If he wasn't salaried he'd be paid less per hour to make up for whatever overtime he needs to take. Companies don't magically find money to pay overtime, they simply make your base rate lower. If you're salaried you're NOT being paid for 40 hours a week but rather for X hours a week. That X should have been agreed upon before hiring and if you don't like it then grow a spine and do something about it. However don't expect to make as much working 40 hours as you do working 60 hours or even a straight percentage drop (due to fixed costs).
1) Your employer will never give you sufficient time to finish what you need to do. Bend over and take it. It comes with the job
Find a better employer, I'd aim for one that pays beyond minimum cost of living for the area.
2) Never blame someone else directly, even if it is obviously someone else's fault
Find a better employer and a boss who understands who causes problems.
3) Don't expect overtime pay. You'll never get it. If you ask for it, things will conveniently become a "this isn't working out" situation
If you're hourly than legally they need to pay overtime. If you're salaried then legally they don't. Don't complain because you chose one when you got hired and your employer doesn't want to break the law. If you're salaried you didn't get hired to work 40 hours a week but rather to work X hours a week (X should have been agreed upon during hiring process). Your pay will likely be higher because it's for more hours or work a week, if it's not then you should quit and learn to negotiate better.
4) The salesmen will sell things that you probably can't provide without working 24/7 for the next 6 months. They will also likely make 4x what you make, plus commission. Bend over and take it.
Find a better employer and a boss who has a spine.
6) Get every promise in writing. Whether it a bonus, "comp time" for late/extra hours worked, whatever.
Generally good advice although see points 1 and 4 if this is actually usually necessary for you (rather than simply a good safety net).
This pertains to this topic how exactly? You're just as bad as the law makers because you seem to think that focusing on multiple issues is somehow inherently bad or impossible. Hyper focusing on whatever issue the "people" care about is how we end up in these cluster fucks to begin with. Not everything is supposed to be some sort of idiot one size fits all solution that in the end results in more damage than it solves. It seems that to you "we need to help the below average" == "fuck over many other people by ignoring their problems." These are separate discussion with separate problems and solutions, with very little real overlap.
No one expects this to help the poor mentally disabled idiot who failed out of high school. It's not supposed to but there are many OTHER people who will benefit from them. If you want to help that idiot then go and post in some other discussion or what not.
The problem is that, if your family makes $101,000, you're fucked.
No you're not, you simply have to pay more than zero but not much more.
That's all, of course, assuming you can get past their impossibly-high admissions standards.
It's an elite school and the requirements are far from impossible given that people get in. Just because you couldn't make it in doesn't make it impossible. There are plenty of other schools with lower requirements including state schools and so on (granted you'd amusingly enough possibly pay more at said state schools).
Education won't do much, it doesn't make people more intelligent or more rational. Granted technically those of low intelligence won't get a good education because their minds aren't capable of acquiring one but that's a different issue.
Look at all the insane "movements" on any college campus and try to tell me you could get any of them to agree on anything as being the "truth"? I mean even when you have scientific studies to back you up they'll still claim you're wrong and that their view is right.
Most people don't give a damn about "stealing" digital products unless it's difficult or they can get caught. The morality of stealing physical property is very fully dependent on how well you can convince people it's for their good or the greater good.
I doubt it's a problem with most rfid installations since the reader needs to verify the tag against some central database. Thus you can now have a unique private key for each tag while storing the unique public tag in the database. If any private key is retrieved then it can be simply disabled in the database without problems. DVDs can't do this because they need to work on stand-alone non-networked players.
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The way I understand it a motorcycle really has one and only one safety feature, maneuverability. You don't ever want to get hit and if you're careful you can often avoid getting hit when a car wouldn't be able to. A car on the other hand has size, crumple zones, mass, multiple airbags, decently strong building materials and so on which let it it take a hit without killing the occupants. This thing seems to fail under both criteria.
We're talking about the ISS not ICBMs, please refrain from randomly changing the subject unless your desire is to amuse me with your incompetence. You know that floating pierce of crap that was mainly created to let multiple nations work together and has been heavily outsourced to Russia already?
The ISS was by design a joint project and otherwise idiotic design decisions were made for that reason. The Russians have provided support not only as part of the normal design but also during times when the shuttle fleet was grounded. The Russians also own part of the station and will own even more of it once it's finished (the European and Japanese likewise own other parts of the station).
If they US didn't want to outsource the ISS then they shouldn't have made it a joint project.
