Having to deal with techies and reality is an annoyance for managerial types.
I've seen a lot of geeks waltz into a manager's office with attitude. That's wrong, the users call when they have a problem. Go in, fix it, be nice. If they ask what happened explain it in non-geek terms. If they don't act nice after then rm their user directory.;)
I can see employees being confronted for browsing pages they never actually
looked at. An obvious example: innocently searching for info on the silly
Vin Diesel movie "XXX" turns up a nice mix of Vin and pr0n in the top
results. Presumably a mix of both are loading up in the background
Depending on your registrar, you can have them act as a proxy for contact. ie:
whois grub.net
and you'll see all my stuff goes through NetSol. It costs a few dollars (peanuts), my email isn't harvested that way and best of all: no one knows I live in Winnipeg^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
If you're an extremist (left or right), you should expect that eventually you will receive an extreme response
That's right. Be a good boy, don't speak out of turn and eat your vegetables.
Calling the FBI "Gestapo" is just name calling. Big deal. Bush is a nazi, Blair is a cunt and the CIA are murderous thugs. It's not something they don't hear every day. They want something information that is tied to something more involved than simple name calling.
FTA: "Our goal is in no way to interfere with the TiVo experience," TiVo
spokesman David Shane said.
TiVo has gone from a cool company
with financial problems to another advertising laden CrapCo that's cutting
it's own throat. Even more reason to cancel cable entirely, buy a divx/xvid
ready dvd player (well under CA$100) and download what really interests you
without ads. Don't worry, the big studios won't starve. They're making
buckets on product placement within the shows now.
Superstition is the lazy way out of reason. I get that insignificant feeling when looking at the stars through my telescope, that doesn't lead me to believe that there's an invisible man deciding the fate of all those points of light.
Well said. I'm convinced that having unwavering belief in supernatural things is a sign of mental illness. That includes religion. Otherwise intelligent people throw away all higher though when it comes to that mind-rotting garbage.
"We live in a reality-television age where normal people see
themselves as the star. Joke-e-oke shows that everyone can be a star,"
Sure, for 5 minutes. Then the reality of empty, meaningless
lives hits the people when they remember they aren't famous or "stars".
Aspire to be yourself, not a TV character. (see the related JE I wrote on
March 15 linked in my sig)
I was hoping the rumours of it being an intentional leak were true. That leak generated a lot of interest in the new series. (and Rose is a good episode;))
Well, time for like my 3rd comment on Slashdot ever... Liar! That was your 6th comment on Slashdot! I demand the mod strip of you of all karma! You will be taken outside the city walls at dawn where you shall be buried up to your shoulders when you will then be stoned until dead!
Yep, and if everyone would "man X" they would see:
The X.Org Foundation requests that the following names be used when referring to this software:
X
X Window System
X Version 11
X Window System, Version 11
X11
Slashdot Mirror
Having to deal with techies and reality is an annoyance for managerial types.
;)
I've seen a lot of geeks waltz into a manager's office with attitude. That's wrong, the users call when they have a problem. Go in, fix it, be nice. If they ask what happened explain it in non-geek terms. If they don't act nice after then rm their user directory.
... is something you earn. If people are treating you like a dirtbag then work on improving your image.
... and the other 5% never ship at all. (ie Duke Nukem Forever)
I can see employees being confronted for browsing pages they never actually looked at. An obvious example: innocently searching for info on the silly Vin Diesel movie "XXX" turns up a nice mix of Vin and pr0n in the top results. Presumably a mix of both are loading up in the background
Read "I Am Not Spock" by Leonard Nimoy sometime if you want to know the answer.
Read his later book "I Am Spock" and you'll find he's recanted a lot of his thinking on the matter.
That's right. Be a good boy, don't speak out of turn and eat your vegetables.
Calling the FBI "Gestapo" is just name calling. Big deal. Bush is a nazi, Blair is a cunt and the CIA are murderous thugs. It's not something they don't hear every day. They want something information that is tied to something more involved than simple name calling.
Uh... software problems are the #1 cause of crashes. If it was hard drives then various OSs would report crashes at a rate similar to Windows.
if my computer crashed I'd send the memory dump and dmesg in to the OpenBSD team. Of course that never happens.
Way to not address what I said. Owww... he used my line against me.
Various religous texts murder people as punishment for crimes against the relevent invisible man.
... but did you ever notice that not a single politician slams Thief?
I can second the vote for the DVP642, it's a decent unit. Bought one each for my sister and a brother as well.
when all of a sudden I get a popup for feminine product.
;)
Really, what does that have anything to do with an egg based custard?
Nothing, it's a demographics driven ad. They're assuming (rightly so I'd think) that most of the people watching that show are women.
(why are you posting, don't you have a contest to finish?
FTA: "Our goal is in no way to interfere with the TiVo experience," TiVo spokesman David Shane said.
TiVo has gone from a cool company with financial problems to another advertising laden CrapCo that's cutting it's own throat. Even more reason to cancel cable entirely, buy a divx/xvid ready dvd player (well under CA$100) and download what really interests you without ads. Don't worry, the big studios won't starve. They're making buckets on product placement within the shows now.
Superstition is the lazy way out of reason. I get that insignificant feeling when looking at the stars through my telescope, that doesn't lead me to believe that there's an invisible man deciding the fate of all those points of light.
Well said. I'm convinced that having unwavering belief in supernatural things is a sign of mental illness. That includes religion. Otherwise intelligent people throw away all higher though when it comes to that mind-rotting garbage.
...but my english is awful and my french is even worse...
You could be our next Prime Minister.
Got any fashion tips for me grub?
:)
Non-bigname jeans from a local shop and a logo-less t-shirt are what I wore today.
"We live in a reality-television age where normal people see themselves as the star. Joke-e-oke shows that everyone can be a star,"
Sure, for 5 minutes. Then the reality of empty, meaningless lives hits the people when they remember they aren't famous or "stars". Aspire to be yourself, not a TV character. (see the related JE I wrote on March 15 linked in my sig)
I was hoping the rumours of it being an intentional leak were true. That leak generated a lot of interest in the new series. (and Rose is a good episode ;))
Well, time for like my 3rd comment on Slashdot ever...
Liar! That was your 6th comment on Slashdot! I demand the mod strip of you of all karma! You will be taken outside the city walls at dawn where you shall be buried up to your shoulders when you will then be stoned until dead!
Or maybe not.
Yep, and if everyone would "man X" they would see:
Solar Death Ray Guy's next News entry should be fun.
Hey Terri,
I had a delicious tuna wrap and some carrots for lunch. Along with my jug of water it was all in all a great meal.
What did you have?