On Android, Google has been steadily making it harder and harder to avoid... and in a few cases when trying to log into my gmail account from a web browser, I'm confronted with authenticating with YouTube. I'm not using YouTube, I'm using gmail. Leave YouTube out of this.
Yep, I've been noticing that too. If you have a stock Android phone (as 99.9% of users do, figure freely pulled out of my ass) then you pretty much need to sign up for Google Everything in order to use any of it. Even if you specifically avoid the endless prompts to hand your soul to Google on initialisation, you quickly find that nothing much works (you can't install apps, can't get mail, etc) unless you let Google into your life, and then a week later you're off taking a dump and your phone bongs and it's a notification from Google that based on their tracking of your movements you need more fibre in your diet...
Managers with antisocial personality disorder can deliver impressive short-term results. This happens at the cost of long-term results, but since when did shareholders ever care about those?
Ah, OK. I'm guessing it would also depend on the degree, since it's not black-and-white, someone with a score of 10-15 on the Hare Checklist (PCL-R) would probably be an effective (if perhaps not very popular, depending on how high-functioning they are) manager, but once you're getting into the 20+ range you're asking for trouble. Mind you that would also depend on the job, in the financial industry (banking, share trading) a 20-25 or more would probably just make you one of the gang, while a manager in the services industry with that score... shudder.
For the companies that screen for psychopathic tendencies for managers, how many screen out psychopathy and how many screen out non-psychopathy?
Why would you screen out non-psychopathy? Any company clueful enough to be aware of this problem certainly isn't going to want to hire managers with psychopathic (strictly speaking, antisocial personality disorder and related disorders) tendencies.
While continuing to be protected by UK's nuclear deterrent
Deterring what, exactly? Bruce Forsythe, Cilla Black, Peaches Geldof, Jeremy Beadle, the entire cast of Geordie Shore, who needs nuclear weapons when you've got that as a deterrent.
I've never had to work in a truly dysfunctional shop,
You really need to distinguish between cases where this is endemic and where it's caused by certain individuals. The linked article 10 Sure Shot Ways to Lose Your Team describes at least some behavioural traits that would correspond to one of the group of personality disorders for which the people who exhibit them are popularly referred to as sociopaths, and in their more extreme forms, psychopaths (unfortunately Hollywood has pretty much mangled most people's understanding of what that really means). This is why some companies specifically screen any management-level interviewees for psychopathic tendencies, they may appear to be (that is, create the illusion of being) effective managers, but they're actually very destructive to the company in the long term.
My reaction to reading the abstract was "And this is news?". What's next, "Cat stuck up tree"? I suppose if it was "Cat with vaguely Apple logo-shaped patch on fur stuck up tree" it'd probably make it too.
Has someone tried to verify the original story and check that Windows Phones are a real product? If they were actually being sold I'm pretty sure I'd have seen someone using one by now.
I'm 5'11" and there is plenty of room in Economy plus. If you're a frequent flyer you can get Economy Plus for free when you book a ticket on United, I assume Delta is the same for their frequent flyers.
I'm 1.95m (6'5" for Americans) and once had to fly Austrian Airlines transatlantic. They have 31 or even 30" seat spacing, the seats were so cramped I had to sit with my legs angled out sideways, and to shift them from the right to the left had to lift them up, move across, and drop them down again (bit hard to explain in text form). For eight hours.
Result: I've asked our travel people to never, ever book me on an Austrian flight again. Well, that and Hello Kitty Airways.
So they may have saved a few dollars by squashing in some extra seats, but they've permanently lost a passenger who does quite a bit of flying to Austria. I don't know how many others they've lost this way...
Lots of construction work is only safe to do when the crew is working together. [...] It's not just a union thing.
It's certainly a something thing. Here's a conversation I had with a construction worker in NY:
Me: Hi, how's it going.
Construction worker: I'm having my lunch [As in: Go away].
Me: Mind if I grab a seat? [There wasn't any other seating, this being the point of the attempted conversation]
Construction worker: CAN'T YOU SEE I'M HAVING MY LUNCH?
I just assumed it was some kind of union thing, they're being paid to eat but not anything else, so if I want to ask whether I can grab a seat I have to do it during paid work hours.
PMR (Perpendicular Magnetic Recording) or low-resistance helium technology was employed.
