I'm an independent, and I've been working from home several years ago. At first it seemed nice, sleeping in and working on my own hours. But there were a couple of things that really started to bother me after a short time:
For one, you can never escape your work place, at least not if you're living in a small, 1-room apartment as I did at the time. That, to me, made it very difficult to stop thinking of work and relaxing after hours.
Then, there's the problem with the little distractions at home. Nobody's looking over your shoulders, and your friends and family know you're home so they think it's okay to call and distract you, and if you're not disciplined, you might even distract yourself. I've noticed this happens a lot more when working at home.
Finally, and this is probably the most important factor for me, I'd miss the interaction with my peers at work. I do not like all of them, but we do laugh a lot and generally have a lot of fun, plus we do exchange a lot of knowledge. And if they're getting too loud or annoying, I just tell them to shut up and it works:)
So, in conclusion, I'd not only not take a "pay" cut to work at home, I wouldn't even do it for more money.
The foreign office is in the hands of a party (FDP) that from its political standpoint would clearly favor proprietary software over open source. The open source initiative was started by the previous office holder, who came from the other end of the political spectrum (the German Green party)
Whatever real problems there may or may not be, they almost certainly are not the reason for this switch.
There was a lot of buzz about this yesterday, but in fact this is just a very stupid marketing stunt.
All they're doing is going from BETA to NORMAL activity but they make it look like they're closing shop for the extra attention and "phew" effect afterwards.
How do I know? Well, apparently there were some warnings about this not to be taken seriously by investors in other parts of the interwob.
The more difficult you make it to crack, the more annoying it gets for the user. This is because you have to get more and more intrusive and less permissive with what you do to the PC of your customer, and obiously you can't sell your games with a hardware dongle just to make it more difficult for crackers. On the other hand, a typical cracker will enjoy a challenge and at worst will need a day more to crack your super duper copy protection.
A very similar situation exists for hardware manufacturers in the west that have trouble with the Chinese copying their hardware designs - you can go to any length of trouble and efford to protect your hardware from being copied, like removing the chip prints, or trying to prevent them from just microscoping the inside of your chip, but in the end it's all in vain because their motivation is strong enough to overcome anything you throw at them.
Copy protections in general have only one use: to prevent the dumbest of people who don't know how to get cracks from the internet from copying stuff.
I don't know what he was thinking, but in Dachau, about 25000 people were murdered. While I do consider "Gitmo" a terrible place, I do not think any crime of even that magnitude has happened there.
You seriously compare Guantanamo Bay with Dachau? From this I must deduct that you have no idea what you're talking about. Guantanamo Bay is comparable to the detainment camps the US opened for Japanese nationals during WWII, not with an institution with the sole purpose of murdering as many people as possible. Seriously, just making that comparission proves that you do not understand what you are going on about.
You're the new guy they just hired to replace him. Who cares about CNAMEs when you're on the server looking at the hostname? Someone tells you 'daffy' and 'kirk' are down. What are they? What do they do?
Luckily your company is certified ISO 9000 and everything you need to know to do someone else's job is well documented.
The way the story is told I'd suggest that the practices of this company are at the very least deceptive, and there's ways to deal with this. I'd recommend waiting for legal papers (Mahnbescheid*) and then have a lawyer tell them to shove it. They won't go to court because they know that their business practices are "Sittenwidrig" (including laesio enormis - the service (that's what was sold) is in no way proportional to the costs) which essentially means that their practices are amoral/against proper business practices and thus not legal.
*) A Gerichtlicher Mahnbescheid is a kind of legal paper anyone can get from a local court without any real checks by paying a few bucks to the court. This paper is then used for forclosure. However, this claim can be challenged, which would lead to a proper civil trial - if the claiming party will go that far, which in this case, they most likely won't.
Even in their own countries people opposed those dictators. Some didn't even know (their own fault in part I admit) the extent of the evil those men did. Most people were bystanders, who might have done something, but choose to stand aside because they didn't want to have their families hurt.
Speaking about Germany here, don't know much about the other countries mentioned...
Most people did not oppose those regimes because it wasn't in their own best interest. If bad things happened to other people, what did they care? Many of them even profited from the actions of the ruling class: a whole section of the populace was driven out or outright murdered, leaving behind a wast fortune in real estate, money and other property that was made available to basically everyone else. This washed loads and loads of money in to the pockets of ruthless enterprises as well as many a private citizen who all used the situation to their advantage. And if you look at the details, you will find it was impossible to not know, at least if you didn't live under a rock. I know it goes against what most people believe in, that humans are basically good, but the sad fact is that people will accept any kind of calamity as long as it doesn't effect them personally. That's one of the reasons why capitalism works so well. People look to their own advantage and don't give a shit about anyone else.
I have to admit it did the last time I installed Linux on a laptop. For a second I was torn between Reiser and XFS and then I picked XFS and I have to admit disgust played into it.
I think that if he were to serve his time and be released after 15+ years and he actually were to write a new filesystem, I might try it out, thinking that he had paid for his crimes and should get a new chance to get things right. But right now? Hell no.
I think the fact that the choice was either a western style democracy as designed by the US or whatever Russia had to offer had something to do with it. Most Germans were scared shitless of the Russians, especially after what they did to so many of their citizens...
