Sad story - for 3 non-consecutive years, I volunteered in a fund-raiser for the symphony orchestra here in my home town(I was in music school at the time). They had my name, email addy and phone number. Last month, I received a call from their sales department where a very polite man tried to sell me subscriptions to the next season. I got rightfully insulted, because the least they could call me with is a job...Then, having worked as desk monkey for an IT sales organization, I chalked it up to overzealous merchants and moved on, albeit rather dissapointed in the cultural stature of said symphony orchestra. Moral of the story: when a company is out to make money(and they often are), any prospecting info is good info.
Hmmmm((... Thomas est amoureux:D???)) - from an engineering point of view, all they need is a goose-neck extension and a suction cup and they're already tracking facial expressions - hmmmmmm...mind if I patent that???
Thank you for raising the geekdom standards by mentioning Thomas Dolby - the geekiest GMU ever: he wrote an enormously endearing, heart-warming song called "She Blinded Me With Science"...
Please visit his website, dude is too cool: www.thomasdolby.com
OK, guys, can you please pause the philosophical eye-poking for a second and volunteer an opinion plspls? I'd like to know, from your infinite fountain of knowledge, and by applause, which OS or kernel/desktop environment you've used is the most accomodating for keyboard-centric navigation.
Whoa there. Don't lose your cool - what the commenting system is for, ultimately, is an exchange of ideas, yo.
First off, it's not like the guy is asking for advise on critical systems like cooling or something. It's more like a last minute gizmo checkup(or a way to rid themselves of budget leftovers?) Some people can come up with things the "asker" or the other readers hadn't thought of - for example, it would never occur to me about tarps in a DC(credit: a few posts below) because mine is sandwiched between 10-12 floors of office space and an underground parking lot. But maybe to the next person it will be of some use. Besides, the lower one is on the n00bness-to-pro scale(and I am!:D), the more useful this kind of old pro information is.
P.S. Funny how appropriate my sig is today, eh?
P.P.S. Pedant alert - I took the liberty of correcting your title:) o-c-y instead of o-c-i-t-y.
I'd like to interject (although everyone seems already gone), because I believe there's nothing wrong with "contact points", it is in no way derogatory or assholish to one's staff. I think it refers specifically to teh feeling of "being in on it". It's true that the minute one becomes a manager they step into a different world. They are one of "them" now, one step closer to the company core and therefore one more reason not to trust/side with them. I read somewhere about a structure in mentality similar to Oedipus' complex, where non-mgmt. staff sees the company entity as the "mother" they are trying to accede to (by moving up in the ranks) whereas their direct superior taken on the role of the "father" that is blocking access to the "mother", do you see where I'm going with this? No matter how good one's working relationship with their boss is, there will always be a gap between mgmt. and non-mgmt. The manager is usually the one expected to bridge that gap.
I don't have a link, but will forward.pdf of the Oedipus article to interested readers.
There are many possible "post-humous" excuses, but the G.S. techs did not have the explicit(no pun intended) duty to investigate their clients for proof of pedophilia. AFAIK in the States it's "innocent until proven guilty". Even cops have to get search warrants, unless you're trying to cross the border, in which case it's a whole different story.
Na-na-na-na-no, prior to copying those media files, they accessed the PC owner's personal files in order to pick and choose which files are of interest to them. That's, um, prying.
You expect these people, who are the low-paid,
bottom-of-the-IT-food-chain to have ethics?
Sir, that's called deontological ethics and is broadly defined as "one's duty
or moral obligation" This is not something that should have to be taught in job training. It's a value people should learn as a part of inter-personal relations; from their parents; teachers; peers; grokking "the way things work". Without this particular value, you are either an asshole, mildly sociopathic or an uneducated twit and your alleged Asperger's syndrome is not going to bail you out of that one.
As humans, we trust, or rather hope that each other's intentions are honest and genuine. And that we're not getting screwed at every turn of the game. There are varying proportions of trust and precaution, from naïvete to misanthropy.
Most companies will usually slip some form of deontological norms into their employee procedure manual. Violating these norms usually entails a dismissal in a system where there is any degree of accountability(sic). The bottom line of deontology is that something is wrong REGARDLESS of whether it causes direct prejudice or not, and in the old days used to be called honor, before they invented a fancy word for it. Apparently Japanese businessmen still retain a similar concept in the modern age, and occasionally perform seppuku, instead of trying to find excuses for what they did.
Claiming that one is paid too little to respect these norms is a hypocritical excuse for being a crook. Anybody thinking that way does not deserve any trust, nor a job for that matter. It's a selfish, primitive way of thinking that may function on a short term and small scale, but it's not viable in my opinion. Not to mention a complete douchebaggery.
