It's an idiomatic translation for what would be understood outside the US as "Business Computer Information Systems", and probably what you would simply call "IT".
What if you have an equally binding obligation not to disclose something to one party, or say you are even bound by law not to make that disclosure. One party claims you have a legal responsibility to disclose, another party claims you have a legal responsibility not to disclose. Who wins, and who decides? This is definitely worthy of a hearing (e.g., trial with a jury).
>You live in Austria, you have money. Whether you earn it yourself or not, doesn't matter.
He uses public transportation. It is very efficient and reliable. If he lives in Vienna, you can probably plot his shopping route. You can also almost say either that he fits in a fairly narrow range of ethnic features *or* his is something of an outcast in his own society, even if he is a native there (do not underestimate the capacity of Europeans for racism).
"My granddad was a blacksmith who taught his trade to young crims at a borstal in the 1950s. One of them showed how he could open a Yale lock in about 30 seconds."
It shouldn't take that long for a *blacksmith*... one hammer blow should do it.
These laws like copyright extension would be good, on balance, if it weren't for the fact that large corporations are in improved positions compared to a typical private citizen, when seeking damages, especially in court but also in any negotiation.
If the playing field were level, laws like those protecting copyright would protect you exactly the same as they protect the big players.
Even so, I still think people should already take this status quo as a sign that it is time to stop being a mere consumer of entertainment. Be creative. This stuff should be a powerful whip, provoking and compelling you to make your OWN music or whatever artistic/creative endeavor you choose.
But don't listen to me, I'm crazy. I don't even have a TV in my house. (I need the space for my piano.)
>But shouldn't there be a law against tampering with elections?
Yes, and since it is a concern for the state government your state's legislature can place any penalty on the crime. It is not a federal concern.
It might come as a shock to you that your state's legislature actually has the authority to choose electors without even considering the outcome of at-large elections. Sometimes I think that would be better.
I slept through middle school, high school, undergrad chemistry and physics, slept through my masters, and am sleeping on the job at my university environmental research gig.
>What kind of college class would teach COBOL except as a historical curiosity in passing?
The kind of college that is focused on being an immediate-term source of labor for skills in demand in a specific market. Full-spectrum, tier-one research institutions don't have the same priorities when forming curriculum.
This is why it actually does matter where you went to school, sometimes.
If you want the kind of job where you program in COBOL, I hope you have also studied all kinds of finance and accounting, business law, tax administration, and so on.
>I could train a cuttlefish to write a complex accounts program in COBOL.
On the other hand, the understanding of the business processes, law, finance, etc., doesn't always come easy.
I wrote some FORTRAN this week. Sure I could use another language, but if you could see the purely numerical flavor of my work you'd probably agree that it's not necessarily a good idea to port to C or Java or whatever just because FORTRAN is old (and it's not that old, the build date on my compiler is 4-1-2008:-)
I've never liked COBOL's syntax at all, but what aggravates me even more is the typical programming idioms that are associated with it. And I have never in my life seen more paper used for any process, more than COBOL development. Yeah, I know it doesn't have to be that way, but in many shops it definitely is.
Programming COBOL (or my favorite, PL/I), might be lucrative, but it seems soul-killing to me. I wouldn't do it. I'd try subsistence farming before I took a regular job in COBOL maintenance, and I wouldn't take a job doing *new* development in COBOL, but I'd certainly make a bid for them to hire me to put me in charge at a level where I make decisions about the platform.
It means you simply miss the point. He spelled it out for you, and you still missed it. It's about choice. He's right, and you're wrong. Don't _even_ try to have this argument.
Drop damage of any sort? Not replaced, you pay more for repair than you would out-of-warranty, and your warranty is cancelled without any compensation.
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Bartscht's Law of Model Railroading:
The number of problems is directly proportional to the number of spectators.
>My office super glued all the USB ports shut
Just the external ports? Or did they epoxy all the USB headers on the motherboard?
....student newspaper
haha, yes.
And there are straight-up volunteer gigs all over healthcare too.
Exceptions support the rule...
Wait.. Why would someone who has an education and presumably a future, choose to leave the paradise that is Europe in order to go *to* the US?
>Here in the states, its not uncommon for interns (especially if they are still working on their undergraduate
>degree) to get paid nothing.
It's extremely uncommon, that is, unheard of, that they literally volunteer.
Either you are getting university credit for your internship, your internship is someplace *really* sexy, or you're getting paid.
Nobody has time for that.
It's an idiomatic translation for what would be understood outside the US as "Business Computer Information Systems", and probably what you would simply call "IT".
What if you have an equally binding obligation not to disclose something to one party, or say you are even bound by law not to make that disclosure. One party claims you have a legal responsibility to disclose, another party claims you have a legal responsibility not to disclose. Who wins, and who decides? This is definitely worthy of a hearing (e.g., trial with a jury).
>the catch is they are COMPENSATED for that bit.
It isn't really a "catch", it's a simple fact that a contract is only valid if something of value is exchanged for valuable consideration.
