I have a good friend that uses facebook to talk to me. It's fking annoying as I have an email saying "so and so sent you a message" and then I have to go to the website to read what they said.. ugh.. Talk about having to jump through hoops.
I agree the whole thing sounds stupid to me too. What about if someone important leaves. You need at least a month to find someone else, get that employee to write developer documentation, train their new replacement in what they were doing.
Just finding a replacement could take a month. Immediately getting rid of someone for no good reason is stupid.
At times people came in to work to find their keycard not working. That was the first sign of them possibly not having a job still.
That's just heartless. If your employer can't even work up the courage to say "we need to let you go" it just shows they have no balls at all.
After she left, she logged in with the still-unchanged root password and trashed our systems.
So how would the situation be any different if you had just walked her out the building? You didn't change the password even after she left!
I would be more happy to trash an ex-employer who walked me out because I decided to work somewhere else like I am a piece of trash and now worthless to them.
So five left? It happened 90 years ago. I wish people would just get on with their lives we got more problems today with other wars which are killing people but we never spend the time to think about them.
For example all those monks in Burma that died to peacefully protest their government. They'll never be remembered apart from their 15 minutes of fame on the news.
...I just made a new organisation called the Open Document Format Gathering and we are now closing because ODF sucks / whatever.. now give me my Microsoft check...
You just used a strawman. "In all cases, including self defense, killing is wrong. Take for example Ted Bundy who murdered many innocent young women. This, indeed, proves that in all cases killing another human being is wrong."
So you're saying bribery and murder are OK? WTF...
As for your self defence rubbish.. Killing IS wrong. That's why that UK farmer got jailed up for killing in "self defense" with a shotgun while the his bugler victim was 50 yards and running away. I hate "its ok self defense" tards like yourself who are just looking for an excuse to use your guns on people.
Get a life and stop posting your immoral crap. Next you'll be saying rape is ok..
Give me a break. Microsoft controls 90% of the desktops worldwide because people have made a conscious choice that Microsoft shall control 90% of the market.
Are you retarded or did you not read the summary/article?
Mandriva won the deal to supply their OS and Microsoft paid the company who is re-distributing these machines to install Windows on the laptops.
Then here you are talking about people's "choice". Idiot.
I'm quite satisfied with just DVD quality movies and I am perplexed as to why any of you want to spend so much money just to get the same movie with a slightly better image.
I'm sure if you have a 100" TV then it would look better but for normal people like me (haha ok i'm not normal!) I still have a 21" screen and don't really care about getting anything bigger. The whole HD thing is a scam just to get money out of people.
I think that DVD is going to be around for a looong time because that's what people are comfortable with and looks good on their screen. Most people don't have enormous TVs so see little benefit in HD technology.
Why not take that money, and spend it in ways that will make the lives of impoverished people everywhere more meaningful.
Then why don't you get off YOUR fat ass and make that happen instead of complaining about people that ARE doing something on the interwebs.
Since it's the governments money of the countries involved they obviously think this laptop thing is a good idea. So what's your excuse for telling these countries what to do with their own money?
Movies haven't had credits in the beginning of the movie for maybe 40 years and instead lump them at the end where nobody sticks around for it in the theaters.
GOOD! There's nothing more mind numbing then having to sit through the first 5 minutes of a movie watching either some boring walking sequence, car driving sequence or whatever the hell it is just so they can show some random names.
Give me star wars style of "BAM ACTION!" any day over that credit crap.
It's really unfortunate that our ownership and consumer society commoditizes EVERYTHING to the point where an individual's pride and accomplishment is just trivia instead of a display of credit.
I disagree, I think it's just another blunder by the worse cut throat industry on the planet.
Now taking people's names out of the credits is a no no. To me that feels borderline illegal. In a movie everyone gets a damn credit, even the coffee maker guy and the cleaner. I don't see why the games industry can't follow, especially when it costs them nothing to do it whereas in a movie more credits == more movie time.
Shame on the games industry but then this is what they're like. They don't give a shit. They'd soon as fire you and replace you with someone less experienced just to save a buck. That's the industry right now. Unprofessional, greedy and heartless.
Read any first hand experience of an experienced game developer and you'll see the horror stories pour out. I still remember one an ex-developer told me first hand. Their manager/producer (?) would throw an employees case out the window and scream "GTFO! You're done". Apparently a big muscled ex-military guy.
Wait I read this wrong. It's not an "Open Phone" at all.
This phone is going to be like the Motorola A1200 Linux phone I already have.
The new G-system will be based on Linux, a 15-year-old computer operating system that is available free over the Internet. Google's version will be overlaid with Java, a popular computer language.
It's just a DRM'd Linux Kernel with their proprietary java OS running on top. This phone is no different apart from now they'll give you more information on how to write programs for it. Big wow...
Gillis says Google plans to basically give away the software developer "tools," used by programmers to write new applications. "If you're a developer, you'll be able to develop (applications) for the new Google Phone very quickly."
I can develop applications for my Motorola phone too. What the hell is new here?
Isn't openMoko and others (something QT) developing an open platform mobile OS already? Why not just take what they've done and fork it or help out. What's the point in yet another open mobile platform when there are already people that have half finished implementations.
Oh I get it. This open platform would be closed from the public to tinker with and actually only be available to the mobile phone providers? Is that the idea?
Are Ultra capacitors like flux Capacitors that you can use to go through time once you're travelling at 88mph? If so I don't think this will be very efficient at all since they require 1.42 Gigawatts!
Because depending on wine makes you look like you don't care about your market and your relying on a third party such as winehq to make your game work.
If Eve brings out a patch that no longer makes it work under wine and 100 people send in hate mail then you can see why maybe a native client might be a good thing.
