Damn, your cubicles get heated? I don't know how many proposals I've written to get heat to ours, I guess management doesn't agree with the cost savings of more efficient engineers.
At least the proposal for suspending the gladiatorial events was approved. It's always such a blow to moral when a newly trained engineer gets sacked for the entertainment of the HR office.
I'd like to see a Windows-free educational system.
I personally don't see anything good coming from a windows-free school. Besides letting in light, windows were great for spacing out and watching the parking lot. No windows would make school feel that much more like a dungeon.
Oh, you meant Windows(tm). Yeah, a Windows-free or Windows-lite environment would be beneficial. I should RTFA someday.
Where is the Edison of the new age? Where is the Tesla of the 21st century?
Edison and Tesla of the 21st century are tied up in the patent office trying to prove their concepts and in court rooms trying to win litigation battles with patent trolls.
I agree with you that it will not help me with tech support. However, it will let me circumvent tech support in a few instances. It will point me in 1 of 3 directions: 1. My LAN is FUBAR'ed 2. The local ISP is SNAFU 3. The wider internet backbone is having problems(anchors on pipes) If it's local or internet issue, then pestering my ISP won't do much. If it is my ISP, I can ask if they are doing maintenance, throttling my connection, or if there is other network issues. Unfortunately, none of these things are a level one tech question.
Anyway, it's nice to know the breadth of a problem before convincing the first level rep that rebooting the pc the fourth time didn't correct the issue. I'm almost convinced that they tell you to reboot the PC when they're thumbing through their answers book for your particular problem.
Finally a tool that will allow end users to objectively compare ISP networks!
I've switch service providers several time because of network outages and performance issues. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to be on the phone with tech support, insisting that I need to reboot windows one more time (though it's funny as hell to tell them it's a linux box) and after 45 minutes holding and 4 or 5 technical support reps I finally talk to a tech that admits network issues. It will be nice to see how my current provider compares against the local competition.
But I wonder how much bittorrent "traffic shaping" (blocking) will effect ISP scores?
Neither of you provided numbers, so I took the liberty to make some shit up. 83% of the market doesn't want to upgrade Of those 83%, 40% will upgrade because of corporate or big box store pressure (aka, you need this OS to run that printer/service). Another 51% of the 83% will upgrade because it came with a new PC purchase. 15% of the 83% will buy a mac. Less than 1% will switch to linux/unix. And the remaining 25% will keep XP on their PC until it dies in a puff of smoke, or the apocalypse, or the first coming of Duke Nukem Forever (whichever comes first).
(and for those of you who's counting, yes I realize that it doesn't add up to 100%. That's the second rule of statistics. Right behind the first rule: all the numbers are made up.)
Is a new file system really necessary for doing that? How about just restricting the user to what directories he's saving files to. ie: .doc files go to the "doc" folder .txt files go to the "txt" folder .jpg files go to the "jpg" folder .imafuckingstupididiotwhoiswastingyouroxygen go to the imafuckingstupididiotwhoiswastingyouroxygen folder Think of it as a car problem. The user is having a hard time remembering how to keep the car on the road. Instead of redesigning how the road is constructed, install guard rails. If the driver still manages to drive the car off the road, the driver is an idiot and the gene pool is better off chlorinated.
The best voting machines I've seen use jelly beans and glass jars. Put the RED jelly bean in the RIGHT jar to vote for the REPUBLICAN. Put the BLUE jelly bean in the LEFT jar to vote DEMOCRAT. Put GREEN jelly bean in CENTER jar to vote OTHER. To ABSTAIN your vote, EAT JELLY BEAN. Which ever jar has the most jelly beans is the winner.
Oh... btw, with this voting machine corruption tastes oh soooooo good.
Uninstall that botnet you added a few months ago too. Sure it might just be idling on an irc channel or shooting off a few spam emails here or there, but the truth is it eats up bandwidth and clock cycles. You'll no longer be the coolest admin on campus, but is keeping that botnet client necessary to maintaining your image?
God dammit... another thing I have to go buy now. The books I have in my budget, same as the fad diets, but if she keeps recommending these new fangled gagetmic'callits, I'll stop watchin' her and start watchin' the Today Show.
This Satellite Protection Program prevents Assurance Technologies and Lockheed Martin Space Systems from using lasers or launching rockets into space and disabling satellites. Kind of like paying insurance to the mafia to prevent your business from burning down or from your legs from getting broken.
Interesting, I have not hear of this view before. I've only heard of the propaganda versions of Regan out spending the Russians with the military arms race and the decline of the price of oil.
See, and this is why I sited the need for more education of the masses. Without educating the plebes, we are reduced to a mob who is steered by feelings and the loudest voices we can hear. I think the founding fathers did a good job establishing a sound government, but there was one caveat: the voter had to be educated (think Jefferson's enlightened farmer).
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Damn, your cubicles get heated? I don't know how many proposals I've written to get heat to ours, I guess management doesn't agree with the cost savings of more efficient engineers.
At least the proposal for suspending the gladiatorial events was approved. It's always such a blow to moral when a newly trained engineer gets sacked for the entertainment of the HR office.
I'd like to see a Windows-free educational system.
I personally don't see anything good coming from a windows-free school. Besides letting in light, windows were great for spacing out and watching the parking lot. No windows would make school feel that much more like a dungeon.
Oh, you meant Windows(tm). Yeah, a Windows-free or Windows-lite environment would be beneficial. I should RTFA someday.
Where is the Edison of the new age? Where is the Tesla of the 21st century?
