That just shows the horrible state the market is in....
A guy at work knocked over a table sending about 70k USD worth of very sensitive equipment crashing to the floor. Know what he got? A generous amount of "bwhahahha, that has to hurt" comments from coworkers and it generated a little inquiry from management asking:
Why the -hell- was that much sensitive equipment stacked on a table with wonky legs... Brains people, brains!
The guy was not fired. Firing him would be stupid as he has now learned his lesson and he is the least likely person to do such a fuckup again;)
You'd be surprised how shite some college programming classes are...
We went like this in "intro programming"
* Make a form with a button that closes it * Make a form with textboxes, multiply input of two and show result in label * Make such a program to do simple math using radiobuttons.
Hardest turn in was a funny little thing to make one form open another modal...
This was a class that gave a quarter of a semester worth of credits... *sigh*
It is really easy to save money in a factory by shutting it down. On the short term you get incredible profit... Then you run out of stock and catch fire *snickers*
Unfortunately few were willing to go on producing goods during the recession and are now severely fucked when it comes to supply... Funny how that happens every time the market takes a dip... You would think someone would learn:(
What they did is to shut down when demand started dropping. They didnt want to be left with a big stock of parts that -could- be obsolete in a year.
Since so few were willing to gamble on demand raising we are now stuck with them trying desperately to ramp up production to meet demand and failing miserably. Ramping up production is a heck of a lot slower than shutting down...
I had the same experience in doing my bachelor... Automations is an interesting field with a nice mix of hardware and software.
Of the 43 students starting out there were 4... FOUR whom had ever used a soldering iron....
In 2003.. I had a classmate that had never used a word processor. She couldnt understand why her -hand written- job applications never panned out... in an engineering line of work... *shudder*
We had people who could not figure out why building a circuit after you designed it was important. "But it worked in simulation... no point in building it!"
*wimper*
It was fun watching them fail miserably on the final exam though, as there were quite a few questions that could only be answered if you had actually bothered building the things you designed *snickers*
My teacher in "Introduction to programming, VB6.0" just required us to turn in the apps compiled to.exe files so he could just run those to verify that they worked.
Oh god how much fun we had. "someone" *cough* wrote a little thing into their turned in work that installed a coo-coo clock.
A piece of code that would, every whole hour, go "coo coo" and open/close the cd-rom...
He did not figure out where it came from *cackles*
What is so wonderful is to see these asstards crash and buuuurn when they meet the real world.
I now work along-side many of my former classmates... I did it the "lame" way of usually going solo and not cheating.. Had to take some classes twice to improve the grade but what the hell, I learned quite a lot...
Now they are put to tasks like checking 1200 A to B wire connections in a PLC cabinet while I get to spend pretty much as much time as I want developing spiffy tools for those that need them. And I get to pick and choose which tools I want to write.
In the 3 years I've been working since college I can count the boring days on one hand. You might be able to slither your way through college but you'll be fucked when you try to get an interesting job.
I fondly remember one problem we had to solve in college.... It involved some fairly annoying math and most of the task was understanding 3rd year math in an intro course.... What ended up happening is me writing a class that everyone else copied and used for the math in their assignment.
Amusingly the teacher didnt punish anyone for this. He found it incredibly clever to just write the framework and "outsource" the math;)
Then again... most of our turn-ins were never looked at. We just needed to turn in an empty folder with our name on it to qualify for the final exam. The teachers never bothered actually looking them over. Too much work.... Asshats:-p
Yep, had the same thing happen to my card in Norway.
I had played Warhammer online for a few months then quit.... They kept charging me for 6 months subscriptions even after I removed my card details from my account and quite clearly went through the cancel process... My bank beat them with a hammer and got my money back to me in 2 days... 6 months later it happened again.. My bank just gave me back the money and said they'd handle it.
Now that is how it -should- work.
I love the consumer protection laws here in Norway. The difference between a debit and credit card in the case of abuse is just when you get your money back. The same protections apply to both:D
Some places it is not about luck at all. Unpaid overtime is illegal here in Norway unless you are in upper management.
There is also a limit of 200 hours of overtime per 26 weeks. Maximum 13 hours worked per day. Minimum of 11 hours off work between "days".
If you want to do more, you have to petition for it with the department in charge of labour. You better have a good reason for requiring overtime though!
Teaching the kids how to spot a pedo on AIM is a valuable thing...
