No serious, the answer to your question solely depends on where you live. This case here happened in America, so all bets are off anyways. If you live there best try to avoid having images of women on your computer at all. Dressed or not.
I am not an expert, but it just fits into the several pieces of information I have. For a long time it was thought that nerve cells like in the brain does not regenerate. New connections between brain cells might be created, but dead brain cells cannot be replaced, so the absolute number of cells can only decrease. This seems to be wrong. It could be shown that learning a language actually increases the number of cells in certain brain areas. Dementia might at least partly the result of more cells dying than new cells formed. And this might partly be the result of life style. Knowing a second language simply might mean that one starts with more cells to begin with.
Similar effects should be possible by constant learning new and different stuff. I do suspect that learning one computer language might also qualify, but probably not learning a second or third. The second and third computer language might not require new cells, but only new connections when the secondary languages are 'explained' in terms of the first learned computer language. If someone is a technician, literature might help. If someone is proficient in humanities, dealing with math might be a good way to remain active.
..when I call lusers luser. There is always a nice or not so nice soul who tells me that just because you cannot keep your computer clean, you are not an idiot. Geeks are arrogant, for lusers a computer is just a tool, the don't want to study computer science. And all that stuff telling me I should shut up.
But I wonder whether all the judges are computer geeks, too. Convicting someone just because he did not study computer science and could not keep his computer clean.
So I wonder who is right: The ones who excuse even the gravest stupidity, like using a potential dangerous tool without even trying to inform one selves of the dangers beforehand and partly even revel in their lack of knowledge. Or the ones who might not always be the nicest persons with the best communication skills, ridiculing the former ones.
I do disregard most of the responses I get in several forums. Most of the insults one gets in a forum come from people who would not even dare to speak to someone in real lift. But I did get some insults in real life when I pointed out security risks, though mostly I was ignored with responses like: 'I don't care that I have a few trojans on my computer. It does not contain important stuff'.
Under that circumstances I must apologize for being an asshole, but I just love to read such reports with a deep malicious joy. There cannot be enough people whose life and reputation is destroyed by malware. Perhaps the attitude of the lusers and their the luser union will change someday.
Yes, this is what I totally understand. I wrote about marathon. You wrote about heavy physical activity. But what was the heavy sweating and heavy physical activity during the contest? When you strain yourself extremely with physical activities some of your 'sensors' might get a little 'confused' in extreme situations. But extreme situations like this I'd never had expected during such a stupid contest.
Not really, but I see that I wasn't clear enough. The parent wrote:
..and knowledge about how ticket-system works
That made me write the school remark. Just because someone learn something during his work does not make all possible results of the learning process the property of the 'teacher'. Using an employers property and resources is a total different question, of course.
Apparently not, the "you can quit at any time if you feel bad" wasn't much of a disclaimer. From all the reports I've read, they didn't even consult with doctors.
In hindsight this is easy to say. If you did not hear of a concrete case of water poisoning it is hard to estimate the dangers. I heard of problems and even death through too much water during marathons, but I would never have guessed that you can drink yourself voluntarily to death in normal circumstances. I would have suspected that sooner or later a contestant cannot help but getting rid of the excess water, one way or the other.
Read most of the responses to this article here. Most of us would have underestimated the dangers, so why not the radio station people?
This is very interesting. I did hear of certain dangers of too much water during marathons. But I wonder how it is normally possible to drink too much. Be it water. be it beer or whatever liquid, after a certain volume i doubt I could take more without some 'help'.
He might even be able to fight that he should be paid at a rate more appropriate to a programmer.
Outch, what programmer? If he is a good programmer, he might make more money than a simple cop. So why is he working as a cop?
From the article:
Iowa gave Wisconsin the software for free on the condition that Wisconsin not develop the application for commercial purposes
Means he did not write the application from scratch:
Meredith tweaked the program so that it would work in Wisconsin and created a way to import driver information and criminal histories into it.
