Not only is the article poorly written (like all things written by "roblimo"), but it's also about as well thought out as a drunken rant. Microsoft can't include IRC software because of anti-trust concerns? Nice one.
The whole point of that site is they lure the women on the bus undder false pretenses, then spring a suprise on them (and yes, I realize it's all actors, I'm talking about what is depicted). I said in my OP "1/2 inch from rape" and thats what I meant.
But what or what not happens on bangbus in particular isn't even the point anyway, I merely pointed out in my orignal post that porn is sometimes a lot more than "naked people" and might be worth blocking from your 7 year old.
You're a troll, but for the benefit of others, here's a choice bangbus quote:
"that is if you enjoy listening to a foreign broad gag and choke!! I know I do! Sadly, Nicol's fate is parallel to her predecessors...as she is unmercifully flung from the belly of the Bang Bus after sucking out all of Ramon's baby batter"
Whoa there conclusion jumper, did I say I wanted to ban bangbus? No, I said I don't want my young children seeing depictions of rape and the general lack of respect for women that I see there. What is "painfully obvious" to you and I isn't so obvious to a 7 year old.
Really, is only naked women or men. In Mozilla Firebird, I have setted it to "Block images from goat.cx" (not visit!) and if my kids pictures of naked people find, fine. I did as child. I run linux but don't need this.
Well, there's naked people, and then there's porn. Personally I'm more worried about sites like bangbus which come 1/2 inch from condoning rape. I don't want my son treating women like that, and I don't want my daughter being treated like that, clothes on or off.
As friend said "You Americans are so puritanical!"
And that is just insulting. How do you resolve the above stereotype with the fact that most the porn *origninates* in the States? I suppose you think each and every German wears liederhosen too?
I worked for a startup where our whole product line was based on a voice core that one of the developers had stolen from his previous employer. Ironically, it ended up killing the company
Wow. First off, that's not ironic. Second, why would you want to admit to being part of something like that?
if the claims pan out it seems to me most likely that this is a situation where this developer came in and unpacked some work he'd done elsewhere -- hell, I have a set of scripts I've developed over the years that I take with me from company to company so I don't have to rewrite them
Well my friend, that is what contracts are for. You have several choices. If you bring tools into a job, or develop tools while on a job, then you need to agree in advance that you get to keep them, if that is what you want. Or, if such things aren't mentioned at all (unlikely) you can hope for the best. Or you can be a snake and sign a contract saying you won't do certain things and then go ahead and do them anyway.
I work in a niche industry, when I've changed jobs, the company I'm going to work for has always been careful to ask for my previous employment contract, and I've always been careful to protect the knowlege I have going in by excluding it from non-competes and the like. I'm sure Mr. Buyukkokten and Google covered their asses just fine too.
But Iraq didn't choose to outsource its domain. ICANN made the decision for them. Abhorrent as censorship is, did they have the right to do that? Should a body like ICANN be involved in politics?
No, but they should be involved in domain name registration. At the time this happend (if you'd bothered to read the article), Iraq was blocking all internet access to the country and so stewardship of the.iq domain had to go somewhere (Iraq simply wasn't interested in internet access). I suppose ICANN could have sat on the name, but I don't think it is in their charter to manage top level domains, so they put it out to bid. I'd say judging on what happened, ICANN was doing their best just to stay out of it.
The OP was talking about a single plant, not Lockheed Martin on the whole. You'd have to see the film to understand the context and significance of the misrepresentation made. Basically it looks like Moore thought it would make for some great dramatic irony if weapons of mass destruction were being produced close by, so he made it so. It's an example of the liberties Moore takes to add emotion to his films without technically lying. It is what makes him a great filmmaker but a so-so historian. Just keep in mind while you're watching that the film was edited to maximize drama, not the necessarily the facts.
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No. "Pure C" has no GUI and the end result is hopelessly tied to the platform it was compiled for, the files it was linked to, etc.
Some of us out here don't just assume (non trivial program) -> (has a gui). I write large non-trivial server applications in Java.
If you don't know them all, you have to output and test a binary for every possible configuration
Don't know where you work, but where I work our Java apps are tested on every target platform on which it is expected to run. We don't just assume "well it runs on Solaris, ship it for Linux!". We save -0- time on testing over our C++ applications.
You make some good points. My original point was that Java doesn't solve the multi-platform problem, it must mitigates it.
Well duh! The same can be said for PURE C. The OP's point (I think) was that the promise of write once, run anywhere is a myth. After various tweaks have been made in your code to ensure it runs correctly on all your targets (hmm, should that even be necessary?) you can have a single "binary", but most times you have to have some non-portable script to run the damn thing because of various environment issues related to platform. Ever notice when you download large Java apps you have a choice of (by platform) installers?
