There is no reason for you to put up with this sort of behavior from management. QUIT! Taking the pay cut and grumbling under your breath will get you nothing in life and will tell management you can be easily rode for future abuse.
While I certainly agree in principle, it isn't always that easy when you have a family to support and things such as that. The other thing to consider is that quitting is what these guys want you to do. If you quit they don't have to pay the state the unemployment tax for you, among other things.
I consider this a hostile move by companies to force you to quit. To force you to make a move out of anger that you haven't fully thought out. The worst thing about it, is that from what little I've looked into it, there isn't any legal recourse you can take.
The number one reason not to quit is that you won't get unemployment. While unemployment isn't anything you're going to live a grand life off of, it helps keep you afloat while you're looking for a new job. (It kept me going for 4 months last year.) In the same way, 50% salary isn't great, and you should start looking for a new job immediately, but don't quit if you need that money to survive.
If you notice, most of those bit parts are non-human species, like the aformentioned, Nien Nunb. In the Star Wars universe, the only people who make any major changes are a hand full of humans. The non-humans are there to add color, but not detract from their human saviours.
They fade away because they aren't as important as the humans. Damn speciesists!
Ya know for me I had more or less the same thoughts but there was one really annoying thing and it had nothing to do with the actual movie(yeah, I know this is going OT). It was... Cellular Phones.
Good thing you had the rest of the post. I thought this was gonna be another Huge Weaving/Matrix thing.:)
Actually, I agree with your point 100% Luckily in the showing I went to, everyone either didn't get a call or had the good sense to keep them off. However, I've been in other movies where its been really distracting. People have just lost common sense and good manners when attending showings in public. I refuse to buy the argument that watching movies at home is what caused people to do this. I think people have just become (unknowingly) rude.
Do you have any jobs in the Chicago area working with Linux? For various reasons I can't move out of the Chicago area and I'm looking for work, and it would be cool to work for IBM doing Linux stuff.
I'd assume, however, that a company who's core biz. was producing software wouldn't be contracting with outside programmers to write the whole package for them.
You'd assume that, and you'd be wrong. I've worked at a software company or two where software was their business. There were quiet a few projects where contractors were brought in to do most, if not all, of the work. A lot of this was in the context of a switch to new technology, but it kept on even after the switch.
I'm not claiming its common, but it does happen, and I've seen it happen more then once.
I managed to get my hands on a psx2, and I just gave her that for Valentine's day. I ended up giving it to her early (on Sunday) so we'd have more time to play with it. She loved it.
*ahh* How easy my life will be to have a wife who likes toys as much as I do.
Indeed it was, a tough decision, but sound from a business perspective.
I have no doubt that it was.
The sad, sad day comment was supposed to be the reflection of the fact that pinball playing in specific and arcades in general had fallen to such a state. (Also, I knew quite a few people who worked there, so I was sad to see them have to find a new job, especially because they loved the one they had.) I sympathize with the operators because, compared to their video game cousins, pinball machines are very high maintenence in terms of both time and money. I also sympathize with the players because games are getting harder and harder to find, and its even harder^3 to find machines kept in good condition.
That reminds me, I need to buy a bigger house, so I can own some games.:)
I only hope that someday the effort and knowledge used to produce these machines will be made public or otherwise put to good use, and not left in a closet until the shredder comes.
Yeah, should all pinball companies everywhere deceide to throw in the towel it would be great if all the technology and ideas that are sitting around as "IP" inside the various pin companies was released to the public in some way. (Man, I don't want this to sound like the obligitory "yeah, man, open source!" slashdot comment.) It would be horrible if this knowledge just "disappeared." That's one reason I give mad props to people building their own machines at home, prehaps some of the knowledge will be retained within that small community.
In any event, I figure, like most things, pinball playing will come back into style. Thanks to home video games, people have been driven into their houses, when that gets old, and people want to socialize more, prehaps they'll go back to the arcades. Okay, maybe not, but one can only dream.
On a somewhat related note, places like Dave&Buster both give me hope and depress me. They give me hope because people DO want to go someplace and play video games. They depress me because I find most of the games uninteresting. Its either driving or shooting. Did everyone forget that there are other kinds of games out there?
