Corporations may be ran by, and an employer of, people, but that doesn't make it people. Since you, a person, is composed of lots of water and some trace elements that include iron, can you sell them for scrap?
Do you remember when the 'Patriot Act' was being pushed? I do. The feds said it would only be used to stop terrorists. Within 6 to a year (I forget exactly when) after it passed, they were sending reps to local police departments to teach them how to use the provisions in the patriot act to investigate, arrest, and prosecute non-terrorists.
You can trust politicians and federal agencies slightly less than the distance you can throw a galactic black hole.
For me, the laptop was a lifesaver in class, the reasons are below:
I type many times faster than I can write with a wooden stick... And correcting errors is much easier than the ink filled version of the stick...:) I can always record audio and edit it later. As to diagrams/drawings, I either reproduced it using a separate drawing program, or the one in the word processor, or took a picture of it with my phone (later transfered to document)
I do agree that sometimes a notepad is better than a computer, especially if you already lug around 30 lbs of books, but for me, it was pretty rare.
As to the ipad, it's not going to be a good choice for class. It's little more than an economy sized ipod touch and it's lack of real keyboard will be a major disadvantage in the classroom. (I don't know what software it will run, so I don't know what kind of word processing, sound editing, or drawing programs will be available for it. Just a note, I haven't seen anything saying it runs the same stuff the Mac does, just things implying it runs what the i-stuff does.)
To think that aliens will be using radio is like Geronimo thinking the people in Europe used smoke signals.
Wish I could tell you what they are using, but as we haven't invented or noticed it yet, your guess is as good as mine. (For my guess I'll say they're using Quantum Filament Transmission Sequencers. Whatever that is.)
I don't begrudge the idea of searching for alien radio signals, we might luck out and find one and actually recognize it for what it is, but I'm not holding my breath. (Besides, foreign art film reruns are bad enough, do you really want to see alien ones?)
It's amazing how so many people who never passed a high school science class (or their schools 'science' class hadn't gone past basic atomic structure) are utterly afraid of crackpot doomsday predictions about something scientific that they don't even have the faintest inkling of comprehension of, while all the experts in that field aren't afraid or worried in the slightest. (Now there's a run-on sentence.) Of course those scientist don't say it's impossible, though my understanding is that it's probability of destroying the earth is a bit less than that of a winged monkey to fly out your ass leading a miniature brass band.
Funny thing about all those colossal energies involved, on the cosmic scale, they don't even qualify as peanut crumbs. If they do produce a black hole (of the extremely miniature variety), it's lifespan will be horrendously short, it's event horizon freaking minuscule, and at that scale the distance to the nearest thing to gobble (assuming it can actually suck it in) is the equivalent of light years away. It's just not going to be a threat. If something that like that could be created by these cosmically insignificant energy levels and actually survive long enough to eat planets, the universe would already be pretty darn empty. There are an uncountable number of energy events that far exceed the LHCs energy levels around us constantly, and if you want the really big ones, just point your telescope pretty much anywhere in space and you'll be pointing at several. If that kind of stuff has been going on for billions of years, and we haven't gone poof yet, you're better off buying a flying monkey proof undies than worrying about calling the LHC the 5th horseman.
For reasons I'm not going through again, but I absolutely can't stand MKV.
MP4 is mostly ok, so it's not that big of a deal, I can convert stuff to AVI on the off chance I need it to.
Guess it doesn't matter too much to me, I don't even use handbrake. When I tested a year or two ago on some stuff I wanted converted, it failed to meet my standards.
So I guess their change isn't any loss for me, but I wonder how much share they're going to lose with this change.
It's standard practice to list the affiliation of reporter/media personality when they aren't being shown/published on their own network/paper/whatever.
So to break it down for you, "Reporter Dan Simmons from the BBC's technology show Click..." means:
Dan Simmons - that's his name, duh
Click - what he's from
technology show - describes the focus of click, so nobody mistakes it for a photography show or other things.
BBC's - indicating Click is on BBC, so you again don't mistake it for Southern Swaziland's Castanet music show, Click (among others)
I guess they really want to tighten up their grasp at other companies money.
I've always heard about these types of 'parties' from all the shows, especially CES and EEE. Even Microsoft and Sony (among many others) do these for some stuff. The smaller vendors have utterly relied on being able to do this. Having a small booth in a 'busy' place like that can make it really hard to do a presentation of your product, not to mention restricting access when you want to keep it limited. Seems a bit odd (or greedy) for them to start cracking down on it now.
