We still maintain a military presence in Korea, and that happened when my grandfather was in the military....
For that matter, we're still in Okinawa, and World War 2 happened before Korea. Last I knew, one of my girlfriend's friends was stationed there with her husband.
We have this interesting habit of maintaining military presence wherever we happened to have a war.
in some cases, it actually looks better on the 'books' to have more contractors than directs do to how things are listed on the books. I don't know much of the details on this, I'm not an accountant, but, I've read articles about this.
For some companies, contractors are paid out of the general fund - the same place that the money for things like utilities comes from. That way, they don't show up on the books as a personnel expense, but instead, just another cost of doing business.
From a lot of the stories that I've heard, this seems to be par for the course for GoDaddy. They've also supposedly been known to basically hold domain names hostage when people want to change services.
It's one of the big reasons that I don't register domain names through them.
Cleveland really isn't that bad. It's a pain in the ass in the winter because of all of the lake effect snow, but it's not a bad town for the most part.
Yes, the article was covering a talk that he gave, basically to sell his comnpany's services. All I can say is that I hope nobody actually listens to this guy.
I'm not going to post my rant on here. It's way too long. If anyone wants to peruse it, you can read it in my blog.
Yup. We're all horrible, socially inept people who hit on anyone female that comes into our field of vision and think that nobody else has more than a couple of brain cells.
p.s. marry me?:P
In all seriousness though, a lot of us who are fairly socially normal tend to deal with people as people. Some of us are even more than happy to help out people who actually want to learn, and don't care if they're a man, woman, or a talking monkey.
As for going stupid every time a girl is in visual range, speaking for myself, that was never a problem, but then I've also never had a problem finding a date. Apparently I can be a moderately charming person when I want to be. =]
I hope college is going well, and good luck in avoiding the creepy 40 year old guys. Oh, and doubly linked lists only seem weird until you finally figure out how they work and then you wonder why the heck you didn't get it before. heh
Personally, I think that the punishment should be worse if they do it again. Say, do it three times and get thrown out of office. do not pass go, do not collect your salary.
Legislators serve the people. So many of them forget that.
Some companies (especially smaller ones) do this because they want one of their workers to be able to print things on the office printer from their home office or some other place. They don't want to drop the money on getting a vpn set up, so they just put the printer out there and trust that nobody else can print to it (or don't know that someone else can).
I know it sounds strange to us, but it does happen.
I know the feeling. Personally speaking, I look better with long hair (and have kept my hair that way for a very long time). Almost everyone agrees that I look much better this way. I look absolutely silly with short hair, but there's a mentality in this area that it's a horrible terrible thing for guys to have long hair.
Ah the joys of living in a conservative area.
As for the dyed hair, a lot of my friends have had theirs dyed. I don't have to because mine ends up looking like it's been dyed during the summer. I end up with hair that's a mid brown with heavy amounts of red and blonde streaks.
I had the tips of my hair dyed at one point, but ended up getting tired of taking care of it, so trimmed that part off.
Don't worry. Having read a lot of your posts (and having several replies from you), I didn't think you were being snarky. It's just one of those things that I honestly wonder about occasionally.
Why is dying your hair a "natural" color okay, but not dying it something non-standard even if it's done tastefully? On the coasts, it's largely a non-issue from what I understand, but here in the midwest people look at you like you're some kind of horrible freak.
I don't get why some people get up in arms about someone dying their hair a non-standard color but have no problem with other people dying theirs red or bleaching it blonde. It's no less fake. Besides, non-standard hair colors can be fun. =]
I have many fond memories of people with hair of pink, purple, green, or blue heh
Actually, if the FSF simply backed down before a ruling was reached (if court proceedings even began at all), then the license has never been tested in court. No case with a ruling means it still hasn't actually been tested.
That's honestly news to me. The last time I had to worry about buying unix licenses was several years ago, and that was Digital on some older DEC's running a few legacy systems where I used to work.
