What's truly astounding is that the same managers, who were at pains to hire the brightest people they could find, think that those same people won't figure out what a fraud that is.
This is the part that has always amazed me. How can they ask you to do something this stupid with a straight face?
My last boss caused me great pain with such stupidity. One of my Debian buddies sent me a good explanation after I spent the afternoon complaining about it. That PHB did not even understand that laying me off was actually a reward. My nerves are finally starting to recover and I should be able to kick-ass on my next job;-)
Even if I have mod points, I can't. I tried a few times, but it was a futile effort.
You need to read the Moderation Guidelines again. This type of attitude breaks the system. It takes time to read all those posts below 2 but the gems down there are worth it. If you do not have the time to do this properly, you should let those points expire. What you describe is more of a popularity contest.
If you don't realize this, then you aren't a hardcore Debian veteran. Debian fucked up.
I probably was a user at that time. I thought the libc5 to libc6 upgrade was a nightmare. It's been a while but I seem to remember formatting my disk and starting from scratch to recover.
I just want to make it clear that a professional will be more thorough and responsible to their customer. That is what they are being paid for. Anyone can ask for 'money for nothin'...
I tried hard to love Debian since release 0.8. But then I woke up and smelled the coffee.
It's good to see that you gave Debian a chance, but you admit you were asleep at the wheel.
I and other professionals had moved on to something more trustworthy
This does not sound very professional to me. You leech off the Debian archives without keeping your own copy? You expect them to keep a copy available on the net for future use? How much did you pay for this service?
It makes me wonder what profession you think you are practicing.
I was doing research a couple weeks ago to find a new motherboard. I was impressed with the Monarch deals, but I finally opted to buy the Tyan Tiger MP S2460 from NewEgg because they still were offering the 1.2 Ghz Palomino cpus for only $79. This new system is 2-3 times faster than my dual Pentium III Coppermine system. It is amazing to see these 1.2 Ghz Athlons cream the 1.0 Ghz Pentium III chips. I regret buying that D6VAA motherboard now:(
Wow, maybe that name change will get another chance. Since I am looking for work anyway, I probably ought to dust off those old VAX VMS internals books and revise my resume;-)
Me: I fold. I worked on an Encore/Gould MPX system last year, FORTRAN code heavily commented in the original French, but I want to save that for a future game.
Sounds like this a game I would enjoy. Between RPG II and Encore/Gould (or should I say SEL;-), I could have a lot of fun here.
I did not piece this together, but my SO recognised the clear sinusoidal pattern. One day in the zone followed by a regular day. We now call them a high energy day and low energy day. It is unusual to work any magic on those low energy days.
people should be worried about issues not a fucking tv show(that happens to suck now)
That may be true, but there will always be a segment of our society that is too overwhelmed with real life issues. For them, entertainment can be an escape. It's easy to see why someone would complain about their escape being destroyed.
I think the use of spare cpu cycles is an excellent way to support science, but...
Each project has it's own benefits. I completed 5000 SETI units and now I am looking for prime numbers. If you feel that strongly about medical research, then good for you. I did not like the bandwidth problems SETI kept running into. I decided my spare cpu cycles would be better spent elsewhere. I share the same concern others have expressed about how the medical research data will be used. Some companies think they can patent my genes:(
I recommend that people look at all of the distributed projects. I suggest that you can support more than one. We can learn from all of them.
BTW, the EFF supports GIMPS. Maybe I will get back that money I have been donating for the last few years;-)
An affinity system would really take this to the next level. By using it, you can read exactly the slashdot that you want to read, and the crapflooders can read exactly the slashdot they want to read without some informative posts emerging above their thresholds. Combined with multiple account tracking and central trusted/untrusted user lists (for example, the editor's friends and foes), and you have a very sophisticated automated system of filtering. This could really improve discussion quality, and allow slashdot to scale even a larger user base.
So, this allows Slashdot to scale just like the web. Instead of someone like Google coming along to index everything, the system has builtin filters.
I guess to sum up, there's a big difference between ranking posts by content versus who's saying it.
that people change, a newbie posting stupid comments today maybe an enlightened being tomorow with interesting new insights...
Welcome to the real world. It is called accountability and this new system may promote it. In the US, there is freedom to ignore ( besides that speech stuff;-).
That's the problem with a beautiful user-created-and-operated operating system, it's also user-marketed, and we grubby Morlocks have a hard time writing in market-speak, much less making the 7 AM marketing meeting...
