Yup. If I get through this 7 months, I get 6-8 years of job security with reasonable hours again.
You already assured them you don't need to have your time or plans respected or to be treated like a human. I am baffled at the idea they would even imagine an obligation to you.
The correct way to compensate people for unpaid overtime periods is equivalent periods of fewer hours. That's what salary is supposed to mean. You speak as though it is a privilege working "only normal hours."
I've worked where this actually was the attitude, especially the "Yes, boss, anything you say, boss!" expectation, and it is truly a pervasive and debilitating disease. It is wrong beyond words and no one should tolerate it or let their effort support the business and finances of those that maintain it.
It's amazing that it's 2011 and IT people are still afraid to figure out how to implement a sufficiently honest union.
As for the OP, your employer buys your time and effort from you. He asking you to let him buy it with "Wah, but I *really* want to be profitable already!" Head over to GameStop and see how many PS3 games you can get for "My boss wants profitability to be easier."
I would think that that is much more a Catholic doctrine, a religious group whom Puritans thought were more or less satanic.
You've forgotten the actual background: Puritans came from the Church. They thought the Catholics were bad because they were too loose and immoral. So, yes, that can be Catholic and Puritan doctrine, with the Puritans being the absurdly hyperbolic version. They are called Puritans because they wanted to "purify" the church. They were profoundly annoying.
His audience's reaction was atrocious, but I don't fault McCain for that.
I do fault McCain for that. He ran his campaign and he created a clearly sick and destructive level of division against a candidate and party he should have known he was hard up to really defeat. The attitudes he fostered were outright disgraceful, and the fact that he didn't stand up and show some actual balls to stop it, even if at the cost of being elected, even after not being elected (yeah, said some nice things, but nothing that took responsibility for or really called for change with the hate), both leave us in a rather dangerous place and prove that we dodged a bullet on him being elected.
His campaign was pathetic and desperate, and I'm concerned how many Americans accepted that from him (ie voted McCain).
Knowing what you can do with shell builtins is also important for when you mess up your linker or a critical library, can't fork, or other situations where you essentially cannot use anything that isn't already running live on the system.
True, but tail will follow several files all at once, showing you which file is adding lines as it switches.
(You can of course, take that to less to get searching, but don't forget it's getting accumulated in a buffer...)
Then you should encrypt it and not include that password. That kind of thing is too easy to set up nowadays, if you really need that option (most people in history haven't had it, except in leaving instructions and hoping they were followed).
Yeah, what is all this subpoena talk already? Take his computer, boot from a disk or alt drive, make sure his partitions are in the right places, chroot to his system, passwd to set the root and user passwords, then log in as him and see what you can get to. Probably should make copies of things like the history file first, so you can see as much as was there without the browser expiring records when you run it.
After that, you think about asking gmail and such. You ask now and they may close the account before you access it. Remember those accounts are not ours in a propert sense. They exist at the pleasure of the provider and their generaly incredibly loose terms of service (we can do anything and you automatically agree by continuing use).
The real problem is that almost every personals site allows people to contact others with no specific investment. That means that there's no reason for someone to actually target their messages, which has the obvious effect of giving women on the site a disproportionate pile of crap to wade through just for using the site.
Subscription-based services are just a waste of money and also a clear conflict of interest for the site operator, since they want you to subscribe rather than to actually send/receive useful messages.
I appreciate the free sites (and OKCupid.com should be your target, not crap sites like Yahoo or Match), but they have exactly the same problem. I can see a credits system that didn't need to be money based, if being free was important, but basically sites need to accept that people really only can send a few useful messages in a day, if not in a week. They need to start being more honest about the search process and helping people find good *likely* people to contact, rather than just putting a little up there and then trying to amuse people with toys and such.
If you want to improve a personals site, you need to improve the experience for women. *Then* information like how much someone replies to messages might be of some use (although pretty easy to falsify if someone wanted to...).
Technological measures shall be deemed 'effective' where the use of a protected work or other subjectmatter is controlled by the rightholders through Note that when circumvention measures are so widespread as to be assumed, the use of the "protected" work is not controlled by the rightholders. This is how the measure is deemed less than effective. "Effective" was not redefined by the law: it has to actually offer control to the rightsholder in order to be effective. It doesn't matter how effective the measure was supposed to be.
I'd like to appeal to this and every other icon and beautification project. You are very valuable, but please take some effort to give us this one thing: freedom of color. Let the user pick the colors. Really. Make your icons and shadows and such derive from a set of user selected colors, and don't forget to handle the implications of that, especially for example, the difference between light-on-dark and dark-on-light.
