"[Employee name]: Here is the new system. Here is the documentation and a week's training. Learn it or find another job." It's just as easy as that. If an employee is not willing or able to learn a different system because it's 'different than my home system' or is something 'I've never used before', then said employee can very happily seek employment elsewhere.
As far as students are concerned, fuck 'em. They're in *college* for Jebus' sake. Doesn't that imply that they possess at least a modicum of intelligence? Oh, wait. I forgot. It's not PC to refuse admittance to people who can't pass 050-level mathematics, english and history courses.
Who *didn't* see this coming? This is pretty much where I saw DVD going. With a cash cow like DVD, programmable and/or scriptable discs and players, and a capitalist mindset, this is the natural evolution of this product. Please try not to feign outrage or disgust. That will only make things worse. Rather, why not get a lobby together? Or maybe (perhaps better) get to reverse engineering the players themselves. I'm not an engineer myself (I stick to programs), but I'm pretty sure that it's possible to make a DVD player that will ignore these scripts or spoof to bypass them.
Any ideas? Let's get working, rather, on our^ own DVD players. They can't stop that, can they?
^ : By 'our', I mean 'those of us that don't own multinational megacorporations and can't afford to pay millions to Senators and Representatives to get laws passed in our favor, much less buy off judges to interpret the Constitution to benefit us'.
If the site was on university computers, it's theirs. Too bad that you're being screwed hard here, but there is a code of conduct for university machines, and you obviously broke it. I'm not trying to be mean, but these are the facts. Had you had this site on an off-campus server, you would actually have a case. Yet, since it was on a server belonging to the university, you probably have no recourse.
However, I don't see how they can expel you. Sure, take away your computing 'rights' on campus, but expulsion seems a little harsh. Get a good lawyer and maybe you'll get out of the charges. Good luck.
I have my home network set up pretty sweet, with a software driven bandwidth limiter on my fiancee's EverCrack addicted 14 year old. Here's my tip: Avoid sharing bandwidth with anyone smoking the EverCrack. Seriously. There's nothing like seeing a fast smooth download go down to ~8kbps/sec when someone logs on to your network with the sole purpose of playing the bane of civilized bandwidth use.
Perhaps it should read something like 'Abusing the english language since 1974', especially after the spate of responses I've gotten to my k5 postings.
Post shitloads of MLP articles on K5, then come here and keep reloading./ over and over. Maybe we can bork each other, and annoy everyone in the process.
Bookmark it and read it tomorrow, people. It's not going away anytime soon, I grok.
Not only that, homes, but you also have to consider the fact that the 'corporate public' has been calling for a somewhat standardized computing situation for years now, and now that they have it, they piss and moan that it hasn't changed.
Fsck them. Really.
Yeah, it's gotten better over the years, but it hasn't changed. Good. That means that the user of old can interface with the new platforms. Is that bad?
Suggesting that one race is somehow inferior to another is also just a thought but it is dangerous and reprehensible. This falls into the same category.
Point taken, point well argued. But consider this: What is more reprehensible? Thinking thoughts such as the one you present, or forbidding someone to even think such thoughts?
I personally think that there is no racial inferiority, but I'll be damned if I'll tell someone else not to think that way. At most, I'll attempt to convince this person to look at the other sides. And that is the key point. All the arguing in the world will not change someone's mind, but even if there's a sliver of a chance of successfully convincing someone to see things from a different perspective, the attempt should be made.
To (very badly) paraphrase: "I may not agree with what you are thinking, but I'll go to the grave defending your right to think that way."
It strikes me as outrageous that these thoughts are even being aired in American society.
Yes. I agree. Perhaps we should report them all for thoughtcrime. Or maybe the House UnAmerican Activities committee would have something to say about this. After all, the only thoughts we're allowed to have in this country are thoughts of freedom, right?
Sarcasm aside, wanker, thoughts like this *must* be aired. For if they are not, there is a chance that all sides of the issue won't be seen, and *that* would suck the most. After all, the only way to truly grok a situation is to see all sides of it, including sides that might be unpopular or politically dangerous. Maybe, out of this, a fair solution can be found. My gut feeling is 'no', but, still, I can hope.
