[sales to IT] We need (something that is a huge security risk). [IT to sales] No. [sales to administration] waaaahhh. [admin to IT] Do it. [IT] Grumble grumble fuck you. *does it* [sales] yaaay! [Admin] Damn IT.
Ah, Hoyle. They couldn't be happy producing a collection of board games. They had to provide a system when you earn ingame money for certain achievements, which you then spend on useless tsochkes.
Fortunately, there was a great big gaping bug in the Chess game. If you put your opponent's King in check, a music sting would play and your opponent would make a "witty" remark.
If you tried to take a second move while the music sting was playing... the game would let you. And then, if the enemy King were still in check... music sting, witty remark, etc.
Get your Queen out and make a kamikaze attack, and you could clean out the whole enemy side about five moves in, getting credit for each kill and then for a lopsided victory.
(You could have gone on to promote 8 pawns, etc, but it was faster just to kill all the enemy pieces then score checkmate.)
Beaten like a redheaded stepchild. Kingdom of Loathing beat them to every aspect of this. Except that it's a little less trivial to just buy your way to success in KoL.
(I know it's been mentioned a couple of times already, but it bears repeating.)
> Good drivers simply don't need to worry about it by definition because they don't drive close enough to trigger such a system.
Except when they leave sane following distance between them and the car in front and some mouth-breathing moron says OH HAI EMPTY SPACE. I SHALL FILL IT.
Or, as happened to me last summer: Car #1: me. Car #2: victim Car #3: asshat.
Car #1 follows car #2 at sane distance. Car #3 swoops into the gap, and blocks car #1's view of car #2. Car #2 stops. Car #3 swoops out of gap, leaving car #1 to ram car #2.
You posted: "Well, you can't, under any circumstances, fire someone for not doing something illegal"
I took your "can't" to mean in terms of "it is impossible to", and my post was intended to show that it is quite possible to fire someone for that reason while stating another.
You apparently meant it in terms of "it is not legal to." Which you're right, it's not legal to fire someone for refusing to break the law... but that doesn't matter if it's legal to fire someone for no reason at all.
I have mod points, but I have to reply here. Worst jobs my ARSE. What do people expect, a corner office, pajama dress code and regular sexual favors?
My first tech job was in the backroom of a grimy computer repair shop. I was working up to four computers at once. One or two would be some home user who had covered their system in spyware and expected it to be fixed for $100. ("Fix! Fix in two hours or we lose money! Or format system and say couldn't save it!") One or two would be testing and writing up specs for some abandoned/old system the owner has kicking around so she could try to resell them. (p2/233, with 32 megs ram. price: $200. in 2003.) The rest would be warm-bodying Windows installs and updates. For $8.00 an hour. When they expected me to get all excited about a raise to $8.25, I quit.
The second, working for an "IT Consultant" company that still showed all the signs of the garage it started in crossed with the worst of Dilbert: clueless management, sales promising the world for pocket change, and techs required to travel all over the place in their own cars, using their own cell phones, without travel compensation. We were being billed out at $100/hr while being paid $10/hr. The managers kept ranting at the techs for not doing the amount of work required to keep the doors open, while the techs ranted at the managers for not assigning it, and the whole place was owned by a completely clueless martinet. I left after six months when they fired the best tech they had and announced intentions to continue operations with a mix of unpaid college interns and foreign outsourcing. ("Indians?" "... Actually, cheaper than.")
In that light, let's go over this article:
1. Online sales and operations account manager, Google $45k - $60k a year plus google on your resume? sign me up!
2. Support engineer, Amazon.com $80k/yr plus amazon on your resume? SEE ABOVE.
3. Content acquisition intern, IODA Unpaid sucks, true, but there's many more unpleasant/dangerous things to do than rip CDs all day.
4. Customer support specialist, Fox Interactive, MySpace division Customer support sucks, no matter where you do it. 33k/year is better than $16k.
5. Database administrator (temporary), Google 70k/year. See item 1.
6. Support professional, product: Windows, Microsoft Listening to people's Windows problems for $40k a year, plus actually having access to resources that might help you fix them? Beats the shit out of spyware fixing for 16k. Plus: Microsoft on the resume.
7. Executive admin to Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore This isn't even a tech job, this is personal assistant territory. With commensurate pay.
8. Analyst, user operations, Facebook Support again. Decent pay again. (Well, maybe not for Palo Alto.)
9. Operations finance, analyst intern, Yahoo Okay, this one *might* be bad. Intern, company possibly going down in flames, $12/hr.