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I'm an independent, and I've been working from home several years ago. At first it seemed nice, sleeping in and working on my own hours. But there were a couple of things that really started to bother me after a short time: For one, you can never escape your work place, at least not if you're living in a small, 1-room apartment as I did at the time. That, to me, made it very difficult to stop thinking of work and relaxing after hours. Then, there's the problem with the little distractions at home. Nobody's looking over your shoulders, and your friends and family know you're home so they think it's okay to call and distract you, and if you're not disciplined, you might even distract yourself. I've noticed this happens a lot more when working at home. Finally, and this is probably the most important factor for me, I'd miss the interaction with my peers at work. I do not like all of them, but we do laugh a lot and generally have a lot of fun, plus we do exchange a lot of knowledge. And if they're getting too loud or annoying, I just tell them to shut up and it works :)
So, in conclusion, I'd not only not take a "pay" cut to work at home, I wouldn't even do it for more money.
The foreign office is in the hands of a party (FDP) that from its political standpoint would clearly favor proprietary software over open source. The open source initiative was started by the previous office holder, who came from the other end of the political spectrum (the German Green party) Whatever real problems there may or may not be, they almost certainly are not the reason for this switch.
... on heise.de when it was posted there some week or two ago. The stupid plugin costs money, too! 10 Euros per month, if you can believe that.
Link to Heise article (google translation)
... is not to play at all!
There was a lot of buzz about this yesterday, but in fact this is just a very stupid marketing stunt.
All they're doing is going from BETA to NORMAL activity but they make it look like they're closing shop for the extra attention and "phew" effect afterwards.
How do I know? Well, apparently there were some warnings about this not to be taken seriously by investors in other parts of the interwob.
The more difficult you make it to crack, the more annoying it gets for the user. This is because you have to get more and more intrusive and less permissive with what you do to the PC of your customer, and obiously you can't sell your games with a hardware dongle just to make it more difficult for crackers. On the other hand, a typical cracker will enjoy a challenge and at worst will need a day more to crack your super duper copy protection.
A very similar situation exists for hardware manufacturers in the west that have trouble with the Chinese copying their hardware designs - you can go to any length of trouble and efford to protect your hardware from being copied, like removing the chip prints, or trying to prevent them from just microscoping the inside of your chip, but in the end it's all in vain because their motivation is strong enough to overcome anything you throw at them.
Copy protections in general have only one use: to prevent the dumbest of people who don't know how to get cracks from the internet from copying stuff.
My formula:
Te * 2 + n
Where Te is the time I think it takes after reading the specifications, and n is the "nose factor". Usually works pretty well.
... ur doin it rite!
If that's what they tought you in biology, I don't want to know what they tought you in sex-ed...
Funny, around here we call it "bullshit bingo" :)
Sounds to me what you really want is something like a busybox based system.
I don't know what he was thinking, but in Dachau, about 25000 people were murdered. While I do consider "Gitmo" a terrible place, I do not think any crime of even that magnitude has happened there.
You seriously compare Guantanamo Bay with Dachau? From this I must deduct that you have no idea what you're talking about. Guantanamo Bay is comparable to the detainment camps the US opened for Japanese nationals during WWII, not with an institution with the sole purpose of murdering as many people as possible. Seriously, just making that comparission proves that you do not understand what you are going on about.
Luckily your company is certified ISO 9000 and everything you need to know to do someone else's job is well documented.
Right?
Pinkles, Squirmy. Flib Flab Flubber!
The way the story is told I'd suggest that the practices of this company are at the very least deceptive, and there's ways to deal with this. I'd recommend waiting for legal papers (Mahnbescheid*) and then have a lawyer tell them to shove it. They won't go to court because they know that their business practices are "Sittenwidrig" (including laesio enormis - the service (that's what was sold) is in no way proportional to the costs) which essentially means that their practices are amoral/against proper business practices and thus not legal. *) A Gerichtlicher Mahnbescheid is a kind of legal paper anyone can get from a local court without any real checks by paying a few bucks to the court. This paper is then used for forclosure. However, this claim can be challenged, which would lead to a proper civil trial - if the claiming party will go that far, which in this case, they most likely won't.
Speaking about Germany here, don't know much about the other countries mentioned...
Most people did not oppose those regimes because it wasn't in their own best interest. If bad things happened to other people, what did they care? Many of them even profited from the actions of the ruling class: a whole section of the populace was driven out or outright murdered, leaving behind a wast fortune in real estate, money and other property that was made available to basically everyone else. This washed loads and loads of money in to the pockets of ruthless enterprises as well as many a private citizen who all used the situation to their advantage. And if you look at the details, you will find it was impossible to not know, at least if you didn't live under a rock. I know it goes against what most people believe in, that humans are basically good, but the sad fact is that people will accept any kind of calamity as long as it doesn't effect them personally. That's one of the reasons why capitalism works so well. People look to their own advantage and don't give a shit about anyone else.
I'm certain this would involve Power Over Ethernet somehow.
What's with the imdb rating? Why is it #1? Seriously, I guess it's good but don't you think some Heath Ledger fans have gone a little overboard here?
Does it really matter what your DELPHI code looks like? I'd think if you used that all hope was lost anyway :)
Why you'd want this: Hypochondriasis
I have to admit it did the last time I installed Linux on a laptop. For a second I was torn between Reiser and XFS and then I picked XFS and I have to admit disgust played into it.
I think that if he were to serve his time and be released after 15+ years and he actually were to write a new filesystem, I might try it out, thinking that he had paid for his crimes and should get a new chance to get things right. But right now? Hell no.
I think the fact that the choice was either a western style democracy as designed by the US or whatever Russia had to offer had something to do with it. Most Germans were scared shitless of the Russians, especially after what they did to so many of their citizens...
Nobody else was ever referred to by that title. That word on its own is inseperably associated with Hitler.
"Design fuhrer"? I wonder if that guy has any idea what kind of insult this represents to most Germans. Probably not.