I personally feel that shipping her over to the State Department was overkill, but obviously that is not your opinion.
I see it as an expensive attempt to cover up nepotism which demonstrates contempt for the State department and for the taxpayers funding it. We are drifting off topic here. I gave an example. See it as the example and let's not have a thought exercise of the best way to hide nepotism at the sort of level where a girlfriend is being paid more than the one of the leaders of a nation while the job she is doing does not normally come with anything remotely in that pay bracket.
Fire her because her boyfriend got a job?
Not the issue since you've got it in the wrong order. She was not being paid more than Rice before the relationship.
So you can code better than Adele Goldberg and Radia Perlman? You must be pretty hot shit. Or maybe you are just a piece of shit pretending to be better than half the population. Got anything to say about people from different races why we are at it?
with 2 or 3 layers of bureaucracy between them, so it is not like he is doing performance reports or salary decisions on her
So you would be happy to give a poor performance review to the girlfriend of your bosses boss when you know the guy acts like slightly tamed gangster? Come on now, I know you were not born yesterday and can clearly see that there is a conflict of interest.
However my point is he shuffled her off the the State Department to try to make it look as if she got the job on merit - which backfired because she didn't actually do any work there but instead got paid far more than the person running the State Department. So it's an example of Rice getting screwed over and not being allowed to have full control of the State Department.
I suggest you google that name to get the story. She was parked in the State Department for some time, but Rice was not allowed to do anything other than pay her very high salary. That's a good example of a lack of control and in fact utter contempt of her leadership IMHO. It makes me think that Rice was not really allowed to be properly in charge of the State Department when people like Wolfowitz could do that to her department.
Put yourself in that position - how would you feel about having to pay for an extra employee (who earns more than you) out of your budget but you are not allowed to issue them with tasks? Wouldn't you see it as a situation where you are being treated with contempt?
You haven't proven that the girls produce code that's just as good
I don't have to do I? All I had to do is show the metrics that HR people use didn't I? That's all they have to go on to sort good coders from bad.
Could be discrimination - girls lose productivity by getting pregnant
Bingo. For some reason IT lagged the other technical fields that way and it has become entrenched. As I wrote above, I saw more women in heavy engineering than I'm seeing coding in nice airconditioned office environments. So what is it that makes coding somehow more manly than designing and implementing (on site) underground mining ventilation or deciding how to keep the roof up in parts of a mine? I don't expect an answer - it's just an illustration of how stupid the "girls are not suited to that sort of office work" view is. I'd like to be able to go to an IT conference where there is at least one woman in the room, and preferably something approaching the number of women that were in classes of mechanical engineering subjects that I was running 13 years ago when people were complaining about the low number of women in engineering. I can not see how the far lower ratio in IT can be excused - it's clearly a simple case of women getting excluded from the profession.
you can easily find software on Windows that doesn't lend itself to automation, but you can still generally make things work with the right effort.
Which is why you need more support staff whenever changes are needed. I've been setting up a Win7 environment for very trivial use in the hours since my last post which has reminded me how much pointless waiting is involved. 152 more updates to go! I could just about install freebsd with libreoffice compiled from the ports collection (instead of just downloading binary packages) in the same time frame.
If you can't see the types that desire an authoritarian government then you were born yesterday. As a clue they normally call it "strong", and then with a few questions and a bit of digging you find out it's full on pre-Magna Carta style monarchy they are asking for.
Well if your strawman software is quite recent and is dotnet stuff it will probably run under mono without even needing WINE at all. Funny thing is I had to do a horrible hack of running an old AutoCAD light under WINE on a linux box being accessed from Win7 via X because the thing would just not run on Win7 and the user hates the more recent AutoCAD GUI. So my strawman MS Windows program runs better on linux. However it could have been fixed by running an XP virtual machine (the user didn't like that idea), just as with your suggestion the difficult software could run that way on top of linux - if it was a real example that is. WINE sometimes will not work at all, but when it does speed is not an issue so your example sounds very unlikely.
Now you probably were just using a weasel hint to try to get to a different issue - what if you can't run an important bit of stuff on linux. The blatantly obvious answer is you run it on whatever works - however that situation shouldn't be very common.
Remember that OpenOffice and Libre Office are not 100% compatible with Microsoft Office.
Neither is each successive version of MS Office:( There's a good reason why large businesses running MS Office stay on an antiquated version for a long time and then suddenly upgrade the lot in one hit. It's the only way to avoid the annoying compatibility problems you get with a mixed version environment of MS Office.
Then I will pity you and will direct you to desktop publishing software that has been around since the Mac was young. Even an Atari ST emulator running Calamus will give better results since it's the right tool for the job and not a word processor pushed beyond it's design limits.
