My own experience has always been with NGOs, schools, and small businesses, not corporations; for that market, doing small things very well will get you pocket-money in the short term, and professional, salaried positions in the long-term.
On three occasions, my helping a friend or friend-of-a friend with a desktop problem later resulted in a full-time job (in my case, as IT Manger / Webmaster for three different companies.)
Now - right now, in the US - perhaps the single most valuable thing you can have are 5-star Yelp reviews. (In Europe, as best I can tell from a quick search, that seems to be Google Reviews: Try http://goo.gl/slSq5 and notice most of the businesses on the first page of results.)
And, simply: ask around amongst your older friends and the people you've worked with already (who like you and will recommend you), and go from there.
I would love to finally see effective antivirus software rolled into Windows. If Microsoft bought NOD32 and rolled it into XP and Vista, you'd get your wish, or close to it: not "free", but "a feature".
As it is now...it doesn't seem reasonable to expect a top-notch antivirus product, simply because the work of programmers continually responding to emerging threats is more realistically sustained by a commercial rather than FOSS model.
I'd love to see dissenting opinions here, especially from coders with FOSS antivirus projects.
These students broke an explicit written agreement with their school, in the process committing a felony. The agreement is clear, the law is clear. They continued to do so after repeated warnings and progressively more severe punishments: this too, is clear.
The only question i find interesting is why the school demonstrably chose to press charges against only some of the students involved, and not all.
Letters by parents and employees of the school assert that choice exempted certain students based on money, priviledge, and family connection. *That* is the only interesting part of this left for me, and i hope to see the details of that spread far and wide.:)
"Morality" is such a subjective thing, IMHO. According to my personal "morality", it is in fact immoral to refuse treatment to the ill; similarly it is "immoral" for a corporation to set the price of a needed drug out of reach to those who need it.
So, to answer your first question: it is not immoral for an individual (or a corporation) to request money for a product; but it is immoral for that individual to deny medication to the sick. (How many of us act "morally" on a daily basis, I leave as an exercise in sorrow to the reader.)
The second and third paragraphs of your post seem to be trolls, and I will not attempt to address them here.
Why should a single person who has never missed a payment, never been late, never screwed anyone over by not paying back borrowed money and has a 12-month nest egg that he has painstakingly assembled be treated the same as the majority of people who live pay check to pay check, overspend their income, and do not act with restraint and discipline?
This comparison, though entertaining (if revealingly pejorative), neglects the difference between "credit" as applied to an individual and to a business. It is a function of the structure of our economy that "poor credit" bears no reliable correlation to dishonesty, poor financial planning, or any other "indicator of potential problems."
Leaving aside colorful criticisms of the "bad old days", and torrid exposition of the dangers of hiring "desperate" people, it might be equally useful to ask: why should a single person who has fulfilled all her financial management responsiblities admirably in past employment be treated differently based on a personal bill paid late?
I imagine a parallel case in which the message in question is saved to the CEO's email client outbox, and he wishes to delete it rather than sending it.
Assuming it's within your power to trim the message from the spool without violating anyone's privacy, this seems more a technical question than a moral one.
I too like dselect, but my experience with other distros is very limited. Can anyone suggest (or make) a relative comparison of popular distros, above and beyond the install process?
Henri Charmasson is one the "inventors" of the 'self-service terminal' and several of panIP's patented 'inventions', and simultaeneously one of the "attorneys" representing panIP.
I just don't get it. Mac OS X app and GUI performance is painful compared to OS 9, on any of the G3 and G4 boxes I've tried.
Quartz Extreme addresses only the newest hardware.
Why is Apple promoting a downgrade in performance?
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My own experience has always been with NGOs, schools, and small businesses, not corporations; for that market, doing small things very well will get you pocket-money in the short term, and professional, salaried positions in the long-term.
On three occasions, my helping a friend or friend-of-a friend with a desktop problem later resulted in a full-time job (in my case, as IT Manger / Webmaster for three different companies.)
Now - right now, in the US - perhaps the single most valuable thing you can have are 5-star Yelp reviews. (In Europe, as best I can tell from a quick search, that seems to be Google Reviews: Try http://goo.gl/slSq5 and notice most of the businesses on the first page of results.)
And, simply: ask around amongst your older friends and the people you've worked with already (who like you and will recommend you), and go from there.
As it is now...it doesn't seem reasonable to expect a top-notch antivirus product, simply because the work of programmers continually responding to emerging threats is more realistically sustained by a commercial rather than FOSS model.
I'd love to see dissenting opinions here, especially from coders with FOSS antivirus projects.
http://feeds.laughingsquid.com/laughingsquid "Art, Culture, and Technology"... heavily SFO-centric, and entirely wonderful.
These students broke an explicit written agreement with their school, in the process committing a felony. The agreement is clear, the law is clear. They continued to do so after repeated warnings and progressively more severe punishments: this too, is clear.
:)
The only question i find interesting is why the school demonstrably chose to press charges against only some of the students involved, and not all.
Letters by parents and employees of the school assert that choice exempted certain students based on money, priviledge, and family connection. *That* is the only interesting part of this left for me, and i hope to see the details of that spread far and wide.
"Morality" is such a subjective thing, IMHO. According to my personal "morality", it is in fact immoral to refuse treatment to the ill; similarly it is "immoral" for a corporation to set the price of a needed drug out of reach to those who need it.
So, to answer your first question: it is not immoral for an individual (or a corporation) to request money for a product; but it is immoral for that individual to deny medication to the sick. (How many of us act "morally" on a daily basis, I leave as an exercise in sorrow to the reader.)
The second and third paragraphs of your post seem to be trolls, and I will not attempt to address them here.
This comparison, though entertaining (if revealingly pejorative), neglects the difference between "credit" as applied to an individual and to a business. It is a function of the structure of our economy that "poor credit" bears no reliable correlation to dishonesty, poor financial planning, or any other "indicator of potential problems."
Leaving aside colorful criticisms of the "bad old days", and torrid exposition of the dangers of hiring "desperate" people, it might be equally useful to ask: why should a single person who has fulfilled all her financial management responsiblities admirably in past employment be treated differently based on a personal bill paid late?
I imagine a parallel case in which the message in question is saved to the CEO's email client outbox, and he wishes to delete it rather than sending it. Assuming it's within your power to trim the message from the spool without violating anyone's privacy, this seems more a technical question than a moral one.
I too like dselect, but my experience with other distros is very limited. Can anyone suggest (or make) a relative comparison of popular distros, above and beyond the install process?
Henri Charmasson is one the "inventors" of the 'self-service terminal' and several of panIP's patented 'inventions', and simultaeneously one of the "attorneys" representing panIP.
I just don't get it. Mac OS X app and GUI performance is painful compared to OS 9, on any of the G3 and G4 boxes I've tried. Quartz Extreme addresses only the newest hardware. Why is Apple promoting a downgrade in performance?