Because they find you not doing so deeply offending, as well.
And I find their offense, and attempt to censor a game, deeply offending.
The world isn't set up to make sure no one's ever offended. If Muslims can't handle that, there are plenty of countries they could move to that don't sell video games much at all.
My sister-in-law, who is the most PC person on the planet, is raising her children to be the ultimate in polite speakers. No racial/sexual/religious/anything slurs are ever allowed out of these children's mouths. Their speech is so censored they're not even allowed to use words such as "hate" or "stupid". They're being raised to talk nothing but sunshine and ponies. No disparaging anyone, or any group, ever.
Yet she finds it hysterically cute that she's taught them that I'm a "geek".
It's the one remaining insult that seems acceptable no matter what.
They don't seem to understand they are seen as a cost center
I agree with you that poor management is what kills IT, but in my experience the problem IS that they see IT as a cost center. The minute this expression is used, shit starts hitting the fan in my experience.
Companies with any brains in their management structure realize that IT is a COST SAVINGS organization. If it was a fscking cost center only, YOU COULD GET RID OF IT. IT saves companies money, when done right. That's why we have computers in the first place, folks. I swear some managers honestly think they're just a flashy fad.
Another stupid gem that once you hear, it's time to jump ship: "We're not an IT company" - used as an excuse to outsource/downsize. You're also not a law firm, but I don't see you outsourcing the legal department.
Users end up hating IT. The problem is, managers can hold the fort for years as they destroy a well-working IT organization. "Don't worry, this is just a transition period, things will improve once everyone is used to the new process" may be the most common lie I've ever heard. By the time everyone realizes that the emperor in fact has no clothes, the idiots who decided on this route have collected several large bonuses and are long gone from the company. It takes years more to bring back some semblance of sanity.
That study was only acapblilpe to small words for the most part. Ohiswerte welthsors.
Yes, you can make it out if you try hard enough - much of that is based on context. Heck, it takes ME a while to figure those words out, and I *typed* them.
Security is not a binary thing, and no one in their right mind has never claimed it is - beyond misinterpretation of unqualified comments.
50,000:1 in my books means that the 1 is damn nigh invincible. Anything else is academic.
PS: I just got pointed out today how stupid the UAC in Vista is. "A program is attempting to access your computer - cancel/allow?" Um, what kind of program exists that DOESN'T "access my computer"? This question was posed by a complete computer novice, so I'm not even speaking on a technical level here. By any definition of "access", technical or n00b, that's what programs do - access the computer. Who would ever say no, unless they maybe accidentally clicked on the wrong program entirely. If I clicked on something, of course I want it to access my computer.
As another example, there are deeply creepy web sites where parents dress up their 12-year-old daughters in bikinis and miniskirts and get them to pose in very adult (think Penthouse) ways. People have gotten in trouble for that, too.
And yet when they do it in the style of "beauty pageants" a la Jon Benet Ramsay, it's considered "cute".
Personally, because I'd have liked to have seen her turn up alive and well. A living person is better than a dead person any day.
Sadly, circumstantial evidence or not, the guy was clearly guilty as all hell from minute one. Even the weirdest, most anti-social geek I know doesn't do the strange shit he pulled in the days following her murder.
I don't avoid extended warranties because I figure I'll just fix things myself and save money that way.
I avoid them because in the 10+ years I've seen them for sale, not a single electronic anything I've bought has needed one. Not one. Every single electronic device I've owned in that time has either failed within the first year or so (manufacturer's warranty), or well after any extended warranty would have gone for. Or is still working, many years later.
That's 3 TVs, 2 DVD players, a home theatre system, 3 laptops, enough desktop PC parts to build 10 or 12 systems, 3 MP3 players, 2 GPS units, 4 video game consoles, and 3 digital cameras, just off the top of my head. The extended warranty on all these would have ended up costing me thousands of dollars. Much better to just save all that money, and in the once-in-a-blue-moon event that something does break, buy a new one.
