"This program is overseen by TOP MEN."
" What top men? "
TOP....MEN.
So, if he over exaggerated where he went, and what is access was, and the level of his knowledge, what did he damage?
Ive had my original Roku HD for over 2 years. Other than occasionally rebooting it, and blowing the dust off, its been on continuously, daily. My kids love it, my 4 yr old has been using since she was 2 and a half. Great little device.
They are not sold as toys for children. and they have several warnings on every part of the multi-stage packaging you have to get through to open them. My 8 and 9 year old thought it was pretty funny when they opened theirs at Christmas last year.
Ugh. Been there done that. 36,000 a year as a support/sucktomer service manager for a laptop reseller. Took it because I was coming off being unemployed for 2+ months and I have 4 kids and a house. Left it after 10 months when a recruiter briefly mentioned that I could probably do better and helped me massage my resume a bit after answering 80+ emails a day, phone calls from whiny needy gamers that were too dumb to re-seat RAM in their 3000 dollar laptop, and expected 24 hour or less contact resolution based on the timestamp of the email. Most of which was not put out to me during the interview and first 2 weeks or so......
Interview your boss, don't just 'be' interviewed, and if you can gather some intelligence about the place first so much the better.
Because mail is not always routed the same, or makes it on the same shipment. I had 3 corporate packages from UPS that were a group of three arrive to a site facility for an equipment installation and only one of the three arrived on site-the the other two are still somewhere in UPS's 'stream'. Just because something is mailed in a group doesn't mean much-it can still be diverted, broken up, or held up.
Depending on when they did the experiment, weather factors could also have influenced it. Heavy Midwestern and East Coast snows this year screwed up mail and backed it up across a region more than once, and flooding in the South has the same potential to do so as well, and has. There are too many factors to consider without seeing more of their methodology. Its more of a reality than your flippant supposition suggests.
They have a tracking system, you just have to set up a free login on their website to see it. You can also create one for another person (or monitor another person's progress).
Starz streams, but to be able to stream natively to the TV is why I have netflix. Now I have to do some sort of media server thing to get that content onto my TV rather than a computer screen.
Why would this be any different than website in the US that already get a pass for hosting material, based on the idea that "they have no responsibility for material posted to their site by others? Is this not the same thing?
As for the government having the traction to shut the down, I disagree. I'm a veteran, a US citizen, but I am also 'the government' or the body politic, and I think its great. Im kind of tired of 'the gubmint' doing all sorts of things in 'my' name, keeping it from me because it may be unpalatable to my delicate sensibilities. Wahhh.....if people realized how much of this was going on maybe they wouldn't be so ignorant about things like how world events are handled or how conflicts are resolved and restructure their responses (or approval of those responses) accordingly.
So are 'peanut allergies'. If I had a dollar for every child ive met whose parents tried to bulldoze me or my kids, or their school, with the 'peanut allergy' thing, I could retire. Peanut allergies, like ADHD, has become a fashionable stigma, a badge of pride, almost, amongst bored parents with no lives. Yes, some kids are allergic to peanuts-some even violently. That being said, bee stings happen, too, and plant allergies, and all sorts of other things just as bad but not as adjusting of one's social standing amongst the herd parents.
You deal with it. You DON't attempt to shut down my kid's school lunch program or dictate to me from across town what lunch food I can give to MY kids. If your child has those kinds of issues it's time for you to re-evaluate your choice of putting them in the public school system. There are kids with ADHD, and then there are those kids that are just bored, unstimulated, or ignored at home and at school.
I think the real problem isn't that the programmers should make more, it is that the traders should make LESS
I don't know that I agree. I think this is a very subjective issue. The reality is, the amount of revenue derived partially from these programmers has absolutely nothing to do with what their compensation is or should be. By their rationale, every teller at a bank should have salaries commensurate with that bank's revenue, since they're an element in processing deposits/checks/payments/etc. Hell, the data center I run makes millions every hour, but I don't expect that I should make 7 or 8 figures because of it.
