Someone in management who tasked him with this certainly had it in mind, but that person is likely not doing so with the full backing (or even knowledge) of the actual company ownership. Likely this person is just very shrewdly using using him as a pawn to seek out where the actual enemies lie in a much larger game of backstabbing office politics. Likely this person's head is going to be the next one on the chopping block.
Seriously. If this is how they're running their operation to this day, chances are its not just harmless, easily washed-away naivety that is keeping everything so poorly organized and insecure. Chances are you're going to find this out the hard way though, and they'll mysteriously get instantaneously far less apparently incompetent when it comes to finding ways to get you fired first.
I don't get this whole "shilling for cows" thing. Is it just a social experiment to see who responds to you? Is there some deep philosophical or political statement you're making here? I suspect there is a subtext that I'm missing other than that you clearly don't approve of cows either.
Actually, sorry that wouldn't be vague enough. It would be probably more something like "all interactions between users and [the website] are for entertainment purposes only."
No, before you sign up you have to agree to terms of service, and somewhere hidden deep in the fine print is some incredibly vague sentence like "all interactions between users are purely for entertainment purposes only" which, if necessary in a court of law, they can easily construe to mean that the users agreed to be lied to.
Porn/cam/sexchat sites regularly do this too, and probably pretty much 100% of the rest of the adult on-line hook-up/dating sites as well. Sorry guys, melonsacidhoney69 isn't real. Neither is Pro Wrestling. Sorry.
... unless of course you're terrified of computers and networks, view them as tantamount to witchcraft, don't understand them, and hate and fear anyone who does. Then of course, by all means, grab your torch and pitchfork. The rest of the loonies will be waiting in the town square at midnight.
But based on what we know about the basic building blocks of life as we know it there's nothing to suggest they would have to originate from a planet that is habitable, nor that they would even all have to come from the same place to get combined somewhere that is habitable in the same way they were combined here on Earth.
Well that's obviously what he's trying to infer, but I remain skeptical. Its too much like a slave saying his new master is totally ethical because his beatings don't leave marks as often.
In most large IT departments of government organizations and multinationals/mega-corps, it is not the user's job to try to do their job better in this fashion. It is their job to do their job how they are told, and using the tools that were pre-approved by the people whose job it is.
He probably doesn't want that type of responsibility. I'd do it in a heartbeat though, and at bargain rates, but I assume that if the real thing holding back their willingness/ability to use Linux right was the lack of just one competent sysadmin willing to spend a few weeks on training staff how to do things in Linux that they take for granted having already learned in Windows then they would have hired such a person long, long ago - before the Linux deployment. No, whatever the real reasons, that is clearly just an excuse. This whole orchestration probably has something to do with forcing the government's hand on IT spending, and may have been actually the plan all along before the initial switch to Linux. The fact that the claims are absurd and googleably false and sound more like first-week helpdesk interns' forced opinions about Linux without any training or accountability than the analysis of actually experienced IT staff is the proof something more is going on here we're not being told about.
Here's the point where we differ. You actually think this statement has been proven to be anything other than completely farcical, despite failing to show why. You purport to naively assume this to be the case, but its provably factually inaccurate based on numerous prior incidents. Microsoft is NO friend of interoperability, despite the fact they haven't managed to completely quash it in all aspects of their software interactions with foreign systems. In your gleeful fervor to try to show off your sophomoric understanding of tech terminology and attempt to sound intelligent and invalidate my entire argument based on one subjective choice of wording, you've clearly missed the point of my entire argument, which is that Microsoft *certainly* would sabotage NTP, and its probable that this one old man is the only thing cultivating the industry-wide support for NTP that has so far held them back from doing so. And you can bet that his desk chair won't even be cold before they're trying to figure out how to stuff banner ads into the protocol so you have to watch a 30 second clip about erectile dysfunction medication before your clock will sync up to the network time.
Frankly I've satisfied myself that you're a paid shill, so this conversation is over.
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This sounds like a situation created by management. In which case management is likely to be unwilling to do what is actually needed to fix it.
Sadly, this seems quite common.
Someone in management who tasked him with this certainly had it in mind, but that person is likely not doing so with the full backing (or even knowledge) of the actual company ownership. Likely this person is just very shrewdly using using him as a pawn to seek out where the actual enemies lie in a much larger game of backstabbing office politics. Likely this person's head is going to be the next one on the chopping block.
