Do you have Carpal Tunnel or just muscular strain.
You should go and see a physician immediately... not post to slashdot.
Your company will have insurance against this, but you need to show that you sought medical help appropriately or the insurer may find ground to refuse payment.
Is he morally and ethically wrong to withhold that information from them? Heck yeah! Is it perfectly legal? Absolutely.
The original idea behind the Law and the Legal System is to formalize the moral and ethical beliefs of the society in which they operate, and remove ambiguities to assist in the resolution of disputes. Ergo, if something is morally and ethically wrong, then it should be against the law. That something is legal, but would be regarded by "the society" and immoral and unethical, then the law is wrong and should be changed.
Most of the legal issues we see today is because the letter of the law has become more powerful than the spirit of the law (or the intended spirit of the law). ie: the law is now pre-scriptive rather than de-scriptive.
Dude. The cops had a Tazer, and obviously weren't afraid to use it on students. Nah - better to film what happened and submit it to America's funniest home videos.
That may be the case, but your average viewer has an even poorer concept of science, so at least its making people interested in something other that which cute intern is going to sleep with over-endowed doctor on Gray's Anatomy.
Matt (Plasma Physicist, Science Evangelist and Mythbusters Fan)
Why is he described as outspoken when his opinion is in the majority?
Do as I say, not as I do.
We all hate Death-by-PowerPoint. We've all spent days stuck being bored shitless by PowerPoint presentations, yet when it comes to presenting, most of us still do it.
I usually find that powerpoint is mandatory whenever I'm talking to more than about 20 people. However, I use no words unless they are annotating a diagram, hammering home a key point (max 3 per presentation), or are a bookend to the presentation.
Powerpoint doesn't kill presentations - people kill presenations - usually using powerpoint.
You are always "unlearning". The language, techniques, architecture, whatever that you knew inside out is now obselete.
Business skills do become obselete, but nowhere near as fast.
If you head more into the business side, you will probably become less of a specialist, more of a generalist, but have a better idea of the big picture.
In my experience, there are roles for both. The generalists design and maintain the overall architecture, keeping it steered towards business goals, and the specialists keep the individual components working as well as they possibly can.
As (yet another) MBA candidate, who also had started a Masters in another discipline (Gas Plasma Physics), I can attest that there is a huge difference between a Masters designed to further your knowledge in your area of speciality, and one designed to give you a broad grounding in a complementary subject.
Anybody who tells you that an MBA is a short cut to a million dollar career is either lying, or attending one of the top 7 or 8 business schools on the planet (spread throughout the USA, Europe and maybe one in Asia). People at that level have probably been managers in the financial and/or operations side of Fortune 500 type companies for several years, or are the offspring of people with lots of money. One way or another, they don't have the time to post to slashdot.
The rest of us, attending normal business schools, might make a few contacts, but the real benefit is learning about how business thinks and works, the jargon behind it, and allow us to identify what the core drivers behind business and business process are, which in turn helps us design our IT infrastructure to move with the business. In the end, if the business doesn't understand how IT can help move it forward, we aren't going to have jobs.... or at least not interesting jobs.
I recommend an MBA to everybody in IT. In the end, we all have to integrate with business at some level. Don't go into it expecting miracles or to be satisfied in the same way as learning a new language or protocol or architecture, but it won't be as bad as you anticipated either and doesn't deserve the cynicism.
Matt
Re:That was actually surprisingly good article
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There's a difference between accounting reports for internal management, and accounting reports for public consumption.
Apple stock holders need to know the overall costs and profits of the Apple iPod business so that they can see how much its running. Why do they need to know the production cost of an individual iPod? So they can point out ways to reduce costs? Stockholders are NOT managers.
If you have doubts that a company the size of Apple is incapable of optimizing the production costs of its products and should be doing it as cheap as possible, sell the shares and invest in Wal*Mart.
#4: User deletes a file deemed by somebody important to be critical and you have to get it back.