Actually, Bally-Williams (under the Bally name) put out a basketball themed pinball game where you could hook two of them together and you could play truely head to head. As there was a basket and you played for points similar to regular basketball. The local Dave&Buster's had them set up like this for awhile and it was a very neat variation on head-to-head pinball.
Actually, the PSX does have a lightshow of some sort to go along when you're playing music CDs. You can even modify it a bit with the controller. But really, unless you're having a rave in your house, it gets kinda boring:)
I've got a telnet solution, not an X solution....
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If you're just using telnet, you can use the SCO version of sdshell under Linux using IBCS. (I've done this.) Basically, you login authing agaist/etc/passwd and then sdshell does the secureID auth before kicking off your real shell. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for X....
Does anyone have any advice on hooking up xmms to netscape so that it acts as a plugin instead of just as a standalone app?
Check out XSwallow. According to its web page: X Swallow is a plugin i've cobbled together to allow any X program to be used as an inline viewer for any appropiate mime type. So a mime type like vrml for which there does not exist, as of the moment, a plugin for linux netscape can be viewed inline to netscape with ordinary vrml viewers such as vrweb/liquid reality.
I've used it with xanim for quicktimes, wavplay for wavs and the like. Its really pretty cool.
"Then let them die and decrease the surplus population" is from Charles Dickens's book A Christmas Carol. One of my favorite things to see/read during Christmas be it in play, movie, book, or muppet form.
Anyway, this particular quote comes from the begining of the book when we're learning what a butthole Scrooge is. Some other business men come to Scrooge's shop soliciting donations for homeless shelters. Scrooge points out he pays taxes for poorhouses to which the business guys point out that "some would rather die then go to the poorhouses." To which Scrooge replies "then let them die and decrease the surplus population." Of course, its been awhile since I've read the book, so I don't remember if it happens exactly like that in the book, but in the last two film versions I watched, both the muppets and that one on the USA cable station with Patrick Stewert it happened that way.
Now if I can only get to see Patrick Stewert's one man performance of it....
In high school (sometime around '92) my friends and I were running a DJ business. We actually did pretty good despite the fact that everything we used to DJ was almost all self built.
Anyway, we had someone gotten our hands on a PET and its printer. Yeah, the technology was old even then, but we found a way to make it useful. A few hours of coding some horrible looking basic and we had our "DJ request computer." Instead of bugging us, people would walk up to the pet, see our attractive logo (much like you say Playboy's in the article,) answer a few questions and their request was answered. On days when the printer was actually working, it would then print out behind the DJ booth. On days when it wasn't, the requests would be stored in a big ass array that we would go and check with our backdoor password into the program. It was pretty cool and very geeky, but it impressed people.
Maybe on another occation I'll get to post about how we used discarded TRS-80s and a homemade board to control and create a lightshow.
Since you said "If you've spotted any others recently, please post them below," I'll take you up on the offer.:)
The company I work for, RIMS, and a vendor of ours, Merant, will have a joint press release out tomorrow. The process release will be about Merant's porting of their Micro Focus Object COBOL stuff to Linux and our efforts to port our QicClaim/2 product to the COBOL port on Linux. <marketing speak>QC/2, as with all our software, is aimed at the healthcare verticle market. QC/2 is used to administrate health benefit programs, mostly used be third party administrators.</marketing speak>
No, its not open sourced, but its the start of greater use of Linux and open source projects within my company. Something I've been fighting a year for. We hope to have some open source stuff out there in the near future. We're deceiding the what, where, and when of all that. But I'm pretty excited as I'll be a big part of all of it.
simply re-used a "holodeck within a holodeck" episode of ST:TNG(the one where Moriarty fools the crew into thinking he could step out of it)
As much as I hate to do this, because I really hate to admit what I remember of ST, I feel some sick compelling need to correct you.
The crew saved the day by making Moriarty think he could leave the holodeck (or as I like to call it the "we've run out of plot ideas, lets steal some from classic literature machine.") Then they just left him in a self contained computer running an infinate loop of "if (out_of_holodeck) then explore_galaxy()"
My department moved to our new building about a year ago. In that transition I had to take down our "first linux production server" down to move it. I had a 112 day update.
