Asking the parents' advice ahead of time is great advice. You might have thought that Harry Potter was a story promoting values of loyalty and courage to do the right thing, or that Kiki's Delivery Service was about perseverance and respect for elders. You didn't realize you were trying to convert their kids to witchcraft, or that any music that doesn't talk about Jesus is actually Satan's siren song.
It would be nice if it went both ways. See, while I'm sensitive enough not to gift the Golden Compass trilogy, if I say anything about the picture book of Bible Stories featuring the crucifixion and narrative explaining that the Flood was God's way of drowning all the "wicked people," then I'm the dick, because they're just trying to save my kid's soul.
But yeah, C.S. Lewis is probably something we can all agree on.
My first job out of college many years ago was as a tech writer. I got 'synergized' into also being responsible for producing marketing materials (because I had a Mac, and had figured out how to use Adobe Illustrator and Quark and etc.). It seemed potentially fun at first. I read a few books on graphic design, and pestered a couple of buddies of mine where were employed as actual designers for tips and critiques of my first efforts, which they thought pretty impressive.
The people at work, however, hated it. I learned that at my company, no one else was a tech writer, but EVERYONE was a budding artist, whose many opinions on aesthetics HAD to be listened to. I took to doing three comps for any project, one of which was always the butt-ugliest, most garish, negative-space-ignoring piece of crap I could muster. Guess which one the President and Director of Marketing -always- picked? Everyone thought I was a genius.
Fortunately for you, people like that lady rarely can be bothered to actually go vote, whereas people like this lady take it as their Holy Mission to get to the polls for every single general, primary, or school board election.
Perhaps if we all didn't get so wrapped up in the moral panics and anger points politicians use to manipulate us, you and I could elect people who'd actually do something sane about things like IP laws and their enforcement... you know, "stuff that matters."
What? You think they weren't already sharing the info with select multi-national conglomerates whose CEOs say "exxxxcellent!" while tenting their fingertips?
Meanwhile, they launched some half-baked plan to rewrite the whole thing in Java, while people were bailing from the site out of frustration.
The half-baked plan was to ditch the Java code and rewrite it in PHP, when it's pretty clear the main issue was the way they were representing hierarchical relationships in a SQL relational database (it certainly can be done, but it's easily done poorly).
Either way, it's an excellent example of desperate devs grasping at the straw of "language 'x' sucks, let's rewrite in language 'y'!" and then being disappointed when the switch doesn't spray magick pixie dust curing all their problems.
Perhaps there are better charts available, but from what I see, the cliff-drop in P&G preceded the big action in the USD vs Yen by a good couple hours.
The problem with getting warrants is that they take time to get.
My brother-in-law is a homicide detective. According to him, he can get a warrant in under 30 minutes, if it's important.
We'll be presented with all manner of 24-esque ticking-time-bomb-in-the-school-basement scenarios to illustrate why and when this warrant-less search power would be used. In reality, it will be used to dredge up dirt on status-quo-threatening politicians and political activists that will then be mysteriously leaked to the press.
I fully support Google's decisions regarding China, and I respect your personal decision regarding boycotting Chinese-made products (though I personally won't join in that), but
Everyone seems to agree that Saddam Husein needed to be taken out because he was a bad man.
No. Everyone who took at face value the Halliburton ex-CEO's assertions that Iraq was actively developing WMDs with which to threaten the US and its allies, agreed at the time that Saddam Hussein needed to be taken out. In hindsight, while everyone agrees that Hussein was an evil guy for whom no tears need be shed, most everyone agrees that the invasion of Iraq was one of the most ill-conceived and unwarranted military misadventures ever undertaken by a superpower.
I've been spreading disinformation for years to keep burglars and data miners off of their game. That's great, but while there are many 'Jeff's in the world, and many 'Tom's as well, you are Sancho. Frank Gifford is not Sancho, neither is Scott Baio Sancho. You are Sancho. And really, that's all we need to know... you're hired!
I think what he's getting at is that the Firefox user will install TurboInetSpeedUpAndAdStopper v0.08a (or, say, disable JavaScript), this will break the HR self-service website, and the Firefox user will then file a ticket to complain. Windows/IE does support centrally-managed policies that prevent the 'normal' user from making those changes. AFAIK, Firefox and Chrome do not.
Granted, the reason for the breakage is usually an (over-)reliance by the application developer on bleeding-edge JavaScript to drive a UI that would be equally well-served by an HTML table and some type=button elements. I have the luxury of building the UI for my applications from the ground up, and thus am able to keep things simple enough to run on IE/FF/lynx. But remember that the people charged with supporting things (e.g., Oracle Applications), likely don't.
The US government also censors third-party information so that its citizens cannot access it. Though clearly, tourist information on nice places to visit in Cuba presents a clear and present danger to the State.
Even if you have the best ketchup in the world, you cant make your hamburger better if its all burned up, rotten and full of bugs and worms.
Urg, remind me not to read your comments during lunch.
