Why not just have him fly around in an SR-71? It's FAST, it has mid-air refueling capability, it's FAST, it can land pretty much every and did I mention that it's FAST?
Guess I'm one of those guys (although a mere 80 hours/week seems a bit slacker.)How does that even work out? If you never have days off (i.e. weekends) you're working 11½ hours a day. 8 hours for sleeping leaves you with 4½ hours for hygiene, shopping and commuting. Basicly you'll be at work or sleeping.
It gets even worse if you have days off. If you work 6 days a week you're at work 13 hours and 20 minutes a day. If you have weekends off you'll be at work 16 hours a day.
Do you sleep at work? Do they pay your rent? All things considered, you can't be using your home for much - it's basicly reduced to being a biological docking station, charging you up for the next day's work, so they should really be paying for that as well.
How the fuck can an 80 hour work week be seen as a "good thing" and not slavery (with pay)?
Even better - you mention you have kids? And that you're using personal assistants, nannies and maids... do your kids even know you're their dad/mom, or are you just "that weirdo that shows up to read me stuff"?
And what is the point of the "obscene amounts of money" they pay you? Financial security? Does that buy your kids the attention they need? And if you're that good at what you do, why not settle for 40 hours a week, more time with the family and kids, and half an obscene amount of money, which is usually still a lot of money. Might even mean you can fire the nannies and maids - that way you wouldn't feel as big an impact.
I realise I sound rather hatefull, which is strange as I don't know you at all, but I just don't see why people are so insanely obscessed about making tons of money that they'd give up a chance to spend time with their children.
I'm not entirely sure if we're thinking of the same game, but I found the funniest way to get through the game was to up my... uhm... the stat that affects bartering. When it got above I think 95, you'd make money by buying something and selling it again.
The final battle I had lasted about 90 seconds with me just constantly firing rockets at the boss. He never even got close.
Especially considering just how close some of the RIAA and MPAA videos (music and film) come to being pornographic. I don't mean our western european idea of pornographic, but India's definition of porn.
And if you're wondering just how uptight that might be, keep in mind what happened when Richard Gere kissed Shilpa Shetty on the cheek.
Why would there be training in using Open Office? Or Microsoft Office for that matter?
I work for a company with about 90,000 employees world wide. I think our local office (300 employees) has maybe two Microsoft Office installations, and I can't remember anyone talking about getting training in either of those packages. We have, however, had training in using Lotus Notes
What next? Training in using a fucking printer? Turning on the monitor?
Granted, I work for a company insourcing tech support, but still - why would anyone need training in using another office suite than the one they're used to? If they can't work out the differences on their own in a few days, they shouldn't be using office software to begin with.
Do you realize that the constitution is a document describing the rights of the federal government, with the inherent understanding that without the constitution the government is allowed to do exactly nothing? The ONLY things the government is allowed to do, is what is listed in the constitution.
Like I said, it was a badly placed switch, but it's an actual toggle switch, so no mistaking if you've actually changed its state. The ones with a keyboard-like button for powering on/off are annoying.
I've done a bit of support for an electronics company that also made TVs. Back in 2007 one of their newest models was a decent 40" LCD tv, HD ready etc. and fairly cheap. We got a LOT of support calls on that one because of the design of the rear of the TV.
The TV had a physical on/off switch, but the designers had decided to "hide" it between the speaker and display enclosures on the back of it. It was clearly outlined on the diagram on page 5 of the manual, but still we had a ton of calls about this particular model, because people couldn't turn it on. And invariably about half of them would complain that they already hung it on the wall and couldn't reach the bloody switch. Boo fucking hoo - read the manual before assembling your unit.
But - I had one phone call about this TV that still has me smiling ear to ear
Me: "[$Company] support, you're talking to Martin" Very timid, baby girl voice: "Hiiiiiiii?" Me: "Ehh... hi?" Very timid, baby girl voice: "My name is Pia" Me: "Hello Pia." Pia: "I'm four years old!" Me: "Is your mom or dad around?" Pia: "My daddy doesn't know how to turn on his TV"
At this point I simply couldn't help but laugh out loud. Then I hear a grown up female voice in the background
Mom: "Just go ahead and laugh, that's what we've been doing all day long" Me: "Okay, can your dad hear me Pia?" Pia: "He says he can"
And then I proceded to guide him to where this switch was.
