Headline: Motorola Bankruptcy Triggers Increased Unemployment in China and Mexico; U.S. Employment Statistics Barely Affected.
Motorola is still suffering from Chris Galvan's philosophy of "The employee is the enemy." Motorola might as well have hired Catbert as its corporate H.R. Director.
Ed Zander at least attempted to reduce the "warring tribes" mentality within the company, but to little avail. I was laid-off during Zander's tenure, so I don't know as much about Greg Brown, et. al., but I doubt that very much has changed in the last few years.
One would think that if the employee is the enemy, Motorola would have very few enemies left in this world, but if ex-employees are the enemy, Motorola's in BIG trouble!
Let's see...
If one team of Cobol programmers can update the system in 180 days, 180 teams of Cobol programmers ought to be able to update the system in one day, right?
I'm surprised that no senior administration official has made that suggestion....yet.
Any time that you have a truly motivated team of employees, the boss/employee relationship tends to turn upside-down. The employees tell the "boss" what they need in order to get their job done, and the boss will provide it for them. I've been on both ends of this kind of situation.
Perhaps instead of having "the entire IT staff sit down with the owner of the company and explain why the owner should fire the moron IT manager," the IT staff should sit down with the IT manager himself (or herself), and DEMAND that he get the needed training to come up to speed. Explain that this is what you need, in order to do your job. Of course, if he refuses, THEN you go to the owner of the company (or the next level up).
They also open the Trinity Site on the first Saturdays in April and October. It's an interesting place to visit. As in today's event, there is no program and no speakers. There are, however, souvenir vendors there. The WSMR folks will give you this brochure at the gate.
A few tokens of my tourist experience:
1. There is a rock shop right outside the gate, with a big sign advertising "Trinitite for Sale." If you are a rockhound, they have a nice shop, with lots of interesting stuff, but their prices are a little high. You can get Trinitie cheaper on Ebay all day long.
2. Removing Trinitite from the Trinity site is considered theft of government property, but they don't watch you too closely.:) There's still quite a few chunks of it around the back fence.
3. If you see old people visiting the site, there's a good chance that they are locals, who remember the blast. Seek them out and talk to them.
4. To me, there really wasn't all that much to see there, and yet, there was an amazing sense to just *be* there. The most impressive physical sight to me was the bowl-shaped depression in the soil, a few hundred yards in circumference, caused by the force of the blast compressing the soil.
5. Try to get a room in Socorro. When they say that the site is "near Alamogordo," they lie. You will enter from the NORTH side of WSMR.
Democrats are not considered a serious threat to the current regime. The REAL threats are fiscal conservatives withing the Republican party.
Of course, I'm just saying that theoretically...
Of course I support President Bush's economic policies!...Big Government is Good Government!...If the budget is balanced, the terrorists win!
Please! Don't come after me! I'm a loyal Bush Budget supporter! Really! I'm no fiscal conservative! AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!--terminal disconnect--
OK, I haven't checked lately (right now, I'm on a dial-up machine, so I'm not going to do anything extreme, like check facts before I post), but when I got an AMD-64 computer, and downloaded both the 1.4.? SDK and JRE, *NEITHER* of them had a browser plugin. No documentation, no excuses, it just wasn't there.
The 32-bit plugin (as well as Flash's 32-bit plugin) don't work with 64-bit Mozilla or Firefox, so I have a separate 32-bit Firefox executable, that I use for java and flash sites. It runs noticeably slower than the same app compiled for AMD-64 though.
If v1.4.2 for Linux, on AMD-64 has browser plugins, that would be welcome news to me.
Being politically conservative, I support ironclad enforcement of a few, reasonable laws. Once we decide that something "shouldn't be done," the penalty for doing so should not be so light as to be considered a "cost of doing business." This threshold might well be different for the entertainment industry than for other industries. On the other hand, I think that the FCC's obscenity standards are unreasonable. Stern's shows make money, because people seem to enjoy his antics. (I'm not a fan, but I'm not anti-Stern, either)
Being an economic conservative, I tend to view the Bush administration as favoring a few select businesses (his campaign contributors), as opposed to supporting an economic environment conducive to business in general. The FCC seems to be strongly favoring Cable television and Satellite radio over traditional broadcast media. The majority of the public seems to prefer a boob or a cuss word here and there, and are willing to pay for a subscription, rather than get "boring" content for free. The economically conservative view would be to relax the broadcast standards, and let radio and television stations provide content to meet market demand, as they see fit.
