Thanks. I'll be installing FreeBSD to see if the desktop "Customization Contagion" has spread. I'm hoping not... but if it has, there might be a business opportunity, considering the BSD license, if anyone wants to pick up the ball.
If you actually RTFA, you'll see that the big barrier is that "workers over 50 may concern corporate hiring managers because they might resist change and generally command higher salaries than younger people"
So, while older workers "might" (or might not) resist change, they definitely are perceived as costing more. And not just in salary, but also in health benefits.
Now, again FTFA, throw in a dose of sexism:
Nanci Schimizzi, president of the mentoring and advocacy group Women in Technology, said jobless women 50 or older generally "remain unemployed for years, to the point where many have more or less given up" or changed careers.
That's pretty blatant misogyny. That it's illegal doesn't make a difference.
Unions work best for the health and safety of their workers. Anything beyond that is mob rule.
Healthy workers are going to do a better job. Do you want your life to depend on parts made by a non-union machinist running a 104F fever who can't afford to take time off? Or cops who are even more on the take than they are now? Or non-union truckers using fake log books to run 100 hours a week and falling asleep at the wheel, taking your car out in the ensuing accident? Or a non-union food worker who can't file a union grievance when they're cheesed off, so they take a dump in that 3-story-high tank of hot chocolate syrup used to make your "health bar" (yes, that last is a true story - 2 incidents caught by testing - it would have been cheaper to pay union rates and give the employees more "skin in the game").
I've got one that I bought almost 20 years ago (there's no such thing as a "digital antenna") and it's sitting in a window, and I get stations from well over 100 miles away just fine, except during heavy rains, that I couldn't even get as snowy ghosts before the digital switch-over. People should try it before assuming that a cheap indoor antenna won't give a better picture than cable does.
eventually writing the first programming manual for System I in November 1971
From that grew an ecosystem of users supporting users much like the Linux community.
For those few who are new here and don't know what RTFM means, read the RTFM!
If they don't need a part-timer on a regular basis, or if the knowledge needed is not that transferable, or it takes time to get someone else up to speed, it's cheaper to pay time-and-a-half (up to 60 hours total), double time(up to 75 hours total) or even triple time.
And I couldn't care less if dmesg is a database or plain text.
I used tail -f/var/log/whatever_log often... you'll certainly care that a log file is plain text when your database fails and you can just look through the plain-text files.
Yesterdays' in-place update to the latest version of opensuse left my laptop unusable. So, I did a full install... after booting into Windows to download and burn a dvd, because I could no longer get on the net (wireless had stopped working many updates ago). All of a sudden, the DVD isn't even visible, and every single DE is a mess. My email failed to migrate (good thing for backups). Printer/scanner (supposedly supported) still isn't. Dual screens? Gone - the hardware is no longer detected. And everything is slow as molasses in February. Wireless still doesn't work.
And to top it off? Dual-booting was broken.
After 15 years, I'm throwing in the towel. If I want a server that doesn't break on updates, I'll use FreeBSD. If I want a desktop that works, I'll use anything except linux.
I'm not happy about it, but the linux desktop is a bad joke.
Keep on fragmenting each distro... at a certain point, people will just get tired of distro-hopping and dump the whole mess.
And people ask when the Year f the Linux Desktop will be. It's things likie this, and the constant breakage because of change for the sake of change or to "be different", rather than focusing on stability, that drive people to non-free vendors.
They have admitted in their filings that they are using the float from both the income from new sales, as well as the hold-backs on the money they owe merchants (they can take 3 to 4 months to pay out) to support their business.
Dude that is every manufacturing plant that has operated in the last century, or at least post-first-great-depression, not a scam at all. See "net 30 account" etc. Also see restaurants, retail stores, some warehouse operations, darn near any business involving "move this here, in exchange for this money, eventually".
1. What's with the "Dude" bit?
2. The difference is that most businesses, after paying their suppliers, are expected to show a profit. Groupon is operating at a net loss. A very LARGE net loss. This is because their sales costs are so high.
