I still need a reason why the male should be off. I'm not looking for why it should be equal because biologically we are not equal.
Well, I think I disagree with your basic argument here... I too agree with the fact that women have the babies (rather hard to dispute;)). What I don't agree with is the next step you seem to be taking: that the natural result is the mother is the only one (most appropriate, whatever) who can take care of the baby after birth. I'm not convinced that these days, once the baby is actually out of the womb, that a man couldn't do just as fine a job taking care of a newborn than a woman. (Yes, I'm ignoring breast feeding in this instance, but there are pumps and formulas, so I think I'm OK there.)
Give me one good reason the man should have leave? Perhaps some time directly around the time of birth in order to accommodate the wife but aside from that why does he need more?
OK, let's turn that around... by that logic, why should the woman have leave (of course, as you said, except for right around the time of birth so she can recover)? The point is to remove the gender bias surrounding leave ("women have the babies, so they should be the ones who get leave to take care of them").
No, the reasonable thing to do would have been to develop different versions of the software for each country where it is sold...
Microsoft appears to be trying to sell Windows as a global product...
Actually, I'm glad they are trying to make it a global product. One thing that annoys me about earlier Windows versions (and the programs written for them) is that they are tailored to regional versions. An example: There were (and may still be) Japanese versions of Windows. I speak and read a bit of Japanese, so I occasionaly play around with applications written for the Japanese versions of the OS. The problem of course being that all the text is trashed, since it's expecting the OS to be (most likely) in Shift-JIS. Newer software uses Unicode, so it just works. So I don't think the answer is different versions, just better attempts at proper customization when you choose a region in Control Panel.
Or perhaps they do understand bias... so much so in fact that they realize they are as biased as the site (and perhaps this is why they come here), but, more importantly, don't care.
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Alright, now if I understood previous statements, the RTM version that's out now gets sent to OEMs like Dell and such. Now, if your statement is correct, wouldn't that mean people who buy a new Dell would have something like-but-not-quite SP2, whereas someone who waits for the gold version will have the "real" SP2? (Yes, I know those terms are kinda loose, but the entire notion, if correct, is boggling. It's one thing to have beta/release candidates, but once you release something, whether you call it RTM, gold, whatever, it has to be frozen, otherwise you can't be sure what you've got.)
OK, I can agree that putting this in Explorer instead of in the kernel is an inferior solution, as well status quo for Microsoft (witness the hack known as "shortcuts"). BUT, how could this decrease the security of the system, when the feature was not present in any form prior to SP2?
so put it behind your firewall and only accept incoming from your provider.
OK, I know virtually nothing about VoIP, but I'm betting I'm right here... wouldn't that also block legitimate calls from others using VoIP phones? (I would think almost certainly for calls from other VoIP providers, unless they route out through POTS, and very possibly other calls from people using your provider as I'd imagine they would route those calls directly to save on costs.)
Actually, they kind of do. If you don't want to void your warranty, you can only install Ford 'approved' parts. Same goes for most of the other car companies too.
Well, that's a bit different though... it's one thing to say your warranty is void if you use substandard parts (ignoring for the moment that non-Ford may not equate to substandard, just like a mod chip probably won't break your PS2, but it could), it's another thing to say you can't put a non-Ford part in there, period, because it's against their "terms of use."
I don't know for certain but I would assume the Plastation's terms of use would have something about only using their official games. If that is the case, I can understand the ruling.
Which opens up a whole new can of worms... to use the analogy above, that would be like Ford including a "terms of use" with your car saying you can only install Ford parts in it. Would you understand the ruling in that case?
Of course, at least currently, you don't actually need phone service to call 911 on a POTS phone.
Actually that's not always the case. I had my landline service cancelled a few months back (I'm using my cell exclusively now). When they turned it off, they turned it off completely. No dialtone, not even power on the line AFAICT (my speakerphone won't turn on anymore, so that's a pretty good sign that there isn't power, short of pulling out my meter and checking the pins:).
FYI, I'm in northern Virginia and my old provider was Verizon. This might vary with other carriers or locations...
This is exactly the policy you can expect to find in an enterprise environment. I see no good reason why it should not be applied to colleges/schools as well.
Well, a key difference here would be in an enterprise environment, it's the company's machines that the policy is being applied to. In an academic environment, it's your machine.
Would you be so quick to say this if your ISP wanted to institute such a policy?
Ask him this question: What is a supervisor's duty to his subordinates?
A question that's related to that: Ask him what's the most important responsibility/top priority/etc. of a manager. Generally there are two possible answers: the people, or the business/department/whatever. Higher ups probably want #2. You probably want #1. (Good higher ups want #1 too, as #2 goes to hell if you forget #1.)
I'm as much of a capitalist as the next guy. But the point to lending libraries is that they are free, as in beer. So all you need to borrow anything is your library card, and zero dollars. Just borrow the CD, install on your system, and bring it back.
