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I think this comic nailed it:

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-07-29/

or send them this link http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-08-05/

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-05-31/

There was a great dilbert comic on this not long ago http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-06-26/?CmtOrder=Rating&CmtDir=DESC. Me, I'm so sick of apple AND android fanboy new items. The ipad is nice to use... until you actually want to use it like a computer, most people don't and that makes me sad.

Today's Dilbert is right on topic: SHHHH! It hears you. .

I don't like being packaged and sold as a commodity.

Dilbert comic strip for 07/01/2012 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.

I'm sure 10M$ is enough and he is using proper technologies: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-01-24/

relevant: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-07-17

No he used British people's response to a situation to illustrate that they perceive many French people are willing to admit openly to disliking arabs. How you expressed your nonsense point is even more dissapointing; but I suppose congratulations are in order, there's a dilbert about you

> Developers need to learn to stand up for process. I used to doubt it myself until I worked at a company with a functioning process. Today, I'm working for a company with no process again and it's a nightmare.

A process isn't a silver bullet either. Sometimes the *lack* of process IS the process too. Let me explain this heresy ...

On one job I worked at we didn't have a process for the first 6 months. We had 5 developers. Normally this would of a recipe for complete disaster. Except we had 3 things in our favor:

- Everyone was senior with lots of experience
- Everyone had a clear vision of what we were building
- Everyone had a passion for making the best product we could

Everyday us programmers would talk with the lead saying I'm working on this sub-system .. How do we do we need it to interface with the rest of the systems?

By not having management stop productivity with the typical bullshit meetings us programmers had all the time we needed to design & implement. It is one of the few times in my life where I have seen total anarchy work beautiful. It is akin to Valve's "Cabal" system -- there are no manager; everyone is on the same level. This is a must read for anyone wondering how an anarchistic system can even work
http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf

With the RIGHT people a formal process itself is not even needed. BUT I would agree though this is extremely rare; having some structure is better then no structure.

Recently there was a talk on innovation. Sometimes the best thing a company can do is NOT DE-motivate people.
http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-07-06/

Just in time for today's dilbert

http://www.dilbert.com/2012-07-12/

Work smarter, not harder: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-07-06/ .

Because innovation is the same way - Ballmer doesn't want to be out-innovated in any of the established "hot" areas but he doesn't know what he doesn't know.

Why am I reminded of this Dilbert cartoon from last week?

A decree from the CEO to be more innovative largely means nothing if they can't actually make the change in a meaningful way and bring out products.

If Microsoft has been innovating and not creating products, they're idiots. If they haven't been innovating, well, that's the fundamental problem, isn't it?

Microsoft has been so mired in the "copy someone else's product badly" mentality for so long, I question if Balmer understand what needs to be done to fix this. Certainly not just a speech.

Reminds me of my favorite Dilbert comic.

Obligatory: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-05-19/

Also known as Mordac, the preventer of information services.

What is the probability that a perfect coin will land either heads or tails? The probability is 1. What is the probability that it will land neither? The probability is 0. It's pretty simple.

Not necessarily

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-10-12/

I was more thinking of this one:
http://www.dilbert.com/2012-03-06/

http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/100000/60000/2000/800/162865/162865.strip.gif

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-10-12/

That would be cool, at least until the computer misinterprets a standard blink as a click and I screw the system up in the blink of an eye, as it were.

Or I suppose you could only count single-eye winks, which runs the risk some humorous misunderstandings / beatings, depending on who is in the vicinity.

You could use motion sensitive rings on your fingers to sense input, but then you run the risk of looking like a moron playing with imaginary sock puppets: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-10-12/

obDilbert: http://search.dilbert.com/comic/One%20Button%20Factory

Other than the fact that iOS/Android have got a large, possibly majority chunk of the final smartphone market share (including future adopters) already wrapped up, and the fact that the 3 OSs are presently App-incompatible (any predictions for when cross-phone-platform convergence will come? not soon, I'd say) there's nothing to hate in Windows phone.

Good hardware, nicely done OS, just a shortage of people using it and writing apps for it - I think the app problem isn't nearly as big as the fact that most people who are making a smartphone decision at this point will likely follow in their friends' footsteps, rather than making their own objective decision.

Appropriate recent Dilbert.

defined scope ... network philosophy ... paradigm

Bingo!

http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/100000/60000/0000/400/160498/160498.strip.print.gif

Couldn't find the "mashup" on dilberts site, but still good.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-01-07/

Maybe these guys worked on their marketing campaign? http://dilbert.com/fast/2011-05-10

Obligatory

policies. LOL. 802.1x is what you need.

Which is fine and lovely if your IT department is willing to implement it.

