Most of what I do, is come in after the outsourced contract workers are done and make things work.
Most of what I do (as a contractor) is come in and do the work existing employees are afraid to touch or can't do in the first place. Then, despite succeeding in the task, I seldom hear from them again. And it takes damned near forever for clients to bite the bullet and call someone in to handle the raging fire.
Employees think they have it so difficult with low pay, lousy hours, HR, yada, yada. Try contracting.
Ah I think I understand now, if cash can be speech then why not bullets and tanks? They convey much more of a message IMO.
I think it depends on who you're trying to get the message to, and current conditions. A whisper to your wife in bed usually works, but King George, Muammar Ghadaffi, and Hosni Mubarak took a bit stronger amplitude.
The *AAs may be completely deaf from all indications so far.
It's a pretty sad development that this needs to be pointed out to so many rich investors by people like us. They're spending millions on fast fibre networks to shave milliseconds (nanoseconds?) off elapsed times of trades, when we know it's supposed to be about plowing cash into producing industries in the hope that we geeks can ultimately, eventually make that worth their while.
The question that I think the writer is asking is that Google is spending a lot money that belongs to investors on long term high risk speculative projects. And the line between high risk / high return projects and vanity projects to buff the founder's image is fine.
That speaks volumes. Were I Google I'd reply, "You're welcome to take your money elsewhere, you greedy, shortsighted, quick buck artist, speculator sumbitches! Maybe Las Vegas is more your style? We prize long term investors who appreciate stability. YMMV."
Or maybe Apple? They were mumbling about converting some of their on hand cash into dividends a couple of weeks ago.
So you would support some crazy KKK person having freedom from dining with black people?
I have no problem with that. If the KKK person sees "coloreds" in the restaurant, he doesn't have to eat there.
If you want to be "free" from interacting with religious people...
I said no such thing. I have no problem with religious people.
Alternatively, you can show some modicum of "tolerance" and tolerate those who think differently than you do.
I think we've shown toleration for religion for far too long. The death toll long ago hit the level of genocide on all sides, and it doesn't appear to be slowing down at all. Read a newspaper.
When's Iran going to attack Israel, or vice versa? Or when's Kashmir going to blow up again? Or Chechins hijack and crash another Russian plane? Or China pull out another Pogrom against the Falun Gong? Or Indonesia...
He confuses 'profit' with 'getting paid'.... Ultimately profit leads to revolutions. Simply "getting paid" does not. Can we break the ugly cycle, please?
Ridiculous. Two guys banging their heads on tech in a garage eventually came up with something that they could sell. The proceeds of that financed their coming up with something better, and so on, and so on, until we wound up with Apple.
What Apple does with its profits and power is another thing, but profit's not inherently evil.
Freedom of religion is what leaves you free to have no religion.
Freedom from religion would be better. That way, you could have your religion (in your basement, in the dark (as it should be - you alone comuning with your sky fairy)), and nobody would bother persecuting you for it. Everyone wins.
-Can't even think of contributing to OpenOffice or Gnome, since just setting up the build environments for those is highly complex, I've heard.
-Huge amount of time to build and test those programs.
-I'm afraid of what setting up the dev libraries would do to my normal environment I use for normal work.
-Requires a hugely powerful machine, whereas some of us like to work on a less-powerful, smaller, portable laptop.
This is why anyone into this stuff needs access to (at least) two boxes; "Production" that you use for every day use (incl. work), and "Development" or "Sandbox". You can find a year old box for a fraction of the price of the latest ones, sometimes just by walking in an alley (users throw out the strangest things). If something/you futz(es) up your Dev box, blow it away and re-install. You also won't need it to run $another_os on it, so you won't need to worry about that getting blown away if you futz up the re-install. You'll also have a great deal more disk to play with.
Then again, if your box is $honking_big_powerful, VMs are the way to go these days. I prefer two separate boxes, but YMMV.
BTW, Debian (for instance) prefers contributors to send bug reports related to "Testing" and "Unstable", not "Stable", as often the bug will already be fixed in stable and stable's not open to feature fixes (other than security updates), so run stable on Prod. and testing on Dev.
I've also just shown up out of the blue with fixes to documentation, and they were welcomed. The projects were run by non-English foreign speakers who were trying their best with English, but having a native English person polish their work was very much appreciated. It made them look more professional to us English speaking slobs.
... didn't you make security staff cuts weeks before PSN got hacked?
