Human resourcess should be a company's most important resource.
Okay, time for reality. Before the industrialization of the world, this was very true. This was a couple hundred years ago.
Now, human resources are a commodity in nearly every industry. Moaning about how it's not fair and imposing artificial restrictions won't change this fact -- it will only delay the inevitable, until we have more and more situations like Ford and GM who can't afford to pay their employees due to decades of concessions to unions.
I may have jumped to a conclusion, but I often hear from people with sentiments such as yours -- only to find out that they don't take/any/ part in the process, anywhere along the way.
To be fair, here in the U.S. is the choice of who runs for high offices really open to much choice? Democrat or Republican, many felt that both choices were awful (and I intend to agree). Pretty much the same can be said of any third party candidate, too
They're called "primaries". You should try participating...
while (typeid(this) == single) { printf("Still single:("); }
Well crap, dude -- no wonder! Try it this way:
while (interact() != success) { printf("Still single:("); }
Egad. Do you leave all the crap that software today installs running by default? Adobe quicklaunch, XXXSPam.exe, winamp agent, KeyLogger.exe, Nero Quicklaunch, and other fine gems?
I've just learned that Vista Corporate is not gettin delayed -- and the place I work for will be rolling it out in our call centers, unfortunately. Even the people doing the installations don't want it because the new hardware requirements are ridiculous, but we're forced to upgrade or go unsupported because of Software Assurance.
The odd thing is that everyone worries much about support -- yet in call centers totalling over 7000 employees, plus another few thousand in other areas of the Company, I am not aware of ONE case in which we've had to actually use this support.
Anyone who pays full retail for Oracle licenses gets what they deserve. With only a little negotiation, you can get Oracle to come down 45% off retail.
Yeah! If you play your cards right, you could pay a mere $22,000 per CPU!
Does anyone expect anything different?
The courts have the power to order your home home computers siezed if they deem it appropriate. They can compel any corporation to reveal any amount of private e-mails, etc.
This is not news, and the precedent has been long-established. The only thing different about this is that google's name is attached.
The best quote of all: The suits do not name eBay as a defendant and Microsoft indicated that it has received extensive cooperation from the auction giant in the past as it tried to ferret out piracy.
This next portion of the article was edited out: The Microsoft representative then cracked each knuckle, one at a time. He continued, "You see, we have ways of convincing people to cooperate."
For all fellow republicans who think this is a Good Thing (for the record: I don't), but aren't so foolish as to say so here, consider this: About six years from now, if not sooner, the pendulum will swing the other way. It always does. And when the Dems are in charge of the house & senate, do you really want this kind of precedent hanging over your heads?
"If you know you have something of depth, you have to be careful about how you bring it into the marketplace," he said. "We're in the business of having consumers believe in an artist."
Haha! At least the labels have a sense of humor.
However, since they had already undergone treatment, we can't say for sure which helped the person. The results are contaminated by their original treatment...Same thing in this instance.
So you're saying that it's not clear whether the alien jiz would still have been here if India had not previously received cancer treatments?
Yahoo! is probably attempting to get into the media, and having bad publicity in the media industry has worse consequences than it would in the high-tech industry.
Yeah. It's apparent that they surewouldn't want to doanything that wouldresult in bad publicity.
It's not a matter of you, myself, and grandparent not being able to understand -- after all, we're all super-geniuses here on/., right?
No, the problem is the other 99.9% of the population who aren't, and who simply won't make that connection. Comparisons like the one in TFA are deliberately misleading for the poor sots.
Blatant plug for people doing it right: I just bought (and am listening to) an iaudio x-series (cowon.com), which includes built-in support for nearly everything under the sun -- including ogg.
I can hardly wait! We'll have recreated life in its entirety! And when I can eat, shit, and drink online...
Um... ... It'll be just like real life, except with fewer ugly people. Erm...
yay?
I see your point, and can agree with it to an extent. I think they key difference is that I think that people do retain ownership of ideas/information (After all -- nobody else came up with it; they did, and only them). As such, I think they have the right to determine where it goes and how it's used -- and not the end user, who has no 'ownership' of the information.
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Human resourcess should be a company's most important resource.
Okay, time for reality. Before the industrialization of the world, this was very true. This was a couple hundred years ago.
Now, human resources are a commodity in nearly every industry. Moaning about how it's not fair and imposing artificial restrictions won't change this fact -- it will only delay the inevitable, until we have more and more situations like Ford and GM who can't afford to pay their employees due to decades of concessions to unions.
