This has been going on for quite a while, actually. If you're established in the industry you can just hire a professor or grad student and then compel them to use their access..if you aren't established in the industry what do you do?
They haven't provided a decent way to look through scholarly journals that doesn't involve paying off someone at school.
That's pretty much the industry standard. People still value pay/benefits over possibly job stability, aka contracts.
If employment isn't at will, it's difficult to fire them even with proof. Even if you pay off the rest of their contract and tell them to GTFO. I agree someone should have to have a good reason to fire you, but look how hard it is to fire people in government work.
As an example, I barely use the data features on my phone except for light web browsing if I'm waiting for something and maps when I need them while driving and I almost use 2GB. Forget about watching youtube videos or picture mail with a 2GB cap.
My guess is quality will go up as manufacturing leaves China, where it is encouraged to do ANYTHING for a buck and isn't unethical to take/gives bribes.
There's only so much better military technology can get over what regular citizens can obtain. You'd be hard pressed to find tank commanders or pilots that would bomb/shell/machine gun civilians. If it's at that point, it's better to simply leave the country.
If I were in his situation, I'd do about the same thing. I'd fill out the forms to be carried out in a few months. That way if he stopped progressing he could just do whatever, but if he kept progressing he may not be lucid so they could do their thing.
We'll miss you, Terry, but you have the power over your own life and I respect that.
I think this is actually a pretty good idea. We could have reasonably trained and experienced troops without having to send them across the world to the sandbox for years at a time..
It would be good training. All they have to do is wait for people trying to cross. The cartels can't come up with enough equipment to fight a military. Best they can do is guerrilla tactics against civilians.
The government will likely only get involved if there are diplomatic problems that will come from it. Most likely they'll just hand wave like China and promise that they aren't groups sponsored by the government with specific targets and goals and training, and Iran will hem and haw and threaten but in the end we have them by the balls anyway.
Kind of like China having us by the balls. They know we can't do anything to make them stop, and Iran knows they can't do anything to make us stop.
Cheating in college is rampant, it's just that most people are good at it.
Like how you'll study your ass off at a test and get a 30, which was pretty high all things considered, then there's a group of Chinese students that get 100 on it but can't answer even basic questions about the material if you come to them and ask them since they did so.
Or how companies complain that they'll hire an engineer who will have a degree and good GPA but doesn't even have a basic grasp of how their field of engineering works.
No, I don't think those are included. What is included is those hackers that target government systems and start downloading sensitive material. Often times those come from KNOWN STATE SPONSORED HACKER GROUPS in China. I don't know why it hasn't been considered an act of war already, at least enough to launch a cruise missile at their location from the middle of the Pacific.
At least, a cruise missile that we didn't even make.
He was just the first successful patent troll. Patent trolling had become all the rage around that time and a lot of 'old money' today was born from little patents here, little patents there, etc.
Step 2: Implement draconian laws designed to 'combat terrorism' citing the terrorist attack and getting everyone scared. Temporary measures, of course.
Step 3: After society is good and locked down, pass extension of those laws.
Step 4: President gets elected that promises to remove these. President instead extends these.
Step 5: Another terrorist attack or foiled plot.
Step 6: Obviously this one law isn't working, so pass another.
Step 7: Progress and repeat until you can't take a shit without someone needing to be there to look up your asshole and make sure you aren't about to shit a bomb into the public toilet at the gas station.
Step 8: Children grew up with these laws, and they're just how things are.
If Cisco employees did it, then Cisco did it. It'll be up to Cisco to prove that their employees did it of their own volition and not at the direction of the company. Your analogy is false, however.
This is a case of suing a car battery company because they specially designed a battery at the request of an organization known to torture people with car batteries, to make it easier for them to torture people with car batteries.
Actually, that's wrong. At least in cats. As proof they kept a cat's body alive, removed its brain, and put it on a treadmill. The cat was held up, but as the legs felt pressure on them, they started to run by themselves. Rather well, too, matching speed with the treadmill. The muscles and spinal cord basically play a huge role in balance and walking..it isn't 100% brain controlled.
No no no, consumers are used to unintrusive DRM. Console DRM hasn't usually been a problem for people until they decided they wanted 'backups' then it became a slight issue. It's more than a slight issue if you can't play your games when the authentication servers can't be reached, however.
People need to realize that any device that can collect and transmit data will probably be used to collect more data than they should. That data will PROBABLY end up being sold, simply because people are willing to pay for it. Since it is our data, why can't we demand a cut of the profits?
But they sure as shit still wanted to pay minimum wage, am I right?
This is becoming a big problem in many industries, not just programming. Industries, like customer service, that require very little technical skill.
