Full Disclosure:a friend of mine built the application and runs the site but I'm a client and happily pay my $15/month. It's made my time tracking for managing tasks for multiple clients very easy and makes generating timesheets for quickbooks in order to do invoicing very easy.
Pretty pathetic that a search engine is slashdotted and unusable..
"Sorry, an error occurred.
Please try your search again. If the problem persists, please be assured that our team is working quickly to resolve the issue."
Well, then why is it that I keep coming across so many contract opportunities here in Southern California that are paying a 1099 or corp to corp hourly rate that is less than I was making as a full time employee at my last permanent position?
That's right, cause most of the companies out there trying to hire tech help are cheap bastards who subscribe to the 'low bid' philosphy. You can bet they aren't paying low bid for their management and executives.
Maybe your company is in the top 10% but I strongly doubt it.
Face it, it's not a buyers market out there like it was in 2001 and if you want to hire experienced, motivated tech workers, you have to pay for it. If you aren't willing to pay, you are going to perceive a shortage of workers because most won't bother to waste their time.
How you expected to get FREE help from anyone on that forum when you were an ass from square one (and continued to be in every subsequent post) is beyond me.
The irony of this whole thing is that I've had problems with Windows for years (and likely so have you) yet you seem to hold Ubuntu to a much higher standard than your vaunted Windows. Maybe you should get a Mac?
I don't read it this way at all. It sounds like they WANT to tax in game assets that never leave the game, to whit:
It is less clear how to deal with income and capital gains that never leave the virtual economy, income and capital gains that in the real world would be subject to taxes.
In other words, in Runescape, which I play, if I mine a bunch of ore and and sell it for 100k gold pieces, they are looking at the possibility that this could create REAL WORLD tax liabilities for me.
"Uh, yeah, this is the IRS, you owe us tax on the 2500 units of gold ore that you mined that netted you a profit of 100k gold"
"Well, I lost 500k worth of armor and weapons when I was attacked by a green dragon so I guess I can then write that off as a loss?"
How narrowminded. Our development team uses IM frequently to communicate since it is often less disturbing than walking into someones office and standing at their desk to ask them a question or emailing them and waiting, perhaps hours, for them to respond.
Using IM to chat all day with your spouse or friends instead of working is altogether different but IM has a legitimate business purpose. I have a Jabber account but most of the team have MSN accounts so if our IT department blocked MSN messenger, they would have a serious impact on our ability to work efficiently.
Obviously name calling is a ruse to disguise the fact that you can't grasp the concept that public transportation is just that [b]public[/b]. Blizzard is a private service. Nothing was preventing gays from 'riding the bus' anyways on Blizzard.
Oh, and comparing sexual orientation to race is one of the lamest arguments being used by the GLBT community. There is NO comparison.
And, and BTW, I'm not the least bit homophobic. However, I have to disagree with many of the tactics that the GLBT community are using in the name of equality and tolerance.
Although Blizzard is well within its rights to insist that players avoid referring to other gamers in an "insulting manner," Blizzard cannot issue a blanket ban on any mention of sexual orientation or gender identity.
I find it funny that Lambda thinks that they can tell Blizzard what it's own terms of service may be. Last time I checked, Blizzard was providing a subscription service. You don't like the terms? Stop paying them and go somewhere else. That's your right and your choice. They can be as discriminatory as they want and while it may piss some people off, that's their perogative.
At which point you are required (if you wish to stay on the legitimate side of copyright law) to delete the copy you just ripped to your Powerbook.
Ahh, the old "I want to be able to eat my cake and have it too" argument.
When you pay for a CD, whether used or new, you are effectively paying for a license to listen to the music according to many sources discussing music copyrights such as this one. However, it is also noted that selling a CD that you have purchased is also illegal under copyright law so that means that used CD stores and their customers are violating copyright.
In any event, having paid for a license to listen to the music, if you rip the songs and throw the disc in the trash or make a Christmas Tree out of it, you can still listen to the music.
I worked on similar technology for my masters thesis. It was well known that triangulation resulted in significant locational errors (in the neighborhood of a dozen meters) which is all but useless in buildings when you are trying to find the closest printer or someone's office. The triangulation algorithms generally use a radio propagation model which isn't very accurate and is highly dependant on the physical construction of the building.
Our work was based on research done by Microsoft
It turns out that the hardest part to adopting something like this was the work involved in creating the empirical signal maps for every single place that you wanted to use the service but the service itself could be very accurate.
The days of working for a company to retirement are long gone, as you've found out.
Everyone is disposable and in the revolving door of upper managment at most companies, noone with any power is going to recognize YOUR accomplishments past the next board meeting.
