Whoopee. I get to look at the Blue Earth. I've had that pointless image in my archives for more than a year. This sucks. None of the supposed features work. Anyone claiming to be able to see their house is lying. It's bad enough that it doesn't actually work, but what's worse is that this worthless piece of crap was created using tax dollars.
This is why I am not watching, reading, or listening to ANYTHING related to the Olympics.
It's no longer about international goodwill and peaceful athletic competition, but about making money. This change makes the entire event in all of its forms worthless.
Your attitude is repulsive. Please, share your real name. If I see it on a job application I will then be able to know immediately you are not someone I will hire.
Actually, I know my kids are important to my coworkers and my managers. My boss asks about my kids and wife every week, and he tells me stories about his. My peers and I share babysitting chores amongst each other so that we can have grown-up time with spouses. One coworker has a child with cysitic fibrosis.... YOU would not understand, sql*kitten, but most other humans here WOULD understand what it meant when the entire department along with our wives and kids, including the single people in the team, all got together to join the walkathon to raise money for cystic fibosis studies and to help this guy's little boy.
This concern for children other than mine is not limited to my family and coworkers. It extends into my neighborhood. My neighbors watch my boys occasional evenings, as my wife and I watch theirs sometimes. As a community, my neighborhood watchs all of its children; sometimes I am outside playing with the local kids, sometimes it's the guy next door or the lady across the street. Conversations with my neighbors aren't limited to weather and cars, but children, family, local community events.
Obviously, sql*kitten, you do not understand what it means to care about something other than a career. I pity you. I pray you never have children for their sake. Feel free to keep my name handy, I know a good divorce lawyer. Someday, I guarantee you will need one (assuming you can find someone willing to marry a black-hearted, soulless person such as yourself).
Maybe parents don't "pull their weight" in the workplace compared to non-parents. But that's true only in the eyes of a non-parent.
To a non-parent, a job is a definition of self. You do your job to the best of your ability because of pride, desire to advance, and social acceptance. You do your job well not just to earn your peers' respect but hopefully to make yourself look better than your peers. It's a competition - you against your peers, your company against the other companies. It's a challenge to be overcome and there is a lot of satisfaction in that.
To a parent, a job is something you do so that you have enough money to make certain your kids and spouse have clothes, food, and a roof over their heads. A job is a source of money so that if you are lucky and make enough you can enjoy fun events or toys with your kids and spouse. A job is a source of health insurance to keep you, your spouse, and children healthy at a cost that doesn't bankrupt you if something bad happens to one of them. A job is stressful because it means time away from your kids, time that is forever lost. A job is stressful because you know that you, yes, in counterpoint, you CAN be fired for unfairly offloading your work to your peers (yes, I have seen that happen, a single mom with two troublesome kids was fired by my employer because she left work early so often to deal with brats' schools).
It's a matter of priority. To a parent, children are infinitely more important than anything at work. Work changes instantly from a definition of self to a source of income. And yes, you can be fired quite easily for not maintaining your job, which is a tremendous fear of all parents.
Fortunately, many managers are also parents, and they understand what this means to their employees who have kids.
Being an admin with oncall duty, second and third level help desk chores, and app coding, being a married man with two kids has been easy. At least, after you get accustomed to Rule Number 1:
Family First.
If your employer can't handle your family obligations, then Family First says you get a new employer who can.
If you are on a project that suddenly requires a lot of work, but your child is sick, then Family First says you take care of your child first then do whatever you can to help out with the project second (if that means late nights, it means late nights, if it means burdening your coworkers then burden them).
Maybe I am fortunate, but I have always worked for companies and/or managers that understand the Family First rule, though that might be because all but one of them had kids, too (the only mgr I had who did not have kids was a complete jerk anyway, and he was soon fired for it).
I think you got screwed. The costs of divorce will far exceed the benefits of marriage. In the end, her mother got free tech support, and she gets a house, a car, and a monthly stipend (paid by you, of course). You get nothing. If kids end up being involved, you lose them, too.
