My guess is they're young and childless. With kids in school, working wife, etc., it's nearly impossible to hit those popular destinations when we are all available. OTOH, if I don't care where or when, sure I can find some place to go- maybe even a nice place if it's off season. Flexibility is the key and I don't have enough to make pass travel an attractive benefit. BTW, I'm Chicago based too. Is your college friend a crew member? No names necessary, just curious.
Yes, they were young and childless at the time. She worked as a flight attendant for a bit and transferred to food services. I haven't spoken to them in detail in years however.
You're kind to offer sympathies. I was bitter, but have come to accept it. However, due to how [pbs.org] they went about terminating my pension, I will forever mistrust them, and my sense of loyalty and desire to "pull on the same end of the rope" are significantly diminished. I have learned it's just business to them and they do not value employee morale in any way- just cogs in the wheel.
I've never been a fan of corporations having pensions and prefer the 401k route. Retirement funds should be unlinked from the company and untouchable. That said, while I do believe that there are companies that are being driven to near bankruptcy because of prior pension commitments, I also don't think it is fair that they wipe those out completely. It's neither fair to have a company go bankrupt (maybe it is actually) nor is it fair to take away what was promised to employees either. You may not have been depending on that pension to retire, but I'm sure there are others who have. All this just reinforces my beliefs that 401k plans are the appropriate way to go. At the very least, instead of wiping the pensions out, they should have coverted them over to 401k plans instead -- donating proportionally based on seniority etc. It's not perfect either, but it's much better than leaving people with nothing and still would have allowed the airlines to move forward with a fixed cost already behind them.
Sorry, I didn't want to discount your lesser points but here ya go:
free travel for you and your family:
There's never any "space available" for those pesky employees. It's nothing but an enormous waste of time to even try.
Odd, because my best friend from my college years and his wife seemed to have no problems. Sure, you may wait a couple hours for a flight, but they go everywhere. Free. It's pretty easy to find out which flights are booked solid and which aren't. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't. They don't care, they had a list of places they wanted to go, and they'd fly to one of them (whichever) was the least solid booked flight. Of course, they were with United out of Chicago, perhaps that makes it a bit easier since they have a ton of flights going everywhere.
big discounts on rental cars and hotels
You get the same thing we do...
I'll give you this one because it's the one I know the least about. I was under the impression you got a better deal, but you know better than I.
per diem of $3k-$5k per year:
What? Do you think dining on the road is cheap- you must not travel much. That doesn't even cover it. Take a look next time, most of them carry a cooler full of food with them.
Yes, I traveled for years. Sorry my math is seriously bad on that, it should have been $200-$400 per week, and while you won't eat like a king like that, you can easily eat good. You know most other jobs pay $0, so subsidizing the cost at all is a decent benefit.
pensions:
GONE, GONE, GONE. After telling us to take MASSIVE paycuts to save them- tremendous bait and switch. We were totally suckered. Live and learn...
Yeah, sorry about that. I thought a few airlines still had them, but I know quite a few got screwed. My sympathies to you.
Hmm... I'd have to go with stewardess's making ~$40k-$84k per year in salary as being pretty good before benefits. $84k is a lot of money for handing out drinks. Toss in some nice benefits like 12-15 days off per month (average), medical, dental, free travel for you and your family, big discounts on rental cars and hotels, per diem of $3k-$5k per year, tuition reimbursement, matching 401k, pensions, etc and it is a pretty sweet deal.
Of course, airline pilots making up to $200k per year and all the above is a pretty good deal too.
On the other hand, I don't condone it, and if it became subsidized by government money (at some point in the future), then I would then be forced to have an opinion on it because then I become responsible for paying for it.
Why aren't you forced to make an opinion on it NOW -- because you ARE PAYING for forcing someone who does not want to live any longer -- to prolong their NATURAL lifespan by forced "medical help". In many cases, this could be considered cruel punishment.
I am still not a lawyer, but looking over at least the GPL v3 that you provided, it would seem that TheRaven64 is incorrect. The right to "forward" is covered under section 4, but that is only in source form which would defeat the purpose of trying to hide the source.
