You're modded as funny but I see a very scary type reality to your prediction. I bet some RIAA execs somewhere are saying "oh shit, someone's on to us and is saying it publicly but luckily they think he's just being funny.. feww".
Actually there's some truth to that humor. I only do some programming as part of my network and server admin duties (creating ticket systems and other management controls within internal websites that I've developed using asp then asp.net exclusively). I've found though that as the years have progressed (8 years for me) and three IT jobs later, the IT work is more considered on par just slightly above janitorial staff. I originally went to college then joined the IT world because I thought that it was a respected profession. Well, that's no longer the case and I'm sadly considering a 180 in my career choices but have no idea in what I'll go into after spending all my time learning computer skills for the last twelve plus years. IT really needs to form one big IT union or some other kind of professional group to start controlling how we're treated and perceived. Is there any way we can get our respect back and stop being handed brooms and mops along with our copies of the software corp keys and admin passwords?
Yea, WB is quickly working their way up the company hatred ladder with me. Now they've taken a few more steps up that ladder and are close to the step wher Sony resides.
I agree with you on that. Our forefathers worked very, VERY hard to get the 40/hr work week and punish the employers for treating the employee like slaves and I would never disrespect their hard work by allowing everything they worked for to be undone by unscrupulous, disrespecting management. It's understandable that some OT is needed from time to time but I will never be played like EA once did to their developers (who of course sued EA and got a lot of money for being abused). Unless their is an emergency need (and emergencies are short lived unless management is somehow creating a long term emergency just to suit their needs, in which case they'd get a big 'fuck you' from this employee), anything requiring more hours on a regular basis had better be met with justifiable incentives. It's important that we don't let ourselves get walked all over. It's also sad that by being that way, we stand less of a chance of staying employed. However, if losing a job to a horrible employer due to mistreatment is the case, then such a case is not necessarily unwelcome. There's always other jobs out there, even if it takes a year to find one. In the meantime, perhaps the mistreated employees should band together and go to every local, state and federal agency to try to make the company for their mistreatments or, at a minimum, let the employer know that if the treatment continues, there will be penalties for doing so. Yes, I've been abused a lot in IT over the last decade and just can't stomach the idea of putting up with the mistreatment anymore. I am considering a career change but have no idea what would be the appropriate middle ground between what I love and what would give proper treatment and respect from an employer.
I believe that most engineers don't get the respect they deserve. It's always the stupid managers that don't know their had from their ass who get respect while the brilliant engineers who do all the innovative thinking don't get any respect at all. This lack of respect can often result in lower wages as well, not to mention a cubicle or tiny hole in the wall office with no windows. When you look at the engineer and business management positions from the outside, which route would you rather take? After all, why would you chose to work your ass off and keep yourself so well read and learned when you can be stupid and boss people around and get paid more?
Yes Yes! The Arduino! Why in the hell didn't the egnineers and programmers think of that in the first place! Those idiots!
On a side note, I still chalk this up to bad engineering. I don't know if it was the hardware engineers or the software engineers fault but I believe that someone should be held responsible. I was just thinking that anyone who works in such a field where they are engineering (hardware OR software) devices which could kill someone, that they need to be licensed and trained by a government agency and if something down the road happens that hurts someone due to their creation, that their license to work in any industry where their work can hurt someone should be permanently revoked and maybe a fine slapped on them as well. At least this would be SOMETHING, other than always just chalking it up to industrial accident and not blaming those who are really responsible because they either weren't smart enough, were too lazy, or whatever reason. If a company refused to pay a programmer well enough to do safe programming/engineering, then the company needs not do business. This should be a whistle blowing thing as well where if the company is not letting the programmer program safe/preventative code into the product, then the fed come in and does something about it until the product reaches a certain level of safety standards. Those standards should be instituted by a number of groups, including federal and civillian professional engineering groups who can fully inspect the device for any possible dangers. Of course, they would need full access to the source code. Oh wait...
It always bugged me that so many had fully automatic assault rifles, among other weapons, and no one ever got shot.. not once. Or, did I miss a bullet somewhere once? I liked it as a kid growing up in the 80s but I tried to watch it the other day (netflix is great isn't it!?) and was so insulted by the stupidity of it (how can military vets of such superior caliber miss so badly and so much at close range with assault rifles?, not to mention all the bad guys also missing under the same circumstances?) that I shipped the dvd back without finishing it. Then I watch some airwolf and at least one person gets blown into pieces each episode with acute seriousness! It's great!:) Is that what separated the kids shows from the adult's shows? Or was it something else?
