GRUB has all sorts of problems. It wasn't ready for "primetime" when SuSE switched to it about 3 years ago, and as far as I can tell, the problems it had then have yet to be fixed.
If we're making a list, I'll add: the inability to "Reboot to Windows" from Linux; and the failure of some USB keyboards to work in the GRUB boot menu, even though they work perfectly fine everywhere else, including Win9x and in the BIOS.
I've also noticed that my best managers were women, can anyone else comment on that?
I've noticed that departments (or small companies) that employ women in non-subservient positions (ie not only as receptionists) tend to celebrate birthdays, have potlucks, and so on.
In an all male department, those things just don't happen. Every once in a while there might be pizza or ice cream at a meeting (my last boss would sometimes provide ice cream to ensure that we would all show up to his meetings), but by and large men just come to work to, well, work.
As soon as you add a woman, though, suddenly there's cake for every birthday, and everybody's bringing in their crockpots on the third tuesday of the month (not a bad thing, IMO).
Perhaps these social activities bring the team closer together, and foster a more positive work environment?
Sure, it's still bad for innovation, as will be proven the year the license deal drops and all these other companies bring out games that are LIGHTYEARS ahead of that year's Madden, but for now, this isn't noticably a bad thing.
You'd think so, but your theory has already been proven wrong by Diablo 2, which completely failed to implement any of the incredible improvements made by it's competitors (Darkstone in particular comes to mind), and yet sold better than probably all of them combined.
The sad truth is gamers are just as stupid as "normal" people; they buy what they know, even if it sucks.
Well, yeah, that's because Corporate America is run by MBAs who could care less about actually running a successful, efficient company, and really only implement policies aimed at getting them the cost-reduction bonuses specified in their contract, and then move on before anyone has a chance to realize how badly their cuts have screwed the company.
The upside is that they generally have no idea what their employees are actually doing, so it's pretty unlikely that one of those clauses will actually get enforced.
Still, shame on you for signing that contract. You should have negotiated.
Oh silly, you haven't heard of "employment at will"
I've heard of it. In the real world, it does not mean you are helpless before your all-powerful corporate masters. Grow a backbone and stand up for yourself. And by the way, most companies really don't want to fire you. Your unemployment benefits cost them money. That's why they tell you to quit.
You know it is a shame that you feel you should not give 110% at your company. I am sure you do not always give 100% (that is impossible)
You dumbass. Giving 100% is impossible, but you should always give 110%? Have a little more kool-aid...
I guess I just have a better work ethic then you do.
I guess I just have a better life ethic than you do. You see, my top priorities are being a good father and husband. Being a good employee is at best third, and working overtime is in direct conflict with the things that are most important to me.
Any boss who doesn't respect that doesn't deserve (and in most cases won't get) the most out of their employees.
every company I have left in the past five years has told me I am welcome to come back anytime I want.
More information just means you have more filtering to do before the proper course of action can be decided upon. Some jobs may require more information in order to be performed properly, but in no way do I see that as a correlation between information and productivity. If any correlation exists between the two, I am fairly certain that it is inverse in nature.
The problem, I suppose, is that, despite your assertion, there is no clear deliniation of the point at which data becomes information, and by your own definition information is perfectly capable of reverting to data when too much of it is piled together.
If it's not one of your core classes, why do you need it for more than 5 months? I would have been perfectly happy to buy one of these for most of those general ed courses everyone has to take at a liberal arts school and save myself the hassle of selling all those books I didn't want back at the end of the semester.
Copy the text, and paste it into Nvu without formatting (found in the menus, not the default option unfortunately). From there it shouldn't be a big deal to format it however you like.
How about this response "You don't like our corporate policies, then quit. Someone else will do your job. Have fun paying the mortgage."
How about this response "I'm perfectly willing to entertain generous severence packages, and am also willing to collect unemployment while suing you for wrongful termination should you choose to fire me."