It was plugged into a UPS and I was so tempted to move it without shutting down. Unfortunately the good side of me took over and I shut down the machine. I'd be at about 250 days or so of uptime after the move if it wasn't for the great-popcorn-burning-and-setting-off-the-fire-sup ression-system-power-outage of 1999. (Of course, myself and my fellow admins were late to the party as we were at lunch. The modem that is hooked up to the machine that is supposed to page us in the event of a power outage wasn't on the UPS. We maybe would have been back 5 minutes earlier. It wouldn't have really helped us, but it was a bit of egg on our face.)
I'm at 71 days on that machine, so I'm happy. I really wanted to shoot for a year....maybe I'll get it this time.
Heck yeah! That kid in sixth sense would be perfect. I can't stand the brat from Phantom Menace.
I went to a booksigning that Card gave here in Naperville, IL, right after Ender's Shadow came out. Before he even started signing books, he addressed the assembled masses/geeks on this very point. (I have this feeling he's been hearing it a lot.)
IIRC, what he said that is by the time filming rolled around the kid from Sixth Sense would be too old to play ender. (Remember, Ender is under 10 when he's shipped off to battle school.) Also, the kid from sixth sense could do scared, depressed, and thoughtful well, but he didn't have a track record for doing anything more. I also remember a bit about Caulkanizing as well...
Of course, its been a few months, but I think that was the gist of it.
I think that "The Lost World" suffered even worse than "Jurassic Park"....they want to make a third movie that is being written by someone other than Michael Crichton.
The only suffering having to do with "The Lost World" was the suffering of those of us who read the book. I was so pissed off at Crichton for having written that piece of crap. He magically ressurects a dead character and then ships him off as Mr. DinoHunter ("I'll stick my thumb up this dino's butt, he really won't like that!") tosses in some really lame child characters, and basically craps all over the first book. (Now should I tell you how I really feel about the book?)
"The Lost World" book was so obviously written to be a squal to the movie version of Jurassic Park that I felt cheated by reading it. Words like "sell out" came to mind as I was reading it. I never even saw the sorry-ass movie. I'm suprised that the tripe he wrote wasn't good enough for Hollywood, it was perfect for what the movie making monkeys of today would want to see.
Maybe in someone else's hands the third movie would be as much of a sucky crapfest as the second book AND second movie. The sad thing was I enjoyed the first movie. I read the book before seeing the movie, and I thought the movie was a good adaptation of what the book presented. There was no way they could get everything in, but they did a good job. (I still wish they would have killed off the old man. Actually, in the movie he was much too much sympathetic. In the book you were more willing to hate him and see him come to a bad end.)
I hate when Hollywood takes away from the authors original intentions just to try to make a buck
I agree that it sucks when Hollywood takes away from the authers original intentions. But I think in the case of The Lost World and any other movie in that series, Crichton already gave them permission by writing the second book the way he did.
As for Ender's Game...I'm really looking forward to the movie. Card obviously cares about his characters and cares about how they are portreyed. It looks like he'll be pretty involved in every stage of the movie and I think because of that it'll turn out okay. However, if director or some movie producer deceides that Card is screwing up what they think the movie should be, get ready for the worst movie of the decade. Done right (with Card's help) the movie will be brilliant, done wrong (Hollywood's usual attempt at greatness,) it'll just be terrible.
why do people assume that if you're getting rich that you don't have a life?
The original poster had talked about 16 hour, sleep-under-the-desk start up people. That just doesn't seem like something I'd enjoy. Maybe you do.
I wasn't trying to talk for everyone, mostly just for me. For me, 16 hours a day, sleep under the desk sounds like pure hell. No time to enjoy anything, just to work.
Maybe you can have a life and get rich, but not in the context of the original posters question.
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There is no reason for you to put up with this sort of behavior from management. QUIT! Taking the pay cut and grumbling under your breath will get you nothing in life and will tell management you can be easily rode for future abuse.