I'm in complete agreement with you. I wrote my own little note on the subject a little further down on the thread. Sadly, you and I are in the minority here but I'd rather be in the minority and have free time than do the same thing 7 days a week. I code because I often enjoy the results of it and it makes me money, but I don't let coding rule my life. I must rule it and only five days a week. The other two days are my own time in which coding doesn't rule me.
Almost every business executive who works all week long at 45+ hours a week doesn't want to keep working on the weekend when they get home. They've learned the value of personal time in which you can do whatever you want that doesn't have to do with what you do for the majority of your life's time. I'm totally in agreement with this guy. Who in the hell would want to spend that many hours a week working their ass off coding just to finally get a few days to relax and do something else, ANYTHING else, only to end up doing the same thing. Spending 80 hours a week coding, in any capacity, is a road to all kinds of mental health problems. When the weekend comes (whatever the weekend may be for you), get the hell away from what you do all week and do something else. It will be good for you!
My roomba keeps coming into my office asking me what my birth date and bank PIN are. I can't help but be a little suspicious of such a question coming from my vacuum cleaner. If I don't answer, will I have to manually vacuum my home due to my roomba getting angry with me for not cooperating? I'd hate to have to do the work myself so I'll just have to comply the next time it asks me for my savings account number.
I boycotted Sony for several years after the rootkit incident. Then, I started buying Sony products again (I bought my first PS2, brand new, this last December). Now I see an article like this and I believe it's time to stop buying all Sony products for another couple of years. Business practices like this are just unacceptable and a class action lawsuit is never proper punishment for actions such as these. Will everyone just get a $5 off coupon for their next console purchase? No, I think everyone should just stop buying Sony products until the company requires a Japanese gov 'save our ass because we're a horrible company, please' payout.
A commercial or advertisment that shows the reviews is made by the company and people, in general, know that said company will only show favorable reviews. On a website that allows anyone (or paying customers) to post a review on a product, it would be expected by the general public that all reviews would be shown. If the company is then removing unfavorable reviews when it is expected that all reviews would show up, then this would be deceptive/misleading business practices and I would think a class action lawsuit could be a probable outcome of such.
The reviews I've seen on newegg are both positive and negative but I sometimes wonder if all of them are actually shown. There's no way to tell, really, especially if they're somehow purposely leaving a 1/4 bad/good ratio of reviews up and deleting all others. It makes me wonder if the ratio is really 6/1 bad/good and the reviews are being edited to reflect a 1/4 bad/good ratio. That would help cover up any deceptive practices, especially if you post a review and they leave it up for a week then remove it, or keep yours up and remove older bad reviews in order to keep the ratio. This could be programmed into the system so that it didn't take many man hours to keep working properly.
and I just got my flu shot on Saturday, which was my first flu shot in probably 15 years! Then, I read this little gem of information. Crap. Is there an undo shot for a flu shot?:(
Maybe at this point, there's no one out there willing to do the job in fear of the sf gov coming after them for some kind of fantasy trumped up charge. I'm not sure there's enough money that would make me consider such a short term contract.
I was let go from an ISP in arizona and less than a week later the network supervisor showed up at my door to pick up the modem owned by the company. He also told me that they needed the password to my workstation, which was encrypted using truecrypt. He said that if I didn't, they'd have a police officer come and ask me for it. Well, I gave it to him mainly because there was nothing on it I was worried about. However, I asked an attorney friend of mine who lives in CA about that and he stated that I was obligated to give them the password because the password is their property, even it if isn't a physical object. I don't know how it would have went down if I said that the password was written on a postit which was on my desk when I left, that they must have disposed of and that I never memorized the password, since my computer was never shut off so I rarely had to use this password, as it was only applicable if the computer was booting up.
It's ridiculously stupid moves like this that cause me not to purchase the game until, oh, ten years down the road when I can pick it up for a quarter at a yard sale. I'm serious with crap like that. I'm still boycotting Sony (and all their products, including tri-star films) for their stupidity.
I had intended on spending lots of money on several systems for me and my family but now I have changed my mind and will never do business with such a company that acts so unprofessionally.
