I'm forced to disagree, it is not the bean counters' fault. It is expensive to keep people in developed nations - not just salary and benefits, but taxes and office space too.
A company attempting to stay competitive in a global economy does what it needs to do in order to exist.
The only thing that surprises me about the movement of positions is how riled people get about it. I don't hear "You're selling in WHAT country??? You b@st@ards!" If the country is a market for products, why not the reverse? These stop being exclusively American jobs in a global economy.
As to being an expert in your field, perhaps you have too much loyalty if all that you say is true. If you're that good, there's a shortage of network techs, you could move.
Answer to your question: Yes. Too many people online think it's cool to just hate anything the government does. Here at slashdot isn't too bad (though it has its moments), other sites like Fark are rabid.
The government has responsibilities to the people. If those screaming had a police chopper land in their living room and chop up their little snowflake during cartoons because some bozo hit the pilot with a laser, they'd want heads rolling. Can't have it both ways - either the government does its job or not. I prefer it does, since we all live a pretty good brand of misery in the US compared to most places.
I disagree - they banded together to keep information from being distributed even after he found another way to get it published. In short, a group of people decided what we should or should not see. That's censorship, no matter who is at the controls. Only the fact that the person being censored had enough money and willpower to flip them the bird got around their attempts to censor. They didn't have to publish it - that's a business process that every business must run through. When they started putting up roadblocks to publishing in any manner, then it became attempted censorship. Same thing, just the operators are a different group.
You're pretty much describing the case. He paid his own money to get the movie made, it was cast with big names and well done. Company X (and Y, and Z) refused to distribute it because it did not fit with the Hollywood political agenda. And that's just an easy case. Brainwashing on television with hordes of "me too" followers is rampant. Sheep! They're all Sheep!
(I will refrain from more detail to keep from further derailing the thread, because all/. threads stay on-topic;-)).
As I say, if you've got a problem with censorship, that entire industry should be a problem for you.
Wow, if you have a problem with censorship, you must hate all of Hollywood. (one small example, see "The Passion of The Christ"). They are, after all, censoring what you're allowed to watch on a daily basis.
But I agree about the model... Deliver to my home, why should I make a special trip and worry about late fees?
I'm a CMP employee (though not one that has anything to do with shows), so I'll comment on this one.
CMP is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Business Media (UBM)... Out of England. So it is likely we have the resources and ability to interact in Ireland./just sayin'
I just have to ask where you got your numbers... From an exit pollster?
You can't just throw numbers out there with no source and expect people to believe them.
The one thing in this entire thread that bothers me is the over-arching sentiment by liberals that because I live in the midwest and did not agree with them, I must be an idiot.
Stop being so self-righteous. We did not put on blinders and walk to the polls. We came to a different conclusion than you, for a variety of reasons. Mine have to do with being a veteran.
So all the inuendo about religious reasons... Shove it. The Dems lost because they picked a loser. Bush tried to hand it to him - by keeping Ashcroft and again by flubbing the first debate. The fact is he was a lame horse from the start.
If you truly believe those are the reasons Bush won the election then you haven't bothered to pay attention.
Had you said "Bush won because people are scared", I would have disagreed but would not have assumed you're an idiot.
Unfortunately you chose to define the election in terms of fringe issues instead - leading me to believe you are one of those people who vote party faith.
As to Roe vs. Wade, I am sick and tired of hearing people talk about this from the perspective that complete denial of a father's rights is the moral high ground. Guess what? Once conception has occured there are at least two people's rights involved - the two parents. Roe v. Wade and the idiocy since then has denied that fact repeatedly. Do not deny one person's rights to 'protect' someone else's. That is not what the constitution is all about.
I think you're very very wrong. The fact is that in some parts of the world, no matter what you do, you're going to be wrong.
And trying to appease the people your first policy ticked off is only going to tick off the rest of them.
The mideast is one of those areas. If we are involved at all, we're going to be wrong.
