and the people there have my sympathies for such bureaucratic stupidity. Policies like this and ASBO's of the last few years have had a disastrous effect... government is getting way too intrusive over there.
The people have your sympathies? Who do you think puts these twerps in power in the first place?
That's why God invented smoking. To make programmers take a Zone break.
I believe that programmers are allowed to claim the price of cigarettes as a work expense while doing taxes.
Smokedy smoke smoke smoke.... I quit long ago but do remember solving some problems in the five minutes away from the screen.
Although not a programmer(I mostly do the translation from law -> process description -> business requirements) I couldn't agree more. I sometimes wonder where I get more done, in the 1 1/2 hour I spend staring at my screen or the 5 minute smoke break outside in the sunshine.
Extra bonus: no getting distracted by Slashdot during smoke breaks;-)
1. Absence of a boss whose primary concern is his own promotion.
2. Absence of a boss who threatens you with loss of employment if you refuse to work more than 40 hours per week.
3. Absence of a boss who demands that you echo the party line. You are expected to say, "Yes. The API implementation that I received from department XYZ is wonderful." just because the department is managed by the girlfriend of the CEO.
Judging from point 3 the problem goes beyond the boss and has permeated all through the company.
If that isn't the case and he's just a relatively isolated case...get rid of him? Might take some time and shrewd behavior, but it really isn't all that hard to expose imcompetence.
All issues are political[; and politics] is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. - George Orwell
Both the oligarch and Tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms. - Aristotle
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. - Thomas Jefferson
A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject. - John R. Lott
Your arguments make no sense to me. If you do not understand what the Second Amendment to the American Constitution means then I pity you. In spite of what the leftist media would like you to believe, not everyone is a redneck, watches Dukes of Hazzard, likes NASCAR. Some of us just believe in the dream of freedom, not the yoke of socialism or communism. America was founded because the British Oligarchy learned the hard way when "CITIZENS" pick up arms and fight tyranny, the *archy loses. Even the Canadians understood before the clowns like Trudeau and his wife (nice cooter!!!) starting giving it all away just like the british and labor party.
Ok, so since you and yours have guns, and you're clearly an american, and your country seems...corrupt to the core...what do you plan to do about it?...besides quoting people on Slashdot that is?
As for the yoke of socialism...it's funny. I don't seem to feel a thing. Must be pretty light for me not to have noticed.
Oh, we're seeing bills coming due, alright. The collapse of the American auto industry is one whopper of an invoice.
Thank you, unions! May I have another?!?
Yeah....it must be the unions. Can't have anything to do with the fact that on the whole, non-americans consider cars made by GM, Chrysler etc. to be big ugly unreliable inefficient heaps of crap. That can't go around corners. But there's hope on the horizon! When the trade ban with Cuba gets lifted there's a whole new market opening;-)
From the other perspective. If you are out taking a stroll in a new area, and come across an old ruined house in the woods... Are you ready to "prove" it was built with Craftsman tools on the spot... or using prefabricated pieces? Oh, yes... it's UNPROVABLE.
You have got to be kidding right? There's plenty of ways to at least date the period during which it was built, and if that happens to be before we invented the concept of prefabricated pieces...there you go already. If the house is surrounded by dense foliage that has been there for longer than we have prefabricated pieces...another piece of evidence, unless the pieces were airlifted in by benign aliens for a couple beers and a slice of pizza ofcourse.
As for intricate complex crystals on another world. Hell yeah, I'd want to know where they came from, how they get there etc.
Unfortunately there apparently aren't enough cow flops to produce a big enough population of these booby-trap-beetles to wipe out the cane toads. So the toads are still a problem.
Then there's "networking" which often involves creating a whole false persona. It's sickening, but damn-near unavoidable, and certainly considered to be normal and acceptable.
Ehmm, some of us manage to "network" while still remaining true to who we are and what we believe is important. Of course that doesn't mean a lot, since there's tons of people who are total assholes and who believe the most important thing in the world is themselves, but you get the point;-)
I'm not sure where you are in the world, so my comment may or may not be applicable. But my general experience with electric companies doesn't suggest they have to compete to stay in business.
