I have the fastest available broadband in my area(18Mbps down). To download an entire high def movie in that size would take significantly longer than I would want to wait in front of my television for it.
So do you guys really not know that downloading isn't the same as streaming, or are you ignoring that fact on purpose?
He famously stopped putting floppies in Macs (1999), when people still needed floppies to trade work files, or to access older archived software, or to revive dead systems, thereby forcing Mac users to spend extra for an external drive. NOW it looks like he's doing the same with DVDs and Blurays - declaring them as "not needed" when they still ARE needed.
Well, yes and no. The RIAA's position is that her petition has been already asked and answered by the courts, twice.
What gets me is that if the RIAA is correct, then her settlement offer of $1200 should have been acceptable, but they refused it. So their own vexatious accusation makes them in the wrong for rejecting a fair settlement, which is in and of itself vexatious if not frivolous.
Meh, I've got foes. They seem to hate most anything I say, no matter what the actual content is, from time to time, anyway. Don't sweat it on my account.
Yeah, I'm genuinely at least a tiny bit worried about that one. They're right there, in print, admitting they 'may' have 'accidentally' triggered a 'big bang'.
Genuine confidence builder, that. Oh, and they 'hope to track it down'.
This isn't the Millennium Falcon here, fellas, this is our one and only home. Maybe it is completely and totally safe. If it is, fire your PR guy.
And as a result, pretty much everything he says seems to be offtopic or going off on a weird tangent to me. It probably works the same the other way as well. Due to that I don't think we could ever be a successful team, because we'd spend a lot of time struggling to understand each other.
If you're missing that sort of thing in the interview room, then I'd suggest that you're not bringing the right people in on the third interview (at the very latest).
To quote Jim Collins (ala Good to Great):
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led--yes. But not tightly managed.
My point would be, if you're not interviewing with roles in mind, then you're not thinking it all the way through. Interviews aren't about "how can I find the best person", but more about "which of these candidates best meets my company's goals".
They don't know you yet, so you can present yourself as fitting into the role you want rather than the role you had. You'll still get shoehorned, but you'll get shoehorned differently.
Again, I'll present the opportunity of doing this now, in your present job. There's got to be something on the list that you're good at...
You don't even have to explain what you want or provide a document. They just complete the job."
Just how is something supposed to get coded, if nobody explains what should it be? That kind of thing only works for independent coders who already know what they want to do, and community open source projects where nobody tells you what to do, you just do it, and if it's good it gets merged. But that's a very un-business-like development model.
We have one of those here - probably two, actually. They only politely listen to your ideas as to how it should function. They're looking for the end product, mostly, and are otherwise waiting for the meeting to end. Then they go back to their desks and draw on what they've already done in the past. They hammer it out 'their way' in short order, produce the result, and move on to the next project. A lot of these requests are so routine to these developers that planning it would readily take more time than doing it.
But again, they know their stuff (particularly their flavor of that stuff), they know the business, and they've been doing basically the same things for years and years.
Wow, when did this site become news for middle management? Sadly off to reddit. Kbythx, Ummon.
Well, how many years has slashdot been around? Are they just supposed to shed those of us that got promoted a time or two? Or does it physically pain the rest of us too much to see a few articles on this kind of a topic?
Besides, the wise employee would look to this as a list of things to underscore at their next performance evaluation. Find something that you kind of already do and do-the-hell out of it for the ninety days leading up to it...
The sad thing is, my IT team already has an 'enforcer', but we're never allowed to let him off the chain. Doesn't fit the culture.
But I could easily imagine the gains from letting him tell some of these folks what he really thinks about them. I mean, they can tell by the 'are you completely stupid' look that crosses his face, but to allow him to actually SAY it would be most useful, I would think.
But again, sadly, it doesn't fit in around here, and it only serves to get him in trouble.
In the year 2000, a 'leet' admin team was sent to the breadlines by the dot-com bust because of a business plan they weren't allowed to see. These men promptly escaped from a Geek Squad Double Agency into the Information Technology underground. Today, still owing taxes to the government, they survive as admins of fortune. If you have a problem...if no one else can help...and if you can find them...maybe you can hire...The A-Team
Hey, maybe I can someone to make this into a show!
Almost this. Personally, I see it as 'problem solving' aptitude.
(Perceived) Problem: An imperialist conspiracy to kill you, your friends, your family, and most importantly your very culture.
Solution: Hurt them, as best you know how, and keep hurting them until they surrender.
It isn't just about "what you're good at". I think those great at oration get equally motivated, but rather than the guys blowing stuff up, these are the recruiters, etc, for example. But that won't account for the gap between the types.
No, I think it just becomes a bit more clear to the analytical mind that they have relatively few options if they wish to prevail.
I'm betting that the whole thing was a propaganda op by our very own CIA, and now that it's unraveling, they're pinning it on a scapegoat.