The Russians are reliable as long as we pay them to be. Slightly better than the shuttle's "reliable only when it hasn't exploded in the last x months" track record. The Russians would very likely extort some more money from the US but that's probably about as far as they'd go. Worse case is that the ISS is lost, I doubt the Russians want to pay to keep it afloat, which depending on who you ask may not be a bad thing in the long run (we'd at least be able to built the next one without being hamstrung by needing to keep Russia on board).
You don't have to agree to multi-year agreements. You can buy a pore-paid plan for example and buy the cell phone yourself. Oh wait, you want to get that free cell phone AND not have any restrictions. Yeah go and bitch at the cell phone companies for your own incompetence, greed and short sightedness.
They can do whatever they want. Likewise we can complain and make fun of them for what they do all we want. If nothing else it lets others know about what the companies policies are and sometimes it may even make the company change their policies.
Companies are run by humans and sometimes they make mistakes or underestimate how much people don't like something. If you don't let them know then how do expect them to know? Magic? Telepathic elves trapped in the basement?
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So you want to get paid the equivalent of 60+ hours of salary for only 40 hours of work?
From the comic it seems like Google really wants to take a new approach to how browsers deal with memory and I think Firefox could learn from that.
Not really a new idea except in the sense that google didn't have any pre-existing code to rebuild. In fact I believe IE8 does the same thing and has been out in beta form before Chrome. I'm sure you can also find FF related suggestions to do this going back years if not much longer. The problem is that the FF source code is such an abysmal mess that rewriting it to this extent would require a minor miracle. It'd probably also break many extensions, cause tons of bugs and so on.
Then they should either update their document, get rid of it or stop linking to it from their development how to pages. Having "hidden standards" that no one outside long time developers knows about is actually worse than having an archaic coding standard. The piss-poor and sometimes downright wrong (not just incomplete) documentation is one of the reasons I stopped trying to touch firefox development with a ten foot pole.
1. I have the search box next to my address bar, that does not belong with the current page so either way it's going to be "wrong." 2. I use the tabs a lot more than the address bar, having to move my eyes over extra dead space does not seem like the best UI idea.
If Fallout 1/2 I could slaughter whole town, become a slaver, sell off my own wife/husband and in general do very horrible things. That's part of the game series. Your options include a lot more than just mild good and mild evil. After all a psychopath can be born anywhere and if you want to then your character can be one of them.
Sure you may have been born in a vault but that's why you wouldn't care much about nukes. After all they are just stories, you never saw one or even saw the effects of one. That's the type of person whose most likely to detonate a nuke simply because he hasn't experienced the horrors of one even second hand.
2 year warranty and you like it? Wow, you're getting ripped off. I'd love to find out whomever managed to delude a whole continent that way just so I can bask in their cunning.
I don't think anything in my system has under a 3 year warranty and some things are much higher than that (hard drives are 5 years, video card is probably lifetime, etc.). Of course if I want to take the risk I can buy things with much shorter warranties but that's my choice then. Seem that customers on this side of the pond are intelligent enough to not buy the 30 day warranty products every time like mindless sheep.
If you don't want to have problems from new untested hardware then don't buy cutting edge hardware. It's that fucking simple. If companies took the time to fix all the problems than hardware would be slower which is exactly what you'd get by buying slightly older hardware right now. Of course gamers have the self control of a 2 year old and will buy anything shiny even if it crashes 99% of the time.
School's get absurd discounts on software I believe and MS software does connect well together. For example open office updates would need to be controlled separately from MS updates (which are possibly centrally managed).
In my personal opinion it's also a lot harder to fuck up a windows network setup and windows networking is a lot more intuitive (ie: you need less knowledge to passably manage it). I've had to recently deal with a school's linux network and I feel like gouging out both my eyes with a spoon. The rats nest of possible programs, setting, distros, incompatible utilities (ie: this works with X, Y and Z but not your version of Z) and so that is possible of linux alone makes me want to gouge out one eye.
Well technically the most popular (and fastest I believe) implementation of python is written in C but python itself doesn't need to be written in C. There is a Java implementation, a python implementation, a.net implementation and probably a few others.
Well someone should tell that to the people working on Hadoop. I'm sure they'd love to know that their java mapreduce based framework is impossible. Maybe they'll even be able to use the paradox to built a perpetual motion machine and power the world.
