Some kind of blog site vs. research, what the fuck is that supposed to mean anyway? That you can't read properly?
That, the fuck, means that on one side there's a claim concerning careerchanges, and on the other side there's a claim cancelling the first claim. Leaving one claim as valuable/worthless as the other. Yes, I can read properly, thank you.
More info by me in this thread,http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=978897&cid=25192367 .
That is not the fault of the teenagers. There are no 40 year careers anymore. IBM is not the last job you'll ever have. The average man has 7 careers in completely separate fields over his life, with 3-4 jobs in each career. What is studied in college now is little more than the justification for the first career, after that the degrees are negligible so long as you've got one.
That is the failing point people can not get past yet, that not every job requires a master degree, etc. 90% of the jobs Juan your gardener could do as well as anybody with these fancy degrees.
After firstly challenging you to support your statements with sources, I took the liberty to do your job for you: http://web.archive.org/web/20060830174456/http://nefs.dest.gov.au/transitions.htm . So what you claim is true according to the Australian government in 2006. My mistake: since/. is US-centric I tend to look for sources in the US departments. I'm sorry for that.
Some kind of blog site vs. research, what the fuck is that supposed to mean anyway? That you can't read properly?
That, the fuck, means that on one side there's a claim concerning careerchanges, and on the other side there's a claim cancelling the first claim. Leaving one claim as valuable/worthless as the other. Yes, I can read properly, thank you.
How does this thing deal with plug-in/add-on based systems like Firefox or Eclipse, where new capabilities get added to the executable through dlls (or java classes, I guess, in the case of Eclipse? - Although, with regards to Java, I wonder if this system would work at all, since I think the kernel never exactly 'sees' Java programs or classes as executables, but only the JRE, which already has all the system calls built into it?)
It's about servers here, I personally think one should really think thrice before installing plug-ins and add-ons on a server, and rather go browsing on a desktop machine. Regarding Java, I can see your point.
I'll bet you'll like the Re-Pagination firefox extension. When you get to the bottom of the first
page, do a right click on the "2" or the word "next" in that list of pages. Then you just scroll
down and see all the pages without clicking on anything more. The extension fetches the pages and
appends them to the bottom. I consider it "jerking the reader around" when sites have lists like that,
and thwarting them always provides a nice feeling of satisfaction and triumph!
And what happens to the over 116 comments at the bottom on each page? Yes... you get them in quintuplicate! So I chose for the plain old [next] click.
Apple Cork did, 8 years ago, for all new personnel (afaik). No one really was offended by it, as long as they didn't measure the alcohol-levels. :)
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Along those lines, I have often wondered if this could be part of the reason the Russians and Chinese are so dominant in much of the mathematics journals.
I would think that until the last decade or so, their access to computers was no where near the level that the west enjoys...
There's your answer. There were no computers so they had to use their own brain. And of course, there are a lot of them.
I agree. Sometimes users want to give me their password to help them fix things. I deny plainly, telling them more passwords will only confuse me. I reset their passwords to mine, do my magic, (clean out the profiles most of the time) then reset them to 'h1there!' with the obligation (yay AD!) to reset it at first login. And then explain why syncing 2 gig of desktop-items over slow-wi-fi causes problems.
Safari for OSX nowadays has an option for "private mode": under the File menu it can be selected, and from then on 'recording' has stopped. The older history and cache remains, so it's not as suspicious as a complete history-wipe.
It's good that this specific userfriendliness is implemented throughout multiple platforms. For let's not forget: SOMEONE has to think of the children:o)
So "Terms and Conditions" are to be discussed with a tech agent? Someone who probably is not in the right position for a sollution? Oh well, as long as they're willing to listen...
I thought this issue was about looking for a sollution, not about whining about a problem, but I guess I was wrong.
Company policies, restricting users and developers, are tech support issues? Tech support is AFAIK meant for support on technical issues that should not rise (printers that do not print, modems that do not modulate, displays that do not display). And not for discussing restrictions that are pretty clear up front: b/w printers that do not print in cmyk, 21" wide-displays that don't display 800/600, cable-modems that don't connect to adsl2.
"It should be so, if only to make sure that hurting the consumer also hurts the bottom line." By claiming time for 'support' one is not entitled to, and therefore hurting customers, will probably hurt the FSF _a lot_!
When entering into a contract, you are implicitly supporting all actions of the other party, good and bad alike.
Supporting: yes. Approving: not necessarily. There are times where you have to chose between several different evils. And for example I would not approve or support "Defective by design" in this action.