After all, if you owned a cable or satellite business, wouldn't you want (free) radio and TV to be as boring as possible? Wouldn't you contribute to a candidate who promised to do so?
Bloody Aussies think they have it bad because your Charles Ng (allegedly) violated copyright laws. Why don't you come to the U.S., and see what OUR Charles Ng was like! You'll see just how easy you've got it down there!
I wondered why it was called the "aging" init procedure, so I did some checking.
Sure enough, it was the oldest process on my box! I guess they were right!
(Who'da thunk it!)
That brings to mind...Most NIC's and broadband routers these days allow you to change the MAC address, which is all that most DHCP servers track. Are cable operators able to track individual cable modems? If not, it would behoove the file sharer using cable ISP's to change their MAC address frequently, if said provider allows them to do so.
Once upon a time, long, long ago, I worked at the Pepsico plant where they made the Mountain Dew concentrate that they sell to the bottlers. Part of the kit was a large plastic bag full of pure powdered caffeine. Since it looked a little like "other" powdered stimulants (or so I've heard, not that I'd know:-P ), I got to clowning around for my coworkers, and snorted a big line of caffeine.
I have never had my nose, sinuses and throat burn so bad in my life, or had such a bitter taste welling up in my mouth. I must have spent the next hour in the restroom, inhaling handfulls of water through my nose!
Don't try this at home, kiddies!
I just did an impromptu search on gnutella (using Limewire), searching for the above bands, getting the above number of hits.
In my experience, newer, more "techno" music is much harder to find on P2P networks than is 60's and 70's rock.
Methinks Moby doth complain too much!
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I though Minix was dead for some 15 years....
No, *Linux* is dead. Those monolithic kernels are just "one big mess!"
Headline: Motorola Bankruptcy Triggers Increased Unemployment in China and Mexico; U.S. Employment Statistics Barely Affected. Motorola is still suffering from Chris Galvan's philosophy of "The employee is the enemy." Motorola might as well have hired Catbert as its corporate H.R. Director. Ed Zander at least attempted to reduce the "warring tribes" mentality within the company, but to little avail. I was laid-off during Zander's tenure, so I don't know as much about Greg Brown, et. al., but I doubt that very much has changed in the last few years. One would think that if the employee is the enemy, Motorola would have very few enemies left in this world, but if ex-employees are the enemy, Motorola's in BIG trouble!
Let's see... If one team of Cobol programmers can update the system in 180 days, 180 teams of Cobol programmers ought to be able to update the system in one day, right? I'm surprised that no senior administration official has made that suggestion....yet.
Perhaps instead of having "the entire IT staff sit down with the owner of the company and explain why the owner should fire the moron IT manager," the IT staff should sit down with the IT manager himself (or herself), and DEMAND that he get the needed training to come up to speed. Explain that this is what you need, in order to do your job. Of course, if he refuses, THEN you go to the owner of the company (or the next level up).
Someone please mod the parent up. Maybe not ALL that high, but it deserves better than "Troll."
Ghandi was once asked what he thought of western civilization. His answer: "I'd be in favor of it."
(Self-disclosure: I only did it once, as a "proof-of-concept" test!)
A few tokens of my tourist experience:
1. There is a rock shop right outside the gate, with a big sign advertising "Trinitite for Sale." If you are a rockhound, they have a nice shop, with lots of interesting stuff, but their prices are a little high. You can get Trinitie cheaper on Ebay all day long.
2. Removing Trinitite from the Trinity site is considered theft of government property, but they don't watch you too closely. :) There's still quite a few chunks of it around the back fence.
3. If you see old people visiting the site, there's a good chance that they are locals, who remember the blast. Seek them out and talk to them.
4. To me, there really wasn't all that much to see there, and yet, there was an amazing sense to just *be* there. The most impressive physical sight to me was the bowl-shaped depression in the soil, a few hundred yards in circumference, caused by the force of the blast compressing the soil.
