In my eyes, one is a conformist simply by identifying oneself as 'geek'.
Showing up on this website and posting what is expected of you is also rather conformist.
Wearing clothes, getting a job, dating cute girls, all conformist. (Not wearing clothese indicates conformity to yet another standard).
The word is like "pseudo-intellectual". It gets thrown around a lot, but despite the stigma attached to it, it's meaningless. If you're human, you're conforming to something. The fact that you've got a few unusual traits doesn't make you very special at all, since nearly every human on earth has them.
Japan had been continuously increasing its powers since before the beginning of WWI. It was an axis power, but its actions were so on par with what they'd been doing already, I'd be very reluctant to call any military action from that Japan in that time period the instagator of WWII.
Do you mean that lawyers aren't allowed to ethically consider a law unjust and advocate civil disobediance?
I mean, I understand the conflict of interest (Oh yeah! Break the law! I'll be right here to take your money when you go to court!), but it seems unethical for the state (Who runs the bar, if I recall, and thus can have you removed from practicing law for an ethical violation, again iirc) to dictate to lawyers (or anyone) what ethics they should have, especially when those ethics are "Our rules are good. You shouldn't break them"...
Isn't it a violation of the law to present false information to an employer like that? I seem to recall having to sign more than one job application to declare that I had stated everything truthfully.
If the IT guys are that much smarter than everyone else in the company, I question the foundations such a company is built upon. Managers are one thing, but if your IT guys are smarter than your engineers, why are your engineers still getting paid?
Make up your mind, Anonymous Coward, is Bush the heroic liberator who brought us into our mighty victory of morality and justice and law in Iraq and in so doing struck a blow against terrorism, or is Bush the cowardly army deserter who brought us an illegal, immoral war against a red herring of a irrelevant despot in the middle of the war on terror?
God, you're so hypocritical sometimes! It's like you're arguing with yourself!
How many people, at what cost per hour, for how many hours, will you use to do the background check? What agencies or companies will require what fees for information? How long will you have to wait for the check to be completed, and how will the vacancy you're trying to fill affect your bottom line during the duration of the check?
That's your cost for option A.
How much is the bonding service?
That's your cost for option B.
Whether you like it or not, you're paying for insurance either way. The question is which cost is greater, and which provides the greater effective insurance.
What is that second? Were both RIAA and AOL servers calibrated to NIST time? If not, what alternative standard was used(A clock that could be +/- 5 minutes out represents a calibration standard suitable for a clock accurate to +/- 20 minutes if you go by a commonly accepted 4:1 calibration ratio, and 50 minutes if you go by the ISO 10:1 ratio)? If so, when was it done, and what methodology was used? Where is the evidence of such calibration? What is the inaccuracy of the timekeeping devices in use at AOL and the RIAA?
These may seem like pedantic questions, but considering it's dial-up(AOL serves content over broadband, but they don't provide the service themselves), and considering that these documents are the only proof that anything at all happened at any point, they are critical questions. A clock somewhere a few minutes out could mean the difference between someone who only checks their e-mail logging out and someone who leeches for hours logging in.
It doesn't say that the internet connection was used to download copyrighted sound files. It says that at certain times, a certain IP address was leased by a certain account holder. She wasn't the only one with a lease to that IP address during the time period in question, thus there's going to have to be further proof that it was HER account that illegally distributed the sound files.
You can't really blame anyone too much for thinking that microsoft doesn't do any research while their entire empire is based upon clones of clones of clones. Windows 2000 was largely evolutionary updates to NT4 and certain systems that were already in place in Windows 95 running in the NT based kernel. Windows XP was largely trying to move everything around a bit to make things easier and adding skins. Vista, which once was supposed to be this amazing leap forward, now sounds like a fairly pedestrian update to the aging XP.
The poster loses credibility for using his article as a red herring slam on an unrelated topic. It's petty, and it's unprofessional, and it's a good indication of the integrity of the author and the validity of his articles. His posts here, further using confusion caused by his usurping of the topic at hand as an opportunity to launch into a one-sided tirade about the people he is against.
It would be like me designing an industrial control system, then on the last page of the manual going "We shouldn't be in Iraq. The war is illegal and immoral". Doesn't matter. We weren't talking about the war, and it'd be damned unprofessional for me to do that.
With all due respect, you lose a lot of credibility by dedicating article space to this minor personal spat, and even more by participating in this red herring of a conversation.
GMA is new hotness compared to what actually passes for corporate hardware. Hell, I've seen entire companies built on old Pentium IIs with lots of RAM.
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Well, I DID get "a offer" from " a representatives" from a company with "The headquarter in the United Kingdom".
They wanted me to engage in cheque fraud. I decided that wasn't a good idea though, and just kept my job as an engineer.
In my eyes, one is a conformist simply by identifying oneself as 'geek'.
Showing up on this website and posting what is expected of you is also rather conformist.
Wearing clothes, getting a job, dating cute girls, all conformist. (Not wearing clothese indicates conformity to yet another standard).
