If you taught in the ghettos I grew up in, your students may actually see you more than their parents. (And you may actually be the person who "escaped" whom they have as a role-model).
My parents were involved with my education as much as possible - and so were my teachers. That helped. But some parents worked two or three jobs to keep their children fed, and so the only attention they got was from their teachers - or the pimps and gang lords. Our teachers succeeded for some of us - more than would have succeeded without the teachers willing to get paid half as much as teachers three miles away.
When you work in the government sector, the first question you will be asked is "How many projects have you worked on that were actually fielded?"
Until you can say yes to that question, you are not senior, and you will not be seen as senior. But your involvement does not have to be any more than as a low-level coder to qualify.
When you work in the commercial sector, you will be asked if you have ever done full-life cycle (that means design to bug reports from customers). If you don't have that, then you are not senior. The easiest way to get involved in all of the aspects is to offer to take the notes in the meetings.
Actually, Java uses low-level hooks into the host's UI routines. If you find a set of known problems in those routines, you have a malicious Java program.
And no, I haven't written one. But I have had to avoid those problems in my Java applications.
About 14 years ago, I could count on learning things in journals that would get me 5 years ahead of the competition.
Now I can count on reading things that put me about 1 month ahead - which means that I can only count on learning what is out there now from Journals.
I have at times worked for bosses on medication (literally). Emotionalism is not the way to handle the situation. Calmness usually helps the person that has lost control regain it.
The way you have phrased your question makes it seem that before your boss lost it you did not dislike your job, or the company. The way I would handle it is to say the following to your boss: "Look - I enjoyed working for you in the past, that is why I stayed as long as I did. I do not want you to fail, and I would surely recommend this job to someone who was as junior as I when I started here. But I can not do that without your help. As it stands, your statements undermine any aid I can offer - any candidate I send would immediately be distrusted because of the things you have told me to the people who have to work with my replacement. I may not be able to get someone before I leave - but in the past you were a good boss, and I would like to be able to recommend you as such, despite our current situation. Can I count on your help, in the name of our past?"
Depending on the demeanor of your boss, this will be perceived as either a veiled (and effective) threat, or that you are a really good guy who cares. Or that you are a sucker ripe for betrayal (which means that he won't be clever and spin-doctor his betrayal of your trust). Either is useful.
Yes... company owned facilities, living close to the unspoiled wilderness, buying from company stores, less state regulations... all you have to add is coal mining... remember this song?
"You mine 16 tons, and wadda ya get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter doncha call me, 'cause I can't go... I owe my soul to the company store."
Change "mine 16 tons" to "write 16K lines", and you've got it.
Notice that one day shift and one night shift is 12 hours a day, and they didn't mention weekends off?
Well, there is also the fact that when the frequencies were originally auctioned off, the cellphone companies had to prove over 90% coverage of the geographical area they were covering.
Unless they were ATT.
The product used to do this at the time was produced by LCC. (I worked on it). The product is as good as the morphology data provided for it. In the USA the data is general (such as, here is a bunch of 25 foot tall trees). In Germany, the data is specific (here is a tree 15 feet tall). The product also generated a cell-phone tower map.
It could have designed the whole network, but cell phone engineers would never buy it.
In big cities, the product was called Micro-Cell. It could handle cellphone coverage in buildings. And between buildings.
Those tools exist for cities to design their wireless networks too. And they are the tools used to design foreign cellphone networks. So they are good enough.
Umm... when I worked on an Aids project a long time ago, the rate reported was $20 - and there isn't much in the way of inflation in that business. Since the rate was $50 for something more kinky, you could probably get that for $100 in a poor area that shall go nameless.
'Course, about 5% of the pros were working their way through a sex-change, so you might get more kinky than you really want...
And yes, that made the database really difficult to design...
That would be really bad - IBM demands that employees who work in another state pay that state's income tax if they work there for two months or more, provided that the state they are working in does not have a reciprical agreement with their home state. This really screwed over a girl I worked with who came from Florida.
Basically, the concept is that you use an array of antennas and cross-cancel signals for areas you do not want to recieve (or send to). See http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/smart_ant/ among other sources.
Transmit a broadband signal to all recievers. Have the receiver narrow it's coverage to your area and send an authentication request. Then you are "in" if you pass, and if not the receiver decreases signal reception and transmission to your geographic area, and could even pass that information to other sender/receivers so that you are locked out of the network.
There are all sorts of fun ways to add on to this concept. And much of it has been mentioned in passing in Smart-Radio forums, like the Smart-Radio OMG meetings.