Its amazing how much money is spent planning for the once-in-a-lifetime Twin-Towers disaster event, and how little is spent on the daily occurance of user-error. Unfortunately "User is an idiot" doesn't wash when its the company's financial records or the birthday party shots of the CEO's kid.
- Don't permit users to save things to their local disks. Ensure all files go onto a share that can be centrally backed-up. Important people (CEO, COO, etc) need to be treated as exceptions and have their Personal PCs, PDAs and even phone memories backed up somehow.
#5: Your CFO is found to be embezzeling money from the company, and you have to show compliance with whichever standards.
This is actually not a backup issue, but an archiving issue, but should be addressed at the same time as backup to ensure you have no holes in your solution.
You've opened a huge can of worms, but one that rightly should be opened. My advice to you is to call in EMC, Sun StorageTek and Symantec and get their presales engineers to do as much legwork as possible before they try to turn it into a chargable engagement. Having all three in there means th (DONT call HP - Omniback is a dog). This will give you enough information to present to your manager or whoever is appropriate and get some idea of what budget they will give you. That's going to be your single biggest constraint. Backup/DR/BC is something that will easily absorb all the cash that you throw at it.
Just remember - No matter what EMC say, Tape's not dead - not even close - though it is no longer necessarily the best solution for quick restores of recently changed/deleted information.
There are experts in this stuff - trust me I am one - and we get paid a shitload. Trick is, we don't really know that much more than you, we just do it everyday. Exploit vendors' presales engineers. That's what they are there for.
All contracts - verbal or otherwise, require offer, acceptance and consideration. Under Australian law add reality of consent, capacity to contract and legality of object.
Offer and acceptance in verbal contracts are where the debate usually lies, but something of value needs to move between the parties - ie consideration. It doesn't need to be sufficient, but it needs to be. So if your Mum decides to give you her house, you need to buy it for a dollar to make to contract water tight.
Thus "I give you $8 and you give me that packet of cigarettes over there" is a contract, but "I'll wash your car on Saturday" is not.
I this case, I don't see the consideration. You may be able to argue that the lawyers have given him something, or at least the possibility of something. But if he hasn't given them anything, then there is no contract.
IANALBIDACLSIMMBA (I am not a lawyer but I did a contract law subject in my MBA)
Only on slashdot would a question on educational methods turn into a religious debate.
Go back a step - What are you trying to teach your students to do? Which teaching method will satisfy these goals?
If these guys are going out into the real world as programmers at the end of the course, they will need to know the tools that they are going to be seeing in the real world. But knowinwghow to drive a tool is not sufficient to produce good developers.
If your students know nothing, and you have to cover the basics, then do it with as little extraneous distraction as possible. You don't want to be fielding questions about "What does this button do" while you are trying to explain pointer arithmetic.
Once they know how to string a program together (no pun intended), teach them how to develop code using an IDE, then teach them how to architect applications using an IDE to write their code. Build a solid foundation before moving up to more complicated techniques and concepts.
Of course, if these guys are going out to an indian outsourcer, turn on all the help in the IDE and sign somebody else's name to the graduation certificate.
Unless the company is a big name which has developed relationships with a few, select recruiting firms, the problem is likely to be the recruiter.
Remember, these guys aren't tech, and a keyword search is about all they can do. I've had some luck getting interviews by forcing the company name out of the recruiter, then giving them a call direct, stating that you've spoken to the recruiter but were looking for more information that the recruiter was able to provide. This means you don't cut the recruiter out of the loop which means no legal wrangling over finder's fees.
It also allows you to size up the employer. If get upset and say they only ever go through the recruiter, you don't want to work there. You might be qualified, but that doesn't mean that anybody else is.
Bigger shops tend to have recruiters that are a bit more useful, and the first "recruiter" interview often will filter you based on team-fit and other such non-technical criteria.
During the 80s, Sony made some very very solid mid-range hi-fi products. I have one of the first ever 5-disc CD changes, and its still going strong (except the the need for a reboot every now and then). You also have to give them credit for the walkman, the discman, and for their involvement in a number of good standards that have moved moosic and data storage forward.