>you can't very well tell a medical device sales rep that he is forbidden from approaching physicians for 1 year.
From the other direction: Can you make it illegal for someone to sign a contract, with consideration, for the same?
I haven't turned on the tv, or even been in the same room with a tv since before the olympics started.
>Imagine a fuel blockade happens tomorrow, in 2 days there's no food in the supermarket. In 7 no food in the
>neighbourhood.
I've made it for longer, without really being prepared.
>You live in Austria, you have money. Whether you earn it yourself or not, doesn't matter.
He uses public transportation. It is very efficient and reliable. If he lives in Vienna, you can probably plot his shopping route. You can also almost say either that he fits in a fairly narrow range of ethnic features *or* his is something of an outcast in his own society, even if he is a native there (do not underestimate the capacity of Europeans for racism).
"My granddad was a blacksmith who taught his trade to young crims at a borstal in the 1950s. One of them showed how he could open a Yale lock in about 30 seconds."
It shouldn't take that long for a *blacksmith* ... one hammer blow should do it.
>I mean, if I made a little robot to fly into houses and take pictures, you wouldn't be fine with that, would you?
The difference is this would be illegal in my locale.
>Even though I didn't damage your property or enter your house?
Getting you robot into my property involves breaking and entering, which is damage.
These laws like copyright extension would be good, on balance, if it weren't for the fact that large corporations are in improved positions compared to a typical private citizen, when seeking damages, especially in court but also in any negotiation.
If the playing field were level, laws like those protecting copyright would protect you exactly the same as they protect the big players.
Even so, I still think people should already take this status quo as a sign that it is time to stop being a mere consumer of entertainment. Be creative. This stuff should be a powerful whip, provoking and compelling you to make your OWN music or whatever artistic/creative endeavor you choose.
But don't listen to me, I'm crazy. I don't even have a TV in my house. (I need the space for my piano.)
>That's odd, I grew up in a town of less that 4,000 and had no trouble finding hand made clothes, fresh local
>produce, locally created art, music...
Yes, Oregon is generally something of a paradise in this respect.
You probably don't realize that you're being elitist here.
>With the economy tanking, I rather doubt the first thing on everyone's list is to go out and get an HDTV.
Well, I have never, ever gotten in line at Costco without seeing somebody buying one...
Is the economy tanking? Or is it just that the haves and have-nots are being rearranged a bit?
I don't see where people stopped driving their cars (traffic is, if anything, worse since $4/gal gas).
A house on my street recently sold for $330,000. It's a mundane 1950s brick 3 bedroom in a not-very-exciting neighborhood.
What economic indicators do you choose, when you say "tanking?"
>But shouldn't there be a law against tampering with elections?
Yes, and since it is a concern for the state government your state's legislature can place any penalty on the crime.
It is not a federal concern.
It might come as a shock to you that your state's legislature actually has the authority to choose electors without even considering the outcome of at-large elections. Sometimes I think that would be better.
>Such as yourself?
I slept through middle school, high school, undergrad chemistry and physics, slept through my masters, and am sleeping on the job at my university environmental research gig.
Any questions?
>What kind of college class would teach COBOL except as a historical curiosity in passing?
The kind of college that is focused on being an immediate-term source of labor for skills in demand in a specific market. Full-spectrum, tier-one research institutions don't have the same priorities when forming curriculum.
This is why it actually does matter where you went to school, sometimes.
If you want the kind of job where you program in COBOL, I hope you have also studied all kinds of finance and accounting, business law, tax administration, and so on.
>Less than 2K what?
Less than 2 degrees Kelvin, for those who slept through middle school science.
>I could train a cuttlefish to write a complex accounts program in COBOL.
On the other hand, the understanding of the business processes, law, finance, etc., doesn't always come easy.
I wrote some FORTRAN this week. Sure I could use another language, but if you could see the purely numerical flavor of my work you'd probably agree that it's not necessarily a good idea to port to C or Java or whatever just because FORTRAN is old (and it's not that old, the build date on my compiler is 4-1-2008 :-)
I've never liked COBOL's syntax at all, but what aggravates me even more is the typical programming idioms that are associated with it. And I have never in my life seen more paper used for any process, more than COBOL development. Yeah, I know it doesn't have to be that way, but in many shops it definitely is.
Programming COBOL (or my favorite, PL/I), might be lucrative, but it seems soul-killing to me. I wouldn't do it. I'd try subsistence farming before I took a regular job in COBOL maintenance, and I wouldn't take a job doing *new* development in COBOL, but I'd certainly make a bid for them to hire me to put me in charge at a level where I make decisions about the platform.
>.. that means what exactly?
It means you simply miss the point. He spelled it out for you, and you still missed it. It's about choice. He's right, and you're wrong.
Don't _even_ try to have this argument.
Drop damage of any sort? Not replaced, you pay more for repair than you would out-of-warranty, and your warranty is cancelled without any compensation.
>That's totally disingenuous.
I found it to be right on the money. And you sure did come back and say it was totally different, as predicted.