I have a big problem with salaries in the U.S. -- employees believe they have a right to a raise every year, even if they are not providing more service or helping the company with added efficiency.
Sir, you are a toad, sir. Not providing more service ? So you think the experience they gather during working for your company is worthless (well, obviously you do) ? If so, then maybe you should be the one re-evaluating what your company is doing, that doesn't require your workers to evolve and gather precious (at least for you) knew knowledge and expertise in your field. At the least, you shall raise the salaries from time to time to show you value their time which they spend at your company and don't leave you to use their gathered knowledge to earn more at some other company.
There are loads and tons of materials about bsd and linux security. There's no Mr. Apple who will visit you at home and feed all the information into your brain, one has to be willing to learn doing things some other way than what having been accustomed to. Just because one knows an OS better, doesn't mean one is more safe, this is just an illusion. Truth is, most of computer using people just couldn't care less about security issues. They are the targets of the endless pr stunts every company performs continuously. For them Apple probably has to "prove" OSX is innocent (i.e. more secure than Windows) one way or the other, and still there's the chance that even publshing security-related pr stuff won't make a difference in people's decisions when buying computers.
comparison of the state of security between OSX and Winodws,
Yeah, and who said OSX has to be compared to Windows ? Who says that OSX has to "defend" itself as in "just ask Microsoft" ? Microsoft is not trusted because their software has "earned" this mistrust. OSX's so called security issues have mostly turned out to be fud^2. Yes, we know crowds don't understand and don't want to understand unix vs windows architecture differences, they need to see "comparisons" and security "studies" performed by "independents". Stuff like admission of weakness or get ahead of the curve for any troubles that may be inevitable or perception -- warranted or not -- that Mac security may be eroding are also nothing more than parts of the fud.
Sometimes it's just too much and I don't care anymore that 99% of computer users know less about they OS than a gardener about martian rocks, sometimes the too much naivity and stupidity just makes me want to puke.
...what I'd care about would be online availability of clips, shows, series, movies, events, concerts, etc. for some fee [moderate and realistic, realistic as "from this world" not as "hey I have this service and nobody else has let's get their money hard"], meaning that if I sit down after a long day and would like to watch an excerpt from O Brother Where Art Thou, or an episode from the seventies' galactica, or if I want to watch Blade Runner 30 yers from now, it should be only a matter of a card and a remote.
I wouldn't care about downloading episodes from series that will probably get here 4-5 yeras from their airing in the States, hell I could spend my time and bandwidth better and I wouldn't need to worry about legality issues.
So if _anyone_ is beginning to offer shows for a fee online, it's fine with me. My problem is though that iTunes is still nowhere to be found in my country, nor in neighboring countries, and yes, we're in the EU, in 2006.
70 percent of the purchase price now heading directly to the music industry
LOL, that sounds peculiar indeed, Canada's music industry now gets rich from blank media instead of music content:D Kiddin' of course, but still, it's hard to keep from [uneasy] smiling.
...that is, warp drive ? Hell, let them work on it if they want. We should patent the software and its interfaces that would control a warp drive, from every possible angle and aspect. That way it won't matter if they can patent a warp drive, they won't be able to use it unless they pay you bucks/engine:) learn from MS, and you shall be rich:P
No, that man should never have gotten that job. There's no way he developed such ideas overnight, after getting this job. SOmebody somewhere has had to know about his views. That means they had nothing against him or his views. Wait, that wouldn't actually surprise us, given recent times, or would it...
eople have NO IDEA the type of assholes cops have to deal with.
But people have fairly good ideas how asshole cops they have to sometimes deal with. And such claims as appeared in this article won't make them look better in any way imaginable.
Didn't you want to know who the bastard was that did it?
Sir, you're an idiot, sir. The question never was whether one would or would not want to see the killers or any other offenders if they did something wrong. The problem is if they want to watch you in your home, then no matter what idiotic arguments they might come up with, they implicitely imply that you are a criminal who hasn't done anything yet but they'd better watch you since you could do something wrong anytime. By putting the camera in your room they already assume you're a criminal, to be watched constantly. I wouldn't want to feel myself at home as being in some cell in a damn jailhouse. There's no way I'd let anybody put a camera in my house for watching us. The moment this would be made mandatory I'd move to the northern parts of Alaska.
No, no, no... I think if I ever hear that argument again I am just going to explode and hope I'll be some bacteria my next life. Well, if I'd believe in being reborn that is.
Every (wo)man with power who says lines like that should just have their rooms and bathrooms in each of their houses equipped with cameras giving live feeds on the net.
