People are aware that if they make outrageous claims that they will be hailed as a genius if they succeed, and the claims will be forgotten if they are wrong. At worst the claim will show up in some "Look at those silly guys from 50 years ago..." columns.
Forgetting of course the shared memory of the Internet. In 10 years or 1 year or next week we can trot out their giant article on the "End of the PC", and point and laugh. Now, lots of people hooking on to the same absurd claim will not make it true, and will make them all look like morons.
Here is my counterclaim. In 50 years tablets will not kill PCs, and PCs will not kill tables. Instead nobody from today will recognize the average computing device.
Your story makes it sound like the PHB is a reasonable guy. Here is a more realistic story:
PHB: We need to add features X, Y and Z to our legacy inventory system IT guy: The code is a giant pile of garbage, it would be cheaper and faster to rewrite the whole thing. PHB: No IT guy: But we could update it to support modern devices. PHB: No IT guy: But it would be less expensive to maintain in the long run. PHB: Why do we care?
Ah, crap. I'm tired enough of their ads, and didn't think it could get any worse. You proved otherwise. Oh Well, we'll let everyone else know who we're going to let run the country for a while.
Ohio - We chose the president.
How would that be worse, we would get to see Ohio getting destroyed.
Just notice that a lot of potential energy is wasted and literally goes down the drain at every household. But it's partly because energy still is too cheap compared to the cost to utilize the energy from waste.
There is very little alcohol that goes down the drain 90% of alcohol it broken down by the liver and only 5% goes down the drain. On top of that there is less then 0.1% alcohol in the urine of an intoxicated person.
...a crime worthy of punishment equal to manslaughter.
Remember, the death penalty for hacking has been seriously discussed. If such a discussion can be considered serious.
What the fuck did I just read? John Tierney is a disgusting hack of a writer. Kind of drivel like this belongs on extremist blogs that nobody reads. This is why print media is dying.
What's the problem? That's 7,984 years before the beginning of time.
*Steps out of the TARDIS* Hey, sorry to just pop in like this. Hello internet! Hello slashdot! So, anyway... where was I? Oh yes! Time! So, that idea's been out of style for, what, 500 years... so we were thinking, you must not be from around here, and so we've come to take you back to the 1400s. Don't give me that look! It's for your own good you know. Now, come along... we can't have people all out of time and space, it makes a real mess of the timestream. And these people, these beautiful beautiful people, they're about to do so much, yes, so very very much. And they don't need someone like you setting them back 600 years. Not now. So come on then, in you go!
It is impossible to not hear this in Matt Smith's voice.
Until the services their customers are trying to get around block his web page. Email works a bit better for this as it's not easily blocked (unless the people doing the blocking are going to block hotmail and gmail).
Well if those people would use a proxy they could get around that block.
Americans seem to love hating foreigners. A while ago it was the French (and I am sure millions of you still hate the French because they didn't choose to join the illegal war in Iraq when the US asked them to. You remember thats why right? They used to be your close friends). Now its hating Muslims, next it will be the Chinese, or maybe Laotians, or the Russians (again), or some group we haven't yet had brought into the news. You even seem to love hating muslims who were born in the USA.
Name one cultural group that is not hostile to foreigners. And "close enough looking" foreigners do not count such as Canadian-American-British.
Do you see how the British treat Eastern Europeans? Did you see how the French were treating foreigners that led to the Paris riots? Shit, I have even seen Vancouverites complaining about asians taking their jobs... and people from British Colombia are the nicest people in the world.
Obviously this isn't a fair description of everyone. I would venture a guess that more than half of everyone in the world are not-racist, and generally good people. However for whatever reason, you get a group of those same nice people together and mob mentality takes over and you get a snarling mass of "dey took er jabs!" and "go home ".
The only foreigners welcome world-wide are relatively wealthy visitors, including in-country foreigners (for sufficiently big countries like the USA). And for the most part those are merely tolerated.
Next time you see a fundamentalist, go the high road: Be nice and forthcoming. Make a nice emotional argument for the real world.
I agree, though most fundamentalists I have interacted with will take rational and compassionate arguments as personal attacks as well. There is literally no winning with someone that has an inconsistent internal view of the world.
But, it is fun an easy to knock them down a peg, though.
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I don't even know what the fuck this is supposed to be
From the pictures, my guess is that being able to speak dutch would not help in figuring it out.
This is why IT departments should not be in the business of writing software, and big projects actually need project managers.
People are aware that if they make outrageous claims that they will be hailed as a genius if they succeed, and the claims will be forgotten if they are wrong. At worst the claim will show up in some "Look at those silly guys from 50 years ago..." columns.
Forgetting of course the shared memory of the Internet. In 10 years or 1 year or next week we can trot out their giant article on the "End of the PC", and point and laugh. Now, lots of people hooking on to the same absurd claim will not make it true, and will make them all look like morons.
Here is my counterclaim. In 50 years tablets will not kill PCs, and PCs will not kill tables. Instead nobody from today will recognize the average computing device.
