Spoken as one who has never worked in an IT department. IT departments are generally understaffed to being with and the people in them are not exactly overpaid. So while you want your new phone to be supported, where does the time and training for it come from? If you really want to use it, you should be the one making the case, because otherwise you are just asking a bunch of overworked and underpaid people to voluntarily make their own lives miserable. If what you say was the truth then it would be easy to get management to send everyone in IT out for training or to hire in a new person with those skills, but that just never happens.
So you pit your lawyer, whom you pay for out of your own pocket, against the school's lawyer who is likely on retainer, and pay to fight when the law is against you? Yeah, that is some great advise!
There are good companies and bad companies. In good companies you are appreciated and promoted. In bad companies you bide your time while looking for another job. Yes that takes and while and sucks in a bad economy, but would you rather have no job?
This is actually very simple. You work for a company. They asked you to do something. You did it. Therefore it falls within your employment unless you have a contract that specifically lays out that you will be paid extra for this.
Also, I hate to tell you this, but junior programmer is a lower paygrade in the industry than senior SA.
If you get a lawyer, as has been suggested above, expect to be out of a job and to never get another cent from that company, but you will still have to pay the lawyer.
Now what you might want to do is negotiate to do the work on company time with all code being open source and donated - GET THAT IN WRITING! Think of this as a great resume-building task and turn it into a positive for both yourself and the community because you will never get paid.
I did hot my kids - I think twice each. After that they knew that I would consider it and I thought that it would no longer help. I do fall quite to the right of Obama, but I do not view this as left or right. Parents do not have to be educated. Parents need to let kids know that they expect them to do well - that they expect homework to be done before anything else gets done. The reports sent home from school can tell you if the student is doing well and doing homework - you do not need to know the subjects.
In an extreme case a kid that was doing badly in school but was a naturally talented athlete was brought into my cousin's house (left of Obama) and treated as a son. When the expectation of good grades was established the child started working harder to get good grades and took pride when he did better. When he went back to visit his real parents and told them of his success with the grades they did not care at all. Fortunately that kid got his grades up high enough that with his athletic ability he was able to get into the local state college on an athletic scholarship and is doing well in both athletics and academics now.
It depends on what the teacher wants to say. It might be that the teacher is purposely teaching them this way then moving on to algebra and wants the student to know the hard way before learning the easy way. That is how I learned and while I do not know if they still teach kids that way today (my kids did not learn that way) it is possible.
Must be nice to be in an area where you can do that for $65k. Here on Long Island, you need about $200,000 to hit that mark. That is not a number I made up, nor is it a scientific study, but rather based on that exact question put forth on a morning radio station a couple of years ago. The decision was that the definition of true middle class was the ability to own am average house (4 bedrooms, 1/4 acre), pay bills, put away for college, for retirement, be able to take a one week non-exotic vacation yearly and get one new car every 3 years (on LI you need one car per working adult - crappy public transit so this mean replace cars every 6 years) and have a few months reserve in case of job loss, etc. Those under $200k/year were unable to do this.
Working in a 6-man shop and working on a 5000 employee corp are two totally different animals. In the 5000 person corp, helping people to do their job more effectively might just mean locking everything down to stop hackers from attacking so that every can actually work.
The whole point of the GPL is to allow code to be Free-As-In-Speech, not Free-As-In-Beer. If you did not get that from the beginning, you do not get the whole FOSS movement.
They are not selling it as their own. If you look at their site, there is even a direct link back to the drupal.org site where the OP released the code. This is a case of the OP freaking out without even bothering to do some basic research as to what the GPL allows and what the site claims to be selling.
An obvious troll. In order to become management you have had to prove yourself over the course of many years. While you may think those above you are useless, they would not be there had they not done what you did first and for probably longer than you have.
Actually the objective point of copyright was to balance the rights of the author (copyright holder) to enrich himself from his creation against the rights of the public to have every work in the Public Domain. Unfortunately this balance has tipped far in the direction of the copyright holder at the expense of the public. The public need to be educated that having works in the Public Domain is their right and is a good thing.