I know there are some people already thinking this would never work, that they need to pick an effective color-scheme to have it look nice, but that simply isn't true. Given key colors, you can generate a nice palete for icon drawing which still lets you have distinctive differences and subtle consistencies between icons. You'd probably want two sets of colors, one for generic things (light foreground, background, various accents) and another for topical things (like warning, default, movement...), and then you'd generate your icons from template code that could blend the basic colors to match.
It probably won't be perfect, but it won't be that difficult, and you can do it so that *your* chosen color scheme still comes out perfect, while mine comes out somewhere between nice enough and beautiful, without every user needing to hack up icons or have them look glaringly wrong if they dare to use different colors.
Plus, your icons then become more than a set. They become a pattern that can survive many design changes, and not just be replaced or redone poorly when you aren't around. They become true free software icons.
Please, PLEASE, for heaven's sake, in this and future such discussions could people try to devote AT LEAST as much space in your posts to actual, practical, and concrete ways of FINDING rewarding jobs as they do to describing them. It's like calling starving people in a desert and just talking about how *great* the oasis you are at is. Sure it's nice to know they are out there, and I'm glad you have one, but we're dying out here...
while the term open source isn't explicitly used, I think the intent from article 4 is that open source software is what is desired.
Look again at your own text:
Freedom to make and distribute copies of the software.
Modification of the software and freedom to distribute said modifications of the new resulting sofftware, under the same license of the original software.
That is not "open source". Free as in freedom. I'm impressed you can list EXACTLY the difference between "open source" and "free software" and then say they meant "open source."
So, what... You're claiming that people who live in the country are dumber than people who live in the city?
Doing better than eight random people is, in a way, easier than doing better than eight hundred. The more people, the better the odds someone will clean your clock academically, and the better the odds that problematic social forces will come into play. It's not that country people are dumber, rather it's that you can get higher spots while being statistically less above average.
In other words, as the pool grows, it becomes nigh impossible for "moderately above average" to come out anywhere but moderately above average. The smaller the pool, the less uniform the result. "Relative ease" => "It could happen"
Naturally, you also run risks that you will be in the bottom 10%, because you have a particularly bright eight people in your class. Given that most consider themselves above average (and their children prodigal), we can understand how they will see that throw of the dice.
It's a shame people are always jumping at the "You think you're better than me" bit. Honest truth is, rural people have less experience with the world at large. That doesn't mean ANYTHING EVEN RESEMBLING that they are dumber, or even that they are less knowledgeable, but it does matter when dealing with the world at large.
I wouldn't want someone who only knows gay people from what his church tells him and watching "Will & Grace" to make decisions about gay people any more than that person would want me making decisions about what to plant based on what my grocer says is in season and watching "Green Acres".
I have never understood why Americans simply can't accept inexperience. Even having been one my whole life.
You actually take grass for granted (note: When I went to college, people were surprised at how I would cut across a grassy area without even thinking about it--apparently grass was respected if it was next to a sidewalk).
Actually, this is the opposite of what you seem to think. Being rural, you miss that if people all walk on the grass, it won't be there anymore. Instead you'll just have a continually widening* dirt/mud path. Smart places put the sidewalks as close to the natural path lines as they can, and people that want to have grass around respect the need to cooperate in not beating it down. Yeah, sometimes it costs a few seconds.
What you are really taking for granted is the slight harm walking does to the grass. It doesn't matter when it's infrequent, but that doesn't scale very far.
The function of paved sidewalks/paths is to protect grass and keep people out of mud.
* Widening because people edge the bare dirt when the ground is damp, which is harder still on the grass.
(No, I don't really know why I'm pointing this out.)
By posting here & now you're letting us know your opinion. We read it because we're interested in comparing your views to ours, learning something you know that we don't.
Yeah, that's pretty accurate for a statement made in a topical group discussion... "Blogging" is more like when someone pukes and goes, "Hey look, a carrot."
Web journals are the single most depressing thing to come of the Interent.
I've often wished I could go somewhere that hasn't committed so thoroughly to so many mistakes as the industry here, and help them not just avoid pitfalls but catch some of the real gems that got passed over or are struggling to keep up from political dynamics rather than quality/functionality. How would one go about getting in on this Brazil thing? Are there any grad schools where one could go and maybe slide from the degree into mentoring positions? Is there opportunity with just a BA and experience, aside from independently blazing the trail as a consultant?