Aside from shamelessly "borrowing" their "innovations" from other companies, and their strong-arm restraint-of-trade distribution tactics, Microsoft have always been the masters of "good enough." For any of the products Microsoft offers (Visual Studio included) there are several commercial competitors that are demonstrably better, but better in ways that customers don't care about or are unwilling to pay more for.
To embrace and extend your hamburger analogy... over the weekend I had a really tasty burger at a restaurant. The waitress asked how I wanted the meat cooked, and it came out exactly right, the bun was toasted, the cheese melted perfectly, and the trimmings fresh and flavorful. And I paid $9.75 for this burger. For $9.75, I can feed my whole family at McDonalds.
Over my years in the industry, I've seen a lot of bloated and unhappy IT departments that lacked energy and flexibility. And I've always advised them that Microsoft is but a part of a healthy IT budget, and to resist the temptation to super-size it.
As for Microsoft's new-found love for open source, I'll treat it as skeptically as I do fast food joints' healthy salads.
Also note the source in your file... one always suspects that a significant number of Republicans are self-perceived Ubermensch who justify their "I've got mine, fuck you!" outlook with the conceit that they're "beyond good and evil." You rarely see it so openly expressed.
I worked in an 'open' environment for a couple years starting in 1998. I think it was when we hit around 30 employees that the "please be respectful of your neighbor" email memos from the HR lady and started flowing. One of my coworkers had the bright idea to set up an internal icb server, and it worked really really well for the techies... I'll take being able to post URLs and code snippets to ask questions over XtremE!! war-room 'ease of communication' any day.
Once the management figured out why the room had gotten so quiet, however, they sort of freaked out at the notion that they couldn't hear what their employees were chattering about. We got to keep the icb server, but only after some spirited debate.
It's been many years since my dad and I kept a few beehives in the backyard for fun, but foulbrood == fungus didn't ring true with what I'd remembered... and it's not true, foulbrood == baterica.
Ah yes. If only our youth would concern themselves not with creativity, non-conformity, and critical thinking, but instead the Virtues and Values befitting a Christian Nation. Instead of wasting their minds upon the disspative slanders of a crypto-communist like Vonnegut, it would behoove them to instead read a Great Book by an Excellent Mind.
And good news for terrorists who want to operate more effectively in Canada.
If the powers granted by the legislation were never used, and terrorist cells in Canada were disrupted and dismantled during the five years this legislation was in effect, then that's a pretty shallow victory for the terrorists.
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Asking the parents' advice ahead of time is great advice. You might have thought that Harry Potter was a story promoting values of loyalty and courage to do the right thing, or that Kiki's Delivery Service was about perseverance and respect for elders. You didn't realize you were trying to convert their kids to witchcraft, or that any music that doesn't talk about Jesus is actually Satan's siren song.
It would be nice if it went both ways. See, while I'm sensitive enough not to gift the Golden Compass trilogy, if I say anything about the picture book of Bible Stories featuring the crucifixion and narrative explaining that the Flood was God's way of drowning all the "wicked people," then I'm the dick, because they're just trying to save my kid's soul.
But yeah, C.S. Lewis is probably something we can all agree on.
My first job out of college many years ago was as a tech writer. I got 'synergized' into also being responsible for producing marketing materials (because I had a Mac, and had figured out how to use Adobe Illustrator and Quark and etc.). It seemed potentially fun at first. I read a few books on graphic design, and pestered a couple of buddies of mine where were employed as actual designers for tips and critiques of my first efforts, which they thought pretty impressive.
The people at work, however, hated it. I learned that at my company, no one else was a tech writer, but EVERYONE was a budding artist, whose many opinions on aesthetics HAD to be listened to. I took to doing three comps for any project, one of which was always the butt-ugliest, most garish, negative-space-ignoring piece of crap I could muster. Guess which one the President and Director of Marketing -always- picked? Everyone thought I was a genius.
Fortunately for you, people like that lady rarely can be bothered to actually go vote, whereas people like this lady take it as their Holy Mission to get to the polls for every single general, primary, or school board election.
Perhaps if we all didn't get so wrapped up in the moral panics and anger points politicians use to manipulate us, you and I could elect people who'd actually do something sane about things like IP laws and their enforcement... you know, "stuff that matters."
What? You think they weren't already sharing the info with select multi-national conglomerates whose CEOs say "exxxxcellent!" while tenting their fingertips?
The half-baked plan was to ditch the Java code and rewrite it in PHP, when it's pretty clear the main issue was the way they were representing hierarchical relationships in a SQL relational database (it certainly can be done, but it's easily done poorly).
Either way, it's an excellent example of desperate devs grasping at the straw of "language 'x' sucks, let's rewrite in language 'y'!" and then being disappointed when the switch doesn't spray magick pixie dust curing all their problems.
Perhaps there are better charts available, but from what I see, the cliff-drop in P&G preceded the big action in the USD vs Yen by a good couple hours.
