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Oh. Yes I see. "JQuery" should be for database. And "JDisplay" for UI's.....as Query is usually associated with databases. Read in that context your original post is quite amusing.
Australia and New Zealand are particularly grim, and hence easy pickings for Israeli MOSAD agents(Govt Spies)
They use these two countries to pick passports like apples from a tree. When Israel needs to do its dirtiest deeds, it usually with an Oz or NZ passport
"We smack this IT geek around a little, take him for a nice car ride, threaten to 'take care of him' if he doesn't recant his story, give him 5 G's for his trouble, and badda boom, badda bing, case dismissed."
We offered him a rig with DUAL SLI ATI Radeon 5970s and an i7 Extreme CPU with liquid cooling. Badda boom, badda bing, case dismissed
I know this is a US story but if I could just give a perspective from a New Zealand point of view. The absolute governing principle in Employment Law here is that the Employer must act fairly and in Good Faith. I am not saying the comment is incorrect, but from an NZ perspective:
"As long as your employer fires you and does not tell you why, you probably won't have much recourse"
...Bad faith. The courts would reinstate the employee in an emergency sitting...probably 5 days from application...and leave open Grievance damages for the employee.
"Companies that do not want to pay nor use company time for employee training have their reasons."
The company needs to give those reasons, make them aware at time of hiring and justify at time of dismissal. A response of "They felt like it" would yield maximum punitive damages to the employee.
" These companies are usually afraid that you will finish the training and leave to greener pastures"
The company has gone into the relationship with this distrusting attitude? Bad faith at best, harrasment at worst. An employment court(with full powers of a normal court) would award Grievance damages.
"Some companies will pay, but may make you sign a contract stipulating that you work for them for a certain time period after training."
That was stipulated at first interview, or its moving goalposts. Thats unfair, punitive and would guarantee grievance damages in court.
5 years ago, I got my current job as they fired their freelancer who worked for us 3 days including 1 onsite. Over time he had quietly shifted websites host, Advice was offered that this was ok. Later discovered, that included domain names to his own registrar and began billing clients directly. Other minor things such as the main webadmin account forwarded to his personal email.
Moving forward to now....we had job interviews. My boss gave a no nonsense directive; Reject any CV's where the applicant is a FreeLancer, Including any Part-Time employed listing FreeLancing as the other balance. In interviews any mention of doing Freelancing from the applicant was a death sentence(job wise). It was interesting to observe. This being my first involvement in the hiring process. One could debate the rights and wrongs of my bosses attitude, but that was what is was, and the perception itself is all that matters.
I know firsthand what a terrible affliction this can be. I am male and suffer the same uncomfortable, social stigma of constant sexual arousal. After watching this Intel core i7 unboxing on YouTube. The moneyshot it that heatsink! I am nearly there....
Thought about it for maybe 3 seconds and my response is that this situation is classic ill defined job description, and the onus/fault lies with his employer.
"Is it okay for you to hire a gardener for 20 hours of work and have him actually work 10 hours and take a break for 10 hours?"
No. But this doesnt apply to the posters situation, so I assume you mis-pasted from another forum? And his line "Me and another guy maintain an intranet site of a couple dozen web apps for an I.T. department, so we work on a few different things: phone calls, bug fixes, feature adds, as well as writing new web apps from the ground up, all in a days' work" is indicitive.
So...in a sentence your Lawnmover guys job description is: "Yard Maintainer, 20 hrs/week. Mon/wed/Fri. 9-3:30pm. Duties: Lawn Mowing(10hrs approx). Gardening (8 hours approx). Equipment Maintenance and purchases(1 Hours". Lawn Care Training(Investigation of latest turf techologies 1)
If I want a Lawn mowerer person for 10 hours it reads: "Yard Maintainer, 10 hrs/week. Mon/wed. 9-2:00pm. Duties: Lawn Mowing(10hrs approx)."
"Adobe has always been more about good editing tools."
I really must disagree. While Macromedia made Dreamweaver, it has been under Adobe control for a while and very little has changed. My brief list of why Dreamweaver might be seriously hampered in the next evolution of web(HTML5):
- Data IDE to a database virtually unchanged since Dreamweaver 4.