Your story makes it sound like the PHB is a reasonable guy. Here is a more realistic story:
PHB: We need to add features X, Y and Z to our legacy inventory system
IT guy: The code is a giant pile of garbage, it would be cheaper and faster to rewrite the whole thing.
PHB: No
IT guy: But we could update it to support modern devices.
PHB: No
IT guy: But it would be less expensive to maintain in the long run.
PHB: Why do we care?
In the immortal words of Mike Lange... "Get that dog off my lawn..."
Their content helps make Google rich. They're fine with that but want their cut.
Or you can spin it "Google provides a free service of directing traffic to their site."
Curious. My Eclipse project is the Linux Kernel. Works fine.
I hope, none of your code is included and enabled on any of my systems.
Commas, will be misplaced.
Ah, crap. I'm tired enough of their ads, and didn't think it could get any worse. You proved otherwise. Oh Well, we'll let everyone else know who we're going to let run the country for a while.
Ohio - We chose the president.
How would that be worse, we would get to see Ohio getting destroyed.
Your previous comment was funnier than mine. It caused my brain to malfunction.
Yahoo: We are going to abuase DNT because DNT can be easily abused.
What.
All the planets are yours, except Europa.
But it is ok to crash on Europa?
Just notice that a lot of potential energy is wasted and literally goes down the drain at every household. But it's partly because energy still is too cheap compared to the cost to utilize the energy from waste.
There is very little alcohol that goes down the drain 90% of alcohol it broken down by the liver and only 5% goes down the drain. On top of that there is less then 0.1% alcohol in the urine of an intoxicated person.
Bear Grylls will reclaim his wasted alcohol.
2 + 2 = 5 for very large values of 2... now that's fiction for you
I have tracking devices on my children.
The device is made by Apple.
Your iPad is not your child.
She said I never would wander off after that, and if I acted bad, she would tell me she was leaving..and I'd cry and promise to act right..etc.
What the fuck?
...a crime worthy of punishment equal to manslaughter.
Remember, the death penalty for hacking has been seriously discussed. If such a discussion can be considered serious.
What the fuck did I just read? John Tierney is a disgusting hack of a writer. Kind of drivel like this belongs on extremist blogs that nobody reads. This is why print media is dying.
This is insane, why is a computer programmer under solitary confinement?
Because they can't find enough evidence to charge him with a real crime, so they just torture him instead.
What's the problem? That's 7,984 years before the beginning of time.
*Steps out of the TARDIS* Hey, sorry to just pop in like this. Hello internet! Hello slashdot! So, anyway... where was I? Oh yes! Time! So, that idea's been out of style for, what, 500 years... so we were thinking, you must not be from around here, and so we've come to take you back to the 1400s. Don't give me that look! It's for your own good you know. Now, come along... we can't have people all out of time and space, it makes a real mess of the timestream. And these people, these beautiful beautiful people, they're about to do so much, yes, so very very much. And they don't need someone like you setting them back 600 years. Not now. So come on then, in you go!
It is impossible to not hear this in Matt Smith's voice.
In Korea, only old people make cuisine jokes.
Is that the Korean version of "In Soviet Russia..."?
I blame Neil Degrasse Tyson for all this.
Start calling Pluto a comet, and it will start acting like one.
Until the services their customers are trying to get around block his web page. Email works a bit better for this as it's not easily blocked (unless the people doing the blocking are going to block hotmail and gmail).
Well if those people would use a proxy they could get around that block.
Oh, wait...
Americans seem to love hating foreigners. A while ago it was the French (and I am sure millions of you still hate the French because they didn't choose to join the illegal war in Iraq when the US asked them to. You remember thats why right? They used to be your close friends).
Now its hating Muslims, next it will be the Chinese, or maybe Laotians, or the Russians (again), or some group we haven't yet had brought into the news. You even seem to love hating muslims who were born in the USA.
Name one cultural group that is not hostile to foreigners. And "close enough looking" foreigners do not count such as Canadian-American-British.
Do you see how the British treat Eastern Europeans? Did you see how the French were treating foreigners that led to the Paris riots? Shit, I have even seen Vancouverites complaining about asians taking their jobs... and people from British Colombia are the nicest people in the world.
Obviously this isn't a fair description of everyone. I would venture a guess that more than half of everyone in the world are not-racist, and generally good people. However for whatever reason, you get a group of those same nice people together and mob mentality takes over and you get a snarling mass of "dey took er jabs!" and "go home ".
The only foreigners welcome world-wide are relatively wealthy visitors, including in-country foreigners (for sufficiently big countries like the USA). And for the most part those are merely tolerated.
This goes for all peoples, including muslims: Refuse to be Terrorized!
You're not terrorized by anything unless you choose to be.
Garbage to be Terrorized?
I find it rather concerning that lots of people believe this kind of bullshit. I suppose there is no arguing with irrationality.
Next time you see a fundamentalist, go the high road: Be nice and forthcoming. Make a nice emotional argument for the real world.
I agree, though most fundamentalists I have interacted with will take rational and compassionate arguments as personal attacks as well. There is literally no winning with someone that has an inconsistent internal view of the world.
But, it is fun an easy to knock them down a peg, though.