Why should I have to bribe someone to get my bills paid on time?
You know this just reinforces the status quo, right? I deserve to be paid on time and in full for the work I do, as stipulated by the contract signed by the client at the beginning of the work. If they think they deserve some special treatment or privilege, then they should stipulate that before the contracts are signed and damn well stick to them. I shouldn't have to send a case of whisky to some bean counter's house just to get a cheque signed.
Before my karma bombs, I should probably point out that I don't agree with the use of the taser in this situation. I was just pointing out that there are ways to resist arrest without screaming obscenities and throwing punches, and that alternatives to the taser in situations where it is warranted aren't necessarily any better for the detainee.
You can resist arrest in many ways, without being overtly threatening. Not walking with the officer (standing your ground), straining against their hold, running away, going limp... None of them are compliance with their orders to "get into the vehicle, please mind your head sir / ma'am." I'm not saying someone should be tased for not marching themselves into a cell, but when it's been going on for many minutes and the detainee is being particularly belligerent, there are only so many avenues down which to proceed. Back in the day, it was a billy club to the skull, pepper spray, or gunpoint. Which would you prefer?
Apple fans would still buy the iPhone X if the staff spat in your face when you walked into the store. Google are just increasing their market and exposure, like any good company would.
See, I'd agree with you, but the kind of person who would use this kind of TV would also have high-speed broadband internet, along with the firewall-enabled router supplied by the ISP at least. The chances of this TV being plugged directly into the modem or popped into a DMZ are so hellishly remote...
Saying that, if I can't get updates for a device, it doesn't connect to a network. I'd be quite happy with unplugging the network portion of the TV once support ended and spend the money to upgrade the TV on an HTPC setup.
We switched to Zimbra around a year ago, and haven't looked back. It doesn't offer as much of the integration that Exchange / OWA does, but it's capable enough for email, calendaring, contact management etc. If there's some specific functionality that you require, check that it's supported.
Sadly, we have Windows-only MIS, and I'm not in a position to decide on an alternative, so we have to stick with Windows servers with all the licensing headaches that entails. Still, at least I'm not paying to license Exchange too.
34 hours a month is under 1.5 hours a day. Two episodes of Sons of Anarchy, or watching Robocop for the 26th time? That's doable without much strain. Hell, I could watch double that just while doing my ironing.
The whole point of public key encryption (RSA, for example) is that you wouldn't have to exchange keys outside of the communication channel. If you're going to meet in person, you should probably exchange data there as well. Sneakernet is always an option; It's just inconvenient.
Ah, sorry, I obscured my point. OP was asking about specific DVD drives for ripping; Why? I understand that FLAC is FLAC; Lossles, therefore bit-for-bit copy. My point was that if I can't tell the difference between lossless and lossy, what difference will a specific drive make? Hence the comparison to Monster cables, which are hugely expensive yet ultimately no better than any other.
Extremely horrific violence: Ok. Semi-nudity: Not ok.
Please, explain why I can buy the "Saw" series of movies, where the point is to simulate intense psychological torture and often physical mutilation prior to execution in spectacularly visceral fashion, in the local supermarket next to Spongebob boxed sets, but in order to see a a simulated act of completely natural physical affection between two consenting adults I would have to go to an 'adult shop'.
No, I'm telling you that attractiveness is subjective. What you and I find attractive may well differ, despite popular opinion. You may find a timid, shy person attractive, whereas I may find a powerful and confident person attractive; Neither has anything to do with physical appearance, but apparently you can only be "attractive" if you have big boobs or six-pack abs.
If I have any agenda, it's that I want people to form their own opinions and not rely on having them spoon fed to them by advertising gurus and media moguls. I don't care if who you do or don't want to screw; I just want you to decide for yourself, regardless of who is on the cover of Vogue this week.
Extremely horrific violence: Ok.
Semi-nudity: Not ok.
Please, explain why I can buy the "Saw" series of movies in the local supermarket next to Spongebob boxed sets, but in order to see a boob I would have to go to an 'adult shop'.
You seem knowledgeable in this area, so I'll ask my question here.
Why is all this necessary? I can hear no difference between a ~256Kb VBR 44.1KHz sample MP3 and FLAC, and I've tested it on everything from £40 wireless Phillips headphones up to studio-quality audio equipment, and I'm not talking about dubstep or pre-condensed pop music.
