You don't need to quit your job to get experience. Thats what night classes are for.
In good economy you quitting and going to college for an MBA and what not makes you more valuable, it poor econmy it makes you more expensive and there is already plenty of IT guys with MBAs out there, and they're looking for work also, with NO gaps in their work record.
I expect to jump back in at the point where I left off, partly because I'm spending these five years working on free/open source projects and other stuff like that (okay, and reading Slashdot, too... I keep up on the industry).
And I expect angels to come down from heaven and clear traffic for me while singing as I make my way home through rush hour traffic.
But then I find that I oftend don't get the things I expect to get. But nevermind that, I wish you well.
Yet your situtation is hardly identical;there is a big difference between why the SCO employee left and why you left.
You had what can be said to be a "valid" reason in the eyes of the corporate world. Motherhood is understood and respected.
You'd have a much tougher time at an interview if you said "Well you see my last employer was acting unethicaly and so I left." That will raise a lot of questions, What are your ethics? Would you leave this company? Do you feel that this company is acting ethicaly?.
Fact is that companies want to hire employees that will work there untill they are fired, no employees who will quit. Hiring people is expesnsive. HR might not feel good about hiring anyone who has a record of walking out when they find the corporate actions disagreeable.
If you don't believe that your taxes are doing their job in keeping EvilCorp#3 in line than the problem isn't EvilCorp#3 but the government.
You quiting your job will NOT do ANYTHING. I assure you that EvilCorp#3 will find a replacment in SECONDS possibly for less. (Look at past strikes etc where the people who went on strikes for unfair treatment etc were simply fired and repalced by "corporate whores". Later many were rehired for LESS) I don't have the story at hand but if you keep being so persistant..
You're obviously delusional about how the world works and why there is a goverment, or why we pay taxes or why quitting your job will do NOTHING.
Governemt is NOT EvilCorp#2, neither is the credit card company. You listen to too much Snog or something...
ACM does not expect you to quit. They expect you to bring attention to the unethical practices within the company anonymously or through ACM in order to ensure that the issue is resolved without you being...well screwed for the lack of a better word.
No..the moral of YOUR story is "My morals are more important to me than the wellbeing of my family."
I'm sorry but I cannot buy that.
In my mind family always come first. Thats just how I see it. Given no moral obligations to my family, sure I'd quit and make a big fuss about it.
So yes, I'd work for SCO, Enron or EvilCorp#3 that makes nuclear weapons, cheats stock holders and kills babies if I felt that this was needed to provide for the welbeing of my family.
I pay enough in taxes to prevent the likes of EvilCorp#3.
You do realize that if you quit an IT job and take a job in any other field getting back into IT is very hard.
Jumping from one professional field to another is almost impossible. If you left IT for say accounting, not only would that be a very difficult move (expensive as hell also if you count in the education) but you'd find going back to IT very tough.
Lives are short, 5 years lost to some turbulance in the job market while working in a different field is 5 years of increased salary that you will never recover.
Sure we in the US are spoiled, sure we have higher living standarts. But thats not the point.
The point is that losing that one job causes a certain drop in the living standart of the family and possible permanent damage to the career options of the individual. Can you go aheand and tell your kids that the kids network, their barney, the legos and in fact most of their toys are "non-needed shit"? Can you tell them that from now on they'll eat the generic brand of everything to avoid the "non-needed shit" and that they'll quite going to their nice private school cause that also is "non-needed shit".
And yes, the people on welfare drive cars. Cause this is the US, and it's IMPOSSIBLE to get to MOST places without a car. I found that out fast when I came to the US.
Yes and can you look at yourself in the mirror and be SURE that you "did the right thing" when you have responsibilities to your family?
Oh sure 'I' don't mind a bit of pain to make my stand, but am I willing to hurt other to make my stand? I think not.
You have NO idea how happy I am to be working. I know people who are graduating IST/CS right now and have NOTHING but 50k-70k in loans. I can tell you right now that even the most moral of them will BEG for a job at SCO, right wrong be damned. You wouldn't be so sure about "doing the right thing" when your car got repoed and you filed for bancrupcy..
In half the places I applied for a job, if the company was very concerned about thier IP and considred itself in a highly competitive enviroment not only did I have to sign an NDA just to enter the building but I also had to fill out an extensive form detailing where I worked, what I did and if the company was a competitor. I also had to sign a paper saying that none of my family members work for any company that they consider a competitor. Better yet, having worked for eBay I had to sign a paper saying that I will not work for any retalier of used goods over the internet for the next 3 years...
