I too was in the UFCW and came away from the experience with the opinion that bad employees need unions more than good employees.
stoolpigeon:
But it was a time and place when the employers really didn't care if they kept you or not and didn't want to give us decent insurance and the union helped that to happen
So one could argue that bad employers need unions more than good employers.
Huh. I picked up coffee and an egg sandwich from that very establishment yesterday morning. The place was spotless. Then again, it was the first time I've ever been there.
I've thought of doing it myself. There's three ways I'm thinking of approaching it:
1. As-is clone of the game. Same graphics, sound, gameplay, everything, coded and compiled to run on today's computers.
2. Same gameplay, but with new graphics and sound.
3. New graphics and sound, and additional content (side quests, more interactivity, etc). Anything new would be consistent with the book trilogy it's based on. Very good books, by the way. The author is Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
Or, come to think of it, how about additional content but with the original graphics?
I'm sure I'd have to get Mrs. Snyder's approval (for option 3 at least). And it would be great if I could contact the original programmer, Dale Disharoon.
I tried to purchase a copy of the the C64 game on Ebay, but someone snatched it up 30 seconds before the auction ended.
At my previous job, the Unix admin group had a contract to fix problems within 48 hours. We almost always completed tasks within 2 hours. Because of this, whenever we would take, say, 10 hours to finish a task, we'd start getting phone calls and emails asking us WTF. We'd have to gently remind them of the 48 hour clause, although this never made the client happy.
I recall only one instance where it took us longer than 48 hours. We informed the client right away that what they needed done was going to take at least a week. They shrugged and said, "okay".
AC writes: They prosecute people who they can prove illegally distributed music-- not people "reported" by random sources with 0 credibility..
Linux.com:
"Once the RIAA has a name, the RIAA brings a case against the individual identified. As Beckerman points out, at this point, the evidence is inconclusive. "At most, they can say that someone who might somehow be associated with that IP address might have made some files available. But they certainly don't know that the defendant did. All they know is that the defendant wrote out a check to the Internet provider."
However, this vagueness does not stop the proceedings. The RIAA's preference, Beckerman says, is "to extort a [cash] settlement." If an individual resists, the RIAA brings a federal suit against him, which few individuals can afford to defend against unless they can find a lawyer willing to work for free or for a nominal fee. "You'll notice that you'll never see a big law firm in that category," he says. "The big law firms are like any big corporation -- they need to make a profit. They would be interested in representing the RIAA, not the poor people who the RIAA are pursuing."
Electra vs Barker "The defence has made a motion to dismiss, because the case "doesn't specify any acts, dates, or times of copyright infringement as the laws normally require."
UMG vs Lindor "She's never operated a computer, she's never even turned on a computer. The only connection she has ever had to a computer is that she has on occasion dusted near the parts that she believes are a computer. And yet she is being pursued as an online distributor in peer-to-peer file sharing."
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I was watching the Director's commentary of the Excalibur DVD. There's a point in the movie where a rabbit is killed while (don't remember which character) is hunting. The Director says "Notice that we did not say that no animals were killed during the filming of this movie."
There are many organizations that will send mass mailings of thousands of letters to Members of Congress. A typed and signed personal letter will receive the same scrutiny as a handwritten letter as long as it isn't, or doesn't look like, one of these mass mailings.
Also, the more an individual writes his Congressman, the less seriously their letters are read. A letter sent by someone who has never written will be given more attention than one from someone who writes monthly.
Mail is almost always responded to with form letters printed out by interns.
(I worked for one of the CMS vendors at The House of Representatives for 4 years.)
"Do these "people" actually check their own email though?"
Depends on the culture of each Member's office.
I used to work as a sysadmin for the house of representatives -- I didn't work for HIR (House Information Resources), but as a private contractor. Each office had its own way of doing things. There were some Members who never turned their computer on, much less read their email. Others had two separate accounts, one for themselves and a few select staffers to read, the other completely private. And of course a few had accounts that could be read by any staffer in the office, including interns.
Most email is responded to by the staff, not by the Member. Same with regular mail. Usually with a template or form letter response of some sort.
The web proxy where I work is set to draconian levels of filtering. My complaint is that it blocks sites that I consider invaluable tools for my job. For example, dnsstuff.com was blocked as a "hacking" site. Same with openssh.org and gnupg.org.
To unblock sites we have to go through a series of hoops that involves triplicate forms, candles, salt circles, and burnt offerings. One individual controls the proxy and personally investigates any site for which an un-block request is made. They're the high priest of internet access for the office.
A few years ago I went on an interview with a Wall Street company that had been arranged through a recruiter. At the interview I was asked questions about skills and experience that I didn't have.
Interviewer: "So tell me about your Sybase experience." Me: "Never used it in my life." Interviewer: "It says here on your resume that you've used it for the past 4 years."
After a few such questions I asked the interviewer to hand me the copy of the resume that the recruiter had sent them. It wasn't just fudged a bit, or given a little extra polish, it was a bullet-point list o' lies. I scratched things out, added other entries, and handed it back to the interviewer.
I called the recruiter when the interview was over and let him have it. And he was completely unapologetic. "Today's market requires certain skills to get noticed. You've got to play the game to win." That recruiter was blacklisted by the Wall Street company (said company apologized to me for my wasted time as well).
Slashdot Mirror
"Lions' Commentary on Unix" by John Lions and Peter H. Salus
"Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas R. Hofstadter
"Linux Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, and Trent R. Hein
Any of the Feynman physics lecture series ... or "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" and other such titles
Any of Raymond Smullyan's puzzle books
Aye, it could be an accident. But, nonetheless, what an opportunity for Eve and Mallory.
Most of the B to B traffic between Europe and Asia is rerouted through the USA.
