Hehe. I had a similar hell job. Was in a dying industry though. Never had enough slack time to study the material I would need to jump over to more industrial type tech jobs.
After 10 months of hell, my boss tells me I need to up production levels. And then on top of it, they decide to drop the price per unit so its impossible to make quota.
So I ride it out, rack up as much paid vacation days as I can, moving a bit of my equipment out every day. And then when I get my check and get it cashed, I never went back.
No stupid ritual firings, or putting up with 2 weeks of crap and then having them rifling through your tools, asking for the employee discount card back or whatever on the day you leave.
I got a call 3 days later, ex-boss is somewhat confused, "Did you quit or what ?", I'm like "yeah, you said up production or you were gonna can me, so WTF did you expect, I'm gone" he then tries to back pedal and admits it was mostly BS. But I'm not gonna be the last rat on the sinking ship for the 4th time, this time I'm the first freaking rat to jump ship.
I also neglected to mention the guy in the cube next to me was having paranoid delusions and talking guns, etc. A good part of the techs are ex-military and the others are streetwise. I'm sure they'll know when to duck and let the boss take the lead enema. I would grin there, but thats probably not really joke material. It was just one more factor in deciding to get out of there and retrain.
Still job hunting, but the industrial tech pickings are better, consumer elec tech jobs don't exist anymore. Maybe I'll get stuck office temping or working the computer help desk for a while, or even stringing wire somewhere. It's no big deal. Eventually the economy will perk up, and I'll get a nice cube full of equipment and a pile of broken crap to fix again.
It may seem silly at first, all this hiring people to kill some godzilla organization one cell at a time. But you have to consider the right of people to legally fight for their rights. When this goes to hell, in the old days it was guns and angry mobs. Today the warning shot is a DDS attack. The next shot might be an EMP to a server stack from inside the cage, a bullet to the backs of several heads in the organization, or the latest environmental produced bug that typically only kills people over 50 and leaves interns, etc unharmed being unleashed in that offending groups offices. As the technology keeps going on, there are more and more ways for a dirty underground action to happen. You will no longer have to worry about some illiterate inbred religious nuts pulling some low tech smash and bash attack. But rather a long term intelligent hostile retribution attack that beats an organization to death and causes the children of those people to become trailer dwelling scum for generations.
You could always revive the assasination politics idea. Anon sources contribute to the goal of removing some problem people, RIAA, MPAA, SPA, SCO, etc. And then through whatever verification means are set up, the funds are transfered to the organization or individuals who carried out the deed.
It would be the ultimate defense fund, but not exactly a legal one.
They would probably do what they do now in africa. Everyone chips in to buy a huge TV and satt rig.
People who take things for granted like being able to read to get entertainment always underestimate the lengths that people will go to when trying to get their TV fix.
Such as in america. Here trailer park people will live on mac and cheese, ramens, or cheap pasta and glop product of choice to save up and get at least a 27 inch TV.
That's because its their only means of escape. If they had to be mired in the reality of where they lived and what they did, its a sure bet that either they'd start hitting the booze the instant they got home from work until they passed out, or just gave up hope and shot themselves.
It does have its advantages. you wouldn't have to pump out megawatts at one point and cause peoples fillings to start glowing. And while you wouldn't have high power harmonics, you would need some serious type of anti-ghosting compensation.
Well, I figure with all the old hams dying off their bands could be reallocated for oh say, wireless MP3 sharing devices. And/or possibly long range jappy electronic devices for people looking for dates in remote areas like the american high plains, and other areas.
Seems like it would be better to have a really huge USB2 hard drive to copy all your data to at the end of the day.
As for other specs, I'd say having a laptop that can diplay huge bloated PDF files without choking to death on them in an important factor. Having enough dots on the screen to see them clearly, and being able to read it in the nauseating fluorecent glare or outdoors glare is important.
If you're an electrical engineering student, having something that can run bSpice, boolean logic reduction gadgets and the like, and a copy of mathematica are probably important.
Outside of that, theres probably not a lot of NEED for something more. Seems like anything between a k6-2 500 and a P3 800 should do. And of course you need some kind of USB on board so you can backup easily.
Having paper and an assortment of pens of various styles helps. In the event of marathon note taking days, one pen may work better at one time of day than another. Actual pencils are AWEFULL for note taking. Best to get a nice.3 mm mechanical pencil. They do pretty good for situations where you actually need a pencil for some reason(like drawing artistic patterns that you microwave for a light show) and they are really GREAT for cleaning out gunk under your fingernails during those boring mandatory classes you have to take.;)
Seems I saw a sight or two on the net about radioactive strata going back about 10,000 years in the Gobi desert region.
Also something about some big war that was supposed ta have happened back then according to indian legends.
