Call me an insensitive clod, but it's always the same with you geeks: it's great to read, but nobody explains what you are reading about.
Just like when you type "man". It's great to read, but nobody explains how to do it (like with a few samples or examples). >man installfest No man pages found for "installfest" you insensitive clod
I once whined against Liberation.fr
which index page opens a NEW popup window each time you go there, and basically , the only answer I got from their webmaster was "you still can go to hell" (ok...it's not exactly that but it's accurate enough).
So really, reporting to the host that you won't read their web site or anything similar is useless.
As an european living in North-America, this article , although true in its content, plays a lot of noisy drums for nothing.
Contrary to USA, europe does not have a culture of suing people or companies, and in particular against "hostile work environment".
I don't think the situation were an employee sues his company for receiving p0rn spam will arise often, since the employee will have nothing to win apart from losing his job and never find another one (suing your company is generally not a good thing on a resume). (I dont say you lose your job if you sue your company - legally you cannot, but we all know how easy it is to for companies to find other supposedly legal reasons to fire you).
Moreover, if your receive spam, it generally means that you have used your work e-mail address for non-business related issues, and you'll end up walking on dangerous grounds if you try suing your company for that.
So, to me, this article has been written by someone who knows laws, can forsee their effect, but do not know the european culture enough and makes the common mistake of comparing it to north-america. Or maybe he never worked in a company where e-mail is used for work.
Yes, you are right.
What bothers me is that some people don't understand that it is very different to avoid people from being hurt - or hurt others than prevent people from accessing a technology or enjoy the fruits of progress or anything similar.
Is that the same code that should be use to find weapons of mass destruction?
They are supposed to be from the same area, right ?
Sounds like everything from there is scam...
With those small rates and the inability to get overtime paid, I have the idea that people won't be interested in making a career in IT anymore.
Good for those indian folks !
Considering that's how the city makes profit...They probably want the best out of it and make sure it is "scalable" to fine as much drivers as possible.
At least that's a guess at this deployement of CPU power.
In order to "keep the company business", (and for Compuware to make sure they keep their margin), we were instructed to NOT bill more than 8h a day, despite the fact that clients would have us work overtime and more.
Apparently, the only difference here is that managers don't even hide that fact. I am not sure how more or less illegal does that makes it
I sincerly agree to this and you are right - this is absurd.
I am always amazed how companies expect us to serve them 24/7 but seem annoyed to hell when you point them out that you also have a family (or a dog) during the same 24 hours.
I remember the day when a manager from our customer company (a big USA banking firm full of arrogant people) started getting angry at me because I told him (after a full week working 12h-14h a day) that my 8h day was finished a long time ago, that I was ill and was heading back home, and that the bug he himself introduced in the system would be fixed the next day.
He started threatening me to report this to my manager and get me out of this assignement, which would have meant being fired by the consulting scrows firm that was paying me at that time
The thing is that people there is so afraid to lose their jobs (why? this is beyond me) that they assume it is the same for everyone.
In Soviet Russia - companies OWN you.- no difference from the USA.
First of all, there is not enough details about what you call the "no cellphone policy".
However, one thing really strikes me is the "even for the IT staff".
For example, how does your network admin cope with alerts (just as you do with your cellphone) when something goes wrong in his server room in the middle of the night ?
I take it your company consider pagers differently - which makes the policy a bit ridiculous
Having said that, while I would be extremely happy in a no-cellphone-noise environment, I wonder what exactly is the reason for such a policy in the first place ? Is there nobody needing a cellphone for business in your company ?
And although you should normally not deal with your own business/servers/whatever you have at home during work hours, I would question that policy.
Now, quitting is a personal choice but if it would hurt my lifestyle as much as it seems to hurt yours, I'd just quit and to hell with them...
After all, I don't know about you but here in Canada (and Soviet Russia?), developers choose companies these days, not the other way around. So there are a lot of new beeping opportunities - some have fancy MIDI tunes too !
Oh..
oops...
I inadvertantly pressed the "quit" button on my cellphone...
No more jobs in Europe - people go to (newly founded) America
No more jobs in (now just a wee bit older) America - people go to Asia (India)
Now what ?
No more jobs in Asia - people go to Antartica
Then back to Europe
Then to America
Then...
In the long term, this sounds like a pointless job macarena to me...
Counting lines or number of files sounds pretty useless to me when comparing languages....
