I'm glad that the $300k figure was published. In the chemical industry our managers often browbeat us away from raises by often citing the,"The company spends $250k each year on you!" Now we can come back and say,"So what? Even people working for MS get $300k/year."
I agree with your principles, however the following technical information is incorrect:
Alanine is very small as far as molecules go; it's one of the 4 key blocks for DNA
Alanine (which _is_ a simple molecule) is one of the 21 most common amino acids used to make peptides, enzymes, and proteins.
You were thinking of Adenine (which is _not_ a simple molecule) which is one of the four DNA base pairs. Every sequence of three DNA bases translates into one amino acid at the ribosome.
I know that you made your post in all sincerity but you forgot to warn your advisee to "be prepared to receive the world's largest ball of red tape before anything gets done".
You're very correct. It is impossible to start taking things away from people who above you in the chain of command. There's that old line about setting your own bar too high. While I personally feel that it's an apologist line of crap that management uses to horsewhip employees it still is a predominant mindset among the people who rank higher in the corporation.
That said, when I moved to this city to take a new job I got rid of my car within a week of moving here. If they want me in early or to stay late they'll have to find transportation for me because I _MUST_ leave in time to catch the bus and I can't be in any earlier than the bus arrives. I had no telephone for the first six months of living here. Not that my job requires me to be accessible but I wanted to make it clear that, once I'm out of the building, I'm on _MY_ time.
Moral of the story: If you're wealthy enough to have free time and wealthy enough to have a sizeable sum of startup cash then it's easy to to get the middle-class to pay for more free time. Risk free to try anything.
It's not about morality. When the IRS is poised to ruin your life, the bank is gunning for your mortgage, and your 1st son was just kidnapped by Canadian tourists for a $250k ransom... well, that million is looking much more moral now, isn't it?
However, I do throw my whole-hearted support behind any policy which confiscates iPods (or sunglasses, for that matter) from any too-cool-for-the-room tool who doesn't stow them shortly after he enters the building
My mp3 player is tucked neatly in my pocket before I enter the building (so I can say "Hello" to the receptionist), my sunglasses are off by the time I'm through the front doors and they leave my hand to make it to the back of my desk the moment I'm in my cube.
Glad to know that my taxpayer dollars not only go to subsidize their schooling and subsidize their certification programs but also to generate a nice neat HOWTO manual for them to do their jobs.
No wonder there's so many pencils stuck in the ceiling.
We are, however, required to register it with the security manager
I could tuck one of the USB sticks in my tie and no one would ever notice. Half the women in the place could have one in their purse next to the lipstick.
Wake me up when policy starts taking reality into account.
The upside is that, if anyone were to find an exploit in the Debian TCP/IP stack/iptables/tcpdump/ethereal/klogd (via logged connections)/whatever, they'd have a much harder time getting to my machine to make use of it. Random stray scanning packets never even make it to the firewall.
Like anyone else, though, I'm still watching for exploits in the common messenging clients and web browsers. That's the risk of using the public network.
Best buy sales people will say anything to get a sale
I recently bought a RIO Fuse mp3 player and, two weeks later, lost it out of my pocket as I was running across a parking lot to catch the bus home. The bus wasn't going to stop and let me look for it. I went back to Best Buy to buy another RIO Fuse mp3 player and was asked if I wanted the extended service plan.
I asked,"Will it be covered if I lose it in a parking lot?"
Without even blinking the associate came back with,"Sure!"
I had to admonish the kid and ask him to think about what I had just asked him before he finally realized that there was no possible way the extended service plan would cover a lost item.
And to think that I wrote my little piece on who/whom just because someone else made a big deal out of excusing using the "dialect" arguement. I only wanted to point out the grammatical background.
I suppose it goes right in with "will you borrow me some money?" and the various which/that conventions (which is only an inanimate object). I still don't hear a significant amount of "Them like to play football" or "Us would like to go hiking" but I do catch myself using "/me wants to go out for a beer" quite often.:)
Okay. Just for you I'll call it the SOTPGWAFWTCOTGLK OS. Set Of Tools, Predominantly GNU, Which All Function With The Cooperation Of The GNU/Linux Kernel.
