We studied this at Sara Lee and it was nixed immediately by upper management. Here's the problem: If there is a problem (molestation, death), the day care immediately becomes "The SARA LEE Daycare", no matter the actual name. This is even true if we were to use an existing day care. Not only would the press hurt the company and generally piss off the stockholders, it would make Sara Lee liable. We couldn't even recommend day cares. We did use an agency that recommended child care options.
This is called the "Exxon" factor after the Exxon Valdese incident.
I worked corporate for 15 years before taking a state job. The work environment is more relaxed at the state but the work pace is the same. The biggest difference is the lack of politics in the state job. There is so little power in the hands of management that butt-kissing is futile. We attend a LOT less meetings and spend less time on rah-rah feel-good time wasters.
To get more money in government, you have leave and come back. Works like a charm.
Yup. I love this distro. Unlike the beta, the games work. The modem setup in the installation had to be changed to enter my gateway but that was simple and easy. The graphic installation worked MUCH better; didn't flake a bit.
Consider yourself lucky, kid. They could have come in blasting on auto and burned down the whole dorm just to get you. Can't be too careful with religious nuts....er, hackers.
25% of all programmers hired are not "technical" and want to move into management. This tends to inflate the IT numbers, reduce the number of actual workers and cause artificial shortage. For instance, I work in a 6 man team and they had to farm me out to do a project for a 22 man team because only half their "developers" could code. The other half were actually "analysts" who spent their days trying to find someone to do some work for them. Then they whine and moan because they are understaffed. Not to mention the 3-4 programmers who refuse to do anything but bleeding edge stuff for their resume or COBOL/CICS/IDMS because they are "too old to learn anything new".
And don't get me started on sissyboy managers who nod their pointy heads when the clueless VP says "Let's do this in Java. I hear Java is really good". Then pointy-boy has to find Java people. Any manager worth his beans would code it in PL/SQL and tell Capt Clueless "Yeah, it's in Java". Like some VP can tell Java code from ROT13.
It's like joining the military and then complaining that you are in the military. Hello?
They pay the taxes and they enjoy the bennies. They can go home with a fat wallet and start their own business or train others in their home country so they don't have to come to America to get a good education. Who knows? Maybe in a decade, American students will go to Bangalore to learn good programming skills.
They need to skip the techies when they push this stuff. You mention "free money" to a government entity and there are stiffies all around the table. They don't need to get involved in the day to day mundane "will it work" stuff. "Fit? We'll make it fit".
I found it amusing that we were approached and the first concern was......................."We are a Pepsi only campus so we don't want Coke advertising".....Like prostitutes comparing pimps.
You have chosen schools wisely. HappyAppy has great alums and I'm gonna see Franklin Graham there this weekend.
We have a POP server here at Virginia Tech. I'm not sure how popular the Pipeline is here. I rarely use the thing and I would be surprised if it gets that much use.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him ski. The key is to get the students to use the blasted thing. So schools are "trapping" all the useful college stuff in the portal. But the students may not spend enough time using the portal. Look for some school to try that kidnap freeweb thing where you have to live with the advertising to get the access.
Mandrake's claim to fame: Even my wife can use it. It's the most Windows-like of the distros, it recognizes everything you own and grub rocks the trailer.
Programmers generally wash out in the first two years. After that, they either become managers or buy a stump grinder and go into bidness for themselves. So there is a natural shortage of programmer with over 2 years experience.
I've been coding for 20 years. My advice; Screw the money, take the good job. Life's too short to prostitute your soul.
This is the best distro I have seen to date. It works almost flawlessly on my PC. Every now and then, it will momentarily freak out my monitor but it comes back. It is the first distro that likes everything on my home-built machine. It does prefer a bigass harddrive though.
Exactly. I had the same problem with Amazon. I complained about a book promoting pedophilia and they told me they could not remove books from their database. I offered to write the code. They eventually pulled the book, making their lame excuse look silly.
Napster needs to either defend the sharing of MP3's or fold. There is no middle ground.
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We studied this at Sara Lee and it was nixed immediately by upper management. Here's the problem: If there is a problem (molestation, death), the day care immediately becomes "The SARA LEE Daycare", no matter the actual name. This is even true if we were to use an existing day care. Not only would the press hurt the company and generally piss off the stockholders, it would make Sara Lee liable. We couldn't even recommend day cares. We did use an agency that recommended child care options.
This is called the "Exxon" factor after the Exxon Valdese incident.
I worked corporate for 15 years before taking a state job. The work environment is more relaxed at the state but the work pace is the same. The biggest difference is the lack of politics in the state job. There is so little power in the hands of management that butt-kissing is futile. We attend a LOT less meetings and spend less time on rah-rah feel-good time wasters.
To get more money in government, you have leave and come back. Works like a charm.