If you haven't looked at it yet, anybrowser.com is a great resource in making your site readable by anyone, for instance, people without sight (i.e., via lynx in blinux).
The same issue is on the table at my university, where there is a big push to make the websites available to people with disabilities and/or without the latest technologies.
WTF? And throw away all those good coasters? Come on, geek, and think *globally*. There are better ways to deal with AOL disks. The coaster, for one, but how about the more interesting ways? I, for one, like to make them in to mobiles. There is also, for the trigonometry students, a way to make them into representational graphs of f^1(x)=sin(theta). Can you *feel* the geekiness here, folks? It's a new trend. Or something.
Don't know about that, man. I'm still twitching from playing textmode quake, and that was last night. It's like listening to a Philip Glass 'opera', only for the eyes rather than the ears. *shudder*
I just installed Linux on my other computer, and decided to make everything I could in Croatian, so I could learn it faster. I compare with this computer when I don't know exactly what's going on. Once I learn Croatian well, I'll probably get on to translating everything that wasn't translated (some man pages, itd). It's pretty easy, once you get over the fact that you're not reading in English anymore, and it's a nice immersion that you just don't get from reading "Na Cesti" by Jack Kerouac (although "Na Cesti" does give you really good street slang, as it is a direct translation.)
...of when a friend of mine used the sound module on his C64 play "Anesthesia" by Metallica. He couldn't get the really high notes (or, naturally, the wah sounds of Cliff Burton) so he transposed them down an octave. That was 1337.
Now if they could only re-release G.I. Joe II: G.I. Joe vs. The Smurfs. That was undoubtedly the coolest game on the C64. (Runner-up: Tailgunner)
I'm not sure what this guy wants, but I do know that I'd much rather live in a country where it's an *honest* fascism/tyranny/whathaveyou than in a country where they tell you it's a 'democracy' or whatever and then act contrary to that ideal.
Take Serbia for example. At least under Milosevic the people *knew* that they were fux0red, freedom-wise.
If you want to go to a country that's relatively techie, has a nice countryside and is somewhat stable, check out Croatia. Zagreb is a wonderful city. Dubrovnik (sp?) is an awesome city (I've only seen pictures) on the Adriatic sea. Karlovac makes the finest lager in the world, Karlovacko Pivo.
The language (I'm learning it now) isn't very difficult to learn, and is based on the Latin, rather than Cyrillic alphabet, thus making it easier for us Americans to at least read. Sorta sounds like munged Italian sometimes. However, it's very pretty when spoken by my lovely Russian wife.
croatia.net has info, etc. if you want to check out a propaganda site.
I'm not entirely certain on the political climate, but perhaps one of our Croatian brothers/sisters can enlighten us?
It makes sense now. I was wondering if CmdrTaco was high or something, laughing at Saddam Hussein stockpiling PS/2s. Although, that would be kinda funny, too.
That seems just a bit harsh in this case, but, still, the judge needs to send a 'message' as it were. I think something like community service or reparations to IBM are in order. Or, maybe, he can be asked to mail an apology email to everyone he spammed. No, wait, that'd be spam, too! Dammit, he did a Bad Deed(TM), but I don't think he needs to get sent to jail for it, at least not for 7 years. Maybe 6 months jail time and 5000 hrs. community service teaching lusers to use AOL would be torturous enough to teach him a 'lesson' and would certainly send a 'message' to all other would-be server hijackers.
Some people use the phrase 'it's like comparing apples and oranges', but consider this: They're both fruit, they both come from a tree, they're both round-shaped, they're both edible and they both have skins.
Think about it.
The same, I think, applies to the parent's argument.
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"[Employee name]: Here is the new system. Here is the documentation and a week's training. Learn it or find another job." It's just as easy as that. If an employee is not willing or able to learn a different system because it's 'different than my home system' or is something 'I've never used before', then said employee can very happily seek employment elsewhere.
As far as students are concerned, fuck 'em. They're in *college* for Jebus' sake. Doesn't that imply that they possess at least a modicum of intelligence? Oh, wait. I forgot. It's not PC to refuse admittance to people who can't pass 050-level mathematics, english and history courses.