That being said:
How will the kid be damaged by the goatse guy? Having stumbled upon such things around the age of 14 I remember a mix of "what the -fuck- is that....." to "why would anyone...." to "kill it, kill it with fiiiire!" responses. Surfing porn all day? So what... There is a time and place for everything. A good fap wont kill the kid:-p Now, I'm neither an axe murderer or a rapist and have a healthy attitude towards most things...
When it comes to the simple act of cutting off access the simplest and most effective thing to do is just unplugging the cable at the distribution point. Very simple, no complexity. Should the kid disobey and just replug it then deal with that. For example just take the computer for a week. Teach them the need to obey simple rules.
My parents are both teachers and personally I think that makes them more in touch with reality than most parents. The parent who lets their 14 year old have access to unfiltered internet is not the problem. The parent that doesnt care or doesnt treat their kids right is. Teachers get to see all the messed up kids... Some are messed up before they even get to kindergarden and the number of cases with child services involved is quite large. None of these problems are because of the kid having a fap every now and then... or having seen the goatse man...
From how the original poster presented his issue I doubt he has anything to worry about regarding the kids. They seem to be in a fairly 'safe' home situation and giving them access to internet wont change that. Being open about what is out there is a good thing, blocking it so that they wont know what -is- out there is stupid and dangerous. Kids will get access to unfiltered internet and having it in their own home is a hell of a lot better than finding out your 14-year old has been hanging out with that 16-year old smoking misfit that has unfiltered internet at home:-p
Heh, I had a computer in my room with internet when I was 14... As did my two younger brothers at a similar age.
Luckily my parents are fairly open about anything would not block me from accessing anything. I knew that if there was anything I was curious about I could look it up.. If I did not understand it I would just ask either my mom or dad depending on what the subject was.
Being a 14 year old boy of course I started collecting various pieces of 'art' and had an extensive collection by the time I was 16:-p Now.... Did this damage me or turn me into a serial killer or rapist? Nope. Neither of my brothers are nutters either *chuckles*
Having two teachers as parents can be quite nice. Of course it did mean that logic was king. If I could reasonably argue why I should be allowed to do something I was allowed to do something. Whining did not work -at all-. Presenting a reasonable set of arguments for my position always did (asssuming they agreed, which they usually did).
Learning these things is essential to any kid/youth. I personally think many of the problems in the world now are based on people not learning basic skills regarding how to communicate.. Especially regarding disagreements.
Meh, I'm getting ranty now and should be at work...:-p
I am pretty sure what he was describing was from the viewpoint of the student (which is the important thing in this case). Who looks at it like you describe it at the age of 6-12 ? Not very many.
That said.. My own motivations were quite different and boiled down to avoiding:
Getting beat up or abused in other ways on a daily basis... Getting sent to detention because you -dare- to point out mistakes in a worksheet... Trying to learn in an environment where being right means being ridiculed by the teacher and class in general...
Which I guess was founded in the complete ignorance to problems shown by the staff..
No it wont. Unfortunately the regulation has a little clause that lets apple do whatever they want with the plug as long as they give you a cable or adapter.
4.2.1 In order that compatibility of as many Mobile Phones as possible with a Common EPS may be enabled, if a manufacturer makes available an Adaptor from the Micro-USB connector of a Common EPS to a specific non-Micro-USB socket in the Mobile Phone, it shall constitute compliance to this article.
It was reported a while back (wish I could remember/find it) on slashdot that apple's solution to this is to supply a little adapter/converter that you plug into the apple-socket that has a micro-usb type connector on it... So... to charge your iphone you would still need to lug around the cable or hope someone has the cable where you are when you need power. And still they will make piles of specific hardware and chargers which is what this whole initiative is trying to fix.
Slashdot Mirror
As +funny as it sounds...
That is usually what I do when looking for something as most sites have abyssmal site-search functions...
You would get a bunch of google corporations that all buy services from each other...
So on paper everything would change, but in reality nothing would.
That just shows the horrible state the market is in....
A guy at work knocked over a table sending about 70k USD worth of very sensitive equipment crashing to the floor.
Know what he got? A generous amount of "bwhahahha, that has to hurt" comments from coworkers and it generated a little inquiry from management asking:
Why the -hell- was that much sensitive equipment stacked on a table with wonky legs... Brains people, brains!
The guy was not fired. Firing him would be stupid as he has now learned his lesson and he is the least likely person to do such a fuckup again ;)
Almost nowhere are you required to report such things to the police. If you find an abandoned item, it's yours.
