If your in charge of the systems and admit you can't do them it will look at such.
Nope. I have been in this position (last week), and it looks like I'm not getting the resources I need to do the job. Of course, I maintain custom software, so training means talking to the last guy to babysit it and reading the code. In an IT setting, alerting management to a problem and offering solutions is called being proactive. Burying the problem is something I only get from outsorced projects (in India, usually), and it pisses me off.
a strong OOP formation in C++ makes Java/C# easier; knowing how pointers work makes a better coder in any language.
This I agree with.
Recall all the hot technologies of 1996 - only 10 years ago, a small fraction of your life in the workforce. Almost nobody wrote Java, C#/.NET didn't exist, most dynamic webpages were written in Perl, CSS wasn't there yet, XML was unborn,
You haven't mentioned any technologies, save for the web, which is just over 10 years old. The rest are tools and formats; technologies are things like OOP and Ethernet, both of which are over 30 years old and both of which were invented by PARC. Java and C# are the continuation of C++ and p-code, which are really old too. They can be picked up by someone who knows C++ in about 2 days. Dynamic webpages were a new thing, granted, but this was a scant 3 years after the thing was invented. In the past decade, dynamic pages have become the norm and most of them are written in php or mason, which resemble Perl to my trained eye.
New tools show up all the time, but technologies come slowly. You can forget that if you stand too close to the hype machine.
I want to hear that you have DSL with static IPs, 256 meg video cards and a blog. I want to hear that geeked out with whatever app or game is hot this month.
Maybe when I was 23. I'm 30 now, and my interests have diversified. I've also noticed that precious little of what's hot this month ever lasts past next month.
Makes you look incompetant too since its her job to learn and fix things. If not hten why does she work here?
You expect an upgrade to the servers for free? This is the openning shot in negotiations to fix the server architecture. Springing for training is simply part of ensuring continuity.
Do mean producing wealth? Wealth is just an illusion we all choose to believe in.
money is an illusion that's useful for mediating trade. Wealth is an abstraction of all the things that make our life easier.
How does one person produce 100 times more than another? What does a manager produce? Nothing tangible.
By being a better worker. For instance, highly skilled developers can produce things in far less time than a lower skilled one, and they can also produce things that the average person is incapable of. It's not tangible, but it's there. A good manager can facilitate the people under him and allow them to produce, all the while ensuring that they produce the right thing.
A carpenter should get paid more than a sales manager by that reckoning, he's actually produced something.
Because you can kick his output? A salesman (WTF is a sales manager but another manager?) can get a product sold that wouldn't otherwise be sold. That's worth something, and its value can readily be measured.
the CEO hasn't done any more *actual work* than anyone else, yet he gets paid more because our perceptions put more import on what he does
But we value him more because his decisions have more impact. You're just looking at effort, and effort ain't worth shit. You should look at output - A CEO has to be that much better than a departmental manager because his fuckups cost more.
What the hell is the government doing taking 25% of someone's income that NEEDS it to survive while a guy selling stock for some extra disposable income keeps 85% of it?
Are you telling me that somebody who makes $40k pays $10k in taxes? I didn't pay that when I made $60k. You pay taxes - shouldn't you know what your tax rate is?
I'd rather have 1000 people earning around 100,000 a year than 1 person earning 1,000,000,000 and 999 people earning 20,000: yeah, scenario B is "wealthier", but unless you were the lucky one you'd do a lot better in scenario A.
What if the marginal tax rate for the 1 guy was 40%? That's $400k tax to provide services for each person, so it's not half bad.
Even if someone works 24/7, he is still only working 3 times as much as an average person, equality shouldn't allow anyone to make 100,000 times as much money as anyone else
And what if he produces 100 times as much as an average person? What if he then figures out how to do something once and sell that to 10 million people? Doesn't he deserve to get obscenely rich? He has, after all, increased the wealth in the world by several million dollars.
If one were to own all the media listed, would it be illegal to purchase an ipod preloaded with the content?