Maybe I'm just phenomenally lucky, or maybe I just take care of my stuff. I don't know, but I'm astounded that anyone would ever buy an extended warranty. Maybe for a person who only ever buys one thing a decade...
The local summer carnival type thing started up this weekend. Inside they have dozens of booths of "as seen on TV" type products. Guys demo'ing knives, you name it.
Anyway, one of the products is the latest in the detox snakeoil business. The funny part was their sign: "Detox is the latest Buzz Word!".
They were seriously advertising something as a fad, and claiming that "buzzword" had a positive connotation. I was completely floored.
If people are stupid enough to have unprotected sex with an unknown partner then it's their problem. Also, this re-enforces the nature of being faithful in a relationship so stop screwing around people!!
No it doesn't, not in the slightest.
It reinforces the nature of using a condom while screwing around, nothing more.
PS: Every partner might as well be treated like an "unknown" partner. Unless you have 7x24 video surveillance of their every move, you could quite easily be infected with HIV. Trust doesn't stop viruses, and thousands of cases demonstrate my point.
In summary, HIV has nothing to do with screwing around, and nothing to do with "unknown" partners. It has everything to do with unprotected sex, and unprotected sex only. The only way to 100% guarantee you'll never catch HIV is to never ever have penetrative sex. Period. With anyone, no matter how much you trust them. You can be 99.9999% sure if you use a condom. Anything else, you're taking your life into your own hands.
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I never realized that I was psychic, but how could Detroit not have seen this coming?
Up here in the Great White North it's been a constant barrage of news stories: truck plants closing unexpectedly in Ontario, tens of thousands out of work. Apparently neither GM nor Ford actually anticipated a) fuel prices rising this high and b) consumers actually (gasp!) shopping for fuel economy as a result. Almost as if the 1970s never happened.
The other interesting thing is that hybrids are just about sold out entirely in western Canada. Months long waiting lists. Not so surprising, as I'm sure the auto industry never produced *that* many compared to regular cars. What is surprising is that Honda Civics are also sold out all over the place.
All of this followed by nightly news stories of these poor SUV drivers who are scrambling to replace their vehicles - only to discover the resale is next to nothing (I heard a report claiming used SUV prices are down 30% in the past month or two alone), and smaller vehicles are getting hard to find. Again, DUH. Economists, the oil industry - damn near everyone has been predicting this for YEARS. Everyone except the auto industry. I hope Ford and GM go bankrupt for their shortsightedness.
a train between two holiday resorts during a time when people have no money to spend on holidays is all kinds of pointless.
Don't worry, with the low US dollar and the overall downturn in your economy forcing resorts to offer deals, Vegas is doing just fine. I was there not 2 months ago and it was packed wall-to-wall with Canadian and European (a LOT of British for some reason) tourists.
Besides the fact that this train will not be built before the current economic troubles are over. By the time the train is actually built, the US economy will be firing on all cylinders again - unless you subscribe to the theory that this is a permanent depression.
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Because they find you not doing so deeply offending, as well.
And I find their offense, and attempt to censor a game, deeply offending.
The world isn't set up to make sure no one's ever offended. If Muslims can't handle that, there are plenty of countries they could move to that don't sell video games much at all.
Hey, he's a big guy - and, he's good with knots!
Plenty of eugenicists come out of the woodwork at night, it appears.
Here's a hint, kids: human society and civilization IS PART OF OUR EVOLUTION.
Frightening, but true.
My sister-in-law, who is the most PC person on the planet, is raising her children to be the ultimate in polite speakers. No racial/sexual/religious/anything slurs are ever allowed out of these children's mouths. Their speech is so censored they're not even allowed to use words such as "hate" or "stupid". They're being raised to talk nothing but sunshine and ponies. No disparaging anyone, or any group, ever.
Yet she finds it hysterically cute that she's taught them that I'm a "geek".
It's the one remaining insult that seems acceptable no matter what.