Incorrect. From a legal standpoint, Intellectual Property refers to any non-tangible property right. If you can hold it in your hand it is real property or a chattel, if not it is intellectual property. It is a umbrella phrase for Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and the like.
I have the Cyberpack 9 and it does all of this plus more as well. I traveled through the middle east with 2 Nikon camera bodies, 4 lenses, external flash, a Tascam audio recorder, an olympus voice recorder, a full size Maha battery charger, 2 nikon battery chargers, a dozen chargable AA batteries in holders, a Dell 15" notebook and its charger, with a tripod and a monopod attached to the sides.
Definitely consider a CyberPack.
Not at all. It is standard in the patent world to make the thing that you actually want to patent be the middle claim. The reasons are many and varied, but you can jump right to the thing that any company actually wants to get the patent upon by checking the center claim. There are 20 claims here, so it is likely this one:
10. The method of claim 1, further comprising: detecting that another allocation mode is to be used to allocate one or more buffers for the process; and dynamically deactivating the allocation mode that enables the determining in real-time, wherein the dynamically deactivating includes turning off an indicator in the process to deactivate the allocation mode, and wherein another dynamically allocated memory buffer for the process is allocated based on the another allocation mode, said another dynamically allocated memory buffer being allocated without additional memory as a guard.
I switched from Cablevision to FIOS after my promo pricing ran out and cablevision wanted to up my rates to about $120/month. I pay a few dollars less for FIOS but I get more channels, less compression, hundreds of on-demand movies and TV shows for free and much faster Interbet speeds. The downsides are no Usenet and a router with minimal memory for its ARP table - only a problem when trying to download the latest Fedora by Torrent.
Also, while you do have a contract with FIOS, it is only for one year, it is the price guarantee that they give you that is for two years - you can cut off after one with no penalty. If you really do want to cut off though, Cablevision will pay the penalty for you to get you back.
In any area where there is a neighborhood that will not work. We have some very good friends who are not particularly computer literate. I am very close with them and with their kids. They secured their router and put time restrictions and everythign else on them./ About a week later at 11pm I saw their middle daughter online and IM'd her "On the neighbor's router?" "Of course."
I had a talk with the parents, took the kids' laptops for an afternoon. Explained to them that I now had logs of everything that was going on, just as I had done for my kids. I showed them quick excerpts from the logs.
They have been good every since now that I am packet sniffing everything that goes on from within their own machines. I occasionally take a quick (and I do mean quick) look through all of the logs just to make sure that nothing particularly nasty has been happening. Aside from catching my son on porn sites, nothing really has.
Ronald Reagan said it best: "Trust but verify". Kids get that.
W
I am a computer professional and manager for the last 25 years or so. I do hire entry level coders on occasion, and when I do they often get the job that you are looking for. With that said, let me tell you what the people I have hired have done to impress me.
(1) Show me not only your code but your interface. I need to know that you can look at a problem and determine what information you need and that you can present the results in a usable manner. It does not have to look great - that is why we have designers. They will made the info look good.
(2) Explain to me the real world problem that you solved with this code. I do not care that you can move discs from one peg to another in size order. I do care that you figured out that I was spending too much time verifying that the home page on my 15 web servers returned exactly the same code.
(3) Use full sentences. In all communications, be they on paper or in conversation with me. I do not ever want to see an emoticon or "u r" in a business communication.
(4) Turn your cell phone off during the interview. If there is a true potential for an emergency, explain it to me when the interview starts and I will make allowances, but during the interview I expect to have your full attention.
(5) DO NOT come to your interview with me in a suit. I showed up for my last interview in a t-shirt and jeans. I am now putting together a new department at that company. How did I know? I asked ahead of time. "What is the dress code there? Less than business casual? Would it be acceptable for me to dress that way for the interview? Not only acceptable but appreciated, great!"
