I have a friend who works for a large insurance company and he actually runs TPS reports. I don't know what the hell it stands for and since he's in the IT department, I don't think it has to do with the insurance stuff. Probably just a nickname those wacky IT guys used.
Maybe kids would engage more if parents weren't so focused on satisfying every little whim and fancy of their kids anymore. Turn of MTV, limit their playtime on the Xbox and make them go do some real world shit, like play outside, or hell even board games require more attention span.
IT is typically seen by mgmt as a money blackhole. Sure business today is powered by technology, but all those upgrades, outages, and man hours don't generate revenue, they swallow it. Heaven forbid if only mgmt should decide how that time/money gets spent.
However engineers are the ones that should be able to retain more autonomy. IT != engineering, at least not to me. Helpdesk, admins and all those guys, yeah, you're pretty much under the scrutiny of mgmt. You're there to make sure the shit they bought runs, not decide which shit it is they buy (until you work your way up to that role at least.)
It's great that you can make something look awesome, but like these styrofoam balls my mom has that she glued "pretty" beads and beans on, what's the fuckin' point? Running around looking cool is fun at first, but after that you need to keep people around.
"Accessing a file across a network probably makes at least four copies: disk cache on sender, recipient RAM, recipient disk cache, recipient disk."
Sweet Jesus, man, don't tell them that! Once it becomes precedent you can be sued for having that data buffered in RAM/cached they'll start going after us for merely remembering an annoying song we heard before leaving the house or some shit!
Ain't technology grand? Regular Joes get replaced by automated machines in factories, whiny, self important, over paid celebrities can be replaced with a digital likeness. When will a stop!
I have seen a few articles like this the last few days. But if you search Google news for "wii sales" they had a 22% jump in Japan over the previous week and were higher than many weeks prior. So right as everyone seems to start saying "The magic is gone." they spike.
Type define:apocryphal and hit search. Unless you were suggesting it isn't strong enough word to illustrate your stance. In which case, "utter bullshit" definitely fits the bill.
Cindy Sheehan is one that is prominent right now. Here's a second
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of arrests like this each year for the lamest things, because of laws that want to enforce social policy and don't really have any real use.
But speak out or have a difference of opinion and goto jail. Or be ostracized all the way through you're public school career for being different.
It's hard to argue that the US is economically broken, but socially we're just as fucked as every other society.
Stories like this are less about being allowed to live what has become the American dream (having a lot of stuff defining your success) and more about reclaiming what use to be the American dream (total freedom from over zealous rulers, economically and socially.)
The FIRST Prince of Persia pisses me off to no end. I simply CANNOT get passed one of the timed puzzles where you have to avoid the boobie traps before the door closes. I have sworn off that game as well as the sequels.
Where the hell is the punishment for the corporations that are "losing" private data of their customers because idiot employee's are allowed to take home unencrypted laptops? Or backup tapes just disappear. Oh wait yeah, they have money to defend themselves and those big biz fat cats are all fuckin' pals anyway. This country sucks now
Their stunt didn't shut down shit. Some paranoid idiots and your fuckin' mayor and police over reacted and screwed up your day. People aren't allowed to be creative and express themselves? We have to sanitize our way of life to appease some unachievable level of immunity from evil? Watch what we say and think? May as well just move to fuckin' China then.
After being up for days without a problem, shit hit the fan. Your mayor sounds like he's pissed that they were duped and looked like an asshole. Instead of filing charges, they should let the artist out of jail and spend their time and money on public awareness programs.
Idiots.
Maybe that's the problem then. They keep rehashing the same themes and aren't creating much content with originality. Much like the games industry or any large, over saturated big money industry these days. People are tired of paying over and over for the same trite crap with a different title or "reimagined" logo.
Slashdot Mirror
Queue obligatory joke about how Slashdotter's can't get laid in the first place.
I have a friend who works for a large insurance company and he actually runs TPS reports. I don't know what the hell it stands for and since he's in the IT department, I don't think it has to do with the insurance stuff. Probably just a nickname those wacky IT guys used.
Maybe kids would engage more if parents weren't so focused on satisfying every little whim and fancy of their kids anymore. Turn of MTV, limit their playtime on the Xbox and make them go do some real world shit, like play outside, or hell even board games require more attention span.
