White people also like Eddie Murphy, but that doesn't mean they want him as our next president.
Is that Eddie Murphy from Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cops, and Dreamgirls? Or Eddie Murphy from The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Beverly Hills Cop II, and Norbit?
Don't be put off by the nay-sayers. It's actually not too hard and not too expensive.
I've been playing with RFID for about 5 years, and it's great for remote controls, tape measures, and other easy to misplace items.
I also managed to get it to work with the Collectorz software, so I can 'check out' a book or movie.
The hand-held reader I have is powerful enough so that I can stand in middle of a small room (approx. 10' x 10') and get a reading if the item I'm looking for is in the room. Handy for finding stuff. It was around $200, and that was a year ago.
I'd post the make and model number of the reader, but I haven't been able to find it for a couple days. I probably should have tagged it.
What I think would be better is if the cool coder got the corvette, and took a huge steaming dump on the desk of the bad coder
The OP didn't say the tractor went to the bad coder, not even that the tractor was awarded for bad code. The tractor went for ugly/clumsy code that worked. Which makes sense. Generally tractors are not pretty, but they have a job to do and do it well. In the form-follows-function school, the tractor may be pretty when you understand its purpose and appreciate the lack of bells and whistles. Likewise, the ugly code needed to solve an ugly problem can be pretty.
As for the corvette, it's not any more of a compliment than the tractor is an insult. Corvettes go fast and look pretty, but aren't good for much else. Not exactly what we generally look for in code. Cool code isn't necessarily good code, and clever code is generally worst of all.
I think using a tractor and a corvette is a bit silly. They're nothing alike. Tractors are excellent for the jobs they're intended to perform, while the corvette would be utterly useless. Giving a programmer a tractor for their code is, at best, sending a mixed message.
Obviously the entire exercise is silly. Obviously a tractor is not like a corvette. Tractors are excellent for the jobs they're intended for, just like ugly working code. Corvettes are flashy and useless, just like most attempts by programmers to be clever.
So what's the problem? Are you just troubled that somewhere there's a workplace with a little silliness?
I asked 6 friends that did have those Media Centers and all of them were able to record it just fine.
So that explains it. Apparently NBC has released this story about activating the broadcast flag, knowing as soon as you tell people they can't do something they will immediately do that thing.
How many of those 6 friends actually regularly record those shows, and how many did it just to see if they could? Just in time for May sweeps!
What gives? Why are 860 people out of 1,000 reporting the desire to leave their current employers?
I think the keys phrases you are missing are "expect" and "three years".
Many people mumble about burning down the building. How many people actually do it? Out of the 860 people planning on moving in the next three years, many will not make the move, just as many will be moved by their employers before they can do so voluntarily.
But still, that number represents reality. The lifetime career with a single company is the rare exception, not the rule. If it's not likely you'll be with the same employer for the long haul and you will be moving some day, why leave the timing of that move to the employer? Doesn't mean you're not in the right position for now, doesn't mean you should be looking to change jobs immediately.
As far as "the expertise needed to competently manage customized server and network configurations," if you're not properly documenting your tasks so that it should be relatively painless to replace you, then you should probably be replaced sooner rather than later. Irreplaceable is a synonym for unpromotable.
So you are psychic and can read Sergey's mind now, eh?
I don't need to. I can read his words and actions. Why come out in support of something and then not vote that support when given the chance? If the resolution is flawed, why not vote against it?
Even the summary admits that Sergey abstained because he didn't agree with the way the proposals were written, not because he disagreed with the spirit.
I don't think that reflects well on Sergey. To me it reads like, he thought the vote would go the way it did so he didn't need to vote against it, but wasn't 100% sure so he didn't risk voting for it.
Sounds like weasely plausible deniability. "I have to run by this policy because that's how the shareholders voted. But it's not my fault--I didn't vote."
To the folks saying, how is this news? Because it's Google. When your corporate policy is, "do whatever we can get away with to make a profit," and you do just that, it's not noteworthy.
When your policy is, "do no evil," but what you actually end up doing is "whatever we can get away with to make a profit," I think it's worth noting the contrast between word and deed.