When I was last unemployed, it took me a few months to find a job. There were several customer service places I applied to, and I interviewed at each one. They were DESPERATE to find people with the experience they were looking for, but only wanted to pay minimum wage. Required 2+ years of experience in a call center environment or customer service job, paid minimum wage.
Programming would be similar. They want to pay you as little as possible but want you to come to the table with as much as possible. I can understand this, it's business, the most bang for your buck, etc, but it simply isn't realistic beyond a point. Like how some companies were requiring years of experience with Windows 2000 a year after it was released, then wondering why all they got replied to by was from people that were 'good with computers.'
Both types of diabetes have been cured with stem cell therapy in Europe and several forms are undergoing clinical trials right now. We wouldn't know about it here because the government felt experimenting with stem cells was an abomination in the eyes of god and banned federal funding for it. Only recently has it been repealed.
Imagine if we no longer had to give people regular dialysis. Or insulin. Or watch as the forgetful had their limbs rot off in front of them while they went blind deaf and dumb. Imagine not having to pay those costs because an injection and some tests fixed it.
Eventually we'll realize (the hard way) that engineering is something you don't fuck around with. Answering phones and churning out barely workable code is not the same as designing bridges or turbine engines. While there is a lot of 'technician' level work in engineering, what would you rather have? A nurse doing everything BUT the actual heart transplant, or a surgeon doing most of the work?
I guess those few guys that died from radiation poisoning for 'getting a quick look' don't count as cancer deaths, since they technically died from radiation poisoning.
When the hell are they going to put more RAM in consoles? I mean seriously, just cram 8GB in those damn things. I'm tired of consoles being seriously limited in memory for no good reason.
For example when everyone had 512MB of RAM, consoles came out that had like 16MB.
The average person is not dumb. The average person is actually so smart they'll surprise you fairly often. People only get dumb when they decide to conform to different things.
Like how the wisdom of the average school principal is totally negated by zero tolerance rules that the school must follow 100% or risk being sued for playing favorites.
Or the wisdom of your average citizen is totally negated by them being stuck in debt hell and unable to do anything except eat/breathe/work/sleep for most of their lives to pay it off because of snowballing interest.
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This has been going on for quite a while, actually. If you're established in the industry you can just hire a professor or grad student and then compel them to use their access..if you aren't established in the industry what do you do?
They haven't provided a decent way to look through scholarly journals that doesn't involve paying off someone at school.
That's pretty much the industry standard. People still value pay/benefits over possibly job stability, aka contracts.
If employment isn't at will, it's difficult to fire them even with proof. Even if you pay off the rest of their contract and tell them to GTFO. I agree someone should have to have a good reason to fire you, but look how hard it is to fire people in government work.
As an example, I barely use the data features on my phone except for light web browsing if I'm waiting for something and maps when I need them while driving and I almost use 2GB. Forget about watching youtube videos or picture mail with a 2GB cap.
I support this 100%, but there is a flaw. They'd just come up with some way of 'supporting' the game without really doing anything.
My guess is quality will go up as manufacturing leaves China, where it is encouraged to do ANYTHING for a buck and isn't unethical to take/gives bribes.
I disagree.
There's only so much better military technology can get over what regular citizens can obtain. You'd be hard pressed to find tank commanders or pilots that would bomb/shell/machine gun civilians. If it's at that point, it's better to simply leave the country.
If I were in his situation, I'd do about the same thing. I'd fill out the forms to be carried out in a few months. That way if he stopped progressing he could just do whatever, but if he kept progressing he may not be lucid so they could do their thing.
We'll miss you, Terry, but you have the power over your own life and I respect that.
I think this is actually a pretty good idea. We could have reasonably trained and experienced troops without having to send them across the world to the sandbox for years at a time..
It would be good training. All they have to do is wait for people trying to cross. The cartels can't come up with enough equipment to fight a military. Best they can do is guerrilla tactics against civilians.
I only ask that if they get rid of nuclear, they also say no more new coal plants. Tit for tat and all that.
I bet in the future Skype will be bundled with Windows, and Microsoft will open their own phone company thing.
The government will likely only get involved if there are diplomatic problems that will come from it. Most likely they'll just hand wave like China and promise that they aren't groups sponsored by the government with specific targets and goals and training, and Iran will hem and haw and threaten but in the end we have them by the balls anyway.
Kind of like China having us by the balls. They know we can't do anything to make them stop, and Iran knows they can't do anything to make us stop.
Let's face it.
Cheating in college is rampant, it's just that most people are good at it.
Like how you'll study your ass off at a test and get a 30, which was pretty high all things considered, then there's a group of Chinese students that get 100 on it but can't answer even basic questions about the material if you come to them and ask them since they did so.
