I find it hard to believe that around half the country isn't aware it's a rigged situation. Heck, we were taught about it in highschool in the 80s and it was obvious to us kids then!
And you're just the type of person they want to hire. Someone who believes that the ends justifies the means, just like Stalin, and Hitler, and Mao, and Pol Pot, and so many others... Sure, they were a bit more violent, but they didn't start off with murdering people they don't like in the dark, they started off by convincing people that the ends justified the means.
"...is not set up to handle or reveal flaws that are discovered and owned by private companies..." It's OWNED by Apple. It's their software, copyright and all. (Maybe even a few patents in there.) Any flaw that's in it was created by Apple, even if unintentionally, and is still part of their software which they 'own'.
Just because some guy in a trenchcoat sold you a map to the back door of the theater along with a copy of the key to unlock it, doesn't mean he owns the friggin door!
As software technical support on various corporate products, we take notes on everything, but if it isn't relevant to the issue, we tend not to care. As such, I've had plenty of people freak out because when talking to me they realized they are using a few more seats than they have licenses for. As an example, licensed for 800 seats, but using 835. It just goes in the notes that 835 are in use so any techies working with them know what they have to look at. On the other hand, if you get situations where somebody is licensed for 30 seats and is using 500, that will get forwarded to another department at some point after the call is resolved. The only places I know of that had software audits done on them were on average around only 50% compliant. That's totally secondhand, so take it with several grains of salt. Of those, most were just told to get compliant in a period of time. It wasn't used for marketing, though with the cheap stunts marketing weasels use, I wouldn't put it past them. I'm just glad our company didn't give that info to the marketing weasels. (With the number of times I was down there yelling at them for lying to our customers when all they had to do was use the internal line to check it with support, I don't much like them, as some of them will do anything for a sale.) And yes, by seats, I mean the warm kind that are being used. We didn't care how many machines it was installed on, or who the operator was, just so long as the total in use didn't exceed the client at any particular time. We also understood that sometimes things slip no matter how much you tried, and that's why we also used auditing software on our own network on a regular basis to find any issues and deal with them ourselves. Nobody writes all the software they use, and if you want to be part of the market, you really have to play fair. (That doesn't mean roll over and be a mat, but definitely to obey the same restrictions you expect your customers to.)
Yes, I have experienced it, and it's not just the tech field. A little ranting about the value of experience is below. Feel free to ignore it.;) Though at my previous tech job, I was the secret asset. If a techie had a problem they couldn't solve, they were required to go to the help desk and were forbidden to the senior techs about it. (New and relatively young manager had foolish ideas.) After the helpdesk was unable to help, they'd come by my cube to 'chat'. Usually had an answer for them in a minute or two, or at least a few things to test out to isolate the issue. It's not just that I had more experience with the software than they did, but I also understood a LOT more of how the machine functions as I'd started fooling with computers all the way back in the early 80s. That's not to say that knowing machine language for a 6502 processor is directly applicable, but rather knowing the intimate details of how a computer actually does it's work will allow you a certain insight into the operations of any computer that someone who grew up in a gui world just doesn't get. The greater understanding and experience employing that allows for greatly enhanced options for approaching an issue. The others really didn't like it if I couldn't solve an issue because that almost always guaranteed it was getting kicked to the devs.
We used to fly plastic bags with a small piece of aluminum foil and a birthday candle to heat the air. Ok, so there was a little bit of tape involved as well. It doesn't take much to make those things float up and out of sight. Ants have blown to the top of the Empire State building, so a 1700 foot altitude plastic bag is pretty believable.
Of course the laws banning child porn aren't there to penalize the pedophiles, it's supposed to prevent the creation of it which is considered to be child abuse or molestation. To say things are going way beyond the original scope is an understatement. Also, it's not working very well, is it...
And before the moron squad gets to slinging accusations, no, I am not one of them, and actually find the concept rather disturbing. Those people need psychiactric care, not being thrown in a cell with a gangbanger and ignored.
Due to a significant amount of testing, including by the police, witnesses are known to be pretty much worthless. Also, the longer since the event has occurred, the less value they have. If I recall right, even an hour after an event, they are something like 80% wrong. Yet we still rely on witnesses, not because of some magical ability to get it right when it counts, but rather because that's just about all we've had for thousands of years. If you don't believe me, just do some research on it, and I'm not even talking about the various gorilla gags either.
Awesome would be a epic understatement if it actually works and can be scaled up. Even if it can't be scaled up, it would be fantastic! I'm still worried it's a massive screwup that everybody repeated and nobody has found yet, but seems to be less and less likely. Still...
Maybe it was just a reflection or some other false artifact. On the other hand, I wonder if it was some new kind of atmospheric or plasma based event that got recorded which we didn't know about before. (Like the Blue Sprites not so long ago.) That could open up some interesting science for certain fields.