Wow, I wonder how many Slashdot readers are too young to know about that movie.
You raise a good point though. It is too easy to look at the world through a single lens. To the Eloi, we must look like monsters. It is too bad a sequel was not made to show what changes were made when the Eloi started working. Also, the Morlocks were caught by surprise with the resistance. If they were more intelligent and had machinery available, would the Eloi escape next time?
Let's face it, if you treat your boss as your intellectual inferior, why should they give you a raise? Even if you are twice the programmer of everyone else around, it's hard for bosses to make an objective evaluation of your performance since programming is such an amorphous task anyway. For all you know, someone else might look a lot better just because they got an easier task.
Good point. And you may find yourself unemployed because such a boss makes that decision. We all have to make our own choices because we will be the ones who live with the results. There are too many examples of people who slaved their lives away for paper (the green kind;-) and died shortly after retirement.
I am a little sensitive at the moment because I am going through such an evaluation. I too am thinking about finishing the degree. When I first started college I only worried about the job implications. Now, I think it is more appropriate to study something I love.
A desire to block AOL Time Warner from winning AT&T's cable unit led software provider Microsoft Corp. to provide financial assistance to both the Comcast bid as well as the bid of competing cable operator Cox Communications Inc.
Is this a version of the 'enemy of my enemy is my friend' rule? It really makes it hard to keep track of these companies with them exchanging stock and securities the way they do.
Like founding a company with a "let's do something cool in Linux" philosphy
I doubt that they even wonder why it doesn't work. I suspect that the management guys were just rushing to cash-in on the Linux hype. Too many $$ in their eyes. It was nice that a lot of developers were being paid to do what they love.
I also noticed the frequent layoff references (probably due to my own current layoff;-). Next year should be real interesting. I expect to devote more time to my projects. If the others do the same, there might be a lot more version announcements in the 2002 edition.
And frankly, I don't think we stand a chance in Hades of convincing them otherwise. The more ignorant you are, the more you think you know on a given topic, and I'd lay money these people honestly believe they know mathematics.
I would not touch that bet with a ten foot pole!
A fellow Debian developer sent me this fascinating report about this subject. I had a boss who fit this profile. Now I am looking to find a decent job again;-)
And your still employed? If the company policy is clear and you are abusing a corporate resource (i.e.: using their bandwidth for non-business use) you should be out of there.
YES I am still employed. And in this case, abusing the government resource would be defined as clicking on the "My Netscape" button every morning. Even though you iconify the browser, it merrily updates itself all day long.
Do you know how easy this is? I recently had a boss confront me about 3 months worth of URL accesses. Fortunately, I have a tool available to me to keep them honest. Either party can extract their pound of flesh;-)
The best solution to get Verizon to hurry up and unblock the port is for everyone who has a verizon DSL account to call them and tell them in a very nice calm manner that if the block stays in place, your business will go elsewhere.
The number you listed is only for their East Coast database. Seems like they are still working things out after the merger;-)
For West Coast Verizon Tech Support:
1-877-222-2375
Once the heros escape, get a squad of elite ninjas to track them down, but have the ninjas attack one at a time so as to ensure defeat in spite of superior numbers
Sounds like a great idea for the next Austin Powers movie. I can hardly wait to see how they exploit the manipulation tools we have available today for graphics editing;-)
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This is the part that has always amazed me. How can they ask you to do something this stupid with a straight face?
My last boss caused me great pain with such stupidity. One of my Debian buddies sent me a good explanation after I spent the afternoon complaining about it. That PHB did not even understand that laying me off was actually a reward. My nerves are finally starting to recover and I should be able to kick-ass on my next job ;-)
You need to read the Moderation Guidelines again. This type of attitude breaks the system. It takes time to read all those posts below 2 but the gems down there are worth it. If you do not have the time to do this properly, you should let those points expire. What you describe is more of a popularity contest.
I probably was a user at that time. I thought the libc5 to libc6 upgrade was a nightmare. It's been a while but I seem to remember formatting my disk and starting from scratch to recover.
I just want to make it clear that a professional will be more thorough and responsible to their customer. That is what they are being paid for. Anyone can ask for 'money for nothin' ...
It's good to see that you gave Debian a chance, but you admit you were asleep at the wheel.
I and other professionals had moved on to something more trustworthy
This does not sound very professional to me. You leech off the Debian archives without keeping your own copy? You expect them to keep a copy available on the net for future use? How much did you pay for this service?