5. Try to get a room in Socorro. When they say that the site is "near Alamogordo," they lie. You will enter from the NORTH side of WSMR.
Democrats are not considered a serious threat to the current regime. The REAL threats are fiscal conservatives withing the Republican party. Of course, I'm just saying that theoretically... Of course I support President Bush's economic policies!...Big Government is Good Government!...If the budget is balanced, the terrorists win! Please! Don't come after me! I'm a loyal Bush Budget supporter! Really! I'm no fiscal conservative! AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!--terminal disconnect--
A blind man walks into a store, grabs his guide dog by the tail, and starts swinging him around in circles.
The clerk runs up. "Sir, can I help you?"
"Naaa. I'm just looking around."
Jokes just won't be as funny with robots.
OK, I haven't checked lately (right now, I'm on a dial-up machine, so I'm not going to do anything extreme, like check facts before I post), but when I got an AMD-64 computer, and downloaded both the 1.4.? SDK and JRE, *NEITHER* of them had a browser plugin. No documentation, no excuses, it just wasn't there.
The 32-bit plugin (as well as Flash's 32-bit plugin) don't work with 64-bit Mozilla or Firefox, so I have a separate 32-bit Firefox executable, that I use for java and flash sites. It runs noticeably slower than the same app compiled for AMD-64 though.
If v1.4.2 for Linux, on AMD-64 has browser plugins, that would be welcome news to me.
Being politically conservative, I support ironclad enforcement of a few, reasonable laws. Once we decide that something "shouldn't be done," the penalty for doing so should not be so light as to be considered a "cost of doing business." This threshold might well be different for the entertainment industry than for other industries. On the other hand, I think that the FCC's obscenity standards are unreasonable. Stern's shows make money, because people seem to enjoy his antics. (I'm not a fan, but I'm not anti-Stern, either)
Being an economic conservative, I tend to view the Bush administration as favoring a few select businesses (his campaign contributors), as opposed to supporting an economic environment conducive to business in general. The FCC seems to be strongly favoring Cable television and Satellite radio over traditional broadcast media. The majority of the public seems to prefer a boob or a cuss word here and there, and are willing to pay for a subscription, rather than get "boring" content for free. The economically conservative view would be to relax the broadcast standards, and let radio and television stations provide content to meet market demand, as they see fit.
After all, if you owned a cable or satellite business, wouldn't you want (free) radio and TV to be as boring as possible? Wouldn't you contribute to a candidate who promised to do so?
I know, I know, first posts are ALWAYS moderated -1 offtopic, but this one was kinda funny!
Bloody Aussies think they have it bad because your Charles Ng (allegedly) violated copyright laws. Why don't you come to the U.S., and see what OUR Charles Ng was like! You'll see just how easy you've got it down there!
I wondered why it was called the "aging" init procedure, so I did some checking. Sure enough, it was the oldest process on my box! I guess they were right! (Who'da thunk it!)
That brings to mind...Most NIC's and broadband routers these days allow you to change the MAC address, which is all that most DHCP servers track. Are cable operators able to track individual cable modems? If not, it would behoove the file sharer using cable ISP's to change their MAC address frequently, if said provider allows them to do so.
Of course, I still get a chuckle out of it, a couple of decades later. Live and Learn!
Once upon a time, long, long ago, I worked at the Pepsico plant where they made the Mountain Dew concentrate that they sell to the bottlers. Part of the kit was a large plastic bag full of pure powdered caffeine. Since it looked a little like "other" powdered stimulants (or so I've heard, not that I'd know :-P ), I got to clowning around for my coworkers, and snorted a big line of caffeine.
I have never had my nose, sinuses and throat burn so bad in my life, or had such a bitter taste welling up in my mouth. I must have spent the next hour in the restroom, inhaling handfulls of water through my nose!
Don't try this at home, kiddies!
I just did an impromptu search on gnutella (using Limewire), searching for the above bands, getting the above number of hits. In my experience, newer, more "techno" music is much harder to find on P2P networks than is 60's and 70's rock. Methinks Moby doth complain too much!