IF I steal your CD, you no longer have it. I've deprived you of the use of your property. If I copy your CD without your permission, YOU STILL HAVE IT. You've been deprived of *nothing*, except the highly speculative "loss" a sale (which presumes that I would have paid your asking price in the first place, and that I won't buy a "legitimate" copy later)
Look, the copyright is the RIGHT TO CONTROL COPYING. Do you understand that? THAT is what the copyright holder owns. That authority is government granted property which can be used, discarded, transferred, and yes STOLEN. When you copy that CD, you STEAL the holder's right to control copies. S/he NO LONGER HAS THAT AUTHORITY/RIGHT when copies are made without permission. S/he HAS been deprived of something. You have stolen something: it was not not yours, and the owner no longer has use of it. Of course copying doesn't steal the original--but the original is not the property in intellectual property (neither is the idea the property with a patent). The property is the authority. Deal with it, especially if you want to be heard.
None of this is in support of what copyright or other branches of intellectual property have become, which I do find offensive and simply wrong, but in an effort to stamp out the stupid things people emit when this comes up.
(Your understanding of fair use is also completely mistaken, but I'll let someone else field that.)
You left off The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women -- not that that one has any teeth anyway, but again we are in pretty sad company.
It takes 3 simultaneous ingredients to make it work, and having all their production and injection systems arise simultaneously by chance seems to be highly unlikely.
You have overly limited your thinking. I would suppose, rather than your explanation, that some kind of explosive system evolved first (defensive advantage==more survival) and then further developed into a more reliable system (fewer misfires==more survival) by further separating needed chemicals and their systems.
Nothing just suddenly/simultaneously appears, on an evolutionary scale.
I am amazed this subthread grew so much. EVERYONE thinks they are smarter than average. The career may help provide convenient rationalizations, but that's the only real correlation. The only useful thing I know about people judging their own intelligence is this irony: the smartest people don't think they are that smart.
I'll try to elaborate his answer a little. Notice that he cited Perl as proof against one-tool-one-job. For him, 1T1J was AWK, sed, grep, and the other laser-like utilities. As complexity increased they were needed more at hand and grew into 1T1J Perl/Ruby/Whatever scripts. So the philosophy lives on, but our jobs have a much broader variety of complexity (the "one tool" might be a bit of awk/sed (probably via Perl, the standard library of modern-day shell scripting) -- or it might be a RDBMS). It's very different from the 1T1J era he lived/created.
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Yup. If I get through this 7 months, I get 6-8 years of job security with reasonable hours again.
You already assured them you don't need to have your time or plans respected or to be treated like a human. I am baffled at the idea they would even imagine an obligation to you.
The correct way to compensate people for unpaid overtime periods is equivalent periods of fewer hours. That's what salary is supposed to mean. You speak as though it is a privilege working "only normal hours."
I've worked where this actually was the attitude, especially the "Yes, boss, anything you say, boss!" expectation, and it is truly a pervasive and debilitating disease. It is wrong beyond words and no one should tolerate it or let their effort support the business and finances of those that maintain it.
It's amazing that it's 2011 and IT people are still afraid to figure out how to implement a sufficiently honest union.
As for the OP, your employer buys your time and effort from you. He asking you to let him buy it with "Wah, but I *really* want to be profitable already!" Head over to GameStop and see how many PS3 games you can get for "My boss wants profitability to be easier."
I would think that that is much more a Catholic doctrine, a religious group whom Puritans thought were more or less satanic.
You've forgotten the actual background: Puritans came from the Church. They thought the Catholics were bad because they were too loose and immoral. So, yes, that can be Catholic and Puritan doctrine, with the Puritans being the absurdly hyperbolic version. They are called Puritans because they wanted to "purify" the church. They were profoundly annoying.
His audience's reaction was atrocious, but I don't fault McCain for that.
I do fault McCain for that. He ran his campaign and he created a clearly sick and destructive level of division against a candidate and party he should have known he was hard up to really defeat. The attitudes he fostered were outright disgraceful, and the fact that he didn't stand up and show some actual balls to stop it, even if at the cost of being elected, even after not being elected (yeah, said some nice things, but nothing that took responsibility for or really called for change with the hate), both leave us in a rather dangerous place and prove that we dodged a bullet on him being elected. His campaign was pathetic and desperate, and I'm concerned how many Americans accepted that from him (ie voted McCain).
Knowing what you can do with shell builtins is also important for when you mess up your linker or a critical library, can't fork, or other situations where you essentially cannot use anything that isn't already running live on the system.
True, but tail will follow several files all at once, showing you which file is adding lines as it switches. (You can of course, take that to less to get searching, but don't forget it's getting accumulated in a buffer...)
