... Does it really cost a business $5000 in losses for a supervisor to spend a day showing a new hire how to work a register, push a broom, and sign in and out for the day?
No, that's the average of what it costs Xerox to train a call center employee on its printer/copiers and normal problems.
Business managers won't talk to you
There's the problem. Less than 2% of jobs are found by posting resumes to job boards. It's probably the same for posting to company websites. He has to get to know people who make the hiring decisions. Try smaller companies, figure out what their problems are, and how to solve them. He needs to approach hiring managers as a solution, not a job seeker. (just another problem)
Ideally, you want to find your niche in the world where you can be most happy. Getting more responsibility than optimal is a bad thing, leading to stress and early death. Check out long term prospects of lottery winners to see what too much money will do to you.
A steady income stream, with no chance of promotion may or may not be exactly what someone needs to be most happy.
"b" wasn't 'empty' (ie she felt there was something physically moved from "b" into "a", leaving "b" empty). The idea that "b" would continue to have the same value after the value in the variable is stored somewhere else just didn't compute (if you can excuse the pun)...
There was a recent article on this. (but I can't remember where)
Turns out, assignment is the area of programming that gives beginning students the most trouble. Part of that is the language. i.e.
If ( a = b ) then b = c
is completely non-intuitive (and produces different results in different languages)
IMHO, using a = b for assignment is completely non-sensical. APL is somewhat better, something like B
A proper language would have a copy operator, not assignment. If it had a move operator, you'd have to define what happens to the original variable after the move.
Quick! Rename all the files f1, f2, f3 etc, rename all the variables i1, i2, i3, etc and remove all whitespace.
Keep a translation sheet on you at all times. Suddenly, you're irreplaceable.
(:-) for the humor impaired. This is actually a riff on a joke from WKRP, when an engineer said he was replacing all the color-coded wiring with black wires for job security. (B.t.w. the engineer was played by one of the writers of the show)
The man is a serial entrepreneur and he started out selling budgies and Christmas trees. If we had ten of him, the world would be a better place.
If there were ten of him the clones would spend all their time competing with each other, and get nothing done. He's Sir Richard Branson because he's slightly better than those other 9 guys.
Imagine 2 football teams filled with clones of David Beckham. The score, if any, would always be tied.
If the control group is made of up of the same strain of rats, then the findings are significant. Very significant.
Maybe. Caloric restriction is a good way to keep rats from getting cancer and heart disease. If the non-GM corn doesn't taste as good to a rat as the GM corn, extra calories could explain the extra tumors.
The goal of the judge was clear: if any juror refused to make this affirmation, that person would be ejected immediately; if any LIED to him and then later tried to nullify, he would slap them with contempt of court at the least...
Yep. On the one federal jury I was call for, the Judge's instructions were that the Judge would tell us what the law was, we weren't to use what we knew or learned. Seriously, as far as the jury was concerned, the constitution, congress and the senate were irrelevant, the law is what the Judge said it was.
That's the way it is, the Jury decides facts, the Judge decides law. If the Judge makes a mistake, the defendant can appeal. In this system, the Jury *can't* make a mistake. (except for jury tampering/fraud)
W.r.t Jury Nullification. Just because we revolted from England for reason "X", doesn't mean the current rulers will consider reason "X".
B.t.w. It's very hard to convict a juror of contempt, as long as they say nothing but, "I didn't think the prosecutor made his case"
The UK may have 16.9 million 'unused' IPv4 addresses but according to the department that owns them, they're not for sale.
Of course they're not for sale, no one in the department would get any benefit from selling them, and it would be more work if they did. Once the lobbyists get wind of this, someone higher up will get a campaign donation, and the block could be sold.
As someone who has hired over 50 programmers in his career I don't need a theory to tell me it doesn't work, experince tells me it does work. If you're not smart enough to get past the HR filter, why the hell would I want to interview you?
The problem for many of us is we want our resume to be truthful.
Nobody is asking you to lie, they're asking you to jump through a hoop.