10. Part-time guide, Mahalo They admit this one themselves. "Why so bad? It's not, really."
> Of course there's no way to tell legitimate content that you create from 'non-legitimate' content, so this looks like just another nail in the coffin if the Zune.
Of course there is. User created content will have the evil bit cleared, while pirated content will have said bit set.
It somewhat disturbs me that they don't even have a privacy policy posted.
I mean, I am aware that them saying "we won't track you for evil purposes." doesn't actually constitute legal contract or prevent that happening, but it makes me suspicious when they don't even put in the effort to look benign.
first of all, lololdnews. the first half of the book was out over 48 hours ago and the full thing was loose over 24 hours ago.
that said, the most entertaining part of all of this was watching the people who've pinned their hearts and souls on one particular ending progress deeper into denial.
"the scans of the epilogue must be fake! photoshop! i can tell by the pixels!" "the photos of the epilogue must be fake!" "the scans of the first 500 pages must be fake!" "the whole thing must be fake!"
Item: They took my favorite customization (Enter = \n; Ctrl-Enter = "Send") away. I've read the blog post, I understand why. Then they basically said, "Well, if you REALLY want that, you can just customize your.gtkrc file based on our example." WRONG. WRONG. WRONG. The Right Thing is to include an interface in the software that accepts the key desired (see WinAMP's Global Hotkeys dialog) and then automatically rewrites the.gtkrc file. (If you're hellbent on going that way, anyway. Why not have a.pidgin-options file? WHY make it a part of an overarching toolkit wide file?) Bad UI! BAD!
(Also, I don't know where the hell I'm supposed to put.gtkrc on a Windows box, but that's my problem. * C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\gtk-2.0 ? * C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\etc\gtk-2.0 ? (I hope not - if a user-level setting has to be put in \program files, it Fails It.) What about, as a random google brought me, * C:\Documents and Settings\Username\.themes\Default\gtk-2.0 ? Maybe just * C:\Documents and Settings\Username\ ? NONE of them work, apparently. )
Item: Speaking of bad UI, the mechanism to set an away message makes me want to run down the street screaming and stabbing UI developers.
Item: AIM chats still don't flash on new traffic.
The ugly: The new smileys. They look like they were drawn by second graders. I understand they can't use the official AIM ones anymore, but they could have at least come up with something dignified looking. (not the Yahoo! ones either. Ick.)
Also, the trend towards less options. Less options is BAD. If you feel your prefs are becoming too crowded, look at firefox and write an "About: Config" like interface. Don't just say, "Well, *I* don't use this option; let's throw it out."
i am not sure how serious you are, but in re: #1 - radiocarbon dating is known to be very inaccurate for less than 50 years or so (wikipedia cites an example estimate as having an error of +- 30); as well, they might be able to determine the age of the paper and pencil, but what about when the one first met the other?
On the old keyboard those six were horizontal. On the new keyboard, vertical. In fact, the key he used was one spot to the right of where it was on the old keyboard.
And the point of this key rearrangement?
Each of the three things you note is change for the sake of benefit. Automatic transmission*, direct access to the number, arbitrary number of channels.
What is the point of rearranging the six-block that you describe?
If someone said "Here's your new phone. You have to use it constantly for your job. Oh, by the way, we rearranged the numbers so they now go
789 456 123
0
, would you just accept this change-for-the-sake-of-change, or would you want to know why the primary interface that you use to function in your job has been suddenly changed for no apparent benefit?"
Different is not necessarily better...
(*: not that an automatic transmission is automatically a benefit. Let's have the example of a "stick"-shift that has paddle shifters on the steering wheel with an automatic clutch. That's also change, but it's change with a benefit, because you no longer have to take your hands off the wheel to shift."
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[sales to IT] We need (something that is a huge security risk).
[IT to sales] No.
[sales to administration] waaaahhh.
[admin to IT] Do it.
[IT] Grumble grumble fuck you. *does it*
[sales] yaaay!
[Admin] Damn IT.
Shit hits the fan, IT is blamed. Goto 10.
"They said it was hauled from the Challenger Deep, but I'm positive that beast never swam in terrestrial waters until a week ago."
You opened it. You're screwed.
Ah, Hoyle. They couldn't be happy producing a collection of board games. They had to provide a system when you earn ingame money for certain achievements, which you then spend on useless tsochkes.
