No, you stupid fucking idiot. "Their" is a plural pronoun, not a singular pronoun.
a form of the possessive case of they used as an attributive adjective, before a noun
"Their" only started being used as a singular pronoun when feminists got their panties in a twist because the the masculine form was also the gender neutral form and felt it was a slight to women.
Now, shut the fuck up and dig your head out of your ass, moron.
Salespeople have to travel all the time and often spend weeks away from their families.
Sales and marketing are some of the highest paid individuals in every company. They will get often get base pay, expenses, bonuses and commission, which often works out to well over US$100,000 per year. It is not uncommon for someone working in corporate sales to make over $250,000 a year in commissions (10% of US$2.5 million) and then get a bonus of 10% of that.
Nonsense. He will simply, make the talk show circuit, get backing and funding by some "think of the children" and christian groups, and bam he is back in business using OTHER lawyers.
In fact, I can imagine that software makers are going to be paying him, via a proxy group, to sue them.
Sure, not browsing the web for 'personal use' would speed things up, but then I'd be less happy, which would impact work quality.
A happy voluntary worker is a productive voluntary worker. It is a basic rule of business. It is why there are so many morale initiatives at companies. In fact, a well paid worker with low morale will produce less than a moderate, and in some cases low, paid worker with good morale.
If they took away the internet access, one would be miserable and one's productivity would go down. And, chances are one would have to take more time off longer lunches, etc, to get personal business done that one now does on-line.
Look at all the FLOSS projects that have been in perpetual BETA. Look at the projects have version numbers like "0.34.65". It used to be when a project hit final release it's version number hit "1.0". But, one can find "stable" distributions that are loaded with "0.x" version software. And, those same projects never seem to close in on a version 1.0 final release. They just keep adding features and incrementing the minor numbers.
Why is it so hard for projects to set a feature list and performance goal to be considered 1.0, reach it, go from beta to gold, change to 1.0?
Call me skeptical, but all games have to have rules and conditions for winning. The people who develop the game determine the rules, goals, and conditions for winning/success.
Here is a simplistic example:
If one starts with the beliefs:
The only way to save the planet is to reduce our carbon footprint
Gas powered cars are the cause of big carbon footprints
Electric cars have little to no carbon footprint
If one sets the goal/winning condition of the game to be "Save the planet", then one of the rules will be "If the ration of gas powered cars to electric cars is greater than X then one can not reduce the carbon foot print enough to win". And, it completely ignores the increased need to increase electric capacity and infrastructure to support the electric cars, not to mention the pollution from making and disposing of the batteries.
The beliefs of the designers and developers determine the rules of how the game works. Even with a nebulous goal, the rules guide the solution.
All the article says is that someone said it was so. It gave no indication of how the numbers were determined. What was the methodology?
Did it take into account, say, a Chinese hacker compromising a two or three servers in the U.S. and then using THOSE servers to attack many other servers both inside and outside the U.S.?
Yeah, now go install ubuntu on a brand new, bleeding edge laptop.
Oh, and those "average computer users" of yours, do they do anything other than surf and read email? Do they do they do their finances on Ubuntu? Print checks for their bills? Edit pictures or video? Use it with their DV camera? Do they play any of the latest games on their computers, say Portal, Crysis, WarHammer Online, or Spore? How about create and email business documents such as spreadsheets and presentations?
This paired along with a recent article regarding the value of data centers when selling a company leads one to believe that the business world, while historically not fond of IT workers, is showing its true opinion of the sector.
The reason IT is being the least hit is because it has been the primary target for so long. IT has been viewed as fat, as so trimmed, for so long that there is precious little left.
The "true opinion" is that all the expendable IT jobs are now outside the company.
After outsourcing and offshoring as many jobs as possible, there are few expendable positions left in companies. Many of the positions that are being cut are jobs waiting for backfill and contract jobs.
A world where "breaking the law by being a minor in possession of and holding a can of beer at a party" is something that should disqualify anyone from anything is not a world I want to live in.
There, fixed that for ya.
Now,
There are several pictures of me holding a beer or a glass of wine on Facebook. They don't reflect anything remotely negative about me.
Are you under the drinking age in those pictures? If so, they do reflect negatively on you.
There is a difference between putting up pictures of one's self committing a crime and keeping one's guard up. There is nothing obsessive-compulsive or paranoid in not putting one's private life on display.
But, putting one's private life public on the internet, then claiming one's privacy has been violated is delusional.
How many kids have died in Iraq/Afghanistan before they legally had the right to hold up a beer can at a party?
OK, you self-righteous prick, how does if feel to use them for you little pet cause? They chose to join up, just like I chose. They knew the risks, just like I did. They also knew what the drinking age law was BEFORE they joined up.
How many people have died so that you could be free while you piss, whine, break the law and then call them fascists?
This is the equivalent of you searching for your boss, to make sure you want to take his money
No, it isn't. It is like you have 10 different employers offering jobs, all paying the same. Who do you want to work for, a dipshit drunk or someone who will appreciate what you have to offer?
There are more prospective student's than there are opening. Why not give the openings to the ones who will actually appreciate it.
Oh, and if you don't want people checking out the rest of your life, don't put it up on the internet for all to see.
One of the biggest comments about the "I'm a mac" ads is that they are snobby and condescending. People relate more to "PC" than to "Mac". Many people see "Mac" as an elitist. I am betting that someone at Microsoft's advertising company saw the articles about it and created this campaign. It is a positive campaign where "PC" is made in to the everyman, someone just like the viewer.
Everyone who is thinking this is "also-ran" or "johnny come lately" is missing the forest for the trees. This campaign is a very good idea and uses the negative perception of the "I'm a mac" ads against Apple.
