Having to stay late to wrap up code for a release deadline.
Why? Did your boss set an unrealistic deadline? Sounds like his problem and he should stay late to make the deadline. Oddly enough I've never seen a project manager work an 80 hour week with no comp time or bonus, but developers line up for that kind of idiocy.
getting calls from the computer room in the middle of the night
Turn off the phone. If the company requires you to answer the phone get another job, or write documentation so they can fix problems without you. I personally count every call after hours as 2 hours on the job that I take off during the week. The wife enjoys me coming home at 2pm on a Friday and spending time with her.
getting a calls at 5:30pm from an irate spouse.
She wanted to spend time with you, you wanted to spend time at work.
And don't spout off about HAVING to work late, you don't have to do anything. I used to work 12 hours a day, and I never got promoted until I stopped being a slave to the job. Why is it us programmers can't do simple division and figure out that a big paycheck divided by 80 hours a week is no better than a manager a burger king.
You loved your job more than her, hope you can surf porn in privacy at work so it makes a better substitute.
private airline has no power to detain anyone whatsoever, or to search anyone for that matter:
Just like Wal-mart can't search and detain a shoplifter, or JC penny, or Dillards. If I think someone who broke though my window has some of my wifes jewelry in her pocket I can't do anything against his will? Bullshit. If someone comes on my property and is stealing stuff or threatening, or I "THINK" he is threatening my family I probably won't detain him. He's welcome to leave to the best of his ability with that big shotgun crater in his head. Corporations and individuals have greater rights than the police because they AREN'T the government.
It's becoming a great stunt to wear provocative messages on a T-Shirt AND behave like an ass just to stir up a confrontation. I'm a gringo, if I wore a shirt outside my house (in the primary hispanic area of town) saying that all mexicans were wetbacks I'd get a cap in my ass, and nobody in town would give a crap because it was my stupid activity that got me there in the first place. This guy knew what he was stirring up, and then cried when he got what he wanted. I've said it before and I'll say it again. If someone got on my plane with my baby and wife with a T-Shirt that said something bad about the company employees or FAA employees I'd get my family off that plane immediately at the very least, and I'm sure I'd be at the back of that exit line. What company would put up with that crap in their store/plane. What a grade A Idiot/ass this guy is.
Give me a break. These people printing up 10 dollar T-shirts so that they can be a shithead to everyone in the airport need to grow up and get a life.
And I think George Bush is an idiot, but If I wore a T-shirt to the white house that said that I'd be forced to leave. This is no different whatsoever.
You know, a long time ago flying gwas something you dressed up to do. I wouldn't be upset at all if there was a published dress code so people with agendas would stop wearing dumb ass messages on their shirts just so they could get a little publicity and cause a lot of grief.
Privately owned airports are private property. They may be guarded by the government but on my property if you say I'm an idiot I'm kicking you off. If you walked into a wal-mart with a shirt that said wal-mart sucks you would get kicked out. Feel free to wear that crap out on the street.
People aren't let into restaraunts and clubs all the tim because of attire. Why the hell would an airport be any different? Heck it was as much for that guy's safety as anything. If other passengers thought he was being threatening by a shirt or his attitude it's not unlikely he would have landed with his skull kicked in by other passengers.
I'm a pretty freedom oriented dude, but get over yourselves you damn hippies.
Was this the same Lilo that used to administer #linpeople on Undernet years ago (like in 95/96)? If so that sucks, Lilo helped me get a start in linux which enabled me to grow in IT and become an administrator then programmer.
Opportunity isn't a buzzword really: Opportunity Cost. That's a term I learned my first week in ECON101.
I would also say that taking the word opportunity out of the sentence drastically changes the meaning. I've seen many companies use technology in their business and greatly increase costs. Technology only gives us the opportunity to reduce costs, it doesn't guarantee it.
I assure you that the word opportunity isn't going away any time soon. Please don't assume something is a "buzzword" because it's not in your vocabulary.
That's good in theory but unfortunately it doesn't really work that way in reality.
In insurance, specifically healthcare insurance the sick are paid for by the healthy. If everyone had to justify the personal budget expense of going out and getting insurance the most healthy (ages 18 to 30~ mostly) would probably not be able to justify the expense. They would just risk that they wouldn't get sick.
That leaves the higher risk bracket to prop themselves up. That would make insurance rates for those that did choose to get insurance go up. Those that had previously decided to just risk not getting insurance would be priced out by the time they decide they do want insurance.
If healthcare insurance was mandatory the same way that vehicle insurance is mandatory in Texas *in theory* everyone from healthy to sick would have it, and the price would fall to manageable levels.
