Possibly, if the cable industry didn't spend so much time and effort BONING its customers at every opportunity, the number of "unreasonable" customers would decrease.
I would think that a college campus would be the LAST place I'd want a record shop. A superior distribution method is far too close at hand.
Between illegally downloading music and LEGALLY downloading music (have you SEEN the number of ipods on a college campus these days?), a music shop doesn't stand a chance.
I'm constantly reminded how lucky I am. About ten years ago, my current CIO was the person who did all the coding, back when the company was much smaller. We've grown a lot, there's an actual IT department of 20 now (as opposed to the three "computer people" we started with) but everything is still built on the stuff she coded way back when. She spent many late nights coding, coding, coding, up until about 3 or 4 years ago. She's happy enough with the current team that she's taken a step back, and just worries about the big picture. She is our biggest advocate and in our corner, but can be extremely demanding. But of all the people at the top, she's the one who knows what's within the realm of possibility. She makes some tough demands, but at least they're informed ones.
Obviously, I'm baffled. Costly and rare? Costly? At times, yes. Rare? If I can go to any shopping mall in America and find three different stores with two hundred of a thing on hand, it's not rare. A delicacy? Fugu is a delicacy.
I think many people like diamonds because they're pretty when the light hits them just right.
Perhaps you're a part of the "my crap will smell better if I pay more for my toilet" crowd. Actually, your comment strikes me as coming from a person in sales. Are you a shill? It's okay, you don't have to admit it.
Comparing Zonk to Ted Kaczynski isn't fair. Considering that more and more people post under his articles complaining about *him* than the actual content of the article, I'd say he's more of a JonKatz.
Why does IT want to wield password policy like a club?[...]The obvious solution is to do some simple training for the employees.
And when simple training doesn't work, you just end up beating people over the head anyway. What sense would it make to teach someone corporate policy and then not enforce it?
"Please try to keep your password complex. Yes, I know the system allows you to set it to your puppy's name every other month, but don't, mmkay?"
Users are often unhappy with their interaction with corporate IT already. Why be so adversarial?
When it comes down to it, IT works for the company, and like everyone else, is charged with protecting the company's interests. Where the users insist on against the company's policy, I would hope that IT is willing to do their job.
A question for you: Why is the security guard at the front door so "adversarial"? Insisting on asking for ID before letting you into the building after hours. Must be his ego, right?
It's funny - when I'm at work, I don't get to decide whose problems I want to work on. Some are more crucial, to be sure, but none get vertical-filed, especially if they bring it to my desk with half the work done.
There are simply too many criminals and too many crimes at this point in history.
Baloney. Violent crime has been on a downwards trend for at least the last ten years.
This is the sort of thing that leads me to believe that he's *not* particularly corrupt. When even your own team doesn't like you, it means you're not playing the game the way they want you to.
If they were actually trying to fight piracy, they'd be going after the XXXREDACTEDXXX posters, which would be, incidentally, infinitely easier to fight in court
Shut up, man! Don't give them any ideas! That is the only avenue by which I can (without fear of ridicule) listen to such classics as "Popozao".
I don't know how many games I've played that feed you new techniques and weapons as you go along where, once you get the uber-weapon, the challenge sucks right down to nothing until you get to the endgame. Or when you work on the same section for hours... only to immediately receive an ability that would have gotten you through in minutes. Or enemies near the end of a game that can only be defeated by something you just received, making everything else you've perfected along the way useless. The God of War endgame comes to mind (not bashing the game, great game, this is just an example) - you've perfected your technique with the default weapon to reach the end, nothing could possibly stand under your vicious onslaught, only to have it all taken away from you and wind up with a completely different weapon against a difficult opponent. It's sort of an artifical way of increasing the difficulty of the section.
I think the problem isn't a lack of funding, but a lack of efficiency. On many fronts. It's like we either choose to beat our (collective) head against a wall, or decide to beat it against a more expensive wall. Then, when pressed about the bruised-head issue, the response is, "We're trying to solve this problem - just look at this wall we bought!"
Slashdot Mirror
Possibly, if the cable industry didn't spend so much time and effort BONING its customers at every opportunity, the number of "unreasonable" customers would decrease.
