Easier said than done. You have to test and support both versions, and recompiling C/C++ cross platform is not always straightforward. Given the already significant fragmentation in Android, I wonder when/if many places will get around to it. (The answer is when Intel gets enough market share)
In reality, you always have a clue that your job is in jeopardy, and you're hoarding whatever information you want to take ahead of time. Some people I know do this as a practice regardless of their job security. They have what they consider their "IP" (regardless of how their employment contract defined IP sharing/ownership), and constantly back it up. I'm not sure you can really stop them unless you want to go to the paranoid level of some banks, and remove all USB ports, seal away the hard drive and disconnect them from the internet...all the time.
In reality I think there is somewhat less danger of an employee walking away with vast company secrets for personal profit, most of the time its stuff they simply worked on, which they have some sort of emotional investment in. Spending a single cent trying to stop this is both fruitless and a poor use of money that could otherwise be invested in the company for more profit.
Let me summarize your response for you: "I see your bullshit, and raise you two bullshits."
If you want to go on about how corporate tax is a bad idea that only hurts the middle and lower class, I've got your back. What was wanted was increased taxes on the rich, what was received was increased taxes on everyone else (and lost jobs, and the decline of industry leadership). In this case the government took private sector jobs and destroyed them.
But If you want to paint socialization with the same brush, as enablement for the lazy and incompetant, you're on your own and definitely need to get out more. I know many people who are entirely unable to work (i.e. limbs and brains which do not function to capacity) who are being put out by the current teabagger initiatives in states like Florida. While trying to hurt the proverbial crack mommy, you've sentenced her kids to a slow, painful death.
I guess I shouldn't care, I manage to exist in the top 10%. But for some reason I do, and I don't mind paying more taxes if the money is spent well and I'd rather spend time arguing about how to spend the money better than about how much money we should spend. I admit, I believe the better off you are, the more you owe.
I've been using Wikipedia for years and I've never seen any porn. Can somebody help a brother out?
I never have either, I mean there were some anatomy pictures when you look up topics of certain parts of the anatomy, but I expect those pictures to be there (and they were in my old fashioned dead tree encyclopedia as a kid). But if you know enough to look up "convent pornography" then you have obviously been exposed to what pornography is, and you're just fishing for material at this point (and boy, are you fishing in a really shallow, really murky pool).
Anyway, I don't feel for Mr. Sanger's plight, and I'm a father of two. I think I can keep the kids out of the smut until they're 8 or 9, but I saw my first porno rag long before that (and long before the internet), and I lived through it, somehow.
No, that he was Chinese, not American is why it made the front page. He's clearly part of the Chinese conspiracy to steal our IP, even though there is absolutely no mention that he sent the code back home to some Chinese corporation. In fact if they had proof of that I think he'd be facing a bit more than 1.5yrs, even with cooperation and you can bet your ass they looked. In this case his story makes sense, he's probably not the only person to do this.
I'm not sure how many American engineers and developers make copies of the work that they did while an employee of some company, but I know the number is greater than 0. Almost none of them are using it for industrial espionage or in allegiance to some foreign power. But it is almost always against your employment agreement, and if caught you likely will be sued or worse.
When the employer is the government, everything just gets escalated a few steps.
I'm more worried that the current pro-social agenda in large corporations will drive findings like this into rules. I won't dispute the music/productivity finding, it is what it is. But I do throw the headphones on, because of exactly the given reasons. However the last two corporations I worked for had this asinine attempt to force coworkers into social contact with each other. I could easily see them coming up with a rule based on this that there shall be no headphones.
I should note that the ex-employer that I modeled this after considers itself a major peddler of clouds. Personally I don't agree, we do need the laptop, but I do engineering work not just spreadsheets and email.
Having worked at several large corporations, this doesn't really sound that alien. The government is really not much more than a really, really large corporation that can't fail. But large corporations are just as bad. This is how my favorite bureacratic mess worked:
You can't just buy a laptop, first you have to get approval from IT that your laptop is due for refresh, then you have to get permission from finance that your laptop has been fully depreciated. Then, most times, you just have to accept whatever IT is peddling as the laptop for your job description (even if your actual job has nothing to do with your job description). On some occasions you may get an exemption, and be given a budget to procure a machine. Then you must deal with procurement, a group of vogons whose job it is to drive profit margin out of suppliers, joy out of life, and requirements out of your request. Deviation from this practice will be made to sound like corruption, as if Steve Jobs is giving you a piece of the action under the table. Then after your requirements have been rightsized, and your purchase request has been shopped around and value enhanced, an order will be placed for the laptop you probably didn't really want, but which you caused to be ordered.