One might guess from this, that another nuclear war will probably take more than just a "few" years to recover from.
Yes, poor poor illiterate wogs, they just don't have Jesus, Minivans, and Fast food like all of us highly enlightened americans.
Luckily though, they have shitloads of IT jobs. Maybe they'll be able to afford a few lightbulbs here and there due to that.
Wow, I am totally floored. On slashdot when the subject of computers in India comes up theres usually 300 posts from liberals basically asking "what are thes filthy illiterate wogs gonna do with a computer when they don't have indoor plumbing, food or basic sanitation ?"
I guess the IT market being moved on a massive scale to India helped educate them as to what "illiterate peasants living in dirt shacks and eating grubs to stay alive" are capable of.
That's 24 hours on the biggest ear on the top half of the earth. And further data on regions of space that produce weird signals like that is bound to be interesting to the radio astronmy nuts.
Such as, say they are picking up reflected pulsar noise from a region of space where there's "nothing" . You tweek you own FFT processing using SETI data, and you find a really neat cloud of dust, and can write papers on how to use pulsars reflections as deep space radar, and then all your other radio astronomy dorks, er scientists will thing you are really cool.
There's bound to be a lot of spin offs from SETI research into "practical" science applications becauses theres bound to be SOMETHING interesting about a region of space spitting out signals that can pass though multiple FFT filtering passes.
This is all part of the fun of science. You never really know where a project that starts out as one thing is going to go. I remember there was a series in scientific american, connections by james burke I think.
You have all these people doing these really interesting projects, and eventually you get a chain reaction where a bunch of em line up and you get something really amazing as a result.
For someone who is strictly set in a technological mindset where off the shelf parts A,B,C with work become product D, that person is not going to be interested in how pruduct ZZj 200 years from now might result. That's not the type of person you want doing science of this sort because they're going to get all in a huff because they didn't get results the first try.
Science is full of millions of dead ends, and in the process, people learn from that and things get done in the long run. Those who can't handle that can stick to nice safe careers like civil engineering or accounting.
People in the US and canada are willfully blind to simple reality. All you have to do is look closely at the black rights movement in the USA. Everyone will see Martin Luther King, and all that wonderfull Ghandi like BS. But what they neglect to see why the US was willing the let King win, and that was because of the militant black movement and Malcolm X. They were the gun to the head of america if america wouldn't play fair. When too many heads got knocked in, Malcolm X got more recruits. If US powers hadn't eased off it might have become another civil war.
If you want to have an official front of peacefull protest, the powers that be have to know that theres an iron fist behind the kid gloves.
Well, the canuk govt don't want people buying programming that bypasses canuk govt censorship.
After all, 500 channels of reruns and lame history channel documentaries might corrupt canadas "unique" culture.
I suppose they figure if you can construct the technological terror of a device it takes to bypass smart card security, and all the other horrors inside that little box, you are already corrupted as you can get, so 500 channels of tripe isnt likely to warp your mind any worse.
Burned out engineers are a dime a dozen. The main goal of these lawsuits is to try and tie up the pirates until their bird uses up its limited lifespan.
At the moment its a matter of getting all the justice you can pay for. And with there being only two satt TV services at the moment, they have to money to try and beat back piracy because they can bribe all the judges they have to.
By the time the pirates get an organized effort going to get everything overturned, its 3-4 years later, and theres a new system of birds in the air.
And also a new generation of pirates using some other sort of technology.
Hey buddy, wanna buy some cheap C-band decoders!
Picketing wastes a whole lot of manpower. Much more effective to map out the habits of your mark, and have a few others help in roughing them up a little.
Funny you should mention Jihad. I heard someone at SCO went on the hajj and stole a piece of that big stone they all dance around in mecca. I would think that is kinda not kosher.
Funny you should mention guns. I'm sure these tech companies think lawsuits are good clean fun, until things turn sour and some columbine wanna be kids think "Hey, that mofo lives just down the street from us. Let's go Quake 3D his CEO @ss."
Linux is way beyond just cult status now. And there is, beyond just columbine wanna be kids looking for fun, the laid off tech sector guy who really really doesn't wanna go work at burger world to keep from starving. So as those unemployment checks start to end, and they read about yet another company trying to feed off the dying body of the tech sector, they say to themselves, Hey, why not ? As they load up the the duffel bag with filled.308 magazines and flash bangs. Yep, time to do a "hostile" takeover.
Its easy enough if you have an SVT and a pack of smokes. Cooling does help if you decide to reconsider about your new "clock rate" Immersion in a pool of 40 dergee water should do it.
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Hehe. I had a similar hell job. Was in a dying industry though. Never had enough slack time to study the material I would need to jump over to more industrial type tech jobs.
After 10 months of hell, my boss tells me I need to up production levels. And then on top of it, they decide to drop the price per unit so its impossible to make quota.