A company gets from me what they pay for; nothing less, and definately nothing more. I do my job to the best of my ability for the number of ours they're willing to pay for. Anything more than that comes out of my personal time with my wife and daughter, and that comes at a premium. Note, though, that I haven't yet refused overtime, but nor have I worked for anyone who was dickheaded enough to expect it at no extra cost.
Patent (and Copyright, for that matter) violations don't exist merely as artifacts of the law
Bullshit.
Patents and copyrights themselves only exist as artifacts of law. The violation of such cannot be any more "real" than the thing itself.
I agree with your general point, but likening patent violation to robbery, especially in the current ludicrous state of the patent system, is pure bollocks.
Smash Bros' zooming out is the worst. You're character ends up being about 6 pixels, you can barely see shere he is, let alone what he's doing.
I've never cared much for fighting games, anyway. The only use I have for them is teaching my little brother some humility (he usually wins the first round, as I'm figuring out the controls, then I proceed to dominate him).
My wife is a cop, and that is most definately NOT how it works.
When she has to go to court, it's for one, and only one, case. On the rare occasions when she does have more than one case scheduled, they are almost invariably at different courts, and she basicly has to make a judgement call as to which one is more important (confirmed with her supervisor, of course).
Besides, while the cop may write a date on the citation, you can most likely reschedule if it's that inconvenient for you. The cop usually doesn't have that option, and it's not unheard of for a bench warrant to be issued for a cop who didn't show up because they were on vacation and never recieved the subpoena.
They've already proven your guilt using methods developed and tested over decades. The cop has done it hundreds of times, and the Judge has heard it thousands of times. It's up to you to find a way to cast reasonable doubt on the evidence against you.
By the way, a police officer witnessing the act is evidence of the crime, and carries much greater weight than an ordinary witness (as it should be, that is their job after all).
You've completely missed my point: the platform is my interest.
You're clearly a software guy. I come from the hardware side, and am becoming more and more a software guy due to my interest in embedded systems, where the actual CPU does, in fact, matter.
From that perspective, the platforms lame duck-ness does influence my purchasing decisions.
"Event" in this context refers to any on-air event, more specifically the actual act of switching to a different video source, such as when a program goes to a commercial break.
The switch could be to a program, a commercial (including those run over the end credits of a show), or even those 2 second "You're watching KSUX" blurbs they play. It gets logged, and then compared to the list of timeslots advertisers have paid for, and that lets the station prove the service was rendered and thus they are owed money. (That part is called "reconciliation")
I'm not making up definitions to support my arguements, these are the industry terms as I've learned them.
All they have to do is compare the timestamp of your button push with the event log of the station you were watching. That can be done with a few lines of shell script, and there's no reason it has to be done in realtime. Daily comparisons would likely be just fine.
And FYI, events such as baseball and football games are the most likely to be logged, since that's where the most advertising money is spent.
you can't pin a commercial down to an exact airtime.
Yes you can. Many TV advertisers require proof that their spot was aired during the timeslot they paid for, and for that reason many broadcasters (which are largely automated, anyway) keep logs. The timestamps on these logs can be field accurate, so it is entirely possible to nail down the exact airtime of any broadcast "event" to 1/60 of a second.
Basically, the only limitation is the accuracy of the timestamps in your Tivo's log, and that can be checked or adjusted every time it downloads new programming information.
Because I don't see the point in investing in a dead platform, especially when I already have an excess of x86 already at my disposal.
Perhaps in the future I'll end up working on a PPC based project, and then I'll maybe pick one up. Until then, though, why bother. I'm sure I can find a better use for that money.
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GRUB has all sorts of problems. It wasn't ready for "primetime" when SuSE switched to it about 3 years ago, and as far as I can tell, the problems it had then have yet to be fixed.
If we're making a list, I'll add: the inability to "Reboot to Windows" from Linux; and the failure of some USB keyboards to work in the GRUB boot menu, even though they work perfectly fine everywhere else, including Win9x and in the BIOS.