It's a balancing act. I don't think most americans want a socialized healthcare system because that type of healthcare system takes away the rewards for healthcare professionals to enter the field. On the other hand if we fall below a certain level of insured individuals the whole system comes crashing down. Right now hospitals are offloading their operating expenses from those without insurance to those who have insurance. Or offloading non payers to payers the same way that Wal-Mart raises prices for everyone to make up for shoplifting.
If you have good ideas and solutions to this please send them to Washington!
Man I ruined an entire labs worth of work and who knows how much more by downloading compiling and running GnuCash on our HP9000 server at the local community college. I just remember running the game, making like two moves and then all of a sudden everyone in the lab doing a collective "what the...". Took me a few seconds to put two and two together, close Kermit, and bounce to the cafeteria.
It wasn't till I started running my own unix systems that I understood why the professor was so pissed that his server had to be restarted that had a three year uptime.
I had to do a double take when I read the intro. My dad's name is John Carroll, and he uses Mozilla, so slashdot is now onto you, you John Carroll imposter!
I work for a banking firm, and although I'm not a great SQL guy, I know within about an hour I could find damn near every gold seller with a page or two long query. They don't give a crap or they would have devoted a few thousand dollars to buy up some gold online, and then do a transaction search off of those sellers accounts to find who had purchased gold, who the sellers were gettin gold from, etc.
Maybe this is something everyone on the net knew besides me, but I've really really enjoyed what I have seen of Girl Genius Online. Nice plot, nice graphics. Also apparently one of the authors did the covers for some of Robert Asprin's books which I loved as a kiddo.
I have to move into a cube aka "loser cruiser" in two days. I've got an old wooden barometer/thermometer I'm going to put on the wall, and I'm trying to think of other ideas of decorations that will make it seem less like a cramped noisy cube and more like a small office decorated to promote relaxation and concentration. Anyone got any ideas?
I had all sorts of hell with my athelon 64 booting sometimes, locking up others. Rebooting randomly, and basically being a big pain in the butt. Then I replaced the power supply with a non-cheapo unit, and put a battery backup on the system and haven't had a problem since. I've also heard similar tales from other folks.
I'm sorry someone decided to mod you troll there argoff, because that post was about as insightful as they get. Perhaps someone didn't like that you said their slave baron great grandfather went to hell, or that you said something non-inflammantory about microsoft.
I don't care much for microsoft's tactics . As far as the top management structure I think they are some of the most rotten apples in the corporate barrel. However, they did make a lot of _programmers_ millionaires for doing a damn fine job at what they were hired to do (grow the company is job 1 at any company).
It's hard to tell which side of the information age consumers will come out on. We never saw a "1984" society because the computer revolution ended up empowering the people rather than the government, but many people say it's still just a matter of time till we get there. What worries me (and this is a non-partisan worry) is that we are now in a state of war that can never end, because there will always be some screwball somewhere in the world blowing up kids the govt can redirect the war on terror towards. Typically the government restricts freedoms during a time of war, and gives them back afterwards.
I got pissed off because the little iriver player I had woudln't let me copy mp3's off of it to my hard drive when I upgraded its firmware to a newer version. It sucked because I wanted to use it to copy music from my house to my computer up at work. I have a fast internet connection, but it is for customers and research, not downloading music or streaming shoutcasts.
I don't have a portable music player now. I just copy my stuff to CD if I want to listen to it on my computer. It's annoying, but they aren't too expensive anymore.
I like Amarillo, TX. It's a good place to live, but it's not nearly as hick'ish anymore as folks in England want it to be when they get here after winning one of those radio station contests. I mean most duallys don't even have a 5th wheel hitch anymore, the belt buckles have shrunk well below the 8 inch radius, heck we only bury Caddilacs
half way now.
I think this is why Sniping always works. If everyone bid the amount they were willing to then sniping wouldn't work at all. I have however seen my relatives and even girlfriend all bid in small increments until they have just enough to outbid the last bidder. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of ebayers do this like it's some sort of trick that only they know. I get a some mean looks from people I see doing that when I tell them they will probably lose that auction in the last 5 seconds, but it's almost always true. I believe this has something to do with the same way people reason that they have a complete game of chance (slot machines) figured out.
In Vegas && Ebay winners are usually more broke than when they started.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/23/music. yankovic.reut/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Quote:
"As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me."
Having to stay late to wrap up code for a release deadline.