Damn, when the hell did I say Compuserve invented anything? Do you see the word "like" in front of Compuserve and Genie braniac? I was creating a hypothetical situation of proprietary network access using, as examples, two early companies that offered an online experience to users. Maybe you were fooled because I used real company names, you foolish fool!!! Read the rest of my post (ooohh I know it's long, but you can do it!), you'll see that I said DARPA being involved was a good thing.
Erm, well I wrote the original complaint from the perspective of another "IT Guy". I'm a developer too, but we all get lumped into the same group when being judged by our non-tech colleagues.
Tech departments are experiencing backlash from the late 90's when *everyone* went around talking like you and my wifes "IT Guy". Yes it's annoying when someone just doesn't "get it", but being snide is no way to handle it, they're not going to get it either way and it just ends up reflecting poorly on you (and by association, me). It also creates an environment where the user won't come back to you when they have a question about, oh I don't know, opening that attachment that seems to be from their buddy?
On the reading email subject. IT Guys *may* need to read *some* peoples email *sometimes*. They don't get to read it on their personal whim, and they surely shouldn't flaunt it.Carrying it around like a loaded weapon only makes a person look like the prick that they are.
And if they know people's salaries, in most circumstances it is by reading something they *can* read but *shouldn't*.
OK, I don't mean to imply that the US gov't didn't develop the Internet, but I resent the notion that if the US hadn't, nobody else would've thought of it. I'm quite confident that one way or another, we'd still be using the Internet today, even if DARPA hadn't gotten the ball rolling. Someone else would have.
Yeah, we'd be on *some* network at some point, like Compuserve or Genie or something. The beauty of what happened with the internet was that it was not controlled by a single entity, otherwise we'd all be reading slashdot (or some Compuserve created likeness) through a Compuserve branded viewer. Furthermore, things like personal servers, static ip's, p2p, wouldn't be options. As it happened, Darpa created a huge development platform for all of us to experiment on. I doubt without Darpa it would have turned out quite like this.
You remind me of the "IT Guy" at my wifes office. The office is full of graduate degree'd professionals who are plenty smart but have plenty of other things to worry about than how their computers work. The "IT Guy" treats them like complete dipshits. Sample :
employee: Can you help me set up a spam filter?
IT Guy: I don't know, can I?
Beyond acting like a complete ass he locks himself in a office all day, talks to no one, never responds to phone calls, but yet somehow is up on all the office gossip because he reads everyone's email.
Point is - you think you're smart but really the people who you deal with see you as what you are - an unprofessional, antisocial pimple-head with an attitude.
lol, chop sticks are more versitile then forks. You can do eevry thign you do with a fork, but also some things you can't, like picking up a tiny grain of rice
Well, maybe *you* can, I can't even keep them in my hands:-) (how long does it take you to eat a bento one grain at a time anyway?)
I agree with you to a certain extent, but yet there are a number of people who are motivated by money, and a certain percentage of those people are also smart and creative. Those are the people who the profession will lose.
Bullshit. If it's on my hard drive, which is a physical platter that I purchased at retail, then it's a physical thing that exists in the real world and it's mine.
You're kidding, right?... My name is Bill Gates. Linux is on my hard drive, which is a physical platter that I purchased retail, so it is a physical thing that exists in the real world and it's mine. I don't like the NT kernel any more so I'm going to make some modifications to my Linux here and sell it. And I'm not going to give you, or anyone, the source...
I've known about these rovers forever - and have at various times searched for images and data from these missions, never to find more than a few. The only place these and other Soviet-era space missions are archived seems to be at nasa.gov. Where can I find more?
I'm curious what you do after you decide you want the 'all inventions clause' out...
First off, I was just using that as an example. To answer your question - you simply suggest what you'd like changed: "I'm not comfortable with provision x I'd like it changed to reflect y." They may go for it they may not. After you've figured out what they're willing to do - then you make a decision on whether or not you want the job.
I suppose you could do this without a lawyer, but I'm pragmatic, and weight what I want with what is practica. An employment lawyer is going to give you a pretty good idea what is acceptable in a contemporary employment contract - whether you like it or not is a different issue.
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Not only is the article poorly written (like all things written by "roblimo"), but it's also about as well thought out as a drunken rant. Microsoft can't include IRC software because of anti-trust concerns? Nice one.
The whole point of that site is they lure the women on the bus undder false pretenses, then spring a suprise on them (and yes, I realize it's all actors, I'm talking about what is depicted). I said in my OP "1/2 inch from rape" and thats what I meant.
