Because, you know, it would be a bad idea for developers to MAKE MONEY and be able to make more games. That's never a good thing, you know. A business. Making money. It'll never catch on.
Er... you are aware that 'carpetbagger' is synonymous with 'immigrant', right? Which kind of means that they'd have to be over here to be considered 'carpetbaggers'. Which means nothing would be outsourced to them. Because they're here. Not there.
Pedantic bullshit aside, this is the same tripe spewed by dipshits since making products in Japan became popular. "If we don't do something now, our kids are gonna be making shit for the Japanese in sweatshops in downtown LA!" It's only been about 20 years since that shit was first excreted from the lips of dumbasses, but I don't see anyone above hardcore morons complaining now.
Sit and watch the email server? Uh... do you even USE email? You don't need to sit there with Mutt open staring at the fucking screen. You can use GKrellM to notify you of email. Just drop in your office on the way past and glance. I'd hope to holy fuck that a sysadmin would check his email at least several times a day.
If he's at lunch, he's at lunch. Off the clock. "Fuck off, I'm eating." Driving three hours to the remote server farm? Yeah, he's gonna do a lot of good from an hour and a half away.
See, some people have jobs that actually require them to manually monitor the systems they're responsible for. In fact, up until the advent of text messaging and such great wireless interconnectivity, EVERYONE had to do that.
On another note, if this place is small enough that they have ONE full-time sysadmin then their server probably isn't critical enough to require 24/7 psycho-paranoid level monitoring. There were two at my former job. When one was away, the other was always there.
Difference being, YOU are expendable. The management is not (at least as far as they're concerned). No, they should not expect the same in return. They should expect the people that they employ to do WTF they're told to do. There were many stupid rules at my former job, but I didn't bitch about it and I didn't quit over it. If you're going to quit every job over something as stupid as a cellphone policy, you really need to grow up and realize that you are NOT that important and odds are there are a dozen other guys just as good waiting to replace you.
Well, if you read the rest of the PHB's fictional statement... "and you apparently never bother looking at the server you're supposed to be administrating?"
He's supposed to know because he's doing his fucking job. Cell phones are not a requirement for being a sysadmin. While they are helpful, they are not a neccesity.
In any case, the guy could very easily convince his boss that carrying his cell phone or a alpha pager is highly useful and his company would probably spring for it.
And this guy's boss would most likely do the same if he explained the situation. If he went forward with the stupid idea of just letting everything go, THEN talking to his boss about it he would most likely be fired.
I know I'd fire him for pulling a stupid stunt like that.
Take a reality break here. Imagine something like this.
PHB: "Why is my email down, Itnerd?"
Itnerd: "Is it? I didn't know. Since you banned cellphones I don't get any warnings that the system is down (insert Homestar reference)."
PHB: "So you haven't changed it so it emails you, and you apparently never bother looking at the server you're supposed to be administrating?"
Itnerd: "Well, when you put it that way...."
PHB: "When I put it that way, you're an incompetent dipshit and are now fired. Fuck off."
Go on. Tell your boss that the server crashed because you couldn't be messaged on a cellphone. You'll be fired before you finish the sentence.
Yeah, act like a childish tit. That'll show your employers how valuable you are. Don't bother explaining how you use your cellphone and why, just do something really fucking stupid that will in all likelihood lead to your being fired. That'll look great on a resume! If the server dies and you blame the switchboard, you'd better have the CV dusted off because you'll get your putulant and borderline-retarded ass fired for being an incompetent jackass.
PHB: "Itnerd, why the hell did the server crash?"
Itnerd: "It did? I haven't got a message telling me it did..."
PHB: "Ummm.... WTF?"
Itnerd: "Oh, you see, I have the server message me when something goes wrong."
PHB: "So the server, which just shut off, is supposed to message you when something happens."
Itnerd: "Yeah, isn't it neat?"