Now if you lie about it, and put that debt down as a cash asset on the balance sheet, or if you play games to avoid placing it on the cashflow statement, that is financial fraud.
They did lie. They got caught. They had to restate their "earnings."
If you violate your contractual "net 30" account terms, there are all kinds of civil law violations.
There are also ways to get in trouble with the IRS if you are obfuscating who's paying who how much interest (or imputed income from not paying whats actually owed, etc)
They don't care - they're losing money hand over fist.
they've also failed to put aside the money from unused groupons - most consumers don't know that in many states they can claim a refund from groupon up to 5 years later for unused tickets.
"manufacturers coupons" have been tired old case law since coupons became "cool" in the great depression. I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on coupon law, and I'm guessing you aren't either. I can assure you that at least 20 years ago in the grocery business we did not keep 5 years of cash reserves equal in value to every coupon we printed for the previous 5 years. If you think about it, at a couple percent off for a fraction of the store per week, that coupon fund would end up being some multiple of the balance sheet of the entire corporation and most of the plants feeding us.
These are NOT "manufacturers coupons" - these are promises of the future sale of a good for money already received. As such, the consumer has, in many states, a year to demand a refund, and in some states up to 5 years.
This is settled consumer law.
I do agree fully that they're running themselves into the ground and offer little value other than (quickly disappearing) hype. I disagree that a standard commercial "net 30" account, or offering manufacturers coupons is somehow a scandal or moral crisis or a corporate secret or a legal problem, or even something new or unusual.
They are not doing 30 days net. They owe more than their current receivables. They are insolvent. The only thing that keeps them going is (1) the cash infusion from the IPO - otherwise they would have shut their doors by the end of the year, and (2) the money from current sales, which is used to pay off past sales - same as a Ponzi scheme.
They have admitted in their filings that they are using the float from both the income from new sales, as well as the hold-backs on the money they owe merchants (they can take 3 to 4 months to pay out) to support their business.
They don't have any profits once they pay their sales reps and the merchants they owe money to - they've also failed to put aside the money from unused groupons - most consumers don't know that in many states they can claim a refund from groupon up to 5 years later for unused tickets.
First attorney-general who goes after them sinks them.
Users have been known to delegate authority to moderate by either selling their accounts or giving the password to another user. There are also a few troll accounts that are "groupware".
It's a lot more than "hot pursuit" (which they have the right to do even in international waters). Sure, you can earn a wage 12.1 nm from shore, but you're still subject, as per 1.a, to all customs, fiscal, and immigration laws. Infringe, you pay. Earn a wage, you pay.
I still don't understand how this option would be better than staying in their home country and getting 'tourist' visas for a few times a year. You might need to have 'meetings' in Yosemite or something.
If you enter on a tourist visa and do any business, you can and will be banned from entry for the next 5 years.
The real scam is that they'll be able to get Americans to sign up, and try to avoid having to give even the minimum benefits required by law...
The US has had a "contiguous zone" extending from 12nm (nautical miles, not nanometers:-) to 24nm since 1999.
The US maintains customs, fiscal, immigration, sanitary laws and regulations out to 24nm, so a floating coding platform within that limit would be subject to not just immigration laws (so B1 visas would not be sufficient, since they do not leave US immigration jurisdiction at any point if they're only 12nm from land), but all tax and related laws as well.
So, Facebook screws up, and now it's up to the original URL holder to "play nice" and let someone else squat with them? Keep it up Facebook - you're just giving us yet another reason to show that you don't "get it" on so many levels.
What next - people with their names as facebook urls having to "play nice" with others with the same name who come later?
I've worked at mad 80-hour a week places before. They're a complete shambles, run by idiots who treat the engnieers like dirt. I'll not be going back.
^^^^^ This ^^^^^
Sure, you can do a 16-hour, 24-hour, or even 36-hour day when you're "in the zone" and it absolutely has to be done because someone else (read: the boss) screwed up. But unfortunately, what *should* only happen once a year (at most) quickly becomes a weekly occurrence, because "after all, you did it before"...
Let them pay for their own bad planning. It's the only way they'll learn (or be culled).
