"Apple throws a tantrum" is "accurate"? Nobody had headlines like "Samsung loses $1billion case, throws a tantrum and demands HTC documents." This is biased reporting, pure and simple.
But we're talking about a presidential elections, the future of the national government rests on this.
Actually, it doesn't. FiveThirtyEight has the probability of Texas breaking for Romney at 100%
While this is true, giving in to the Texas AG's biased demands is part of what keeps Texas from coming and joining modern society in terms of fair and transparent government.
come on, both major political parties in the US are considered far right in any other sane country
Your downvotes not withstanding, you are pretty much correct. Those downvoting you need to let go of their jingoism and go find out what political stances countries besides this one hold. Both U.S. parties pander to big business, something that pretty much NO other country's politicians do.
Legitimately registered voters are allowed to show up, vote, and then leave in an orderly manner. They are not allowed to loiter around the polls all day trying to influence the outcome of the election. And "observers" who aren't even legally registered to vote sure as hell shouldn't be doing that either.
Why are so many people getting uber-defensive about foreigners influencing the election? Dude, they are only here to OBSERVE. They are an impartial 3rd party just as officials in a football game are. They are the only impartial observers you're going to get. Having locals view the polls is like having the umpire of a baseball game be a member of the home team; he would have a vested interest in turning a blind eye to malfeasance.
Getting your hackles up about foreign observers is a sure sign that you're jingoistic and think the USA can do no wrong. And, my, how wrong such thinking is.
unless you are willing to post that you want election "observers" (and by "observers" I don't mean members of the Obama campaign organization) in places like Cook County Illinois, then you are full of crap.
Well, at least it is a good way to destroy science.
How? Does mining have reality warping properties that destroy consistency of observation? From what it sounds, the public universities of Pennsylvania have funding trouble and this is a way to get funding. There is a problem and there is a solution.
1)The problem was caused by Corbett himself when he cut funding for the schools.
2) It's not demonstrated that it's a solution. Who is to say that the money derived from this will be kept by the schools, or even if it is, that it will be enough to make a dent in their financial situation?
3) Even if it's an adequate funding solution, it causes other well-documented problems. You cannot solve problems in a vacuum; you must consider consequences.
"Many countries with a trial-by-jury system (particularly the United States) tend to feel that the deliberations of a jury are private and sacrosanct, and such verdicts generally are allowed to stand." (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jury_nullification)
Not sure if you knew this fluffy99, but the new connector doesn't support analog either. Also, it's proprietary, so it really fucks everyone good. Not sure if you enjoy watching everyone get fucked, but that's what proprietary connectors do.
They also advance standards. Micro-USB has many failings compared to the new connector. New things are good, not "fucked", CoolHand. I think the new connector is pretty cool. The only thing wrong is Apple charging $29 for an adaptor. That part is indefensible.
Apple's new proprietary connector is only there to continue to lock you into new products and to force 3rd party device creators to have to licence the new connector and create a whole new wave of for-iPhone-only devices. Every time you see any proprietary connector, think of it as someone poking you in the eye with a dick. That's really what it is. They are fucking you. In the eye. With a dick.
So yeah, fuck Apple.
Really. So the new connector has absolutely no advantages whatsoever over the old 30-pin connector with its now unused Firewire pins, or the non-reversible and only 2-pin data mini-USB? REALLY?
In the new company, software is not what this company does primarily.
I've always tried to be in companies in which what I did was directly tied to the company's main business.
The downside is that makes you a small fish in a big pond. I work IT in a company whose primary business is not IT. That makes me a big fish in a small pond. I'm needed. It gives me serious job security. And I'm exposed daily to people who do something outside of IT so I don't feel like I'm in super-geek mode 100% of the time. There can be serious upsides to not working in a company that does all one thing.
And if you feel pangs of wanting to connect with more people in your field, use social media. I use Twitter heavily to connect with others in my IT specialty. Oh, and attend a couple of conferences a year. You can get your geek on for 3-5 days and feel great, then return with all you learned. It works./P
Many posts will talk about happiness and growth and pay. I will concentrate on age. I was all with you staying at your current job and being happy until I saw the one crucial tidbit: You're 40. That's the killer age after which finding a job in IT becomes very difficult. The job you have at age 40 is likely the IT job you'll be stuck at until you retire. Companies deny it, but they hire 20-somethings because they're cheap and (the companies think) they're moldable to anything they want them to be (they aren't).
Don't think my post is coming from a young'un who is putting down older workers; I'm 44. You're literally at the end of your rope, career-wise and so am I. You have a chance to get a 10% raise and transition into management (away from the deathtrap of IT). OMFG, DO IT NOW NOW NOW. Do it while you can. Get the money now before the industry pegs you a "has been".
Seriously. Go. Even if your'e a bit less happy you'll be better off career-wise and retirement-wise. It's the adult, smart choice. Go.