How convenient for U.S. packet sniffers.
I too was in the UFCW and came away from the experience with the opinion that bad employees need unions more than good employees.
stoolpigeon:
But it was a time and place when the employers really didn't care if they kept you or not and didn't want to give us decent insurance and the union helped that to happen
So one could argue that bad employers need unions more than good employers.
Can't we just find an old subthread on the subject and link to that instead?
BSD versus GPL Subthread Link
Huh. I picked up coffee and an egg sandwich from that very establishment yesterday morning. The place was spotless. Then again, it was the first time I've ever been there.
Perhaps enlightenment that serves just as an excuse to be a pretentious ass is not true enlightenment.
Quote: "The Kwizatz Haderach is simply a profit figure."
:)
I think you meant "Prophet".
But your word choice actually puts an interesting spin on your comment, so...hmmm...maybe you did use the right word after all?
I've thought of doing it myself. There's three ways I'm thinking of approaching it:
1. As-is clone of the game. Same graphics, sound, gameplay, everything, coded and compiled to run on today's computers.
2. Same gameplay, but with new graphics and sound.
3. New graphics and sound, and additional content (side quests, more interactivity, etc). Anything new would be consistent with the book trilogy it's based on. Very good books, by the way. The author is Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
Or, come to think of it, how about additional content but with the original graphics?
I'm sure I'd have to get Mrs. Snyder's approval (for option 3 at least). And it would be great if I could contact the original programmer, Dale Disharoon.
I tried to purchase a copy of the the C64 game on Ebay, but someone snatched it up 30 seconds before the auction ended.
At my previous job, the Unix admin group had a contract to fix problems within 48 hours. We almost always completed tasks within 2 hours. Because of this, whenever we would take, say, 10 hours to finish a task, we'd start getting phone calls and emails asking us WTF. We'd have to gently remind them of the 48 hour clause, although this never made the client happy.
I recall only one instance where it took us longer than 48 hours. We informed the client right away that what they needed done was going to take at least a week. They shrugged and said, "okay".
Linux.com:
"Once the RIAA has a name, the RIAA brings a case against the individual identified. As Beckerman points out, at this point, the evidence is inconclusive. "At most, they can say that someone who might somehow be associated with that IP address might have made some files available. But they certainly don't know that the defendant did. All they know is that the defendant wrote out a check to the Internet provider."
However, this vagueness does not stop the proceedings. The RIAA's preference, Beckerman says, is "to extort a [cash] settlement." If an individual resists, the RIAA brings a federal suit against him, which few individuals can afford to defend against unless they can find a lawyer willing to work for free or for a nominal fee. "You'll notice that you'll never see a big law firm in that category," he says. "The big law firms are like any big corporation -- they need to make a profit. They would be interested in representing the RIAA, not the poor people who the RIAA are pursuing."
Electra vs Barker
"The defence has made a motion to dismiss, because the case "doesn't specify any acts, dates, or times of copyright infringement as the laws normally require."
UMG vs Lindor
"She's never operated a computer, she's never even turned on a computer. The only connection she has ever had to a computer is that she has on occasion dusted near the parts that she believes are a computer. And yet she is being pursued as an online distributor in peer-to-peer file sharing."
Because his trolling succeeds.
I was watching the Director's commentary of the Excalibur DVD. There's a point in the movie where a rabbit is killed while (don't remember which character) is hunting. The Director says "Notice that we did not say that no animals were killed during the filming of this movie."
There are many organizations that will send mass mailings of thousands of letters to Members of Congress. A typed and signed personal letter will
receive the same scrutiny as a handwritten letter as long as it isn't, or doesn't look like, one of these mass mailings.
Also, the more an individual writes his Congressman, the less seriously their letters are read. A letter sent by someone who has never written will be
given more attention than one from someone who writes monthly.
Mail is almost always responded to with form letters printed out by interns.
(I worked for one of the CMS vendors at The House of Representatives for 4 years.)
"Do these "people" actually check their own email though?"
Depends on the culture of each Member's office.
I used to work as a sysadmin for the house of representatives -- I didn't work for HIR (House Information Resources), but as a private
contractor. Each office had its own way of doing things. There were some Members who never turned their computer on, much less
read their email. Others had two separate accounts, one for themselves and a few select staffers to read, the other completely
private. And of course a few had accounts that could be read by any staffer in the office, including interns.
Most email is responded to by the staff, not by the Member. Same with regular mail. Usually with a template or form letter response
of some sort.
The web proxy where I work is set to draconian levels of filtering. My complaint is that it blocks sites that I consider invaluable tools for my job.
For example, dnsstuff.com was blocked as a "hacking" site. Same with openssh.org and gnupg.org.
To unblock sites we have to go through a series of hoops that involves triplicate forms, candles, salt circles, and burnt offerings. One individual
controls the proxy and personally investigates any site for which an un-block request is made. They're the high priest of internet access for
the office.
A few years ago I went on an interview with a Wall Street company that had been arranged through a recruiter. At the interview I was asked questions about skills and experience that I didn't have.
Interviewer: "So tell me about your Sybase experience."
Me: "Never used it in my life."
Interviewer: "It says here on your resume that you've used it for the past 4 years."
After a few such questions I asked the interviewer to hand me the copy of the resume that the recruiter had sent them. It wasn't just fudged a bit, or given a little extra polish, it was a bullet-point list o' lies. I scratched things out, added other entries, and handed it back to the interviewer.
I called the recruiter when the interview was over and let him have it. And he was completely unapologetic. "Today's market requires certain skills to get noticed. You've got to play the game to win." That recruiter was blacklisted by the Wall Street company (said company apologized to me for my wasted time as well).