Having loyalty to your employer is laudible but generally misplaced. Your primary loyalty should be to yourself. Generally that means working hard and looking out for the company in that this generally results in raises and promotions for you in the long run. However, you can never forget that at the end of the day, you are just a cog in the company wheel and in terms of upper managment, one cog is as good as another.
As long as you don't lose sight of this perspective, you'll do fine. But, as soon as you start seeing yourself as the 'guy that saved the company millions of dollars' you are heading down the wrong road. Corporate memories are very short these days--they have absolutely NO loyalty to you, even if you single handedly have kept the company afloat for the last 21 years.
Having just bought an iPod in the last week and bought my first music in well over 3 years via iTunes I have only this to say to the RIAA and these Music Industry morons:
Force iTunes out of business and I'll revert to stealing your music.
Downloads on iTunes aren't cheap. On the contrary, at a buck a song, it is only marginally cheaper to buy music on iTunes (though arguably more convenient). So, with no physical product to produce and distribute, we are being charged almost the same amount as if we go into a store and buy a CD? And you want to charge more?
What part of 'greedy fscking assholes' don't you understand?
"The illegal downloading has cost retail music stores more than half a billion dollars in lost sales since 1999, a study by Pollara for the recording industry estimates."
This argument is tired but is continually trotted out by the RIAA and their ilk. It always assumes that if people didn't obtain music by downloading it that they would go to a music store and buy the cd's. Nothing could be further from the truth--there is absolutely no data that I have seen to support this argument, especially when the target age group is 12-24 year olds with very little disposable income.
This same argument is used by Microsoft and other software vendors. The fact of the matter is, if I didn't have a pirated version of Photoshop or any other application then I would use something else. I don't use many of these applications to justify the several hundred or thousand dollar price tag.
If you want to know why AI is hard, read the book Blink.
It turns out that most of the decisions involved in driving a car, as with many aspects of daily life, are handled predominantly by the adaptive unconscious. In fact, if we had to consciously interpret all of the sensory input that we need while doing something as complicated as driving a vehicle travelling at high speeds, none of us would likely be up to the task. How often have you been driving and you can't remember the last few miles that you traveled? It happens all the time and it shows that you are not actively using your conscious mind to make the decisions required to steer the vehicle.
The fallacy, as I see it, in current AI research, is that it is approaching the problem using the conscious mind approach which even humans can't do quickly. When they can teach a computer to 'thin slice' like our adaptive unconscious does, then we'll be on to something.
All of this digital rights and management functionality that is being created and enforced by hardware and software vendors is usurping consumers rights under fair use and the constitution.
"We think that you are going to use the content that we provided you (and you paid for) illegally so we are going to prevent this--you are guilty until proven innnocent. Wait, scratch that, you are just guilty, regardless. So, even though you have the rights of 'fair use', we have to prevent you from exercising those rights if there is the POTENTIAL for you to use them incorrectly"
I've stopped visiting my yahoo account frequently since half of the damn buttons/javascript don't work in Firefox.
Is there any chance that they finally fixed that?
Slashdot Mirror
I use this: http://www.myclientspot.com/
Full Disclosure:a friend of mine built the application and runs the site but I'm a client and happily pay my $15/month. It's made my time tracking for managing tasks for multiple clients very easy and makes generating timesheets for quickbooks in order to do invoicing very easy.
Pretty pathetic that a search engine is slashdotted and unusable.. "Sorry, an error occurred. Please try your search again. If the problem persists, please be assured that our team is working quickly to resolve the issue."
Pssh. Why is everyone giving Amazon a hard time.
Give it a REST.
That's right, cause most of the companies out there trying to hire tech help are cheap bastards who subscribe to the 'low bid' philosphy. You can bet they aren't paying low bid for their management and executives.
Maybe your company is in the top 10% but I strongly doubt it.
Face it, it's not a buyers market out there like it was in 2001 and if you want to hire experienced, motivated tech workers, you have to pay for it. If you aren't willing to pay, you are going to perceive a shortage of workers because most won't bother to waste their time.
It's a bit harsh to call it stupidity; water poisoning isn't that well known.
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Maybe not known to you...
It's common knowledge amongst toxicologists that "The dose makes the poison". Everything is toxic at some level, even water.
http://learn.caim.yale.edu/chemsafe/references/do
The irony of this whole thing is that I've had problems with Windows for years (and likely so have you) yet you seem to hold Ubuntu to a much higher standard than your vaunted Windows. Maybe you should get a Mac?
In other words, in Runescape, which I play, if I mine a bunch of ore and and sell it for 100k gold pieces, they are looking at the possibility that this could create REAL WORLD tax liabilities for me.