However, modern Sony music kit is less "Hi-Fi" and more "oooooh... pretty flash lights", and although modern fabrication techniques mean that good manufacturing comes out of pretty well anywhere these days, Sonys switch from "Made in Japan" to wherever they went caused a drop in quality from which they never recovered.
In the data space, Ive had more problems with Sony media than any other brand, and that goes from 1.44MB floppies to DAT tapes to SDLT to DVD-R.
I dont hate sony, but I dont buy anything they produce any more.
> ignoring problems with misbehaving members of the public.
Yes. Chances are a lot lower that some moron will insist on speaking loudly on a mobile phone during a movie shown in a home theatre, and if they do, you can always rewind and see that bit again.
This is why thumping people who speak on mobile phones during movies should not just be legalized, but actively encouraged.
I think quite a large proportion of slashdotters were victims of bullying, just because of the demographic we are. Although there are a number of Quarterbacks who post here, they'd be in the minority to those who develop skin rashes if exposed to light from any source except a CRT.
I was bullied at school. I was loud, small, got top grades without effort and sucked at sport. There were maybe three people who figured I was an easy target. One of those persisted until I finally had the cops called on him, one grew out of it, and the third finally left me alone when he pushed me too far and I just happened to have a steel ruler in my hand (it was not premeditated, just poor timing on his behalf). Wearing a scar delivered by the school nerd is not a good way to earn cool points.
Do you fight back? If you have no choice - if there's nowhere to run or if running will leave somebody you care about in greater danger - or if running is only a temporary fix - "We know where you live".
In this case, if the school isn't doing anything after repeated reports and complaints, then you have no choice.
Most standover/bullying tactics will stop as soon as the person delivering them relises that the consequences of continuing are real and more unplesant that the benefits of continuing.
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Do you have Carpal Tunnel or just muscular strain.
You should go and see a physician immediately... not post to slashdot.
Your company will have insurance against this, but you need to show that you sought medical help appropriately or the insurer may find ground to refuse payment.
You obviously aren't as ugly as the rest of us here....
The Mapuches are permitted to carry cultural weapons in court. Your call.
The original idea behind the Law and the Legal System is to formalize the moral and ethical beliefs of the society in which they operate, and remove ambiguities to assist in the resolution of disputes. Ergo, if something is morally and ethically wrong, then it should be against the law. That something is legal, but would be regarded by "the society" and immoral and unethical, then the law is wrong and should be changed.
Most of the legal issues we see today is because the letter of the law has become more powerful than the spirit of the law (or the intended spirit of the law). ie: the law is now pre-scriptive rather than de-scriptive.
Dude. The cops had a Tazer, and obviously weren't afraid to use it on students. Nah - better to film what happened and submit it to America's funniest home videos.
For everything else, there's Mastercard
That may be the case, but your average viewer has an even poorer concept of science, so at least its making people interested in something other that which cute intern is going to sleep with over-endowed doctor on Gray's Anatomy.
Matt (Plasma Physicist, Science Evangelist and Mythbusters Fan)
Then they should get out of the bar, attend the lecture and take their own notes.
$2.50 is a more than reasonable price.
Cool. A supercomputer that turns into a robot OR a jet-fighter!
Steve,
It's not good-bye - Its more like "see ya later, Alligator"
As Ornaments... once the batteries die again.
Do as I say, not as I do.
We all hate Death-by-PowerPoint. We've all spent days stuck being bored shitless by PowerPoint presentations, yet when it comes to presenting, most of us still do it.
I usually find that powerpoint is mandatory whenever I'm talking to more than about 20 people. However, I use no words unless they are annotating a diagram, hammering home a key point (max 3 per presentation), or are a bookend to the presentation.
Powerpoint doesn't kill presentations - people kill presenations - usually using powerpoint.
You are always "unlearning". The language, techniques, architecture, whatever that you knew inside out is now obselete.
Business skills do become obselete, but nowhere near as fast.
If you head more into the business side, you will probably become less of a specialist, more of a generalist, but have a better idea of the big picture.