No, I don't think that's too much to ask. One gets paid to do a job, there are rights and obligations attached to that job and they are requested to do it because it is assumed they are more skilled at it than their clients. This is an implicit imbalance that puts the client in a situation of inferiority. Taking advantage of that situation of inferiority is immoral, no matter who and where you are. Sure there is some degree of exploitation of the imbalance in the world, otherwise there would be no sales ("this product is great! No, really.") and no business relations and perhaps man would not be a social animal. How would YOU feel, not being able to trust anyone? Your significant other can kill you for insurance money; your boss/colleagues can dump their mistakes on you and get you fired; your car mechanic can charge you thousands of dollars for inexistent car problems; even your dentist can come up with a root canal you don't need and for 500 of your $$, kill a tooth whose nerve was still alive and kicking.
Oh jeez, now I sound like a misanthrope...
We have to be able to put a minimal amount of trust into our fellow man. It's part of being human. Don't you agree?
Yaa, but the question is "who decides on the definition of the 100% Juice?"
Nowadays large fruit juice manufacturers/distributors screw over the consumer by slapping a bold:D, gigantic 100% JUICE!!!! label on the front. However, there are several varieties of juice that fit under that umbrella-denomination. There is fresh-squeezed juice and juice made from concentrate; 100% natural juice/juice without any artificial additives, and juice with (natural?) additives that are not statistically significant(obviously the producer is not going to shoot himself in the foot by adding some creepy chemical and then having to list it on the side of the carton, but they usually supplement the vitamin or mineral content - and that's OK by me). The hitch is, juice can be 100% natural, and made from concentrate at the same time. If the juice is made out of concentrate, there is NOTHING stopping the manufacturer from adding LESS water than the initial water content of the juice. This results in juice with a high sugar concentration(and a high everything-else concentration, mind ye). This would seem remarkably retarded at first, since the company is losing money by not using the juice concentrate to its full product yield potential, but then again, if what sells is sugary drinks, they're just responding to the market demand, and being competitive.
Note: this is just a personal, unproven theory, based on empirical observations.
There is this as well: www.lilypond.org but I wouldn't vouch for it as I haven't had the time to try it out yet.
Courtesy of my boyfriend's sisterm, CS prodigy and Ubuntu user (name concealed out of fear of buttkickin':D)
My solution: if the judges' personal beliefs are what truly rules a courtroom in America, then I say the judges should receive at least as much spam a day as a small ISP, have to deal with it, and then go to work and be served representatives of the spammer industry on a silver platter by perseverent trouble-makers like Mr. Haselton.
I mean, think about it. If judges' beliefs aligned with those of the plaintiffs...
So, the envisaged course of action - spam the judge who will hear your anti-spam case. Lay it on particularly heavy the week preceding the hearing:D Has Mr. Haselton tried to redirect spamz0r to his pet judges' inboxes yet?
...And through this all, what bothers me most, is the focus is on the sideline(.ppt) as opposed to the actual core of the research, which hints to the human brain having a sort of swap-file, as well as gauging the approximate capacity of that swap-file.
As far as presentations go, I suggest http://www.presentationzen.com/ as a valuable resource. That's where I first learned about the Takahashi method, which to this day I consider the leading pres system with regards to information-effectiveness and aesthetics.
The other day my bf B. was telling me about a low-level tech candidate he had interviewed for some support work in his department. The guy had a great-looking resume that consisted mainly of "in-the-industry" experience. He "implemented" this, "organized" that...B. asked him about 20 questions in all. Mix-n-match. From very basic, to very complex issues, and no theoretical, textbook stuff. You had to be there to fix it. It was appropriate, given that this dude ws claiming most of his qualifications from field experience.
He managed to answer from 20, oh, about one question. He got stumped on 19 other problems that he was supposed to be at least familiar with. His resume was a hoax. The "implementation" entries apparently meant that he carried PCs around for some project. No, really.
It's hard to properly qualify this type of candidate. This is how sometimes morons get hired into companies, and end up being a drain of resources and a problem waiting to happen, that most often their peers or boss will have to fix. Morons get stuck into jobs in the next cube beside people like you and me and they entail an ugly and exhausting cycle of damage control. All this to say, a college degree will at least indicate that the candidate is not a bum-off-the-street building a CV on fabrications, trickery and subterfuge. Saves time for most employers IMO. And if the person has proved that they can learn in school, they can likely learn and train to do well on the job.
J.C. van Damme is also Belgian. Among others, he is famed for having been a professional ballet dancer before getting into martial arts and acting. Not a good start there...
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Sad story - for 3 non-consecutive years, I volunteered in a fund-raiser for the symphony orchestra here in my home town(I was in music school at the time). They had my name, email addy and phone number.