Section 6, which you quoted from, should have been quoted in its entirety for completeness since you only need to satisfy one of the conditions, and you only provided one of them -- although it was the most likely clause TheRaven64 was referring to. That said, I don't see any other clause in section 6 that would allow for what TheRaven64 claims. As such, I'll quote the relevant portion of section 6 below.
6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.
You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License, in one of these ways:
a) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product (including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by the Corresponding Source fixed on a durable physical medium customarily used for software interchange.
b) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product (including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by a written offer, valid for at least three years and valid for as long as you offer spare parts or customer support for that product model, to give anyone who possesses the object code either (1) a copy of the Corresponding Source for all the software in the product that is covered by this License, on a durable physical medium customarily used for software interchange, for a price no more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this conveying of source, or (2) access to copy the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge.
c) Convey individual copies of the object code with a copy of the written offer to provide the Corresponding Source. This alternative is allowed only occasionally and noncommercially, and only if you received the object code with such an offer, in accord with subsection 6b.
d) Convey the object code by offering access from a designated place (gratis or for a charge), and offer equivalent access to the Corresponding Source in the same way through the same place at no further charge. You need not require recipients to copy the Corresponding Source along with the object code. If the place to copy the object code is a network server, the Corresponding Source may be on a different server (operated by you or a third party) that supports equivalent copying facilities, provided you maintain clear directions next to the object code saying where to find the Corresponding Source. Regardless of what server hosts the Corresponding Source, you remain obligated to ensure that it is available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements.
e) Convey the object code using peer-to-peer transmission, provided you inform other peers where the object code and Corresponding Source of the work are being offered to the general public at no charge under subsection 6d.
I believe the point he was making is that the 3rd party is not required to distribute the source code if it is unchanged, they only need to "forward on" the offer from where they got it. Since where the 3rd party had originally gotten it from is now beyond the 3 year limit, they don't need to provide it either anymore.
IANAL. I'm not saying it is true, or that is how it works. Just clarifying how TheRaven64's claim could possibly work, if all the things he assumes are true are indeed actually true.
Not sure what you were trying to say. Yes, people often assume 4k means vertical resolution, when it usually refers to horizontal. I believe I've said that.
Other than you restating the obvious, as I said before, 3840x2160 is the most prevalent 4k resolution, not the 4096x3072 you gave. 4k by 3k would be an aspect ratio of 4:3, where 3840x2160 is 16:9. The ITU, which typically sets the standards approved 3840x2160 as well. The first 4k LCD tv, is also 3840x2160. I've never heard of any device that does 4096x3072 so I have no idea why you think that is the reference resolution. There ARE some 4096x2160, but I suspect those will disappear in time as well.
Running 3D games at that resolution with a reasonable framerate is a different question. Not everyone uses their desktops for just playing games, and I would love the extra resolution for business work. I'm pretty sure the video card *I* have could drive that resolution for the majority of games fairly easily too.
As someone who actually developed some software for iOS I can safely say you don't know what you are talking about.
The only things that MAGICALLY get blown up is older software that doesn't understand the new resolutions. That is why there are apps marked "For iPad" originally. Because the screen resolution was different, it had a different set of resources. Most of the newer apps work by having different sets of resources based on the hardware it is run on and uses the appropriate one.
You are however responsible for making sure your code conforms to the coding style. If your IDE is incapable of doing this for you, then you must do it yourself manually, switch to a different IDE of your choice that does, or take responsibility for any improper code you check in, and expect a reprimand for it.
Yes, it sounds like he is trying to make something that every current programmer on the team will know, any consultants they bring in will know, and any future employee they want to get up to speed will know.
You can call that pandering to the lowest-common denominator, most others would call it being practical and efficient.
Not sure why you brought up VB unless you aren't a programmer. If you think you can't actually get useful stuff done in VB (I assume you mean VB.NET), your just being dense. Also not sure why you think that because you are programming in VB/VB.NET that coding standards all of a sudden aren't important. I am guessing either you are a new programmer who knows only his one language and only knows of VB/VB.NET from hearsay on the net, or some small tic-tac-toe like program you wrote once.
To be fair, I know a lot of programmers who don't even know what a regular expression is, let alone the differences in each of the major types on their syntax quirks.
Some jobs really don't need to parse complex strings in that manner. Personally, I try to know everything about everything, but I can honestly say that I personally don't. What I value as having been important enough to know isn't necessarily what is important for every programmer in the world to know.
