That is their job. I do not want police officers putting their personal opinions above the law. As far as pigs, they aren't. Actually, I do know a couple that would do more mood lying under a bus. But the majority are decent. I've gotten to know a few who work with the community, and they are decent guys who have to put up with a lot of shit.
I'd be willing to bet that half of the Slashdotters here would have gone off on someone (physically) at least one time dealing with the stuff that they have to put up with. I hear folks whine about their sys admin job and getting the same stupid question 20 times. One anecdote: Try going into someone's house from a 9-1-1 call, finding a guy drowning in his own alchol induced vomit, going to pull him out of it, and having his family members getting in your face yelling at you becuase it took you 10 minues to get there.
Sounds like a standard good samaritan sort of law to me:
Huh?! I always thought a good samaritan law was one that protected you if you are trying to assist someone. In other words, I give the himelich to someone choking, and am somewhat responsible about how I do it, I cannot be sued for cracking one of your ribs. Believe it or not, people have been sued for the side effects of saving someone's life before.
As I know it, there is no responsiblity for me to help anyone.
I've got about 2GB of automated tests I need to run before I make each release of new code/tests I write to source control. Running these from a local hard drive takes about 2 hours.
No problem. Are you storing them on a server? Or is your only copy on your hard drive. If it is only on your hard drive, then you are asking for problems.
And as far as your server going down... I do not know the size of your company. But in mine, even if the whole thing melted to the floor, we'd have a replacement in place within three hours, and all data would be back online next day max. Three days' lost work would NEVER happen.
It is understandable, if you are in a smaller environment, that some of the hardware/software issues may be too expensive to be practical. But if you re suggesting it is safer (both loss and letting the workng people see it) to store vital information on your local hard drive, then you are mistaken.
Agreed. In fact, in any kind of multi-person office (or single for that matter), only PC software should be on the hard drive. No files. Anything of any importance should be saved to a network.
Whenever work has to be done on one of the office PCs, we do not give you the opportunity to transfer stuff off before we move it out. Lost a file? Go ahead, complain... you'll get written up for violating corporate policy.
Personal files? While discouraged, each user gets so much private space on the network.
I believe such facilities would not have to call 911. I think they have alternate ways to get ahold of the folks they need to. Anyone have more info on this than I can provide?
Easy solution. Just say "dang... I was hoping to not have to shoot another one of those damn thiefs. But ya gotta do what you gotta do". Then hang up. You will have eight squad cars in ten minutes.
And hopefully one of the cops will be trigger happy enough to fill the dude with lead.
... or at least don't post AC when making such assertions.
In some circles, your 'spade a spade' comment might be considered racial in tone. But not in all. In fact, it is certain that it did NOT originate as a way of refering to blacks. It is possible that the term got "adopted" by racists in the same way that "gay" got adopted by homosexuals.
I'd argue that it is more a freelance arms dealer. Mono can cut both ways... one can see it as letting Microsoft encroach onto Linux turf... or it can free people from Microsoft based OS's.
I know the Linux crowd is always suspicious of anthing MS. But this one is a two-edged sword.
And you, my friend, have hit on the reason that open source will always be a fringe movement. Despite its technical merits, it runs up against the most powerful force ever -- human greed and stupidity.
We are always worried about #1. Take your average workplace. If everyone is pulling their weight, people do their job. If one person slacks off and gets away with it, the rest of the staff immediately drops to the level of the slacker. The mindset is "If HE can get away with murder and still get paid, I can do the same thing" Never mind that we are still getting paid by our employer... we feel some snse of entitlement when one person is getting off scot free.
Now, return to OSS. Companies who use OSS don't donate. They see it as throwing money away. People don't contribute to OSS respositories at nearly the rate they use it. And people hardly ever donate money either.
Bottom line: OSS is a wonderful idea... like communism. You will find pockets where it works. But overall it falls on its face.
If a central buracracy has to approve your research, there is no chance unapplied research will happen.
Ummm... you must be new here. You obviously have no clue what kind of rediculous studies get funded by central bureaucracy. Go read up on the kind of things the Soviet Russians did research on.
Care to point to a link? Must be unapplied research. I am not aware of great body of such research, but am always willing to be proven wrong (I am married after all )
I browse at -1. You'll see a lot of trolls here that tag (lol, jews) that onto the end of their troll posts. Sometimes I want to move my threshold back up to 1, but occasionally I will see someone who dwells in the -1 lands due to a moderation freak, and it gives me the chance to suggest they get modded up.
In no way was it intended to be a jab at jews... just a jab at those who jab at jews... or blacks... or whatever the troll du jour is.
Show me anywhere in history that lack of freedom has corresponded to scientific achievement
Change to "broad based scientific achievement". For example in some areas, the Soviet Union was superior to the rest of the world. But by and large, they lagged the west. If science wasn't in the "people's interest" (as defined by a core communist group), then it wasn't worth funding.