They actually use a variant of PMR that's based on magnetic monopoles. The reason why they're "shipping only to select enterprise clients" is because there's a limited supply of those, looted by the Red Army from a secret Nazi lab in 1945 and only recently rediscovered in former NKVD archives in a bunker outside Moscow.
"Threshold" is expected to include a number of new features that are aimed at continuing to improve Windows' usability on nontouch devices and by those using mice and keyboards alongside touch.
What this backwards statement is actually saying is
"Threshold" is expected to reinstate a number of standard Windows features that were removed/crippled in order to impair Windows' usability on nontouch devices, once again making it usable by those using mice and keyboards.
.
I expect the packaging to be a Windows 7 box with a "9" sticker strategically pasted over the "7".
It was just coming into favour when I left. When I was around it was Modula-2 and Eiffel (for OOP) at University.
Given that Eiffel was created by Satan himself to torture lost souls, I can't see how Java could be worse. The language itself was quite nice and had some good ideas, but the programming/development environment was appalling, I'd rather spend eternity in the company of Beelzebub and all his hellish instruments of death than have to develop code using those tools again.
This is what happens when a customer doesn't want to own the system they are buying. Like a lot of places they probably had MBAs at the top who took the whole "not our core competency" thing too far. Yet again. Sure hire a vendor or vendors. But Own The Fucking System. Don't just let the vendors do what they want. It is a licence to push out shit with no oversight. I don't know for certain that this was the case here but that would be my guess.
That's not a silver bullet. There's a government IT project running in Australia where they decided to do exactly that, Own The Fucking System. You now have a government department with this huge tumor growing out the side of it that develops, updates, and maintains their IT project. Since govt.departments aren't set up to run IT development work, it's ended up as an antipattern for everything you can do wrong in a project of this nature. There's way, way too much to type in here, but given the level of fail I'm sure one or more people will write books about it at some point.
I know it's Europe, but who TF would want/need more power than that for a F'in vacuum cleaner?
The same people who buy 18,000 watt PMPO stereos. Obviously if it has bigger numbers it's better, so manufacturers oblige them by putting bigger numbers on things.
It's actually quite impressive that you didn't even say anything out loud, yet still managed to convincingly give the impression of the least-convincing Scots accent *ever*.:-)
Hahaha, you make it sound as if "being licensed" has some implication of advanced skill.
Licensing implies some minimal level of quality control. People in western Europe, and most parts of the US, are used to a relatively good quality of taxi transport that comes about from decades of regulation. Now before you complain about how bad things are in your home city, try catching a taxi in St.Petersburg, or Bucharest, or Tirana (in St.Petersburg I'd get a marshrutka which is shared with lots of others or a taxi from a hotel, in Bucharest I'd get in a car driven for a fee by a friend's cousin's brother, and don't even ask about Tirana). Even cities like Budapest a decade ago were still the wild west until they introduced stricter regulation of drivers, now it's almost at the level of somewhere like New York, although hailing a cab on the street is still a no-no (you phone for it and order one).
So before you advocate a free-for-all, remember that the current situation only exists specifically because there isn't a free-for-all.
And the tax system still works? The only other country I know of that tried it abandoned it fairly quickly when they realised that their ability to collect tax revenue was being destroyed by being tied to X.509 client certificates.
Linksys hardware is crappy, unfortunately. Also, it is debatable if any hardware made by a US company [...]
Linksys hardware isn't made in the US, it's designed and made by Hsu Chien Lucky Golden Noodle Manufacturing Co. in Taiwan (OK, that's not quite the name, it's actually Gemtek in Hsinchu, Taiwan, all Linksys/Cisco/Belkin/whatever do is put their brand on it and resell it). Still, it's crappy hardware, and any firmware they bundle is an instant legacy product the minute it ships, the only way to get newer firmware is to buy a more recent product. They should stick to noodles...
Slashdot Mirror
It should be "Is Multimedia Multitasking Shrinking Human Brains?".
On Android, Google has been steadily making it harder and harder to avoid ... and in a few cases when trying to log into my gmail account from a web browser, I'm confronted with authenticating with YouTube. I'm not using YouTube, I'm using gmail. Leave YouTube out of this.
