If you made 100.000 and pay 30% in tax (as an example), if taxes were abolished, do you really think that the company that employ you would give you the extra 30.000? If you do, I have a bridge in New York I'm willing to sell cheap.
The company would just reduce your salary from 100.000 to 70.000 since you would still get the same net pay. The 30% that the company now pays for you in taxes would then go to their bottom line. Simple economics. A company first and foremost is in the business to make money for it's owners, not for you, the employee. Libertarians are so naive.
War on drugs is a huge waste of money and can never be won. You will not even get close. It would have been much better if they accepted the fact that not all drugs are the same and differentiated between soft and hard drugs. That would ofcourse empty the prisons of a lot of people and make room for the real criminals rather than a potsmoker. But then the statistics would not look good...
I know it is january 1st and you probably have a hang-over, but I got news for you: The public don't care! The only ones who care are/.'ers and other geeks. Joe Schmoe have no idea what we are talking about. The average computer user don't donwload music.
Jury?
Only if the site in question is located in the US. Other countries don't drag in jury-people for things like this. Another flaw in the antiquated judicial system here in the US.
I have never used bittorent but as far as I understand, the sites only hosts the torrent file and no contents, so you can continue to explain why that is illegal...
Is it some sort of a political statement from you? If you don't like hippies, well.. That is your problem, but I don't think you find many hippies among filesharers. To bad you don't have contact with the real world.
No, you just have to look at the actions of your parents to say something about their love for you. This is what science does in many cases where direct study is not beneficiary, you look at the the surroundings. Same with circumstantial evidence that convict criminals.
Besides I don't need to prove that God does not exists, I have never seen a god nor has anyone else I know. the burden of proof is on the ones who claim there is a god.
You seems to be a bit out of touch with reality....
The averege user have no clue that they should not open attachements. The average user don't read media that warns about not opening attachments. The watch Desparate Housewifes and Biker Build-off and Cops and Americas Funniest Videos.
Don't for one second think that the average user has any clue about what to do or not do in Windows oe any other OS for that matter.
It is a movie for crying out loud.. Movies are never or at least almost never identical to a book. If you have a problem with that, don't watch movies based on books you have read.
No, this is different than Vmware etc al
They require a host OS to run under. This means you can partition your CPUs so they can run multiple OSes at the same time, nativly. No need for a host OS, just some bitching BIOS.
There are multiple server vendors who already offer the same ability, mainframes have had this for years.
Of course, running 2 or more OSes requires 2 or more times the CPU power in order to get similar performance to a one OS machine.
I just love this!
It's-commerical-so-it-must-be-bad-/. attitude.
You and me and the rest of the world depends on stuff that is commercial. If not, neither you nor I would have a steady income and beeing able to post this from our nice computers.
Well, I know Linux better than most. I have used it since 0.92 kernel days.
EM64T? Sure, you can find the certified combinations on metalink.oracle.com, click on the certify tab at the left. 9.2 is not certified on EM64T only AMD4. 10g is certified on SLES 8 and 9 and RHES 3. Anything else and you are on your own.
If you don't get the answers you like from support on a Linux issue, escalate it and the chances are that you and me will talk. We have many, many peple in support who are experts on Linux and probably have forgotten more about Linux or any other *NIX than you have ever known.
Oracle has contributed with the hangchecktimer and the OCFS filesystem to the Linux kernel. If you play arund with any other Linux versions than those certified, it is your problem and not ours.
Well, I have just spent the last three days on an escalated issue with a ct (yes, I work for Larry), along with HW vendor and apps vendors. We have conf calls with 12-15 people on a couple of times a day, devlopment is involved. You can not do enterprise support unless you have a serious support org and developers who know the exact pieces of code where the problem is. You also sometimes have to get a complete testcase froma ct and set it up on identical servers inhouse and reproduce it before shipping it over to developers.
Customers normally handles the day to day maintainance of a DB, but when the db starts spewing out error codes and deadlines are coming at you faster than a dragster, you need 24/7 support and someone who knows both the software and hardware/OS intimatly since a lot of problems are intertwined with OS issues etc.
