I have not watched much of the show, but I don't much care for shows that
wrap everything up in a neat little box and make people think that all crimes
are solved in an hour, give or take commercials.
How true. IMHO, the best show on television is The Wire on HBO. If you want
a program that avoids the simplistic cops good/crooks bad theme and that
pervades the network pap then this program is for you. Quality acting,
directing, scripting and writing all played out over 12 one-hour (no
commercials) segments--it will leave you counting the days until the next
episode.
We've been hooked on this show since season one and apparently the
critics have begun to
take notice too.
I have never had a problem with my Firefox crashing
(ever).
Yesterday Firefox crashed numerous times on this
page (great show
BTW) after I clicked on a character and then clicked the 'character bio' link.
I got to the page by clicking a link in an email in Outlook 2003. I've had
this happen occasionally while browsing. I can't really compare IE, since
I rarely use it. All in all, I'm pretty satisfied with Firefox--they
probably just need to clean it up a bit.
In all seriousness I don't understand why Mozilla hasn't taken over the
browser market already.
I am absolutely in love with Firefox and I use it almost exclusively, but I'm
sitting here looking at slashdot and parts of the stories overlap the menus on
the left. Not so in IE. If you want to see a *really* egregious
example of this, go to liquidations.com.
Now I don't know a thing about why this is (if there is some adjustment that
I can make to fix it, I'd love to know), but if that happens with slashdot--which
is ALL ABOUT open source--what do we expect?
I'd love to see a return to applications that were under 100K
No kidding. I'm not a programmer, but
this guy writes little helpful applications in assembly that are like 20K.
In this day and age, I'm impressed when anyone writes anything that can just fit
on one CD-ROM.
Now that was a rant worth the time and effort it took to produce. Way to slice through the b.s.! Many good points, though I'm sure the elitists you skewered won't agree.
but I've never had the desire to have a dual-boot machine. It just seems all the rebooting and so forth is too much trouble. Why not just use two machines and a KVM switch?
I'm with you. Honestly, I can't say that I ever notice ads much less even think about clicking one. As long as there are people out there clicking them and buying stuff to pay my way, I'm all for the ads keeping it free (as in beer).
Unevenly applied management causes this kind of office atmosphere. It's a
rookie move for a manager to apply rules to some and not others. If you are a
manager and you feel like only applying rules to part of your staff, you have to
drop any rule that would have to be applied in this manner.
While I agree with what I believe to be your fundamental point--that
management should always *strive* to be fair--management, when done really well,
is an art that defies having an algorithm put to it.
Certainly I'm not referring to your statement, which seems completely
reasonable, but I have noticed that many/.ers seem to exhibit a condescending
anti-management attitude that implies that it's *so* easy to manage a business
and if they were just consulted, we would have a workplace utopia. They
generally look down on their bosses as being less intelligent, ignoring the
possibility that exceptional managers might not have to be smart in the same way
that programmers or IT folks do--that they might need less pure reasoning
ability and more intuition.
Applying the rules evenly is a great goal to have, but unfortunately, it
cannot always be done. The reason for this is that some employees, like
some managers, refuse to 'play fair,' and continually use the rules to stir up
trouble. I honestly can't say why; maybe they just don't like other people
telling them what to do. You can often hear these employees spouting the
'if I were in charge, things would be different' bellyache characteristic of the
chronic malcontent.
These people are a cancer and will wreck employee morale if left unchecked.
They follow the letter of the law while working feverishly to undermine the
spirit of these same rules. Usually they are rather bright folks and there
is no real way to stop them unless you're willing to deviate from total
impartiality.
I wonder how many of us would allow our own business, that we built up by the
sweat of our brow, to be damaged or ruined by someone with authority issues.
Personally, if it were me, I would get rid of that person, no matter what it
took.
One day I had to remove a head covering, so I spend the next two weeks
loudly pointing out every dress code violation that there was in the office.
That got me a reputation as a 'trouble maker'. I got written up more than any
employee there.
While I will admit that you probably had a point that was valid, I can't
imagine that you endeared yourself to your coworkers and you probably got the
reputation as a 'narc'. In the end, you probably alienated both management
and the people with whom you worked.
I used to have a position of trust working for a large food retailer and one of the managers--who incidently was extremely zealous about prosecuting shoplifters and exbezzlers--regularly deducted OT off of employee time sheets.
When I saw him doing it I made sure to tell him that if I caught him zapping time off of my week, I would happily tell his wife about his on-again, off-again dalliance with one of our co-workers. Needless to say, my check was always right.
I just tried it with Mozilla 1.5 and it worked fine.