It's one thing to be a stupid user, it's another thing entirely to know that there's something you don't know - at least that's what Socrates believed.
How exactly does that protect against a man in the middle attack, where the MitM has an apparently valid certificate? He'll just post a mirror of their site, change your actions to ones that include moving money out of your account to one of theirs and pass along a request for a validation to you.
Kes from Star Trek: Voyager is about 3 years old (her species lives to the ripe old age of 9), but is obviously sexually mature (she's played by a 21 year old actress) and through about one third of her natural life span (so about 25 for a human being).
Is fan fic porn involving her child pornography? This character does not exist either and is quite obviously far far far below the age of concent.
At the other extreme we have Elves from various roleplaying mythologies. In these they are usually considered adolescents/teenagers at the tender age of 70, and 75 is usually the "norm" set to be equal to an 18 year old human. Would fanfic porn involving a 50 year old elf not be child pornography?
We can't really judge by age when it comes to "non humans". Obviously The Simpsons are humanoid, but they're not really humans. But the Simpsons porn involving the kids... is that really child pornography? I think it depends on your definition of pornography. Personally I've seen some of these animations about a decade ago (along with a ton of Disney related toons), and I wouldn't really consider it porn. It's humour. Twisted, but humour
Muscle memory is good. One thing that pisses me off with BOTH MS Office and Open Office is the insistance on using different function names in different languages.
If I'm working with the English MSO/OOo spread sheet and I want the number of whatever in a row, I'll use "=COUNT(A1:A255)". But in Swedish I HAVE to use "=ANTAL(A1:A255)". Now, if these were just aliases it wouldn't be a problem - but they're not. If I create a Swedish spreadsheet with lots of function calls and open it in a different language installation, I'll get tons of errors. Just plain horrible.
Another issue I have is keyboard shortcuts. Again, these vary from language to language. My pet peeve is "search". In an English this is [Ctrl]+[F] as in "Find". In Danish this is [Ctrl]+[B].
There IS a sort of logic behind this: Bold in Danish is called "Fed" (essentially fat), so [Ctrl]+[F] is used for that. But no Danish word beginning with B that I can think of means Search. However, the word "Bred" (wide) would be essentially the same thing as Bold, meaning that short cut didn't have to be moved around.
Now, since I'm using quite a mix of English/Danish/Swedish programs, none of these shortcuts are the same across the installations (on one single computer). What I'd like to see is an option to switch not nescesarily languages, but at least shortcut language. That way I could jump back and forth between programs and not be pissed off that whatever shortcut doesn't bring up what I expect it to.
"My plane landed safely in Phoenix, I love you, bye,"
Isn't that a bit redundant? I mean, if the plane had crashed into the runway, you wouldn't be calling/texting. If it had been an unsafe landing, you'd probably say that (we went off the end of the runway, but I'm fine). Well, okay, if you were aiming for Anchorage, then it'd hardly be redundant to mention you're in Phoenix, but if that's where you're going it would be.
Consider this one. From that site: On November 4th, 2008 millions of Americans were shocked that a man of Barack Obama's limited experience, extreme liberal positions and radical political alliances could be elected President of the United States.
Let's look at these by themselves:
*limited experience True, from what I hear, Obama's not very experienced. On the other hand, having seen what experience did in the hands of George W. Bush I'm not sure experience is a good way to judge someone's competence. And while I'm not an expert on that subject, I don't think someone like Martin Luther King, Jr. had a lot of political experience before his rise to fame. After all - what we look for in a leader is not always that they're experienced, it's that they inspire us.
*extreme liberal positions Which ones are they? Granted, I'm European, so a lot of the ideas that we have over here are quite radical in the US. Like the right to abortion (least up here in the civilized countries in Northern Europe), socialized medicine (personally I'd skip socialized road works over medicine), free educations for everyone (up to and including university). They don't say what these dangerous and "extreme liberal positions are" so we're left to guess. Maybe it's his idea that you should be able to vote when you're 18?
