The problem, of course, is that the rich are the entrepreneurs. That's how they become rich in the first place. The other problem, of course, will be the need to kick those awesome entrepreneurs you speak so hopefully of out of the country once they commit the sin of actually making some money and magically morph into one of the damn dirty rich people.
Entrepreneurs do it becaus it excites and interests them, capping their earnings at a million euros wouldn't make any difference.
If you're the sort of cunt who likes exploiting people, taking risks with the law and generally being entrepreneurial, you'll do it whatever it earns you, even if it's less on average than getting a normal job.
Entrepreneurs are like career criminals. They enjoy bucking the system, and do it even if they don't end up financially better off than Mr Average working 9 to 5.
because it's just too difficult for the Court to prove she downloaded the file (and not a neighbour or a relative on a visit).
Yeah, due process is pretty hard. Why don't we just get rid of all of it? Just throw people in prison based on mere accusations.
Oh please, it's just the same as when your car is caught speeding by a speed camera. The ticket goes to the registered driver, and they will be liable unless they can prove they definitely weren't driving.
No big deal. Not The Evil World Government infringing on your human rights.
When did exchange consulting become the goal of CS students? That's what you get one of those MS certificate courses or something to get into.
So what fantastic theoretical gift to mankind do you intend to allow yourself to be persuaded to contribute to in between curing cancer and discovering fucking time travel?
I assume that most of the arrogant twattery in this thread is coming from students who have an Anonymous desktop background on the Apple SuperThinExpensive Mac their daddy bought them to go to college with, and not people who actually have to go out and find work.
If you have a CS degree, why the hell are you working an IT job?
To earn some money to buy food? I dunno, why do you get any job?,br>
The idea that eveyone ends up working in some dream continuation of whatever their favourite subject happended to be at college is just bollocks, I'm afraid. Do you really think that all the people working as security guards, night cleaners or lap dancers dreamed about doing that when they were at school?
Or do you just think that because you're so clever and could install your own OS when you were 6 that you have some special right to be happy?
My first time to college, the Intro to Business instructor pointed out to us that the primary motivator for CEO's and entrepreneurs is money, but for employees it's actually appreciation.
Actually their primary motivator is gaining power to feed their egos. Money is just the easiest way to measure power nowadays, now we've largely got rid of kings and nobles.
Employees/normal people mostly just want to be happy.
After he finished up, we asked what he did in his spare time. His answer? "Homework". To him, programming wasn't just something he did for classes
Maybe he doesn't speak English as his first language, but "homework" is some specific piece of work assigned by your school, and if it's taking up all your spare time you're doing something wrong.
If he'd said "I do my own programming projects, and read non-set CS books" then fair enough.
I do not play the HR games on purpose. If a company is dumb enough or big enough to let HR get involved in selecting white-collar candidates, I do not want to work there.
If a company is small enough or unprofessional enough not to have HR involved in selecting white-collar candidates, I don't want to work there. All the best places I have ever worked have had some form of HR department, all the worst have relied on the "gut instincts" of the owner/manager, which may be fine for making money but are generally insufficient for anything else.
I remember a friend of mine who had to check a box that he had "5 years of experience with Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server"... in 2002. If he didn't state that he did, his resume would not be put forward.
I forget sometimes just how many absolutely literal-minded people there are on slashdot, so that maybe al the self-diagnosed Asperger's Syndrome cases aren't so implausible after all.
Obviously, they meant "5 years experience with Microsofts's Exchange Server products, the latest of which is version 2000". It's like asking for five years experience with Ubuntu 12 - you're allowed to count your time using 11, 10, 9...
In my previous job my manager was asked to provide a list of keywords that would be used as a filter for resumes.
The list of keywords did not reflect what is in the advertised job description, so if you didn't guess the correct keywords, you were never going to get through.
More and more it's just blind luck if you will put in the phrases that are important, at the same time as writing something that will parse well enough to demonstrate good communication skills.
I expect your manager wasn't very popular with HR and his own boss when they failed to employ someone even vaguely suitable.
My theory is it doesn't work. HR filters out most of the chaff, but almost all of the wheat, so the manager gets more crap, percentagewise, than he would using random sampling.
There are two ways of dealing with annoyances like having to fill in job application forms for HR people with no real idea what your job entails. One is to sit on your high horse, feel good about clever you are and become a penniless martyr; the other is to adapt to real life.
It's the same as the women who whinge about the glass ceiling whilst simultaneously saying "Oh, but I need to leave at 3pm every day to pick the kids up" - tough fucking shit, get your husband to do it or accept that that's the price you pay for choosing to be the member of the family who opts to do less hours.
Taking a wild guess here, but are you male?
Racists, ageists and other bigots thankfully tend to get selected out in the world of business
Yes, that is the line always used by people who oppose anti-discrimination legislation. Because obviously, the market sorts out all problems as long as you leave it alone.
