I've been through a couple of layoffs. In one, the company was concerned about stealing, sabotage, and other vindictive behaviours. So they surprised everyone with two week severance packages and an escort out the door one morning. They brought in people at the butt crack of dawn to turn off every computer in the building. Later, "core" people started deserting the company, taking whatever they wanted with them.
In the other one, there was an announcement, something like, "The 20 people in this room are being laid off. Starting in two weeks we're going to lay off 4 people per week for 5 weeks. We expect you all to continue to do your jobs as well as you can *while* you look for work. Let your supervisor know of any scheduled interviews, they will be considered paid time off. As you find work report your start date so each week we can try to lay off people who already have new jobs."
The second layoff went without a hitch. The people laid off kept relations with the company, some came back later.
I know it's not the same as firing someone, but it does seem to me some companies treat laid off employees as if they've been fired.
You know, with every kid coming out of college knowing java, I'm not really surprised that there's so many java applications, a couple of major projects at my company are written in java. The devs love it. The execs seem to as well, that does surprise cause I've never seen a java gui toolkit with attractive widgets.
But I gotta tell you, as a user, and as an SA that has manage the paths, toolkits, and jre's I really wish you guys would just fucking quit already.
I am clearly not advocating avoiding all the RIAA/MPAA crap that's out there, I am advocating not explicitly giving them money, i.e. purchasing a cd/dvd. That's what I said in my original post, but the response attempted to rationalize going to movies because you can't avoid watching commercials on tv. I thought I cleared that up in my response, but here is the same rationalization again.
You are using poor analogies and incorrect statistics to rationalize away any responsibility you should properly feel whenever you make a deliberate choice to purchase something while YOU are completely aware of the political activities of the organization you are patronizing.
If you want to lie to yourself fine, but say it to me and I'm calling you out.
For the record, I rarely listen to the radio or watch tv, but even if I do, such activities are not equal to the explicit purchase to which you are comparing them.
It is hypocritical to knowingly give money to the **AA and then complain when they continue doing what you've already observed.
I've been there, but lately my thinking is that a self aware intelligence (people) might be some kind of anomaly in the universe. And that a "consciousness" might have some impact, a field, force, mass, "something". A final question is whether or not a more aware or more intelligent consciousness might have a larger impact.
Another way to say it, free will is not yes/no but on a spectrum of intelligence and awareness. And at the extreme far end of this spectrum is God.
I've no evidence, but being attracted to the idea, I'm watchful.
If someone purchases something from a member of the **AA, that person is showing support for their activities.
No one *needs* to buy a CD/DVD or go to the movies. I don't, haven't for years, and I don't 'download' either.
Don't get me wrong, I love movies, and music. But giving them money that I *know* they will use to do things I abhor feels worse than not watching Batman.
Well, the article announces an application named something like 'Mythtvplayer' that you can install and it will save you those minutes you would have spent configuring an actual mythtv frontend. Not a good trade off I think, since the player app won't let you manage your recordings.
I think it takes maybe 5 minutes to set up a second myth frontend, so I'm not sure why someone took the time to write this.
Something else in the environment made having a bigger brain increase the odds of reproduction
And that's exactly it, we developed bigger brains to increase the odds of scoring with chicks.
Women are impressed by the words you choose, how you say things, whether or not you can make them laugh. (dear token hot chick, feel free to back me up on this) The more witty or clever you are, the more likely a woman will be attracted to you. For us, intelligence, strategic thinking, and skill with language are the peacocks tail.
Strategy for meeting women: You and your buddy go into a club. Your buddy locates and takes the high ground with a good view of the entire club, while you make a long winding loop all over the place, ending up next to your friend. He informs you of which women "looked" when your back was turned. Now you can avoid all the women who aren't interested or attracted to you. It's most efficient and you can be on your way to Denny's before 11:00 pm. I bet even Dolphins can't come up with team based strategies like that.
The cost of keeping everything forever (how much disk space does 5 years of chat logs take up?) vs the cost of losing some data point you didn't know was important two years ago.
Yes, yes really. Any soldier can be ordered to live anywhere at anytime. His conduct can be, and is, regulated 24/7, not just when he's "at work". Even if he is married and living with his wife and children, his "boss" has the authority to visit and inspect his home. In fact, he can be ordered to not have any contact with his family at all. (I have seen this one myself) I can make this list really really long, but the short version: he is a soldier 24/7.
It won't work because they'll (again) try to solve problems that don't need solving and (again) ignore the one thing that would actually make a difference.
They'll probably throw yet another abstraction layer on top of init, one more for the package manager(s), and maybe a big tarball of symbolic links to top off the complexity party.
But you won't hear anyone saying "Hey! What if we all agreed to use the same tool chain for a bit?"
Ok, I plenty layers of abstraction there, but I don't see a problem that needs solving. Are you trying to make it so that if I click on a png it gets opened up with the application that I set in one of my registry configuration wizards?