The lesson here is: negotiate well on the way in. Do your homework, find out what the job entails and what responsibilities/liabilities you will have and determine for yourself if the compensation being offered is worth it. Once you cut the deal, that's it. If you don't like it, you can do as the programmers in the article are doing, go somewhere else and try to negotiate a better deal. It ain't personal, it's business.
Not necessarily-the bank tellers process transactions. They don't enable anything in the bank that helps the bank leverage their work to make more money, though. The programmers are writing code that makes the ability for the traders to make millions actually exist.
I watched " The Incredibles" before I went to the theater because the oldest of my three children is 5 and I wanted to makes sure the comments of " its not necessarily a kids movie" werent too on the mark. We ended up going two times, my wife, myself, and my three children. So, some people do watch before they watch, if you will.
C
Problem is, in Omaha some kids did just that-chucked some rocks over an overpass....and killed someone. Then, utilizing a little more bad judgement. TMd people about it, neglecting to mention that they HAD hit a cars windshield.
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The rights to privacy in the Constitution ( usually framed under some penumbra of the 14th Amendment) only pertain to issues of personal autonomy or medical issues (Berger, or Roe v. Wade type issues). The Constitution explicitly protects some rights and does not protect others. R to P is not one of them. Sucks, but its true. The Constitution says what it says, nothing more, nothing less- there is some wiggle room, legilating from the bench is taking wiggle and turning it into the Macarena.
I am the the OP ( of the comments, anyway) and I still hold that while certain information needs to be private for various reasons, blanket statements like " the Constitution says I have free speech" and " right to privacy" are misleading, not legally or historically accurate, and ultimately dangerous. We don't need to amend the damn thing for every single situation, nor is it the defacto place to run and cite every time someone says their 'rights' violated. A lot of the people in our country don't know their rights anyway, or aren't citizens and don't fall under the documents protection.
But a person doesnt have an expectation of privacy with their email address. They freely paste it all over everything. While I appreciate that the Constitution can be applied to things not directly spelled out, I don't appreciate making laws based on that interpretation for every single situation. I did my time to " support and defend" and while IANAL or even a legal beagle, I think people should suck it up a bit instead of expecting a policy, law, or some sort of action to apply to them. Entitlement mindedness and " whats in it for me" is killing this country. During the Battle of the Bulge ( 60 years ago this week) we lost hundreds of soldiers a day. We lose 2-3 on average, and in only one AO and suddenly its a quagmire? People need to get their priorities in order.
Sue the guy civilly, but for cripes sake, no one ever said that your email address was 'yours'.
I dont know about that, but I feel that I dont have the right to be not offended...( sorry, another topic I read about on Fark). Email/internet access is largley a 'public' forum just like outside- the only difference is the public isnt present at the creation of the speech in question. It may be days or weeks, but that email, forum post, etc will still show up somewhere.
How is it invasion of privacy? Its not that hard to get a list of email. Citizens are not guaranteed a 'right to privacy' anywhere in the Constitution or D of Ind. I don't think the individual customers could could sue under class action because nothing was stolen from them- they still have use of the address, and as an AOL user they probably signed up for so much crap that their email address is out there all over the net anyway. The employee did break his NDA surely, and should be treated as such.
+1 Gotcha. I just really upset with the slacker nation types. Im 27, a disabled vet, and though not overtly political, I try to stay abreast of the info. I think that the third party candidates being arrested, however is a rights issue that affects everyone, technical or otherwise though, and as such was a good post.
Thanks for replying. I didnt mean to sound flamey.
How does the political process not affect the state of technology in the US? With a few strokes of a pen and disregard for being elected, a President could theoretically declare various advanced technologies a "clear and present danger to the security of the United States" and restrict R/D on those to Natick and the military only.
So much for your Doom 3 then. I fail to understand how the more intelligent people of this particular forum vs. some of the 'beat up the candidate of the day' sites out there could be so d**n bored and dissaffected. If you dont vote or participate, don't complain-regardless of your affiliation or even if you just write in.
http://www.debates.org/pages/news_041006.html
Here are the "rules" for admitting third party candidates into the debates. I feel SO represented, believe me. Whats the point?