Begins? Where have you been the last decade?
Human eugenics is real; we are just doing it really badly.
Then you should encrypt it and not include that password. That kind of thing is too easy to set up nowadays, if you really need that option (most people in history haven't had it, except in leaving instructions and hoping they were followed).
Yeah, what is all this subpoena talk already? Take his computer, boot from a disk or alt drive, make sure his partitions are in the right places, chroot to his system, passwd to set the root and user passwords, then log in as him and see what you can get to. Probably should make copies of things like the history file first, so you can see as much as was there without the browser expiring records when you run it.
After that, you think about asking gmail and such. You ask now and they may close the account before you access it. Remember those accounts are not ours in a propert sense. They exist at the pleasure of the provider and their generaly incredibly loose terms of service (we can do anything and you automatically agree by continuing use).
There are some things which cannot be unseen. I read the background ISV Super Gal, and we are all lessened by it.
I feel unclean.
Use a pay-per-contact or credits based system.
The real problem is that almost every personals site allows people to contact others with no specific investment. That means that there's no reason for someone to actually target their messages, which has the obvious effect of giving women on the site a disproportionate pile of crap to wade through just for using the site.
Subscription-based services are just a waste of money and also a clear conflict of interest for the site operator, since they want you to subscribe rather than to actually send/receive useful messages.
I appreciate the free sites (and OKCupid.com should be your target, not crap sites like Yahoo or Match), but they have exactly the same problem. I can see a credits system that didn't need to be money based, if being free was important, but basically sites need to accept that people really only can send a few useful messages in a day, if not in a week. They need to start being more honest about the search process and helping people find good *likely* people to contact, rather than just putting a little up there and then trying to amuse people with toys and such.
If you want to improve a personals site, you need to improve the experience for women. *Then* information like how much someone replies to messages might be of some use (although pretty easy to falsify if someone wanted to...).
I'd like to appeal to this and every other icon and beautification project. You are very valuable, but please take some effort to give us this one thing: freedom of color. Let the user pick the colors. Really. Make your icons and shadows and such derive from a set of user selected colors, and don't forget to handle the implications of that, especially for example, the difference between light-on-dark and dark-on-light.
I know there are some people already thinking this would never work, that they need to pick an effective color-scheme to have it look nice, but that simply isn't true. Given key colors, you can generate a nice palete for icon drawing which still lets you have distinctive differences and subtle consistencies between icons. You'd probably want two sets of colors, one for generic things (light foreground, background, various accents) and another for topical things (like warning, default, movement...), and then you'd generate your icons from template code that could blend the basic colors to match.
It probably won't be perfect, but it won't be that difficult, and you can do it so that *your* chosen color scheme still comes out perfect, while mine comes out somewhere between nice enough and beautiful, without every user needing to hack up icons or have them look glaringly wrong if they dare to use different colors.
Plus, your icons then become more than a set. They become a pattern that can survive many design changes, and not just be replaced or redone poorly when you aren't around. They become true free software icons.
Please, PLEASE, for heaven's sake, in this and future such discussions could people try to devote AT LEAST as much space in your posts to actual, practical, and concrete ways of FINDING rewarding jobs as they do to describing them. It's like calling starving people in a desert and just talking about how *great* the oasis you are at is. Sure it's nice to know they are out there, and I'm glad you have one, but we're dying out here...
while the term open source isn't explicitly used, I think the intent from article 4 is that open source software is what is desired.
Look again at your own text:That is not "open source". Free as in freedom. I'm impressed you can list EXACTLY the difference between "open source" and "free software" and then say they meant "open source."
I can't think of many hardware devices that force specific software anymore, although the ones that do are REALLY specific hardware devices.
Mayhap you have heard of "Trusted computing"? I wish we had that law already on our books...
So, what... You're claiming that people who live in the country are dumber than people who live in the city?
Doing better than eight random people is, in a way, easier than doing better than eight hundred. The more people, the better the odds someone will clean your clock academically, and the better the odds that problematic social forces will come into play. It's not that country people are dumber, rather it's that you can get higher spots while being statistically less above average.
In other words, as the pool grows, it becomes nigh impossible for "moderately above average" to come out anywhere but moderately above average. The smaller the pool, the less uniform the result. "Relative ease" => "It could happen"
Naturally, you also run risks that you will be in the bottom 10%, because you have a particularly bright eight people in your class. Given that most consider themselves above average (and their children prodigal), we can understand how they will see that throw of the dice.