What I mean is boradband is good and great, if one needs it. As with everything, the need of the people should be the reason that they buy something, not some providers' penetration numbers: if one needs broadband connection for some reason, (s)he should be able to buy one, if not, (s)he should be able to buy a connection which has the speed (s)he needs. Crying because not so many people buy broadband as providers would see fit, is nothing that people in general should give a damn thought about. I for one don't live in the US, still I have broadband connection at home for some years now. However just a few months ago I switched my connection back down to 1mbit (adsl) since I simply don't need more for home use (and that also includes many hours per day remote working from home). Point is: buy what you need, and providers should provide what you ask for not sell you stuff you don't need (yes, I know I'm not realistic, I also live on this planet, still).
No, thank you. I mean until there are some free (as in beer) av scanners and protectors some even combined with intrusion detection and some even with alteration monitoring, with frequent updates (I won't tell names and brands, they are not that hard to find), no, I will not pay Microsoft for their solution for a problem they can not solve otherwise. If I am a company making crap wood doors, then the solution is not to begin selling nails, hammers and wood so as you can fix your own door at home, but make damn better doors.
Yup, that sounds about right. And I predict at least one playboy bunny in every household next year. About the same amount of people would realistically care about both those predictions. But I predict more people would be disappointed if my prediction would go the highway:P
I also predict at least one more prediction in the next dozen articles:P
I am no professor, but I hold lectures and keep lab practices from time to time at a university, and oh, I don't live in the US. On my lectures I only talk about the topic and about my subject, nothing else, even if asked about something not connected I tell them to keep the question till after the lecture. Ain't no way someone could record me saying anything about policital, philosophical or religious matters - not that anyone would want to. Still, I don't like the idea this Andrew Jones fellow pursues. Anyway, who is this guy thinking that he is the right person to question what a profesor is talking about during his own lecture time ? If one professor is so often way out of line and out of topic people will undoubtedly hear about it after a while and if it's against university policy then probably something will be done against it.
Other than this, I only think this Andrew Jones guy is just behaving like the society he grew up in, probably thinking that he has right to do everything. Also, he has a fairly easy job since generally no matter how you address political, religious, philosophical, etc. topics, you will probably clash into some crowd who will want to hang you on the first tree. So it's probably the safest not to talk at all. --- Quite familiar situation, but I guess for most americans it won't sound that familiar (no fear, modding can't disturb my sleep).
I wouldn't want to live in a society where people have to think a dozen times over every sentence they want to speak out loud in fear somebody will smack them.
Gee, are you not working for MS by any chance ?:P start with a dream, which became a vision, which became a mission, which transalted to goals:D Perl is fraggin' cool stuff, has always been, from day one. Not for everything, naturally, but for a lot of tasks a perl-trained hand is mostly unbeatable. Sure as hell the programming world would be a lot poorer without perl.
Ok, so I'll have to start with telling that I'm also something like an immigrant where I live now (no, not in the US or Australia), meaning I have the nationality of this country but I was born in another country and then later immigrated here, and I'm doubly involved in anything IT-related, having both IT and EE degrees, and working in the field.
What I can tell from my experience and from knowing _a lot_ of what you'd call immigrant IT workers - not just who came here, but who went into western Europe and/or US - so what I can tell is that they didn't go because they want to live there forever, or because they didn't have or couldn't have got good jobs here, or because they wanted to take US jobs from US people, but because the money. Nothing else, but the money. Working a few years in the US can really mean a _very_ large boost financially for very many people from very many countries.
And thing is, IT/CS/EE-related people usually are a bit more "brave" in going in other countries to work, since if you're skilled, there are _very_ many opportunities, positions and jobs that you can get.
And added to the above, I don't think that the ever larger global flow of "work force", talent and skilled people is a bad thing. In fact I think just the opposite of that, and if I were in the position I'd very much encourage that.
Even I would have had some opportunities to go and work in some other countries, but I prefer being and licing where I am now, so I didn't go. But today I would go, since e.g. in my current job I'd only be able to buy a 40-50m^2 flat in about 20-25 years (I'm just getting 27 now). Now think about that for a minute.
By stopping foreign workers from getting into one's country to live and/or work one can only achieve one thing: hate.
If you want full Linux-installer-style partition and format control over a Windows install, it's there, and it's not that hard to find.