Linux and *nix in general is pretty damn easy to manage so long as you don't have 1000 special snowflakes. There's usually not the drama of having one bit of paid for software on one machine and not others, only one that works with the scanner and OCR software etc - just bung everything you think people will need on the lot. A bonus to that approach is when hardware dies there isn't much that has to be done to get a user going again, and hardware upgrades are easy enough to afford do it more often than MS Windows shops (which then provides old machines for spares). As part of my job I manage a couple of dozen desktop machines and around 60 cluster nodes and various servers - on MS Windows that workload would be full time for several people. In a scripted environment or with tools like puppet there's not much more work involved in supporting 50 similar machines than one.
No, I'm describing people that are so confused that they call themselves libertarian and would like to see Koch become a benevolent King. There are a lot of people that apply that label to themselves no matter what their political views actually are. Is my point clear enough yet? I suggest a bit more effort at understanding what is written before rolling out the insults - "learn", "be educated", "damage to society" - how childish. It appears you have not yet graduated to "damage society" yet while I've being doing it for decades and even educated a new generation of engineers to "damage society" in the late 1990s.
He doesn't seem to be aware of some of the stuff being done in neuroscience, nanotechnology, and structural biology, to name a few.
He's just ignoring them since they don't fit his agenda of it all being over in 1993.
From wikipedia:
Nobel laureate Phil Anderson wrote in 1999 "The reason that Horgan's pessimism is so wrong lies in the nature of science itself. Whenever a question receives an answer, science moves on and asks a new kind of question, of which there seem to be an endless supply."
This idiot journalist has been peddling this line of bullshit since 1993 and take a look at what progress there has been in science since then. As for nothing to discover - we don't even really know for sure why we sleep and how we think. We know what gravity does but not why, which suggests interesting implications if we can work out how to manipulate it. There seems to be a hell of a lot of matter out there that has mass but we can't see it. The list is long.
Tell me then - how do the people hiring spot the "IT baller" and how do the girls with the same training and experience and equivalent marks as the boys not become "IT ballers"? Please try to base your answer on something related to reality in some way. Don't be put off too much by the situation where the average engineering graduate is going to be looking down on the best "IT baller" and the staff even more so. If the boys coming out of IT are so fucking special then what's wrong with the girls that produce code that's just as good?
You don't get it - they turned an ultimate threat into somebody you share living space with and trust not to kill you in your sleep. Serious plot fuckup. Putting your baby in the tiger cage to play with the pretty cats level serious plot fuckup.
Rumsfeld's belief in the US military's "transformation" that took place under his watch
He did that all right - twice. He wanted braindead "warriors" instead of professional solders. I wonder if the military has recovered from Rumsfeld yet?
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I see it as an expensive attempt to cover up nepotism which demonstrates contempt for the State department and for the taxpayers funding it.
We are drifting off topic here. I gave an example. See it as the example and let's not have a thought exercise of the best way to hide nepotism at the sort of level where a girlfriend is being paid more than the one of the leaders of a nation while the job she is doing does not normally come with anything remotely in that pay bracket.
Not the issue since you've got it in the wrong order. She was not being paid more than Rice before the relationship.
You asked for girls that could code better than you so how is that a strawman? It's simply an answer to an incredibly stupid statement.
So you can code better than Adele Goldberg and Radia Perlman? You must be pretty hot shit. Or maybe you are just a piece of shit pretending to be better than half the population. Got anything to say about people from different races why we are at it?
Once again, more support staff are required.
105 updates to go with the example running now.
Before you chimed in looking for another argument with me we were discussing hiring.
So you would be happy to give a poor performance review to the girlfriend of your bosses boss when you know the guy acts like slightly tamed gangster? Come on now, I know you were not born yesterday and can clearly see that there is a conflict of interest.
However my point is he shuffled her off the the State Department to try to make it look as if she got the job on merit - which backfired because she didn't actually do any work there but instead got paid far more than the person running the State Department. So it's an example of Rice getting screwed over and not being allowed to have full control of the State Department.
I suggest you google that name to get the story. She was parked in the State Department for some time, but Rice was not allowed to do anything other than pay her very high salary. That's a good example of a lack of control and in fact utter contempt of her leadership IMHO. It makes me think that Rice was not really allowed to be properly in charge of the State Department when people like Wolfowitz could do that to her department.
Put yourself in that position - how would you feel about having to pay for an extra employee (who earns more than you) out of your budget but you are not allowed to issue them with tasks? Wouldn't you see it as a situation where you are being treated with contempt?
I don't have to do I? All I had to do is show the metrics that HR people use didn't I? That's all they have to go on to sort good coders from bad.
Bingo.
