Offtopic, but I'll ask anyway.. Do american companies really fire people left and right for simple mistakes? Or is it just an euphenism? Seems that I see "XXX was fired for XXX" all the time.
Personally I don't know anyone who has ever been fired for anything but gross, willfull, bordering-the-law hazardous actions.
Even if you are incompetent, the company that hired you tries to find easier work for you instead of firing. Even if you come to work drunk, you've given two weeks paid leave to get yourself in shape and perhaps some counseling. Never fired unless you really try to get yourself fired.
Jesus! Why are you so adamantly defending the asshat? The product is crap. No-one in their right mind would switch to it unless they have something to gain from it.
"Oh, they used salt too. I get it! People love salt. I'll put 10 times more salt in mine!"
Hehe... I remember when the instances came. I hadn't tried WoW. I was quite confused. "Wait what? So everyone gets their own dungeon so the M won't be so massive in MORPG? You get to buy stuff with these things you call points. You know, we used to have a form of currency already. You know, platinum, why not use that to buy new stuff?" Now that I have picked up WoW habit, I see that the instances were desperate attempt to implement both instanced dungeons and battleground rewards in one sweep. How, fucking, original... I was also dissapointed in all the new shit that was introduced in latter expansions. Luclin: Fast world travel. Geez! I used to be proud of knowing the whole game world. Newbies wouldn't even know how to get to the nearest city. PoP: Instant world travel! Now the newbies won't even know how to run to the other side of the zone. Luclin&PoP: Insanely involving progression trees to get to the higher level dungeons. Thank SOE, perhaps you noticed in WoW you can do most of everything with single group. Also, you only need 12h raids for very end game items, and even there they drop regularly so many people in the raid get rewards. In EQ you need a 30 man raid to tip a cow with a shield of poo. And only ones able to roll for the shield of poo are those who have already raided the same place 30 times so they have enough DKP.
And the level grind. In each expansion it makes the lower level grind faster and makes the new 5 levels an arse rape. Fucking anoys me that a newbie can pick up to the higher levels in days what I had to grind for ever. Also, what's the point of the midway content in the game at all? You only want to get past 60 fast so that you can get to PoP progression. No-one wants to waste time anywhere on the way. Just buy those 1pp used-to-be-uber things from bazaar and be done with it.
*shiver* Please don't say that word. I get chills and shivers. It's been already three years since I had to use it, but even seeing the name of Lotus Notes (AAH, MY FINGERS!) makes me curl up and sob on the floor. What a great product!
Same here. I have last been into movies -92. Why in the hell I would like to watch a movie with hundreds of assholes I don't even know?
Possible SPOILERS follow.
Actually. I didn't like The Simpsons movie all that much. I would have preferred more "moviesque" script. It seemed like a stretched out episode. Or perhaps episode segments from three shows mashed up together. I'm not sure if it was wholly intentional, but it seemed like rehash of 3F24 (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer). The short nods at previous episodes were quite fun mostly, but at one point in the movie I already thought "Simpsons did it!".
Atleast with Symbian based phones, it is pretty impossible to write self propagating virii. Even with silly people happlessly clicking every "Yes" and "Confirm" dialogs. The way capabilities locks work, you really have to identify yourself to Symbian signed to get a certificate to use any advanced API's. You can use self-signed certs for simple apps, but with that you cannot really do any damage or access any propagation vectors. Alternatively, you can get a developer cert to use capabilities. With this, your virii will become quite short lived, as dev certs expire in one month (iirc). Also, the user has to manually go to app installer settings and enable the phone to install self signed/devcert sis in the first place. Atleast in Nokia phones, the installer gives no indication of what to do if it fails because this setting is disabled. This is to try to ensure person really knows what he is doing when he is enabling said feature.
If someone knows any progress on breaking the capability locking in Symbian >9.x systems, I'd certainly be interested in reading.
I'm a Finnish white supermacist homophobic taleban-style rowling hating bigot, thankyouverymuch. wtf that taleban thing has to do with anything? Some people who are terrorists take a steep anti-terrorist stance themselves. I suggest you take a long hard penis up your ass and make a positive decision before you fly an airplane to a scyscraper.
