Because the law is terrifying. If you're a programmer you've probably signed something that says all your coding, wherever and whenever, belongs to your employer. If you develop a script and post it online, have you just violated the act? Have you violated it when someone else grabs it and uses it to make money? This is scary stuff. And what the heck is a trade secret and who gets to decide that?
It depends. In California anything you do outside of workplace belongs to you. Your state's law may vary.
For me, the most irritating maggots here are the guys who set words apart in sentences through the use of asterisks. I mean, it's a website, why aren't they using the tags for BOLD and ITALICS?
Because their keyboards have Ctrl, Shift, Alt keys - no Bold, Italics etc.
I find it pretty inconvenient to put those tags by hand..
Here's how to set it. Keep pushing the resolution higher and higher until you can see the breast-enlargement scars. Then shift back one.
hmm, current resolution for HDTV - 1080i allows you to see nose hair. The problem is those adult channels still not HDTV - have to wait until they convert to high definition.
I don't understand why people who easily could spend $30000 on a car whining about TV which costs more than $500. The car is just fscking vehicle and the TV is supposed to entertain you and quality is important here.
Scheduled downtime should get scheduled by IT department, not you personally. Then people who forget about it should ask their boss to talk to IT department head about matter. That should be as impersonal as possible.
if I ever found some sysadmin weenie patching things I didn't want patched,or mucking about with configurations, by God he'd feel the Hand of Death closing in fast and sure.
I see major problem with management in your case.
Program should be designed used well-defined interfaces for interoperation with operation system. And those interfaces define responsibilities borders. Basically it's a big NO-NO to touch anything in your program's configuration by sysadmin. And developers should never touch anything in operation system or require sysadmin not to tune operation system.
Usually problems arise in case of buggy software
(sometimes hardware) and then we have mysterious things happen. If bugs are still in software and system already in production then at least those bugs should be well-documented - that's QA job.
Well, if you insist in not allowing sysadmins doing their job then you should do that job, right? Like installing security patches, insure system redundancy, interoperability with other systems, tune for performance, upgrade system, replace failed hardware, monitor it, etc.
If you don't want to mess with all that stuff - let somebody else - sysadmin.
To see how rapidly GNU's alternative to the Linux kernel is moving along, look at the Initial [gnu.org] GNU HURD announcent in 1991 and the last [gnu.org] announcement. Note the following phrase in the last announcement:"Popular PC devices are generally supported." What a fantastic 12 years it has been for GNU!
Yep, everything's fine for Linux, but that GNU part is weird. Those FSF politicos pretend they have their own operation system - they even do not have their own Linux distribution.
2 - Overpaying teachers would attract people who are only interested in being a teacher for the wrong reasons (money and 3 months vacation). Underpaying teachers at least ensures that people who do it are doing it because they enjoy it.
It's very simplistic.
For example good teacher who needs money will be forced to leave school. And I heard about teacher who enjoyed his job, but kids disliked him - maybe he really more enjoyed himself doing this job...
Hmm, how do they know it's my trash in there?
I put my trash on curbside, then somebody dropped there used syringe with narcotics trace. So I'm already eligible to search warrant, right?
People who email me for the first time will get a "please confirm" message to get their email address into the whitelist. This request is sent automatically and the response is processed automatically, so it requires none of my time.
I'd hate to send e-mail twice to anybody.
And I hate to receive "please confirm" message if I have not sent original one. You know email headers are forgible...
And companies I worked with usually tried to hire most talented and knowledgeble workers, not cheapiest. Often the best were people we had to file an H1B application for.
as you have seen "waitresses and truckdrivers" can vote too.
Yes, but their current occupation depends on their decision to stop study after high school. Community colleges are almost free.Those guys/gals should teach their kids about relevance between education level and success in life.
>corruption, bribes, unjustice to their own citizens
sounds like america. except maybe in america it's all protected as free speech etc.
>bad and very bad candidate
sounds like america.
There is a difference, really.
Bad candidate in Russia and India may mean public knowledge of candidate's mob support or participation...
Bribes mean - almost everything you need to receive from government should be greased with bribes or else. Can you imagine bribing Motor Vehicle Department just to receive driving license fast?
"about 7" well is it 7 or not? and how do you sell 7 computers to 8 countries?
Easily.
Some computers was sold to Russia. They might not pay in full and not all computers were delivered and nobody knows when and how deal could be finished.
And one of sold computers is shared between two countries.
Indias government is democratically elected, just like most nuclear states like the US, Russia, etc. The same argument applies to any of them. Remember the cold war?
Oh yes, India and Russia... Indians and russians have a lot of to tell about corruption, bribes, unjustice to their own citizens. Well, it's still a democracy if you may choose between bad and very bad candidate...
Right now, Americans have one of the worst education systems in the world. Even Canada, who we like to put down as being scrawny, kicks our ass in terms of the numbers of literate people coming out of schools today. The same is true in most European countries and Japan, and yes even in places like India.
Do you have numbers? I really interested to know difference between US and Canada.
I've heard some explanation about difference between US and Japan. In US everybody forced to graduate high school - 'kicking and screaming'. In Japan only those who want do it. Of course there are differences in grades between those who does not want to learn and who does want to. One more thing - there are some people in US who believe to learn well is 'to act white'.
The U.S. developed the Internet, yet who has more computers per capita and a better infrascructure? South Korea.