Just wait 5 years and the average/. reader will have the skills needed to thrive and those who have spent thousands going to "business school" will be working in a way for the "geeks"
You really don't know how the world works. The dumber you are the higher up the food chain you go. Why do you think there are so many incompetent managers about?! Tech jobs always means you're at the bottom of the barrel.
It's a sad fact but reviews from most major magazines have always had a bribe element in them. Weather it's the keg of beer the Magazine gets with the game they're reviewing (for marketing purposes) or a flat out pile of cash for being the mags newest sponsor.
In the early days the developers would simply bribe the writers and they'd write a review without even playing the game! That kind of practise has changed but not by much for some illustrations.
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Reading this is making my brain work overtime to try and decipher its meaning.
It's like a one of those Nintendo DS brain training games except it hurts your head.
I have a good friend that uses facebook to talk to me. It's fking annoying as I have an email saying "so and so sent you a message" and then I have to go to the website to read what they said.. ugh.. Talk about having to jump through hoops.
Got any proof of that or are you just spreading BS?
Just finding a replacement could take a month. Immediately getting rid of someone for no good reason is stupid.That's just heartless. If your employer can't even work up the courage to say "we need to let you go" it just shows they have no balls at all.
I would be more happy to trash an ex-employer who walked me out because I decided to work somewhere else like I am a piece of trash and now worthless to them.
So five left? It happened 90 years ago. I wish people would just get on with their lives we got more problems today with other wars which are killing people but we never spend the time to think about them.
For example all those monks in Burma that died to peacefully protest their government. They'll never be remembered apart from their 15 minutes of fame on the news.
...I just made a new organisation called the Open Document Format Gathering and we are now closing because ODF sucks / whatever.. now give me my Microsoft check...
The laws should be changed so you get a week in jail for every computer you attack/infect..
250,000 * 6 days = over 4000 years.. I think the punishment fits the crime. ^_^
I just watched this movie based on what you said..
It's ten minutes of three guys waiting for a train.. Yeah.. a real masterpiece with the credits there...
As for your self defence rubbish.. Killing IS wrong. That's why that UK farmer got jailed up for killing in "self defense" with a shotgun while the his bugler victim was 50 yards and running away. I hate "its ok self defense" tards like yourself who are just looking for an excuse to use your guns on people.
Get a life and stop posting your immoral crap. Next you'll be saying rape is ok..
Mandriva won the deal to supply their OS and Microsoft paid the company who is re-distributing these machines to install Windows on the laptops.
Then here you are talking about people's "choice". Idiot.
Like you said in your previous postings about firefox and IE...How is the best man going to win in this case? Mandriva won the deal to supply their operating system and Microsoft just played dirty and cheated.
I'm quite satisfied with just DVD quality movies and I am perplexed as to why any of you want to spend so much money just to get the same movie with a slightly better image.
I'm sure if you have a 100" TV then it would look better but for normal people like me (haha ok i'm not normal!) I still have a 21" screen and don't really care about getting anything bigger. The whole HD thing is a scam just to get money out of people.
I think that DVD is going to be around for a looong time because that's what people are comfortable with and looks good on their screen. Most people don't have enormous TVs so see little benefit in HD technology.
Too bad it's patented and only Microsoft can use it. It pretty much kills them from doing anything even slightly similar.
Since it's the governments money of the countries involved they obviously think this laptop thing is a good idea. So what's your excuse for telling these countries what to do with their own money?
Give me star wars style of "BAM ACTION!" any day over that credit crap.I disagree, I think it's just another blunder by the worse cut throat industry on the planet.
Now taking people's names out of the credits is a no no. To me that feels borderline illegal. In a movie everyone gets a damn credit, even the coffee maker guy and the cleaner. I don't see why the games industry can't follow, especially when it costs them nothing to do it whereas in a movie more credits == more movie time.
Shame on the games industry but then this is what they're like. They don't give a shit. They'd soon as fire you and replace you with someone less experienced just to save a buck. That's the industry right now. Unprofessional, greedy and heartless.
Read any first hand experience of an experienced game developer and you'll see the horror stories pour out. I still remember one an ex-developer told me first hand. Their manager/producer (?) would throw an employees case out the window and scream "GTFO! You're done". Apparently a big muscled ex-military guy.
Welcome to the games industry!
This phone is going to be like the Motorola A1200 Linux phone I already have.It's just a DRM'd Linux Kernel with their proprietary java OS running on top. This phone is no different apart from now they'll give you more information on how to write programs for it. Big wow...I can develop applications for my Motorola phone too. What the hell is new here?
Isn't openMoko and others (something QT) developing an open platform mobile OS already? Why not just take what they've done and fork it or help out. What's the point in yet another open mobile platform when there are already people that have half finished implementations.
Oh I get it. This open platform would be closed from the public to tinker with and actually only be available to the mobile phone providers? Is that the idea?
Could someone explain this all to me please?
Are Ultra capacitors like flux Capacitors that you can use to go through time once you're travelling at 88mph? If so I don't think this will be very efficient at all since they require 1.42 Gigawatts!
Because depending on wine makes you look like you don't care about your market and your relying on a third party such as winehq to make your game work.
If Eve brings out a patch that no longer makes it work under wine and 100 people send in hate mail then you can see why maybe a native client might be a good thing.
The story is tagged "theterroristshavewon" and it's completely true. Just think of all the freedom we've lost since 9/11.
Mission complete Osama!
It's a sad fact but reviews from most major magazines have always had a bribe element in them. Weather it's the keg of beer the Magazine gets with the game they're reviewing (for marketing purposes) or a flat out pile of cash for being the mags newest sponsor.
In the early days the developers would simply bribe the writers and they'd write a review without even playing the game! That kind of practise has changed but not by much for some illustrations.