Do what I do. Start it paused, but then put your phone/pad/musicy in your pocket and say to the stewards when they ask that the music is off but you're using your headphones as ear defenders to make the flight quieter. Then slip your hand in your pocket and start it playing again.
So when can I start using my iPad during "all phases of the flight"?
When you grow up to become an airline pilot. As a bonus, you get all the hot ass you can handle. Plus the female cabin crew are there if you're that way inclined..
Jeppesen has products for Android. But you're going to pay for those.
Because obviously no one ever has to pay for anything on an iPad. Every single piece of software, especially if it's for commercial use, is free. Obviously.
Which is why you can spot the poseurs easily. real travelers have a standard GPS
I'd rather have a poseur student with an iPhone and ironic facial hair having a laugh backpacking than a smug twat who thinks he is a "real traveller" but needs a GPS to get from an irport to his hotel.
Most Android tablets are simply too small to usefully convey the same quantity of information on a single page and be just as legible. We're not talking about pocketbooks here... we're talking about reference material, which simply isn't as amenable to reformatting on a smaller pages or displays as text in a book that you might read for pleasure would be.
You do know that you can get Android tablets that are bigger than an iPad?
Just because they use consumer equipment, they don't have to use it in the consumer manner.
Which invites the question, why use overpriced iPads in the first place if you just want a tablet format device to store documents on? Why not a much cheaper Android tablet, if you don't need the Apple logo and general shiny "coolness"?
Personally, I bet they store all the documents in Apple's iCloud or whatever it's called, and are hoping to leverage economies of scale by the leveraging of core enterprise-wide information protocol synergies..
Over the years, we get better at making things safer. Better rubber, suspensions, steering, aerodynamics. It should be true that we can drive faster on the same roads given overall equipment improvement.
Not really. Most accidents are caused by some form of driver error, not equipment failure. And at higher speeds, driver errors tend to result in worse accidents.
If you are driving your vehicle at the limit of its tyres/suspension/whatever, you should be on a racetrack, not a public road.
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The problem, of course, is that the rich are the entrepreneurs. That's how they become rich in the first place. The other problem, of course, will be the need to kick those awesome entrepreneurs you speak so hopefully of out of the country once they commit the sin of actually making some money and magically morph into one of the damn dirty rich people.
Entrepreneurs do it becaus it excites and interests them, capping their earnings at a million euros wouldn't make any difference.
If you're the sort of cunt who likes exploiting people, taking risks with the law and generally being entrepreneurial, you'll do it whatever it earns you, even if it's less on average than getting a normal job.
Entrepreneurs are like career criminals. They enjoy bucking the system, and do it even if they don't end up financially better off than Mr Average working 9 to 5.
A lot less dumbass than elsewhere: 150 euros is a slap on the wrist.
Tell that to someone that earns about 1000 euros a month...
A married couple in France are not going to be earning only 1000 euros a month.
because it's just too difficult for the Court to prove she downloaded the file (and not a neighbour or a relative on a visit).
Yeah, due process is pretty hard. Why don't we just get rid of all of it? Just throw people in prison based on mere accusations.
Oh please, it's just the same as when your car is caught speeding by a speed camera. The ticket goes to the registered driver, and they will be liable unless they can prove they definitely weren't driving.
No big deal. Not The Evil World Government infringing on your human rights.
Wait, what?
When did exchange consulting become the goal of CS students? That's what you get one of those MS certificate courses or something to get into.
So what fantastic theoretical gift to mankind do you intend to allow yourself to be persuaded to contribute to in between curing cancer and discovering fucking time travel?
I assume that most of the arrogant twattery in this thread is coming from students who have an Anonymous desktop background on the Apple SuperThinExpensive Mac their daddy bought them to go to college with, and not people who actually have to go out and find work.
If you have a CS degree, why the hell are you working an IT job?
To earn some money to buy food? I dunno, why do you get any job? ,br>
The idea that eveyone ends up working in some dream continuation of whatever their favourite subject happended to be at college is just bollocks, I'm afraid. Do you really think that all the people working as security guards, night cleaners or lap dancers dreamed about doing that when they were at school? Or do you just think that because you're so clever and could install your own OS when you were 6 that you have some special right to be happy?
My first time to college, the Intro to Business instructor pointed out to us that the primary motivator for CEO's and entrepreneurs is money, but for employees it's actually appreciation.
Actually their primary motivator is gaining power to feed their egos. Money is just the easiest way to measure power nowadays, now we've largely got rid of kings and nobles.
Employees/normal people mostly just want to be happy.
Pretty sure some out there would say I don't have a life
They're just totally envious of your 1337 skillz.
After he finished up, we asked what he did in his spare time. His answer? "Homework". To him, programming wasn't just something he did for classes
Maybe he doesn't speak English as his first language, but "homework" is some specific piece of work assigned by your school, and if it's taking up all your spare time you're doing something wrong.