(6) This is the really important one... Tell me about your home computers, what operating systems you have running, how you use them and what cool projects you experimented with lately. You have a Linux server and just set up a UPnP server to serve your home media? That is fantastic! On that alone I might hire you if the rest is borderline. That proves to me that you not only know how to learn, but you are excited to do so.
nice does not affect i/o. File sharing takes little CPU time, which is what you will be affecting, so the net result will be a minimal slowdown, if anything at all.
I did demand to use Linux at work. I was in a position to do so, and as I was hired to be the lead developer for the only linux-based system they have it made sense. After a bit of red tape I was eventually given a second machine and told that I had to do my own tech support, which to be was great. Turns out I ended up teaching a lot of people about Fedora and how to load it and administer it. I still have a Windows box on my desk for email, although I use rdesktop rather than the switch box to access it.
It's about time AT&T put some money into the network. The coverage and the dropped calls suck. I can't wait for the 2 year contract to be up.
Seriously, it was only a few years ago that the US had the best networks around and was on the cutting edge with cell phones. But we are seriously lagging now.
AT&T wanted the iPhone but thought they would be able to grab it without infrastructure upgrades Be careful AT&T - no good deed goes unpunished!
The AMNH is enormous; you could easily spend an entire day there, and you'd be hard-pressed to see everything in detail. It has the best dinosaur and primate sections I've ever seen.
The Mutter is just plain cool: a museum devoted to medical oddities, like the skeleton(s) of Cheng & Eng, the 'Siamese twins'. As a PhD-wielding developmental biologist and geneticist I was happy to see some medical information on the various diseases or developmental problems that are on display. Sadly, you cannot take photos; they prefer you purchase their (expensive) photo book.
Don't forget the planetarium attached to the AMNH and the Queens Hall of Science (think Men In Black spaceships).
There are dozens more all over the city. If you like locks there is an entire museum just dedicated to Locks in midtown.
Try this for a listing of the museums we have in town: http://officialsite.com/index.asp?regionid=30&categoryid=12
W
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No, lower courts do not set legal precedent.
Spoken as one who has never worked in an IT department. IT departments are generally understaffed to being with and the people in them are not exactly overpaid. So while you want your new phone to be supported, where does the time and training for it come from? If you really want to use it, you should be the one making the case, because otherwise you are just asking a bunch of overworked and underpaid people to voluntarily make their own lives miserable. If what you say was the truth then it would be easy to get management to send everyone in IT out for training or to hire in a new person with those skills, but that just never happens.
So you pit your lawyer, whom you pay for out of your own pocket, against the school's lawyer who is likely on retainer, and pay to fight when the law is against you? Yeah, that is some great advise!
There are good companies and bad companies. In good companies you are appreciated and promoted. In bad companies you bide your time while looking for another job. Yes that takes and while and sucks in a bad economy, but would you rather have no job?
This is actually very simple. You work for a company. They asked you to do something. You did it. Therefore it falls within your employment unless you have a contract that specifically lays out that you will be paid extra for this. Also, I hate to tell you this, but junior programmer is a lower paygrade in the industry than senior SA. If you get a lawyer, as has been suggested above, expect to be out of a job and to never get another cent from that company, but you will still have to pay the lawyer. Now what you might want to do is negotiate to do the work on company time with all code being open source and donated - GET THAT IN WRITING! Think of this as a great resume-building task and turn it into a positive for both yourself and the community because you will never get paid.
I did hot my kids - I think twice each. After that they knew that I would consider it and I thought that it would no longer help. I do fall quite to the right of Obama, but I do not view this as left or right. Parents do not have to be educated. Parents need to let kids know that they expect them to do well - that they expect homework to be done before anything else gets done. The reports sent home from school can tell you if the student is doing well and doing homework - you do not need to know the subjects. In an extreme case a kid that was doing badly in school but was a naturally talented athlete was brought into my cousin's house (left of Obama) and treated as a son. When the expectation of good grades was established the child started working harder to get good grades and took pride when he did better. When he went back to visit his real parents and told them of his success with the grades they did not care at all. Fortunately that kid got his grades up high enough that with his athletic ability he was able to get into the local state college on an athletic scholarship and is doing well in both athletics and academics now.
