This case is not cut and dried (the guy was already over 50 when he was hired), which is unfortunate because age discrimination is very, very real in IT and especially in the software industry.
If you in IT, and are at age 40, and have not been promoted to management, become an independent contractor, started your own business, taken a government job, or switched careers... well, you better look good in blue, because you are one pay check away from having no other choice but to become a Wal*Mart greeter.
I know we're getting trolled, but it's too important an issue to ignore.
In an ideal world, we would tackle the problem properly by decoupling health insurance from employment. Linking health care to employment was the worst mistake ever made in health care in America. There are probably too many powerful lobbyist in Washington to hope for that to ever change. So we're left with imperfect alternatives. Such is politics, such is life.
And yes, this is an imperfect bill, but it's a first step towards badly needed reform. Is going to hurt? There's no way health care reform can NOT hurt some interests, while helping others. That's why leadership - political or otherwise - is supposed to take courage. Too bad we don't get that from our leaders.
If there's no such thing as a bandwidth hog, then why are is anyone worried about "hunting" them?
Something tells me PETA is behind this...
PS: Yes we'd all like to be able to download 20 TB of movies a month for free. We'd all also like free gasoline so we can drive Humveees with 30 inch chrome wheels.
(Ok I was only talking about Hotmail and Twitter, but if we had to lose Flickr in order to get rid of Twitter, well, I don't know about you, but I would be tempted!)
I've found Apple to be a real PITA to deal with for hardware with intermittent faults. I recently had a bad experience with that with a MacBook with a faulty MagSafe connector that still hasn't been replaced because Apple's tech support doesn't believe me, since he claimed it was "not a known problem"!
Apple's support is medicore consumer-level stuff at best. It's little wonder that few businesses purchase Macs.
The test was so poorly performed that the article was useless. It is little more than a poorly disguised ad for their load testing product. All I want to know is: how much would it cost for me to post a similar slashvertisment as a'story'?
Why isn't Apple's legal department all over this? Much as we love to hate copyright laws on slashdot, I think this is a shining example of the kind of copyright abuse that really should be prosecuted.
That aside, I don't really understand this ad's message. It's a hell of a stretch to compare Hillary Clinton to Big Brother (the current administration, on the other hand...)
I had no idea STT of coversational speech was so good now. This is of extreme interest to me because it would help me enormously to have access to software that could do real-time STT of telephone coversations (I have a hearing loss). What software is being used to get these kinds of results?
I've been ripped off by PayPal twice, with absolutely no recourse whatsoever to get things rectified. The amounts involved are small enough that its not worth getting the legal system involved, but big enough that it's intensely irrirating. I think PayPal's business model is at least partly based on having free will to screw over individual customers in this manner.
While I don't even slightly agree with the bomber's methods, I do understand what would drive them to do this. Individuals are powerless against PayPal, so its no suprise they will lash out any way they can. This is a classic terrorist attack in that sense - someone who felt they had no options left, so they turned to the increasingly commonly accepted equalizer: bombings.
The very moment there is a viable alterntive to PayPal, I'll be switching (Google, are you listening? I'm getting desperate here!).
The blog entry just cherry picks some data from Master's thesis work done by Andrew Fiore at MIT (he is now at Berkeley). His online dating research papers can be found here.
Fiore's thesis is a much more interesting read then the blog entry.
the Model T has a traditional steering wheel and gas/brake pedals.
Ironically, your comparision is the wrong way around. The Model T doesn't have a gas pedal -- the throttle is on the steering wheel. The Model T's pedals are used quite differently to modern cars.
Could we possibly have a bigger beat-up about so little? This breathlessly fawning article summary makes it sounds like the next version of The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. I can just see the words now...
Old Google was hopping around
San Francisco like a big playground
Suddenly Ballmer jumped into the air
and hit Google with an office chair
I took a look at the video I don't understand why this is being presented as being in public for the first time. I distinctly recall seeing this video a short time after 9/11. I'm surprised no-one else has mentioned that - it wasn't exactly kept secret.
Strange "Repeat" functionality
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I tried it, and while it's very slick, they have a few quirks to iron out. For example, they let you repeat an event every "Monday, Wednesday and Friday", but if you want a certain event to repeat on one particular day of the week (e.g. "every monday"), you're out of luck. You have to wonder what they were thinking when they decided to implment the former, but not the latter.
