skyrocket? no... in your 400 to 50 ratio, an $8 ticket would need merely be increased to $9. Besides, the only time I ever see a full theatre anyway is on opening weekend of a major release.
ok, I skimmed through, and saw that while there were lots of redundant posts on other things, I couldn't find one bringing up this particular point. So here goes:
to quote the article, A company can call someone on the list if that person has bought, leased or rented something from the seller within 18 months. Telemarketers also can call consumers if they have inquired or applied for something during the last three months.
If you read between the lines, you might find that there are certain companies that can easily still call you, even if you register. I bet, for instance, that AOL/TW can simply restructure their telemarketting, and get away with calling anyone still. Do you really think you can casually go without buying anything from AOL/TW for 18 months? That's a long time, for such a large company.
seems to me this will mean that larger corporations will still be able to call you, since they will have sold you something in the last 18 months, whereas smaller companies that do not have the product diversity or proliferation will not be able to. I would not at all be suprized to find AOL/TW, Disney, Micrsoft, or folks along those lines behind this regulation.
of course, I'm feeling pretty conspiracy-theoristic (like that word?) today.
Now doesn't that sound like the kind of thing you'd like in your area? Uh, no. You see, for it to work, you have to volunteer. During the time you spend volunteering, I could have made enough to buy a handful of tickets at a normal place. So no, I'd rather just pay normal price to see it, thanks. I'd pay $20 extra if they'd make the freakin line go away, too. A theatre with assigned seating based on when you bought your tickets (online or phone included). Now that,/i. is something I'd liek to see in my area. I wouldn't blink about trippled ticket prices for that....and it shouldn't be hard or expensive, either.
There exists, among some in the/. community, and adversion to actually clicking links and reading articles. So I'll quote the important part. The defense, in turn, argued that ElcomSoft acted responsibly, removing the software from the Web just days after learning of Adobe's concerns. Both Sklyarov and ElcomSoft president Alexander Katalov testified that they did not think their software was illicit and did not intend for it to be used on books that had not been legally purchased. Under cross- examination by the defense, an Adobe engineer acknowledged that his company did not find any illegal eBooks even after hiring two firms to search the Web for unauthorized copies.
Because both the defense and prosecution agreed that ElcomSoft sold software designed to crack copyright protections, the case essentially turned on ElcomSoft's state of mind during the period it was offering the software.
After much wrangling among attorneys over the definition of the word "willful," the judge told jurors that in order to find the company guilty, they must agree that company representatives knew their actions were illegal and intended to violate the law. Merely offering a product that could violate copyrights was not enough to warrant a conviction, the jury instructions said.
Elmsoft knew what they designed the software to do. Duh. The jury was directed though to determine if Elmsoft "willfully" broke the law though. They decided that because Elmsoft stopped offering the software, that it wasn't willfull.
My personal opinion is that this is a Bad Thing, because it validates the DMCA, if anything. At the very least, it doesn't hurt it at all. The instructions were to determine if Elmsoft broke the law - what law? The DMCA. So the DMCA was being raised as a standard to determine willful disregard of - it being law was never questioned. Personally, I think its rather dumb to think that Elmsoft didn't *willfully* do what they did. I don't, however, think it should be against the law (due to fair-use) to do it, but until the law that does indeed exist is questioned, it is still law. If that makes sense.
The world of Common Sense had no victory today. And considering the appeals that will continue, not even Elmsoft gained anything.
Some (not all) of the requirements to makes something hard SF: No teleportation
Better tell IBM that. They've been working on quantum teleportation for a couple decades. They have had the theory down for a while...the application is what is killing them.
"Will Joe User ever be able to sit down at a given open source workstation (i.e. - Linux on the desktop) and find enough consistency with every other open source workstation such that he/she can get something done without spending countless hours reading HOWTOs, message boards, distribution-specific documentation and performing mind-numbing tweaking at the four corners of the operating system?" This is kinda rehashing my last post, but...yes. He will. He'll be able to do that, because it will all be automated anyway. There will be no need for his intervention.
