and see, if he would have just applied for press credentials beforehand, he could have claimed freedom of the press and been fine.
in response though, yeah, it's relatively innocent, in the grand scheme of things. we've become such a bunch of whiny and weak people in this society. ooo, he took a picture of me, ooo the camera stole my soul. grow a backbone. it's a freakin' picture.
I 2nd this. Go back to your 9-5 job. Nobody in their right mind would start in this job with hindsight. So take ours. It's like having a newborn that gets up at all hours of the night, and NEVER grows up. Forget taking a vacation and not having to worry about anything. Maintenance at 3am, check. Network goes down at 3am, check. You know those few people you see driving on the roads at 3am? All admins. On the other hand, you're usually considered pretty indispensable. But you'll never know it because you'll be wildly under-appreciated. If you do do it, resist the urge to grow a beard and get fat. Resist the urge to talk down to end-users, especially since they will most certainly deserve it. Never make a policy 'optional'. Never recommend..require. Never assume people can't possibly be that dumb. Prepare for the worst, and then a little further. Think about the possibilities you haven't thought of. Label Label Label. Inventory Inventory Inventory. Document Document Document. Always wear a grounding strap. Dust kills. Heat kills. Don't throw water on a router that's on fire. Educate users that they shouldn't plug one end of a network cable into a wall jack and the other end also into a wall jack. Oh, and don't skimp on hookers.
I had an employee that was in a car crash with a tractor trailer on an interstate (god rest his soul). His Thinkpad T41 was recovered. Couple scratches on the case, passed all hardware diagnostics, booted up and just kept right on goin. Can't beat 'em IMHO.
I may be missing something here, but are far as i'm concerned, humans already have depth perception, and have since, oh, i don't know, the beginning of time. It just seems like the companies touting 3D are making it sound like depth perception on a 2D medium is some new fangled thing that they invented. Take a piece of paper, draw a square on it. 2D. now, draw a cube on it, wow, it LOOKS like 3D. So who cares about 'technical' 3D when we can already perceive 3D on a technically 2D medium? I could give a shit about real 3D. But opinions are like assholes..
in your analogy I assume you actually own the car, i.e. have the title. I wonder if you leased it, if the dealer is under the same obligation, since they own the car. Granted, you might be able to sue them for breach of contract, depending on the wording of said contract. Similarly if you had a loan with the bank for the car, would the dealer be legally required to only release the keys to the bank?
'From his perspective' is the key phrase here. Judging the competence of his superiors is outside the scope of his job responsibilities. Denying the company access to their legal property, i.e. the passwords, is considered theft.
Just make it better than the other guy and the advertising will take care of the rest. Everybody thought Myspace was the sh*t, and then Facebook came and did it better from a feature and usability standpoint, and that was all she wrote. If somebody makes a better Craigslist, Craigslist would fall into the same hole as Myspace. I'm still surprised nobody has yet. That's oodles of money just waiting to be made.
The city did not go too far IMHO. He may feel like it's his duty to protect what he felt was his network, but it's not his decision. He can make his objections known, but that's it. When the people who own the network make a decision, that's the end of the discussion. Live with the pain or leave.
I kind of question whether it's a DOS or a 'potential' DOS. Did not relinquishing the passwords cause an inability for the network to function for its users? Or did it just cause an inability to fix a potential issue in the network? Was there queued work for the network that couldn't be done because they didn't have the passwords? If there was, then that could be considered a DOS.
Just because he called or tried to call Apple doesn't make it ok to keep it. You can't just say, well, i couldn't get a hold of them so now i can say it's mine. Gizmodo's website even calls it 'lost' not 'abandoned', which implies somebody inadvertantly left it, which makes it stolen. And then he proceeded to open it up BEFORE he called Apple. And then selling it for 5k. Well that's just strike three against the thief. Even if Apple said, "you know what, that's not our phone", it's still stolen from SOMEBODY, the phone didn't just magically appear out of thin air, SOMEBODY owns it. The only way he gets out of it is if Apple said, "yes, that's our phone, we can prove it, but you go ahead and keep it". And we all know that's not bloody likely. So destruction of private property and sale of stolen property. All very bad for the thief.
I say let 'em cheat on assignments/homework, and assign no grades to such work. Have all of the student's grade come from quizzes/tests. If they cheat on their assignments/homework, they'll fail the quizzes and tests 'cause they didn't learn anything. If they don't cheat, they'll do good on the quizzes and tests. Seems like 2 reasonable outcomes. Problem solved.
I may be on the fringe here, but I like my windows mobile phone..always have.
