Sure, I've collected all this great data, but now how to I find a buyer? Do I just walk up to the competition's CEO and say "Hey, I got the goods on company XYZ, how much is that worth to you?" Do I take out an ad in the paper... or 2600? I need real answers.
Seriously. I want this to be my full time job, but this article doesn't tell you shite.
Where are you going to find enough experts to cover all of Wikipedia? You can't. It's too big. This effort will be wasted and the experts will want to be paid... good luck getting that to happen.
The beautiful thing about Wikipedia is that it's information given freely. As with any information you have to question the source. Read an American encylopedia and it's clear that the US won WWII... pretty much single handedly. And we get taught that in public school. But if you read an encylopedia from Britain, the same WWII article tells a different story.
YOU HAVE TO QUESTION THE SOURCE.
When you read Wikipedia you aren't reading "the truth". You're reading opinions that someone happens to be able to point to someone else who also had that opinion. Experts, generally, aren't any better or worse at this, they just tend to be more opinionated about the sources they trust.
Personally I find the articles on Wikipedia very suitable for my uses. I want to know who shot Hamilton, it's right there. I want to know when Wild Bill died in Deadwood, I can find that. And it's mostly likley correct.
I don't go near the stuff that might be controversial. I trust other sources for that.
What's an international company supposed to do to keep americans from using their freedom? They ask if you're from the US. They tell you to check and see if it's legal to do what you're doing there. Are they supposed to visit you?
The guy at my deli never asks for ID when I buy lottery tickets and all the bingo I played as a kid at church was when I was under 18... but you let one american bet the Packer's to win the SuperBowl and bam! You're in jail.
We have a goverment that outlaws things so they can profit from doing it themselves. When the Mega-Millions jackpot is $25 million, you know how much money they make? Let's just say the goverment is taking more than half before showing you that number.
Oh, it's possible... I just leave the logo's, name fields, and player stats open for configuration files that I open in XML format for anyone to edit. Voila... any league you want you can make.
If they'd stop coding it in PERL.
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Seriously.
They MUST be using Perl to code this thing because that's the only way it could take this long. I know I'm going to get trolled down by all the Perl babies out there, but can you honestly think of any other reason it could possibly take this long to code a FPS? And one with no plot line to boot?
I wont say it happens everywhere, but I've heard stories both ways. I think you're right about how small the company is. Smaller companies clearly care more about their employees than bigger ones. Once you get a "security" or "risk management" department you can say goodbye to your two week grace period.
This is true although two weeks is typically considered common curtesy here in the U.S.
In both directions... but that's not likely in all cases. In fact it's much more likely that if you give two weeks notice that you get released immediately now. Gather your things from your desk, your passwords are changed before you hail your taxi, and enjoy your two weeks of unemployment.
Groups that get too big lose touch with any sense of humanity. You can't keep your humanity when your boss and his boss are telling you to pay attention to numbers. And when a big group makes a mistake, well the humanity that's affected is huge. 10,000 people is a lot of people.
Quit your corp job, start your own company. Keep it small and be happy.
See previous poster regarding unions. To paraphrase, if you unionize, eventually the union just becomes a corporation itself and a service provider for the business.
We don't need more unions. They were needed in the past, but now they are just self serving entities.
Well if I take away the supply it gets more expensive to buy, If I hire you back at higher wages it's going to cost the consumer more.
Actually since it's unlikely that everyone would quit at once, you're dead wrong. Minor adjustments in a small percentage of workers wouldn't dramatically affect the costs of the goods they provide.
Besides, do you really think it costs starbucks $4 to make that coffee drink you have every morning? No, that's pure profit my friend.
The goal of Quit Your Job Day is to reverse the advantage perpetuated by an elitist class who profit from your actions without making any personal investment in you as an individual. If you don't know who profits from your hard work, I assure you that they care very little about you. You are just a line on a spreadsheet and if cutting your salary would make the column balance, you're fired.
She wore very short skirts and garterbelts. People naturally assumed she was just an airhead and kept trying to sneak peeks under her skirts while she fixed their macs. Over time people started to realize she knew what the fuck she was doing and started *requesting* her for tech support. She got a raise.