- Broken layer support such as nested layers. Try positioning a layer mid vertical and horizontal and then try editing that in Dreamweaver.
- No virtualization for modern javascript techniques such as httpRequest, let alone HTML 5.
- GUI implementation of CSS is poor. Old Skool technique of writing the style sheet first is fastest.
In summary, Dreamweaver has not got these technologies right. I feel it is in real danger of dropping the ball. Adobe's attitude confuses me. But correct re Flash. It will be an IDE for HTML5 development or die. Within several years with a combo of increased processor specs and browser optimisations, the Canvas control will be the new VGA mode. With casual games being the biggest growth market, ignore this at your peril.
I do not mean a slight on life guard. They are deserving of high praise. Life guards in oz also carry a slightly enhanced perception that is probably difficult to understand. But a read on wikipedia of Aussie Battler is probably a good start. Aussie Battler goes back a long way. These days a politician would give his right arm for a voter label of Aussie Battler. So when the Life Guard (Who are Aussie Battlers) racially abused a beach goer and the beachgoer challenged the life guard, he was in effect slighting an Aussie Battler.
I'll put it bluntly then. You are either blind or a bullshiter. You know goddamned well that Aborigines were shot on sight in rural areas in Australia up till the 80's. If you don't know then your head is up your arse(Yes I spell it arse not ass).
As for the Cronulla incident the physical skirmish occured after a life guard said to a lebanese beachgoer. "I come down here out of my own spare time to save you dumb cunts from drowning, now piss off you scum".
Of course there is a hint to this conservative nationalism in your post: "life savers are an icon here in oz".
My observations and several unprompted anecdotal stories from tourist friends suggest Australia is actually quite conservative. Robin Williams recently drew criticism for his comments about Australia and the Prime Minister even more so for saying they were not as bad a Rednecks(in the South of the USA).
I am not famous so I can say what I am about to say with little fear of repercussion. I found southern US folks to be sophisticated compared to Australian Rural communities when I travel both the US and Australia. The Rosa Parkes seat-on-a-bus incident happened a long time ago in the US. While the Cronulla Beach Riots in Sydney happened but a couple years back where ordinary Australians fought pitched battles against foreigners. Politicians in Australia were found to lie about immigrants throwing babies overboard in ships, so that it would bolster their anti immigration stances. Aborigines were shot or hit by cars and killed and the attitudes of police were to treat it as an animal death up till the 1980's.
Do not confuse a laid back attitude with conservative beliefs. Because Australia, averagely is very conservative.
What drama? The only thing I know is I bought FEAR 2 and I found it to be quite mediocre both in gameplay and technology. What I couldnt understand is it commanded a high retail price for quite some time.
Awesome! You could steer your car with one hand while holding a game controller in the other while playing a friend. Double points if its a driving game.
This is slashdot so you are forgiven....so I'll paste the first sentence for you:
"My iPhone-savvy 2.5 year-old daughter held an iPad for the very first time last night, and it turned out to be an interesting user-interface experiment."
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And I would say a few are now as they read this. Some of those low ID, get-off-my-lawn readers could be very old now. Having now traded their basement for sun-room at the Rest Home.
Despite this being an illegal war, this event could save lives. Public opinion will count against this. The wife at home espousing his husband is "in the war" and "flies a helicopter" could possibly now be met with silence and a few nods, rather than wholesale overt praise at the dinner party. This sort of thing is akin to the photos from the Vietnam War of the children walking from a village, burned and with skin hanging off them after a napalm attack. That series of photos did more damage than any military attack.
"... if all signs are that you managed to kill yourself in darwinistic fashion (as this appears to be), then your death SHOULD serve as a lesson to the rest of humanity.
Darwinistic according to what set of rules?
Using a nature show(relevantly) as example, the slower wilderbest that is caught by a predator is taken out of the breeding pool there by enhancing future progeny.
Similarly, if your 18 yo daughter fails to avoid a drunk driver on the wrong side of the road, 2 off her peers having previously and successfully swerving from his path, the by your logic, your daughters death is actually for the betterment of humanity?