Interesting that, isn't it?
i) They got seriously hacked. So, what were the security staff actually doing when they were employed? ii) I wonder if some disgruntled ex-security staff member showed up on 4chan and spilled the beans?
The security staff (by all accounts) deserved to be sacked. Since Sony hasn't been able to tie it back to first causes (ie., disgruntled ex-security staff), instead they simply admit their security sucked and they're now falling for blowing wads of cash on security snakeoil salesmen.
I'd be looking at Sony's board of directors wondering what they're doing to earn their pay.
Preventing a problem before it becomes a problem means making a sacrifice of economic resources that could have been devoted to problems that are problems right now. So, you have to make a very strong case to justify the preventative measures.
Which is why IT always gets the short end of the stick when the business side is in control. We can't afford to expend money and resources on maintaining existing systems because the business side always wants to build something new, and since that something new is expected to bring in cash, it obviously is more deserving of money and resources than maintenance.
Pretty soon, IT does nothing but fight fires as one thing after another breaks down and needs an emergency bandaid fix just to keep it running.
!@#$ing brilliant style of management. Both shortsighted and ignorant. Fukushima Style management, where expert opinions are ignored in favour of short term profits.
We can argue that Euros 58 million is too high and I'd probably agree, but in the end, NATO still has a network that needs security measures applied to it.
I think the only people who would understand it are folks with PhDs in particle-optical-physics with ten years of post doc experience working in the electron microscope field.
I really hate hearing people say stuff like this. Science isn't magic with scary, unknowable stuff going on behind the curtain. It's *very often* easily understood (car analogies, anyone? Hit me!!!111one:-). The devil's in the details and the details can be subtle, but it's not magic.
SEM bombards stuff with $something (energized particles, radiation,...) which reflects back onto something that stores that reflected $something. It's the same process as an optical camera, but working at different wavelengths and energies (yes, please do feel free to correct me if I'm talking through my hat in your opinion; I won't be offended, honest).
I'm having a difficult time understanding TFS's "... after they have passed through the sample using computers."
Passed through? Since when!?! Passed through the sample using computers? What? SEM doesn't "pass any energy through" whatever it's sampling.
Are we talking about 3D representations of sample then using computers to $massage sample to death? That might make sense.
People should read more about science and how it's done. It wouldn't be as scary to them if they did.
Thanks for the excellent explain. "It just made no sense at all to keep the old machine on." It's thirty years old. Damned straight it's obsolete, even if very cool tech for its time.
I'd love to see them try a muon collider.
Like this? Why? You just proved Fermilab's not capable of keeping up with the LHC, so I'm left wondering what it would cost to retrofit Fermilab to that level. I think concentrating on CERN is a better basket for our eggs.
It's sad that these projects that bring us together in peace, get treated as if they were sporting events or yet another political pissing match.
Hell, no! Projects like this are far more suited to that sort of thing than what's ordinarily done. Would you rather be watching a bit of dead pig skin flying through the air, or watching atoms being smashed together at X% of the speed of light?
This game doesn't even have the distractions of things like wardrobe malfunctions, or Madonna's latest boring commercial. It's all meat!:-)
Parts for what? All the other active GeV range particle accelerators that the US is maggoty with?
Rail guns? Unwind the Tevatron and install those superconducting magnets onto the side of a mountain. Could we actually use something like that to reach escape velocity? Wouldn't it be worth it to find out?
Heinlein was a smart guy, even if he was a bit daft.
Well, it took China fifty years to recover from Mao's economic depredations...
I don't think China has recovered yet, but then I wouldn't blame all of that mess on Mao either. That country's been under the thumb of one dictator after another going back four thousand years. Chaing Kai Shek was no better than Mao, nor Emperor Chin.
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Most of what I do, is come in after the outsourced contract workers are done and make things work.
Most of what I do (as a contractor) is come in and do the work existing employees are afraid to touch or can't do in the first place.
Then, despite succeeding in the task, I seldom hear from them again. And it takes damned near forever for clients to bite the bullet and call someone in to handle the raging fire.
Employees think they have it so difficult with low pay, lousy hours, HR, yada, yada. Try contracting.
"Islamist" is a pejorative used by non-Muslims to disparage Muslims,
You're working from a bad dictionary. Neither of the definitions I quoted are disparaging.
Ah I think I understand now, if cash can be speech then why not bullets and tanks? They convey much more of a message IMO.
I think it depends on who you're trying to get the message to, and current conditions. A whisper to your wife in bed usually works, but King George, Muammar Ghadaffi, and Hosni Mubarak took a bit stronger amplitude.