WMDs cover more than nukes. Iraq had chemical weapons, a type of UMD. We know that because they used them on the Kurds before the USA invaded Iraq. No WMDs were found after the invasion. Were they all used up gassing the Kurds? Possibly. Were they removed to a location outside of Iraq for whatever reason? Maybe, a lot of stuff went missing. Were they still in Iraq, but just not found? Also possible. After all, if guys familiar with their truck lost it in the sands after parking it the prior night no more than 100m from their worksite, do you really think groundpounders with no experience with identifying WMDs of any type in 437,072 km² (168,743 sq mi) of unfamiliar terrain stand much of a chance?
Not arguing with you, the Slovakian Police were total dicks, and probably violated some international laws by doing that little stunt. I just wanted to clarify that one little thing.
Useless note: Great way to hide an entire semi loaded with nasty stuff. Get a big ass backhoe, did a ramped pit into the sand/dirt, back the trailer into it, cover it over, wait two days for the blowing sands to erase all traces of your little cache, and don't tell anybody about it. Betcha nobody will find it for a century without dumb luck or exact information.
Let's see: flying monkeys crawling out your rectum > LHC destroying the world > homosexual leprechaun giving you magical money tree that grows $100 bills for leaves and has cocaine filled nuts
Of course, it's kind of hard to prove any of those is absolutely impossible, but you sure can calculate them as having absurdly low odds.... (So low, that if you tried to count the zeros between the decimal point and the first non-zero digit you'd fall asleep long before you got to it. That's why scientists like using those funny looking math formulas most of the LHC haters can't understand.)
Sorry Slashdotters, but I'm getting sick of this paranoid ignorant jihad to crucify a rather expensive but potentially critical piece of research. If you want to whine about how much money is being used, fine, it's a bloody lot. (Though it's less than the cost of 10 stealth bombers.) If you want to whine about how 'pure research' isn't useful, fine. (When electricity was still in the 'pure research' stage and the question was raised as to what use was it, a famous scientist replied "what use is a baby"...) If you want to spout conspiracy theories (yours or other peoples), please go back to your paranoid blogs and leave this stuff to people who actually passed grade school math and science classes without cheating. (Many slashdotters have actually passed college level classes on trig, calculus, and even physics.)
Now lawyers are jumping into the mess when they aren't asked to. What are the lawyers going to do next, threaten to sue people for not preparing for the fantasized, err, 'predicted' 2012 world disaster?
At least these media spawned circuses keeps the reporters from investigating my secret genesplicing experiments to create parasitic miniaturized colon dwelling hybridized eagle-macaques.
Thanks, take a break, and laugh at the stupidity before you drown in it...
IMO anything at all the exceeds the normal sensory range or acuity of a human should require a search warrant. Cost and availability (perceived or otherwise) should never be a factor.
"perhaps movie moguls will succeed where musicians and their moguls have failed so far, and rally America to defend the most creative economy in the world..."
WTF?!?!
Hasn't that idiot actually watched any of the crap that's been churned out in the past decade or so? It's mostly remakes, reboots, or just plain derivative.
Perhaps, but has a hurricane ever left your neighborhood without power and your entire house covered in a solid substance that may extend beyond the height of the house?
Maybe the horrible quality of journalism we've seen lately has been due to a prevalence of software written articles... Then again, maybe the current crop of journalists can't write their way out of wet paper bag, even if you give them a chainsaw. Considering the competition, the idea of software winning the Pulitzer seems almost inevitable...
And that's just a start, as any 80s H.S. science graduate can tell you...
(We made a really nice explosion with just a charcoal briquette.)
The restrictions the airlines are using only make the paranoid yet stupid feel better, they don't stop anything. We'd be better off if forced to fly naked with no non-approved medical carry-ons, but then they'd lose most of their passengers, not to mention their clothes. I once took a flight where they lost the luggage by the time of our first layover (same plane), and it took them 9 months and 8 days before they finally found it.
The airlines really need to stop harrassing the customers with these ineffectual yet apparent methods, and start using the effective yet discrete but more expensive methods. Even then, nothing will ever be absolute, it's the nature of security.
Let me tell you of a common occurrence with U.S. lawyers and tech support. (This happens a lot, usually when they insist on you knowing they are a lawyer, as if that has anything to do with computer savvy.... The ones that only bring up being a lawyer in passing, tend to be normal.)