Countries like China, and to a lesser extent India, will soon become the hubs of scientific research.
Yup. A country that keeps a tight reign on individual freedoms will become the center of science. Show me anywhere in history that lack of freedom has corresponded to scientific achievement. Chine will focus on science with a tangible return. As has been endlessly demonstrated, pure, unapplied research is what has brought about the quantum leaps we enjoy today. If a central buracracy has to approve your research, there is no chance unapplied research will happen.
The U.S. is still king and will be for a while. I honestly don't see any place offering the same degree of freedom -- not even Europe. Not that I think our shit doesn't stink... we do have problems, especially in the I.P. area. But I just don't see the threat coming form any of the major economic players in the game today.
*Sigh* Wiki is a wonderful tool for certain applications. When you want breadth of knowledge and are willing to accept a certain amount of uncertainty on accuracy of knowledge, wiki is a great tool. When you want narrow focus and little uncertaintly on accuracy, wiki sucks. Using wiki for this is like using.NET for low level, speed intensive applications.... a great tool for the wrong job.
I do not want to read a science paper put together by a committee. Can you imagine a natural selection paper written by the masses? Truth is not a democratic sport. I'd rather read two papers contradicting each other than one paper written by those two parties. IN the former case, I can easily compare and contract. In the later, I am forced to sift through revision histories to try to piece together original intent.
Add in the "lol, jews" camp, and we are back in the middle ages.
Can some mod who has extra points please mod parent up. He got slammed on his first post by one down mod. Thanks to the wisdom of the powers that be, and their wonderful algorithms, he is now qualified to post at 0 for the rest of his existence.
Look at the post that caused the problem. He asked about.NET and marketing crap. I develope.NET for a living, and 95% of what is out there IS marketing crap.
No reason for this guy to have been down modded. No reason for him to be in the 0 realm. If you want to mod this offtopic too, great. I left my karma bonus on so you could take an extra swipe at me.
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That is their job. I do not want police officers putting their personal opinions above the law. As far as pigs, they aren't. Actually, I do know a couple that would do more mood lying under a bus. But the majority are decent. I've gotten to know a few who work with the community, and they are decent guys who have to put up with a lot of shit.
I'd be willing to bet that half of the Slashdotters here would have gone off on someone (physically) at least one time dealing with the stuff that they have to put up with. I hear folks whine about their sys admin job and getting the same stupid question 20 times. One anecdote: Try going into someone's house from a 9-1-1 call, finding a guy drowning in his own alchol induced vomit, going to pull him out of it, and having his family members getting in your face yelling at you becuase it took you 10 minues to get there.
Of course, I think Rodney King got off too easy.
Yup. Click here or here for information.
Sounds like a standard good samaritan sort of law to me:
Huh?! I always thought a good samaritan law was one that protected you if you are trying to assist someone. In other words, I give the himelich to someone choking, and am somewhat responsible about how I do it, I cannot be sued for cracking one of your ribs. Believe it or not, people have been sued for the side effects of saving someone's life before.
As I know it, there is no responsiblity for me to help anyone.
I've got about 2GB of automated tests I need to run before I make each release of new code/tests I write to source control. Running these from a local hard drive takes about 2 hours.
No problem. Are you storing them on a server? Or is your only copy on your hard drive. If it is only on your hard drive, then you are asking for problems.
And as far as your server going down... I do not know the size of your company. But in mine, even if the whole thing melted to the floor, we'd have a replacement in place within three hours, and all data would be back online next day max. Three days' lost work would NEVER happen.
It is understandable, if you are in a smaller environment, that some of the hardware/software issues may be too expensive to be practical. But if you re suggesting it is safer (both loss and letting the workng people see it) to store vital information on your local hard drive, then you are mistaken.
As above poster notes Mg is 1,000,000 grams, not 1/1000.
Agreed. In fact, in any kind of multi-person office (or single for that matter), only PC software should be on the hard drive. No files. Anything of any importance should be saved to a network.
Whenever work has to be done on one of the office PCs, we do not give you the opportunity to transfer stuff off before we move it out. Lost a file? Go ahead, complain... you'll get written up for violating corporate policy.
Personal files? While discouraged, each user gets so much private space on the network.
I believe such facilities would not have to call 911. I think they have alternate ways to get ahold of the folks they need to. Anyone have more info on this than I can provide?
Easy solution. Just say "dang... I was hoping to not have to shoot another one of those damn thiefs. But ya gotta do what you gotta do". Then hang up. You will have eight squad cars in ten minutes.
And hopefully one of the cops will be trigger happy enough to fill the dude with lead.
Sounds like my boss. Does yours get a smelly diaper too?
... or at least don't post AC when making such assertions.