Not that I disagree, but do keep in mind there are already things you can't borrow from the library. Usually reserve items can't be taken out. You have to read (watch, listen, etc.) them there or make copies. That being said, there should be no objections to bringing your own blanks. It would be nice if they let you take the CDs themselves out, but not unheard of if they didn't.
Easy, prohibit instant messaging while at work. WTF do you need to be using AIM or Yahoo Messenger for at work?
Spoken like someone who has never used AIM, et. al. at work...
Instant messaging can be very useful at work. I'm in a new job right now that doesn't allow it, and I'm really missing it. It is especially useful when your team is scattered across multiple buildings and you have a quick question. It's also handy for asking friends/previous co-workers things like "what was that command to view all the disks in Veritas VM again?" Yes, you could use the phone or e-mail for these, but it is suboptimal.
If you put a supercharger on your f150, is it still an f150, or "random guy's truck (powered by ford)"
OK, I like your analogy, but how do we carry it to the software world? At what point to we cross over from a F150 with a supercharger to a rebuilt F150?
Debian is not saying their builds are official. They just want to be able to say what they supply _is_ FireFox. Mozilla is saying you can't use the name and image unless you haven't changed it at all.
OK, this may be picking nits, but... if you've changed something in the software, is it really still "Firefox," or is it now "Debian Internet Browser (powered by Firefox)?"
Although they share a name, Verizon and Verizon Wireless are distinctly different companies (in behavior at least, the financial situation is unclear at best). I've hated Verizon for years myself, however I have a Verizon Wireless cell phone and have been quite pleased. Anytime I have to call customer service they practically fall over themselves to help me (not to mention there's no wait times) and always have things fixed quickly. They may not be the best company out there, but they are a far cry from their namesake.
I think you and the parent are missing the point entirely.
You'd be wrong then.:) When did I ever say I disagreed with what Comcast was doing? Assuming they are following a sane procedure, I have no problem with them temporarily blocking access until you fix things. (Although, some of the other posts around here have even better ideas I think, like walling off the systems but still allowing them to get to cleaning tools like anti-virus software.)
What I do have a problem with are people who rationalize any action an ISP takes with the statement "It's OK, it's in the TOS/contract/AUP/whatever, so they can do that" without showing any evidence of having though about whether they should be doing that.
It's presumably a terms-of-service violation so technically you're in breach of contract and they can do what the hell they want.
I think you missed the point of the parent entirely... just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do something. Yes, the contract allows Comcast to cut off users like that, but do we want them to? And, in what other situations do we want them to (or not to)?
you are driving WAY tOO CLOSE to the car in front of you, jackass
You don't drive in larger cities much, do you? I agree with this in principle -- if everyone would allow enough room between cars it wouldn't be an issue and we'd all be much safer. But in practice it doesn't pan out. The roads in a major city are too busy to allow for it. As soon as you leave enough room, someone will simply cut in front of you. If you then start slowing down to make room again, you start backing up traffic and everything becomes a huge mess in a hurry.
when trying to get a job, if the company in question is within driving distance, drop the resume and cover letter off in person, dressed for an interview.
I've heard this advice before... I think it's crazy. How many IT companies don't have fenced campuses where you wouldn't even get in the front gate? Or for a smaller company, a little office without so much as a receptionist? For the overwhelming majority of companies around me (northern Virginia) you just can't do this. Is there actually somewhere you can?
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Well, I think I disagree with your basic argument here... I too agree with the fact that women have the babies (rather hard to dispute ;)). What I don't agree with is the next step you seem to be taking: that the natural result is the mother is the only one (most appropriate, whatever) who can take care of the baby after birth. I'm not convinced that these days, once the baby is actually out of the womb, that a man couldn't do just as fine a job taking care of a newborn than a woman. (Yes, I'm ignoring breast feeding in this instance, but there are pumps and formulas, so I think I'm OK there.)
OK, let's turn that around... by that logic, why should the woman have leave (of course, as you said, except for right around the time of birth so she can recover)? The point is to remove the gender bias surrounding leave ("women have the babies, so they should be the ones who get leave to take care of them").
Actually, I'm glad they are trying to make it a global product. One thing that annoys me about earlier Windows versions (and the programs written for them) is that they are tailored to regional versions. An example: There were (and may still be) Japanese versions of Windows. I speak and read a bit of Japanese, so I occasionaly play around with applications written for the Japanese versions of the OS. The problem of course being that all the text is trashed, since it's expecting the OS to be (most likely) in Shift-JIS. Newer software uses Unicode, so it just works. So I don't think the answer is different versions, just better attempts at proper customization when you choose a region in Control Panel.
Um, looked at a map lately? :) The border between Montana/North Dakota and Canada is a straight line...
Or perhaps they do understand bias... so much so in fact that they realize they are as biased as the site (and perhaps this is why they come here), but, more importantly, don't care.
Alright, now if I understood previous statements, the RTM version that's out now gets sent to OEMs like Dell and such. Now, if your statement is correct, wouldn't that mean people who buy a new Dell would have something like-but-not-quite SP2, whereas someone who waits for the gold version will have the "real" SP2? (Yes, I know those terms are kinda loose, but the entire notion, if correct, is boggling. It's one thing to have beta/release candidates, but once you release something, whether you call it RTM, gold, whatever, it has to be frozen, otherwise you can't be sure what you've got.)