*radical political alliances And again - which ones are they? Joe Biden as VP? That's hardly any worse than Sarah Palin for VP. And if experience is a requisite for being president, then how the hell can you elect Sarah Palin as the VP candidate? She had less experience than Obama to begin with. And being a mayor of a city with 8,000 people is hardly indicative of ones ability to lead a nation. I'm not judging, just curious about why "these people" don't settle for one standard instead of two
But, in the end I think Obama was elected because he presented himself of much more of a change away from Bush' policies than McCain. The Daily Show (the horrorible embodiment of liberal media bias) had a nice segment where they contrasted McCain's campain comments with Bush' from 2000, and it certainly sounded like they had the same speech writer. Of course the nice clip where they contrast Karl Rove's ridicule of a potential VP candidate for Obama for only having been the mayor of a city with 200,000 people followed by the same Rove's grandstanding and overstating Palin's work as mayor for Wasilla, a city with less than 6,000 people (according to the 2000 survey).
Maybe the public in general figured "New guy or the guy who wasn't as good a candidate as Bush was in 2000? Fuck it, I'm not going for the guy that'll be even worse than Bush!"
What I'd like to see is Linus Torvalds on screen. He'll start us off on whatever corny speech. Then we zoom out and his voice is joined by eight other core devolopers, each placed in a nice little frame. Zoom more out and more voices join in.
Throw in still pictures of the various Linux distro brands, etc.
Keep zooming out until you get a nice photograhic mosaic spelling out something like
Linux - because we're all unique
Obviously you'd need a better catch phrase and a nice speech. My best idea is something like:
"We use Linux because it means freedom. Freedom to use our computers as we see fit. We're free to modify my car, change the stereo, upgrade the engine. We expect the same from our computers. Noone should tell us that we can't let out neighbour borrow our car for the weekend. Noone should tell us that we can't paint our car a certain way. Noone should tell us that we can't go out to the drag strip and burn rubber. We use Linux because we're $nationality and we demand freedom."
And you haven't tried it, nor given it even a tiny bit of thought.
I have installed Notepad++ because it's a great replacement for Notepad.
But, if I hit [Win],[n],[o],[t],[e] I end up with both options shown (along with some release notes I didn't know I had in the start menu). Then you select something from the list. It aparently selects the most frequently used option (I use Notepad++ way more) as the default.
If you, the user, then stupidly decides enter something like "format c:" and hit enter it's your own bloody fault for not checking what you're doing. Just like it's your own bloody fault for entering "rm -rf/" in a root sh.
Believe it or not, sometimes the most effective way of learning not to do something is to fuck up.
Some of the happy ingredients you'll find in common vaccines are formaldehyde (poison) and thimerosal (poison) which breaks down into ethylmercury (poison) and also raw mercury (poison). [...] I'm just a [...] father who insisted [...] our doctor [...]space[d] them out over a longer period
Sorry for all the [...];)
The really nasty thing about mercury is that it doesn't leave your system. Ingesting x mg of mercury in a week or a year isn't going to make much difference in how it affects your system, as it will just continue to build up in your system
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Why not just have him fly around in an SR-71? It's FAST, it has mid-air refueling capability, it's FAST, it can land pretty much every and did I mention that it's FAST?
Am I the only one looking forward to eSATA III (or whatever they will call the eSATA standard that delivers power)?
I keep having this vision of a memory stick that I plug into my eSATA ports, gets SSD speed and doesn't bog down the CPU.
I'm not entirely sure if we're thinking of the same game, but I found the funniest way to get through the game was to up my ... uhm ... the stat that affects bartering. When it got above I think 95, you'd make money by buying something and selling it again.
The final battle I had lasted about 90 seconds with me just constantly firing rockets at the boss. He never even got close.
Oh, come on. If that comment doesn't beg a reply of "nuke the entire site from orbit", I don't know what does.
I'd be rather surprised if "ping 192.168.1.20" resulted in trying to ping 192.168.1.200. Might want to check your network settings or something.
In a boxing match, the second worst contender is usually the one winning. And of the two, the second worst IS the best.
I would have gone for Meitnerium Tantalum Lithium Calcium
That is actually an interesting mix you bring up.
Especially considering just how close some of the RIAA and MPAA videos (music and film) come to being pornographic. I don't mean our western european idea of pornographic, but India's definition of porn.
And if you're wondering just how uptight that might be, keep in mind what happened when Richard Gere kissed Shilpa Shetty on the cheek.
Why would there be training in using Open Office? Or Microsoft Office for that matter?
I work for a company with about 90,000 employees world wide. I think our local office (300 employees) has maybe two Microsoft Office installations, and I can't remember anyone talking about getting training in either of those packages. We have, however, had training in using Lotus Notes
What next? Training in using a fucking printer? Turning on the monitor?