No, the best part is that instead of installing a dozen or so packages, you get to install over 200 hundred and still never be quite sure you got everything the upstream developers intended.
When they quit being a meta-distribution and started doing everything the "Gentoo Way", I went to kubuntu.
1) As a verb, the practice of trying to lure other Internet users into sending responses to carefully-designed incorrect statements or similar "bait." In a real example, a Usenet newsgroup contributor mentioned the discovery of an ancient African carving containing a list of prime numbers. The contributor further listed some of the prime numbers found and included some numbers that, in fact, are not prime numbers. Other contributors then sent serious replies, correcting the list of prime numbers cited.
I hope KDE 4 is able to stop or even reverse this trend.
Not ever gonna happen.
Companies like RH and Novell have a lot of influence of Gnome and none over KDE, and that is the main driver of which desktop is the default. Stability, features, user base (-Novell!), etc., will not help.
Wow, this would be so cool. At this resolution, I expect you could crop the tiniest square out and be able to enlarge the hell out of it with it looking pixelated.
So instead of taking 100 photos, you could just take one big one of the whole school (at a ball game maybe?) and then crop headshots out all day.
And then there's the voyeurs...hot girls better watch out I guess.
Now that's logical, exactly the right answer. They'll never buy it though, unless you can write book about what you just said, and invent a catchy new buzzword to describe the concept. Something like Dev 2.0..., or better maybe an acronym, like PEAT
Obama will be heavily attacked this fall for any appearance of being 'soft' on terrorism.
Telecom Immunity is the primary reason and purpose to this bill, and everyone in Congress knows this. They think we don't realize that however, and the spin on TV reflects that disconnect. For some reason, they see their spin and talking points on CNN and they think that's all most of us are aware of.
That's why I'm so pissed. When Barak Obama goes on television and says something like "fight terrorism is more important than suing phone companies" he's lying. He knows damn well that this Bill brings nothing new to the fight against terrorists, it only shields people who broke the law.
I don't think the articles author defines Web 2.0 the same way I do. Commodity virtual and/or high performance clusters have been around for at least a decade and don't have anything to do website design.
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Please read my post above. Surprise layoffs are stupid and ultimately more expensive imo.
I've been through a couple of layoffs. In one, the company was concerned about stealing, sabotage, and other vindictive behaviours. So they surprised everyone with two week severance packages and an escort out the door one morning. They brought in people at the butt crack of dawn to turn off every computer in the building. Later, "core" people started deserting the company, taking whatever they wanted with them.
In the other one, there was an announcement, something like, "The 20 people in this room are being laid off. Starting in two weeks we're going to lay off 4 people per week for 5 weeks. We expect you all to continue to do your jobs as well as you can *while* you look for work. Let your supervisor know of any scheduled interviews, they will be considered paid time off. As you find work report your start date so each week we can try to lay off people who already have new jobs."
The second layoff went without a hitch. The people laid off kept relations with the company, some came back later.
I know it's not the same as firing someone, but it does seem to me some companies treat laid off employees as if they've been fired.
You know, with every kid coming out of college knowing java, I'm not really surprised that there's so many java applications, a couple of major projects at my company are written in java. The devs love it. The execs seem to as well, that does surprise cause I've never seen a java gui toolkit with attractive widgets.
But I gotta tell you, as a user, and as an SA that has manage the paths, toolkits, and jre's I really wish you guys would just fucking quit already.
I am clearly not advocating avoiding all the RIAA/MPAA crap that's out there, I am advocating not explicitly giving them money, i.e. purchasing a cd/dvd. That's what I said in my original post, but the response attempted to rationalize going to movies because you can't avoid watching commercials on tv. I thought I cleared that up in my response, but here is the same rationalization again.
Well, when I say "God" I'm not thinking of any particular scripture definition, and I'm not saying that he would be "good".
Also, I've considered that being omniscient could be like going faster than light.
SVG?
NO.
You are using poor analogies and incorrect statistics to rationalize away any responsibility you should properly feel whenever you make a deliberate choice to purchase something while YOU are completely aware of the political activities of the organization you are patronizing.
If you want to lie to yourself fine, but say it to me and I'm calling you out.
For the record, I rarely listen to the radio or watch tv, but even if I do, such activities are not equal to the explicit purchase to which you are comparing them.
It is hypocritical to knowingly give money to the **AA and then complain when they continue doing what you've already observed.
I've been there, but lately my thinking is that a self aware intelligence (people) might be some kind of anomaly in the universe. And that a "consciousness" might have some impact, a field, force, mass, "something". A final question is whether or not a more aware or more intelligent consciousness might have a larger impact.
Another way to say it, free will is not yes/no but on a spectrum of intelligence and awareness. And at the extreme far end of this spectrum is God.
I've no evidence, but being attracted to the idea, I'm watchful.
