My neighbor just bought a $4000 Plasma from Gateway. I tried to find the nicest way to tell him it sucked. I said it was mature technology. Was I being too nice?
It does in as much that when the only car you have to drive is in dire need of repair, your mother won't let you fix it because she doubts your ability to do such things, yet she will send you down to the gas station to get cigarettes instead of spending the money on at least paying someone else to fix it. It wasn't until high school when I realized I was poor. Fortunately, in my adult life, I am finacially stable and can do some simple tinkering on my truck and computer. The only debt I have is my credit card and my mortgage. But you can't escape your social class typically. Regardless of the career I'm in, car I drive, money I make, I will always be poor white trash. My skin color is the only thing keeping me from being a statistic. It may be harsh, but it's the truth as I see it. I'll get off my soap box now.
...I can't really consider myself either. Having been brought up fairly poor, I didn't have access to a computer outside of the 40 min once a week class in grade school. I wasn't allowed to even change the oil in my mother's car, only add more when it leaked out at the rate of 1 qt every Friday. My father does his own breaks, he just doesn't turn the rotars or replace them, ever. As much as I'd like to be a geek of any sort, I know my social class. But I love my Duron and my Slant-6.
Most of the geeks I know took German or Latin. Except for one. He got forced into Spanish because German wouldn't fit his schedule and French was closed. He was placed into Spanish. But if you high school employs more than one Spanish teacher like mine did, there's always room for another student council member.
The examples in the links given don't go far enough. I know the difference between base 10 and base 2, but how do you pronounce the individual digits in binary? For example, I know that '11' in base 10 is pronounced eleven and quantifies three in base two. But 'three' is a base 10 word. It doesn't symbolize the way it's written in base 2. Reading out the digits as singular ones and zeros doesn't quantify the actual value either. So is there a syntax to speaking in binary? How do you verbally count in binary? I hate to seen what happens when we get to base-n numbering systems.
I saw an impressive green colored streak across the sky. It bounced two or three times. And to think had I been ontime for work, I wouldn't have seen it.
But they did lay off a few early last month. One manager was quoted as asking, "Why is everybody smiling?" The reply I think she got was, "Because they don't have to come back here anymore." Granted this manager isn't qualifed to 'do' anything. She has her job because she's a black woman.
Try ordering whatever they're selling, then cancel the order. Then order it again and cancel the order. Then order it again and cancel the order. The idea being that you cost them more money than they would make just trying to do business with you. With any luck, they'll get the message.
Mod Parent up. Fun is the reason I mess with the gravity on the servers I admin. Fun is the reason I teleport snipers to sweet spots in the map. Fun is the reason I change the map to whatever I feel like playing.
Damn, forgot a few. We once disabled a coworker's virtual memory. Later we swapped her mouse and keyboard plugs. Try also changing the monitor and display settings. If you get it right, they will have a headache. You could probably mess with the host file and redirect their browser to some nefarious page like windows update.:) Go into a word processor and add common word misspeelings to their dictonary. The possibilities are endless. Actually, the person we did this stuff to was one of those employees. We did it more for spite than to be fun.
So you WERE in the all managers meeting last Tuesday. I assume you signed the NDA? So which rumor is true? The one where IBM buys back our division? Or the one where my fifth line manager is in Texas looking for the new site? Perhapse it's that they are moving all the work to Mexico so they can repeatedly FAIL on the entire contract, not just their part. Either way, I still don't care. I just want to stay around long enough to ride the gravy train on company stock purchase. Hell, it's up over 300%. T-minus 10 days and counting.
Amazing as it may sound, setting up RedHat isn't that hard for even the beginner. What is hard is what comes after it's installed. This of course leads to the Linux/Desktop issue which I'd rather avoid, but is at the root, no pun intended, of the problem. The last thing many gamers would like to do when they get that brand spanking new game is configure, compile or tweak anything not related to the game. They want drop the disk in, click INSTALL and play. Again, please do not use this post as a point to start the Linux on the desktop debate. That is all.
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Doh! Should have read "was NOT mature technology."
My neighbor just bought a $4000 Plasma from Gateway. I tried to find the nicest way to tell him it sucked. I said it was mature technology. Was I being too nice?
Are they going to release a security patch?
It would be called planned obsolescence.
Friends don't let friends use flash.
Slap a coat or two on. Let it go for a while. Add a few more coats. Does it promis not to harm clear coats?
