Or as we covered it way back when at a school concert for the benefit of the teachers:
"If it wouldn't displease you too much I'd rather not follow your instructions, please."
The kids got it, and the teachers didn't have a clue.
I think they got the language a little bit wrong in the constitution.
It should not have been "freedom of religion", but "freedom from religion". Easy mistake to make.
... most of what isn't GUI polish in OS X, including WebKit and BSD, is open source.
So Apple did with Open Source that all the Open Source advocates were hoping for! They did their thing with it, and made it work!
The open source crowd should be glad it happened. A tech savvy person can say "sure OSS is fine for the desktop, loop at what Apple did with the Mac.".
Note: on several international keyboard layouts (Belgian Azerty for one, IIRC), the main number set needs shift to be pressed (not the numpad). So parent has a point.
If the company's only options are laying you off or cutting benefits to save costs, suck it up and be happy you still have a job.
If you think you can do better, feel free to walk.
The ones that *will* walk are the ones the company really doesn't want to lose.
Then again, an organization that thinks eliminating free coffee will be a real benefit to the bottom line would not know better even if they get stuck with all the people that are too rigid, dumb or lazy to find a better job.
And even then, if it's a large enough organization, with a smart manager, you might see someone shelling out the money for the coffee themselves just to keep the good workers happy. If you want to survive as an IT company, stop treating people as interchangable resources.
Not nearly as much as you'd think. The reason manufacturers have "premium" brands is because they make buckets of money on the perceived value. There is so much fixed cost in manufacturing that making an "expensive" car costs relatively little extra compared to a "cheap" car.
The trick is getting people to believe the expensive car is worth it, when it almost always isn't.
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Drove my Chevy to Shumacher-Levy?
Or as we covered it way back when at a school concert for the benefit of the teachers:
"If it wouldn't displease you too much I'd rather not follow your instructions, please."
The kids got it, and the teachers didn't have a clue.
At least one automatic gearbox car I know has an *automatic* uphill start brake. The car doesn't roll until you start pressing the accelerator.
When was the last time you changed your mind about a significant, foundational piece of data in your life?
I thought I was wrong once, but it turns out I was mistaken.
Someone mod parent up, it's extremely relevant and informative to the "embrace authority" point of the original article.
Here here.
Where!?
Their!
Why would I want to see a movie about some guy buying a comic book?
It's been done, sort of. "Take On Me" - A-Ha.
it seems like the waterfall model would make more sense for a game.
Come on people, stop quoting waterfall as a valid model for software development. Even in it's original introduction it was used as an example of a *flawed* model!
I prefer parallel bowls myself.
Next stage in my plan for world dumbination: acquiring a university diploma impersonating a cat with a term paper titled "I can haz degree?".
I empathize with your emphasis, but you missed a dot in your ellipsis.
I think they got the language a little bit wrong in the constitution.
It should not have been "freedom of religion", but "freedom from religion". Easy mistake to make.
... most of what isn't GUI polish in OS X, including WebKit and BSD, is open source.
So Apple did with Open Source that all the Open Source advocates were hoping for! They did their thing with it, and made it work!
The open source crowd should be glad it happened. A tech savvy person can say "sure OSS is fine for the desktop, loop at what Apple did with the Mac.".
A lot less, due to size-differences between the US and Europe.
"Mostly harmless"
It was intended as a joke playing off of "atheism", but I failed :)
Although our assistant minister joined us for one game as a cleric of atheism.
I don't believe you. Or should that be "I disbelieve you" ?
Note: on several international keyboard layouts (Belgian Azerty for one, IIRC), the main number set needs shift to be pressed (not the numpad). So parent has a point.
Correction: they always want what YOU haven't got.
Or perhaps apple can get away with a one-button mouse because their apps aren't designed around a two or three-button mouse?
I hear that Chinese HR managers are 20 times cheaper too.
If the company's only options are laying you off or cutting benefits to save costs, suck it up and be happy you still have a job.
If you think you can do better, feel free to walk.
The ones that *will* walk are the ones the company really doesn't want to lose.
Then again, an organization that thinks eliminating free coffee will be a real benefit to the bottom line would not know better even if they get stuck with all the people that are too rigid, dumb or lazy to find a better job.
And even then, if it's a large enough organization, with a smart manager, you might see someone shelling out the money for the coffee themselves just to keep the good workers happy. If you want to survive as an IT company, stop treating people as interchangable resources.
Solid, as in "frozen solid".
Once we run out of living space for all of us, there will be war.
The cynic in my is thinking that's EXACTLY what some of the feet-draggers are hoping for.
Expensive cars cost more to build. .
Not nearly as much as you'd think. The reason manufacturers have "premium" brands is because they make buckets of money on the perceived value. There is so much fixed cost in manufacturing that making an "expensive" car costs relatively little extra compared to a "cheap" car.
The trick is getting people to believe the expensive car is worth it, when it almost always isn't.