If he'd said "I do my own programming projects, and read non-set CS books" then fair enough.
I do not play the HR games on purpose. If a company is dumb enough or big enough to let HR get involved in selecting white-collar candidates, I do not want to work there.
If a company is small enough or unprofessional enough not to have HR involved in selecting white-collar candidates, I don't want to work there. All the best places I have ever worked have had some form of HR department, all the worst have relied on the "gut instincts" of the owner/manager, which may be fine for making money but are generally insufficient for anything else.
I remember a friend of mine who had to check a box that he had "5 years of experience with Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server"... in 2002. If he didn't state that he did, his resume would not be put forward.
I forget sometimes just how many absolutely literal-minded people there are on slashdot, so that maybe al the self-diagnosed Asperger's Syndrome cases aren't so implausible after all.
Obviously, they meant "5 years experience with Microsofts's Exchange Server products, the latest of which is version 2000". It's like asking for five years experience with Ubuntu 12 - you're allowed to count your time using 11, 10, 9...
In my previous job my manager was asked to provide a list of keywords that would be used as a filter for resumes.
The list of keywords did not reflect what is in the advertised job description, so if you didn't guess the correct keywords, you were never going to get through.
More and more it's just blind luck if you will put in the phrases that are important, at the same time as writing something that will parse well enough to demonstrate good communication skills.
I expect your manager wasn't very popular with HR and his own boss when they failed to employ someone even vaguely suitable.
My theory is it doesn't work. HR filters out most of the chaff, but almost all of the wheat, so the manager gets more crap, percentagewise, than he would using random sampling.
There are two ways of dealing with annoyances like having to fill in job application forms for HR people with no real idea what your job entails. One is to sit on your high horse, feel good about clever you are and become a penniless martyr; the other is to adapt to real life.
It's the same as the women who whinge about the glass ceiling whilst simultaneously saying "Oh, but I need to leave at 3pm every day to pick the kids up" - tough fucking shit, get your husband to do it or accept that that's the price you pay for choosing to be the member of the family who opts to do less hours.
Taking a wild guess here, but are you male?
Racists, ageists and other bigots thankfully tend to get selected out in the world of business
Yes, that is the line always used by people who oppose anti-discrimination legislation. Because obviously, the market sorts out all problems as long as you leave it alone.
I think, or rather I hope for the sake of humanity, that GP was joking.
Do what I do. Start it paused, but then put your phone/pad/musicy in your pocket and say to the stewards when they ask that the music is off but you're using your headphones as ear defenders to make the flight quieter. Then slip your hand in your pocket and start it playing again.
Wow, you're a dick.
Does Microsoft Flight Simulator exist for the iPad now?
There are no good serious games on the iPad.
So when can I start using my iPad during "all phases of the flight"?
When you grow up to become an airline pilot. As a bonus, you get all the hot ass you can handle. Plus the female cabin crew are there if you're that way inclined..
Jeppesen has products for Android. But you're going to pay for those.
Because obviously no one ever has to pay for anything on an iPad. Every single piece of software, especially if it's for commercial use, is free. Obviously.
I weigh 160lbs and my girlfriend weighs 110lbs.
This is slashdot, so that is unlikely on two counts.
Is there an open source airline that I can fly on?
If there is, it certainly won't be free as in beer, and I seriously doubt you'll have the freedom to modify the plane while it's flying.
What happens with paper if there are problems with the cockpit light?
Duh, you use the flashlight app on your iPad.
Which is why you can spot the poseurs easily. real travelers have a standard GPS
I'd rather have a poseur student with an iPhone and ironic facial hair having a laugh backpacking than a smug twat who thinks he is a "real traveller" but needs a GPS to get from an irport to his hotel.
My guess would be form factor
Most Android tablets are simply too small to usefully convey the same quantity of information on a single page and be just as legible. We're not talking about pocketbooks here... we're talking about reference material, which simply isn't as amenable to reformatting on a smaller pages or displays as text in a book that you might read for pleasure would be.
You do know that you can get Android tablets that are bigger than an iPad?
Just because they use consumer equipment, they don't have to use it in the consumer manner.
Which invites the question, why use overpriced iPads in the first place if you just want a tablet format device to store documents on? Why not a much cheaper Android tablet, if you don't need the Apple logo and general shiny "coolness"?
Personally, I bet they store all the documents in Apple's iCloud or whatever it's called, and are hoping to leverage economies of scale by the leveraging of core enterprise-wide information protocol synergies..
Over the years, we get better at making things safer. Better rubber, suspensions, steering, aerodynamics. It should be true that we can drive faster on the same roads given overall equipment improvement.
Not really. Most accidents are caused by some form of driver error, not equipment failure. And at higher speeds, driver errors tend to result in worse accidents.
If you are driving your vehicle at the limit of its tyres/suspension/whatever, you should be on a racetrack, not a public road.