Not sure about the GP, but I actually *work* for an electric company, and we sell our electricity to the average household at...a loss. Things start to turn more profitable once you're dealing with big customers. Ofcourse over here we've separated the infrastructure from the product, so there's like 2 dozen different companies competing in a country with 17 million people for the consumer/small business market. Must be some weird socialist EU thing.
I'm European. I have never met a person who has gotten rich, or even well-off thanks to welfare benefits.
Hi, I'm also European, and now you've met one. I'm far from rich, but I can pretty much buy anything I want these days.
You know why? Because there's was a safety net that caught me when I was young, stupid and too damn irresponsible to hold a job for long. The taxes of my fellow countrymen made sure I had a roof over my head, food in my stomach and even the opportunity to get some education. As I grew up a bit I managed to get a job, carve out something of a career and get things in order.
I recently did the math, just for fun. Since I got off of welfare, I've already paid back more in income taxes than the initial investment the state(and hence the taxpayers) originally made to support me in my time of need. Had that safety net not been there I probably would still be homeless, possibly in jail costing the taxpayer big chunks of money without any ROI, or maybe just plain dead.
Is this just a single data point? Sure it is. Are there tons of deadbeat parents out there leeching off the state, and in extension, off of me? Yes, there are. Would I prefer their children being homeless while dad has to go out stealing to put food on the table or just to support his drug addiction? Nah, think I'll pass. Take some of my taxes and fix the problem so at least his kids end up decent.
What bothers me a lot more is a show like NCIS. As much as I enjoy watching it, it really pisses me off how they glorify things like breaking and entering without a warrant when a situation "calls for it". I haven't watched CSI for a while, but I think I recall similar practices being shown there as well. Law and Order on the other hand regularly shows the bad guys getting off because their rights get in the way of an investigation or a cop going over the line messes up the entire investigation.
But that's just it... what makes an MMO any more "adult" than Cowboys & Indians in the first place?
As an avid EVE player, I see plenty of adult activities ingame. I see managers getting bossed around by a 20 year old who's still in school, drill sergeants taking orders from housewives, etc. People invest serious time and effort into achieving certain goals, with the very real possibility of another group of people then showing up and turning the first group's accomplishment into a bunch of shiny pixels depicting an explosion.
Is it all a big waste of time? Perhaps, but then again so is sitting in front of a tv several hours every evening. And it's a lot more fun to sit around chatting, playing and sharing interests with people from the other side of the globe. Playing cowboys and indians is a lot more fun if the other guy is an actual indian. Now if only we could get the whole thing with those damn timezones sorted out:/
The previous head of the national oil company, Eivind Reiten, privately submitted a view to the EU that he thought private interests should be able to buy property rights to waterfalls.
This is heavily against the ruling Labour Party's politics, and their council representative Jan Bohler said in an interview that they were going to get rid of him for that reason. He is now gone.
It's a funny state and funny state of mind when the government considers itself rightfully able to remove business leaders who don't agree with their politics.
Is said oil company owned by the state? And wouldn't that pretty much make the government the representatives of the shareholders kicking out a CEO?
Walking has costs, too. Increased wear on shoes and socks, for those that wear them. Increased food consumption (unless your drive is very exciting). Do not forget the environmental impact as well, due to CO2 from respiration.
Don't know about you, but around here we don't tend to eat petrochemicals for breakfast;-)
Don't discount the environmental impact of sweaty socls though...
The evil socialists in Sweden require employees to have showers at the office.
Those evil socialists also have an excellent tunnelbana system.
The evil socialists in the Netherlands allow you to buy a tax-deductible bike every 3 years(or at least my employer does).
Unfortunately for me i can walk to work and still get there in less than 15 minutes, which is a lovely way to start the day in the spring and summer, so no real incentive to use a bicycle except when i have meetings in other locations.
If he reformatted his C: and installed a fresh windows on there, how were files from the windows install on the hidden D: being launched by the trojan? Especially if you launch an install from a bootable device such as a CD, I don't quite see how the hidden install on the second drive would be able to interfere with the reinstall or operation of the fresh install?
Over the years Vista has been updated and actually works great - I like having it instead of XP and so would most Vista bashers if they actually used it.