I always wonder, how did this become an acceptable state of affairs in IT?
I wonder if you're really just noticing this, and if you think it's a Microsoft thing.
I love to bash M$ as much as anybody, but what happens if something goes wrong with your DVD player? There are no user servicable parts inside, and the shop's going to charge you $100 to open up something you can replace for $50.
Sure, you can tinker with Linux is ways you cannot with MS Windows. But in the same vein, I can tinker with my PC--swap out memory, change the CPU--in ways I cannot with a PS3. Is the/. hive mind now calling for a boycott of the PS3?
I presume that price includes software, created by government contractors at high price for a specific purpose, divided amongst the few thousand computers that have it installed.
Software would be a part of the purchase price, but not the calculation of the value of the lost property.
After all, software is licensed not bought. When a computer gets lost, they still have the license, right? It's not like they have repurchase the same software for the replacement computers.
why does there seem to be this notion that people are hypocrites because they change their minds about things over the years?
Buddy, I can tell the '60s were good to you. Your concepts of time are completely warped.
How is it "learning from mistakes" or "growing over the years" when, IN THE SAME SPEACH, Mitt Romney attacks those in the Middle East that are trying to establish nation governments based on religious law and then turns around and says the USA should base its government on religious law?
How is it "growth" or "change" to attack Obama for association with a man who says wacky things such as the attacks on 9/11/2001 were punishment on the USA for past mis-deeds while McCain is actively courting the support of a man who says wacky things such as the attacks on 9/11/2001 were punishment on the USA for past mis-deeds?
To say, my opinions when I was 20 are not the same as my opinions when I am 40, is not hypocrisy. To say, my opinions when talking about a democrat are not the same as my opinions when I am talking about a republican, that is hypocrisy.
Even if this guy still *IS* an active member of fairlight, try explaining what the "warez-scene" is to any non-geek and see how far you get.
How's this: the "warez scene" that grows around the underground trading of software is like the "drug scene" that grows around the underground traffic of illegal drugs. I think that will get me as far as I need to go. Non-geek != idiot.
Now, if asked to explain why a subculture that likes to think itself as intellectually superior uses language that sounds like something out of "Idiocracy," then I would not get far at all.
This is priceless watching the slashdot hivemind try to spin this story.
The republicans made an issue of what Bill Clinton was doing 20 years ago. The republicans made an issue of what John Kerry was doing 20 years ago. It's the republicans who like digging up people's past to manufacture scandal.
So when it comes out a republican might have some extra-legal activities in his past, and the official response is, "oh, well that was 20 years ago. That's not relevant now." How is it the "slashdot hivemind" to notice the hypocrisy?
How is it spin to point out that the republicans consistently do the very same things they attack others for?
That sentence alludes to the "making available" debate. Is merely offering a song in a P2P program ("making available") already copyright infringement or is only the actual act of making a copy an infringement?
The actual act of making a copy is _not_ infringement. My understanding is downloading a song off the internet is the same, wrt the law, as taping a song off the radio. Even the RIAA isn't trying to argue that taping a song off the radio should be illegal. (Well, not directly. They do lobby for laws to force radio stations to include a 'do not record' bit into the music and force radio makers to make hardware that respects the 'do not record' bit, but that's another story.)
So is the distinction those that make a song available vs. proving someone has actually downloaded from that person?
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White people also like Eddie Murphy, but that doesn't mean they want him as our next president.
Is that Eddie Murphy from Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cops, and Dreamgirls? Or Eddie Murphy from The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Beverly Hills Cop II, and Norbit?
So, of course, they will collect both angle of dangle (azimuth) AND degree of dangle (intensity), both of which vary over time and circumstances.
So NASA can finally answer the question, how's it hanging?
I thought by law they had to pay you for any vacation time earned.
I think that's on a state by state basis, but it certainly true in many states.
As for cancelling planned vacation time after the employee gives notice, I say, take the time off anyway. What are they going to do? Fire you?
I've been playing with RFID for about 5 years, and it's great for remote controls, tape measures, and other easy to misplace items.
I also managed to get it to work with the Collectorz software, so I can 'check out' a book or movie.
