Guess you aren't in IT. I have 1 suit, its black, and I bought it the day before a funeral. I have worn it maybe twice since, and it looks fine, gets me thru the tight spots where you cant wear a suit. Plus, there are people in the world who have their own sense of style and don't want or need to be told what is appropriate for which occasion. Thats for the goose stepping mgmt types. Personally, I get a kick from wearing crap that no one else gets to wear, while being well respected at my company for my IT skills. You see, I think a different aesthetic applies to IT workers (assuming you are smart). At least here in the bay area, if you see an IT person and he is wearing a suit, most people would think wow does he work at clorox or something? Corporate goon..
Whereas if you have a green mohawk and you work on openbsd, people think you are some elite genius, almost an artist with your own aesthetic. Anyway, it works for me.
All that rote GQish fashion advice, its about selling you 4-5 expensive suits. It has been force fed into your brain by the folks of the fasion industy. I wear decent non-boring clothes to work and none of it needs to be dry cleaned. Now why I would want to shell out $500 for a silk suit so that I can feel uncomfortable at my PC all day and look like a corporate drone? Makes no sense in my (and I think many IT people's) situation. For an MBA, sure, but then you have bigger problems, like finding your ass. =)
I think people just mod up comments with bullet points. Because this one is nearly vacuous. Let me dispute point by point. Because I'm bored.
1) Bigness? (This is also referred to as size, BTW).I just bought a 40 inch Samsung LCD TV that functions as a TV and also (GASP) a computer monitor! So I dont really understand this. TV and LCD monitors are basically the same now...
2) Options. Seems to be the same argument as bigness... OK first of all Apple Cinema USED to be nicer, now they are basically DELL monitors that cost too much. But also, See the above about TVs being completely capable of being monitors.
3) Ease of use. Nobody expects your grandpa to have a PC in the living room and forgo TV. But I know several people over 30 that do this. Lets face it, all these darn kids today know how to work a computer.
4) On/OFF. What? You can still turn off the TV/monitor with the ON/OFF button on the remote. You shouldn't turn your PC off/on that much anyway, its bad for the HDD.
5) Don't get arrested by recording DVD to tape. Tape? What decade is this? You honestly still own a VCR? Seriously you want to watch that? You can also rip DVDs to HDD and convert without alerting the federalis. Just dont share it =D
I think you must be over 35. Seriously, you are missing out. Get yourself a nice TV and plug your HDMI out from your vid card into it, and welcome to the new world of BOTH!!
I somewhat agree with you, TV will not be supplanted by the web. You are looking at it wrong. TV is not an object (well ok it is but bear with me here). When you say TV, you are really talking about cable TV/OTA content delivery system. When it makes sense for networks to release content over the internet, rather than over cable/OTA, then it will be so. A TV is now just an LCD monitor, which is really just a display for whatever content you choose. I choose both cable TV and PC at the moment, but when everything I want to see is on the internet, I will happily ditch this crap TIVO/cable TV kludge I use to watch that content.
I think however, that the majors and cable are starting to come around to this. Comedy central supposedly is putting full episodes online. Fox as well. TV is content, not the medium. For all effects, your PC monitor displaying FOX HD in full screen IS TV, its just over your PC.
So basically, these old distribution channels will die out, and content will be delivered (likely by the same people) to your PC, which has already been hooked up to your monitor/TV for some time. Eventually. Once ad revenue works out and the numbers make it so. I guarantee this will happen. We are just the first adopters, pulling content out of the old system and putting it into ours. Eventually, when the networks make their stuff available in decent format over the internet on demand, why would I watch cable/OTA tv?/rant
Can you point to some (any) documentation of any of this? Other than the sun disk looking vaguely like a halo. Sorry, but this just seems like BS. The Council of Nicea is something we know something about historically, and the church seems fairly well established at that point. in fact we seem to know what was being decided there, and I dont see "Make christianity more sun-goddy" on the list. Maybe you can share some research behind these rather unconventional claims?
