If multiple people with different supervisors were being let go, they would coordinate to do it all at the same time so that word wouldn't have time to spread around the office.
Sounds like they were really competent at doing mass layoffs. It's a shame that they weren't as competent at whatever their business was supposed to be doing so that mass layoffs weren't such a well-practiced event.
How are they going to mess up your database with read-only access? They could run intensive queries, I guess. But unless you've got million+ row tables that are being accessed concurrently by tens of clients, this shouldn't be much of a problem.
I think a real problem, assuming you can limit their resource usage, is that you're going to have to support them. You may not have your entire DB documented well enough that "amateurs", dabblers and dilettantes will be able to use it without your help. Now you've gotta do your job and theirs. So I suppose you should calculate how much a help desk for this new functionality will cost your company, so they know how much extra to charge the customer.
The reason that happens is 1) Receiving the Eucharist during Communion is a sign of unity. If you're not Catholic, it'd be contradictory to that unative message to recieve it and 2)a Biblically-based belief that people who receive Jesus's Body and Blood (which is what Catholics hold that it really and truly is) unworthily, that is, either in a state of disbelief or in a state of great sin, basically bring a bunch of bad things down on themselves. So it's a theologically protective measure, and it applies to Catholics as well.
Man, leave it to the Catholics to attach a EULA to the Eucharist.
Respect towards people beleafs is a must. When you fail to do so it causes conflect and all open dialog closes.
As Mencken put it: "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
I myself get angry when people tell me that being Catholic that I am not a christian
I tell Catholics this, too. Mainly just to piss 'em off for their little "closed communion" thingy and what not. I don't really believe it, but I say it anyway to start an argument. I was at a Catholic wedding once, and the priest made a special point to un-invite all us pagans (you know Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, etc.) not to come up for their little ritual. Under my breath, I said "We're not worthy", to myself. Except I guess it wasn't just under my breath and to myself alone, because several people approached me at the reception to say: "We're not worthy, either."
I'll bet a few beheadings on youtube will get WikiLeaks to change it's ways.......wait a sec.......Mormons?!?!? I thought the article said Muslims!
Based on their history, Mormons are more into disembowelment than beheading. But I think it would get the point across just as well.
I believe any corporation (church, business, whatever) has the right to some privacy about its inner workings
Not being persons, they have no such inherent right, only the rights that we the people choose to bestow on them. Since you've voted "for some", I'll register my vote as "for considerably less than persons".
when there is no one going to sleep hungry, when there is no one sleeping in the streets and no ones constitutional rights (and i mean all of them, not just the ones that two certain big parties find noble while shitting on the others) are being threatened can you even BEGIN to think that your so-called right to download ac-dc albums is worth electing an official over.
But today there are people going to sleep hungry, and sleeping in the streets, and constitutional rights are being trampled. One could argue that our politicians and governments do too much to protect IP, and not enough to address these very real problems -- that by electing officials that agree that too much is spent on enforcing copyright and not enough on social ills is we could attempt to set that balance right.
Slashdot discussions may have become too politicized for some of us, but this topic is not a good example of that, since it is about politics and government. I think your comment's (Anonymous) parent got modded flamebait because it started with: "are you fucking kidding me? i tell you what assfuck". Sometimes a reader will stop right there without considering the remainder of one's well-thought-out argument.
Aren't the old windmill pumps still around? Can they devise some kind of generator that could use the spare turns from them into a little bit of electricity? I think some of those things have been around for quite a long time...
Prior to rural electrification, this was done all the time. Farmers had banks of batteries charged by DC generators driven by windmills. And they had all kinds of neat 36V appliances, like lamps, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, irons, etc.
I don't understand what makes it a "fundamental" part of a circuit, while say a diode or MOSFET isn't.
I think what the fundamental elements have in common is that they have a linear transfer function, whereas transistors and diodes are non-linear.
They needed to make a reward for patrolling and checking in as indicated by the program and a penalty for checking in at the wrong place or in the wrong order.
What.. the software couldn't detect when they erroneously went from point A to point B?
They didn't log the check-ins with a signature and a timestamp ?
Even the purely mechanical system that preceded this by decades could do that. We were throwing technology at a management problem. And by "we", I mean my management and their customers.
Thats assuming that the humans obey the program.
People like routines and dont like random changes.