Telecommuting is overrated in a number of cases. I enjoy the ease of contact with my coworkers. Part of the draw of my current profession is that I work with funny, intelligent people.
If this is software developers we're talking about, intelligent I can believe, but funny? If it's true, I want to know where you work. You'll have my resume within the hour.
CmdrTaco, I totally understand that you guys have to wade through a lot of crap to get to the good stuff. That's part of what makes slashdot valuable: the fact that you guys do that.
BUT.
I think you guys are falling victim to the law of unintended consequences, when it comes to article submission. I've submitted a few high quality stories to slashdot - relevant, well-written, interesting and slightly off the beaten track. Not one has been accepted. How many more stories do you think I'm going to bother making the effort to write up and submit? Probably none.
If you want to boost the quality of your story submissions, you need to reward people for quality, not quantity. You need to give people a realitistic chance of having a story accepted. You've said yourself that people who flood the story queue are the ones who get rewarded. Right now, for the average joe who doesn't crap flood the story queue, the odds of getting a story accepted is vanishingly small. Therefore there is little or no incentive to take the time to bother submitting a well-crafted story.
Here's what I suggest: firstly, take away any PagrRank reward for submitting the story. It should be reward enough for a story submitter to know that they've contributed to their community. A simple no-follow attribute is all it takes to do this - or better yet, just make the submitter's link go to their slashdot user page. Secondly, as others have suggested, place a cap on the number of story submissions (not acceptance - we do want to reward quality) per day. Make it no more than 3 stories per day.
The end result of these measures would be a higher level of quality in story submissions from a widwer variety of people. This means less crap for you guys to wade through, better stories for the rest of is, and real sense of being able to contribute. It's a win for everyone.
A quick follow up on this: I was perhaps a little too cynical. The Intel 945GM chipset (the "Napa" chipset that includes an integreated GPU)uses the Intel GMA 950, which actually sounds fairly reasonable for a GPU optimized for low power consumption. Whether or not the PowerBook uses the GMA 950 is a different story through.
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This case is not cut and dried (the guy was already over 50 when he was hired), which is unfortunate because age discrimination is very, very real in IT and especially in the software industry.
If you in IT, and are at age 40, and have not been promoted to management, become an independent contractor, started your own business, taken a government job, or switched careers... well, you better look good in blue, because you are one pay check away from having no other choice but to become a Wal*Mart greeter.
What you're looking for is The New York Post...
I know we're getting trolled, but it's too important an issue to ignore.
In an ideal world, we would tackle the problem properly by decoupling health insurance from employment. Linking health care to employment was the worst mistake ever made in health care in America. There are probably too many powerful lobbyist in Washington to hope for that to ever change. So we're left with imperfect alternatives. Such is politics, such is life.
And yes, this is an imperfect bill, but it's a first step towards badly needed reform. Is going to hurt? There's no way health care reform can NOT hurt some interests, while helping others. That's why leadership - political or otherwise - is supposed to take courage. Too bad we don't get that from our leaders.
If there's no such thing as a bandwidth hog, then why are is anyone worried about "hunting" them?
Something tells me PETA is behind this...
PS: Yes we'd all like to be able to download 20 TB of movies a month for free. We'd all also like free gasoline so we can drive Humveees with 30 inch chrome wheels.
... and nothing of value was lost.
(Ok I was only talking about Hotmail and Twitter, but if we had to lose Flickr in order to get rid of Twitter, well, I don't know about you, but I would be tempted!)
The world's oldest RIAA subpoena.
There's no "buy" or preorder button on the Apple store. I want this thing, but there's no way in hell am I going to rush some store for it.
... with Ninjas?
I've found Apple to be a real PITA to deal with for hardware with intermittent faults. I recently had a bad experience with that with a MacBook with a faulty MagSafe connector that still hasn't been replaced because Apple's tech support doesn't believe me, since he claimed it was "not a known problem"!
Apple's support is medicore consumer-level stuff at best. It's little wonder that few businesses purchase Macs.
If you mean the RTM worm, it primarily targeted fingerd not sendmail.
The test was so poorly performed that the article was useless. It is little more than a poorly disguised ad for their load testing product. All I want to know is: how much would it cost for me to post a similar slashvertisment as a'story'?
Why isn't Apple's legal department all over this? Much as we love to hate copyright laws on slashdot, I think this is a shining example of the kind of copyright abuse that really should be prosecuted.
