Gosh, how observant and witty of you to point out a minor piece of shared hypocricy that absolutely no one else has ever observed before, evar. Yay for unimaginative, obvious trolls!
I see. So because some asshat feels the need to call me 3 times a night to offer me a product or service that I never asked for, I have to leave the ringer off my phone or pay the phone company $10 a month for a CallerID system that doesn't work half the time anyway.
Look, this kind of thing is ridiculous for factory line workers. It's absolute bullshit for a computer professional. If you have the leverage, I would seriously throw a fit about this. This is the type of shit that comes back to bite you in the ass 5 years down the road when you're looking for another job. When a prospective employer calls checking work history, which do you think HR will say?
1. Well, thanks to our ultra-strict tardy policy, there are many written warnings about tardiness, but in each case the person was less than 10 minutes late and always had a good excuse.
2. There are 10 written warnings about tardiness over 5 years in this employees file.
Yes, you could solve this problem by showing up at 7, but come on. If you're stuck because of the job market or other factors, not much you can do; we've all been there. But like I said, if you've got some lee-way, tell them that you're either going to start giving them 7:30-4:30 and not a second more, or they need to start paying you hourly like the time-clock slave you are.
This is a huge mistake. In a few years when the aliens on Independance Day and destroy all our major cities, we're going to need Morse Code to coordinate the counterattack the exact instance when Jeff Goldblum can hack do his l33t h4x0r1ng of the aliens shield technology!
No offense intended to the author, but quite frankly, I'm shocked something like this would get 40 hits a day. I mean, this is pretty much the definition of "obscure program".
"Hey David, how's it going?"
"Oh, hi Mark! Just wiping off my huge, gigantic balls for this afternoons board meeting."
"Is that what those are? Your nuts? I always thought you were handicapped, and that was some sort of designer wheelchair or something!"
"No, they're my balls. The casters welded to the bottom are just for mobility"
"Did you say welded? To your balls?"
"Well, of course? They're made of adamantium steel you know."
OK, this guys evil and all, but you gotta admit...
I think the one thing you really have to remember here is that we're talking about Novell. I'm just waiting for them to do something Galactically Stupid, like deciding to make Groupwise a Java-based-only client, or drop it entirely.
I'm sorry, not trying to personally insult any of the winners here, but I personally found these choices somewhat lacking. No, I'm not pissed because my entry didn't win (I didn't have an entry); and no, I don't think I could do better. I just think that, given the number of readers Slashdot has, and the higher-than-average levels of intelligence and creativity of most Slashdot readers, we could have done a bit better than wacky cartoon characters and predictable plays on the "/."
Outside of the "Mainline" one, I just don't see any that are that compelling. K5's are a lot better.
People don't hate Microsoft because they're rich and powerful and did very well as a company. People hate Microsoft because to get big and rich and powerful, they often used questionable business and marketing tactics
Yeah, but this is the thing: it's not a steady income, at least from the perspective of being guarenteed. Sure, when cuts come it's always the contractors that get nailed first, but this company could bring the axe down on this guy for little or no reason at all, at any time (assuming it's a private company, which it sounds like).
Making people salaried doesn't give a company the right to treat those people in this manner.
They're not lauging at Romero because he took a risk with Daikatana. They're laughing at him because he took 5 years and several different gaming engines to release a crappy video game.
What kind of features can we expect in Windows 95 that Apple won't already have had for awhile by the time it ships?
Apple should be shipping Mac OS 8.1 (or whatever they call it) running on 32-bit 608060 systems in September 1994. Two years after that, they'll have had another major release of 8.5, and even the Quadra should be 6086 based.
How does Windows 95 compare to Windows 3.1 and OS 8 for home users?
OK, numbers and dates are probably not perfect there, but you get the idea.
I've had no less than 4 seperate email warnings come from RedHat in the past week about programs that desperately needed to be patched. I guess that big major story slipped through the cracks, huh?
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This will never happen. You know why? Because its hard to justify to the boss/wife why you were yelling "FREE LESBIAN SEX MOVIES" at the computer.
That's because you'll never get a jury to convict without evidence!
-- Adam Schiff
You think that's bad, go check out the markup on SCSI cables sometime.
How the hell could we get 30 comments in without an Eric Lensher joke?