While I certainly agree in principle, it isn't always that easy when you have a family to support and things such as that. The other thing to consider is that quitting is what these guys want you to do. If you quit they don't have to pay the state the unemployment tax for you, among other things.
I consider this a hostile move by companies to force you to quit. To force you to make a move out of anger that you haven't fully thought out. The worst thing about it, is that from what little I've looked into it, there isn't any legal recourse you can take.
The number one reason not to quit is that you won't get unemployment. While unemployment isn't anything you're going to live a grand life off of, it helps keep you afloat while you're looking for a new job. (It kept me going for 4 months last year.) In the same way, 50% salary isn't great, and you should start looking for a new job immediately, but don't quit if you need that money to survive.
If you notice, most of those bit parts are non-human species, like the aformentioned, Nien Nunb. In the Star Wars universe, the only people who make any major changes are a hand full of humans. The non-humans are there to add color, but not detract from their human saviours.
They fade away because they aren't as important as the humans. Damn speciesists!
Good thing you had the rest of the post. I thought this was gonna be another Huge Weaving/Matrix thing. :)
Actually, I agree with your point 100% Luckily in the showing I went to, everyone either didn't get a call or had the good sense to keep them off. However, I've been in other movies where its been really distracting. People have just lost common sense and good manners when attending showings in public. I refuse to buy the argument that watching movies at home is what caused people to do this. I think people have just become (unknowingly) rude.
251!!! 251-5049!!! CATS!
That is our tribute to g0ff for the day. Thank you, drive through.
Wesley Willis is independent, too. Rock on Chicago!
Rock over London, Rock on Chicago, Mitchibitchi: the word is getting around
TZIX? TriZetto? Heh...RIMS...I worked there once. I was about to ask if you had any openings, and then I realized who TZIX was.
:)
Heck, I probably know you
Do you have any jobs in the Chicago area working with Linux? For various reasons I can't move out of the Chicago area and I'm looking for work, and it would be cool to work for IBM doing Linux stuff.
I'd assume, however, that a company who's core biz. was producing software wouldn't be contracting with outside programmers to write the whole package for them.
You'd assume that, and you'd be wrong. I've worked at a software company or two where software was their business. There were quiet a few projects where contractors were brought in to do most, if not all, of the work. A lot of this was in the context of a switch to new technology, but it kept on even after the switch.
I'm not claiming its common, but it does happen, and I've seen it happen more then once.
I managed to get my hands on a psx2, and I just gave her that for Valentine's day. I ended up giving it to her early (on Sunday) so we'd have more time to play with it. She loved it.
*ahh* How easy my life will be to have a wife who likes toys as much as I do.
Indeed it was, a tough decision, but sound from a business perspective.
:)
I have no doubt that it was.
The sad, sad day comment was supposed to be the reflection of the fact that pinball playing in specific and arcades in general had fallen to such a state. (Also, I knew quite a few people who worked there, so I was sad to see them have to find a new job, especially because they loved the one they had.) I sympathize with the operators because, compared to their video game cousins, pinball machines are very high maintenence in terms of both time and money. I also sympathize with the players because games are getting harder and harder to find, and its even harder^3 to find machines kept in good condition.
That reminds me, I need to buy a bigger house, so I can own some games.
I only hope that someday the effort and knowledge used to produce these machines will be made public or otherwise put to good use, and not left in a closet until the shredder comes.
Yeah, should all pinball companies everywhere deceide to throw in the towel it would be great if all the technology and ideas that are sitting around as "IP" inside the various pin companies was released to the public in some way. (Man, I don't want this to sound like the obligitory "yeah, man, open source!" slashdot comment.) It would be horrible if this knowledge just "disappeared." That's one reason I give mad props to people building their own machines at home, prehaps some of the knowledge will be retained within that small community.
In any event, I figure, like most things, pinball playing will come back into style. Thanks to home video games, people have been driven into their houses, when that gets old, and people want to socialize more, prehaps they'll go back to the arcades. Okay, maybe not, but one can only dream.
On a somewhat related note, places like Dave&Buster both give me hope and depress me. They give me hope because people DO want to go someplace and play video games. They depress me because I find most of the games uninteresting. Its either driving or shooting. Did everyone forget that there are other kinds of games out there?