Am I the only one who sees the double-standard here on slashdot? If they did something like this to Microsoft, I can bet you 10$ that everyone on slashdot would be applauding them.
*Prepares to be modded down into oblivion by rabid Mac users*
"everyone on slashdot": apart from anyone who ever was in technical support, any which side.
Please donate the 10$ to yourself, you might wanna bet again.
FTFA:
"This is really just a thought exercise," said Landis, "an exercise in imagination rather than something we're likely to do in the near term. I don't expect people will be building cities on Venus, at least probably not in this century."
That's not what I would call a reasonable alternative.
Some ISPs will indeed show their annoying search pages even if the domain exists.
...
Fortunately, I had already started the process of switching to a cheaper, faster, and less obnoxious provider.
FYI: the "obnoxious provider" in question is Orange. I live in the Netherlands - I don't know if they do the same in other countries. I have heard that they do the same on their ADSL lines, though.
Tele2 does this as well, but differently... When I try to check the remaining credit on my prepay phone, it immediately responds with: "This number does not exist, please go for the correct number to our directory services, the number is 0900-VERY-EXPENSIVE". Funnily the call-credit-number I dial is on the default SIMcard-phonelist... no way that it could be wrong! Even more funnily: when I hit redial for that same 'non-existing' number it connects and tells me my credit...
42,642 people died in 2006 in the USA from vehicle crashes. If requiring a GPS in every vehicle would help reduce this number, and also protect citizens from the occasional police harassment, why not? And for those not fond of the government knowing so much about them, do like I do - ride a bicycle to work! Of course, maybe GPSing bicycles is the future too...
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Some kind of blog site vs. research, what the fuck is that supposed to mean anyway? That you can't read properly?
That, the fuck, means that on one side there's a claim concerning careerchanges, and on the other side there's a claim cancelling the first claim. Leaving one claim as valuable/worthless as the other. Yes, I can read properly, thank you.
More info by me in this thread,http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=978897&cid=25192367 .
That is not the fault of the teenagers. There are no 40 year careers anymore. IBM is not the last job you'll ever have. The average man has 7 careers in completely separate fields over his life, with 3-4 jobs in each career. What is studied in college now is little more than the justification for the first career, after that the degrees are negligible so long as you've got one.
That is the failing point people can not get past yet, that not every job requires a master degree, etc. 90% of the jobs Juan your gardener could do as well as anybody with these fancy degrees.
After firstly challenging you to support your statements with sources, I took the liberty to do your job for you: http://web.archive.org/web/20060830174456/http://nefs.dest.gov.au/transitions.htm . So what you claim is true according to the Australian government in 2006. My mistake: since /. is US-centric I tend to look for sources in the US departments. I'm sorry for that.
Some kind of blog site vs. research, what the fuck is that supposed to mean anyway? That you can't read properly?
That, the fuck, means that on one side there's a claim concerning careerchanges, and on the other side there's a claim cancelling the first claim. Leaving one claim as valuable/worthless as the other. Yes, I can read properly, thank you.
The average man has 7 careers in completely separate fields over his life, with 3-4 jobs in each career.
The failing point in your argumentation is you, my friend, http://www.change-career-with-purpose.com/career-change-information.html .
"But the Labor Department states that it does not gather that kind of data and so has not concluded the 7 career changes over a lifetime theory. "
Thank you sir. Hopefully the current economic situation will inspire the voting part of the population.
How does this thing deal with plug-in/add-on based systems like Firefox or Eclipse, where new capabilities get added to the executable through dlls (or java classes, I guess, in the case of Eclipse? - Although, with regards to Java, I wonder if this system would work at all, since I think the kernel never exactly 'sees' Java programs or classes as executables, but only the JRE, which already has all the system calls built into it?)
It's about servers here, I personally think one should really think thrice before installing plug-ins and add-ons on a server, and rather go browsing on a desktop machine. Regarding Java, I can see your point.
I'll bet you'll like the Re-Pagination firefox extension. When you get to the bottom of the first page, do a right click on the "2" or the word "next" in that list of pages. Then you just scroll down and see all the pages without clicking on anything more. The extension fetches the pages and appends them to the bottom. I consider it "jerking the reader around" when sites have lists like that, and thwarting them always provides a nice feeling of satisfaction and triumph!
And what happens to the over 116 comments at the bottom on each page? Yes... you get them in quintuplicate! So I chose for the plain old [next] click.
They would be speaking Iraqi today...
With "we" I assume you're a US-inhabitant?
Just making sure you're not speaking for all Slashdotians.