The hand-held reader I have is powerful enough so that I can stand in middle of a small room (approx. 10' x 10') and get a reading if the item I'm looking for is in the room. Handy for finding stuff. It was around $200, and that was a year ago.
I'd post the make and model number of the reader, but I haven't been able to find it for a couple days. I probably should have tagged it.
How would a "gay gene" evolve, exactly, since sex between two men or two women don't produce offspring?
Are trying to use homosexuality in support of intelligent design?
You publicly humiliate a person each week? What a management style!
From where in that little tale of tractors and corvettes did you get public humiliation?
What I think would be better is if the cool coder got the corvette, and took a huge steaming dump on the desk of the bad coder
The OP didn't say the tractor went to the bad coder, not even that the tractor was awarded for bad code. The tractor went for ugly/clumsy code that worked. Which makes sense. Generally tractors are not pretty, but they have a job to do and do it well. In the form-follows-function school, the tractor may be pretty when you understand its purpose and appreciate the lack of bells and whistles. Likewise, the ugly code needed to solve an ugly problem can be pretty.
As for the corvette, it's not any more of a compliment than the tractor is an insult. Corvettes go fast and look pretty, but aren't good for much else. Not exactly what we generally look for in code. Cool code isn't necessarily good code, and clever code is generally worst of all.
I think using a tractor and a corvette is a bit silly. They're nothing alike. Tractors are excellent for the jobs they're intended to perform, while the corvette would be utterly useless. Giving a programmer a tractor for their code is, at best, sending a mixed message.
Obviously the entire exercise is silly. Obviously a tractor is not like a corvette. Tractors are excellent for the jobs they're intended for, just like ugly working code. Corvettes are flashy and useless, just like most attempts by programmers to be clever.
So what's the problem? Are you just troubled that somewhere there's a workplace with a little silliness?
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a large defense contractor whose name sounds like it might refer to a hole in the ground where sweet, sticky bee-made syrup comes from
And can you tell me where you are staying? Are two trees involved?
I asked 6 friends that did have those Media Centers and all of them were able to record it just fine.
So that explains it. Apparently NBC has released this story about activating the broadcast flag, knowing as soon as you tell people they can't do something they will immediately do that thing.
How many of those 6 friends actually regularly record those shows, and how many did it just to see if they could? Just in time for May sweeps!
Everyone wants their kid to do what they do. My father (when he was still one himself) wanted me to be a sign maker.
Yeah, I don't think Laius was looking for his son to follow in his footsteps. Though he was more management than IT.
What gives? Why are 860 people out of 1,000 reporting the desire to leave their current employers?
I think the keys phrases you are missing are "expect" and "three years".
Many people mumble about burning down the building. How many people actually do it? Out of the 860 people planning on moving in the next three years, many will not make the move, just as many will be moved by their employers before they can do so voluntarily.
But still, that number represents reality. The lifetime career with a single company is the rare exception, not the rule. If it's not likely you'll be with the same employer for the long haul and you will be moving some day, why leave the timing of that move to the employer? Doesn't mean you're not in the right position for now, doesn't mean you should be looking to change jobs immediately.
As far as "the expertise needed to competently manage customized server and network configurations," if you're not properly documenting your tasks so that it should be relatively painless to replace you, then you should probably be replaced sooner rather than later. Irreplaceable is a synonym for unpromotable.
Hardship and misery from Peak Oil will cull millions. Climate change will take out millions more.
Yes, but the climate change will melt the ice on Greenland, opening access to vast amounts of oil.
Mortimer, we're back in business!
So you are psychic and can read Sergey's mind now, eh?
I don't need to. I can read his words and actions. Why come out in support of something and then not vote that support when given the chance? If the resolution is flawed, why not vote against it?
Pimps are the epitome of coolness.
I was like you once. Young, idealistic.
Now, how do I get these dead fish out of my shoes?
Even the summary admits that Sergey abstained because he didn't agree with the way the proposals were written, not because he disagreed with the spirit.
I don't think that reflects well on Sergey. To me it reads like, he thought the vote would go the way it did so he didn't need to vote against it, but wasn't 100% sure so he didn't risk voting for it.