"Uh, yeah, this is the IRS, you owe us tax on the 2500 units of gold ore that you mined that netted you a profit of 100k gold"
"Well, I lost 500k worth of armor and weapons when I was attacked by a green dragon so I guess I can then write that off as a loss?"
Obviously name calling is a ruse to disguise the fact that you can't grasp the concept that public transportation is just that [b]public[/b]. Blizzard is a private service. Nothing was preventing gays from 'riding the bus' anyways on Blizzard. Oh, and comparing sexual orientation to race is one of the lamest arguments being used by the GLBT community. There is NO comparison. And, and BTW, I'm not the least bit homophobic. However, I have to disagree with many of the tactics that the GLBT community are using in the name of equality and tolerance.
I find it funny that Lambda thinks that they can tell Blizzard what it's own terms of service may be. Last time I checked, Blizzard was providing a subscription service. You don't like the terms? Stop paying them and go somewhere else. That's your right and your choice. They can be as discriminatory as they want and while it may piss some people off, that's their perogative.
*grin*
He mentioned "reputable chain" and "Best Buy" in the same sentence...Perchance you haven't seen This Website
*shouts through bullhorn* "Mr. Carroll, please step AWAY from the Kool Aid"
Ahh, the old "I want to be able to eat my cake and have it too" argument.
When you pay for a CD, whether used or new, you are effectively paying for a license to listen to the music according to many sources discussing music copyrights such as this one. However, it is also noted that selling a CD that you have purchased is also illegal under copyright law so that means that used CD stores and their customers are violating copyright.
In any event, having paid for a license to listen to the music, if you rip the songs and throw the disc in the trash or make a Christmas Tree out of it, you can still listen to the music.
It turns out that the hardest part to adopting something like this was the work involved in creating the empirical signal maps for every single place that you wanted to use the service but the service itself could be very accurate.
Step away from the fissionable material...It is obviously causing you brain damage.
Everyone is disposable and in the revolving door of upper managment at most companies, noone with any power is going to recognize YOUR accomplishments past the next board meeting.
Having loyalty to your employer is laudible but generally misplaced. Your primary loyalty should be to yourself. Generally that means working hard and looking out for the company in that this generally results in raises and promotions for you in the long run. However, you can never forget that at the end of the day, you are just a cog in the company wheel and in terms of upper managment, one cog is as good as another.
As long as you don't lose sight of this perspective, you'll do fine. But, as soon as you start seeing yourself as the 'guy that saved the company millions of dollars' you are heading down the wrong road. Corporate memories are very short these days--they have absolutely NO loyalty to you, even if you single handedly have kept the company afloat for the last 21 years.
Force iTunes out of business and I'll revert to stealing your music.
Downloads on iTunes aren't cheap. On the contrary, at a buck a song, it is only marginally cheaper to buy music on iTunes (though arguably more convenient). So, with no physical product to produce and distribute, we are being charged almost the same amount as if we go into a store and buy a CD? And you want to charge more?
What part of 'greedy fscking assholes' don't you understand?
This argument is tired but is continually trotted out by the RIAA and their ilk. It always assumes that if people didn't obtain music by downloading it that they would go to a music store and buy the cd's. Nothing could be further from the truth--there is absolutely no data that I have seen to support this argument, especially when the target age group is 12-24 year olds with very little disposable income.
This same argument is used by Microsoft and other software vendors. The fact of the matter is, if I didn't have a pirated version of Photoshop or any other application then I would use something else. I don't use many of these applications to justify the several hundred or thousand dollar price tag.
It turns out that most of the decisions involved in driving a car, as with many aspects of daily life, are handled predominantly by the adaptive unconscious. In fact, if we had to consciously interpret all of the sensory input that we need while doing something as complicated as driving a vehicle travelling at high speeds, none of us would likely be up to the task. How often have you been driving and you can't remember the last few miles that you traveled? It happens all the time and it shows that you are not actively using your conscious mind to make the decisions required to steer the vehicle.
The fallacy, as I see it, in current AI research, is that it is approaching the problem using the conscious mind approach which even humans can't do quickly. When they can teach a computer to 'thin slice' like our adaptive unconscious does, then we'll be on to something.
"We think that you are going to use the content that we provided you (and you paid for) illegally so we are going to prevent this--you are guilty until proven innnocent. Wait, scratch that, you are just guilty, regardless. So, even though you have the rights of 'fair use', we have to prevent you from exercising those rights if there is the POTENTIAL for you to use them incorrectly"
I've stopped visiting my yahoo account frequently since half of the damn buttons/javascript don't work in Firefox. Is there any chance that they finally fixed that?