Standard units! That was the first thing I thought of as well.
I thought they would have gone with the standard unit for the energy of a weapon - the "Hiroshima bomb". Just how many Space Shuttle Fuel Tanks are in a Hiroshima Bomb?
In Soviet Russia, cat owns you! (Just like in Ascension Island, Andorra, UAE, Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda,...goslavia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe )
As a geek toy? Yeah, go for it. I have no beef with fitting a dog with a webcam, mobile phone, GPS, or whatever for a bit of fun.
Suggesting, on the other hand, that this sort of technology might be useful as a substitute for actual supervision of a pet, or worse yet, a child - well, that's just pure negligence!
It's not entirely unlike the trm "hacker". It might have originally been coined to mean something like "clever tinkerer", but it will always mean "computer criminal" to most folks.
Microsoft might have called it "Clippit", but it'll always be "Clippy" to most people.
The whole thing is probably a trademark issue, but I don't see MS doing too much to protect their trademark, and the dilution is already well established.
Clippy it is, and Clippy it shall remain!
Most employees do not need access to the server room. Therefore the policy on access to the server room is "Access denied unless required". Show a valid reason to require access to the server room and access will be granted.
Most employees do not need access to the payroll system. Access denied unless required. Show a valid reason to require access to the payroll database, and access will be granted.
It's the same thing with USB storage devices. Most employees don't need it to perform their duties and it is now trivial to block access - Access denied unless required. Show a valid reason to require access to your USB storage device, and access will be granted.
It's really not that draconian folks, get over it.
It's such a shame I have no mod points today. I think you really hit the nail on the head with this sentiment:
The problem is that the existence of people like this (real deadly multiple-allergy sufferers) gives ammunition to the whiny hypochondriacs. Because some people like that exist, Hypochondriacs think they might be one of them.
Note, however, that the hypochondriac never suffers from such seriously life-threatening allergic reactions, but frequently from somewhat mild, and often unprovable complaints - headaches, nausea, and itchiness being quite common. Unfortunately, the existence of such symptoms can also not be disproven, a fact on which the hypochondriac relies (consciously or otherwise).
Goatse guy? Shirley you can't be serious!
If any place on this (mostly) harmless ball of dirt deserves to be preserved from those hitchhiker hating, awful poetry reciting, hyperspace bypass building, officious, lumpy green monsters, it's my arse, not his!
In fact, I believe I have a photocopy left over from the an old office christmas party. Hmmm, it might be time to fire up the fax.
Covernote - "Save this!"
It should be clear to most anyone involved in this discussion that the movie commonly known as "Star Wars - Episode 4" is not, in fact the fourth, but the first iteration of the Star Wars series of movies. The irony in the fact that the fourth iteration did suck, but "Episode 4" did not, is what makes it funny.
Might I suggest that you acquire a sense of humour? It makes life a lot more fun.
Fool! There is no problem that cannot be resolved with the judicious use of symlinks or duct tape. (BTW, you need to remove/dev/satire, it seems to be a symlink to/dev/null)
Dude, it is live. It's just that the link takes you back to last week. You'll have to wait until next week to get this week's content from timewarp.org
How about we just make fun of people with no sense of humor instead?
Because that's not fair. Poor quakeslut was born with no sense of humour whatsoever - a condition known as humerus absentis. That's right, quakeslut was born without a funnybone. He is a humourless git.
The modern world is a terribly confusing place for the humourless git. Everywhere they go and whoever they talk to, there are instances of humour to contend with. Take a moment, if you will, to step into the world of the humourless git.
You would never need more than one person to change a lightbulb. A priest, a minister and a rabbi would never be in the same room for any reason. And a pie fight is nothing more than a very messy waste of food.
As you have by now discovered, humourlessness is a serious problem in today's world, but even though there is no cure as yet, the condition need not be totally debilitating. Some humourless gits work within their disability to become productive members of society, although more often they are employed as accountants, politicians, corporate lawyers, parking inspectors, etc.
It may take years to develop a cure for humorlessness, but we are determined to find it. In the meantime, please support the Foundation to End World Humourlessness.
Until you do, I have a Win partition capable of running any win32 s/w, and that recent has win32 files saved to it. Try to prove that those files were saved under something other than windows.
Oh wait, dont do that until both of our two critical inhouse apps (both VB) run under wine.
Running Office 19xx/20xx is all well and good, but INHOUSE apps are where the biggest userbase is at.
As soon as I hear that VB6 apps run perfectly under Wine, I start running some sort of linux desktop at work. Until then, I'm shackled to Redmond.
We have an "expected visibility" rule.
Day to day minimum dress code is "Business Casual" - collared shirt, tie optional, no sport shoes, no denim - that sort of thing(*).
"Casual Friday" means intact jeans are permitted, but not uncollared T-shirts.
The above is the standard UNLESS you expect a to visit a client or to have a client visit you, then it's strictly collar and tie(*).
All in all, it seems to work well. If you get an unexpected customer visit you or get sent on a sudden site visit, they see that everyone is pretty well dressed. And the customer can still see that you make an effort to impress when the meeting is expected, particularly if they have seen you in your day to day wear. Onnly thing is, I don't buy business wear as often, and that which I still have no longer fits like it used to do (since I hit 36, my broad mind and narrow waist have begun trading places;(
(*) or equivalent dress standard for women
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I thought they would have gone with the standard unit for the energy of a weapon - the "Hiroshima bomb". Just how many Space Shuttle Fuel Tanks are in a Hiroshima Bomb?
Even the courts cannot actually enforce Microsoft's licensing. They can only punish those who violate that license.
