interest.
This one's ok, but take care of yourself first. The company will do just fine looking out for themselves and couldn't care less about you. Don't look out for the company only to get screwed in the end.
3. PRODUCT - Software engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
And the kicker here is "possible". Often, you have to give the client what they're asking for, even if it's not the best way. There's doing right things and doing things right. Doing things right may not be the right thing to do. Set the expectations, communucate with the client, but in the end, give them what they think they want, and cover your ass.
4. JUDGMENT - Software engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
I think this appies to everyone.
5. MANAGEMENT - Software engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance.
Man, these people have never worked with accidenture. To bad this is not as common as is should be.
6. PROFESSION - Software engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
That sounds nice. But no body likes lawyers and they're doing just fine.
7. COLLEAGUES - Software engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
All I have to say is watch your back.
8. SELF - Software engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession and shall promote an ethical approach to the practice of the profession.
When am I allowed to take a break and stop learning? I'm a fscking swiss army knife. My resume is so big, people are actually starting to doubt that I really have actual working experience to back up that huge list of tools.
I love idealism. Asking programmers to take an oath like this is like asking my kids to swear never to stay up late, eat junk food, and leave their bicycles in the driveway. People haven't changed one bit in thousands of years, and they're not about to start. Sure, I'll recite the oath... and look over my shoulder while doing it, so that I can cash the check and keep on keeping on. In the end, what really matters is whether or not I can feed my family, pay my bills, and live a stress-free life. If that's not your focus, maybe it should be.
To all companies:
If any of you programmers turns down work on principle, please send it to me. Since I'm a whor^H^H^H^Hconsultant, I'm in business to make money. And I'm willing to write whatever you ask for without giving a single thought to youthful idealism.
Sincerely,
infinite9
Mine goes into a powersaver mode like a copier. The first time I print after a while, it takes a few minutes to warm up. There is a fan, but it's about as noisy as my tower or the ink jet printers it replaced. Both the canon and hp ink jets had these noisy plastic paper-handling contraptions. So it's not much noisier and it's on my desk next to my head. I could easily find a quieter spot for it.
Then there's the problem of ink jet printers grabbing too many pages from the stack and jamming. My minolta has never jammed. Not once. And I open the paper and pop in the whole stack, all 250 pages.
The minolta website says color cartriges are $142 a piece and $77 for the black. Pricewatch is cheaper. Refills maybe even less. 6000 pages at 5% coverage. The black is good for 6000 pages also. It will probably take a couple years for us to use that. The other parts had lifetimes that were much higer. So even if it's $500 in a year or two, that's still the price of a new color ink jet if you assume that our luck continues and we kill ink jet printers in 12-18 months. And we're not burning through ink jet cartriges like we were. And considering it's much faster and has ethernet, it's a no-brainer for me.
My wife and I gave up on ink-jet printers. We started with an HP. It constantly chewed up cartriges. HP has a repair code for "short cartridge life". We mailed the printer back to them. They lost it. They found it. Supposedly fixed it. It lasted another 6 months and died.
Then we got a canon bcj-6000. It bit the dust just after the warrantee ended.
Then we got real good deals on some cheapo lexmark printers. They lasted longer than the more expensive canon, but died in short order also.
We started looking at good ink jet printers which were in the $500 range at the time. Then with ink jet cartridge prices, we decided to take the plunge and buy a color laser printer.
It's been bullet-proof for a year now. It's a QMS/Minolta desk laser 2200 I think. $1000 after rebate. It's fast, quiet, reliable, does 100baseT, and images come out bone-dry. The software's a bit goofy, but now that I know how to deal it, it's great. The software's only needed for 100baseT anyway. The toner cartridges won't be cheap, but we beat the daylights out of the printer and it's still on the original cartridges.
Ha! And all this time, we thought we were looking at the sky and it's really just one big blue screen of death!
You have already agreed to read the agreement
Can we just agree to disagree with the agreement?
Ha! Imagine the workman's comp claims when people start stepping on these things barefoot!
Would it bother you if somebody could just take that paper and get an A too?
That should read: Would if bother you if someone copied your paper instead of paying me for the paper I coerced you into giving me?
I doubt it. Once you go black, you'll never go back.
I bet head tracking technology as a mouse replacement works a lot better in India. I mean, the dot makes an easy target for the image processing software.
It depends on what it's made of (I can't see the site either). In general, you can get lego bricks from bulk ordering sites for 1-25 cents. Of course, they go way up from there, but most aren't too expensive. I once ran a lego brick auction site. 35,000 bricks. I invested $2000 up front. I made back $4000 gross and had 6000 parts left over. To this day, I have a massive herd of lego horses. :-)
Peer to peer software company Kazaa anounced that they would enter a new e-arms-race with the U.S. government. To do this, they will utilize the unused CPU power in their client's computers. In response, the Dutch government issued a statement saying, "Hey man, this is good shit! Want a hit?"