As in, "Hey, you're a great employee, wanna go to Rio for a few weeks?". The employee can then yay or nay, with a nay having no negative consequences.
Now, if you said yay 6 months ago, but at this late date say "ummm, about that....", I can see how companies can be upset.
Me? I wouldn't go anywhere near Rio. Between the raw sewage on the beaches, to the crime on tourists, to the cops not being paid, to the very real possibility these games will be a fiasco, no thank you.
Came here to say this. The only podcast I got into was Coverville, which is pretty awesome. But people talking about stuff? Can't get into it.
I have a similar problem with audio books. Just can't get into them. Last time I tried I was driving from San Diego to Salt Lake City by myself, checked a couple out of the library. Problem I ran into was I'd be cruising down the road and realize I hadn't been paying attention to the audio book, and had to back it up a chapter or three.
You can carelessly handle top secret information, send email unencrypted from bad actor countries, lie to the FBI, lie to the State department, lie to the American people, and not only not get indicted, but run for President!
Back in '90 or '91 I worked for Pacific Data Products, who made cartridges you could plug into an HP printer to get more fonts, postscript, whatever. Guy in the garage that invented it made a ton of money (I met him, he was a really cool dude). The customer service lines terminated maybe 50 feet from my engineering desk, I got to know quite a few of them. Their big game was to see how long they could keep someone on hold while they "researched the problem". They would take smoke breaks, take a leak, BS with the receptionist, whatever. After a few minutes they'd come back with "hey, try this". "This" being usually 1 of 3: a) Reboot the computer. b)Reboot the printer. c)Reseat the print cartridge.
/ met my first openly gay dude there // he was a smelly asshole /// met my second openly gay dude there //// he was way all cool ///// for his birthday he rented a yacht, and invited his friends (and me) to the party ////// Meeting that guy did a 180 on my baptist upbringing, and the cultural shit like AIDS == Anally Inserted Death Sentance ////// Also met the straight dude that could sleep with 2 girls /////// 1 was the receptionist, the other I didn't know //////// Went to Brian's place, both girls were there, both were pretty open on what was going on ///////// I'd spent 4 months on that receptionist, finding out she was farking Brian and some other chick made my dick shrink ////////// Brian was that typical "who would fark that geek" fast talking dude who could sell ice cubes to eskimos
Subscribed for years, they died a few months ago. Odd thing was, my favorite channels were the old radio dramas from the 30s and 40s, and the attempts to revive the form in recent years.
Had a couple prog rock channels I'd listen to as well, but the old time radio seemed to be my go to thing.
Back in the day we switched to Yggdrasil because Slackware was slacking off on releases, and we needed new features.
/ this is my lawn // enjoy it if you want /// please pick up any trash you make //// lawn mower is right here, if you're in the mood
They bought a license to let them use it. This is why I don't buy anything in the cloud, if I don't have the physical media then the thing I "bought" can go away at any time.
When I buy a game and "they" take down the multi-player servers, I get it. I can still play the single player game, but can no longer shoot n00bs. In this case, I can no longer sit on the couch eating ice cream while watching Jillian Michaels's ass. They took away my single player game which, had the game been designed correctly, would put exactly 0.0% load on anybody's servers. Of course, the game was poorly designed such that they wanted telemetry on who watched her ass when, hence the game you bought has to go away.
And yeah, I know single player games are going to this model. Wanna guess how many games I've bought that use this model? If you guessed 0.0% then you get a prize.
A robot will always give the right amount of sauce, toppings, cheese, and cooking time. Always. Ok, so when you phone in the order when your buddy is working there you might get extra pepperoni and cheese, but how many of us have friends working in a pizza joint?
CSB time. When I was 19 or so a friend worked in a pizza joint. Our trick was to call in a pizza that would be ready 5 minutes before closing (this was before pizza delivery, I'm old, deal with it), then not go pick it up. Mike would close the restaurant, bring the pizza (which he didn't start making until the place closed) home with him, and we'd enjoy pizza, good weed, and midnight TV of the 70's.
/ Mike died last year // 2 years younger than me /// When I say "we" when talking about my teenage years, Mike was usually what made it "we"
Yeah, I removed the Flash plugin from my computer maybe a year ago. Prior to that, I'd been running ClickToFlash for several years... but then I realized just how infrequently I actually "clicked" to enable anything
I get ClickToFlash daily, but actually click maybe twice a week.
I'm not a www engineer, but what's pissing me off is the sudden multitude of autoplay videos I'm getting. I assume that's because of HTML5, but that's a WAG. What I do know is if someone came out with a ClickToHTML5 I'd prolly install it, fark autoplay anything.