While getting past HR filters and hoop jumping might be relevant to the positions you need filled, where I work, it's just a barrier to getting good people. But, if you've got a great HR department, they will actively find you good people, even raiding your competetors.
Have you tested your HR filter? Would *you* be interviewed.
At one former company I worked for, we gave HR a complete description of the job, using their template. When we saw the job posting in the local newspaper (that's how long ago this was) it was almost, but not completely, different from what we wanted.
When I needed my first job out of college, I sent a resume to a local company that wrote software. The hiring manger called me and said "I want to hire you". The reason? I had real experience on my resume that might have been "hobby", but I had sold it, and it was relevant to the position the company needed filled.
None of my software businesses before graduating actually made a profit, but I hadn't gone bankrupt either. Still, it was good experience.
The key is talking to the actual hiring manager. Recruitment agencies have no idea what the job really needs, so, all they can go on is what HR told them. Find some hiring mangers at the company you want to work for, and talk to them.
You can't go around trademarking terms already widely in use. It doesn't matter that it's not a copyright. It just means this guy should have his trademark challenged.
AFAIK, you can pay your money to the USPTO, and they *might* issue a trademark, but it's up to you to sue and prove that you should have the trademark and should receive damages. So, yes, he might have a trademark on "Carnival of Souls", but he's unlikely to get any money for it.*
*Unless he's the Disney corporation. They get most anything they want regards trademark and copyright.
Scheherazade figured this out N-thousand years ago. The key is to never finish. Start the next project before the current one is completed. Always keep several projects in a state of "working incompleteness". See also, the BOFH.
So when will someone write a Firefox plugin to automatically answer these surveys? Of course, you shouldn't answer any survey with what you are, alway answer with what you want to be. That way it's apsirational.
I guess it would depend on the temperature/pressure/bore hole material. Would some magma burp up, cool, and reseal the hole after destroying the drill bit, or would it blow to the surface and destroy the drilling rig, and continue flowing for days or weeks? Perhaps you could drill almost to the magna, then use an explosive to break the seal.
If a flow could be established, the pressure would eventually go down, and the hole would tend to melt itself bigger. That might cause earthquakes in itself.
Crazy plan #2, Drill a hole not to the existing magma, but to intersect with the path it would take to the surface. Then when it's about to blow, it would come out your hole in a more controlled manner.
Conspiracy theorists tend to be middle-aged, majority, males, with a sense of powerlessness. The conspiracy tends to give them a sense that they, alone, know the truth. It's an obsession, and they tend to wrap their own self-worth in their "knowledge". Since they have no other purpose for existing, they can't be persuaded otherwise. (Until another, better, conspiracy comes along)
Personally, I find gardening much, much, more fulfilling than most conspiracies, but I do like to make up a good one now and then.
I had a can of Mellow Yellow that didn't get a pull tab installed, so I kept it as an conversation piece. It got left on it's side for a few years, and the contents ate through the aluminum lid. I think the sides of the can were coated, but not the top. Most can machines keep their cans on the side, so they won't last more than a decade or so if not refridgerated.
The real world isn't frictionless. I'm bound by gravity, inertia and friction.
My understanding of what economists call a "Free Market", is that it's free of government control. (A large company that holds a monopoly is a de facto government)
Finding a economic friction point, applying work to overcome that friction, and making a profit all would seem to be consistent with "Free Market" philosophies.
Abuse of the patent system, while wasteful, is beyond simple friction. It is, daresay, Evil.
It's a "self evident" right, because without that clause in the constitution, authors and inventors wouldn't have "exclusive" rights at all. The default state is everyone can use an invention or writing. Then, a clause was added to the constitution that gives congress the power to make copyright and patent law. Congress then is supposed to make a limited law that promotes the Arts and Sciences. They're not suppose to make a law to maximize a company's profits or control of creative works, they're suppose to promote progress.
