My next life programming project is to do an open source remake of the AOE line. I played that game for over ten years. I think I have more time invested in it than I do working at any single company!
In analyzing the the affects of countless legislation and standing regulations, I have seen over and over again how much their laws result in exactly the opposite of the "intended" result. As I put "intended" in quotation marks I'm reminded that we should not attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence. If you have to keep telling yourself that over and over again it really starts to sound like bullshit.
I recall an interview with Sandra Day O'Connor on PBS when she was asked out of the blue, by Margret I believe, if she browsed the internet. I thought it was kind of dumb question at the time and was totally floored when she answered: "No, no I don't." Completely shocked my head was almost spinning as I came to the realization that we have serious problems in government. These people do not take in new information, in fact they avoid it. I suspect most of Washington's elite make no effort to educate themselves on things they know nothing about. It dawned on me that these people are not using the internet and that they most likely view it in a contemptuous light. In my naivety I assumed everyone was immediately running Google searches whenever their mind tripped over an unknown factor pertinent to an important decision. Boy was I wrong. These people in Washington do not need to be curious; they are already taken care of and they have no incentive to rock the boat or even look over the side.
I haven't seen fifty but I have seen $5 to $6 paid by Intuit if you click on their crappy QuickBooks links or ads for their cloud scams. If I see thier ads I always click just to cost them a bunch of money. I hate Intuit and their shitty software.
IE9 is configurable to a compatibility mode so it will operate like IE6 for all or specified websites. Most people do not have the time or the knowledge to get it configured properly though. Microsoft went through a lot of trouble to build this compatibility mode though.
Yeah, it is great when you have applications that break in IE 9! Namely, Blackboard. Not everyone who uses Blackboard is patched to support IE 9 so any students who end up with IE 9 have to download different browsers to fix their system. Hold on a minute, this is a good thing. Nevermind.
Indeed, I see not having to work as an upgrade. I got to be a "house husband" for two years (with one child) and couldn't understand what all the fuss was about and why women wanted to work or wouldn't prefer home life. Boggles my mind. I would stay home in a heartbeat, wash dishes, clean the house, and take care of the kids, AND use my other extra time to write software and engage other knowledge-work activities. I also found that if you do not do anything of substance with your extra time you will become very unhappy in that role. A lot of stay at home people probably over-indulge in FB and other meaningless and unfulfilling tripe (games); I would expect problems in those cases.
Women don't get paid less because they are women. That is fucking dumb, correlation is not causation. They make less because they demand less. Strange, because when they get home they make up for it.
Real men don't care what you call anything. I want a kilt, in fact it may be rather strategic to start wearing a kilt if you sense your job is on the ropes. Start donning a kilt and beg em to fire you all the sudden. I'm sure that lawsuit would generate a brisk discussion on/.
I spoke with a local tech who cleaned viruses for people in our town. I told him that all you had to do for these people was install Firefox or something other than IE and tell people to use that for the internet. He just shook his head from side to side and said: "If I did that then they wouldn't come back next month."
Next year's new menu.......NO MENU AT ALLL!!! Fuckin A Man. I dream of WordPerfect. The problem is, Microsoft applied their good formula for usability to ALL software. As you find out when trying to solve every problem with one solution it can sometimes jump out and bite your dick off. In this case, no one knows how to use a fucking word processor now because Microsoft made it easy--oh sure they type their document and sometimes fanagle it to look presentable but face it, the user is a real mess with Word. Before Word people used WordPerfect (and some other inferior packages) which had no menus (until they were pressured into it) and people could use it. They used it much better than anyone uses Word these days. You learn it and move on, heaven forbid you may have to consult a manual. Now, no one consults a manual AND they can't fucking use Word! How about that?
I know how to use and Word, and you know what I use? Header, maybe footer (no), paragraph and fonts, lists, merge, and images (sometimes). Wow! Anymore I just use LibreOffice3, it handles the docx crap now. Microsoft should really peel off Word into a two products. One for most people and another for the real word processors.
Specialized social networks are the future. If you want to see hot AND sustainable, check out Etsy. Everything always specializes after the general storm, and yes, people will tire of FaceBook. Their attitude will be their undoing.
That was my first thought. No plan. As a technologist I'm peeved by the fact that people assume a system will always function properly because it always has in the past. Therefore it is terribly difficult to get a business to plan for outages.
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Jesus H Christ dude, at least install a 64bit Linux distro and VirtualBox for god's sake.
I doubt that is the true logical prognosis.
My next life programming project is to do an open source remake of the AOE line. I played that game for over ten years. I think I have more time invested in it than I do working at any single company!
In analyzing the the affects of countless legislation and standing regulations, I have seen over and over again how much their laws result in exactly the opposite of the "intended" result. As I put "intended" in quotation marks I'm reminded that we should not attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence. If you have to keep telling yourself that over and over again it really starts to sound like bullshit.
