"Among other measures, the duration of the four-year mission was cut by six months and preflight testing was scaled back." Way to go guys ! You saved $42 million but increased the chance of the entire $500 million project failing due to not enough preflight tests! Good choice there ! Nice one !
Yo homies in da house - lissen up good - Im sendin a shout out to my dogg Christies n MAD PROPS ta Christies for sellin dem FAKE PROPS to sum un-suspektin dude an bein all like, aint nothin bro, its all good, its still cool, dont sue me bro, less work sumthin out, ya know, sum freebies an' shiiiiiiiit.
That is not a very flattering picture of Mr. Spiner. I have only seen paler skin on an albino vampire who lived in a cave and ate only monobenzylether of hydroquinone. Old Brent is actually starting to look like Data! Could someone be so kind to give him a nice tanning bed for Christmas ?
This is one prequel that makes no sense... we already know pretty much the whole story- Hobbit encounters Golllum, gets the Ring of power, escapes, Gollum hunts him down 50 years later. It's not like Star Wars prequels where they made one-off references to ancient history like "Oh BTW, Clone Wars". No. Instead, in the Lord of the Rings they are very clear about what happened... "Oh I got the ring from Gollum a long time ago, he's a monster that lives in the caves". And, they even SHOW us Gollum pre-ring. So this would be the equivalent of (instead of some vague, mysterious reference to some historical events like in Obi-Wan and Luke's conversation in ANH), "You fought in the Clone Wars?" "Yep, the Clone Wars. Remember the Clone Wars? That's when a bunch of Clone soldiers who were identical copies of each other, fought against a huge Droid Army, and here's a flashback to help jog your memory." No. Instead, George Lucas left it deliberately ambiguous, and that is part of the charm of the original Star Wars, that there were allusions and vague references to this whole backstory, that we only get bits and pieces of.
GUESS WHAT THE AUDIENCE HAS A BRAIN ! FILLING IN ALL THE BLANKS IS BORING! PLEASE LEAVE SOME PART UP TO THE AUDIENCE'S IMAGINATION. STOP MAKING FREAKING DUMB PREQUELS THAT NEVER LIVE UP TO THE HYPE ! I WILL PERSONALLY PULL OUT THE NOSE HAIRS OF THE NEXT HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR TO MAKE A PREQUEL. MAKE SOMETHING ORIGINAL INSTEAD OR I WILL SLAP YOUR FACE WITH A WET NOODLE.
Now please excuse me while I go teach my daily "Peace, Relaxation, and Meditation thru Non-Violence" seminar.
HOLY CRAP... BREMSSTRAHLUNG PHOTONS from frikkin BASIC FLUFFY CLOUDS IN THE SKY. What's next, some goshdarned erenkov radiation being emitted from like, Innocent Little Bunny Rabbits?! Or like, some freaking Antideuterium Particles shooting out of Very Cute Baby Kittens ??
Right now it says, prominently, "Scaled Composites is NOW HIRING!"... If you know about this tragedy you might interpret that banner ad the wrong way.
Just pointing out they might want to update their website to say, our hearts go out to the loved ones.
Is there a way to revoke someone's editorial status or put them on probation ? A screw-up this massive is just cause to fire someone at a lot of news organizations. Imagine if this was New York Times front page or Washington Post front page, posting such rubbish. This is a big wake-up call that web publishing needs to GROW UP and join the adult world. Slashdot is so huge that it has almost grown beyond the core group of editors. I propose a revolt / uprising as soon as possible! It is finally time for us to take back control of our leisure time, throw off the shackles of oppressive incompetent editing, and overthrow our overlords from their lofty undeserved pedestals. Slashdot readers of the world, UNITE!
Aw, poor little Rover needs a little snack or some munchies to give him a little pick-me-up!
Rover is a very loyal and obedient friend... I think we need to blast a rocket off with a nice care package: send him some chew-toys and other treats.
I'm getting HTTP 503 errors and very bad lag when refreshing pages. How can this be considered an improvement ?? Please revert back to the old system until the bugs are fixed, thanks!
Tin foil hat act like antenna and capture all of multi-gigabit signal and route all of data direct to cerebral cortex, where corpus medula hippocampus cerebellum act like giant "Google" and put all "byte" into main storage. some time Often cause all of sound to "ears" like bad technical translation Chinese goto English, like bad video game of the cheap PC accessories.
when All of signal "Scramble" brainwave, error message to help tech support gets to you responding quickly.
