Cool, welcome to the club. I've worked in IT and Software Engineering for 22 years. The ideas that all non-white, non-male employees are A) "diversity hires" or B) too sensitive when they inevitably walk into the break room on the tail-end of a "nigger joke", some story about "fucking call center indians" or catching a peek at one of their female colleagues. I appreciate that a lot of it stems from the fact that for a long time technology houses were not just "boys clubs", but "white-only boys clubs"; and as such provided a "Safe-space" for these kinds of attitudes. But, really, it's time to grow up and embrace these very talented people, and not passive-aggressively try to destroy them.
You'll have to show me some serious data on discrimination against white and Asian males. The best available empirical data doesn't support that, so I can only assume that you've been hiding it for just the right moment... like your final form.
I mean, if you are bold enough to spout racially regressive ideology, maybe attach your mostly anonymizing screen name to it. Many of the Anonymous Coward comments in this thread are part of the reason why the accomplishments of minorities and women continue to be seen as remarkable. Racism and sexism are endemic within tech industries, they are part of what drive the high turnover rate for minorities. I for one, choose not to work in private industry as I don't find the casual racism that exists there conducive to my quality of life.
You ACs want to tell us one more thing about the negro?
It might be important to consider that a company filling for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection is not terribly uncommon. The company has no plans to shut down, nor liquidate assets. Ch. 11 is all about restructuring debt so that they can pay off the creditors and return to normal operating procedures. Most people in this thread are treating this like a Ch. 7 which it is not. In fact the difference between the two are so stark that many smart investors will buy into companies that have good prospects and a plan in Ch. 11. It can make a company much much stronger on the back end.
Sorry Jane,
I misdirected that. it should have been in reply to the thread that said that the second amendment was intended to protect the citizenry against tyranny...
No. Just no. The Second and Third amendments deal with the nation's founders being paranoid of the potential for their new government to abuse its power. Much of a government's coercive power comes from its army, so, the constitution forbade the creation of a standing national army. On the other hand the founders recognised that the nation would need a way to defend itself against threats both internal and external. Militias would be the answer to that. This is why the second amendment not only give a directive, but also a reasoning.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state , the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
This is not that hard to understand. Unless, of course, you are intentionally failing to understand it so that it fits into your world view.
I'm sorry if you thought that it was childish. I think that the Team America World Police view of international laws and policies that you expressed bordered on insipid.
Sure, the USA/Israeli semi-religious, hemi-apocalyptic, demi-political, mutually sycophantic, sociopathy enabling relationship; and tacit acceptance of antagonism towards the Palestine and it's people does complicate the issue. But, it only does so insomuch as Israel might send in the Mossad, crack some skulls, and the US will say "You did a bad thing, Izzy. Here is another few billion dollars not to do it again."
But there you go expecting the Palestinians to extradite someone who is apparently bright and more over, reasonably minded to a country that gives 9x the annual aid to their unfriendly, oppressive neighbor. Seems that you are not understanding the realities of international justice and the treaties governing enforcement of international laws.
So, American laws now apply to foreign nationals who are not in America? That's awesome! U-S-A! U-S-A! Unless of course he's a foreign national outside the legal borders of America and therefore not subject to American laws....one of the two...
The Affordable Care Act, if it does end up being an unaffordable quagmire, is only in that state because it was done while trying to not hurt the for-profit medical insurance industry. We would have been better off with the single payer system kind of like the ones successfully used in every other functional first world country. The way we run our country is ludicrous. Everyone knows the rules, everyone agrees to fair play, then everyone cheats a little so no one actually gets ahead. That is until someone cheats a lot, and gets ahead... then everyone cheats a lot... and back to square one. We like to pretend that getting nickled and dimed is somehow more honorable than just paying the full value for the things which we need. This is only made possible when we fail to see the non-financial and practical value of our free time.
No no no no no, the ultra rich know that the less you give the working poor the more desperate they become. Desperate people work to survive, the brain in survival mode is not concerned with ethics, morals, or rebellion. The brain in survival mode is concerned with food, shelter and some semblance of homeostasis. The trick is to create just enough desperation within the working poor that a certain percentage are driven to criminal activity and the rest live in fear. And those remaining fearful workers will labor themselves to death in a futile attempt to escape the crime ridden ghettos in which they live.