There's a facebook group that just popped up announcing to the world that some kid popped his first zit.
The sad part is, I only wish I was exaggerating and/or trolling...
They don't seem to understand they are seen as a cost center
I agree with you that poor management is what kills IT, but in my experience the problem IS that they see IT as a cost center. The minute this expression is used, shit starts hitting the fan in my experience.
Companies with any brains in their management structure realize that IT is a COST SAVINGS organization. If it was a fscking cost center only, YOU COULD GET RID OF IT. IT saves companies money, when done right. That's why we have computers in the first place, folks. I swear some managers honestly think they're just a flashy fad.
Another stupid gem that once you hear, it's time to jump ship: "We're not an IT company" - used as an excuse to outsource/downsize. You're also not a law firm, but I don't see you outsourcing the legal department.
Users end up hating IT. The problem is, managers can hold the fort for years as they destroy a well-working IT organization. "Don't worry, this is just a transition period, things will improve once everyone is used to the new process" may be the most common lie I've ever heard. By the time everyone realizes that the emperor in fact has no clothes, the idiots who decided on this route have collected several large bonuses and are long gone from the company. It takes years more to bring back some semblance of sanity.
And so the pendulum swings...
I clmeepoty dregsaie.
That study was only acapblilpe to small words for the most part. Ohiswerte welthsors.
Yes, you can make it out if you try hard enough - much of that is based on context. Heck, it takes ME a while to figure those words out, and I *typed* them.
Absolutely, and it's the self-replicating kind that make Linux/OSX/anything *nix-based shine.
It's also the self-replicating kind that have caused the most damage in the past.
Security is not a binary thing, and no one in their right mind has never claimed it is - beyond misinterpretation of unqualified comments.
50,000:1 in my books means that the 1 is damn nigh invincible. Anything else is academic.
PS: I just got pointed out today how stupid the UAC in Vista is. "A program is attempting to access your computer - cancel/allow?" Um, what kind of program exists that DOESN'T "access my computer"? This question was posed by a complete computer novice, so I'm not even speaking on a technical level here. By any definition of "access", technical or n00b, that's what programs do - access the computer. Who would ever say no, unless they maybe accidentally clicked on the wrong program entirely. If I clicked on something, of course I want it to access my computer.
I think I speak for many of us oldtimers when I say:
GOOGLE! GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!
Not anymore.
As another example, there are deeply creepy web sites where parents dress up their 12-year-old daughters in bikinis and miniskirts and get them to pose in very adult (think Penthouse) ways. People have gotten in trouble for that, too.
And yet when they do it in the style of "beauty pageants" a la Jon Benet Ramsay, it's considered "cute".
Personally, because I'd have liked to have seen her turn up alive and well. A living person is better than a dead person any day.
Sadly, circumstantial evidence or not, the guy was clearly guilty as all hell from minute one. Even the weirdest, most anti-social geek I know doesn't do the strange shit he pulled in the days following her murder.
I don't avoid extended warranties because I figure I'll just fix things myself and save money that way.
I avoid them because in the 10+ years I've seen them for sale, not a single electronic anything I've bought has needed one. Not one. Every single electronic device I've owned in that time has either failed within the first year or so (manufacturer's warranty), or well after any extended warranty would have gone for. Or is still working, many years later.
That's 3 TVs, 2 DVD players, a home theatre system, 3 laptops, enough desktop PC parts to build 10 or 12 systems, 3 MP3 players, 2 GPS units, 4 video game consoles, and 3 digital cameras, just off the top of my head. The extended warranty on all these would have ended up costing me thousands of dollars. Much better to just save all that money, and in the once-in-a-blue-moon event that something does break, buy a new one.
Maybe I'm just phenomenally lucky, or maybe I just take care of my stuff. I don't know, but I'm astounded that anyone would ever buy an extended warranty. Maybe for a person who only ever buys one thing a decade...
Consumer electronics just aren't that fragile.