I am fairly sure that this is legal. Past employment record is something that "shows your ability to perform the job". If you were an employee of a company that had conflicting values then it's reasonable to reject you based on that fact. It is already common for companies to not hire employees from their competitors fearling IP leaks and the lawsuits that follow. Under that logic it is a perfectly valid concern that a SCO employee might "inevitably" bring some SCO IP into the company and result in SCO filing a lawsuit.
Does that make it ok to not hire someone just because they worked for SCO? I think it's moraly wrong, baseless and absolutley retarded. But I doubt that it's illegal. But of course IMNAL...
It was ALL the same. Games that had great partialy random terrain: AO AC2
SWG terrain sucked not because of "patterns" but because of the sameness of it all. You could run for miles and everything would look the same. The mountains came out of nowhere as did the valleys. No terrain could be like that in RL.
It is true that automaticly generated content cannot surpas the quality of handcrafted content. The BEST way to do large areas is to design at least 30% by hand and fill the rest with randomly generated content. The result is a huge world with interesting and memorable landmarks.
Having played SWG for about a month I quit because the game is horrid. It's uterly pointless.
The fact that they "HAD" 275k accounts means nothing. It will go the way of AO. AO had at least 300k accounts in the first 3 months but lost about 200k before 6 months were up. And yes, AO also tried the board closing, board moderating and whatnot in hopes of luring customers back in.
Yeah ok, tax payers money, useless vapor ware technology, lobbying yadda yadda...
Still is it a bad thing that people are trying to develop technology even if the only purpose is war? TV, radio, even the internet were all initialy military projects. There is nothing "bad", "evil" or "immoral" about it. In the end it's technology and the military power that came with it which allows this country to exist as it does today. How you see that, good/bad is your own opionion.
The father of the internet must have some mp3s afterall. Plus he loves gadgets, bet you he's got the latest iPod...and maybe an iTunes account..hmm...alright I see...
You could've had the same study session with a laptop. I know I have considering how much of the lectured material today is in the form of power point slides.
What really killed the idea was that I just couldn't find anything but "junk" in eBook format. Not ONE of my college books was ever available in eBook format. The books that were available were not cheaper than the paper backs to justify the purchase of a reader, and I sure as hell wasn't going to read 300 pages on a PC or on my laptop (which gets hot enough to keep my milk warm in the winter, no joke)
Everyone knows that you can't do that and that is illegal to copy software, but its ok to swap music.
And that is the answer. It's not exactly different, but people accept one and not the other.
People don't go about listening to WinXP on the radio, they don't see WinXP on TV and they don't go to WinXP concerts. Often people seem to think that it's ok to download music that they don't particularly like and "wouldn't have bought anyway" but go and buy CDs of artists they trully like. I'm getting off topic..
The difference is that it's commonly accepted that a great deal of work goes into making software and it needs to be purchased.
It is not commonly accepted that people must pay to have a copy of a song that they hear being played all around them all the time.
...would have been great had readers been umm readable and cheap and had the format been widley available.
I'd love nothing more than having all my college books in eBook format, and preferably for half the price... But it doesn't make sense to pay $300ish for a reader with fairly limited battery life and the pay prices for books which in my opinion are still unreasonable.
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Erm...since when is there a $2k difference betwen Macs and PCs.
More to the point, it's not the same ratio. A Mac is not 6 times more than a PC.
Actually that'd be tall screen or something.
The first value is the horizontal.
Having RTFA I am surprised that they liked the card.
I mean how can you say that the Quadro is a good card when it costs 6 times more than the competition and is less than 10% faster?
6 times for for 10% faster? No thanks.
You don't need to quit your job to get experience. Thats what night classes are for.
In good economy you quitting and going to college for an MBA and what not makes you more valuable, it poor econmy it makes you more expensive and there is already plenty of IT guys with MBAs out there, and they're looking for work also, with NO gaps in their work record.
Guess who'll get hired?
What majestic illusions of grandeur you have..
Good luck in your quest to make the world a better place through unemployment. Get those evil corporations...
And to the anon poster. Yes I only care about my family. Screw your family, they can take care of themselves.
I expect to jump back in at the point where I left off, partly because I'm spending these five years working on free/open source projects and other stuff like that (okay, and reading Slashdot, too... I keep up on the industry).