Fuck 'em! I hope they fail miserably, go out of business and all the employees lose their jobs and stay unemployed for years!
College police officers are sworn law enforcement officers of the state in which they reside/have jurisdiction just like any other law enforcement officer of that state, be it the city/county or state level. That being the case, they have the same legal authority as any other peace officer of that state. I use to work for a college police department so I know a little bit about it.
When you refer to 'rent a cop', you're meaning is of security guards, right? In that reference, they have no more rights than the average every day citizen, which isn't much except for citizens arrest. I worked as a security guard for some years too so I know a little bit about that as well.:)
If they're so concerned about keeping them hidden, then why didn't they build a building around that port area so the subs would not be visible from the air. It looks like they've already built something similar right next to it (white building).
So, who's going to write the screen play for a new movie about the end of the earth by black hole with bruce willis as the chief scientist who tries to stop it and, for a change, loses? Naaa. He'd be the only one to stop it somehow, even though all of our deities combined couldn't do such a thing.:)
I started out 'professionally' in 2003 as a desktop support technician. I did that for four years slowly advancing at one location until my official title was computer support specialist. During that time, I did a lot of system admin stuff even though my title didn't reflect it. I also took the opportunity to volunteer all kinds of other work, such as developing internal web applications for the company I worked for and pushing new technologies on the boss and getting those implemented. Eventually, I had enough broad experience to move on. I then ended up as the internal systems engineer for an ISP before I moved on again a year later to a better job.
The only education I have is about a year of community college where I picked up a certificate which is actually worthless paper since it's not a degree. I do have my CCNA but I don't know how much pull that thing has, if any.
So, the bottom line: start at the bottom. Put in as much extras as your boss and/or company will allow which will develop your skills and fatten your resume, then move on to better things, all without a degree. If I can do it, I'm guessing many others can as well.
For the first time in my life, my current job (and highest paying) contacted me via an online job posting board instead of me having to contact them. A broad range of skills and experience helped make that happen and not a degree.
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I LOVE how no one had a rebuttle to your words. Awesome!
You're modded as funny but I see a very scary type reality to your prediction. I bet some RIAA execs somewhere are saying "oh shit, someone's on to us and is saying it publicly but luckily they think he's just being funny .. feww".
Actually there's some truth to that humor. I only do some programming as part of my network and server admin duties (creating ticket systems and other management controls within internal websites that I've developed using asp then asp.net exclusively). I've found though that as the years have progressed (8 years for me) and three IT jobs later, the IT work is more considered on par just slightly above janitorial staff. I originally went to college then joined the IT world because I thought that it was a respected profession. Well, that's no longer the case and I'm sadly considering a 180 in my career choices but have no idea in what I'll go into after spending all my time learning computer skills for the last twelve plus years. IT really needs to form one big IT union or some other kind of professional group to start controlling how we're treated and perceived. Is there any way we can get our respect back and stop being handed brooms and mops along with our copies of the software corp keys and admin passwords?
Yea, WB is quickly working their way up the company hatred ladder with me. Now they've taken a few more steps up that ladder and are close to the step wher Sony resides.
I agree with you on that. Our forefathers worked very, VERY hard to get the 40/hr work week and punish the employers for treating the employee like slaves and I would never disrespect their hard work by allowing everything they worked for to be undone by unscrupulous, disrespecting management. It's understandable that some OT is needed from time to time but I will never be played like EA once did to their developers (who of course sued EA and got a lot of money for being abused). Unless their is an emergency need (and emergencies are short lived unless management is somehow creating a long term emergency just to suit their needs, in which case they'd get a big 'fuck you' from this employee), anything requiring more hours on a regular basis had better be met with justifiable incentives. It's important that we don't let ourselves get walked all over. It's also sad that by being that way, we stand less of a chance of staying employed. However, if losing a job to a horrible employer due to mistreatment is the case, then such a case is not necessarily unwelcome. There's always other jobs out there, even if it takes a year to find one. In the meantime, perhaps the mistreated employees should band together and go to every local, state and federal agency to try to make the company for their mistreatments or, at a minimum, let the employer know that if the treatment continues, there will be penalties for doing so. Yes, I've been abused a lot in IT over the last decade and just can't stomach the idea of putting up with the mistreatment anymore. I am considering a career change but have no idea what would be the appropriate middle ground between what I love and what would give proper treatment and respect from an employer.