Yep, I've been noticing that too. If you have a stock Android phone (as 99.9% of users do, figure freely pulled out of my ass) then you pretty much need to sign up for Google Everything in order to use any of it. Even if you specifically avoid the endless prompts to hand your soul to Google on initialisation, you quickly find that nothing much works (you can't install apps, can't get mail, etc) unless you let Google into your life, and then a week later you're off taking a dump and your phone bongs and it's a notification from Google that based on their tracking of your movements you need more fibre in your diet...
Managers with antisocial personality disorder can deliver impressive short-term results. This happens at the cost of long-term results, but since when did shareholders ever care about those?
Ah, OK. I'm guessing it would also depend on the degree, since it's not black-and-white, someone with a score of 10-15 on the Hare Checklist (PCL-R) would probably be an effective (if perhaps not very popular, depending on how high-functioning they are) manager, but once you're getting into the 20+ range you're asking for trouble. Mind you that would also depend on the job, in the financial industry (banking, share trading) a 20-25 or more would probably just make you one of the gang, while a manager in the services industry with that score... shudder.
For the companies that screen for psychopathic tendencies for managers, how many screen out psychopathy and how many screen out non-psychopathy?
Why would you screen out non-psychopathy? Any company clueful enough to be aware of this problem certainly isn't going to want to hire managers with psychopathic (strictly speaking, antisocial personality disorder and related disorders) tendencies.
While continuing to be protected by UK's nuclear deterrent
Deterring what, exactly? Bruce Forsythe, Cilla Black, Peaches Geldof, Jeremy Beadle, the entire cast of Geordie Shore, who needs nuclear weapons when you've got that as a deterrent.
I've never had to work in a truly dysfunctional shop,
You really need to distinguish between cases where this is endemic and where it's caused by certain individuals. The linked article 10 Sure Shot Ways to Lose Your Team describes at least some behavioural traits that would correspond to one of the group of personality disorders for which the people who exhibit them are popularly referred to as sociopaths, and in their more extreme forms, psychopaths (unfortunately Hollywood has pretty much mangled most people's understanding of what that really means). This is why some companies specifically screen any management-level interviewees for psychopathic tendencies, they may appear to be (that is, create the illusion of being) effective managers, but they're actually very destructive to the company in the long term.
This whole article is troll bait.
My reaction to reading the abstract was "And this is news?". What's next, "Cat stuck up tree"? I suppose if it was "Cat with vaguely Apple logo-shaped patch on fur stuck up tree" it'd probably make it too.
Has anyone tried asking the liars whether they're lying? I'm sure they'd be honest about it this time.
Has someone tried to verify the original story and check that Windows Phones are a real product? If they were actually being sold I'm pretty sure I'd have seen someone using one by now.
I'm 5'11" and there is plenty of room in Economy plus. If you're a frequent flyer you can get Economy Plus for free when you book a ticket on United, I assume Delta is the same for their frequent flyers.
I'm 1.95m (6'5" for Americans) and once had to fly Austrian Airlines transatlantic. They have 31 or even 30" seat spacing, the seats were so cramped I had to sit with my legs angled out sideways, and to shift them from the right to the left had to lift them up, move across, and drop them down again (bit hard to explain in text form). For eight hours.
Result: I've asked our travel people to never, ever book me on an Austrian flight again. Well, that and Hello Kitty Airways.
So they may have saved a few dollars by squashing in some extra seats, but they've permanently lost a passenger who does quite a bit of flying to Austria. I don't know how many others they've lost this way...
splitters
You call that a splitter? This is a splitter.
Are rules for some and suggestions for the rest of us. The IEEE can put a standard on cleaning the toilet.
At least where I work, most likely is that it will be more paper work to get done
Well it is normal practice to not consider cleaning the toilet until the occupant has finished their paperwork.
Lots of construction work is only safe to do when the crew is working together. [...] It's not just a union thing.
It's certainly a something thing. Here's a conversation I had with a construction worker in NY:
Me: Hi, how's it going.
Construction worker: I'm having my lunch [As in: Go away].
Me: Mind if I grab a seat? [There wasn't any other seating, this being the point of the attempted conversation]
Construction worker: CAN'T YOU SEE I'M HAVING MY LUNCH?
I just assumed it was some kind of union thing, they're being paid to eat but not anything else, so if I want to ask whether I can grab a seat I have to do it during paid work hours.
From TFA
PMR (Perpendicular Magnetic Recording) or low-resistance helium technology was employed.