Windows mobile and the iphone each cater to a different class of user. iPhone undoubtably caters to the larger class, the media-hungry chic consumer. Microsoft to the smaller, corporate minded consumer. For the purpose of comparison we'll call the iphone class, class 1, and the corporate class, class 2. Yes the iPhone has a great UI, no denying that. They're design is sleek and clean. It's beautiful. Now if microsoft can just add on a UI and app store geared toward class 1 they'd be fine. Personally, i'd be happy if they had 2 UI themes. The first defaulting to class 1 and the 2nd to class 2 and letting me choose between the two with ease. I don't think they should force themselves to reinvent the wheel here. Look, the iPhone interface works.They have a lot of information on what works. Do that. Forget about the criticism you'll get from making your UI iPhone like, being a copy-cat or whatever.
I'm squarely in class 2 of users. I'm an IT guy. I love running apps in the background. My VPN app is designed for windows mobile. I love tethering, and I actually love the interface. Email on the main screen, check. Calendar there, check. Battery level, check. Remote desktop, ssh, check. Anything that doesn't have those things for me as an IT guy gets chucked. Next phone, HTC Touch HD2, it's a no-brainer for me. There's no viable alternatives.
On a side note, i was considering an iPad. Love the discounted 3G plan (let's face it, t-mobile and verizon's $60 mobile broadband plans are WAY overpriced). Love the form factor, size, no physical keyboard, just what i wanted for mobile IT administration. But then, no multitasking, no VPN for me, once again, it gets chucked. The day there's a viable windows based tablet (e.g. HP slate), i'm there.
you say 'skilled labor' almost like it's a bad thing. you want a company hiring unskilled labor? i'm partially joking. point is, everything is skilled labor. if it's not, they shouldn't be paying you. 'shouldn't' being the key word..that's not the real world, because you got nephews you need to do a favor for, or minorities you're forced to hire, etc..
and having to drive yourself from the airport, geez, they obviously don't know that programmers have to travel in style.
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and see, if he would have just applied for press credentials beforehand, he could have claimed freedom of the press and been fine.
in response though, yeah, it's relatively innocent, in the grand scheme of things. we've become such a bunch of whiny and weak people in this society. ooo, he took a picture of me, ooo the camera stole my soul. grow a backbone. it's a freakin' picture.
I 2nd this.
Go back to your 9-5 job. Nobody in their right mind would start in this job with hindsight. So take ours.
It's like having a newborn that gets up at all hours of the night, and NEVER grows up.
Forget taking a vacation and not having to worry about anything. Maintenance at 3am, check. Network goes down at 3am, check.
You know those few people you see driving on the roads at 3am? All admins.
On the other hand, you're usually considered pretty indispensable. But you'll never know it because you'll be wildly under-appreciated.
If you do do it, resist the urge to grow a beard and get fat. Resist the urge to talk down to end-users, especially since they will most certainly deserve it.
Never make a policy 'optional'. Never recommend..require. Never assume people can't possibly be that dumb. Prepare for the worst, and then a little further. Think about the possibilities you haven't thought of. Label Label Label. Inventory Inventory Inventory. Document Document Document. Always wear a grounding strap. Dust kills. Heat kills. Don't throw water on a router that's on fire. Educate users that they shouldn't plug one end of a network cable into a wall jack and the other end also into a wall jack. Oh, and don't skimp on hookers.
+100 for Thinkpads.
I had an employee that was in a car crash with a tractor trailer on an interstate (god rest his soul). His Thinkpad T41 was recovered. Couple scratches on the case, passed all hardware diagnostics, booted up and just kept right on goin. Can't beat 'em IMHO.
I may be missing something here, but are far as i'm concerned, humans already have depth perception, and have since, oh, i don't know, the beginning of time.
It just seems like the companies touting 3D are making it sound like depth perception on a 2D medium is some new fangled thing that they invented.
Take a piece of paper, draw a square on it. 2D. now, draw a cube on it, wow, it LOOKS like 3D.
So who cares about 'technical' 3D when we can already perceive 3D on a technically 2D medium? I could give a shit about real 3D.
But opinions are like assholes..
Some company is going to make prescription 3D glasses, available at your local optometrist.
You think i'm joking (and i kind of am), but you just wait and see, it'll happen. Some guy reading my post is filing for a patent right now.
in your analogy I assume you actually own the car, i.e. have the title.
I wonder if you leased it, if the dealer is under the same obligation, since they own the car. Granted, you might be able to sue them for breach of contract, depending on the wording of said contract.
Similarly if you had a loan with the bank for the car, would the dealer be legally required to only release the keys to the bank?
'From his perspective' is the key phrase here.
Judging the competence of his superiors is outside the scope of his job responsibilities.
Denying the company access to their legal property, i.e. the passwords, is considered theft.
They should change "acts of God" to "acts of Nature"
s/this nonsense/humanity/
Sounds like Mr. Greene will fit into the Democratic party quite well.
A million gigabytes is what we call 'good marketing'.
Just make it better than the other guy and the advertising will take care of the rest.