In the US it is state-to-state. Virginia and New Jersey are "right-to-work" states - this means you have no rights to having a job. My company can fire me with no notice (I have seen companies fire an employee while the employee is at lunch, and not allow the employee back in the facility).
On the other hand, unless I hold a clearance, I can quit just by walking out the door without notice.
There are federal laws on what someone can be fired for, and they apply to companies with more than 50 employees. Below 50 "I don't like you" is reason enough for firing, unless you are in a state like California with aggressively protective worker rights.
In the right-to-work states companies that have a tendency to fire nastily often get paid back by having employees quit without notice. Since the HR department in those companies usually has high turn-over, it is rarely something that will come back to bite you, since HR will only confirm that you worked there and were not fired. Anything else that can not be confirmed can be used as a basis of a court suit.
Note that if an employee quits they are not eligable for unemployment insurance - so many companies would rather have employees quit than fire or lay them off. If an employee is fired or laid-off (terminated for lack of work) the company must pay for the unemployment insurance for the individual, which can be expensive.
When I worked for IBM, we used AIM all of the time to coordinate information between teams. Of course, IBM can always use something else - but it just might be cheaper to give up and buy the IP or AIM, and the network division.:-)
In the case of many new HOA's it isn't the neighbors that are the problem. The HOA is "owned" initially by the builder, and the builder does not have to relinquish it until the last house is sold in the development. The homeowners in my area are fighting this kind of a thing right now.
After the builder leaves the HOA there are still problems, because it is run by a management company, and the management company can also "enforce" non-existent mandates. (This has happened in other HOAs). The only way to change is to change management companies - and there aren't that many of them.
It is cheaper for the state to require HOAs in new developments, so there is very little chance that you will find a house without one, at least in Northern Virginia.
If you think that the tree thing is bad, you should see the requirements some HOAs have - they tell you the serial number of paint you can use on your house.
I'd love to do this - but the HOA's (Home Owner's Association) in my area do not allow diversity (they mandate grass in open areas) and they do not allow trees with a trunk diameter over 4 inches.
This kind of behaviour is becoming the norm in the United States - and you can not fight HOA's in court . An HOA is initially organized and controlled by the developer of a community, until all of the houses in a development are sold - so the only environmentally sound HOA's would come from environmentally sound development companies - and I do not know of any that would start out with rules that allowed for a diverse environment. If anyone knows of one, I'd love to hear about it.
The genetic engineering companies make money off of selling the seeds - so they do not want a plant that can reproduce naturally. I have a friend whose father is a farmer - he has a hard time reseeding the next year with engineered crops, because they are engineered not to naturally reproduce.
My fear of genetic engineering of plants has always been that, in a disaster, they would all dissapear, leaving behind an ecosystem devoid of everything that we need to survive. If there was a disaster, the genetically engineered grass would die out, allowing the natural one to survive. In this case, that's a good thing.
I'd like to see something like this centralized for everything... (databases, C++ compilers, etc...) but there would need to be a way to anonymously post, because otherwise corporate counterintelligence could be gleaned from checking which things most companies check for (and don't check for).
For your purposes, check out www.org . They have "test suites" that check the web standard compliances of browsers, readers, HTML, CSS, etc... I've used them whenever I do web sites as a way of assuring that my display difficulties aren't due to the inabilities of the browser being used.
At first, I thought that it would be okay... but now I wonder. The defense places that aren't listed as such would be identifiable by the guards at the front. As such, it would be a problem.
As for government sites... I think the guards would notice someone snapping pictures at a non-obvious site.:-)
That might be so, but considering that the NEC 2002 (the electrical code used throughout the United States) requires that every metal part of the framework of your house bigger than 10 feet be grounded. If you use metal outlet boxes, this would be done via contact, but for the typical plastic ones, you'd need a seperate grounding wire.
As for the protection from lightning... I'd guess that the resistance due to the size of the fibers, (or capacitance, if the fibers are seperated by suspension in the paint, which is not conductive) would cause heating effects, and this would increase the flammability of the wall - the wall materials are fire resistant to 1 hour usually, but if you paint on the inside of our house, that just means that the fire won't make it to the outside - it'll be in there with you.
No - it will make us spend more of our time dealing with training so we can go to our next job after our current one is understood enough to be automated, and so that we can keep our current one.
The only difference is that speciation is not necessary for human evolution. We have divided ourselves into groups that an interbreed with viable offspring for a long time - most of our evolution happens within that context.
