I collected over 150 bottle caps and not one was a winner! I drink about 6 diet pepsi's per day. And my friends at work saved the caps for me. So this is no suprize to me. I don't personally know anyone who won a song.
The answer is no software patents. We already have copyright protection there is no need for software patents. Traditional inventions don't have copyright, but they have patents. The arts like literature have copyright but not patents. We've distorted the intent of IP protections by allowing both.
Yes! Lets kill those puny dialup users, let's send them a real attachment. They'll be lining up for broadband. Mail all those live CD linux distros to every single AOL user on the planet! And it will be cheaper that using the post office like AOL does.
I can see it now "You've Got" and 6 hours later "Mail!"
Of course then, the managers will start displaying maps of India. For the same reason they displayed maps of Mexico in factories in the 1990's!
Then employees can start wearing NRA insignia. Personally, I find it amazing that some employee that has been outsourced hasn't assassinated a high profile supporter of outsourcing such as HP CEO Carly Fiorina. It's either an amazing show of judgement and restraint by the employees. Or lack of will and resignation of the fact that these people will always be able to walk all over you. I haven't decided which.
"I will be graduating from college in May with a degree in computer science."
Congratulations! It took a long time and hard work to get there. Unfortunately, times have changed since you entered college. So, yes! I will have fries with that.
The loser usually suffers more loses. That's why they Lose. France lost most of it's territory to Germany not once but twice. It's not funny, but neither is the french arrogance.
You do realise that there are many download mangers with those features available? Not only do many broswers have them there are alot of various freeware and shareware standalone versions on www.download.com.
It was the combined efforts of the US, UK & Russia. The US came in late a fresh, it helped shorten the war immeasurably. France was a door mat that said "Bienvenue!" (Welcome). The germans obliged an wiped their feet on it. The germans said "Danka! Verlierer!" (Thanks! Loser!)
Good start! Another start would be that all programmers who develop systems that the US government, especially the DOD, uses need to be certified and have at least a simple background investigation. Similiar to real engineers. Software Engineers need more accountability, that will increase our value. This would not stop Open Source, certified engineers would test and certify any software used. Such as the work the NSA has done for linux.
Would you choose to run as root because it's easier? Or would you try to find a reasonable compromise and if that cannot be made always choose security over ease of use? If you said yes to the first, then no. You will probably have an unsecure system. If you answered the second yes, then yes you probably can make it a little more useable and still be secure.
What you can't do is disregard security totally for years, get a large market using your product and then start thinking about security. Or at least it hasn't worked for Microsoft.
I also never said anything about repealing any of the current labor laws
Just where do you think those jobs are going? To countries without such laws. I never said anyone owes you something without working for it. What I'm saying is that the employer employee relationship is a contract. And the salary is not the only compensation. Job security is a reasonable expectation, that is why an employer cannot legaly just fire you without cause. That's why you are "laid off". You cannot seem to look past your paycheck long enough to see there are issues other than the paycheck. Safe work environment, job security, retirement funds etc, they are all compensation and or employer responsibilties. Take a look at your employment contract, every single standard contract talks about termination for cause and rights that both the employee and employer have. Would you work for someone who in the contract says termination can be without cause and at the whim of the CEO if he has determined it will increase the stock price by 1 penny and gain him a $6 million bonus?
I'm 44 and I could care less what the hell you make, I have alot more experience than you. You are trying to justify the right to screw anyone, anytime for profit. There is a reason that laws are in place to limit greed in the market place. These laws have evolved over the years to protect workers and society from pure greed. Your happy now, but your employed, try having it happen to you. And not be able to find a job that pays even half what your currently making. Then see how you feel. I don't have the problem either, my company is completely employee owned. The workers here are all partners in a joint effort, and it works well for us. We are only 24 people, but we do over 10 million in consulting fees annually, and we feel a debt to each other. But I can still have empathy for others. The outsourcing of jobs to countries with no such protections is just an attempt to turn back the clock to a time when lords owned everything. The only difference is now it's "multi-national" corporations not lords and kings. These companies see themselves as not belonging to any country, they pay little or no taxes and pay politicians to help them when suits their needs.
