Nobody *owes* you a job, but if you read into what's happening, in some ways IBM did owe certain employees protection against downsizing just prior to retirement. So apparently what they did is deliberately give good employees bad (false) performance reviews, in order to make them fireable.
So there's a difference between "owed a job" and "negotiated in good faith and then shafted by lying bastards"
Seriously, it doesn't get much simpler than "take chicken out of package, put in toaster oven on some aluminium foil, set temp to 400, cook for 40 minutes" Alternately, "put food in slow cooker", set time, leave to cook, eat tomorrow.
We're doing this to undercut any interest in competing OS's, not because we actually care about it. When we've undercut things enough, we'll dump any support entirely...
Wow... I think in this case the best solution is to change schools. Possibly to change cities/states. Whatever qualifies as "education" there is probably more harmful than good.
Point? So the police *shouldn't* trade goods in the station, or you wouldn't go there because you find it safer to do the exchange an a back alley somewhere?
"He died on my birthday. Worst birthday present ever"
Was it? The early WoT was engaging and interesting. Later, it got to be very drawn out and over-detailed. It's a shame that RJ passed away, but the edition starting with Brandon Sanderson does a pretty decent job and is actually more interesting than Jordon's later books.
Ebay has been the bulk of my experience with this, and they deal with it *VERY* poorly.
MicroSDXC card which is labelled as 32GB but actually rewrites sectors at about 4GB (you won't know until after you used it awhile), ah well they sold that to you too long ago so we won't deal with it, even though it's fraud
DVD series that's boxed nicely but obviously not legit (poor subtitles taken from fansubs, even some eps with scan-lines)... well we'll do something about that *IF* you can prove they're fake by having a professional sign off on it.
Seems China is doing more about it than anyone here. The above are pretty well known issues once you start looking into things, but no charges of "profiting from the proceeds of crime" hitting eBay that I've ever heard of.
On one hand, you hear about him flaming out people who break shit in stupid ways. On the other, you also hear him accepting blame for not checking things properly himself: "Serves me right for not digging all the way down the mess of macros"
Whatever his eccentricities, he sounds quite fair to me.
Where the government is phasing out home mail delivery in favour of "Community Mailboxes"... so now I have to go to the big box in order to collect my frequent junk-mail and occasional important stuff.
I don't want a teleported camshaft that is printed with a 3D printer that uses chocolate for the printing material.
Actually, printing real-world stuff in chocolate via 3d scanning+printing would be *awesome*,and would probably have a decent market. Those scale model cars that you can buy; print those, in chocolate. You can eat your way through the car and see all the intricate parts as you do so.
Get yourself printed...in chocolate. Then eat yourself. Or take a bite outta the boss!
And this year, the effectiveness of influenza vaccine in the USA is around 23% or less. For effective vaccines (measles, etc) with severe consequences for infection, it makes sense, but recent research is showing that people who have previously been vaccinated for influenza are actually *more likely* to get sick with a newer strain (again, NOT an issue with the measles vaccine). For flu, I'd guess that people who are exposed to the live virus in small quantities may build more natural immunity than those that a vaccine, but research hasn't shown the cause yet. There are two ways to get immunity after all: a) An effective vaccine or b) Get sick, suffer the consequences, and naturally build immunity
In the case of (b), if you're infectious before showing visible symptoms (and/or you're not willing to become a hermit until you are clear) then the vaccine is still the best route, and more in the community interest. In the US, where sick days are lacking, many people aren't willing (or able) to lose the pay either. You also end up with dipshit parents who deliberately expose their kids to nasty stuff so that they *WILL* get sick and later be immune... which just seems cruel and unnecessary.
There are legitimate reasons for doing it. Businesses which essentially have the telephone equivalent of a NAT (lots of inside lines, only a few incoming numbers), or forwarding etc.
People with VOIP lines may have only an outgoing line with no number to call back. I've had this and used my cellular # for call-display.
That said, there should be a way to authorize or verify numbers for caller-ID purposes, perhaps by sending a text message or confirmation call with a passcode. Then, only those who have registered a number can use it for caller-ID purposes.
As a sysadmin, a lot of the job is doing stuff that *prevents* loss. Unfortunately, bean-counters often don't really understand how properly configured/supported firewalls and security appliances are important, because they don't *MAKE* money.
I've got a bunch of PCI DVB/capture cards that are in the same boat. They *could* be useful if I had drivers for them, but alas, they do not.
My personal disfavorite is software that depends on dongles which have OS-specific drivers. The software *WOULD* work on the newer OS if the dongle had a driver that allowed it to authenticate (of course, dongles suck in general).
where are the iPhone, Android, Symbian, etc versions of BBM!
Uh, well for Google Play, it'd be here, and for iDevices it would be here
I still agree that their argument is dumb though. People develop apps for a platform where it will sell, and that has nothing to do with net neutrality. I find it annoying that I can't run [game/software X] on Linux, but that has nothing to do with my ISP or internet service.
Yes, and they have expensive lawyers, which means that dealing with them costs a lot of time, and money. You may get satisfaction, but it will be many dollars and months if not years away.
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Unfortunately, they probably make the same arguments to their recruits.
They'll be eating Poutine and Beaver Tails. They manage to stab themselves in the cheek at times but they do apologize about it profusely.
I didn't click on the video. I opened the *article* and the f'ing thing started playing by itself. Blech.
Nobody *owes* you a job, but if you read into what's happening, in some ways IBM did owe certain employees protection against downsizing just prior to retirement. So apparently what they did is deliberately give good employees bad (false) performance reviews, in order to make them fireable.