I jumped on with Apple Retail in early 2008. As it stands, Apple Retail has one of the better compensation packages for both fulltime and parttime employees. Medical/Dental/Vision, Stock Options, Paid Vacation, Etc. Before Steve Jobs left the company for the last time, he mandated that EVERY Apple Employee be eligible for Health Insurance. More recently, Tim Cook re-adjusted all of the pay compensations nationwide to be more in line with the higher paying/higher cost of living regions (NYC/LA/SF). That said, employees were discouraged from bringing bags into work. However, when bag checks were nessesary the managers at my store would do them WHILE you were clocking out. But that may vary store by store, as a result of this suit though, I imagine that Retail Chain Management will mandate that bag checks be done before or at clock-out, not after.
So, benefits, awesome. Pay, not bad. Stock options, yes.
BTW, the managers check each other's bags.
I understand where you are coming from, but I think that a decision like this caters to the stupids among us. not to mention the fact that it is only through human interaction with computers that this "problem" was even discovered, but also consider that the average human brain, knows base-10. Not to mention the fact that the Kilo-byte itself is an approximation. (an approximation of 1000). I'm simply stating that, on the usability end, it would be minimal to do a simple conversion when the user asks to see "space remaining on disk" because that is how this gets started; user buys a 200 GB drive, it only shows 185Gb or so, user thinks "Oh my gosh, they stole my bits!" If the OS simply converted the value, for usability, this problem would have been avoided.
I would agree with you if the HDD manufacturers had only recently started using base-10 to inflate their numbers after decades of using base-2, but that is not the case. HDD manufacturers have "Always" used base-10, it's nothing new, it's only recently that the capacities have gotten large enough for it to be noticeable.
As for the Ram thing, you are comparing apples and oranges, which is a lot like comparing GB's with Gb's.
Seriously, the blame could just as easily be laid at the feet of the OS developers. There is a long standing history of disk manufacturers using base 10 counting numbers. It would not be so horribly difficult for the OS developers to conform to the base 10 measurement. I mean what next are the consumers going to sue because the formatting and allocation tables take up room? or perhaps because it hides space for virtual memory? seriously. come on people.
I'd say yeah, if only for the difficulty of constructing a basement in what amounts to slop. What you would more thank likely end up with is a slippery soggy hole in the ground.
A) We don't have basements in New Orleans, the water table is too shallow, (3-6 feet [1-2 meters]) below the ground level. Hence those awesome cemeteries.
B) One of my friends in Lakeview (one of the hardest hit areas of the city) actually had a shark get trapped in her pool when the flood waters receded. like, a shark, a couple of sting rays, you know, the basics.
I too thought that was interesting. But the first thing that I thought when i heard that was "so will the drive accept GC disks as promised". Because last year we were told that we would be able to play our Gamecube games on the Wii.
I still agree with him, I bought a Nomad Jukebox, in march '01, and damn it if I'm not still happy with it. The interface upgrades, playlists on the fly, upgradable hard drive, removeable batteries, barring being dropped into an ocean or run over by a city bus, this machine could last forever.
Nomad > iPod
While "Mother earth" in all likelihood will be here until long after we die and the sun has turned into a cold dark cinder. The question is whether it will be habitable in the long run. And I for one think that, money for all of it's awesome-Video game/food buying- potential, is a bit useless if the Environment has become so hostile to life that you are actually dead.
Additionally, You seem to think that we can immediately undue centuries of damage with a couple of decades of reforms. ARE YOU INSANE!? we do not even fully know the method by which CFCs get up high enough to break down the Ozone layer. Lets say if due to atmospheric currents and what not that; it takes 40 years for the CFCs to get up there, and we only started regulating them 39 years ago, how do you expect a change to happen? How do you expect a layer that had to be built up over BILLIONS of years to repair itself in 25 years?!
If not for me, then for my Kids. Instead of a depleted ozone layer and dangerous levels of cancer causing radiation, I'd like them to inherit a livable biosphere. Which I suppose makes me a bad person. Then I suppose that; as the "Most powerful" species, is not the responsibility borne to us to do all that we can to ensure the livability for the species who would be innocent victims of our greed and energy lust? Cuz lets be serious; when was the last time you saw a Gorilla cranking up the AC in his HumVee, checking the scores on his PDA while recharging his iPod and thinking about over-clocking his in carPC?
... Because you never know when you'll need to bribe some hippies for their tie-dye painted 1 speed. And even if you have rice krispy treats and ding-dongs, you know, you just know; that with enough weed to give them the munchies you could hardball them for their mexican poncho and all natural soap.