It makes me wonder what profession you think you are practicing.
I was doing research a couple weeks ago to find a new motherboard. I was impressed with the Monarch deals, but I finally opted to buy the Tyan Tiger MP S2460 from NewEgg because they still were offering the 1.2 Ghz Palomino cpus for only $79. This new system is 2-3 times faster than my dual Pentium III Coppermine system. It is amazing to see these 1.2 Ghz Athlons cream the 1.0 Ghz Pentium III chips. I regret buying that D6VAA motherboard now :(
Wow, maybe that name change will get another chance. Since I am looking for work anyway, I probably ought to dust off those old VAX VMS internals books and revise my resume ;-)
Sounds like this a game I would enjoy. Between RPG II and Encore/Gould (or should I say SEL ;-), I could have a lot of fun here.
I did not piece this together, but my SO recognised the clear sinusoidal pattern. One day in the zone followed by a regular day. We now call them a high energy day and low energy day. It is unusual to work any magic on those low energy days.
That may be true, but there will always be a segment of our society that is too overwhelmed with real life issues. For them, entertainment can be an escape. It's easy to see why someone would complain about their escape being destroyed.
Now if you were talking about the Simpsons, I would agree ;-)
I agree whole heartedly. This stuff almost sounds like a continuation of the pranks last week ;-)
That was quite a tangent ;-)
Each project has it's own benefits. I completed 5000 SETI units and now I am looking for prime numbers. If you feel that strongly about medical research, then good for you. I did not like the bandwidth problems SETI kept running into. I decided my spare cpu cycles would be better spent elsewhere. I share the same concern others have expressed about how the medical research data will be used. Some companies think they can patent my genes :(
I recommend that people look at all of the distributed projects. I suggest that you can support more than one. We can learn from all of them.
BTW, the EFF supports GIMPS. Maybe I will get back that money I have been donating for the last few years ;-)
So, this allows Slashdot to scale just like the web. Instead of someone like Google coming along to index everything, the system has builtin filters.
I guess to sum up, there's a big difference between ranking posts by content versus who's saying it.
And now Slashdot can have both!
Welcome to the real world. It is called accountability and this new system may promote it. In the US, there is freedom to ignore ( besides that speech stuff ;-).
Wow, I wonder how many Slashdot readers are too young to know about that movie.
You raise a good point though. It is too easy to look at the world through a single lens. To the Eloi, we must look like monsters. It is too bad a sequel was not made to show what changes were made when the Eloi started working. Also, the Morlocks were caught by surprise with the resistance. If they were more intelligent and had machinery available, would the Eloi escape next time?
Good point. And you may find yourself unemployed because such a boss makes that decision. We all have to make our own choices because we will be the ones who live with the results. There are too many examples of people who slaved their lives away for paper (the green kind
I am a little sensitive at the moment because I am going through such an evaluation. I too am thinking about finishing the degree. When I first started college I only worried about the job implications. Now, I think it is more appropriate to study something I love.
Is this a version of the 'enemy of my enemy is my friend' rule? It really makes it hard to keep track of these companies with them exchanging stock and securities the way they do.
I doubt that they even wonder why it doesn't work. I suspect that the management guys were just rushing to cash-in on the Linux hype. Too many $$ in their eyes. It was nice that a lot of developers were being paid to do what they love.
I also noticed the frequent layoff references (probably due to my own current layoff
You can demand anything you want, but have you considered that he is entitled to his own opinion?
If the low UIDs and zealots want to keep the blinders on
And what is wrong with zeal? Having a low UID indicates a person saw and recognized a good thing long before everyone else jumped on the bandwagon.
I would not touch that bet with a ten foot pole!
A fellow Debian developer sent me this fascinating report about this subject. I had a boss who fit this profile. Now I am looking to find a decent job again ;-)
YES I am still employed. And in this case, abusing the government resource would be defined as clicking on the "My Netscape" button every morning. Even though you iconify the browser, it merrily updates itself all day long.
Do you know how easy this is? I recently had a boss confront me about 3 months worth of URL accesses. Fortunately, I have a tool available to me to keep them honest. Either party can extract their pound of flesh
The number you listed is only for their East Coast database. Seems like they are still working things out after the merger
For West Coast Verizon Tech Support:
1-877-222-2375
Sounds like a great idea for the next Austin Powers movie. I can hardly wait to see how they exploit the manipulation tools we have available today for graphics editing