At the time when the guy was asking for this the response from IT was "we don't care, you have two network drops, that's all you get". So he said the hell with them and got himself the router. They eventually had to resolve his issue because he had about 6 computers in his office.

In many places, IT is still operating like they did in the 90's -- with users needing to beg for scraps because the IT guys just aren't willing to do anything to "their" stuff. Mostly they act like Mordac the Preventer.

Places where IT has learned it's there to support the business tend to be able to get things done better because the tail isn't wagging the dog.

Since I currently work in one of those shops, it's a different mentality -- the business users are the clients, and real business need trumps anybody getting the idea that some infrastructure component is their own little fiefdom to be ran according to their own whims. When a user comes to us, we're expected to find a solution, not tell them it's not allowed.

I'm an old Unix admin who does not resemble a terrorist in the slightest.

I dunno...

At least he doesn't have to learn UNIX.

Geek? nah, you're just a poser. Linux/Unix = fast. The Dilbert comic without the other crap.

Here's how you should have done it:
http://dilbert.com/fast/1997-11-04/

This should help you out -- you can just make your own jokes!

I always remember the following Dilbert strip from 1997 when I hear the words Cobol programmer:

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-11-04/

It's the best way to turn your worthless equity into valuable brokerage fees.

You aren't going to be walking by their desk every couple of hours, and see what they're doing. Managers are often used to being able to do this.

"Stop dropping in like that!!" *whack!*

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-05-31/

It's using a grenade to take out a single guy on a bus.

No.

I think that your comment is hyberbole

No shit! Stop the presses!!!((1<<3)|3)

hyperbole /hprbl/:
Noun:Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Synonyms: exaggeration - hyperbola - overstatement

DDoS is not like using a grenade on a bus.

</sigh> http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-01-05/

Fine, let's spell it out for you:

Definition for figure of speech:
trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.

trope /trp/

Noun:A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.
Verb:Create a trope.
Synonyms:metaphor

metaphor /metfôr/
Noun:A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, esp. something abstract.

As portrayed in http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/20000/6000/200/26257/26257.strip.gif

Obligatory.

I'm betting this was the meteor that Scott Adams happened to see : http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/gods_matchbox/ (warning: Adams' website has become practically unreadable due to the desperate explosion of intrusive advertising. I read the RSS feed, which carries the full articles.)

You do know what a scraper is, right? It's a script. An automated script. One that no human generally deals with (unless it's broken).

As a matter of fact, I do. But oddly enough, yesterday's Dilbert cartoon is apropos.

If something is scraping it, it is available to be read by humans.

Now, if they tell us that under no circumstances will any entity ever peek into my data then I'd believe it to be secure. Well, even then, I'm not sure I'd "believe" that.

Otherwise, it's being opened and read and cataloged and indexed. I don't care if it's a scraper, or an intern at that point. You may see a magical difference between those, but I don't.

Bug bounty: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-13/

Granted it's external rather than internal pay for a bug, but at $20k a piece, it wouldn't take a sleazy employee like ratbert long to figure out...

Ah - PHB encryption!

Understood. To that point, I asked him specifically about people who had stockpiled supplies *and* weapons, and he said he would leave them alone. But, he says, there are enough people in his area who's politics or personal beliefs wouldn't allow them to arm themselves (well, he said it differently but that's the gist) that at least on the short term he'd have easy pickings.

And then, about a month later, I saw this, which is a fairly good summary of his position.

Incidentally, I have 3 months of supplies, medical gear, seeds, solar power, *and* defensive weaponry, and he knows it. (Which is a good thing, I guess...)

In other news, that girl at Occupy Wall Street who was in the news awhile back, who was saying we should all go back to an agrarian society despite the fact that a good portion of the population would starve to death, because "well, you know, people die"... I'm wondering if she has any plans on how she's going to defend her crops. Or if people like my survivalist friend would just move in and take her harvest at the appropriate time.

Sure, but the post you are replying to is still correct. Notice how those trials and judgments are after the fact? During the events "following orders" was reality. You can try to hide from it, you can wish it weren't true, but that's how the world works.

Hold it. Are you saying stuff like this is "right, initially". And only become wrong after the fact?

I've seen this before.

And that, friends and neighbors, is the real takeaway. The world is run by PHBs. And the winning PHBs can rewrite history as easily as they can rewrite rules. So yeah, in disgusting truth, "objectively wrong" stuff really does become wrong only after the fact.

Rather than quote XKCD for the funnies, I thought I'd dip a little further back and go for Dilbert instead http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/

Obligatory Dilbert comic strip

Your far too nice for IT.

see http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-13/