And you know, I've never had real problems running configure;make;make install on most programs and them working like a champ. Though I've had several RH8.0 issues.
that which was considered essential info for an "expert" 15 years ago is considered worthless nowadays. I'm still pretty young, yet I am amoung those who have had to use the DOS *debug* program to manually partition an ESDI drive. Fdisk? Not an option at that point.
in the same vien, those things that seem "sophisticated" now will be much less so in the near future. Already this is the case, as with no matter what OS you're using there are tools that do steps for you. Things are automatic nowadays, as well they should be. Just as we are no longer sitting in front of our cars and turning a crank to start the engine anymore, and just as more and more cars not only have "automatic" gear ratio adjustments depending on their speed, computers are more automated. For years now it has been assumed that new devices will be detectable, will auto-configure themselves, etc., when installed. Its fairly simple to wrap a program and cause cores to be sent to developers. Eventually, the understanding of the underpinnings of something will be solely the job of the engineers and such - your common admin won't need to even really exist generally, much less know anything about the OSI model, or whatever else.
these aren't random prophecies of a lunatic, they're observations of the obvious progression that's taken place. Its the way humans work. We no longer want to hit two rocks together and blow on some grass - we want to be able to enter the room and the fireplace automatically starts. We want our homes to start adjusting to the temp we desire 30 minutes before we get home. We want the lights to come on when we come in the room. We want things to cook themselves. We want these things, and more and more, we expect them. Who of the readership has a washboard? Yet we don't even think of a laundry machine being "automatic" anymore, as its just an expected function. Many of us wonder why the laundry machine can't determine what kind of clothes we put in, adjust settings themselves as needed, and then dry the clothes without needing a human to move things from one machine to another. We expect that. We wonder why it isn't here yet. That's the way we are.
So...what about open source? It appeals to engineers (you know, the only ones that really need to know what's going on). Not only that, but it appeals to those performing the actual pushing for innovation - the hardware designers and the distributors. As was covered in the recent/. article about the cellphone and PC worlds colliding, companies like having the software right before them, with nothing hidden. Having a company like MS around to dictate to them how and when yo use their product, and to whom to sell it to, REALLY gets under the skin of hardware design and distribution companies. It still seems to many a silly notion that software should be pushing the hardware around. The hardware is the key. Software is just the interface.
"so does open source have a future?" Of course it does. That's a dumb question, really. "Can it become mainstream?" Why not. Are we so short sighted that we can't tell that all this industry is doing is the same thing every other industry has ever done throughout the history of man? Isn't "open source" afterall the ideal of simply letting your research and work be usable by everyone? The discoverer of fire neither kept that discovery to himself forever, nor could he have. the computer industry has simply moved slowly in its maturation in relation to the extreme speed of its expansion, and is just now starting to deal with issues that are normally handled in more formative stages. Information refuses to be kept secret.
Go to NCBI's website some time and you'll get an idea about how much info is shared. Those who are sharing info excel, those who don't flounder. MS is just the product of an immature industry. Yes, the ideal of freely available information will prevail. It is part of our nature to want to learn, and to teach - they're base social instincts. Sharing therefore logically follows.
as a follow up, I'd like to say that the sarcasm might have obscured that I feel that a safety deposit box is more than adequate for this purpose with any sane person. If its not adequate, you're either 1) crazy, or 2) a person running a business or research lab out of their home. If the answer is 2, then you should go ahead and splurge for the more expensive options.
if there is an huge earthquake, nuke,or hurricane that takes out my house and all the local banks, the last thing in the freakin WORLD I'm gona worry about is any silly data on my home system. For the most part, everything but the movies and music can be put on one CD (which I do every once in a while). If my house burned down, I would just say "oh well" to the stupid whatever files on my system. If they were THAT important it would be easy to find a safe place to put them. Hell, start a project on sourceforge, and upload the ultra-top-secret weapons plans or whatever the HELL you have that's so important as an encrypted file. Or...I dunno. Whatever. Get creative. You know, there are aliens at the bank - and they work for the secret government agencies. When you leave, they open your safety deposit boxes and pilfer the info. If you have really important stuff in there, then they cause a hurricane to take out the bank. Its really scary.
