No. I am not laughing at people like you. It is the people around my office that insist that they have to vote Dem/Rep even though they all agree that the candidates are useless. They still see a vote for any other party as "throwing your vote away". Those are the people I am laughing at. While they persist in that stupid mentality then nothing will improve here because both the big parties are equally loathsome to me at the moment and they have no incentive to improve under the current setup.
When most people here think that it is OK to discriminate against foreigners living here legally by passing crap like this then you should not be surprised when the power to abuse this is kicked a few notches higher.
I am also constantly amazed when I speak to most Americans around me about the Patriot Act. They seem to live in this dream world thinking that it will only be used against "terrorists". Yeah. Right.
You don't fire your best employee. You fire the least-profitable one. And if you are the one who has been marked as the least-profitable, shame on you for not having foresight enough to view your own job in the context of the company and make alternative plans.
Actually you close down your least profitable divisions. Sometimes within those divisions you have brilliant hardworking people who just lost their jobs through no fault of their own. That is as close to a random act of God as you can get.
Speaking as somebody who tried to have cable broadband installed unsuccessfully this weekend I must say that I will not be surprised. It is quite pathetic in this day and age that I cannot get some form of broadband at my house for a reasonable price.
I don't live in the middle of nowhere either.
Unfortunately all I seem to be able to get is a T1 for around $330/month. Slightly difficult to justify for an internet connection and the neighbors will be difficult to group together for a big line like that.
How about over time Google learns which sites I trust and modifies the ranking according to that. We could give each site a thumbs up or down rating like you do on a TiVO.
Apple will be releasing Mac OS X Ocelot by the time Longhorn hits the market
Pft. Wow are you out of the loop or what. Ocelot will be an interim release only. By the time Longhorn hits, Apple will have sewn up the Movie market and they will commemorate this achievement with the simultaneous release of... OS X Pink Panther.
As to why we're not in N. Korea, which is undoubtedly a worse place to be, its because they probably actually do have nukes.
Finally we get to the worst part of this whole mess. What the USA has taught the rest of the world with this bit of Iraqi thuggery is that if you play along nicely with our rules and destroy your weapons (like Iraq obviously did) then you will be left defenseless - and we will eventually invade you.
On the other hand you have real crackpots like North Korea who show that they have the so-called WMDs AND they are willing to use them. Those guys we leave alone.
Message to the rest of the world? Buy your nuclear weapons NOW while the USA is too bogged down in Iraq to do anything about it. By the time they are ready then you have a few nukes handy and the US won't come knocking on your door.
Pathetic. Oh, and the other thing we have taught the rest of the world is that our intelligence services are worth nothing so they probably won't even catch you buying the nukes even if you bought them in the open.
Nuclear explosion isn't really a factor either. If you're talking weapons, the likelyhood of them being taken to upstart colonies isn't too likely. Once the colony is established, if one location (Earth or the colony) wipes itself out with nukes, the other is going to think long and hard before using theirs. Having a front-row seat to devastation makes people do everything they can to avoid it happening again (see 9/11 attacks for proof).
Huh? I got a front-row seat on that event. From where I am sitting at the moment all it appears to have done is increased the chances of people using massive weapons to kill each other.
They actually have all the technical details to a Calendar worked out. The only issue holding up a release at this stage is the name.
Galendar doesn't sound quite snazzy enough.
Oh well. Then again I was the guy that suggested they use Go Ogle for their image search so maybe Go Date would work better for the calendar.
Seriously, I do agree with you. I just implemented a PHP calendar on my website for the family to use and a Google calendar would probably kick my attempt to pieces.
You don't have to be the fastest member of the crowd, just faster than the slowest member.
Actually you have to be faster than the number of people it takes to satisfy a T-Rex's hunger. Could be quite a few. Unless they come roaming around in Tennessee that is...
Does this mean all the "Google is about to..."
"Google is thinking about..."
"Google is blah-blah..."
stories can now be moved to the Google page and off the Slashdot page?
This is news when you work for a certain large IT corporation where they do the following;
1. Some applications give no indication of password expiry and one day you are just suddenly shut out. We have complained a number of times that this needs a reminder to indicate imminent password expiry. No luck because the password is shared amongst three disparate apps for some reason.
So here is the exciting kicker. We have to phone the helpdesk and give them our old passwords so that we can get the password reset! I complained to my manager last time that I was not going to do this but was directly instructed that I had to comply with them as this app is critical in day-to-day operations. Go figure.
2. When a new anti-virus update comes out they often send an email out to people with an EXE attachment saying "download this and execute to protect your PC".
As I mentioned before I work for one of the largest IT companies in the world.
Hey, could somebody email me the ISO please? I would have used P2P, but that will obviously be illegal soon and I don't want to tarnish my reputation by using stuff like that.
The folks who are always going on about six-sigma and CMM level 5...