A BAD developer will write 10 times the needed code for one feature where a GOOD developer will make sure inflation doesn't happen.
A GOOD Java developer will easily create thousands of files with 2 lines of code.
A BAD Java developer will write 1 class with 2000 lines of code.
A BAD Ada programmer will create LOTS of files with LOTS of lines.
A GOOD Ada programmer has no choice but to create LOTS of files with LOTS of lines anyway.
(ADA's so verbosic...)
So, see?
This java vs Php number of lines debate is pointless...
That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a while on Slashdot (and gee, there ARE a lot!).
First, you CANNOT remove strong typing from Java.
It's an object oriented language.
Tell me how you do one without the other..
Then you say removing strong typing is on the top 10 list.
As mentionned previously on another post, you must be talking about the templates being introduced in Java with JDK 1.5, which is NOT removal of strong typing, but adding features such as templates in C++. That is actually making the typing even more restrictive since you can now declare (as an example) Collection(s) of ONE object type, making sure no other object type will be stored in that collection ( thus removing needs for instanceof when iterating them)
So definitely, you don't understand and don't know what you are talking about.
Trouble is you are spreading your false statements to the world...
OK, admit it, you are a Visual Basic programmer, right?
"We the RIAA take advantage of the DMCA to notify you that you maybe infringing copyrights, and you will likely get sued for this. Please remove this or contact us
This is NOT threatening???
The letter says "either you delete your file, or you grab the phone"
So what do you consider NOT threatening?
** You are asked to delete your files or get sued
OR
** You are asked to call RIAA or get sued
What if I have no intention to grab the phone and delete my files?
I have to live under the threat of being sued.
Let's face it - the whole thing is abnoxious, can scare the unwary people, and against any form of democracy. Something has to be done.
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Call me an insensitive clod, but it's always the same with you geeks: it's great to read, but nobody explains what you are reading about.
Just like when you type "man".
It's great to read, but nobody explains how to do it (like with a few samples or examples).
>man installfest
No man pages found for "installfest" you insensitive clod
Again a new day where USA, M$ and patent offices altogether prove their stupidity and greedyness.
A day like yesterday.
-- Dono what tomorrow is made of.I once whined against Liberation.fr which index page opens a NEW popup window each time you go there, and basically , the only answer I got from their webmaster was "you still can go to hell" (ok...it's not exactly that but it's accurate enough).
So really, reporting to the host that you won't read their web site or anything similar is useless.
That was the reason why I installed Firefox
As an european living in North-America, this article , although true in its content, plays a lot of noisy drums for nothing.
Contrary to USA, europe does not have a culture of suing people or companies, and in particular against "hostile work environment".
I don't think the situation were an employee sues his company for receiving p0rn spam will arise often, since the employee will have nothing to win apart from losing his job and never find another one (suing your company is generally not a good thing on a resume). (I dont say you lose your job if you sue your company - legally you cannot, but we all know how easy it is to for companies to find other supposedly legal reasons to fire you).
Moreover, if your receive spam, it generally means that you have used your work e-mail address for non-business related issues, and you'll end up walking on dangerous grounds if you try suing your company for that.
So, to me, this article has been written by someone who knows laws, can forsee their effect, but do not know the european culture enough and makes the common mistake of comparing it to north-america. Or maybe he never worked in a company where e-mail is used for work.
What bothers me is that some people don't understand that it is very different to avoid people from being hurt - or hurt others than prevent people from accessing a technology or enjoy the fruits of progress or anything similar.
In Soviet Russia, DVD players decode YOU
Is that the same code that should be use to find weapons of mass destruction?
They are supposed to be from the same area, right ?
Sounds like everything from there is scam...
With those small rates and the inability to get overtime paid, I have the idea that people won't be interested in making a career in IT anymore.
Good for those indian folks !
Considering that's how the city makes profit...They probably want the best out of it and make sure it is "scalable" to fine as much drivers as possible.
At least that's a guess at this deployement of CPU power.
Yeah
Unfortunately, Montreal is very sunny (cold as hell....well..the other hell...the frozen one...but sunny).
So this might actually work.
In order to "keep the company business", (and for Compuware to make sure they keep their margin), we were instructed to NOT bill more than 8h a day, despite the fact that clients would have us work overtime and more.
Apparently, the only difference here is that managers don't even hide that fact. I am not sure how more or less illegal does that makes it
What strikes me the most in the announcement is the emphasized importance of having a paper trace of your vote.