In Soviet Russia, cat owns you! (Just like in Ascension Island, Andorra, UAE, Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda, ...goslavia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe )
As a geek toy? Yeah, go for it. I have no beef with fitting a dog with a webcam, mobile phone, GPS, or whatever for a bit of fun.
Suggesting, on the other hand, that this sort of technology might be useful as a substitute for actual supervision of a pet, or worse yet, a child - well, that's just pure negligence!
It's not entirely unlike the trm "hacker". It might have originally been coined to mean something like "clever tinkerer", but it will always mean "computer criminal" to most folks. Microsoft might have called it "Clippit", but it'll always be "Clippy" to most people. The whole thing is probably a trademark issue, but I don't see MS doing too much to protect their trademark, and the dilution is already well established. Clippy it is, and Clippy it shall remain!
Most employees do not need access to the server room. Therefore the policy on access to the server room is "Access denied unless required". Show a valid reason to require access to the server room and access will be granted.
Most employees do not need access to the payroll system. Access denied unless required. Show a valid reason to require access to the payroll database, and access will be granted.
It's the same thing with USB storage devices. Most employees don't need it to perform their duties and it is now trivial to block access - Access denied unless required. Show a valid reason to require access to your USB storage device, and access will be granted.
It's really not that draconian folks, get over it.
Try pronouncing "labtop" with a northern European accent (Teutonic, not Slavic) and you might just understand the confusion some people experience.
But in the case of native English speakers, it's just weird.
Note, however, that the hypochondriac never suffers from such seriously life-threatening allergic reactions, but frequently from somewhat mild, and often unprovable complaints - headaches, nausea, and itchiness being quite common. Unfortunately, the existence of such symptoms can also not be disproven, a fact on which the hypochondriac relies (consciously or otherwise).
Goatse guy? Shirley you can't be serious!
If any place on this (mostly) harmless ball of dirt deserves to be preserved from those hitchhiker hating, awful poetry reciting, hyperspace bypass building, officious, lumpy green monsters, it's my arse, not his!
In fact, I believe I have a photocopy left over from the an old office christmas party. Hmmm, it might be time to fire up the fax.
Covernote - "Save this!"
It should be clear to most anyone involved in this discussion that the movie commonly known as "Star Wars - Episode 4" is not, in fact the fourth, but the first iteration of the Star Wars series of movies. The irony in the fact that the fourth iteration did suck, but "Episode 4" did not, is what makes it funny.
Might I suggest that you acquire a sense of humour? It makes life a lot more fun.
I'd go with however you pronounce "passe"...
but with a lisp.
Seen in the "for sale" ads: Apple newt one foresail. Hard lucid - $175.
...buggy software?
;)
Include me out!
(C'mon, I get it, really I do
Fool! There is no problem that cannot be resolved with the judicious use of symlinks or duct tape. (BTW, you need to remove /dev/satire, it seems to be a symlink to /dev/null)
I will refrain from reposting the entire comment, but please don't make fun of the humourless.
Dude, it is live. It's just that the link takes you back to last week. You'll have to wait until next week to get this week's content from timewarp.org
"Git" is a mildly insulting term approximating to "fool". It's usually combined with the adjective "silly".
;)
BTW, how are things at the accountancy practice?
In the words of Nelson the Wise:
Ha Ha!
The lameness filter kicked in while trying to submit a post extolling the virtues of ed(1).
There is a god! (and he uses vi)
Because that's not fair. Poor quakeslut was born with no sense of humour whatsoever - a condition known as humerus absentis. That's right, quakeslut was born without a funnybone. He is a humourless git.
The modern world is a terribly confusing place for the humourless git. Everywhere they go and whoever they talk to, there are instances of humour to contend with. Take a moment, if you will, to step into the world of the humourless git.
You would never need more than one person to change a lightbulb. A priest, a minister and a rabbi would never be in the same room for any reason. And a pie fight is nothing more than a very messy waste of food.
As you have by now discovered, humourlessness is a serious problem in today's world, but even though there is no cure as yet, the condition need not be totally debilitating. Some humourless gits work within their disability to become productive members of society, although more often they are employed as accountants, politicians, corporate lawyers, parking inspectors, etc.
It may take years to develop a cure for humorlessness, but we are determined to find it. In the meantime, please support the Foundation to End World Humourlessness.
Please give, that they may laugh.
HUH? A klepto/crypto pun gets a +5 funny? Stop the world, I want to get off!
Until you do, I have a Win partition capable of running any win32 s/w, and that recent has win32 files saved to it. Try to prove that those files were saved under something other than windows. Oh wait, dont do that until both of our two critical inhouse apps (both VB) run under wine. Running Office 19xx/20xx is all well and good, but INHOUSE apps are where the biggest userbase is at. As soon as I hear that VB6 apps run perfectly under Wine, I start running some sort of linux desktop at work. Until then, I'm shackled to Redmond.
We have an "expected visibility" rule. Day to day minimum dress code is "Business Casual" - collared shirt, tie optional, no sport shoes, no denim - that sort of thing(*). "Casual Friday" means intact jeans are permitted, but not uncollared T-shirts. The above is the standard UNLESS you expect a to visit a client or to have a client visit you, then it's strictly collar and tie(*). All in all, it seems to work well. If you get an unexpected customer visit you or get sent on a sudden site visit, they see that everyone is pretty well dressed. And the customer can still see that you make an effort to impress when the meeting is expected, particularly if they have seen you in your day to day wear. Onnly thing is, I don't buy business wear as often, and that which I still have no longer fits like it used to do (since I hit 36, my broad mind and narrow waist have begun trading places ;(
(*) or equivalent dress standard for women