PHB: "Look, dumbass, I'm a fuckin' PHB and I can see how stupid this is. You're relying on the server that JUST FUCKING CRASHED to send you a notice? The computer that won't even power up? The computer that is COMPLETELY DEAD?"
Itnerd: "Uh.... mebbe..."
Instead of being a tit and sulking about it, what this guy should do is just explain to his employers what he uses his cellphone for. Unless they're a very small business (in which case the dude needs to just pull his head out of his ass) they probably have a bunch of pagers and cellphones already and would be happy to give him one for business use, or at the very least let him use his own. It never ceases to amaze me how often IT nerds act like children instead of just doing the obvious thing.
The word you're looking for is 'unencumbered'. I'm not a grammar troll, I just mention it to make your future points easier to make. It's a good point too, BTW.:-)
Not For Profit and Not Making Any Money are two entirely different things. Mozilla doesn't work to make money. What money it DOES make goes into development. There are still brands to protect. Try copying some other non-profit's logo and selling it.
Hell no. When I first switched to Linux about 18 months ago I had no clue how to get my video card running right. I kept getting all kinds of errors. Finally, one of Nvidia's programmers managed to point me towards an option that I have to have enabled for the card to work with my monitor. Very, very stupid.
Again, if your software has no users then what was the point of programming it in the first place? It is NOT a delusion that being a user makes me important. Far too many projects are held back because the developers don't bother listening to users, and assume that since they're the developers they know best. This is bullshit, and you know it as well as I do.
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Because, you know, it would be a bad idea for developers to MAKE MONEY and be able to make more games. That's never a good thing, you know. A business. Making money. It'll never catch on.
And what good is a hardware firewall if it doesn't work properly? Might as well bend over and spread your LAN like the goatse guy if that's the case.
If your firewall is compromised then it's a sure bet your entire system is.
Er... you are aware that 'carpetbagger' is synonymous with 'immigrant', right? Which kind of means that they'd have to be over here to be considered 'carpetbaggers'. Which means nothing would be outsourced to them. Because they're here. Not there.
Pedantic bullshit aside, this is the same tripe spewed by dipshits since making products in Japan became popular. "If we don't do something now, our kids are gonna be making shit for the Japanese in sweatshops in downtown LA!" It's only been about 20 years since that shit was first excreted from the lips of dumbasses, but I don't see anyone above hardcore morons complaining now.
Correction. You DON'T THINK they own it. Nothing has been proven either way.
;-)
I don't think they own it either, but I'm not going to flat-out say they DON'T.
It's so funny when jokes are modded as troll. It's like putting a big sign on your mod points saying "I HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOUR!"
Or, perhaps, you need to read mine a couple more times until you manage to understand it.
So, when is Clinton going to do the same thing?
Sit and watch the email server? Uh... do you even USE email? You don't need to sit there with Mutt open staring at the fucking screen. You can use GKrellM to notify you of email. Just drop in your office on the way past and glance. I'd hope to holy fuck that a sysadmin would check his email at least several times a day.
If he's at lunch, he's at lunch. Off the clock. "Fuck off, I'm eating." Driving three hours to the remote server farm? Yeah, he's gonna do a lot of good from an hour and a half away.
See, some people have jobs that actually require them to manually monitor the systems they're responsible for. In fact, up until the advent of text messaging and such great wireless interconnectivity, EVERYONE had to do that.
On another note, if this place is small enough that they have ONE full-time sysadmin then their server probably isn't critical enough to require 24/7 psycho-paranoid level monitoring. There were two at my former job. When one was away, the other was always there.
Difference being, YOU are expendable. The management is not (at least as far as they're concerned). No, they should not expect the same in return. They should expect the people that they employ to do WTF they're told to do. There were many stupid rules at my former job, but I didn't bitch about it and I didn't quit over it. If you're going to quit every job over something as stupid as a cellphone policy, you really need to grow up and realize that you are NOT that important and odds are there are a dozen other guys just as good waiting to replace you.
Well, if you read the rest of the PHB's fictional statement... "and you apparently never bother looking at the server you're supposed to be administrating?"