Aliens? LOL!!!! Not bloody likely. It's funny how so many people upon seeing something they don't immediately recognize jump on the alien excuse. If nothing else, and you do assume the alien thing, think about how they'd act. Hollywood wants us to think they'll conquer or exterminate us. Yeah, that's obviously not occurring. Lots of people think they'd want to make contact. Again, that doesn't fit with what we've seen anywhere. Other people think it's being kept a big secret. Other than the general incompetence of the governments of the world, you'd have to assume the aliens with interstellar level tech would be at least somewhat competent at hiding their end of the bargain, and that's obviously not happening. Of course, they might not care about us at all. In which case, this apparent incompetent attempts at hiding are also irrational, so that won't fly either. It has been suggested it's a big joke. Curse you damned drunken space frat boys! LoL!
People should try exhausting all reasonable and potentially supportable possibilities before going off on the fantasy explanations of Aliens, Ghosts, Divine Intervention, etcetera.
It's just corporate doublespeak loaded with buzzwords. All it really says is they want to stick their greedy fingers into the indie pie. That kind of c#@&& is meaningless garbage used to bamboozle the stupid or ignorant investors and has no value.
One company I worked at, the new CEO came by to give us a speech and answer questions. It was a room full of techies. He tried doing the corporate doublespeak answers to us, and that didn't fly as the next person would tell him to answer the previous persons question. He was really pissed over us not falling for it. As far as I know, he never came back to our site. I guess he realized we weren't as dumb the people he usually talked to.
Though I do suspect it's a valuable data point in the demonstration of the 'tyranny of the masses'. Yes, if any reader doesn't know that phrase, google it.
So the hijacking of an internet name poll with preschool humor based names isn't nerdy enough for you? Or maybe that a group of pranksters have orchestrated turning a request for public participation in the naming of a new science vessel into a complete farce for lols? Oh well, it's not like the tech savvy are the majority around here anymore.
That would sound reasonable. I also liked the name 'Pillar of Autumn', but that's not the right season for something to be stationed in iceberg field. Besides, I'm sure the highest rank on the ship is higher than Master Chief, and it's not like there is a large glowing ring floating over the bridge or anything...
Well they have had rules for naming celestial bodies since before you were born, so it's no surprise they chucked suggestions that don't follow the rules. Did you ever take astronomy class in school?
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The heck with where it was from, I want to know how it got through that concrete tunnel !
I find it hard to believe that around half the country isn't aware it's a rigged situation. Heck, we were taught about it in highschool in the 80s and it was obvious to us kids then!
And you're just the type of person they want to hire. Someone who believes that the ends justifies the means, just like Stalin, and Hitler, and Mao, and Pol Pot, and so many others... Sure, they were a bit more violent, but they didn't start off with murdering people they don't like in the dark, they started off by convincing people that the ends justified the means.
"...is not set up to handle or reveal flaws that are discovered and owned by private companies..."
It's OWNED by Apple. It's their software, copyright and all. (Maybe even a few patents in there.)
Any flaw that's in it was created by Apple, even if unintentionally, and is still part of their software which they 'own'.
Just because some guy in a trenchcoat sold you a map to the back door of the theater along with a copy of the key to unlock it, doesn't mean he owns the friggin door!
As software technical support on various corporate products, we take notes on everything, but if it isn't relevant to the issue, we tend not to care.
As such, I've had plenty of people freak out because when talking to me they realized they are using a few more seats than they have licenses for. As an example, licensed for 800 seats, but using 835. It just goes in the notes that 835 are in use so any techies working with them know what they have to look at.
On the other hand, if you get situations where somebody is licensed for 30 seats and is using 500, that will get forwarded to another department at some point after the call is resolved.
The only places I know of that had software audits done on them were on average around only 50% compliant. That's totally secondhand, so take it with several grains of salt. Of those, most were just told to get compliant in a period of time. It wasn't used for marketing, though with the cheap stunts marketing weasels use, I wouldn't put it past them. I'm just glad our company didn't give that info to the marketing weasels. (With the number of times I was down there yelling at them for lying to our customers when all they had to do was use the internal line to check it with support, I don't much like them, as some of them will do anything for a sale.)
And yes, by seats, I mean the warm kind that are being used. We didn't care how many machines it was installed on, or who the operator was, just so long as the total in use didn't exceed the client at any particular time. We also understood that sometimes things slip no matter how much you tried, and that's why we also used auditing software on our own network on a regular basis to find any issues and deal with them ourselves. Nobody writes all the software they use, and if you want to be part of the market, you really have to play fair. (That doesn't mean roll over and be a mat, but definitely to obey the same restrictions you expect your customers to.)
Yes, I have experienced it, and it's not just the tech field. ;)
A little ranting about the value of experience is below. Feel free to ignore it.
Though at my previous tech job, I was the secret asset. If a techie had a problem they couldn't solve, they were required to go to the help desk and were forbidden to the senior techs about it. (New and relatively young manager had foolish ideas.) After the helpdesk was unable to help, they'd come by my cube to 'chat'. Usually had an answer for them in a minute or two, or at least a few things to test out to isolate the issue. It's not just that I had more experience with the software than they did, but I also understood a LOT more of how the machine functions as I'd started fooling with computers all the way back in the early 80s. That's not to say that knowing machine language for a 6502 processor is directly applicable, but rather knowing the intimate details of how a computer actually does it's work will allow you a certain insight into the operations of any computer that someone who grew up in a gui world just doesn't get. The greater understanding and experience employing that allows for greatly enhanced options for approaching an issue. The others really didn't like it if I couldn't solve an issue because that almost always guaranteed it was getting kicked to the devs.