Up to this point, you have been maximizing shareholder potential and optimizing profits. This saved a lot of money didn't it? Next you will do a bit more of that, but mostly and indirectly comply (or at least so the corporate mouthpieces will tell you) with various federal regulations for taxes and record retention.
It doesn't end there, the new laptop isn't yours, it belongs to the company. It will eventually find itself in the hands of your on-site IT guy, whose first job will be to install the corporate crapware-ridden image on your laptop. The image usually will be targeted towards your job description (again, your job description usually won't match your job, it was designed to keep US citizens from being hired in favor of H1-B's in most cases). It will have a virus scanner, but utility ends there. It will usually have some form of network backup that no matter what happens, you will never be able to use, some network stuff that will make it boot slow and give you access to machines you will never use, software push...etc. Then you must submit your old, depreciated laptop in to be destroyed. Granted you could probably use that machine as a spare webserver or a toy for your kid, it's probably broken in some way by now but can be made to work. But no, it must be destroyed. Not because of sensitive data of course, but because the tax code (apparently) says so. Upon having proof that your laptop was submitted for destruction, you will receive your new laptop. At that point you will of course immediately delete the corporate image, reimage with the corporate image required for your job description (or if you are lucky and don't need to interface with hardware tools much, you can install a clean image with a corporate VM), request to have your machine added to the correct domain, and set up network drives etc. for your actual job function. At that point you'll find that maybe your monitor is VGA and new laptop is DVI or HDMI only, or that the docking station they wouldn't let you order is incompatible with the new laptop, etc. This causes you to create new procurement steps, thus ensuring that group looks especially overwhelmed with work.
Don't get me started if you need to get a machine in your datacenter with (*shudder* enterprise storage), you'd get more joy out of your year by crushing your balls under a hammer every day for a year. "Bugzilla? Does Oracle make that?". No. No Oracle does not, and if they did I wouldn't want it because it would work poorly.
You're going to have to convince me that if we don't like people, that you need to interact. The words "normal", "typical" always pop up, but that's mostly irrelevant. If you are unhappy in this condition, then you need to make a change.
There is too much pressure to socialize, it's not for everyone.
The best way of seeing how bad a person is, is by working with them. Nowhere else would people be conniving and backstabbing, and have it be OK. In most other venues they're on their best behavior.
Well I grew up after arcade games, and probably would have defined game addiction. Then I became a teenager....well porn wasn't hard to come by even in BBS days. Anyway I'm married with two kids. I still like games (and porn), but somehow it found a balance with other joys in life. Sure anecdotal, but I know only one acquaintance who never really went beyond games, but I submit he was fairly damaged long before he "grew up".
I know, right? I mean I was totally going to solve hunger in Haiti, but instead I decided to watch Game of Thrones and was pissed off that some monkey shit already ruined every ounce of suspense I could have obtained from the show. My emotional state has greater dynamic range than the decibel scale. And those TV execs, I know they were going to give the proceeds for Game of Thrones to starving African children and were shortchanged by some Australians who got the show from illicit sources, so they decided to just pocket that fat wad of cash instead.
These decisions we make certainly aren't based on our own motivations, but rather a detailed and reasoned understanding of the state of the world around us. I would hate to think that our capricious nature and hedonistic tendencies were being put above the fate of the world and those less fortunate, nor that we were unable to put in perspective our own vantage point in life with respect to every unfortunately horror story that exists on planet earth right now. That would be truly outrageous.
True Blood and the books they are based on are wildly divergent (I hear the same about Dexter, but I hear the shows are better than the books so no loss). GoT is faithful enough, there are differences, but I'm never surprised and I don't see how spoilers are that relevant.
Anyway being held hostage for a week for the show is asinine, can't really blame people for it, especially when there is no good technical reason and it's just about business bullshit.