Not true. But even if we were to accept this as true, competing against tons of other businesses, especially those with huge market share to bear, can be extremely tough.
Maybe what they SHOULD have said was "running a business isn't all that hard - staying is business, on the other hand, is a real b****".
Because anyone can run a business - IF your definition of "run a business" includes "run it right into the ground."
Many independent contractors are hired into permanent positions, if you want that path.
That was then, this is now. Many formerly permanent positions are now subbed out to independent contractors. Welcome to the world of outsourcing, where there's always someone cheaper.
Your misunderstanding is the same as people who think that someone who is red-green colorblind can't tell the difference, which is false.
Second, dogs flicker rate is well below my plasma TV's 600hz..., and far below the refresh rate on LCD backlights. They will not see any flicker whatsoever, and neither will you, no matter how much you try.
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Thanks. I'll be installing FreeBSD to see if the desktop "Customization Contagion" has spread. I'm hoping not ... but if it has, there might be a business opportunity, considering the BSD license, if anyone wants to pick up the ball.
If you actually RTFA, you'll see that the big barrier is that "workers over 50 may concern corporate hiring managers because they might resist change and generally command higher salaries than younger people"
So, while older workers "might" (or might not) resist change, they definitely are perceived as costing more. And not just in salary, but also in health benefits.
Now, again FTFA, throw in a dose of sexism:
That's pretty blatant misogyny. That it's illegal doesn't make a difference.
Healthy workers are going to do a better job. Do you want your life to depend on parts made by a non-union machinist running a 104F fever who can't afford to take time off? Or cops who are even more on the take than they are now? Or non-union truckers using fake log books to run 100 hours a week and falling asleep at the wheel, taking your car out in the ensuing accident? Or a non-union food worker who can't file a union grievance when they're cheesed off, so they take a dump in that 3-story-high tank of hot chocolate syrup used to make your "health bar" (yes, that last is a true story - 2 incidents caught by testing - it would have been cheaper to pay union rates and give the employees more "skin in the game").
Video of a lower life form engaging in the same behaviour.
I've got one that I bought almost 20 years ago (there's no such thing as a "digital antenna") and it's sitting in a window, and I get stations from well over 100 miles away just fine, except during heavy rains, that I couldn't even get as snowy ghosts before the digital switch-over. People should try it before assuming that a cheap indoor antenna won't give a better picture than cable does.
For those few who are new here and don't know what RTFM means, read the RTFM!
And under this bill, they can have them work 24/7 without paying extra ... (it's a JOKE!!!).
Just because there are niches that still have a demand doesn't mean that overall, IT doesn't have a glut of workers.
Go and buy a $20 antenna and watch HD in much better quality than the recompressed video streams from your cable provider or netflix.
You're paying for a crappier signal.
And yes, you're being naive.
Poster wrote: >: "If they're not required to pay more than the minimum wage, none will pay more than the minimum wage."
Outsourced yet? Had your wages cut?
There's already a glut of IT workers. Maybe your head is next on the chopping block ...
I used tail -f /var/log/whatever_log often ... you'll certainly care that a log file is plain text when your database fails and you can just look through the plain-text files.
Yesterdays' in-place update to the latest version of opensuse left my laptop unusable. So, I did a full install ... after booting into Windows to download and burn a dvd, because I could no longer get on the net (wireless had stopped working many updates ago). All of a sudden, the DVD isn't even visible, and every single DE is a mess. My email failed to migrate (good thing for backups). Printer/scanner (supposedly supported) still isn't. Dual screens? Gone - the hardware is no longer detected. And everything is slow as molasses in February. Wireless still doesn't work.
And to top it off? Dual-booting was broken.
After 15 years, I'm throwing in the towel. If I want a server that doesn't break on updates, I'll use FreeBSD. If I want a desktop that works, I'll use anything except linux.
I'm not happy about it, but the linux desktop is a bad joke.
Keep on fragmenting each distro ... at a certain point, people will just get tired of distro-hopping and dump the whole mess.