IT is typically seen by mgmt as a money blackhole. Sure business today is powered by technology, but all those upgrades, outages, and man hours don't generate revenue, they swallow it. Heaven forbid if only mgmt should decide how that time/money gets spent.
However engineers are the ones that should be able to retain more autonomy. IT != engineering, at least not to me. Helpdesk, admins and all those guys, yeah, you're pretty much under the scrutiny of mgmt. You're there to make sure the shit they bought runs, not decide which shit it is they buy (until you work your way up to that role at least.)
That August 4th, 2007 is ten years from the date the movies specified? Coincidence. Or did the time travel just screw up everyone's memories?
If you'll excuse me, I have a bunker in my backyard to finish.
It's great that you can make something look awesome, but like these styrofoam balls my mom has that she glued "pretty" beads and beans on, what's the fuckin' point? Running around looking cool is fun at first, but after that you need to keep people around.
Some how though, I would still feel better about this if Novell hadn't just signed what feels like an indemnity deal with Microsoft
"Accessing a file across a network probably makes at least four copies: disk cache on sender, recipient RAM, recipient disk cache, recipient disk."
Sweet Jesus, man, don't tell them that! Once it becomes precedent you can be sued for having that data buffered in RAM/cached they'll start going after us for merely remembering an annoying song we heard before leaving the house or some shit!
And yes, far more stable.
Hm sounds like a release of Windows Microsoft should consider releasing to the general public.
Ain't technology grand? Regular Joes get replaced by automated machines in factories, whiny, self important, over paid celebrities can be replaced with a digital likeness. When will a stop!
I have seen a few articles like this the last few days. But if you search Google news for "wii sales" they had a 22% jump in Japan over the previous week and were higher than many weeks prior. So right as everyone seems to start saying "The magic is gone." they spike.
He's not. If you'd been paying attention, the plea was for Gates to get MS to lay off their lawsuit.
Type define:apocryphal and hit search. Unless you were suggesting it isn't strong enough word to illustrate your stance. In which case, "utter bullshit" definitely fits the bill.
Yeah a buncha old ladies sure are a major threat to some trained military recruiters.
Cindy Sheehan is one that is prominent right now. Here's a second
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of arrests like this each year for the lamest things, because of laws that want to enforce social policy and don't really have any real use.
But speak out or have a difference of opinion and goto jail. Or be ostracized all the way through you're public school career for being different.
It's hard to argue that the US is economically broken, but socially we're just as fucked as every other society.
Stories like this are less about being allowed to live what has become the American dream (having a lot of stuff defining your success) and more about reclaiming what use to be the American dream (total freedom from over zealous rulers, economically and socially.)
The FIRST Prince of Persia pisses me off to no end. I simply CANNOT get passed one of the timed puzzles where you have to avoid the boobie traps before the door closes. I have sworn off that game as well as the sequels.
Where the hell is the punishment for the corporations that are "losing" private data of their customers because idiot employee's are allowed to take home unencrypted laptops? Or backup tapes just disappear. Oh wait yeah, they have money to defend themselves and those big biz fat cats are all fuckin' pals anyway. This country sucks now
according to the lead ins to adult swim shows they had the other ones in all the cities taken down.
Their stunt didn't shut down shit. Some paranoid idiots and your fuckin' mayor and police over reacted and screwed up your day. People aren't allowed to be creative and express themselves? We have to sanitize our way of life to appease some unachievable level of immunity from evil? Watch what we say and think? May as well just move to fuckin' China then. After being up for days without a problem, shit hit the fan. Your mayor sounds like he's pissed that they were duped and looked like an asshole. Instead of filing charges, they should let the artist out of jail and spend their time and money on public awareness programs. Idiots.
Maybe that's the problem then. They keep rehashing the same themes and aren't creating much content with originality. Much like the games industry or any large, over saturated big money industry these days. People are tired of paying over and over for the same trite crap with a different title or "reimagined" logo.
I drive over burnside and morrison every day. i'm tempted to check it out
Anyone in Portland want to track some down with me?
"2 miles of walking is about half an hour each way."
What's worse is it was uphill both ways in snow, but they didn't have to worry about being fat because of "sprawl"
You know what would really be interesting is if that Geico commercial with the cavemen had used a hobbit instead and then "Tada!" we found hobbitses.