In my experience, there are roles for both. The generalists design and maintain the overall architecture, keeping it steered towards business goals, and the specialists keep the individual components working as well as they possibly can.
"People Skills"
As (yet another) MBA candidate, who also had started a Masters in another discipline (Gas Plasma Physics), I can attest that there is a huge difference between a Masters designed to further your knowledge in your area of speciality, and one designed to give you a broad grounding in a complementary subject.
Anybody who tells you that an MBA is a short cut to a million dollar career is either lying, or attending one of the top 7 or 8 business schools on the planet (spread throughout the USA, Europe and maybe one in Asia). People at that level have probably been managers in the financial and/or operations side of Fortune 500 type companies for several years, or are the offspring of people with lots of money. One way or another, they don't have the time to post to slashdot.
The rest of us, attending normal business schools, might make a few contacts, but the real benefit is learning about how business thinks and works, the jargon behind it, and allow us to identify what the core drivers behind business and business process are, which in turn helps us design our IT infrastructure to move with the business. In the end, if the business doesn't understand how IT can help move it forward, we aren't going to have jobs.... or at least not interesting jobs.
I recommend an MBA to everybody in IT. In the end, we all have to integrate with business at some level. Don't go into it expecting miracles or to be satisfied in the same way as learning a new language or protocol or architecture, but it won't be as bad as you anticipated either and doesn't deserve the cynicism.
Matt
Apple stock holders need to know the overall costs and profits of the Apple iPod business so that they can see how much its running. Why do they need to know the production cost of an individual iPod? So they can point out ways to reduce costs? Stockholders are NOT managers.
If you have doubts that a company the size of Apple is incapable of optimizing the production costs of its products and should be doing it as cheap as possible, sell the shares and invest in Wal*Mart.
You missed a few:
#4: User deletes a file deemed by somebody important to be critical and you have to get it back.
Its amazing how much money is spent planning for the once-in-a-lifetime Twin-Towers disaster event, and how little is spent on the daily occurance of user-error. Unfortunately "User is an idiot" doesn't wash when its the company's financial records or the birthday party shots of the CEO's kid.
- Don't permit users to save things to their local disks. Ensure all files go onto a share that can be centrally backed-up. Important people (CEO, COO, etc) need to be treated as exceptions and have their Personal PCs, PDAs and even phone memories backed up somehow.
#5: Your CFO is found to be embezzeling money from the company, and you have to show compliance with whichever standards.
This is actually not a backup issue, but an archiving issue, but should be addressed at the same time as backup to ensure you have no holes in your solution.
You've opened a huge can of worms, but one that rightly should be opened. My advice to you is to call in EMC, Sun StorageTek and Symantec and get their presales engineers to do as much legwork as possible before they try to turn it into a chargable engagement. Having all three in there means th
(DONT call HP - Omniback is a dog). This will give you enough information to present to your manager or whoever is appropriate and get some idea of what budget they will give you. That's going to be your single biggest constraint. Backup/DR/BC is something that will easily absorb all the cash that you throw at it.
Just remember - No matter what EMC say, Tape's not dead - not even close - though it is no longer necessarily the best solution for quick restores of recently changed/deleted information.
There are experts in this stuff - trust me I am one - and we get paid a shitload. Trick is, we don't really know that much more than you, we just do it everyday. Exploit vendors' presales engineers. That's what they are there for.
All contracts - verbal or otherwise, require offer, acceptance and consideration. Under Australian law add reality of consent, capacity to contract and legality of object.
Offer and acceptance in verbal contracts are where the debate usually lies, but something of value needs to move between the parties - ie consideration. It doesn't need to be sufficient, but it needs to be. So if your Mum decides to give you her house, you need to buy it for a dollar to make to contract water tight.
Thus "I give you $8 and you give me that packet of cigarettes over there" is a contract, but "I'll wash your car on Saturday" is not.
I this case, I don't see the consideration. You may be able to argue that the lawyers have given him something, or at least the possibility of something. But if he hasn't given them anything, then there is no contract.