I'm going to obviously troll here, but to me all this needs is someone to mention Monster cables and I'll be convinced that it's all just fluff.
Anecdotal, but repeated experience; Uninstallation of Comodo Internet Security has utterly hosed the TCP/IP stack on my Win7 64bit box twice, to the point that reinstalling the OS was required. It works fine as long as you never, ever change your mind.
My site's proxy has this domain marked as malicious. Don't visit the link.
Editors; You're succeeding in your efforst to push me over to news.ycombinator.com. I hope your new corporate overlords are happy with their stillborn purchase.
There is a lot of money for you. Lower pay for administration. your principal does not need to make 6 figures. Oh and the Coach does not need to make high 5 figures. (Typically PE teachers make more than the Science teachers)
Call up a CxO in your company and tell him you can hire another three techs if he'd just lose an order of magnitude of his paycheque. Let me know how that goes.
There is likely someone with leadership authority who told IT staff to let students manage their own laptops and have admin privileges. Given the size of the district, the directive either came from the district technology committee, or directly from the superintendent, school board, or both.
I would, and have in the past, told them no. Nobody else is technically competent enough to decide what is in the best interest of the school with regards to networking infrastructure and services, and to fail in that regard is how situations like this occur. Yes, they get on their high horse and blatantly CC everyone in the food chain higher than you, but ultimately it comes down to whether you're prepared to protect the school from poorly informed decisions made by technically incompetent people. If they want a problem solved, they need to come to me with the problem. and not a half-baked hack suggested by a geeky teenage nephew over the weekend.
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Why should I have to bribe someone to get my bills paid on time?
You know this just reinforces the status quo, right? I deserve to be paid on time and in full for the work I do, as stipulated by the contract signed by the client at the beginning of the work. If they think they deserve some special treatment or privilege, then they should stipulate that before the contracts are signed and damn well stick to them. I shouldn't have to send a case of whisky to some bean counter's house just to get a cheque signed.
Before my karma bombs, I should probably point out that I don't agree with the use of the taser in this situation. I was just pointing out that there are ways to resist arrest without screaming obscenities and throwing punches, and that alternatives to the taser in situations where it is warranted aren't necessarily any better for the detainee.
You can resist arrest in many ways, without being overtly threatening. Not walking with the officer (standing your ground), straining against their hold, running away, going limp... None of them are compliance with their orders to "get into the vehicle, please mind your head sir / ma'am." I'm not saying someone should be tased for not marching themselves into a cell, but when it's been going on for many minutes and the detainee is being particularly belligerent, there are only so many avenues down which to proceed. Back in the day, it was a billy club to the skull, pepper spray, or gunpoint. Which would you prefer?
Apple fans would still buy the iPhone X if the staff spat in your face when you walked into the store. Google are just increasing their market and exposure, like any good company would.
See, I'd agree with you, but the kind of person who would use this kind of TV would also have high-speed broadband internet, along with the firewall-enabled router supplied by the ISP at least. The chances of this TV being plugged directly into the modem or popped into a DMZ are so hellishly remote...
Saying that, if I can't get updates for a device, it doesn't connect to a network. I'd be quite happy with unplugging the network portion of the TV once support ended and spend the money to upgrade the TV on an HTPC setup.
We switched to Zimbra around a year ago, and haven't looked back. It doesn't offer as much of the integration that Exchange / OWA does, but it's capable enough for email, calendaring, contact management etc. If there's some specific functionality that you require, check that it's supported.
Sadly, we have Windows-only MIS, and I'm not in a position to decide on an alternative, so we have to stick with Windows servers with all the licensing headaches that entails. Still, at least I'm not paying to license Exchange too.
You missed the word "suspected" out of your pseudo-quote.
Or is it "alleged"? I can't tell these days. Guilty until proven innocent, and all.
I was just shown this website by a colleague who is not a geek, yet I want all of the things.
http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/ Not found anything NSFW yet, but not promising anything.
34 hours a month is under 1.5 hours a day. Two episodes of Sons of Anarchy, or watching Robocop for the 26th time? That's doable without much strain. Hell, I could watch double that just while doing my ironing.
A junior dev is NOT an unskilled worker.
