Sweden - and I think most other countries - have the system that the loser in a suit pays the legal costs of both parties. That way, you can fight anyone in court, with full resources, as long as you're right.
So people don't sue, unless they're pretty sure they will win, and litigation in these countries is a small fraction of the US level.
I've been in the situation where I interview people at a job where I wouldn't wish it on anyone to work is such a hell hole (I was looking for other jobs). Plenty of interviews, since people were leaving in droves...
That's a problematic situation, and my approach was that I wouldn't bring it up, but if they asked I would answer truthfully. Lying to somebody I'd be working with later seems like a real bad idea.
The boss finding out is not an issue. No job seeker is going to tell him "I was interested until Joe told me you're an evil moron".
As you seem to say yourself, that was a long time ago. Today's virus hackers just don't use macs. The word viruses you mention come from the windows world.
I remember sometime in 98 or 99 during Apples rise from the ashes how the discovery of the first new mac virus in years was hailed as yet another sign of the mac revival:-)
Today your life is controlled by big business, through government. They buy or stop legislation thought campaign contributions and other lobbying, as we all know.
In a Libertarian state, there is no government coercion for the politicians to sell, and big business will have to make a living through honest work, like everybody else.
A friend of mine has had 100% success with setting up a script that sends a nasty complaint letter every 5 minutes. The text mentions that this will go on until they've fixed his problem.
From taking weeks to do nothing, they usually respond in an hour.
I'd give you his email address so you can get the script from him, but I don't think he'd appreciate it...
Everybody's discussing if there's a shortage, but nobody is defining the term, so everybody uses their own definition, and don't really communicate.
Pretty much by definition, there CAN NOT be a shortage, in the sense of economic theory, of anything on a free market. If supply (of IT workers, in this case) decreases or demand increases, this results in higher prices (wages, in this case), not a shortage. When prices are high enough that the number of employers willing to pay them are equal to the number of available workers, equilibrium ensues again.
OTOH, you can take the fact that engineer earnings have skyrocketed as a sure indication of a shortage in the sense that employers would love to hire many more engineers, if only they were a bit cheaper. And be equally right.
Of course, in the REAL WORLD, where I've been working, we have very often been a few people short, perfectly willing to pay them real good money, but just haven't found them. I'm not sure what that means...
On a free market, people who are likely to get sick will pay more for health insurance, but less for pension schemes (another form of insurance), since they're unlikely to live long enough to collect what they pay in. So things would even out to a pretty large extent.
The government controlled pensions schemes that dominate the western world takes massive amounts of money from the unhealthy and poor, and gives it to the heathy and the rich. All in the name of helping the weak, and hardly 1 person in 100 even realizes it.
You know, if it had been a plurality vote, people would have voted differently than they did, and the result could possibly have been an other.
In that system, you pretty much have to vote for one of the 2-3 people perceived to have a chance of winning, and we don't know how that would have played out.
You're right, but wrong. The local phone calls to the ISP is metered in most countries, by the phone company. That is not metered internet access, but metered phone access.
The issue is paying for bandwidth used, so that you pay much more if you spend an hour watching streaming video than if you write a few emails. I haven't heard of that being commonly implemented anywhere.
Before you get carried away by "That's enough to accelerate a 200 kg spacecraft from a dead stop to 80 km/s (180,000 mph) in only 3 months.", remember that just 2 astronauts and their suits are heavier than that. That's without any actual spaceship.
Also later on it says
Maintaining such a bubble in space would require about 1 kW of power and less than 1 kg per day of helium propellant for the plasma source. In return, the bubble would intercept about 600 kW of solar wind power.
So... if it weighs 200 kg, and uses 1 kg per day for propellant... Isn't there a fundamental problem here...?
I mean, IT managers are IT workers too. They've just worked a bit longer and/or have bit more ambition. That there is a shortage of competent managers supports the theory that there is an IT worked shortage.
I know it's obnoxious, but I just need to point out that, like most professional graphics software, Photoshop started out as Mac software (1990), and was only later ported to PC (1993).
I've had Pac Bell DSL in San Francisco since february or so. If I did it today, I would go with some other company.
Basically what you get is a very fast connection to a very bad ISP. I do get well over 1 Meg speed, which is very habit forming. Their usenet service is amazingly bad. The email service not much better, and not something you'd want to rely on as your primary email. The web does flow reasonably well, and that seems to be the only thing they focus on. Sometimes I can't connect, but it usually works out within 15 minutes.
Most people need 3-6 visits, waiting at home all day, by the installation people before things really work, but I was lucky and got it all set up in 45 minutes.