How old are you? You think a company earns millions or billions on your efforts and you only get a few thousand a year? You don't think there is a social contract here? How much uncompensated overtime was done in 10 years? What would have happened to the company if the employees had not used their creative talents and 10 years of dedication to get them where they are? I find that most people who feel like you do are in fact not performing, and have no desire to do anything but the minimum effort required. My nephew has the same view, he is almost 30 and lives off his mother. He hasn't had a full-time job in years and feels that the only one who owes him anything is her.
I would hope that a company's debt to me would be expressed entirely in the salary and benefits that they give me. If it's not, that means I'm being underpaid!
Keep hoping, because you miss the point entirely! The employees of a company usually devote more effort in the company than is compensated for. The company earns millions or even billions from the creative efforts of it's employees. Companies do not prosper in a vacum, one of the compensations is employment security. Many workers work uncompensated overtime to help the company prosper and have the expectation of continued employment. If this is no longer the case then socialism is preferable for the average worker, due the security. Because without any kind of employer resposibilties to their employees, you have fuedalism. And that is what is really happening in many third world countries. The employees have low salaries and no benefits, and are in fact indentured servants to foriegn companies. Children work in sweatshops so that Nike can run million dollar ads and pay millions to pro athletes for their endoresements. I read an article that stated 600 of the top 1000 companies in the US paid zero taxes last year, and those same companies also outsourced a total of 40,000 jobs. Each of those CEO's recieved millions in compensation.
I would like to know why when employees put 10+ years into a company, and through those employees efforts and creativity the company has prospered, that the company feels no debt to them? And does a company feel like it can despose of them like yesterdays garbage so that the CEO can get a big fat salary?
You could burn them to a CD and take the CD to work.
Have you discussed it with your network guys? I'm the network guy at my employers, we block kaaza etc. I opened up legal services. My concerns as an employee and administrator are:
Are we allowing anything that could get the company in trouble?
We don't care if you listen to and store a reasonable amount of music on your company owned computer system. As long as it's not going to discredit our companies good name.
I would never use this because of that fact. I bought my music at iTunes because the agreement is reasonable to me. I have burnt my songs to CD to play in my vehicle, and I have copies on my laptop and iPod. I'm satisfied, that my needs were met. If this is unreasonble to you, don't buy it. The people who use this software are trying to change the agreement after the fact, to suit them. Personally I think the price is about $0.49 too high, but the DRM restrictions are in no way unreasonable to me. If I thought otherwise, my money would go elesewhere.
No, but the artitecture and OS together is rare. How many linux viruses you seen. How many MAC viruses. Now how many Linux viruses compiled to run on PPC arhitecture? It would be like trying to infect Atari 800XL computers. You might make the virus but how the hell do you get it to the target? It certainly wouldn't spread like a worm infecting all those 800XL's in existence around the internet. Unless maybe through an Atari 800 IRC channel you get specific information of specific peoples computers. You would have to send it directly to the victum via an email or in an application that would probably be 100% traceable back to you. It's the same here, the virus would literaly have to be in the yellow dog distribution or spammed to TeraSofts mailing list. There is safety in obscurity if your virus is not compatible with any other systems and nobody can find you.
Not only do I have a personal library, I have an extensive library of "Learn by Example Books".
Perl Cookbook etc. Why would someone create the same function, over and over again? What would it accomplish if I did? Chances are I would do it almost exactly the same way each time. And the more times I did it the more uniform (structure, variable names etc.) it would become. The main thing I think it would accomplish is less comments. Why document what I've written many times before, I certainly know what it does.
Good, I write to my state legislature representative and see about getting Alabama classified as a third world country.
I'm sorry but it can't happen as long the show COPS continues to air. Those trailer raids make the place look unsafe. Though your use of grammar in the above post places you squarely in league with many third world nations.
Obviously, whoever modded me Offtopic can't fathom sarcasm so I'll explain it. The company that said offshoring Indian engineers saved a few employees in California is missing the point! They hired employees with no medical insurance, no minimum wage and higher skill levels to save the workers in california. And I'm wondering how many illegals work for them. They're everywhere in california and most companies ignore it. I know I lived there. How is offshoring engineers and keeping those here with lesser technical skills, good for the US? I gave a talk at a local high school about opportunities in IT at nasa. The general attitude was that IT was not a viable option because you could end up spending alot of hardwork getting the an education and end up outsourced. Many high school computer nerds read slashdot.