Sorry, but I tested Vista only a few short months ago and I felt it was absolute rubbish. Not because of performance(Core I7, 6 Gigs DDR3) but because I have to jump through a dozen hoops to get the damn OS to do what I tell it to do.
Maybe not the *primary* use, but here (FR), most ISPs will give you a set top box with their ADSL modem (or the modem itself doubles as a STB) which will decode mpeg data streamed from the ISP, hold a hard disk to record programs and for time shifting, plus assorted gadgets (they're typically little Linux machines). Some also integrate a decoder for terrestrial digital television (you'll have to add your antenna). You get roughly 100 "free" channels as a standard packaged deal when you open an ADSL2+ line (plus VOIP that's free to most ground phones worldwide). The cost is around 30 s / month.
So here, watching TV certainly is a common use of broadband. Out of the 10-15 Mb that you typically get out of the 22 to 24 Mb theoretical throughput of ADSL2+, a TV stream isn't really that much of a problem.
Presumably this kind of set up is also deployed elsewhere in Europe.
Oh, that's just great. You just announced on an american website that in large chunks of europe we get kickass broadband, phone service and a bunch of tv channels for less money than an american pays to look at static.
There is such a thing as too much transparency, you know?
Oh, well, only 1 solution now. Socialist! Commie! No true red-blooded american would watch your filthy tv channels! They're probably all filled with ugly french women with unshaven armpits anyway!
Desole, had to be done;-) So, you guys still got les Guignols down there?
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and the people there have my sympathies for such bureaucratic stupidity. Policies like this and ASBO's of the last few years have had a disastrous effect... government is getting way too intrusive over there.
The people have your sympathies? Who do you think puts these twerps in power in the first place?
That's why God invented smoking. To make programmers take a Zone break.
I believe that programmers are allowed to claim the price of cigarettes as a work expense while doing taxes.
Smokedy smoke smoke smoke. ... I quit long ago but do remember solving some problems in the five minutes away from the screen.
Although not a programmer(I mostly do the translation from law -> process description -> business requirements) I couldn't agree more. I sometimes wonder where I get more done, in the 1 1/2 hour I spend staring at my screen or the 5 minute smoke break outside in the sunshine.
Extra bonus: no getting distracted by Slashdot during smoke breaks ;-)
My trifecta is the following.
1. Absence of a boss whose primary concern is his own promotion.
2. Absence of a boss who threatens you with loss of employment if you refuse to work more than 40 hours per week.
3. Absence of a boss who demands that you echo the party line. You are expected to say, "Yes. The API implementation that I received from department XYZ is wonderful." just because the department is managed by the girlfriend of the CEO.
Judging from point 3 the problem goes beyond the boss and has permeated all through the company.
If that isn't the case and he's just a relatively isolated case...get rid of him? Might take some time and shrewd behavior, but it really isn't all that hard to expose imcompetence.
All issues are political[; and politics] is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.
- George Orwell
Both the oligarch and Tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms.
- Aristotle
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
- Thomas Jefferson
A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject.
- John R. Lott
Your arguments make no sense to me. If you do not understand what the Second Amendment to the American Constitution means then I pity you. In spite of what the leftist media would like you to believe, not everyone is a redneck, watches Dukes of Hazzard, likes NASCAR. Some of us just believe in the dream of freedom, not the yoke of socialism or communism. America was founded because the British Oligarchy learned the hard way when "CITIZENS" pick up arms and fight tyranny, the *archy loses. Even the Canadians understood before the clowns like Trudeau and his wife (nice cooter!!!) starting giving it all away just like the british and labor party.
Ok, so since you and yours have guns, and you're clearly an american, and your country seems...corrupt to the core...what do you plan to do about it?...besides quoting people on Slashdot that is?
As for the yoke of socialism...it's funny. I don't seem to feel a thing. Must be pretty light for me not to have noticed.
Oh, we're seeing bills coming due, alright. The collapse of the American auto industry is one whopper of an invoice.
Thank you, unions! May I have another?!?
Yeah....it must be the unions. Can't have anything to do with the fact that on the whole, non-americans consider cars made by GM, Chrysler etc. to be big ugly unreliable inefficient heaps of crap. That can't go around corners. But there's hope on the horizon! When the trade ban with Cuba gets lifted there's a whole new market opening ;-)
Keep gobbling up the propaganda boys.