Actually, Bally-Williams (under the Bally name) put out a basketball themed pinball game where you could hook two of them together and you could play truely head to head. As there was a basket and you played for points similar to regular basketball. The local Dave&Buster's had them set up like this for awhile and it was a very neat variation on head-to-head pinball.
http://www.pinball.com/games/fastbreak/ is the URL of it. Unfortunately, this web page doesn't really talk about that "networking" aspect of it.
Williams closed their whole pinball division. They gave up on pinball altogether, not just Pinball 2000. It was a sad, sad day when they did so.
Actually, the PSX does have a lightshow of some sort to go along when you're playing music CDs. You can even modify it a bit with the controller. But really, unless you're having a rave in your house, it gets kinda boring :)
If you're just using telnet, you can use the SCO version of sdshell under Linux using IBCS. (I've done this.) Basically, you login authing agaist /etc/passwd and then sdshell does the secureID auth before kicking off your real shell. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for X....
Does anyone have any advice on hooking up xmms to netscape so that it acts as a plugin instead of just as a standalone app?
Check out XSwallow. According to its web page: X Swallow is a plugin i've cobbled together to allow any X program to be used as an inline viewer for any appropiate mime type. So a mime type like vrml for which there does not exist, as of the moment, a plugin for linux netscape can be viewed inline to netscape with ordinary vrml viewers such as vrweb/liquid reality.
I've used it with xanim for quicktimes, wavplay for wavs and the like. Its really pretty cool.
When DOS attacks! This Sunday on FOX! (Right after the Simpsons!)
It is sweeps week after all....
"Then let them die and decrease the surplus population" is from Charles Dickens's book A Christmas Carol. One of my favorite things to see/read during Christmas be it in play, movie, book, or muppet form.
Anyway, this particular quote comes from the begining of the book when we're learning what a butthole Scrooge is. Some other business men come to Scrooge's shop soliciting donations for homeless shelters. Scrooge points out he pays taxes for poorhouses to which the business guys point out that "some would rather die then go to the poorhouses." To which Scrooge replies "then let them die and decrease the surplus population." Of course, its been awhile since I've read the book, so I don't remember if it happens exactly like that in the book, but in the last two film versions I watched, both the muppets and that one on the USA cable station with Patrick Stewert it happened that way.
Now if I can only get to see Patrick Stewert's one man performance of it....
In high school (sometime around '92) my friends and I were running a DJ business. We actually did pretty good despite the fact that everything we used to DJ was almost all self built.
Anyway, we had someone gotten our hands on a PET and its printer. Yeah, the technology was old even then, but we found a way to make it useful. A few hours of coding some horrible looking basic and we had our "DJ request computer." Instead of bugging us, people would walk up to the pet, see our attractive logo (much like you say Playboy's in the article,) answer a few questions and their request was answered. On days when the printer was actually working, it would then print out behind the DJ booth. On days when it wasn't, the requests would be stored in a big ass array that we would go and check with our backdoor password into the program. It was pretty cool and very geeky, but it impressed people.
Maybe on another occation I'll get to post about how we used discarded TRS-80s and a homemade board to control and create a lightshow.
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/15566.html is a link to press release I talked about.
The company I work for, RIMS, and a vendor of ours, Merant, will have a joint press release out tomorrow. The process release will be about Merant's porting of their Micro Focus Object COBOL stuff to Linux and our efforts to port our QicClaim/2 product to the COBOL port on Linux. <marketing speak>QC/2, as with all our software, is aimed at the healthcare verticle market. QC/2 is used to administrate health benefit programs, mostly used be third party administrators.</marketing speak>
No, its not open sourced, but its the start of greater use of Linux and open source projects within my company. Something I've been fighting a year for. We hope to have some open source stuff out there in the near future. We're deceiding the what, where, and when of all that. But I'm pretty excited as I'll be a big part of all of it.
simply re-used a "holodeck within a holodeck" episode of ST:TNG(the one where Moriarty fools the crew into thinking he could step out of it)
As much as I hate to do this, because I really hate to admit what I remember of ST, I feel some sick compelling need to correct you.