Yes, people are starving. Yes this site is US centric. Still, can't we have a tech discussion without the "people are starving" bullshit? Quit posting on slashdot and go feed them if its so important to you jackass.
Riiight. You know what, we have good reasons to believe that a legal drinking age of 60 is effective at reducing drinking in adults. Wouldn't that be a boon? (actually, yes, but nobodys givin up the sauce) People that favor regulation just never seem to get enough of it. I think I had about the same mindset at 18 as at 21. Granted, that was "drink and fornicate as much as humanly possible" but nothing the government regulated was going to change that. At 22 I was not fully thinking through the consequences of my actions. Hell I rarely do that now, especially on a drinking night, and im 32!
Sure, I can see the difference developmentally between a 16 year old and a 18 and 21 year old, but also a 25 year old, and a 30 year old, etc. At some point you have to make the fairly arbitrary decision that X age is old enough to have a beer. X age varies from country to country, but in our land of litigation it has ended up at the age of 21, which I think we all know deep down is fairly ridiculous, but then again so many of our laws are. But I digress.
The drinking age as 18 back when I was old enough to drink. I am from new orleans, so I started drinking at about, well, 15 in bars with various fake Ids, mostly ones I made. They got confiscated a couple times by cops over the years, but NEVER, EVER by a bartender. Why? Because bartenders in NOLA typically arent facist cunts like this lady.
Cmon we all drank at that age, or at least try to, its a rite of passage. Remember? Rachel is clearly an oppressive woman that delights in the teeny amount of power given to her as bartender. We run into these people all the time, at the DMV, at the airport, etc. Someone who takes special time out of their life just to make someone else's miserable. She probably also cuts people off when she has decided they have had one too many. She probably loves to throw patrons out of the bar. I for one would never drink at a bar with this wanna-be cop hag serving me $10 and scrutinizing my ID.
Fine, you don't want kids drinking in your bar, very sensible. Throw them the F out. Done. End of story. Dont take thier cards (which were likely hard to get/make), humiliate them, and POST THEIR SHIT ON THE INTERNET!!! Jesus man, talk about a cop. Cops don't even do that. Maybe she could start following them home and telling their parents too! This girl takes it on herself just to go that extra mile to make these kids life miserable. I am glad this girl stuck up for herself and had Rachel remove the ID.
I feel sorry for you, because you so willingly accept the rhetoric of legislation that has been drummed into your head by the likes of MADD. GO FORTH CITIZEN!
Well, I can only speak from my experience. And I may have been a bit over caffinated this morning. I literally can say I never had a hard class in college. But then, I never took engineering or anything. I mean Management and Information Systems are not really the stuff of legend.
Having attended several US institutions, I would have to say that while I have no evidence that the educational system was ever worth a shit, it certainly isnt now.
I hold a BS in Management from the "Harvard of the South" in New Orleans, but I also went to several other SEC schools. Even at the best of the three, but they were all classes in which I could easily get an A or B by reading the book the night before the test or writing a paper the night before it was due. I partied my ass off and ended up with a 3.7 GPA. I then went to a research institution down south where I got a 4.0 in IS without even really doing anything.
Since I did so well after I graduated they hired me on as thier sysadmin, and I got to see the corrosion of the system from the inside. Its fricking rotted. The problem is that there is absolutely no incentive for a professor to give a crap about teaching at a research institution. THis is becasue they dont get paid to teach. They get paid to do reasearch. Teaching is the annoying thing that pisses them off and they try to get it out of the way as quickly and painlessly as possible so they can spend more time working on thier shit so they can get tenure and sit on thier ass for the rest of thier life. Who could blame them for this? Oh, and when the budget cuts come, who gets cut? The professors? Nope. They bring in revenue in the form of grants. The instructors. The people who are there to actually teach. So they fire the long time instructors who actually know how to teach and pay grad students to take thier classes. Who teaches the grad students how to teach? The same professors that dont give a shit about it. Its seriously a game of who can slack more... the students or the professors. The professors dont have any incentive to be hard on students.... they would rather be easy and have everyone slide thru the class, no problems, give em an A or a B and they are happy and move on. Oh, every try to fail a student? Thier parents call and complain. They bring up any unfair thing you did the entire semester. They come up with excuses for missed tests that thier parents back them on. I had 6 grandma's die in my 1 semester of teaching, in a class of less than 100. Thats gotta be statistically significant.