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Cool, welcome to the club. I've worked in IT and Software Engineering for 22 years. The ideas that all non-white, non-male employees are A) "diversity hires" or B) too sensitive when they inevitably walk into the break room on the tail-end of a "nigger joke", some story about "fucking call center indians" or catching a peek at one of their female colleagues. I appreciate that a lot of it stems from the fact that for a long time technology houses were not just "boys clubs", but "white-only boys clubs"; and as such provided a "Safe-space" for these kinds of attitudes. But, really, it's time to grow up and embrace these very talented people, and not passive-aggressively try to destroy them. You'll have to show me some serious data on discrimination against white and Asian males. The best available empirical data doesn't support that, so I can only assume that you've been hiding it for just the right moment... like your final form.
I mean, if you are bold enough to spout racially regressive ideology, maybe attach your mostly anonymizing screen name to it. Many of the Anonymous Coward comments in this thread are part of the reason why the accomplishments of minorities and women continue to be seen as remarkable. Racism and sexism are endemic within tech industries, they are part of what drive the high turnover rate for minorities. I for one, choose not to work in private industry as I don't find the casual racism that exists there conducive to my quality of life. You ACs want to tell us one more thing about the negro?
It might be important to consider that a company filling for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection is not terribly uncommon. The company has no plans to shut down, nor liquidate assets. Ch. 11 is all about restructuring debt so that they can pay off the creditors and return to normal operating procedures. Most people in this thread are treating this like a Ch. 7 which it is not. In fact the difference between the two are so stark that many smart investors will buy into companies that have good prospects and a plan in Ch. 11. It can make a company much much stronger on the back end.
Sorry Jane, I misdirected that. it should have been in reply to the thread that said that the second amendment was intended to protect the citizenry against tyranny...
No. Just no. The Second and Third amendments deal with the nation's founders being paranoid of the potential for their new government to abuse its power. Much of a government's coercive power comes from its army, so, the constitution forbade the creation of a standing national army. On the other hand the founders recognised that the nation would need a way to defend itself against threats both internal and external. Militias would be the answer to that. This is why the second amendment not only give a directive, but also a reasoning.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state , the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
This is not that hard to understand. Unless, of course, you are intentionally failing to understand it so that it fits into your world view.
"Brains that think as fast as a fly can smell"-- Either that is the strangest mixed metaphor I've ever seen or my coffee hasn't kicked in yet.
I'm sorry if you thought that it was childish. I think that the Team America World Police view of international laws and policies that you expressed bordered on insipid.
Sure, the USA/Israeli semi-religious, hemi-apocalyptic, demi-political, mutually sycophantic, sociopathy enabling relationship; and tacit acceptance of antagonism towards the Palestine and it's people does complicate the issue. But, it only does so insomuch as Israel might send in the Mossad, crack some skulls, and the US will say "You did a bad thing, Izzy. Here is another few billion dollars not to do it again."
But there you go expecting the Palestinians to extradite someone who is apparently bright and more over, reasonably minded to a country that gives 9x the annual aid to their unfriendly, oppressive neighbor. Seems that you are not understanding the realities of international justice and the treaties governing enforcement of international laws.
So, American laws now apply to foreign nationals who are not in America? That's awesome! U-S-A! U-S-A! Unless of course he's a foreign national outside the legal borders of America and therefore not subject to American laws. ...one of the two...
The Affordable Care Act, if it does end up being an unaffordable quagmire, is only in that state because it was done while trying to not hurt the for-profit medical insurance industry. We would have been better off with the single payer system kind of like the ones successfully used in every other functional first world country. The way we run our country is ludicrous. Everyone knows the rules, everyone agrees to fair play, then everyone cheats a little so no one actually gets ahead. That is until someone cheats a lot, and gets ahead... then everyone cheats a lot... and back to square one. We like to pretend that getting nickled and dimed is somehow more honorable than just paying the full value for the things which we need. This is only made possible when we fail to see the non-financial and practical value of our free time.
No no no no no, the ultra rich know that the less you give the working poor the more desperate they become. Desperate people work to survive, the brain in survival mode is not concerned with ethics, morals, or rebellion. The brain in survival mode is concerned with food, shelter and some semblance of homeostasis. The trick is to create just enough desperation within the working poor that a certain percentage are driven to criminal activity and the rest live in fear. And those remaining fearful workers will labor themselves to death in a futile attempt to escape the crime ridden ghettos in which they live.