At least we were not selling weapons to a madman that murdered his own people, thank god.
The U.N. cannot and should not take precedence over our needs. Care about what others think? Yes, the world is too small not to. Act like every time someone gets upset with us the party in power has done something wrong? Ridiculous.
Guess what? We're all very different societies, and to a great extent the stereotypes are true. We're never going to please everyone, so we choose whom we care about pleasing.
To lay claim that the French and Russians were right implies that we should have been selling Saddam military equipment. Idiotic. We did what needed doing. Just because some countries believe in profit first doesn't make the job any less valid, and their displeasure does not make The U.S. weenies for doing what we felt needed doing.
The U.N. is not an anti-American force for evil - it and several other "upstanding" world organizations were controlled by the Soviet Union for a while though... That's scary - but The U.N. does not have the best interests of my country at heart. Do I care about the world? Yes. Do I care more about my country and my countrymen? Yes. Hence a reluctance to give too much to the U.N.
The U.N. is also chronically slow and unable to copmlete the tasks at hand... Because you're not just doing a committee, you're doing a world committee.
When people are dying, I'll take fast and rude over slow and methodical. Save lives first, then discuss it.
But maybe I'm wrong, maybe all those excess deaths in Slovenia were a good thing.
I've got the same problem... My brother built a submersible and I'm doing the control systems. All is going well, but debugging things like valve control (for flushing the ballast) is... Difficult, and since it's just hobby I don't want to go buy the right test equipment.
Thus far I've been lucky, but eventually I'll hit something I have to shell out seriously for.
Far too much of the discourse on this one has degraded to right-left name calling.
Simply put, this is bad for all of us. It makes the left look bad (you don't have to like it, but just like "Patriot" became a bad word for a while in the minds of the left and many centrists after Ok City, the same would happen here), it makes both sides go "we have to get control of this thing!"
No, this is stupidity at its finest. Do not give the government reason to crack down, and do not perform actions that are likely to get people to view your political party of choice in a less friendly light.
Since I know you're wondering, I'm a right-winger, military service, god-and-country, and all. Doesn't keep my brain from working.
That's why I walked away from D&D with 3E. I play HackMaster, which while you can powergame the bejeezus out of, you can also RolePlay in without Timmy the Power Gamer showing up with the "official OGC book" he published in PDF and demanding to play the uber-powered class he put into it.
Besides, K&C (makers of HackMaster) are still a small company, so you can be heard if you would like something changed. I miss that about TSR/Wizards/Hasbro. They are the Microsoft of RPGs.
No, you guys have it right. We put in a Jabber server - the AIM portion of which is heavily dependent upon the GAIM libraries, and they do not support file transfer well.
Since we're running it from an org, we don't care... But if you need file transfer through AIM, GAIM and those apps built off of it are going to give you headaches at this time. Hopefully it gets better.
Buy SuSe.
When I bought my widescreen Toshiba with.11g I thought I'd be struggling. I went through all the other big name distros before landing on SuSE. I just worked. I didn't have to install Mad-WiFi myself or any of that garbage.
I did go get the nVidia driver. It wasn't necessary, but it does make that widescreen pretty.
Dude, I've been in your shoes. Straight out of college, financial software company that might have printed checks, scared to death that 'security' meant changing the attributes on the plain-text username/password files to hidden+system.
Your situation will be different, because I"m sure they're not the same company (the one I worked for has been bought and sold several times since I was there, so it's not the same at all).
But here's what I did:
1. Analyze the threat. Figure out how some one could get in on purpose, and how someone could find the obscurity part on accident. Document it well.
2. Propose a solution. Don't walk in with "this is a problem! We need to research it!" Suits tend to like things nice and tidy. If possible, give 'em an analysis document.
3. Don't spaz about it. I acted like "I did my job bringing this to you in a document - now it's in your court. But if you do something, I've already worked it out in that document for you."