Meh. Lets just say I know the system, and it sucks, and its not gonna get any better until something big happens, like students quit putting up with it and refuse to pay the high tuitions for a useless piece of paper. Stay away from grad school like the plauge, unless you strive to be a PHd who gets summers off with that sweet tenure system.....
Shit, I have to go to a client site. Time to wrap this up.
I have never had a drug dealer give me anything for free. Where are all these we-give-you-some-free-drugs-first drug dealers i hear about? Because I am more than ready to try some free extacy.
That link is great unless you have common sense and a brain, in which case you have no use for it at all. I mean, stand near a window? Tilt your laptop a few degrees? Try out the networks? Did you really not know that before reading?
You obviously dont run a network. Try to get users to make good passwords. Try to get 14 char random passwords past managment. G'wan. Ahhh, youre probably 12.
Microsoft has a free tool that uses a text config file that allows for the rejection of http requests based on fingerprints.
Check
here if you are interested. Works pretty well.
I tried to sell 1 (that's ONE) copy of windows 2000 professional on E-BAY that I won at a microsoft recruiting seminar and I was contacted by microsoft's goons, insisting that I provide the serial number of the software or I would be reported to E-BAY
You are just talking out of your butt with nothing to suport it.
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The candle that burns twice as bright burns only half as long.
Because its backup software and it needs to login to back up his mailboxes? I mean thats obvious isn't it? not to be rude...
Whereas if you have a green mohawk and you work on openbsd, people think you are some elite genius, almost an artist with your own aesthetic. Anyway, it works for me.
All that rote GQish fashion advice, its about selling you 4-5 expensive suits. It has been force fed into your brain by the folks of the fasion industy. I wear decent non-boring clothes to work and none of it needs to be dry cleaned. Now why I would want to shell out $500 for a silk suit so that I can feel uncomfortable at my PC all day and look like a corporate drone? Makes no sense in my (and I think many IT people's) situation. For an MBA, sure, but then you have bigger problems, like finding your ass. =)
I think people just mod up comments with bullet points. Because this one is nearly vacuous. Let me dispute point by point. Because I'm bored.
/rant
1) Bigness? (This is also referred to as size, BTW).I just bought a 40 inch Samsung LCD TV that functions as a TV and also (GASP) a computer monitor! So I dont really understand this. TV and LCD monitors are basically the same now...
2) Options. Seems to be the same argument as bigness... OK first of all Apple Cinema USED to be nicer, now they are basically DELL monitors that cost too much. But also, See the above about TVs being completely capable of being monitors.
3) Ease of use. Nobody expects your grandpa to have a PC in the living room and forgo TV. But I know several people over 30 that do this. Lets face it, all these darn kids today know how to work a computer.
4) On/OFF. What? You can still turn off the TV/monitor with the ON/OFF button on the remote. You shouldn't turn your PC off/on that much anyway, its bad for the HDD.
5) Don't get arrested by recording DVD to tape. Tape? What decade is this? You honestly still own a VCR? Seriously you want to watch that? You can also rip DVDs to HDD and convert without alerting the federalis. Just dont share it =D
I think you must be over 35. Seriously, you are missing out. Get yourself a nice TV and plug your HDMI out from your vid card into it, and welcome to the new world of BOTH!!