Obviously you can't unsample and re-record an audio stream to reduce pre-ringing or de-apodizing all but the smallest apods. All you are doing is essentially taking harsh audio and putting it on qualudes. This simply produces depressed, harsh audio, like Norm Macdonald.
Time and money would be better spent using gold plated, neon injected, forward biased monster cables, with gallium arsenide softening strips. The justification for using gold plated, neon injected, forward biased monster cables is well known by audiophiles. The gallium arsenide softening strips work by absorbing the harsh pre-ringing frequencies by actually siphoning out the high frequencies. Silicon engineers have long known that gallium arsenide is ideal for conducting the highest frequency signalling. Used in this application it acts as sort of a apod rejection filter, allowing the ringing to be thrown free of the cable, before it can manifest as ringing, or even chirping.
However it is important to stress that the gallium arsenide softening strips must be calibrated to your eardrums carefully before use. You will need a vector analyzer and a sound meter. It's crucial that you place the softening strips in your mouth, while providing the four port network the VNA requires using both your feet and hands. You must suck on the strips until the sound meter absorbs all the s-parameters in your body, which are being slowly drained by the gallium arsenide strips. You must maintain this until the sound meter gets down to at least 3dB (or 1dB if you have especially sensitive ears). Without this step you may as well be using a walmart SPDIF cable, it will be that bad.
Thank god. As a Galaxy Nexus owner who used to own the Motorola Droid, I have buyers remorse. I'm not sure what neuron was misfiring in this decision, but I have several more years to regret it. The phone is fast. It crashes at the speed of light!
Everyone knows the iPhone is the better product, but i can't get behind the walled garden model, and I'm willing to suffer for it. I just wish I didn't have to suffer quite so much. I feel like I should be editing my autoexec.bat and config.sys to get my mouse drivers in high memory so that wing commander will run or something.
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Easier said than done. You have to test and support both versions, and recompiling C/C++ cross platform is not always straightforward. Given the already significant fragmentation in Android, I wonder when/if many places will get around to it. (The answer is when Intel gets enough market share)
I think Intel's power numbers have been posted, and were neither excessively good nor bad.
Related: could it burn excess calories for you?
In reality, you always have a clue that your job is in jeopardy, and you're hoarding whatever information you want to take ahead of time. Some people I know do this as a practice regardless of their job security. They have what they consider their "IP" (regardless of how their employment contract defined IP sharing/ownership), and constantly back it up. I'm not sure you can really stop them unless you want to go to the paranoid level of some banks, and remove all USB ports, seal away the hard drive and disconnect them from the internet...all the time.
In reality I think there is somewhat less danger of an employee walking away with vast company secrets for personal profit, most of the time its stuff they simply worked on, which they have some sort of emotional investment in. Spending a single cent trying to stop this is both fruitless and a poor use of money that could otherwise be invested in the company for more profit.
Let me summarize your response for you:
"I see your bullshit, and raise you two bullshits."
If you want to go on about how corporate tax is a bad idea that only hurts the middle and lower class, I've got your back. What was wanted was increased taxes on the rich, what was received was increased taxes on everyone else (and lost jobs, and the decline of industry leadership). In this case the government took private sector jobs and destroyed them.
But If you want to paint socialization with the same brush, as enablement for the lazy and incompetant, you're on your own and definitely need to get out more. I know many people who are entirely unable to work (i.e. limbs and brains which do not function to capacity) who are being put out by the current teabagger initiatives in states like Florida. While trying to hurt the proverbial crack mommy, you've sentenced her kids to a slow, painful death.
I guess I shouldn't care, I manage to exist in the top 10%. But for some reason I do, and I don't mind paying more taxes if the money is spent well and I'd rather spend time arguing about how to spend the money better than about how much money we should spend. I admit, I believe the better off you are, the more you owe.
In some cities the toll for tunnels is >$10, people do all sorts of weird things to avoid it.
I've been using Wikipedia for years and I've never seen any porn. Can somebody help a brother out?
I never have either, I mean there were some anatomy pictures when you look up topics of certain parts of the anatomy, but I expect those pictures to be there (and they were in my old fashioned dead tree encyclopedia as a kid). But if you know enough to look up "convent pornography" then you have obviously been exposed to what pornography is, and you're just fishing for material at this point (and boy, are you fishing in a really shallow, really murky pool).
