Can anyone suggest a sane county to emmigrate to? Good economy, decent climate, and NOT a police state? I'd like to start learning the language before the point of no escape.
GP: Working at home would likely be filled with endless distractions, mostly in the form of a two and seven-year-old who want to play Princess or Legos, respectively
P: If you're getting distracted at home, then your home office is not set up properly or you're not working in that home office.
I don't have kids, and I can tell you don't, either.
We can't find good workers... I have no desire to train them...
Yeah, you and everybody else. I can't believe a mediocre employee can't be turned into a good one, and that a good one can't be turned into a great one. The problem is, no one wants to risk the investment in time and money. And I know it's because IT workers are mercurial and flighty. But when everyone makes the lack of IT talent someone else's problem, you get... well, what we have today. A thousand lumps of coal for every gem, and no one willing to start polishing stones.
OK, you know those commercials where they plant some Skittles in the ground, and after a little while a rainbow bursts forth and it rains Skittles? It's kind of like that, except with gold. But it's online. And there's no rainbow. And the gold's on monsters, not in the ground. And then you sell the gold to people in first world contries.
Read this book over the hype, if you want. Yes, it will give Thompson some more money, and that's what he wants. It's worth it, though, because it exposes just how...well...insane he really is.
I've never understood this mentality. "You should buy thing X, which is written/created by a person/on a subject you don't like, so that you can confirm your own beliefs!"
Do you use Linux exclusively, but go and buy Windows licenses anyway?
Do you hate spinach, but have cans of it stockpiled away?
Did you go and see SW:Ep III because you "knew it would be bad?"
If you've never found it worth your while to vote but the fear of video game regulations spur you to the polls...please stay home and don't vote. Really. Just stay at home.
If war, taxes, social security, the looming spectre of Supreme Court nominations, national defense, freedom of the press, a sense of civic duty, job creation, prison overcrowding, welfare, seperating church and state, defending your Constitutional rights, metropolitan transit, energy policies, trade policies, and being a decent human being weren't enough to make you cast your ballot, well, fuck off and don't vote.
Alternatively, go ahead and vote just to piss this guy off.
Realistically, though, if a company turns you down for employment, they're never going to tell you why they turned you down. And they certainly won't give you a chance to make your case. They'll just ignore all e-mails and phone calls.
Moreover, I think some of them take this ignorance as a mark of pride. Being able to say "computers and I don't get along" gives them something to relate to other people with, similar to "did you see 'Survivor' last night?", but more universal. Strangely, when they find that their ignorance is something that helps them relate to people, they tend to foster and exaggerate it.
I would never do that. I'm a techie, so I'm no good with people anyway.
So soon I'll be able to make a copy of the Necronomicon, virtually identical to the original, without the mess and without the cops snooping around my place?
I think "rival companies banded together to oppose it" was far less relevant than "consumers failed to embrace it"
Yes, but that doesn't look so good on shareholder's reports, now does it? 'Cause if rival companies blocked it, well, that's business, but if the customers didn't like it, then that doesn't look so good for MSFT.
Does anybody else have problems with the "Click here for more images of computer killing" script? I meant technical problems, not moral problems. The window that pops up follows my mouse cursor, so I can't close the freaking box.
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Has Microsoft not done enough to harm us? Now they have to go and automate malware?
(RTFA? This is slashdot! I didn't even finish reading the summary title!)
Can anyone suggest a sane county to emmigrate to? Good economy, decent climate, and NOT a police state? I'd like to start learning the language before the point of no escape.
I'm from New Jersey. The teacher's union here has negotiated beginning salares of $35K, and are pushing for $40K.
I thought this was about dating at first.
GP: Working at home would likely be filled with endless distractions, mostly in the form of a two and seven-year-old who want to play Princess or Legos, respectively
P: If you're getting distracted at home, then your home office is not set up properly or you're not working in that home office.
I don't have kids, and I can tell you don't, either.