And I expect angels to come down from heaven and clear traffic for me while singing as I make my way home through rush hour traffic.
But then I find that I oftend don't get the things I expect to get. But nevermind that, I wish you well.
Yet your situtation is hardly identical;there is a big difference between why the SCO employee left and why you left.
You had what can be said to be a "valid" reason in the eyes of the corporate world. Motherhood is understood and respected.
You'd have a much tougher time at an interview if you said "Well you see my last employer was acting unethicaly and so I left." That will raise a lot of questions, What are your ethics? Would you leave this company? Do you feel that this company is acting ethicaly?.
Fact is that companies want to hire employees that will work there untill they are fired, no employees who will quit. Hiring people is expesnsive. HR might not feel good about hiring anyone who has a record of walking out when they find the corporate actions disagreeable.
How does them not having you matter to anyone BUT you?
First you are talking about changing the world on a global scale and keeping it a "nice" place.
Suddenly its' all personal. "They can't have ME and thats what matters"
So which is it? Is it personal pride or is it honest concern for the world.
Pick one.
If you don't believe that your taxes are doing their job in keeping EvilCorp#3 in line than the problem isn't EvilCorp#3 but the government.
You quiting your job will NOT do ANYTHING. I assure you that EvilCorp#3 will find a replacment in SECONDS possibly for less. (Look at past strikes etc where the people who went on strikes for unfair treatment etc were simply fired and repalced by "corporate whores". Later many were rehired for LESS) I don't have the story at hand but if you keep being so persistant..
You're obviously delusional about how the world works and why there is a goverment, or why we pay taxes or why quitting your job will do NOTHING.
Governemt is NOT EvilCorp#2, neither is the credit card company. You listen to too much Snog or something...
ACM does not expect you to quit. They expect you to bring attention to the unethical practices within the company anonymously or through ACM in order to ensure that the issue is resolved without you being...well screwed for the lack of a better word.
Now tell me...
How in the hell did you have the skill set to go from a ".com programmer" to a "microbiologist".
I'm sorry but that doesn't make sense to me.
If it's true, I'm glad you had the ability to adapt so quickly to a totaly different industry. But vast majority cannot make such transitions.
Still, no offense, but I think you're full of it.
No..the moral of YOUR story is "My morals are more important to me than the wellbeing of my family."
I'm sorry but I cannot buy that.
In my mind family always come first. Thats just how I see it. Given no moral obligations to my family, sure I'd quit and make a big fuss about it.
So yes, I'd work for SCO, Enron or EvilCorp#3 that makes nuclear weapons, cheats stock holders and kills babies if I felt that this was needed to provide for the welbeing of my family.
I pay enough in taxes to prevent the likes of EvilCorp#3.
You're retarded. Do you even have a job?
You do realize that if you quit an IT job and take a job in any other field getting back into IT is very hard.
Jumping from one professional field to another is almost impossible. If you left IT for say accounting, not only would that be a very difficult move (expensive as hell also if you count in the education) but you'd find going back to IT very tough.
Lives are short, 5 years lost to some turbulance in the job market while working in a different field is 5 years of increased salary that you will never recover.
Sure we in the US are spoiled, sure we have higher living standarts. But thats not the point.
The point is that losing that one job causes a certain drop in the living standart of the family and possible permanent damage to the career options of the individual. Can you go aheand and tell your kids that the kids network, their barney, the legos and in fact most of their toys are "non-needed shit"? Can you tell them that from now on they'll eat the generic brand of everything to avoid the "non-needed shit" and that they'll quite going to their nice private school cause that also is "non-needed shit".
And yes, the people on welfare drive cars. Cause this is the US, and it's IMPOSSIBLE to get to MOST places without a car. I found that out fast when I came to the US.
I find your arguments laughable.
Do you really expect your children will learn morals and respect when their daddy can't find a job and works nights as a rent a cop? I doubt it.
All it will teach is that thier father is an idiot and that the economy sucked.
I want my children to respect me because they will understand that I valued their future far more than I valued my beliefs and morals.
Ughu...
Yes and can you look at yourself in the mirror and be SURE that you "did the right thing" when you have responsibilities to your family?
Oh sure 'I' don't mind a bit of pain to make my stand, but am I willing to hurt other to make my stand? I think not.