Yup. I love this distro. Unlike the beta, the games work. The modem setup in the installation had to be changed to enter my gateway but that was simple and easy. The graphic installation worked MUCH better; didn't flake a bit.
Consider yourself lucky, kid. They could have come in blasting on auto and burned down the whole dorm just to get you. Can't be too careful with religious nuts....er, hackers.
In my experience (20 years):
25% of all programmers hired are not "technical" and want to move into management. This tends to inflate the IT numbers, reduce the number of actual workers and cause artificial shortage. For instance, I work in a 6 man team and they had to farm me out to do a project for a 22 man team because only half their "developers" could code. The other half were actually "analysts" who spent their days trying to find someone to do some work for them. Then they whine and moan because they are understaffed. Not to mention the 3-4 programmers who refuse to do anything but bleeding edge stuff for their resume or COBOL/CICS/IDMS because they are "too old to learn anything new".
And don't get me started on sissyboy managers who nod their pointy heads when the clueless VP says "Let's do this in Java. I hear Java is really good". Then pointy-boy has to find Java people. Any manager worth his beans would code it in PL/SQL and tell Capt Clueless "Yeah, it's in Java". Like some VP can tell Java code from ROT13.
They knew the risks when they took the plunge.
It's like joining the military and then complaining that you are in the military. Hello?
They pay the taxes and they enjoy the bennies. They can go home with a fat wallet and start their own business or train others in their home country so they don't have to come to America to get a good education. Who knows? Maybe in a decade, American students will go to Bangalore to learn good programming skills.
Slave implies they are NOT being paid. They took the job at the salary offered. Not much hope of claiming to be oppressed under those conditions.
They need to skip the techies when they push this stuff. You mention "free money" to a government entity and there are stiffies all around the table. They don't need to get involved in the day to day mundane "will it work" stuff. "Fit? We'll make it fit".
I found it amusing that we were approached and the first concern was......................."We are a Pepsi only campus so we don't want Coke advertising".....Like prostitutes comparing pimps.
You have chosen schools wisely. HappyAppy has great alums and I'm gonna see Franklin Graham there this weekend.
We have a POP server here at Virginia Tech. I'm not sure how popular the Pipeline is here. I rarely use the thing and I would be surprised if it gets that much use.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him ski. The key is to get the students to use the blasted thing. So schools are "trapping" all the useful college stuff in the portal. But the students may not spend enough time using the portal. Look for some school to try that kidnap freeweb thing where you have to live with the advertising to get the access.
Mandrake's claim to fame: Even my wife can use it. It's the most Windows-like of the distros, it recognizes everything you own and grub rocks the trailer.
"We were giving something away for free and were amazed to see people taking them. They even thought they OWNED them!"
What a ridiculous situation. It's like Ford selling me a car and telling me I can only put Exxon gas in it because they own a bunch of Exxon stock.
- Linux is not pretty - at least not in its natural state.
I may be an idiot but I always thought KDE looked just as good as Windows.
contain the words "Scott" or "Tiger". If so, Oracle can sue.
Open Source IS Libertarian because it takes away from the huge master and gives to the individual to decide how to code. Compete freedom.
Bush can't stop the execution so it's a moot point.
Oddly enough, the people they arrested refuse to give their names. I guess we are to believe this is a mass coincidence.
I have been in many protests and you have the option to get arrested if you like. Otherwise, it rarely happens.
Programmers generally wash out in the first two years. After that, they either become managers or buy a stump grinder and go into bidness for themselves. So there is a natural shortage of programmer with over 2 years experience.
I've been coding for 20 years. My advice; Screw the money, take the good job. Life's too short to prostitute your soul.
I cannot fathom ever needing to search Usenet for anything. I can find everything I need with an AltaVista search on the web.
Lie with dogs. Get fleas. If you are going to use criminals to make money, you need to accept the fact the criminals may get you in trouble.
Journalists routinely "out" their sources (see Ken Starr's mouthpiece). They shouldn't be able to hide behind them as well.
"We advise readers to be highly skeptical of this rumor."
Whatever happened to "This rumor is NOT true"? I am highly skeptical of their dismissal of the rumor.
Burgernacht.
This guy is a hero for trashing a McDonald's?
/. is an American Oppressor?
What happens when the anarchists decide
This is the best distro I have seen to date. It works almost flawlessly on my PC. Every now and then, it will momentarily freak out my monitor but it comes back. It is the first distro that likes everything on my home-built machine. It does prefer a bigass harddrive though.
Exactly. I had the same problem with Amazon. I complained about a book promoting pedophilia and they told me they could not remove books from their database. I offered to write the code. They eventually pulled the book, making their lame excuse look silly.
Napster needs to either defend the sharing of MP3's or fold. There is no middle ground.