But what or what not happens on bangbus in particular isn't even the point anyway, I merely pointed out in my orignal post that porn is sometimes a lot more than "naked people" and might be worth blocking from your 7 year old.
You're a troll, but for the benefit of others, here's a choice bangbus quote:
"that is if you enjoy listening to a foreign broad gag and choke!! I know I do! Sadly, Nicol's fate is parallel to her predecessors...as she is unmercifully flung from the belly of the Bang Bus after sucking out all of Ramon's baby batter"
Sweet. No, I meant your garden variety lederhosen.
Whoa there conclusion jumper, did I say I wanted to ban bangbus? No, I said I don't want my young children seeing depictions of rape and the general lack of respect for women that I see there. What is "painfully obvious" to you and I isn't so obvious to a 7 year old.
Really, is only naked women or men. In Mozilla Firebird, I have setted it to "Block images from goat.cx" (not visit!) and if my kids pictures of naked people find, fine. I did as child. I run linux but don't need this.
Well, there's naked people, and then there's porn. Personally I'm more worried about sites like bangbus which come 1/2 inch from condoning rape. I don't want my son treating women like that, and I don't want my daughter being treated like that, clothes on or off.
As friend said "You Americans are so puritanical!"
And that is just insulting. How do you resolve the above stereotype with the fact that most the porn *origninates* in the States? I suppose you think each and every German wears liederhosen too?
I worked for a startup where our whole product line was based on a voice core that one of the developers had stolen from his previous employer. Ironically, it ended up killing the company
Wow. First off, that's not ironic. Second, why would you want to admit to being part of something like that?
if the claims pan out it seems to me most likely that this is a situation where this developer came in and unpacked some work he'd done elsewhere -- hell, I have a set of scripts I've developed over the years that I take with me from company to company so I don't have to rewrite them
Well my friend, that is what contracts are for. You have several choices. If you bring tools into a job, or develop tools while on a job, then you need to agree in advance that you get to keep them, if that is what you want. Or, if such things aren't mentioned at all (unlikely) you can hope for the best. Or you can be a snake and sign a contract saying you won't do certain things and then go ahead and do them anyway.
I work in a niche industry, when I've changed jobs, the company I'm going to work for has always been careful to ask for my previous employment contract, and I've always been careful to protect the knowlege I have going in by excluding it from non-competes and the like. I'm sure Mr. Buyukkokten and Google covered their asses just fine too.
But Iraq didn't choose to outsource its domain. ICANN made the decision for them. Abhorrent as censorship is, did they have the right to do that? Should a body like ICANN be involved in politics?
.iq domain had to go somewhere (Iraq simply wasn't interested in internet access). I suppose ICANN could have sat on the name, but I don't think it is in their charter to manage top level domains, so they put it out to bid. I'd say judging on what happened, ICANN was doing their best just to stay out of it.
No, but they should be involved in domain name registration. At the time this happend (if you'd bothered to read the article), Iraq was blocking all internet access to the country and so stewardship of the
The OP was talking about a single plant, not Lockheed Martin on the whole. You'd have to see the film to understand the context and significance of the misrepresentation made. Basically it looks like Moore thought it would make for some great dramatic irony if weapons of mass destruction were being produced close by, so he made it so. It's an example of the liberties Moore takes to add emotion to his films without technically lying. It is what makes him a great filmmaker but a so-so historian. Just keep in mind while you're watching that the film was edited to maximize drama, not the necessarily the facts.
If it feels slow, it IS slow....
Well said. Why is it I never have mod points when I see a post like this?
Um, no, but I bet you use that little untrue gem to justify your own aggressive driving, don't you?
No. "Pure C" has no GUI and the end result is hopelessly tied to the platform it was compiled for, the files it was linked to, etc.
Some of us out here don't just assume (non trivial program) -> (has a gui). I write large non-trivial server applications in Java.
If you don't know them all, you have to output and test a binary for every possible configuration
Don't know where you work, but where I work our Java apps are tested on every target platform on which it is expected to run. We don't just assume "well it runs on Solaris, ship it for Linux!". We save -0- time on testing over our C++ applications.
You make some good points. My original point was that Java doesn't solve the multi-platform problem, it must mitigates it.
The trick is to write them in pure Java
Well duh! The same can be said for PURE C. The OP's point (I think) was that the promise of write once, run anywhere is a myth. After various tweaks have been made in your code to ensure it runs correctly on all your targets (hmm, should that even be necessary?) you can have a single "binary", but most times you have to have some non-portable script to run the damn thing because of various environment issues related to platform. Ever notice when you download large Java apps you have a choice of (by platform) installers?
