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A fun thing is also that if you get sick on your vacation days, you'll get replacement vacation days.

Obligatory Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-02-21/

Ooops. 16 years ago.

http://search.dilbert.com/search?p=R&srid=S3-USWSD02&lbc=dilbert&w=smut&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdilbert.com%2Fstrips%2Fcomic%2F1996-01-24%2F&rk=2&uid=75729047&sid=2&ts=custom&rsc=SZihVF4sjzoF0:Ar&method=and&isort=date&view=list&filter=type%3Acomic

http://dilbert.com/fast/1993-04-11/

For people who aren't into Windoze and Crapintoshes. You know, Unix/Linux folk.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1993-04-11/

Do I look like I'm made of time?!

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-04-06/

I'm just replying to tell you to FAST IT UP with Dilbert Fast.
http://dilbert.com/fast/2003-04-06/
Linux/Unix.

Do I look like I'm made of time?!

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-04-06/

I'm just replying to tell you to FAST IT UP with Dilbert Fast.
http://dilbert.com/fast/2003-04-06/
Linux/Unix.

Do I look like I'm made of time?!

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-04-06/

Ernie the unpackageable
http://search.dilbert.com/search?w=unpackageable&x=0&y=0

You wanted it to be random, and sometimes random is uniform. So sorry, that's how math works.

Thanks for the great lead in to this

"...doubled down"?

Is that the latest trendy phrase over there?

Scott Adams mentioned it today, I thought he was exaggerating. Apparently not.

Yes. You're late to the party.

Translation: It didn't work before, so now we'll do it twice as hard.

"...doubled down"?

Is that the latest trendy phrase over there?

Scott Adams mentioned it today, I thought he was exaggerating. Apparently not.

http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2003-06-19/
Fast, it's for people who know about shit. Shit like Unix/Linux. seriously.

http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2003-06-19/

Samsung, which lost the suit filed by Apple

Samsung hasn't lost the suit filed by Apple. You lose the suit when a court enters judgement against you, and no judgement has yet been entered by the trial court in Apple v. Samsung. A jury verdict has been returned on which the trial court has not yet entered judgement; the judgement in the case might follow the jury verdict, or it might dispense with it. In fact, the entire issue over juror misconduct relates to one of the grounds on which the trial court is being urged not to enter a judgement which reflects the jury verdict, and, if it succeeds, Samsung will not lose the case. This is not an appeal of a case they have lost, it is part of the process of case in the original trial court prior to a judgement being issued.

Well, I suppose loosing a suit is better than being slapped with one:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-02-25/

As an engineer, I believe that Scott Adams has it right, once again.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-01-31/

Rational analysis will lead to better outcomes than emotionally driven behavior.

[[citation needed]].

In the absence of a rational analysis supporting your claim, I can only conclude it is purely emotional (wishful thinking). See also a a recent Dilbert cartoon.

so i guess your one of the people I'm going to see on the news...complaining theres no power/water for a week. but this could have been prevented if you used some common sense.
yea, this storm may do nothing. but then again, it may do nothing, but stall here, making it dangerous to drive anywhere until the storm ends. by not preparing yourself, your relying on ME or the govt to help you. and you know, i wont. these are MY supplies. and the govt wont either.. we can hope everything goes well for you.

Yep, I don't have an ounce of that there common sense thing. My house isn't on a flood plain, is not in the known path of either tornadoes or hurricanes, has good drainage and a rebar-reinforced retaining wall. I'm on the same part of the grid as the local Intel fab plant, which has some kind of special deal with the local electric company. (All these choices were deliberate, and the result of research before hand.) As a result, in 19 years living here, I've had one (1) outage when the cable guy dug up the electrical with a backhoe a few years back. I have a battery powered radio, to supplement the radios in the cars and on my bike, and hurricane lanterns which have frankly never been used because the power never goes out. Also other emergency and medical supplies, which I've never used but still inspect occasionally. (Probably not often enough.)

