Yeah it's well known that geeks are unable to learn anything new.[/sarcasm] Granted, learning the soft skills required to be a successful manager may not be the easiest thing for the stereotypical geek. The good news is that I have only encountered a handful of the stereotypical geek in the 20 years I have worked in the field so far.
Do you know what really needs to die? Having managers that are so technically clueless that they think that repeating "make water rain upwards" often enough, and having repeated meetings about that concept, will make it happen. Or managers whose first answer to any request is "no".
If you are happy with limiting yourself to that glass ceiling, be my guest... I personally find it unbearable to have reached the highest seniority/compensation when you still have half (or more) of your career in front of you.
and banks won't take your cash and put it in a checking account you could draw from to pay your on-line bills
Even tho they are based in my country for tax reasons, itunes and amazon refuse to provide this service to me. I could buy from a service in another country, but according to the rights holder representatives that crime is as heinous as pirating. The catalog of services that are available to me usually doesn't contain the music I enjoy, so in the end I stopped consuming. This is a loss they will somehow blame on piracy, even tho it has nothing to do with it.
and you don't have a credit card.
I indeed do not hold a credit card anymore, the vast majority of shops around here do not accept them.
The problem with the 100 pushup challenge is that you quickly hit the diminishing return point... you rapidly cross the line between growth and endurance training. Not that there is anything fundamentally wrong with that, it depends of your own objectives. But for general fitness and hypertrophy, you'd incease your returns by inceasing the difficulty of the exercise (change the weight distribution) of your pushup once you can do 3x8 with perfect form. You should also train squats, L-sits and pullups to try and train most major muscle groups.
C25K is a very good "by the numbers" program to start running. B210K picks up from there to double the distance. Running will do wonders for your stamina and your lower body muscles.
There are also many calisthenics programs out there that don't require a lot of investment. Overcoming Gravity, Building the Gymnast Body, Never Gymless...
I'd watch your link, but ":/ Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights. Sorry about that".
You actually don't need to use cat (a command designed to concatenate files) or grep, you can get around just with the shell internals. So with a text based log, you can still go around checking the logs if/bin went the way of the dodo.
Also text is very disk corruption resistant compared to binary... what happens to your nice binary format when a single block of the disk it resides on is gone?
Don't get me wrong, I can sort of see the appeal of their proposed solution as a complement to the existing syslog... but as a complete replacement?
Funnily enough, I have the exact opposite experience...
I was given a windows-only mp3 player and have never been able to sync it with Windows. I plug it in, windows then tells me I need to install drivers so I install them. It then tells me to reboot, so I reboot. I launch WMP, then after clicking all over the place I finally find the device to try and sync it with some playlists. At the end of the sync, WMP tells me "there was an error please try again later". I check the player, nothing on it... the damned thing spent a good 20 minutes churning away to do nothing. I plug it into a Linux box, a pop-up comes and asks me if I prefer to use Rythmbox or AmaroK to manage the player. It syncs no problem. After asking on forums, I'm told I must be some kind of moron or my windows installation has a serious problem (or both) as those devices are plug-and-play. Or maybe the device is defective... but it works 100% fine with Linux even tho it is a windows-only mp3 player. So I try on another machine, same result. A third machine with a more recent installation of windows, same result. A VM with a fresh installation of windows and all patches applied... same result.
Last week, I bought a random cheapo no-name USB wireless stick. I plugged it on my Linux box and it worked directly. Windows required me to install drivers.
You state that your Wild-Ass Guess is that we descended from primates. A Creationist may believe that the FSM created primates similar to humans to really confuse you and make Darwin the butt of Creationist jokes.
Either way, there is no scientific PROOF as you are requiring, and in my opinion, all there will ever be are Wild-Ass Guesses.
You may want to check mtDna and the retrovirus marks. Not only do we have retrovirus leftovers from our primate relatives, those leftovers allow us to trace the branching of our family tree.
I signed up just in time to start my first two modules towards a postgraduate degree this semester. While the cost is higher than the local uni, OpenU has two advantages: it's in English and it fits in my professional schedule. If everything goes according to plan, I'll have the postgraduate degree in 2 years and my Msc in about 37 months.
Maybe, but Germans are still trying to find their nuclear waste that East Germany "treated" before the fall of the wall. They do know it is buried somewhere, nobody has a clue where.
Neither does the German law, obviously only a judge can compel the ISP to hand over the account details. The agent of the copyright holder goes to the judge with all the evidence collected at that point (file, torrent hash, IP, MAC associated with that IP, time the infringement was noticed) then gets granted a court order for the ISP. You are contractually and legally responsible for any infringement committed through your connection point, so they pretty much don't even need to prove you personally downloaded the file. They just need to establish that you own the equipment used for the infringement.