Saved Niki, it wouldn't have millions to poor into advertising and celebrity endorsements. Putting women and children into sweatshops saved our pro athletes from the humiliation of only being single digit milionaires. God Bless Em!
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I collected over 150 bottle caps and not one was a winner! I drink about 6 diet pepsi's per day. And my friends at work saved the caps for me. So this is no suprize to me. I don't personally know anyone who won a song.
The answer is no software patents. We already have copyright protection there is no need for software patents. Traditional inventions don't have copyright, but they have patents. The arts like literature have copyright but not patents. We've distorted the intent of IP protections by allowing both.
Yes! Lets kill those puny dialup users, let's send them a real attachment. They'll be lining up for broadband. Mail all those live CD linux distros to every single AOL user on the planet! And it will be cheaper that using the post office like AOL does. I can see it now "You've Got" and 6 hours later "Mail!"
Then employees can start wearing NRA insignia. Personally, I find it amazing that some employee that has been outsourced hasn't assassinated a high profile supporter of outsourcing such as HP CEO Carly Fiorina. It's either an amazing show of judgement and restraint by the employees. Or lack of will and resignation of the fact that these people will always be able to walk all over you. I haven't decided which.
We use planes, computers, cars, guns, knives, & fire to go to war. Even the Amish use knives & fire.
Congratulations! It took a long time and hard work to get there. Unfortunately, times have changed since you entered college. So, yes! I will have fries with that.
The loser usually suffers more loses. That's why they Lose. France lost most of it's territory to Germany not once but twice. It's not funny, but neither is the french arrogance.
You do realise that there are many download mangers with those features available? Not only do many broswers have them there are alot of various freeware and shareware standalone versions on www.download.com.
It was the combined efforts of the US, UK & Russia. The US came in late a fresh, it helped shorten the war immeasurably. France was a door mat that said "Bienvenue!" (Welcome). The germans obliged an wiped their feet on it. The germans said "Danka! Verlierer!" (Thanks! Loser!)
Good start! Another start would be that all programmers who develop systems that the US government, especially the DOD, uses need to be certified and have at least a simple background investigation. Similiar to real engineers. Software Engineers need more accountability, that will increase our value. This would not stop Open Source, certified engineers would test and certify any software used. Such as the work the NSA has done for linux.
What you can't do is disregard security totally for years, get a large market using your product and then start thinking about security. Or at least it hasn't worked for Microsoft.
Just where do you think those jobs are going? To countries without such laws. I never said anyone owes you something without working for it. What I'm saying is that the employer employee relationship is a contract. And the salary is not the only compensation. Job security is a reasonable expectation, that is why an employer cannot legaly just fire you without cause. That's why you are "laid off". You cannot seem to look past your paycheck long enough to see there are issues other than the paycheck. Safe work environment, job security, retirement funds etc, they are all compensation and or employer responsibilties. Take a look at your employment contract, every single standard contract talks about termination for cause and rights that both the employee and employer have. Would you work for someone who in the contract says termination can be without cause and at the whim of the CEO if he has determined it will increase the stock price by 1 penny and gain him a $6 million bonus?
I'm 44 and I could care less what the hell you make, I have alot more experience than you. You are trying to justify the right to screw anyone, anytime for profit. There is a reason that laws are in place to limit greed in the market place. These laws have evolved over the years to protect workers and society from pure greed. Your happy now, but your employed, try having it happen to you. And not be able to find a job that pays even half what your currently making. Then see how you feel. I don't have the problem either, my company is completely employee owned. The workers here are all partners in a joint effort, and it works well for us. We are only 24 people, but we do over 10 million in consulting fees annually, and we feel a debt to each other. But I can still have empathy for others. The outsourcing of jobs to countries with no such protections is just an attempt to turn back the clock to a time when lords owned everything. The only difference is now it's "multi-national" corporations not lords and kings. These companies see themselves as not belonging to any country, they pay little or no taxes and pay politicians to help them when suits their needs.
How old are you? You think a company earns millions or billions on your efforts and you only get a few thousand a year? You don't think there is a social contract here? How much uncompensated overtime was done in 10 years? What would have happened to the company if the employees had not used their creative talents and 10 years of dedication to get them where they are? I find that most people who feel like you do are in fact not performing, and have no desire to do anything but the minimum effort required. My nephew has the same view, he is almost 30 and lives off his mother. He hasn't had a full-time job in years and feels that the only one who owes him anything is her.