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If he wasn't salaried he'd be paid less per hour to make up for whatever overtime he needs to take. Companies don't magically find money to pay overtime, they simply make your base rate lower. If you're salaried you're NOT being paid for 40 hours a week but rather for X hours a week. That X should have been agreed upon before hiring and if you don't like it then grow a spine and do something about it. However don't expect to make as much working 40 hours as you do working 60 hours or even a straight percentage drop (due to fixed costs).
1) Your employer will never give you sufficient time to finish what you need to do. Bend over and take it. It comes with the job
Find a better employer, I'd aim for one that pays beyond minimum cost of living for the area.
2) Never blame someone else directly, even if it is obviously someone else's fault
Find a better employer and a boss who understands who causes problems.
3) Don't expect overtime pay. You'll never get it. If you ask for it, things will conveniently become a "this isn't working out" situation
If you're hourly than legally they need to pay overtime. If you're salaried then legally they don't. Don't complain because you chose one when you got hired and your employer doesn't want to break the law. If you're salaried you didn't get hired to work 40 hours a week but rather to work X hours a week (X should have been agreed upon during hiring process). Your pay will likely be higher because it's for more hours or work a week, if it's not then you should quit and learn to negotiate better.
4) The salesmen will sell things that you probably can't provide without working 24/7 for the next 6 months. They will also likely make 4x what you make, plus commission. Bend over and take it.
Find a better employer and a boss who has a spine.
6) Get every promise in writing. Whether it a bonus, "comp time" for late/extra hours worked, whatever.
Generally good advice although see points 1 and 4 if this is actually usually necessary for you (rather than simply a good safety net).
This pertains to this topic how exactly? You're just as bad as the law makers because you seem to think that focusing on multiple issues is somehow inherently bad or impossible. Hyper focusing on whatever issue the "people" care about is how we end up in these cluster fucks to begin with. Not everything is supposed to be some sort of idiot one size fits all solution that in the end results in more damage than it solves. It seems that to you "we need to help the below average" == "fuck over many other people by ignoring their problems." These are separate discussion with separate problems and solutions, with very little real overlap.
No one expects this to help the poor mentally disabled idiot who failed out of high school. It's not supposed to but there are many OTHER people who will benefit from them. If you want to help that idiot then go and post in some other discussion or what not.
Not all the classes offer all the options, the natural language one is silverlight only.
The problem is that, if your family makes $101,000, you're fucked.
No you're not, you simply have to pay more than zero but not much more.
That's all, of course, assuming you can get past their impossibly-high admissions standards.
It's an elite school and the requirements are far from impossible given that people get in. Just because you couldn't make it in doesn't make it impossible. There are plenty of other schools with lower requirements including state schools and so on (granted you'd amusingly enough possibly pay more at said state schools).
Seems like bot-owners are going to find a new source of income.
Education won't do much, it doesn't make people more intelligent or more rational. Granted technically those of low intelligence won't get a good education because their minds aren't capable of acquiring one but that's a different issue.
Look at all the insane "movements" on any college campus and try to tell me you could get any of them to agree on anything as being the "truth"? I mean even when you have scientific studies to back you up they'll still claim you're wrong and that their view is right.
Most people don't give a damn about "stealing" digital products unless it's difficult or they can get caught. The morality of stealing physical property is very fully dependent on how well you can convince people it's for their good or the greater good.
The programming gig is probably just for the health insurance.
I doubt it's a problem with most rfid installations since the reader needs to verify the tag against some central database. Thus you can now have a unique private key for each tag while storing the unique public tag in the database. If any private key is retrieved then it can be simply disabled in the database without problems. DVDs can't do this because they need to work on stand-alone non-networked players.
The way I understand it a motorcycle really has one and only one safety feature, maneuverability. You don't ever want to get hit and if you're careful you can often avoid getting hit when a car wouldn't be able to. A car on the other hand has size, crumple zones, mass, multiple airbags, decently strong building materials and so on which let it it take a hit without killing the occupants. This thing seems to fail under both criteria.
We're talking about the ISS not ICBMs, please refrain from randomly changing the subject unless your desire is to amuse me with your incompetence. You know that floating pierce of crap that was mainly created to let multiple nations work together and has been heavily outsourced to Russia already?
The ISS was by design a joint project and otherwise idiotic design decisions were made for that reason. The Russians have provided support not only as part of the normal design but also during times when the shuttle fleet was grounded. The Russians also own part of the station and will own even more of it once it's finished (the European and Japanese likewise own other parts of the station).
