I am in charge of IT at my office; staff under me are paid hourly, this has been dictated down from our human resource department. HR keeps telling me that there are new regulations not allowing IT staff to be exempt from overtime as salary employees because of massive abuse in the IT field. They also are telling me that oversight organizations are heavily monitoring for abuse. Additionally, HR forces me to have my staff get overtime approved 2 weeks in advance. I think HR read some random article somewhere and is turning opinion into fact, but I am not an expert in the salary field. I have great staff, but technically when we have a service fail late at night and my Senior Engineer restarts the service remotely we are breaking all sorts of internal rules. It is my wish to move all non-tier one staff to exempt salaries, but I need information to combat HR’s ‘they have to be hourly’ stance. Anyone out there an expert on these rules that could explain them in a comment?
All I can think of is some terrorists in some large animal costume walking around in the desert is all it takes to make this technology 100% waist of my taxpayer money.
God chooses physically creating Hawking rather then replacing himself with Hawking.
Hey Hawking, when you start to approach a singularity with all the 'stuff' in the universe physics like we know them go out the window. I am sure that disproved God. I use to think Hawkings was very smart, then I realized he was just an Atheist always trying to disprove God. This is nothing new, maybe we will disprove this new press release from Mr Hawkings in 2 or three weeks, maybe we can't. But I still have never seen a 'God doesn't exist' article from this man.
Tell him if you can't listen to music while you program then you will just publish his porn browsing habits to the shareholders.
Or.
That you will tell his secretary's Marine husband that yo have been banging her while he has been stationed over seas.
And what are the rules of salvage in space anyway? Finders keepers.
The spacebot would have to change altitude and direction a lot. Somehow I think fuel would become a big issue. If it collected it would also gain more mass and require more fuel to change direction and altitude. Collecting does not seem to be the answer because of mass. It would have to be a pretty inteligent bot if it were to release water vapor clouds as well. You might inadvertently take down something important that can not correct it's own altitude quick enough.
I think the whole idea is a nightmare in logistics and devise, it could take a really long time to devise a workable solution/
Dear Tim Westergren and Pandora Staff,
I have been listening to Pandora for well almost 2 years now. I have introduced all my friends to it, and many use it. Sometimes I have had to defend your product as the superior way to listen to music and introduce new artists and music into your life. I have generally been very happy with Pandora and the experience of being a 10 hour a day listener of Pandora at my office.
Last night however I experienced something that I will say was an absolute shame. When I arrived at home from work my wife was listening to her Pandora âquick mixâ(TM), I could tell because of the diversity of the station she was listening too, when an advertisement played over the digital air ways. I asked out loud. âoeIs that an advertisement on Pandora?â to which my wife responded, âoePandora has been playing those for a while now.â
I feel robbed! I have several times checked out the visual advertisements on your pages, I listen to Pandora in Google Chrome just so I can see and click on the advertisements that are otherwise blocked in my Firefox browser. I have bought music through / because of Pandora. Right now I am seriously re-thinking that. You have to have competitors out there who donâ(TM)t play advertisements. Some of my friends have mentioned them before, maybe it is time I do some new research on them.
From what I understand you only have chosen to homogenize a certain set of users, I donâ(TM)t know why you have not chosen to attack me with audio pollution in between songs. But when you do I will stop listening to Pandora Radio. Right now introducing anyone else to Pandora is on hold in my book. Frankly if my wife keeps getting advertisements I am going to try to convince her to stop listening as well. I need to go apologize to many of my friends who I told them Pandora was the listeners dream.
-Kurtis Kiesel
Pandora User since 02/09/07
http://www.pandora.com/people/kieselk
Sounds like you are not happy with the company?
Why sabotage them after you leave? Why don't you start the code down a route that is not possible? Simply Break shit that won't get realized until that cron runs at the end of the quarter. That way when you quit the new lackeys they hire will be so confused their product will never work. When things break blame the structure not the code. Stay working for the company drain them for every dime they are willing to pay you while you and your buddies have night meetings where you plan the whole new product out on paper. When they fire one of you everyone agrees to pay a portion of the fired guy from their salary so he who was fired can start coding full time for the new company. When half of you are fired, by that time you should be set, all the clerical office supplies you could have ever wanted should be stolen by then and you might even have a working product out. The last half should go mega office space, literally they have a day to cause so much damage it isn't funny. You have to be careful about it. "Oops I just accidentally dropped the backup tapes down the stairwell", isn't as good as..."I didn't catch the tape backups haven't been really running for the last 2 months. And we just had 3 hard drives fail on the main servers raid!" fake sweat and fake panic would probably be good for you at this time... Do everything you can to make up for the screw up, laugh inside at the idiots, and work your way into unemployment/self employment.
I use G-mail predominantly outside of work. So I come to expect someday, probably around 2108, my personal E-mail will be evaluated by historians much like the mail sent to family or loved ones by American civil-war enlistees are today.