I believe that most engineers don't get the respect they deserve. It's always the stupid managers that don't know their had from their ass who get respect while the brilliant engineers who do all the innovative thinking don't get any respect at all. This lack of respect can often result in lower wages as well, not to mention a cubicle or tiny hole in the wall office with no windows. When you look at the engineer and business management positions from the outside, which route would you rather take? After all, why would you chose to work your ass off and keep yourself so well read and learned when you can be stupid and boss people around and get paid more?
Yes Yes! The Arduino! Why in the hell didn't the egnineers and programmers think of that in the first place! Those idiots! On a side note, I still chalk this up to bad engineering. I don't know if it was the hardware engineers or the software engineers fault but I believe that someone should be held responsible. I was just thinking that anyone who works in such a field where they are engineering (hardware OR software) devices which could kill someone, that they need to be licensed and trained by a government agency and if something down the road happens that hurts someone due to their creation, that their license to work in any industry where their work can hurt someone should be permanently revoked and maybe a fine slapped on them as well. At least this would be SOMETHING, other than always just chalking it up to industrial accident and not blaming those who are really responsible because they either weren't smart enough, were too lazy, or whatever reason. If a company refused to pay a programmer well enough to do safe programming/engineering, then the company needs not do business. This should be a whistle blowing thing as well where if the company is not letting the programmer program safe/preventative code into the product, then the fed come in and does something about it until the product reaches a certain level of safety standards. Those standards should be instituted by a number of groups, including federal and civillian professional engineering groups who can fully inspect the device for any possible dangers. Of course, they would need full access to the source code. Oh wait ...
It always bugged me that so many had fully automatic assault rifles, among other weapons, and no one ever got shot .. not once. Or, did I miss a bullet somewhere once? I liked it as a kid growing up in the 80s but I tried to watch it the other day (netflix is great isn't it!?) and was so insulted by the stupidity of it (how can military vets of such superior caliber miss so badly and so much at close range with assault rifles?, not to mention all the bad guys also missing under the same circumstances?) that I shipped the dvd back without finishing it. Then I watch some airwolf and at least one person gets blown into pieces each episode with acute seriousness! It's great! :) Is that what separated the kids shows from the adult's shows? Or was it something else?
I'm in complete agreement with you. I wrote my own little note on the subject a little further down on the thread. Sadly, you and I are in the minority here but I'd rather be in the minority and have free time than do the same thing 7 days a week. I code because I often enjoy the results of it and it makes me money, but I don't let coding rule my life. I must rule it and only five days a week. The other two days are my own time in which coding doesn't rule me.
Almost every business executive who works all week long at 45+ hours a week doesn't want to keep working on the weekend when they get home. They've learned the value of personal time in which you can do whatever you want that doesn't have to do with what you do for the majority of your life's time. I'm totally in agreement with this guy. Who in the hell would want to spend that many hours a week working their ass off coding just to finally get a few days to relax and do something else, ANYTHING else, only to end up doing the same thing. Spending 80 hours a week coding, in any capacity, is a road to all kinds of mental health problems. When the weekend comes (whatever the weekend may be for you), get the hell away from what you do all week and do something else. It will be good for you!
My roomba keeps coming into my office asking me what my birth date and bank PIN are. I can't help but be a little suspicious of such a question coming from my vacuum cleaner. If I don't answer, will I have to manually vacuum my home due to my roomba getting angry with me for not cooperating? I'd hate to have to do the work myself so I'll just have to comply the next time it asks me for my savings account number.
I boycotted Sony for several years after the rootkit incident. Then, I started buying Sony products again (I bought my first PS2, brand new, this last December). Now I see an article like this and I believe it's time to stop buying all Sony products for another couple of years. Business practices like this are just unacceptable and a class action lawsuit is never proper punishment for actions such as these. Will everyone just get a $5 off coupon for their next console purchase? No, I think everyone should just stop buying Sony products until the company requires a Japanese gov 'save our ass because we're a horrible company, please' payout.