It depends on what the teacher wants to say. It might be that the teacher is purposely teaching them this way then moving on to algebra and wants the student to know the hard way before learning the easy way. That is how I learned and while I do not know if they still teach kids that way today (my kids did not learn that way) it is possible.
Ah I get it - that's the joke! Government investment helping education. LOL!
Must be nice to be in an area where you can do that for $65k. Here on Long Island, you need about $200,000 to hit that mark. That is not a number I made up, nor is it a scientific study, but rather based on that exact question put forth on a morning radio station a couple of years ago. The decision was that the definition of true middle class was the ability to own am average house (4 bedrooms, 1/4 acre), pay bills, put away for college, for retirement, be able to take a one week non-exotic vacation yearly and get one new car every 3 years (on LI you need one car per working adult - crappy public transit so this mean replace cars every 6 years) and have a few months reserve in case of job loss, etc. Those under $200k/year were unable to do this.
Working in a 6-man shop and working on a 5000 employee corp are two totally different animals. In the 5000 person corp, helping people to do their job more effectively might just mean locking everything down to stop hackers from attacking so that every can actually work.
The whole point of the GPL is to allow code to be Free-As-In-Speech, not Free-As-In-Beer. If you did not get that from the beginning, you do not get the whole FOSS movement.
They are not selling it as their own. If you look at their site, there is even a direct link back to the drupal.org site where the OP released the code. This is a case of the OP freaking out without even bothering to do some basic research as to what the GPL allows and what the site claims to be selling.
An obvious troll. In order to become management you have had to prove yourself over the course of many years. While you may think those above you are useless, they would not be there had they not done what you did first and for probably longer than you have.
Actually the objective point of copyright was to balance the rights of the author (copyright holder) to enrich himself from his creation against the rights of the public to have every work in the Public Domain. Unfortunately this balance has tipped far in the direction of the copyright holder at the expense of the public. The public need to be educated that having works in the Public Domain is their right and is a good thing.
Incorrect. From a legal standpoint, Intellectual Property refers to any non-tangible property right. If you can hold it in your hand it is real property or a chattel, if not it is intellectual property. It is a umbrella phrase for Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and the like.
I have the Cyberpack 9 and it does all of this plus more as well. I traveled through the middle east with 2 Nikon camera bodies, 4 lenses, external flash, a Tascam audio recorder, an olympus voice recorder, a full size Maha battery charger, 2 nikon battery chargers, a dozen chargable AA batteries in holders, a Dell 15" notebook and its charger, with a tripod and a monopod attached to the sides. Definitely consider a CyberPack.
Not at all. It is standard in the patent world to make the thing that you actually want to patent be the middle claim. The reasons are many and varied, but you can jump right to the thing that any company actually wants to get the patent upon by checking the center claim. There are 20 claims here, so it is likely this one: 10. The method of claim 1, further comprising: detecting that another allocation mode is to be used to allocate one or more buffers for the process; and dynamically deactivating the allocation mode that enables the determining in real-time, wherein the dynamically deactivating includes turning off an indicator in the process to deactivate the allocation mode, and wherein another dynamically allocated memory buffer for the process is allocated based on the another allocation mode, said another dynamically allocated memory buffer being allocated without additional memory as a guard.
I switched from Cablevision to FIOS after my promo pricing ran out and cablevision wanted to up my rates to about $120/month. I pay a few dollars less for FIOS but I get more channels, less compression, hundreds of on-demand movies and TV shows for free and much faster Interbet speeds. The downsides are no Usenet and a router with minimal memory for its ARP table - only a problem when trying to download the latest Fedora by Torrent. Also, while you do have a contract with FIOS, it is only for one year, it is the price guarantee that they give you that is for two years - you can cut off after one with no penalty. If you really do want to cut off though, Cablevision will pay the penalty for you to get you back.