Now, the "funny" bit is that while some German states do not consider filesharing illegal... the defendant doesn't pick the state where the case will be tried, so if it ever goes to tribunal you're most likely toast. Sending back the form and not paying is exposing you to an additional fine for breach of contract. Not sending back the form will get you done for aggravated infringement.
Or they could do it like they do in Germany... lawyers contact copyright owners and make a deal (percentage of the money recovered), then they connect to the various trackers to find content belonger to their customers. Once said content is found, they check if there are German IPs in the torrent. If they find German IPs, they go to the judge to get a court order to force the ISP to reveal the account information for that specific IP, with that specific router MAC address, in that specific timeframe. Finally, you receive a nice letter, with a copy of the court order and all the documentation that goes with it... you have one month to sign a form and pay a "small" fine (500 to 1000 euro), after which they are entitled to go after you for a far larger amount in a court of their choosing. Get caught a second time, the fine is multiplied by 10. Get caught a third time, you'll probably need to sell a few body parts to pay the fine.
Well, the words of the accuser seem to make a better case than the words of Gibson "we are targeted because we donated to the Republican Party"... you mean, like the majority of companies in Tennessee?
Also, I don't know about the US but in the places where I've lived to date... you tend to have to show the proofs you've already collected to the judge in order to get the authorization to raid and search premises.
Also funny, from the Gibson press release: "This law reads that you are guilty if you did not observe a law even though you had no knowledge of that law in a foreign country.". Isn't one of the principles of the law that ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it?.
For an international shipment, the routing presented, and its issues, are standard. It is very rare for shipments to be sufficiently large that only one shipping company is involved. Generally, small shipments involve a specialised exporter, a shipping company, and a specialised importer. UPS shipments from the US to Canada often involve 4 parties: exporter (vendor), UPS, UPS Customer Brokers, and importer (customer). Even with experienced shippers, about 1 shipment in 4 is misclassified by the broker.
Even if it was the case in this instance, which I don't believe, why would they lie about the content of the parcel if it was perfectly "legal and trivial"? Why would a company take the risk to mislabel goods knowing that they would would get investigated and fined when caught? Especially after being raided a previous time and thus probably kept under watch?
In this case we have vendor in India, transporter, customs broker with goods mislabeled to clear Indian export customs, company in Germany, transporter, customs broker with the same goods mislabeled to clear US import customs, customer in California, transporter, customer in Tennessee, transporter with properly labelled goods, Gibson. We're talking about 1250 boards, not a couple of boards. Why would a profit-seeking company use so many in-betweens, each taking a commission that will eat in its profit margin, when it could "legally and trivially" order the 1250 boards directly from a supplier in India?
Somehow, I don't think the government of India cares about the difference between 6 mm and 10 mm boards. Officially, the Indian government bans all exports of HS 4407 wood, but it is trivial to find companies that ship wood outside of India. It is likely that when the regulation was written, the prospect of a small volume wood purchaser was not considered by the Indian government.
Then why did Gibson go through such a convoluted delivery route with so much incorrectly filled paperwork? I mean, if they don't care and it is trivial, why take the risk to lie on the customs declaration?
By the terms of the Lacey act, having sex with your girlfriend while on vacation could result in a 20 year prison sentence.
In this case, it would be "your underage girlfriend carrying fake ID you made" for the analogy to work.
And somehow this elite made the shipment go through 4 middlemen who magically happened to fill the customs paperwork in the way most likely to get the stuff through the respective customs while concealing the end customer for the goods. And magically, this elite made sure that the incriminating goods would end up in Gibson's warehouse. All that to incriminate an honest to god, republican-donating, bastion of American entrepreneurship.
Or maybe you believe that the most logical/efficient order procedure for Gibson is to get the goods ordered in India by a German company with an accidentally favorable incorrectly filled customs paperwork (labelling the boards as "finished musical instrument parts"), who would then sell it to a California wholeseller with a different set of accidentally favorable incorrectly filled customs paperwork (labelling the boards as "veneer"), who would in turn sell it to a person in Tennessee, who would finally sell it with the proper labelling to Gibson? That kind of procedure smells fishy, almost as if they were trying to throw somebody off a scent.
No, that documents what happened this year. Check the dates in the affidavit, the shipment was caught in June 2011. What we have here is a repeat offender who complains he was targeted for political reasons when an shipment without any official connection to him got caught and followed back to him.
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Yeah it's well known that geeks are unable to learn anything new.[/sarcasm] Granted, learning the soft skills required to be a successful manager may not be the easiest thing for the stereotypical geek. The good news is that I have only encountered a handful of the stereotypical geek in the 20 years I have worked in the field so far.
Do you know what really needs to die? Having managers that are so technically clueless that they think that repeating "make water rain upwards" often enough, and having repeated meetings about that concept, will make it happen. Or managers whose first answer to any request is "no".