Edison and Tesla of the 21st century are tied up in the patent office trying to prove their concepts and in court rooms trying to win litigation battles with patent trolls.
Perhaps loading Vista in less than a minute?
Maybe?
I don't think this plug-in will help you.
I agree with you that it will not help me with tech support. However, it will let me circumvent tech support in a few instances. It will point me in 1 of 3 directions:
1. My LAN is FUBAR'ed
2. The local ISP is SNAFU
3. The wider internet backbone is having problems(anchors on pipes)
If it's local or internet issue, then pestering my ISP won't do much. If it is my ISP, I can ask if they are doing maintenance, throttling my connection, or if there is other network issues. Unfortunately, none of these things are a level one tech question.
Anyway, it's nice to know the breadth of a problem before convincing the first level rep that rebooting the pc the fourth time didn't correct the issue. I'm almost convinced that they tell you to reboot the PC when they're thumbing through their answers book for your particular problem.
It's going to make wet T-shirt competitions far less entertaining :(
Though I can see it as the new fabric of choice in the porno industry, replacing latex & pleather.
Finally a tool that will allow end users to objectively compare ISP networks!
I've switch service providers several time because of network outages and performance issues. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to be on the phone with tech support, insisting that I need to reboot windows one more time (though it's funny as hell to tell them it's a linux box) and after 45 minutes holding and 4 or 5 technical support reps I finally talk to a tech that admits network issues. It will be nice to see how my current provider compares against the local competition.
But I wonder how much bittorrent "traffic shaping" (blocking) will effect ISP scores?
Tring to beat IBM in a patent fight is like trying to take down an F-22 with a slingshot.
Easy, aim for the pilot as he's getting in the cockpit.
Christ!!! That's what I've been doing wrong all these years. Two word searches... what will they think of next?
Neither of you provided numbers, so I took the liberty to make some shit up.
83% of the market doesn't want to upgrade
Of those 83%, 40% will upgrade because of corporate or big box store pressure (aka, you need this OS to run that printer/service).
Another 51% of the 83% will upgrade because it came with a new PC purchase.
15% of the 83% will buy a mac.
Less than 1% will switch to linux/unix.
And the remaining 25% will keep XP on their PC until it dies in a puff of smoke, or the apocalypse, or the first coming of Duke Nukem Forever (whichever comes first).
(and for those of you who's counting, yes I realize that it doesn't add up to 100%. That's the second rule of statistics. Right behind the first rule: all the numbers are made up.)
Wait... From the last I read, it is currently the decade of the Linux desktop. Could 2009 be the year of the Linux MID?
Is a new file system really necessary for doing that? How about just restricting the user to what directories he's saving files to. ie:
.imafuckingstupididiotwhoiswastingyouroxygen go to the imafuckingstupididiotwhoiswastingyouroxygen folder
.doc files go to the "doc" folder
.txt files go to the "txt" folder
.jpg files go to the "jpg" folder
Think of it as a car problem. The user is having a hard time remembering how to keep the car on the road. Instead of redesigning how the road is constructed, install guard rails. If the driver still manages to drive the car off the road, the driver is an idiot and the gene pool is better off chlorinated.
The best voting machines I've seen use jelly beans and glass jars. Put the RED jelly bean in the RIGHT jar to vote for the REPUBLICAN. Put the BLUE jelly bean in the LEFT jar to vote DEMOCRAT. Put GREEN jelly bean in CENTER jar to vote OTHER. To ABSTAIN your vote, EAT JELLY BEAN. Which ever jar has the most jelly beans is the winner.
Oh... btw, with this voting machine corruption tastes oh soooooo good.
Uninstall that botnet you added a few months ago too. Sure it might just be idling on an irc channel or shooting off a few spam emails here or there, but the truth is it eats up bandwidth and clock cycles. You'll no longer be the coolest admin on campus, but is keeping that botnet client necessary to maintaining your image?
On the way home I need:
- toothpaste
- beer
- cereal
- aluminum foil (for tin hat)
Once home:
- google "conspiracy theories"
- google "howto electromagnetic pulse"
- google "group robot porn"
damn... you used my paperclip joke.
Anyway, perhaps as a second project, Bill hopes to re-engineer Microsoft's current selection of chairs.
God dammit... another thing I have to go buy now.
The books I have in my budget, same as the fad diets, but if she keeps recommending these new fangled gagetmic'callits, I'll stop watchin' her and start watchin' the Today Show.
It's either that or promote them to management so they can watch them suffer, wither and die.
This Satellite Protection Program prevents Assurance Technologies and Lockheed Martin Space Systems from using lasers or launching rockets into space and disabling satellites. Kind of like paying insurance to the mafia to prevent your business from burning down or from your legs from getting broken.
Satellite Protection Program
Is that anything like the mafia's fire insurance programs?
pew!! pew!!
The difference between XP and Vista will be a little pop up on Vista that will ask you if you want to run the RCP exploit n@5Ty.tr0g1n
I'm having a hard time following what you're saying. Do you have a car analogy handy?
I think Google is working on something like this.
The Google Navy
Interesting, I have not hear of this view before. I've only heard of the propaganda versions of Regan out spending the Russians with the military arms race and the decline of the price of oil.
See, and this is why I sited the need for more education of the masses. Without educating the plebes, we are reduced to a mob who is steered by feelings and the loudest voices we can hear. I think the founding fathers did a good job establishing a sound government, but there was one caveat: the voter had to be educated (think Jefferson's enlightened farmer).