And people ask when the Year f the Linux Desktop will be. It's things likie this, and the constant breakage because of change for the sake of change or to "be different", rather than focusing on stability, that drive people to non-free vendors.
No, saying that Groupon is a Ponzi scheme is NOT "spitting in the face of Madoff's victims." So stop with the over-wrought hand-wringing hyperbole.
That some Ponzi schemes make it to the stock market isn't news. After all, Madoff was a chairman of NASDAQ.
1. What's with the "Dude" bit?
2. The difference is that most businesses, after paying their suppliers, are expected to show a profit. Groupon is operating at a net loss. A very LARGE net loss. This is because their sales costs are so high.
They did lie. They got caught. They had to restate their "earnings."
They don't care - they're losing money hand over fist.
These are NOT "manufacturers coupons" - these are promises of the future sale of a good for money already received. As such, the consumer has, in many states, a year to demand a refund, and in some states up to 5 years.
This is settled consumer law.
They are not doing 30 days net. They owe more than their current receivables. They are insolvent. The only thing that keeps them going is (1) the cash infusion from the IPO - otherwise they would have shut their doors by the end of the year, and (2) the money from current sales, which is used to pay off past sales - same as a Ponzi scheme.
They have admitted in their filings that they are using the float from both the income from new sales, as well as the hold-backs on the money they owe merchants (they can take 3 to 4 months to pay out) to support their business.
They don't have any profits once they pay their sales reps and the merchants they owe money to - they've also failed to put aside the money from unused groupons - most consumers don't know that in many states they can claim a refund from groupon up to 5 years later for unused tickets.
First attorney-general who goes after them sinks them.
Users have been known to delegate authority to moderate by either selling their accounts or giving the password to another user. There are also a few troll accounts that are "groupware".
You're missing the import of 1.a.
It's a lot more than "hot pursuit" (which they have the right to do even in international waters). Sure, you can earn a wage 12.1 nm from shore, but you're still subject, as per 1.a, to all customs, fiscal, and immigration laws. Infringe, you pay. Earn a wage, you pay.
The "hot pursuit zone" is from 24nm out.
If you enter on a tourist visa and do any business, you can and will be banned from entry for the next 5 years.
The real scam is that they'll be able to get Americans to sign up, and try to avoid having to give even the minimum benefits required by law ...
The US has had a "contiguous zone" extending from 12nm (nautical miles, not nanometers :-) to 24nm since 1999.
The US maintains customs, fiscal, immigration, sanitary laws and regulations out to 24nm, so a floating coding platform within that limit would be subject to not just immigration laws (so B1 visas would not be sufficient, since they do not leave US immigration jurisdiction at any point if they're only 12nm from land), but all tax and related laws as well.
What next - people with their names as facebook urls having to "play nice" with others with the same name who come later?
^^^^^ This ^^^^^
Sure, you can do a 16-hour, 24-hour, or even 36-hour day when you're "in the zone" and it absolutely has to be done because someone else (read: the boss) screwed up. But unfortunately, what *should* only happen once a year (at most) quickly becomes a weekly occurrence, because "after all, you did it before" ...
Let them pay for their own bad planning. It's the only way they'll learn (or be culled).
Maybe what they SHOULD have said was "running a business isn't all that hard - staying is business, on the other hand, is a real b****".
Because anyone can run a business - IF your definition of "run a business" includes "run it right into the ground."
That was then, this is now. Many formerly permanent positions are now subbed out to independent contractors. Welcome to the world of outsourcing, where there's always someone cheaper.
It isn't what you know, it's what you know that isn't so, that will bite you in the rump :-)
Please don't continue to spread misinformation about dogs "only seeing black and white".
Dogs are dichromatic, not monochromatic. They see color - just not the same as we do.
Spectrum of what dogs actually see
Your misunderstanding is the same as people who think that someone who is red-green colorblind can't tell the difference, which is false.
Second, dogs flicker rate is well below my plasma TV's 600hz ..., and far below the refresh rate on LCD backlights. They will not see any flicker whatsoever, and neither will you, no matter how much you try.