No, that's just how it started. MS' chief advantage was that they didn't make too many mistakes in the 80s/early 90s while IBM and WP screwed up a LOT. Remember WP 6.0, where it had its own printer drivers?
That's easy - they look at the fact that you work mostly for company X and work specific hours, etc, then declare that you are actually an employee, so the employer owes a bunch of taxes.
All the things you said pale before this fact: we spend more that the rest of the developed world and get less for it. We should be able to cut costs by 30% and cover everybody at a reasonable level. That would bring us in line with a place like canada. Sometimes I think about giving the finger to my homeland and just going there.
You forgot the part where the IRS is actively going after single person corps and slapping their clients with employment taxes on the rationale that the person is actually an employee. That sort of risk is hard to overcome when going for clients.
If you give them a non-root user with all of the privileges of root, there's no way for them to know if you've really given them root.
sudo su
Don't allow su for that account. Do we really need to spell it out? I was at amazon for 3.5 years, pretty much never had root (sudo only) and had zero problems as a result.
Yes I agree, but he could offer to take it down out of concern for the families privacy rather than because the IOC has asked him to. Take the Moral high road and keep your freedom of speech at the same time. why not, you lose little. Blog about it by all means but the goreporn value is pretty nil anyway.
What privacy? The dude died during the olympics - this isn't a private matter. And if you need to take something down, then you don't have free speech. Sure, it's poor taste, but it's also news.
Are you saying that Asprin is not a drug, or that it is dangerous?
Dunno about him, but aspirin is most certainly dangerous - go much past recommended dosage and you can kill your liver. If you do, it takes about a week to die.
I don't live in darfur, so I'm not concerned about being killed. As it stands, in the rich world, you stand a better chance of getting killed by traffic or the cops than terrorists, and by a wide margin.
First, did somebody forget that the burden of proof lies with the person making the accusation. They don't have to prove they didn't made child porn, you have to prove they did. Innocent until proven guilty.
It's CP - I'm pretty sure people lose all sense of rationality when thinking of the children. Besides, what'll happen is the names of the people who started this mess will come out and some nut will burn their house down. Not saying that it's right, but I understand.
Second, I pretty sure there's no law on attempted child porn
do you really think that would fix anything? You still have the same possibly illegal surveillance going on, and burying some crap about monitoring in a contract signed by a minor(!) doesn't change the fact that a) it probably doesn't constitute notification and b) monitor doesn't really capture the idea that they're planning to actually watch the kids on the laptop.
Frameworks != languages. My post only covered the basics of the language. You'll indeed need additional time to get familiar with the frameworks involved. But it's still not hard. If you're actually experienced, reading one O'Riley book will do.
When people talk about Java, they mean language + some framework. It takes time to come up to speed on JSF and swing, et al.
My old mistakes led to subtle corruption faults. My new errors lead to exceptions or simply don't happen because I make my code stupid simple. I call this progress.
once you've been through a few languages, JCL, Cobol, Fortran, C, C++, Java, TCL, the next language doesn't even register as a 'new' language.
I thought that until I looked at ruby. Sure, I can write anything at all in ruby, but the modes of interaction allowed by passing blocks around as first class objects makes for a radically different environment.
The issue is that new applicants coming out school have more experience with.NET, Java and they key technologies that many industries are looking for today.
Java is not a technology. It is a language and an operating environment. MVC, OO development, and separation of concerns may be viewed as technology, and they are not language specific. Really, Java isn't all that hard to deal with. If you have 20 years of C and C++ and more importantly, experience building what needs to be built, then I'd say Java is a speedbump on the way to success, not a roadblock.
How much of this is cultural vs. genetic? I would argue that when we talk about race, we're really talking about cultural groups that happen to have visual identifiers.
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No, that's just how it started. MS' chief advantage was that they didn't make too many mistakes in the 80s/early 90s while IBM and WP screwed up a LOT. Remember WP 6.0, where it had its own printer drivers?
That's easy - they look at the fact that you work mostly for company X and work specific hours, etc, then declare that you are actually an employee, so the employer owes a bunch of taxes.
All the things you said pale before this fact: we spend more that the rest of the developed world and get less for it. We should be able to cut costs by 30% and cover everybody at a reasonable level. That would bring us in line with a place like canada. Sometimes I think about giving the finger to my homeland and just going there.