Did you stop to think about this patent for a moment? Having the patent means they can now PREVENT anyone else from flooding P2P networks with false files.
Sometimes I just do not understand Slashdotters. Someone finally comes up with a patent and is in a position to PREVENT other people from posting dummy files to P2P networks. It happens to be a patent, so all of a sudden, slashdotters automatically jump on it and call it bad, hideous, etc, and badmouth the people who received the patent.
The knee-jerk reaction of the people on this site can sometimes be astoundingly stupid.
Is it a bad patent? Yes. Can it be used to prevent people/organizations from flooding P2P networks with false files? Yes.
Now. Stop. Think.
Who does this bad patent affect and who does it benefit?
You think this is a bad thing? Now that this pair has a patent on the concept, maybe the patent can be used AGAINST those people who flood P2P networks with false files. In order to do so now, they have to license the concept from this Prof/Student duo or face litigation.
Maybe - just maybe - this is a good thing. The question is, did it happen at a useful point in time, or is it now irrelevant?
I actually did this. I found that the stress of having a total bitch for a wife simply added to the stress of a tech job. So I divorced her.
So, actually, in order to learn to tolerate the high stress of a tech job, marry a bitch, learn what life is like with high stress at work and even more at home, then divorce the bitch, and realize that you can easily deal with the stress of a tech job when the rest of your life is stress free.
Just don't actually mate with the bitch. If you father some brats with a bitch then even divorce does not completely remove her from your life.
Although, I think a better course of action is to have a stressful tech job and an amazingly happy home life. That's what my current relationship is like - work can be hell, but I wake up each morning eager to get thru my day and home to a wonderful woman.
I thought Real's attempts to harrass and blackmail Apple into doing a deal were bad business practice. Had Glaser approached Apple respectfully, he might have had a slightly better chance of succeeding. Instead, he came across like a cheap - no, worthless - thug making laughable threats. I am pleased that Apple did not bow to a trash-talking, dying, no-longer-significant competitor.
However, Jobs' response was childish. I found it unnecessary and inappropriate. A simple "No, thank you." would have been much better on so many levels. In fact, I think it would have been a much more significant brush-off. Instead, Jobs' response just shows him stooping down to Glaser's level. Jobs' won't likely be able to stand as tall in my eyes again.
But then, I've always respected politeness. Most people don't these days.
I wonder if it would be possible to make something like this external pack using an actual ipod battery (available at several online stores). Put it in a small project box of some sort with a firewire port on it and maybe some sort of led/light/whatever to indicate if it is charged.
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Whoopee. I get to look at the Blue Earth. I've had that pointless image in my archives for more than a year. This sucks. None of the supposed features work. Anyone claiming to be able to see their house is lying. It's bad enough that it doesn't actually work, but what's worse is that this worthless piece of crap was created using tax dollars.
This is why I am not watching, reading, or listening to ANYTHING related to the Olympics. It's no longer about international goodwill and peaceful athletic competition, but about making money. This change makes the entire event in all of its forms worthless.
Actually, I know my kids are important to my coworkers and my managers. My boss asks about my kids and wife every week, and he tells me stories about his. My peers and I share babysitting chores amongst each other so that we can have grown-up time with spouses. One coworker has a child with cysitic fibrosis.... YOU would not understand, sql*kitten, but most other humans here WOULD understand what it meant when the entire department along with our wives and kids, including the single people in the team, all got together to join the walkathon to raise money for cystic fibosis studies and to help this guy's little boy.
This concern for children other than mine is not limited to my family and coworkers. It extends into my neighborhood. My neighbors watch my boys occasional evenings, as my wife and I watch theirs sometimes. As a community, my neighborhood watchs all of its children; sometimes I am outside playing with the local kids, sometimes it's the guy next door or the lady across the street. Conversations with my neighbors aren't limited to weather and cars, but children, family, local community events.