So I ride it out, rack up as much paid vacation days as I can, moving a bit of my equipment out every day. And then when I get my check and get it cashed, I never went back.
No stupid ritual firings, or putting up with 2 weeks of crap and then having them rifling through your tools, asking for the employee discount card back or whatever on the day you leave.
I got a call 3 days later, ex-boss is somewhat confused, "Did you quit or what ?", I'm like "yeah, you said up production or you were gonna can me, so WTF did you expect, I'm gone" he then tries to back pedal and admits it was mostly BS. But I'm not gonna be the last rat on the sinking ship for the 4th time, this time I'm the first freaking rat to jump ship.
I also neglected to mention the guy in the cube next to me was having paranoid delusions and talking guns, etc. A good part of the techs are ex-military and the others are streetwise. I'm sure they'll know when to duck and let the boss take the lead enema. I would grin there, but thats probably not really joke material. It was just one more factor in deciding to get out of there and retrain.
Still job hunting, but the industrial tech pickings are better, consumer elec tech jobs don't exist anymore. Maybe I'll get stuck office temping or working the computer help desk for a while, or even stringing wire somewhere. It's no big deal. Eventually the economy will perk up, and I'll get a nice cube full of equipment and a pile of broken crap to fix again.
It may seem silly at first, all this hiring people to kill some godzilla organization one cell at a time.
But you have to consider the right of people to legally fight for their rights. When this goes to hell, in the old days it was guns and angry mobs.
Today the warning shot is a DDS attack. The next shot might be an EMP to a server stack from inside the cage, a bullet to the backs of several heads in the organization, or the latest environmental produced bug that typically only kills people over 50 and leaves interns, etc unharmed being unleashed in that offending groups offices.
As the technology keeps going on, there are more and more ways for a dirty underground action to happen. You will no longer have to worry about some illiterate inbred religious nuts pulling some low tech smash and bash attack. But rather a long term intelligent hostile retribution attack that beats an organization to death and causes the children of those people to become trailer dwelling scum for generations.
You could always revive the assasination politics idea. Anon sources contribute to the goal of removing some problem people, RIAA, MPAA, SPA, SCO, etc. And then through whatever verification means are set up, the funds are transfered to the organization or individuals who carried out the deed. It would be the ultimate defense fund, but not exactly a legal one.
They would probably do what they do now in africa. Everyone chips in to buy a huge TV and satt rig. People who take things for granted like being able to read to get entertainment always underestimate the lengths that people will go to when trying to get their TV fix. Such as in america. Here trailer park people will live on mac and cheese, ramens, or cheap pasta and glop product of choice to save up and get at least a 27 inch TV. That's because its their only means of escape. If they had to be mired in the reality of where they lived and what they did, its a sure bet that either they'd start hitting the booze the instant they got home from work until they passed out, or just gave up hope and shot themselves.
It does have its advantages. you wouldn't have to pump out megawatts at one point and cause peoples fillings to start glowing. And while you wouldn't have high power harmonics, you would need some serious type of anti-ghosting compensation.
Well, I figure with all the old hams dying off their bands could be reallocated for oh say, wireless MP3 sharing devices. And/or possibly long range jappy electronic devices for people looking for dates in remote areas like the american high plains, and other areas.
Seems like it would be better to have a really huge USB2 hard drive to copy all your data to at the end of the day. As for other specs, I'd say having a laptop that can diplay huge bloated PDF files without choking to death on them in an important factor. Having enough dots on the screen to see them clearly, and being able to read it in the nauseating fluorecent glare or outdoors glare is important. If you're an electrical engineering student, having something that can run bSpice, boolean logic reduction gadgets and the like, and a copy of mathematica are probably important. Outside of that, theres probably not a lot of NEED for something more. Seems like anything between a k6-2 500 and a P3 800 should do. And of course you need some kind of USB on board so you can backup easily. Having paper and an assortment of pens of various styles helps. In the event of marathon note taking days, one pen may work better at one time of day than another. Actual pencils are AWEFULL for note taking. Best to get a nice .3 mm mechanical pencil. They do pretty good for situations where you actually need a pencil for some reason(like drawing artistic patterns that you microwave for a light show) and they are really GREAT for cleaning out gunk under your fingernails during those boring mandatory classes you have to take. ;)
Seems I saw a sight or two on the net about radioactive strata going back about 10,000 years in the Gobi desert region. Also something about some big war that was supposed ta have happened back then according to indian legends. One might guess from this, that another nuclear war will probably take more than just a "few" years to recover from.
Yes, poor poor illiterate wogs, they just don't have Jesus, Minivans, and Fast food like all of us highly enlightened americans. Luckily though, they have shitloads of IT jobs. Maybe they'll be able to afford a few lightbulbs here and there due to that.