Hey dude, I found your car!
And sold it to a somewhat shabby scrapyard for a few hundred bucks!
Silly of you to leave it on the street like that :-p
The two are sadly not mutually exclusive...
Just sayin'.
You'd be surprised how shite some college programming classes are...
We went like this in "intro programming"
* Make a form with a button that closes it
* Make a form with textboxes, multiply input of two and show result in label
* Make such a program to do simple math using radiobuttons.
Hardest turn in was a funny little thing to make one form open another modal...
This was a class that gave a quarter of a semester worth of credits... *sigh*
That wasnt actually an exploit.
That was someone forgetting to disable a debugging shell with a global input hook :-p
It is really easy to save money in a factory by shutting it down. On the short term you get incredible profit...
Then you run out of stock and catch fire *snickers*
Unfortunately few were willing to go on producing goods during the recession and are now severely fucked when it comes to supply... Funny how that happens every time the market takes a dip... You would think someone would learn :(
Simple answer: They didnt.
What they did is to shut down when demand started dropping. They didnt want to be left with a big stock of parts that -could- be obsolete in a year.
Since so few were willing to gamble on demand raising we are now stuck with them trying desperately to ramp up production to meet demand and failing miserably. Ramping up production is a heck of a lot slower than shutting down...
I had the same experience in doing my bachelor... Automations is an interesting field with a nice mix of hardware and software.
Of the 43 students starting out there were 4... FOUR whom had ever used a soldering iron....
In 2003.. I had a classmate that had never used a word processor. She couldnt understand why her -hand written- job applications never panned out... in an engineering line of work... *shudder*
We had people who could not figure out why building a circuit after you designed it was important.
"But it worked in simulation... no point in building it!"
*wimper*
It was fun watching them fail miserably on the final exam though, as there were quite a few questions that could only be answered if you had actually bothered building the things you designed *snickers*
My teacher in "Introduction to programming, VB6.0" just required us to turn in the apps compiled to .exe files so he could just run those to verify that they worked.
Oh god how much fun we had. "someone" *cough* wrote a little thing into their turned in work that installed a coo-coo clock.
A piece of code that would, every whole hour, go "coo coo" and open/close the cd-rom...
He did not figure out where it came from *cackles*
What is so wonderful is to see these asstards crash and buuuurn when they meet the real world.
I now work along-side many of my former classmates... I did it the "lame" way of usually going solo and not cheating.. Had to take some classes twice to improve the grade but what the hell, I learned quite a lot...
Now they are put to tasks like checking 1200 A to B wire connections in a PLC cabinet while I get to spend pretty much as much time as I want developing spiffy tools for those that need them. And I get to pick and choose which tools I want to write.
In the 3 years I've been working since college I can count the boring days on one hand. You might be able to slither your way through college but you'll be fucked when you try to get an interesting job.
Hell, the compiler should optimize such simple things regardless...
That, and reducing the readability of code is baaaad...
And sometimes writing the loop is the right way as the assignment is to show that you grasp a basic for loop ;)
*snortgiggle*
I fondly remember one problem we had to solve in college....
It involved some fairly annoying math and most of the task was understanding 3rd year math in an intro course....
What ended up happening is me writing a class that everyone else copied and used for the math in their assignment.
Amusingly the teacher didnt punish anyone for this. He found it incredibly clever to just write the framework and "outsource" the math ;)
Then again... most of our turn-ins were never looked at. We just needed to turn in an empty folder with our name on it to qualify for the final exam. The teachers never bothered actually looking them over. Too much work.... Asshats :-p
Of course, it is your device. To do with as you please. As long as you follow the law!
Since the law im the US now prevent owners from doing quite a lot with their own devices... you're fucked.
I hate it, I suspect you hate it just as much... but for now that is the state of things :(
Yep, had the same thing happen to my card in Norway.
I had played Warhammer online for a few months then quit.... They kept charging me for 6 months subscriptions even after I removed my card details from my account and quite clearly went through the cancel process...
My bank beat them with a hammer and got my money back to me in 2 days...
6 months later it happened again.. My bank just gave me back the money and said they'd handle it.
Now that is how it -should- work.
I love the consumer protection laws here in Norway. The difference between a debit and credit card in the case of abuse is just when you get your money back. The same protections apply to both :D
Some places it is not about luck at all. Unpaid overtime is illegal here in Norway unless you are in upper management.
