My ISP has taken the liberty of doing this to me. Instead of getting a DNS error I get 'ask jeeves' with all kinds of super helpful links to shit I did not ask about.
What a fucking crock. They need to seriously consider this for people exiting government buildings with "United States Congress" on their ID badges. Remove that shit and arrest them. Brilliant! *sigh*
In my experience, it is best to just nod and say as little as possible, even if you are at a nice place having dinner with an exec. Simply pass pertinent info along to a manager (Well the reason they can't copy that 7GB database to a win98 box is because fat32 does not support files that large.) and leave it at that. Do not pipe up in conferences or meetings because you are not the type that the company buys lunch for, and if you happen to be there at the meeting take that into consideration. Don't speak your mind because that's not what you are there for or they would have told you so. It sucks but that's the way life is. And most of all don't laugh when you are on a conference call with IT and corporate and some more important person asks a stupid question. Their job is to make money, and to outsource your job if it will be cheaper. Yeah it might be lame, but tell someone who is sitting fat and making 80k for doing non-technical work and demanding that IT do it yesterday and $20,000 under budget to do it right and you will be looking for a new job. Your argument has no weight there unless you are very special. Nod, say please and thank you, and do your job to the best of your ability and things will be "ok". Just my two bits*.
demonx@neo:/boot$ ls -al vmlin*;date -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1710275 2006-09-07 22:20 vmlinuz-2.6.15.5 Thu Aug 14 18:05:46 MDT 2012
Oh? What? Not what you meant? Well I thought you said Linux, which is a kernel... I have no idea what all that other stuff like GNU, or X, or window managers and whatnot will look like. *shrug*
Microsoft tried to engineer their own ASIC and cut out a well known vendor, in doing so they essentially pulled the old "Windows 98 BSOD at COMDEX" once again. They had to tuck tail, eat crow, and go back to the previous vendor. This has less to do with the Microsoft developers tasked to do the job than it does with the corporate decision makers. I'm not a huge M$ fan, but I think you need to analyze the "how" as well as the "why" in order to form an opinion that is not based in FUD.
I'm going to have to say that I believe what happened at Foxconn is much of the same as far as the separation of engineering and corporate.
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Well, ya know,,, money.
I bet it's a bitch to tune the guitar controller!
Balmer throwing chairs is better PR than letting him actually speak to people in public.
He talks too much. =)
My ISP has taken the liberty of doing this to me. Instead of getting a DNS error I get 'ask jeeves' with all kinds of super helpful links to shit I did not ask about.
In the spirit of stupid internet memes I suggest "LoLnOoBz".
yES, pHEAR tEH lOL nOOBZ aND tEH bROWN tROUTZ tHEY pUT oN tHE iNTERNETZ.
Stardock? Look at the bullshit they have released over the years that was more intrusive and less cool... fuck these guys.
I suppose the swastika would be public domain by now. ;)
What a fucking crock. They need to seriously consider this for people exiting government buildings with "United States Congress" on their ID badges. Remove that shit and arrest them. Brilliant! *sigh*
Combat arms has been out and available ("Blasted into the US video game arena") quite a while before Wednesday folks.
INCOMPLETE SIG!, Plz call Commissar now!
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I'd try my hand at the math for comparable hardware again if I were you. =)
HELO? Did you RTFA? ;)
IBM is a larger company. Think about it. It's a play on words.
This reminds me of how people once said "Microsoft is the largest software company in the world." Well, actually IBM is. *sigh*
Wow. Look at you take the high-road.
Get out of your mother's basement then. This isn't a self help forum.
In my experience, it is best to just nod and say as little as possible, even if you are at a nice place having dinner with an exec. Simply pass pertinent info along to a manager (Well the reason they can't copy that 7GB database to a win98 box is because fat32 does not support files that large.) and leave it at that. Do not pipe up in conferences or meetings because you are not the type that the company buys lunch for, and if you happen to be there at the meeting take that into consideration. Don't speak your mind because that's not what you are there for or they would have told you so. It sucks but that's the way life is. And most of all don't laugh when you are on a conference call with IT and corporate and some more important person asks a stupid question. Their job is to make money, and to outsource your job if it will be cheaper. Yeah it might be lame, but tell someone who is sitting fat and making 80k for doing non-technical work and demanding that IT do it yesterday and $20,000 under budget to do it right and you will be looking for a new job. Your argument has no weight there unless you are very special. Nod, say please and thank you, and do your job to the best of your ability and things will be "ok". Just my two bits*.
*inflation
What?
Ooooh maaaaaaaaaaaaaan! And I even cut the proof of purchase out of the Leopard box and glued it to the side of my intel/nvidia based pc!!@2!1
I've ruined the box, haven't I? =(
It will *look* something like this:
demonx@neo:/boot$ ls -al vmlin*;date
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1710275 2006-09-07 22:20 vmlinuz-2.6.15.5
Thu Aug 14 18:05:46 MDT 2012
Oh? What? Not what you meant? Well I thought you said Linux, which is a kernel... I have no idea what all that other stuff like GNU, or X, or window managers and whatnot will look like. *shrug*
It is not an issue of usability, but an issue of the users.
Microsoft tried to engineer their own ASIC and cut out a well known vendor, in doing so they essentially pulled the old "Windows 98 BSOD at COMDEX" once again. They had to tuck tail, eat crow, and go back to the previous vendor. This has less to do with the Microsoft developers tasked to do the job than it does with the corporate decision makers. I'm not a huge M$ fan, but I think you need to analyze the "how" as well as the "why" in order to form an opinion that is not based in FUD.
I'm going to have to say that I believe what happened at Foxconn is much of the same as far as the separation of engineering and corporate.
Well, with all due respect... If the interface sucks ass... Well, you know.