get a grip. How could a person possibly have non-work related data that was truely THAT important that was more than, say, a meg? You know how much TEXT is in a freakin meg? That's right - a million characters:P
I'm just as paranoid as the next unix admin...ABOUT IMPORTANT DATA...you know, like the data at work that my company has many millions of dollars coming up with. The research equiptment can be replaced, and the public databases can be recovered eventually, but there's some sets of data that is ultra important. But that's REAL data. Just because your computer has a 120Gb drive now doesn't mean you really have backup issues.
can anyone actually justify this nonsense? Can someone please enlighten me as to why a person would have more than 5 megs of data that they'd need to save in case of emergency? You know...data that you'd be worried about melting? Birth certificates can be replaced fairly easily really, especially when the government knows your house was swallowed by a 500' gorilla that ate your whole town. When that happens, the last thing that you'll need to worry about is your freakin bank statements. Your bank doesn't exist anymore, remember?
yeesh
Re:The thing is.. Non-Profit means NO MONEY.
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I worked for a non-profit Christian radio station years and years ago when I was more idealistic. I was the morning show DJ, and did the voice for most of their radio spots (and even produced a good bit of them).
I say that to establish myself as someone who knows a little about this.
Let me tell you, "non-profit" does NOT mean that they have no money. Every few months, this radio station would do a drive...and get hundreds of thousands of dollars. The owners of the radio station (the odd part was that the "owners" were gay, but catered to an oblivious ultra-right wing conservative protestant community in Texas...who would NOT have wanted to know that) paid themselves VERY well. I say "owners" because they put the original station together, and headed the non-profit corp. There were two people who were paid staff members...wanna guess who they were? I'll give you a hint: its the two that combined put in about 25% the time I put in by myself...
they told me for 4 months that they were going to start paying me, but that they had to work out some legal issues. They convinced me to quit my paying job, and convinced me to sell what little I had. I moved back in with my parents to save money. FORTUNATELY, I was still young, and didn't have much to lose. Was a DAMN good learning expereince, let me tell you. They let me bleed myself dry as a kid, all the while carpooling in to work in their beat up van and looking poor. Except one day, I ran across some interesting bits of papaer...and then another time I came in at 2am (the station just played taped stuff from like 1-5am) and found two really nice mercedes out front. Guess who they belonged to...
They did this one particular fund raiser for a new antena FIVE times while I was there...every couple months. In the first drive, they raised enough to purchase it. In the second, almost enough. Over the course of the 5 drives, they had the money to buy it 4 times over. When I left, they still had not bought that darn antenna...
only reason I stayed on as long as I did was because at the time, I thought I was going to do radio as a career. Doing the production and voices for the ads (they weren't really ads, they were...spots...that were paid for, but...not) and being the main person for the morning show was a GREAT way to start in a career like that. So I put up with it for a while, until I was just too broke to continue.
So believe me...there are PLENTY of "non-profit" places that have LOTS of money. Ends up the two "poor" founders of the station each had 4 luxury cars, and 2 houses. Wish they had let me borrow one of the cars, since I had long since sold mine to pay for bills... C'est la Vie, eh?;)
you're quite right - talking about EULA's is most certainly off-topic during a discussion about EULA's:P
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I wish I had some mod points atm, cause that was worth a laugh;)
Here we all, all worried about our privacy, and there are all these people that want to spread their personal info all over. I don't personally see the voyeurism that would justify this sort of nonesense. I mean, there's freaking books on how to do this crap, for pete's sake. Eh.
plenty of corporate sites have been/.'ed, so informing/warning people isn't as easy as you might think (most submissions are embedded links on news sites, for instance).
Also, the idea of the normal/. submitter having to have access to a viable site on which to mirror something that wouldn't itself get/.'ed (taking down whoever was dumb enough to give him the access to create a mirror site) is nonsense. Most don't have access to such systems. I sure as hell wouldn't put something on my company portal, and do you think someplace like geocities or such would last even 30 seconds? It would be pointless.