Of course I have not seen the code and therefore cannot speculate on its quality. Nevertheless, even if the code is ok, the mere tweaking of an existing, probably not too complicated program surely does not entitle him to wages experienced fulltime software developer might get. The article also says he get $45,300 a year before overtime. I don't think this is too bad for a little tweaking.
Not that unusual. I also wrote some tools in my free time, which help me doing my work better. Not necessarily because I love my company and want to help, but because it helps me circumvent boring and tedious tasks.
Yes, I agree 100%. However, for some the lower influence and payment is less of a problem than bad teeth from teeth grinding or gastric ulcer from permanent anger.
And a 200% uplift in wage for a first class developer with first class people skills might be justified. Unfortunately I never got to know someone like that. This does not mean that they don't exist, but that they are rare. People I know are either top in solving technical problems, but rather introverted, or top in communication skills, but at best average when it comes to technical problems.
This guy game the system as long as he could. Management changed, the focus changed. He didn't bother to read the memo that customer service was now the priority and was shown the door. I've seen this happen so many times in so many different companies.
Let me guess: The company was SCO?
No serious, if you want crap, this is the best way to get crap. You have no respect for IT personal? You get inferior technicians and inferior customer service. And apart from the stealing/thieving stuff you showed absolutely no respect for the IT professions.
Would you tell a dentist to perform a heart surgery? Would you want a lawyer who is an specialized in employment law defend you in a murder trial? I suppose not. But a software developer or administrator is supposed to run a help desk. Hey, it's all IT, geek stuff. Stuff only geeks understand, so let them jump through hoops and deal with our customers. Can't be that difficult, so there is of course still enough time for his actual work. Hey where is the problem when from time to time the phone rings? He surely works better, when he gets feedback directly from our customers. Workflow? Aww come on, a minute or two on the phone cannot be that bad.
A lot of the articles I been reading about IT has been stressing the need for people skills at all levels.
Why is this only requested from IT people? So why not let marketing develop their IT skills? Everybody should be able to partition his harddisk. And our help desk definitely should be able to write firewall rules. And why not let our cleaning lady write our business plans?
If you're not willing to develop people skills to advance your own career, you're a cockroach.
And what are those who are not willing to develop their mathematical skills? Their programming skills? When I signed my work contract it had certain requirements. People skills wasn't one of those.
At the company I worked for, not even the cockroaches are exempt from providing customer service in the deepest, darkest bowels of the IT department.
No problem. I start customer service when everybody else in my company starts learning C++. Where is the difference?
I had a co-worker who was an excellant technician and a long time employee, but he was also a pathological liar and a petty thief. When the focus shifted to customer service, he was fired as his people skills was severely lacking.
Wow, you are working in a strange company. Lying is ok. Stealing is ok, too. However not being able to do customer service was a reason to fire him. Let me guess: He lied to and stole only from people who did not matter in the eyes of your management, while not doing customer service hurt the revenue?
A lot of the backend IT people have no customer relationship skills whatsoever because they're not required to deal with people
And you see a problem there? I am one of those. I have absolutely no customer relationship skills. I abhor working with people. That's why I took the tech job I have now. This limits my career chances, but this is fine with me. When my boss once wanted me to take on the help line for a while, because one of our support people was ill and I know 'the stuff' I outright refused. I'd sooner have resigned or have accepted to be fired. Neither happened.
Re-route the ticket to the IT department responsible for the problem and the customer doesn't get a response for days, weeks, months, and, on a few occasions, years. The Help Desk gets the blame from the customer when this happens.
The help desk gets the blame? That's ok, that's where it belongs. The help desk does not have to give the IT department the ticket and expect that it magically resolved and communicated to the customer.
In my company the help desk gets a problem, opens a ticket, notifies the IT department. When the IT department resolved the problem the help desk is notified with the ticket number and the help desk calls the customer. This is his job. The help desk has to manage all opened tickets and has to make sure that no ticket is lost. A ticket, which is opened for a year would spell severe trouble, but at first for the help desk.