IANALBIDACLSIMMBA
(I am not a lawyer but I did a contract law subject in my MBA)
Only on slashdot would a question on educational methods turn into a religious debate.
Go back a step - What are you trying to teach your students to do? Which teaching method will satisfy these goals?
If these guys are going out into the real world as programmers at the end of the course, they will need to know the tools that they are going to be seeing in the real world. But knowinwghow to drive a tool is not sufficient to produce good developers.
If your students know nothing, and you have to cover the basics, then do it with as little extraneous distraction as possible. You don't want to be fielding questions about "What does this button do" while you are trying to explain pointer arithmetic.
Once they know how to string a program together (no pun intended), teach them how to develop code using an IDE, then teach them how to architect applications using an IDE to write their code. Build a solid foundation before moving up to more complicated techniques and concepts.
Of course, if these guys are going out to an indian outsourcer, turn on all the help in the IDE and sign somebody else's name to the graduation certificate.
No, they use multicast which means, in addition to the above, they don't carry the traffic if nobody is watching it.
Unless the company is a big name which has developed relationships with a few, select recruiting firms, the problem is likely to be the recruiter.
Remember, these guys aren't tech, and a keyword search is about all they can do. I've had some luck getting interviews by forcing the company name out of the recruiter, then giving them a call direct, stating that you've spoken to the recruiter but were looking for more information that the recruiter was able to provide. This means you don't cut the recruiter out of the loop which means no legal wrangling over finder's fees.
It also allows you to size up the employer. If get upset and say they only ever go through the recruiter, you don't want to work there. You might be qualified, but that doesn't mean that anybody else is.
Bigger shops tend to have recruiters that are a bit more useful, and the first "recruiter" interview often will filter you based on team-fit and other such non-technical criteria.
"back in the day" is right.
During the 80s, Sony made some very very solid mid-range hi-fi products. I have one of the first ever 5-disc CD changes, and its still going strong (except the the need for a reboot every now and then). You also have to give them credit for the walkman, the discman, and for their involvement in a number of good standards that have moved moosic and data storage forward.
However, modern Sony music kit is less "Hi-Fi" and more "oooooh... pretty flash lights", and although modern fabrication techniques mean that good manufacturing comes out of pretty well anywhere these days, Sonys switch from "Made in Japan" to wherever they went caused a drop in quality from which they never recovered.
In the data space, Ive had more problems with Sony media than any other brand, and that goes from 1.44MB floppies to DAT tapes to SDLT to DVD-R.
I dont hate sony, but I dont buy anything they produce any more.
No. The only way to teach stupid people is reinforce the synapses that associate bad behaviour with extreme physical pain.
> ignoring problems with misbehaving members of the public.
Yes. Chances are a lot lower that some moron will insist on speaking loudly on a mobile phone during a movie shown in a home theatre, and if they do, you can always rewind and see that bit again.
This is why thumping people who speak on mobile phones during movies should not just be legalized, but actively encouraged.
I think quite a large proportion of slashdotters were victims of bullying, just because of the demographic we are. Although there are a number of Quarterbacks who post here, they'd be in the minority to those who develop skin rashes if exposed to light from any source except a CRT.
I was bullied at school. I was loud, small, got top grades without effort and sucked at sport. There were maybe three people who figured I was an easy target. One of those persisted until I finally had the cops called on him, one grew out of it, and the third finally left me alone when he pushed me too far and I just happened to have a steel ruler in my hand (it was not premeditated, just poor timing on his behalf). Wearing a scar delivered by the school nerd is not a good way to earn cool points.
Do you fight back? If you have no choice - if there's nowhere to run or if running will leave somebody you care about in greater danger - or if running is only a temporary fix - "We know where you live".
In this case, if the school isn't doing anything after repeated reports and complaints, then you have no choice.
Most standover/bullying tactics will stop as soon as the person delivering them relises that the consequences of continuing are real and more unplesant that the benefits of continuing.
More importantly, are they going to provide all the information required to actually uninstall this thing?