Finally...plenty of people submit stories, never to have them get accepted. So...they'd have to go through all the headache of finding a server they didn't care about that would mirror the site they are posting about, set up the mirror, only to have the mirror go down?
blah. Go geta drink or a massage./.ing will just happen. People do go on.
"So I decided to pick it up on Friday after I left work and see what it had to offer...This review will cover some of the topics covered in this book, along with things that could or should have been covered in greater detail" Ok, so its a 492 page technical resource, and you just *bought* the book 5 days ago? Is it possible that maybe you missed some things? I mean, I can read a good 500 page novel in a day or two, but I don't think I'd give a review on a technical book I just bought 5 days ago. Maybe that's just me.
I've had nothing but problems with gaim. Maybe I have too many people on my lists, but...
whenever I log in using gaim, all my lists get completely screwed up. For every list that exists, a new list is created with the name and then a number after it. The people that used to be in the single group are now spread between the two groups. Sometimes "buddies" disappear all together.
No, not a big fan of gaim. Just screws everything up.
nah, but I also know of no less than 5 people who dropped out of college as philosophy majors, only to go in to IT. Small number, but hey...I don't generally ask people if they dropped out of college:)
Valid point, but...hey, I do well in IT, and my college edumacation was limited to dropping out as a philosophy major.
point is that his point (the one you were responding to) is just as valid to make by saying take a risk right out of highschool. Just gota find someone willing to take a risk in return on hiring a kid;)
ok, since for whatever reason my post was deemed invalid...
the question is silly. In my previous post, I made that claim, then backed it up. I will again, in a (hopefully) more concise manner.
There's no way for anyone to give you valid advice on this, as you didn't give many important details. How important to you is:
job security if you suck (because those who don't suck have job security, even in the private sector)
money
personal advancement
career advancement
flexibility
a sense of reward from your work
a sense of empowerment
whether or not you're using new technology
management style
lots of other things. All you say is that you don't know where to get a job. You don't even mention what it is you do. So...what is it that you do, for starters? What would you like to do?
btw...as far as hours go...if you're in IT in the public sector, and a server goes down, you're still staying until its fixed. If you don't suck, you won't have to do those long hours. So the simple solution is do a job you don't suck at.
I didn't say who cares. I said that not enough info was given. The article was a very vague question, with all the important details left out. Hell, we can only/assume/ that its an IT related field, given the website we're discussing it on.
I was questioning why this was even put on slashdot, yes. Seems like a pretty valid question to me.
and I fail to see how my questioning the value of the article itself constitutes an abusive relationship. I also love how "ontopic" your post was. I mean, at least I discussed the question...
how in the WORLD was that offtopic? I was posting 100%/on/ topic! whatever.
I discussed the benefits and drawbacks of private and public, mentioned that there was a third option, then concluded saying that not enough info was given for us to make this person's decision for them. Sounds pretty damn on-topic to me.
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skyrocket? no...
in your 400 to 50 ratio, an $8 ticket would need merely be increased to $9.
Besides, the only time I ever see a full theatre anyway is on opening weekend of a major release.
to quote the article, A company can call someone on the list if that person has bought, leased or rented something from the seller within 18 months. Telemarketers also can call consumers if they have inquired or applied for something during the last three months.
If you read between the lines, you might find that there are certain companies that can easily still call you, even if you register. I bet, for instance, that AOL/TW can simply restructure their telemarketting, and get away with calling anyone still. Do you really think you can casually go without buying anything from AOL/TW for 18 months? That's a long time, for such a large company.
seems to me this will mean that larger corporations will still be able to call you, since they will have sold you something in the last 18 months, whereas smaller companies that do not have the product diversity or proliferation will not be able to. I would not at all be suprized to find AOL/TW, Disney, Micrsoft, or folks along those lines behind this regulation.
of course, I'm feeling pretty conspiracy-theoristic (like that word?) today.
Now doesn't that sound like the kind of thing you'd like in your area?
Uh, no. You see, for it to work, you have to volunteer.
During the time you spend volunteering, I could have made enough to buy a handful of tickets at a normal place.