That aside, I don't really understand this ad's message. It's a hell of a stretch to compare Hillary Clinton to Big Brother (the current administration, on the other hand...)
I am a 13 year old cheerleader you insensitive clod!
Craplet (krp'lt', -lt) n. A software application that is present under the following Microsoft Windows registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurI had no idea STT of coversational speech was so good now. This is of extreme interest to me because it would help me enormously to have access to software that could do real-time STT of telephone coversations (I have a hearing loss). What software is being used to get these kinds of results?
I've been ripped off by PayPal twice, with absolutely no recourse whatsoever to get things rectified. The amounts involved are small enough that its not worth getting the legal system involved, but big enough that it's intensely irrirating. I think PayPal's business model is at least partly based on having free will to screw over individual customers in this manner.
While I don't even slightly agree with the bomber's methods, I do understand what would drive them to do this. Individuals are powerless against PayPal, so its no suprise they will lash out any way they can. This is a classic terrorist attack in that sense - someone who felt they had no options left, so they turned to the increasingly commonly accepted equalizer: bombings.
The very moment there is a viable alterntive to PayPal, I'll be switching (Google, are you listening? I'm getting desperate here!).
The blog entry just cherry picks some data from Master's thesis work done by Andrew Fiore at MIT (he is now at Berkeley). His online dating research papers can be found here.
Fiore's thesis is a much more interesting read then the blog entry .
the Model T has a traditional steering wheel and gas/brake pedals.
Ironically, your comparision is the wrong way around. The Model T doesn't have a gas pedal -- the throttle is on the steering wheel. The Model T's pedals are used quite differently to modern cars.
Could we possibly have a bigger beat-up about so little? This breathlessly fawning article summary makes it sounds like the next version of The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. I can just see the words now...
Old Google was hopping around
San Francisco like a big playground
Suddenly Ballmer jumped into the air
and hit Google with an office chair
I took a look at the video I don't understand why this is being presented as being in public for the first time. I distinctly recall seeing this video a short time after 9/11. I'm surprised no-one else has mentioned that - it wasn't exactly kept secret.
I tried it, and while it's very slick, they have a few quirks to iron out. For example, they let you repeat an event every "Monday, Wednesday and Friday", but if you want a certain event to repeat on one particular day of the week (e.g. "every monday"), you're out of luck. You have to wonder what they were thinking when they decided to implment the former, but not the latter.
All in all though, it's a promising start.
Telecommuting is overrated in a number of cases. I enjoy the ease of contact with my coworkers. Part of the draw of my current profession is that I work with funny, intelligent people.
If this is software developers we're talking about, intelligent I can believe, but funny? If it's true, I want to know where you work. You'll have my resume within the hour.
Never use the word "best-of-breed" again. Or else.
CmdrTaco, I totally understand that you guys have to wade through a lot of crap to get to the good stuff. That's part of what makes slashdot valuable: the fact that you guys do that.
BUT.
I think you guys are falling victim to the law of unintended consequences, when it comes to article submission. I've submitted a few high quality stories to slashdot - relevant, well-written, interesting and slightly off the beaten track. Not one has been accepted. How many more stories do you think I'm going to bother making the effort to write up and submit? Probably none.
If you want to boost the quality of your story submissions, you need to reward people for quality, not quantity. You need to give people a realitistic chance of having a story accepted. You've said yourself that people who flood the story queue are the ones who get rewarded. Right now, for the average joe who doesn't crap flood the story queue, the odds of getting a story accepted is vanishingly small. Therefore there is little or no incentive to take the time to bother submitting a well-crafted story.
Here's what I suggest: firstly, take away any PagrRank reward for submitting the story. It should be reward enough for a story submitter to know that they've contributed to their community. A simple no-follow attribute is all it takes to do this - or better yet, just make the submitter's link go to their slashdot user page. Secondly, as others have suggested, place a cap on the number of story submissions (not acceptance - we do want to reward quality) per day. Make it no more than 3 stories per day.
The end result of these measures would be a higher level of quality in story submissions from a widwer variety of people. This means less crap for you guys to wade through, better stories for the rest of is, and real sense of being able to contribute. It's a win for everyone.
A quick follow up on this: I was perhaps a little too cynical. The Intel 945GM chipset (the "Napa" chipset that includes an integreated GPU)uses the Intel GMA 950, which actually sounds fairly reasonable for a GPU optimized for low power consumption. Whether or not the PowerBook uses the GMA 950 is a different story through.