Not sure why you feel it necessary to say that ALL programmers need to know regex expressions, and you shouldn't be programming if you don't.
These phones are meant to iron out any issues that may arise during normal usage. Such as well, "holding it wrong", lol. How would you like to get your brand new phone only to realize that it shatters if you place it down on a laquer coated table top, like a bar typically has, or that reception inside most buildings is terrible because they decided to never take it outside of the lab?
I hope, from now on, tech companies will learn from this and institute a STRICT RULE demanding employees to bring prototypes with them on their everyday activities to ensure when they are released they work as advertised.
they are under the impression if they speak up too loudly, in a way not politically convienant, bad things will happen to them. Most people will mutter this under their breath.
Are you serious? We have more loud mouths saying bad things about every politician on a daily basis. Not sure where you got that rubbish from, and while I am sure there are some crackpots somewhere that may say/think that (in the same vein, some crackpots think aliens came down to inspect pre-expunged fecal matter), that definitely isn't true.
Instead of reducing government waste, we should actually increase it. Just think! Almost no crime, or fires if we had 10x the government we do now. And in order to pay for it, instead of them taking 18% of you paycheck, they will only have to take 180% of it! What a utopia that would be!
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My guess is they're young and childless. With kids in school, working wife, etc., it's nearly impossible to hit those popular destinations when we are all available. OTOH, if I don't care where or when, sure I can find some place to go- maybe even a nice place if it's off season. Flexibility is the key and I don't have enough to make pass travel an attractive benefit. BTW, I'm Chicago based too. Is your college friend a crew member? No names necessary, just curious.
Yes, they were young and childless at the time. She worked as a flight attendant for a bit and transferred to food services. I haven't spoken to them in detail in years however.
You're kind to offer sympathies. I was bitter, but have come to accept it. However, due to how [pbs.org] they went about terminating my pension, I will forever mistrust them, and my sense of loyalty and desire to "pull on the same end of the rope" are significantly diminished. I have learned it's just business to them and they do not value employee morale in any way- just cogs in the wheel.
I've never been a fan of corporations having pensions and prefer the 401k route. Retirement funds should be unlinked from the company and untouchable. That said, while I do believe that there are companies that are being driven to near bankruptcy because of prior pension commitments, I also don't think it is fair that they wipe those out completely. It's neither fair to have a company go bankrupt (maybe it is actually) nor is it fair to take away what was promised to employees either. You may not have been depending on that pension to retire, but I'm sure there are others who have. All this just reinforces my beliefs that 401k plans are the appropriate way to go. At the very least, instead of wiping the pensions out, they should have coverted them over to 401k plans instead -- donating proportionally based on seniority etc. It's not perfect either, but it's much better than leaving people with nothing and still would have allowed the airlines to move forward with a fixed cost already behind them.
Why would the media corps bother, they already don't make any money and are losing trillions every second because of piracy.
Sorry, I didn't want to discount your lesser points but here ya go:
free travel for you and your family:
There's never any "space available" for those pesky employees. It's nothing but an enormous waste of time to even try.
Odd, because my best friend from my college years and his wife seemed to have no problems. Sure, you may wait a couple hours for a flight, but they go everywhere. Free. It's pretty easy to find out which flights are booked solid and which aren't. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't. They don't care, they had a list of places they wanted to go, and they'd fly to one of them (whichever) was the least solid booked flight. Of course, they were with United out of Chicago, perhaps that makes it a bit easier since they have a ton of flights going everywhere.
big discounts on rental cars and hotels
You get the same thing we do...
I'll give you this one because it's the one I know the least about. I was under the impression you got a better deal, but you know better than I.
per diem of $3k-$5k per year:
What? Do you think dining on the road is cheap- you must not travel much. That doesn't even cover it. Take a look next time, most of them carry a cooler full of food with them.
Yes, I traveled for years. Sorry my math is seriously bad on that, it should have been $200-$400 per week, and while you won't eat like a king like that, you can easily eat good. You know most other jobs pay $0, so subsidizing the cost at all is a decent benefit.
pensions:
GONE, GONE, GONE. After telling us to take MASSIVE paycuts to save them- tremendous bait and switch. We were totally suckered. Live and learn...