Zipping all of signs to Brain cause core dump
I haven't read the article but I would bet good money that they are allowing clueless managers and CEOs who gave very bad requirements in the first place, to determine if something was a success or failure. In other words, software is only as good as the initial requirements and design. If your client / customer is clueless then they will give you some hand-waving description of what they want... something like "Listen, we need a new computer system that kind of does what the old one does, but just works better and makes more profits for us! Now hurry up and make it work, Code Monkey! Now excuse me while I retire to my executive suite / relaxation salon and get my manicure."
( Not that I'm bitter or anything. )
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/steverumsby/2006 /01/30/dilbert20060121046729.jpg
Well at least getting paged at 5:45 AM, helps you pay the bills, right ? If programming was easy then we would all lose our jobs to elementary school children.
"Some of them might be waking up now," Rosenfield said, "wondering who they got in bed with."
I guess this is a new spelling of the name Mossberg that I was previously unfamiliar with.
They want to put door locks on the hotel network ??? This has got to be the smartest idea I've ever heard. Because we all know that plugging Ethernet cord into something instantly gives you more protection and security!
"Known in some circles as Black Tuesday, the second Tuesday of each month in the last few years has become a kind of national day of mourning in the IT industry, as admins call all hands on deck and load up on pizza and Red Bull for the long night ahead."
I call bullshit on this anecdotal bit of trivia. Is the author of the article actually suggesting that some companies rush to test the new Winblows patches all through the night on Tuesday so that the patches are ready to deploy on Wednesday ? This sounds like a fresh steaming load of bullshit... what places actually force their employees to work ridiculous hours like this just due to an arbitrary vendor schedule! I would not work at such a place, regardless of the amount of free pizza or Redbull available.
My point is that this bit of exaggeration in the article has no basis in fact and should be supported by quotes from someone who actually enforces this policy at their IT department.
Sounds like EU dude wanted Free Lunch but the other dudes were like "Sorry, dude, can't do it. You have to show me the $$$$$, mkay?" And EU was like, "Oh shit." And the other dudes were like "You gotta pay to play" and EU was like "We thought you were giving it to us for free and you get like exclusive rights and all kinds of extra stuff", and the other dude went "Ya but that is a lot of money I would rather spend it in a nice vacation in Paradise instead, lol, not some radio satellite thingy"... And EU was like "Damn, truly there is not such thing as a Free Lunch."
So they both said, "Oh wait, we almost forgot! Joe Taxpayer will be happy to pay for it... he doesn't need that extra money anyway, he gets paid overtime and gets all kinds of benefits and shit, so after we build our spaceship thingy, everybody is happy, and then we can both do a nice beach vacation in Paradise, and have drinks with little umbrellas, and enjoy the sandy goodness under the warm sun."
REDMOND, Washington, May 1 -- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today announced a new offensive weapon in his company's arsenal: The Chair Gun (TM). This device, when fully loaded, is capable of launching up to 6 chairs per minute at Microsoft enemies. Ballmer planned a press conference to demonstrate the unique gun, which he said came to him in a fit of apoplexy. "I was at work one day, thinking about those little twerps over at Apple / Google and my blood pressure started to spike. The anger and rage started to build up inside my brain. I needed to throw something, anything, and the first thing available was a chair in my office. After throwing it clear across the room, I felt much better. Then I realized there is a market for such a mechanism to vent frustration. I worked for many months with Microsoft engineers, and we've come up with a great solution to this business problem."
Powered by two thousand industrial strength rubber bands, The Chair Gun is a formidable and impressive machine.
This is great news. Now our Homeland is safer than ever from diaper headed terrorists and other warmongering evil-doers who want to topple our peaceful and humble nation.
Just think of the possible new and exciting ways to kill people with these devices!
</sarcasm>
If we spent even one tenth of what we spend on building new weapons, instead on diplomacy and peace initiatives, and curing world diseases and poverty, maybe so many people wouldn't want to attack and kill us in the first place.
I think years from now many people will look back on the period of approximately 1985-2005 as a "Golden Age" for Microsoft, when they were able to rake in huge profits by illegally dominating huge chunks of the personal computer industry with the Wintel duopoly. Of course for many of us we will look back on this period as "The Dark Ages" of little or no competition in the PC marketplace. Really what we are seeing now, as Apple and other firms like AMD start to make inroads into the enterprise market, is a return to normalcy. Competition on price and competition on features is a healthy state for the computer hardware & software industry. Capitalism and our free economy is really founded on the notion that there is not a central power (be it a totalitarian system of government, or a monopolistic corporation) that can control an entire sector.
Also, please take a look other major industries that have healthy competition - Plenty of airlines -> lower airfares. Plenty of car manufacturers -> lower car prices. Plenty of restaurants -> reasonable cost of food.
The idea that there is only one group of people in the world smart enough to create a reliable and modern PC operating system is simply a falsehood.