I have three modes of heating the house -- gas, electrical and wood. I've never had to use the electrical, and I use the gas very rarely, usually to take the sting out of the air while the wood stove is ramping up. (I used to work for the local gas company, so got a pretty good deal on plumbing out the house and putting in gas appliances.) Yes, I know where all the cutoff valves are.

In theory we could cook on the gas burner or in the woodstove, but we've never had to because the power has yet to go out.

I have 6 months of food storage in the garage, for which I am routinely ridiculed by my wife and child. Yes, I do rotate it. Yes, I did think of dog food, and crystallized ascorbic acid. (It has a longer shelf life than vitamin C pills.)

I have solar panels in the back yard topping off a series of marine batteries, attached to a circuit with 12 volt (RV) lights, and an industrial grade inverter. I currently use solar power exclusively in a detached workroom but could use it in the main house if the power ever fails.

And no, I did not make this mistake.

Fuel is somewhat of a problem. I don't have a solution for that yet. I don't believe the local ordinances will allow a fuel storage tank.

But yeah, I guess I don' have any of that there common sense.

So, facetiousness aside, when disaster strikes, it's usually not here, and even when it is (we have flooding, wind storms and the occasional ice storm) it has not been a problem, so far. And so, natural disasters are generally something I watch on TV.

I'm gonna have to go with Scott Adams on this one. The best summary of Romney's plan is: "You know I'm a brilliant and experienced turnaround guy. I know how to do this sort of thing. And if I give details now it just paints a target on my back. So chill."

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/interesting_day/

Also, I am bemused that the man who ran on a platform "hope and change", the man who straight-up said "I serve as a blank screen" upon which people could project their hopes, the man who hasn't proposed to do anything different in the next four years yet he says things will somehow stop getting worse and get better... that this man is trying to nail Romney as not being specific enough about his plans?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/12/obama_scores_as_an_exotic_who.html

On the other hand, the official Obama budget plan is that the USA borrows over a trillion dollars every year for the foreseeable future, but interest rates won't go up much or otherwise be a problem. The official numbers from the OMB are that Medicare just runs out of money in 2024, yet the Obama administration has done nothing to change this; instead, Obama jacked over $700 billion out of Medicare. His fans say that this plundering only "makes Medicare stronger" and that Medicare having less money to pay out doesn't hurt Medicare recipients in any way... that is pure fantasy.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/05/medicare-and-social-security-will-run-out-sooner-than-thought/

Well, it doesn't really matter. Romney is about to win; look at the polls. We will find out whether the Romney recovery plan is worth a +5 Funny moderation or not.

But nothing keeps an enterprise customer from buying consumer-class equipment if that also fits the specific requirements.

Those similar priced markets only exist because they have different requirements. "Targeting a business market segment" is not a carte blanche for selling the same crap at overprized rates.

Except of course this company: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-10-21/

Yeah, we know.

How do you know it wasn't really a human?

Well, no, that's not going to happen, if for no other reason than exactly the same economists who screwed up the first time are the same ones being asked how to fix the problem. Shame programming doesn't work that way: http://search.dilbert.com/comic/10%20Dollars%20Bug%20Fix

If any hate is spewing, is targeted against the ex M$ bigwig Elop which brew this destructive strategy.

As pointed out above, it was the board that was already decided at ditching the previous CEO and hiring Elop/MS instead.
Now, as Dilbert has pointed out, this was a strategic move of sheer genius, with which MS has realised three very strategic goals:
1. Windows phone introduced in the market,
2. Nokia, the biggest competitor for their own phone hardware sales ambitions has been crushed,
3. Linux as OS for the mobile phone has been disabled.
Luckily, there is still the Jolla (currently connection time out) initiative with Tizen.

The grand question: How did the Nokia board get played up so much by Microsoft?