That's nice - they have cool WarCraft championships;)
South Korea's national communications backbone consists of 13,670 miles of optical fiber, in 2001 Verizon laid down 20,500 miles of optical fiber in West Virginia alone. They have 70% of population in 7 major cities. 50% of population live in apartment complexes. That's why half of their households are wired;)
I see your points, but not much could be done at that time. If kid doesn't want to learn nothing could help him/her. What kind of education you want for waitress or truck driver? For those who want to learn there are ways to colleges and univercities.
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It depends. In California anything you do outside of workplace belongs to you. Your state's law may vary.
Bullshit. If you pay for development why your competitors should benefit from it?
It may be competition in marketing field then.
Because their keyboards have Ctrl, Shift, Alt keys - no Bold, Italics etc.
I find it pretty inconvenient to put those tags by hand..
hmm, current resolution for HDTV - 1080i allows you to see nose hair.
The problem is those adult channels still not HDTV - have to wait until they convert to high definition.
Or maybe cars are just for show-off ...
Well, very often GPS doesn't work in cities with high buildings, so it could be good excuse..
One thing seems wrong -
Scheduled downtime is your fault
Scheduled downtime should get scheduled by IT department, not you personally. Then people who forget about it should ask their boss to talk to IT department head about matter. That should be as impersonal as possible.
I see major problem with management in your case. Program should be designed used well-defined interfaces for interoperation with operation system. And those interfaces define responsibilities borders. Basically it's a big NO-NO to touch anything in your program's configuration by sysadmin. And developers should never touch anything in operation system or require sysadmin not to tune operation system.
Usually problems arise in case of buggy software (sometimes hardware) and then we have mysterious things happen. If bugs are still in software and system already in production then at least those bugs should be well-documented - that's QA job.
Well, if you insist in not allowing sysadmins doing their job then you should do that job, right? Like installing security patches, insure system redundancy, interoperability with other systems, tune for performance, upgrade system, replace failed hardware, monitor it, etc.
If you don't want to mess with all that stuff - let somebody else - sysadmin.
What's that suppose to mean?
There are only sysadmins in IT. Are you mixing sysadmins with helpdesk?
Yep, everything's fine for Linux, but that GNU part is weird. Those FSF politicos pretend they have their own operation system - they even do not have their own Linux distribution.
Put it into microwave - that's ultimate solution!
It's very simplistic.
For example good teacher who needs money will be forced to leave school. And I heard about teacher who enjoyed his job, but kids disliked him - maybe he really more enjoyed himself doing this job...
Hmm, how do they know it's my trash in there?
I put my trash on curbside, then somebody dropped there used syringe with narcotics trace. So I'm already eligible to search warrant, right?
I know! I know!
FreeBSD has a gooood jail - take a look:
JAIL(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual JAIL(2)
NAME jail - imprison current process and future decendants
full text here:t ion=2&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-curren t
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sek
AAAAAAA!
Do you think mail messages about Warcraft are illegitimate?
I know a person receiving some mail from South Korea. Have I tell him he'll be cut off?
"Your credit rating, Mr Odaiwai, is low because your zip-code was used by people who declared bancruptcy. Why don't you change your address?"
Do you like collective punishment?
Hey, It's happening everywhere!
I'd hate to send e-mail twice to anybody.
And I hate to receive "please confirm" message if I have not sent original one. You know email headers are forgible...
And companies I worked with usually tried to hire most talented and knowledgeble workers, not cheapiest. Often the best were people we had to file an H1B application for.
Yes, but their current occupation depends on their decision to stop study after high school. Community colleges are almost free.Those guys/gals should teach their kids about relevance between education level and success in life.
sounds like america. except maybe in america it's all protected as free speech etc.
>bad and very bad candidate
sounds like america.
There is a difference, really. Bad candidate in Russia and India may mean public knowledge of candidate's mob support or participation...
Bribes mean - almost everything you need to receive from government should be greased with bribes or else. Can you imagine bribing Motor Vehicle Department just to receive driving license fast?
Easily.
Some computers was sold to Russia. They might not pay in full and not all computers were delivered and nobody knows when and how deal could be finished.
And one of sold computers is shared between two countries.
Oh yes, India and Russia... Indians and russians have a lot of to tell about corruption, bribes, unjustice to their own citizens. Well, it's still a democracy if you may choose between bad and very bad candidate...
Do you have numbers? I really interested to know difference between US and Canada.
I've heard some explanation about difference between US and Japan. In US everybody forced to graduate high school - 'kicking and screaming'. In Japan only those who want do it. Of course there are differences in grades between those who does not want to learn and who does want to. One more thing - there are some people in US who believe to learn well is 'to act white'.
The U.S. developed the Internet, yet who has more computers per capita and a better infrascructure? South Korea.
That's nice - they have cool WarCraft championships ;) ;)
South Korea's national communications backbone consists of 13,670 miles of optical fiber, in 2001 Verizon laid down 20,500 miles of optical fiber in West Virginia alone. They have 70% of population in 7 major cities. 50% of population live in apartment complexes. That's why half of their households are wired
I see your points, but not much could be done at that time. If kid doesn't want to learn nothing could help him/her. What kind of education you want for waitress or truck driver? For those who want to learn there are ways to colleges and univercities.
Yes, but Soviets took out their troops in 1989 and Taliban was created in 1994. Taliban got US weapons as legacy..
During the Iraq-Iran war, the United States provided intelligence to the Iraqis. link [peopledaily.com.cn]
Yup, that's right. Still no evidence of weapons export to Iraq.