I use Firebird (or I guess now they call it Firefox), which may be different.
It's all fine until you go to order or add things to your shopping cart. For instance, when you do a search for a keyword and there are more results than can be displayed on one page, it will not produce a link to the next pages. Also, when you click a link to go to the availability of an item, it does not respond at all.
Look, who has the clout in congress to get the
patent mess cleaned up? Big companies.
The clout in Congress is had by whomever gives the most money. And who
is that? Lawyers
and law firms.
I really don't know about the merits (or lack thereof) of this particular
case, but the sad fact is that without a *major* upheaval in our society, we
will continue down this road of greater and greater amounts of our resources
going to these types efforts that IMHO are no better than mob extortion schemes.
What it comes down to is people placing their own personal wants (greed)
above the good of the community. But what do we expect from a society and
a culture that increasingly makes personal fulfillment its god?
A cousin of mine just graduated from a 3-tier pharmacy school in Oregon, had average grades, and got a job (without inside connections) at a mom-n-pop pharmacy starting at $90,000, plus $5,000 sign-on bonus.
The standard joke goes like this:
Q: What do you call the person who graduates last in their class in pharmacy school?
A: A pharmacist
Having known some of her classmates that have similar jobs, it made me realize that just about anyone could get the job.
That is probably true for a lot of schools, however the one that my wife attended is extremely difficult to get into. Actually, it is more difficult to get into the pharmacy college than the medical school. There are typically 500-750 applications for the 75 or so positions available.
This may have a lot to do with the two things: first, the school in questions has one of the highest rates of students passing their state boards in the country, and second, it's a state school and has reasonable tuition.
The private school to our north is about 16,000/yr and has a much less prestigious program. Basically, if you can come up with the dough, you're in there. And frankly, it scares me that some of my wife's co-workers from that school are in such a life-and-death position.
Slashdot Mirror
I have not watched much of the show, but I don't much care for shows that wrap everything up in a neat little box and make people think that all crimes are solved in an hour, give or take commercials.
How true. IMHO, the best show on television is The Wire on HBO. If you want a program that avoids the simplistic cops good/crooks bad theme and that pervades the network pap then this program is for you. Quality acting, directing, scripting and writing all played out over 12 one-hour (no commercials) segments--it will leave you counting the days until the next episode.
We've been hooked on this show since season one and apparently the critics have begun to take notice too.
Uhmmm...I think that it was supposed to be a joke.
I have never had a problem with my Firefox crashing (ever).
Yesterday Firefox crashed numerous times on this page (great show BTW) after I clicked on a character and then clicked the 'character bio' link. I got to the page by clicking a link in an email in Outlook 2003. I've had this happen occasionally while browsing. I can't really compare IE, since I rarely use it. All in all, I'm pretty satisfied with Firefox--they probably just need to clean it up a bit.
Hmm why's that moderated flamebait? Even if it's a bit inaccurate, I think it's supposed to be a joke.
Well, I certainly meant it to be one. Maybe it hit a little too close to home for someone...
Whereas if someone intentionally copies material and misrepresents it as his/her original, that is plagiarism
Or a Master's Thesis
In all seriousness I don't understand why Mozilla hasn't taken over the browser market already.
I am absolutely in love with Firefox and I use it almost exclusively, but I'm sitting here looking at slashdot and parts of the stories overlap the menus on the left. Not so in IE. If you want to see a *really* egregious example of this, go to liquidations.com.
Now I don't know a thing about why this is (if there is some adjustment that I can make to fix it, I'd love to know), but if that happens with slashdot--which is ALL ABOUT open source--what do we expect?
What is "flash?"
I'd love to see a return to applications that were under 100K
No kidding. I'm not a programmer, but this guy writes little helpful applications in assembly that are like 20K. In this day and age, I'm impressed when anyone writes anything that can just fit on one CD-ROM.
I don't want to meet people who need the web to meet people.
What!!! Just think of all those hot girlz waiting to be invited back to our mothers' basements to see our newest modded gaming pc!
as long as people keep buying via-[g]ra and the p_enis P-a*tch.
Now that was a rant worth the time and effort it took to produce. Way to slice through the b.s.! Many good points, though I'm sure the elitists you skewered won't agree.
Thanks!
but I've never had the desire to have a dual-boot machine. It just seems all the rebooting and so forth is too much trouble. Why not just use two machines and a KVM switch?
I'm with you. Honestly, I can't say that I ever notice ads much less even think about clicking one. As long as there are people out there clicking them and buying stuff to pay my way, I'm all for the ads keeping it free (as in beer).