Yeah, sorry about that. I thought a few airlines still had them, but I know quite a few got screwed. My sympathies to you.
Taken from YOUR links:
Southwest Airline Attendant: Up to $103k.
Guess, I was a little bit off, sorry.
Again, from YOUR link:
Their captains max out at a minimum of more than $200,000 a year.
Whoops. Guess I was spot on, although I listed the minimum for their top tier captains. They didn't list how high their maximum was.
Hmm... I'd have to go with stewardess's making ~$40k-$84k per year in salary as being pretty good before benefits. $84k is a lot of money for handing out drinks. Toss in some nice benefits like 12-15 days off per month (average), medical, dental, free travel for you and your family, big discounts on rental cars and hotels, per diem of $3k-$5k per year, tuition reimbursement, matching 401k, pensions, etc and it is a pretty sweet deal.
Of course, airline pilots making up to $200k per year and all the above is a pretty good deal too.
On the other hand, I don't condone it, and if it became subsidized by government money (at some point in the future), then I would then be forced to have an opinion on it because then I become responsible for paying for it.
Why aren't you forced to make an opinion on it NOW -- because you ARE PAYING for forcing someone who does not want to live any longer -- to prolong their NATURAL lifespan by forced "medical help". In many cases, this could be considered cruel punishment.
I am still not a lawyer, but looking over at least the GPL v3 that you provided, it would seem that TheRaven64 is incorrect. The right to "forward" is covered under section 4, but that is only in source form which would defeat the purpose of trying to hide the source.
Section 6, which you quoted from, should have been quoted in its entirety for completeness since you only need to satisfy one of the conditions, and you only provided one of them -- although it was the most likely clause TheRaven64 was referring to. That said, I don't see any other clause in section 6 that would allow for what TheRaven64 claims. As such, I'll quote the relevant portion of section 6 below.
6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.
You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License, in one of these ways:
a) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product (including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by the Corresponding Source fixed on a durable physical medium customarily used for software interchange.
b) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product (including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by a written offer, valid for at least three years and valid for as long as you offer spare parts or customer support for that product model, to give anyone who possesses the object code either (1) a copy of the Corresponding Source for all the software in the product that is covered by this License, on a durable physical medium customarily used for software interchange, for a price no more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this conveying of source, or (2) access to copy the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge.
c) Convey individual copies of the object code with a copy of the written offer to provide the Corresponding Source. This alternative is allowed only occasionally and noncommercially, and only if you received the object code with such an offer, in accord with subsection 6b.
d) Convey the object code by offering access from a designated place (gratis or for a charge), and offer equivalent access to the Corresponding Source in the same way through the same place at no further charge. You need not require recipients to copy the Corresponding Source along with the object code. If the place to copy the object code is a network server, the Corresponding Source may be on a different server (operated by you or a third party) that supports equivalent copying facilities, provided you maintain clear directions next to the object code saying where to find the Corresponding Source. Regardless of what server hosts the Corresponding Source, you remain obligated to ensure that it is available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements.
e) Convey the object code using peer-to-peer transmission, provided you inform other peers where the object code and Corresponding Source of the work are being offered to the general public at no charge under subsection 6d.
I believe the point he was making is that the 3rd party is not required to distribute the source code if it is unchanged, they only need to "forward on" the offer from where they got it. Since where the 3rd party had originally gotten it from is now beyond the 3 year limit, they don't need to provide it either anymore.
IANAL. I'm not saying it is true, or that is how it works. Just clarifying how TheRaven64's claim could possibly work, if all the things he assumes are true are indeed actually true.
So if GM decides to put a hot spot in my $40,000 car*, then all of a sudden the tech is worth $900?
*Obligatory car reference included.
Not sure what you were trying to say. Yes, people often assume 4k means vertical resolution, when it usually refers to horizontal. I believe I've said that.
Other than you restating the obvious, as I said before, 3840x2160 is the most prevalent 4k resolution, not the 4096x3072 you gave. 4k by 3k would be an aspect ratio of 4:3, where 3840x2160 is 16:9. The ITU, which typically sets the standards approved 3840x2160 as well. The first 4k LCD tv, is also 3840x2160. I've never heard of any device that does 4096x3072 so I have no idea why you think that is the reference resolution. There ARE some 4096x2160, but I suspect those will disappear in time as well.