I call BS, and big time. Let's see some crapness in the windows installer:
- no sata or raid support (wait, see next line),
- you can have sata and other "exotic" hw support with third party drivers on a floppy disk, and nothing else (just think of people like myself who doesn't even buy or have fdd for about 6 years now), which leads to
- you can't use, mount, read,... no media under the installer, can't use drivers from another optical drive, external drive, network share, nfs, and I could just go on
- you have only two choices for partition format, fatxx or ntfs; besides the goal for monopoly, how can one explain the lack of native support for other, high quality journaling filesystems
- no support for defining separate partitions for swap or user homes (that is Documents and Settings) - I know you can make these steps after a finished install, but why not during install ?
- network will be about the last things activated during the install process and still no use since you don't have no other terminals or guis or anything, you can't do anything but wait
- the installer gives you about 0 amount of information about the status of the install, in a lucky case you can see some filenames of dlls being copied, other than that nothing but some crappy images and blinking pixels
Don't get me wrong (I suppose you already did), I'm not saying the way the installer works is bad for the average user, I'm saying you have no other option, which is bad. Sometimes very bad.
I mean however some governments preach against pollution, just take a good look around the globe and try to honestly say something is made against it. While some minor things are done, globally there's nothing happening.
So, when talking about building new nuclear power stations in europe, one has to thing about two things as causes:
- cheaper energy,
- lesser dependency on russian gas (as recent russian-ukrainian developments have shown).
People of course are afraid of anything nuclear, and why shouldn't they ? There's no perfect station, there's no 100% guarantee a station won't fail, and there's absolutely not much space on this planet to store our nuclear waste, which will only be more and more.
I for one would more like to see space technology developed not towards space tourism, but towards expediting nuclear waste into space, be that into the Sun, towards some distant planet in our system, or else. I know this may sound harsh, but I'd say it's better to have it off planet than on planet, whichever place on earth that may eventually be.
Until we don't arrive to a point in technology and time where we will be able to use more efficient and less polluting energy sources, nuclear power plants seem to be the best compromise.
Of course, you also have to think about other issues, like e.g. if there will be too many nuclear plants, they will be nice targets for terrorists to crash their planes into.
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I have a big problem with salaries in the U.S. -- employees believe they have a right to a raise every year, even if they are not providing more service or helping the company with added efficiency.
Sir, you are a toad, sir. Not providing more service ? So you think the experience they gather during working for your company is worthless (well, obviously you do) ? If so, then maybe you should be the one re-evaluating what your company is doing, that doesn't require your workers to evolve and gather precious (at least for you) knew knowledge and expertise in your field. At the least, you shall raise the salaries from time to time to show you value their time which they spend at your company and don't leave you to use their gathered knowledge to earn more at some other company.
:) The problem with this is that if you want to make threats you'd better come up with something they'd believe can be done :)
realign yourself with the corporate goals
:]
Holy sh*t, it's these kinds of words that could make me run, no matter at which company I'd be at when they are spoken
There are loads and tons of materials about bsd and linux security. There's no Mr. Apple who will visit you at home and feed all the information into your brain, one has to be willing to learn doing things some other way than what having been accustomed to. Just because one knows an OS better, doesn't mean one is more safe, this is just an illusion. Truth is, most of computer using people just couldn't care less about security issues. They are the targets of the endless pr stunts every company performs continuously. For them Apple probably has to "prove" OSX is innocent (i.e. more secure than Windows) one way or the other, and still there's the chance that even publshing security-related pr stuff won't make a difference in people's decisions when buying computers.
comparison of the state of security between OSX and Winodws,
Yeah, and who said OSX has to be compared to Windows ? Who says that OSX has to "defend" itself as in "just ask Microsoft" ? Microsoft is not trusted because their software has "earned" this mistrust. OSX's so called security issues have mostly turned out to be fud^2. Yes, we know crowds don't understand and don't want to understand unix vs windows architecture differences, they need to see "comparisons" and security "studies" performed by "independents". Stuff like admission of weakness or get ahead of the curve for any troubles that may be inevitable or perception -- warranted or not -- that Mac security may be eroding are also nothing more than parts of the fud.
Sometimes it's just too much and I don't care anymore that 99% of computer users know less about they OS than a gardener about martian rocks, sometimes the too much naivity and stupidity just makes me want to puke.
...what I'd care about would be online availability of clips, shows, series, movies, events, concerts, etc. for some fee [moderate and realistic, realistic as "from this world" not as "hey I have this service and nobody else has let's get their money hard"], meaning that if I sit down after a long day and would like to watch an excerpt from O Brother Where Art Thou, or an episode from the seventies' galactica, or if I want to watch Blade Runner 30 yers from now, it should be only a matter of a card and a remote.
