Look up the term "derivative work". They are creating derivative works from the original without the artists prior consent. This will be shot down pretty fast in the courts.
I'm an Oracle dba and never work overtime unless I'm paid. My company sure as hell charges the client for the extra time I spend keeping their system running, so I'm sure as hell going to charge my company for my time. We've all seen where putting 80hours+ in a week in a startup leads - out thousands of dollars when it tanks.
'Work until the job is done' and forget being paid for it? The execs and stockholders must just love you (and laugh all the way to the bank).
start their first real job. Very few companies put a brand-spanking new undergrad in charge of their systems. As a result, the newly minted grad is made a pfy to someone more senior. It is this more senior person who, after dealing with the shit microsoft puts out, ends up showing the benefits of unix over windows and blowing the myths that 'everyone knows is true' out of the water.
Ignorance is lifted, myths dispelled, and another class is shown how things work in the real world.
Yes - the guard would have been overpowered by the hijackers and they would then have a gun. The passengers wouldn't have been able to take control and the plane would have hit a building instead of an empty field.
You may be an excellent programmer, godlike sysadmin, and masterful designer. However, if you come across to your future employers as one who likes to 'toot his own horn', as you have put it, it may be a while before you get hired. I just had the lovely experience this afternoon of dealing with just such a type. He had been in IT for about 15 years, has worked with everything from vsam to lisp to assembler to c++ to oracle, and doesn't mind telling you in great detail just how great he is at everything he has every done. One beautiful quote was '... and then the company hired a team of lawyers to protect me so I could sniff propriety information off the networks'. Hmmm.....
I'm just glad it was a random encounter and I don't have to work with him on a regular basis - skilled or not he would drive anyone up the wall.
MS can write off the retail cost of the software it donates to non-profit organizations. The tax write-off may come to $1million (number swiped entirely from the air) whereas the actual cost of the cds may be $5.
Any references to this? I've seen it posted several times, but cannot find anything concrete - even the local labour standards board basically shrugs and states they are unsure.
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Must be nice - I've already found two in 8i that were previously unknown (including an ora-370 -
%oerr ora 370
00370, 00000, "potential deadlock during kcbchange operation"
// *Cause: Error code used internally by software. Should never be reported
// *Action: Treat as internal error. See error 600. )
Gotta love error messages that should never be reported:)
>Bugless software can be written, it's just that engineers and marketing don't care enough for the end user to make something that doesn't crash.
Bullshit. It's about cost, plain and simple. The cost of developing software rises exponentially as you approach the magical number '0' of bug-free software. Take NASA - before even one line of code is written or changed, the potential ramifications are beaten to death and there must exist a significant reason to change the code, lest someone die. As a result, the cost of developing software for NASA, line for line, is incredibly higher than writing code for a web browser or relatively stable operating system.
Do you really want your checkbook-balancing software to cost a quarter of a million dollars? It wouldn't crash, after all...
bzzzt - wrong answer. The kid has a right to an education. The prinicipal does not have a right to censor anybody off of school hours and away from school grounds. Thus, the kid can say anything he damned well pleases at home, and still have every right and expectation to a fair and full education.
so, the original poster writes a well thought out, informative post but gets a minor detail wrong. You then take the time to pounce on this minor detail with all of your intellectual might. Hmmm....who really is the dumbass in that situation.
Usually, I follow 'if you can't say something nice...' but the large amount of rude, ignorant bastards on slashdot these days disheartens and disgusts me (I'm sure I'm not alone).
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Look up the term "derivative work". They are creating derivative works from the original without the artists prior consent. This will be shot down pretty fast in the courts.
I'm an Oracle dba and never work overtime unless I'm paid. My company sure as hell charges the client for the extra time I spend keeping their system running, so I'm sure as hell going to charge my company for my time. We've all seen where putting 80hours+ in a week in a startup leads - out thousands of dollars when it tanks.
'Work until the job is done' and forget being paid for it? The execs and stockholders must just love you (and laugh all the way to the bank).
start their first real job. Very few companies put a brand-spanking new undergrad in charge of their systems. As a result, the newly minted grad is made a pfy to someone more senior. It is this more senior person who, after dealing with the shit microsoft puts out, ends up showing the benefits of unix over windows and blowing the myths that 'everyone knows is true' out of the water.