OSS db's are fine for miniature databases like/. but when you have ERP systems that covers 100 different countries, 99.999% uptime and dealines for reporting according to the laws in each country coming up, you don't want to mess with OSS, periode.
And these large companies do not have a "couple of DBA's", they have hundreds of DBA's and sysadmins on call 24/7.
I saw the launch from my yard yesterday at 4:50pm EDT. I have a perfect view due east to the Cape. To bad it was not a night launch, it would have been spectacular.
Thank you for proving to the world your own stupidity!
I see my original was modeed flamebait and I'm honored. The fact is that most civilized ountries have laws regarding how much a company can demand you to work. Since the comment was in general to people working more than 40 hour work weeks and not just to the moron in the article, the mods totally missed the point. Oh well.
If a company need you to work 80 hours a week, the company is badly manged and sorely lack manpower and should hire more people. This ofcourse will affect the bottomline so the PHB's would rather work you, the salary slave, into the ground than actually hire enough people. More than 40 hours a week == Horrible managed company that I would never work for.
I wonder what those folks think of this level of dedication?
I can't tell you what EA people would say, but I can tell you that if this story is not written as a humorous piece, the guy is a first class moron.
And I will go so far as to say that any person who accepts to work 50-60-70-80 or more hours a week is a moron too. Why anyone would work 2 jobs for the pay of one is mindboggling. If a boss had told me to do that I would laugh and march out of the company faster than anything you have ever seen. Only in USA is slavery still allowed.
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Ignorance is bliss...
If you made 100.000 and pay 30% in tax (as an example), if taxes were abolished, do you really think that the company that employ you would give you the extra 30.000? If you do, I have a bridge in New York I'm willing to sell cheap.
The company would just reduce your salary from 100.000 to 70.000 since you would still get the same net pay. The 30% that the company now pays for you in taxes would then go to their bottom line. Simple economics. A company first and foremost is in the business to make money for it's owners, not for you, the employee. Libertarians are so naive.
There was a babe in that picture????
Ofcourse you need to feed them!
They are fed the same food as any other monitor, electric power.
Organic does not mean that the monitor is alive just that it is based on organic components. See organic chemistry.
I want one!
How can you be disturbed by the truth?
War on drugs is a huge waste of money and can never be won. You will not even get close. It would have been much better if they accepted the fact that not all drugs are the same and differentiated between soft and hard drugs. That would ofcourse empty the prisons of a lot of people and make room for the real criminals rather than a potsmoker. But then the statistics would not look good...
I have only one word for the ones who don't want to get in trouble yet get goodies (hushhhh.... don't tell anyone else, it's a secret!): USENET
Wake up!!!
/.'ers and other geeks. Joe Schmoe have no idea what we are talking about. The average computer user don't donwload music.
I know it is january 1st and you probably have a hang-over, but I got news for you: The public don't care! The only ones who care are
Jury?
Only if the site in question is located in the US. Other countries don't drag in jury-people for things like this. Another flaw in the antiquated judicial system here in the US.
And you still don't make any sense at all....
I have never used bittorent but as far as I understand, the sites only hosts the torrent file and no contents, so you can continue to explain why that is illegal...
I don't think the bittorrent site is distributing copyrighted material unless you claim that someone has a copyright on the torrent's themselves
Explain how they are criminals? Are you a lawyer or a judge maybe?
I just wonder what hippies got to do with this?
Is it some sort of a political statement from you? If you don't like hippies, well.. That is your problem, but I don't think you find many hippies among filesharers. To bad you don't have contact with the real world.
Yes, we have a huge sinkhole just outside Orlando right now.
It took a road and a few homes in the process. they are currently working on filling it up and reconstructing the road, but it is going to take time.
No, you just have to look at the actions of your parents to say something about their love for you. This is what science does in many cases where direct study is not beneficiary, you look at the the surroundings. Same with circumstantial evidence that convict criminals.