For sites like Slashdot, fark, ars, etc al I not only use the same login, I use the same password. Why would I care? Wanna post on/. how Win10 is The Greatest and Microsoft Rulz cuz of it's asinine attempts to force you to "upgrade"? Don't care, I'll get over it. Wanna post a nekkid pic on Fark that gets me banned? Don't care, I'll make another account.
Now, sites that I use a credit card for, or that hold money/stocks, those are a different story. Different user names, different passwords, all kept track of via Keepass.
Sorry Microsoft, I paid for it and you don't get to revoke the license. Oh, you made a mistake? Fine, you pay the $60 or whatever the game costs. I bought my copy, it's mine, sod off.
How come I never notice these things in time to take advantage of them? Memorial day weekend I got the urge to get some DLC for Borderlands the Pre Sequel. They had a sale going, all DLC for a good price. But by the time I got my credit card out and went to pay for it the offer had expired. Evidently it was good for 3 days, expired at 5 PM Monday, and I noticed it at 4:59 Monday. Cool tho, figure they'll do it again 4th of July weekend so I'm ready.
Shooter thinks shootee "stole" his code. And you dipshits are actually talking about open source licenses, whether or not the shooter's code was "stolen", etc etc etc.
The issue is this asshat decided to shoot his professor. Period. He had no right to do so. He did have a right to go to his college administration. He did have a right to go to the courts. He did not use those rights. Looks like he also shot some woman in another state, then drove to UCLA to shoot the other guy.
Relevant facts? Some asshole shot 1, maybe 2 innocent people. Asshole had other options to redress his grievances, which he did not use.
Asshole's name should be erased from history, except when you're googling extreme assholes.
Don't let companies force employees without saying anything to train their replacements under penalty of loss of layoff benefits.
There are actually half a dozen things that could be done to prevent this kind of BS, too bad the 1% who benefit from this control the asshats who make the laws.
Had Win 8.1 on this laptop for a good year and a half before I got tricked into the Win10 update. Win 8.1 was solid has hell once I de-metro'd it. Win10 is flakey as hell. Move a window, release the wrong button first, window goes full screen. My taskbar currently shows I'm in airplane mode even though my wifi works fine (it also shows airplane mode when I put it in airplane mode). Sometimes I have to disable the firewall to print wirelessly. The fingerprint reader takes a dump every 2-3 days, requiring a reboot to get it back. Uptime is less than a week due to either an update or something important like explorer crashes. It will update/reboot in the middle of the night, when the laptop is closed.
PS 1: Not I never mentioned the telemetry BS. It's a lot of work keeping that crap turned off.
PS 2: The update/reboot in the middle of the night with the laptop closed is the real deal killer for me. Microsoft. You don't know what the fuck I'm doing. You do not reboot my machine without an explicit "Yeah, you can reboot now" from me. None of this scheduling bullshit. When you want to reboot put an icon in my taskbar to remind me, I'll reboot when I'm not running something that takes 3 days to finish, or am not in the middle of having 4 tabs in a web browser, a spreadsheet open, and an editor open where I'm actually writing something.
PS 3: Yes, I mean I got tricked into the upgrade. I clicked on a "Yes" box, but between the time my brain said "Yes" and my finger clicked the mouse button the dreaded "Pssst, hey bud. Wanna try Win10?", with that nasty window grabbing my mouse focus. Once it started I was afraid to stop it.
Typically I decide I need an app to do foo. Read the reviews, install the top 3-4 that look like they'll suit my needs, try them all out, then stick with the best one. The others get deleted.
As someone else pointed out, the #1 thing that makes me delete your app before even getting to it is a registration screen, or some other screen that makes me do something other that what the app does. Had one app a few years back that, it turned out, I'd only installed the screen that asked for my credit card info so it could download the real app. Did anyone actually fall for that?
Mostly because of this invasion of privacy BS. When my family/friends post a picture on FB with me and others in it I don't have a problem with FB identifying those with FB accounts, they asked for it and got it. But me? Just because you somehow got into the DMV database,or a "friend" put a name to my face, or whatever, fuck off. I don't have a FB account, you have no right to identify me via face recognition.
It was extremely stupid legislation by smart people who tend to be driven more by knee jerk reactions than measured thought. Or is that potential campaign contributions over measured thought, I've kinda lost track by now.
Never mind 30 years of scandals, this email server thing shows exactly how she thinks. The law only applies to the little people, not her. What she did may have been marginally legal, but if you or I had done this we'd be sitting in jail.
Slashdot Mirror
As in, "Hey, you're a great employee, wanna go to Rio for a few weeks?". The employee can then yay or nay, with a nay having no negative consequences.
Now, if you said yay 6 months ago, but at this late date say "ummm, about that....", I can see how companies can be upset.
Me? I wouldn't go anywhere near Rio. Between the raw sewage on the beaches, to the crime on tourists, to the cops not being paid, to the very real possibility these games will be a fiasco, no thank you.