If they US didn't want to outsource the ISS then they shouldn't have made it a joint project.
The Russians are reliable as long as we pay them to be. Slightly better than the shuttle's "reliable only when it hasn't exploded in the last x months" track record. The Russians would very likely extort some more money from the US but that's probably about as far as they'd go. Worse case is that the ISS is lost, I doubt the Russians want to pay to keep it afloat, which depending on who you ask may not be a bad thing in the long run (we'd at least be able to built the next one without being hamstrung by needing to keep Russia on board).
You don't have to agree to multi-year agreements. You can buy a pore-paid plan for example and buy the cell phone yourself. Oh wait, you want to get that free cell phone AND not have any restrictions. Yeah go and bitch at the cell phone companies for your own incompetence, greed and short sightedness.
They can do whatever they want. Likewise we can complain and make fun of them for what they do all we want. If nothing else it lets others know about what the companies policies are and sometimes it may even make the company change their policies.
Companies are run by humans and sometimes they make mistakes or underestimate how much people don't like something. If you don't let them know then how do expect them to know? Magic? Telepathic elves trapped in the basement?
So you want to get paid the equivalent of 60+ hours of salary for only 40 hours of work?
From the comic it seems like Google really wants to take a new approach to how browsers deal with memory and I think Firefox could learn from that.
Not really a new idea except in the sense that google didn't have any pre-existing code to rebuild. In fact I believe IE8 does the same thing and has been out in beta form before Chrome. I'm sure you can also find FF related suggestions to do this going back years if not much longer. The problem is that the FF source code is such an abysmal mess that rewriting it to this extent would require a minor miracle. It'd probably also break many extensions, cause tons of bugs and so on.
Then they should either update their document, get rid of it or stop linking to it from their development how to pages. Having "hidden standards" that no one outside long time developers knows about is actually worse than having an archaic coding standard. The piss-poor and sometimes downright wrong (not just incomplete) documentation is one of the reasons I stopped trying to touch firefox development with a ten foot pole.
1. I have the search box next to my address bar, that does not belong with the current page so either way it's going to be "wrong."
2. I use the tabs a lot more than the address bar, having to move my eyes over extra dead space does not seem like the best UI idea.
If Fallout 1/2 I could slaughter whole town, become a slaver, sell off my own wife/husband and in general do very horrible things. That's part of the game series. Your options include a lot more than just mild good and mild evil. After all a psychopath can be born anywhere and if you want to then your character can be one of them.
Sure you may have been born in a vault but that's why you wouldn't care much about nukes. After all they are just stories, you never saw one or even saw the effects of one. That's the type of person whose most likely to detonate a nuke simply because he hasn't experienced the horrors of one even second hand.
2 year warranty and you like it? Wow, you're getting ripped off. I'd love to find out whomever managed to delude a whole continent that way just so I can bask in their cunning.
I don't think anything in my system has under a 3 year warranty and some things are much higher than that (hard drives are 5 years, video card is probably lifetime, etc.). Of course if I want to take the risk I can buy things with much shorter warranties but that's my choice then. Seem that customers on this side of the pond are intelligent enough to not buy the 30 day warranty products every time like mindless sheep.
If you don't want to have problems from new untested hardware then don't buy cutting edge hardware. It's that fucking simple. If companies took the time to fix all the problems than hardware would be slower which is exactly what you'd get by buying slightly older hardware right now. Of course gamers have the self control of a 2 year old and will buy anything shiny even if it crashes 99% of the time.
School's get absurd discounts on software I believe and MS software does connect well together. For example open office updates would need to be controlled separately from MS updates (which are possibly centrally managed).
In my personal opinion it's also a lot harder to fuck up a windows network setup and windows networking is a lot more intuitive (ie: you need less knowledge to passably manage it). I've had to recently deal with a school's linux network and I feel like gouging out both my eyes with a spoon. The rats nest of possible programs, setting, distros, incompatible utilities (ie: this works with X, Y and Z but not your version of Z) and so that is possible of linux alone makes me want to gouge out one eye.
Well technically the most popular (and fastest I believe) implementation of python is written in C but python itself doesn't need to be written in C. There is a Java implementation, a python implementation, a .net implementation and probably a few others.
Well someone should tell that to the people working on Hadoop. I'm sure they'd love to know that their java mapreduce based framework is impossible. Maybe they'll even be able to use the paradox to built a perpetual motion machine and power the world.
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