Several posters have said "Don't do anything in this economy" and crap like that. Don't you believe it. If one major lawsuit hits your company because of this, the customers and stockholders will be running away in droves. Then you likely will get laid off.
Most companies want employees that give a crap. Sounds like you do. Show them you not only give a crap, but have potential. And if they don't act on it, then don't take it personal.
Later,
Don.
I actually just wrote a short article about SAP.
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The biggest issues that drive SAP home are:
1. ODBC support. True ODBC support. I have complex C++ programs running in Windows and Linux with NO #ifdefs and NO alternate sources.
2. Triggers and Stored Procedures. They work, and they work correctly.
Combine the two, and I was forced to run with SAPDB. We're using it for our current project, and happy with it.
Is it perfect? No, but it's a lot more robust that some systems out there. If you're targeting multiple platforms, I'd jump on it. If you're not, then I'd still evaluate it.
Having written freelance for Sun, I can tell you they treat their own publications the same way. The Trademarks are on Java(tm) Technology. They want to keep that clean.
It causes some stumbling in the writing sometimes too, but they believe it's the right thing to do.
So give 'em a break here. It sucks, but if they let just anyone use the name any way they want, then the age-old canker with Redmond will re-erupt, with Bill claiming that others have done it, so "JavaStuff (tm), A Microsoft Product" is not really stomping on Sun's good name...
As the ITS Project Manager for a project including (among others) DCSI, the technology shouldn't impact small home systems.
DCSI warps the power wave, this is not the same as the technology used in your home.
However, it might cause enough "noise" to impact the home... Haven't seen any tests of that.
It also doesn't lend itself to hacking. You could do it, but it would take a lot of work, some of it with 240 volts.
Don't write off the old toaster. We're looking at technology that might be able to turn it off for you...
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But but... think of the children!!! ;-)
I'm forced to disagree, it is not the bean counters' fault. It is expensive to keep people in developed nations - not just salary and benefits, but taxes and office space too. A company attempting to stay competitive in a global economy does what it needs to do in order to exist. The only thing that surprises me about the movement of positions is how riled people get about it. I don't hear "You're selling in WHAT country??? You b@st@ards!" If the country is a market for products, why not the reverse? These stop being exclusively American jobs in a global economy. As to being an expert in your field, perhaps you have too much loyalty if all that you say is true. If you're that good, there's a shortage of network techs, you could move.
Answer to your question: Yes. Too many people online think it's cool to just hate anything the government does. Here at slashdot isn't too bad (though it has its moments), other sites like Fark are rabid.
The government has responsibilities to the people. If those screaming had a police chopper land in their living room and chop up their little snowflake during cartoons because some bozo hit the pilot with a laser, they'd want heads rolling. Can't have it both ways - either the government does its job or not. I prefer it does, since we all live a pretty good brand of misery in the US compared to most places.
Oh. Well if the only difference is whether it was an internal or external decision...
http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2003-08-28#film3
http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2003-08-29#film4
There you have it. The government caused censorship.
I increasingly get the feeling that it is more what you agree with than an issue with censorship in general.
Though we're off-topic and karma-draining here, so I'll bow to you sir, and move on.
I disagree - they banded together to keep information from being distributed even after he found another way to get it published. In short, a group of people decided what we should or should not see. That's censorship, no matter who is at the controls. Only the fact that the person being censored had enough money and willpower to flip them the bird got around their attempts to censor. They didn't have to publish it - that's a business process that every business must run through. When they started putting up roadblocks to publishing in any manner, then it became attempted censorship. Same thing, just the operators are a different group.
You're pretty much describing the case. He paid his own money to get the movie made, it was cast with big names and well done. Company X (and Y, and Z) refused to distribute it because it did not fit with the Hollywood political agenda. And that's just an easy case. Brainwashing on television with hordes of "me too" followers is rampant. Sheep! They're all Sheep! (I will refrain from more detail to keep from further derailing the thread, because all /. threads stay on-topic ;-)).
As I say, if you've got a problem with censorship, that entire industry should be a problem for you.