Reading his language used, I am presuming he was at school about when I was. In those days a "Child assaulting another child" was just not a sentence that could even be concieved. Get in trouble, yes, but not in the definitions today.
In the vein of todays parlance I can only presume my school life was a violent, abuse filled( verbally, psychologically, physically) deeply traumatic number of years. To me it was just a road travelled: some altercations, some teachers who were assholes, some falls, rough and tumble, some detentions, and couple whacks from a teacher, but generally a pretty ok time.
I am a web developer here in New Zealand. Here is why I do not need Flash:
- To purchase Flash is about $1000 dollars for something I may only use a few times a year.
- For movies either ondemand or live dreamweaver generates code for the Player SWF and you get your movie elsewhere.
- By elsewhere, encoded via free tools.
- I dont do games, only some animation when needed. By when needed we did a site for a pre-scool and it had a cartoon theme.
- We do bot do "Digging Man Under Construction" animations.
With due respect to the Adobe Company Man but HTML 5 will make Flash irrelevant. If anyone has looked at canvas demos a few months ago, I suggest they look again. Things have leap-frogged already to the "how-is-this-possible" stage. Flashs one hope is as wysiwig to make HTML 5 output. That will be a needed tool.
" just a single system with 2x Xeon E5420, Django/PostgreSQL at 10% load"
For best total running costs(power, cooling, cost of capital). Running a server at 60% load is ideal. And scale from there. It doesnt matter with a single server. You have to start somewhere. But adding a second, you should start considering it.
Under Pol Pot, in the killing Fields of Cambodia, intellectuals were put in camps or executed. Ironic, that today, many first world govts desire dumbed down masses.
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Oh. Yes I see. "JQuery" should be for database. And "JDisplay" for UI's.....as Query is usually associated with databases. Read in that context your original post is quite amusing.
This 1 minute scene from the British comedy, The IT Crowd.
Relevantly, the assasin at the end is an FBI agent. FBI as copyright police
I point of thought, he is on foreign soil enforcing US DMCA. As a side note the makers of this series have strong opinions in this area.
The word ash denotes dry grey dust or small wafers blowing about in the breeze.
With some moisture volcanic ash can best be described as being like wet cement. Its nasty stuff.
Australia and New Zealand are particularly grim, and hence easy pickings for Israeli MOSAD agents(Govt Spies)
They use these two countries to pick passports like apples from a tree. When Israel needs to do its dirtiest deeds, it usually with an Oz or NZ passport
"As I said in another comment, their core market is young, rich, art/media types"
Very true. I am showing my age but I am observing the younger girls at work(juniors etc) referring to "their porn" and "Porn... alright".
I suspect things are very different from the current generation over mine where it was a few dog eared mags under your bed.
As a side issue I approach them with outright professionalism. I dont want "That creepy guy" tag.
"We smack this IT geek around a little, take him for a nice car ride, threaten to 'take care of him' if he doesn't recant his story, give him 5 G's for his trouble, and badda boom, badda bing, case dismissed."
We offered him a rig with DUAL SLI ATI Radeon 5970s and an i7 Extreme CPU with liquid cooling. Badda boom, badda bing, case dismissed
I know this is a US story but if I could just give a perspective from a New Zealand point of view. The absolute governing principle in Employment Law here is that the Employer must act fairly and in Good Faith. I am not saying the comment is incorrect, but from an NZ perspective:
...Bad faith. The courts would reinstate the employee in an emergency sitting...probably 5 days from application...and leave open Grievance damages for the employee.
"As long as your employer fires you and does not tell you why, you probably won't have much recourse"
"Companies that do not want to pay nor use company time for employee training have their reasons."
The company needs to give those reasons, make them aware at time of hiring and justify at time of dismissal. A response of "They felt like it" would yield maximum punitive damages to the employee.
" These companies are usually afraid that you will finish the training and leave to greener pastures"
The company has gone into the relationship with this distrusting attitude? Bad faith at best, harrasment at worst. An employment court(with full powers of a normal court) would award Grievance damages.
"Some companies will pay, but may make you sign a contract stipulating that you work for them for a certain time period after training."
That was stipulated at first interview, or its moving goalposts. Thats unfair, punitive and would guarantee grievance damages in court.