Last month, I received a call from their sales department where a very polite man tried to sell me subscriptions to the next season.
I got rightfully insulted, because the least they could call me with is a job...Then, having worked as desk monkey for an IT sales organization, I chalked it up to overzealous merchants and moved on, albeit rather dissapointed in the cultural stature of said symphony orchestra.
Moral of the story: when a company is out to make money(and they often are), any prospecting info is good info.
Hmmmm((... Thomas est amoureux:D???))
- from an engineering point of view, all they need is a goose-neck extension and a suction cup and they're already tracking facial expressions - hmmmmmm...mind if I patent that???
Thank you for raising the geekdom standards by mentioning Thomas Dolby - the geekiest GMU ever: he wrote an enormously endearing, heart-warming song called "She Blinded Me With Science"...
Please visit his website, dude is too cool: www.thomasdolby.com
Mod up pls kthx
For those who didn't get it, please refer to post 20783211 above.
OK, guys, can you please pause the philosophical eye-poking for a second and volunteer an opinion plspls?
I'd like to know, from your infinite fountain of knowledge, and by applause, which OS or kernel/desktop environment you've used is the most accomodating for keyboard-centric navigation.
Whoa there. Don't lose your cool - what the commenting system is for, ultimately, is an exchange of ideas, yo.
First off, it's not like the guy is asking for advise on critical systems like cooling or something. It's more like a last minute gizmo checkup(or a way to rid themselves of budget leftovers?) Some people can come up with things the "asker" or the other readers hadn't thought of - for example, it would never occur to me about tarps in a DC(credit: a few posts below) because mine is sandwiched between 10-12 floors of office space and an underground parking lot. But maybe to the next person it will be of some use. Besides, the lower one is on the n00bness-to-pro scale(and I am!:D), the more useful this kind of old pro information is.
P.S. Funny how appropriate my sig is today, eh?
P.P.S. Pedant alert - I took the liberty of correcting your title:) o-c-y instead of o-c-i-t-y.
Wait, Beryl and Compiz...makes Berpiz? Or Compryl?
Compryl would have a starry future in the pharmaceuticals industry.
I'd like to interject (although everyone seems already gone), because I believe there's nothing wrong with "contact points", it is in no way derogatory or assholish to one's staff. I think it refers specifically to teh feeling of "being in on it".
.pdf of the Oedipus article to interested readers.
It's true that the minute one becomes a manager they step into a different world. They are one of "them" now, one step closer to the company core and therefore one more reason not to trust/side with them. I read somewhere about a structure in mentality similar to Oedipus' complex, where non-mgmt. staff sees the company entity as the "mother" they are trying to accede to (by moving up in the ranks) whereas their direct superior taken on the role of the "father" that is blocking access to the "mother", do you see where I'm going with this? No matter how good one's working relationship with their boss is, there will always be a gap between mgmt. and non-mgmt. The manager is usually the one expected to bridge that gap.
I don't have a link, but will forward
I'm sorry, a much techier and more interesting link about cross-border pr0n searches: http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2007/03/crossing-border. html
There are many possible "post-humous" excuses, but the G.S. techs did not have the explicit(no pun intended) duty to investigate their clients for proof of pedophilia. AFAIK in the States it's "innocent until proven guilty". Even cops have to get search warrants, unless you're trying to cross the border, in which case it's a whole different story.
Na-na-na-na-no, prior to copying those media files, they accessed the PC owner's personal files in order to pick and choose which files are of interest to them. That's, um, prying.
As humans, we trust, or rather hope that each other's intentions are honest and genuine. And that we're not getting screwed at every turn of the game. There are varying proportions of trust and precaution, from naïvete to misanthropy.
Most companies will usually slip some form of deontological norms into their employee procedure manual. Violating these norms usually entails a dismissal in a system where there is any degree of accountability(sic). The bottom line of deontology is that something is wrong REGARDLESS of whether it causes direct prejudice or not, and in the old days used to be called honor, before they invented a fancy word for it. Apparently Japanese businessmen still retain a similar concept in the modern age, and occasionally perform seppuku, instead of trying to find excuses for what they did.
Claiming that one is paid too little to respect these norms is a hypocritical excuse for being a crook. Anybody thinking that way does not deserve any trust, nor a job for that matter. It's a selfish, primitive way of thinking that may function on a short term and small scale, but it's not viable in my opinion. Not to mention a complete douchebaggery.
