It's counted as a campaing contribution, and is chargeable at the same rates as a company would charge to do the same job on contract. The company would obviously charge more than they're paying the devs, to take care of slack time, non-billable hours, overhead (building, administration, compliance, etc), consumables (paper, laser toner, pcs, non-free software), employee benefits, and profit. $100/hr would be on the low side at that point.
Re your other examples, enacting a punishment which God commands clearly is not murder, any more than the person throwing the switch on the electric chair should themselves be in it.
Utter and total bullshit. Look at all the convicted murderers whose guilty verdicts were later overturned. In each case, the execution is nothing more than state-sanctioned murder of an innocent person. The sanction of the state doesn't "make it right," and especially in those cases where givernment collusion or corruption of due process led to the wrongful convictions.
The "I vas just followink orders" went out with the Nuremburg trials. If it was no excuse for the nazis, it's no excuse today. Or do you advocate that we should not be held to as high a standard as nazis?
To nature, all live carries NO value. "Value" is strictly a human concept. So is "murder." Neither the universe nor the dead person cares about how they died, either from natural causes, or murder.
For decades, Bell Canada was a goivernment-regulated monopoly with a guaranteed profit margin. In other words, the people over-paid for decades for phone service, thanks to government regulation. It was necessary at the time, but it should have had a sunset clause whereby the network would eventually revert to and be controlled by the public.
Remember, in Soviet Canuckistan, Bell throttles YOU!
You also can't call yourself a software architect - architect is another regulated profession.
Besides, when someone at a party asks you what you do for a living, which is the cooler answer:
[_] "I'm a software architect."
[_] "I'm a software engineer"
[X] "I'm a writer."
As for the network engineer, if you're foolish enough to admit to it at a party, you're going to have everyone asking you why their DSL service is so shitty and what you can do to help them. Better off telling everyone you're a pimp, politician, or lawyer (but I'm being redundant).
Recruiting the wrong person for a job is very, very costly, you'll end up paying a few months of salary before noticing the mistake, and then you have to re-do the entire hiring process again, which also costs money.
... which doesn't explain the over-reliance on CVs and "resume pushers." Want to hire someone? Go to a developers' conference and see who asks the most intelligent questions, who gives the best answers without trying to get into an ego pissing contest, who's honest and who's a poseur, etc. Sure, it will cost you some $$$, but you'll get a better feel of who is talking out their ass, who is respected by everyone, and who is an obnoxious toxic SOB in real life, instead of just playing at being a BOfH online... plus you'll learn something.
The biggest lack in business is communications skills, not programming skills. Where do you think the unreasonable deadlines, the feature creep, the death marches, the zombie projects that the undead are condemned to toil on come from? And it's not "all management's fault." Everyone in the chain has to take some blame, by not being able to effectively communicate why something is a bad idea, or the necessity of feature triage, or the need for more "quiet think time" as opposed to banging out LOCs a mile a minute.
Also, to answer the original posters' question - the definitive place to look for jobs in Canada: http://www.jobbank.gc.ca/Intro_en.aspx - Canadian government web site where employers post job offers, it also supplies tools for job applicants, info, etc...
The reason why they are not supposed to take up references until after an offer is because you might not have told your boss you are looking until after you have a job to go to. It might ruin your job prospects of your boss finds out you are job hunting.
... alternatively, it's the quickest way to a fat raise.
I have my doubts Prince is even aware of this particular DMCA take down notice.
Prince spends a lot of his time scouring the net looking for stuff like this. Remember the "baby dance" snafu? It wa sPrince, not someone working for him, that found the video and got all uptight.
if you are a software engineering professional, your job is to apply a process that starts with requirements, refines them, then converts them into detailed design specifications, implements that design specification, and finally validates and verifies that the implementation is correct. if you bemoan the use of process, you have no business working in software or anything even vaguely related to engineering.
... as opposed to how it's mostly done today, unfortunately.
BTW, my UML toolkit is a stack of 4x6 index cards and a pen, you ignorant clod!
You mean "free as in crack cocaine - the first hit is on the house".
Still, it's a valid way to get developers interested in using your tools. Not everything in life is free, and they have the right to do this, same as other softwae companies did in the past (eg: Borland with Kylix licensing).
i wish people would stop saying false dichotomy, it makes me feel uncomfortable... a false set of mutually exclusive groups? how does that even work?
Simple: Dichotomy implies either/or. This is a false dichotomy, because in a sane world, the choice is not limited to "display or download" - most browsers already have a 3rd option: "What do you want me to do with this?"