I may have jumped to a conclusion, but I often hear from people with sentiments such as yours -- only to find out that they don't take /any/ part in the process, anywhere along the way.
It's a plot by the Edison company to bring back DC power! It's a plot by the Edison company to restore T. Edison to life!
To be fair, here in the U.S. is the choice of who runs for high offices really open to much choice? Democrat or Republican, many felt that both choices were awful (and I intend to agree). Pretty much the same can be said of any third party candidate, too
They're called "primaries". You should try participating...
while (typeid(this) == single) { printf("Still single :("); }
Well crap, dude -- no wonder! Try it this way:
while (interact() != success) { printf("Still single :("); }
I know this is Slashdot, but can we at least have a gramatically correct headline?
Don't ask silly questions.
We'll have no prejudice here.
Egad. Do you leave all the crap that software today installs running by default? Adobe quicklaunch, XXXSPam.exe, winamp agent, KeyLogger.exe, Nero Quicklaunch, and other fine gems?
I've just learned that Vista Corporate is not gettin delayed -- and the place I work for will be rolling it out in our call centers, unfortunately. Even the people doing the installations don't want it because the new hardware requirements are ridiculous, but we're forced to upgrade or go unsupported because of Software Assurance. The odd thing is that everyone worries much about support -- yet in call centers totalling over 7000 employees, plus another few thousand in other areas of the Company, I am not aware of ONE case in which we've had to actually use this support.
Anyone who pays full retail for Oracle licenses gets what they deserve. With only a little negotiation, you can get Oracle to come down 45% off retail.
Yeah! If you play your cards right, you could pay a mere $22,000 per CPU!
Does anyone expect anything different? The courts have the power to order your home home computers siezed if they deem it appropriate. They can compel any corporation to reveal any amount of private e-mails, etc. This is not news, and the precedent has been long-established. The only thing different about this is that google's name is attached.
The best quote of all:
The suits do not name eBay as a defendant and Microsoft indicated that it has received extensive cooperation from the auction giant in the past as it tried to ferret out piracy.
This next portion of the article was edited out: The Microsoft representative then cracked each knuckle, one at a time. He continued, "You see, we have ways of convincing people to cooperate."
For all fellow republicans who think this is a Good Thing (for the record: I don't), but aren't so foolish as to say so here, consider this: About six years from now, if not sooner, the pendulum will swing the other way. It always does. And when the Dems are in charge of the house & senate, do you really want this kind of precedent hanging over your heads?
Think about it.
Accidentally?
A search for the keywords: linux install Chinese yielded relevant results. American yielded viagra.
"If you know you have something of depth, you have to be careful about how you bring it into the marketplace," he said. "We're in the business of having consumers believe in an artist." Haha! At least the labels have a sense of humor.
However, since they had already undergone treatment, we can't say for sure which helped the person. The results are contaminated by their original treatment...Same thing in this instance. So you're saying that it's not clear whether the alien jiz would still have been here if India had not previously received cancer treatments?
Yahoo! is probably attempting to get into the media, and having bad publicity in the media industry has worse consequences than it would in the high-tech industry.
Yeah. It's apparent that they sure wouldn't want to do anything that would result in bad publicity.
It's not a matter of you, myself, and grandparent not being able to understand -- after all, we're all super-geniuses here on /., right?
No, the problem is the other 99.9% of the population who aren't, and who simply won't make that connection. Comparisons like the one in TFA are deliberately misleading for the poor sots.
... by Verizon. Stay tuned for more information on the Verizon Super-Super Highway, where your voice and data gets priority!
PR department -- oops, I meant "industry analysts" -- must be working overtime to get such as this considered to be newsworthy.
Misworded subject. Should have been "This is china, do you think he needs a trial before being punished?"
Blatant plug for people doing it right: I just bought (and am listening to) an iaudio x-series (cowon.com), which includes built-in support for nearly everything under the sun -- including ogg.
... I want to see the RMA process. Maybe then I can understand why mine has been in processing for almost a week.
I can hardly wait! We'll have recreated life in its entirety! And when I can eat, shit, and drink online...
... It'll be just like real life, except with fewer ugly people. Erm...
Um...
yay?
I see your point, and can agree with it to an extent. I think they key difference is that I think that people do retain ownership of ideas/information (After all -- nobody else came up with it; they did, and only them). As such, I think they have the right to determine where it goes and how it's used -- and not the end user, who has no 'ownership' of the information.