My dad had something similar in our nationalised health system. The hospital administrator wanted to move some patients. What she really wanted was for him to refuse so she could blame unco-operative consultants for her problems. Instead he agreed to do so with the proviso that she wrote a letter declaring that she'd commanded the action against his clinical advice. She backed down pretty quickly.
IT guys have less power than an NHS consultant though. I still think a cover-your-arse paper trail is the way around this one. It's not really even arse-covering, just making sure responsibility falls where it's due. After all, bosses are paid more to take responsibility, right?
I actually had a neighbour call me around to change her XP icon to something other than the karate guy because, "it's too violent. I want something more peaceful."
Malaysia has peaceful elections. One party always wins, but you could say the same about Japan or Bavaria. Bangladesh has a two-party system no less democratic than America's. Indonesia's last election was verified as fine, with shortcomings, by Jimmy Carter.
I was actually talking about the religious books. They are a 'misinterpretation' but as an atheist I can't see any real reason why they are. The structure of Sunni Islam means that heresy is largely what you make of it, unlike Shia Islam and Judaism with their systems of scholars, or the highly centralised Catholic church where heresy is what the Pope says it is.
I would say that religious violence is always an excuse for other reasons. It doesn't change the fact that religion is a convenient excuse and label for who to blame.
I concur. My (ancient) Dell Dimension 5100 running Vista sleeps every bit as reliably as my MacBook. My gf has a Vista laptop and that works well too. No problems with Vista sleep.
I'm sorry Slashdotters, but Vista has some genuine improvements, it's not only a huge pile of rubbish and I much prefer it to XP.
What ignorance. What about Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia? They're all peaceful*, large Muslim nations. Indonesia has more Muslims than any other nation.
Besides, intolerance, genocide and xenophobia are a key part of any religious book. It might as well be in the job description. The problem is when people actually listen to the book, and that normally rises out of external issues (e.g. crippling poverty and corruption).
*Granted Indonesia and Malaysia fight a bit, but that's not religiously motivated.
There are only two monopolistic tithes I have to pay here in the UK, one goes to the government and the other goes to Thames Water. We're not about to be mowed down.
Welcome to the age of retarded consumers, more like. People, we live in capitalist free markets! You can shaft back just as hard! Give your money to someone who might actually earn it! Demand more for less! Greed is good!
Here at Imperial the student halls are for the most part directly wired into the campus network at 100mbps, which itself forms part of the internet backbone. We got ridiculously fast downloads with a silly bandwidth restriction (5GB a day) and it all came with the halls fees (which are ridiculously high, but this is South Kensington, I suppose).
1812 Overture was the Russian defeat of Napoleon's Grande Armee. Nothing to do with America's war in 1812, except the strategic consideration that Britain was somewhat busy.
The fact that the star spangled banner was written about the 1812 war in North America doesn't stop it being a fiasco. Consider the Charge of the Light Brigade, or the popular British conceptions about the Falklands conflict.
I wish people would stop citing Switzerland, Americans never understand it. Every man is given a rifle and a stock of ammunition *which is sealed*. It may only be opened in a national emergency, and it is inspected by the government. Even this ammunition is not issued any more.
People are free to buy guns and ammunition under a carrying permit, but this is more heavily regulated.
But Americans can't ever remember that their freedom was handed to them by the French. That would be...unpatriotic. Like remembering the fiasco that was the war of 1812.
If you're going to have a contest over a metric, at least understand the metric and its shortcomings before you start claiming that X is better than Y.
Hear hear! It's the same with all metrics, especially environmental ones. The carbon metrics are the worst. Should we talk total carbon emitted? After all, that's what causes the problems. But the figure usually becomes meaningless. Carbon per person? Do we have an 'allowance'? Carbon per GDP? Many say it is a fix to make America look better, but if you flip it around, if we have to emit carbon anywhere more is done per unit emitted in America than anywhere else.
In short, be aware of the relevance of metrics, and how useless this one is.
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My dad had something similar in our nationalised health system. The hospital administrator wanted to move some patients. What she really wanted was for him to refuse so she could blame unco-operative consultants for her problems. Instead he agreed to do so with the proviso that she wrote a letter declaring that she'd commanded the action against his clinical advice. She backed down pretty quickly.
IT guys have less power than an NHS consultant though. I still think a cover-your-arse paper trail is the way around this one. It's not really even arse-covering, just making sure responsibility falls where it's due. After all, bosses are paid more to take responsibility, right?
Interesting thought. Mod parent up. Did they check the power settings?