They actually use a variant of PMR that's based on magnetic monopoles. The reason why they're "shipping only to select enterprise clients" is because there's a limited supply of those, looted by the Red Army from a secret Nazi lab in 1945 and only recently rediscovered in former NKVD archives in a bunker outside Moscow.
Not a lot of people know that...
From TFA
"Threshold" is expected to include a number of new features that are aimed at continuing to improve Windows' usability on nontouch devices and by those using mice and keyboards alongside touch.
What this backwards statement is actually saying is
"Threshold" is expected to reinstate a number of standard Windows features that were removed/crippled in order to impair Windows' usability on nontouch devices, once again making it usable by those using mice and keyboards.
.
I expect the packaging to be a Windows 7 box with a "9" sticker strategically pasted over the "7".
It was just coming into favour when I left. When I was around it was Modula-2 and Eiffel (for OOP) at University.
Given that Eiffel was created by Satan himself to torture lost souls, I can't see how Java could be worse. The language itself was quite nice and had some good ideas, but the programming/development environment was appalling, I'd rather spend eternity in the company of Beelzebub and all his hellish instruments of death than have to develop code using those tools again.
It's interesting that you think you're a better source than a peer reviewed internet dictionary.
Like Slashdot, a peer-reviewed Internet news site?
This is what happens when a customer doesn't want to own the system they are buying. Like a lot of places they probably had MBAs at the top who took the whole "not our core competency" thing too far. Yet again. Sure hire a vendor or vendors. But Own The Fucking System. Don't just let the vendors do what they want. It is a licence to push out shit with no oversight. I don't know for certain that this was the case here but that would be my guess.
That's not a silver bullet. There's a government IT project running in Australia where they decided to do exactly that, Own The Fucking System. You now have a government department with this huge tumor growing out the side of it that develops, updates, and maintains their IT project. Since govt.departments aren't set up to run IT development work, it's ended up as an antipattern for everything you can do wrong in a project of this nature. There's way, way too much to type in here, but given the level of fail I'm sure one or more people will write books about it at some point.
I know it's Europe, but who TF would want/need more power than that for a F'in vacuum cleaner?
The same people who buy 18,000 watt PMPO stereos. Obviously if it has bigger numbers it's better, so manufacturers oblige them by putting bigger numbers on things.
Wae Don' needa nae Nukies! Wae gots... HAGGIS!
It's actually quite impressive that you didn't even say anything out loud, yet still managed to convincingly give the impression of the least-convincing Scots accent *ever*. :-)
Och aye 'n fock off the noo!
none of my fingers are going to pay up.
I was just wondering if RightsCorp was now run by the Yakuza, and were extracting payment in fingers.
Hahaha, you make it sound as if "being licensed" has some implication of advanced skill.
Licensing implies some minimal level of quality control. People in western Europe, and most parts of the US, are used to a relatively good quality of taxi transport that comes about from decades of regulation. Now before you complain about how bad things are in your home city, try catching a taxi in St.Petersburg, or Bucharest, or Tirana (in St.Petersburg I'd get a marshrutka which is shared with lots of others or a taxi from a hotel, in Bucharest I'd get in a car driven for a fee by a friend's cousin's brother, and don't even ask about Tirana). Even cities like Budapest a decade ago were still the wild west until they introduced stricter regulation of drivers, now it's almost at the level of somewhere like New York, although hailing a cab on the street is still a no-no (you phone for it and order one).
So before you advocate a free-for-all, remember that the current situation only exists specifically because there isn't a free-for-all.
And the tax system still works? The only other country I know of that tried it abandoned it fairly quickly when they realised that their ability to collect tax revenue was being destroyed by being tied to X.509 client certificates.
Linksys hardware is crappy, unfortunately. Also, it is debatable if any hardware made by a US company [...]
Linksys hardware isn't made in the US, it's designed and made by Hsu Chien Lucky Golden Noodle Manufacturing Co. in Taiwan (OK, that's not quite the name, it's actually Gemtek in Hsinchu, Taiwan, all Linksys/Cisco/Belkin/whatever do is put their brand on it and resell it). Still, it's crappy hardware, and any firmware they bundle is an instant legacy product the minute it ships, the only way to get newer firmware is to buy a more recent product. They should stick to noodles...
If he is taking away Java, he is good in my book. Now, take it away from everyone else. Fuck anything and everything Java.
Exactly. Now all he has to do is block Flash and Acrobat and he's protected mother Russia from 99% of all malware vectors.