The media has two options:
A) Reveal they were betrayed by this kid, and lose only a teeny amount of credibility or B) Reveal that they were betrayed by our government, and lose their access to any and all such stories going forward
There is, of course, no evidence. But I'm buying this before any 'Boy Wizard' romantic bullcrap any day.
You're insane. As a lefty, I suggest you just deal with it and move on. Your life has actual issues in it that could benefit from this kind of passion.
At the end of the day, text will always move from left to right. People will always drive on one side of the road or the other. Controls and devices are going to be designed for the 90%, rather than the 10%.
Being a lefty is natural, bitching about it incessantly is not.
That article doesn't even contain the word 'left', does it?
I can see how it might be 'bothersome' but each and every true lefty has adapted to not being able to see through their left hand. They did so while learning how to write from left to right on a page.
It isn't as if we were able to change that 'setting' as an 'option' either, and yet here we are, all edjimicated and everything!
There are people out there who may never consider Linux again because they hated it when they tried distribution A. Had they started with distribution B that may not be the case. But they now have a sour taste in their mouth and won't bother again.
There are people out there that feel the same way about Pepsi, and for that matter, Apple.
I'm still not seeing why diversity hurts more than it helps. Sure the customer might not like Verizon anymore, but I really, genuinely don't see this reaching all the way back to Google.
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I have the fastest available broadband in my area(18Mbps down). To download an entire high def movie in that size would take significantly longer than I would want to wait in front of my television for it.
So do you guys really not know that downloading isn't the same as streaming, or are you ignoring that fact on purpose?
Having 25 million active users say nothing about whether or not they are making a profit.
Having only doubt and no better sources of information says nothing about making an argument, either.
Yet here you are, doing it.
If you've got facts, by all means please share...
He famously stopped putting floppies in Macs (1999), when people still needed floppies to trade work files, or to access older archived software, or to revive dead systems, thereby forcing Mac users to spend extra for an external drive. NOW it looks like he's doing the same with DVDs and Blurays - declaring them as "not needed" when they still ARE needed.
And today? Still using floppies?
How does her having been a cheerleader have any impact on this case? Why even mention it?
How much does a Cheerleader earn per year, typically?
And are Cheerleaders usually found profiting from copyright infringement as a profession?
Sure they could have said 'student', but this label also identifies her gender, and puts an image in a person's head.
Well, yes and no. The RIAA's position is that her petition has been already asked and answered by the courts, twice.
What gets me is that if the RIAA is correct, then her settlement offer of $1200 should have been acceptable, but they refused it. So their own vexatious accusation makes them in the wrong for rejecting a fair settlement, which is in and of itself vexatious if not frivolous.
Meh, I've got foes. They seem to hate most anything I say, no matter what the actual content is, from time to time, anyway. Don't sweat it on my account.
They haven't killed us all /yet/
Yeah, I'm genuinely at least a tiny bit worried about that one. They're right there, in print, admitting they 'may' have 'accidentally' triggered a 'big bang'.
Genuine confidence builder, that. Oh, and they 'hope to track it down'.
This isn't the Millennium Falcon here, fellas, this is our one and only home. Maybe it is completely and totally safe. If it is, fire your PR guy.
And as a result, pretty much everything he says seems to be offtopic or going off on a weird tangent to me. It probably works the same the other way as well. Due to that I don't think we could ever be a successful team, because we'd spend a lot of time struggling to understand each other.
If you're missing that sort of thing in the interview room, then I'd suggest that you're not bringing the right people in on the third interview (at the very latest).
To quote Jim Collins (ala Good to Great):
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led--yes. But not tightly managed.
My point would be, if you're not interviewing with roles in mind, then you're not thinking it all the way through. Interviews aren't about "how can I find the best person", but more about "which of these candidates best meets my company's goals".
They don't know you yet, so you can present yourself as fitting into the role you want rather than the role you had. You'll still get shoehorned, but you'll get shoehorned differently.
Again, I'll present the opportunity of doing this now, in your present job. There's got to be something on the list that you're good at...
And when you switch, how do you know that the new management hasn't also read this same article? Or otherwise developed similar ideas?
Windows requires constant security updates, but is there another specific reason why Windows is given such priority?
In our environment, three basic reasons:
A) Internet Explorer - it's actually specified by the vendor as the only supported browser to interface with their products.
B) Office - and in particular Word, Excel, and Outlook.
C) Active Directory Authentication - ala 'Single Sign-On'
Yes there are 'ways' to get the above on other platforms, but why? At least 'why, on boxes outside of expert hands'?
Just how is something supposed to get coded, if nobody explains what should it be? That kind of thing only works for independent coders who already know what they want to do, and community open source projects where nobody tells you what to do, you just do it, and if it's good it gets merged. But that's a very un-business-like development model.