It would be a copyright violation to sell. I doubt the purchase would be legal, but that's moot, as you can just sue the seller into the ground for infringement. It may in fact be illegal due to the scale of the operation.
If publishers could eliminate the market for used books simply by stamping "no resale" on the book, don't you think they would have done so a long time ago?
Well you sure as hell can't legally sell copies of a book on ebay (I mean copies here, as in duplications), so your point is, err, blunt.
So the person who doesn't have obvious symptoms (AIDS) therefore must not be infected with HIV?
There's a good chance. I use a condom and don't screw every skank I meet in a bar.
You still don't offer anything that really suggests you aren't infected. Until you actually RUN a scan (virus and spyware/adware/malware) and come up clean, there is nothing suggesting you are clean. Considering that 80-90% of all PCs are infected somehow and most people are totally unaware of the fact, the odds are against you.
No, I'm a software engineer with admin experience. Given my behavior profile, my chances are very good. Just because most people don't know how to build and run a computer doesn't mean that I don't.
Since you don't run a virus scanner, and most viruses are designed to remain hidden and unknown to the user... how can you legitimately say you "haven't had any issues"?
I haven't had any odd slowdowns, reboots, or other symptoms common to the more popular worms. I also have never had my rpc daemon crash. The only problems I've had were periodic kernel panics common to faulty memory, which haven't changed in frequency.
Sure, you qualify that with "hardware related", but that immediately nullifies your whole argument, since last I knew the virus problem was software-related, and not hardware.
Not at all. Hardware problems are a separate issue.
'd say this applies to your entire post, as it's pretty much all wrong.
I don't bother with virus scanners - they-re far more trouble than they're worth. Instead, I run behind a NAT router, use Firefox, and avoid questionable content, like elf bowling. I haven't had any issues in rather a long time (hardware related), and I have no intention of changing.
If you send an e-mail to user@domain.com and the server hosting domain.com is down, after a certain length of time won't the e-mail bounce back in to your mailbox? Seems like a valid question to me, unless of course they were trying to e-mail user@hotmail.com.
No. There isn't one server hosting domain.com, and mail is handled differently anyway. If the mail server is down, it gets returned after about 4 days.
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For human-authored works, the term is life + 70 years. For corporation-authored works, the term is 120 years from the date of their creation, regardless of whether the corporation "dies" or not.
Sure, after the Sonny Bono act extended the copyright. It used to be somewhat shorter (80 years, I think). What I don't get is how Congress justifies retroactive extension of copyright. Copyright on new stuff I can see, but changing the rules of the game like this is indefensible. It runs against the stated purpose of Copyright: those works are already made. Extending their term won't encourage someone to make more, nor will it enrich the public domain.
There's nothing to stop China, India, Sweden etc etc from innovating with complete freedom.
Well, Sweden has high taxes and crushing regulation, so don't expect any innovation out of them. They made the bulk of their GDP back when they were more capitalist.
england is also the country which, when crime rates rose, gave up the right of firearm ownership, then when crime rates went up some more, they started talking about getting rid of big knives.
Didn't they also talk about banning pointy knives?
Sadly, no. If you write standards-based code (like my home page, for example), the 80+% of the market that's using Internet Explorer will not see the page as you designed it. The really frustrating thing is at least five years ago there was a beta of Internet Explorer 6 which got my home page right. Microsoft know how to do the standards thing, they choose not to.
More to the point, if you write standards-based code and don't try to do anything too insane, then you'll get most of that for free, and Opera as well.
D. Most people use the phone on the right hand side (because most people are right-handed). For some reason completely unrelated to cell phones, there is more cancer on the right hand side than on the left hand side. Together, this means more cancer on the phone side.
Of course, sample bias is simpler and requires no new phenomena.
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If your in charge of the systems and admit you can't do them it will look at such.
Nope. I have been in this position (last week), and it looks like I'm not getting the resources I need to do the job. Of course, I maintain custom software, so training means talking to the last guy to babysit it and reading the code. In an IT setting, alerting management to a problem and offering solutions is called being proactive. Burying the problem is something I only get from outsorced projects (in India, usually), and it pisses me off.