We are currently chugging our way up the CMM scale (just moved from 2 to 3). Quite honestly, I would like to take the people that thought this idea up and lay them flat on the ground. Then I will pile all the paperwork they have generated for the last three months on top of them. I suspect they will not make it out of there alive and the world will be a better place for it.
Let me tell you something about that. I have worked on way too many projects (including the current one) where this was the case - there was only code, or the docs were so out of date that really, there was only the code.
You have just described the problem. If the documentation is so far removed from the code then it no longer gets updated. I'm currently working on a project like you described too.
The major pain comes in when companies like mine suddenly decide they are going to "improve the documenation". We are now so awash in documentation that the following happens; (I swear I am not making these numbers up - I pulled it out last week to show my manager what a farce our system has become.)
Time to find and make the code fix: 2 hours.
Time to test the fix: 2 hours.
Time to document the fix and get it into our production system: 9 hours.
I have to document the change that I have made (using almost the same language, but not quite) in 6 different documents. Six!!! None of this documentation is generated automatically from my code or from other documents.
You underestimate the power of mass numbers of users with Yahoo! Mail accounts. Yes, among the tech-savvy group, Google usage is dominant. However, Yahoo still has...
That's the whole point. API's are aimed at the tech-savvy group.
Good old Telkom has already declared this illegal in south Africa.
For those of you that don't know the situation; Telkom is the only landline provider in South Africa, but also handily makes the rules deciding who can do what with any telecommunication business. Neat huh?
Hey, how about a cell phone vibration mode which simulates an Oscillon so that slowly the loose pens, clips and paper on the meeting table begin forming interesting patterns...
Huh? Finally the word "loose" was used correctly on/.?
It's the end I tell you. It's the end of the world as we know it.
But they ALL are. Look at what our choices were this past year. Bush 2.0 or John-frickin'-Kerry.
There were other choices. Seriously. People must get past this mentality of "my vote will be wasted". If you start voting for the person that you even remotely "like" as opposed to the current setup where people keep voting to ensure the person they "dislike" the most stays out then things will change. Maybe not the first election or even the second election, but it will change eventually.
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No. I am not laughing at people like you. It is the people around my office that insist that they have to vote Dem/Rep even though they all agree that the candidates are useless. They still see a vote for any other party as "throwing your vote away". Those are the people I am laughing at. While they persist in that stupid mentality then nothing will improve here because both the big parties are equally loathsome to me at the moment and they have no incentive to improve under the current setup.
ha-ha. I repeat. ha-ha.
When most people here think that it is OK to discriminate against foreigners living here legally by passing crap like this then you should not be surprised when the power to abuse this is kicked a few notches higher.
I am also constantly amazed when I speak to most Americans around me about the Patriot Act. They seem to live in this dream world thinking that it will only be used against "terrorists". Yeah. Right.
You don't fire your best employee. You fire the least-profitable one. And if you are the one who has been marked as the least-profitable, shame on you for not having foresight enough to view your own job in the context of the company and make alternative plans.
Actually you close down your least profitable divisions. Sometimes within those divisions you have brilliant hardworking people who just lost their jobs through no fault of their own. That is as close to a random act of God as you can get.
Speaking as somebody who tried to have cable broadband installed unsuccessfully this weekend I must say that I will not be surprised. It is quite pathetic in this day and age that I cannot get some form of broadband at my house for a reasonable price.
I don't live in the middle of nowhere either.
Unfortunately all I seem to be able to get is a T1 for around $330/month. Slightly difficult to justify for an internet connection and the neighbors will be difficult to group together for a big line like that.
The hell you say!
That's "The(tm) hell you say" to you buddy!
How about over time Google learns which sites I trust and modifies the ranking according to that. We could give each site a thumbs up or down rating like you do on a TiVO.
Apple will be releasing Mac OS X Ocelot by the time Longhorn hits the market
... OS X Pink Panther.
Pft. Wow are you out of the loop or what. Ocelot will be an interim release only. By the time Longhorn hits, Apple will have sewn up the Movie market and they will commemorate this achievement with the simultaneous release of
As to why we're not in N. Korea, which is undoubtedly a worse place to be, its because they probably actually do have nukes.
Finally we get to the worst part of this whole mess. What the USA has taught the rest of the world with this bit of Iraqi thuggery is that if you play along nicely with our rules and destroy your weapons (like Iraq obviously did) then you will be left defenseless - and we will eventually invade you.
On the other hand you have real crackpots like North Korea who show that they have the so-called WMDs AND they are willing to use them. Those guys we leave alone.
Message to the rest of the world? Buy your nuclear weapons NOW while the USA is too bogged down in Iraq to do anything about it. By the time they are ready then you have a few nukes handy and the US won't come knocking on your door.
Pathetic. Oh, and the other thing we have taught the rest of the world is that our intelligence services are worth nothing so they probably won't even catch you buying the nukes even if you bought them in the open.
For one thing, the Moon has one third less gravity than your Earth.
Is that in imperial units? You should consider switching to metric units. Then you will have 1/6th the earth's gravity.