In my neck of the woods, it is. The linux desktops are configured NOT to have any publicly-shared directories. Want to transfer a file over the lan? Use ftp like __DIETY__ intended!
This is the **AA's bogus MediaDefender/extortion campaign we're talking about. Ad hominems are not just expected, they're mandatory.
They'd club baby seals if they thought it would make people cough up easy "settlements." I can see their next campaign now - "Every time you share a file, a baby seal gets it!"
They're the gestapho for the little Hitler-wanna-be gang that thinks they're above the law, and continually lobbies the government to spend YOUR tax money to THEIR advantage.
How is a civil penalty harsher than any criminal one? A civil judgment isn't going to stop me from obtaining student loans (drug convictions will), getting a pistol permit, registering to vote or serving on a jury. A criminal conviction may do all of those things and then some.
Hasn't harmed either Bush or Cheney much... in the rest of the world, their convictions for DWI would have them relegated to the status of being just a couple of drunken reprobates, not "leaders."
The people who argue against recognition of the various civil rights that are fast becoming the norm world-wide can't be expected to look far beyond their own parochial experiences, and they'll even ignore the evidence of their own eyes when it's inconvenient.
A classic example is how so many people argue that same-sex relationships are "not normal" - and that "they don't happen in the animal kingdom." You'd think these guys (it's almost always men - are they repressed? in denial? putting up a front?) have never had their leg humped by a dog.
And on that note...
Q. "What do you do when a chihuahua humps your leg?"
A. "Kick it."
Q. "What do you do when a pit bull humps your leg?"
A. "Act like you enjoy it."
You can be deprived of something w/o it being stolen. For example, I can put crazy glue in your car door locks. I haven't stolen the contents of your car, but I've certainly deprived you of anything in it.
Ditto if someone blocks the only access to your house (for example, they own the surrounding land, and they build a moat and a toll road). They haven't stolen your house, but they HAVE deprived you of it.
Transportation is already factored into about 24% of the economy. From the manufacture of cars, planes, etc., to the cost of moving people and goods, fuel for police cars and fire trucks, fuel for the construction equipment that paves the roads, removes the snow, delivers mail and packages, runs the trucks that install and maintain your internet access, etc. So, unless you're not paying taxes, not buying anything, not eating, never sending or receiving mail, or surfing the net, you're already paying more than 1% of your income, either directly or indirectly, in diesel and gasoline.
I ordered a Tunderbird 900mhz when they were "the big thing." The guy who was building it fried 6 CPUs and 4 motherboards before he figured out that it wasn't a good idea to bench-test them without a cpu fan. Helps to read the instructions...
Another guy (who builds systems "on the side") asked me about one that he similarly toasted - it would boot, but wouldn't run Windows. I told him that he now had a very expensive dos-box, and to enjoy running the original Doom at 1.2 ghz.
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That was 2,000 years ago. What's he done for me lately?
It's counted as a campaing contribution, and is chargeable at the same rates as a company would charge to do the same job on contract. The company would obviously charge more than they're paying the devs, to take care of slack time, non-billable hours, overhead (building, administration, compliance, etc), consumables (paper, laser toner, pcs, non-free software), employee benefits, and profit. $100/hr would be on the low side at that point.
Utter and total bullshit. Look at all the convicted murderers whose guilty verdicts were later overturned. In each case, the execution is nothing more than state-sanctioned murder of an innocent person. The sanction of the state doesn't "make it right," and especially in those cases where givernment collusion or corruption of due process led to the wrongful convictions.
The "I vas just followink orders" went out with the Nuremburg trials. If it was no excuse for the nazis, it's no excuse today. Or do you advocate that we should not be held to as high a standard as nazis?
So it's the originals that are flawed :-) Sweet!
To nature, all live carries NO value. "Value" is strictly a human concept. So is "murder." Neither the universe nor the dead person cares about how they died, either from natural causes, or murder.
That's why you give your co-workers, and the employer BEFORE your current employer, as references - not your current employer.
For decades, Bell Canada was a goivernment-regulated monopoly with a guaranteed profit margin. In other words, the people over-paid for decades for phone service, thanks to government regulation. It was necessary at the time, but it should have had a sunset clause whereby the network would eventually revert to and be controlled by the public.
Remember, in Soviet Canuckistan, Bell throttles YOU!
You also can't call yourself a software architect - architect is another regulated profession.