Luckily for me, employers in the UK see past that.
They used to. I'm not so sure any more...
Yes because it would be irresponsible not to download updates for Windows. It's so important that your box can get owned in less then 4 minutes.
While I don't disagree, this was only the case before XP SP2, when Windows finally started shipping with a firewall running.
I actually had a neighbour call me around to change her XP icon to something other than the karate guy because, "it's too violent. I want something more peaceful."
I shit you not.
This means that you will never be able to design a colour scheme that nobody dislikes.
OS 10.5.x? /me runs and hides.
Because that never happened anywhere else.
Malaysia has peaceful elections. One party always wins, but you could say the same about Japan or Bavaria. Bangladesh has a two-party system no less democratic than America's. Indonesia's last election was verified as fine, with shortcomings, by Jimmy Carter.
I was actually talking about the religious books. They are a 'misinterpretation' but as an atheist I can't see any real reason why they are. The structure of Sunni Islam means that heresy is largely what you make of it, unlike Shia Islam and Judaism with their systems of scholars, or the highly centralised Catholic church where heresy is what the Pope says it is.
I would say that religious violence is always an excuse for other reasons. It doesn't change the fact that religion is a convenient excuse and label for who to blame.
I didn't say anything about Pakistan; I'm well aware of the problems there, particularly in the optimistically named FATA.
Vista has low power draw when asleep. I haven't measured it directly myself, but reports on Slashdot about 6months ago put it at a few watts.
I concur. My (ancient) Dell Dimension 5100 running Vista sleeps every bit as reliably as my MacBook. My gf has a Vista laptop and that works well too. No problems with Vista sleep.
I'm sorry Slashdotters, but Vista has some genuine improvements, it's not only a huge pile of rubbish and I much prefer it to XP.
What ignorance. What about Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia? They're all peaceful*, large Muslim nations. Indonesia has more Muslims than any other nation.
Besides, intolerance, genocide and xenophobia are a key part of any religious book. It might as well be in the job description. The problem is when people actually listen to the book, and that normally rises out of external issues (e.g. crippling poverty and corruption).
*Granted Indonesia and Malaysia fight a bit, but that's not religiously motivated.
Farmers. You forgot the subsidy of western farmers.
There are only two monopolistic tithes I have to pay here in the UK, one goes to the government and the other goes to Thames Water. We're not about to be mowed down.
Welcome to the age of greed.
Welcome to the age of retarded consumers, more like. People, we live in capitalist free markets! You can shaft back just as hard! Give your money to someone who might actually earn it! Demand more for less! Greed is good!
Here at Imperial the student halls are for the most part directly wired into the campus network at 100mbps, which itself forms part of the internet backbone. We got ridiculously fast downloads with a silly bandwidth restriction (5GB a day) and it all came with the halls fees (which are ridiculously high, but this is South Kensington, I suppose).
1812 Overture was the Russian defeat of Napoleon's Grande Armee. Nothing to do with America's war in 1812, except the strategic consideration that Britain was somewhat busy.
The fact that the star spangled banner was written about the 1812 war in North America doesn't stop it being a fiasco. Consider the Charge of the Light Brigade, or the popular British conceptions about the Falklands conflict.
I wish people would stop citing Switzerland, Americans never understand it. Every man is given a rifle and a stock of ammunition *which is sealed*. It may only be opened in a national emergency, and it is inspected by the government. Even this ammunition is not issued any more.
People are free to buy guns and ammunition under a carrying permit, but this is more heavily regulated.
Jesus. Only in America would you get people seriously arguing that giving everyone guns would be a good thing.
But Americans can't ever remember that their freedom was handed to them by the French. That would be...unpatriotic. Like remembering the fiasco that was the war of 1812.
Bering arms? Quick, everyone vote for McCain/Palin!
Or buy a clock with a radio signal. It's no effort at all for me. Daylight savings happens without any effort on my part.
That's great in Arizona. It's not so great in Scotland.
If you're going to have a contest over a metric, at least understand the metric and its shortcomings before you start claiming that X is better than Y.
Hear hear! It's the same with all metrics, especially environmental ones. The carbon metrics are the worst. Should we talk total carbon emitted? After all, that's what causes the problems. But the figure usually becomes meaningless. Carbon per person? Do we have an 'allowance'? Carbon per GDP? Many say it is a fix to make America look better, but if you flip it around, if we have to emit carbon anywhere more is done per unit emitted in America than anywhere else.
In short, be aware of the relevance of metrics, and how useless this one is.