I notice he has made exceptions for existing works such as "Lolita"... of course because to ban that he would be castigated. But he doesn't seem to have an exception for the psychiatrists who possess such descriptions as they are attempting to treat patients.Or researchers who possess such descriptions as they are attempting to write papers about human sexual behavior. Nope; those are all arrest-worthy to this person.....who is likely having such thoughts himself, just as gay bashers are more likely than not to be gay themselves.
But overall this is nothing more than the thought police coming around again. "Now that we control the pictures, we must control the words!"
We all know this is because of this F&^cked up patent system in the USA. So when are you guys trying to make some changes?
And I'm quite sure there are no stupid laws on the books in your country that, because there's no public knowledge of or interest in them, will not get changed.
Crowdsource the job of responding to them all. I'm sure enough of us are infuriated at this turn of events that we could all lend a hand. I think the first thing you'd need is a lawyer-type to draft a boilerplate response. Nothing too long, but substantial enough to explain in, say, 3 paragraphs that you are 1) your site is 100% legal, 2) this is a standard feature of the readers, and 3) no money will be paid out to anyone under any circumstances. Then let us volunteers each "adopt" a complaint to handle. If a sufficient percentage can be done away with, perhaps your venture can survive.
There are two kinds of people who have read Ayn Rand. Those who understand that individual liberty are not dirty words, and those who like to put dirty words in other people's mouths.
Your post was confusing until I saw your screen name.
.. in other news, Apple's new bot downloading cluster works perfectly. 2.8 million test downloads in 4 days.
Cute.
Whether it was being downloaded by bots or humans, this story was interesting to me from a distributed payload distribution angle. At 4.1Gb a copy, that many Mountain Lions comes out to over 12 petabytes transferred in under four days. That had potential to clog up Ted Stevens' series of tubes, but I've not heard of any problems.
Why the hell would someone just decide to sue a company later "for some reason"? If you don't know if you're ever going to sue a company by the time an exit interview is asked for, you're probably a troll.
Interesting troll post.
Fact is, sometimes you're let go and only later find out the real reason you were let go. Or you don't realize at the time you're let go that what the company is doing is illegal. In both cases, you certainly don't know you have a case at the time of the exit interview.
Have you ever thought marrying, having kids and a family are fundamental rights of a human (and even an animal)?
"Fundamental right" or not, you having a "right" doesn't magically make the money to support that kid appear out of thin air. You also have a responsibility to only procreate if you have both the time and resources to properly raise the kid.
I'd heard the comments about "whooshing" before I ever encountered a modern windmill. It's B.S. Now that I've been around several (of varying sizes) I know they are nearly silent. Warnings about windmill noise are purely F.U.D.
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No, just accurate.
"Apple throws a tantrum" is "accurate"? Nobody had headlines like "Samsung loses $1billion case, throws a tantrum and demands HTC documents." This is biased reporting, pure and simple.
But we're talking about a presidential elections, the future of the national government rests on this.
Actually, it doesn't. FiveThirtyEight has the probability of Texas breaking for Romney at 100%
While this is true, giving in to the Texas AG's biased demands is part of what keeps Texas from coming and joining modern society in terms of fair and transparent government.
come on, both major political parties in the US are considered far right in any other sane country
Your downvotes not withstanding, you are pretty much correct. Those downvoting you need to let go of their jingoism and go find out what political stances countries besides this one hold. Both U.S. parties pander to big business, something that pretty much NO other country's politicians do.
Legitimately registered voters are allowed to show up, vote, and then leave in an orderly manner. They are not allowed to loiter around the polls all day trying to influence the outcome of the election. And "observers" who aren't even legally registered to vote sure as hell shouldn't be doing that either.
Why are so many people getting uber-defensive about foreigners influencing the election? Dude, they are only here to OBSERVE. They are an impartial 3rd party just as officials in a football game are. They are the only impartial observers you're going to get. Having locals view the polls is like having the umpire of a baseball game be a member of the home team; he would have a vested interest in turning a blind eye to malfeasance.
Getting your hackles up about foreign observers is a sure sign that you're jingoistic and think the USA can do no wrong. And, my, how wrong such thinking is.
unless you are willing to post that you want election "observers" (and by "observers" I don't mean members of the Obama campaign organization) in places like Cook County Illinois, then you are full of crap.
We want them everywhere. Unlike the GOP.
Well, at least it is a good way to destroy science.
How? Does mining have reality warping properties that destroy consistency of observation? From what it sounds, the public universities of Pennsylvania have funding trouble and this is a way to get funding. There is a problem and there is a solution.
1)The problem was caused by Corbett himself when he cut funding for the schools.
2) It's not demonstrated that it's a solution. Who is to say that the money derived from this will be kept by the schools, or even if it is, that it will be enough to make a dent in their financial situation?
3) Even if it's an adequate funding solution, it causes other well-documented problems. You cannot solve problems in a vacuum; you must consider consequences.
You are assuming he asks his employees for their Facebook password. I'd be willing to bet he doesn't.
...I figure yet another reason not to have a Facebook account....bypasses the problem (and many other privacy issues) entirely.