Everybody thought Myspace was the sh*t, and then Facebook came and did it better from a feature and usability standpoint, and that was all she wrote.
If somebody makes a better Craigslist, Craigslist would fall into the same hole as Myspace. I'm still surprised nobody has yet. That's oodles of money just waiting to be made.
I would bet this is more prevalent on the internet for TV shows rather than movies.
As more and more content is available online by legal means, e.g. netflix, broadcaster' websites, this decision will matter less and less.
Which is fine by me, i'm ditching my cable and hdpvr.
i'd actually be interested in seeing if performance decreases in a drive due to the magnetic field of a adjacent drive.
i guess the beach boys were wrong about those vibrations.
..while angels dance on pinheads.
We can't even commercially do this on earth, what makes them think they can do it in space?
With our luck, the engineers will mix up 'gallons' and 'liters'.
You don't. You notify the company's legal department. It's not a technology issue.
The city did not go too far IMHO.
He may feel like it's his duty to protect what he felt was his network, but it's not his decision. He can make his objections known, but that's it. When the people who own the network make a decision, that's the end of the discussion. Live with the pain or leave.
I kind of question whether it's a DOS or a 'potential' DOS. Did not relinquishing the passwords cause an inability for the network to function for its users? Or did it just cause an inability to fix a potential issue in the network?
Was there queued work for the network that couldn't be done because they didn't have the passwords? If there was, then that could be considered a DOS.
Just because he called or tried to call Apple doesn't make it ok to keep it.
You can't just say, well, i couldn't get a hold of them so now i can say it's mine. Gizmodo's website even calls it 'lost' not 'abandoned', which implies somebody inadvertantly left it, which makes it stolen.
And then he proceeded to open it up BEFORE he called Apple.
And then selling it for 5k. Well that's just strike three against the thief.
Even if Apple said, "you know what, that's not our phone", it's still stolen from SOMEBODY, the phone didn't just magically appear out of thin air, SOMEBODY owns it.
The only way he gets out of it is if Apple said, "yes, that's our phone, we can prove it, but you go ahead and keep it".
And we all know that's not bloody likely.
So destruction of private property and sale of stolen property. All very bad for the thief.
I say let 'em cheat on assignments/homework, and assign no grades to such work. Have all of the student's grade come from quizzes/tests.
If they cheat on their assignments/homework, they'll fail the quizzes and tests 'cause they didn't learn anything. If they don't cheat, they'll do good on the quizzes and tests.
Seems like 2 reasonable outcomes. Problem solved.
-Tony
monitoring != posting. somebody needs to buy her a clue..or a dictionary.
I may be on the fringe here, but I like my windows mobile phone..always have.
Windows mobile and the iphone each cater to a different class of user. iPhone undoubtably caters to the larger class, the media-hungry chic consumer. Microsoft to the smaller, corporate minded consumer. For the purpose of comparison we'll call the iphone class, class 1, and the corporate class, class 2. Yes the iPhone has a great UI, no denying that. They're design is sleek and clean. It's beautiful.
Now if microsoft can just add on a UI and app store geared toward class 1 they'd be fine. Personally, i'd be happy if they had 2 UI themes. The first defaulting to class 1 and the 2nd to class 2 and letting me choose between the two with ease.
I don't think they should force themselves to reinvent the wheel here. Look, the iPhone interface works.They have a lot of information on what works. Do that. Forget about the criticism you'll get from making your UI iPhone like, being a copy-cat or whatever.
I'm squarely in class 2 of users. I'm an IT guy. I love running apps in the background. My VPN app is designed for windows mobile. I love tethering, and I actually love the interface. Email on the main screen, check. Calendar there, check. Battery level, check. Remote desktop, ssh, check. Anything that doesn't have those things for me as an IT guy gets chucked.
Next phone, HTC Touch HD2, it's a no-brainer for me. There's no viable alternatives.
On a side note, i was considering an iPad. Love the discounted 3G plan (let's face it, t-mobile and verizon's $60 mobile broadband plans are WAY overpriced).
Love the form factor, size, no physical keyboard, just what i wanted for mobile IT administration. But then, no multitasking, no VPN for me, once again, it gets chucked. The day there's a viable windows based tablet (e.g. HP slate), i'm there.
-Tony
has any SAs or NAs had this happen to them? paying of travel costs (beyond the flight) and such. is it just a programmer thing?
-Tony
you say 'skilled labor' almost like it's a bad thing. you want a company hiring unskilled labor? i'm partially joking. point is, everything is skilled labor. if it's not, they shouldn't be paying you. 'shouldn't' being the key word..that's not the real world, because you got nephews you need to do a favor for, or minorities you're forced to hire, etc..
and having to drive yourself from the airport, geez, they obviously don't know that programmers have to travel in style.
-Tony