The crew saved the day by making Moriarty think he could leave the holodeck (or as I like to call it the "we've run out of plot ideas, lets steal some from classic literature machine.") Then they just left him in a self contained computer running an infinate loop of "if (out_of_holodeck) then explore_galaxy()"
My department moved to our new building about a year ago. In that transition I had to take down our "first linux production server" down to move it. I had a 112 day update.
p ression-system-power-outage of 1999. (Of course, myself and my fellow admins were late to the party as we were at lunch. The modem that is hooked up to the machine that is supposed to page us in the event of a power outage wasn't on the UPS. We maybe would have been back 5 minutes earlier. It wouldn't have really helped us, but it was a bit of egg on our face.)
It was plugged into a UPS and I was so tempted to move it without shutting down. Unfortunately the good side of me took over and I shut down the machine. I'd be at about 250 days or so of uptime after the move if it wasn't for the great-popcorn-burning-and-setting-off-the-fire-su
I'm at 71 days on that machine, so I'm happy. I really wanted to shoot for a year....maybe I'll get it this time.
Heck yeah! That kid in sixth sense would be perfect. I can't stand the brat from Phantom Menace.
I went to a booksigning that Card gave here in Naperville, IL, right after Ender's Shadow came out. Before he even started signing books, he addressed the assembled masses/geeks on this very point. (I have this feeling he's been hearing it a lot.)
IIRC, what he said that is by the time filming rolled around the kid from Sixth Sense would be too old to play ender. (Remember, Ender is under 10 when he's shipped off to battle school.) Also, the kid from sixth sense could do scared, depressed, and thoughtful well, but he didn't have a track record for doing anything more. I also remember a bit about Caulkanizing as well...
Of course, its been a few months, but I think that was the gist of it.
I think that "The Lost World" suffered even worse than "Jurassic Park"....they want to make a third movie that is being written by someone other than Michael Crichton.
The only suffering having to do with "The Lost World" was the suffering of those of us who read the book. I was so pissed off at Crichton for having written that piece of crap. He magically ressurects a dead character and then ships him off as Mr. DinoHunter ("I'll stick my thumb up this dino's butt, he really won't like that!") tosses in some really lame child characters, and basically craps all over the first book. (Now should I tell you how I really feel about the book?)
"The Lost World" book was so obviously written to be a squal to the movie version of Jurassic Park that I felt cheated by reading it. Words like "sell out" came to mind as I was reading it. I never even saw the sorry-ass movie. I'm suprised that the tripe he wrote wasn't good enough for Hollywood, it was perfect for what the movie making monkeys of today would want to see.
Maybe in someone else's hands the third movie would be as much of a sucky crapfest as the second book AND second movie. The sad thing was I enjoyed the first movie. I read the book before seeing the movie, and I thought the movie was a good adaptation of what the book presented. There was no way they could get everything in, but they did a good job. (I still wish they would have killed off the old man. Actually, in the movie he was much too much sympathetic. In the book you were more willing to hate him and see him come to a bad end.)
I hate when Hollywood takes away from the authors original intentions just to try to make a buck
I agree that it sucks when Hollywood takes away from the authers original intentions. But I think in the case of The Lost World and any other movie in that series, Crichton already gave them permission by writing the second book the way he did.
As for Ender's Game...I'm really looking forward to the movie. Card obviously cares about his characters and cares about how they are portreyed. It looks like he'll be pretty involved in every stage of the movie and I think because of that it'll turn out okay. However, if director or some movie producer deceides that Card is screwing up what they think the movie should be, get ready for the worst movie of the decade. Done right (with Card's help) the movie will be brilliant, done wrong (Hollywood's usual attempt at greatness,) it'll just be terrible.
why do people assume that if you're getting rich that you don't have a life?
The original poster had talked about 16 hour, sleep-under-the-desk start up people. That just doesn't seem like something I'd enjoy. Maybe you do.
I wasn't trying to talk for everyone, mostly just for me. For me, 16 hours a day, sleep under the desk sounds like pure hell. No time to enjoy anything, just to work.
Maybe you can have a life and get rich, but not in the context of the original posters question.