Wow, I am totally floored. On slashdot when the subject of computers in India comes up theres usually 300 posts from liberals basically asking "what are thes filthy illiterate wogs gonna do with a computer when they don't have indoor plumbing, food or basic sanitation ?"
I guess the IT market being moved on a massive scale to India helped educate them as to what "illiterate peasants living in dirt shacks and eating grubs to stay alive" are capable of.
Gee, wonder if my sarcasm is showing yet.
That's 24 hours on the biggest ear on the top half of the earth. And further data on regions of space that produce weird signals like that is bound to be interesting to the radio astronmy nuts. Such as, say they are picking up reflected pulsar noise from a region of space where there's "nothing" . You tweek you own FFT processing using SETI data, and you find a really neat cloud of dust, and can write papers on how to use pulsars reflections as deep space radar, and then all your other radio astronomy dorks, er scientists will thing you are really cool. There's bound to be a lot of spin offs from SETI research into "practical" science applications becauses theres bound to be SOMETHING interesting about a region of space spitting out signals that can pass though multiple FFT filtering passes.
This is all part of the fun of science. You never really know where a project that starts out as one thing is going to go. I remember there was a series in scientific american, connections by james burke I think.
You have all these people doing these really interesting projects, and eventually you get a chain reaction where a bunch of em line up and you get something really amazing as a result.
For someone who is strictly set in a technological mindset where off the shelf parts A,B,C with work become product D, that person is not going to be interested in how pruduct ZZj 200 years from now might result. That's not the type of person you want doing science of this sort because they're going to get all in a huff because they didn't get results the first try.
Science is full of millions of dead ends, and in the process, people learn from that and things get done in the long run. Those who can't handle that can stick to nice safe careers like civil engineering or accounting.
People in the US and canada are willfully blind to simple reality.
All you have to do is look closely at the black rights movement in the USA. Everyone will see Martin Luther King, and all that wonderfull Ghandi like BS. But what they neglect to see why the US was willing the let King win, and that was because of the militant black movement and Malcolm X. They were the gun to the head of america if america wouldn't play fair. When too many heads got knocked in, Malcolm X got more recruits. If US powers hadn't eased off it might have become another civil war.
If you want to have an official front of peacefull protest, the powers that be have to know that theres an iron fist behind the kid gloves.
Its called payoffs and bribes. Thats how they can pull it off.
Well, the canuk govt don't want people buying programming that bypasses canuk govt censorship.
After all, 500 channels of reruns and lame history channel documentaries might corrupt canadas "unique" culture.
I suppose they figure if you can construct the technological terror of a device it takes to bypass smart card security, and all the other horrors inside that little box, you are already corrupted as you can get, so 500 channels of tripe isnt likely to warp your mind any worse.
Burned out engineers are a dime a dozen. The main goal of these lawsuits is to try and tie up the pirates until their bird uses up its limited lifespan.
At the moment its a matter of getting all the justice you can pay for. And with there being only two satt TV services at the moment, they have to money to try and beat back piracy because they can bribe all the judges they have to. By the time the pirates get an organized effort going to get everything overturned, its 3-4 years later, and theres a new system of birds in the air. And also a new generation of pirates using some other sort of technology. Hey buddy, wanna buy some cheap C-band decoders!
Picketing wastes a whole lot of manpower. Much more effective to map out the habits of your mark, and have a few others help in roughing them up a little.
Funny you should mention Jihad. I heard someone at SCO went on the hajj and stole a piece of that big stone they all dance around in mecca. I would think that is kinda not kosher.
Why bother playing fair ? just circulate a rumor that one of the offending SCO people has a stolen shi'ite relic in their office building.
Funny you should mention guns. I'm sure these tech companies think lawsuits are good clean fun, until things turn sour and some columbine wanna be kids think "Hey, that mofo lives just down the street from us. Let's go Quake 3D his CEO @ss." Linux is way beyond just cult status now. And there is, beyond just columbine wanna be kids looking for fun, the laid off tech sector guy who really really doesn't wanna go work at burger world to keep from starving. So as those unemployment checks start to end, and they read about yet another company trying to feed off the dying body of the tech sector, they say to themselves, Hey, why not ? As they load up the the duffel bag with filled .308 magazines and flash bangs. Yep, time to do a "hostile" takeover.
Its easy enough if you have an SVT and a pack of smokes. Cooling does help if you decide to reconsider about your new "clock rate" Immersion in a pool of 40 dergee water should do it.
Don't be silly! You need at LEAST 20 hemostats for that plus the bone saw and chest spreader.
So like huffing primatine to stay alert while driving this big ole propane carryin' 18 wheel arn't healthy eh ?
I took too much of that once, and have felt blue ever since. ;)