It's a shame people are always jumping at the "You think you're better than me" bit. Honest truth is, rural people have less experience with the world at large. That doesn't mean ANYTHING EVEN RESEMBLING that they are dumber, or even that they are less knowledgeable, but it does matter when dealing with the world at large.
I wouldn't want someone who only knows gay people from what his church tells him and watching "Will & Grace" to make decisions about gay people any more than that person would want me making decisions about what to plant based on what my grocer says is in season and watching "Green Acres".
I have never understood why Americans simply can't accept inexperience. Even having been one my whole life.
You actually take grass for granted (note: When I went to college, people were surprised at how I would cut across a grassy area without even thinking about it--apparently grass was respected if it was next to a sidewalk).
Actually, this is the opposite of what you seem to think. Being rural, you miss that if people all walk on the grass, it won't be there anymore. Instead you'll just have a continually widening* dirt/mud path. Smart places put the sidewalks as close to the natural path lines as they can, and people that want to have grass around respect the need to cooperate in not beating it down. Yeah, sometimes it costs a few seconds.
What you are really taking for granted is the slight harm walking does to the grass. It doesn't matter when it's infrequent, but that doesn't scale very far.
The function of paved sidewalks/paths is to protect grass and keep people out of mud.
* Widening because people edge the bare dirt when the ground is damp, which is harder still on the grass.
(No, I don't really know why I'm pointing this out.)
By posting here & now you're letting us know your opinion. We read it because we're interested in comparing your views to ours, learning something you know that we don't.
Yeah, that's pretty accurate for a statement made in a topical group discussion... "Blogging" is more like when someone pukes and goes, "Hey look, a carrot."
Web journals are the single most depressing thing to come of the Interent.
I've often wished I could go somewhere that hasn't committed so thoroughly to so many mistakes as the industry here, and help them not just avoid pitfalls but catch some of the real gems that got passed over or are struggling to keep up from political dynamics rather than quality/functionality. How would one go about getting in on this Brazil thing? Are there any grad schools where one could go and maybe slide from the degree into mentoring positions? Is there opportunity with just a BA and experience, aside from independently blazing the trail as a consultant?
(and the subject was facetious, really)
IF I steal your CD, you no longer have it. I've deprived you of the use of your property. If I copy your CD without your permission, YOU STILL HAVE IT. You've been deprived of *nothing*, except the highly speculative "loss" a sale (which presumes that I would have paid your asking price in the first place, and that I won't buy a "legitimate" copy later)
Look, the copyright is the RIGHT TO CONTROL COPYING. Do you understand that? THAT is what the copyright holder owns. That authority is government granted property which can be used, discarded, transferred, and yes STOLEN. When you copy that CD, you STEAL the holder's right to control copies. S/he NO LONGER HAS THAT AUTHORITY/RIGHT when copies are made without permission. S/he HAS been deprived of something. You have stolen something: it was not not yours, and the owner no longer has use of it. Of course copying doesn't steal the original--but the original is not the property in intellectual property (neither is the idea the property with a patent). The property is the authority. Deal with it, especially if you want to be heard.
None of this is in support of what copyright or other branches of intellectual property have become, which I do find offensive and simply wrong, but in an effort to stamp out the stupid things people emit when this comes up.
(Your understanding of fair use is also completely mistaken, but I'll let someone else field that.)
You left off The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women -- not that that one has any teeth anyway, but again we are in pretty sad company.
It takes 3 simultaneous ingredients to make it work, and having all their production and injection systems arise simultaneously by chance seems to be highly unlikely.
You have overly limited your thinking. I would suppose, rather than your explanation, that some kind of explosive system evolved first (defensive advantage==more survival) and then further developed into a more reliable system (fewer misfires==more survival) by further separating needed chemicals and their systems.
Nothing just suddenly/simultaneously appears, on an evolutionary scale.
I am amazed this subthread grew so much. EVERYONE thinks they are smarter than average. The career may help provide convenient rationalizations, but that's the only real correlation. The only useful thing I know about people judging their own intelligence is this irony: the smartest people don't think they are that smart.
I'll try to elaborate his answer a little. Notice that he cited Perl as proof against one-tool-one-job. For him, 1T1J was AWK, sed, grep, and the other laser-like utilities. As complexity increased they were needed more at hand and grew into 1T1J Perl/Ruby/Whatever scripts. So the philosophy lives on, but our jobs have a much broader variety of complexity (the "one tool" might be a bit of awk/sed (probably via Perl, the standard library of modern-day shell scripting) -- or it might be a RDBMS). It's very different from the 1T1J era he lived/created.