If someone purchases something from a member of the **AA, that person is showing support for their activities.
No one *needs* to buy a CD/DVD or go to the movies. I don't, haven't for years, and I don't 'download' either.
Don't get me wrong, I love movies, and music. But giving them money that I *know* they will use to do things I abhor feels worse than not watching Batman.
Well, the article announces an application named something like 'Mythtvplayer' that you can install and it will save you those minutes you would have spent configuring an actual mythtv frontend. Not a good trade off I think, since the player app won't let you manage your recordings.
I think it takes maybe 5 minutes to set up a second myth frontend, so I'm not sure why someone took the time to write this.
Something else in the environment made having a bigger brain increase the odds of reproduction
And that's exactly it, we developed bigger brains to increase the odds of scoring with chicks.
Women are impressed by the words you choose, how you say things, whether or not you can make them laugh. (dear token hot chick, feel free to back me up on this) The more witty or clever you are, the more likely a woman will be attracted to you. For us, intelligence, strategic thinking, and skill with language are the peacocks tail.
Strategy for meeting women: You and your buddy go into a club. Your buddy locates and takes the high ground with a good view of the entire club, while you make a long winding loop all over the place, ending up next to your friend. He informs you of which women "looked" when your back was turned. Now you can avoid all the women who aren't interested or attracted to you. It's most efficient and you can be on your way to Denny's before 11:00 pm. I bet even Dolphins can't come up with team based strategies like that.
The cost of keeping everything forever (how much disk space does 5 years of chat logs take up?) vs the cost of losing some data point you didn't know was important two years ago.
Yes, yes really. Any soldier can be ordered to live anywhere at anytime. His conduct can be, and is, regulated 24/7, not just when he's "at work". Even if he is married and living with his wife and children, his "boss" has the authority to visit and inspect his home. In fact, he can be ordered to not have any contact with his family at all. (I have seen this one myself) I can make this list really really long, but the short version: he is a soldier 24/7.
He's in the military, "personal time" and "at home" have different meanings than they do for civilian employees.
It won't work because they'll (again) try to solve problems that don't need solving and (again) ignore the one thing that would actually make a difference.
They'll probably throw yet another abstraction layer on top of init, one more for the package manager(s), and maybe a big tarball of symbolic links to top off the complexity party.
But you won't hear anyone saying "Hey! What if we all agreed to use the same tool chain for a bit?"
Ok, I plenty layers of abstraction there, but I don't see a problem that needs solving. Are you trying to make it so that if I click on a png it gets opened up with the application that I set in one of my registry configuration wizards?
With the regulation came improved communications
I don't understand how a regulated internet is going to improve communications.
No, the best part is that instead of installing a dozen or so packages, you get to install over 200 hundred and still never be quite sure you got everything the upstream developers intended.
When they quit being a meta-distribution and started doing everything the "Gentoo Way", I went to kubuntu.
No internets for you.
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As used on the Internet:
1) As a verb, the practice of trying to lure other Internet users into sending responses to carefully-designed incorrect statements or similar "bait." In a real example, a Usenet newsgroup contributor mentioned the discovery of an ancient African carving containing a list of prime numbers. The contributor further listed some of the prime numbers found and included some numbers that, in fact, are not prime numbers. Other contributors then sent serious replies, correcting the list of prime numbers cited.
I hope KDE 4 is able to stop or even reverse this trend.
Not ever gonna happen. Companies like RH and Novell have a lot of influence of Gnome and none over KDE, and that is the main driver of which desktop is the default. Stability, features, user base (-Novell!), etc., will not help.
Wow, this would be so cool. At this resolution, I expect you could crop the tiniest square out and be able to enlarge the hell out of it with it looking pixelated.
So instead of taking 100 photos, you could just take one big one of the whole school (at a ball game maybe?) and then crop headshots out all day.
And then there's the voyeurs...hot girls better watch out I guess.
Now that's logical, exactly the right answer. They'll never buy it though, unless you can write book about what you just said, and invent a catchy new buzzword to describe the concept. Something like Dev 2.0..., or better maybe an acronym, like PEAT
Obama will be heavily attacked this fall for any appearance of being 'soft' on terrorism.
Telecom Immunity is the primary reason and purpose to this bill, and everyone in Congress knows this. They think we don't realize that however, and the spin on TV reflects that disconnect. For some reason, they see their spin and talking points on CNN and they think that's all most of us are aware of. That's why I'm so pissed. When Barak Obama goes on television and says something like "fight terrorism is more important than suing phone companies" he's lying. He knows damn well that this Bill brings nothing new to the fight against terrorists, it only shields people who broke the law.
I don't think the articles author defines Web 2.0 the same way I do. Commodity virtual and/or high performance clusters have been around for at least a decade and don't have anything to do website design.
First thing I thought of is being able to mix repos of several distributions. I don't think RH and Novell will do it, just for that reason.