When I ordered the price was $200 setup and $49/month. A short time later it was lowered to $0/$39, and we who ordered recently were supposed to get the new price by asking. I've asked repeatedly, but nothing ever happens.
I've seen this more than once. Some guy thinks he can both be a manager and an engineer, and gets overwhelmed. ANd the whole team suffers.
At least don't count on spending any time on the tech work. Remember you're a rookie manager, so everything will be slow for you, and you'll make many mistakes. And your managment work must have absolute priority, since if that fails, you're holding up the entire team.
I guess that if you've done this for a few months, and start to get a feel for the managment part, you can be more confident about spending time doing other stuff. But don't count on it...
Omitting "the" is pretty usual among chinese speakers. Maybe chinese doesn't have the concept of "the".
Indians have the grammar down better than americans most of the time. English is an official language of India. But the accent can be pretty hard to get sometimes, and the vocabulary a bit archaic for the american ear.
I have plenty of friend from both groups. So don't go there, OK?
When I want to turn something off in/etc/rc.d, I will change the first letter to lowercase, this is a somewhat common technique. Although this isn't an example of two files identical save for case, it is an example of where case sensitivity is desired.
You might as well do what I do, preface the name with "X". Just as easy, and it's obvious which file you changed.
Even if there are a few legitimate uses for case sensitivity - not that I've heard any - they have to be weighed against all the cases of annoyance that this fosters upon it's users. Don't just look at the benefit, look at the costs as well.
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Sweden - and I think most other countries - have the system that the loser in a suit pays the legal costs of both parties. That way, you can fight anyone in court, with full resources, as long as you're right.
So people don't sue, unless they're pretty sure they will win, and litigation in these countries is a small fraction of the US level.
That would (in theory) stop cocaine, and possibly some other crop that can't be produced in the US, at an immense cost in money and liberty.
Still, most drugs are and can be produced in the US. Pot, amphetamine, XTC, LSD, etc.
Your premise is that drugs are something alien that is being pushed into the otherwise clean US. The truth is very different.
I've been in the situation where I interview people at a job where I wouldn't wish it on anyone to work is such a hell hole (I was looking for other jobs). Plenty of interviews, since people were leaving in droves...
That's a problematic situation, and my approach was that I wouldn't bring it up, but if they asked I would answer truthfully. Lying to somebody I'd be working with later seems like a real bad idea.
The boss finding out is not an issue. No job seeker is going to tell him "I was interested until Joe told me you're an evil moron".
As you seem to say yourself, that was a long time ago. Today's virus hackers just don't use macs. The word viruses you mention come from the windows world.
:-)
I remember sometime in 98 or 99 during Apples rise from the ashes how the discovery of the first new mac virus in years was hailed as yet another sign of the mac revival
Seriously, though... one of the more serious reasons that viruses/trojans spread more easily on Win32/Mac is "user imbecility/gullibility".
Actually, there are hardly any viruses at all that hit the mac.
Not to brag about the mac so much as showing that the argument doesn't hold up.
I mean they have to earn money by producing stuff people really want to pay for, not by buying monopolies from politicans.
Now that I think of it, the term "honest work" doesn't really imply that the person doing the work is honest...
Today your life is controlled by big business, through government. They buy or stop legislation thought campaign contributions and other lobbying, as we all know.
In a Libertarian state, there is no government coercion for the politicians to sell, and big business will have to make a living through honest work, like everybody else.
A friend of mine has had 100% success with setting up a script that sends a nasty complaint letter every 5 minutes. The text mentions that this will go on until they've fixed his problem.
From taking weeks to do nothing, they usually respond in an hour.
I'd give you his email address so you can get the script from him, but I don't think he'd appreciate it...
he's completely right-wing except for his stance on drugs
Not at all. Or is free immigration and gays in the military right-wing these days?
Come on...
"Everyone knows that those shifty Europeans can never be trusted, and are only out to swindle honest decent americans, so they had it coming!"
And, of course, not a single fact to back it up.
Maybe I'm tired, but I didn't get how it works. It's 2822 kHz of how many bits? I get the impression that it's just one bit somehow.
So... Can anyone clarify?
Everybody's discussing if there's a shortage, but nobody is defining the term, so everybody uses their own definition, and don't really communicate.
Pretty much by definition, there CAN NOT be a shortage, in the sense of economic theory, of anything on a free market. If supply (of IT workers, in this case) decreases or demand increases, this results in higher prices (wages, in this case), not a shortage. When prices are high enough that the number of employers willing to pay them are equal to the number of available workers, equilibrium ensues again.