I jumped on with Apple Retail in early 2008. As it stands, Apple Retail has one of the better compensation packages for both fulltime and parttime employees. Medical/Dental/Vision, Stock Options, Paid Vacation, Etc. Before Steve Jobs left the company for the last time, he mandated that EVERY Apple Employee be eligible for Health Insurance. More recently, Tim Cook re-adjusted all of the pay compensations nationwide to be more in line with the higher paying/higher cost of living regions (NYC/LA/SF). That said, employees were discouraged from bringing bags into work. However, when bag checks were nessesary the managers at my store would do them WHILE you were clocking out. But that may vary store by store, as a result of this suit though, I imagine that Retail Chain Management will mandate that bag checks be done before or at clock-out, not after. So, benefits, awesome. Pay, not bad. Stock options, yes. BTW, the managers check each other's bags.
It's over 9000!!
I understand where you are coming from, but I think that a decision like this caters to the stupids among us. not to mention the fact that it is only through human interaction with computers that this "problem" was even discovered, but also consider that the average human brain, knows base-10. Not to mention the fact that the Kilo-byte itself is an approximation. (an approximation of 1000). I'm simply stating that, on the usability end, it would be minimal to do a simple conversion when the user asks to see "space remaining on disk" because that is how this gets started; user buys a 200 GB drive, it only shows 185Gb or so, user thinks "Oh my gosh, they stole my bits!" If the OS simply converted the value, for usability, this problem would have been avoided. I would agree with you if the HDD manufacturers had only recently started using base-10 to inflate their numbers after decades of using base-2, but that is not the case. HDD manufacturers have "Always" used base-10, it's nothing new, it's only recently that the capacities have gotten large enough for it to be noticeable. As for the Ram thing, you are comparing apples and oranges, which is a lot like comparing GB's with Gb's.
Seriously, the blame could just as easily be laid at the feet of the OS developers. There is a long standing history of disk manufacturers using base 10 counting numbers. It would not be so horribly difficult for the OS developers to conform to the base 10 measurement. I mean what next are the consumers going to sue because the formatting and allocation tables take up room? or perhaps because it hides space for virtual memory? seriously. come on people.
You also forgot the ever-present "CYMK Circle Jerk".
I'd say yeah, if only for the difficulty of constructing a basement in what amounts to slop. What you would more thank likely end up with is a slippery soggy hole in the ground.
A) We don't have basements in New Orleans, the water table is too shallow, (3-6 feet [1-2 meters]) below the ground level. Hence those awesome cemeteries. B) One of my friends in Lakeview (one of the hardest hit areas of the city) actually had a shark get trapped in her pool when the flood waters receded. like, a shark, a couple of sting rays, you know, the basics.
Bitter much?
I too thought that was interesting. But the first thing that I thought when i heard that was "so will the drive accept GC disks as promised". Because last year we were told that we would be able to play our Gamecube games on the Wii.
I still agree with him, I bought a Nomad Jukebox, in march '01, and damn it if I'm not still happy with it. The interface upgrades, playlists on the fly, upgradable hard drive, removeable batteries, barring being dropped into an ocean or run over by a city bus, this machine could last forever. Nomad > iPod
... and I'll be impressed when an orgasm does anything but feel spectacular and help me sleep.
And Munchman and Parsec and Midnight Mason (Yes I still have mine, and YES! it still works)
While "Mother earth" in all likelihood will be here until long after we die and the sun has turned into a cold dark cinder. The question is whether it will be habitable in the long run. And I for one think that, money for all of it's awesome-Video game/food buying- potential, is a bit useless if the Environment has become so hostile to life that you are actually dead.
Additionally, You seem to think that we can immediately undue centuries of damage with a couple of decades of reforms. ARE YOU INSANE!? we do not even fully know the method by which CFCs get up high enough to break down the Ozone layer. Lets say if due to atmospheric currents and what not that; it takes 40 years for the CFCs to get up there, and we only started regulating them 39 years ago, how do you expect a change to happen? How do you expect a layer that had to be built up over BILLIONS of years to repair itself in 25 years?!
If not for me, then for my Kids. Instead of a depleted ozone layer and dangerous levels of cancer causing radiation, I'd like them to inherit a livable biosphere. Which I suppose makes me a bad person. Then I suppose that; as the "Most powerful" species, is not the responsibility borne to us to do all that we can to ensure the livability for the species who would be innocent victims of our greed and energy lust? Cuz lets be serious; when was the last time you saw a Gorilla cranking up the AC in his HumVee, checking the scores on his PDA while recharging his iPod and thinking about over-clocking his in carPC?
... Because you never know when you'll need to bribe some hippies for their tie-dye painted 1 speed. And even if you have rice krispy treats and ding-dongs, you know, you just know; that with enough weed to give them the munchies you could hardball them for their mexican poncho and all natural soap.
Licking and blowing? thats the only way i can get my girlfriend to work *rimshot*