Wow, if you have a problem with censorship, you must hate all of Hollywood. (one small example, see "The Passion of The Christ"). They are, after all, censoring what you're allowed to watch on a daily basis.
But I agree about the model... Deliver to my home, why should I make a special trip and worry about late fees?
Exactly. The fact is, if they're acting this way before you're onsite, imagine how they'll treat you in six months.
I'm a CMP employee (though not one that has anything to do with shows), so I'll comment on this one.
/just sayin'
CMP is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Business Media (UBM)... Out of England. So it is likely we have the resources and ability to interact in Ireland.
I just have to ask where you got your numbers... From an exit pollster? You can't just throw numbers out there with no source and expect people to believe them.
The one thing in this entire thread that bothers me is the over-arching sentiment by liberals that because I live in the midwest and did not agree with them, I must be an idiot.
Stop being so self-righteous. We did not put on blinders and walk to the polls. We came to a different conclusion than you, for a variety of reasons. Mine have to do with being a veteran.
So all the inuendo about religious reasons... Shove it. The Dems lost because they picked a loser. Bush tried to hand it to him - by keeping Ashcroft and again by flubbing the first debate. The fact is he was a lame horse from the start.
Yes, it was flamebait.
If you truly believe those are the reasons Bush won the election then you haven't bothered to pay attention.
Had you said "Bush won because people are scared", I would have disagreed but would not have assumed you're an idiot.
Unfortunately you chose to define the election in terms of fringe issues instead - leading me to believe you are one of those people who vote party faith.
As to Roe vs. Wade, I am sick and tired of hearing people talk about this from the perspective that complete denial of a father's rights is the moral high ground. Guess what? Once conception has occured there are at least two people's rights involved - the two parents. Roe v. Wade and the idiocy since then has denied that fact repeatedly. Do not deny one person's rights to 'protect' someone else's. That is not what the constitution is all about.
I think you're very very wrong. The fact is that in some parts of the world, no matter what you do, you're going to be wrong.
And trying to appease the people your first policy ticked off is only going to tick off the rest of them.
The mideast is one of those areas. If we are involved at all, we're going to be wrong.
At least we were not selling weapons to a madman that murdered his own people, thank god.
The U.N. cannot and should not take precedence over our needs. Care about what others think? Yes, the world is too small not to. Act like every time someone gets upset with us the party in power has done something wrong? Ridiculous.
Guess what? We're all very different societies, and to a great extent the stereotypes are true. We're never going to please everyone, so we choose whom we care about pleasing.
To lay claim that the French and Russians were right implies that we should have been selling Saddam military equipment. Idiotic. We did what needed doing. Just because some countries believe in profit first doesn't make the job any less valid, and their displeasure does not make The U.S. weenies for doing what we felt needed doing.
The U.N. is not an anti-American force for evil - it and several other "upstanding" world organizations were controlled by the Soviet Union for a while though... That's scary - but The U.N. does not have the best interests of my country at heart. Do I care about the world? Yes. Do I care more about my country and my countrymen? Yes. Hence a reluctance to give too much to the U.N.
The U.N. is also chronically slow and unable to copmlete the tasks at hand... Because you're not just doing a committee, you're doing a world committee.
When people are dying, I'll take fast and rude over slow and methodical. Save lives first, then discuss it.
But maybe I'm wrong, maybe all those excess deaths in Slovenia were a good thing.
People still vote for Bush? Yeah, we do.
My question is whether Dan "Truth doesn't matter, I'm a reporter" Rather will be covering this story.
Just because it was in a paper doesn't make it true.
I've got the same problem... My brother built a submersible and I'm doing the control systems. All is going well, but debugging things like valve control (for flushing the ballast) is... Difficult, and since it's just hobby I don't want to go buy the right test equipment. Thus far I've been lucky, but eventually I'll hit something I have to shell out seriously for.
Far too much of the discourse on this one has degraded to right-left name calling.