Did you check the option to opt-out of the list of opt-out people? Did you check the list to mark your information as inherited opt-out? You know, if you give your info to the marketing division, they might share it with the collections division, who might share it with the membership division, and somewhere along the line the "private" bit on your data didn't line up in the database, and someone in the corporate affairs insurance services division closes a deal on 50,000 new leads.:)
I've always been suspicious of that opt-out crap, too. Like all the spam mail that says "click here to be (re)moved from the list". Removed from one list, added to another.
Which did not stop him from doing a cursory gloss-over of pie-chart statistics on Secunia's website.
I mangle entries for these security databases. Without Secunia's database and information my efforts would be significantly hindered.
Now this quote:
"Secunia is now displaying security statistics that will open many eyes, and for some it might be very disturbing news," said Secunia chief executive Niels Henrik Rasmussen. "The myth that Mac OS X is secure, for example, has been exposed."
shows us that Mr. Rasmussen should be shoulder checked, repeatedly, for three hours on the soccer field.
because someone used a comma in the wrong spot, or said "Who" when it should have been "Whom"
Incidentally because the subject of your compound sentence is the same "someone" across both verbs "used" and "said" there was no need to use a comma.:-P
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The management in the pharmaceutical industry tries to impress us away from asking for a salary increase with $250k per person per year.
Now I can laugh that even software programmers cost more.
You're obviously not rich. The trick to wasting money is called "tax writeoff".
Of course that's the logical answer but you forget that decisions to cut pay and cut employees are made from the TOP-DOWN.
Hmmm, if I'm Steve Ballmer, am I going to cut the positions and pay of the guys I play golf with or the schmucks who drive their own cars home?
I'm glad that the $300k figure was published. In the chemical industry our managers often browbeat us away from raises by often citing the,"The company spends $250k each year on you!" Now we can come back and say,"So what? Even people working for MS get $300k/year."
I agree with your principles, however the following technical information is incorrect:
Alanine is very small as far as molecules go; it's one of the 4 key blocks for DNA
Alanine (which _is_ a simple molecule) is one of the 21 most common amino acids used to make peptides, enzymes, and proteins.
You were thinking of Adenine (which is _not_ a simple molecule) which is one of the four DNA base pairs. Every sequence of three DNA bases translates into one amino acid at the ribosome.
I know that you made your post in all sincerity but you forgot to warn your advisee to "be prepared to receive the world's largest ball of red tape before anything gets done".
That's only a great way to LOSE your job
You're very correct. It is impossible to start taking things away from people who above you in the chain of command. There's that old line about setting your own bar too high. While I personally feel that it's an apologist line of crap that management uses to horsewhip employees it still is a predominant mindset among the people who rank higher in the corporation.
That said, when I moved to this city to take a new job I got rid of my car within a week of moving here. If they want me in early or to stay late they'll have to find transportation for me because I _MUST_ leave in time to catch the bus and I can't be in any earlier than the bus arrives. I had no telephone for the first six months of living here. Not that my job requires me to be accessible but I wanted to make it clear that, once I'm out of the building, I'm on _MY_ time.
Moral of the story: If you're wealthy enough to have free time and wealthy enough to have a sizeable sum of startup cash then it's easy to to get the middle-class to pay for more free time. Risk free to try anything.
I'll go back to my life of drudgery now.
and I was immoral enough to do it
It's not about morality. When the IRS is poised to ruin your life, the bank is gunning for your mortgage, and your 1st son was just kidnapped by Canadian tourists for a $250k ransom... well, that million is looking much more moral now, isn't it?
However, I do throw my whole-hearted support behind any policy which confiscates iPods (or sunglasses, for that matter) from any too-cool-for-the-room tool who doesn't stow them shortly after he enters the building
:P
My mp3 player is tucked neatly in my pocket before I enter the building (so I can say "Hello" to the receptionist), my sunglasses are off by the time I'm through the front doors and they leave my hand to make it to the back of my desk the moment I'm in my cube.