Call comes in, introductions proceed, lawyer makes a point of letting you know he's a lawyer. For whatever reason, you have to have the caller read something off the screen. (sysinfo, error message, whatever) Caller claims they can't read it. After checking why, the reason is that the caller has usually set the highest screen res and the smallest font size. End result, it's too bloody small for them to read. Tell them to change settings so the text is readable. Caller refuses, insisting that they have to have 2 pages of text on screen at the same time... Techie fumes, why does this moron need two pages of text too small to read on screen at the same time when he's called into tech support to fix a problem not related to those two pages?!?!?!
Please note the inability of the caller to read anything on his screen, but his absolute insistence that he must keep it that way so he can display two pages of (unreadable) text.
Yeah, those types suck. The other ego-moron job you have to deal with is the ones that insist that you call them Doctor. (And I don't mean Doctor Who.)
That's usually the case, but sometimes you write a piece of code that is so creative to solve a problem, it's not that someone else is incapable of reading it, rather they can't comprehend the complexity of the code. I've done that a few times.
The first time was in highschool. I wrote an app to help me with my algebra/trig. I never saved it, but rather rewrote it from memory every day. Some days I had brainstorms of insight that allowed me to do marvelous things to improve the functionality and reduce the size. By the time the year was out, the entire program was one page of spaghetti code that nobody else could fathom, and it worked perfectly. Back then, 6k memory was a common desktop memory, I had 16k, so yes, we saved every byte we could.
Challenge: Bet most of you under 20s couldn't write a full app for anything useful in less than 20k.
(And no cheating by copying any of the archive stuff, like the 9-liners amongst others.)
Ok, I feel really stupid reading that thing. It's in a form of legalese which is something that always makes my mind retreat to the dark recesses of my brain to hide in fear.
Can someone please provide a normal-speak (or even geek-speak) version of that mess, maybe with an example or two?
I'd certainly appreciate that, and I'm sure a lot of other readers would as well.
With regards to the name, if someone is ticked at him and searching for or just typing in a dissenting statement hoping to find a site, they will always use 'My' instead of 'Your'. How many people do you know that have gone to a help site and looked for 'my (something) is broken'. (probably a lot, then they call us in a panic, I know, we all know...)
I haven't even looked into the other allegation, but as ianal, it would probably get too messy for me anyhow.
Besides, that guy is a total wackjob anyhow. His public statements have already proven that his entire political career, and possible himself, should be shoved into a deep dark rubber room and heavily medicated.
Come on, W.G. is one of the founders of the whole cyperpunk genre. You can't honestly tell me that you've read Sterling and Stephenson and haven't read Gibson.
If they get this one without proof, how long until they start forcing others without proof.
Before long, every male will be labeled as a sex offender, every food will warn of cancer or other health issues, every politician will have a scarlet letter, etc...
Stop the insanity now by stopping this grandstanding moron on a soap box. Then get him and his cronies kicked out of office.
If the boss is the type that wants to micromanage stuff they don't even understand, get them as far away as possible, they only cause problems.
On the other hand, if they let the experts do what they are payed for and stay out of the way, it's a great thing. Here's some reasons why:
Since the boss has to stay late, they aren't as likely to tell the underlings to stay late unless there's at least a half decent reason. (The ones that don't stay, tend to get an attitude of fire & forget, ie you stay at work till it's done or I'll fire you, and I'll happily forget how crappy I'm treating you... Or at least that's how the underlings will feel about it.)
Also, the boss can get the pizza, or chinese, or whatever food you order that night. Don't want to mess things up if you're in a groove.
And here's a biggie, management is there in case something goes wrong. If the power goes out, a fire alarm goes off, somebody breaks in, whatever, if it's just the underlings, the shit's gonna hit the fan and guess who gets it in the face. On the other hand, if a manager type is there, those higher up are far more likely to listen to his side than that of the underlings. It's not that a manager can prevent the shitstorm, but he can lessen it and redirect most of it where it needs to go. (Even if where it needs to go is next door where their busted sprinkler system dropped the water pressure and automatically set off your fire alarms because of a water pressure sensor... Yes, I've been in that one.)
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Yeah, but if the resolution is high enough, you'll never notice.
By the way, what is this models resolution?
One more small thing, I don't think this model does bones... but the marrow should be doable.
So in other words, that phrase is just standard marketing schlock?