There is also a limit of 200 hours of overtime per 26 weeks.
Maximum 13 hours worked per day.
Minimum of 11 hours off work between "days".
If you want to do more, you have to petition for it with the department in charge of labour. You better have a good reason for requiring overtime though!
What he said...
So very true.
If only more people grasped this simple concept!
Teaching the kids how to spot a pedo on AIM is a valuable thing...
That being said:
How will the kid be damaged by the goatse guy? Having stumbled upon such things around the age of 14 I remember a mix of "what the -fuck- is that....." to "why would anyone...." to "kill it, kill it with fiiiire!" responses. :-p
Surfing porn all day? So what... There is a time and place for everything. A good fap wont kill the kid
Now, I'm neither an axe murderer or a rapist and have a healthy attitude towards most things...
When it comes to the simple act of cutting off access the simplest and most effective thing to do is just unplugging the cable at the distribution point. Very simple, no complexity.
Should the kid disobey and just replug it then deal with that. For example just take the computer for a week. Teach them the need to obey simple rules.
My parents are both teachers and personally I think that makes them more in touch with reality than most parents.
The parent who lets their 14 year old have access to unfiltered internet is not the problem. The parent that doesnt care or doesnt treat their kids right is.
Teachers get to see all the messed up kids... Some are messed up before they even get to kindergarden and the number of cases with child services involved is quite large.
None of these problems are because of the kid having a fap every now and then... or having seen the goatse man...
From how the original poster presented his issue I doubt he has anything to worry about regarding the kids. They seem to be in a fairly 'safe' home situation and giving them :-p
access to internet wont change that. Being open about what is out there is a good thing, blocking it so that they wont know what -is- out there is stupid and dangerous.
Kids will get access to unfiltered internet and having it in their own home is a hell of a lot better than finding out your 14-year old has been hanging out with that 16-year old
smoking misfit that has unfiltered internet at home
I'm getting ranty... time for work :-p
My father had an excellent way to block internet if I misbehaved.
Unplug the coax cable to my room and replace it with a terminator. (yes, I feel old saying coax cable)
No need for software solutions .
Heh, I had a computer in my room with internet when I was 14... As did my two younger brothers at a similar age.
Luckily my parents are fairly open about anything would not block me from accessing anything. I knew that if there was anything I was curious about I could look it up.. If I did not understand it I would just ask either my mom or dad depending on what the subject was.
Being a 14 year old boy of course I started collecting various pieces of 'art' and had an extensive collection by the time I was 16 :-p
Now.... Did this damage me or turn me into a serial killer or rapist? Nope. Neither of my brothers are nutters either *chuckles*
Having two teachers as parents can be quite nice. Of course it did mean that logic was king. If I could reasonably argue why I should be allowed to do something I was allowed to do something. Whining did not work -at all-. Presenting a reasonable set of arguments for my position always did (asssuming they agreed, which they usually did).
Learning these things is essential to any kid/youth. I personally think many of the problems in the world now are based on people not learning basic skills regarding how to communicate.. Especially regarding disagreements.
Meh, I'm getting ranty now and should be at work... :-p
I am pretty sure what he was describing was from the viewpoint of the student (which is the important thing in this case).
Who looks at it like you describe it at the age of 6-12 ? Not very many.
That said.. My own motivations were quite different and boiled down to avoiding:
Getting beat up or abused in other ways on a daily basis...
Getting sent to detention because you -dare- to point out mistakes in a worksheet...
Trying to learn in an environment where being right means being ridiculed by the teacher and class in general...
Which I guess was founded in the complete ignorance to problems shown by the staff..
No it wont. Unfortunately the regulation has a little clause that lets apple do whatever they want with the plug as long as they give you a cable or adapter.
4.2.1 In order that compatibility of as many Mobile Phones as possible with a Common EPS may be enabled, if a manufacturer makes available an Adaptor from the Micro-USB connector of a Common EPS to a specific non-Micro-USB socket in the Mobile Phone, it shall constitute compliance to this article.
It was reported a while back (wish I could remember/find it) on slashdot that apple's solution to this is to supply a little adapter/converter that you plug into the apple-socket that has a micro-usb type connector on it...
So... to charge your iphone you would still need to lug around the cable or hope someone has the cable where you are when you need power.
And still they will make piles of specific hardware and chargers which is what this whole initiative is trying to fix.