So there's a difference between "owed a job" and "negotiated in good faith and then shafted by lying bastards"
Add a zero or two to that.
In some cases, "Useless Compound Y" may become "Dangerous Allergen Y".
Buy a toaster oven and/or a slow cooker.
Seriously, it doesn't get much simpler than "take chicken out of package, put in toaster oven on some aluminium foil, set temp to 400, cook for 40 minutes"
Alternately, "put food in slow cooker", set time, leave to cook, eat tomorrow.
Have it made up pretty on the webpage. Have the contents of the webpage displayed on some sort of display in the restaurant.
I've seen this done before. You could easily edit the page with some of the WYSIWYG editors.
We're doing this to undercut any interest in competing OS's, not because we actually care about it. When we've undercut things enough, we'll dump any support entirely...
What I'd like to know is: why do we have such a lack of female pro-football players?
How about coal miners?
Heavy equipment operators?
In other words, why is CS such a big deal?
Wow... I think in this case the best solution is to change schools. Possibly to change cities/states. Whatever qualifies as "education" there is probably more harmful than good.
Point? So the police *shouldn't* trade goods in the station, or you wouldn't go there because you find it safer to do the exchange an a back alley somewhere?
"He died on my birthday. Worst birthday present ever"
Was it? The early WoT was engaging and interesting. Later, it got to be very drawn out and over-detailed. It's a shame that RJ passed away, but the edition starting with Brandon Sanderson does a pretty decent job and is actually more interesting than Jordon's later books.
Ebay has been the bulk of my experience with this, and they deal with it *VERY* poorly.
MicroSDXC card which is labelled as 32GB but actually rewrites sectors at about 4GB (you won't know until after you used it awhile), ah well they sold that to you too long ago so we won't deal with it, even though it's fraud
DVD series that's boxed nicely but obviously not legit (poor subtitles taken from fansubs, even some eps with scan-lines)... well we'll do something about that *IF* you can prove they're fake by having a professional sign off on it.
Seems China is doing more about it than anyone here. The above are pretty well known issues once you start looking into things, but no charges of "profiting from the proceeds of crime" hitting eBay that I've ever heard of.
erm, "Linus" not "Linux"
I see to have a macro built into my muscle-memory on that one :-)
On one hand, you hear about him flaming out people who break shit in stupid ways.
On the other, you also hear him accepting blame for not checking things properly himself: "Serves me right for not digging all the way down the mess of macros"
Whatever his eccentricities, he sounds quite fair to me.
Where the government is phasing out home mail delivery in favour of "Community Mailboxes"... so now I have to go to the big box in order to collect my frequent junk-mail and occasional important stuff.
I don't want a teleported camshaft that is printed with a 3D printer that uses chocolate for the printing material.
Actually, printing real-world stuff in chocolate via 3d scanning+printing would be *awesome*,and would probably have a decent market. Those scale model cars that you can buy; print those, in chocolate. You can eat your way through the car and see all the intricate parts as you do so.
Get yourself printed...in chocolate. Then eat yourself. Or take a bite outta the boss!
Lots of fun applications there.
And this year, the effectiveness of influenza vaccine in the USA is around 23% or less. For effective vaccines (measles, etc) with severe consequences for infection, it makes sense, but recent research is showing that people who have previously been vaccinated for influenza are actually *more likely* to get sick with a newer strain (again, NOT an issue with the measles vaccine). For flu, I'd guess that people who are exposed to the live virus in small quantities may build more natural immunity than those that a vaccine, but research hasn't shown the cause yet. There are two ways to get immunity after all:
a) An effective vaccine
or
b) Get sick, suffer the consequences, and naturally build immunity
In the case of (b), if you're infectious before showing visible symptoms (and/or you're not willing to become a hermit until you are clear) then the vaccine is still the best route, and more in the community interest. In the US, where sick days are lacking, many people aren't willing (or able) to lose the pay either. You also end up with dipshit parents who deliberately expose their kids to nasty stuff so that they *WILL* get sick and later be immune... which just seems cruel and unnecessary.
There are legitimate reasons for doing it. Businesses which essentially have the telephone equivalent of a NAT (lots of inside lines, only a few incoming numbers), or forwarding etc.
People with VOIP lines may have only an outgoing line with no number to call back. I've had this and used my cellular # for call-display.
That said, there should be a way to authorize or verify numbers for caller-ID purposes, perhaps by sending a text message or confirmation call with a passcode. Then, only those who have registered a number can use it for caller-ID purposes.
As a sysadmin, a lot of the job is doing stuff that *prevents* loss. Unfortunately, bean-counters often don't really understand how properly configured/supported firewalls and security appliances are important, because they don't *MAKE* money.
True enough, but it also called him an inventor, which is misleading.
I've got a bunch of PCI DVB/capture cards that are in the same boat. They *could* be useful if I had drivers for them, but alas, they do not.
My personal disfavorite is software that depends on dongles which have OS-specific drivers. The software *WOULD* work on the newer OS if the dongle had a driver that allowed it to authenticate (of course, dongles suck in general).
where are the iPhone, Android, Symbian, etc versions of BBM!
Uh, well for Google Play, it'd be here, and for iDevices it would be here
I still agree that their argument is dumb though. People develop apps for a platform where it will sell, and that has nothing to do with net neutrality. I find it annoying that I can't run [game/software X] on Linux, but that has nothing to do with my ISP or internet service.
Yes, and they have expensive lawyers, which means that dealing with them costs a lot of time, and money. You may get satisfaction, but it will be many dollars and months if not years away.