There was one guy, you know the kind who leaving 100 empty mountain dew bottles around his cube and wont let anyone near it? That guy with the long unix hipy hair? He wouldn't let her near his computer. It took the head of IT telling him to either let her work on his computer or he'd personally come and take the computer somewhere she could work on it to get him to let her open the case. He was affraid she'd "break something."
But you were looking for advice. My advice? Be good at what you do. Nothing else will matter.
After hours of play and interacting with all the NPCs in the game I got to the final level and defeated the final boss Lord British. He has a huge amount of health and it took all my skills to finally take him down. Make sure you sit through the entire credits for a final cut scene at the end!!
Perhaps I'm misinformed, but I thought that MAC address was sent so that the router knew which computer to send an HTML file on port 80 to, for example. Otherwise how does the router know which computer to send the TCP/IP packet?
A job is basically an exchange of skill and effort for currency. In some cases the measurement of skill and effort is based on hours worked, and those employed in this way are called hourly workers or contractors. In other cases skill and effort is not measured, these permanent employees are given a guaranteed salary. Contrary to what the term permanent implies, in both cases the majority of jobs are actually at will, which means that either the employee or the employer may terminate the relationship at any time, for almost any reason.
It should be noted that it is the employer that invokes at will termination in the vast majority of cases.
If you don't know the person who signs your paycheck, they don't know you. You're just a number on a spreadsheet. Quit now before they realize you're number is too big.
You want true anonymity? Give me a browser that hides my IP and MAC address. Then that's going to really hide my identity from websites. It's only a matter of time before people start tracking you by MAC address.
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Sure, I've collected all this great data, but now how to I find a buyer? Do I just walk up to the competition's CEO and say "Hey, I got the goods on company XYZ, how much is that worth to you?" Do I take out an ad in the paper... or 2600? I need real answers.
Seriously. I want this to be my full time job, but this article doesn't tell you shite.
Where are you going to find enough experts to cover all of Wikipedia? You can't. It's too big. This effort will be wasted and the experts will want to be paid... good luck getting that to happen.
The beautiful thing about Wikipedia is that it's information given freely. As with any information you have to question the source. Read an American encylopedia and it's clear that the US won WWII... pretty much single handedly. And we get taught that in public school. But if you read an encylopedia from Britain, the same WWII article tells a different story.
YOU HAVE TO QUESTION THE SOURCE.
When you read Wikipedia you aren't reading "the truth". You're reading opinions that someone happens to be able to point to someone else who also had that opinion. Experts, generally, aren't any better or worse at this, they just tend to be more opinionated about the sources they trust.
Personally I find the articles on Wikipedia very suitable for my uses. I want to know who shot Hamilton, it's right there. I want to know when Wild Bill died in Deadwood, I can find that. And it's mostly likley correct.
I don't go near the stuff that might be controversial. I trust other sources for that.
Step 1: Invest in giant arrow signs.
Step 2: Point upstairs.
Step 3. Move.
CLIPPY!! He can help coach the team!
BOB!! The yellow face from the BOB OS!
BILLY GOAT!! With a face like Bill Gates who couldn't love him!
DEAD PENGUIN!! Picture a penguin that's been fucking killed by certain CEOs
BLUE SCREEN!! Nothing scares opposing teams like a looming crash!!
THE ARROW!! The cursor can run around "right clicking" on the opponents cheerleaders, if you know what I mean.
But man is that cheap for a commercial for Microsoft.
What's an international company supposed to do to keep americans from using their freedom? They ask if you're from the US. They tell you to check and see if it's legal to do what you're doing there. Are they supposed to visit you?
The guy at my deli never asks for ID when I buy lottery tickets and all the bingo I played as a kid at church was when I was under 18... but you let one american bet the Packer's to win the SuperBowl and bam! You're in jail.
We have a goverment that outlaws things so they can profit from doing it themselves. When the Mega-Millions jackpot is $25 million, you know how much money they make? Let's just say the goverment is taking more than half before showing you that number.
Let me guess, you could do it in one line.
Oh, it's possible... I just leave the logo's, name fields, and player stats open for configuration files that I open in XML format for anyone to edit. Voila... any league you want you can make.
And people who do have them read.... ;-)
Seriously.