The word is like "pseudo-intellectual". It gets thrown around a lot, but despite the stigma attached to it, it's meaningless. If you're human, you're conforming to something. The fact that you've got a few unusual traits doesn't make you very special at all, since nearly every human on earth has them.
Back to the womb with all of them! That'll learn them!
And the laws, you know, I haven't been robbed for weeks!
Japan had been continuously increasing its powers since before the beginning of WWI. It was an axis power, but its actions were so on par with what they'd been doing already, I'd be very reluctant to call any military action from that Japan in that time period the instagator of WWII.
Do you mean that lawyers aren't allowed to ethically consider a law unjust and advocate civil disobediance?
I mean, I understand the conflict of interest (Oh yeah! Break the law! I'll be right here to take your money when you go to court!), but it seems unethical for the state (Who runs the bar, if I recall, and thus can have you removed from practicing law for an ethical violation, again iirc) to dictate to lawyers (or anyone) what ethics they should have, especially when those ethics are "Our rules are good. You shouldn't break them"...
Please, let me know. I'm curious.
Isn't it a violation of the law to present false information to an employer like that? I seem to recall having to sign more than one job application to declare that I had stated everything truthfully.
Because I totally trust an impoverished foreigner to be more trustworthy than a well-paid countryman!
A "feeling of trust" isn't worth the nothingness it came from.
Science or GTFO.
If the IT guys are that much smarter than everyone else in the company, I question the foundations such a company is built upon. Managers are one thing, but if your IT guys are smarter than your engineers, why are your engineers still getting paid?
Make up your mind, Anonymous Coward, is Bush the heroic liberator who brought us into our mighty victory of morality and justice and law in Iraq and in so doing struck a blow against terrorism, or is Bush the cowardly army deserter who brought us an illegal, immoral war against a red herring of a irrelevant despot in the middle of the war on terror?
God, you're so hypocritical sometimes! It's like you're arguing with yourself!
On the sea of network security, that's so far from the dry land of best practices that I'm making vague nautical references to explain it.
But he loves him the childrens!!! (Oh yes, the childrens, which he loves!)
How many people, at what cost per hour, for how many hours, will you use to do the background check? What agencies or companies will require what fees for information? How long will you have to wait for the check to be completed, and how will the vacancy you're trying to fill affect your bottom line during the duration of the check?
That's your cost for option A.
How much is the bonding service?
That's your cost for option B.
Whether you like it or not, you're paying for insurance either way. The question is which cost is greater, and which provides the greater effective insurance.
What is that second? Were both RIAA and AOL servers calibrated to NIST time? If not, what alternative standard was used(A clock that could be +/- 5 minutes out represents a calibration standard suitable for a clock accurate to +/- 20 minutes if you go by a commonly accepted 4:1 calibration ratio, and 50 minutes if you go by the ISO 10:1 ratio)? If so, when was it done, and what methodology was used? Where is the evidence of such calibration? What is the inaccuracy of the timekeeping devices in use at AOL and the RIAA?
These may seem like pedantic questions, but considering it's dial-up(AOL serves content over broadband, but they don't provide the service themselves), and considering that these documents are the only proof that anything at all happened at any point, they are critical questions. A clock somewhere a few minutes out could mean the difference between someone who only checks their e-mail logging out and someone who leeches for hours logging in.
It doesn't say that the internet connection was used to download copyrighted sound files. It says that at certain times, a certain IP address was leased by a certain account holder. She wasn't the only one with a lease to that IP address during the time period in question, thus there's going to have to be further proof that it was HER account that illegally distributed the sound files.
You can't really blame anyone too much for thinking that microsoft doesn't do any research while their entire empire is based upon clones of clones of clones. Windows 2000 was largely evolutionary updates to NT4 and certain systems that were already in place in Windows 95 running in the NT based kernel. Windows XP was largely trying to move everything around a bit to make things easier and adding skins. Vista, which once was supposed to be this amazing leap forward, now sounds like a fairly pedestrian update to the aging XP.
We're not talking about Digg here, we're talking about the author of this apple fanzine.
The poster loses credibility for using his article as a red herring slam on an unrelated topic. It's petty, and it's unprofessional, and it's a good indication of the integrity of the author and the validity of his articles. His posts here, further using confusion caused by his usurping of the topic at hand as an opportunity to launch into a one-sided tirade about the people he is against.
It would be like me designing an industrial control system, then on the last page of the manual going "We shouldn't be in Iraq. The war is illegal and immoral". Doesn't matter. We weren't talking about the war, and it'd be damned unprofessional for me to do that.
With all due respect, you lose a lot of credibility by dedicating article space to this minor personal spat, and even more by participating in this red herring of a conversation.
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I am not a cow/barn?
GMA is new hotness compared to what actually passes for corporate hardware. Hell, I've seen entire companies built on old Pentium IIs with lots of RAM.
Don't get out much, eh?