Yep. He had the passwords to the network and his job duties said that in the event of termination he was only to turn it over to his boss (which was the City of San Francisco, and in a person the Mayor, even though he is completely illiterate too from what I heard). Since he refused to turn it over to people who were in fact not nearly as qualified as him (but apparently played politics very well), this is how the whole fiasco started. I read about it on some news site but don't have a link handy at the moment, sorry. Google is your friend though.
Guy does his job even AFTER he's fired and he goes to prison for it? Ugh.
Sure he had a god-complex, but then again he designed the system from the ground up and was tasked with making it secure. I'd say he went above and beyond the call of duty. This is a notice to network admins that your bosses don't want security or good workers. They want "Yes!" men.
Listen, just be happy I do use DivX. You're not going to change my mind. I hate QT as much as the next person. After installing FreeBSD on my frankenstein's monster of a computer (8+ year old case, mobo, processor with all other hardware of various ages (PSU being the newest)), I just want to sit back and enjoy a movie without having to worry if I have the correct codecs. I'm not saying I already have every codec in existence or that QT, RP, WMP and Winamp play them all, but it covers my bases enough that I just don't have to worry about it.
I know that, but commodore64_love uses Office 97 and wants to know why s/he should upgrade. Obviously if s/he thinks Office 97 is sufficient, they won't know and/or care about OOo.
That's the same as people NOT doing things because it's the IN thing. It's no better morally than just doing the IN thing and going with the crowd. I'd check it out if I had silverlight. I like to keep crap out of my install so I avoid things like Silverlight and Quicktime and Realplayer and whatnot... (Is Real still even around?) Most of the content of the shitty, ugly formats are available in other formats. Eventually there's a divx version of everything.
You are right, it pretty much is the same as doing the in thing. I don't claim any moral ground on this issue.
I just want to keep Silverlight disabled until I uninstall it.
QT and RealPlayer (which is still around) are necessary because your assumption of them eventually being available in other formats is fallacious. As evidenced by my Winamp install (along with Windows Media Player not being able to find the codecs to play them, either) will not play the videos of any the MP4s that I download from YouTube (YouTube downloader). I have to use QT or install some sort of converter and go through some more hassle. Nah, keeping QT installed (and limit it's usage and it's gimpy hooks from touching stuff it shouldn't) is much easier.
I have Realplayer installed because I got some swag bucks for it. I could probably delete it but I've come across the odd file or two that only it would play.
Right now I need to grab divx, though. Thanks for reminding me!
Nah, personal comp, just wanted to play some stupid FB games that I no longer play (and never played often to begin with). I forgot I had it installed still until yesterday and am still to lazy to just uninstall it (I do have it deleted though).
Also, I thought Silverlight might actually be pretty neat. I was horribly, horribly wrong.
Oh and age: I'm still using MS Office 97. It still works just fine, and has a minimal memory footprint of just 4 megabytes. Plus it's fast. Why upgrade?
I don't know what he's complaining about. The programmer in question is making more money in one year than most people in my county see at once in several (I say most, there are those who make 6- and even 7-figure salaries around here, though I do believe it is a minority that does so).
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Sounds like you need a free market solution!
I just saw the concept, and I must say. "DO NOT WANT!"
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "throwing them under the bus"
yeah, the big mac wouldn't last long on a bookshelf.
No he didn't. While he still had the passwords, the network never went down and was completely usable.
Yep. He had the passwords to the network and his job duties said that in the event of termination he was only to turn it over to his boss (which was the City of San Francisco, and in a person the Mayor, even though he is completely illiterate too from what I heard). Since he refused to turn it over to people who were in fact not nearly as qualified as him (but apparently played politics very well), this is how the whole fiasco started. I read about it on some news site but don't have a link handy at the moment, sorry. Google is your friend though.
Guy does his job even AFTER he's fired and he goes to prison for it? Ugh.
Sure he had a god-complex, but then again he designed the system from the ground up and was tasked with making it secure. I'd say he went above and beyond the call of duty. This is a notice to network admins that your bosses don't want security or good workers. They want "Yes!" men.
I absolutely hate VLC. I don't use it under FreeBSD if I don't have to and I certainly don't use it under Windows. HORRID program.
It may be, but in this case it works (I finally installed it and started using it for the legitimately downloaded movies I've been finding).
Listen, just be happy I do use DivX. You're not going to change my mind. I hate QT as much as the next person. After installing FreeBSD on my frankenstein's monster of a computer (8+ year old case, mobo, processor with all other hardware of various ages (PSU being the newest)), I just want to sit back and enjoy a movie without having to worry if I have the correct codecs. I'm not saying I already have every codec in existence or that QT, RP, WMP and Winamp play them all, but it covers my bases enough that I just don't have to worry about it.
Which would either be OOo (I don't know if AbiWord can handle it) or an Office upgrade.
In that regard, yeah. But if they are still using Office 97, I don't think they care about OOo. ):
and if you think I'm going to spend hours looking for, installing, and configuring that on Windows, your nuts. QT just works.
Where's the news?
I know that, but commodore64_love uses Office 97 and wants to know why s/he should upgrade. Obviously if s/he thinks Office 97 is sufficient, they won't know and/or care about OOo.
That's the same as people NOT doing things because it's the IN thing. It's no better morally than just doing the IN thing and going with the crowd. I'd check it out if I had silverlight. I like to keep crap out of my install so I avoid things like Silverlight and Quicktime and Realplayer and whatnot... (Is Real still even around?) Most of the content of the shitty, ugly formats are available in other formats. Eventually there's a divx version of everything.
You are right, it pretty much is the same as doing the in thing. I don't claim any moral ground on this issue.
I just want to keep Silverlight disabled until I uninstall it.
QT and RealPlayer (which is still around) are necessary because your assumption of them eventually being available in other formats is fallacious. As evidenced by my Winamp install (along with Windows Media Player not being able to find the codecs to play them, either) will not play the videos of any the MP4s that I download from YouTube (YouTube downloader). I have to use QT or install some sort of converter and go through some more hassle. Nah, keeping QT installed (and limit it's usage and it's gimpy hooks from touching stuff it shouldn't) is much easier.
I have Realplayer installed because I got some swag bucks for it. I could probably delete it but I've come across the odd file or two that only it would play.
Right now I need to grab divx, though. Thanks for reminding me!
Nah, personal comp, just wanted to play some stupid FB games that I no longer play (and never played often to begin with). I forgot I had it installed still until yesterday and am still to lazy to just uninstall it (I do have it deleted though).
Also, I thought Silverlight might actually be pretty neat. I was horribly, horribly wrong.
I had it installed to play games I no longer play (and didn't play often enough to really make it worth the hassle).
I've been planning to get rid of it, this article just reminded me of it. Also, I'd rather have the original in jpg, tiff or png format.
I got the joke.
Oh and age: I'm still using MS Office 97. It still works just fine, and has a minimal memory footprint of just 4 megabytes. Plus it's fast. Why upgrade?
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No, no it doesn't matter.
I have silverlight installed, but won't be viewing this picture. Sad.
Is our entire food supply this flimsy?
Nothing is immune from attack. Some attacks might take more thought, but are no harder to pull off.
I don't know what he's complaining about. The programmer in question is making more money in one year than most people in my county see at once in several (I say most, there are those who make 6- and even 7-figure salaries around here, though I do believe it is a minority that does so).
You are seriously getting underpaid if your software is valued that much and you are making that little.
It's been my experience that pay is not as negotiable as everyone thinks it is.