We can't find good workers... I have no desire to train them...
Yeah, you and everybody else. I can't believe a mediocre employee can't be turned into a good one, and that a good one can't be turned into a great one. The problem is, no one wants to risk the investment in time and money. And I know it's because IT workers are mercurial and flighty. But when everyone makes the lack of IT talent someone else's problem, you get... well, what we have today. A thousand lumps of coal for every gem, and no one willing to start polishing stones.
Well, I guess with the shuttles being grounded, they had to launch _something_.
[ducks]
Wait... you mean there are actually people living outside North America? You just blew my fucking mind!
...which often is about as accurate as a man standing on the street corner talking to Jesus with no pants on.
Wait, wait, wait. No pants on - do you mean the man, Jesus, or the street corner?
OK, you know those commercials where they plant some Skittles in the ground, and after a little while a rainbow bursts forth and it rains Skittles? It's kind of like that, except with gold. But it's online. And there's no rainbow. And the gold's on monsters, not in the ground. And then you sell the gold to people in first world contries.
Excuse me, I need to go to the vending machine.
...what about the owlbear? Is it the ancestor of both owls and bears, or the missing link between the two?
... president Iwata... [has] gone on record saying not free. You'll pay. You won't pay much, but you'll pay.
This Iwata guy has got to be the nicest super villan ever.
Read this book over the hype, if you want. Yes, it will give Thompson some more money, and that's what he wants. It's worth it, though, because it exposes just how...well...insane he really is.
I've never understood this mentality. "You should buy thing X, which is written/created by a person/on a subject you don't like, so that you can confirm your own beliefs!"
Do you use Linux exclusively, but go and buy Windows licenses anyway?
Do you hate spinach, but have cans of it stockpiled away?
Did you go and see SW:Ep III because you "knew it would be bad?"
If you've never found it worth your while to vote but the fear of video game regulations spur you to the polls...please stay home and don't vote. Really. Just stay at home.
If war, taxes, social security, the looming spectre of Supreme Court nominations, national defense, freedom of the press, a sense of civic duty, job creation, prison overcrowding, welfare, seperating church and state, defending your Constitutional rights, metropolitan transit, energy policies, trade policies, and being a decent human being weren't enough to make you cast your ballot, well, fuck off and don't vote.
Alternatively, go ahead and vote just to piss this guy off.
Wouldn't that be
i )=profit
Talent-(Teensensations+Boybands+Onehitwonders+Yan
Realistically, though, if a company turns you down for employment, they're never going to tell you why they turned you down. And they certainly won't give you a chance to make your case. They'll just ignore all e-mails and phone calls.
I wonder why I get "403 Forbidden" when I enter http://slashdot.org to be validated.
Moreover, I think some of them take this ignorance as a mark of pride. Being able to say "computers and I don't get along" gives them something to relate to other people with, similar to "did you see 'Survivor' last night?", but more universal. Strangely, when they find that their ignorance is something that helps them relate to people, they tend to foster and exaggerate it.
I would never do that. I'm a techie, so I'm no good with people anyway.
Don't worry; Duke Nukem Forever will change all of that! Mostly because of the heat death of the universe, but, hey, you gotta take what you can get.
Sources, please?
So soon I'll be able to make a copy of the Necronomicon, virtually identical to the original, without the mess and without the cops snooping around my place?
User based sites that create mods, such as http://www.modthesims2.com, have been warning about this for months now.
I think "rival companies banded together to oppose it" was far less relevant than "consumers failed to embrace it"
Yes, but that doesn't look so good on shareholder's reports, now does it? 'Cause if rival companies blocked it, well, that's business, but if the customers didn't like it, then that doesn't look so good for MSFT.
Does anybody else have problems with the "Click here for more images of computer killing" script? I meant technical problems, not moral problems. The window that pops up follows my mouse cursor, so I can't close the freaking box.
So in other words:
1) Clean solar panels.
2) ???
3) Profit!!