It does in as much that when the only car you have to drive is in dire need of repair, your mother won't let you fix it because she doubts your ability to do such things, yet she will send you down to the gas station to get cigarettes instead of spending the money on at least paying someone else to fix it. It wasn't until high school when I realized I was poor. Fortunately, in my adult life, I am finacially stable and can do some simple tinkering on my truck and computer. The only debt I have is my credit card and my mortgage. But you can't escape your social class typically. Regardless of the career I'm in, car I drive, money I make, I will always be poor white trash. My skin color is the only thing keeping me from being a statistic. It may be harsh, but it's the truth as I see it. I'll get off my soap box now.
...I can't really consider myself either. Having been brought up fairly poor, I didn't have access to a computer outside of the 40 min once a week class in grade school. I wasn't allowed to even change the oil in my mother's car, only add more when it leaked out at the rate of 1 qt every Friday. My father does his own breaks, he just doesn't turn the rotars or replace them, ever.
As much as I'd like to be a geek of any sort, I know my social class. But I love my Duron and my Slant-6.
Most of the geeks I know took German or Latin. Except for one. He got forced into Spanish because German wouldn't fit his schedule and French was closed. He was placed into Spanish. But if you high school employs more than one Spanish teacher like mine did, there's always room for another student council member.
Gram and meter are intrinsically metric. Things like ton can be 2000 lbs standard or 1000 lbs metric. How you get a metric lbs is beyond me.
The examples in the links given don't go far enough. I know the difference between base 10 and base 2, but how do you pronounce the individual digits in binary? For example, I know that '11' in base 10 is pronounced eleven and quantifies three in base two. But 'three' is a base 10 word. It doesn't symbolize the way it's written in base 2. Reading out the digits as singular ones and zeros doesn't quantify the actual value either. So is there a syntax to speaking in binary? How do you verbally count in binary? I hate to seen what happens when we get to base-n numbering systems.
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To quote Zack De La Rocha, "Fuck it, cut tha cord!"
This sounds like someone who's tired of bein' put down by da man.
I saw an impressive green colored streak across the sky. It bounced two or three times. And to think had I been ontime for work, I wouldn't have seen it.
But they did lay off a few early last month. One manager was quoted as asking, "Why is everybody smiling?" The reply I think she got was, "Because they don't have to come back here anymore." Granted this manager isn't qualifed to 'do' anything. She has her job because she's a black woman.
And you didn't get half? Oh wait, you said Wife.
Try ordering whatever they're selling, then cancel the order. Then order it again and cancel the order. Then order it again and cancel the order. The idea being that you cost them more money than they would make just trying to do business with you. With any luck, they'll get the message.
Mod Parent up.
Fun is the reason I mess with the gravity on the servers I admin. Fun is the reason I teleport snipers to sweet spots in the map. Fun is the reason I change the map to whatever I feel like playing.
Damn, forgot a few. :) Go into a word processor and add common word misspeelings to their dictonary. The possibilities are endless.
We once disabled a coworker's virtual memory. Later we swapped her mouse and keyboard plugs. Try also changing the monitor and display settings. If you get it right, they will have a headache. You could probably mess with the host file and redirect their browser to some nefarious page like windows update.
Actually, the person we did this stuff to was one of those employees. We did it more for spite than to be fun.
Schedule system maintenance like defrag, virus scans and other annoying interuptions every hour or so.
Kinda hard to have a North American Distibution Center in India. But I wouldn't put it past some of the rocket scientists we have in upper management.
So you WERE in the all managers meeting last Tuesday. I assume you signed the NDA? So which rumor is true? The one where IBM buys back our division? Or the one where my fifth line manager is in Texas looking for the new site? Perhapse it's that they are moving all the work to Mexico so they can repeatedly FAIL on the entire contract, not just their part. Either way, I still don't care. I just want to stay around long enough to ride the gravy train on company stock purchase. Hell, it's up over 300%. T-minus 10 days and counting.
Amazing as it may sound, setting up RedHat isn't that hard for even the beginner. What is hard is what comes after it's installed. This of course leads to the Linux/Desktop issue which I'd rather avoid, but is at the root, no pun intended, of the problem. The last thing many gamers would like to do when they get that brand spanking new game is configure, compile or tweak anything not related to the game. They want drop the disk in, click INSTALL and play.
Again, please do not use this post as a point to start the Linux on the desktop debate. That is all.