Maybe, just maybe this guy broke the law. But the law he broke is wrong, unconstitutional, and should be overturned.
Problem is, the guy needs a few $100k and the ability to stay in jail for a few years until this hits the supreme court.
Came here to say this. The only podcast I got into was Coverville, which is pretty awesome. But people talking about stuff? Can't get into it.
I have a similar problem with audio books. Just can't get into them. Last time I tried I was driving from San Diego to Salt Lake City by myself, checked a couple out of the library. Problem I ran into was I'd be cruising down the road and realize I hadn't been paying attention to the audio book, and had to back it up a chapter or three.
You can carelessly handle top secret information, send email unencrypted from bad actor countries, lie to the FBI, lie to the State department, lie to the American people, and not only not get indicted, but run for President!
Yay for us, I think.
Had it been anywhere near a 50/50 ratio of dudes/chicks it would have been rated a roaring (or moaning) success.
Back in '90 or '91 I worked for Pacific Data Products, who made cartridges you could plug into an HP printer to get more fonts, postscript, whatever. Guy in the garage that invented it made a ton of money (I met him, he was a really cool dude). The customer service lines terminated maybe 50 feet from my engineering desk, I got to know quite a few of them. Their big game was to see how long they could keep someone on hold while they "researched the problem". They would take smoke breaks, take a leak, BS with the receptionist, whatever. After a few minutes they'd come back with "hey, try this". "This" being usually 1 of 3: a) Reboot the computer. b)Reboot the printer. c)Reseat the print cartridge.
// he was a smelly asshole
/// met my second openly gay dude there
//// he was way all cool
///// for his birthday he rented a yacht, and invited his friends (and me) to the party
////// Meeting that guy did a 180 on my baptist upbringing, and the cultural shit like AIDS == Anally Inserted Death Sentance
////// Also met the straight dude that could sleep with 2 girls
/////// 1 was the receptionist, the other I didn't know
//////// Went to Brian's place, both girls were there, both were pretty open on what was going on
///////// I'd spent 4 months on that receptionist, finding out she was farking Brian and some other chick made my dick shrink
////////// Brian was that typical "who would fark that geek" fast talking dude who could sell ice cubes to eskimos
/ met my first openly gay dude there
thinking slashies was the wrong way to reminisce
Subscribed for years, they died a few months ago. Odd thing was, my favorite channels were the old radio dramas from the 30s and 40s, and the attempts to revive the form in recent years.
Had a couple prog rock channels I'd listen to as well, but the old time radio seemed to be my go to thing.
Because the States and the Feds are the ones doing it. As we've all learned from HRC, it's only wrong when the little people do it.
Yggdrasil? Graybeard alert! :)
Ayup. Actually used to have the very first Red Hat distro, we switched to it in a heartbeat because it was so much easier to update running systems.
This would be '94-'96
Back in the day we switched to Yggdrasil because Slackware was slacking off on releases, and we needed new features.
// enjoy it if you want
/// please pick up any trash you make
//// lawn mower is right here, if you're in the mood
/ this is my lawn
They bought a license to let them use it. This is why I don't buy anything in the cloud, if I don't have the physical media then the thing I "bought" can go away at any time.
When I buy a game and "they" take down the multi-player servers, I get it. I can still play the single player game, but can no longer shoot n00bs. In this case, I can no longer sit on the couch eating ice cream while watching Jillian Michaels's ass. They took away my single player game which, had the game been designed correctly, would put exactly 0.0% load on anybody's servers. Of course, the game was poorly designed such that they wanted telemetry on who watched her ass when, hence the game you bought has to go away.
And yeah, I know single player games are going to this model. Wanna guess how many games I've bought that use this model? If you guessed 0.0% then you get a prize.
but no he won't
A robot will always give the right amount of sauce, toppings, cheese, and cooking time. Always. Ok, so when you phone in the order when your buddy is working there you might get extra pepperoni and cheese, but how many of us have friends working in a pizza joint?
// 2 years younger than me
/// When I say "we" when talking about my teenage years, Mike was usually what made it "we"
CSB time. When I was 19 or so a friend worked in a pizza joint. Our trick was to call in a pizza that would be ready 5 minutes before closing (this was before pizza delivery, I'm old, deal with it), then not go pick it up. Mike would close the restaurant, bring the pizza (which he didn't start making until the place closed) home with him, and we'd enjoy pizza, good weed, and midnight TV of the 70's.
/ Mike died last year
Yeah, I removed the Flash plugin from my computer maybe a year ago. Prior to that, I'd been running ClickToFlash for several years... but then I realized just how infrequently I actually "clicked" to enable anything
I get ClickToFlash daily, but actually click maybe twice a week.
I'm not a www engineer, but what's pissing me off is the sudden multitude of autoplay videos I'm getting. I assume that's because of HTML5, but that's a WAG. What I do know is if someone came out with a ClickToHTML5 I'd prolly install it, fark autoplay anything.