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OK, I can agree that putting this in Explorer instead of in the kernel is an inferior solution, as well status quo for Microsoft (witness the hack known as "shortcuts"). BUT, how could this decrease the security of the system, when the feature was not present in any form prior to SP2?
So are you actually proposing the idea that more vacation leads to higher unemployment?
OK, I know virtually nothing about VoIP, but I'm betting I'm right here... wouldn't that also block legitimate calls from others using VoIP phones? (I would think almost certainly for calls from other VoIP providers, unless they route out through POTS, and very possibly other calls from people using your provider as I'd imagine they would route those calls directly to save on costs.)
Well, that's a bit different though... it's one thing to say your warranty is void if you use substandard parts (ignoring for the moment that non-Ford may not equate to substandard, just like a mod chip probably won't break your PS2, but it could), it's another thing to say you can't put a non-Ford part in there, period, because it's against their "terms of use."
Which opens up a whole new can of worms... to use the analogy above, that would be like Ford including a "terms of use" with your car saying you can only install Ford parts in it. Would you understand the ruling in that case?
Actually that's not always the case. I had my landline service cancelled a few months back (I'm using my cell exclusively now). When they turned it off, they turned it off completely. No dialtone, not even power on the line AFAICT (my speakerphone won't turn on anymore, so that's a pretty good sign that there isn't power, short of pulling out my meter and checking the pins :).
FYI, I'm in northern Virginia and my old provider was Verizon. This might vary with other carriers or locations...
Actually, it'll be airing tomorrow at 6pm and Saturday (i.e., Friday night) at 1am if you want to avoid hunting down torrents.
Well, a key difference here would be in an enterprise environment, it's the company's machines that the policy is being applied to. In an academic environment, it's your machine.
Would you be so quick to say this if your ISP wanted to institute such a policy?
A question that's related to that: Ask him what's the most important responsibility/top priority/etc. of a manager. Generally there are two possible answers: the people, or the business/department/whatever. Higher ups probably want #2. You probably want #1. (Good higher ups want #1 too, as #2 goes to hell if you forget #1.)
Not that I disagree, but do keep in mind there are already things you can't borrow from the library. Usually reserve items can't be taken out. You have to read (watch, listen, etc.) them there or make copies. That being said, there should be no objections to bringing your own blanks. It would be nice if they let you take the CDs themselves out, but not unheard of if they didn't.
Spoken like someone who has never used AIM, et. al. at work...
Instant messaging can be very useful at work. I'm in a new job right now that doesn't allow it, and I'm really missing it. It is especially useful when your team is scattered across multiple buildings and you have a quick question. It's also handy for asking friends/previous co-workers things like "what was that command to view all the disks in Veritas VM again?" Yes, you could use the phone or e-mail for these, but it is suboptimal.
It's those lousy writers! They make me madder than a... yak in heat!
OK, I like your analogy, but how do we carry it to the software world? At what point to we cross over from a F150 with a supercharger to a rebuilt F150?
OK, this may be picking nits, but... if you've changed something in the software, is it really still "Firefox," or is it now "Debian Internet Browser (powered by Firefox)?"
Although they share a name, Verizon and Verizon Wireless are distinctly different companies (in behavior at least, the financial situation is unclear at best). I've hated Verizon for years myself, however I have a Verizon Wireless cell phone and have been quite pleased. Anytime I have to call customer service they practically fall over themselves to help me (not to mention there's no wait times) and always have things fixed quickly. They may not be the best company out there, but they are a far cry from their namesake.
You'd be wrong then. :) When did I ever say I disagreed with what Comcast was doing? Assuming they are following a sane procedure, I have no problem with them temporarily blocking access until you fix things. (Although, some of the other posts around here have even better ideas I think, like walling off the systems but still allowing them to get to cleaning tools like anti-virus software.)
What I do have a problem with are people who rationalize any action an ISP takes with the statement "It's OK, it's in the TOS/contract/AUP/whatever, so they can do that" without showing any evidence of having though about whether they should be doing that.
I think you missed the point of the parent entirely... just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do something. Yes, the contract allows Comcast to cut off users like that, but do we want them to? And, in what other situations do we want them to (or not to)?
You don't drive in larger cities much, do you? I agree with this in principle -- if everyone would allow enough room between cars it wouldn't be an issue and we'd all be much safer. But in practice it doesn't pan out. The roads in a major city are too busy to allow for it. As soon as you leave enough room, someone will simply cut in front of you. If you then start slowing down to make room again, you start backing up traffic and everything becomes a huge mess in a hurry.
I've heard this advice before... I think it's crazy. How many IT companies don't have fenced campuses where you wouldn't even get in the front gate? Or for a smaller company, a little office without so much as a receptionist? For the overwhelming majority of companies around me (northern Virginia) you just can't do this. Is there actually somewhere you can?