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This was never presented to me as an option. How, if you don't mind my asking, did you set it up? CAS
"This program is overseen by TOP MEN." " What top men? " TOP....MEN. So, if he over exaggerated where he went, and what is access was, and the level of his knowledge, what did he damage?
The games official dictionary was changed in 2005, so EA changing it now is just playing catch up.
Ive had my original Roku HD for over 2 years. Other than occasionally rebooting it, and blowing the dust off, its been on continuously, daily. My kids love it, my 4 yr old has been using since she was 2 and a half. Great little device.
They are not sold as toys for children. and they have several warnings on every part of the multi-stage packaging you have to get through to open them. My 8 and 9 year old thought it was pretty funny when they opened theirs at Christmas last year.
Ugh. Been there done that. 36,000 a year as a support/sucktomer service manager for a laptop reseller. Took it because I was coming off being unemployed for 2+ months and I have 4 kids and a house. Left it after 10 months when a recruiter briefly mentioned that I could probably do better and helped me massage my resume a bit after answering 80+ emails a day, phone calls from whiny needy gamers that were too dumb to re-seat RAM in their 3000 dollar laptop, and expected 24 hour or less contact resolution based on the timestamp of the email. Most of which was not put out to me during the interview and first 2 weeks or so...... Interview your boss, don't just 'be' interviewed, and if you can gather some intelligence about the place first so much the better.
Depends on where he lives.
Because mail is not always routed the same, or makes it on the same shipment. I had 3 corporate packages from UPS that were a group of three arrive to a site facility for an equipment installation and only one of the three arrived on site-the the other two are still somewhere in UPS's 'stream'. Just because something is mailed in a group doesn't mean much-it can still be diverted, broken up, or held up.
Depending on when they did the experiment, weather factors could also have influenced it. Heavy Midwestern and East Coast snows this year screwed up mail and backed it up across a region more than once, and flooding in the South has the same potential to do so as well, and has. There are too many factors to consider without seeing more of their methodology. Its more of a reality than your flippant supposition suggests.
They have a tracking system, you just have to set up a free login on their website to see it. You can also create one for another person (or monitor another person's progress).
Starz streams, but to be able to stream natively to the TV is why I have netflix. Now I have to do some sort of media server thing to get that content onto my TV rather than a computer screen.
Why would this be any different than website in the US that already get a pass for hosting material, based on the idea that "they have no responsibility for material posted to their site by others? Is this not the same thing? As for the government having the traction to shut the down, I disagree. I'm a veteran, a US citizen, but I am also 'the government' or the body politic, and I think its great. Im kind of tired of 'the gubmint' doing all sorts of things in 'my' name, keeping it from me because it may be unpalatable to my delicate sensibilities. Wahhh.....if people realized how much of this was going on maybe they wouldn't be so ignorant about things like how world events are handled or how conflicts are resolved and restructure their responses (or approval of those responses) accordingly.
So are 'peanut allergies'. If I had a dollar for every child ive met whose parents tried to bulldoze me or my kids, or their school, with the 'peanut allergy' thing, I could retire. Peanut allergies, like ADHD, has become a fashionable stigma, a badge of pride, almost, amongst bored parents with no lives. Yes, some kids are allergic to peanuts-some even violently. That being said, bee stings happen, too, and plant allergies, and all sorts of other things just as bad but not as adjusting of one's social standing amongst the herd parents. You deal with it. You DON't attempt to shut down my kid's school lunch program or dictate to me from across town what lunch food I can give to MY kids. If your child has those kinds of issues it's time for you to re-evaluate your choice of putting them in the public school system. There are kids with ADHD, and then there are those kids that are just bored, unstimulated, or ignored at home and at school.
I think the real problem isn't that the programmers should make more, it is that the traders should make LESS
I don't know that I agree. I think this is a very subjective issue. The reality is, the amount of revenue derived partially from these programmers has absolutely nothing to do with what their compensation is or should be. By their rationale, every teller at a bank should have salaries commensurate with that bank's revenue, since they're an element in processing deposits/checks/payments/etc. Hell, the data center I run makes millions every hour, but I don't expect that I should make 7 or 8 figures because of it.