Having more children is not necessarily "winning" - there must be less predators than prey. The only relationship between species that has a numeric parity is symbiotic. Most of our inter-group relationships are not symbiotic. If you don't contribute to the creation of resources, you depend on getting those resources from others. My present job is paid by the government - therefore I require a base of taxpayers that outnumber my "kind" that provide money so I may be paid. The only people who are not in that situation who are in the sciences are automation engineers, farmers, miners and doctors. The rest of us need to be outnumbered to maintain our standard-of-living. And since predators and parasites have a better standard-of-living, I think that that is where you want to be if you are intelligent (unless you are worried about the future, in which case you want to be a symbiote - like, say, a doctor).
I'm not sure that the impact of color could be interpreted easily with texture. Consider what it would be like if you tried to explain music to the deaf - The lyrics (if they exist) can be translated, the beat pattern and rhythm can be translated, but translating major, minor, augmented and diminished 7ths alone would fall short. Mathematically I can talk about ratios of 12th roots of 2, and poetically I can talk about "wholeness" and "loneliness" - but adding them all up would take a genius, if the person didn't have the experience of hearing (or, to put it another way, some of the interpretation is hardware-based).
Now, I can try to translate color into music, but that fails due to its dimensional nature - imagine trying to explain a theme with variations, where each different variation is played by a different player with spatial seperation - there aren't good enough words, and for the tone-deaf, it would still be useless.
I've always wondered how people think that reducing one of the characters in your password to 1-out-of-28 characters (punctiation) plus reducing one of the characters to 1-out-of-26 (Capital Letters) plus reducing another of your characters to 1-out-of-10 (numbers) increases your password security. And if you say that you remove all of the "easily hacked" values that just means I can remove all of the dictionary entries from the possible values... And common names... It seems to me that the more secure you say your system is, the more possible combinations you have removed, so the easier it is for me to hack it.
At the present time we get the best of both worlds - we get the taxes from immigrants, but we don't have to give the same quality of service to them. Social Security is a good example - Immagrants have to pay it, but until they are citizens they have no rights to the benefits. Similarly, an immagrant has to pay property taxes if he or she owns a house, but has no rights to vote until they are a citizen.
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If you taught in the ghettos I grew up in, your students may actually see you more than their parents. (And you may actually be the person who "escaped" whom they have as a role-model).
My parents were involved with my education as much as possible - and so were my teachers. That helped. But some parents worked two or three jobs to keep their children fed, and so the only attention they got was from their teachers - or the pimps and gang lords. Our teachers succeeded for some of us - more than would have succeeded without the teachers willing to get paid half as much as teachers three miles away.
When you work in the government sector, the first question you will be asked is "How many projects have you worked on that were actually fielded?"
Until you can say yes to that question, you are not senior, and you will not be seen as senior. But your involvement does not have to be any more than as a low-level coder to qualify.
When you work in the commercial sector, you will be asked if you have ever done full-life cycle (that means design to bug reports from customers). If you don't have that, then you are not senior. The easiest way to get involved in all of the aspects is to offer to take the notes in the meetings.
Actually, Java uses low-level hooks into the host's UI routines. If you find a set of known problems in those routines, you have a malicious Java program.
And no, I haven't written one. But I have had to avoid those problems in my Java applications.
About 14 years ago, I could count on learning things in journals that would get me 5 years ahead of the competition.
Now I can count on reading things that put me about 1 month ahead - which means that I can only count on learning what is out there now from Journals.
I have at times worked for bosses on medication (literally). Emotionalism is not the way to handle the situation. Calmness usually helps the person that has lost control regain it.
The way you have phrased your question makes it seem that before your boss lost it you did not dislike your job, or the company. The way I would handle it is to say the following to your boss: "Look - I enjoyed working for you in the past, that is why I stayed as long as I did. I do not want you to fail, and I would surely recommend this job to someone who was as junior as I when I started here. But I can not do that without your help. As it stands, your statements undermine any aid I can offer - any candidate I send would immediately be distrusted because of the things you have told me to the people who have to work with my replacement. I may not be able to get someone before I leave - but in the past you were a good boss, and I would like to be able to recommend you as such, despite our current situation. Can I count on your help, in the name of our past?"
Depending on the demeanor of your boss, this will be perceived as either a veiled (and effective) threat, or that you are a really good guy who cares. Or that you are a sucker ripe for betrayal (which means that he won't be clever and spin-doctor his betrayal of your trust). Either is useful.
