I'm going to buy it just because it got slashdotted!
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Sorry man but I think you got me all wrong. When I say that I won't do anything "special" to make her feel welcome, that just means that I won't treat her any different than any of my male coworkers. As with the guys, I ask the girls if they want to go out to lunch with a group of us, but I don't do things like spend more time with them to get them up or expect less of them when they are getting used to the environment. I will treat them exactly like I would treat one of the guys, which is exactly how I believe it should be.
Actually, I'm on the opposite end as most here, a lot of you have horror stories about sexual harrassment, but it's always been the opposite in my experience. I've felt more open in communicating with the women, I wouldn't really talk about sexual oriented stuff with the guys or the gals though, that kind of area you just want to stear far clear from when being a government contractor. I've never felt the slightest bit of a threat of sexual harrassment for things like talking to a female coworker, opening the door for one of them or asking one of them to join me for lunch. Maybe because I talk about my wife and kids with them, that may be the difference here. Also, I'm in VA and not in NY or CA, that probably makes a difference.
I would suggest getting a lawyer because you should be able to have several sexual harrassment suits on your hands, you won't need to work there much longer.
All kidding aside, I have worked several times where there was one girl who joined the crew. It never really made a difference to me, I didn't sit there with my other male co-workers and talk about how she didn't deserve to be here and had to prove herself worthy or anything crazy like that. I never did anything special to make her feel welcome, nor should I have had to.
I have been on the other side of it though, when I was hired as the only in-house developer for a company and I was pretty much the only guy in an office environment with about 10 ladies. I never really felt out of place, but I had to put on headphones to get any work done because all they did was yak and gossip all day...
thanks for the input, the thing people have to know here though is that these are UNIX systems, they are behind a firewall, so you must be on our networks to even ping them (yes, I know there are so many backdoors to that), but if you fail 3 times, the account gets locked out and I have to call my admin to have him reset it. If this happens often, they can easily look at the audit logs and find out where all of these failure attempts are coming from. Brute force could take you over 50 years if you could only attempt two times per day to avoid lockouts. Also, the passwords have to be very long, contain at least one capitol letter, one digit and one "other" character (#, &, !, etc), also they must be at least 5 characters different than the previous 10 passwords used, so to me, it's not easier than remembering a phone number. I hate writing down passwords because it's so easy for someone else to get ahold of.
What I want to know is if this guy supports the "change your server passwords every 90 days" crap. There are about 30 passwords that I need to remember for different servers here and the admins think that it's more secure to make the passwords change every 90 days, requiring the people to write down the passwords because they can't keep remembering them. To me, it seems like a much more secure idea to change the passwords when a person who knows one of the passwords leaves. If you wait for the 90 days to be up, you risk them getting in unauthorized anyway. Changing passwords for no good reason other than a time limit is just rediculous.
What about when we start using these quantum drives, I can see it now, an error happens with the hard drive, a neutron goes flying off an atom, smashes another atom, setting off a chain reaction... Oops, there goes your whole neighborhood!
I say keep wikipedia as it currently is, you can add a disclaimer to the top of every page saying that the information is freely edited and may be false, but if I wanted an encyclopedia that was completely written by a bunch of elitist self-important ivy-league PhDs, then I would just dust off my encyclopedia brittanica books.
Yea I guess I should retract my comment, especially since here at the US Patent Office I just heard we may be using linux for our new DMS solution. Still, I doubt there will ever be an OSX box in our server room.
Yea, I understand that. I don't mind them printing sections of the code in order to explain them, but when they print whole source files especially when they include the long EULA statements at the tops of the headers, it's very annoying.
I've never run into any hardware that didn't provide me with a printed manual, but most of my equipment has PDFs available for download in addition to the included printed manual, which I find convenient. I would be pretty annoyed if they didn't provide me with a printed version as well though.
Ok, the first chapter sounds like a waste, you can easily find this kind of info online or in the docs. I wonder how much of the 266 pages is taken up by useless stuff such as printing the contents of the source code that is on the CD included (assuming a CD is included). This is my biggest peave with tech books, reprinting the source code to fill space, reprinting online docs to fill space and giving you intro information on how to program.
oh ok, sort of like the old cracks that would sniff the file contents while being downloaded before the DRM was placed on the streams. Thanks for clearing that up.
Yea that's not a crack at all, especially if it still takes the time of the length of the song to convert. Any newbie programmer could write something that plays a song in iTunes and records it with the soundcard in a batch process.
Funny, for the most part, it does seem like more of a kid's O/S or a wanna-be hacker's O/S (There are exceptions of course, so no need to flame me). I don't see that any serious organizations are going to be switching from HP-UX or AIX to a version of unix made by Apple any more than they would be likely to switch to Linux. I think that our admins here would laugh if we said we wanted to switch all of our AIX servers over to OSX, I don't think I would be able to make that suggestion with a straight face either.
In this case, I would say not to distribute in that country then. The same goes for China. If they don't want you to show articles to poeple in their country, then don't show them anything, that doesn't affect what you can show people in your own country.
The ads are probably 30 second annoying junk you have to listen to before the song starts and of course, the list of artists is probably not very good. I can imagine they will put all the lame artists that they are trying to promote on this program and reserve the *good* ones for 30 second samples that you only get to listen to after 30 seconds of ads.
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I'm going to buy it just because it got slashdotted!
"I wanna die by a misadventure. Wanna die face down in some dudes pool. Not gonna kick it in my sleep, chokin on my dentures. When I die Jack its gonna be Real Cool!!!"