OTOH, you can take the fact that engineer earnings have skyrocketed as a sure indication of a shortage in the sense that employers would love to hire many more engineers, if only they were a bit cheaper. And be equally right.
Of course, in the REAL WORLD, where I've been working, we have very often been a few people short, perfectly willing to pay them real good money, but just haven't found them. I'm not sure what that means...
On a free market, people who are likely to get sick will pay more for health insurance, but less for pension schemes (another form of insurance), since they're unlikely to live long enough to collect what they pay in. So things would even out to a pretty large extent.
The government controlled pensions schemes that dominate the western world takes massive amounts of money from the unhealthy and poor, and gives it to the heathy and the rich. All in the name of helping the weak, and hardly 1 person in 100 even realizes it.
You know, if it had been a plurality vote, people would have voted differently than they did, and the result could possibly have been an other. In that system, you pretty much have to vote for one of the 2-3 people perceived to have a chance of winning, and we don't know how that would have played out.
You're right, but wrong. The local phone calls to the ISP is metered in most countries, by the phone company. That is not metered internet access, but metered phone access.
The issue is paying for bandwidth used, so that you pay much more if you spend an hour watching streaming video than if you write a few emails. I haven't heard of that being commonly implemented anywhere.
Before you get carried away by "That's enough to accelerate a 200 kg spacecraft from a dead stop to 80 km/s (180,000 mph) in only 3 months.", remember that just 2 astronauts and their suits are heavier than that. That's without any actual spaceship.
Also later on it says
Maintaining such a bubble in space would require about 1 kW of power and less than 1 kg per day of helium propellant for the plasma source. In return, the bubble would intercept about 600 kW of solar wind power.
So... if it weighs 200 kg, and uses 1 kg per day for propellant... Isn't there a fundamental problem here...?
It's just not true that H1B workers can be deported by managment.
/. now, and people keep repeating this, and others keep correcting it. Oh well...
I've read several of these H1B discussions on
Now, some H1B workers no doubt believe that the can be deported like that, but that is a bit different.
I mean, IT managers are IT workers too. They've just worked a bit longer and/or have bit more ambition. That there is a shortage of competent managers supports the theory that there is an IT worked shortage.
I know it's obnoxious, but I just need to point out that, like most professional graphics software, Photoshop started out as Mac software (1990), and was only later ported to PC (1993).
I feel better now.
FWIW, here is my experience.
I've had Pac Bell DSL in San Francisco since february or so. If I did it today, I would go with some other company.
Basically what you get is a very fast connection to a very bad ISP. I do get well over 1 Meg speed, which is very habit forming. Their usenet service is amazingly bad. The email service not much better, and not something you'd want to rely on as your primary email. The web does flow reasonably well, and that seems to be the only thing they focus on. Sometimes I can't connect, but it usually works out within 15 minutes.
Most people need 3-6 visits, waiting at home all day, by the installation people before things really work, but I was lucky and got it all set up in 45 minutes.
When I ordered the price was $200 setup and $49/month. A short time later it was lowered to $0/$39, and we who ordered recently were supposed to get the new price by asking. I've asked repeatedly, but nothing ever happens.
I've seen this more than once. Some guy thinks he can both be a manager and an engineer, and gets overwhelmed. ANd the whole team suffers.
At least don't count on spending any time on the tech work. Remember you're a rookie manager, so everything will be slow for you, and you'll make many mistakes. And your managment work must have absolute priority, since if that fails, you're holding up the entire team.
I guess that if you've done this for a few months, and start to get a feel for the managment part, you can be more confident about spending time doing other stuff. But don't count on it...
Omitting "the" is pretty usual among chinese speakers. Maybe chinese doesn't have the concept of "the".
Indians have the grammar down better than americans most of the time. English is an official language of India. But the accent can be pretty hard to get sometimes, and the vocabulary a bit archaic for the american ear.
I have plenty of friend from both groups. So don't go there, OK?
When I want to turn something off in /etc/rc.d, I will change the first letter to lowercase, this is a somewhat common technique. Although this isn't an example of two files identical save for case, it is an example of where case sensitivity is desired.
You might as well do what I do, preface the name with "X". Just as easy, and it's obvious which file you changed.
Even if there are a few legitimate uses for case sensitivity - not that I've heard any - they have to be weighed against all the cases of annoyance that this fosters upon it's users. Don't just look at the benefit, look at the costs as well.
Yes, the predeccesors to it ran fine on both Windows and Solaris. So if Apple wanted, they could make a an x86 version.
They don't seem to want to, though. But that may change any day. Steve *is* a man who likes to surprise, you know.