Fortunately, there was a great big gaping bug in the Chess game. If you put your opponent's King in check, a music sting would play and your opponent would make a "witty" remark.
If you tried to take a second move while the music sting was playing... the game would let you. And then, if the enemy King were still in check... music sting, witty remark, etc.
Get your Queen out and make a kamikaze attack, and you could clean out the whole enemy side about five moves in, getting credit for each kill and then for a lopsided victory.
(You could have gone on to promote 8 pawns, etc, but it was faster just to kill all the enemy pieces then score checkmate.)
Beaten like a redheaded stepchild. Kingdom of Loathing beat them to every aspect of this. Except that it's a little less trivial to just buy your way to success in KoL.
(I know it's been mentioned a couple of times already, but it bears repeating.)
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> Good drivers simply don't need to worry about it by definition because they don't drive close enough to trigger such a system.
Except when they leave sane following distance between them and the car in front and some mouth-breathing moron says OH HAI EMPTY SPACE. I SHALL FILL IT.
Or, as happened to me last summer:
Car #1: me.
Car #2: victim
Car #3: asshat.
Car #1 follows car #2 at sane distance.
Car #3 swoops into the gap, and blocks car #1's view of car #2.
Car #2 stops.
Car #3 swoops out of gap, leaving car #1 to ram car #2.
<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
a knick-knack, a gizmo, a gadget, or a curio.
I believe I misunderstood your post.
You posted: "Well, you can't, under any circumstances, fire someone for not doing something illegal"
I took your "can't" to mean in terms of "it is impossible to", and my post was intended to show that it is quite possible to fire someone for that reason while stating another.
You apparently meant it in terms of "it is not legal to." Which you're right, it's not legal to fire someone for refusing to break the law... but that doesn't matter if it's legal to fire someone for no reason at all.
> Well, you can't, under any circumstances, fire someone for not doing something illegal, so the GP is a bit silly.
Dave, I need you to break the law on the company's behalf. No?
(Two weeks later)
Dave, since this is an "at will" state, I can fire you for any reason or none at all. Bye.
Your .sig resonates ironically with the content of your post.
I have mod points, but I have to reply here. Worst jobs my ARSE. What do people expect, a corner office, pajama dress code and regular sexual favors?
My first tech job was in the backroom of a grimy computer repair shop. I was working up to four computers at once. One or two would be some home user who had covered their system in spyware and expected it to be fixed for $100. ("Fix! Fix in two hours or we lose money! Or format system and say couldn't save it!") One or two would be testing and writing up specs for some abandoned/old system the owner has kicking around so she could try to resell them. (p2/233, with 32 megs ram. price: $200. in 2003.) The rest would be warm-bodying Windows installs and updates. For $8.00 an hour. When they expected me to get all excited about a raise to $8.25, I quit.
The second, working for an "IT Consultant" company that still showed all the signs of the garage it started in crossed with the worst of Dilbert: clueless management, sales promising the world for pocket change, and techs required to travel all over the place in their own cars, using their own cell phones, without travel compensation. We were being billed out at $100/hr while being paid $10/hr. The managers kept ranting at the techs for not doing the amount of work required to keep the doors open, while the techs ranted at the managers for not assigning it, and the whole place was owned by a completely clueless martinet. I left after six months when they fired the best tech they had and announced intentions to continue operations with a mix of unpaid college interns and foreign outsourcing. ("Indians?" "... Actually, cheaper than.")
In that light, let's go over this article:
1. Online sales and operations account manager, Google
$45k - $60k a year plus google on your resume? sign me up!
2. Support engineer, Amazon.com
$80k/yr plus amazon on your resume? SEE ABOVE.
3. Content acquisition intern, IODA
Unpaid sucks, true, but there's many more unpleasant/dangerous things to do than rip CDs all day.
4. Customer support specialist, Fox Interactive, MySpace division
Customer support sucks, no matter where you do it. 33k/year is better than $16k.
5. Database administrator (temporary), Google
70k/year. See item 1.
6. Support professional, product: Windows, Microsoft
Listening to people's Windows problems for $40k a year, plus actually having access to resources that might help you fix them? Beats the shit out of spyware fixing for 16k. Plus: Microsoft on the resume.
7. Executive admin to Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore
This isn't even a tech job, this is personal assistant territory. With commensurate pay.
8. Analyst, user operations, Facebook
Support again. Decent pay again. (Well, maybe not for Palo Alto.)
