"[...] I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. [...]"
"When you shoot steeply up or down, the shots will land high relative to the flat level zero." Does high mean an error in the same direction whether it's steeply up or steeply down? What causes that?
Okay, let me try again: I see the original post is about medical regulation and your comment is kinda sorta about medical regulation; do you want to connect the dots or do you just want to talk about Obama?
In illustrating the educational aspects of web content, AC underscores the problem with trying to blackmail religious zealots with their browser logs: They can say they were merely educating themselves about the infidels.
The original article, which is talking about the FDA pulling the plug on a medical service due to its operator not addressing some red tape with respect to safety standards, is a good illustration of the interventionist form of "statism". Subsidized health care doesn't necessarily dictate what the medical industry can do in the same way, but taxing people and spending the money on certain kinds of health programs is definitely an economic intervention that pushes the medical industry in a certain direction. What do you think, Mr. Anon.? Did you have this similarity in mind when you wrote your post?
I like to listen to people's views about "the nanny state" right up until the part where they tell me I should deal with it by.. voting in somebody to fix the problem for us...
If you said Quebec, then tell him to remember that that won't be true anymore if he becomes a senior manager. If you said New Brunswick, then tell him to consider being a manager somewhere where they pay more than $14.25 an hour. =)
"cannot be paid overtime" - No, they can be paid overtime, it's just not required by law (or rather by that law).
Also, about that high tech exemption: "a person employed to provide basic operational technical support" is excluded from the exemption.
I'm curious, Slashdot: Is a server admin "a person employed to provide basic operational technical support"? Ok, now is there a way to explain why or why not to a judge?
I'm amazed at how crazy HP's PR handling has been about their transition in general (~ "we're going to jump ship a few miles from the destination to swim into uncharted waters") and this part in particular (~ "we couldn't sell it with a tiny discount off our insane pricing, so we'll just give them away instead"). It's nice to have a demonstration of the Osborne effect every once in a while.
Either HP's competence at marketing and pricing is similar to their competence at creating printer drivers, or there are some seriously perverse accounting needs and internal corporate politics at play here.
Aside, while I'm being cranky: Hey/., what was the hold-up on this story? (It's not just the next day, but in the afternoon the next day). I never would have thought back when I started reading/. in the 90's I'd ever have to say this, but you guys need to improve its story queue process so you can keep up with the turnaround time of... mainstream newspaper web sites.
Hey, take it easy buddy. You've got your work cut out for you just convincing those crazy people who made your netbook to put the apostrophe on the home row instead of that pesky waste-of-a-key semi-colon. While you work on that, I'll investigate this "over-sized iPod Touches for people with bad eyesight and big wallets" thing by heading for Starbucks to see if I can find some blondes.
I think I can speak for all software developers in expressing a certain amount of disappointment that we were practically one guy-hit-by-a-bus away from switching everyone to UTC once and for all and we missed our chance. =)
The Bayesian network that now performs all Slashdot editing has come to associate "Australia" with the "Your Rights Online" category, due to what I will call "poor quality training data" from Australian lawmakers.
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The iPhone 2g has hardware h.264 acceleration. So why is its general purpose CPU speed relevant?
For the record, I think my text search is broken; I can't find the word "verb" there anywhere. =)
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc261...
From the dedication of SICP:
"[...] I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. [...]"
What are you getting at? OP is a software developer, and so is presumably looking for a job developing software, not setting up servers.
"When you shoot steeply up or down, the shots will land high relative to the flat level zero." Does high mean an error in the same direction whether it's steeply up or steeply down? What causes that?
"state of the art in 2000" Wasn't it 4 years old in 2000, and discontinued in 2001?
What about the old chestnut: "You can't grep dead trees?"
Okay, let me try again:
I see the original post is about medical regulation and your comment is kinda sorta about medical regulation; do you want to connect the dots or do you just want to talk about Obama?
In illustrating the educational aspects of web content, AC underscores the problem with trying to blackmail religious zealots with their browser logs: They can say they were merely educating themselves about the infidels.
The original article, which is talking about the FDA pulling the plug on a medical service due to its operator not addressing some red tape with respect to safety standards, is a good illustration of the interventionist form of "statism". Subsidized health care doesn't necessarily dictate what the medical industry can do in the same way, but taxing people and spending the money on certain kinds of health programs is definitely an economic intervention that pushes the medical industry in a certain direction. What do you think, Mr. Anon.? Did you have this similarity in mind when you wrote your post?
I like to listen to people's views about "the nanny state" right up until the part where they tell me I should deal with it by.. voting in somebody to fix the problem for us...
You said it, Time Cube Guy.
Wait, what? You mean... Iran took Time Cube guy!? Oh noes!
Whoops; Sorry, I didn't realize my earlier post went through. ;)
Well, you don't make the big bucks solving problems that you find before you hand it over to the customer...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123871451033784579.html
Well, you don't make the big bucks solving problems before you hand it over to the customer...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123871451033784579.html
If you said Quebec, then tell him to remember that that won't be true anymore if he becomes a senior manager.
If you said New Brunswick, then tell him to consider being a manager somewhere where they pay more than $14.25 an hour. =)
"I tell my boss that, he is a manager, he figures he doesn't get overtime, but that isn't true, he is entitled the same as everyone else."
Are you in Quebec, New Brunswick, or Newfoundland and Labrador, or Prince Edward Island? =)
"cannot be paid overtime" - No, they can be paid overtime, it's just not required by law (or rather by that law).
Also, about that high tech exemption: "a person employed to provide basic operational technical support" is excluded from the exemption.
I'm curious, Slashdot: Is a server admin "a person employed to provide basic operational technical support"? Ok, now is there a way to explain why or why not to a judge?
http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/freeside/11_396_95#section37.8 (the exemption)
http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/freeside/00_96113_01#part4 (the part 4 that the exemption is referring to)
I'm amazed at how crazy HP's PR handling has been about their transition in general (~ "we're going to jump ship a few miles from the destination to swim into uncharted waters") and this part in particular (~ "we couldn't sell it with a tiny discount off our insane pricing, so we'll just give them away instead"). It's nice to have a demonstration of the Osborne effect every once in a while.
Either HP's competence at marketing and pricing is similar to their competence at creating printer drivers, or there are some seriously perverse accounting needs and internal corporate politics at play here.
Aside, while I'm being cranky: Hey /., what was the hold-up on this story? (It's not just the next day, but in the afternoon the next day). I never would have thought back when I started reading /. in the 90's I'd ever have to say this, but you guys need to improve its story queue process so you can keep up with the turnaround time of... mainstream newspaper web sites.
Hey, take it easy buddy. You've got your work cut out for you just convincing those crazy people who made your netbook to put the apostrophe on the home row instead of that pesky waste-of-a-key semi-colon. While you work on that, I'll investigate this "over-sized iPod Touches for people with bad eyesight and big wallets" thing by heading for Starbucks to see if I can find some blondes.
Oh noes! Not on /. !
I think they have some time to deal with it. The only thing I can find that substantiates this is an old post:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2822
I think I can speak for all software developers in expressing a certain amount of disappointment that we were practically one guy-hit-by-a-bus away from switching everyone to UTC once and for all and we missed our chance. =)
Ah, the "investigative" "reporting" from morons type post.
A while back, I planned to stop reading Slashdot, but it obviously didn't "take". Now it's time to remove the link from my bookmark bar.
Anyone with an updated list of alternatives?
The Bayesian network that now performs all Slashdot editing has come to associate "Australia" with the "Your Rights Online" category, due to what I will call "poor quality training data" from Australian lawmakers.