Keep hoping, because you miss the point entirely! The employees of a company usually devote more effort in the company than is compensated for. The company earns millions or even billions from the creative efforts of it's employees. Companies do not prosper in a vacum, one of the compensations is employment security. Many workers work uncompensated overtime to help the company prosper and have the expectation of continued employment. If this is no longer the case then socialism is preferable for the average worker, due the security. Because without any kind of employer resposibilties to their employees, you have fuedalism. And that is what is really happening in many third world countries. The employees have low salaries and no benefits, and are in fact indentured servants to foriegn companies. Children work in sweatshops so that Nike can run million dollar ads and pay millions to pro athletes for their endoresements. I read an article that stated 600 of the top 1000 companies in the US paid zero taxes last year, and those same companies also outsourced a total of 40,000 jobs. Each of those CEO's recieved millions in compensation.
I would like to know why when employees put 10+ years into a company, and through those employees efforts and creativity the company has prospered, that the company feels no debt to them? And does a company feel like it can despose of them like yesterdays garbage so that the CEO can get a big fat salary?
You could burn them to a CD and take the CD to work. Have you discussed it with your network guys? I'm the network guy at my employers, we block kaaza etc. I opened up legal services. My concerns as an employee and administrator are: Are we allowing anything that could get the company in trouble? We don't care if you listen to and store a reasonable amount of music on your company owned computer system. As long as it's not going to discredit our companies good name.
I would never use this because of that fact. I bought my music at iTunes because the agreement is reasonable to me. I have burnt my songs to CD to play in my vehicle, and I have copies on my laptop and iPod. I'm satisfied, that my needs were met. If this is unreasonble to you, don't buy it. The people who use this software are trying to change the agreement after the fact, to suit them. Personally I think the price is about $0.49 too high, but the DRM restrictions are in no way unreasonable to me. If I thought otherwise, my money would go elesewhere.
No, but the artitecture and OS together is rare. How many linux viruses you seen. How many MAC viruses. Now how many Linux viruses compiled to run on PPC arhitecture? It would be like trying to infect Atari 800XL computers. You might make the virus but how the hell do you get it to the target? It certainly wouldn't spread like a worm infecting all those 800XL's in existence around the internet. Unless maybe through an Atari 800 IRC channel you get specific information of specific peoples computers. You would have to send it directly to the victum via an email or in an application that would probably be 100% traceable back to you. It's the same here, the virus would literaly have to be in the yellow dog distribution or spammed to TeraSofts mailing list. There is safety in obscurity if your virus is not compatible with any other systems and nobody can find you.
Not only do I have a personal library, I have an extensive library of "Learn by Example Books". Perl Cookbook etc. Why would someone create the same function, over and over again? What would it accomplish if I did? Chances are I would do it almost exactly the same way each time. And the more times I did it the more uniform (structure, variable names etc.) it would become. The main thing I think it would accomplish is less comments. Why document what I've written many times before, I certainly know what it does.
I'm sorry but it can't happen as long the show COPS continues to air. Those trailer raids make the place look unsafe. Though your use of grammar in the above post places you squarely in league with many third world nations.
And then name it Gates OS, the one that doesn't suck!
You forgot Mozilla vs Redmond, and Mozilla destroys Tokyo.
Obviously, whoever modded me Offtopic can't fathom sarcasm so I'll explain it. The company that said offshoring Indian engineers saved a few employees in California is missing the point! They hired employees with no medical insurance, no minimum wage and higher skill levels to save the workers in california. And I'm wondering how many illegals work for them. They're everywhere in california and most companies ignore it. I know I lived there. How is offshoring engineers and keeping those here with lesser technical skills, good for the US? I gave a talk at a local high school about opportunities in IT at nasa. The general attitude was that IT was not a viable option because you could end up spending alot of hardwork getting the an education and end up outsourced. Many high school computer nerds read slashdot.
Saved Niki, it wouldn't have millions to poor into advertising and celebrity endorsements. Putting women and children into sweatshops saved our pro athletes from the humiliation of only being single digit milionaires. God Bless Em!