They MUST be using Perl to code this thing because that's the only way it could take this long. I know I'm going to get trolled down by all the Perl babies out there, but can you honestly think of any other reason it could possibly take this long to code a FPS? And one with no plot line to boot?
The only way would be code that looked like this:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Perl
I wont say it happens everywhere, but I've heard stories both ways. I think you're right about how small the company is. Smaller companies clearly care more about their employees than bigger ones. Once you get a "security" or "risk management" department you can say goodbye to your two week grace period.
How is that a similar note, exactly?
This is true although two weeks is typically considered common curtesy here in the U.S.
In both directions... but that's not likely in all cases. In fact it's much more likely that if you give two weeks notice that you get released immediately now. Gather your things from your desk, your passwords are changed before you hail your taxi, and enjoy your two weeks of unemployment.
I'm mean really...why are people buying this every year? Just new players I assume. Talk about a ripe market for opensource gaming.
No this guy is making some sense.
Groups that get too big lose touch with any sense of humanity. You can't keep your humanity when your boss and his boss are telling you to pay attention to numbers. And when a big group makes a mistake, well the humanity that's affected is huge. 10,000 people is a lot of people.
Quit your corp job, start your own company. Keep it small and be happy.
See previous poster regarding unions. To paraphrase, if you unionize, eventually the union just becomes a corporation itself and a service provider for the business.
We don't need more unions. They were needed in the past, but now they are just self serving entities.
In Europe, employees quitting have to serve six weeks notice; in the US typically two weeks.
I'm not sure about Europe, but almost everyone in the US is working "at will". That means either party can terminate employment at any time.
Anyone know if that's the case in Europe?
Well if I take away the supply it gets more expensive to buy, If I hire you back at higher wages it's going to cost the consumer more.
Actually since it's unlikely that everyone would quit at once, you're dead wrong. Minor adjustments in a small percentage of workers wouldn't dramatically affect the costs of the goods they provide.
Besides, do you really think it costs starbucks $4 to make that coffee drink you have every morning? No, that's pure profit my friend.
Quit Your Job Day, Sept 18th.
The goal of Quit Your Job Day is to reverse the advantage perpetuated by an elitist class who profit from your actions without making any personal investment in you as an individual. If you don't know who profits from your hard work, I assure you that they care very little about you. You are just a line on a spreadsheet and if cutting your salary would make the column balance, you're fired.
http://www.quityourjobday.com/
She wore very short skirts and garterbelts. People naturally assumed she was just an airhead and kept trying to sneak peeks under her skirts while she fixed their macs. Over time people started to realize she knew what the fuck she was doing and started *requesting* her for tech support. She got a raise.
There was one guy, you know the kind who leaving 100 empty mountain dew bottles around his cube and wont let anyone near it? That guy with the long unix hipy hair? He wouldn't let her near his computer. It took the head of IT telling him to either let her work on his computer or he'd personally come and take the computer somewhere she could work on it to get him to let her open the case. He was affraid she'd "break something."
But you were looking for advice. My advice? Be good at what you do. Nothing else will matter.
After hours of play and interacting with all the NPCs in the game I got to the final level and defeated the final boss Lord British. He has a huge amount of health and it took all my skills to finally take him down. Make sure you sit through the entire credits for a final cut scene at the end!!
Perhaps I'm misinformed, but I thought that MAC address was sent so that the router knew which computer to send an HTML file on port 80 to, for example. Otherwise how does the router know which computer to send the TCP/IP packet?
It's not the system files, it's the document files.
A job is basically an exchange of skill and effort for currency. In some cases the measurement of skill and effort is based on hours worked, and those employed in this way are called hourly workers or contractors. In other cases skill and effort is not measured, these permanent employees are given a guaranteed salary. Contrary to what the term permanent implies, in both cases the majority of jobs are actually at will, which means that either the employee or the employer may terminate the relationship at any time, for almost any reason.
It should be noted that it is the employer that invokes at will termination in the vast majority of cases.
If you don't know the person who signs your paycheck, they don't know you. You're just a number on a spreadsheet. Quit now before they realize you're number is too big.
You want true anonymity? Give me a browser that hides my IP and MAC address. Then that's going to really hide my identity from websites. It's only a matter of time before people start tracking you by MAC address.