it is their democratic right, and don't anyone dare take that away from them.
There is another side of that coin I heard in the news yesterday. Germany is going to get the missing energy on the international market. Import it from France, Czech, etc. That means that the energy price is going to raise. For a lot of people that did not get a chance to vote in German elections.
However, do this simple test. Find a desktop computer with external speakers. Turn the speakers up midway. Put your cellphone on the desk. Call the cell phone. Hear the noise in the speaker.
Yes, I hear the noise. I also know that putting the phone 80cm further means that the noise drops completely. Ok. I admit I'm no expert and 80cm can mean a lot in a packed space of airliner fuselage so I agree that turning off a phone - basically a personal radio transmitter - makes sense. A honest question: Does it also make sense to turn off a GPS receiver? A camera without a flashlight? A dumb personal electronic diary? A digital watch? A pacemaker?
The computed angle of attack is how the flight computer determines the airplane is approaching a stall
Forgive the laymen for asking a stupid question: wouldn't it make sense to use accelerometers and gyroscopes to help to determine the attack angle and speed? Isn't a gyroscope a standard equipment in a cockpit?
I see your power buttons, and I raise you printer buttons and lights. Why the fuck the printer has to communicate a empty tray, paper jam or empty toner with a "blink code"?? Press button once to clear the buffers, hold it three seconds to clean the heads, hold it 10 seconds to turn off, sheesh...
Accurate enough to use it as literature for most research material? No, and it never will be.
If you are using Wikipedia for research, I mean for scientific research, then you are doing it wrong. (I don't mean GP personally, just someone out there). I use it similarly to an encyclopedia that I have on my bookshelf. To learn a bit about a topic I knew nothing or only a little about. And it works great for me.
He's talking about running a business, and you answer with a laundry list of IT tasks that you do
I don't have and idea how how to run business (well, perhaps I do but don't want to bother). That's why I don't run one. I don't argue that. But that's not the only point of the discussion here. We discuss how nobody is indispensable. How business owner can replace staff like socks. How someone asking for equity is an insult to the owner. I'm disputing that owner is the only one that puts in 80 hours a week and is the only one that makes the company tick.
You have no idea what goes in to running a business.
You are too fast to judge. I'm an employee in a small IT company. My contract says programmer-analyst and 42 hours a week. However I'm at my desk since 7:30 until 17:00 nearly every working day. Then I get home and put more work in. Write skeleton code that gets later used by the company, write tools that make my job easier and that get later used also by my colleagues, etc. . I rarely go sleep before midnight. And I do this also during the weekends and holidays. I do it not because I was asked, but because I enjoy it. I respond to e-mail alerts from automated tasks running late in the evening - when something breaks in the evening, I log in remotely (using my computer and my Internet connection) and fix stuff so that people don't need to wait for the fix in the morning. When the building alarm goes off, I'm the one that is notified and goes to check whats going on. When an e-mail exchange with customers in foreign language reaches the developers, they come to me for help with translation. When the internet connection goes down, I'm the one talking to our ISP. When I consider it all around, I'm exploited. But I don't mind that much, because I have good relationship with the boss, colleagues, flex time, free hands in some areas,...
I doubt that the boss/owner puts significantly more time and effort in the company. Yet I don't think I'm indispensable, but replacing me would mean that for a handful of projects the development would stall, and the bugfixes could do more harm than good because my replacement would not know all the bits and details that I learned during 10+ years.
I'm not trying to downplay the importance of business owner. He provides something that I can't. But you also should not downplay importance of a dedicated subordinate.
Erm. You mean I should get rid of them when I loose a job? Brilliant idea. Just kidding. You most likely mean that I should not marry and have children until I have enough savings to keep us afloat until our death. Yeah, that's what you meant for sure.
I do. Occasionally. Now do you know that during a recent update of UI on/. the link to firehose vanished from the main page? Until I got really bored and wandered into my account settings to discover that it has to be re-enabled there I could get there only by vaguely remembering the URL slashdot.org/firehose.pl or something like that. Additionally the coloring of entries changed from various levels of red to only two colors. So I don't see whether someone else already expressed interest in some submission. Next I've seen ten submissions in a row being spam. Shouldn't be the captcha in submission system improved? And finally it is terribly slow and clumsy. It can take half a minute on FF 4 and 3Mbs connection to switch from one submission to another. I also have yet to discover when a submission text collapses - whether it is after timeout, or after expanding another story.