5 years ago, I got my current job as they fired their freelancer who worked for us 3 days including 1 onsite. Over time he had quietly shifted websites host, Advice was offered that this was ok. Later discovered, that included domain names to his own registrar and began billing clients directly. Other minor things such as the main webadmin account forwarded to his personal email.
Moving forward to now....we had job interviews. My boss gave a no nonsense directive; Reject any CV's where the applicant is a FreeLancer, Including any Part-Time employed listing FreeLancing as the other balance. In interviews any mention of doing Freelancing from the applicant was a death sentence(job wise). It was interesting to observe. This being my first involvement in the hiring process. One could debate the rights and wrongs of my bosses attitude, but that was what is was, and the perception itself is all that matters.
I know firsthand what a terrible affliction this can be. I am male and suffer the same uncomfortable, social stigma of constant sexual arousal. After watching this Intel core i7 unboxing on YouTube. The moneyshot it that heatsink! I am nearly there....
"Food for thought.
Thought about it for maybe 3 seconds and my response is that this situation is classic ill defined job description, and the onus/fault lies with his employer.
"Is it okay for you to hire a gardener for 20 hours of work and have him actually work 10 hours and take a break for 10 hours?" No. But this doesnt apply to the posters situation, so I assume you mis-pasted from another forum? And his line "Me and another guy maintain an intranet site of a couple dozen web apps for an I.T. department, so we work on a few different things: phone calls, bug fixes, feature adds, as well as writing new web apps from the ground up, all in a days' work" is indicitive.
So...in a sentence your Lawnmover guys job description is: "Yard Maintainer, 20 hrs/week. Mon/wed/Fri. 9-3:30pm. Duties: Lawn Mowing(10hrs approx). Gardening (8 hours approx). Equipment Maintenance and purchases(1 Hours". Lawn Care Training(Investigation of latest turf techologies 1)
If I want a Lawn mowerer person for 10 hours it reads: "Yard Maintainer, 10 hrs/week. Mon/wed. 9-2:00pm. Duties: Lawn Mowing(10hrs approx)."
Employers: Its not hard.
"Adobe has always been more about good editing tools."
I really must disagree. While Macromedia made Dreamweaver, it has been under Adobe control for a while and very little has changed. My brief list of why Dreamweaver might be seriously hampered in the next evolution of web(HTML5):
- Data IDE to a database virtually unchanged since Dreamweaver 4.
- Broken layer support such as nested layers. Try positioning a layer mid vertical and horizontal and then try editing that in Dreamweaver.
- No virtualization for modern javascript techniques such as httpRequest, let alone HTML 5.
- GUI implementation of CSS is poor. Old Skool technique of writing the style sheet first is fastest.
In summary, Dreamweaver has not got these technologies right. I feel it is in real danger of dropping the ball. Adobe's attitude confuses me. But correct re Flash. It will be an IDE for HTML5 development or die. Within several years with a combo of increased processor specs and browser optimisations, the Canvas control will be the new VGA mode. With casual games being the biggest growth market, ignore this at your peril.
I hear you. My little one likes ponies. A search for Pony yields either what we might expect. Or.....this: Pony Girls. This being NSFW.
I do not mean a slight on life guard. They are deserving of high praise. Life guards in oz also carry a slightly enhanced perception that is probably difficult to understand. But a read on wikipedia of Aussie Battler is probably a good start. Aussie Battler goes back a long way. These days a politician would give his right arm for a voter label of Aussie Battler. So when the Life Guard (Who are Aussie Battlers) racially abused a beach goer and the beachgoer challenged the life guard, he was in effect slighting an Aussie Battler.
I'll put it bluntly then. You are either blind or a bullshiter. You know goddamned well that Aborigines were shot on sight in rural areas in Australia up till the 80's. If you don't know then your head is up your arse(Yes I spell it arse not ass).
As for the Cronulla incident the physical skirmish occured after a life guard said to a lebanese beachgoer. "I come down here out of my own spare time to save you dumb cunts from drowning, now piss off you scum".
Of course there is a hint to this conservative nationalism in your post: "life savers are an icon here in oz".