I somewhat agree with you, TV will not be supplanted by the web. You are looking at it wrong. TV is not an object (well ok it is but bear with me here). When you say TV, you are really talking about cable TV/OTA content delivery system. When it makes sense for networks to release content over the internet, rather than over cable/OTA, then it will be so. A TV is now just an LCD monitor, which is really just a display for whatever content you choose. I choose both cable TV and PC at the moment, but when everything I want to see is on the internet, I will happily ditch
this crap TIVO/cable TV kludge I use to watch that content.
I think however, that the majors and cable are starting to come around to this. Comedy central supposedly is putting full episodes online. Fox as well. TV is content, not the medium. For all effects, your PC monitor displaying FOX HD in full screen IS TV, its just over your PC.
So basically, these old distribution channels will die out, and content will be delivered (likely by the same people) to your PC, which has already been hooked up to your monitor/TV for some time. Eventually. Once ad revenue works out and the numbers make it so. I guarantee this will happen. We are just the first adopters, pulling content out of the old system and putting it into ours. Eventually, when the networks make their stuff available in decent format over the internet on demand, why would I watch cable/OTA tv?
as a fat, bearded level 56 warlock you just caused me to question my motivations
What if they dont want crazy hippie lighted clothing? =)
Can you point to some (any) documentation of any of this? Other than the sun disk looking vaguely like a halo. Sorry, but this just seems like BS. The Council of Nicea is something we know something about historically, and the church seems fairly well established at that point. in fact we seem to know what was being decided there, and I dont see "Make christianity more sun-goddy" on the list. Maybe you can share some research behind these rather unconventional claims?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea
Yes, people are starving. Yes this site is US centric. Still, can't we have a tech discussion without the "people are starving" bullshit? Quit posting on slashdot and go feed them if its so important to you jackass.
Thats funny. I googled it and clicked on 'Silverlight in Action - Watch it" and now I know exactly what it is.
Riiight. You know what, we have good reasons to believe that a legal drinking age of 60 is effective at reducing drinking in adults. Wouldn't that be a boon? (actually, yes, but nobodys givin up the sauce) People that favor regulation just never seem to get enough of it. I think I had about the same mindset at 18 as at 21. Granted, that was "drink and fornicate as much as humanly possible" but nothing the government regulated was going to change that. At 22 I was not fully thinking through the consequences of my actions. Hell I rarely do that now, especially on a drinking night, and im 32!
Sure, I can see the difference developmentally between a 16 year old and a 18 and 21 year old, but also a 25 year old, and a 30 year old, etc. At some point you have to make the fairly arbitrary decision that X age is old enough to have a beer. X age varies from country to country, but in our land of litigation it has ended up at the age of 21, which I think we all know deep down is fairly ridiculous, but then again so many of our laws are. But I digress.
The drinking age as 18 back when I was old enough to drink. I am from new orleans, so I started drinking at about, well, 15 in bars with various fake Ids, mostly ones I made. They got confiscated a couple times by cops over the years, but NEVER, EVER by a bartender. Why? Because bartenders in NOLA typically arent facist cunts like this lady.
Cmon we all drank at that age, or at least try to, its a rite of passage. Remember? Rachel is clearly an oppressive woman that delights in the teeny amount of power given to her as bartender. We run into these people all the time, at the DMV, at the airport, etc. Someone who takes special time out of their life just to make someone else's miserable. She probably also cuts people off when she has decided they have had one too many. She probably loves to throw patrons out of the bar. I for one would never drink at a bar with this wanna-be cop hag serving me $10 and scrutinizing my ID.
Fine, you don't want kids drinking in your bar, very sensible. Throw them the F out. Done. End of story. Dont take thier cards (which were likely hard to get/make), humiliate them, and POST THEIR SHIT ON THE INTERNET!!! Jesus man, talk about a cop. Cops don't even do that. Maybe she could start following them home and telling their parents too! This girl takes it on herself just to go that extra mile to make these kids life miserable. I am glad this girl stuck up for herself and had Rachel remove the ID.