Nuclear explosion isn't really a factor either. If you're talking weapons, the likelyhood of them being taken to upstart colonies isn't too likely. Once the colony is established, if one location (Earth or the colony) wipes itself out with nukes, the other is going to think long and hard before using theirs. Having a front-row seat to devastation makes people do everything they can to avoid it happening again (see 9/11 attacks for proof).
Huh? I got a front-row seat on that event. From where I am sitting at the moment all it appears to have done is increased the chances of people using massive weapons to kill each other.
They actually have all the technical details to a Calendar worked out. The only issue holding up a release at this stage is the name.
Galendar doesn't sound quite snazzy enough.
Oh well. Then again I was the guy that suggested they use Go Ogle for their image search so maybe Go Date would work better for the calendar.
Seriously, I do agree with you. I just implemented a PHP calendar on my website for the family to use and a Google calendar would probably kick my attempt to pieces.
Techie: I got a one line perl script p2p software.
RIAA: Arrest that thief.
Finally! perl coders being treated the way they should have a long time ago.
You don't have to be the fastest member of the crowd, just faster than the slowest member.
Actually you have to be faster than the number of people it takes to satisfy a T-Rex's hunger. Could be quite a few. Unless they come roaming around in Tennessee that is...
Does this mean all the
"Google is about to..."
"Google is thinking about..."
"Google is blah-blah..."
stories can now be moved to the Google page and off the Slashdot page?
Administrative Contact:
Filipe Carreira
(NIC-14324246)
Forbes, Inc.
How do we know that Filipe isn't a disgruntled employee waiting to take the company down from the inside?
This is news when you work for a certain large IT corporation where they do the following;
1. Some applications give no indication of password expiry and one day you are just suddenly shut out. We have complained a number of times that this needs a reminder to indicate imminent password expiry. No luck because the password is shared amongst three disparate apps for some reason.
So here is the exciting kicker. We have to phone the helpdesk and give them our old passwords so that we can get the password reset! I complained to my manager last time that I was not going to do this but was directly instructed that I had to comply with them as this app is critical in day-to-day operations. Go figure.
2. When a new anti-virus update comes out they often send an email out to people with an EXE attachment saying "download this and execute to protect your PC".
As I mentioned before I work for one of the largest IT companies in the world.
So what are the winning lottery numbers for tomorrow?
Hey, could somebody email me the ISO please? I would have used P2P, but that will obviously be illegal soon and I don't want to tarnish my reputation by using stuff like that.
The folks who are always going on about six-sigma and CMM level 5...
We are currently chugging our way up the CMM scale (just moved from 2 to 3). Quite honestly, I would like to take the people that thought this idea up and lay them flat on the ground. Then I will pile all the paperwork they have generated for the last three months on top of them. I suspect they will not make it out of there alive and the world will be a better place for it.
Let me tell you something about that. I have worked on way too many projects (including the current one) where this was the case - there was only code, or the docs were so out of date that really, there was only the code.
You have just described the problem. If the documentation is so far removed from the code then it no longer gets updated. I'm currently working on a project like you described too.
The major pain comes in when companies like mine suddenly decide they are going to "improve the documenation". We are now so awash in documentation that the following happens; (I swear I am not making these numbers up - I pulled it out last week to show my manager what a farce our system has become.)
Time to find and make the code fix: 2 hours.
Time to test the fix: 2 hours.
Time to document the fix and get it into our production system: 9 hours.
I have to document the change that I have made (using almost the same language, but not quite) in 6 different documents. Six!!!
None of this documentation is generated automatically from my code or from other documents.
You underestimate the power of mass numbers of users with Yahoo! Mail accounts. Yes, among the tech-savvy group, Google usage is dominant. However, Yahoo still has...
That's the whole point. API's are aimed at the tech-savvy group.
Good old Telkom has already declared this illegal in south Africa.
For those of you that don't know the situation; Telkom is the only landline provider in South Africa, but also handily makes the rules deciding who can do what with any telecommunication business. Neat huh?
Hey, how about a cell phone vibration mode which simulates an Oscillon so that slowly the loose pens, clips and paper on the meeting table begin forming interesting patterns...
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Huh? Finally the word "loose" was used correctly on
It's the end I tell you. It's the end of the world as we know it.
No. Can I run Linux as my exclusive desktop box? Absolutely not. Would I like to? Yes. Do I sound like Don Rumsfeld in a press conference? You betcha.
No. You don't sound like Rumsfeld at all. Here is a corrected quote.
You run the Operating System and drivers that you have - not the OS and drivers you would like to have.
But they ALL are. Look at what our choices were this past year. Bush 2.0 or John-frickin'-Kerry.
There were other choices. Seriously. People must get past this mentality of "my vote will be wasted". If you start voting for the person that you even remotely "like" as opposed to the current setup where people keep voting to ensure the person they "dislike" the most stays out then things will change. Maybe not the first election or even the second election, but it will change eventually.