From the other perspective. If you are out taking a stroll in a new area, and come across an old ruined house in the woods ... Are you ready to "prove" it was built with Craftsman tools on the spot ... or using prefabricated pieces? Oh, yes... it's UNPROVABLE.
You have got to be kidding right? There's plenty of ways to at least date the period during which it was built, and if that happens to be before we invented the concept of prefabricated pieces...there you go already. If the house is surrounded by dense foliage that has been there for longer than we have prefabricated pieces...another piece of evidence, unless the pieces were airlifted in by benign aliens for a couple beers and a slice of pizza ofcourse.
As for intricate complex crystals on another world. Hell yeah, I'd want to know where they came from, how they get there etc.
I know, seriously. It's missing the mandatory
if(driver.type == POLITICIAN){
printf("Look Other Way");
}
Nah, that's not how it works....
if(driver.type == POLITICIAN){
scratch(driver.back);
present_for_scratching(user.back);
}
Unfortunately there apparently aren't enough cow flops to produce a big enough population of these booby-trap-beetles to wipe out the cane toads. So the toads are still a problem.
Get more cows? :)
Mooooooo!
Think about it: is a cheap necklace of mardi gras beads really worth the embarrassment of showing up in a "Girl geeks gone wild!" video?
What kind of a stupid question is that? Where the fuck do I sign up?! And you can keep the necklace too...
Then there's "networking" which often involves creating a whole false persona. It's sickening, but damn-near unavoidable, and certainly considered to be normal and acceptable.
Ehmm, some of us manage to "network" while still remaining true to who we are and what we believe is important. Of course that doesn't mean a lot, since there's tons of people who are total assholes and who believe the most important thing in the world is themselves, but you get the point ;-)
I'm not sure where you are in the world, so my comment may or may not be applicable. But my general experience with electric companies doesn't suggest they have to compete to stay in business.
Not sure about the GP, but I actually *work* for an electric company, and we sell our electricity to the average household at...a loss. Things start to turn more profitable once you're dealing with big customers. Ofcourse over here we've separated the infrastructure from the product, so there's like 2 dozen different companies competing in a country with 17 million people for the consumer/small business market. Must be some weird socialist EU thing.
So vegetarians/vegans/fruititarians can't exist in space? What's Earth's special property that allows them to exist here?
Spiders crawl into their mouths while they sleep. No spiders on the spaceship...the vegans die. Save the spiders!
I'm European. I have never met a person who has gotten rich, or even well-off thanks to welfare benefits.
Hi, I'm also European, and now you've met one. I'm far from rich, but I can pretty much buy anything I want these days.
You know why? Because there's was a safety net that caught me when I was young, stupid and too damn irresponsible to hold a job for long. The taxes of my fellow countrymen made sure I had a roof over my head, food in my stomach and even the opportunity to get some education. As I grew up a bit I managed to get a job, carve out something of a career and get things in order.
I recently did the math, just for fun. Since I got off of welfare, I've already paid back more in income taxes than the initial investment the state(and hence the taxpayers) originally made to support me in my time of need. Had that safety net not been there I probably would still be homeless, possibly in jail costing the taxpayer big chunks of money without any ROI, or maybe just plain dead.
Is this just a single data point? Sure it is. Are there tons of deadbeat parents out there leeching off the state, and in extension, off of me? Yes, there are. Would I prefer their children being homeless while dad has to go out stealing to put food on the table or just to support his drug addiction? Nah, think I'll pass. Take some of my taxes and fix the problem so at least his kids end up decent.
But in mainstream, paper books will be dead in next 10-20 years.
Oi, some of us just spent good money on a big ass bookcase for their living rooms, you insensitive clod.
Scotch or Irish Whisky will do. Something 16 years old on ice with club soda.
I was right with you till you started blaspheming there. Putting ice in a good 16 year old scotch...mwah. But club soda???
What bothers me a lot more is a show like NCIS. As much as I enjoy watching it, it really pisses me off how they glorify things like breaking and entering without a warrant when a situation "calls for it". I haven't watched CSI for a while, but I think I recall similar practices being shown there as well. Law and Order on the other hand regularly shows the bad guys getting off because their rights get in the way of an investigation or a cop going over the line messes up the entire investigation.