Sounds like weasely plausible deniability. "I have to run by this policy because that's how the shareholders voted. But it's not my fault--I didn't vote."
To the folks saying, how is this news? Because it's Google. When your corporate policy is, "do whatever we can get away with to make a profit," and you do just that, it's not noteworthy.
When your policy is, "do no evil," but what you actually end up doing is "whatever we can get away with to make a profit," I think it's worth noting the contrast between word and deed.
I don't think that we should go down this road again - why don't we talk about religion or politics, instead?
Can we just stick to politics? Why spoil a perfectly good Friday with a vi vs emacs debate?
I always wonder, how did this become an acceptable state of affairs in IT?
I wonder if you're really just noticing this, and if you think it's a Microsoft thing.
I love to bash M$ as much as anybody, but what happens if something goes wrong with your DVD player? There are no user servicable parts inside, and the shop's going to charge you $100 to open up something you can replace for $50.
Sure, you can tinker with Linux is ways you cannot with MS Windows. But in the same vein, I can tinker with my PC--swap out memory, change the CPU--in ways I cannot with a PS3. Is the /. hive mind now calling for a boycott of the PS3?
I presume that price includes software, created by government contractors at high price for a specific purpose, divided amongst the few thousand computers that have it installed.
Software would be a part of the purchase price, but not the calculation of the value of the lost property.
After all, software is licensed not bought. When a computer gets lost, they still have the license, right? It's not like they have repurchase the same software for the replacement computers.
why does there seem to be this notion that people are hypocrites because they change their minds about things over the years?
Buddy, I can tell the '60s were good to you. Your concepts of time are completely warped.
How is it "learning from mistakes" or "growing over the years" when, IN THE SAME SPEACH, Mitt Romney attacks those in the Middle East that are trying to establish nation governments based on religious law and then turns around and says the USA should base its government on religious law?
How is it "growth" or "change" to attack Obama for association with a man who says wacky things such as the attacks on 9/11/2001 were punishment on the USA for past mis-deeds while McCain is actively courting the support of a man who says wacky things such as the attacks on 9/11/2001 were punishment on the USA for past mis-deeds?
To say, my opinions when I was 20 are not the same as my opinions when I am 40, is not hypocrisy. To say, my opinions when talking about a democrat are not the same as my opinions when I am talking about a republican, that is hypocrisy.
Even if this guy still *IS* an active member of fairlight, try explaining what the "warez-scene" is to any non-geek and see how far you get.
How's this: the "warez scene" that grows around the underground trading of software is like the "drug scene" that grows around the underground traffic of illegal drugs. I think that will get me as far as I need to go. Non-geek != idiot.
Now, if asked to explain why a subculture that likes to think itself as intellectually superior uses language that sounds like something out of "Idiocracy," then I would not get far at all.
This is priceless watching the slashdot hivemind try to spin this story.
The republicans made an issue of what Bill Clinton was doing 20 years ago. The republicans made an issue of what John Kerry was doing 20 years ago. It's the republicans who like digging up people's past to manufacture scandal.
So when it comes out a republican might have some extra-legal activities in his past, and the official response is, "oh, well that was 20 years ago. That's not relevant now." How is it the "slashdot hivemind" to notice the hypocrisy?
How is it spin to point out that the republicans consistently do the very same things they attack others for?
That sentence alludes to the "making available" debate. Is merely offering a song in a P2P program ("making available") already copyright infringement or is only the actual act of making a copy an infringement?
The actual act of making a copy is _not_ infringement. My understanding is downloading a song off the internet is the same, wrt the law, as taping a song off the radio. Even the RIAA isn't trying to argue that taping a song off the radio should be illegal. (Well, not directly. They do lobby for laws to force radio stations to include a 'do not record' bit into the music and force radio makers to make hardware that respects the 'do not record' bit, but that's another story.)
So is the distinction those that make a song available vs. proving someone has actually downloaded from that person?
Why does a takedown notice get more respect than the site owner? Because a person sending such a notice seems more sue-happy than the site owner?
Because that's the law. Yes, it's stupid. It's a stupid law.