Seriously. If this is how they're running their operation to this day, chances are its not just harmless, easily washed-away naivety that is keeping everything so poorly organized and insecure. Chances are you're going to find this out the hard way though, and they'll mysteriously get instantaneously far less apparently incompetent when it comes to finding ways to get you fired first.
Works amazingly well for me on Linux, even with a rather old NVidia card, FYI.
No more lame excuses, Blizzard.
Its just IE12. They changed the name in an attempt to ditch the stink of earlier versions of IE.
I wish you would shut the fuck up. How does that make you feel?
I miss when Theora was cool too. :(
I don't get this whole "shilling for cows" thing. Is it just a social experiment to see who responds to you? Is there some deep philosophical or political statement you're making here? I suspect there is a subtext that I'm missing other than that you clearly don't approve of cows either.
JQuery.
Well, if they're not bots then they're probably employees.
Actually, sorry that wouldn't be vague enough. It would be probably more something like "all interactions between users and [the website] are for entertainment purposes only."
No, before you sign up you have to agree to terms of service, and somewhere hidden deep in the fine print is some incredibly vague sentence like "all interactions between users are purely for entertainment purposes only" which, if necessary in a court of law, they can easily construe to mean that the users agreed to be lied to.
Porn/cam/sexchat sites regularly do this too, and probably pretty much 100% of the rest of the adult on-line hook-up/dating sites as well. Sorry guys, melonsacidhoney69 isn't real. Neither is Pro Wrestling. Sorry.
... unless of course you're terrified of computers and networks, view them as tantamount to witchcraft, don't understand them, and hate and fear anyone who does. Then of course, by all means, grab your torch and pitchfork. The rest of the loonies will be waiting in the town square at midnight.
But based on what we know about the basic building blocks of life as we know it there's nothing to suggest they would have to originate from a planet that is habitable, nor that they would even all have to come from the same place to get combined somewhere that is habitable in the same way they were combined here on Earth.
They probably hacked her phone too.
No, many of us have been shouting about this for so long that everyone else stopped listening.
Well that's obviously what he's trying to infer, but I remain skeptical. Its too much like a slave saying his new master is totally ethical because his beatings don't leave marks as often.
... is that this guy admits to being completely unqualified to actually comment on what an appropriate work:life balance actually is.
In most large IT departments of government organizations and multinationals/mega-corps, it is not the user's job to try to do their job better in this fashion. It is their job to do their job how they are told, and using the tools that were pre-approved by the people whose job it is.
He probably doesn't want that type of responsibility. I'd do it in a heartbeat though, and at bargain rates, but I assume that if the real thing holding back their willingness/ability to use Linux right was the lack of just one competent sysadmin willing to spend a few weeks on training staff how to do things in Linux that they take for granted having already learned in Windows then they would have hired such a person long, long ago - before the Linux deployment. No, whatever the real reasons, that is clearly just an excuse. This whole orchestration probably has something to do with forcing the government's hand on IT spending, and may have been actually the plan all along before the initial switch to Linux. The fact that the claims are absurd and googleably false and sound more like first-week helpdesk interns' forced opinions about Linux without any training or accountability than the analysis of actually experienced IT staff is the proof something more is going on here we're not being told about.
... answer is a resounding "no".
Here's the point where we differ. You actually think this statement has been proven to be anything other than completely farcical, despite failing to show why. You purport to naively assume this to be the case, but its provably factually inaccurate based on numerous prior incidents. Microsoft is NO friend of interoperability, despite the fact they haven't managed to completely quash it in all aspects of their software interactions with foreign systems. In your gleeful fervor to try to show off your sophomoric understanding of tech terminology and attempt to sound intelligent and invalidate my entire argument based on one subjective choice of wording, you've clearly missed the point of my entire argument, which is that Microsoft *certainly* would sabotage NTP, and its probable that this one old man is the only thing cultivating the industry-wide support for NTP that has so far held them back from doing so. And you can bet that his desk chair won't even be cold before they're trying to figure out how to stuff banner ads into the protocol so you have to watch a 30 second clip about erectile dysfunction medication before your clock will sync up to the network time.
Frankly I've satisfied myself that you're a paid shill, so this conversation is over.
(The plan to bilk the public for even more money, that is.)
You've never actually tried to use Microsoft products with anything else, have you?