I think you missed the point. It was just an early acknowledgement that we weren't a Christian nation.
But neither is it an acknowledgement that the US is an anti-christian nation. Nowhere in there did it say that Supreme Court judges could not be Christian. So let's get back to the topic please.
It's the Slashdot ethic. You're allowed to be an asshole in reaction to other assholes.
This guy could have sent a note to Fuddruckers telling them to stop. He could have changed the URL and broken their links. He could even have redirected them back to themselves. Instead he decided to be an asshole. Thus the presence of the story on Slashdot.
Funny. Everywhere else on Slashdot people bitch about the Microsoft monopoly. Yet the continuing entrenchement of the NVidia monopoly almost seems to be encouraged by Free Software users.
So what country are you from, that it's an anarchist's utopia? I suspect that even in your earthly paradise, there are laws against slander, libel and perjury, and possibly against insider trading and false advertising as well. All of these acts involve speech. And all are illegal in most nations.
Virtually every Unix window manager and desktop supports window groups. Like OSX or BeOS, though, you don't have an immediately obvious control to do it with.
I don't know why you would want to tile or cascade fifteen webpages, but if all you want to do is "open two webpages side by side, inside the main browser window, to compare them line by line," then Konqueror will do that for you. And a lot more. Of course, this means you won't be able to use Windows...
The traditional MDI interface is a major pain in the butt, and has been decried by every usability expert who's ever gotten around to mentioning it. Why do you need a mini-dekstop within your desktop?
I live in California. The heart of Silicon Valley to be precise. I commute precisely 1.2 miles to work. That's much much better than my Oregonian friend who commutes 30 miles.
Before you attempt to remove the speck in your Californian neighbor's eye, remove the chip on your Oregonian shoulder first.
Precisely. Would you hire someone without a high school diploma? Of course not! It is absurdly simple for even nine year old girls to get certified, so there's no excuse for not getting one. I've got one (SCSA) and I'm an software engineer and not an administrator!
If someone has experience but no certification for the position they're applying for, I won't to know why. Why have they never bothered getting a certification that their resume implies they could have passed in their sleep?
Maybe I want to run two operating systems on my NEW system! Maybe I didn't sell my old system on eBay. Maybe I didn't give my old system to charity. Maybe I didn't give my old system to the neighbor kid starting college. Maybe I ONLY HAVE ONE SYSTEM!
I've had eight PC systems in my life. The thought that I should still have all of them sitting in my closet gathering dust is absurd.
I don't care if a new system is only fifty bucks! Why waste the fifty bucks when you have fifty gigabytes unused on your harddrive!
WTF? That's just indentured servitude (a form of slavery) in reverse. Instead of the employer demanding work for now pay, it's the employee demanding pay for no work. The freedom of the employer has been replaced with shackles to ex-employees.
Hey everybody! Let's all retire ten years early. Just quit your company, make the old company put up ten years of your old salary in escrow, then get yourself laid off at the new company within a year. Actually, you might be able to retire forty years early after working for four company for only one year each. What a plan!
My current job violates most of the above complaints, but I consider it pretty much a one-in-a-million position.
Yet you haven't held one million positions yet, so you don't really know. Maybe it's more line one-in-twenty, or one-in-a-hundred. I work for a sucky dilbertian employer, but your description of the industry almost my job sound like paradise.
The GPL does not regulate runtime linkage. RMS, the author of the GPL says so. While there may be a dispute over the boundaries of the GPL with regards to dynamic linkage, everyone agrees that runtime linkage is fine.
Sorry, I'm still not following you. A "blog" is an online diary. Therefore online diaries cannot have made it easier for people to post their online diaries. I can only presume you're talking about specific blogging software, instead of blogs themselves.
Yet despite all these stories of individual teachers who are fantastic people, the school system itself remains broken. The system is the problem. The concept of compulsory education with uniform curricula is an very modern concept. On the civilization clock it got invented at approximately 11:45pm. It's a product of the modern welfare/warfare state, invented by Bismark for the purpose of churning out "model" citizens.
You are aware, aren't you, that you are not being forced to home school your own children? You can send your kids to public school until they're age thirty for all I care. But when you start arguing against other people home schooling their OWN children, you're stepping over a line that should not be crossed.
Your resume says you have ten years experience administering Sun enterprise servers and workstations, and that in your last job you were directly responsible for maintaining two hundred Solaris workstations including installation, backups, and patches. Yet not once in those ten years did you ever bother getting an SCSA. Why?
A certification is like a high school diploma. Anybody can get one, but it doesn't mean they are worthless. Would you hire someone who didn't have a high school diploma? For the same reason, it's not unreasonable to expect your sysadmins to be certified.
If the certification is so damned easy to get, then why hasn't this applicant with ten years experience as a sysadmin got one?
p.s. Notice I keep saying "syadmin" and not "programmer." These certificates are meant for systems administration. It is unreasonable to expect a programmer to have a one, but it should be expected for a sysadmin.
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Here's what my company does: they go ask Steve Ballmer. At least it seems that way.
I think you missed the point. It was just an early acknowledgement that we weren't a Christian nation.
But neither is it an acknowledgement that the US is an anti-christian nation. Nowhere in there did it say that Supreme Court judges could not be Christian. So let's get back to the topic please.
...is more cowbell!
It's the Slashdot ethic. You're allowed to be an asshole in reaction to other assholes.