Wow. Didn't think I would have to point out I was referring to the AC talking about it being the same on the iPad, but apparently I do.
For the other dense readers, yes, the iPad runs iOS. Just to be on the safe side.
You do realize that 4k monitors have been around for over a decade, none of which were 84" that I know of, right?
The IBM T221 for example has been around since 2001, and there are a lot of others.
3840x2160 *IS* what most people call 4k resolution. So I think you've answered your own question, just flip no to yes.
Yes, there are many competing 4k resolutions, but 3840x2160 is the most common of them, being given the moniker "4k UHD".
It has the power to, yes.
Running 3D games at that resolution with a reasonable framerate is a different question. Not everyone uses their desktops for just playing games, and I would love the extra resolution for business work. I'm pretty sure the video card *I* have could drive that resolution for the majority of games fairly easily too.
As someone who actually developed some software for iOS I can safely say you don't know what you are talking about.
The only things that MAGICALLY get blown up is older software that doesn't understand the new resolutions. That is why there are apps marked "For iPad" originally. Because the screen resolution was different, it had a different set of resources. Most of the newer apps work by having different sets of resources based on the hardware it is run on and uses the appropriate one.
And linux has app stores... I mean repositories.
Cars are dead. Shoes outsell them 10 fold (Looking at my wives closet, maybe 20 fold).
No, you are free to use any IDE you chose.
You are however responsible for making sure your code conforms to the coding style. If your IDE is incapable of doing this for you, then you must do it yourself manually, switch to a different IDE of your choice that does, or take responsibility for any improper code you check in, and expect a reprimand for it.
If you are using C#, then I would suggest getting codemaid. Fixes 95%+ of these issues, and our whole team loves it.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/76293c4d-8c16-4f4a-aee6-21f83a571496
Yes, it sounds like he is trying to make something that every current programmer on the team will know, any consultants they bring in will know, and any future employee they want to get up to speed will know.
You can call that pandering to the lowest-common denominator, most others would call it being practical and efficient.
Not sure why you brought up VB unless you aren't a programmer. If you think you can't actually get useful stuff done in VB (I assume you mean VB.NET), your just being dense. Also not sure why you think that because you are programming in VB/VB.NET that coding standards all of a sudden aren't important. I am guessing either you are a new programmer who knows only his one language and only knows of VB/VB.NET from hearsay on the net, or some small tic-tac-toe like program you wrote once.
To be fair, I know a lot of programmers who don't even know what a regular expression is, let alone the differences in each of the major types on their syntax quirks.
Some jobs really don't need to parse complex strings in that manner. Personally, I try to know everything about everything, but I can honestly say that I personally don't. What I value as having been important enough to know isn't necessarily what is important for every programmer in the world to know.
Not sure why you feel it necessary to say that ALL programmers need to know regex expressions, and you shouldn't be programming if you don't.
Taken completely out of context.
These phones are meant to iron out any issues that may arise during normal usage. Such as well, "holding it wrong", lol. How would you like to get your brand new phone only to realize that it shatters if you place it down on a laquer coated table top, like a bar typically has, or that reception inside most buildings is terrible because they decided to never take it outside of the lab?
I hope, from now on, tech companies will learn from this and institute a STRICT RULE demanding employees to bring prototypes with them on their everyday activities to ensure when they are released they work as advertised.
they are under the impression if they speak up too loudly, in a way not politically convienant, bad things will happen to them. Most people will mutter this under their breath.
Are you serious? We have more loud mouths saying bad things about every politician on a daily basis. Not sure where you got that rubbish from, and while I am sure there are some crackpots somewhere that may say/think that (in the same vein, some crackpots think aliens came down to inspect pre-expunged fecal matter), that definitely isn't true.
Lol, if you are going to point out the RFCs as a reason the US shouldn't have control of the .com domain, you should read the original RFCs first.
You are totally right penix1!
Instead of reducing government waste, we should actually increase it. Just think! Almost no crime, or fires if we had 10x the government we do now. And in order to pay for it, instead of them taking 18% of you paycheck, they will only have to take 180% of it! What a utopia that would be!