I'd like to know how the winners of the Superbowl can be classed as World Champions? World Champions in a sport where there are no national teams (as far as I know!)?!??!?! It's just another example of the great American ego. *gasp* I just admitted some anti-American resentment! Lock me up and throw away the key!
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Sysadmins are the least of my worries. I'm more worried about directors who screw up companies, or people who are brought in to manage the company whose only intention is to sell and make money. Yes B.L. that means you!
You don't get your fingers crushed in a high-tech workplace by dodgy machinery, you earn a much better salary, you're not breathing dangerous toxins and you are able to afford a life. I'd rather work in cubicle land than in a 19th century (or even 20th!) factory.
I finally made the switch from IE to Phoenix, via Mozilla. Phoenix is good, except I've had several crashes and a couple of time it seems to get rather bloated and crash. It's also crashed a couple of times on exit as well. I think the latest Mozilla crashed a few times for me as well, so this is no big deal.
How do I stop Phoenix from deleting my cookies after so many days? Every so often, I have to re-login into all the sites that I visit again. This is really annoying.
Ottawa's been in the shit for ages. I know people who were laid off a year ago, and they just managed to get a job. When I left Ottawa in 2001, people were getting laid off and being told by the agencies to not contact them for 9 months. The market there just died really badly.
I can't remember the last time that I received an AOL CD in the post. Mind, I only receive bills and adverts for local Pizza and Chinese restaurants anyway!
Good god what is the world coming to? Whatever will Hollywood produce next? Beethoven's last movement? This is just sad, really sad. We don't need this film, and who cares anyway? Not me, but that's just my opinion.
Next thing you know, a jury will order a tobacco company to pay a former smoker $28billion for catching cancer from smoking.
I couldn't agree with you more. The justice system places so little value on human life, especially that of the victims.
On a side note, I saw a story on the news last night that several people arrived on the scene of an attempted child kidnapping. They managed to get the two children free from the kidnapper, and kicked and beat him until the police arrived. While I don't condone vigilante actions, this is probably the roughest punishment the kidnapper will face. I'm sure he'll get minimal jail time.
Another story I saw was that a police officer was killed during an alleged road race. An earlier death of an innocent member of the public in a road race resulted in a minimal sentence for the driver. The government's response to the problem of road racing is to educate the public as to the dangers of driving at such speeds. As in many cases, they're completely missing the point. Justice and punishment is supposed to be about making someone think twice before proceeding with a crime. To do this, they should convict a driver of manslaughter or murder (you can argue the differences), take away their license for a long period of time (20+years) and throw them in jail for a long period of time.
A third story that has been progressing was the case of an illegal Japanese immigrant who abandoned her babies in her house for ten days while she went out clubbing and partying with her boyfriend. The children died of starvation (and probably other effects from not eating or drinking). The news programs proclaimed that the Government's support system failed this woman, and as a result two children died. No, the system didn't fail. The woman failed. She received something like seven years in jail less the year she has already served, so she will probbaly be out in about six years.
All of these stories took place in Canada.
At what point did people decide that responsibility is no longer theirs? When you drive, break the speed limit and receive a ticket it's not the fault of the Police or the Government. It's your fault for breaking the limit. You can't turn round and complain that the Police are being too heavy handed.
I'm sick and tired of Justice systems no longer being about Justice. I'm sick and tired of hearing people laying the blame elsewhere. Responsbility for your family's lives, your life and the life of others around you is in your hands. Don't blame anyone else for it. Next time you try to jump a red light, or the next time you speed pass a pedestrian crossing the road, reflect for a second what might have happened. Could you live with the guilt of killing someone due to your impatience?
If you haven't guessed, I'm a carless pedestrian, and I'm tired of drivers trying to run me over as they can't wait for more than 5 seconds while I cross the road.
I forgot to say that I could get the missus to use a different program to rip her CDs onto her hard drive, but for whatever reason, she likes Real Jukebox, and she "ain't gonna change"!
It happened to my fiancee. She backed up her music made using Real Jukebox to her D drive. We re-formatted drive C and re-installed Windows. Of course, not having saved the security key, when she restored her music files she couldn't play them.
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I'd like to know how the winners of the Superbowl can be classed as World Champions? World Champions in a sport where there are no national teams (as far as I know!)?!??!?! It's just another example of the great American ego. *gasp* I just admitted some anti-American resentment! Lock me up and throw away the key!
Sysadmins are the least of my worries. I'm more worried about directors who screw up companies, or people who are brought in to manage the company whose only intention is to sell and make money. Yes B.L. that means you!
I always thought that Japan was ahead of the U.S. in terms of tech innovation.
OS/2 is still used in some places. My bank still has it installed on every desktop in their branch.
Revenge is very, very sweet. This made me laugh and feel all warm and fuzzy inside!
Hey maybe they're right!