Besides I don't need to prove that God does not exists, I have never seen a god nor has anyone else I know. the burden of proof is on the ones who claim there is a god.
You seems to be a bit out of touch with reality....
The averege user have no clue that they should not open attachements. The average user don't read media that warns about not opening attachments. The watch Desparate Housewifes and Biker Build-off and Cops and Americas Funniest Videos.
Don't for one second think that the average user has any clue about what to do or not do in Windows oe any other OS for that matter.
Yeah, who cares???
It is a movie for crying out loud.. Movies are never or at least almost never identical to a book. If you have a problem with that, don't watch movies based on books you have read.
No, this is different than Vmware etc al
They require a host OS to run under. This means you can partition your CPUs so they can run multiple OSes at the same time, nativly. No need for a host OS, just some bitching BIOS.
There are multiple server vendors who already offer the same ability, mainframes have had this for years.
Of course, running 2 or more OSes requires 2 or more times the CPU power in order to get similar performance to a one OS machine.
It's-commerical-so-it-must-be-bad-/. attitude.
You and me and the rest of the world depends on stuff that is commercial. If not, neither you nor I would have a steady income and beeing able to post this from our nice computers.
Well, I know Linux better than most. I have used it since 0.92 kernel days.
EM64T? Sure, you can find the certified combinations on metalink.oracle.com, click on the certify tab at the left. 9.2 is not certified on EM64T only AMD4. 10g is certified on SLES 8 and 9 and RHES 3. Anything else and you are on your own.
If you don't get the answers you like from support on a Linux issue, escalate it and the chances are that you and me will talk. We have many, many peple in support who are experts on Linux and probably have forgotten more about Linux or any other *NIX than you have ever known.
Oracle has contributed with the hangchecktimer and the OCFS filesystem to the Linux kernel. If you play arund with any other Linux versions than those certified, it is your problem and not ours.
Well, I have just spent the last three days on an escalated issue with a ct (yes, I work for Larry), along with HW vendor and apps vendors. We have conf calls with 12-15 people on a couple of times a day, devlopment is involved. You can not do enterprise support unless you have a serious support org and developers who know the exact pieces of code where the problem is. You also sometimes have to get a complete testcase froma ct and set it up on identical servers inhouse and reproduce it before shipping it over to developers.
/. but when you have ERP systems that covers 100 different countries, 99.999% uptime and dealines for reporting according to the laws in each country coming up, you don't want to mess with OSS, periode.
Customers normally handles the day to day maintainance of a DB, but when the db starts spewing out error codes and deadlines are coming at you faster than a dragster, you need 24/7 support and someone who knows both the software and hardware/OS intimatly since a lot of problems are intertwined with OS issues etc.
OSS db's are fine for miniature databases like
And these large companies do not have a "couple of DBA's", they have hundreds of DBA's and sysadmins on call 24/7.
It is very sexy!
I saw the launch from my yard yesterday at 4:50pm EDT. I have a perfect view due east to the Cape. To bad it was not a night launch, it would have been spectacular.
Thank you for proving to the world your own stupidity!
I see my original was modeed flamebait and I'm honored. The fact is that most civilized ountries have laws regarding how much a company can demand you to work. Since the comment was in general to people working more than 40 hour work weeks and not just to the moron in the article, the mods totally missed the point. Oh well.
If a company need you to work 80 hours a week, the company is badly manged and sorely lack manpower and should hire more people. This ofcourse will affect the bottomline so the PHB's would rather work you, the salary slave, into the ground than actually hire enough people. More than 40 hours a week == Horrible managed company that I would never work for.
And I will go so far as to say that any person who accepts to work 50-60-70-80 or more hours a week is a moron too. Why anyone would work 2 jobs for the pay of one is mindboggling. If a boss had told me to do that I would laugh and march out of the company faster than anything you have ever seen. Only in USA is slavery still allowed.
That's what you get for not knowing your
Well, in case you haven't noticed...
/. reader?
American law is just that, American. It is not valid in other countries, but what can you expect from the average