Also, some adults turn out to be puppy kicking ass holes like me. No amount of "growing up" will fix that.
Also, using gay/faggot as an insult is just fun as it sounds fun and rolls off the tongue. English language seriously lacks good curse words and insults. Are gay people now taking offense because "their word" is used improperly. Damn niggers...
1. Harry potter homos 2. RPG's with original rules -- something which has nothing to do with WOtC 3. Rest of the fags who like HP 4. Rowling.. Fucking bitch, die 5. Any fantasy fiction not written by Tolkien 6. Grown up men, reading homo faggotry by rowling.
Well, uh, yeah. The first page was quite clumsy and awkward. But do go on and read the rest of the article. There's good shit there with embezling, paranoia, BDSM, triangle drama, odd company. etc...
The problem is, they are shit stories tossed up with lots of chocolate and caramel. When you read the summary, it sounds awesomely cool and makes you want to read the linked articles. Further inspection always turns out the shit inside. Nowadays I recognize Rolands stories just be reading the summary: "Oh cool. This is interesting. Wait... Oh, yeah, another RP shit story."
Roland should be shot, cut and buried in a forest. I fucking hate when I get excited over nothing and end up giving the fucker 1c because I clicked through to his blog.
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Offtopic, but I'll ask anyway..
Do american companies really fire people left and right for simple mistakes? Or is it just an euphenism?
Seems that I see "XXX was fired for XXX" all the time.
Personally I don't know anyone who has ever been fired for anything but gross, willfull, bordering-the-law hazardous actions.
Even if you are incompetent, the company that hired you tries to find easier work for you instead of firing. Even if you come to work drunk, you've given two weeks paid leave to get yourself in shape and perhaps some counseling. Never fired unless you really try to get yourself fired.
(Finland says hi! _o/)
Torchwood! ;) Wait, do fictional agencies count?)
(Regarding your sig
Simpsons didn't!
No, wait. Crap!
That's a thing Simpsons haven't done!
Yeah, but doesn't seem like they would compensate those healthy persons.
Only punish some and fill their pockets (more).
It would look more like car insurance if they would compensate those living healthily intead.
Jesus! Why are you so adamantly defending the asshat?
The product is crap. No-one in their right mind would switch to it unless they have something to gain from it.
...nuff said.
Hehe... I remember when the instances came. I hadn't tried WoW.
I was quite confused. "Wait what? So everyone gets their own dungeon so the M won't be so massive in MORPG? You get to buy stuff with these things you call points. You know, we used to have a form of currency already. You know, platinum, why not use that to buy new stuff?"
Now that I have picked up WoW habit, I see that the instances were desperate attempt to implement both instanced dungeons and battleground rewards in one sweep. How, fucking, original... I was also dissapointed in all the new shit that was introduced in latter expansions.
Luclin: Fast world travel. Geez! I used to be proud of knowing the whole game world. Newbies wouldn't even know how to get to the nearest city.
PoP: Instant world travel! Now the newbies won't even know how to run to the other side of the zone.
Luclin&PoP: Insanely involving progression trees to get to the higher level dungeons. Thank SOE, perhaps you noticed in WoW you can do most of everything with single group. Also, you only need 12h raids for very end game items, and even there they drop regularly so many people in the raid get rewards. In EQ you need a 30 man raid to tip a cow with a shield of poo. And only ones able to roll for the shield of poo are those who have already raided the same place 30 times so they have enough DKP.
And the level grind. In each expansion it makes the lower level grind faster and makes the new 5 levels an arse rape. Fucking anoys me that a newbie can pick up to the higher levels in days what I had to grind for ever. Also, what's the point of the midway content in the game at all? You only want to get past 60 fast so that you can get to PoP progression. No-one wants to waste time anywhere on the way. Just buy those 1pp used-to-be-uber things from bazaar and be done with it.
Oh *cough*; sorry about rant.
*shiver*
Please don't say that word. I get chills and shivers.