Except not having a FB account at all is apparently reason for employers to reject you now. Seriously. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/08/06/beware-tech-abandoners-people-without-facebook-accounts-are-suspicious/
I'd be astounded if this were limited to just the science field.
When were gays ever lynched in America?
There have been multiple incidents of gays being dragged to their deaths behind cars. While this is not technically lynching, it's a close cousin.
"Many countries with a trial-by-jury system (particularly the United States) tend to feel that the deliberations of a jury are private and sacrosanct, and such verdicts generally are allowed to stand." (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jury_nullification)
Well I am paying the interest and principle on money borrowed in 1955.
The money spent in 1955 has long since been paid off. So...no you're not.
Not sure if you knew this fluffy99, but the new connector doesn't support analog either. Also, it's proprietary, so it really fucks everyone good. Not sure if you enjoy watching everyone get fucked, but that's what proprietary connectors do.
They also advance standards. Micro-USB has many failings compared to the new connector. New things are good, not "fucked", CoolHand. I think the new connector is pretty cool. The only thing wrong is Apple charging $29 for an adaptor. That part is indefensible.
Apple's new proprietary connector is only there to continue to lock you into new products and to force 3rd party device creators to have to licence the new connector and create a whole new wave of for-iPhone-only devices. Every time you see any proprietary connector, think of it as someone poking you in the eye with a dick. That's really what it is. They are fucking you. In the eye. With a dick. So yeah, fuck Apple.
Really. So the new connector has absolutely no advantages whatsoever over the old 30-pin connector with its now unused Firewire pins, or the non-reversible and only 2-pin data mini-USB? REALLY?
Please go look at the specs before posting.
I can over DLNA. NO wires needed. Get with the program grandpa. Wires are so OVER.
Go charge your Android wirelessly. I'll wait....
The red flag for me was,
In the new company, software is not what this company does primarily.
I've always tried to be in companies in which what I did was directly tied to the company's main business.
The downside is that makes you a small fish in a big pond. I work IT in a company whose primary business is not IT. That makes me a big fish in a small pond. I'm needed. It gives me serious job security. And I'm exposed daily to people who do something outside of IT so I don't feel like I'm in super-geek mode 100% of the time. There can be serious upsides to not working in a company that does all one thing.
And if you feel pangs of wanting to connect with more people in your field, use social media. I use Twitter heavily to connect with others in my IT specialty. Oh, and attend a couple of conferences a year. You can get your geek on for 3-5 days and feel great, then return with all you learned. It works./P
Don't think my post is coming from a young'un who is putting down older workers; I'm 44. You're literally at the end of your rope, career-wise and so am I. You have a chance to get a 10% raise and transition into management (away from the deathtrap of IT). OMFG, DO IT NOW NOW NOW. Do it while you can. Get the money now before the industry pegs you a "has been".
Seriously. Go. Even if your'e a bit less happy you'll be better off career-wise and retirement-wise. It's the adult, smart choice. Go.
But overall this is nothing more than the thought police coming around again. "Now that we control the pictures, we must control the words!"
We all know this is because of this F&^cked up patent system in the USA. So when are you guys trying to make some changes?
And I'm quite sure there are no stupid laws on the books in your country that, because there's no public knowledge of or interest in them, will not get changed.
Crowdsource the job of responding to them all. I'm sure enough of us are infuriated at this turn of events that we could all lend a hand. I think the first thing you'd need is a lawyer-type to draft a boilerplate response. Nothing too long, but substantial enough to explain in, say, 3 paragraphs that you are 1) your site is 100% legal, 2) this is a standard feature of the readers, and 3) no money will be paid out to anyone under any circumstances. Then let us volunteers each "adopt" a complaint to handle. If a sufficient percentage can be done away with, perhaps your venture can survive.
There are two kinds of people who have read Ayn Rand. Those who understand that individual liberty are not dirty words, and those who like to put dirty words in other people's mouths.
Your post was confusing until I saw your screen name.
Cute.
Whether it was being downloaded by bots or humans, this story was interesting to me from a distributed payload distribution angle. At 4.1Gb a copy, that many Mountain Lions comes out to over 12 petabytes transferred in under four days. That had potential to clog up Ted Stevens' series of tubes, but I've not heard of any problems.
Why the hell would someone just decide to sue a company later "for some reason"? If you don't know if you're ever going to sue a company by the time an exit interview is asked for, you're probably a troll.
Interesting troll post.
Fact is, sometimes you're let go and only later find out the real reason you were let go. Or you don't realize at the time you're let go that what the company is doing is illegal. In both cases, you certainly don't know you have a case at the time of the exit interview.
Have you ever thought marrying, having kids and a family are fundamental rights of a human (and even an animal)?
"Fundamental right" or not, you having a "right" doesn't magically make the money to support that kid appear out of thin air. You also have a responsibility to only procreate if you have both the time and resources to properly raise the kid.
I'd heard the comments about "whooshing" before I ever encountered a modern windmill. It's B.S. Now that I've been around several (of varying sizes) I know they are nearly silent. Warnings about windmill noise are purely F.U.D.