Yes... company owned facilities, living close to the unspoiled wilderness, buying from company stores, less state regulations... all you have to add is coal mining... remember this song?
"You mine 16 tons, and wadda ya get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter doncha call me, 'cause I can't go... I owe my soul to the company store."
Change "mine 16 tons" to "write 16K lines", and you've got it.
Notice that one day shift and one night shift is 12 hours a day, and they didn't mention weekends off?
Well, there is also the fact that when the frequencies were originally auctioned off, the cellphone companies had to prove over 90% coverage of the geographical area they were covering.
Unless they were ATT.
The product used to do this at the time was produced by LCC. (I worked on it). The product is as good as the morphology data provided for it. In the USA the data is general (such as, here is a bunch of 25 foot tall trees). In Germany, the data is specific (here is a tree 15 feet tall). The product also generated a cell-phone tower map.
It could have designed the whole network, but cell phone engineers would never buy it.
In big cities, the product was called Micro-Cell. It could handle cellphone coverage in buildings. And between buildings.
Those tools exist for cities to design their wireless networks too. And they are the tools used to design foreign cellphone networks. So they are good enough.
You also won't be able to use the "you didn't pay your income taxes" (a la Al Capone) threat on a foreign worker.
Umm... when I worked on an Aids project a long time ago, the rate reported was $20 - and there isn't much in the way of inflation in that business. Since the rate was $50 for something more kinky, you could probably get that for $100 in a poor area that shall go nameless.
'Course, about 5% of the pros were working their way through a sex-change, so you might get more kinky than you really want...
And yes, that made the database really difficult to design...
That would be really bad - IBM demands that employees who work in another state pay that state's income tax if they work there for two months or more, provided that the state they are working in does not have a reciprical agreement with their home state. This really screwed over a girl I worked with who came from Florida.
Basically, the concept is that you use an array of antennas and cross-cancel signals for areas you do not want to recieve (or send to). See http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/smart_ant/ among other sources.
Transmit a broadband signal to all recievers. Have the receiver narrow it's coverage to your area and send an authentication request. Then you are "in" if you pass, and if not the receiver decreases signal reception and transmission to your geographic area, and could even pass that information to other sender/receivers so that you are locked out of the network.
There are all sorts of fun ways to add on to this concept. And much of it has been mentioned in passing in Smart-Radio forums, like the Smart-Radio OMG meetings.
In the US it is state-to-state. Virginia and New Jersey are "right-to-work" states - this means you have no rights to having a job. My company can fire me with no notice (I have seen companies fire an employee while the employee is at lunch, and not allow the employee back in the facility).
On the other hand, unless I hold a clearance, I can quit just by walking out the door without notice.
There are federal laws on what someone can be fired for, and they apply to companies with more than 50 employees. Below 50 "I don't like you" is reason enough for firing, unless you are in a state like California with aggressively protective worker rights.
In the right-to-work states companies that have a tendency to fire nastily often get paid back by having employees quit without notice. Since the HR department in those companies usually has high turn-over, it is rarely something that will come back to bite you, since HR will only confirm that you worked there and were not fired. Anything else that can not be confirmed can be used as a basis of a court suit.
Note that if an employee quits they are not eligable for unemployment insurance - so many companies would rather have employees quit than fire or lay them off. If an employee is fired or laid-off (terminated for lack of work) the company must pay for the unemployment insurance for the individual, which can be expensive.
When I worked for IBM, we used AIM all of the time to coordinate information between teams. Of course, IBM can always use something else - but it just might be cheaper to give up and buy the IP or AIM, and the network division. :-)
In the case of many new HOA's it isn't the neighbors that are the problem. The HOA is "owned" initially by the builder, and the builder does not have to relinquish it until the last house is sold in the development. The homeowners in my area are fighting this kind of a thing right now.
After the builder leaves the HOA there are still problems, because it is run by a management company, and the management company can also "enforce" non-existent mandates. (This has happened in other HOAs). The only way to change is to change management companies - and there aren't that many of them.
It is cheaper for the state to require HOAs in new developments, so there is very little chance that you will find a house without one, at least in Northern Virginia.
If you think that the tree thing is bad, you should see the requirements some HOAs have - they tell you the serial number of paint you can use on your house.
I'd love to do this - but the HOA's (Home Owner's Association) in my area do not allow diversity (they mandate grass in open areas) and they do not allow trees with a trunk diameter over 4 inches.