My work E-mail, can of course be read by my boss anytime they wish to. In all honesty I have nothing to hide, and I do not think Palin has much to hide either. I saw some of the images that were posted and I do not think she is loosing sleep over all this.
If Palin and McCain want the tech vote. Palin needs to speak out publicly and say that this student should only be held responsible with his college, and they should ask that all federal charges be dropped. Then they can have their picture taken with the kid and say they forgive him. Otherwise they just end up looking like a pair of old farts yelling, "Kids! Get off my lawn!!!".
Well since I assume all my browsing would go into some database I have been running it for some dumb stuff. Checked all my web-pages I run and then I checked out some common google apps like gmail and gmaps. I found it worked very streamlined. Then I navigated to Pandora... I was wow'ed that the flash worked native, but maybe because I have so much Adobe/Macromedia installed on this XPsp3 box it just found it on intall. Well after several hours of listening to music on pandora I hunted Chrome down in the background and right clicked on the tab and.... CRASH.
So I guess it is not 100% bug free. 100% not ad free, unless they make it so Mozilla Extensions are compatible, or open extension dev/sdk I don't think enough of us techies will endorse it. I endorse FF because I can install adblockers on all my work/family browsers. I now install FF3 because everyone I know doesn't like how slow IE7 is, I hear IE8 is worse so why should I install IE7 or IE8b2 on my wife's 4 year old lappy? Never going to happen, but FF3 is smaller better faster on her lappy. Chrome might be worth recommending to her if the TOS says that Google doesn't own your URL history.
On a personal note. If I were to die, even more so if I were to kill myself, my passwords and permanent digital signature left behind for all time I consider to be a treasure hunt or challenge to those who are left with the ability to hack a password.
And just to add to the trail. Some of my passwords have characters like "âOE" (homeplates) somewhere in the range of extended characters and behond in them. Good luck brute forcing those ones hackers.
I will be laughing from beyond at anyone who tries to brute force any of my passwords... Laughing!
Of course in 500 years brute force & other methods will probably have advanced guess them in milliseconds.
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250 Million for the Monte Python theme song? eh?
I am in charge of IT at my office; staff under me are paid hourly, this has been dictated down from our human resource department. HR keeps telling me that there are new regulations not allowing IT staff to be exempt from overtime as salary employees because of massive abuse in the IT field. They also are telling me that oversight organizations are heavily monitoring for abuse. Additionally, HR forces me to have my staff get overtime approved 2 weeks in advance. I think HR read some random article somewhere and is turning opinion into fact, but I am not an expert in the salary field. I have great staff, but technically when we have a service fail late at night and my Senior Engineer restarts the service remotely we are breaking all sorts of internal rules. It is my wish to move all non-tier one staff to exempt salaries, but I need information to combat HR’s ‘they have to be hourly’ stance. Anyone out there an expert on these rules that could explain them in a comment?
That doctors will now have to consult a computer program before giving an Rx.... ABOUT DARN TIME.
Please Identify which animal is a Eierlegende Wollmilchsau.
Was I the only person who thought it said Wordpress?
All I can think of is some terrorists in some large animal costume walking around in the desert is all it takes to make this technology 100% waist of my taxpayer money.
God chooses physically creating Hawking rather then replacing himself with Hawking. Hey Hawking, when you start to approach a singularity with all the 'stuff' in the universe physics like we know them go out the window. I am sure that disproved God. I use to think Hawkings was very smart, then I realized he was just an Atheist always trying to disprove God. This is nothing new, maybe we will disprove this new press release from Mr Hawkings in 2 or three weeks, maybe we can't. But I still have never seen a 'God doesn't exist' article from this man.
Another adapter, will the system tell me how much electricity the monitoring system is pulling?
Exactly the same thing I thought. Where do you sign up for the second foundation?
/we are all just pawns of a robot with ESP.
Tell him if you can't listen to music while you program then you will just publish his porn browsing habits to the shareholders. Or. That you will tell his secretary's Marine husband that yo have been banging her while he has been stationed over seas.
This just in Canada has found the end of the internet.. and it is a big red "X".
Can it pull up next to a nuclear sub or aircraft carrier and recharge? 33 million... how much does a small reactor cost in comparison?
And what are the rules of salvage in space anyway? Finders keepers. The spacebot would have to change altitude and direction a lot. Somehow I think fuel would become a big issue. If it collected it would also gain more mass and require more fuel to change direction and altitude. Collecting does not seem to be the answer because of mass. It would have to be a pretty inteligent bot if it were to release water vapor clouds as well. You might inadvertently take down something important that can not correct it's own altitude quick enough. I think the whole idea is a nightmare in logistics and devise, it could take a really long time to devise a workable solution/
I thought the tag line was "So good we skipped a version" I remember they went from 3.12 to 3.14 shortly before that with the same excuse.
So all I have to do is leave my cellphone home and I can go commit crimes? What is the world coming too?
You have it backwards the tax people are so screwed up the DMV doesn't want to touch it.