You have NO idea how happy I am to be working. I know people who are graduating IST/CS right now and have NOTHING but 50k-70k in loans. I can tell you right now that even the most moral of them will BEG for a job at SCO, right wrong be damned. You wouldn't be so sure about "doing the right thing" when your car got repoed and you filed for bancrupcy..
Welcome to the US.
In half the places I applied for a job, if the company was very concerned about thier IP and considred itself in a highly competitive enviroment not only did I have to sign an NDA just to enter the building but I also had to fill out an extensive form detailing where I worked, what I did and if the company was a competitor. I also had to sign a paper saying that none of my family members work for any company that they consider a competitor. Better yet, having worked for eBay I had to sign a paper saying that I will not work for any retalier of used goods over the internet for the next 3 years...
I am fairly sure that this is legal. Past employment record is something that "shows your ability to perform the job".
If you were an employee of a company that had conflicting values then it's reasonable to reject you based on that fact. It is already common for companies to not hire employees from their competitors fearling IP leaks and the lawsuits that follow.
Under that logic it is a perfectly valid concern that a SCO employee might "inevitably" bring some SCO IP into the company and result in SCO filing a lawsuit.
Does that make it ok to not hire someone just because they worked for SCO? I think it's moraly wrong, baseless and absolutley retarded. But I doubt that it's illegal. But of course IMNAL...
SWG had HORRID HORRID terrain!
Mountains, mountains, mountains, mountans, swamps, swamps, swamps, swamps, swamps.
It was ALL the same. Games that had great partialy random terrain:
AO
AC2
SWG terrain sucked not because of "patterns" but because of the sameness of it all. You could run for miles and everything would look the same. The mountains came out of nowhere as did the valleys. No terrain could be like that in RL.
It is true that automaticly generated content cannot surpas the quality of handcrafted content. The BEST way to do large areas is to design at least 30% by hand and fill the rest with randomly generated content. The result is a huge world with interesting and memorable landmarks.
Buying used CDs is almost as bad imo.
Ok fine YOU didn't buy the new CD, but you just gave money to someone who did..and guess what. That person will go out and buy a new CD...
You're still helping, not as much but still...
Having played SWG for about a month I quit because the game is horrid. It's uterly pointless.
The fact that they "HAD" 275k accounts means nothing. It will go the way of AO. AO had at least 300k accounts in the first 3 months but lost about 200k before 6 months were up. And yes, AO also tried the board closing, board moderating and whatnot in hopes of luring customers back in.
SWG IS a huge flop.
Yeah ok, tax payers money, useless vapor ware technology, lobbying yadda yadda...
Still is it a bad thing that people are trying to develop technology even if the only purpose is war? TV, radio, even the internet were all initialy military projects. There is nothing "bad", "evil" or "immoral" about it. In the end it's technology and the military power that came with it which allows this country to exist as it does today. How you see that, good/bad is your own opionion.
If that's true why have they not sued Gore, yet?
The father of the internet must have some mp3s afterall. Plus he loves gadgets, bet you he's got the latest iPod...and maybe an iTunes account..hmm...alright I see...
You could've had the same study session with a laptop. I know I have considering how much of the lectured material today is in the form of power point slides.
What really killed the idea was that I just couldn't find anything but "junk" in eBook format. Not ONE of my college books was ever available in eBook format. The books that were available were not cheaper than the paper backs to justify the purchase of a reader, and I sure as hell wasn't going to read 300 pages on a PC or on my laptop (which gets hot enough to keep my milk warm in the winter, no joke)
Everyone knows that you can't do that and that is illegal to copy software, but its ok to swap music.
And that is the answer. It's not exactly different, but people accept one and not the other.
People don't go about listening to WinXP on the radio, they don't see WinXP on TV and they don't go to WinXP concerts. Often people seem to think that it's ok to download music that they don't particularly like and "wouldn't have bought anyway" but go and buy CDs of artists they trully like. I'm getting off topic..
The difference is that it's commonly accepted that a great deal of work goes into making software and it needs to be purchased.
It is not commonly accepted that people must pay to have a copy of a song that they hear being played all around them all the time.
...would have been great had readers been umm readable and cheap and had the format been widley available.
I'd love nothing more than having all my college books in eBook format, and preferably for half the price... But it doesn't make sense to pay $300ish for a reader with fairly limited battery life and the pay prices for books which in my opinion are still unreasonable.
We don't know if she's cute or not. She could be a very ugly 12 year old girl. Certainly years of piracy have scared her features...