The local summer carnival type thing started up this weekend. Inside they have dozens of booths of "as seen on TV" type products. Guys demo'ing knives, you name it.
Anyway, one of the products is the latest in the detox snakeoil business. The funny part was their sign: "Detox is the latest Buzz Word!".
They were seriously advertising something as a fad, and claiming that "buzzword" had a positive connotation. I was completely floored.
Hate to spoil your soapbox buzz, but the Internet is a part of human culture. A pretty big part in many ways.
Your comments could be used just as easily to justify never ever reading, and being illiterate. And would make as much sense.
If people are stupid enough to have unprotected sex with an unknown partner then it's their problem. Also, this re-enforces the nature of being faithful in a relationship so stop screwing around people!!
No it doesn't, not in the slightest.
It reinforces the nature of using a condom while screwing around, nothing more.
PS: Every partner might as well be treated like an "unknown" partner. Unless you have 7x24 video surveillance of their every move, you could quite easily be infected with HIV. Trust doesn't stop viruses, and thousands of cases demonstrate my point.
In summary, HIV has nothing to do with screwing around, and nothing to do with "unknown" partners. It has everything to do with unprotected sex, and unprotected sex only. The only way to 100% guarantee you'll never catch HIV is to never ever have penetrative sex. Period. With anyone, no matter how much you trust them. You can be 99.9999% sure if you use a condom. Anything else, you're taking your life into your own hands.
I never realized that I was psychic, but how could Detroit not have seen this coming?
Up here in the Great White North it's been a constant barrage of news stories: truck plants closing unexpectedly in Ontario, tens of thousands out of work. Apparently neither GM nor Ford actually anticipated a) fuel prices rising this high and b) consumers actually (gasp!) shopping for fuel economy as a result. Almost as if the 1970s never happened.
The other interesting thing is that hybrids are just about sold out entirely in western Canada. Months long waiting lists. Not so surprising, as I'm sure the auto industry never produced *that* many compared to regular cars. What is surprising is that Honda Civics are also sold out all over the place.
All of this followed by nightly news stories of these poor SUV drivers who are scrambling to replace their vehicles - only to discover the resale is next to nothing (I heard a report claiming used SUV prices are down 30% in the past month or two alone), and smaller vehicles are getting hard to find. Again, DUH. Economists, the oil industry - damn near everyone has been predicting this for YEARS. Everyone except the auto industry. I hope Ford and GM go bankrupt for their shortsightedness.
a train between two holiday resorts during a time when people have no money to spend on holidays is all kinds of pointless.
Don't worry, with the low US dollar and the overall downturn in your economy forcing resorts to offer deals, Vegas is doing just fine. I was there not 2 months ago and it was packed wall-to-wall with Canadian and European (a LOT of British for some reason) tourists.
Besides the fact that this train will not be built before the current economic troubles are over. By the time the train is actually built, the US economy will be firing on all cylinders again - unless you subscribe to the theory that this is a permanent depression.
Durable as all hell, power lasts a long time (and spare batteries easy to carry), and a good old fashioned serial interface.
:)
We still use them to interface with SCADA gear out in the field. You're not going to want to haul a regular laptop into some of those areas.
And yes, I've been trying to pilfer one ever since I discovered that they were still in use
Does that mean in 20 years hair bands will rule again? I'm sure the ozone is cringing.
There's a reason the Montreal Protocol came about in the 1980s.
The asteroid is already grey.
Note: they may want to bring the paint in 2 separate cans.
(what the hell mounties have to do with computers, like most of Canadian society, is entirely beyond me)
Uh, the RCMP is Canada's version of the FBI. Large-scale criminal investigations tend to involve computers these days.
Unless you meant that Canadians don't need computers in general...
Tagged "cellphones". How disappointing, Slashdot.
It's so obvious - SMELLPHONES.
One of my favourite MS oddities.
Of course, this is what 90% of organizations seem to do anyway.