Why? Did your boss set an unrealistic deadline? Sounds like his problem and he should stay late to make the deadline. Oddly enough I've never seen a project manager work an 80 hour week with no comp time or bonus, but developers line up for that kind of idiocy.
getting calls from the computer room in the middle of the night
Turn off the phone. If the company requires you to answer the phone get another job, or write documentation so they can fix problems without you. I personally count every call after hours as 2 hours on the job that I take off during the week. The wife enjoys me coming home at 2pm on a Friday and spending time with her.
getting a calls at 5:30pm from an irate spouse.
She wanted to spend time with you, you wanted to spend time at work.
And don't spout off about HAVING to work late, you don't have to do anything. I used to work 12 hours a day, and I never got promoted until I stopped being a slave to the job. Why is it us programmers can't do simple division and figure out that a big paycheck divided by 80 hours a week is no better than a manager a burger king.
You loved your job more than her, hope you can surf porn in privacy at work so it makes a better substitute.
My wife comes first. We can always make more children.
;).
My children will know this when they get older, and it will help to keep them in line
private airline has no power to detain anyone whatsoever, or to search anyone for that matter:
Just like Wal-mart can't search and detain a shoplifter, or JC penny, or Dillards. If I think someone who broke though my window has some of my wifes jewelry in her pocket I can't do anything against his will? Bullshit. If someone comes on my property and is stealing stuff or threatening, or I "THINK" he is threatening my family I probably won't detain him. He's welcome to leave to the best of his ability with that big shotgun crater in his head. Corporations and individuals have greater rights than the police because they AREN'T the government.
It's becoming a great stunt to wear provocative messages on a T-Shirt AND behave like an ass just to stir up a confrontation. I'm a gringo, if I wore a shirt outside my house (in the primary hispanic area of town) saying that all mexicans were wetbacks I'd get a cap in my ass, and nobody in town would give a crap because it was my stupid activity that got me there in the first place. This guy knew what he was stirring up, and then cried when he got what he wanted. I've said it before and I'll say it again. If someone got on my plane with my baby and wife with a T-Shirt that said something bad about the company employees or FAA employees I'd get my family off that plane immediately at the very least, and I'm sure I'd be at the back of that exit line. What company would put up with that crap in their store/plane. What a grade A Idiot/ass this guy is.
Give me a break. These people printing up 10 dollar T-shirts so that they can be a shithead to everyone in the airport need to grow up and get a life.
And I think George Bush is an idiot, but If I wore a T-shirt to the white house that said that I'd be forced to leave. This is no different whatsoever. You know, a long time ago flying gwas something you dressed up to do. I wouldn't be upset at all if there was a published dress code so people with agendas would stop wearing dumb ass messages on their shirts just so they could get a little publicity and cause a lot of grief.
Privately owned airports are private property. They may be guarded by the government but on my property if you say I'm an idiot I'm kicking you off. If you walked into a wal-mart with a shirt that said wal-mart sucks you would get kicked out. Feel free to wear that crap out on the street. People aren't let into restaraunts and clubs all the tim because of attire. Why the hell would an airport be any different? Heck it was as much for that guy's safety as anything. If other passengers thought he was being threatening by a shirt or his attitude it's not unlikely he would have landed with his skull kicked in by other passengers. I'm a pretty freedom oriented dude, but get over yourselves you damn hippies.
Was this the same Lilo that used to administer #linpeople on Undernet years ago (like in 95/96)?
If so that sucks, Lilo helped me get a start in linux which enabled me to grow in IT and become an administrator then programmer.
Opportunity isn't a buzzword really: Opportunity Cost. That's a term I learned my first week in ECON101.
I would also say that taking the word opportunity out of the sentence drastically changes the meaning. I've seen many companies use technology in their business and greatly increase costs. Technology only gives us the opportunity to reduce costs, it doesn't guarantee it.
I assure you that the word opportunity isn't going away any time soon. Please don't assume something is a "buzzword" because it's not in your vocabulary.
That's good in theory but unfortunately it doesn't really work that way in reality. In insurance, specifically healthcare insurance the sick are paid for by the healthy. If everyone had to justify the personal budget expense of going out and getting insurance the most healthy (ages 18 to 30~ mostly) would probably not be able to justify the expense. They would just risk that they wouldn't get sick. That leaves the higher risk bracket to prop themselves up. That would make insurance rates for those that did choose to get insurance go up. Those that had previously decided to just risk not getting insurance would be priced out by the time they decide they do want insurance. If healthcare insurance was mandatory the same way that vehicle insurance is mandatory in Texas *in theory* everyone from healthy to sick would have it, and the price would fall to manageable levels. It's a balancing act. I don't think most americans want a socialized healthcare system because that type of healthcare system takes away the rewards for healthcare professionals to enter the field. On the other hand if we fall below a certain level of insured individuals the whole system comes crashing down. Right now hospitals are offloading their operating expenses from those without insurance to those who have insurance. Or offloading non payers to payers the same way that Wal-Mart raises prices for everyone to make up for shoplifting. If you have good ideas and solutions to this please send them to Washington!