Simply put, this is bad for all of us. It makes the left look bad (you don't have to like it, but just like "Patriot" became a bad word for a while in the minds of the left and many centrists after Ok City, the same would happen here), it makes both sides go "we have to get control of this thing!"
No, this is stupidity at its finest. Do not give the government reason to crack down, and do not perform actions that are likely to get people to view your political party of choice in a less friendly light.
Since I know you're wondering, I'm a right-winger, military service, god-and-country, and all. Doesn't keep my brain from working.
That's why I walked away from D&D with 3E. I play HackMaster, which while you can powergame the bejeezus out of, you can also RolePlay in without Timmy the Power Gamer showing up with the "official OGC book" he published in PDF and demanding to play the uber-powered class he put into it. Besides, K&C (makers of HackMaster) are still a small company, so you can be heard if you would like something changed. I miss that about TSR/Wizards/Hasbro. They are the Microsoft of RPGs.
No, you guys have it right. We put in a Jabber server - the AIM portion of which is heavily dependent upon the GAIM libraries, and they do not support file transfer well. Since we're running it from an org, we don't care... But if you need file transfer through AIM, GAIM and those apps built off of it are going to give you headaches at this time. Hopefully it gets better.
Buy SuSe. When I bought my widescreen Toshiba with .11g I thought I'd be struggling. I went through all the other big name distros before landing on SuSE. I just worked. I didn't have to install Mad-WiFi myself or any of that garbage.
I did go get the nVidia driver. It wasn't necessary, but it does make that widescreen pretty.
Dude, I've been in your shoes. Straight out of college, financial software company that might have printed checks, scared to death that 'security' meant changing the attributes on the plain-text username/password files to hidden+system. Your situation will be different, because I"m sure they're not the same company (the one I worked for has been bought and sold several times since I was there, so it's not the same at all). But here's what I did: 1. Analyze the threat. Figure out how some one could get in on purpose, and how someone could find the obscurity part on accident. Document it well. 2. Propose a solution. Don't walk in with "this is a problem! We need to research it!" Suits tend to like things nice and tidy. If possible, give 'em an analysis document. 3. Don't spaz about it. I acted like "I did my job bringing this to you in a document - now it's in your court. But if you do something, I've already worked it out in that document for you." Several posters have said "Don't do anything in this economy" and crap like that. Don't you believe it. If one major lawsuit hits your company because of this, the customers and stockholders will be running away in droves. Then you likely will get laid off. Most companies want employees that give a crap. Sounds like you do. Show them you not only give a crap, but have potential. And if they don't act on it, then don't take it personal. Later, Don.
1. ODBC support. True ODBC support. I have complex C++ programs running in Windows and Linux with NO #ifdefs and NO alternate sources.
2. Triggers and Stored Procedures. They work, and they work correctly.
Combine the two, and I was forced to run with SAPDB. We're using it for our current project, and happy with it.
Is it perfect? No, but it's a lot more robust that some systems out there. If you're targeting multiple platforms, I'd jump on it. If you're not, then I'd still evaluate it.Having written freelance for Sun, I can tell you they treat their own publications the same way. The Trademarks are on Java(tm) Technology. They want to keep that clean.
It causes some stumbling in the writing sometimes too, but they believe it's the right thing to do.
So give 'em a break here. It sucks, but if they let just anyone use the name any way they want, then the age-old canker with Redmond will re-erupt, with Bill claiming that others have done it, so "JavaStuff (tm), A Microsoft Product" is not really stomping on Sun's good name...
As the ITS Project Manager for a project including (among others) DCSI, the technology shouldn't impact small home systems. DCSI warps the power wave, this is not the same as the technology used in your home. However, it might cause enough "noise" to impact the home... Haven't seen any tests of that. It also doesn't lend itself to hacking. You could do it, but it would take a lot of work, some of it with 240 volts. Don't write off the old toaster. We're looking at technology that might be able to turn it off for you...