O course it's turtles. Who do you think is running the server? ;)
Fooling them is easy, it's getting them to admit to reality that's a b#^&*%
We're not talking about the chicken guy, we're talking about the cosmologist & astrophysicist one. So yeah, he is a scientist.
We used to fly plastic bags with a small piece of aluminum foil and a birthday candle to heat the air. Ok, so there was a little bit of tape involved as well.
It doesn't take much to make those things float up and out of sight. Ants have blown to the top of the Empire State building, so a 1700 foot altitude plastic bag is pretty believable.
Of course the laws banning child porn aren't there to penalize the pedophiles, it's supposed to prevent the creation of it which is considered to be child abuse or molestation. To say things are going way beyond the original scope is an understatement. Also, it's not working very well, is it...
And before the moron squad gets to slinging accusations, no, I am not one of them, and actually find the concept rather disturbing. Those people need psychiactric care, not being thrown in a cell with a gangbanger and ignored.
WoW! You're one of those types that thinks chocolate chip cookies without enough chips is abuse, aren't you...
Due to a significant amount of testing, including by the police, witnesses are known to be pretty much worthless. Also, the longer since the event has occurred, the less value they have. If I recall right, even an hour after an event, they are something like 80% wrong.
Yet we still rely on witnesses, not because of some magical ability to get it right when it counts, but rather because that's just about all we've had for thousands of years.
If you don't believe me, just do some research on it, and I'm not even talking about the various gorilla gags either.
Awesome would be a epic understatement if it actually works and can be scaled up.
Even if it can't be scaled up, it would be fantastic!
I'm still worried it's a massive screwup that everybody repeated and nobody has found yet, but seems to be less and less likely. Still...
Maybe it was just a reflection or some other false artifact.
On the other hand, I wonder if it was some new kind of atmospheric or plasma based event that got recorded which we didn't know about before. (Like the Blue Sprites not so long ago.) That could open up some interesting science for certain fields.
Aliens? LOL!!!! Not bloody likely. It's funny how so many people upon seeing something they don't immediately recognize jump on the alien excuse.
If nothing else, and you do assume the alien thing, think about how they'd act.
Hollywood wants us to think they'll conquer or exterminate us. Yeah, that's obviously not occurring.
Lots of people think they'd want to make contact. Again, that doesn't fit with what we've seen anywhere.
Other people think it's being kept a big secret. Other than the general incompetence of the governments of the world, you'd have to assume the aliens with interstellar level tech would be at least somewhat competent at hiding their end of the bargain, and that's obviously not happening.
Of course, they might not care about us at all. In which case, this apparent incompetent attempts at hiding are also irrational, so that won't fly either.
It has been suggested it's a big joke. Curse you damned drunken space frat boys! LoL!
People should try exhausting all reasonable and potentially supportable possibilities before going off on the fantasy explanations of Aliens, Ghosts, Divine Intervention, etcetera.
It's just corporate doublespeak loaded with buzzwords.
All it really says is they want to stick their greedy fingers into the indie pie.
That kind of c#@&& is meaningless garbage used to bamboozle the stupid or ignorant investors and has no value.
One company I worked at, the new CEO came by to give us a speech and answer questions. It was a room full of techies. He tried doing the corporate doublespeak answers to us, and that didn't fly as the next person would tell him to answer the previous persons question. He was really pissed over us not falling for it. As far as I know, he never came back to our site. I guess he realized we weren't as dumb the people he usually talked to.
Apparently you mean your dictatorship, which they won't accept. Look up Tyranny of the Masses. You might learn something.
Though I do suspect it's a valuable data point in the demonstration of the 'tyranny of the masses'.
Yes, if any reader doesn't know that phrase, google it.
So the hijacking of an internet name poll with preschool humor based names isn't nerdy enough for you?
Or maybe that a group of pranksters have orchestrated turning a request for public participation in the naming of a new science vessel into a complete farce for lols?
Oh well, it's not like the tech savvy are the majority around here anymore.
That would sound reasonable.
I also liked the name 'Pillar of Autumn', but that's not the right season for something to be stationed in iceberg field. Besides, I'm sure the highest rank on the ship is higher than Master Chief, and it's not like there is a large glowing ring floating over the bridge or anything...
As in you already grew out of preschool level humor and have at least a gram of maturity.
It's a preschool level humor thing, so it's understandable that you wouldn't get it.
Did they actually say they'd use the poll chosen name no matter how stupid and childish it is, or did they ask for suggestions?
Looks like somebody is already shipfaced. :P
Now say that 5 times fast...
Well they have had rules for naming celestial bodies since before you were born, so it's no surprise they chucked suggestions that don't follow the rules.
Did you ever take astronomy class in school?