I'm sure the framers of the constitution considered it "self evident" that after you bought a book, you could read it, without specific permission from the author, even if he had "exclusive" rights. You could even talk about the book to a friend, and even point out a passage, all without permission. They expected congress to be reasonable when writing copyright law. (That may have been wishful thinking on their part)
The main "self evident" rights, Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness are only hinted at in the constitution, they're not supposed to be enumerated nor is the constituion suppose to list all your rights. You have rights not written down anywhere.
The problem with your argument is that fair use is not a right.
I think that this would fall under those "self-evident" rights. You start with rights to use everything, then the constituion gives rights to writers and inventors to their works and inventions, for a limited time. (Real property rights are left to the states, except that the government can't take things from you without paying for them)
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
If it is an essential item such as food, clothing, housing, healthcare, prescription drugs, or energy, then dynamic pricing should be prohibited, and everyone should pay the same price.
I've lived places where the biggest users of electricity get a discount, because they only get one bill, use fewer/shorter lines, etc. I've also lived where the biggest users are charged a premium, so that the electric company doesn't have to add another generating plant.
Things are priced what people are willing to pay +/- 3dB. If something costs too much, people will go elsewhere or without. If things are priced too low, people will buy it and resell it. If you fix the price of rental housing, some people will pay that price, then sublet to someone else.
Most of business is altering the perceived value of items so that some people will pay more. Evil is limiting the availability of the low cost option, so that people will have to pay more. i.e. If you own the water company and you poison the stream that goes by someone's property, you are evil.
What Google is doing will drive the creation of dozens of startup businesses, all aimed at gaming the Google system.
So, what you're saying, it's good for the enconomy? (:-)
Seriously, the Airlines already do this, and there's good money to be made writing articles and books telling people how to get around it, and several websites that "help" people get the best deals. Then the airline buy off the sites, and prices go up. Then new sites get created, and new books written. Rinse, lather, repeat.
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... Does it really cost a business $5000 in losses for a supervisor to spend a day showing a new hire how to work a register, push a broom, and sign in and out for the day?
No, that's the average of what it costs Xerox to train a call center employee on its printer/copiers and normal problems.
Business managers won't talk to you
There's the problem. Less than 2% of jobs are found by posting resumes to job boards. It's probably the same for posting to company websites. He has to get to know people who make the hiring decisions. Try smaller companies, figure out what their problems are, and how to solve them. He needs to approach hiring managers as a solution, not a job seeker. (just another problem)
Unpromotable is not necessarily a bad thing, i.e. The Peter Principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Ideally, you want to find your niche in the world where you can be most happy. Getting more responsibility than optimal is a bad thing, leading to stress and early death. Check out long term prospects of lottery winners to see what too much money will do to you.
A steady income stream, with no chance of promotion may or may not be exactly what someone needs to be most happy.
a = b;
"b" wasn't 'empty' (ie she felt there was something physically moved from "b" into "a", leaving "b" empty). The idea that "b" would continue to have the same value after the value in the variable is stored somewhere else just didn't compute (if you can excuse the pun)...
There was a recent article on this. (but I can't remember where) Turns out, assignment is the area of programming that gives beginning students the most trouble. Part of that is the language. i.e.
If ( a = b ) then b = c
is completely non-intuitive (and produces different results in different languages)
IMHO, using a = b for assignment is completely non-sensical. APL is somewhat better, something like B
A proper language would have a copy operator, not assignment. If it had a move operator, you'd have to define what happens to the original variable after the move.
Quick! Rename all the files f1, f2, f3 etc, rename all the variables i1, i2, i3, etc and remove all whitespace.
Keep a translation sheet on you at all times. Suddenly, you're irreplaceable.
(:-) for the humor impaired. This is actually a riff on a joke from WKRP, when an engineer said he was replacing all the color-coded wiring with black wires for job security. (B.t.w. the engineer was played by one of the writers of the show)
The man is a serial entrepreneur and he started out selling budgies and Christmas trees. If we had ten of him, the world would be a better place.
If there were ten of him the clones would spend all their time competing with each other, and get nothing done. He's Sir Richard Branson because he's slightly better than those other 9 guys.
