It's a fine line...you have to look like a competitor in order to be thought well of by the Fantasy Football League morons but also remember to throttle back your game so that you don't show up your boss in front of everyone. I made that mistake once.
The first year I was working for a former employer, I beat my boss's boss out for first place in a charity road bicycle race. In all honesty, while I knew that the general rule is that you're not supposed to beat the boss, he had been going on and on for weeks about how he "hoped that he would have some real competition."
I've been racing bicycles competitively for years, so there was no doubt in my mind that I could beat him. But I thought that I would just lay back the whole race and then act like I was going to challenge him on the last hill but let him win. Unfortunately, he wasn't quite as good a cyclist as he had been letting on, and halfway up the hill he pulled off to the side and puked.
Needless to say, my employment there was short-lived.
Step 1. Introduce unnecessary product with the words "quantum" or "nano" in it.
Step 2. Get someone to post it on slashdot.
Step 3. ???
Step 4. Profit!
I "fired" a few of my worst customers who never seemed to pay on time but always called with this or that emergency. Sure, the billable rate was great, but the peripheral stress didn't balance out.
Exactly. I did the same thing for the same reason and I couldn't be happier with the results. It seems to me that 10% of your customers are always the cause of 90% of your stress; dumping them left me with more time and energy to devote to the customers who weren't making my life a living hell. Now I routinely reject new customers who seem as if they are going to be too high-maintenance.
Sure, I'm making less than I could, but it's well worth it for me.
It's just too bad I don't live in Somalia where the relative differences would show.
True. The difference in Somalia might be measured in having enough vs. not enough to eat, whereas in the US it might be measured in premium vs. basic cable.
If that were the case, then you would owe more on your house and car than what they're worth. If you owe less then it is an asset. See, and you thought that you were poor. Welcome to the world of the wealthy.
In all fairness, you or I could probably afford to *drastically* change the standard of living for at least one person in a developing nation.
My wife and I give to a pretty substantial percentage of our income to charity, but the truth is, that whether we want to acknowledge it or not, we mostly choose to have stuff rather than to help people. While we have a modest home for our income level, we live in a house with more bedrooms than people. We usually buy used cars, but if you include my work vehicle, we have more cars than drivers. We have several acres of property. The sad thing about it? She and I are the most frugal people we know in our income bracket.
We could--without changing the quality of our health care, food, basic necessities, saving for retirement, etc.--probably help quite a few more people. But we don't because we want stuff.
One thing that I have learned is that one's appetite for stuff can never be satisfied. While they're certainly in the position to help more people than us, the wealthy are motivated by the same stufflust that motivates us. The truth is that almost all of us are greedy--some with a little, some with a lot.
I spent 3 years taking GEC's at a "traditional" college. Alot of things I had to go through did not directly reflect what my overall major is.
My degrees are in a field totally unrelated to CS, but I had to take plenty of courses that didn't directly pertain to my major(s). But, in all fairness, the goal of an undergraduate university education has traditionally been to provide a broad general education combined with *some* concentration within the field of the student's degree. To have a university undergrad degree assumes a certain set of skills across the curriculum--the ability write correctly, the use of critical thinking skills, as well as a basic understanding of the sciences, the arts, math, literature, language, etc.
That's supposed to be the difference between college and a trade school. Not that trade schools are bad--they just have different goals.
With a bachelor degree one would usually expect that an employer or graduate school completes the training necessary to enter the workforce.
Anyone who has physical access to a machine owns it, regardless of the operating system, hence the saying "if you've got boot, you've got root." Surely you're not saying that anyone with access to the source code can easily execute something on a remote machine. Have you never heard of firewalls, permissions and the like?
True. Although do bear in mind this is California, home of the movie industry. I'd be interested in seeing if they were quite as successful in getting a similar bill nuked in, say, Massachussets.
Speaking of California and the movie industry, does anyone know if we're hearing anything from any of these actors/actresses who speak out so often about social injustice? What's the Governator's opinion on this? I haven't seen anything. I wonder if maybe it's too close to their own pocketbook (maybe it's true about the love of money...) or maybe it's just peer pressure from within their social circles?