Kinda like working QA for a brothel.
That job has got to suck - 90% of the time, the user forgot to 'plug it in'.
a strong OOP formation in C++ makes Java/C# easier; knowing how pointers work makes a better coder in any language.
This I agree with.
Recall all the hot technologies of 1996 - only 10 years ago, a small fraction of your life in the workforce. Almost nobody wrote Java, C#/.NET didn't exist, most dynamic webpages were written in Perl, CSS wasn't there yet, XML was unborn,
You haven't mentioned any technologies, save for the web, which is just over 10 years old. The rest are tools and formats; technologies are things like OOP and Ethernet, both of which are over 30 years old and both of which were invented by PARC. Java and C# are the continuation of C++ and p-code, which are really old too. They can be picked up by someone who knows C++ in about 2 days. Dynamic webpages were a new thing, granted, but this was a scant 3 years after the thing was invented. In the past decade, dynamic pages have become the norm and most of them are written in php or mason, which resemble Perl to my trained eye.
New tools show up all the time, but technologies come slowly. You can forget that if you stand too close to the hype machine.
I want to hear that you have DSL with static IPs, 256 meg video cards and a blog. I want to hear that geeked out with whatever app or game is hot this month.
Maybe when I was 23. I'm 30 now, and my interests have diversified. I've also noticed that precious little of what's hot this month ever lasts past next month.
Makes you look incompetant too since its her job to learn and fix things. If not hten why does she work here?
You expect an upgrade to the servers for free? This is the openning shot in negotiations to fix the server architecture. Springing for training is simply part of ensuring continuity.
Do mean producing wealth? Wealth is just an illusion we all choose to believe in.
money is an illusion that's useful for mediating trade. Wealth is an abstraction of all the things that make our life easier.
How does one person produce 100 times more than another? What does a manager produce? Nothing tangible.
By being a better worker. For instance, highly skilled developers can produce things in far less time than a lower skilled one, and they can also produce things that the average person is incapable of. It's not tangible, but it's there. A good manager can facilitate the people under him and allow them to produce, all the while ensuring that they produce the right thing.
A carpenter should get paid more than a sales manager by that reckoning, he's actually produced something.
Because you can kick his output? A salesman (WTF is a sales manager but another manager?) can get a product sold that wouldn't otherwise be sold. That's worth something, and its value can readily be measured.
the CEO hasn't done any more *actual work* than anyone else, yet he gets paid more because our perceptions put more import on what he does
But we value him more because his decisions have more impact. You're just looking at effort, and effort ain't worth shit. You should look at output - A CEO has to be that much better than a departmental manager because his fuckups cost more.
What the hell is the government doing taking 25% of someone's income that NEEDS it to survive while a guy selling stock for some extra disposable income keeps 85% of it?
Are you telling me that somebody who makes $40k pays $10k in taxes? I didn't pay that when I made $60k. You pay taxes - shouldn't you know what your tax rate is?
I'd rather have 1000 people earning around 100,000 a year than 1 person earning 1,000,000,000 and 999 people earning 20,000: yeah, scenario B is "wealthier", but unless you were the lucky one you'd do a lot better in scenario A.
What if the marginal tax rate for the 1 guy was 40%? That's $400k tax to provide services for each person, so it's not half bad.
Are senior executives so morally bankrupt they need to be bribed just to do their job?
Any tool can mop floors.
Even if someone works 24/7, he is still only working 3 times as much as an average person, equality shouldn't allow anyone to make 100,000 times as much money as anyone else
And what if he produces 100 times as much as an average person? What if he then figures out how to do something once and sell that to 10 million people? Doesn't he deserve to get obscenely rich? He has, after all, increased the wealth in the world by several million dollars.
If one were to own all the media listed, would it be illegal to purchase an ipod preloaded with the content?
It would be a copyright violation to sell. I doubt the purchase would be legal, but that's moot, as you can just sue the seller into the ground for infringement. It may in fact be illegal due to the scale of the operation.