I feel sorry for you, because you so willingly accept the rhetoric of legislation that has been drummed into your head by the likes of MADD. GO FORTH CITIZEN!
Well, I can only speak from my experience. And I may have been a bit over caffinated this morning. I literally can say I never had a hard class in college. But then, I never took engineering or anything. I mean Management and Information Systems are not really the stuff of legend.
I have had similar experiences.
Having attended several US institutions, I would have to say that while I have no evidence that the educational system was ever worth a shit, it certainly isnt now.
I hold a BS in Management from the "Harvard of the South" in New Orleans, but I also went to several other SEC schools. Even at the best of the three, but they were all classes in which I could easily get an A or B by reading the book the night before the test or writing a paper the night before it was due. I partied my ass off and ended up with a 3.7 GPA. I then went to a research institution down south where I got a 4.0 in IS without even really doing anything.
Since I did so well after I graduated they hired me on as thier sysadmin, and I got to see the corrosion of the system from the inside. Its fricking rotted. The problem is that there is absolutely no incentive for a professor to give a crap about teaching at a research institution. THis is becasue they dont get paid to teach. They get paid to do reasearch. Teaching is the annoying thing that pisses them off and they try to get it out of the way as quickly and painlessly as possible so they can spend more time working on thier shit so they can get tenure and sit on thier ass for the rest of thier life. Who could blame them for this? Oh, and when the budget cuts come, who gets cut? The professors? Nope. They bring in revenue in the form of grants. The instructors. The people who are there to actually teach. So they fire the long time instructors who actually know how to teach and pay grad students to take thier classes. Who teaches the grad students how to teach? The same professors that dont give a shit about it. Its seriously a game of who can slack more... the students or the professors. The professors dont have any incentive to be hard on students.... they would rather be easy and have everyone slide thru the class, no problems, give em an A or a B and they are happy and move on. Oh, every try to fail a student? Thier parents call and complain. They bring up any unfair thing you did the entire semester. They come up with excuses for missed tests that thier parents back them on. I had 6 grandma's die in my 1 semester of teaching, in a class of less than 100. Thats gotta be statistically significant.
Meh. Lets just say I know the system, and it sucks, and its not gonna get any better until something big happens, like students quit putting up with it and refuse to pay the high tuitions for a useless piece of paper. Stay away from grad school like the plauge, unless you strive to be a PHd who gets summers off with that sweet tenure system.....
Shit, I have to go to a client site. Time to wrap this up.
I have never had a drug dealer give me anything for free. Where are all these we-give-you-some-free-drugs-first drug dealers i hear about? Because I am more than ready to try some free extacy.
Probably because you are only backing up simple files and directories. Try backing up SQL Servers that way.
That link is great unless you have common sense and a brain, in which case you have no use for it at all. I mean, stand near a window? Tilt your laptop a few degrees? Try out the networks? Did you really not know that before reading?
Hater. This thing clearly rocks.
Well, yes. But the book and the thread are about home computers.
Dude you are taking your computer far too seriously. Heart-lung machine? Go outside.
LOL. Yeah thats a fantastic idea.
I mean really people. People are dying in Pakistan, its Super Tuesday. Dogster. I mean shit.
You obviously dont run a network. Try to get users to make good passwords. Try to get 14 char random passwords past managment. G'wan. Ahhh, youre probably 12.
Poboys and transexual hookers.
i didna know that. I need to update my config I guess..... :P
Microsoft has a free tool that uses a text config file that allows for the rejection of http requests based on fingerprints. Check here if you are interested. Works pretty well.
I tried to sell 1 (that's ONE) copy of windows 2000 professional on E-BAY that I won at a microsoft recruiting seminar and I was contacted by microsoft's goons, insisting that I provide the serial number of the software or I would be reported to E-BAY
You are just talking out of your butt with nothing to suport it.