The only problem with that is that it will never happen for the same reasons that this bill was killed: it requires politicians to do what is in the best interests of the citizens, instead of what is in the best interests of their reelection campaign (read getting money).
Talk about inhuman and unfeeling - I find it shocking that a country with such a large Christian population continues to have such draconian and uncaring policies not just at government level, but supported as a ideology by most of the population
Being fairly bought into the idea of a Social Democracy, I was with you there for awhile, but don't you think that the bringing Christians into it was a little gratuitous?
You might be interested to know that some recent research indicates that conservative Christians give more to charities than self-identified liberals, regardless of income. From the above-mentioned article:
When it comes to helping the needy, he writes: "For too long, liberals have been claiming they are the most virtuous members of American society. Although they usually give less to charity, they have nevertheless lambasted conservatives for their callousness in the face of social injustice."
While I'm sure that there is more than one side to the story, your broadbrush treatment of Christians in this regard is simply unwarranted. As a Christian, I will readily admit that we are, as a group, rather hypocritical and self-serving in many ways, but this does not appear to be one of them.
While this is an AC post, it does make a good point. Why should I both pay to view content and, in addition, pay for the bandwidth and storage for its delivery system? Seems kind of ridiculous.
Step 1. Get TV and Movie companies to provide content
Step 2. Get end-users to provide storage and bandwidth
Step 3. Profit!!
It does kind of make me wonder though, where do you live that there isn't an assault upon your freedoms? I just don't know of any country where that isn't happening.
Right. I'm moved my mouse and keyboard to try out the whole 135 degree thing. I have to admit that it does seem very comfortable for my back and hamstrings, my chair doesn't have a headrest and my neck is starting to fatigue. I wonder about moving the monitor closer to me, higher up and tilting the top of it downward some. Of couse I would need some sort of fancy mount to do that.
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It's a fine line...you have to look like a competitor in order to be thought well of by the Fantasy Football League morons but also remember to throttle back your game so that you don't show up your boss in front of everyone. I made that mistake once.
The first year I was working for a former employer, I beat my boss's boss out for first place in a charity road bicycle race. In all honesty, while I knew that the general rule is that you're not supposed to beat the boss, he had been going on and on for weeks about how he "hoped that he would have some real competition."
I've been racing bicycles competitively for years, so there was no doubt in my mind that I could beat him. But I thought that I would just lay back the whole race and then act like I was going to challenge him on the last hill but let him win. Unfortunately, he wasn't quite as good a cyclist as he had been letting on, and halfway up the hill he pulled off to the side and puked.
Needless to say, my employment there was short-lived.
Facts? Facts? We don't need no stinking facts!
Step 1. Introduce unnecessary product with the words "quantum" or "nano" in it.
Step 2. Get someone to post it on slashdot.
Step 3. ???
Step 4. Profit!
I was wondering about this. Is this some type of homoerotic thing?
why is it important to keep the temperature above a certain point?
Put a can of Coke in the freezer for a couple of hours and you'll see why.
I "fired" a few of my worst customers who never seemed to pay on time but always called with this or that emergency. Sure, the billable rate was great, but the peripheral stress didn't balance out.
Exactly. I did the same thing for the same reason and I couldn't be happier with the results. It seems to me that 10% of your customers are always the cause of 90% of your stress; dumping them left me with more time and energy to devote to the customers who weren't making my life a living hell. Now I routinely reject new customers who seem as if they are going to be too high-maintenance.
Sure, I'm making less than I could, but it's well worth it for me.
It's just too bad I don't live in Somalia where the relative differences would show.
True. The difference in Somalia might be measured in having enough vs. not enough to eat, whereas in the US it might be measured in premium vs. basic cable.
If that were the case, then you would owe more on your house and car than what they're worth. If you owe less then it is an asset. See, and you thought that you were poor. Welcome to the world of the wealthy.
In all fairness, you or I could probably afford to *drastically* change the standard of living for at least one person in a developing nation.