For sites like Slashdot, fark, ars, etc al I not only use the same login, I use the same password. Why would I care? Wanna post on /. how Win10 is The Greatest and Microsoft Rulz cuz of it's asinine attempts to force you to "upgrade"? Don't care, I'll get over it. Wanna post a nekkid pic on Fark that gets me banned? Don't care, I'll make another account.
Now, sites that I use a credit card for, or that hold money/stocks, those are a different story. Different user names, different passwords, all kept track of via Keepass.
Can we nominate people to be on the mission? Me? No thanks. But I've got a niece that is a complete waste of oxygen who would be perfect for this.
If you have daily meetings your manager is a moron who doesn't know how to manage.
Sorry Microsoft, I paid for it and you don't get to revoke the license. Oh, you made a mistake? Fine, you pay the $60 or whatever the game costs. I bought my copy, it's mine, sod off.
How come I never notice these things in time to take advantage of them? Memorial day weekend I got the urge to get some DLC for Borderlands the Pre Sequel. They had a sale going, all DLC for a good price. But by the time I got my credit card out and went to pay for it the offer had expired. Evidently it was good for 3 days, expired at 5 PM Monday, and I noticed it at 4:59 Monday. Cool tho, figure they'll do it again 4th of July weekend so I'm ready.
Shooter thinks shootee "stole" his code. And you dipshits are actually talking about open source licenses, whether or not the shooter's code was "stolen", etc etc etc.
The issue is this asshat decided to shoot his professor. Period. He had no right to do so. He did have a right to go to his college administration. He did have a right to go to the courts. He did not use those rights. Looks like he also shot some woman in another state, then drove to UCLA to shoot the other guy.
Relevant facts? Some asshole shot 1, maybe 2 innocent people. Asshole had other options to redress his grievances, which he did not use.
Asshole's name should be erased from history, except when you're googling extreme assholes.
Don't let companies force employees without saying anything to train their replacements under penalty of loss of layoff benefits.
There are actually half a dozen things that could be done to prevent this kind of BS, too bad the 1% who benefit from this control the asshats who make the laws.
Had Win 8.1 on this laptop for a good year and a half before I got tricked into the Win10 update. Win 8.1 was solid has hell once I de-metro'd it. Win10 is flakey as hell. Move a window, release the wrong button first, window goes full screen. My taskbar currently shows I'm in airplane mode even though my wifi works fine (it also shows airplane mode when I put it in airplane mode). Sometimes I have to disable the firewall to print wirelessly. The fingerprint reader takes a dump every 2-3 days, requiring a reboot to get it back. Uptime is less than a week due to either an update or something important like explorer crashes. It will update/reboot in the middle of the night, when the laptop is closed.
PS 1: Not I never mentioned the telemetry BS. It's a lot of work keeping that crap turned off.
PS 2: The update/reboot in the middle of the night with the laptop closed is the real deal killer for me. Microsoft. You don't know what the fuck I'm doing. You do not reboot my machine without an explicit "Yeah, you can reboot now" from me. None of this scheduling bullshit. When you want to reboot put an icon in my taskbar to remind me, I'll reboot when I'm not running something that takes 3 days to finish, or am not in the middle of having 4 tabs in a web browser, a spreadsheet open, and an editor open where I'm actually writing something.
PS 3: Yes, I mean I got tricked into the upgrade. I clicked on a "Yes" box, but between the time my brain said "Yes" and my finger clicked the mouse button the dreaded "Pssst, hey bud. Wanna try Win10?", with that nasty window grabbing my mouse focus. Once it started I was afraid to stop it.
Typically I decide I need an app to do foo. Read the reviews, install the top 3-4 that look like they'll suit my needs, try them all out, then stick with the best one. The others get deleted.
As someone else pointed out, the #1 thing that makes me delete your app before even getting to it is a registration screen, or some other screen that makes me do something other that what the app does. Had one app a few years back that, it turned out, I'd only installed the screen that asked for my credit card info so it could download the real app. Did anyone actually fall for that?
Mostly because of this invasion of privacy BS. When my family/friends post a picture on FB with me and others in it I don't have a problem with FB identifying those with FB accounts, they asked for it and got it. But me? Just because you somehow got into the DMV database,or a "friend" put a name to my face, or whatever, fuck off. I don't have a FB account, you have no right to identify me via face recognition.
It was extremely stupid legislation by smart people who tend to be driven more by knee jerk reactions than measured thought. Or is that potential campaign contributions over measured thought, I've kinda lost track by now.
Never mind 30 years of scandals, this email server thing shows exactly how she thinks. The law only applies to the little people, not her. What she did may have been marginally legal, but if you or I had done this we'd be sitting in jail.