Corporations may be ran by, and an employer of, people, but that doesn't make it people.
Since you, a person, is composed of lots of water and some trace elements that include iron, can you sell them for scrap?
Corporation != People
Do you remember when the 'Patriot Act' was being pushed?
I do.
The feds said it would only be used to stop terrorists.
Within 6 to a year (I forget exactly when) after it passed, they were sending reps to local police departments to teach them how to use the provisions in the patriot act to investigate, arrest, and prosecute non-terrorists.
You can trust politicians and federal agencies slightly less than the distance you can throw a galactic black hole.
For me, the laptop was a lifesaver in class, the reasons are below:
:)
I type many times faster than I can write with a wooden stick... And correcting errors is much easier than the ink filled version of the stick...
I can always record audio and edit it later.
As to diagrams/drawings, I either reproduced it using a separate drawing program, or the one in the word processor, or took a picture of it with my phone (later transfered to document)
I do agree that sometimes a notepad is better than a computer, especially if you already lug around 30 lbs of books, but for me, it was pretty rare.
As to the ipad, it's not going to be a good choice for class. It's little more than an economy sized ipod touch and it's lack of real keyboard will be a major disadvantage in the classroom. (I don't know what software it will run, so I don't know what kind of word processing, sound editing, or drawing programs will be available for it. Just a note, I haven't seen anything saying it runs the same stuff the Mac does, just things implying it runs what the i-stuff does.)
To think that aliens will be using radio is like Geronimo thinking the people in Europe used smoke signals.
Wish I could tell you what they are using, but as we haven't invented or noticed it yet, your guess is as good as mine.
(For my guess I'll say they're using Quantum Filament Transmission Sequencers. Whatever that is.)
I don't begrudge the idea of searching for alien radio signals, we might luck out and find one and actually recognize it for what it is, but I'm not holding my breath.
(Besides, foreign art film reruns are bad enough, do you really want to see alien ones?)
It's amazing how so many people who never passed a high school science class (or their schools 'science' class hadn't gone past basic atomic structure) are utterly afraid of crackpot doomsday predictions about something scientific that they don't even have the faintest inkling of comprehension of, while all the experts in that field aren't afraid or worried in the slightest.
(Now there's a run-on sentence.)
Of course those scientist don't say it's impossible, though my understanding is that it's probability of destroying the earth is a bit less than that of a winged monkey to fly out your ass leading a miniature brass band.
Funny thing about all those colossal energies involved, on the cosmic scale, they don't even qualify as peanut crumbs. If they do produce a black hole (of the extremely miniature variety), it's lifespan will be horrendously short, it's event horizon freaking minuscule, and at that scale the distance to the nearest thing to gobble (assuming it can actually suck it in) is the equivalent of light years away. It's just not going to be a threat. If something that like that could be created by these cosmically insignificant energy levels and actually survive long enough to eat planets, the universe would already be pretty darn empty. There are an uncountable number of energy events that far exceed the LHCs energy levels around us constantly, and if you want the really big ones, just point your telescope pretty much anywhere in space and you'll be pointing at several. If that kind of stuff has been going on for billions of years, and we haven't gone poof yet, you're better off buying a flying monkey proof undies than worrying about calling the LHC the 5th horseman.
For reasons I'm not going through again, but I absolutely can't stand MKV.
MP4 is mostly ok, so it's not that big of a deal, I can convert stuff to AVI on the off chance I need it to.
Guess it doesn't matter too much to me, I don't even use handbrake.
When I tested a year or two ago on some stuff I wanted converted, it failed to meet my standards.
So I guess their change isn't any loss for me, but I wonder how much share they're going to lose with this change.
It's standard practice to list the affiliation of reporter/media personality when they aren't being shown/published on their own network/paper/whatever.
So to break it down for you, "Reporter Dan Simmons from the BBC's technology show Click..." means:
Dan Simmons - that's his name, duh
Click - what he's from
technology show - describes the focus of click, so nobody mistakes it for a photography show or other things.
BBC's - indicating Click is on BBC, so you again don't mistake it for Southern Swaziland's Castanet music show, Click (among others)
I guess they really want to tighten up their grasp at other companies money.
I've always heard about these types of 'parties' from all the shows, especially CES and EEE.
Even Microsoft and Sony (among many others) do these for some stuff.
The smaller vendors have utterly relied on being able to do this.