Man I ruined an entire labs worth of work and who knows how much more by downloading compiling and running GnuCash on our HP9000 server at the local community college. I just remember running the game, making like two moves and then all of a sudden everyone in the lab doing a collective "what the...". Took me a few seconds to put two and two together, close Kermit, and bounce to the cafeteria.
It wasn't till I started running my own unix systems that I understood why the professor was so pissed that his server had to be restarted that had a three year uptime.
I've always preferred Sphagetti day to Soylent Green day.
I had to do a double take when I read the intro. My dad's name is John Carroll, and he uses Mozilla, so slashdot is now onto you, you John Carroll imposter!
I work for a banking firm, and although I'm not a great SQL guy, I know within about an hour I could find damn near every gold seller with a page or two long query. They don't give a crap or they would have devoted a few thousand dollars to buy up some gold online, and then do a transaction search off of those sellers accounts to find who had purchased gold, who the sellers were gettin gold from, etc.
Welcome to the department of redundancy department.
I'm going to guess that it will allow Fedora to actually come out with stable releases rather than just being a nonstop test platform for Redhat.
Maybe this is something everyone on the net knew besides me, but I've really really enjoyed what I have seen of Girl Genius Online. Nice plot, nice graphics. Also apparently one of the authors did the covers for some of Robert Asprin's books which I loved as a kiddo.
I have to move into a cube aka "loser cruiser" in two days. I've got an old wooden barometer/thermometer I'm going to put on the wall, and I'm trying to think of other ideas of decorations that will make it seem less like a cramped noisy cube and more like a small office decorated to promote relaxation and concentration. Anyone got any ideas?
I had all sorts of hell with my athelon 64 booting sometimes, locking up others. Rebooting randomly, and basically being a big pain in the butt. Then I replaced the power supply with a non-cheapo unit, and put a battery backup on the system and haven't had a problem since. I've also heard similar tales from other folks.
I'm sorry someone decided to mod you troll there argoff, because that post was about as insightful as they get. Perhaps someone didn't like that you said their slave baron great grandfather went to hell, or that you said something non-inflammantory about microsoft.
I don't care much for microsoft's tactics . As far as the top management structure I think they are some of the most rotten apples in the corporate barrel. However, they did make a lot of _programmers_ millionaires for doing a damn fine job at what they were hired to do (grow the company is job 1 at any company).
It's hard to tell which side of the information age consumers will come out on. We never saw a "1984" society because the computer revolution ended up empowering the people rather than the government, but many people say it's still just a matter of time till we get there. What worries me (and this is a non-partisan worry) is that we are now in a state of war that can never end, because there will always be some screwball somewhere in the world blowing up kids the govt can redirect the war on terror towards. Typically the government restricts freedoms during a time of war, and gives them back afterwards.
I bite every hand that feeds me SPAM(TM).
I got pissed off because the little iriver player I had woudln't let me copy mp3's off of it to my hard drive when I upgraded its firmware to a newer version. It sucked because I wanted to use it to copy music from my house to my computer up at work. I have a fast internet connection, but it is for customers and research, not downloading music or streaming shoutcasts.
I don't have a portable music player now. I just copy my stuff to CD if I want to listen to it on my computer. It's annoying, but they aren't too expensive anymore.
I like Amarillo, TX. It's a good place to live, but it's not nearly as hick'ish anymore as folks in England want it to be when they get here after winning one of those radio station contests. I mean most duallys don't even have a 5th wheel hitch anymore, the belt buckles have shrunk well below the 8 inch radius, heck we only bury Caddilacs half way now.
People who are intollerant of other peoples' cultures, and the Dutch.
A.Powers
I see 150 year old brick streets in a lot of towns still. Seems like that's a pretty good building material for slower traffic too :).
I think this is why Sniping always works. If everyone bid the amount they were willing to then sniping wouldn't work at all. I have however seen my relatives and even girlfriend all bid in small increments until they have just enough to outbid the last bidder. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of ebayers do this like it's some sort of trick that only they know. I get a some mean looks from people I see doing that when I tell them they will probably lose that auction in the last 5 seconds, but it's almost always true. I believe this has something to do with the same way people reason that they have a complete game of chance (slot machines) figured out.
In Vegas && Ebay winners are usually more broke than when they started.