Sorry man but I think you got me all wrong. When I say that I won't do anything "special" to make her feel welcome, that just means that I won't treat her any different than any of my male coworkers. As with the guys, I ask the girls if they want to go out to lunch with a group of us, but I don't do things like spend more time with them to get them up or expect less of them when they are getting used to the environment. I will treat them exactly like I would treat one of the guys, which is exactly how I believe it should be.
Actually, I'm on the opposite end as most here, a lot of you have horror stories about sexual harrassment, but it's always been the opposite in my experience. I've felt more open in communicating with the women, I wouldn't really talk about sexual oriented stuff with the guys or the gals though, that kind of area you just want to stear far clear from when being a government contractor. I've never felt the slightest bit of a threat of sexual harrassment for things like talking to a female coworker, opening the door for one of them or asking one of them to join me for lunch. Maybe because I talk about my wife and kids with them, that may be the difference here. Also, I'm in VA and not in NY or CA, that probably makes a difference.
I would suggest getting a lawyer because you should be able to have several sexual harrassment suits on your hands, you won't need to work there much longer.
All kidding aside, I have worked several times where there was one girl who joined the crew. It never really made a difference to me, I didn't sit there with my other male co-workers and talk about how she didn't deserve to be here and had to prove herself worthy or anything crazy like that. I never did anything special to make her feel welcome, nor should I have had to.
I have been on the other side of it though, when I was hired as the only in-house developer for a company and I was pretty much the only guy in an office environment with about 10 ladies. I never really felt out of place, but I had to put on headphones to get any work done because all they did was yak and gossip all day...
thanks for the input, the thing people have to know here though is that these are UNIX systems, they are behind a firewall, so you must be on our networks to even ping them (yes, I know there are so many backdoors to that), but if you fail 3 times, the account gets locked out and I have to call my admin to have him reset it. If this happens often, they can easily look at the audit logs and find out where all of these failure attempts are coming from. Brute force could take you over 50 years if you could only attempt two times per day to avoid lockouts. Also, the passwords have to be very long, contain at least one capitol letter, one digit and one "other" character (#, &, !, etc), also they must be at least 5 characters different than the previous 10 passwords used, so to me, it's not easier than remembering a phone number. I hate writing down passwords because it's so easy for someone else to get ahold of.
What I want to know is if this guy supports the "change your server passwords every 90 days" crap. There are about 30 passwords that I need to remember for different servers here and the admins think that it's more secure to make the passwords change every 90 days, requiring the people to write down the passwords because they can't keep remembering them. To me, it seems like a much more secure idea to change the passwords when a person who knows one of the passwords leaves. If you wait for the 90 days to be up, you risk them getting in unauthorized anyway. Changing passwords for no good reason other than a time limit is just rediculous.
What about when we start using these quantum drives, I can see it now, an error happens with the hard drive, a neutron goes flying off an atom, smashes another atom, setting off a chain reaction... Oops, there goes your whole neighborhood!
This would be a great replacement for the 12 inch dongle that's in my pocket currently... er, I mean 12 GB dongle.
I say keep wikipedia as it currently is, you can add a disclaimer to the top of every page saying that the information is freely edited and may be false, but if I wanted an encyclopedia that was completely written by a bunch of elitist self-important ivy-league PhDs, then I would just dust off my encyclopedia brittanica books.
So, it uses mshtml.dll and MFC? I would hardly call it a 264kb application then.
Yea I guess I should retract my comment, especially since here at the US Patent Office I just heard we may be using linux for our new DMS solution. Still, I doubt there will ever be an OSX box in our server room.
ok, does it delete your IP address from the web server logs too? No? Ok, I guess it doesn't protect your privacy.
Yea, I understand that. I don't mind them printing sections of the code in order to explain them, but when they print whole source files especially when they include the long EULA statements at the tops of the headers, it's very annoying. I've never run into any hardware that didn't provide me with a printed manual, but most of my equipment has PDFs available for download in addition to the included printed manual, which I find convenient. I would be pretty annoyed if they didn't provide me with a printed version as well though.
Ok, the first chapter sounds like a waste, you can easily find this kind of info online or in the docs. I wonder how much of the 266 pages is taken up by useless stuff such as printing the contents of the source code that is on the CD included (assuming a CD is included). This is my biggest peave with tech books, reprinting the source code to fill space, reprinting online docs to fill space and giving you intro information on how to program.
oh ok, sort of like the old cracks that would sniff the file contents while being downloaded before the DRM was placed on the streams. Thanks for clearing that up.
It sounds like kind of the X-Men of single celled organisms.
Yea that's not a crack at all, especially if it still takes the time of the length of the song to convert. Any newbie programmer could write something that plays a song in iTunes and records it with the soundcard in a batch process.
Funny, for the most part, it does seem like more of a kid's O/S or a wanna-be hacker's O/S (There are exceptions of course, so no need to flame me). I don't see that any serious organizations are going to be switching from HP-UX or AIX to a version of unix made by Apple any more than they would be likely to switch to Linux. I think that our admins here would laugh if we said we wanted to switch all of our AIX servers over to OSX, I don't think I would be able to make that suggestion with a straight face either.
In this case, I would say not to distribute in that country then. The same goes for China. If they don't want you to show articles to poeple in their country, then don't show them anything, that doesn't affect what you can show people in your own country.
If they have to follow the british law, they have to follow it, else get sued like MS is getting sued by the EU.
Does this mean we will be able to use googlepay on ebay?
ouch?
Can I use this technology to power my car?
The ads are probably 30 second annoying junk you have to listen to before the song starts and of course, the list of artists is probably not very good. I can imagine they will put all the lame artists that they are trying to promote on this program and reserve the *good* ones for 30 second samples that you only get to listen to after 30 seconds of ads.