Re:I think that that is the problem we had.
on
Fire Your IT Boss
·
· Score: 1
The reason why i drive a Hyundai and not a Chrysler have everything to do with the fact that the upper crust of management of both companies made choices.
Hyundai decided to make inexpensive cars that provide very good reliability for the cost of ownership. Chrysler decided to make the PT Cruiser one of the most problematic cars on the road(or, it was for awhile) by building a car as cheap as fucking possible. Cheap is not inexpensive. That cost the Big 3 big time. I mean, Ford now has a decent rating, and so does GM, but to say that it hurt them in the long run is a fucking understatement.
I'll bet both sets of management were well aware of what a carburetor is or what an engine is, or an alternator. The bigger problem is how they approach ROI and cost justification. That has entirely everything to do with management and leadership than it does knowing what a fucking carburetor is.
okay so we all get half usable phones when i could spend that money on a device that wont' frustrate the ever loving shit out of me doing basic tasks? or sync via USB 1.1?
when I bought my iphone, I had the option of buying a blackberry, a motorola device, or a windows mobile device.
People aren't having guns shoved in their faces being told YOU MUST BUY AN IPHONE OR DIE. seriously, it's just a phone. It's not THE phone, it's not like there are other options.
E=m(c^2) has no political bias until someone is politically biased against -it-. Teaching fact as fact is only indoctrination when you're trying to sell lies.
You're entirely right, they shouldn't, but when you have entire party advocating family values, family centricism, and other kooky rightwinger concepts, and your family is fucked up, then that should entirely discredit you as a credible source in politics if that's where your political ideology comes from. In essence, by having a drunk, knocked up daughter show up on the political stage, you've basically have disproven the Focus on the Family/James Dobson Evangelical argument that prayer and an Evangelical Christian upbringing can lead to more moral lifestyles. That undercuts a lot of arguments for things like gay rights, reproductive rights, abstinence education, etc. etc. I'd say the implications are as far reaching as Evolution in schools debate.
I saw this joke posted on slashdot like, less than a week ago,b ut it's so relevant to the discussion... fuck it.
"An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician were all staying in a hotel, when each of their rooms individually caught fire. The engineer did some basic math, flooded the floor and said, "it is out." The physicist did more complicated math, used just precisely the amount of water needed to put out the fire and said, "It is out." the mathematician did a lot of complicated math, said, 'I HAVE SOLVED IT!' and went back to bed."
if they did, then whoever did the pulling was really incompetent about it. When WTC7 went down, it did about 1 billion in damage to the verizon building next door.
for me,w hat would be worth it is context driven menus and buttons on say, somethign similar to a mousepad. I have a physical device i push around to move a cursor, but if i want to do something like, switch tools in Photoshop, I'd just smack the right button on the mousepad and go on my merry way.
i repeat: distrust of government is the mark of a healthy society
This is such bullshit.
If our government distrusts us or we distrust the government, and we have a government of, for and by the people, what does it say when people... CAN'T TRUST THEMSELVES?!
Why is it such a horrible idea that we have an optimistic outlook that MAYBE. JUST MAYBE. Government isn't this horrible ogre trying to run around and break shit? The major breakthrough with civilization is that people trust each other, and to have this outlook is really devolution, not evolution.
I worked in ISP support for years and USENET was dying well before child porn was a nail in it's coffin. Probably has something to do with message boards with much friendlier interfaces, or that ISPs never went out of their way to try to explain what usenet is.
Either way, the newsgroup support call was kind of a rare thing, like finding a Yeti or something.
people stopped caring, and now it's going away as essential from an ISP POV. There are still ways to get NNTP feeds, so it's not completely toast.
It's functionally similar but the UI isn't worse, it's just different. The browser behavior... isn't worse, it's different, and I prefer Firefox over opera. Even though opera is so feature rich. It's the reason why I have an iphone and not any number of other 3G phones with more features but different behavior
Slashdot Mirror
The reason why i drive a Hyundai and not a Chrysler have everything to do with the fact that the upper crust of management of both companies made choices.
Hyundai decided to make inexpensive cars that provide very good reliability for the cost of ownership. Chrysler decided to make the PT Cruiser one of the most problematic cars on the road(or, it was for awhile) by building a car as cheap as fucking possible. Cheap is not inexpensive. That cost the Big 3 big time. I mean, Ford now has a decent rating, and so does GM, but to say that it hurt them in the long run is a fucking understatement.
I'll bet both sets of management were well aware of what a carburetor is or what an engine is, or an alternator. The bigger problem is how they approach ROI and cost justification. That has entirely everything to do with management and leadership than it does knowing what a fucking carburetor is.