I used Solaris a lot in the programming labs at my university and rather liked it. In fact, it's the reason that I started using linux because that let me do my programing without having to be in the labs or on the dialup connection that I had at the time.
Now, I just need to work Sun hardware into my budget at some point =]
First, let me say that I have absolutely no problem with anyone chosing a profession as long as they are dedicated to it. If you find something that you are good at and that you enjoy, go for it. I'll back your play. I don't care if you're plaid or a talking monkey (just, in the latter case, please don't throw fecal matter...)
I've known some really cool women that *really* knew what they were doing (and could run circles around other people) who went through CS programs. Unfortunately, I've also known several that were rabid man haters and thought they were the world's gift when they couldn't find their rear with both hands and a flashlight.
Of course, the same could be said of men (we have more than our fair share of incompetent jerks as well). However, using the excuse of "I'm a girl" for the reason that you're a misanthrope doesn't cut it. Everyone has to grow up and learn to play with others at some point - even the talking, non-feces throwing monkey.
It should also be mentioned that most guys do NOT get respect "handed over" to them. Most of us have to claw it out of wherever we can find it just like you. Anyone who thinks that we just get handed accolades over drinks is fooling themselves, because it just doesn't work that way.
As for being shut out by the "boy's club", you should see how nasty and vicious a bigoted female boss or professor can be. Yes, they do exist, and they are just as bad as any of the "boy's club" (if not worse) because they feel justified in having an axe to grind.
This wasn't anything directed to you personally. It just really needed to be said because too many people don't realize that it's just as bad on the other side of the fence.
I'd say that they're probably going the support route with this one. They give away the software and then sell their support contracts kind of like Redhat does.
I've known a couple of people who worked for Sun going on-site to locations to do support and I would assume that they have phone based packages as well.
Personally, I have to say that, if I had the spare cash, this might make me want to buy a Sun box. I love their hardware, having worked on it in labs for several years. It's just that buying the new OS every upgrade would have been rather expensive.
Let me preface this by saying that, by and large, I am something of a people person. I'm a fairly friendly person even though I can look a bit intimidating (I'm just not a small guy. Blame genetics and martial training)
Once upon a time (around 2002 or so), while I was working for a non-profit on campus, one of the things I had to do was an orientation on our systems for new people. Most of them were done at the beginning of the school year in large groups, but you'd get new people brought in on one grant or another at various points in the year.
One day, we got a new person working there. She was probably in her late 40's or early 50's (give or take), and had quite literally never used a computer before.
Nobody told me this.
She stared blankly at me when I started the intro, and kept doing so (as well as making the "I'm not a computer person" excuses) while I was trying to explain things to her. It finally came out that, as I said, she had never even used one before and was hired for a position where her job was largely to research things online...
Her supervisor and I had a talk afterward about how part of what I did was teach users to find their way around our systems and not to teach them how to use a computer. She didn't appreciate the talk (which was presented calmly and rationally) and went to the directors who told her the same thing.
Like it or not, as technology progresses, physical privacy is on the way out. I'd much rather lose my privacy to everyone than lose it only to the government.
All this means is that, instead of just a Big Brother, you have a bunch of Little Brothers nipping at your heels recording everything which Big Brother can use however he wants.
The loss of privacy should concern you no matter if it's the government or your neighbor down the street that's doing the recording.
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You forgot cops, bounty hunters, and prison guards
All three have large targets painted on them if they get thrown into jail.
Do we still want to be in Iraq in 2010?
We still maintain a military presence in Korea, and that happened when my grandfather was in the military....
For that matter, we're still in Okinawa, and World War 2 happened before Korea. Last I knew, one of my girlfriend's friends was stationed there with her husband.
We have this interesting habit of maintaining military presence wherever we happened to have a war.
in some cases, it actually looks better on the 'books' to have more contractors than directs do to how things are listed on the books. I don't know much of the details on this, I'm not an accountant, but, I've read articles about this.