TL;DR I would do that more often if it was not PITA
Is it merely because it is in their best interest?
Yes.
If so, why is it always in the best interest of those who can be well informed without media intervention and always in the worst interest of people who cannot?
It is a self-propelling system. The people in positions with power, utilize that power to stay in power. The most effective way is to control the fourth power. They convince the people that "do not have access to information without media intervention" that the activity resulting in enhancing their power is in the interest of the public. But it is not not. Because if it was, it would weaken the power of politicians and increase the power of the public. If they allowed that happen, the system would stop be self-propelling and it would not make sense to attempt to get in the power position.
Thinking the death of Bin Laden will change anything is like thinking the death of Roosevelt in 1945 meant the end of WW2. (For those lacking in history, it didn't).
There is a book in my parents' bookshelves with title "Assassinations that were supposed to change the world". Thick book with chapters about (successful or not) attempts to kill important people. From Franz Ferdinand, through Che Guevara, to Hitler, Rasputin, Lincoln, JFK, Ghandi and many others. Attempts to kill the snake by cutting off the head. It never worked.
I struggle to understand why I should store paper documents at all.
I live in a country where the employer is responsible for deducing part of my salary and sending it to the tax/insurance system. All that the employee sees, is the number on the payslip. For taxes, social insurance, medical insurance,... There were cases where the glitch in the system, or fraudulent employers were a reason why person's pension/medical care/... was depending on whether the person is able to produce a proof that they participated in the system and played by the rules - by presenting the payslips, yearly summary, etc. So yes, it makes sense to keep the documents.
being ready and interested in being educated is not uncommon, it is normal.
Next time someone calls you because the "internets are broken", try educating them instead of silently fixing the problem. Let's see how often you meet someone who wants to be educated.
If you can't read straight up C code and understand what the fuck is going on, stop calling yourself a programmer.
They used to say that about assembly. Try writing a modern game or GUI in assembly. You might well be able to do it, but by the time your'e done I'll have finished several projects and be moving on to the next one.
I don't think that the GP suggested writing a GUI or a modern game in assembly. Or C. But I've met fresh graduates that did not understood the difference between passing a parameter by value an passing it by reference. Don't you think that such "programmer" is going to produce crappy code even if using C++ or VB.NET to write OO code? Understanding for example pointers or generally "what the fuck is going on" helps there a lot.
Btw did you see Days of Thunder? You can be clever, talented and all that, but only understanding what's going under the hood can make you excellent.
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So if we ban tires, then I can expect my flying car soon? ;-)
There is another side of that coin I heard in the news yesterday. Germany is going to get the missing energy on the international market. Import it from France, Czech, etc. That means that the energy price is going to raise. For a lot of people that did not get a chance to vote in German elections.
Yes, I hear the noise. I also know that putting the phone 80cm further means that the noise drops completely. Ok. I admit I'm no expert and 80cm can mean a lot in a packed space of airliner fuselage so I agree that turning off a phone - basically a personal radio transmitter - makes sense. A honest question: Does it also make sense to turn off a GPS receiver? A camera without a flashlight? A dumb personal electronic diary? A digital watch? A pacemaker?
Apparently, people make the right choice only after all other options were exhausted.
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Forgive the laymen for asking a stupid question: wouldn't it make sense to use accelerometers and gyroscopes to help to determine the attack angle and speed? Isn't a gyroscope a standard equipment in a cockpit?
I see your power buttons, and I raise you printer buttons and lights. Why the fuck the printer has to communicate a empty tray, paper jam or empty toner with a "blink code"?? Press button once to clear the buffers, hold it three seconds to clean the heads, hold it 10 seconds to turn off, sheesh ...
If you are using Wikipedia for research, I mean for scientific research, then you are doing it wrong. (I don't mean GP personally, just someone out there). I use it similarly to an encyclopedia that I have on my bookshelf. To learn a bit about a topic I knew nothing or only a little about. And it works great for me.
You mean a series of pipes?
I don't have and idea how how to run business (well, perhaps I do but don't want to bother). That's why I don't run one. I don't argue that. But that's not the only point of the discussion here. We discuss how nobody is indispensable. How business owner can replace staff like socks. How someone asking for equity is an insult to the owner. I'm disputing that owner is the only one that puts in 80 hours a week and is the only one that makes the company tick.
Yes.
