Were the $10 ones made in China or the $100? Probably the $10 ones are made in India and $100 in China and the ones that work made not in India or China.
Does facebook have any case? Even if it was similar isn't it still "different", not the same. Even if they called it "faceLook" say, isn't that still different and not legally copied? I guess it comes down to the legal aspects and law.
If you don't like it don't use it, you're under no obligation.. or are all your cool friends on there and you don't want to feel left out? It's like entering a store, you're going to see some advertising aimed at you!
Why do people find the Titanic so fascinating? I still see documentaries come up every now and then. There were worse tragedies and boat disasters than the Titanic. Is it because it was a ship mainly for the rich that they said was unsinkable but did? For all the Titanic buffs, build a bridge and get over it... or will that have cracks too? Oh the humanity.
So what if the IP came from China? Are there not a billion people there, who probably do have computers with default exploitable installations of Linux or Windows that could be used to launch attacks elsewhere? Not everything has to read like a Tom Clancy novel when it comes to international events.
Lately the world's been trying to undermine China who is looking like the next superpower. Western leaders are continually meeting with the Dalai Lama to make them mad. Soon there will be Olympic boycotts.
Intuition comes into play on dress sense. Good old Don (guy who wrote the dress code) has a good argument but he went completely overboard on the dress code. No Armani suit is going to save anyone against me at least if they're going to start speaking crap, I'd start feeling sorry for the suit. OTOH being a good talker compliments the suit.
We learnt this in science in the 80s. It's probably older news than that. So what if there is a new calculation, does 7 billion years away really matter?
Any tech who thinks that they can cut the best code and will one day make it to the top because of the awesome code they've been writing, or problems they've been fixing is living in a fantasy land unless they drastically change something.
The management world is a world away from rational scientific thinking where fortunately/unfortunately some techies live. Management makes decisions based on money and sometimes pride. If you're a techie fixing a problem chances are the senior types are thinking 'hurry up and fix it fatso' but saying to you 'How are you? We really need this fixed, if you could work on it and give me an ETA that would be greeeaat'. If you really want to be "in", you have to start throwing around management mumbo jumbo and acting like a prick to people. Kiss some arse at a few out of work functions, start staying back late and soon you'll be delegating that code cutting to some other 'fatso'.
I'm an Oracle DBA and from what I've seen sometimes people don't even know they're breaking the law. The worst case of data theft without people knowing is when they take an export of production data to development for testing. You're not allowed to do that! I've seen organisations not even know what data they have or that it should be audited. And when it was audited the level of auditing was totally insufficient. Mainly because some clown set it up and didn't understand the requirements from management, or management let some clown set it up and didn't understand the requirements themselves but were glad to hear "it has auditing enabled".
I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way but since alot of companies have been outsourcing their systems to India data theft has increased (google for 'inda data theft'). for example - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/05/india_exposed/
This is a wedge... how can you really go about shielding children from pornography? I doubt an 'I agree I'm over 18' will work. This guy's a business man and the plan probably will involve using a credit card or something cash related with your proof of age.
Hotmail doesn't work on firefox 2.0 on linux, so what? Who's loss is that? Isn't that worse for hotmail, less site visitors etc? Does it mean more gmail?
From my experience retaining staff relates to job satisfaction and salary. Some people weigh more on salary than job satisfaction vice versa. Once job satisfaction begins to decline or never meets expectation or a rise in salary is outweighed by external factors (for example, they can get better elsewhere) then why would/should people stick around?
For a young IT professional to progress they need to make themselves known to management early, especially the senior ones and try get involved in as many things as possible, stay positive and give it some time. If that doesn't work then with their foot in the door - build skills, go on all the training possible, after a while if they're not getting job satisfaction or a reasonable salary jump ship. I always see hotshots out of uni believing they know everything. Watching their ego get popped is funny and admit I went through that stage and learned to play the game. I think they just need to understand that it was okay not to know everything and they weren't going to get their arse kicked in that early stage.
We had some 2nd year uni students in the UNIX area, all they did was change tapes, write shell scripts add/create users and passwords, was it no wonder why they were dissillusioned after a year. Regardless, they left to complete uni and try their luck elsewhere only to want to come back after that, I think salary was the driving factor. One of them that came back is basically running that area now.
Perception, especially to managers is everything. So what if you made the code go faster, if the people making the decisions or even your manager doesn't see the benefit you'll be lucky to get a "good work junior".
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Were the $10 ones made in China or the $100? Probably the $10 ones are made in India and $100 in China and the ones that work made not in India or China.
Communism was only a Red Herring...
However, some people think Super Mario Bros is a communist plot: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/mariocommunist
Does facebook have any case? Even if it was similar isn't it still "different", not the same. Even if they called it "faceLook" say, isn't that still different and not legally copied? I guess it comes down to the legal aspects and law.
Blue sky on Mars.
If you don't like it don't use it, you're under no obligation.. or are all your cool friends on there and you don't want to feel left out? It's like entering a store, you're going to see some advertising aimed at you!
That's precisely the problem, you don't believe there were any or weren't told about them?
See Maritime section which doesn't include war time disasters:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_disasters_by_death_toll
"This section lists peacetime shipping disasters only. For wartime shipping disasters, see List of battles and other violent events by death toll.'