So no, I'd rather just pay normal price to see it, thanks. I'd pay $20 extra if they'd make the freakin line go away, too. A theatre with assigned seating based on when you bought your tickets (online or phone included). Now that,/i. is something I'd liek to see in my area. I wouldn't blink about trippled ticket prices for that....and it shouldn't be hard or expensive, either.
The defense, in turn, argued that ElcomSoft acted responsibly, removing the software from the Web just days after learning of Adobe's concerns. Both Sklyarov and ElcomSoft president Alexander Katalov testified that they did not think their software was illicit and did not intend for it to be used on books that had not been legally purchased. Under cross- examination by the defense, an Adobe engineer acknowledged that his company did not find any illegal eBooks even after hiring two firms to search the Web for unauthorized copies.
Because both the defense and prosecution agreed that ElcomSoft sold software designed to crack copyright protections, the case essentially turned on ElcomSoft's state of mind during the period it was offering the software.
After much wrangling among attorneys over the definition of the word "willful," the judge told jurors that in order to find the company guilty, they must agree that company representatives knew their actions were illegal and intended to violate the law. Merely offering a product that could violate copyrights was not enough to warrant a conviction, the jury instructions said.
Elmsoft knew what they designed the software to do. Duh. The jury was directed though to determine if Elmsoft "willfully" broke the law though. They decided that because Elmsoft stopped offering the software, that it wasn't willfull.
My personal opinion is that this is a Bad Thing, because it validates the DMCA, if anything. At the very least, it doesn't hurt it at all. The instructions were to determine if Elmsoft broke the law - what law? The DMCA. So the DMCA was being raised as a standard to determine willful disregard of - it being law was never questioned. Personally, I think its rather dumb to think that Elmsoft didn't *willfully* do what they did. I don't, however, think it should be against the law (due to fair-use) to do it, but until the law that does indeed exist is questioned, it is still law. If that makes sense.
The world of Common Sense had no victory today. And considering the appeals that will continue, not even Elmsoft gained anything.
No teleportation
Better tell IBM that. They've been working on quantum teleportation for a couple decades. They have had the theory down for a while...the application is what is killing them.
this is the funniest post I've seen on /. in eons. Damnit, why don't I have mod points right now...
This is kinda rehashing my last post, but...yes. He will. He'll be able to do that, because it will all be automated anyway. There will be no need for his intervention.
And you know, I've never had real problems running configure;make;make install on most programs and them working like a champ. Though I've had several RH8.0 issues.
in the same vien, those things that seem "sophisticated" now will be much less so in the near future. Already this is the case, as with no matter what OS you're using there are tools that do steps for you. Things are automatic nowadays, as well they should be. Just as we are no longer sitting in front of our cars and turning a crank to start the engine anymore, and just as more and more cars not only have "automatic" gear ratio adjustments depending on their speed, computers are more automated. For years now it has been assumed that new devices will be detectable, will auto-configure themselves, etc., when installed. Its fairly simple to wrap a program and cause cores to be sent to developers. Eventually, the understanding of the underpinnings of something will be solely the job of the engineers and such - your common admin won't need to even really exist generally, much less know anything about the OSI model, or whatever else.
these aren't random prophecies of a lunatic, they're observations of the obvious progression that's taken place. Its the way humans work. We no longer want to hit two rocks together and blow on some grass - we want to be able to enter the room and the fireplace automatically starts. We want our homes to start adjusting to the temp we desire 30 minutes before we get home. We want the lights to come on when we come in the room. We want things to cook themselves. We want these things, and more and more, we expect them. Who of the readership has a washboard? Yet we don't even think of a laundry machine being "automatic" anymore, as its just an expected function. Many of us wonder why the laundry machine can't determine what kind of clothes we put in, adjust settings themselves as needed, and then dry the clothes without needing a human to move things from one machine to another. We expect that. We wonder why it isn't here yet. That's the way we are.