Count Bakula, if you're nasty.
Who *didn't* see this coming? This is pretty much where I saw DVD going. With a cash cow like DVD, programmable and/or scriptable discs and players, and a capitalist mindset, this is the natural evolution of this product. Please try not to feign outrage or disgust. That will only make things worse. Rather, why not get a lobby together? Or maybe (perhaps better) get to reverse engineering the players themselves. I'm not an engineer myself (I stick to programs), but I'm pretty sure that it's possible to make a DVD player that will ignore these scripts or spoof to bypass them.
Any ideas? Let's get working, rather, on our^ own DVD players. They can't stop that, can they?
^ : By 'our', I mean 'those of us that don't own multinational megacorporations and can't afford to pay millions to Senators and Representatives to get laws passed in our favor, much less buy off judges to interpret the Constitution to benefit us'.
If the site was on university computers, it's theirs. Too bad that you're being screwed hard here, but there is a code of conduct for university machines, and you obviously broke it. I'm not trying to be mean, but these are the facts. Had you had this site on an off-campus server, you would actually have a case. Yet, since it was on a server belonging to the university, you probably have no recourse.
However, I don't see how they can expel you. Sure, take away your computing 'rights' on campus, but expulsion seems a little harsh. Get a good lawyer and maybe you'll get out of the charges. Good luck.
I have my home network set up pretty sweet, with a software driven bandwidth limiter on my fiancee's EverCrack addicted 14 year old. Here's my tip: Avoid sharing bandwidth with anyone smoking the EverCrack. Seriously. There's nothing like seeing a fast smooth download go down to ~8kbps/sec when someone logs on to your network with the sole purpose of playing the bane of civilized bandwidth use.
Perhaps it should read something like 'Abusing the english language since 1974', especially after the spate of responses I've gotten to my k5 postings.
Post shitloads of MLP articles on K5, then come here and keep reloading ./ over and over. Maybe we can bork each other, and annoy everyone in the process.
Bookmark it and read it tomorrow, people. It's not going away anytime soon, I grok.
No shit. I was wondering why K5 wasn't responding. This story was *good*, however, at least for discussion. That's why I rated it +1FP.
/.'ers.
But this sucks! Now I can't see my article get burned into bit-hell.
Damned
Not only that, homes, but you also have to consider the fact that the 'corporate public' has been calling for a somewhat standardized computing situation for years now, and now that they have it, they piss and moan that it hasn't changed.
Fsck them. Really.
Yeah, it's gotten better over the years, but it hasn't changed. Good. That means that the user of old can interface with the new platforms. Is that bad?
Suggesting that one race is somehow inferior to another is also just a thought but it is dangerous and reprehensible. This falls into the same category.
Point taken, point well argued. But consider this: What is more reprehensible? Thinking thoughts such as the one you present, or forbidding someone to even think such thoughts?
I personally think that there is no racial inferiority, but I'll be damned if I'll tell someone else not to think that way. At most, I'll attempt to convince this person to look at the other sides. And that is the key point. All the arguing in the world will not change someone's mind, but even if there's a sliver of a chance of successfully convincing someone to see things from a different perspective, the attempt should be made.
To (very badly) paraphrase: "I may not agree with what you are thinking, but I'll go to the grave defending your right to think that way."
It strikes me as outrageous that these thoughts are even being aired in American society.
Yes. I agree. Perhaps we should report them all for thoughtcrime. Or maybe the House UnAmerican Activities committee would have something to say about this. After all, the only thoughts we're allowed to have in this country are thoughts of freedom, right?
Sarcasm aside, wanker, thoughts like this *must* be aired. For if they are not, there is a chance that all sides of the issue won't be seen, and *that* would suck the most. After all, the only way to truly grok a situation is to see all sides of it, including sides that might be unpopular or politically dangerous. Maybe, out of this, a fair solution can be found. My gut feeling is 'no', but, still, I can hope.
If you haven't looked at it yet, anybrowser.com is a great resource in making your site readable by anyone, for instance, people without sight (i.e., via lynx in blinux).