In our age of E-Inks and such it shows one thing: paper is not gone yet !
I sincerly agree to this and you are right - this is absurd.
I am always amazed how companies expect us to serve them 24/7 but seem annoyed to hell when you point them out that you also have a family (or a dog) during the same 24 hours.
I remember the day when a manager from our customer company (a big USA banking firm full of arrogant people) started getting angry at me because I told him (after a full week working 12h-14h a day) that my 8h day was finished a long time ago, that I was ill and was heading back home, and that the bug he himself introduced in the system would be fixed the next day.
He started threatening me to report this to my manager and get me out of this assignement, which would have meant being fired by the consulting scrows firm that was paying me at that time
The thing is that people there is so afraid to lose their jobs (why? this is beyond me) that they assume it is the same for everyone.
In Soviet Russia - companies OWN you.- no difference from the USA.
Hello
First of all, there is not enough details about what you call the "no cellphone policy".
However, one thing really strikes me is the "even for the IT staff".
For example, how does your network admin cope with alerts (just as you do with your cellphone) when something goes wrong in his server room in the middle of the night ?
I take it your company consider pagers differently - which makes the policy a bit ridiculous
Having said that, while I would be extremely happy in a no-cellphone-noise environment, I wonder what exactly is the reason for such a policy in the first place ? Is there nobody needing a cellphone for business in your company ?
And although you should normally not deal with your own business/servers/whatever you have at home during work hours, I would question that policy.
Now, quitting is a personal choice but if it would hurt my lifestyle as much as it seems to hurt yours, I'd just quit and to hell with them...
After all, I don't know about you but here in Canada (and Soviet Russia?), developers choose companies these days, not the other way around. So there are a lot of new beeping opportunities - some have fancy MIDI tunes too !
Oh..
oops...
I inadvertantly pressed the "quit" button on my cellphone...
No more jobs in Europe - people go to (newly founded) America No more jobs in (now just a wee bit older) America - people go to Asia (India) Now what ? No more jobs in Asia - people go to Antartica Then back to Europe Then to America Then... In the long term, this sounds like a pointless job macarena to me...
Somebody mod this guy up !
Counting lines or number of files sounds pretty useless to me when comparing languages.... A BAD developer will write 10 times the needed code for one feature where a GOOD developer will make sure inflation doesn't happen. A GOOD Java developer will easily create thousands of files with 2 lines of code. A BAD Java developer will write 1 class with 2000 lines of code. A BAD Ada programmer will create LOTS of files with LOTS of lines. A GOOD Ada programmer has no choice but to create LOTS of files with LOTS of lines anyway. (ADA's so verbosic...) So, see? This java vs Php number of lines debate is pointless...
That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a while on Slashdot (and gee, there ARE a lot!). First, you CANNOT remove strong typing from Java. It's an object oriented language. Tell me how you do one without the other.. Then you say removing strong typing is on the top 10 list. As mentionned previously on another post, you must be talking about the templates being introduced in Java with JDK 1.5, which is NOT removal of strong typing, but adding features such as templates in C++. That is actually making the typing even more restrictive since you can now declare (as an example) Collection(s) of ONE object type, making sure no other object type will be stored in that collection ( thus removing needs for instanceof when iterating them) So definitely, you don't understand and don't know what you are talking about. Trouble is you are spreading your false statements to the world... OK, admit it, you are a Visual Basic programmer, right?
or said differently
"We the RIAA take advantage of the DMCA to notify you that you maybe infringing copyrights, and you will likely get sued for this. Please remove this or contact usThis is NOT threatening???
The letter says "either you delete your file, or you grab the phone"So what do you consider NOT threatening?
** You are asked to delete your files or get sued
OR** You are asked to call RIAA or get sued
What if I have no intention to grab the phone and delete my files? I have to live under the threat of being sued.Let's face it - the whole thing is abnoxious, can scare the unwary people, and against any form of democracy. Something has to be done.
I have a clueless ISP. Anybody has a stupid business?
Thinking the same thing...
Isn't that plain harassment or a kind of blackmailing ?
I would consider it that way if I'd receive such a letter.Booleans should be illegal.
I'm such an insensitive clod .sig
Insightful
if your name is on the list
How about:
-- logging out
-- change the username
-- delete temp files
-- logging again
-- check the next RIAA list
-- goto start