Imagine 2 football teams filled with clones of David Beckham. The score, if any, would always be tied.
If the control group is made of up of the same strain of rats, then the findings are significant. Very significant.
Maybe. Caloric restriction is a good way to keep rats from getting cancer and heart disease. If the non-GM corn doesn't taste as good to a rat as the GM corn, extra calories could explain the extra tumors.
...and in general are poor at anything but offense.
And spying, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells
The goal of the judge was clear: if any juror refused to make this affirmation, that person would be ejected immediately; if any LIED to him and then later tried to nullify, he would slap them with contempt of court at the least. ..
Yep. On the one federal jury I was call for, the Judge's instructions were that the Judge would tell us what the law was, we weren't to use what we knew or learned. Seriously, as far as the jury was concerned, the constitution, congress and the senate were irrelevant, the law is what the Judge said it was.
That's the way it is, the Jury decides facts, the Judge decides law. If the Judge makes a mistake, the defendant can appeal. In this system, the Jury *can't* make a mistake. (except for jury tampering/fraud)
W.r.t Jury Nullification. Just because we revolted from England for reason "X", doesn't mean the current rulers will consider reason "X".
B.t.w. It's very hard to convict a juror of contempt, as long as they say nothing but, "I didn't think the prosecutor made his case"
The UK may have 16.9 million 'unused' IPv4 addresses but according to the department that owns them, they're not for sale.
Of course they're not for sale, no one in the department would get any benefit from selling them, and it would be more work if they did. Once the lobbyists get wind of this, someone higher up will get a campaign donation, and the block could be sold.
My theory is it doesn't work.
As someone who has hired over 50 programmers in his career I don't need a theory to tell me it doesn't work, experince tells me it does work. If you're not smart enough to get past the HR filter, why the hell would I want to interview you?
The problem for many of us is we want our resume to be truthful.
Nobody is asking you to lie, they're asking you to jump through a hoop.
While getting past HR filters and hoop jumping might be relevant to the positions you need filled, where I work, it's just a barrier to getting good people. But, if you've got a great HR department, they will actively find you good people, even raiding your competetors.
Have you tested your HR filter? Would *you* be interviewed.
At one former company I worked for, we gave HR a complete description of the job, using their template. When we saw the job posting in the local newspaper (that's how long ago this was) it was almost, but not completely, different from what we wanted.
When I needed my first job out of college, I sent a resume to a local company that wrote software. The hiring manger called me and said "I want to hire you". The reason? I had real experience on my resume that might have been "hobby", but I had sold it, and it was relevant to the position the company needed filled.
None of my software businesses before graduating actually made a profit, but I hadn't gone bankrupt either. Still, it was good experience.
The key is talking to the actual hiring manager. Recruitment agencies have no idea what the job really needs, so, all they can go on is what HR told them. Find some hiring mangers at the company you want to work for, and talk to them.
You can't go around trademarking terms already widely in use. It doesn't matter that it's not a copyright. It just means this guy should have his trademark challenged.
AFAIK, you can pay your money to the USPTO, and they *might* issue a trademark, but it's up to you to sue and prove that you should have the trademark and should receive damages. So, yes, he might have a trademark on "Carnival of Souls", but he's unlikely to get any money for it.*
*Unless he's the Disney corporation. They get most anything they want regards trademark and copyright.
but we pay them inflated contractor wages. For the most part, we don't hire anyone direct, but convert contractors to full-time.
Scheherazade figured this out N-thousand years ago. The key is to never finish. Start the next project before the current one is completed. Always keep several projects in a state of "working incompleteness". See also, the BOFH.
So when will someone write a Firefox plugin to automatically answer these surveys? Of course, you shouldn't answer any survey with what you are, alway answer with what you want to be. That way it's apsirational.
I guess it would depend on the temperature/pressure/bore hole material. Would some magma burp up, cool, and reseal the hole after destroying the drill bit, or would it blow to the surface and destroy the drilling rig, and continue flowing for days or weeks? Perhaps you could drill almost to the magna, then use an explosive to break the seal.