For some companies, contractors are paid out of the general fund - the same place that the money for things like utilities comes from. That way, they don't show up on the books as a personnel expense, but instead, just another cost of doing business.
From a lot of the stories that I've heard, this seems to be par for the course for GoDaddy. They've also supposedly been known to basically hold domain names hostage when people want to change services.
It's one of the big reasons that I don't register domain names through them.
word to the wise:
You never have your origional birth cirtificate. All you ever get is a notorized copy.
7. Unless you live in California, get sued by the first company for breaking your non-compete agreement.
Note: I don't agree with non-competes, but unfortunately they do exist and not everyone can have them removed from their employment contracts.
The winters can be a bear. She should be glad that she's not in Minnesota *smirk*
It never seems like there are too many Ohioans on here.
Cleveland really isn't that bad. It's a pain in the ass in the winter because of all of the lake effect snow, but it's not a bad town for the most part.
There we go. All CEOs should be proficient in small arms and hand to hand combat.
That way we can pit them against each other on some deserted island and televise the whole thing. Imagine what that would do to the share price. =]
Yes, the article was covering a talk that he gave, basically to sell his comnpany's services. All I can say is that I hope nobody actually listens to this guy.
I'm not going to post my rant on here. It's way too long. If anyone wants to peruse it, you can read it in my blog.
Yup. We're all horrible, socially inept people who hit on anyone female that comes into our field of vision and think that nobody else has more than a couple of brain cells.
:P
p.s. marry me?
In all seriousness though, a lot of us who are fairly socially normal tend to deal with people as people. Some of us are even more than happy to help out people who actually want to learn, and don't care if they're a man, woman, or a talking monkey.
As for going stupid every time a girl is in visual range, speaking for myself, that was never a problem, but then I've also never had a problem finding a date. Apparently I can be a moderately charming person when I want to be. =]
I hope college is going well, and good luck in avoiding the creepy 40 year old guys. Oh, and doubly linked lists only seem weird until you finally figure out how they work and then you wonder why the heck you didn't get it before. heh
to babysit other people's kids.
Can you imagine if Myspace had kids?
*shudder*
Personally, I think that the punishment should be worse if they do it again. Say, do it three times and get thrown out of office. do not pass go, do not collect your salary.
Legislators serve the people. So many of them forget that.
Some companies (especially smaller ones) do this because they want one of their workers to be able to print things on the office printer from their home office or some other place. They don't want to drop the money on getting a vpn set up, so they just put the printer out there and trust that nobody else can print to it (or don't know that someone else can).
I know it sounds strange to us, but it does happen.
I know the feeling. Personally speaking, I look better with long hair (and have kept my hair that way for a very long time). Almost everyone agrees that I look much better this way. I look absolutely silly with short hair, but there's a mentality in this area that it's a horrible terrible thing for guys to have long hair.
Ah the joys of living in a conservative area.
As for the dyed hair, a lot of my friends have had theirs dyed. I don't have to because mine ends up looking like it's been dyed during the summer. I end up with hair that's a mid brown with heavy amounts of red and blonde streaks.
I had the tips of my hair dyed at one point, but ended up getting tired of taking care of it, so trimmed that part off.
Don't worry. Having read a lot of your posts (and having several replies from you), I didn't think you were being snarky. It's just one of those things that I honestly wonder about occasionally.
Why is dying your hair a "natural" color okay, but not dying it something non-standard even if it's done tastefully? On the coasts, it's largely a non-issue from what I understand, but here in the midwest people look at you like you're some kind of horrible freak.
I don't get why some people get up in arms about someone dying their hair a non-standard color but have no problem with other people dying theirs red or bleaching it blonde. It's no less fake. Besides, non-standard hair colors can be fun. =]
I have many fond memories of people with hair of pink, purple, green, or blue heh
Actually, if the FSF simply backed down before a ruling was reached (if court proceedings even began at all), then the license has never been tested in court. No case with a ruling means it still hasn't actually been tested.
