And this is an American website read by Americans. If it were a Mexican site read by Mexicans, then having 'Mum' instead of 'Mama' or 'Madre' would be equally inappropriate.
It's an act of courage to remove features everyone uses and doesn't think about, and then to tell those people with a straight face that it's an improvement. No, really. You can't have any vestigial shred of fear in you to do that.
And. Their probe is smaller and does less than Maven does. If they wanted to build something as big and as multifunctional as Maven, it would cost them closer to what it cost us. Golf balls and basketballs is more like it.
Maybe you've just had the misfortune of working with unproductive people who were unproductive when they were young too. In my experience, it's half-and-half. There's a number of folks old enough to be my father who work as long as I do and there's a number of folks younger than I am who check out at 5pm. And plenty of kids with infinite energy and old lumps just collecting a paycheck.
You're both full of it. I don't know what you have to be on to conclude that the way to prosperity is for everyone to work less, but you can keep it all to yourselves. As for nationalized benefits? WTF? So that there's a whole 'nother entrenched bureaucracy whose job it is to make the trains run, except that your health now depends on it? Like the VA? That's something to emulate?! Seriously...you must be smoking a bad batch of something.
Maybe I'm the one with the problem. Given how easy it is to sell people something they already have for free (Dropbox, Slack, GotomyPC, etc), you'd think I'd get on the bandwagon and go into business selling people the ability to click their mouse or type Latin characters on their keyboards.
More to the point, employer-subsidized sex change procedures wouldn't be the hot-button issue they are today. Think about: some dude decides he's really a she, and for the cost of a few tens of thousands now, you can save 23% of the salary you'd be paying him! That's a lot of savings to be had, to the point where the "gender queer" or whatever they call themselves should have near zero unemployment rate.
Silly anon. If they make you work full time, they'll also be making you pay someone else to do the things that you now do for yourself on your time "off." This way they'll get two wage slaves, one of whom will explicitly owe their employment to their policies and one who can be blinkered into thinking it's a Good Thing that she now gets to work a full forty per week. If they let people make their own choices, they don't get the chance to buy votes that way. Report to re-education at once for your lapse in faith!
That's not serious work. Serious work is work that requires you to write your software, not push buttons on something someone else did the heavy lifting on. A lot of seemingly mundane old IT falls in the former category, not the latter.
Which is why serious work doesn't get done on Windows. The corollary to an above comment that "only an idiot doesn't understand that uncommanded reboots are disruptive" is the statement that only an idiot would bring along a system to do a big presentation that is subject to frequent uncommanded reboots and brick periods.
I do all of my presentations on Linux machines and I set all of my machines to either disable auto filesystem checks on boot entirely or at least have the boot set up so I can CTRL-C out of it if needed. Why? Because my schedule gets set by me, not by some geek in another timezone who thinks he knows better than his lusers.
My household income was a few ticks below 160k last year. We also pay 3.2k / mo to rent a one bedroom apartment and two parking spaces. Somehow, we came out net positive last year. Both savings accounts increased in value. 401k contributions. Even a 4-5k vacation to Europe. Two cars. Not a lot of barhopping and artisanal cruelty-free organic tin-foil in the kitchen cupboard though.
IS a collective noun. If msmash worked a real job at a real publisher, he she or it would have been let go for stubborn refusal to conform to orthographic standards.
Spoken with the wisdom of inexperience. Cheapo Chinese USB serial port dongles have unique serial numbers that you can get at to map the right physical dongle to the right/dev/ttyS_whatever symlink. Or "COM port" in the parlance of the n00bs.
why no one takes Microsoft seriously. I mean how hard is it to maintain a "registry" of drivers for a given device? It's not like peripherals don't have unique ids you can get at through the bus.
No, a massive amount of labor saved so that everyone doesn't have to walk to the town well and get their own water every time. Follow along. The correct analogy is replacing running water with rain barrels and manually operated wells on everyone's property instead of a centralized pumping and distribution system.
In a similar vein, I hypothesize that there'll be a whole lot more farming jobs once we drive "evil agribusiness" into the sea and go back to organic, cage-free subsistence farming. Every man for himself, plus a bunch of pig catchers to take the place of the cages.
Quite right. It's the next rung down. Don't bother coming up with expectations, just send a check one way and hope to god that votes come back in the other direction. It's remarkable actually, almost meta: laziness in government to actively subsidize sloth in the citizenry.
Why thank you, oh Illustrious Ghost of Edsgar Dijkstra! You have picked your nit so eloquently that I now see the error of my ways! What a fool I was to leave the cold comfort of clinical exactitude and venture into the wilderness of metaphor and pith!
And who told them to go the internship route in the first place? Who told them that the best use of their time and their parents' or the taxpayers' money was a four year degree in Obscurist Literature followed up by a decade of living it up as the starving artist? Break down the unemployment numbers by type education and you'll see a notable lack of it among people with degrees in useful professions or training in useful trades. And yes, you are expected to move to Middle-of-Nowhere-Town, Bumblefuck County USA if that's where they can't hire enough welders and skilled machinists instead of sleeping in your childhood bedroom bitching about how all the cruelty-free artisanal ukelele playing gigs don't pay enough.
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And this is an American website read by Americans. If it were a Mexican site read by Mexicans, then having 'Mum' instead of 'Mama' or 'Madre' would be equally inappropriate.
At it for how many years and still can't spell, eh msmash?