In any area where there is a neighborhood that will not work. We have some very good friends who are not particularly computer literate. I am very close with them and with their kids. They secured their router and put time restrictions and everythign else on them./ About a week later at 11pm I saw their middle daughter online and IM'd her "On the neighbor's router?" "Of course." I had a talk with the parents, took the kids' laptops for an afternoon. Explained to them that I now had logs of everything that was going on, just as I had done for my kids. I showed them quick excerpts from the logs. They have been good every since now that I am packet sniffing everything that goes on from within their own machines. I occasionally take a quick (and I do mean quick) look through all of the logs just to make sure that nothing particularly nasty has been happening. Aside from catching my son on porn sites, nothing really has. Ronald Reagan said it best: "Trust but verify". Kids get that. W
(1) Show me not only your code but your interface. I need to know that you can look at a problem and determine what information you need and that you can present the results in a usable manner. It does not have to look great - that is why we have designers. They will made the info look good.
(2) Explain to me the real world problem that you solved with this code. I do not care that you can move discs from one peg to another in size order. I do care that you figured out that I was spending too much time verifying that the home page on my 15 web servers returned exactly the same code.
(3) Use full sentences. In all communications, be they on paper or in conversation with me. I do not ever want to see an emoticon or "u r" in a business communication.
(4) Turn your cell phone off during the interview. If there is a true potential for an emergency, explain it to me when the interview starts and I will make allowances, but during the interview I expect to have your full attention.
(5) DO NOT come to your interview with me in a suit. I showed up for my last interview in a t-shirt and jeans. I am now putting together a new department at that company. How did I know? I asked ahead of time. "What is the dress code there? Less than business casual? Would it be acceptable for me to dress that way for the interview? Not only acceptable but appreciated, great!"
(6) This is the really important one... Tell me about your home computers, what operating systems you have running, how you use them and what cool projects you experimented with lately. You have a Linux server and just set up a UPnP server to serve your home media? That is fantastic! On that alone I might hire you if the rest is borderline. That proves to me that you not only know how to learn, but you are excited to do so.
Good Luck!
Warren
Read the OP - he wants a machine that will play Oblivion and output 1080p HDMI to a TV set. That sounds like mostly GPU-heavy specs to me.
nice does not affect i/o. File sharing takes little CPU time, which is what you will be affecting, so the net result will be a minimal slowdown, if anything at all.
I did demand to use Linux at work. I was in a position to do so, and as I was hired to be the lead developer for the only linux-based system they have it made sense. After a bit of red tape I was eventually given a second machine and told that I had to do my own tech support, which to be was great. Turns out I ended up teaching a lot of people about Fedora and how to load it and administer it. I still have a Windows box on my desk for email, although I use rdesktop rather than the switch box to access it.
It's about time AT&T put some money into the network. The coverage and the dropped calls suck. I can't wait for the 2 year contract to be up. Seriously, it was only a few years ago that the US had the best networks around and was on the cutting edge with cell phones. But we are seriously lagging now. AT&T wanted the iPhone but thought they would be able to grab it without infrastructure upgrades Be careful AT&T - no good deed goes unpunished!
My two favorites are the American Museum of Natural History in NYC and the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.
The AMNH is enormous; you could easily spend an entire day there, and you'd be hard-pressed to see everything in detail. It has the best dinosaur and primate sections I've ever seen.
The Mutter is just plain cool: a museum devoted to medical oddities, like the skeleton(s) of Cheng & Eng, the 'Siamese twins'. As a PhD-wielding developmental biologist and geneticist I was happy to see some medical information on the various diseases or developmental problems that are on display. Sadly, you cannot take photos; they prefer you purchase their (expensive) photo book.
Don't forget the planetarium attached to the AMNH and the Queens Hall of Science (think Men In Black spaceships). There are dozens more all over the city. If you like locks there is an entire museum just dedicated to Locks in midtown. Try this for a listing of the museums we have in town: http://officialsite.com/index.asp?regionid=30&categoryid=12 W