So...what about open source? It appeals to engineers (you know, the only ones that really need to know what's going on). Not only that, but it appeals to those performing the actual pushing for innovation - the hardware designers and the distributors. As was covered in the recent /. article about the cellphone and PC worlds colliding, companies like having the software right before them, with nothing hidden. Having a company like MS around to dictate to them how and when yo use their product, and to whom to sell it to, REALLY gets under the skin of hardware design and distribution companies. It still seems to many a silly notion that software should be pushing the hardware around. The hardware is the key. Software is just the interface.
"so does open source have a future?" Of course it does. That's a dumb question, really. "Can it become mainstream?" Why not. Are we so short sighted that we can't tell that all this industry is doing is the same thing every other industry has ever done throughout the history of man? Isn't "open source" afterall the ideal of simply letting your research and work be usable by everyone? The discoverer of fire neither kept that discovery to himself forever, nor could he have. the computer industry has simply moved slowly in its maturation in relation to the extreme speed of its expansion, and is just now starting to deal with issues that are normally handled in more formative stages. Information refuses to be kept secret.
Go to NCBI's website some time and you'll get an idea about how much info is shared. Those who are sharing info excel, those who don't flounder. MS is just the product of an immature industry. Yes, the ideal of freely available information will prevail. It is part of our nature to want to learn, and to teach - they're base social instincts. Sharing therefore logically follows.
as a follow up, I'd like to say that the sarcasm might have obscured that I feel that a safety deposit box is more than adequate for this purpose with any sane person. If its not adequate, you're either 1) crazy, or 2) a person running a business or research lab out of their home. If the answer is 2, then you should go ahead and splurge for the more expensive options.
get a grip. How could a person possibly have non-work related data that was truely THAT important that was more than, say, a meg? You know how much TEXT is in a freakin meg? That's right - a million characters :P
I'm just as paranoid as the next unix admin...ABOUT IMPORTANT DATA...you know, like the data at work that my company has many millions of dollars coming up with. The research equiptment can be replaced, and the public databases can be recovered eventually, but there's some sets of data that is ultra important. But that's REAL data. Just because your computer has a 120Gb drive now doesn't mean you really have backup issues.
can anyone actually justify this nonsense? Can someone please enlighten me as to why a person would have more than 5 megs of data that they'd need to save in case of emergency? You know...data that you'd be worried about melting? Birth certificates can be replaced fairly easily really, especially when the government knows your house was swallowed by a 500' gorilla that ate your whole town. When that happens, the last thing that you'll need to worry about is your freakin bank statements. Your bank doesn't exist anymore, remember?
yeesh
I say that to establish myself as someone who knows a little about this.
Let me tell you, "non-profit" does NOT mean that they have no money. Every few months, this radio station would do a drive...and get hundreds of thousands of dollars. The owners of the radio station (the odd part was that the "owners" were gay, but catered to an oblivious ultra-right wing conservative protestant community in Texas...who would NOT have wanted to know that) paid themselves VERY well. I say "owners" because they put the original station together, and headed the non-profit corp. There were two people who were paid staff members...wanna guess who they were? I'll give you a hint: its the two that combined put in about 25% the time I put in by myself...
they told me for 4 months that they were going to start paying me, but that they had to work out some legal issues. They convinced me to quit my paying job, and convinced me to sell what little I had. I moved back in with my parents to save money. FORTUNATELY, I was still young, and didn't have much to lose. Was a DAMN good learning expereince, let me tell you. They let me bleed myself dry as a kid, all the while carpooling in to work in their beat up van and looking poor. Except one day, I ran across some interesting bits of papaer...and then another time I came in at 2am (the station just played taped stuff from like 1-5am) and found two really nice mercedes out front. Guess who they belonged to...
They did this one particular fund raiser for a new antena FIVE times while I was there...every couple months. In the first drive, they raised enough to purchase it. In the second, almost enough. Over the course of the 5 drives, they had the money to buy it 4 times over. When I left, they still had not bought that darn antenna...
only reason I stayed on as long as I did was because at the time, I thought I was going to do radio as a career. Doing the production and voices for the ads (they weren't really ads, they were...spots...that were paid for, but...not) and being the main person for the morning show was a GREAT way to start in a career like that. So I put up with it for a while, until I was just too broke to continue.