It's an act of courage to remove features everyone uses and doesn't think about, and then to tell those people with a straight face that it's an improvement. No, really. You can't have any vestigial shred of fear in you to do that.
And. Their probe is smaller and does less than Maven does. If they wanted to build something as big and as multifunctional as Maven, it would cost them closer to what it cost us. Golf balls and basketballs is more like it.
A job opportunity based on credentials and not on seniority?
Maybe you've just had the misfortune of working with unproductive people who were unproductive when they were young too. In my experience, it's half-and-half. There's a number of folks old enough to be my father who work as long as I do and there's a number of folks younger than I am who check out at 5pm. And plenty of kids with infinite energy and old lumps just collecting a paycheck.
Specifically, I don't give a flying fuck what the slashdot editor-of-the-month thinks should or should not happen. Oh wait, it's msmash again.
You're both full of it. I don't know what you have to be on to conclude that the way to prosperity is for everyone to work less, but you can keep it all to yourselves. As for nationalized benefits? WTF? So that there's a whole 'nother entrenched bureaucracy whose job it is to make the trains run, except that your health now depends on it? Like the VA? That's something to emulate?! Seriously...you must be smoking a bad batch of something.
And I want it because...why?
Maybe I'm the one with the problem. Given how easy it is to sell people something they already have for free (Dropbox, Slack, GotomyPC, etc), you'd think I'd get on the bandwagon and go into business selling people the ability to click their mouse or type Latin characters on their keyboards.
More to the point, employer-subsidized sex change procedures wouldn't be the hot-button issue they are today. Think about: some dude decides he's really a she, and for the cost of a few tens of thousands now, you can save 23% of the salary you'd be paying him! That's a lot of savings to be had, to the point where the "gender queer" or whatever they call themselves should have near zero unemployment rate.
Silly anon. If they make you work full time, they'll also be making you pay someone else to do the things that you now do for yourself on your time "off." This way they'll get two wage slaves, one of whom will explicitly owe their employment to their policies and one who can be blinkered into thinking it's a Good Thing that she now gets to work a full forty per week. If they let people make their own choices, they don't get the chance to buy votes that way. Report to re-education at once for your lapse in faith!
That's not serious work. Serious work is work that requires you to write your software, not push buttons on something someone else did the heavy lifting on. A lot of seemingly mundane old IT falls in the former category, not the latter.
Which is why serious work doesn't get done on Windows. The corollary to an above comment that "only an idiot doesn't understand that uncommanded reboots are disruptive" is the statement that only an idiot would bring along a system to do a big presentation that is subject to frequent uncommanded reboots and brick periods.
I do all of my presentations on Linux machines and I set all of my machines to either disable auto filesystem checks on boot entirely or at least have the boot set up so I can CTRL-C out of it if needed. Why? Because my schedule gets set by me, not by some geek in another timezone who thinks he knows better than his lusers.
My household income was a few ticks below 160k last year. We also pay 3.2k / mo to rent a one bedroom apartment and two parking spaces. Somehow, we came out net positive last year. Both savings accounts increased in value. 401k contributions. Even a 4-5k vacation to Europe. Two cars. Not a lot of barhopping and artisanal cruelty-free organic tin-foil in the kitchen cupboard though.
Ah. So you want a widget to solve a problem in management style. Yeah. And I've got some real estate off the coast of Florida to sell you.
And why should I use it in place of email or the telephone?
IS a collective noun. If msmash worked a real job at a real publisher, he she or it would have been let go for stubborn refusal to conform to orthographic standards.
Spoken with the wisdom of inexperience. Cheapo Chinese USB serial port dongles have unique serial numbers that you can get at to map the right physical dongle to the right /dev/ttyS_whatever symlink. Or "COM port" in the parlance of the n00bs.
why no one takes Microsoft seriously. I mean how hard is it to maintain a "registry" of drivers for a given device? It's not like peripherals don't have unique ids you can get at through the bus.
No, a massive amount of labor saved so that everyone doesn't have to walk to the town well and get their own water every time. Follow along. The correct analogy is replacing running water with rain barrels and manually operated wells on everyone's property instead of a centralized pumping and distribution system.
In a similar vein, I hypothesize that there'll be a whole lot more farming jobs once we drive "evil agribusiness" into the sea and go back to organic, cage-free subsistence farming. Every man for himself, plus a bunch of pig catchers to take the place of the cages.
Quite right. It's the next rung down. Don't bother coming up with expectations, just send a check one way and hope to god that votes come back in the other direction. It's remarkable actually, almost meta: laziness in government to actively subsidize sloth in the citizenry.
Why thank you, oh Illustrious Ghost of Edsgar Dijkstra! You have picked your nit so eloquently that I now see the error of my ways! What a fool I was to leave the cold comfort of clinical exactitude and venture into the wilderness of metaphor and pith!
Only news to idiots. Information wants to be free, as a wise sage once said...
And who told them to go the internship route in the first place? Who told them that the best use of their time and their parents' or the taxpayers' money was a four year degree in Obscurist Literature followed up by a decade of living it up as the starving artist? Break down the unemployment numbers by type education and you'll see a notable lack of it among people with degrees in useful professions or training in useful trades. And yes, you are expected to move to Middle-of-Nowhere-Town, Bumblefuck County USA if that's where they can't hire enough welders and skilled machinists instead of sleeping in your childhood bedroom bitching about how all the cruelty-free artisanal ukelele playing gigs don't pay enough.