In order to place performance over the appearance of labor, management will have to develoop some metrics for measuring actual work done. In its own right, this is a difficult problem in engineering, CS and other disciplines that involve creative, self directed and non-repetitive work*.

Problem: There are employees hiding among the ranks of professional who would never survive such a metric. They would push back against any adoption of actual performance criteria in favor of the status quo. Long hours is something that the untalented can achieve and keep their standing in the workplace.

* A 'professional', as defined in the NLRA.

Relevant Dilbert
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-21/

Very fitting:

http://www.dilbert.com/2012-10-07/ :)

Obligitory Dilbert

You get more with the carrot than with the stick, so unless you're employing a group of starving donkeys I suggest cold, hard cash.

This is obviously true. Unfortunately, giving pennies to lots of peons would mean fewer dollars for senior management to plunder^W uh, award themselves in well-deserved hard-earned bonuses. The stick is what you'll get, because carrots are reserved for management.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-21

... to what Dilbert predicted back in 2004

Vaguely related to the subject of bits and crime police...

Dude, do you resemble this?

I wasn't arguing about the quality of the language nor was I suggesting anyone write an OS with it. But, it is definitely a programming language and it is presently enjoying a very high level of popularity and use.

Your ELD is off.

Maybe not... http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/100000/20000/9000/800/129848/129848.strip.gif

I am a lawyer. This is not legal advice, but you should take it anyway. Wait for your attorney to arrive before telling the cops anything other than "I will require my attorney to be present before answering any questions."

I'm not your wallet. This is not economic advice, but you should take it anyway. Until and unless the police actually arrest you or do something else that gives you reason to call your lawyer, you should just clam up. Or pay the price.

How about " \ . " to profess our love of windows. Of course if we can round up a few million bucks, maybe we can get a corporate designer to come up with something as exciting as 4 colored squares in a square pattern.

(FYI, the new windows logo reminds me of the millions AT&T spent when spinning off Lucent to come up with the "coffee stain" logo that was ridiculed by most including a Dilbert strip.)

How about " \ . " to profess our love of windows. Of course if we can round up a few million bucks, maybe we can get a corporate designer to come up with something as exciting as 4 colored squares in a square pattern.

(FYI, the new windows logo reminds me of the millions AT&T spent when spinning off Lucent to come up with the "coffee stain" logo that was ridiculed by most including a Dilbert strip.)

Coincidentally today's dilbert

If you where a non-functioning person before prison then admittedly time spent in jail could have helped you. But that does not apply to everyone. And I'm not presuming to speak from a position of expertise since I'd have to be able to calculate the chances of getting caught versus getting away which obviously varies from situation to situation - but neither are you, you're arguing via anecdotal evidence. Unless you can supply more and varied data points from people you met in prison, which would admittedly be interesting.

As for "talking shit", you really think I'd talk like that to your face? Again, you're overgeneralizing and assuming that everyone else works the same way. And I am grown up, I simply have a different personality.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-06-24/

here's a nickel, kid.

SYNERGY? =)
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1999-07-20/

You can't argue that a supernatural, omniscient, and omnipotent being would have even the slightest trouble pulling such a simple thing over on us.

I think that's the point: you can't argue it. It's not even wrong. You can't verify or falsify it, and it leads to few practical applications or predictions.

So there's "no place" for God in evolution theory, as God could be plugged in anywhere (not just the two places you mentioned) to destroy almost any argument. It's kind of like... "my queen has an uzi, she slays your entire side"

Did you read yesterday's Dilbert comic and decide to talk like an idiot?

As a bonus, we'll get more eunuch programmers.

Dilbert: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2000-05-28/

This implies that there are about 1.2 million bots worldwide. Seems low.

Not if all of the spam is coming from the same house.

Obligatory Dilbert strip:

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-09-07/

It is customary to reply with an xkcd link.
But today it might be dilbert that sums it up the best.

So I hit submit, move to the next site on my browsing routine and find a somewhat relevant comic, today's Dilbert.