He's supposed to know because he's doing his fucking job. Cell phones are not a requirement for being a sysadmin. While they are helpful, they are not a neccesity.
In any case, the guy could very easily convince his boss that carrying his cell phone or a alpha pager is highly useful and his company would probably spring for it.
And this guy's boss would most likely do the same if he explained the situation. If he went forward with the stupid idea of just letting everything go, THEN talking to his boss about it he would most likely be fired.
I know I'd fire him for pulling a stupid stunt like that.
Take a reality break here. Imagine something like this.
PHB: "Why is my email down, Itnerd?"
Itnerd: "Is it? I didn't know. Since you banned cellphones I don't get any warnings that the system is down (insert Homestar reference)."
PHB: "So you haven't changed it so it emails you, and you apparently never bother looking at the server you're supposed to be administrating?"
Itnerd: "Well, when you put it that way...."
PHB: "When I put it that way, you're an incompetent dipshit and are now fired. Fuck off."
Go on. Tell your boss that the server crashed because you couldn't be messaged on a cellphone. You'll be fired before you finish the sentence.
Yeah, act like a childish tit. That'll show your employers how valuable you are. Don't bother explaining how you use your cellphone and why, just do something really fucking stupid that will in all likelihood lead to your being fired. That'll look great on a resume! If the server dies and you blame the switchboard, you'd better have the CV dusted off because you'll get your putulant and borderline-retarded ass fired for being an incompetent jackass.
Consider this scenario.
PHB: "Itnerd, why the hell did the server crash?"
Itnerd: "It did? I haven't got a message telling me it did..."
PHB: "Ummm.... WTF?"
Itnerd: "Oh, you see, I have the server message me when something goes wrong."
PHB: "So the server, which just shut off, is supposed to message you when something happens."
Itnerd: "Yeah, isn't it neat?"
PHB: "Look, dumbass, I'm a fuckin' PHB and I can see how stupid this is. You're relying on the server that JUST FUCKING CRASHED to send you a notice? The computer that won't even power up? The computer that is COMPLETELY DEAD?"
Itnerd: "Uh.... mebbe..."
Instead of being a tit and sulking about it, what this guy should do is just explain to his employers what he uses his cellphone for. Unless they're a very small business (in which case the dude needs to just pull his head out of his ass) they probably have a bunch of pagers and cellphones already and would be happy to give him one for business use, or at the very least let him use his own. It never ceases to amaze me how often IT nerds act like children instead of just doing the obvious thing.
DOOMF DOOMF DOOMF DOOMF
It would be funny to do that, now that you mention it. Hook that song up to the PA so anytime even the tiniest thing happens on the server...
WOODOOT-DO-DOOT-DOO-DOO WOODOOT-DO-DOOT-DOO-DOO WOODOOT-DO-DOOT-DOO-DOO WOODOOT-DO-DOOT-DOO-DOO
The word you're looking for is 'unencumbered'. I'm not a grammar troll, I just mention it to make your future points easier to make. It's a good point too, BTW. :-)
Not For Profit and Not Making Any Money are two entirely different things. Mozilla doesn't work to make money. What money it DOES make goes into development. There are still brands to protect. Try copying some other non-profit's logo and selling it.
If you start mass producing and selling them... yes.
Uhh... biased how, exactly? That comment makes no sense whatsoever.
Are you one of those guys that can't see the jokes whizzing by your head at sub-light speed? ;-)
Which means nothing at all for the topic at hand.
Hell no. When I first switched to Linux about 18 months ago I had no clue how to get my video card running right. I kept getting all kinds of errors. Finally, one of Nvidia's programmers managed to point me towards an option that I have to have enabled for the card to work with my monitor. Very, very stupid.
Again, if your software has no users then what was the point of programming it in the first place? It is NOT a delusion that being a user makes me important. Far too many projects are held back because the developers don't bother listening to users, and assume that since they're the developers they know best. This is bullshit, and you know it as well as I do.