My observations and several unprompted anecdotal stories from tourist friends suggest Australia is actually quite conservative. Robin Williams recently drew criticism for his comments about Australia and the Prime Minister even more so for saying they were not as bad a Rednecks(in the South of the USA).
I am not famous so I can say what I am about to say with little fear of repercussion. I found southern US folks to be sophisticated compared to Australian Rural communities when I travel both the US and Australia. The Rosa Parkes seat-on-a-bus incident happened a long time ago in the US. While the Cronulla Beach Riots in Sydney happened but a couple years back where ordinary Australians fought pitched battles against foreigners. Politicians in Australia were found to lie about immigrants throwing babies overboard in ships, so that it would bolster their anti immigration stances. Aborigines were shot or hit by cars and killed and the attitudes of police were to treat it as an animal death up till the 1980's.
Do not confuse a laid back attitude with conservative beliefs. Because Australia, averagely is very conservative.
What drama? The only thing I know is I bought FEAR 2 and I found it to be quite mediocre both in gameplay and technology. What I couldnt understand is it commanded a high retail price for quite some time.
Awesome! You could steer your car with one hand while holding a game controller in the other while playing a friend. Double points if its a driving game.
This is slashdot so you are forgiven....so I'll paste the first sentence for you:
"My iPhone-savvy 2.5 year-old daughter held an iPad for the very first time last night, and it turned out to be an interesting user-interface experiment."
And I would say a few are now as they read this. Some of those low ID, get-off-my-lawn readers could be very old now. Having now traded their basement for sun-room at the Rest Home.
Despite this being an illegal war, this event could save lives. Public opinion will count against this. The wife at home espousing his husband is "in the war" and "flies a helicopter" could possibly now be met with silence and a few nods, rather than wholesale overt praise at the dinner party. This sort of thing is akin to the photos from the Vietnam War of the children walking from a village, burned and with skin hanging off them after a napalm attack. That series of photos did more damage than any military attack.
"... if all signs are that you managed to kill yourself in darwinistic fashion (as this appears to be), then your death SHOULD serve as a lesson to the rest of humanity.
Darwinistic according to what set of rules?
Using a nature show(relevantly) as example, the slower wilderbest that is caught by a predator is taken out of the breeding pool there by enhancing future progeny.
Similarly, if your 18 yo daughter fails to avoid a drunk driver on the wrong side of the road, 2 off her peers having previously and successfully swerving from his path, the by your logic, your daughters death is actually for the betterment of humanity?
Reading his language used, I am presuming he was at school about when I was. In those days a "Child assaulting another child" was just not a sentence that could even be concieved. Get in trouble, yes, but not in the definitions today.
In the vein of todays parlance I can only presume my school life was a violent, abuse filled( verbally, psychologically, physically) deeply traumatic number of years. To me it was just a road travelled: some altercations, some teachers who were assholes, some falls, rough and tumble, some detentions, and couple whacks from a teacher, but generally a pretty ok time.
I am a web developer here in New Zealand. Here is why I do not need Flash:
- To purchase Flash is about $1000 dollars for something I may only use a few times a year.
- For movies either ondemand or live dreamweaver generates code for the Player SWF and you get your movie elsewhere.
- By elsewhere, encoded via free tools.
- I dont do games, only some animation when needed. By when needed we did a site for a pre-scool and it had a cartoon theme.
- We do bot do "Digging Man Under Construction" animations.
With due respect to the Adobe Company Man but HTML 5 will make Flash irrelevant. If anyone has looked at canvas demos a few months ago, I suggest they look again. Things have leap-frogged already to the "how-is-this-possible" stage. Flashs one hope is as wysiwig to make HTML 5 output. That will be a needed tool.
" just a single system with 2x Xeon E5420, Django/PostgreSQL at 10% load"
For best total running costs(power, cooling, cost of capital). Running a server at 60% load is ideal. And scale from there. It doesnt matter with a single server. You have to start somewhere. But adding a second, you should start considering it.
Under Pol Pot, in the killing Fields of Cambodia, intellectuals were put in camps or executed. Ironic, that today, many first world govts desire dumbed down masses.