True, but patients usually have a bad conscience, e.g. the know they are smoking, they know that they are too fat, they know that they are doing things wrongly. Doctors are there to help, to mitigate or repair what very often is the patients own fault. Therefore doctors are usually respected. At least most of the time.
When it comes to IT it is the god given right of a user to be stupid. It is the administrators or developers fault that something went wrong. There is no need for a IT user to read manuals or even heed advices. Whatever happens: Not my fault, I had no intention to study computer science. The idiot admin/developer made it too complicated.
With this widely spread attitude I can understand why users are scorned. It still might be wrong (only in a sense that it might hurt revenue), but it is understandable.
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No either he is park ranger because he loves it. Then he get exactly the amount of money he wants and deserves.
Otherwise he does no deserve more, because he is an idiot. Working as a park ranger when he could make more as assembly programmer.
You encrypt your partitions.
No serious, the answer to your question solely depends on where you live. This case here happened in America, so all bets are off anyways. If you live there best try to avoid having images of women on your computer at all. Dressed or not.
I am not an expert, but it just fits into the several pieces of information I have. For a long time it was thought that nerve cells like in the brain does not regenerate. New connections between brain cells might be created, but dead brain cells cannot be replaced, so the absolute number of cells can only decrease. This seems to be wrong. It could be shown that learning a language actually increases the number of cells in certain brain areas. Dementia might at least partly the result of more cells dying than new cells formed. And this might partly be the result of life style. Knowing a second language simply might mean that one starts with more cells to begin with.
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http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/926345803.html
Similar effects should be possible by constant learning new and different stuff. I do suspect that learning one computer language might also qualify, but probably not learning a second or third. The second and third computer language might not require new cells, but only new connections when the secondary languages are 'explained' in terms of the first learned computer language. If someone is a technician, literature might help. If someone is proficient in humanities, dealing with math might be a good way to remain active.
http://biology.about.com/library/weekly/aa102199.
..when I call lusers luser. There is always a nice or not so nice soul who tells me that just because you cannot keep your computer clean, you are not an idiot. Geeks are arrogant, for lusers a computer is just a tool, the don't want to study computer science. And all that stuff telling me I should shut up.
But I wonder whether all the judges are computer geeks, too. Convicting someone just because he did not study computer science and could not keep his computer clean.
So I wonder who is right: The ones who excuse even the gravest stupidity, like using a potential dangerous tool without even trying to inform one selves of the dangers beforehand and partly even revel in their lack of knowledge. Or the ones who might not always be the nicest persons with the best communication skills, ridiculing the former ones.
I do disregard most of the responses I get in several forums. Most of the insults one gets in a forum come from people who would not even dare to speak to someone in real lift. But I did get some insults in real life when I pointed out security risks, though mostly I was ignored with responses like: 'I don't care that I have a few trojans on my computer. It does not contain important stuff'.
Under that circumstances I must apologize for being an asshole, but I just love to read such reports with a deep malicious joy. There cannot be enough people whose life and reputation is destroyed by malware. Perhaps the attitude of the lusers and their the luser union will change someday.
Ah yes, I am sure the majority of /. users can easily read the information behind your link. ;-)
And here is a definitely redundant post, but I suppose from a certain size one cannot expect that everyone reads every reply.
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Apparently the 'no porn' policy does not exist. See:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070112-860
Apparently this is not true. See: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070112-860
HE never said this. This is an urban myth. I can testify. I was present, when HE did not say it.
Yes, this is what I totally understand. I wrote about marathon. You wrote about heavy physical activity. But what was the heavy sweating and heavy physical activity during the contest? When you strain yourself extremely with physical activities some of your 'sensors' might get a little 'confused' in extreme situations. But extreme situations like this I'd never had expected during such a stupid contest.
That made me write the school remark. Just because someone learn something during his work does not make all possible results of the learning process the property of the 'teacher'. Using an employers property and resources is a total different question, of course.
In hindsight this is easy to say. If you did not hear of a concrete case of water poisoning it is hard to estimate the dangers. I heard of problems and even death through too much water during marathons, but I would never have guessed that you can drink yourself voluntarily to death in normal circumstances. I would have suspected that sooner or later a contestant cannot help but getting rid of the excess water, one way or the other.