If you are happy with limiting yourself to that glass ceiling, be my guest... I personally find it unbearable to have reached the highest seniority/compensation when you still have half (or more) of your career in front of you.
Right you have absolutely no options.
because they don't sell iTunes cards for cash
and banks won't take your cash and put it in a checking account you could draw from to pay your on-line bills
Even tho they are based in my country for tax reasons, itunes and amazon refuse to provide this service to me. I could buy from a service in another country, but according to the rights holder representatives that crime is as heinous as pirating. The catalog of services that are available to me usually doesn't contain the music I enjoy, so in the end I stopped consuming. This is a loss they will somehow blame on piracy, even tho it has nothing to do with it.
and you don't have a credit card.
I indeed do not hold a credit card anymore, the vast majority of shops around here do not accept them.
So you mean the big fuss is over them being able to do "grep $googleid unified_services_access.log" instead of "grep $googleid *service_access.log"?
The problem with the 100 pushup challenge is that you quickly hit the diminishing return point... you rapidly cross the line between growth and endurance training. Not that there is anything fundamentally wrong with that, it depends of your own objectives. But for general fitness and hypertrophy, you'd incease your returns by inceasing the difficulty of the exercise (change the weight distribution) of your pushup once you can do 3x8 with perfect form. You should also train squats, L-sits and pullups to try and train most major muscle groups. C25K is a very good "by the numbers" program to start running. B210K picks up from there to double the distance. Running will do wonders for your stamina and your lower body muscles. There are also many calisthenics programs out there that don't require a lot of investment. Overcoming Gravity, Building the Gymnast Body, Never Gymless...
I'd watch your link, but ":/ Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights. Sorry about that".
You actually don't need to use cat (a command designed to concatenate files) or grep, you can get around just with the shell internals. So with a text based log, you can still go around checking the logs if /bin went the way of the dodo.
Also text is very disk corruption resistant compared to binary... what happens to your nice binary format when a single block of the disk it resides on is gone?
Don't get me wrong, I can sort of see the appeal of their proposed solution as a complement to the existing syslog... but as a complete replacement?
You mean like the deep solar minimum of 2008/2009?
Hey, let's make a 'burgish club guys ^ ^
This... I fail to understand how the co-creator of SysVr4 would need to pay SCO a license in relation to the x86 version of their OS.
Funnily enough, I have the exact opposite experience...
I was given a windows-only mp3 player and have never been able to sync it with Windows. I plug it in, windows then tells me I need to install drivers so I install them. It then tells me to reboot, so I reboot. I launch WMP, then after clicking all over the place I finally find the device to try and sync it with some playlists. At the end of the sync, WMP tells me "there was an error please try again later". I check the player, nothing on it... the damned thing spent a good 20 minutes churning away to do nothing. I plug it into a Linux box, a pop-up comes and asks me if I prefer to use Rythmbox or AmaroK to manage the player. It syncs no problem. After asking on forums, I'm told I must be some kind of moron or my windows installation has a serious problem (or both) as those devices are plug-and-play. Or maybe the device is defective... but it works 100% fine with Linux even tho it is a windows-only mp3 player. So I try on another machine, same result. A third machine with a more recent installation of windows, same result. A VM with a fresh installation of windows and all patches applied... same result.
Last week, I bought a random cheapo no-name USB wireless stick. I plugged it on my Linux box and it worked directly. Windows required me to install drivers.
drive a wooden stake through it's heart
That part would be a problem... we're talking about a lawyer here...
You state that your Wild-Ass Guess is that we descended from primates. A Creationist may believe that the FSM created primates similar to humans to really confuse you and make Darwin the butt of Creationist jokes. Either way, there is no scientific PROOF as you are requiring, and in my opinion, all there will ever be are Wild-Ass Guesses.
You may want to check mtDna and the retrovirus marks. Not only do we have retrovirus leftovers from our primate relatives, those leftovers allow us to trace the branching of our family tree.
Yeah, damn cow breeding themselves in order to fill the supermarket meat section with themselves.
I signed up just in time to start my first two modules towards a postgraduate degree this semester. While the cost is higher than the local uni, OpenU has two advantages: it's in English and it fits in my professional schedule. If everything goes according to plan, I'll have the postgraduate degree in 2 years and my Msc in about 37 months.
Maybe, but Germans are still trying to find their nuclear waste that East Germany "treated" before the fall of the wall. They do know it is buried somewhere, nobody has a clue where.