For some reason IT lagged the other technical fields that way and it has become entrenched. As I wrote above, I saw more women in heavy engineering than I'm seeing coding in nice airconditioned office environments. So what is it that makes coding somehow more manly than designing and implementing (on site) underground mining ventilation or deciding how to keep the roof up in parts of a mine? I don't expect an answer - it's just an illustration of how stupid the "girls are not suited to that sort of office work" view is. I'd like to be able to go to an IT conference where there is at least one woman in the room, and preferably something approaching the number of women that were in classes of mechanical engineering subjects that I was running 13 years ago when people were complaining about the low number of women in engineering. I can not see how the far lower ratio in IT can be excused - it's clearly a simple case of women getting excluded from the profession.
Which is why you need more support staff whenever changes are needed.
I've been setting up a Win7 environment for very trivial use in the hours since my last post which has reminded me how much pointless waiting is involved. 152 more updates to go! I could just about install freebsd with libreoffice compiled from the ports collection (instead of just downloading binary packages) in the same time frame.
So? The other places also have their "key demographic".
Intriguing 'print only'? That's no good - if anything calls for a killer app this does.
If you can't see the types that desire an authoritarian government then you were born yesterday. As a clue they normally call it "strong", and then with a few questions and a bit of digging you find out it's full on pre-Magna Carta style monarchy they are asking for.
Well if your strawman software is quite recent and is dotnet stuff it will probably run under mono without even needing WINE at all.
Funny thing is I had to do a horrible hack of running an old AutoCAD light under WINE on a linux box being accessed from Win7 via X because the thing would just not run on Win7 and the user hates the more recent AutoCAD GUI. So my strawman MS Windows program runs better on linux. However it could have been fixed by running an XP virtual machine (the user didn't like that idea), just as with your suggestion the difficult software could run that way on top of linux - if it was a real example that is. WINE sometimes will not work at all, but when it does speed is not an issue so your example sounds very unlikely.
Now you probably were just using a weasel hint to try to get to a different issue - what if you can't run an important bit of stuff on linux. The blatantly obvious answer is you run it on whatever works - however that situation shouldn't be very common.
Neither is each successive version of MS Office :(
There's a good reason why large businesses running MS Office stay on an antiquated version for a long time and then suddenly upgrade the lot in one hit. It's the only way to avoid the annoying compatibility problems you get with a mixed version environment of MS Office.
Then I will pity you and will direct you to desktop publishing software that has been around since the Mac was young. Even an Atari ST emulator running Calamus will give better results since it's the right tool for the job and not a word processor pushed beyond it's design limits.
Epic fail for a touch + menu interface.
You can use the "file explorer" GUI from another environment if you wish so there's nothing to stop you putting a menu item for konqueror on there.
Linux and *nix in general is pretty damn easy to manage so long as you don't have 1000 special snowflakes. There's usually not the drama of having one bit of paid for software on one machine and not others, only one that works with the scanner and OCR software etc - just bung everything you think people will need on the lot. A bonus to that approach is when hardware dies there isn't much that has to be done to get a user going again, and hardware upgrades are easy enough to afford do it more often than MS Windows shops (which then provides old machines for spares).
As part of my job I manage a couple of dozen desktop machines and around 60 cluster nodes and various servers - on MS Windows that workload would be full time for several people.
In a scripted environment or with tools like puppet there's not much more work involved in supporting 50 similar machines than one.
No, I'm describing people that are so confused that they call themselves libertarian and would like to see Koch become a benevolent King. There are a lot of people that apply that label to themselves no matter what their political views actually are. Is my point clear enough yet?
I suggest a bit more effort at understanding what is written before rolling out the insults - "learn", "be educated", "damage to society" - how childish. It appears you have not yet graduated to "damage society" yet while I've being doing it for decades and even educated a new generation of engineers to "damage society" in the late 1990s.
He's just ignoring them since they don't fit his agenda of it all being over in 1993.
From wikipedia:
This idiot journalist has been peddling this line of bullshit since 1993 and take a look at what progress there has been in science since then.
As for nothing to discover - we don't even really know for sure why we sleep and how we think. We know what gravity does but not why, which suggests interesting implications if we can work out how to manipulate it. There seems to be a hell of a lot of matter out there that has mass but we can't see it. The list is long.
Tell me then - how do the people hiring spot the "IT baller" and how do the girls with the same training and experience and equivalent marks as the boys not become "IT ballers"? Please try to base your answer on something related to reality in some way.
Don't be put off too much by the situation where the average engineering graduate is going to be looking down on the best "IT baller" and the staff even more so. If the boys coming out of IT are so fucking special then what's wrong with the girls that produce code that's just as good?
You don't get it - they turned an ultimate threat into somebody you share living space with and trust not to kill you in your sleep. Serious plot fuckup. Putting your baby in the tiger cage to play with the pretty cats level serious plot fuckup.
The only difference is you would be joining in to ask for them to step down as well.
He did that all right - twice. He wanted braindead "warriors" instead of professional solders. I wonder if the military has recovered from Rumsfeld yet?