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Yo homies in da house - lissen up good - Im sendin a shout out to my dogg Christies n MAD PROPS ta Christies for sellin dem FAKE PROPS to sum un-suspektin dude an bein all like, aint nothin bro, its all good, its still cool, dont sue me bro, less work sumthin out, ya know, sum freebies an' shiiiiiiiit.
That is not a very flattering picture of Mr. Spiner. I have only seen paler skin on an albino vampire who lived in a cave and ate only monobenzylether of hydroquinone. Old Brent is actually starting to look like Data! Could someone be so kind to give him a nice tanning bed for Christmas ?
This is one prequel that makes no sense... we already know pretty much the whole story- Hobbit encounters Golllum, gets the Ring of power, escapes, Gollum hunts him down 50 years later. It's not like Star Wars prequels where they made one-off references to ancient history like "Oh BTW, Clone Wars". No. Instead, in the Lord of the Rings they are very clear about what happened... "Oh I got the ring from Gollum a long time ago, he's a monster that lives in the caves". And, they even SHOW us Gollum pre-ring. So this would be the equivalent of (instead of some vague, mysterious reference to some historical events like in Obi-Wan and Luke's conversation in ANH), "You fought in the Clone Wars?" "Yep, the Clone Wars. Remember the Clone Wars? That's when a bunch of Clone soldiers who were identical copies of each other, fought against a huge Droid Army, and here's a flashback to help jog your memory." No. Instead, George Lucas left it deliberately ambiguous, and that is part of the charm of the original Star Wars, that there were allusions and vague references to this whole backstory, that we only get bits and pieces of. GUESS WHAT THE AUDIENCE HAS A BRAIN ! FILLING IN ALL THE BLANKS IS BORING! PLEASE LEAVE SOME PART UP TO THE AUDIENCE'S IMAGINATION. STOP MAKING FREAKING DUMB PREQUELS THAT NEVER LIVE UP TO THE HYPE ! I WILL PERSONALLY PULL OUT THE NOSE HAIRS OF THE NEXT HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR TO MAKE A PREQUEL. MAKE SOMETHING ORIGINAL INSTEAD OR I WILL SLAP YOUR FACE WITH A WET NOODLE. Now please excuse me while I go teach my daily "Peace, Relaxation, and Meditation thru Non-Violence" seminar.
HOLY CRAP... BREMSSTRAHLUNG PHOTONS from frikkin BASIC FLUFFY CLOUDS IN THE SKY. What's next, some goshdarned erenkov radiation being emitted from like, Innocent Little Bunny Rabbits?! Or like, some freaking Antideuterium Particles shooting out of Very Cute Baby Kittens ??
DeVry University. Nuff said. Hire from crap college, get crap employee.
Right now it says, prominently, "Scaled Composites is NOW HIRING!"... If you know about this tragedy you might interpret that banner ad the wrong way. Just pointing out they might want to update their website to say, our hearts go out to the loved ones.
Is there a way to revoke someone's editorial status or put them on probation ? A screw-up this massive is just cause to fire someone at a lot of news organizations. Imagine if this was New York Times front page or Washington Post front page, posting such rubbish. This is a big wake-up call that web publishing needs to GROW UP and join the adult world. Slashdot is so huge that it has almost grown beyond the core group of editors. I propose a revolt / uprising as soon as possible! It is finally time for us to take back control of our leisure time, throw off the shackles of oppressive incompetent editing, and overthrow our overlords from their lofty undeserved pedestals. Slashdot readers of the world, UNITE!
I will stop reading Slashdot if the editorial staff can't filter out such obvious trash...
Aw, poor little Rover needs a little snack or some munchies to give him a little pick-me-up! Rover is a very loyal and obedient friend... I think we need to blast a rocket off with a nice care package: send him some chew-toys and other treats.
500 Internal Server Error An internal server error occurred. Please try again later.
I'm getting HTTP 503 errors and very bad lag when refreshing pages. How can this be considered an improvement ?? Please revert back to the old system until the bugs are fixed, thanks!
Tin foil hat act like antenna and capture all of multi-gigabit signal and route all of data direct to cerebral cortex, where corpus medula hippocampus cerebellum act like giant "Google" and put all "byte" into main storage. some time Often cause all of sound to "ears" like bad technical translation Chinese goto English, like bad video game of the cheap PC accessories. when All of signal "Scramble" brainwave, error message to help tech support gets to you responding quickly. Zipping all of signs to Brain cause core dump
I haven't read the article but I would bet good money that they are allowing clueless managers and CEOs who gave very bad requirements in the first place, to determine if something was a success or failure. In other words, software is only as good as the initial requirements and design. If your client / customer is clueless then they will give you some hand-waving description of what they want ... something like "Listen, we need a new computer system that kind of does what the old one does, but just works better and makes more profits for us! Now hurry up and make it work, Code Monkey! Now excuse me while I retire to my executive suite / relaxation salon and get my manicure."