And it may come as a surprise to you, but not every computer user is a gamer
Neither does the German law, obviously only a judge can compel the ISP to hand over the account details. The agent of the copyright holder goes to the judge with all the evidence collected at that point (file, torrent hash, IP, MAC associated with that IP, time the infringement was noticed) then gets granted a court order for the ISP. You are contractually and legally responsible for any infringement committed through your connection point, so they pretty much don't even need to prove you personally downloaded the file. They just need to establish that you own the equipment used for the infringement.
Now, the "funny" bit is that while some German states do not consider filesharing illegal... the defendant doesn't pick the state where the case will be tried, so if it ever goes to tribunal you're most likely toast. Sending back the form and not paying is exposing you to an additional fine for breach of contract. Not sending back the form will get you done for aggravated infringement.
Or they could do it like they do in Germany... lawyers contact copyright owners and make a deal (percentage of the money recovered), then they connect to the various trackers to find content belonger to their customers. Once said content is found, they check if there are German IPs in the torrent. If they find German IPs, they go to the judge to get a court order to force the ISP to reveal the account information for that specific IP, with that specific router MAC address, in that specific timeframe. Finally, you receive a nice letter, with a copy of the court order and all the documentation that goes with it... you have one month to sign a form and pay a "small" fine (500 to 1000 euro), after which they are entitled to go after you for a far larger amount in a court of their choosing. Get caught a second time, the fine is multiplied by 10. Get caught a third time, you'll probably need to sell a few body parts to pay the fine.
2012 will be the year of Linux on the deskop^w^w^w^wthe last nail in SCO's coffin.
Well, the words of the accuser seem to make a better case than the words of Gibson "we are targeted because we donated to the Republican Party"... you mean, like the majority of companies in Tennessee?
Also, I don't know about the US but in the places where I've lived to date... you tend to have to show the proofs you've already collected to the judge in order to get the authorization to raid and search premises.
Also funny, from the Gibson press release: "This law reads that you are guilty if you did not observe a law even though you had no knowledge of that law in a foreign country.". Isn't one of the principles of the law that ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it?.
For an international shipment, the routing presented, and its issues, are standard. It is very rare for shipments to be sufficiently large that only one shipping company is involved. Generally, small shipments involve a specialised exporter, a shipping company, and a specialised importer. UPS shipments from the US to Canada often involve 4 parties: exporter (vendor), UPS, UPS Customer Brokers, and importer (customer). Even with experienced shippers, about 1 shipment in 4 is misclassified by the broker.
Even if it was the case in this instance, which I don't believe, why would they lie about the content of the parcel if it was perfectly "legal and trivial"? Why would a company take the risk to mislabel goods knowing that they would would get investigated and fined when caught? Especially after being raided a previous time and thus probably kept under watch?
In this case we have vendor in India, transporter, customs broker with goods mislabeled to clear Indian export customs, company in Germany, transporter, customs broker with the same goods mislabeled to clear US import customs, customer in California, transporter, customer in Tennessee, transporter with properly labelled goods, Gibson. We're talking about 1250 boards, not a couple of boards. Why would a profit-seeking company use so many in-betweens, each taking a commission that will eat in its profit margin, when it could "legally and trivially" order the 1250 boards directly from a supplier in India?
Somehow, I don't think the government of India cares about the difference between 6 mm and 10 mm boards. Officially, the Indian government bans all exports of HS 4407 wood, but it is trivial to find companies that ship wood outside of India. It is likely that when the regulation was written, the prospect of a small volume wood purchaser was not considered by the Indian government.
Then why did Gibson go through such a convoluted delivery route with so much incorrectly filled paperwork? I mean, if they don't care and it is trivial, why take the risk to lie on the customs declaration?
By the terms of the Lacey act, having sex with your girlfriend while on vacation could result in a 20 year prison sentence.
In this case, it would be "your underage girlfriend carrying fake ID you made " for the analogy to work.
And somehow this elite made the shipment go through 4 middlemen who magically happened to fill the customs paperwork in the way most likely to get the stuff through the respective customs while concealing the end customer for the goods. And magically, this elite made sure that the incriminating goods would end up in Gibson's warehouse. All that to incriminate an honest to god, republican-donating, bastion of American entrepreneurship.
Or maybe you believe that the most logical/efficient order procedure for Gibson is to get the goods ordered in India by a German company with an accidentally favorable incorrectly filled customs paperwork (labelling the boards as "finished musical instrument parts"), who would then sell it to a California wholeseller with a different set of accidentally favorable incorrectly filled customs paperwork (labelling the boards as "veneer"), who would in turn sell it to a person in Tennessee, who would finally sell it with the proper labelling to Gibson? That kind of procedure smells fishy, almost as if they were trying to throw somebody off a scent.
No, that documents what happened this year. Check the dates in the affidavit, the shipment was caught in June 2011. What we have here is a repeat offender who complains he was targeted for political reasons when an shipment without any official connection to him got caught and followed back to him.
Jetting off to work, more on this later