I wouldn't care about downloading episodes from series that will probably get here 4-5 yeras from their airing in the States, hell I could spend my time and bandwidth better and I wouldn't need to worry about legality issues.
So if _anyone_ is beginning to offer shows for a fee online, it's fine with me. My problem is though that iTunes is still nowhere to be found in my country, nor in neighboring countries, and yes, we're in the EU, in 2006.
"- Me, me, me... - Me too." :P
70 percent of the purchase price now heading directly to the music industry
:D Kiddin' of course, but still, it's hard to keep from [uneasy] smiling.
LOL, that sounds peculiar indeed, Canada's music industry now gets rich from blank media instead of music content
...that is, warp drive ? Hell, let them work on it if they want. We should patent the software and its interfaces that would control a warp drive, from every possible angle and aspect. That way it won't matter if they can patent a warp drive, they won't be able to use it unless they pay you bucks/engine :) learn from MS, and you shall be rich :P
No, that man should never have gotten that job. There's no way he developed such ideas overnight, after getting this job. SOmebody somewhere has had to know about his views. That means they had nothing against him or his views. Wait, that wouldn't actually surprise us, given recent times, or would it...
eople have NO IDEA the type of assholes cops have to deal with.
But people have fairly good ideas how asshole cops they have to sometimes deal with. And such claims as appeared in this article won't make them look better in any way imaginable.
Didn't you want to know who the bastard was that did it?
Sir, you're an idiot, sir. The question never was whether one would or would not want to see the killers or any other offenders if they did something wrong. The problem is if they want to watch you in your home, then no matter what idiotic arguments they might come up with, they implicitely imply that you are a criminal who hasn't done anything yet but they'd better watch you since you could do something wrong anytime. By putting the camera in your room they already assume you're a criminal, to be watched constantly. I wouldn't want to feel myself at home as being in some cell in a damn jailhouse. There's no way I'd let anybody put a camera in my house for watching us. The moment this would be made mandatory I'd move to the northern parts of Alaska.
if you are not doing anything wrong
No, no, no... I think if I ever hear that argument again I am just going to explode and hope I'll be some bacteria my next life. Well, if I'd believe in being reborn that is.
Every (wo)man with power who says lines like that should just have their rooms and bathrooms in each of their houses equipped with cameras giving live feeds on the net.
What I mean is boradband is good and great, if one needs it. As with everything, the need of the people should be the reason that they buy something, not some providers' penetration numbers: if one needs broadband connection for some reason, (s)he should be able to buy one, if not, (s)he should be able to buy a connection which has the speed (s)he needs. Crying because not so many people buy broadband as providers would see fit, is nothing that people in general should give a damn thought about. I for one don't live in the US, still I have broadband connection at home for some years now. However just a few months ago I switched my connection back down to 1mbit (adsl) since I simply don't need more for home use (and that also includes many hours per day remote working from home). Point is: buy what you need, and providers should provide what you ask for not sell you stuff you don't need (yes, I know I'm not realistic, I also live on this planet, still).
No, thank you. I mean until there are some free (as in beer) av scanners and protectors some even combined with intrusion detection and some even with alteration monitoring, with frequent updates (I won't tell names and brands, they are not that hard to find), no, I will not pay Microsoft for their solution for a problem they can not solve otherwise. If I am a company making crap wood doors, then the solution is not to begin selling nails, hammers and wood so as you can fix your own door at home, but make damn better doors.
//OT.
:P
:P
Yup, that sounds about right. And I predict at least one playboy bunny in every household next year. About the same amount of people would realistically care about both those predictions. But I predict more people would be disappointed if my prediction would go the highway
I also predict at least one more prediction in the next dozen articles
I am no professor, but I hold lectures and keep lab practices from time to time at a university, and oh, I don't live in the US. On my lectures I only talk about the topic and about my subject, nothing else, even if asked about something not connected I tell them to keep the question till after the lecture. Ain't no way someone could record me saying anything about policital, philosophical or religious matters - not that anyone would want to. Still, I don't like the idea this Andrew Jones fellow pursues. Anyway, who is this guy thinking that he is the right person to question what a profesor is talking about during his own lecture time ? If one professor is so often way out of line and out of topic people will undoubtedly hear about it after a while and if it's against university policy then probably something will be done against it.
Other than this, I only think this Andrew Jones guy is just behaving like the society he grew up in, probably thinking that he has right to do everything. Also, he has a fairly easy job since generally no matter how you address political, religious, philosophical, etc. topics, you will probably clash into some crowd who will want to hang you on the first tree. So it's probably the safest not to talk at all. --- Quite familiar situation, but I guess for most americans it won't sound that familiar (no fear, modding can't disturb my sleep).