Well, by your logical extension all we should have is cat and a terminal.
but where's the improvement on the iPod/Music app that's bundled?
okay so we all get half usable phones when i could spend that money on a device that wont' frustrate the ever loving shit out of me doing basic tasks? or sync via USB 1.1?
it's not useful BUT IT'S OPEN SOURCE.
when I bought my iphone, I had the option of buying a blackberry, a motorola device, or a windows mobile device.
People aren't having guns shoved in their faces being told YOU MUST BUY AN IPHONE OR DIE. seriously, it's just a phone. It's not THE phone, it's not like there are other options.
I'm on an iPhone so take this as you will.
my phone, their app store. no one is bitching about not being able to buy windows vista or a Zen at an apple retail location.
E=m(c^2) has no political bias until someone is politically biased against -it-. Teaching fact as fact is only indoctrination when you're trying to sell lies.
You're entirely right, they shouldn't, but when you have entire party advocating family values, family centricism, and other kooky rightwinger concepts, and your family is fucked up, then that should entirely discredit you as a credible source in politics if that's where your political ideology comes from. In essence, by having a drunk, knocked up daughter show up on the political stage, you've basically have disproven the Focus on the Family/James Dobson Evangelical argument that prayer and an Evangelical Christian upbringing can lead to more moral lifestyles. That undercuts a lot of arguments for things like gay rights, reproductive rights, abstinence education, etc. etc. I'd say the implications are as far reaching as Evolution in schools debate.
I remember when Top Gear was a vaudeville act. That James May can sure dance.
I vote for Crap. It's easy enough for most lay people to understand, even smart, nerdy lay people.
that's the point of GT5 prologue, IT IS half finished.
I saw this joke posted on slashdot like, less than a week ago,b ut it's so relevant to the discussion ... fuck it.
"An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician were all staying in a hotel, when each of their rooms individually caught fire. The engineer did some basic math, flooded the floor and said, "it is out." The physicist did more complicated math, used just precisely the amount of water needed to put out the fire and said, "It is out." the mathematician did a lot of complicated math, said, 'I HAVE SOLVED IT!' and went back to bed."
if they did, then whoever did the pulling was really incompetent about it. When WTC7 went down, it did about 1 billion in damage to the verizon building next door.
So go figure.
for me,w hat would be worth it is context driven menus and buttons on say, somethign similar to a mousepad. I have a physical device i push around to move a cursor, but if i want to do something like, switch tools in Photoshop, I'd just smack the right button on the mousepad and go on my merry way.
atleast she's tight, everytime I've used Windows lately it's been one open hole after another.
will the chair lose it at Gambon? Will they have to lift during the followthrough?
yeah but I wonder what kind of time the Stig could set around the track?
the supernatural element has been in Wolfenstein 3D since Spear of Destiny. It's nice to see iD taking that just one step more.
i repeat: distrust of government is the mark of a healthy society
This is such bullshit.
If our government distrusts us or we distrust the government, and we have a government of, for and by the people, what does it say when people ... CAN'T TRUST THEMSELVES?!
Why is it such a horrible idea that we have an optimistic outlook that MAYBE. JUST MAYBE. Government isn't this horrible ogre trying to run around and break shit? The major breakthrough with civilization is that people trust each other, and to have this outlook is really devolution, not evolution.
Well, when you're speaking metaphorically the logic behind literal language are thus negated.
But yeah, I can see where you're coming from.
John McCain and Ozzy Osbourne are both in the process of dying but we still refer to them as if they're alive. :)
You can't save a picture to your phone after you have received it in email.
Funny, when I get images in themail i just hold my finger on the image and.. IT PROMPTS FOR A SAVE.
I worked in ISP support for years and USENET was dying well before child porn was a nail in it's coffin. Probably has something to do with message boards with much friendlier interfaces, or that ISPs never went out of their way to try to explain what usenet is.
Either way, the newsgroup support call was kind of a rare thing, like finding a Yeti or something.
people stopped caring, and now it's going away as essential from an ISP POV. There are still ways to get NNTP feeds, so it's not completely toast.
Ogg Vorbis support costs money.
It costs money to build the code, maintain the code and it is a waste of consumers basically never use the software.
That's money that could be used to get an engineer to do say, bug fixes. Ogg vorbis is irrelevant.
Because Opera's not firefox.
It's functionally similar but the UI isn't worse, it's just different. The browser behavior... isn't worse, it's different, and I prefer Firefox over opera. Even though opera is so feature rich. It's the reason why I have an iphone and not any number of other 3G phones with more features but different behavior
As a las vegas resident I can say with quite some certainty that las vegas is where old acts go to die.