What about, "Shut up and put out?"
Did you happen to buy in when Circuit City was hawking Divx ?
I would think that a college campus would be the LAST place I'd want a record shop. A superior distribution method is far too close at hand.
Between illegally downloading music and LEGALLY downloading music (have you SEEN the number of ipods on a college campus these days?), a music shop doesn't stand a chance.
Nah - dark, bitter, and hand-picked by a man in Colombia.
I'm constantly reminded how lucky I am. About ten years ago, my current CIO was the person who did all the coding, back when the company was much smaller. We've grown a lot, there's an actual IT department of 20 now (as opposed to the three "computer people" we started with) but everything is still built on the stuff she coded way back when. She spent many late nights coding, coding, coding, up until about 3 or 4 years ago. She's happy enough with the current team that she's taken a step back, and just worries about the big picture. She is our biggest advocate and in our corner, but can be extremely demanding. But of all the people at the top, she's the one who knows what's within the realm of possibility. She makes some tough demands, but at least they're informed ones.
Oh, you're just jealous.
TWA 800. A friend from my college days said it this way - "I grew up there, and I know what I saw."
Maybe, maybe not... but it's still not illegal to be an ass.
Obviously, I'm baffled. Costly and rare? Costly? At times, yes. Rare? If I can go to any shopping mall in America and find three different stores with two hundred of a thing on hand, it's not rare. A delicacy? Fugu is a delicacy.
I think many people like diamonds because they're pretty when the light hits them just right.
Perhaps you're a part of the "my crap will smell better if I pay more for my toilet" crowd. Actually, your comment strikes me as coming from a person in sales. Are you a shill? It's okay, you don't have to admit it.
Comparing Zonk to Ted Kaczynski isn't fair. Considering that more and more people post under his articles complaining about *him* than the actual content of the article, I'd say he's more of a JonKatz.
"Please try to keep your password complex. Yes, I know the system allows you to set it to your puppy's name every other month, but don't, mmkay?"
When it comes down to it, IT works for the company, and like everyone else, is charged with protecting the company's interests. Where the users insist on against the company's policy, I would hope that IT is willing to do their job.A question for you: Why is the security guard at the front door so "adversarial"? Insisting on asking for ID before letting you into the building after hours. Must be his ego, right?
For everyone who said, "Free Bird!" last time... there it goes.
It's sort of like playing 4 or 5 games of a series where you've come to expect certain "elements", playing the most recent, and finding no zombies.
Baloney. Violent crime has been on a downwards trend for at least the last ten years.
"I Come in Peace"
This is the sort of thing that leads me to believe that he's *not* particularly corrupt. When even your own team doesn't like you, it means you're not playing the game the way they want you to.
Similarly, I remember there was talk of George Clooney playing Batman... never happened, though.
Shut up, man! Don't give them any ideas! That is the only avenue by which I can (without fear of ridicule) listen to such classics as "Popozao".
"Natural selection will nuke the shallow stick girls"? Okay, explain Brooke Burke.
I don't know how many games I've played that feed you new techniques and weapons as you go along where, once you get the uber-weapon, the challenge sucks right down to nothing until you get to the endgame. Or when you work on the same section for hours... only to immediately receive an ability that would have gotten you through in minutes. Or enemies near the end of a game that can only be defeated by something you just received, making everything else you've perfected along the way useless. The God of War endgame comes to mind (not bashing the game, great game, this is just an example) - you've perfected your technique with the default weapon to reach the end, nothing could possibly stand under your vicious onslaught, only to have it all taken away from you and wind up with a completely different weapon against a difficult opponent. It's sort of an artifical way of increasing the difficulty of the section.
And finally, the man behind the DOA physics engine reveals himself...
I think the problem isn't a lack of funding, but a lack of efficiency. On many fronts. It's like we either choose to beat our (collective) head against a wall, or decide to beat it against a more expensive wall. Then, when pressed about the bruised-head issue, the response is, "We're trying to solve this problem - just look at this wall we bought!"
Untrue! Seagal only has a +15 to hit if the locale is a pool hall, bar, or convenience store.