Read most of the responses to this article here. Most of us would have underestimated the dangers, so why not the radio station people?
This is very interesting. I did hear of certain dangers of too much water during marathons. But I wonder how it is normally possible to drink too much. Be it water. be it beer or whatever liquid, after a certain volume i doubt I could take more without some 'help'.
Outch, what programmer? If he is a good programmer, he might make more money than a simple cop. So why is he working as a cop?
From the article:
Means he did not write the application from scratch:
Of course I have not seen the code and therefore cannot speculate on its quality. Nevertheless, even if the code is ok, the mere tweaking of an existing, probably not too complicated program surely does not entitle him to wages experienced fulltime software developer might get. The article also says he get $45,300 a year before overtime. I don't think this is too bad for a little tweaking.
Not that unusual. I also wrote some tools in my free time, which help me doing my work better. Not necessarily because I love my company and want to help, but because it helps me circumvent boring and tedious tasks.
If this works, I hope you did not get your knowledge and education on a public school. Everything you create would automatically belong to the state.
If you read this: http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html Of course, it you managed to enter your key into an OS, you want to make sure that it is and stays widely used.
Why not? This sounds for me like 'The right tool for the right job'.
Yes, I agree 100%. However, for some the lower influence and payment is less of a problem than bad teeth from teeth grinding or gastric ulcer from permanent anger.
And a 200% uplift in wage for a first class developer with first class people skills might be justified. Unfortunately I never got to know someone like that. This does not mean that they don't exist, but that they are rare. People I know are either top in solving technical problems, but rather introverted, or top in communication skills, but at best average when it comes to technical problems.
Let me guess: The company was SCO?
No serious, if you want crap, this is the best way to get crap. You have no respect for IT personal? You get inferior technicians and inferior customer service. And apart from the stealing/thieving stuff you showed absolutely no respect for the IT professions.
Would you tell a dentist to perform a heart surgery? Would you want a lawyer who is an specialized in employment law defend you in a murder trial? I suppose not. But a software developer or administrator is supposed to run a help desk. Hey, it's all IT, geek stuff. Stuff only geeks understand, so let them jump through hoops and deal with our customers. Can't be that difficult, so there is of course still enough time for his actual work. Hey where is the problem when from time to time the phone rings? He surely works better, when he gets feedback directly from our customers. Workflow? Aww come on, a minute or two on the phone cannot be that bad.
Why is this only requested from IT people? So why not let marketing develop their IT skills? Everybody should be able to partition his harddisk. And our help desk definitely should be able to write firewall rules. And why not let our cleaning lady write our business plans?
And what are those who are not willing to develop their mathematical skills? Their programming skills? When I signed my work contract it had certain requirements. People skills wasn't one of those.
No problem. I start customer service when everybody else in my company starts learning C++. Where is the difference?
Wow, you are working in a strange company. Lying is ok. Stealing is ok, too. However not being able to do customer service was a reason to fire him. Let me guess: He lied to and stole only from people who did not matter in the eyes of your management, while not doing customer service hurt the revenue?
The help desk gets the blame? That's ok, that's where it belongs. The help desk does not have to give the IT department the ticket and expect that it magically resolved and communicated to the customer. In my company the help desk gets a problem, opens a ticket, notifies the IT department. When the IT department resolved the problem the help desk is notified with the ticket number and the help desk calls the customer. This is his job. The help desk has to manage all opened tickets and has to make sure that no ticket is lost. A ticket, which is opened for a year would spell severe trouble, but at first for the help desk.
When it comes to IT it is the god given right of a user to be stupid. It is the administrators or developers fault that something went wrong. There is no need for a IT user to read manuals or even heed advices. Whatever happens: Not my fault, I had no intention to study computer science. The idiot admin/developer made it too complicated.
With this widely spread attitude I can understand why users are scorned. It still might be wrong (only in a sense that it might hurt revenue), but it is understandable.