Obama cut Nasa's budget a bit - imagine that. We're in the hangover from 15 years of binge drinking, economically speaking. Mars will still be there.
You forgot the part where the IRS is actively going after single person corps and slapping their clients with employment taxes on the rationale that the person is actually an employee. That sort of risk is hard to overcome when going for clients.
If you give them a non-root user with all of the privileges of root, there's no way for them to know if you've really given them root.
sudo su
Don't allow su for that account. Do we really need to spell it out? I was at amazon for 3.5 years, pretty much never had root (sudo only) and had zero problems as a result.
Last I checked, none of the IOC were the sort of people I'd allow inside my home; I really couldn't care what they think.
You don't spell it queue - that's a totally different thing. It's cue. Just because it's pronounced the same doesn't make it the same word.
Yes I agree, but he could offer to take it down out of concern for the families privacy rather than because the IOC has asked him to. Take the Moral high road and keep your freedom of speech at the same time. why not, you lose little. Blog about it by all means but the goreporn value is pretty nil anyway.
What privacy? The dude died during the olympics - this isn't a private matter. And if you need to take something down, then you don't have free speech. Sure, it's poor taste, but it's also news.
From what I've heard, they pretty much hand them out to anyone who asks for one. Best not to presume too much when you don't actually know the facts.
Are you sure about that?
Are you saying that Asprin is not a drug, or that it is dangerous?
Dunno about him, but aspirin is most certainly dangerous - go much past recommended dosage and you can kill your liver. If you do, it takes about a week to die.
And the whole point of MMOs is that they aren't the real world, so things are set up to make the fights more fair.
Sociopaths don't believe that - they know they're hurting people, but the don't really care. The word you're looking for is crusader.
Are you disputing that we get all screwy over sex? The STD rates aren't really up for debate.
I don't live in darfur, so I'm not concerned about being killed. As it stands, in the rich world, you stand a better chance of getting killed by traffic or the cops than terrorists, and by a wide margin.
In that case, she can use me for... other things... any time she wants to.
First, did somebody forget that the burden of proof lies with the person making the accusation. They don't have to prove they didn't made child porn, you have to prove they did. Innocent until proven guilty.
It's CP - I'm pretty sure people lose all sense of rationality when thinking of the children. Besides, what'll happen is the names of the people who started this mess will come out and some nut will burn their house down. Not saying that it's right, but I understand.
Second, I pretty sure there's no law on attempted child porn
How about conspiracy?
There are many things that are worrying and wrong about this, but you weaken the argument with all this child porn crap.
If I did something like this, it'd most certainly be prosecuted and I'd end up in a hole for decades or dead. I just want a bit of parity.
do you really think that would fix anything? You still have the same possibly illegal surveillance going on, and burying some crap about monitoring in a contract signed by a minor(!) doesn't change the fact that a) it probably doesn't constitute notification and b) monitor doesn't really capture the idea that they're planning to actually watch the kids on the laptop.
Frameworks != languages. My post only covered the basics of the language. You'll indeed need additional time to get familiar with the frameworks involved. But it's still not hard. If you're actually experienced, reading one O'Riley book will do.
When people talk about Java, they mean language + some framework. It takes time to come up to speed on JSF and swing, et al.
My old mistakes led to subtle corruption faults. My new errors lead to exceptions or simply don't happen because I make my code stupid simple. I call this progress.
once you've been through a few languages, JCL, Cobol, Fortran, C, C++, Java, TCL, the next language doesn't even register as a 'new' language.
I thought that until I looked at ruby. Sure, I can write anything at all in ruby, but the modes of interaction allowed by passing blocks around as first class objects makes for a radically different environment.
The issue is that new applicants coming out school have more experience with .NET, Java and they key technologies that many industries are looking for today.
Java is not a technology. It is a language and an operating environment. MVC, OO development, and separation of concerns may be viewed as technology, and they are not language specific. Really, Java isn't all that hard to deal with. If you have 20 years of C and C++ and more importantly, experience building what needs to be built, then I'd say Java is a speedbump on the way to success, not a roadblock.
How much of this is cultural vs. genetic? I would argue that when we talk about race, we're really talking about cultural groups that happen to have visual identifiers.
Sure there are - you just haven't done much internet dating.