Damn, when the hell did I say Compuserve invented anything? Do you see the word "like" in front of Compuserve and Genie braniac? I was creating a hypothetical situation of proprietary network access using, as examples, two early companies that offered an online experience to users. Maybe you were fooled because I used real company names, you foolish fool!!! Read the rest of my post (ooohh I know it's long, but you can do it!), you'll see that I said DARPA being involved was a good thing.
Erm, well I wrote the original complaint from the perspective of another "IT Guy". I'm a developer too, but we all get lumped into the same group when being judged by our non-tech colleagues.
Tech departments are experiencing backlash from the late 90's when *everyone* went around talking like you and my wifes "IT Guy". Yes it's annoying when someone just doesn't "get it", but being snide is no way to handle it, they're not going to get it either way and it just ends up reflecting poorly on you (and by association, me). It also creates an environment where the user won't come back to you when they have a question about, oh I don't know, opening that attachment that seems to be from their buddy?
On the reading email subject. IT Guys *may* need to read *some* peoples email *sometimes*. They don't get to read it on their personal whim, and they surely shouldn't flaunt it.Carrying it around like a loaded weapon only makes a person look like the prick that they are.
And if they know people's salaries, in most circumstances it is by reading something they *can* read but *shouldn't*.
OK, I don't mean to imply that the US gov't didn't develop the Internet, but I resent the notion that if the US hadn't, nobody else would've thought of it. I'm quite confident that one way or another, we'd still be using the Internet today, even if DARPA hadn't gotten the ball rolling. Someone else would have.
Yeah, we'd be on *some* network at some point, like Compuserve or Genie or something. The beauty of what happened with the internet was that it was not controlled by a single entity, otherwise we'd all be reading slashdot (or some Compuserve created likeness) through a Compuserve branded viewer. Furthermore, things like personal servers, static ip's, p2p, wouldn't be options. As it happened, Darpa created a huge development platform for all of us to experiment on. I doubt without Darpa it would have turned out quite like this.
You remind me of the "IT Guy" at my wifes office. The office is full of graduate degree'd professionals who are plenty smart but have plenty of other things to worry about than how their computers work. The "IT Guy" treats them like complete dipshits. Sample :
employee: Can you help me set up a spam filter?
IT Guy: I don't know, can I?
Beyond acting like a complete ass he locks himself in a office all day, talks to no one, never responds to phone calls, but yet somehow is up on all the office gossip because he reads everyone's email.
Point is - you think you're smart but really the people who you deal with see you as what you are - an unprofessional, antisocial pimple-head with an attitude.
lol, chop sticks are more versitile then forks. You can do eevry thign you do with a fork, but also some things you can't, like picking up a tiny grain of rice
:-) (how long does it take you to eat a bento one grain at a time anyway?)
Well, maybe *you* can, I can't even keep them in my hands
I agree with you to a certain extent, but yet there are a number of people who are motivated by money, and a certain percentage of those people are also smart and creative. Those are the people who the profession will lose.
Bullshit. If it's on my hard drive, which is a physical platter that I purchased at retail, then it's a physical thing that exists in the real world and it's mine.
... My name is Bill Gates. Linux is on my hard drive, which is a physical platter that I purchased retail, so it is a physical thing that exists in the real world and it's mine. I don't like the NT kernel any more so I'm going to make some modifications to my Linux here and sell it. And I'm not going to give you, or anyone, the source...
You're kidding, right?
1. Go to CompUSA and find the quietest mouse and keyboard they have(they tend to be the cheapest too).
2. Put a towel (or some other sound dampening material) underneath the keyboard.
3. Be conscious of how hard you and your roomate hit the keys
90% of your noise will be gone.
You linked to a nasa.gov page about the Soviet lunar missions. So yes, you can thank your "American science education" for learning about them.
I've known about these rovers forever - and have at various times searched for images and data from these missions, never to find more than a few. The only place these and other Soviet-era space missions are archived seems to be at nasa.gov. Where can I find more?
I'm curious what you do after you decide you want the 'all inventions clause' out...
First off, I was just using that as an example. To answer your question - you simply suggest what you'd like changed: "I'm not comfortable with provision x I'd like it changed to reflect y." They may go for it they may not. After you've figured out what they're willing to do - then you make a decision on whether or not you want the job.
I suppose you could do this without a lawyer, but I'm pragmatic, and weight what I want with what is practica. An employment lawyer is going to give you a pretty good idea what is acceptable in a contemporary employment contract - whether you like it or not is a different issue.