9. Operations finance, analyst intern, Yahoo
Okay, this one *might* be bad. Intern, company possibly going down in flames, $12/hr.
10. Part-time guide, Mahalo
They admit this one themselves. "Why so bad? It's not, really."
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> Of course there's no way to tell legitimate content that you create from 'non-legitimate' content, so this looks like just another nail in the coffin if the Zune.
Of course there is. User created content will have the evil bit cleared, while pirated content will have said bit set.
I heard that as a Bill Engvall routine.
Cop pulls up and asks "Ya get yer truck stuck?"
Trucker: "Nosir, I was delivering this overpass and I ran outta gas!"
thank you!
Unfortunately, the American version will run off of high-fructose corn syrup.
also, there's an Obvious Simpsons Reference here which I am too lazy to make.
It somewhat disturbs me that they don't even have a privacy policy posted.
I mean, I am aware that them saying "we won't track you for evil purposes." doesn't actually constitute legal contract or prevent that happening, but it makes me suspicious when they don't even put in the effort to look benign.
first of all, lololdnews. the first half of the book was out over 48 hours ago and the full thing was loose over 24 hours ago.
that said, the most entertaining part of all of this was watching the people who've pinned their hearts and souls on one particular ending progress deeper into denial.
"the scans of the epilogue must be fake! photoshop! i can tell by the pixels!"
"the photos of the epilogue must be fake!"
"the scans of the first 500 pages must be fake!"
"the whole thing must be fake!"
The good - Yahoo, GTalk and LJTalk now work.
.gtkrc file based on our example." WRONG. WRONG. WRONG. The Right Thing is to include an interface in the software that accepts the key desired (see WinAMP's Global Hotkeys dialog) and then automatically rewrites the .gtkrc file. (If you're hellbent on going that way, anyway. Why not have a .pidgin-options file? WHY make it a part of an overarching toolkit wide file?) Bad UI! BAD!
.gtkrc on a Windows box, but that's my problem.
The bad :
Item: They took my favorite customization (Enter = \n; Ctrl-Enter = "Send") away. I've read the blog post, I understand why. Then they basically said, "Well, if you REALLY want that, you can just customize your
(Also, I don't know where the hell I'm supposed to put
* C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\gtk-2.0 ?
* C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\etc\gtk-2.0 ?
(I hope not - if a user-level setting has to be put in \program files, it Fails It.)
What about, as a random google brought me,
* C:\Documents and Settings\Username\.themes\Default\gtk-2.0 ?
Maybe just
* C:\Documents and Settings\Username\ ?
NONE of them work, apparently. )
Item: Speaking of bad UI, the mechanism to set an away message makes me want to run down the street screaming and stabbing UI developers.
Item: AIM chats still don't flash on new traffic.
The ugly: The new smileys. They look like they were drawn by second graders. I understand they can't use the official AIM ones anymore, but they could have at least come up with something dignified looking. (not the Yahoo! ones either. Ick.)
Also, the trend towards less options. Less options is BAD. If you feel your prefs are becoming too crowded, look at firefox and write an "About: Config" like interface. Don't just say, "Well, *I* don't use this option; let's throw it out."
And this after only an hour of playing with it...
If he can cash the check, who cares?
i am not sure how serious you are, but in re: #1 - radiocarbon dating is known to be very inaccurate for less than 50 years or so (wikipedia cites an example estimate as having an error of +- 30); as well, they might be able to determine the age of the paper and pencil, but what about when the one first met the other?
my unicomp model m has a) removable keys and b) NO FECKING WINDOWS KEYS.
i thought that had been done. see NTFS-3G
And the point of this key rearrangement?
Each of the three things you note is change for the sake of benefit. Automatic transmission*, direct access to the number, arbitrary number of channels.
What is the point of rearranging the six-block that you describe?
If someone said "Here's your new phone. You have to use it constantly for your job. Oh, by the way, we rearranged the numbers so they now go
789
456
123
0
, would you just accept this change-for-the-sake-of-change, or would you want to know why the primary interface that you use to function in your job has been suddenly changed for no apparent benefit?"
Different is not necessarily better...
(*: not that an automatic transmission is automatically a benefit. Let's have the example of a "stick"-shift that has paddle shifters on the steering wheel with an automatic clutch. That's also change, but it's change with a benefit, because you no longer have to take your hands off the wheel to shift."
"So help me, if you make me sail a ship made of hobgoblin corpses across the ocean, I will find a way to make you pay."