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No, you stupid fucking idiot. "Their" is a plural pronoun, not a singular pronoun.
"Their" only started being used as a singular pronoun when feminists got their panties in a twist because the the masculine form was also the gender neutral form and felt it was a slight to women.
Now, shut the fuck up and dig your head out of your ass, moron.
Funny, but my work XP desktop has only crashed due to a failed hard drive and my Vista laptop has not crashed at all.
But, I have seen apps crash Linux, especially if that app is X.
Oh, your little 99% comment is incorrect also.
No, you are wrong. It should read:
The masculine pronoun is the proper default for referencing people of unknown gender. And, that is regardless what the PC people say.
That is in no way proof of your statement.
Prove your statement.
Sales and marketing are some of the highest paid individuals in every company. They will get often get base pay, expenses, bonuses and commission, which often works out to well over US$100,000 per year. It is not uncommon for someone working in corporate sales to make over $250,000 a year in commissions (10% of US$2.5 million) and then get a bonus of 10% of that.
Nonsense. He will simply, make the talk show circuit, get backing and funding by some "think of the children" and christian groups, and bam he is back in business using OTHER lawyers.
In fact, I can imagine that software makers are going to be paying him, via a proxy group, to sue them.
You have forgotten the punitive damages for violating the rights of the copyright holders.
A happy voluntary worker is a productive voluntary worker. It is a basic rule of business. It is why there are so many morale initiatives at companies. In fact, a well paid worker with low morale will produce less than a moderate, and in some cases low, paid worker with good morale.
If they took away the internet access, one would be miserable and one's productivity would go down. And, chances are one would have to take more time off longer lunches, etc, to get personal business done that one now does on-line.
Look at all the FLOSS projects that have been in perpetual BETA.
Look at the projects have version numbers like "0.34.65".
It used to be when a project hit final release it's version number hit "1.0". But, one can find "stable" distributions that are loaded with "0.x" version software. And, those same projects never seem to close in on a version 1.0 final release. They just keep adding features and incrementing the minor numbers.
Why is it so hard for projects to set a feature list and performance goal to be considered 1.0, reach it, go from beta to gold, change to 1.0?
Call me skeptical, but all games have to have rules and conditions for winning. The people who develop the game determine the rules, goals, and conditions for winning/success.
Here is a simplistic example:
The beliefs of the designers and developers determine the rules of how the game works. Even with a nebulous goal, the rules guide the solution.
Just what we need, propaganda games. I bet the conditions for winning are based in their political ideology.
All the article says is that someone said it was so. It gave no indication of how the numbers were determined. What was the methodology?
Did it take into account, say, a Chinese hacker compromising a two or three servers in the U.S. and then using THOSE servers to attack many other servers both inside and outside the U.S.?
Yeah, now go install ubuntu on a brand new, bleeding edge laptop.
Oh, and those "average computer users" of yours, do they do anything other than surf and read email?
Do they do they do their finances on Ubuntu? Print checks for their bills?
Edit pictures or video?
Use it with their DV camera?
Do they play any of the latest games on their computers, say Portal, Crysis, WarHammer Online, or Spore?
How about create and email business documents such as spreadsheets and presentations?
Don't download movies from Sony.
No downloads means no profit which means Sony will rethink their policy.
The reason IT is being the least hit is because it has been the primary target for so long. IT has been viewed as fat, as so trimmed, for so long that there is precious little left.
The "true opinion" is that all the expendable IT jobs are now outside the company.
After outsourcing and offshoring as many jobs as possible, there are few expendable positions left in companies. Many of the positions that are being cut are jobs waiting for backfill and contract jobs.
And, Richard Feynman was of age at that time. So, they would not have turned away Feynman.
It is not that one drinks beer. It is that one is breaking the law by drinking beer and then posting pictures of one's self breaking said law.
Why so many people making this about drinking beer instead of about posting pictures of one's self breaking the law?
And, how many of those people had the foresight and intelligence not to post pictures of themselves breaking the law in public?
The act of posting the pictures is a very clear indicator of the quality of the person.
There, fixed that for ya.
Now,
Are you under the drinking age in those pictures? If so, they do reflect negatively on you.
There is a difference between putting up pictures of one's self committing a crime and keeping one's guard up. There is nothing obsessive-compulsive or paranoid in not putting one's private life on display.
But, putting one's private life public on the internet, then claiming one's privacy has been violated is delusional.
OK, you self-righteous prick, how does if feel to use them for you little pet cause? They chose to join up, just like I chose. They knew the risks, just like I did. They also knew what the drinking age law was BEFORE they joined up.
How many people have died so that you could be free while you piss, whine, break the law and then call them fascists?
No, it isn't. It is like you have 10 different employers offering jobs, all paying the same. Who do you want to work for, a dipshit drunk or someone who will appreciate what you have to offer?
There are more prospective student's than there are opening. Why not give the openings to the ones who will actually appreciate it.
Oh, and if you don't want people checking out the rest of your life, don't put it up on the internet for all to see.
It is not me that has a problem with "elitism". It has been engrained into American society that elitism is bad.
Just look at how charges of elitism being leveled at both candidates from each other and others as well.
One of the biggest comments about the "I'm a mac" ads is that they are snobby and condescending. People relate more to "PC" than to "Mac". Many people see "Mac" as an elitist. I am betting that someone at Microsoft's advertising company saw the articles about it and created this campaign. It is a positive campaign where "PC" is made in to the everyman, someone just like the viewer.
Everyone who is thinking this is "also-ran" or "johnny come lately" is missing the forest for the trees. This campaign is a very good idea and uses the negative perception of the "I'm a mac" ads against Apple.
I am not sure that is a good idea. Have you seen how districts are drawn?