This kind of behaviour is becoming the norm in the United States - and you can not fight HOA's in court . An HOA is initially organized and controlled by the developer of a community, until all of the houses in a development are sold - so the only environmentally sound HOA's would come from environmentally sound development companies - and I do not know of any that would start out with rules that allowed for a diverse environment. If anyone knows of one, I'd love to hear about it.
The genetic engineering companies make money off of selling the seeds - so they do not want a plant that can reproduce naturally. I have a friend whose father is a farmer - he has a hard time reseeding the next year with engineered crops, because they are engineered not to naturally reproduce.
My fear of genetic engineering of plants has always been that, in a disaster, they would all dissapear, leaving behind an ecosystem devoid of everything that we need to survive. If there was a disaster, the genetically engineered grass would die out, allowing the natural one to survive. In this case, that's a good thing.
I'd like to see something like this centralized for everything... (databases, C++ compilers, etc...) but there would need to be a way to anonymously post, because otherwise corporate counterintelligence could be gleaned from checking which things most companies check for (and don't check for).
For your purposes, check out www.org . They have "test suites" that check the web standard compliances of browsers, readers, HTML, CSS, etc... I've used them whenever I do web sites as a way of assuring that my display difficulties aren't due to the inabilities of the browser being used.
Yes - especially if you had common miss-spellings of the streets.
At first, I thought that it would be okay... but now I wonder. The defense places that aren't listed as such would be identifiable by the guards at the front. As such, it would be a problem.
:-)
As for government sites... I think the guards would notice someone snapping pictures at a non-obvious site.
That might be so, but considering that the NEC 2002 (the electrical code used throughout the United States) requires that every metal part of the framework of your house bigger than 10 feet be grounded. If you use metal outlet boxes, this would be done via contact, but for the typical plastic ones, you'd need a seperate grounding wire.
As for the protection from lightning... I'd guess that the resistance due to the size of the fibers, (or capacitance, if the fibers are seperated by suspension in the paint, which is not conductive) would cause heating effects, and this would increase the flammability of the wall - the wall materials are fire resistant to 1 hour usually, but if you paint on the inside of our house, that just means that the fire won't make it to the outside - it'll be in there with you.
No - it will make us spend more of our time dealing with training so we can go to our next job after our current one is understood enough to be automated, and so that we can keep our current one.
The only difference is that speciation is not necessary for human evolution. We have divided ourselves into groups that an interbreed with viable offspring for a long time - most of our evolution happens within that context.
Having more children is not necessarily "winning" - there must be less predators than prey. The only relationship between species that has a numeric parity is symbiotic. Most of our inter-group relationships are not symbiotic. If you don't contribute to the creation of resources, you depend on getting those resources from others. My present job is paid by the government - therefore I require a base of taxpayers that outnumber my "kind" that provide money so I may be paid. The only people who are not in that situation who are in the sciences are automation engineers, farmers, miners and doctors. The rest of us need to be outnumbered to maintain our standard-of-living. And since predators and parasites have a better standard-of-living, I think that that is where you want to be if you are intelligent (unless you are worried about the future, in which case you want to be a symbiote - like, say, a doctor).
I'm not sure that the impact of color could be interpreted easily with texture. Consider what it would be like if you tried to explain music to the deaf - The lyrics (if they exist) can be translated, the beat pattern and rhythm can be translated, but translating major, minor, augmented and diminished 7ths alone would fall short. Mathematically I can talk about ratios of 12th roots of 2, and poetically I can talk about "wholeness" and "loneliness" - but adding them all up would take a genius, if the person didn't have the experience of hearing (or, to put it another way, some of the interpretation is hardware-based).
Now, I can try to translate color into music, but that fails due to its dimensional nature - imagine trying to explain a theme with variations, where each different variation is played by a different player with spatial seperation - there aren't good enough words, and for the tone-deaf, it would still be useless.
I've always wondered how people think that reducing one of the characters in your password to 1-out-of-28 characters (punctiation) plus reducing one of the characters to 1-out-of-26 (Capital Letters) plus reducing another of your characters to 1-out-of-10 (numbers) increases your password security. And if you say that you remove all of the "easily hacked" values that just means I can remove all of the dictionary entries from the possible values... And common names... It seems to me that the more secure you say your system is, the more possible combinations you have removed, so the easier it is for me to hack it.
At the present time we get the best of both worlds - we get the taxes from immigrants, but we don't have to give the same quality of service to them. Social Security is a good example - Immagrants have to pay it, but until they are citizens they have no rights to the benefits. Similarly, an immagrant has to pay property taxes if he or she owns a house, but has no rights to vote until they are a citizen.