Gosh, how observant and witty of you to point out a minor piece of shared hypocricy that absolutely no one else has ever observed before, evar. Yay for unimaginative, obvious trolls!
I see. So because some asshat feels the need to call me 3 times a night to offer me a product or service that I never asked for, I have to leave the ringer off my phone or pay the phone company $10 a month for a CallerID system that doesn't work half the time anyway.
Look, this kind of thing is ridiculous for factory line workers. It's absolute bullshit for a computer professional. If you have the leverage, I would seriously throw a fit about this. This is the type of shit that comes back to bite you in the ass 5 years down the road when you're looking for another job. When a prospective employer calls checking work history, which do you think HR will say?
1. Well, thanks to our ultra-strict tardy policy, there are many written warnings about tardiness, but in each case the person was less than 10 minutes late and always had a good excuse.
2. There are 10 written warnings about tardiness over 5 years in this employees file.
Yes, you could solve this problem by showing up at 7, but come on. If you're stuck because of the job market or other factors, not much you can do; we've all been there. But like I said, if you've got some lee-way, tell them that you're either going to start giving them 7:30-4:30 and not a second more, or they need to start paying you hourly like the time-clock slave you are.
This is a huge mistake. In a few years when the aliens on Independance Day and destroy all our major cities, we're going to need Morse Code to coordinate the counterattack the exact instance when Jeff Goldblum can hack do his l33t h4x0r1ng of the aliens shield technology!
No offense intended to the author, but quite frankly, I'm shocked something like this would get 40 hits a day. I mean, this is pretty much the definition of "obscure program".
"Hey David, how's it going?"
"Oh, hi Mark! Just wiping off my huge, gigantic balls for this afternoons board meeting."
"Is that what those are? Your nuts? I always thought you were handicapped, and that was some sort of designer wheelchair or something!"
"No, they're my balls. The casters welded to the bottom are just for mobility"
"Did you say welded? To your balls?"
"Well, of course? They're made of adamantium steel you know."
OK, this guys evil and all, but you gotta admit...
I think the one thing you really have to remember here is that we're talking about Novell. I'm just waiting for them to do something Galactically Stupid, like deciding to make Groupwise a Java-based-only client, or drop it entirely.
I'm sorry, not trying to personally insult any of the winners here, but I personally found these choices somewhat lacking. No, I'm not pissed because my entry didn't win (I didn't have an entry); and no, I don't think I could do better. I just think that, given the number of readers Slashdot has, and the higher-than-average levels of intelligence and creativity of most Slashdot readers, we could have done a bit better than wacky cartoon characters and predictable plays on the "/."
Outside of the "Mainline" one, I just don't see any that are that compelling. K5's are a lot better.
Isn't that a little like Greenspan running a pool betting on when and by how much the interest rates will change?
People don't hate Microsoft because they're rich and powerful and did very well as a company. People hate Microsoft because to get big and rich and powerful, they often used questionable business and marketing tactics
...that someone needs to lay off watching The Animatrix for a while.
No, this won't be an issue thanks to Hyperspace Subnetting.
You've never worked with many lawyers or doctors, have you?
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Yeah, but those Tivo'd American Idols aren't watching themselves, are they?
...was in a Team Fortress Classic game of Dustbowl a bout a year ago.
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Still the best ever.
Yeah, but this is the thing: it's not a steady income, at least from the perspective of being guarenteed. Sure, when cuts come it's always the contractors that get nailed first, but this company could bring the axe down on this guy for little or no reason at all, at any time (assuming it's a private company, which it sounds like).
Making people salaried doesn't give a company the right to treat those people in this manner.
They're not lauging at Romero because he took a risk with Daikatana. They're laughing at him because he took 5 years and several different gaming engines to release a crappy video game.
Spoken like a true Mac zealot I suspect.
What kind of features can we expect in Windows 95 that Apple won't already have had for awhile by the time it ships?
Apple should be shipping Mac OS 8.1 (or whatever they call it) running on 32-bit 608060 systems in September 1994. Two years after that, they'll have had another major release of 8.5, and even the Quadra should be 6086 based.
How does Windows 95 compare to Windows 3.1 and OS 8 for home users?
OK, numbers and dates are probably not perfect there, but you get the idea.
I've had no less than 4 seperate email warnings come from RedHat in the past week about programs that desperately needed to be patched. I guess that big major story slipped through the cracks, huh?