If publishers could eliminate the market for used books simply by stamping "no resale" on the book, don't you think they would have done so a long time ago?
Well you sure as hell can't legally sell copies of a book on ebay (I mean copies here, as in duplications), so your point is, err, blunt.
It'll only get fun if the film maker decides to try to take it somewhere.
What are you talking about? The DMCA is criminal law, so all you need is for the FBI to take an interest in things.
Hey now, -1 Troll is uncalled for - I do just that, and it works.
So the person who doesn't have obvious symptoms (AIDS) therefore must not be infected with HIV?
There's a good chance. I use a condom and don't screw every skank I meet in a bar.
You still don't offer anything that really suggests you aren't infected. Until you actually RUN a scan (virus and spyware/adware/malware) and come up clean, there is nothing suggesting you are clean. Considering that 80-90% of all PCs are infected somehow and most people are totally unaware of the fact, the odds are against you.
No, I'm a software engineer with admin experience. Given my behavior profile, my chances are very good. Just because most people don't know how to build and run a computer doesn't mean that I don't.
Since you don't run a virus scanner, and most viruses are designed to remain hidden and unknown to the user... how can you legitimately say you "haven't had any issues"?
I haven't had any odd slowdowns, reboots, or other symptoms common to the more popular worms. I also have never had my rpc daemon crash. The only problems I've had were periodic kernel panics common to faulty memory, which haven't changed in frequency.
Sure, you qualify that with "hardware related", but that immediately nullifies your whole argument, since last I knew the virus problem was software-related, and not hardware.
Not at all. Hardware problems are a separate issue.
I see a lot of 'don't run windows xp as admin', but has anyone tried to anything usefull with such a setup?
I run a mac nonadmin and that works fine, so that's one way.
'd say this applies to your entire post, as it's pretty much all wrong.
I don't bother with virus scanners - they-re far more trouble than they're worth. Instead, I run behind a NAT router, use Firefox, and avoid questionable content, like elf bowling. I haven't had any issues in rather a long time (hardware related), and I have no intention of changing.
If you send an e-mail to user@domain.com and the server hosting domain.com is down, after a certain length of time won't the e-mail bounce back in to your mailbox? Seems like a valid question to me, unless of course they were trying to e-mail user@hotmail.com.
No. There isn't one server hosting domain.com, and mail is handled differently anyway. If the mail server is down, it gets returned after about 4 days.
For human-authored works, the term is life + 70 years. For corporation-authored works, the term is 120 years from the date of their creation, regardless of whether the corporation "dies" or not.
Sure, after the Sonny Bono act extended the copyright. It used to be somewhat shorter (80 years, I think). What I don't get is how Congress justifies retroactive extension of copyright. Copyright on new stuff I can see, but changing the rules of the game like this is indefensible. It runs against the stated purpose of Copyright: those works are already made. Extending their term won't encourage someone to make more, nor will it enrich the public domain.
There's nothing to stop China, India, Sweden etc etc from innovating with complete freedom.
Well, Sweden has high taxes and crushing regulation, so don't expect any innovation out of them. They made the bulk of their GDP back when they were more capitalist.
england is also the country which, when crime rates rose, gave up the right of firearm ownership, then when crime rates went up some more, they started talking about getting rid of big knives.
Didn't they also talk about banning pointy knives?
Sadly, no. If you write standards-based code (like my home page, for example), the 80+% of the market that's using Internet Explorer will not see the page as you designed it. The really frustrating thing is at least five years ago there was a beta of Internet Explorer 6 which got my home page right. Microsoft know how to do the standards thing, they choose not to.
So run IE in strict mode
More to the point, if you write standards-based code and don't try to do anything too insane, then you'll get most of that for free, and Opera as well.
D. Most people use the phone on the right hand side (because most people are right-handed). For some reason completely unrelated to cell phones, there is more cancer on the right hand side than on the left hand side. Together, this means more cancer on the phone side.
Of course, sample bias is simpler and requires no new phenomena.