* 4,300 - 4,500 - Doña Paz, (Philippines, 1987)(Estimates vary because of overloading and unmanifested passengers, only 21 survived [3][4][5])
* 3,920 - Jiangya ship explosion off Shanghai, (China, 1948)
* 1,863 - MV Joola (Senegal, 2002)
* 1,547 - Sultana (Mississippi River, 1865)
* 1,517 - RMS Titanic (North Atlantic, 1912)
Why do people find the Titanic so fascinating? I still see documentaries come up every now and then. There were worse tragedies and boat disasters than the Titanic. Is it because it was a ship mainly for the rich that they said was unsinkable but did? For all the Titanic buffs, build a bridge and get over it... or will that have cracks too? Oh the humanity.
So what if the IP came from China? Are there not a billion people there, who probably do have computers with default exploitable installations of Linux or Windows that could be used to launch attacks elsewhere? Not everything has to read like a Tom Clancy novel when it comes to international events.
Lately the world's been trying to undermine China who is looking like the next superpower. Western leaders are continually meeting with the Dalai Lama to make them mad. Soon there will be Olympic boycotts.
Intuition comes into play on dress sense. Good old Don (guy who wrote the dress code) has a good argument but he went completely overboard on the dress code. No Armani suit is going to save anyone against me at least if they're going to start speaking crap, I'd start feeling sorry for the suit. OTOH being a good talker compliments the suit.
We learnt this in science in the 80s. It's probably older news than that. So what if there is a new calculation, does 7 billion years away really matter?
There was this one guy at my old work who's keyboard smelt like KFC because I guess he didn't find it finger licking good, another gaffe.
On another note I'm an Oracle DBA but I ain't dressing like this?! http://www.dba-oracle.com/dress_code.htm ; The sad thing is I think he's serious.
Any tech who thinks that they can cut the best code and will one day make it to the top because of the awesome code they've been writing, or problems they've been fixing is living in a fantasy land unless they drastically change something.
The management world is a world away from rational scientific thinking where fortunately/unfortunately some techies live. Management makes decisions based on money and sometimes pride. If you're a techie fixing a problem chances are the senior types are thinking 'hurry up and fix it fatso' but saying to you 'How are you? We really need this fixed, if you could work on it and give me an ETA that would be greeeaat'. If you really want to be "in", you have to start throwing around management mumbo jumbo and acting like a prick to people. Kiss some arse at a few out of work functions, start staying back late and soon you'll be delegating that code cutting to some other 'fatso'.
I'm an Oracle DBA and from what I've seen sometimes people don't even know they're breaking the law. The worst case of data theft without people knowing is when they take an export of production data to development for testing. You're not allowed to do that! I've seen organisations not even know what data they have or that it should be audited. And when it was audited the level of auditing was totally insufficient. Mainly because some clown set it up and didn't understand the requirements from management, or management let some clown set it up and didn't understand the requirements themselves but were glad to hear "it has auditing enabled".
I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way but since alot of companies have been outsourcing their systems to India data theft has increased (google for 'inda data theft'). for example - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/05/india_exposed/
Heh, I saw someone on the Oracle forums post a question, "how do I take an export of Production to import to my home PC" and judging by the name... and he even mentioned he's allowed?!
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=2289794�
This is a wedge... how can you really go about shielding children from pornography? I doubt an 'I agree I'm over 18' will work. This guy's a business man and the plan probably will involve using a credit card or something cash related with your proof of age.
You can do all those things in Orace -
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14223/dimen.htm#i1006266
Distributed filesystem - Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) fits the bill.
Hotmail doesn't work on firefox 2.0 on linux, so what? Who's loss is that? Isn't that worse for hotmail, less site visitors etc? Does it mean more gmail?
They tried to outlaw pi but the mob started smuggling pi in from over the border.
Who would want to cut off the internet?
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Yeah, the porn wasn't that bad?
How could you make jokes at a time like this?
It's my defense mechanism.
If I was the U.S I'd bomb you next... if, I said if.
Communism was just a red herring.
From my experience retaining staff relates to job satisfaction and salary. Some people weigh more on salary than job satisfaction vice versa. Once job satisfaction begins to decline or never meets expectation or a rise in salary is outweighed by external factors (for example, they can get better elsewhere) then why would/should people stick around?
For a young IT professional to progress they need to make themselves known to management early, especially the senior ones and try get involved in as many things as possible, stay positive and give it some time. If that doesn't work then with their foot in the door - build skills, go on all the training possible, after a while if they're not getting job satisfaction or a reasonable salary jump ship. I always see hotshots out of uni believing they know everything. Watching their ego get popped is funny and admit I went through that stage and learned to play the game. I think they just need to understand that it was okay not to know everything and they weren't going to get their arse kicked in that early stage.
We had some 2nd year uni students in the UNIX area, all they did was change tapes, write shell scripts add/create users and passwords, was it no wonder why they were dissillusioned after a year. Regardless, they left to complete uni and try their luck elsewhere only to want to come back after that, I think salary was the driving factor. One of them that came back is basically running that area now.
Perception, especially to managers is everything. So what if you made the code go faster, if the people making the decisions or even your manager doesn't see the benefit you'll be lucky to get a "good work junior".
And for a second I thought Chucky was back.
You can get around it by someone else driving the car that isn't intoxicated.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs -
translated in Greek -
Hexakosio - 600
hexekonta - 60, but I don't know if this is a spelling mistake, should be hexenta.
hexa - 6
phobia - fear of
So.. why doesn't someone just take over and host it elsewhere?
This VCR.
Thankyou come again.
Who is this Sue and does she work for SCO?
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