I wouldn't want to live in a society where people have to think a dozen times over every sentence they want to speak out loud in fear somebody will smack them.
Reference: P6DNF.
:D
LMAO, thumbsup
So first you say it's crap because it can't be done. When you get examples that it can, you say it's crap because how it can be done. Now get lost.
Well, you most probably wanted to say Ruby, Perl's neater nephew. I mean check the dates.
It's when some reviewer said Tron was the Matrix of the eighties.
Gee, are you not working for MS by any chance ? :P start with a dream, which became a vision, which became a mission, which transalted to goals :D Perl is fraggin' cool stuff, has always been, from day one. Not for everything, naturally, but for a lot of tasks a perl-trained hand is mostly unbeatable. Sure as hell the programming world would be a lot poorer without perl.
...with $0.032 per processor.
:D
Ok, you can mod me offtopic
Ok, so I'll have to start with telling that I'm also something like an immigrant where I live now (no, not in the US or Australia), meaning I have the nationality of this country but I was born in another country and then later immigrated here, and I'm doubly involved in anything IT-related, having both IT and EE degrees, and working in the field.
What I can tell from my experience and from knowing _a lot_ of what you'd call immigrant IT workers - not just who came here, but who went into western Europe and/or US - so what I can tell is that they didn't go because they want to live there forever, or because they didn't have or couldn't have got good jobs here, or because they wanted to take US jobs from US people, but because the money. Nothing else, but the money. Working a few years in the US can really mean a _very_ large boost financially for very many people from very many countries.
And thing is, IT/CS/EE-related people usually are a bit more "brave" in going in other countries to work, since if you're skilled, there are _very_ many opportunities, positions and jobs that you can get.
And added to the above, I don't think that the ever larger global flow of "work force", talent and skilled people is a bad thing. In fact I think just the opposite of that, and if I were in the position I'd very much encourage that.
Even I would have had some opportunities to go and work in some other countries, but I prefer being and licing where I am now, so I didn't go. But today I would go, since e.g. in my current job I'd only be able to buy a 40-50m^2 flat in about 20-25 years (I'm just getting 27 now). Now think about that for a minute.
By stopping foreign workers from getting into one's country to live and/or work one can only achieve one thing: hate.
If you want full Linux-installer-style partition and format control over a Windows install, it's there, and it's not that hard to find.
... no media under the installer, can't use drivers from another optical drive, external drive, network share, nfs, and I could just go on
I call BS, and big time. Let's see some crapness in the windows installer:
- no sata or raid support (wait, see next line),
- you can have sata and other "exotic" hw support with third party drivers on a floppy disk, and nothing else (just think of people like myself who doesn't even buy or have fdd for about 6 years now), which leads to
- you can't use, mount, read,
- you have only two choices for partition format, fatxx or ntfs; besides the goal for monopoly, how can one explain the lack of native support for other, high quality journaling filesystems
- no support for defining separate partitions for swap or user homes (that is Documents and Settings) - I know you can make these steps after a finished install, but why not during install ?
- network will be about the last things activated during the install process and still no use since you don't have no other terminals or guis or anything, you can't do anything but wait
- the installer gives you about 0 amount of information about the status of the install, in a lucky case you can see some filenames of dlls being copied, other than that nothing but some crappy images and blinking pixels
Don't get me wrong (I suppose you already did), I'm not saying the way the installer works is bad for the average user, I'm saying you have no other option, which is bad. Sometimes very bad.
I mean however some governments preach against pollution, just take a good look around the globe and try to honestly say something is made against it. While some minor things are done, globally there's nothing happening.
So, when talking about building new nuclear power stations in europe, one has to thing about two things as causes:
- cheaper energy,
- lesser dependency on russian gas (as recent russian-ukrainian developments have shown).
People of course are afraid of anything nuclear, and why shouldn't they ? There's no perfect station, there's no 100% guarantee a station won't fail, and there's absolutely not much space on this planet to store our nuclear waste, which will only be more and more.
I for one would more like to see space technology developed not towards space tourism, but towards expediting nuclear waste into space, be that into the Sun, towards some distant planet in our system, or else. I know this may sound harsh, but I'd say it's better to have it off planet than on planet, whichever place on earth that may eventually be.
Until we don't arrive to a point in technology and time where we will be able to use more efficient and less polluting energy sources, nuclear power plants seem to be the best compromise.
Of course, you also have to think about other issues, like e.g. if there will be too many nuclear plants, they will be nice targets for terrorists to crash their planes into.