Besides, when someone at a party asks you what you do for a living, which is the cooler answer:
As for the network engineer, if you're foolish enough to admit to it at a party, you're going to have everyone asking you why their DSL service is so shitty and what you can do to help them. Better off telling everyone you're a pimp, politician, or lawyer (but I'm being redundant).
The biggest lack in business is communications skills, not programming skills. Where do you think the unreasonable deadlines, the feature creep, the death marches, the zombie projects that the undead are condemned to toil on come from? And it's not "all management's fault." Everyone in the chain has to take some blame, by not being able to effectively communicate why something is a bad idea, or the necessity of feature triage, or the need for more "quiet think time" as opposed to banging out LOCs a mile a minute.
Also, to answer the original posters' question - the definitive place to look for jobs in Canada: http://www.jobbank.gc.ca/Intro_en.aspx - Canadian government web site where employers post job offers, it also supplies tools for job applicants, info, etc ...
Prince spends a lot of his time scouring the net looking for stuff like this. Remember the "baby dance" snafu? It wa sPrince, not someone working for him, that found the video and got all uptight.
BTW, my UML toolkit is a stack of 4x6 index cards and a pen, you ignorant clod!
Why not go to Soviet Russia, where babe renders YOU!
You mean "free as in crack cocaine - the first hit is on the house".
Still, it's a valid way to get developers interested in using your tools. Not everything in life is free, and they have the right to do this, same as other softwae companies did in the past (eg: Borland with Kylix licensing).
And he's right - with the Vista "file move bug", it takes 2 years to move that spam to the trash bin.
Probably hasn't been larted enough, guv'nor ... give me a minute to charge up the "insulation tester."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/
Simple: Dichotomy implies either/or. This is a false dichotomy, because in a sane world, the choice is not limited to "display or download" - most browsers already have a 3rd option: "What do you want me to do with this?"
In my neck of the woods, it is. The linux desktops are configured NOT to have any publicly-shared directories. Want to transfer a file over the lan? Use ftp like __DIETY__ intended!
This is the **AA's bogus MediaDefender/extortion campaign we're talking about. Ad hominems are not just expected, they're mandatory.
They'd club baby seals if they thought it would make people cough up easy "settlements." I can see their next campaign now - "Every time you share a file, a baby seal gets it!"
They're the gestapho for the little Hitler-wanna-be gang that thinks they're above the law, and continually lobbies the government to spend YOUR tax money to THEIR advantage.
Hasn't harmed either Bush or Cheney much ... in the rest of the world, their convictions for DWI would have them relegated to the status of being just a couple of drunken reprobates, not "leaders."
The people who argue against recognition of the various civil rights that are fast becoming the norm world-wide can't be expected to look far beyond their own parochial experiences, and they'll even ignore the evidence of their own eyes when it's inconvenient.
A classic example is how so many people argue that same-sex relationships are "not normal" - and that "they don't happen in the animal kingdom." You'd think these guys (it's almost always men - are they repressed? in denial? putting up a front?) have never had their leg humped by a dog.
And on that note ...
Q. "What do you do when a chihuahua humps your leg?"
A. "Kick it."
Q. "What do you do when a pit bull humps your leg?"
A. "Act like you enjoy it."
You can be deprived of something w/o it being stolen. For example, I can put crazy glue in your car door locks. I haven't stolen the contents of your car, but I've certainly deprived you of anything in it.
Ditto if someone blocks the only access to your house (for example, they own the surrounding land, and they build a moat and a toll road). They haven't stolen your house, but they HAVE deprived you of it.
Transportation is already factored into about 24% of the economy. From the manufacture of cars, planes, etc., to the cost of moving people and goods, fuel for police cars and fire trucks, fuel for the construction equipment that paves the roads, removes the snow, delivers mail and packages, runs the trucks that install and maintain your internet access, etc. So, unless you're not paying taxes, not buying anything, not eating, never sending or receiving mail, or surfing the net, you're already paying more than 1% of your income, either directly or indirectly, in diesel and gasoline.
I ordered a Tunderbird 900mhz when they were "the big thing." The guy who was building it fried 6 CPUs and 4 motherboards before he figured out that it wasn't a good idea to bench-test them without a cpu fan. Helps to read the instructions ...
Another guy (who builds systems "on the side") asked me about one that he similarly toasted - it would boot, but wouldn't run Windows. I told him that he now had a very expensive dos-box, and to enjoy running the original Doom at 1.2 ghz.