Granted, I work for a company insourcing tech support, but still - why would anyone need training in using another office suite than the one they're used to? If they can't work out the differences on their own in a few days, they shouldn't be using office software to begin with.
Hermaphroditic kittens.
Do you realize that the constitution is a document describing the rights of the federal government, with the inherent understanding that without the constitution the government is allowed to do exactly nothing? The ONLY things the government is allowed to do, is what is listed in the constitution.
I know this, and I'm not even from the US.
Like I said, it was a badly placed switch, but it's an actual toggle switch, so no mistaking if you've actually changed its state. The ones with a keyboard-like button for powering on/off are annoying.
I've done a bit of support for an electronics company that also made TVs. Back in 2007 one of their newest models was a decent 40" LCD tv, HD ready etc. and fairly cheap. We got a LOT of support calls on that one because of the design of the rear of the TV.
The TV had a physical on/off switch, but the designers had decided to "hide" it between the speaker and display enclosures on the back of it. It was clearly outlined on the diagram on page 5 of the manual, but still we had a ton of calls about this particular model, because people couldn't turn it on. And invariably about half of them would complain that they already hung it on the wall and couldn't reach the bloody switch. Boo fucking hoo - read the manual before assembling your unit.
But - I had one phone call about this TV that still has me smiling ear to ear
Me: "[$Company] support, you're talking to Martin" ... hi?"
Very timid, baby girl voice: "Hiiiiiiii?"
Me: "Ehh
Very timid, baby girl voice: "My name is Pia"
Me: "Hello Pia."
Pia: "I'm four years old!"
Me: "Is your mom or dad around?"
Pia: "My daddy doesn't know how to turn on his TV"
At this point I simply couldn't help but laugh out loud. Then I hear a grown up female voice in the background
Mom: "Just go ahead and laugh, that's what we've been doing all day long"
Me: "Okay, can your dad hear me Pia?"
Pia: "He says he can"
And then I proceded to guide him to where this switch was.
It's one thing to be a stupid user, it's another thing entirely to know that there's something you don't know - at least that's what Socrates believed.
How exactly does that protect against a man in the middle attack, where the MitM has an apparently valid certificate? He'll just post a mirror of their site, change your actions to ones that include moving money out of your account to one of theirs and pass along a request for a validation to you.
Kes from Star Trek: Voyager is about 3 years old (her species lives to the ripe old age of 9), but is obviously sexually mature (she's played by a 21 year old actress) and through about one third of her natural life span (so about 25 for a human being).
Is fan fic porn involving her child pornography? This character does not exist either and is quite obviously far far far below the age of concent.
At the other extreme we have Elves from various roleplaying mythologies. In these they are usually considered adolescents/teenagers at the tender age of 70, and 75 is usually the "norm" set to be equal to an 18 year old human. Would fanfic porn involving a 50 year old elf not be child pornography?
We can't really judge by age when it comes to "non humans". Obviously The Simpsons are humanoid, but they're not really humans. But the Simpsons porn involving the kids ... is that really child pornography? I think it depends on your definition of pornography. Personally I've seen some of these animations about a decade ago (along with a ton of Disney related toons), and I wouldn't really consider it porn. It's humour. Twisted, but humour
Muscle memory is good. One thing that pisses me off with BOTH MS Office and Open Office is the insistance on using different function names in different languages.
If I'm working with the English MSO/OOo spread sheet and I want the number of whatever in a row, I'll use "=COUNT(A1:A255)". But in Swedish I HAVE to use "=ANTAL(A1:A255)". Now, if these were just aliases it wouldn't be a problem - but they're not. If I create a Swedish spreadsheet with lots of function calls and open it in a different language installation, I'll get tons of errors. Just plain horrible.
Another issue I have is keyboard shortcuts. Again, these vary from language to language. My pet peeve is "search". In an English this is [Ctrl]+[F] as in "Find". In Danish this is [Ctrl]+[B].
There IS a sort of logic behind this: Bold in Danish is called "Fed" (essentially fat), so [Ctrl]+[F] is used for that. But no Danish word beginning with B that I can think of means Search. However, the word "Bred" (wide) would be essentially the same thing as Bold, meaning that short cut didn't have to be moved around.