Unevenly applied management causes this kind of office atmosphere. It's a rookie move for a manager to apply rules to some and not others. If you are a manager and you feel like only applying rules to part of your staff, you have to drop any rule that would have to be applied in this manner.
While I agree with what I believe to be your fundamental point--that management should always *strive* to be fair--management, when done really well, is an art that defies having an algorithm put to it.
Certainly I'm not referring to your statement, which seems completely reasonable, but I have noticed that many /.ers seem to exhibit a condescending
anti-management attitude that implies that it's *so* easy to manage a business
and if they were just consulted, we would have a workplace utopia. They
generally look down on their bosses as being less intelligent, ignoring the
possibility that exceptional managers might not have to be smart in the same way
that programmers or IT folks do--that they might need less pure reasoning
ability and more intuition.
Applying the rules evenly is a great goal to have, but unfortunately, it cannot always be done. The reason for this is that some employees, like some managers, refuse to 'play fair,' and continually use the rules to stir up trouble. I honestly can't say why; maybe they just don't like other people telling them what to do. You can often hear these employees spouting the 'if I were in charge, things would be different' bellyache characteristic of the chronic malcontent.
These people are a cancer and will wreck employee morale if left unchecked. They follow the letter of the law while working feverishly to undermine the spirit of these same rules. Usually they are rather bright folks and there is no real way to stop them unless you're willing to deviate from total impartiality.
I wonder how many of us would allow our own business, that we built up by the sweat of our brow, to be damaged or ruined by someone with authority issues. Personally, if it were me, I would get rid of that person, no matter what it took.
It must be a slow news day! Yawnnnn....
I like the word 'asshat'--it's funny.
One day I had to remove a head covering, so I spend the next two weeks loudly pointing out every dress code violation that there was in the office. That got me a reputation as a 'trouble maker'. I got written up more than any employee there.
While I will admit that you probably had a point that was valid, I can't imagine that you endeared yourself to your coworkers and you probably got the reputation as a 'narc'. In the end, you probably alienated both management and the people with whom you worked.
It should be but what can you do?
I used to have a position of trust working for a large food retailer and one of the managers--who incidently was extremely zealous about prosecuting shoplifters and exbezzlers--regularly deducted OT off of employee time sheets.
When I saw him doing it I made sure to tell him that if I caught him zapping time off of my week, I would happily tell his wife about his on-again, off-again dalliance with one of our co-workers. Needless to say, my check was always right.
Funny thing is that I just checked the devX webpage with this story on it and, of course, there's an ad for Microsoft .Net right next to it.
So much for objectivity.
I just tried it with Mozilla 1.5 and it worked fine.
I use Firebird (or I guess now they call it Firefox), which may be different.
It's all fine until you go to order or add things to your shopping cart. For instance, when you do a search for a keyword and there are more results than can be displayed on one page, it will not produce a link to the next pages. Also, when you click a link to go to the availability of an item, it does not respond at all.
I though that real men don't need no stinkin' licenses.
Look, who has the clout in congress to get the patent mess cleaned up? Big companies.
The clout in Congress is had by whomever gives the most money. And who is that? Lawyers and law firms.
I really don't know about the merits (or lack thereof) of this particular case, but the sad fact is that without a *major* upheaval in our society, we will continue down this road of greater and greater amounts of our resources going to these types efforts that IMHO are no better than mob extortion schemes.
What it comes down to is people placing their own personal wants (greed) above the good of the community. But what do we expect from a society and a culture that increasingly makes personal fulfillment its god?
A cousin of mine just graduated from a 3-tier pharmacy school in Oregon, had average grades, and got a job (without inside connections) at a mom-n-pop pharmacy starting at $90,000, plus $5,000 sign-on bonus.
The standard joke goes like this:
Q: What do you call the person who graduates last in their class in pharmacy school?
A: A pharmacist
Having known some of her classmates that have similar jobs, it made me realize that just about anyone could get the job.
That is probably true for a lot of schools, however the one that my wife attended is extremely difficult to get into. Actually, it is more difficult to get into the pharmacy college than the medical school. There are typically 500-750 applications for the 75 or so positions available.
This may have a lot to do with the two things: first, the school in questions has one of the highest rates of students passing their state boards in the country, and second, it's a state school and has reasonable tuition.
The private school to our north is about 16,000/yr and has a much less prestigious program. Basically, if you can come up with the dough, you're in there. And frankly, it scares me that some of my wife's co-workers from that school are in such a life-and-death position.
The cost of living distorts the average salary figures.
You know...I think that you could be right about that. I wonder if they weighted the survey against cost-of-living indexes...
You're a clever one.