No, I don't think that's too much to ask. One gets paid to do a job, there are rights and obligations attached to that job and they are requested to do it because it is assumed they are more skilled at it than their clients. This is an implicit imbalance that puts the client in a situation of inferiority. Taking advantage of that situation of inferiority is immoral, no matter who and where you are. Sure there is some degree of exploitation of the imbalance in the world, otherwise there would be no sales ("this product is great! No, really.") and no business relations and perhaps man would not be a social animal. How would YOU feel, not being able to trust anyone? Your significant other can kill you for insurance money; your boss/colleagues can dump their mistakes on you and get you fired; your car mechanic can charge you thousands of dollars for inexistent car problems; even your dentist can come up with a root canal you don't need and for 500 of your $$, kill a tooth whose nerve was still alive and kicking.
Oh jeez, now I sound like a misanthrope...
We have to be able to put a minimal amount of trust into our fellow man. It's part of being human. Don't you agree?
I for one, smell a rat. Or a script.
I've never heard of software designed for the use of cats or whales, although I'm sure it would mk an awesome article to read.
This is a frequent mistake among people whose mother tongue is not English. Don't be patronizin' on dem, yo.
Yaa, but the question is "who decides on the definition of the 100% Juice?"
:D, gigantic 100% JUICE!!!! label on the front. However, there are several varieties of juice that fit under that umbrella-denomination. There is fresh-squeezed juice and juice made from concentrate; 100% natural juice/juice without any artificial additives, and juice with (natural?) additives that are not statistically significant(obviously the producer is not going to shoot himself in the foot by adding some creepy chemical and then having to list it on the side of the carton, but they usually supplement the vitamin or mineral content - and that's OK by me). The hitch is, juice can be 100% natural, and made from concentrate at the same time. If the juice is made out of concentrate, there is NOTHING stopping the manufacturer from adding LESS water than the initial water content of the juice. This results in juice with a high sugar concentration(and a high everything-else concentration, mind ye). This would seem remarkably retarded at first, since the company is losing money by not using the juice concentrate to its full product yield potential, but then again, if what sells is sugary drinks, they're just responding to the market demand, and being competitive.
Nowadays large fruit juice manufacturers/distributors screw over the consumer by slapping a bold
Note: this is just a personal, unproven theory, based on empirical observations.
There is this as well: www.lilypond.org but I wouldn't vouch for it as I haven't had the time to try it out yet.
Courtesy of my boyfriend's sisterm, CS prodigy and Ubuntu user (name concealed out of fear of buttkickin':D)
My solution: if the judges' personal beliefs are what truly rules a courtroom in America, then I say the judges should receive at least as much spam a day as a small ISP, have to deal with it, and then go to work and be served representatives of the spammer industry on a silver platter by perseverent trouble-makers like Mr. Haselton.
:D Has Mr. Haselton tried to redirect spamz0r to his pet judges' inboxes yet?
I mean, think about it. If judges' beliefs aligned with those of the plaintiffs...
So, the envisaged course of action - spam the judge who will hear your anti-spam case. Lay it on particularly heavy the week preceding the hearing
...And through this all, what bothers me most, is the focus is on the sideline(.ppt) as opposed to the actual core of the research, which hints to the human brain having a sort of swap-file, as well as gauging the approximate capacity of that swap-file.
As far as presentations go, I suggest http://www.presentationzen.com/ as a valuable resource. That's where I first learned about the Takahashi method, which to this day I consider the leading pres system with regards to information-effectiveness and aesthetics.
The other day my bf B. was telling me about a low-level tech candidate he had interviewed for some support work in his department. The guy had a great-looking resume that consisted mainly of "in-the-industry" experience. He "implemented" this, "organized" that...B. asked him about 20 questions in all. Mix-n-match. From very basic, to very complex issues, and no theoretical, textbook stuff. You had to be there to fix it. It was appropriate, given that this dude ws claiming most of his qualifications from field experience.
He managed to answer from 20, oh, about one question. He got stumped on 19 other problems that he was supposed to be at least familiar with. His resume was a hoax. The "implementation" entries apparently meant that he carried PCs around for some project. No, really.
It's hard to properly qualify this type of candidate. This is how sometimes morons get hired into companies, and end up being a drain of resources and a problem waiting to happen, that most often their peers or boss will have to fix. Morons get stuck into jobs in the next cube beside people like you and me and they entail an ugly and exhausting cycle of damage control. All this to say, a college degree will at least indicate that the candidate is not a bum-off-the-street building a CV on fabrications, trickery and subterfuge. Saves time for most employers IMO. And if the person has proved that they can learn in school, they can likely learn and train to do well on the job.
Well, if you can use one as an asset to get a job, then the degree is inherently useful - for that.
And where the stray electrons combine, a jet of the single largest particle gets released - the hardon.
J.C. van Damme is also Belgian. Among others, he is famed for having been a professional ballet dancer before getting into martial arts and acting. Not a good start there...
...for your comics, as well.
No "Jobs" for these guys:)
Sorry, I tried stopping myself