Now, since I'm using quite a mix of English/Danish/Swedish programs, none of these shortcuts are the same across the installations (on one single computer). What I'd like to see is an option to switch not nescesarily languages, but at least shortcut language. That way I could jump back and forth between programs and not be pissed off that whatever shortcut doesn't bring up what I expect it to.
Isn't that a bit redundant? I mean, if the plane had crashed into the runway, you wouldn't be calling/texting. If it had been an unsafe landing, you'd probably say that (we went off the end of the runway, but I'm fine). Well, okay, if you were aiming for Anchorage, then it'd hardly be redundant to mention you're in Phoenix, but if that's where you're going it would be.
Actually those are issues, not positions on those issues. Again I'm left to fill in the blanks, so let's do that:
Let's look at these by themselves:
*limited experience
True, from what I hear, Obama's not very experienced. On the other hand, having seen what experience did in the hands of George W. Bush I'm not sure experience is a good way to judge someone's competence. And while I'm not an expert on that subject, I don't think someone like Martin Luther King, Jr. had a lot of political experience before his rise to fame. After all - what we look for in a leader is not always that they're experienced, it's that they inspire us.
*extreme liberal positions
Which ones are they? Granted, I'm European, so a lot of the ideas that we have over here are quite radical in the US. Like the right to abortion (least up here in the civilized countries in Northern Europe), socialized medicine (personally I'd skip socialized road works over medicine), free educations for everyone (up to and including university). They don't say what these dangerous and "extreme liberal positions are" so we're left to guess. Maybe it's his idea that you should be able to vote when you're 18?
*radical political alliances
And again - which ones are they? Joe Biden as VP? That's hardly any worse than Sarah Palin for VP. And if experience is a requisite for being president, then how the hell can you elect Sarah Palin as the VP candidate? She had less experience than Obama to begin with. And being a mayor of a city with 8,000 people is hardly indicative of ones ability to lead a nation. I'm not judging, just curious about why "these people" don't settle for one standard instead of two
But, in the end I think Obama was elected because he presented himself of much more of a change away from Bush' policies than McCain. The Daily Show (the horrorible embodiment of liberal media bias) had a nice segment where they contrasted McCain's campain comments with Bush' from 2000, and it certainly sounded like they had the same speech writer. Of course the nice clip where they contrast Karl Rove's ridicule of a potential VP candidate for Obama for only having been the mayor of a city with 200,000 people followed by the same Rove's grandstanding and overstating Palin's work as mayor for Wasilla, a city with less than 6,000 people (according to the 2000 survey).
Maybe the public in general figured "New guy or the guy who wasn't as good a candidate as Bush was in 2000? Fuck it, I'm not going for the guy that'll be even worse than Bush!"
What I'd like to see is Linus Torvalds on screen. He'll start us off on whatever corny speech. Then we zoom out and his voice is joined by eight other core devolopers, each placed in a nice little frame. Zoom more out and more voices join in.
Throw in still pictures of the various Linux distro brands, etc.
Keep zooming out until you get a nice photograhic mosaic spelling out something like
Linux - because we're all unique
Obviously you'd need a better catch phrase and a nice speech. My best idea is something like:
"We use Linux because it means freedom. Freedom to use our computers as we see fit. We're free to modify my car, change the stereo, upgrade the engine. We expect the same from our computers. Noone should tell us that we can't let out neighbour borrow our car for the weekend. Noone should tell us that we can't paint our car a certain way. Noone should tell us that we can't go out to the drag strip and burn rubber. We use Linux because we're $nationality and we demand freedom."
And yet Diablo II Hardcore was very popular. Go figure
And you haven't tried it, nor given it even a tiny bit of thought.
I have installed Notepad++ because it's a great replacement for Notepad.
But, if I hit [Win],[n],[o],[t],[e] I end up with both options shown (along with some release notes I didn't know I had in the start menu). Then you select something from the list. It aparently selects the most frequently used option (I use Notepad++ way more) as the default.
If you, the user, then stupidly decides enter something like "format c:" and hit enter it's your own bloody fault for not checking what you're doing. Just like it's your own bloody fault for entering "rm -rf /" in a root sh.
Believe it or not, sometimes the most effective way of learning not to do something is to fuck up.
Really? Sounds a lot more casual to me.
Sorry for all the [...] ;)
The really nasty thing about mercury is that it doesn't leave your system. Ingesting x mg of mercury in a week or a year isn't going to make much difference in how it affects your system, as it will just continue to build up in your system