We have one of those here - probably two, actually. They only politely listen to your ideas as to how it should function. They're looking for the end product, mostly, and are otherwise waiting for the meeting to end. Then they go back to their desks and draw on what they've already done in the past. They hammer it out 'their way' in short order, produce the result, and move on to the next project. A lot of these requests are so routine to these developers that planning it would readily take more time than doing it.
But again, they know their stuff (particularly their flavor of that stuff), they know the business, and they've been doing basically the same things for years and years.
Wow, when did this site become news for middle management? Sadly off to reddit. Kbythx, Ummon.
Well, how many years has slashdot been around? Are they just supposed to shed those of us that got promoted a time or two? Or does it physically pain the rest of us too much to see a few articles on this kind of a topic?
Besides, the wise employee would look to this as a list of things to underscore at their next performance evaluation. Find something that you kind of already do and do-the-hell out of it for the ninety days leading up to it...
The sad thing is, my IT team already has an 'enforcer', but we're never allowed to let him off the chain. Doesn't fit the culture.
But I could easily imagine the gains from letting him tell some of these folks what he really thinks about them. I mean, they can tell by the 'are you completely stupid' look that crosses his face, but to allow him to actually SAY it would be most useful, I would think.
But again, sadly, it doesn't fit in around here, and it only serves to get him in trouble.
Challenge: Spin this into a useful observation, if you can.
It's one thing to say 'management sucks, I need my blankie', but it's quite another to scout the lay of the land and pick your way safely through it.
Which are you, former or latter? Which are you encouraging with the tone of your post?
Think about it. Particularly in an economy where being disgruntled isn't exactly an advantage... :)
I can just see it:
In the year 2000, a 'leet' admin team was sent to the breadlines by the dot-com bust because of a business plan they weren't allowed to see. These men promptly escaped from a Geek Squad Double Agency into the Information Technology underground. Today, still owing taxes to the government, they survive as admins of fortune. If you have a problem...if no one else can help...and if you can find them...maybe you can hire...The A-Team
Hey, maybe I can someone to make this into a show!
Excellent point!
I'm guessing the letter wasn't published because any man who is scared of a president who pulled us out of a fabricated war...
Wait, we pulled out of a war? Which one? Iran?
...when the one who openly and blatantly lied to the public in order to start one does not instill fear, lacks the basic facility of common sense.
So Obama opposed it, then? Or he just failed to do the same kind of basic research that basement nerds can somehow accomplish?
On a related note, Chuck Norris never scared me until now ;-)
You two Einsteins DO realize that the first letter was written by Lou Pritchett, and NOT Chuck Norris, yes?
Anyway, please excuse my protest, but it is WAY TOO SOON to start rewrite of history just yet.
Almost this. Personally, I see it as 'problem solving' aptitude.
(Perceived) Problem: An imperialist conspiracy to kill you, your friends, your family, and most importantly your very culture.
Solution: Hurt them, as best you know how, and keep hurting them until they surrender.
It isn't just about "what you're good at". I think those great at oration get equally motivated, but rather than the guys blowing stuff up, these are the recruiters, etc, for example. But that won't account for the gap between the types.
No, I think it just becomes a bit more clear to the analytical mind that they have relatively few options if they wish to prevail.
I'm betting that the whole thing was a propaganda op by our very own CIA, and now that it's unraveling, they're pinning it on a scapegoat.
The media has two options:
A) Reveal they were betrayed by this kid, and lose only a teeny amount of credibility
or
B) Reveal that they were betrayed by our government, and lose their access to any and all such stories going forward
There is, of course, no evidence. But I'm buying this before any 'Boy Wizard' romantic bullcrap any day.
You're insane. As a lefty, I suggest you just deal with it and move on. Your life has actual issues in it that could benefit from this kind of passion.
At the end of the day, text will always move from left to right. People will always drive on one side of the road or the other. Controls and devices are going to be designed for the 90%, rather than the 10%.
Being a lefty is natural, bitching about it incessantly is not.
That article doesn't even contain the word 'left', does it?
I can see how it might be 'bothersome' but each and every true lefty has adapted to not being able to see through their left hand. They did so while learning how to write from left to right on a page.
It isn't as if we were able to change that 'setting' as an 'option' either, and yet here we are, all edjimicated and everything!
All that review says is that the game is difficult to play while upside down.
Right, my bad. I was trying to stay on topic. Carry on, then.
There are people out there who may never consider Linux again because they hated it when they tried distribution A. Had they started with distribution B that may not be the case. But they now have a sour taste in their mouth and won't bother again.
There are people out there that feel the same way about Pepsi, and for that matter, Apple.
I'm still not seeing why diversity hurts more than it helps. Sure the customer might not like Verizon anymore, but I really, genuinely don't see this reaching all the way back to Google.