Anyway, I don't feel for Mr. Sanger's plight, and I'm a father of two. I think I can keep the kids out of the smut until they're 8 or 9, but I saw my first porno rag long before that (and long before the internet), and I lived through it, somehow.
No, that he was Chinese, not American is why it made the front page. He's clearly part of the Chinese conspiracy to steal our IP, even though there is absolutely no mention that he sent the code back home to some Chinese corporation. In fact if they had proof of that I think he'd be facing a bit more than 1.5yrs, even with cooperation and you can bet your ass they looked. In this case his story makes sense, he's probably not the only person to do this.
I'm not sure how many American engineers and developers make copies of the work that they did while an employee of some company, but I know the number is greater than 0. Almost none of them are using it for industrial espionage or in allegiance to some foreign power. But it is almost always against your employment agreement, and if caught you likely will be sued or worse.
When the employer is the government, everything just gets escalated a few steps.
I'm more worried that the current pro-social agenda in large corporations will drive findings like this into rules. I won't dispute the music/productivity finding, it is what it is. But I do throw the headphones on, because of exactly the given reasons. However the last two corporations I worked for had this asinine attempt to force coworkers into social contact with each other. I could easily see them coming up with a rule based on this that there shall be no headphones.
Against IT security policy, unless you are willing to give it the corporate image. Bureaucracy isn't just a condition, it's a virus.
I should note that the ex-employer that I modeled this after considers itself a major peddler of clouds. Personally I don't agree, we do need the laptop, but I do engineering work not just spreadsheets and email.
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I would be prepared to receive one.
Having worked at several large corporations, this doesn't really sound that alien. The government is really not much more than a really, really large corporation that can't fail. But large corporations are just as bad. This is how my favorite bureacratic mess worked:
You can't just buy a laptop, first you have to get approval from IT that your laptop is due for refresh, then you have to get permission from finance that your laptop has been fully depreciated. Then, most times, you just have to accept whatever IT is peddling as the laptop for your job description (even if your actual job has nothing to do with your job description). On some occasions you may get an exemption, and be given a budget to procure a machine. Then you must deal with procurement, a group of vogons whose job it is to drive profit margin out of suppliers, joy out of life, and requirements out of your request. Deviation from this practice will be made to sound like corruption, as if Steve Jobs is giving you a piece of the action under the table. Then after your requirements have been rightsized, and your purchase request has been shopped around and value enhanced, an order will be placed for the laptop you probably didn't really want, but which you caused to be ordered.
Up to this point, you have been maximizing shareholder potential and optimizing profits. This saved a lot of money didn't it? Next you will do a bit more of that, but mostly and indirectly comply (or at least so the corporate mouthpieces will tell you) with various federal regulations for taxes and record retention.
It doesn't end there, the new laptop isn't yours, it belongs to the company. It will eventually find itself in the hands of your on-site IT guy, whose first job will be to install the corporate crapware-ridden image on your laptop. The image usually will be targeted towards your job description (again, your job description usually won't match your job, it was designed to keep US citizens from being hired in favor of H1-B's in most cases). It will have a virus scanner, but utility ends there. It will usually have some form of network backup that no matter what happens, you will never be able to use, some network stuff that will make it boot slow and give you access to machines you will never use, software push...etc. Then you must submit your old, depreciated laptop in to be destroyed. Granted you could probably use that machine as a spare webserver or a toy for your kid, it's probably broken in some way by now but can be made to work. But no, it must be destroyed. Not because of sensitive data of course, but because the tax code (apparently) says so. Upon having proof that your laptop was submitted for destruction, you will receive your new laptop. At that point you will of course immediately delete the corporate image, reimage with the corporate image required for your job description (or if you are lucky and don't need to interface with hardware tools much, you can install a clean image with a corporate VM), request to have your machine added to the correct domain, and set up network drives etc. for your actual job function. At that point you'll find that maybe your monitor is VGA and new laptop is DVI or HDMI only, or that the docking station they wouldn't let you order is incompatible with the new laptop, etc. This causes you to create new procurement steps, thus ensuring that group looks especially overwhelmed with work.