It's been already three years since I had to use it, but even seeing the name of Lotus Notes (AAH, MY FINGERS!) makes me curl up and sob on the floor.
What a great product!
Same here. I have last been into movies -92.
Why in the hell I would like to watch a movie with hundreds of assholes I don't even know?
Possible SPOILERS follow.
Actually. I didn't like The Simpsons movie all that much. I would have preferred more "moviesque" script. It seemed like a stretched out episode. Or perhaps episode segments from three shows mashed up together. I'm not sure if it was wholly intentional, but it seemed like rehash of 3F24 (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer). The short nods at previous episodes were quite fun mostly, but at one point in the movie I already thought "Simpsons did it!".
Whoops, sorry about going off-topic.
Atleast with Symbian based phones, it is pretty impossible to write self propagating virii. Even with silly people happlessly clicking every "Yes" and "Confirm" dialogs.
The way capabilities locks work, you really have to identify yourself to Symbian signed to get a certificate to use any advanced API's. You can use self-signed certs for simple apps, but with that you cannot really do any damage or access any propagation vectors. Alternatively, you can get a developer cert to use capabilities. With this, your virii will become quite short lived, as dev certs expire in one month (iirc).
Also, the user has to manually go to app installer settings and enable the phone to install self signed/devcert sis in the first place. Atleast in Nokia phones, the installer gives no indication of what to do if it fails because this setting is disabled. This is to try to ensure person really knows what he is doing when he is enabling said feature.
If someone knows any progress on breaking the capability locking in Symbian >9.x systems, I'd certainly be interested in reading.
Nothing more than a slahvertisement for plywood ;)
Anon fail. Use your ID.
Ei huudella nimettömästi nappula.
I'm a Finnish white supermacist homophobic taleban-style rowling hating bigot, thankyouverymuch.
wtf that taleban thing has to do with anything? Some people who are terrorists take a steep anti-terrorist stance themselves. I suggest you take a long hard penis up your ass and make a positive decision before you fly an airplane to a scyscraper.
Also, some adults turn out to be puppy kicking ass holes like me. No amount of "growing up" will fix that.
Also, using gay/faggot as an insult is just fun as it sounds fun and rolls off the tongue. English language seriously lacks good curse words and insults. Are gay people now taking offense because "their word" is used improperly. Damn niggers...
1. Harry potter homos
2. RPG's with original rules -- something which has nothing to do with WOtC
3. Rest of the fags who like HP
4. Rowling.. Fucking bitch, die
5. Any fantasy fiction not written by Tolkien
6. Grown up men, reading homo faggotry by rowling.
Fizzl tappaa, paloittelee ja hautaa takapihalleen joka vitun homon joka lukee potteria.
We're going to make it big time when the sand niggers decide to buy Zune instead of three years supply of rice!
whogivesashit
Hmm, bugger. What was the command to load from a tape?
Just 'LOAD' and press play?
That's cute...
Oh jesus, what a bunch of sentimental crap.
Snape dies. "Wonderful"... "Feel the magic"... Too much Disney for you lady!
Or more aanoyingly: Viola!
Jesus christ. Stop using french words if you can't spell or pronounce them, wankers.
LOL
So... We had DVD 30 years back?
I bet 70's punch card jockeys would have deemed DVD quite something.
Well, uh, yeah. The first page was quite clumsy and awkward.
But do go on and read the rest of the article. There's good shit there with embezling, paranoia, BDSM, triangle drama, odd company. etc...
The problem is, they are shit stories tossed up with lots of chocolate and caramel.
When you read the summary, it sounds awesomely cool and makes you want to read the linked articles. Further inspection always turns out the shit inside. Nowadays I recognize Rolands stories just be reading the summary: "Oh cool. This is interesting. Wait... Oh, yeah, another RP shit story."
Roland should be shot, cut and buried in a forest. I fucking hate when I get excited over nothing and end up giving the fucker 1c because I clicked through to his blog.
Fucking newbie. Crawl back under your rock.
CMYK is THE standard for shipping stuff for printing.
Oh yeah. I didn't see you suggesting a better alternative. Piss off, troll.