Ignorance is lifted, myths dispelled, and another class is shown how things work in the real world.
Three. And I swear I only turned my back for a minute!
Yes - the guard would have been overpowered by the hijackers and they would then have a gun. The passengers wouldn't have been able to take control and the plane would have hit a building instead of an empty field.
Homer
Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos.
/Homer
You may be an excellent programmer, godlike sysadmin, and masterful designer. However, if you come across to your future employers as one who likes to 'toot his own horn', as you have put it, it may be a while before you get hired. I just had the lovely experience this afternoon of dealing with just such a type. He had been in IT for about 15 years, has worked with everything from vsam to lisp to assembler to c++ to oracle, and doesn't mind telling you in great detail just how great he is at everything he has every done. One beautiful quote was '... and then the company hired a team of lawyers to protect me so I could sniff propriety information off the networks'. Hmmm.....
I'm just glad it was a random encounter and I don't have to work with him on a regular basis - skilled or not he would drive anyone up the wall.
MS can write off the retail cost of the software it donates to non-profit organizations. The tax write-off may come to $1million (number swiped entirely from the air) whereas the actual cost of the cds may be $5.
This isn't the first downturn in the tech sector, nor will it be the last.
I always wondered why older programmers smiled and laughed a little whenever talk turned to the 'red-hot job market' for programmers. Now I know....
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older, wiser, and a lot more cynical
I think you're confusing copyright with patent. A patent is a limited-time protection, copyright is forever. Ask the estate of Edgar Allen Poe.
Since you are obviously so brilliant, why don't you post the mathematical equations of a mach-7 dive into the ocean?
Or is your post simply a way to call someone a fuckhead and stroke your own ego?
For fsck sakes - a *year* for trespass? Why not just shoot the bastard on site, it's much less cruel.
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Some people only open their mouths to change feet
Great, now we'll get new spam: "LOSE MONEY FAST!!!!!"
Of course 11am to 11pm is his working hours. 11pm is his bedtime, and he'll be grounded if he stays up later.
Any references to this? I've seen it posted several times, but cannot find anything concrete - even the local labour standards board basically shrugs and states they are unsure.
woohoo!
Must be nice - I've already found two in 8i that were previously unknown (including an ora-370 -
:)
%oerr ora 370
00370, 00000, "potential deadlock during kcbchange operation"
// *Cause: Error code used internally by software. Should never be reported
// *Action: Treat as internal error. See error 600. )
Gotta love error messages that should never be reported
>Bugless software can be written, it's just that engineers and marketing don't care enough for the end user to make something that doesn't crash.
Bullshit. It's about cost, plain and simple. The cost of developing software rises exponentially as you approach the magical number '0' of bug-free software. Take NASA - before even one line of code is written or changed, the potential ramifications are beaten to death and there must exist a significant reason to change the code, lest someone die. As a result, the cost of developing software for NASA, line for line, is incredibly higher than writing code for a web browser or relatively stable operating system.
Do you really want your checkbook-balancing software to cost a quarter of a million dollars? It wouldn't crash, after all...
> Moonquakes
No need to worry about moonquakes - the moon is geologically dead and has been for many moons...
> But he doesn't set foot in the school again
bzzzt - wrong answer. The kid has a right to an education. The prinicipal does not have a right to censor anybody off of school hours and away from school grounds. Thus, the kid can say anything he damned well pleases at home, and still have every right and expectation to a fair and full education.
> American ass
you just summed yourself up nicely.
Cheers.
Greed.
so, the original poster writes a well thought out, informative post but gets a minor detail wrong. You then take the time to pounce on this minor detail with all of your intellectual might. Hmmm....who really is the dumbass in that situation.
Usually, I follow 'if you can't say something nice...' but the large amount of rude, ignorant bastards on slashdot these days disheartens and disgusts me (I'm sure I'm not alone).
FOAD, HAND
>3) Linux is stable. So is DOS
DOS stable? Of course, it's impossible to fall out of the gutter.
Cheers
DOS was an amazingly stable OS. Of course, it is hard to fall out of the gutter....