Or how companies complain that they'll hire an engineer who will have a degree and good GPA but doesn't even have a basic grasp of how their field of engineering works.
No, I don't think those are included. What is included is those hackers that target government systems and start downloading sensitive material. Often times those come from KNOWN STATE SPONSORED HACKER GROUPS in China. I don't know why it hasn't been considered an act of war already, at least enough to launch a cruise missile at their location from the middle of the Pacific.
At least, a cruise missile that we didn't even make.
He was just the first successful patent troll. Patent trolling had become all the rage around that time and a lot of 'old money' today was born from little patents here, little patents there, etc.
Step 1: Be attacked by terrorists.
Step 2: Implement draconian laws designed to 'combat terrorism' citing the terrorist attack and getting everyone scared. Temporary measures, of course.
Step 3: After society is good and locked down, pass extension of those laws.
Step 4: President gets elected that promises to remove these. President instead extends these.
Step 5: Another terrorist attack or foiled plot.
Step 6: Obviously this one law isn't working, so pass another.
Step 7: Progress and repeat until you can't take a shit without someone needing to be there to look up your asshole and make sure you aren't about to shit a bomb into the public toilet at the gas station.
Step 8: Children grew up with these laws, and they're just how things are.
If Cisco employees did it, then Cisco did it. It'll be up to Cisco to prove that their employees did it of their own volition and not at the direction of the company. Your analogy is false, however.
This is a case of suing a car battery company because they specially designed a battery at the request of an organization known to torture people with car batteries, to make it easier for them to torture people with car batteries.
Actually, that's wrong. At least in cats. As proof they kept a cat's body alive, removed its brain, and put it on a treadmill. The cat was held up, but as the legs felt pressure on them, they started to run by themselves. Rather well, too, matching speed with the treadmill. The muscles and spinal cord basically play a huge role in balance and walking..it isn't 100% brain controlled.
No no no, consumers are used to unintrusive DRM. Console DRM hasn't usually been a problem for people until they decided they wanted 'backups' then it became a slight issue. It's more than a slight issue if you can't play your games when the authentication servers can't be reached, however.
People need to realize that any device that can collect and transmit data will probably be used to collect more data than they should. That data will PROBABLY end up being sold, simply because people are willing to pay for it. Since it is our data, why can't we demand a cut of the profits?
But they sure as shit still wanted to pay minimum wage, am I right?
This is becoming a big problem in many industries, not just programming. Industries, like customer service, that require very little technical skill.
When I was last unemployed, it took me a few months to find a job. There were several customer service places I applied to, and I interviewed at each one. They were DESPERATE to find people with the experience they were looking for, but only wanted to pay minimum wage. Required 2+ years of experience in a call center environment or customer service job, paid minimum wage.
Programming would be similar. They want to pay you as little as possible but want you to come to the table with as much as possible. I can understand this, it's business, the most bang for your buck, etc, but it simply isn't realistic beyond a point. Like how some companies were requiring years of experience with Windows 2000 a year after it was released, then wondering why all they got replied to by was from people that were 'good with computers.'
Both types of diabetes have been cured with stem cell therapy in Europe and several forms are undergoing clinical trials right now. We wouldn't know about it here because the government felt experimenting with stem cells was an abomination in the eyes of god and banned federal funding for it. Only recently has it been repealed.
Imagine if we no longer had to give people regular dialysis. Or insulin. Or watch as the forgetful had their limbs rot off in front of them while they went blind deaf and dumb. Imagine not having to pay those costs because an injection and some tests fixed it.
How's that for saving money?
Eventually we'll realize (the hard way) that engineering is something you don't fuck around with. Answering phones and churning out barely workable code is not the same as designing bridges or turbine engines. While there is a lot of 'technician' level work in engineering, what would you rather have? A nurse doing everything BUT the actual heart transplant, or a surgeon doing most of the work?
I guess those few guys that died from radiation poisoning for 'getting a quick look' don't count as cancer deaths, since they technically died from radiation poisoning.
When the hell are they going to put more RAM in consoles? I mean seriously, just cram 8GB in those damn things. I'm tired of consoles being seriously limited in memory for no good reason.
For example when everyone had 512MB of RAM, consoles came out that had like 16MB.
The average person is not dumb. The average person is actually so smart they'll surprise you fairly often. People only get dumb when they decide to conform to different things.
Like how the wisdom of the average school principal is totally negated by zero tolerance rules that the school must follow 100% or risk being sued for playing favorites.
Or the wisdom of your average citizen is totally negated by them being stuck in debt hell and unable to do anything except eat/breathe/work/sleep for most of their lives to pay it off because of snowballing interest.