But that's just it... what makes an MMO any more "adult" than Cowboys & Indians in the first place?
As an avid EVE player, I see plenty of adult activities ingame. I see managers getting bossed around by a 20 year old who's still in school, drill sergeants taking orders from housewives, etc. People invest serious time and effort into achieving certain goals, with the very real possibility of another group of people then showing up and turning the first group's accomplishment into a bunch of shiny pixels depicting an explosion.
Is it all a big waste of time? Perhaps, but then again so is sitting in front of a tv several hours every evening. And it's a lot more fun to sit around chatting, playing and sharing interests with people from the other side of the globe. Playing cowboys and indians is a lot more fun if the other guy is an actual indian. Now if only we could get the whole thing with those damn timezones sorted out :/
The previous head of the national oil company, Eivind Reiten, privately submitted a view to the EU that he thought private interests should be able to buy property rights to waterfalls.
This is heavily against the ruling Labour Party's politics, and their council representative Jan Bohler said in an interview that they were going to get rid of him for that reason. He is now gone.
It's a funny state and funny state of mind when the government considers itself rightfully able to remove business leaders who don't agree with their politics.
Is said oil company owned by the state? And wouldn't that pretty much make the government the representatives of the shareholders kicking out a CEO?
I'll let you plug me into Eve Online...but only if you give me something to do during the daily downtime.
Not sure I'm gonna enjoy the experience of being podded though :/
"Feeling a bit queasy this morning, worried about scurvy"
"YARR"
"boarding now, hope i have enough ammo"
"US Marines spotted by lookout, need to get out of here, bblkthxbye"
Walking has costs, too. Increased wear on shoes and socks, for those that wear them. Increased food consumption (unless your drive is very exciting). Do not forget the environmental impact as well, due to CO2 from respiration.
Don't know about you, but around here we don't tend to eat petrochemicals for breakfast ;-)
Don't discount the environmental impact of sweaty socls though...
The evil socialists in Sweden require employees to have showers at the office.
Those evil socialists also have an excellent tunnelbana system.
The evil socialists in the Netherlands allow you to buy a tax-deductible bike every 3 years(or at least my employer does).
Unfortunately for me i can walk to work and still get there in less than 15 minutes, which is a lovely way to start the day in the spring and summer, so no real incentive to use a bicycle except when i have meetings in other locations.
If he reformatted his C: and installed a fresh windows on there, how were files from the windows install on the hidden D: being launched by the trojan? Especially if you launch an install from a bootable device such as a CD, I don't quite see how the hidden install on the second drive would be able to interfere with the reinstall or operation of the fresh install?
Over the years Vista has been updated and actually works great - I like having it instead of XP and so would most Vista bashers if they actually used it.
Sorry, but I tested Vista only a few short months ago and I felt it was absolute rubbish. Not because of performance(Core I7, 6 Gigs DDR3) but because I have to jump through a dozen hoops to get the damn OS to do what I tell it to do.
Maybe not the *primary* use, but here (FR), most ISPs will give you a set top box with their ADSL modem (or the modem itself doubles as a STB) which will decode mpeg data streamed from the ISP, hold a hard disk to record programs and for time shifting, plus assorted gadgets (they're typically little Linux machines). Some also integrate a decoder for terrestrial digital television (you'll have to add your antenna).
You get roughly 100 "free" channels as a standard packaged deal when you open an ADSL2+ line (plus VOIP that's free to most ground phones worldwide). The cost is around 30 s / month.
So here, watching TV certainly is a common use of broadband. Out of the 10-15 Mb that you typically get out of the 22 to 24 Mb theoretical throughput of ADSL2+, a TV stream isn't really that much of a problem.
Presumably this kind of set up is also deployed elsewhere in Europe.
Oh, that's just great. You just announced on an american website that in large chunks of europe we get kickass broadband, phone service and a bunch of tv channels for less money than an american pays to look at static.
There is such a thing as too much transparency, you know?
Oh, well, only 1 solution now. Socialist! Commie! No true red-blooded american would watch your filthy tv channels! They're probably all filled with ugly french women with unshaven armpits anyway!
Desole, had to be done ;-) So, you guys still got les Guignols down there?