The lesson here is: negotiate well on the way in. Do your homework, find out what the job entails and what responsibilities/liabilities you will have and determine for yourself if the compensation being offered is worth it. Once you cut the deal, that's it. If you don't like it, you can do as the programmers in the article are doing, go somewhere else and try to negotiate a better deal. It ain't personal, it's business.
Not necessarily-the bank tellers process transactions. They don't enable anything in the bank that helps the bank leverage their work to make more money, though. The programmers are writing code that makes the ability for the traders to make millions actually exist.
I watched " The Incredibles" before I went to the theater because the oldest of my three children is 5 and I wanted to makes sure the comments of " its not necessarily a kids movie" werent too on the mark. We ended up going two times, my wife, myself, and my three children. So, some people do watch before they watch, if you will. C
Problem is, in Omaha some kids did just that-chucked some rocks over an overpass....and killed someone. Then, utilizing a little more bad judgement. TMd people about it, neglecting to mention that they HAD hit a cars windshield.
continued... The rights to privacy in the Constitution ( usually framed under some penumbra of the 14th Amendment) only pertain to issues of personal autonomy or medical issues (Berger, or Roe v. Wade type issues). The Constitution explicitly protects some rights and does not protect others. R to P is not one of them. Sucks, but its true. The Constitution says what it says, nothing more, nothing less- there is some wiggle room, legilating from the bench is taking wiggle and turning it into the Macarena.
I am the the OP ( of the comments, anyway) and I still hold that while certain information needs to be private for various reasons, blanket statements like " the Constitution says I have free speech" and " right to privacy" are misleading, not legally or historically accurate, and ultimately dangerous. We don't need to amend the damn thing for every single situation, nor is it the defacto place to run and cite every time someone says their 'rights' violated. A lot of the people in our country don't know their rights anyway, or aren't citizens and don't fall under the documents protection.
But a person doesnt have an expectation of privacy with their email address. They freely paste it all over everything. While I appreciate that the Constitution can be applied to things not directly spelled out, I don't appreciate making laws based on that interpretation for every single situation. I did my time to " support and defend" and while IANAL or even a legal beagle, I think people should suck it up a bit instead of expecting a policy, law, or some sort of action to apply to them. Entitlement mindedness and " whats in it for me" is killing this country. During the Battle of the Bulge ( 60 years ago this week) we lost hundreds of soldiers a day. We lose 2-3 on average, and in only one AO and suddenly its a quagmire? People need to get their priorities in order. Sue the guy civilly, but for cripes sake, no one ever said that your email address was 'yours'.
I dont know about that, but I feel that I dont have the right to be not offended...( sorry, another topic I read about on Fark). Email/internet access is largley a 'public' forum just like outside- the only difference is the public isnt present at the creation of the speech in question. It may be days or weeks, but that email, forum post, etc will still show up somewhere.
How is it invasion of privacy? Its not that hard to get a list of email. Citizens are not guaranteed a 'right to privacy' anywhere in the Constitution or D of Ind. I don't think the individual customers could could sue under class action because nothing was stolen from them- they still have use of the address, and as an AOL user they probably signed up for so much crap that their email address is out there all over the net anyway. The employee did break his NDA surely, and should be treated as such.
+1 Gotcha. I just really upset with the slacker nation types. Im 27, a disabled vet, and though not overtly political, I try to stay abreast of the info. I think that the third party candidates being arrested, however is a rights issue that affects everyone, technical or otherwise though, and as such was a good post.
Thanks for replying. I didnt mean to sound flamey.
How does the political process not affect the state of technology in the US? With a few strokes of a pen and disregard for being elected, a President could theoretically declare various advanced technologies a "clear and present danger to the security of the United States" and restrict R/D on those to Natick and the military only. So much for your Doom 3 then. I fail to understand how the more intelligent people of this particular forum vs. some of the 'beat up the candidate of the day' sites out there could be so d**n bored and dissaffected. If you dont vote or participate, don't complain-regardless of your affiliation or even if you just write in.
http://www.debates.org/pages/news_041006.html Here are the "rules" for admitting third party candidates into the debates. I feel SO represented, believe me. Whats the point?
*emphasis intentional on young*