Obviously, sql*kitten, you do not understand what it means to care about something other than a career. I pity you. I pray you never have children for their sake. Feel free to keep my name handy, I know a good divorce lawyer. Someday, I guarantee you will need one (assuming you can find someone willing to marry a black-hearted, soulless person such as yourself).
To a non-parent, a job is a definition of self. You do your job to the best of your ability because of pride, desire to advance, and social acceptance. You do your job well not just to earn your peers' respect but hopefully to make yourself look better than your peers. It's a competition - you against your peers, your company against the other companies. It's a challenge to be overcome and there is a lot of satisfaction in that.
To a parent, a job is something you do so that you have enough money to make certain your kids and spouse have clothes, food, and a roof over their heads. A job is a source of money so that if you are lucky and make enough you can enjoy fun events or toys with your kids and spouse. A job is a source of health insurance to keep you, your spouse, and children healthy at a cost that doesn't bankrupt you if something bad happens to one of them. A job is stressful because it means time away from your kids, time that is forever lost. A job is stressful because you know that you, yes, in counterpoint, you CAN be fired for unfairly offloading your work to your peers (yes, I have seen that happen, a single mom with two troublesome kids was fired by my employer because she left work early so often to deal with brats' schools).
It's a matter of priority. To a parent, children are infinitely more important than anything at work. Work changes instantly from a definition of self to a source of income. And yes, you can be fired quite easily for not maintaining your job, which is a tremendous fear of all parents.
Fortunately, many managers are also parents, and they understand what this means to their employees who have kids.
You will understand when you are a parent.
Family First.
If your employer can't handle your family obligations, then Family First says you get a new employer who can.
If you are on a project that suddenly requires a lot of work, but your child is sick, then Family First says you take care of your child first then do whatever you can to help out with the project second (if that means late nights, it means late nights, if it means burdening your coworkers then burden them).
Maybe I am fortunate, but I have always worked for companies and/or managers that understand the Family First rule, though that might be because all but one of them had kids, too (the only mgr I had who did not have kids was a complete jerk anyway, and he was soon fired for it).
I think you got screwed. The costs of divorce will far exceed the benefits of marriage. In the end, her mother got free tech support, and she gets a house, a car, and a monthly stipend (paid by you, of course). You get nothing. If kids end up being involved, you lose them, too.
Stupid Stupid Stupid.
Did you stop to think about this patent for a moment? Having the patent means they can now PREVENT anyone else from flooding P2P networks with false files.
The knee-jerk reaction of the people on this site can sometimes be astoundingly stupid.
Is it a bad patent? Yes. Can it be used to prevent people/organizations from flooding P2P networks with false files? Yes.
Now. Stop. Think.
Who does this bad patent affect and who does it benefit?
Maybe - just maybe - this is a good thing. The question is, did it happen at a useful point in time, or is it now irrelevant?
So, actually, in order to learn to tolerate the high stress of a tech job, marry a bitch, learn what life is like with high stress at work and even more at home, then divorce the bitch, and realize that you can easily deal with the stress of a tech job when the rest of your life is stress free.
Just don't actually mate with the bitch. If you father some brats with a bitch then even divorce does not completely remove her from your life.
Although, I think a better course of action is to have a stressful tech job and an amazingly happy home life. That's what my current relationship is like - work can be hell, but I wake up each morning eager to get thru my day and home to a wonderful woman.
However, Jobs' response was childish. I found it unnecessary and inappropriate. A simple "No, thank you." would have been much better on so many levels. In fact, I think it would have been a much more significant brush-off. Instead, Jobs' response just shows him stooping down to Glaser's level. Jobs' won't likely be able to stand as tall in my eyes again. But then, I've always respected politeness. Most people don't these days.
I wonder if it would be possible to make something like this external pack using an actual ipod battery (available at several online stores). Put it in a small project box of some sort with a firewire port on it and maybe some sort of led/light/whatever to indicate if it is charged.