Come back when you have made your analogy work with the bin man, or a school cook.
Does your recipient also use PGP, including when forwarding emails?
Their recipients?
The whole point of public key encryption (RSA, for example) is that you wouldn't have to exchange keys outside of the communication channel. If you're going to meet in person, you should probably exchange data there as well. Sneakernet is always an option; It's just inconvenient.
Ah, sorry, I obscured my point. OP was asking about specific DVD drives for ripping; Why? I understand that FLAC is FLAC; Lossles, therefore bit-for-bit copy. My point was that if I can't tell the difference between lossless and lossy, what difference will a specific drive make? Hence the comparison to Monster cables, which are hugely expensive yet ultimately no better than any other.
Extremely horrific violence: Ok. Semi-nudity: Not ok.
Please, explain why I can buy the "Saw" series of movies, where the point is to simulate intense psychological torture and often physical mutilation prior to execution in spectacularly visceral fashion, in the local supermarket next to Spongebob boxed sets, but in order to see a a simulated act of completely natural physical affection between two consenting adults I would have to go to an 'adult shop'.
No, I'm telling you that attractiveness is subjective. What you and I find attractive may well differ, despite popular opinion. You may find a timid, shy person attractive, whereas I may find a powerful and confident person attractive; Neither has anything to do with physical appearance, but apparently you can only be "attractive" if you have big boobs or six-pack abs.
If I have any agenda, it's that I want people to form their own opinions and not rely on having them spoon fed to them by advertising gurus and media moguls. I don't care if who you do or don't want to screw; I just want you to decide for yourself, regardless of who is on the cover of Vogue this week.
That's because the Western media has reduced "attractive" to anorexic blondes with silicon implants and sunbed-worshipping steroid abusers.
Extremely horrific violence: Ok. Semi-nudity: Not ok.
Please, explain why I can buy the "Saw" series of movies in the local supermarket next to Spongebob boxed sets, but in order to see a boob I would have to go to an 'adult shop'.
You seem knowledgeable in this area, so I'll ask my question here.
Why is all this necessary? I can hear no difference between a ~256Kb VBR 44.1KHz sample MP3 and FLAC, and I've tested it on everything from £40 wireless Phillips headphones up to studio-quality audio equipment, and I'm not talking about dubstep or pre-condensed pop music.
I'm going to obviously troll here, but to me all this needs is someone to mention Monster cables and I'll be convinced that it's all just fluff.
Anecdotal, but repeated experience; Uninstallation of Comodo Internet Security has utterly hosed the TCP/IP stack on my Win7 64bit box twice, to the point that reinstalling the OS was required. It works fine as long as you never, ever change your mind.
What the fuck did you do to my link? HTTP is implied, FFS/
http://news.ycombinator.com/
Posting under top comment for exposure;
My site's proxy has this domain marked as malicious. Don't visit the link.
Editors; You're succeeding in your efforst to push me over to news.ycombinator.com. I hope your new corporate overlords are happy with their stillborn purchase.
It's fine with me. Best DRM ever.
Good to know. Now tell me, which is the best sexual violation? Which is the best form of murder?
Of course I'm being facetious, but the point remains; The best of a bad thing does not make it good.
There is a lot of money for you. Lower pay for administration. your principal does not need to make 6 figures. Oh and the Coach does not need to make high 5 figures. (Typically PE teachers make more than the Science teachers)
Call up a CxO in your company and tell him you can hire another three techs if he'd just lose an order of magnitude of his paycheque. Let me know how that goes.
Have you been drinking?
http://www.mirrorlink.com/
This problem has been solved.
There is likely someone with leadership authority who told IT staff to let students manage their own laptops and have admin privileges. Given the size of the district, the directive either came from the district technology committee, or directly from the superintendent, school board, or both.
I would, and have in the past, told them no. Nobody else is technically competent enough to decide what is in the best interest of the school with regards to networking infrastructure and services, and to fail in that regard is how situations like this occur. Yes, they get on their high horse and blatantly CC everyone in the food chain higher than you, but ultimately it comes down to whether you're prepared to protect the school from poorly informed decisions made by technically incompetent people. If they want a problem solved, they need to come to me with the problem. and not a half-baked hack suggested by a geeky teenage nephew over the weekend.