I recall an interview with Sandra Day O'Connor on PBS when she was asked out of the blue, by Margret I believe, if she browsed the internet. I thought it was kind of dumb question at the time and was totally floored when she answered: "No, no I don't." Completely shocked my head was almost spinning as I came to the realization that we have serious problems in government. These people do not take in new information, in fact they avoid it. I suspect most of Washington's elite make no effort to educate themselves on things they know nothing about. It dawned on me that these people are not using the internet and that they most likely view it in a contemptuous light. In my naivety I assumed everyone was immediately running Google searches whenever their mind tripped over an unknown factor pertinent to an important decision. Boy was I wrong. These people in Washington do not need to be curious; they are already taken care of and they have no incentive to rock the boat or even look over the side.
That requirement could not be held as unreasonable for the Android app store. They should go with it.
I haven't seen fifty but I have seen $5 to $6 paid by Intuit if you click on their crappy QuickBooks links or ads for their cloud scams. If I see thier ads I always click just to cost them a bunch of money. I hate Intuit and their shitty software.
IE9 is configurable to a compatibility mode so it will operate like IE6 for all or specified websites. Most people do not have the time or the knowledge to get it configured properly though. Microsoft went through a lot of trouble to build this compatibility mode though.
If you are a web developer then you know Microsoft put out the mandate to "kill IE 6" some time ago.
Yeah, it is great when you have applications that break in IE 9! Namely, Blackboard. Not everyone who uses Blackboard is patched to support IE 9 so any students who end up with IE 9 have to download different browsers to fix their system. Hold on a minute, this is a good thing. Nevermind.
Agreed, this is lame. I came to read the comments about how this story should not have appeared.
" Feminism merely argues that men and women are of equal worth, that they both have equally valuable roles on society"
Who has EVER argued against this?
Look kids....that is a North American fleet footed troll. Never feed them!
Indeed, I see not having to work as an upgrade. I got to be a "house husband" for two years (with one child) and couldn't understand what all the fuss was about and why women wanted to work or wouldn't prefer home life. Boggles my mind. I would stay home in a heartbeat, wash dishes, clean the house, and take care of the kids, AND use my other extra time to write software and engage other knowledge-work activities. I also found that if you do not do anything of substance with your extra time you will become very unhappy in that role. A lot of stay at home people probably over-indulge in FB and other meaningless and unfulfilling tripe (games); I would expect problems in those cases.
Women don't get paid less because they are women. That is fucking dumb, correlation is not causation. They make less because they demand less. Strange, because when they get home they make up for it.
"and since they are neither they focus their energies nowhere."
there, fixed that for ya...
Real men don't care what you call anything. I want a kilt, in fact it may be rather strategic to start wearing a kilt if you sense your job is on the ropes. Start donning a kilt and beg em to fire you all the sudden. I'm sure that lawsuit would generate a brisk discussion on /.
I download the text files and render the site in my mind using only my imagination. It is a liberating experiment.
Fuck you! I once wrote a program in assembler using smoke signals, so fuck off!
I spoke with a local tech who cleaned viruses for people in our town. I told him that all you had to do for these people was install Firefox or something other than IE and tell people to use that for the internet. He just shook his head from side to side and said: "If I did that then they wouldn't come back next month."
No, if they do not get it done in half the book time they will not be working at that shop very long.
Next year's new menu.......NO MENU AT ALLL!!! Fuckin A Man. I dream of WordPerfect. The problem is, Microsoft applied their good formula for usability to ALL software. As you find out when trying to solve every problem with one solution it can sometimes jump out and bite your dick off. In this case, no one knows how to use a fucking word processor now because Microsoft made it easy--oh sure they type their document and sometimes fanagle it to look presentable but face it, the user is a real mess with Word. Before Word people used WordPerfect (and some other inferior packages) which had no menus (until they were pressured into it) and people could use it. They used it much better than anyone uses Word these days. You learn it and move on, heaven forbid you may have to consult a manual. Now, no one consults a manual AND they can't fucking use Word! How about that?
I know how to use and Word, and you know what I use? Header, maybe footer (no), paragraph and fonts, lists, merge, and images (sometimes). Wow! Anymore I just use LibreOffice3, it handles the docx crap now. Microsoft should really peel off Word into a two products. One for most people and another for the real word processors.
Specialized social networks are the future. If you want to see hot AND sustainable, check out Etsy. Everything always specializes after the general storm, and yes, people will tire of FaceBook. Their attitude will be their undoing.
Don't try to apologize now. You asshole!!
That was my first thought. No plan. As a technologist I'm peeved by the fact that people assume a system will always function properly because it always has in the past. Therefore it is terribly difficult to get a business to plan for outages.