My wife and I give to a pretty substantial percentage of our income to charity, but the truth is, that whether we want to acknowledge it or not, we mostly choose to have stuff rather than to help people. While we have a modest home for our income level, we live in a house with more bedrooms than people. We usually buy used cars, but if you include my work vehicle, we have more cars than drivers. We have several acres of property. The sad thing about it? She and I are the most frugal people we know in our income bracket.
We could--without changing the quality of our health care, food, basic necessities, saving for retirement, etc.--probably help quite a few more people. But we don't because we want stuff.
One thing that I have learned is that one's appetite for stuff can never be satisfied. While they're certainly in the position to help more people than us, the wealthy are motivated by the same stufflust that motivates us. The truth is that almost all of us are greedy--some with a little, some with a lot.
I spent 3 years taking GEC's at a "traditional" college. Alot of things I had to go through did not directly reflect what my overall major is.
My degrees are in a field totally unrelated to CS, but I had to take plenty of courses that didn't directly pertain to my major(s). But, in all fairness, the goal of an undergraduate university education has traditionally been to provide a broad general education combined with *some* concentration within the field of the student's degree. To have a university undergrad degree assumes a certain set of skills across the curriculum--the ability write correctly, the use of critical thinking skills, as well as a basic understanding of the sciences, the arts, math, literature, language, etc.
That's supposed to be the difference between college and a trade school. Not that trade schools are bad--they just have different goals.
With a bachelor degree one would usually expect that an employer or graduate school completes the training necessary to enter the workforce.
Anyone who has physical access to a machine owns it, regardless of the operating system, hence the saying "if you've got boot, you've got root." Surely you're not saying that anyone with access to the source code can easily execute something on a remote machine. Have you never heard of firewalls, permissions and the like?
I stand corrected.
True. Although do bear in mind this is California, home of the movie industry. I'd be interested in seeing if they were quite as successful in getting a similar bill nuked in, say, Massachussets.
Speaking of California and the movie industry, does anyone know if we're hearing anything from any of these actors/actresses who speak out so often about social injustice? What's the Governator's opinion on this? I haven't seen anything. I wonder if maybe it's too close to their own pocketbook (maybe it's true about the love of money...) or maybe it's just peer pressure from within their social circles?
The only problem with that is that it will never happen for the same reasons that this bill was killed: it requires politicians to do what is in the best interests of the citizens, instead of what is in the best interests of their reelection campaign (read getting money).
To paraphrase Ed Harris in the movie, History of Violence, "...how come the MPAA is so good at killing bills?"
The answer is that succesful politicians are not developed, they're bought.
My brother-in-law runs a light bulb off of his telephone line current. Maybe the phone company should charge all of us because we might do the same.
You frighten too easily.
You take things too literally.
It's only a little frightening that you knew that.
Have a look--it's obvious that this guy's a homicidal manic.
From the main page:
I'm thinking that when going out to dinner with ex-KGB, one might need this.
Gotcha. Clearly I misunderstood your inference. Mea culpa.
Being fairly bought into the idea of a Social Democracy, I was with you there for awhile, but don't you think that the bringing Christians into it was a little gratuitous?
You might be interested to know that some recent research indicates that conservative Christians give more to charities than self-identified liberals, regardless of income. From the above-mentioned article:
While I'm sure that there is more than one side to the story, your broadbrush treatment of Christians in this regard is simply unwarranted. As a Christian, I will readily admit that we are, as a group, rather hypocritical and self-serving in many ways, but this does not appear to be one of them.
While this is an AC post, it does make a good point. Why should I both pay to view content and, in addition, pay for the bandwidth and storage for its delivery system? Seems kind of ridiculous.
Step 1. Get TV and Movie companies to provide content
Step 2. Get end-users to provide storage and bandwidth
Step 3. Profit!!
It does kind of make me wonder though, where do you live that there isn't an assault upon your freedoms? I just don't know of any country where that isn't happening.
Right. I'm moved my mouse and keyboard to try out the whole 135 degree thing. I have to admit that it does seem very comfortable for my back and hamstrings, my chair doesn't have a headrest and my neck is starting to fatigue. I wonder about moving the monitor closer to me, higher up and tilting the top of it downward some. Of couse I would need some sort of fancy mount to do that.