Exactly. A long time ago, I wrote software for a handheld device that would randomize the order that jailers would check-in at their rounds checkpoints. The sheriffs and jail administrators thought it was a good idea, so the inmates weren't able to predict when a guard would come by, but in practice there was no way in hell some jailer was going to go from point A to C to B, when it was shorter to go A, B, C.
Then, as now, it was a management problem: if you can't get the guys to randomize their patrols on their own, you won't be able to do it with technology either.
Then I will have to travel fast enough that the red shift causes the reflection of the yellow light off my windshield to appear green.
I was such a nerd in high school, I calculated the fraction of c you'd have to be traveling to make all the red lights appear green. Those were the days.
That makes sense. But why would I want a flash drive built into it also?
One less thing to lose. Twice the utility. Half as many things to plug in. I don't think you care too much that a flash drive designed for servers is too large to easily stuff in a pocket, it's just gonna be sitting in a drawer in the server room, right? Besides, I've got a toaster/oven. HP sells scanner/fax/printer/copiers, why not a floppy/flash? Nash Amphicar?
What part of "building an app, family..." is a virtual life? I think that the parent must have been sarcasm, since the poster is certainly aware that landscaping, application development and parenting involve communication. Even us introverts haven't figured out how to reproduce by fission.
Yep, he was great. Let's not forget the chilling Omega Man, either - one of my all time faves.
Omega Man is a two-fer: A Sci-Fi film where Heston finally gets to play Jesus.
* 1993 - windows NT . ..
* 1995 - windows 95 . ..
* 1998 - windows 98 . ..
* 2000 - windows 2000 . .. I'd throw in NT 4 in 1996. It put the explorer interface on NT. I thought that was a great developer system for over 6 years.
When I can buy a LED light that will put off as much light as my current 60 watt bulbs (with good color), I'll replace every light in my house with them!
I've mentioned these before here, and so have others:
I have two Enlux LED floods in my kitchen, and they produce very good, very bright light. I'm using them side-by-side with CFLs and incandescent floods, and the color of the LED lamps is better. They use 4 different colors of LED (I think -- that's how many I see when I look directly into the light and then close my eyes).
There are 2 major drawbacks: (1) cost and (2) they only come in flood, so they only replace PAR type lamps directly.
You might be able to cost-justify the expense in a hard-to-reach installation. In an accessible fixture like mine, the cool factor only justified the purchase of a couple.
Please don't twist scripture. It says nothing in there about taking other people's money to pay for these programs.
So if scripture says nothing about it, then it shouldn't be addressed by the government? Perhaps Christian scriptures don't say much directly about universal health care, they do advocate feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, visiting the sick and the imprisoned as the way to salvation. Not to mention how to treat your neighbor. I'm pretty sure you don't want to say that government (of the people) shouldn't address concerns that lay outside the scriptures, because there are some issues near and dear to U.S. "Christians" that definitely fall in that category.
I did RTFA, so the big deal isn't the sale or use of bodies or their parts per se, but the fraudulent and criminal means by which they are obtained.
One example given was the crematorium owner in California who charged a woman for the cremation of her son. He gave her an urn of furnace scrapings and turned around and sold the parts of the man's body, keeping the unsold inventory in freezers in the attic of the funeral home. That's fraud. One could argue that it doesn't really matter whose cremains you receive, but it's still fraud even if you don't know you're being duped. Actually, it's fraud especially if you don't know you've been duped.
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Apparently, you haven't heard of the concept of "Rapture".
I have, and it's why I'm eating cars!And that's why you get the reference letter first.
I think a real problem, assuming you can limit their resource usage, is that you're going to have to support them. You may not have your entire DB documented well enough that "amateurs", dabblers and dilettantes will be able to use it without your help. Now you've gotta do your job and theirs. So I suppose you should calculate how much a help desk for this new functionality will cost your company, so they know how much extra to charge the customer.
It's a baby, you insensitive clod!
Man, leave it to the Catholics to attach a EULA to the Eucharist.
As Mencken put it: "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
I myself get angry when people tell me that being Catholic that I am not a christian
I tell Catholics this, too. Mainly just to piss 'em off for their little "closed communion" thingy and what not. I don't really believe it, but I say it anyway to start an argument. I was at a Catholic wedding once, and the priest made a special point to un-invite all us pagans (you know Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, etc.) not to come up for their little ritual. Under my breath, I said "We're not worthy", to myself. Except I guess it wasn't just under my breath and to myself alone, because several people approached me at the reception to say: "We're not worthy, either."