Agreed, but if someone stole my couch, should is it really reasonable to sue for $50,000?
Depends how many copies they stole of your couch, and resold.
If the prescriber doesn't believe in the prescription, it's snake-oil.
Apple Cork did, 8 years ago, for all new personnel (afaik). No one really was offended by it, as long as they didn't measure the alcohol-levels.
:)
Along those lines, I have often wondered if this could be part of the reason the Russians and Chinese are so dominant in much of the mathematics journals. I would think that until the last decade or so, their access to computers was no where near the level that the west enjoys...
There's your answer. There were no computers so they had to use their own brain.
And of course, there are a lot of them.
http://www.snopes.com/weddings/horrors/titanium.asp is the link you implicitly mentioned.
I agree. Sometimes users want to give me their password to help them fix things. I deny plainly, telling them more passwords will only confuse me. I reset their passwords to mine, do my magic, (clean out the profiles most of the time) then reset them to 'h1there!' with the obligation (yay AD!) to reset it at first login. And then explain why syncing 2 gig of desktop-items over slow-wi-fi causes problems.
Safari for OSX nowadays has an option for "private mode": under the File menu it can be selected, and from then on 'recording' has stopped. The older history and cache remains, so it's not as suspicious as a complete history-wipe.
:o)
It's good that this specific userfriendliness is implemented throughout multiple platforms. For let's not forget: SOMEONE has to think of the children
I wondered where my mothers last 'send me some money and I'll give you kagillion locked up american dooooolllars' scam came from....
Amsterdam.
I thought this issue was about looking for a sollution, not about whining about a problem, but I guess I was wrong.
And traffic IS combat, dammit! Now drop and gimme twenty!
Chapeau!
Company policies, restricting users and developers, are tech support issues? Tech support is AFAIK meant for support on technical issues that should not rise (printers that do not print, modems that do not modulate, displays that do not display). And not for discussing restrictions that are pretty clear up front: b/w printers that do not print in cmyk, 21" wide-displays that don't display 800/600, cable-modems that don't connect to adsl2.
"It should be so, if only to make sure that hurting the consumer also hurts the bottom line."
By claiming time for 'support' one is not entitled to, and therefore hurting customers, will probably hurt the FSF _a lot_!
When entering into a contract, you are implicitly supporting all actions of the other party, good and bad alike.
Supporting: yes. Approving: not necessarily. There are times where you have to chose between several different evils. And for example I would not approve or support "Defective by design" in this action.
Am I the only one who sees the double-standard here on slashdot? If they did something like this to Microsoft, I can bet you 10$ that everyone on slashdot would be applauding them. *Prepares to be modded down into oblivion by rabid Mac users*
"everyone on slashdot": apart from anyone who ever was in technical support, any which side.
Please donate the 10$ to yourself, you might wanna bet again.
"This is really just a thought exercise," said Landis, "an exercise in imagination rather than something we're likely to do in the near term. I don't expect people will be building cities on Venus, at least probably not in this century."
That's not what I would call a reasonable alternative.
Some ISPs will indeed show their annoying search pages even if the domain exists.
...
Fortunately, I had already started the process of switching to a cheaper, faster, and less obnoxious provider.
FYI: the "obnoxious provider" in question is Orange. I live in the Netherlands - I don't know if they do the same in other countries. I have heard that they do the same on their ADSL lines, though.
Tele2 does this as well, but differently...
When I try to check the remaining credit on my prepay phone, it immediately responds with: "This number does not exist, please go for the correct number to our directory services, the number is 0900-VERY-EXPENSIVE".
Funnily the call-credit-number I dial is on the default SIMcard-phonelist... no way that it could be wrong! Even more funnily: when I hit redial for that same 'non-existing' number it connects and tells me my credit...
42,642 people died in 2006 in the USA from vehicle crashes. If requiring a GPS in every vehicle would help reduce this number, and also protect citizens from the occasional police harassment, why not? And for those not fond of the government knowing so much about them, do like I do - ride a bicycle to work! Of course, maybe GPSing bicycles is the future too...
http://www.fnl.nl/ct/nieuws/lezen/archief/2007/dec/artikel/45-miljoen-fietsen-in-nederland-uitgerust-met-rfid-chip/ It's in Dutch, so Babelfish migh be your friend: the article mentions the rfids being in the lock, not in the frame (nasty Farada-cage). 750.000 bicycles are stolen yearly on a population of 17 million people. Ought to be brought down to 600.00 in the near future. Yay rfid! Now it's waiting for 'detection gates' so the real track&trace can begin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Perfect_Day