That's honestly news to me. The last time I had to worry about buying unix licenses was several years ago, and that was Digital on some older DEC's running a few legacy systems where I used to work.
I used Solaris a lot in the programming labs at my university and rather liked it. In fact, it's the reason that I started using linux because that let me do my programing without having to be in the labs or on the dialup connection that I had at the time.
Now, I just need to work Sun hardware into my budget at some point =]
First, let me say that I have absolutely no problem with anyone chosing a profession as long as they are dedicated to it. If you find something that you are good at and that you enjoy, go for it. I'll back your play. I don't care if you're plaid or a talking monkey (just, in the latter case, please don't throw fecal matter...)
I've known some really cool women that *really* knew what they were doing (and could run circles around other people) who went through CS programs. Unfortunately, I've also known several that were rabid man haters and thought they were the world's gift when they couldn't find their rear with both hands and a flashlight.
Of course, the same could be said of men (we have more than our fair share of incompetent jerks as well). However, using the excuse of "I'm a girl" for the reason that you're a misanthrope doesn't cut it. Everyone has to grow up and learn to play with others at some point - even the talking, non-feces throwing monkey.
It should also be mentioned that most guys do NOT get respect "handed over" to them. Most of us have to claw it out of wherever we can find it just like you. Anyone who thinks that we just get handed accolades over drinks is fooling themselves, because it just doesn't work that way.
As for being shut out by the "boy's club", you should see how nasty and vicious a bigoted female boss or professor can be. Yes, they do exist, and they are just as bad as any of the "boy's club" (if not worse) because they feel justified in having an axe to grind.
This wasn't anything directed to you personally. It just really needed to be said because too many people don't realize that it's just as bad on the other side of the fence.
Wish I had known about that when they started it. I wouldn't have turned my nose up at a free copy of the new Office.
I'd say that they're probably going the support route with this one. They give away the software and then sell their support contracts kind of like Redhat does.
I've known a couple of people who worked for Sun going on-site to locations to do support and I would assume that they have phone based packages as well.
Personally, I have to say that, if I had the spare cash, this might make me want to buy a Sun box. I love their hardware, having worked on it in labs for several years. It's just that buying the new OS every upgrade would have been rather expensive.
Actually, it's just a way to drum up interest in a new product. A lot of companies do it.
Microsoft does it with the functional betas of a lot of their software including Visual Studio and they aren't really hurting for customers
Let me preface this by saying that, by and large, I am something of a people person. I'm a fairly friendly person even though I can look a bit intimidating (I'm just not a small guy. Blame genetics and martial training)
Once upon a time (around 2002 or so), while I was working for a non-profit on campus, one of the things I had to do was an orientation on our systems for new people. Most of them were done at the beginning of the school year in large groups, but you'd get new people brought in on one grant or another at various points in the year.
One day, we got a new person working there. She was probably in her late 40's or early 50's (give or take), and had quite literally never used a computer before.
Nobody told me this.
She stared blankly at me when I started the intro, and kept doing so (as well as making the "I'm not a computer person" excuses) while I was trying to explain things to her. It finally came out that, as I said, she had never even used one before and was hired for a position where her job was largely to research things online...
Her supervisor and I had a talk afterward about how part of what I did was teach users to find their way around our systems and not to teach them how to use a computer. She didn't appreciate the talk (which was presented calmly and rationally) and went to the directors who told her the same thing.
Like it or not, as technology progresses, physical privacy is on the way out. I'd much rather lose my privacy to everyone than lose it only to the government.
All this means is that, instead of just a Big Brother, you have a bunch of Little Brothers nipping at your heels recording everything which Big Brother can use however he wants.
The loss of privacy should concern you no matter if it's the government or your neighbor down the street that's doing the recording.