The *AAs may be completely deaf from all indications so far.
It's a pretty sad development that this needs to be pointed out to so many rich investors by people like us. They're spending millions on fast fibre networks to shave milliseconds (nanoseconds?) off elapsed times of trades, when we know it's supposed to be about plowing cash into producing industries in the hope that we geeks can ultimately, eventually make that worth their while.
It's infuriating.
The question that I think the writer is asking is that Google is spending a lot money that belongs to investors on long term high risk speculative projects. And the line between high risk / high return projects and vanity projects to buff the founder's image is fine.
That speaks volumes. Were I Google I'd reply, "You're welcome to take your money elsewhere, you greedy, shortsighted, quick buck artist, speculator sumbitches! Maybe Las Vegas is more your style? We prize long term investors who appreciate stability. YMMV."
Or maybe Apple? They were mumbling about converting some of their on hand cash into dividends a couple of weeks ago.
The British often need outsiders to explain how their political system works on paper, ...
Don't feel bad. You're not as different as you think.
So you would support some crazy KKK person having freedom from dining with black people?
I have no problem with that. If the KKK person sees "coloreds" in the restaurant, he doesn't have to eat there.
If you want to be "free" from interacting with religious people ...
I said no such thing. I have no problem with religious people.
Alternatively, you can show some modicum of "tolerance" and tolerate those who think differently than you do.
I think we've shown toleration for religion for far too long. The death toll long ago hit the level of genocide on all sides, and it doesn't appear to be slowing down at all. Read a newspaper.
When's Iran going to attack Israel, or vice versa? Or when's Kashmir going to blow up again? Or Chechins hijack and crash another Russian plane? Or China pull out another Pogrom against the Falun Gong? Or Indonesia ...
He confuses 'profit' with 'getting paid'. ... Ultimately profit leads to revolutions. Simply "getting paid" does not. Can we break the ugly cycle, please?
Ridiculous. Two guys banging their heads on tech in a garage eventually came up with something that they could sell. The proceeds of that financed their coming up with something better, and so on, and so on, until we wound up with Apple.
What Apple does with its profits and power is another thing, but profit's not inherently evil.
I would also like to know Open Source Advocates attitude towards ???.
That's a regular expression (regexp) denoting a one to four character long string ending in a period. I'm in favour of regexps.
I like people who take open source code and sells it for use in closed source proprietary software. They're nice.
Great! What are your contact details? I'll sell you all you want, for a nominal packaging and delivery fee.
Islamist. It's not a real word, stop using it please.
(0) kiak /home/keeling_ dict islamist
1 definition found
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Islamist
n 1: a scholar who [is] knowledgeable in Islamic studies
2: an orthodox Muslim
Freedom of religion is what leaves you free to have no religion.
Freedom from religion would be better. That way, you could have your religion (in your basement, in the dark (as it should be - you alone comuning with your sky fairy)), and nobody would bother persecuting you for it. Everyone wins.
Foolish, vindictive, and shortsighted. Not that that's a huge surprise.
That's SOP. See CD players, VCRs, player pianos, wax tube recordings, ...
-Can't even think of contributing to OpenOffice or Gnome, since just setting up the build environments for those is highly complex, I've heard.
-Huge amount of time to build and test those programs.
-I'm afraid of what setting up the dev libraries would do to my normal environment I use for normal work.
-Requires a hugely powerful machine, whereas some of us like to work on a less-powerful, smaller, portable laptop.
This is why anyone into this stuff needs access to (at least) two boxes; "Production" that you use for every day use (incl. work), and "Development" or "Sandbox". You can find a year old box for a fraction of the price of the latest ones, sometimes just by walking in an alley (users throw out the strangest things). If something/you futz(es) up your Dev box, blow it away and re-install. You also won't need it to run $another_os on it, so you won't need to worry about that getting blown away if you futz up the re-install. You'll also have a great deal more disk to play with.
Then again, if your box is $honking_big_powerful, VMs are the way to go these days. I prefer two separate boxes, but YMMV.
BTW, Debian (for instance) prefers contributors to send bug reports related to "Testing" and "Unstable", not "Stable", as often the bug will already be fixed in stable and stable's not open to feature fixes (other than security updates), so run stable on Prod. and testing on Dev.
I've also just shown up out of the blue with fixes to documentation, and they were welcomed. The projects were run by non-English foreign speakers who were trying their best with English, but having a native English person polish their work was very much appreciated. It made them look more professional to us English speaking slobs.