The same issue is on the table at my university, where there is a big push to make the websites available to people with disabilities and/or without the latest technologies.
WTF? And throw away all those good coasters? Come on, geek, and think *globally*. There are better ways to deal with AOL disks. The coaster, for one, but how about the more interesting ways? I, for one, like to make them in to mobiles. There is also, for the trigonometry students, a way to make them into representational graphs of f^1(x)=sin(theta). Can you *feel* the geekiness here, folks? It's a new trend. Or something.
Don't know about that, man. I'm still twitching from playing textmode quake, and that was last night. It's like listening to a Philip Glass 'opera', only for the eyes rather than the ears. *shudder*
I just installed Linux on my other computer, and decided to make everything I could in Croatian, so I could learn it faster. I compare with this computer when I don't know exactly what's going on. Once I learn Croatian well, I'll probably get on to translating everything that wasn't translated (some man pages, itd). It's pretty easy, once you get over the fact that you're not reading in English anymore, and it's a nice immersion that you just don't get from reading "Na Cesti" by Jack Kerouac (although "Na Cesti" does give you really good street slang, as it is a direct translation.)
This Boogie Bass hack makes me wonder if anyone was weird enough to hack Teddy Ruxpin to lip-sync Run-DMC like Opus did in Bloom County.
...of when a friend of mine used the sound module on his C64 play "Anesthesia" by Metallica. He couldn't get the really high notes (or, naturally, the wah sounds of Cliff Burton) so he transposed them down an octave. That was 1337.
Now if they could only re-release G.I. Joe II: G.I. Joe vs. The Smurfs. That was undoubtedly the coolest game on the C64. (Runner-up: Tailgunner)
I'm not sure what this guy wants, but I do know that I'd much rather live in a country where it's an *honest* fascism/tyranny/whathaveyou than in a country where they tell you it's a 'democracy' or whatever and then act contrary to that ideal.
Take Serbia for example. At least under Milosevic the people *knew* that they were fux0red, freedom-wise.
If you want to go to a country that's relatively techie, has a nice countryside and is somewhat stable, check out Croatia. Zagreb is a wonderful city. Dubrovnik (sp?) is an awesome city (I've only seen pictures) on the Adriatic sea. Karlovac makes the finest lager in the world, Karlovacko Pivo.
The language (I'm learning it now) isn't very difficult to learn, and is based on the Latin, rather than Cyrillic alphabet, thus making it easier for us Americans to at least read. Sorta sounds like munged Italian sometimes. However, it's very pretty when spoken by my lovely Russian wife.
croatia.net has info, etc. if you want to check out a propaganda site.
I'm not entirely certain on the political climate, but perhaps one of our Croatian brothers/sisters can enlighten us?
Leave it to the Croatians to release this. Right on, dudes.
Well, excuse *me* for not being on top of the lame-ass-jokes department. Browsing at 2 usually keeps those from my eyes.
It makes sense now. I was wondering if CmdrTaco was high or something, laughing at Saddam Hussein stockpiling PS/2s. Although, that would be kinda funny, too.
That seems just a bit harsh in this case, but, still, the judge needs to send a 'message' as it were. I think something like community service or reparations to IBM are in order. Or, maybe, he can be asked to mail an apology email to everyone he spammed. No, wait, that'd be spam, too! Dammit, he did a Bad Deed(TM), but I don't think he needs to get sent to jail for it, at least not for 7 years. Maybe 6 months jail time and 5000 hrs. community service teaching lusers to use AOL would be torturous enough to teach him a 'lesson' and would certainly send a 'message' to all other would-be server hijackers.
Some people use the phrase 'it's like comparing apples and oranges', but consider this: They're both fruit, they both come from a tree, they're both round-shaped, they're both edible and they both have skins.
Think about it.
The same, I think, applies to the parent's argument.
I like ApplixWare. Superior to StarOffice, IMHO, and not all bundled together in one bulky package. Well, back to the old OpenOffice drawing board...
If only they could have found *support* in the Linux community...
Uh, why don't you just exclude the "Anime" thing in your slash thingee? It'd be easier...