Based on their history, Mormons are more into disembowelment than beheading. But I think it would get the point across just as well.
Not being persons, they have no such inherent right, only the rights that we the people choose to bestow on them. Since you've voted "for some", I'll register my vote as "for considerably less than persons".
"Dum, dum, dum, dum, DUM!"
But today there are people going to sleep hungry, and sleeping in the streets, and constitutional rights are being trampled. One could argue that our politicians and governments do too much to protect IP, and not enough to address these very real problems -- that by electing officials that agree that too much is spent on enforcing copyright and not enough on social ills is we could attempt to set that balance right.
Slashdot discussions may have become too politicized for some of us, but this topic is not a good example of that, since it is about politics and government. I think your comment's (Anonymous) parent got modded flamebait because it started with: "are you fucking kidding me? i tell you what assfuck". Sometimes a reader will stop right there without considering the remainder of one's well-thought-out argument.Prior to rural electrification, this was done all the time. Farmers had banks of batteries charged by DC generators driven by windmills. And they had all kinds of neat 36V appliances, like lamps, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, irons, etc.
I think what the fundamental elements have in common is that they have a linear transfer function, whereas transistors and diodes are non-linear.
They needed to make a reward for patrolling and checking in as indicated by the program and a penalty for checking in at the wrong place or in the wrong order.
What.. the software couldn't detect when they erroneously went from point A to point B? They didn't log the check-ins with a signature and a timestamp ?
Even the purely mechanical system that preceded this by decades could do that. We were throwing technology at a management problem. And by "we", I mean my management and their customers.
Exactly. A long time ago, I wrote software for a handheld device that would randomize the order that jailers would check-in at their rounds checkpoints. The sheriffs and jail administrators thought it was a good idea, so the inmates weren't able to predict when a guard would come by, but in practice there was no way in hell some jailer was going to go from point A to C to B, when it was shorter to go A, B, C.
Then, as now, it was a management problem: if you can't get the guys to randomize their patrols on their own, you won't be able to do it with technology either.
I was such a nerd in high school, I calculated the fraction of c you'd have to be traveling to make all the red lights appear green. Those were the days.
One less thing to lose. Twice the utility. Half as many things to plug in. I don't think you care too much that a flash drive designed for servers is too large to easily stuff in a pocket, it's just gonna be sitting in a drawer in the server room, right? Besides, I've got a toaster/oven. HP sells scanner/fax/printer/copiers, why not a floppy/flash? Nash Amphicar?
Can't . . . too shy.
Omega Man is a two-fer: A Sci-Fi film where Heston finally gets to play Jesus.
* 1995 - windows 95 . .
* 1998 - windows 98 . .
* 2000 - windows 2000 . .
I'd throw in NT 4 in 1996. It put the explorer interface on NT. I thought that was a great developer system for over 6 years.
I've mentioned these before here, and so have others:
I have two Enlux LED floods in my kitchen, and they produce very good, very bright light. I'm using them side-by-side with CFLs and incandescent floods, and the color of the LED lamps is better. They use 4 different colors of LED (I think -- that's how many I see when I look directly into the light and then close my eyes).
There are 2 major drawbacks: (1) cost and (2) they only come in flood, so they only replace PAR type lamps directly.
You might be able to cost-justify the expense in a hard-to-reach installation. In an accessible fixture like mine, the cool factor only justified the purchase of a couple.
Or a man-bag, if you're a man -- or a murse, if you're an American man.
So if scripture says nothing about it, then it shouldn't be addressed by the government? Perhaps Christian scriptures don't say much directly about universal health care, they do advocate feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, visiting the sick and the imprisoned as the way to salvation. Not to mention how to treat your neighbor. I'm pretty sure you don't want to say that government (of the people) shouldn't address concerns that lay outside the scriptures, because there are some issues near and dear to U.S. "Christians" that definitely fall in that category.
I did RTFA, so the big deal isn't the sale or use of bodies or their parts per se, but the fraudulent and criminal means by which they are obtained.
One example given was the crematorium owner in California who charged a woman for the cremation of her son. He gave her an urn of furnace scrapings and turned around and sold the parts of the man's body, keeping the unsold inventory in freezers in the attic of the funeral home. That's fraud. One could argue that it doesn't really matter whose cremains you receive, but it's still fraud even if you don't know you're being duped. Actually, it's fraud especially if you don't know you've been duped.