I've also noticed that my best managers were women, can anyone else comment on that?
I've noticed that departments (or small companies) that employ women in non-subservient positions (ie not only as receptionists) tend to celebrate birthdays, have potlucks, and so on.
In an all male department, those things just don't happen. Every once in a while there might be pizza or ice cream at a meeting (my last boss would sometimes provide ice cream to ensure that we would all show up to his meetings), but by and large men just come to work to, well, work.
As soon as you add a woman, though, suddenly there's cake for every birthday, and everybody's bringing in their crockpots on the third tuesday of the month (not a bad thing, IMO).
Perhaps these social activities bring the team closer together, and foster a more positive work environment?
Sure, it's still bad for innovation, as will be proven the year the license deal drops and all these other companies bring out games that are LIGHTYEARS ahead of that year's Madden, but for now, this isn't noticably a bad thing.
You'd think so, but your theory has already been proven wrong by Diablo 2, which completely failed to implement any of the incredible improvements made by it's competitors (Darkstone in particular comes to mind), and yet sold better than probably all of them combined.
The sad truth is gamers are just as stupid as "normal" people; they buy what they know, even if it sucks.
He plead guilty and expressed believable remorse for his actions. That's the whole difference. Like it or not, that's how our system works.
Well, yeah, that's because Corporate America is run by MBAs who could care less about actually running a successful, efficient company, and really only implement policies aimed at getting them the cost-reduction bonuses specified in their contract, and then move on before anyone has a chance to realize how badly their cuts have screwed the company.
The upside is that they generally have no idea what their employees are actually doing, so it's pretty unlikely that one of those clauses will actually get enforced.
Still, shame on you for signing that contract. You should have negotiated.
Oh silly, you haven't heard of "employment at will"
I've heard of it. In the real world, it does not mean you are helpless before your all-powerful corporate masters. Grow a backbone and stand up for yourself. And by the way, most companies really don't want to fire you. Your unemployment benefits cost them money. That's why they tell you to quit.
You know it is a shame that you feel you should not give 110% at your company. I am sure you do not always give 100% (that is impossible)
You dumbass. Giving 100% is impossible, but you should always give 110%? Have a little more kool-aid...
I guess I just have a better work ethic then you do.
I guess I just have a better life ethic than you do. You see, my top priorities are being a good father and husband. Being a good employee is at best third, and working overtime is in direct conflict with the things that are most important to me.
Any boss who doesn't respect that doesn't deserve (and in most cases won't get) the most out of their employees.
every company I have left in the past five years has told me I am welcome to come back anytime I want.
Same here.
I don't buy it.
More information just means you have more filtering to do before the proper course of action can be decided upon. Some jobs may require more information in order to be performed properly, but in no way do I see that as a correlation between information and productivity. If any correlation exists between the two, I am fairly certain that it is inverse in nature.
The problem, I suppose, is that, despite your assertion, there is no clear deliniation of the point at which data becomes information, and by your own definition information is perfectly capable of reverting to data when too much of it is piled together.
If it's not one of your core classes, why do you need it for more than 5 months? I would have been perfectly happy to buy one of these for most of those general ed courses everyone has to take at a liberal arts school and save myself the hassle of selling all those books I didn't want back at the end of the semester.
Copy the text, and paste it into Nvu without formatting (found in the menus, not the default option unfortunately). From there it shouldn't be a big deal to format it however you like.
How about this response "You don't like our corporate policies, then quit. Someone else will do your job. Have fun paying the mortgage."
How about this response "I'm perfectly willing to entertain generous severence packages, and am also willing to collect unemployment while suing you for wrongful termination should you choose to fire me."
A company gets from me what they pay for; nothing less, and definately nothing more. I do my job to the best of my ability for the number of ours they're willing to pay for. Anything more than that comes out of my personal time with my wife and daughter, and that comes at a premium. Note, though, that I haven't yet refused overtime, but nor have I worked for anyone who was dickheaded enough to expect it at no extra cost.