A commercial or advertisment that shows the reviews is made by the company and people, in general, know that said company will only show favorable reviews. On a website that allows anyone (or paying customers) to post a review on a product, it would be expected by the general public that all reviews would be shown. If the company is then removing unfavorable reviews when it is expected that all reviews would show up, then this would be deceptive/misleading business practices and I would think a class action lawsuit could be a probable outcome of such. The reviews I've seen on newegg are both positive and negative but I sometimes wonder if all of them are actually shown. There's no way to tell, really, especially if they're somehow purposely leaving a 1/4 bad/good ratio of reviews up and deleting all others. It makes me wonder if the ratio is really 6/1 bad/good and the reviews are being edited to reflect a 1/4 bad/good ratio. That would help cover up any deceptive practices, especially if you post a review and they leave it up for a week then remove it, or keep yours up and remove older bad reviews in order to keep the ratio. This could be programmed into the system so that it didn't take many man hours to keep working properly.
and I just got my flu shot on Saturday, which was my first flu shot in probably 15 years! Then, I read this little gem of information. Crap. Is there an undo shot for a flu shot? :(
Maybe at this point, there's no one out there willing to do the job in fear of the sf gov coming after them for some kind of fantasy trumped up charge. I'm not sure there's enough money that would make me consider such a short term contract.
I was let go from an ISP in arizona and less than a week later the network supervisor showed up at my door to pick up the modem owned by the company. He also told me that they needed the password to my workstation, which was encrypted using truecrypt. He said that if I didn't, they'd have a police officer come and ask me for it. Well, I gave it to him mainly because there was nothing on it I was worried about. However, I asked an attorney friend of mine who lives in CA about that and he stated that I was obligated to give them the password because the password is their property, even it if isn't a physical object. I don't know how it would have went down if I said that the password was written on a postit which was on my desk when I left, that they must have disposed of and that I never memorized the password, since my computer was never shut off so I rarely had to use this password, as it was only applicable if the computer was booting up.
Did you threaten to file a complaint with the BBB and possibly the FTC? I would view this as a form of false advertisement.
I can list many more reasons why a 1000 year disk is a waste of time, those are just a few off the top of my head.
Yea, but, if it sells, it's not a waste of time, is it?
It's ridiculously stupid moves like this that cause me not to purchase the game until, oh, ten years down the road when I can pick it up for a quarter at a yard sale. I'm serious with crap like that. I'm still boycotting Sony (and all their products, including tri-star films) for their stupidity.
I had intended on spending lots of money on several systems for me and my family but now I have changed my mind and will never do business with such a company that acts so unprofessionally. Fuck 'em! I hope they fail miserably, go out of business and all the employees lose their jobs and stay unemployed for years!
Wow. I was taking a sip of coke when I read that and now my nasal cavities are burning from the coke coming out my nose! Thanks a lot man!
College police officers are sworn law enforcement officers of the state in which they reside/have jurisdiction just like any other law enforcement officer of that state, be it the city/county or state level. That being the case, they have the same legal authority as any other peace officer of that state. I use to work for a college police department so I know a little bit about it. When you refer to 'rent a cop', you're meaning is of security guards, right? In that reference, they have no more rights than the average every day citizen, which isn't much except for citizens arrest. I worked as a security guard for some years too so I know a little bit about that as well. :)
If they're so concerned about keeping them hidden, then why didn't they build a building around that port area so the subs would not be visible from the air. It looks like they've already built something similar right next to it (white building).
So, who's going to write the screen play for a new movie about the end of the earth by black hole with bruce willis as the chief scientist who tries to stop it and, for a change, loses? Naaa. He'd be the only one to stop it somehow, even though all of our deities combined couldn't do such a thing. :)
I started out 'professionally' in 2003 as a desktop support technician. I did that for four years slowly advancing at one location until my official title was computer support specialist. During that time, I did a lot of system admin stuff even though my title didn't reflect it. I also took the opportunity to volunteer all kinds of other work, such as developing internal web applications for the company I worked for and pushing new technologies on the boss and getting those implemented. Eventually, I had enough broad experience to move on. I then ended up as the internal systems engineer for an ISP before I moved on again a year later to a better job. The only education I have is about a year of community college where I picked up a certificate which is actually worthless paper since it's not a degree. I do have my CCNA but I don't know how much pull that thing has, if any. So, the bottom line: start at the bottom. Put in as much extras as your boss and/or company will allow which will develop your skills and fatten your resume, then move on to better things, all without a degree. If I can do it, I'm guessing many others can as well. For the first time in my life, my current job (and highest paying) contacted me via an online job posting board instead of me having to contact them. A broad range of skills and experience helped make that happen and not a degree.