You are too fast to judge. I'm an employee in a small IT company. My contract says programmer-analyst and 42 hours a week. However I'm at my desk since 7:30 until 17:00 nearly every working day. Then I get home and put more work in. Write skeleton code that gets later used by the company, write tools that make my job easier and that get later used also by my colleagues, etc. . I rarely go sleep before midnight. And I do this also during the weekends and holidays. I do it not because I was asked, but because I enjoy it. I respond to e-mail alerts from automated tasks running late in the evening - when something breaks in the evening, I log in remotely (using my computer and my Internet connection) and fix stuff so that people don't need to wait for the fix in the morning. When the building alarm goes off, I'm the one that is notified and goes to check whats going on. When an e-mail exchange with customers in foreign language reaches the developers, they come to me for help with translation. When the internet connection goes down, I'm the one talking to our ISP. When I consider it all around, I'm exploited. But I don't mind that much, because I have good relationship with the boss, colleagues, flex time, free hands in some areas, ...
I doubt that the boss/owner puts significantly more time and effort in the company. Yet I don't think I'm indispensable, but replacing me would mean that for a handful of projects the development would stall, and the bugfixes could do more harm than good because my replacement would not know all the bits and details that I learned during 10+ years.
I'm not trying to downplay the importance of business owner. He provides something that I can't. But you also should not downplay importance of a dedicated subordinate.
Erm. You mean I should get rid of them when I loose a job? Brilliant idea. Just kidding. You most likely mean that I should not marry and have children until I have enough savings to keep us afloat until our death. Yeah, that's what you meant for sure.
I do. Occasionally. Now do you know that during a recent update of UI on /. the link to firehose vanished from the main page? Until I got really bored and wandered into my account settings to discover that it has to be re-enabled there I could get there only by vaguely remembering the URL slashdot.org/firehose.pl or something like that. Additionally the coloring of entries changed from various levels of red to only two colors. So I don't see whether someone else already expressed interest in some submission. Next I've seen ten submissions in a row being spam. Shouldn't be the captcha in submission system improved? And finally it is terribly slow and clumsy. It can take half a minute on FF 4 and 3Mbs connection to switch from one submission to another. I also have yet to discover when a submission text collapses - whether it is after timeout, or after expanding another story.
TL;DR I would do that more often if it was not PITA
Even on Linux the accounts and group membership can be managed centrally.
There is no cure for stupidity. Example a and 2.
As I've read on some other page: "In this world you don't need to know, how stuff works. Only how much does it cost". It's sad.
Yes.
It is a self-propelling system. The people in positions with power, utilize that power to stay in power. The most effective way is to control the fourth power. They convince the people that "do not have access to information without media intervention" that the activity resulting in enhancing their power is in the interest of the public. But it is not not. Because if it was, it would weaken the power of politicians and increase the power of the public. If they allowed that happen, the system would stop be self-propelling and it would not make sense to attempt to get in the power position.
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There is a book in my parents' bookshelves with title "Assassinations that were supposed to change the world". Thick book with chapters about (successful or not) attempts to kill important people. From Franz Ferdinand, through Che Guevara, to Hitler, Rasputin, Lincoln, JFK, Ghandi and many others. Attempts to kill the snake by cutting off the head. It never worked.
I live in a country where the employer is responsible for deducing part of my salary and sending it to the tax/insurance system. All that the employee sees, is the number on the payslip. For taxes, social insurance, medical insurance, ... There were cases where the glitch in the system, or fraudulent employers were a reason why person's pension/medical care/... was depending on whether the person is able to produce a proof that they participated in the system and played by the rules - by presenting the payslips, yearly summary, etc. So yes, it makes sense to keep the documents.
vi is a great text editor. VS is an IDE. Can you drag&drop variable from source code to watch window while debugging in vi?
Yes, you can get out the guy you don't like. You just can't get there a guy you like.
Compared to one that knows how his tools work? Yes. All right, both can call themselves mechanics. Or what about "repair man" vs. "Mr. mechanic" ?
Next time someone calls you because the "internets are broken", try educating them instead of silently fixing the problem. Let's see how often you meet someone who wants to be educated.
I don't think that the GP suggested writing a GUI or a modern game in assembly. Or C. But I've met fresh graduates that did not understood the difference between passing a parameter by value an passing it by reference. Don't you think that such "programmer" is going to produce crappy code even if using C++ or VB.NET to write OO code? Understanding for example pointers or generally "what the fuck is going on" helps there a lot.
Btw did you see Days of Thunder? You can be clever, talented and all that, but only understanding what's going under the hood can make you excellent.
Of course, because he would have to kill you afterward.