5) More information == more productivity
I was right with you on the rest of them, but this is so clearly wrong in the vast majority of cases it's not even funny.
More information == more time wasted in decision making == less productivity
Patent (and Copyright, for that matter) violations don't exist merely as artifacts of the law
Bullshit.
Patents and copyrights themselves only exist as artifacts of law. The violation of such cannot be any more "real" than the thing itself.
I agree with your general point, but likening patent violation to robbery, especially in the current ludicrous state of the patent system, is pure bollocks.
Smash Bros' zooming out is the worst. You're character ends up being about 6 pixels, you can barely see shere he is, let alone what he's doing.
I've never cared much for fighting games, anyway. The only use I have for them is teaching my little brother some humility (he usually wins the first round, as I'm figuring out the controls, then I proceed to dominate him).
Yeah, I come to the same conclusion everytime I play a game on a console.
Heh. You should try buying a second controller and inviting a friend over. ;)
And split the already crappy resolution? Acceptable for MarioKart, but makes Halo nearly unplayable.
Nope.
Usually if they write you it's because they think you're a dick.
My wife is a cop, and that is most definately NOT how it works.
When she has to go to court, it's for one, and only one, case. On the rare occasions when she does have more than one case scheduled, they are almost invariably at different courts, and she basicly has to make a judgement call as to which one is more important (confirmed with her supervisor, of course).
Besides, while the cop may write a date on the citation, you can most likely reschedule if it's that inconvenient for you. The cop usually doesn't have that option, and it's not unheard of for a bench warrant to be issued for a cop who didn't show up because they were on vacation and never recieved the subpoena.
They've already proven your guilt using methods developed and tested over decades. The cop has done it hundreds of times, and the Judge has heard it thousands of times. It's up to you to find a way to cast reasonable doubt on the evidence against you.
By the way, a police officer witnessing the act is evidence of the crime, and carries much greater weight than an ordinary witness (as it should be, that is their job after all).
You've completely missed my point: the platform is my interest.
You're clearly a software guy. I come from the hardware side, and am becoming more and more a software guy due to my interest in embedded systems, where the actual CPU does, in fact, matter.
From that perspective, the platforms lame duck-ness does influence my purchasing decisions.
"Event" in this context refers to any on-air event, more specifically the actual act of switching to a different video source, such as when a program goes to a commercial break.
The switch could be to a program, a commercial (including those run over the end credits of a show), or even those 2 second "You're watching KSUX" blurbs they play. It gets logged, and then compared to the list of timeslots advertisers have paid for, and that lets the station prove the service was rendered and thus they are owed money. (That part is called "reconciliation")
I'm not making up definitions to support my arguements, these are the industry terms as I've learned them.
Dude, think about it.
All they have to do is compare the timestamp of your button push with the event log of the station you were watching. That can be done with a few lines of shell script, and there's no reason it has to be done in realtime. Daily comparisons would likely be just fine.
And FYI, events such as baseball and football games are the most likely to be logged, since that's where the most advertising money is spent.
You'll never go wrong with the Silk Ease variety pack.
When they're younger, yes.
As they get older, they tend to find the thought disgusting.
There are a lot of other things they stop doing as they get older, too.
you can't pin a commercial down to an exact airtime.
Yes you can. Many TV advertisers require proof that their spot was aired during the timeslot they paid for, and for that reason many broadcasters (which are largely automated, anyway) keep logs. The timestamps on these logs can be field accurate, so it is entirely possible to nail down the exact airtime of any broadcast "event" to 1/60 of a second.
Basically, the only limitation is the accuracy of the timestamps in your Tivo's log, and that can be checked or adjusted every time it downloads new programming information.
Because I don't see the point in investing in a dead platform, especially when I already have an excess of x86 already at my disposal.
Perhaps in the future I'll end up working on a PPC based project, and then I'll maybe pick one up. Until then, though, why bother. I'm sure I can find a better use for that money.