If a flow could be established, the pressure would eventually go down, and the hole would tend to melt itself bigger. That might cause earthquakes in itself.
Crazy plan #2, Drill a hole not to the existing magma, but to intersect with the path it would take to the surface. Then when it's about to blow, it would come out your hole in a more controlled manner.
Conspiracy theorists tend to be middle-aged, majority, males, with a sense of powerlessness. The conspiracy tends to give them a sense that they, alone, know the truth. It's an obsession, and they tend to wrap their own self-worth in their "knowledge". Since they have no other purpose for existing, they can't be persuaded otherwise. (Until another, better, conspiracy comes along)
Personally, I find gardening much, much, more fulfilling than most conspiracies, but I do like to make up a good one now and then.
I had a can of Mellow Yellow that didn't get a pull tab installed, so I kept it as an conversation piece. It got left on it's side for a few years, and the contents ate through the aluminum lid. I think the sides of the can were coated, but not the top. Most can machines keep their cans on the side, so they won't last more than a decade or so if not refridgerated.
Any vulcanologist around that can explain why we can't relieve the pressure in some way.
Hmm, is a "Free Market" frictionless?
The real world isn't frictionless. I'm bound by gravity, inertia and friction.
My understanding of what economists call a "Free Market", is that it's free of government control. (A large company that holds a monopoly is a de facto government)
Finding a economic friction point, applying work to overcome that friction, and making a profit all would seem to be consistent with "Free Market" philosophies.
Abuse of the patent system, while wasteful, is beyond simple friction. It is, daresay, Evil.
It's a "self evident" right, because without that clause in the constitution, authors and inventors wouldn't have "exclusive" rights at all. The default state is everyone can use an invention or writing. Then, a clause was added to the constitution that gives congress the power to make copyright and patent law. Congress then is supposed to make a limited law that promotes the Arts and Sciences. They're not suppose to make a law to maximize a company's profits or control of creative works, they're suppose to promote progress.
I'm sure the framers of the constitution considered it "self evident" that after you bought a book, you could read it, without specific permission from the author, even if he had "exclusive" rights. You could even talk about the book to a friend, and even point out a passage, all without permission. They expected congress to be reasonable when writing copyright law. (That may have been wishful thinking on their part)
The main "self evident" rights, Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness are only hinted at in the constitution, they're not supposed to be enumerated nor is the constituion suppose to list all your rights. You have rights not written down anywhere.
The problem with your argument is that fair use is not a right.
I think that this would fall under those "self-evident" rights. You start with rights to use everything, then the constituion gives rights to writers and inventors to their works and inventions, for a limited time. (Real property rights are left to the states, except that the government can't take things from you without paying for them)
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
After those rights expire, all use is fair.
If it is an essential item such as food, clothing, housing, healthcare, prescription drugs, or energy, then dynamic pricing should be prohibited, and everyone should pay the same price.
I've lived places where the biggest users of electricity get a discount, because they only get one bill, use fewer/shorter lines, etc. I've also lived where the biggest users are charged a premium, so that the electric company doesn't have to add another generating plant.
Things are priced what people are willing to pay +/- 3dB. If something costs too much, people will go elsewhere or without. If things are priced too low, people will buy it and resell it. If you fix the price of rental housing, some people will pay that price, then sublet to someone else.
Most of business is altering the perceived value of items so that some people will pay more. Evil is limiting the availability of the low cost option, so that people will have to pay more. i.e. If you own the water company and you poison the stream that goes by someone's property, you are evil.
Airline tickets.
What Google is doing will drive the creation of dozens of startup businesses, all aimed at gaming the Google system.
So, what you're saying, it's good for the enconomy? (:-)
Seriously, the Airlines already do this, and there's good money to be made writing articles and books telling people how to get around it, and several websites that "help" people get the best deals. Then the airline buy off the sites, and prices go up. Then new sites get created, and new books written. Rinse, lather, repeat.