... didn't you make security staff cuts weeks before PSN got hacked?
Interesting that, isn't it?
i) They got seriously hacked. So, what were the security staff actually doing when they were employed?
ii) I wonder if some disgruntled ex-security staff member showed up on 4chan and spilled the beans?
The security staff (by all accounts) deserved to be sacked. Since Sony hasn't been able to tie it back to first causes (ie., disgruntled ex-security staff), instead they simply admit their security sucked and they're now falling for blowing wads of cash on security snakeoil salesmen.
I'd be looking at Sony's board of directors wondering what they're doing to earn their pay.
Preventing a problem before it becomes a problem means making a sacrifice of economic resources that could have been devoted to problems that are problems right now. So, you have to make a very strong case to justify the preventative measures.
Which is why IT always gets the short end of the stick when the business side is in control. We can't afford to expend money and resources on maintaining existing systems because the business side always wants to build something new, and since that something new is expected to bring in cash, it obviously is more deserving of money and resources than maintenance.
Pretty soon, IT does nothing but fight fires as one thing after another breaks down and needs an emergency bandaid fix just to keep it running.
!@#$ing brilliant style of management. Both shortsighted and ignorant. Fukushima Style management, where expert opinions are ignored in favour of short term profits.
We can argue that Euros 58 million is too high and I'd probably agree, but in the end, NATO still has a network that needs security measures applied to it.
How much is 40m pounds stirling?
Seriously, how can this piece of ignorant rant be mod as insightful?
Compare it to any random AC rant, dick!@#$. YOU ARE SO BLOODY BORING! At least TRY to contribute something of ANY value. Gahd!
I'd rather be watching Serenity than reading your puerile pap BS anyday. Go play on MySpace if you've nothing better to do, FFS.
TEM is like an X-ray.
Thanks, all of you guys/people. "TEM" is something I'd never heard of before.
But they weren't Sulu.
George is a little odd (from my point of view; see the Shatner roast), but that's allowed. Besides, he looks great wielding a katana.
I think the only people who would understand it are folks with PhDs in particle-optical-physics with ten years of post doc experience working in the electron microscope field.
I really hate hearing people say stuff like this. Science isn't magic with scary, unknowable stuff going on behind the curtain. It's *very often* easily understood (car analogies, anyone? Hit me!!!111one :-). The devil's in the details and the details can be subtle, but it's not magic.
SEM bombards stuff with $something (energized particles, radiation, ...) which reflects back onto something that stores that reflected $something. It's the same process as an optical camera, but working at different wavelengths and energies (yes, please do feel free to correct me if I'm talking through my hat in your opinion; I won't be offended, honest).
I'm having a difficult time understanding TFS's "... after they have passed through the sample using computers."
Passed through? Since when!?! Passed through the sample using computers? What? SEM doesn't "pass any energy through" whatever it's sampling.
Are we talking about 3D representations of sample then using computers to $massage sample to death? That might make sense.
People should read more about science and how it's done. It wouldn't be as scary to them if they did.
Thanks for the excellent explain. "It just made no sense at all to keep the old machine on." It's thirty years old. Damned straight it's obsolete, even if very cool tech for its time.
I'd love to see them try a muon collider.
Like this? Why? You just proved Fermilab's not capable of keeping up with the LHC, so I'm left wondering what it would cost to retrofit Fermilab to that level. I think concentrating on CERN is a better basket for our eggs.
Then again, I'm a dilettante (not an expert).
It's sad that these projects that bring us together in peace, get treated as if they were sporting events or yet another political pissing match.
Hell, no! Projects like this are far more suited to that sort of thing than what's ordinarily done. Would you rather be watching a bit of dead pig skin flying through the air, or watching atoms being smashed together at X% of the speed of light?
This game doesn't even have the distractions of things like wardrobe malfunctions, or Madonna's latest boring commercial. It's all meat! :-)
Parts for what? All the other active GeV range particle accelerators that the US is maggoty with?
Rail guns? Unwind the Tevatron and install those superconducting magnets onto the side of a mountain. Could we actually use something like that to reach escape velocity? Wouldn't it be worth it to find out?
Heinlein was a smart guy, even if he was a bit daft.
Well, it took China fifty years to recover from Mao's economic depredations ...
I don't think China has recovered yet, but then I wouldn't blame all of that mess on Mao either. That country's been under the thumb of one dictator after another going back four thousand years. Chaing Kai Shek was no better than Mao, nor Emperor Chin.