Good enough, gran-paw?
Glad to know that my taxpayer dollars not only go to subsidize their schooling and subsidize their certification programs but also to generate a nice neat HOWTO manual for them to do their jobs.
No wonder there's so many pencils stuck in the ceiling.
sure it still happens, but such policies are important when your customer database is vital to your income
Now we know who's feeding the spammers.
Mr. Casino owner, you sold my personal information to a spammer without giving me a chance for opt-out, prepare to meet your maker.
We are, however, required to register it with the security manager
I could tuck one of the USB sticks in my tie and no one would ever notice. Half the women in the place could have one in their purse next to the lipstick.
Wake me up when policy starts taking reality into account.
The upside is that, if anyone were to find an exploit in the Debian TCP/IP stack/iptables/tcpdump/ethereal/klogd (via logged connections)/whatever, they'd have a much harder time getting to my machine to make use of it. Random stray scanning packets never even make it to the firewall.
Like anyone else, though, I'm still watching for exploits in the common messenging clients and web browsers. That's the risk of using the public network.
Best buy sales people will say anything to get a sale
I recently bought a RIO Fuse mp3 player and, two weeks later, lost it out of my pocket as I was running across a parking lot to catch the bus home. The bus wasn't going to stop and let me look for it. I went back to Best Buy to buy another RIO Fuse mp3 player and was asked if I wanted the extended service plan.
I asked,"Will it be covered if I lose it in a parking lot?"
Without even blinking the associate came back with,"Sure!"
I had to admonish the kid and ask him to think about what I had just asked him before he finally realized that there was no possible way the extended service plan would cover a lost item.
I bought the mp3 player without the service plan.
And to think that I wrote my little piece on who/whom just because someone else made a big deal out of excusing using the "dialect" arguement. I only wanted to point out the grammatical background.
:)
I suppose it goes right in with "will you borrow me some money?" and the various which/that conventions (which is only an inanimate object). I still don't hear a significant amount of "Them like to play football" or "Us would like to go hiking" but I do catch myself using "/me wants to go out for a beer" quite often.
Rather, it's probably just another service (daemon) or some type of autorunning application in userspace
Another potential exploit...
Sweet. Thanks. :)
Alright. I'll take one on the chin in my examples but my definitions were correct.
Okay. Just for you I'll call it the SOTPGWAFWTCOTGLK OS. Set Of Tools, Predominantly GNU, Which All Function With The Cooperation Of The GNU/Linux Kernel.
Did you check the option to opt-out of the list of opt-out people? Did you check the list to mark your information as inherited opt-out? You know, if you give your info to the marketing division, they might share it with the collections division, who might share it with the membership division, and somewhere along the line the "private" bit on your data didn't line up in the database, and someone in the corporate affairs insurance services division closes a deal on 50,000 new leads. :)
I've always been suspicious of that opt-out crap, too. Like all the spam mail that says "click here to be (re)moved from the list". Removed from one list, added to another.
Software which may have improved if they didn't have to expend a significant amount of resources trying to outmaneuver MS in the market.
:-P
And it _did_ spawn Mozilla. Oh wait. That's debatable as well.
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Matthew Broersma writes for Techworld.com
Which did not stop him from doing a cursory gloss-over of pie-chart statistics on Secunia's website.
I mangle entries for these security databases. Without Secunia's database and information my efforts would be significantly hindered.
Now this quote:
"Secunia is now displaying security statistics that will open many eyes, and for some it might be very disturbing news," said Secunia chief executive Niels Henrik Rasmussen. "The myth that Mac OS X is secure, for example, has been exposed."
shows us that Mr. Rasmussen should be shoulder checked, repeatedly, for three hours on the soccer field.
because someone used a comma in the wrong spot, or said "Who" when it should have been "Whom"
:-P
Incidentally because the subject of your compound sentence is the same "someone" across both verbs "used" and "said" there was no need to use a comma.
"Who" is the subject of the verb "did" and "Who" is the subject of the verb "would".