To install Linux I need the following:
- buy a new computer
- order a Cable net connection to download the CD
- buy a CD burner to burn the CD
With Windows I just need to:
- dial 1-800-555-DELL (free)
- give credit card details
- receive delivery of new PC with Windows installed
So really buying Windows saves me money as I don't need the net connection or the burner!
Ok ok, so that was bad. But it's only 8:21 and I'm half asleep.
You don't get your fingers crushed in a high-tech workplace by dodgy machinery, you earn a much better salary, you're not breathing dangerous toxins and you are able to afford a life. I'd rather work in cubicle land than in a 19th century (or even 20th!) factory.
I finally made the switch from IE to Phoenix, via Mozilla. Phoenix is good, except I've had several crashes and a couple of time it seems to get rather bloated and crash. It's also crashed a couple of times on exit as well. I think the latest Mozilla crashed a few times for me as well, so this is no big deal.
How do I stop Phoenix from deleting my cookies after so many days? Every so often, I have to re-login into all the sites that I visit again. This is really annoying.
I wonder how many layers of software Microsoft had to add to achieve this GUI.
Ottawa's been in the shit for ages. I know people who were laid off a year ago, and they just managed to get a job. When I left Ottawa in 2001, people were getting laid off and being told by the agencies to not contact them for 9 months. The market there just died really badly.
I can't remember the last time that I received an AOL CD in the post. Mind, I only receive bills and adverts for local Pizza and Chinese restaurants anyway!
You too eh? :)
Good god what is the world coming to? Whatever will Hollywood produce next? Beethoven's last movement? This is just sad, really sad. We don't need this film, and who cares anyway? Not me, but that's just my opinion.
Next thing you know, a jury will order a tobacco company to pay a former smoker $28billion for catching cancer from smoking.
Oh no, he's going to sue you now!
Can we believe these pictures?
This is Slashdot, what did you expect?
I couldn't agree with you more. The justice system places so little value on human life, especially that of the victims.
On a side note, I saw a story on the news last night that several people arrived on the scene of an attempted child kidnapping. They managed to get the two children free from the kidnapper, and kicked and beat him until the police arrived. While I don't condone vigilante actions, this is probably the roughest punishment the kidnapper will face. I'm sure he'll get minimal jail time.
Another story I saw was that a police officer was killed during an alleged road race. An earlier death of an innocent member of the public in a road race resulted in a minimal sentence for the driver. The government's response to the problem of road racing is to educate the public as to the dangers of driving at such speeds. As in many cases, they're completely missing the point. Justice and punishment is supposed to be about making someone think twice before proceeding with a crime. To do this, they should convict a driver of manslaughter or murder (you can argue the differences), take away their license for a long period of time (20+years) and throw them in jail for a long period of time.
A third story that has been progressing was the case of an illegal Japanese immigrant who abandoned her babies in her house for ten days while she went out clubbing and partying with her boyfriend. The children died of starvation (and probably other effects from not eating or drinking). The news programs proclaimed that the Government's support system failed this woman, and as a result two children died. No, the system didn't fail. The woman failed. She received something like seven years in jail less the year she has already served, so she will probbaly be out in about six years.
All of these stories took place in Canada.
At what point did people decide that responsibility is no longer theirs? When you drive, break the speed limit and receive a ticket it's not the fault of the Police or the Government. It's your fault for breaking the limit. You can't turn round and complain that the Police are being too heavy handed.
I'm sick and tired of Justice systems no longer being about Justice. I'm sick and tired of hearing people laying the blame elsewhere. Responsbility for your family's lives, your life and the life of others around you is in your hands. Don't blame anyone else for it. Next time you try to jump a red light, or the next time you speed pass a pedestrian crossing the road, reflect for a second what might have happened. Could you live with the guilt of killing someone due to your impatience?
If you haven't guessed, I'm a carless pedestrian, and I'm tired of drivers trying to run me over as they can't wait for more than 5 seconds while I cross the road.
Rant over, but not finished.
He won't. Why? Because they're not a threat to the US. Bush will only go after those organisations or countries that pose a threat to the US.
Just let Napster die. Noone cares about it anymore anyway.
Me too. Even if he showed us a video of him doing it, it would be too easy for him to hide the cable running from his PC to the TV.
It's a con I say!
I forgot to say that I could get the missus to use a different program to rip her CDs onto her hard drive, but for whatever reason, she likes Real Jukebox, and she "ain't gonna change"!
It happened to my fiancee. She backed up her music made using Real Jukebox to her D drive. We re-formatted drive C and re-installed Windows. Of course, not having saved the security key, when she restored her music files she couldn't play them.
As always, the honest people suffer.
What about something you started working on in your free time before you joined the company?
How about Get A Life? Oh wait, you had a Y in the middle. My mistake.
You mean Samba wouldn't be here today without reverse engineering?