Don't get me started if you need to get a machine in your datacenter with (*shudder* enterprise storage), you'd get more joy out of your year by crushing your balls under a hammer every day for a year. "Bugzilla? Does Oracle make that?". No. No Oracle does not, and if they did I wouldn't want it because it would work poorly.
You're going to have to convince me that if we don't like people, that you need to interact. The words "normal", "typical" always pop up, but that's mostly irrelevant. If you are unhappy in this condition, then you need to make a change.
There is too much pressure to socialize, it's not for everyone.
The best way of seeing how bad a person is, is by working with them. Nowhere else would people be conniving and backstabbing, and have it be OK. In most other venues they're on their best behavior.
Or perhaps, have just found a new way of reaching porn addicted videogamers.
Did you really think money for nothing and chicks for free wasn't bankrolled by SOMEONE?
Well I grew up after arcade games, and probably would have defined game addiction. Then I became a teenager....well porn wasn't hard to come by even in BBS days. Anyway I'm married with two kids. I still like games (and porn), but somehow it found a balance with other joys in life. Sure anecdotal, but I know only one acquaintance who never really went beyond games, but I submit he was fairly damaged long before he "grew up".
I know, right? I mean I was totally going to solve hunger in Haiti, but instead I decided to watch Game of Thrones and was pissed off that some monkey shit already ruined every ounce of suspense I could have obtained from the show. My emotional state has greater dynamic range than the decibel scale. And those TV execs, I know they were going to give the proceeds for Game of Thrones to starving African children and were shortchanged by some Australians who got the show from illicit sources, so they decided to just pocket that fat wad of cash instead.
These decisions we make certainly aren't based on our own motivations, but rather a detailed and reasoned understanding of the state of the world around us. I would hate to think that our capricious nature and hedonistic tendencies were being put above the fate of the world and those less fortunate, nor that we were unable to put in perspective our own vantage point in life with respect to every unfortunately horror story that exists on planet earth right now. That would be truly outrageous.
True Blood and the books they are based on are wildly divergent (I hear the same about Dexter, but I hear the shows are better than the books so no loss). GoT is faithful enough, there are differences, but I'm never surprised and I don't see how spoilers are that relevant.
Anyway being held hostage for a week for the show is asinine, can't really blame people for it, especially when there is no good technical reason and it's just about business bullshit.
Obviously you can't unsample and re-record an audio stream to reduce pre-ringing or de-apodizing all but the smallest apods. All you are doing is essentially taking harsh audio and putting it on qualudes. This simply produces depressed, harsh audio, like Norm Macdonald.
Time and money would be better spent using gold plated, neon injected, forward biased monster cables, with gallium arsenide softening strips. The justification for using gold plated, neon injected, forward biased monster cables is well known by audiophiles. The gallium arsenide softening strips work by absorbing the harsh pre-ringing frequencies by actually siphoning out the high frequencies. Silicon engineers have long known that gallium arsenide is ideal for conducting the highest frequency signalling. Used in this application it acts as sort of a apod rejection filter, allowing the ringing to be thrown free of the cable, before it can manifest as ringing, or even chirping.
However it is important to stress that the gallium arsenide softening strips must be calibrated to your eardrums carefully before use. You will need a vector analyzer and a sound meter. It's crucial that you place the softening strips in your mouth, while providing the four port network the VNA requires using both your feet and hands. You must suck on the strips until the sound meter absorbs all the s-parameters in your body, which are being slowly drained by the gallium arsenide strips. You must maintain this until the sound meter gets down to at least 3dB (or 1dB if you have especially sensitive ears). Without this step you may as well be using a walmart SPDIF cable, it will be that bad.
Thank god. As a Galaxy Nexus owner who used to own the Motorola Droid, I have buyers remorse. I'm not sure what neuron was misfiring in this decision, but I have several more years to regret it. The phone is fast. It crashes at the speed of light!
Everyone knows the iPhone is the better product, but i can't get behind the walled garden model, and I'm willing to suffer for it. I just wish I didn't have to suffer quite so much. I feel like I should be editing my autoexec.bat and config.sys to get my mouse drivers in high memory so that wing commander will run or something.
Historically everyone who has predicted the end of the world has been wrong. Some guys twice in a row.