6 /01/30/dilbert20060121046729.jpg
( Not that I'm bitter or anything. )
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/steverumsby/200
Well at least getting paged at 5:45 AM, helps you pay the bills, right ? If programming was easy then we would all lose our jobs to elementary school children.
"Some of them might be waking up now," Rosenfield said, "wondering who they got in bed with." I guess this is a new spelling of the name Mossberg that I was previously unfamiliar with.
News for Couch Potatoes. Stuff that doesn't matter.
They want to put door locks on the hotel network ??? This has got to be the smartest idea I've ever heard. Because we all know that plugging Ethernet cord into something instantly gives you more protection and security!
I call bullshit on this anecdotal bit of trivia. Is the author of the article actually suggesting that some companies rush to test the new Winblows patches all through the night on Tuesday so that the patches are ready to deploy on Wednesday ? This sounds like a fresh steaming load of bullshit... what places actually force their employees to work ridiculous hours like this just due to an arbitrary vendor schedule! I would not work at such a place, regardless of the amount of free pizza or Redbull available.
My point is that this bit of exaggeration in the article has no basis in fact and should be supported by quotes from someone who actually enforces this policy at their IT department.
Sounds like EU dude wanted Free Lunch but the other dudes were like "Sorry, dude, can't do it. You have to show me the $$$$$, mkay?" And EU was like, "Oh shit." And the other dudes were like "You gotta pay to play" and EU was like "We thought you were giving it to us for free and you get like exclusive rights and all kinds of extra stuff", and the other dude went "Ya but that is a lot of money I would rather spend it in a nice vacation in Paradise instead, lol, not some radio satellite thingy"... And EU was like "Damn, truly there is not such thing as a Free Lunch."
So they both said, "Oh wait, we almost forgot! Joe Taxpayer will be happy to pay for it... he doesn't need that extra money anyway, he gets paid overtime and gets all kinds of benefits and shit, so after we build our spaceship thingy, everybody is happy, and then we can both do a nice beach vacation in Paradise, and have drinks with little umbrellas, and enjoy the sandy goodness under the warm sun."
WTF is "terroristic"? I guess that is like Bob the "Electronical Engineer" who comes to fix my TV.
Maybe then he will finally clue into the fact that fewer and fewer Americans support his flawed Iraq policy with each passing week...
http://www.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/Approval.htm
REDMOND, Washington, May 1 -- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today announced a new offensive weapon in his company's arsenal: The Chair Gun (TM). This device, when fully loaded, is capable of launching up to 6 chairs per minute at Microsoft enemies. Ballmer planned a press conference to demonstrate the unique gun, which he said came to him in a fit of apoplexy. "I was at work one day, thinking about those little twerps over at Apple / Google and my blood pressure started to spike. The anger and rage started to build up inside my brain. I needed to throw something, anything, and the first thing available was a chair in my office. After throwing it clear across the room, I felt much better. Then I realized there is a market for such a mechanism to vent frustration. I worked for many months with Microsoft engineers, and we've come up with a great solution to this business problem."
Powered by two thousand industrial strength rubber bands, The Chair Gun is a formidable and impressive machine.
Just think of the possible new and exciting ways to kill people with these devices! If we spent even one tenth of what we spend on building new weapons, instead on diplomacy and peace initiatives, and curing world diseases and poverty, maybe so many people wouldn't want to attack and kill us in the first place.
I think years from now many people will look back on the period of approximately 1985-2005 as a "Golden Age" for Microsoft, when they were able to rake in huge profits by illegally dominating huge chunks of the personal computer industry with the Wintel duopoly. Of course for many of us we will look back on this period as "The Dark Ages" of little or no competition in the PC marketplace. Really what we are seeing now, as Apple and other firms like AMD start to make inroads into the enterprise market, is a return to normalcy. Competition on price and competition on features is a healthy state for the computer hardware & software industry. Capitalism and our free economy is really founded on the notion that there is not a central power (be it a totalitarian system of government, or a monopolistic corporation) that can control an entire sector.
Also, please take a look other major industries that have healthy competition - Plenty of airlines -> lower airfares. Plenty of car manufacturers -> lower car prices. Plenty of restaurants -> reasonable cost of food.
The idea that there is only one group of people in the world smart enough to create a reliable and modern PC operating system is simply a falsehood.