Having a small booth in a 'busy' place like that can make it really hard to do a presentation of your product, not to mention restricting access when you want to keep it limited.
Seems a bit odd (or greedy) for them to start cracking down on it now.
WMDs cover more than nukes. Iraq had chemical weapons, a type of UMD.
We know that because they used them on the Kurds before the USA invaded Iraq.
No WMDs were found after the invasion.
Were they all used up gassing the Kurds? Possibly.
Were they removed to a location outside of Iraq for whatever reason? Maybe, a lot of stuff went missing.
Were they still in Iraq, but just not found? Also possible. After all, if guys familiar with their truck lost it in the sands after parking it the prior night no more than 100m from their worksite, do you really think groundpounders with no experience with identifying WMDs of any type in 437,072 km² (168,743 sq mi) of unfamiliar terrain stand much of a chance?
Not arguing with you, the Slovakian Police were total dicks, and probably violated some international laws by doing that little stunt. I just wanted to clarify that one little thing.
Useless note: Great way to hide an entire semi loaded with nasty stuff. Get a big ass backhoe, did a ramped pit into the sand/dirt, back the trailer into it, cover it over, wait two days for the blowing sands to erase all traces of your little cache, and don't tell anybody about it. Betcha nobody will find it for a century without dumb luck or exact information.
Let's see:
flying monkeys crawling out your rectum > LHC destroying the world > homosexual leprechaun giving you magical money tree that grows $100 bills for leaves and has cocaine filled nuts
Of course, it's kind of hard to prove any of those is absolutely impossible, but you sure can calculate them as having absurdly low odds.... (So low, that if you tried to count the zeros between the decimal point and the first non-zero digit you'd fall asleep long before you got to it. That's why scientists like using those funny looking math formulas most of the LHC haters can't understand.)
Sorry Slashdotters, but I'm getting sick of this paranoid ignorant jihad to crucify a rather expensive but potentially critical piece of research.
If you want to whine about how much money is being used, fine, it's a bloody lot. (Though it's less than the cost of 10 stealth bombers.)
If you want to whine about how 'pure research' isn't useful, fine. (When electricity was still in the 'pure research' stage and the question was raised as to what use was it, a famous scientist replied "what use is a baby"...)
If you want to spout conspiracy theories (yours or other peoples), please go back to your paranoid blogs and leave this stuff to people who actually passed grade school math and science classes without cheating. (Many slashdotters have actually passed college level classes on trig, calculus, and even physics.)
Now lawyers are jumping into the mess when they aren't asked to.
What are the lawyers going to do next, threaten to sue people for not preparing for the fantasized, err, 'predicted' 2012 world disaster?
At least these media spawned circuses keeps the reporters from investigating my secret genesplicing experiments to create parasitic miniaturized colon dwelling hybridized eagle-macaques.
Thanks, take a break, and laugh at the stupidity before you drown in it...
IMO anything at all the exceeds the normal sensory range or acuity of a human should require a search warrant.
Cost and availability (perceived or otherwise) should never be a factor.
"perhaps movie moguls will succeed where musicians and their moguls have failed so far, and rally America to defend the most creative economy in the world..."
WTF?!?!
Hasn't that idiot actually watched any of the crap that's been churned out in the past decade or so? It's mostly remakes, reboots, or just plain derivative.
Perhaps, but has a hurricane ever left your neighborhood without power and your entire house covered in a solid substance that may extend beyond the height of the house?
Maybe the horrible quality of journalism we've seen lately has been due to a prevalence of software written articles...
Then again, maybe the current crop of journalists can't write their way out of wet paper bag, even if you give them a chainsaw.
Considering the competition, the idea of software winning the Pulitzer seems almost inevitable...
even terrorists aren't dumb enough to use liquid explosives
And that's just a start, as any 80s H.S. science graduate can tell you...
(We made a really nice explosion with just a charcoal briquette.)
The restrictions the airlines are using only make the paranoid yet stupid feel better, they don't stop anything.
We'd be better off if forced to fly naked with no non-approved medical carry-ons, but then they'd lose most of their passengers, not to mention their clothes.
I once took a flight where they lost the luggage by the time of our first layover (same plane), and it took them 9 months and 8 days before they finally found it.
The airlines really need to stop harrassing the customers with these ineffectual yet apparent methods, and start using the effective yet discrete but more expensive methods. Even then, nothing will ever be absolute, it's the nature of security.