This guy could have sent a note to Fuddruckers telling them to stop. He could have changed the URL and broken their links. He could even have redirected them back to themselves. Instead he decided to be an asshole. Thus the presence of the story on Slashdot.
I always got a kick out of fictional criminal "masterminds" like Moriatry who use their superhuman smarts for crime. Real criminals are idiots.
Funny. Everywhere else on Slashdot people bitch about the Microsoft monopoly. Yet the continuing entrenchement of the NVidia monopoly almost seems to be encouraged by Free Software users.
One question. Will I ever be able to get graphics and graphic performance as good as Windows or OSX without having to use a proprietary driver?
So what country are you from, that it's an anarchist's utopia? I suspect that even in your earthly paradise, there are laws against slander, libel and perjury, and possibly against insider trading and false advertising as well. All of these acts involve speech. And all are illegal in most nations.
Yes, they're atypical. But sufficient evidence that you shouldn't be waving the Oregon flag while condemning all of California.
Virtually every Unix window manager and desktop supports window groups. Like OSX or BeOS, though, you don't have an immediately obvious control to do it with.
I don't know why you would want to tile or cascade fifteen webpages, but if all you want to do is "open two webpages side by side, inside the main browser window, to compare them line by line," then Konqueror will do that for you. And a lot more. Of course, this means you won't be able to use Windows...
The traditional MDI interface is a major pain in the butt, and has been decried by every usability expert who's ever gotten around to mentioning it. Why do you need a mini-dekstop within your desktop?
I live in California. The heart of Silicon Valley to be precise. I commute precisely 1.2 miles to work. That's much much better than my Oregonian friend who commutes 30 miles.
Before you attempt to remove the speck in your Californian neighbor's eye, remove the chip on your Oregonian shoulder first.
Precisely. Would you hire someone without a high school diploma? Of course not! It is absurdly simple for even nine year old girls to get certified, so there's no excuse for not getting one. I've got one (SCSA) and I'm an software engineer and not an administrator!
If someone has experience but no certification for the position they're applying for, I won't to know why. Why have they never bothered getting a certification that their resume implies they could have passed in their sleep?
Tux is the one who smells, due to the simple fact that penguins have noses while blowfish do not. :-)
Maybe I want to run two operating systems on my NEW system! Maybe I didn't sell my old system on eBay. Maybe I didn't give my old system to charity. Maybe I didn't give my old system to the neighbor kid starting college. Maybe I ONLY HAVE ONE SYSTEM!
I've had eight PC systems in my life. The thought that I should still have all of them sitting in my closet gathering dust is absurd.
I don't care if a new system is only fifty bucks! Why waste the fifty bucks when you have fifty gigabytes unused on your harddrive!
WTF? That's just indentured servitude (a form of slavery) in reverse. Instead of the employer demanding work for now pay, it's the employee demanding pay for no work. The freedom of the employer has been replaced with shackles to ex-employees.
Hey everybody! Let's all retire ten years early. Just quit your company, make the old company put up ten years of your old salary in escrow, then get yourself laid off at the new company within a year. Actually, you might be able to retire forty years early after working for four company for only one year each. What a plan!
My current job violates most of the above complaints, but I consider it pretty much a one-in-a-million position.
Yet you haven't held one million positions yet, so you don't really know. Maybe it's more line one-in-twenty, or one-in-a-hundred. I work for a sucky dilbertian employer, but your description of the industry almost my job sound like paradise.
Huh? Just use the GPL!
The GPL does not regulate runtime linkage. RMS, the author of the GPL says so. While there may be a dispute over the boundaries of the GPL with regards to dynamic linkage, everyone agrees that runtime linkage is fine.
A plugin is loaded at runtime. No problem.
Sorry, I'm still not following you. A "blog" is an online diary. Therefore online diaries cannot have made it easier for people to post their online diaries. I can only presume you're talking about specific blogging software, instead of blogs themselves.
blogging is just the second wave of Geocities accounts
All those blogs are Geocities accounts?
Yet despite all these stories of individual teachers who are fantastic people, the school system itself remains broken. The system is the problem. The concept of compulsory education with uniform curricula is an very modern concept. On the civilization clock it got invented at approximately 11:45pm. It's a product of the modern welfare/warfare state, invented by Bismark for the purpose of churning out "model" citizens.
You are aware, aren't you, that you are not being forced to home school your own children? You can send your kids to public school until they're age thirty for all I care. But when you start arguing against other people home schooling their OWN children, you're stepping over a line that should not be crossed.
The lack of creativity in today's vandals is just pitiful.
Not that yesterday's vandals were any less pitiful.
Dear applicant,
Your resume says you have ten years experience administering Sun enterprise servers and workstations, and that in your last job you were directly responsible for maintaining two hundred Solaris workstations including installation, backups, and patches. Yet not once in those ten years did you ever bother getting an SCSA. Why?
Sincerely,
Curious
A certification is like a high school diploma. Anybody can get one, but it doesn't mean they are worthless. Would you hire someone who didn't have a high school diploma? For the same reason, it's not unreasonable to expect your sysadmins to be certified.
If the certification is so damned easy to get, then why hasn't this applicant with ten years experience as a sysadmin got one?
p.s. Notice I keep saying "syadmin" and not "programmer." These certificates are meant for systems administration. It is unreasonable to expect a programmer to have a one, but it should be expected for a sysadmin.