Dear Tim Westergren and Pandora Staff, I have been listening to Pandora for well almost 2 years now. I have introduced all my friends to it, and many use it. Sometimes I have had to defend your product as the superior way to listen to music and introduce new artists and music into your life. I have generally been very happy with Pandora and the experience of being a 10 hour a day listener of Pandora at my office. Last night however I experienced something that I will say was an absolute shame. When I arrived at home from work my wife was listening to her Pandora âquick mixâ(TM), I could tell because of the diversity of the station she was listening too, when an advertisement played over the digital air ways. I asked out loud. âoeIs that an advertisement on Pandora?â to which my wife responded, âoePandora has been playing those for a while now.â I feel robbed! I have several times checked out the visual advertisements on your pages, I listen to Pandora in Google Chrome just so I can see and click on the advertisements that are otherwise blocked in my Firefox browser. I have bought music through / because of Pandora. Right now I am seriously re-thinking that. You have to have competitors out there who donâ(TM)t play advertisements. Some of my friends have mentioned them before, maybe it is time I do some new research on them. From what I understand you only have chosen to homogenize a certain set of users, I donâ(TM)t know why you have not chosen to attack me with audio pollution in between songs. But when you do I will stop listening to Pandora Radio. Right now introducing anyone else to Pandora is on hold in my book. Frankly if my wife keeps getting advertisements I am going to try to convince her to stop listening as well. I need to go apologize to many of my friends who I told them Pandora was the listeners dream. -Kurtis Kiesel Pandora User since 02/09/07 http://www.pandora.com/people/kieselk
Sounds like you are not happy with the company? Why sabotage them after you leave? Why don't you start the code down a route that is not possible? Simply Break shit that won't get realized until that cron runs at the end of the quarter. That way when you quit the new lackeys they hire will be so confused their product will never work. When things break blame the structure not the code. Stay working for the company drain them for every dime they are willing to pay you while you and your buddies have night meetings where you plan the whole new product out on paper. When they fire one of you everyone agrees to pay a portion of the fired guy from their salary so he who was fired can start coding full time for the new company. When half of you are fired, by that time you should be set, all the clerical office supplies you could have ever wanted should be stolen by then and you might even have a working product out. The last half should go mega office space, literally they have a day to cause so much damage it isn't funny. You have to be careful about it. "Oops I just accidentally dropped the backup tapes down the stairwell", isn't as good as..."I didn't catch the tape backups haven't been really running for the last 2 months. And we just had 3 hard drives fail on the main servers raid!" fake sweat and fake panic would probably be good for you at this time... Do everything you can to make up for the screw up, laugh inside at the idiots, and work your way into unemployment/self employment.
Oddly that is only 3,650,915 beats so far.
I use G-mail predominantly outside of work. So I come to expect someday, probably around 2108, my personal E-mail will be evaluated by historians much like the mail sent to family or loved ones by American civil-war enlistees are today. My work E-mail, can of course be read by my boss anytime they wish to. In all honesty I have nothing to hide, and I do not think Palin has much to hide either. I saw some of the images that were posted and I do not think she is loosing sleep over all this.
If Palin and McCain want the tech vote. Palin needs to speak out publicly and say that this student should only be held responsible with his college, and they should ask that all federal charges be dropped. Then they can have their picture taken with the kid and say they forgive him. Otherwise they just end up looking like a pair of old farts yelling, "Kids! Get off my lawn!!!".
Well since I assume all my browsing would go into some database I have been running it for some dumb stuff. Checked all my web-pages I run and then I checked out some common google apps like gmail and gmaps. I found it worked very streamlined. Then I navigated to Pandora... I was wow'ed that the flash worked native, but maybe because I have so much Adobe/Macromedia installed on this XPsp3 box it just found it on intall. Well after several hours of listening to music on pandora I hunted Chrome down in the background and right clicked on the tab and.... CRASH. So I guess it is not 100% bug free. 100% not ad free, unless they make it so Mozilla Extensions are compatible, or open extension dev/sdk I don't think enough of us techies will endorse it. I endorse FF because I can install adblockers on all my work/family browsers. I now install FF3 because everyone I know doesn't like how slow IE7 is, I hear IE8 is worse so why should I install IE7 or IE8b2 on my wife's 4 year old lappy? Never going to happen, but FF3 is smaller better faster on her lappy. Chrome might be worth recommending to her if the TOS says that Google doesn't own your URL history.
Traditionally when you wish for three more wishes, you get to grant the next three as the genii.
Anyone want to buy my Annihilatrix?
On a personal note. If I were to die, even more so if I were to kill myself, my passwords and permanent digital signature left behind for all time I consider to be a treasure hunt or challenge to those who are left with the ability to hack a password. And just to add to the trail. Some of my passwords have characters like "âOE" (homeplates) somewhere in the range of extended characters and behond in them. Good luck brute forcing those ones hackers. I will be laughing from beyond at anyone who tries to brute force any of my passwords... Laughing! Of course in 500 years brute force & other methods will probably have advanced guess them in milliseconds.