Let me tell you of a common occurrence with U.S. lawyers and tech support.
(This happens a lot, usually when they insist on you knowing they are a lawyer, as if that has anything to do with computer savvy.... The ones that only bring up being a lawyer in passing, tend to be normal.)
Call comes in, introductions proceed, lawyer makes a point of letting you know he's a lawyer.
For whatever reason, you have to have the caller read something off the screen. (sysinfo, error message, whatever)
Caller claims they can't read it.
After checking why, the reason is that the caller has usually set the highest screen res and the smallest font size. End result, it's too bloody small for them to read.
Tell them to change settings so the text is readable.
Caller refuses, insisting that they have to have 2 pages of text on screen at the same time...
Techie fumes, why does this moron need two pages of text too small to read on screen at the same time when he's called into tech support to fix a problem not related to those two pages?!?!?!
Please note the inability of the caller to read anything on his screen, but his absolute insistence that he must keep it that way so he can display two pages of (unreadable) text.
Yeah, those types suck. The other ego-moron job you have to deal with is the ones that insist that you call them Doctor. (And I don't mean Doctor Who.)
And they call us geeks...
That's usually the case, but sometimes you write a piece of code that is so creative to solve a problem, it's not that someone else is incapable of reading it, rather they can't comprehend the complexity of the code. I've done that a few times.
The first time was in highschool. I wrote an app to help me with my algebra/trig.
I never saved it, but rather rewrote it from memory every day. Some days I had brainstorms of insight that allowed me to do marvelous things to improve the functionality and reduce the size. By the time the year was out, the entire program was one page of spaghetti code that nobody else could fathom, and it worked perfectly.
Back then, 6k memory was a common desktop memory, I had 16k, so yes, we saved every byte we could.
Challenge: Bet most of you under 20s couldn't write a full app for anything useful in less than 20k.
(And no cheating by copying any of the archive stuff, like the 9-liners amongst others.)
Ok, I feel really stupid reading that thing.
It's in a form of legalese which is something that always makes my mind retreat to the dark recesses of my brain to hide in fear.
Can someone please provide a normal-speak (or even geek-speak) version of that mess, maybe with an example or two?
I'd certainly appreciate that, and I'm sure a lot of other readers would as well.
With regards to the name, if someone is ticked at him and searching for or just typing in a dissenting statement hoping to find a site, they will always use 'My' instead of 'Your'.
How many people do you know that have gone to a help site and looked for 'my (something) is broken'.
(probably a lot, then they call us in a panic, I know, we all know...)
I haven't even looked into the other allegation, but as ianal, it would probably get too messy for me anyhow.
Besides, that guy is a total wackjob anyhow. His public statements have already proven that his entire political career, and possible himself, should be shoved into a deep dark rubber room and heavily medicated.
Come on, W.G. is one of the founders of the whole cyperpunk genre.
You can't honestly tell me that you've read Sterling and Stephenson and haven't read Gibson.
If they get this one without proof, how long until they start forcing others without proof.
Before long, every male will be labeled as a sex offender, every food will warn of cancer or other health issues, every politician will have a scarlet letter, etc...
Stop the insanity now by stopping this grandstanding moron on a soap box.
Then get him and his cronies kicked out of office.
If the boss is the type that wants to micromanage stuff they don't even understand, get them as far away as possible, they only cause problems.
On the other hand, if they let the experts do what they are payed for and stay out of the way, it's a great thing.
Here's some reasons why:
Since the boss has to stay late, they aren't as likely to tell the underlings to stay late unless there's at least a half decent reason.
(The ones that don't stay, tend to get an attitude of fire & forget, ie you stay at work till it's done or I'll fire you, and I'll happily forget how crappy I'm treating you... Or at least that's how the underlings will feel about it.)
Also, the boss can get the pizza, or chinese, or whatever food you order that night. Don't want to mess things up if you're in a groove.
And here's a biggie, management is there in case something goes wrong. If the power goes out, a fire alarm goes off, somebody breaks in, whatever, if it's just the underlings, the shit's gonna hit the fan and guess who gets it in the face. On the other hand, if a manager type is there, those higher up are far more likely to listen to his side than that of the underlings. It's not that a manager can prevent the shitstorm, but he can lessen it and redirect most of it where it needs to go. (Even if where it needs to go is next door where their busted sprinkler system dropped the water pressure and automatically set off your fire alarms because of a water pressure sensor... Yes, I've been in that one.)