So believe me...there are PLENTY of "non-profit" places that have LOTS of money. Ends up the two "poor" founders of the station each had 4 luxury cars, and 2 houses. Wish they had let me borrow one of the cars, since I had long since sold mine to pay for bills... C'est la Vie, eh? ;)
you're quite right - talking about EULA's is most certainly off-topic during a discussion about EULA's :P
I wish I had some mod points atm, cause that was worth a laugh ;)
Here we all, all worried about our privacy, and there are all these people that want to spread their personal info all over. I don't personally see the voyeurism that would justify this sort of nonesense. I mean, there's freaking books on how to do this crap, for pete's sake. Eh.
so I was like, looking for a song this morning. Was curious what it sounded like.
:)
MAN do the gnutella clients out there suck lately. They all want your soul. I lived without the song
This is quite interesting, though. It gave me a nice chuckle.
ok, so, like...a bunch of bugs run through the streets screaming about how wonderful Microsoft stuff is.
Everyone else sees the irony in that, right? I mean, I guess if I were to give a happy home for cats, cats would love me...
plenty of corporate sites have been /.'ed, so informing/warning people isn't as easy as you might think (most submissions are embedded links on news sites, for instance).
/. submitter having to have access to a viable site on which to mirror something that wouldn't itself get /.'ed (taking down whoever was dumb enough to give him the access to create a mirror site) is nonsense. Most don't have access to such systems. I sure as hell wouldn't put something on my company portal, and do you think someplace like geocities or such would last even 30 seconds? It would be pointless.
/.ing will just happen. People do go on.
Also, the idea of the normal
Finally...plenty of people submit stories, never to have them get accepted. So...they'd have to go through all the headache of finding a server they didn't care about that would mirror the site they are posting about, set up the mirror, only to have the mirror go down?
blah. Go geta drink or a massage.
are you saying /. should do this? That would be silly. Then /. would just be /.'ed...
I was kinda wondering about that myself, but figured eh, its early. Maybe my eyes haven't woken up yet.
Guess they had!
"So I decided to pick it up on Friday after I left work and see what it had to offer...This review will cover some of the topics covered in this book, along with things that could or should have been covered in greater detail"
Ok, so its a 492 page technical resource, and you just *bought* the book 5 days ago?
Is it possible that maybe you missed some things?
I mean, I can read a good 500 page novel in a day or two, but I don't think I'd give a review on a technical book I just bought 5 days ago. Maybe that's just me.
I've had nothing but problems with gaim. Maybe I have too many people on my lists, but...
whenever I log in using gaim, all my lists get completely screwed up. For every list that exists, a new list is created with the name and then a number after it. The people that used to be in the single group are now spread between the two groups. Sometimes "buddies" disappear all together.
No, not a big fan of gaim. Just screws everything up.
meaning, there's probably lots of us out there.
point is that his point (the one you were responding to) is just as valid to make by saying take a risk right out of highschool. Just gota find someone willing to take a risk in return on hiring a kid ;)
the question is silly. In my previous post, I made that claim, then backed it up. I will again, in a (hopefully) more concise manner.
There's no way for anyone to give you valid advice on this, as you didn't give many important details. How important to you is:
job security if you suck (because those who don't suck have job security, even in the private sector)
money
personal advancement
career advancement
flexibility
a sense of reward from your work
a sense of empowerment
whether or not you're using new technology
management style
lots of other things. All you say is that you don't know where to get a job. You don't even mention what it is you do. So...what is it that you do, for starters? What would you like to do?
btw...as far as hours go...if you're in IT in the public sector, and a server goes down, you're still staying until its fixed. If you don't suck, you won't have to do those long hours. So the simple solution is do a job you don't suck at.
I was questioning why this was even put on slashdot, yes. Seems like a pretty valid question to me.
and I fail to see how my questioning the value of the article itself constitutes an abusive relationship. I also love how "ontopic" your post was. I mean, at least I discussed the question...
I discussed the benefits and drawbacks of private and public, mentioned that there was a third option, then concluded saying that not enough info was given for us to make this person's decision for them. Sounds pretty damn on-topic to me.