The problem with getting warrants is that they take time to get.
My brother-in-law is a homicide detective. According to him, he can get a warrant in under 30 minutes, if it's important.
We'll be presented with all manner of 24-esque ticking-time-bomb-in-the-school-basement scenarios to illustrate why and when this warrant-less search power would be used. In reality, it will be used to dredge up dirt on status-quo-threatening politicians and political activists that will then be mysteriously leaked to the press.
I fully support Google's decisions regarding China, and I respect your personal decision regarding boycotting Chinese-made products (though I personally won't join in that), but
No. Everyone who took at face value the Halliburton ex-CEO's assertions that Iraq was actively developing WMDs with which to threaten the US and its allies, agreed at the time that Saddam Hussein needed to be taken out. In hindsight, while everyone agrees that Hussein was an evil guy for whom no tears need be shed, most everyone agrees that the invasion of Iraq was one of the most ill-conceived and unwarranted military misadventures ever undertaken by a superpower.
I've been spreading disinformation for years to keep burglars and data miners off of their game.
That's great, but while there are many 'Jeff's in the world, and many 'Tom's as well, you are Sancho. Frank Gifford is not Sancho, neither is Scott Baio Sancho. You are Sancho. And really, that's all we need to know... you're hired!
Yeah, I bet the CIO at XXXX has already emailed sammcj's manager saying there's no merit raise for him this year!
I think what he's getting at is that the Firefox user will install TurboInetSpeedUpAndAdStopper v0.08a (or, say, disable JavaScript), this will break the HR self-service website, and the Firefox user will then file a ticket to complain. Windows/IE does support centrally-managed policies that prevent the 'normal' user from making those changes. AFAIK, Firefox and Chrome do not.
Granted, the reason for the breakage is usually an (over-)reliance by the application developer on bleeding-edge JavaScript to drive a UI that would be equally well-served by an HTML table and some type=button elements. I have the luxury of building the UI for my applications from the ground up, and thus am able to keep things simple enough to run on IE/FF/lynx. But remember that the people charged with supporting things (e.g., Oracle Applications), likely don't.
The US government also censors third-party information so that its citizens cannot access it. Though clearly, tourist information on nice places to visit in Cuba presents a clear and present danger to the State.
If only I'd read your summary before wasting time and bandwidth following that link.
Urg, remind me not to read your comments during lunch.
Aside from shamelessly "borrowing" their "innovations" from other companies, and their strong-arm restraint-of-trade distribution tactics, Microsoft have always been the masters of "good enough." For any of the products Microsoft offers (Visual Studio included) there are several commercial competitors that are demonstrably better, but better in ways that customers don't care about or are unwilling to pay more for.
To embrace and extend your hamburger analogy... over the weekend I had a really tasty burger at a restaurant. The waitress asked how I wanted the meat cooked, and it came out exactly right, the bun was toasted, the cheese melted perfectly, and the trimmings fresh and flavorful. And I paid $9.75 for this burger. For $9.75, I can feed my whole family at McDonalds.
Over my years in the industry, I've seen a lot of bloated and unhappy IT departments that lacked energy and flexibility. And I've always advised them that Microsoft is but a part of a healthy IT budget, and to resist the temptation to super-size it.
As for Microsoft's new-found love for open source, I'll treat it as skeptically as I do fast food joints' healthy salads.
... a LAN party with a cluster of these!
Also note the source in your file... one always suspects that a significant number of Republicans are self-perceived Ubermensch who justify their "I've got mine, fuck you!" outlook with the conceit that they're "beyond good and evil." You rarely see it so openly expressed.
So that's What Jesus Would Do?
ahem... :)
I worked in an 'open' environment for a couple years starting in 1998. I think it was when we hit around 30 employees that the "please be respectful of your neighbor" email memos from the HR lady and started flowing. One of my coworkers had the bright idea to set up an internal icb server, and it worked really really well for the techies... I'll take being able to post URLs and code snippets to ask questions over XtremE!! war-room 'ease of communication' any day.
Once the management figured out why the room had gotten so quiet, however, they sort of freaked out at the notion that they couldn't hear what their employees were chattering about. We got to keep the icb server, but only after some spirited debate.
... is that you? Seriously, "liquidrage" and that meandering rant?
It's been many years since my dad and I kept a few beehives in the backyard for fun, but foulbrood == fungus didn't ring true with what I'd remembered... and it's not true, foulbrood == baterica.
I think it's more like trying to haul semi-truck trailers using fourteen Toyota Celicas all roped to the tailer hitch.
Acutally, that analogy sucks, because it refers to trucks as well as cars...
Ah yes. If only our youth would concern themselves not with creativity, non-conformity, and critical thinking, but instead the Virtues and Values befitting a Christian Nation. Instead of wasting their minds upon the disspative slanders of a crypto-communist like Vonnegut, it would behoove them to instead read a Great Book by an Excellent Mind.
I'd take it as an indication that he read a blog, not that he's well read.