Lots of businesses, especially in the manufacturing sector, are using legacy code like FORTRAN to this day because it would be too expensive to build a new code infrastructure. Don't dismiss older software so quickly.
I've heard about Discworld, but I haven't had the chance to read it yet. I honestly had no idea that it was in a medieval setting. "Discworld" just conveyed a more futuristic theme to me.
Too much time with a spinfusor in TRIBES methinks...
Aye, no. A lot of it is tedious, simple work - defragging, virus updates, etc. that I have the time to explain it to them while it runs to the background. Most customers don't listen to me in the long run anyway, ha...
Maybe the messages should also come up more frequently and be more clear.
The Raid is failing. Your data is FUCKED. Call someone to fix this shit, NOW, or your boss will shitcan your ass so fast that you'll be in the unemployment line YESTERDAY!!!
I do the "go out and fix people's computers" work part time, and in 2 years of doing the work I have yet to have a customer argue with me about my methodology.
I sure have had a hell of a lot of customers ignore maintenance instructions, though. Oh well, more money for me.
"Sir, the knife has to be pointed TOWARDS your chest, not away from it. Let's give it a test. Does that hurt? Good. I've sent a customer satisfaction survey to your e-mail address. Please fill it out before dying."
You could always rent a Sat-phone. They go for something like $50 a week. Expensive to buy (About $2,000), but good for a weekend in the hills where you won't get signal.
The Author stopped updating the comic and said he would only update "occasionally". According to a Google search the site has been down since around the beginning of December. (I can't reach it either.)
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"Spin the wheel in ANY direction."
"Hey guys, which way is the any direction?"
The more things change...
That court case would be hard. They smashed up the evidence!
Try taking pictures of cops and see how long you go without your camera being smashed or getting arrested on a trivial or obscure charge.
University faculty wouldn't set up this kind of patent policy. I'd think a lot of them would be against it.
Now university administration... now there's your idiocy.
Too bad their network isn't that great. I don't get signal outside of my house and I live in the biggest city in NJ by population.
How well would it reflect on Apple if some of their most popular apps were unsigned ones?
Huh. Mayans were right, it seems.
Lots of businesses, especially in the manufacturing sector, are using legacy code like FORTRAN to this day because it would be too expensive to build a new code infrastructure. Don't dismiss older software so quickly.
I've heard about Discworld, but I haven't had the chance to read it yet. I honestly had no idea that it was in a medieval setting. "Discworld" just conveyed a more futuristic theme to me.
Too much time with a spinfusor in TRIBES methinks...
From that article:
When shown a series of photographs by Danny Davis, the McMartins' lawyer, one child identified actor Chuck Norris as one of the abusers.
I don't quite know what to make of that. Is there a Chuck Norris joke for underage Satanic sodomy?
Aye, no. A lot of it is tedious, simple work - defragging, virus updates, etc. that I have the time to explain it to them while it runs to the background. Most customers don't listen to me in the long run anyway, ha...
Maybe the messages should also come up more frequently and be more clear.
The Raid is failing. Your data is FUCKED. Call someone to fix this shit, NOW, or your boss will shitcan your ass so fast that you'll be in the unemployment line YESTERDAY!!!
The spineless thing to do is to let such violations of our most important Constitutional rights go unchallenged.
And yet the grandparent's post shows that sometimes sysadmins are indeed stupid.
Spoiler Alert: Snape kills the Columbia Crew by throwing Rosebud through the heat shielding.
Actually, it would be cute to have to randomly put in a secret computer administrator joke."
ID10T
PEBKAC
Luddite
etc.
I do the "go out and fix people's computers" work part time, and in 2 years of doing the work I have yet to have a customer argue with me about my methodology.
I sure have had a hell of a lot of customers ignore maintenance instructions, though. Oh well, more money for me.
"Sir, the knife has to be pointed TOWARDS your chest, not away from it. Let's give it a test. Does that hurt? Good. I've sent a customer satisfaction survey to your e-mail address. Please fill it out before dying."
Maybe the solution would be something like:
"Warning! The raid system is failing! Please type in the first six letters of the alphabet to close this window. ______"
If a message is important enough, you shouldn't be able to just click it away IMO.
Or dairy farmers?
You could always rent a Sat-phone. They go for something like $50 a week. Expensive to buy (About $2,000), but good for a weekend in the hills where you won't get signal.
Via companies whose towers aren't down? Yeah it would cost them money, but it's the responsible thing to do.
The Author stopped updating the comic and said he would only update "occasionally". According to a Google search the site has been down since around the beginning of December. (I can't reach it either.)
A cursory Google search reveals the name of that disease: Kallman Syndrome.
There are other diseases that can have similar symptoms, i.e. dwarfism.
Next we'll be appointing a Cartoon Czar...
I suggest either Boris or Natasha.