"Disease" is one of those vague, over-used terms that I'm pretty tired of hearing. It assumes that the person who applies the label knows what he's talking about, and the labelee is just full of self-delusion. Let's treat the asshole with basic intellectual respect and refer to assholedness, not asholeism!
Do some kind of childish stunt. That might make you feel good for a while, but it won't convince your asshole boss that he treated you badly. In fact, he'll use your childishness to justify his assholedness. "You see why I was easing him out?"
You can find some way to make upper management aware that you're leaving in part because your boss is an asshole. Think out that will make him look with his boss.
That's the basic choice. I'm sure you can fill in the details yourself.
I can understand the temptation to respond to a "BSD is Dying" troll. But please wait for an actual trollpost. Responding to a post that mentions the "BSD is Dying" troll is premature.
Being the title of one of my favorite books, about a Dutch guy who seeks the meaning of life in a Zen monastary in Kyoto. The monks did not use the term "hypertasking", but they did suggest that the guy was pushing too hard when he tried to combine brushing his teeth with urinating. This is an image that will always stay with me!
Very droll, but your logic is backwards. The insurance folks already have you pegged as a typical 20-something Camaro driver. Here's your chance to prove them wrong.
I seem to be the first person to join I-Neighbors from this neighborhood. As such, I'm the "founder": my description of the neighborhood and its boundaries is official, and changes can't be made without my permission. What if I go mad with power?
And unless you live in an earthquake zone the chances of it being disrupted are nill.
Which is, I guess, why my company doesn't use one -- right on the San Andreas Fault. And come to think of it, attempts to supplement California's energy supply with gas-fired power plants always bring out the NIMBYs. Personally, I'd rather risk the odd explosion than breathe in all that air pollution. But what do I know?
So the question is, who made the decision to use natural gas instead of diesel? Yes, it's cleaner -- but most companies don't spend extra money on stuff like this unless somebody makes them.
...the term UPS can refer to a pussy office UPS thats basicly a bloated power strip, or it can refer to a building full of batteries capable of running a large factory for an hour.
At the server farm where I work, it refers to a room full of lead-acid batteries that are capable (so management claims) of powering all 10,000 systems for 14 hours, plus a diesel generator. In fact, server farms are a major air quality problem in Silicon Valley, 'cause whenever there's a brown- or blackout, dozens of them fire up their diesels, pouring an ungodly amount of particulate in the air.
Not to mention, getting every popular 3rd party app to conform even if they didn't mind publishing that kind of data about documents seems like it'd be a long and tedious task.
Indeed. Note that NTFS already has pretty good metadata support -- but how many applications use it? The only app vendor I can think of that's at all serious about metadata is Adobe -- and they're only interested in their own platform-independent metadata language.
Sort of an interesting story, but not anything we haven't seen before. Fair use, big litigation-happy companies, yada, yada, yada.
What much more interesting is that this same guy has written an ActiveX component which you can use to write more applications like his -- and which is free for non-commercial use. Hackers, start your editors!
I hate skinnable software. It's less reliable and harder to use than software that just follows standard L&F APIs and conventions. My particular unfavorite is PowerDVD, which I'm forced to use because its the only software I have that groks my DVD drive. It would have been so easy for them to just provide a simple menu and/or toolbar at the top of the display window, with standard, self-explanatory controls. But no, that wouldn't be cool. So instead I have to poke at mysterious icons and an unusable progress bar on a separate control window that doesn't even coordinate its Z-level with the display window! Argh!
If anybody wants to recommend their favorite open-source Windows or Linux DVD player, feel free. But if it's skinnable, I'm not interested!
If you are interested in going beyond flamebait and ridiculous attacks (on both sides) this is an excellent book.
Whatever the merits of the book, it doesn't take a short course in cognitive science to hold a productive conversation. All it takes is some elementary courtesy. A big part of that is the assumption that people can disagree with you without being assholes. Unfortunately, today's political culture is based on exactly that kind of bigotry.
This might be connected to Microsoft's intention to build up its patent portfolio.
Why? If their patent becomes a standard, it's just more profit for them.
The real problem is that Microsoft just doesn't get along with standards groups. Witness their history with XSL, Kerberos, ISO character sets, etc., etc. They go in determined to be good, cooperative techno-standard citizens, but always reach a point where continuing to participate means they can't do things exactly their own way. And they always want to do things exactly their own way.
You almost can't blame them -- the industry is dominated by emotionally immature technogeeks who always have to have their own way. Unfortunately, MS has the financial clout to make their tantrums into defacto standards.
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"Disease" is one of those vague, over-used terms that I'm pretty tired of hearing. It assumes that the person who applies the label knows what he's talking about, and the labelee is just full of self-delusion. Let's treat the asshole with basic intellectual respect and refer to assholedness, not asholeism!
- Do some kind of childish stunt. That might make you feel good for a while, but it won't convince your asshole boss that he treated you badly. In fact, he'll use your childishness to justify his assholedness. "You see why I was easing him out?"
- You can find some way to make upper management aware that you're leaving in part because your boss is an asshole. Think out that will make him look with his boss.
That's the basic choice. I'm sure you can fill in the details yourself.I can understand the temptation to respond to a "BSD is Dying" troll. But please wait for an actual trollpost. Responding to a post that mentions the "BSD is Dying" troll is premature.
Being the title of one of my favorite books, about a Dutch guy who seeks the meaning of life in a Zen monastary in Kyoto. The monks did not use the term "hypertasking", but they did suggest that the guy was pushing too hard when he tried to combine brushing his teeth with urinating. This is an image that will always stay with me!
Graham Hamilton really does collect hats and stuffed wallabies. Used to work down the hall from the dude.
He collects hats and stuffed wallabies.
Very droll, but your logic is backwards. The insurance folks already have you pegged as a typical 20-something Camaro driver. Here's your chance to prove them wrong.
Oops, here come the denial-of-physics BS responses we get whenever we talk about speeding. Save it. Heard it all before. Just not true.
I seem to recall that turbines require a lot more maintenance than other types of engines.
I seem to be the first person to join I-Neighbors from this neighborhood. As such, I'm the "founder": my description of the neighborhood and its boundaries is official, and changes can't be made without my permission. What if I go mad with power?
It's something you wouldn't use, therefore it's stupid? I'll say it again: we need a new mod: "-1: the universe doesn't revolve around you".
Which boils down to, "it costs more". What I said.
So why do most emergency generators use diesel? The lovely smell?
So the question is, who made the decision to use natural gas instead of diesel? Yes, it's cleaner -- but most companies don't spend extra money on stuff like this unless somebody makes them.
Absolutely. Does you company have an environmental conscience? Or are you just located in a place with sane air quality laws?
No, he just got a heart attack from all those hits!
What much more interesting is that this same guy has written an ActiveX component which you can use to write more applications like his -- and which is free for non-commercial use. Hackers, start your editors!
If anybody wants to recommend their favorite open-source Windows or Linux DVD player, feel free. But if it's skinnable, I'm not interested!
Huh? The guy is pointing out a perceived flaw in the story. Half the posts for any given story do that.
The real problem is that Microsoft just doesn't get along with standards groups. Witness their history with XSL, Kerberos, ISO character sets, etc., etc. They go in determined to be good, cooperative techno-standard citizens, but always reach a point where continuing to participate means they can't do things exactly their own way. And they always want to do things exactly their own way.
You almost can't blame them -- the industry is dominated by emotionally immature technogeeks who always have to have their own way. Unfortunately, MS has the financial clout to make their tantrums into defacto standards.