In some circles, your 'spade a spade' comment might be considered racial in tone. But not in all. In fact, it is certain that it did NOT originate as a way of refering to blacks. It is possible that the term got "adopted" by racists in the same way that "gay" got adopted by homosexuals.
For a little history on the phrase , click here
I'd argue that it is more a freelance arms dealer. Mono can cut both ways... one can see it as letting Microsoft encroach onto Linux turf... or it can free people from Microsoft based OS's.
I know the Linux crowd is always suspicious of anthing MS. But this one is a two-edged sword.
I don't think I ever did one straight.
When did they start asking for sexual orientation?
And you, my friend, have hit on the reason that open source will always be a fringe movement. Despite its technical merits, it runs up against the most powerful force ever -- human greed and stupidity.
We are always worried about #1. Take your average workplace. If everyone is pulling their weight, people do their job. If one person slacks off and gets away with it, the rest of the staff immediately drops to the level of the slacker. The mindset is "If HE can get away with murder and still get paid, I can do the same thing" Never mind that we are still getting paid by our employer... we feel some snse of entitlement when one person is getting off scot free.
Now, return to OSS. Companies who use OSS don't donate. They see it as throwing money away. People don't contribute to OSS respositories at nearly the rate they use it. And people hardly ever donate money either.
Bottom line: OSS is a wonderful idea... like communism. You will find pockets where it works. But overall it falls on its face.
n/t
nanosecond increments (1,000,000 increments per second)
;)
Pedantic: this would be a microsecond. As far as I am aware this is a global definition. Although, I could be wrong
You have linux installed on your toilet? And you need to upgrade it the minute a new release is available? You really are l33t!
Haven't you heard of Post-modernism and relative truth?
;)
I personally believe that Post-modernism does not exist
Try arguing with that one!
If a central buracracy has to approve your research, there is no chance unapplied research will happen.
Ummm... you must be new here. You obviously have no clue what kind of rediculous studies get funded by central bureaucracy. Go read up on the kind of things the Soviet Russians did research on.
Care to point to a link? Must be unapplied research. I am not aware of great body of such research, but am always willing to be proven wrong (I am married after all )
I browse at -1. You'll see a lot of trolls here that tag (lol, jews) that onto the end of their troll posts. Sometimes I want to move my threshold back up to 1, but occasionally I will see someone who dwells in the -1 lands due to a moderation freak, and it gives me the chance to suggest they get modded up.
In no way was it intended to be a jab at jews... just a jab at those who jab at jews... or blacks... or whatever the troll du jour is.
Show me anywhere in history that lack of freedom has corresponded to scientific achievement
Change to "broad based scientific achievement". For example in some areas, the Soviet Union was superior to the rest of the world. But by and large, they lagged the west. If science wasn't in the "people's interest" (as defined by a core communist group), then it wasn't worth funding.
Countries like China, and to a lesser extent India, will soon become the hubs of scientific research.
Yup. A country that keeps a tight reign on individual freedoms will become the center of science. Show me anywhere in history that lack of freedom has corresponded to scientific achievement. Chine will focus on science with a tangible return. As has been endlessly demonstrated, pure, unapplied research is what has brought about the quantum leaps we enjoy today. If a central buracracy has to approve your research, there is no chance unapplied research will happen.
The U.S. is still king and will be for a while. I honestly don't see any place offering the same degree of freedom -- not even Europe. Not that I think our shit doesn't stink... we do have problems, especially in the I.P. area. But I just don't see the threat coming form any of the major economic players in the game today.
*Sigh* Wiki is a wonderful tool for certain applications. When you want breadth of knowledge and are willing to accept a certain amount of uncertainty on accuracy of knowledge, wiki is a great tool. When you want narrow focus and little uncertaintly on accuracy, wiki sucks. Using wiki for this is like using .NET for low level, speed intensive applications.... a great tool for the wrong job.
I do not want to read a science paper put together by a committee. Can you imagine a natural selection paper written by the masses? Truth is not a democratic sport. I'd rather read two papers contradicting each other than one paper written by those two parties. IN the former case, I can easily compare and contract. In the later, I am forced to sift through revision histories to try to piece together original intent.
Add in the "lol, jews" camp, and we are back in the middle ages.
I, for one, use more than just my thumbs! Wrist action is also very important. Wait... that's while I am surfing the net. Never mind!
And you believed that it was really random after the tenth time you got picked to be a runner?
Howdy,
.NET and marketing crap. I develope .NET for a living, and 95% of what is out there IS marketing crap.
Can some mod who has extra points please mod parent up. He got slammed on his first post by one down mod. Thanks to the wisdom of the powers that be, and their wonderful algorithms, he is now qualified to post at 0 for the rest of his existence.
Look at the post that caused the problem. He asked about
No reason for this guy to have been down modded. No reason for him to be in the 0 realm. If you want to mod this offtopic too, great. I left my karma bonus on so you could take an extra swipe at me.
Thanks,
Have a nice day.