I derive a great amount of personal satisfaction from learning and understanding how things work. I find I'm definitely a minority in that respect. It saddens me.
Apple is LCD (lowest common denominator) computing with aesthetics that are light-years ahead of everyone else. What a beautiful way to have a LCD flashlight. If they could mesh with people who actually perform work, it would be epic.
I agree. AVG was awesome up until 8.5. 9.0 is the buggiest resource-hogging, system-locking piece of shit I've seen since Norton and Mcafee. Problem is 9.0 came out about ten minutes after I renewed our company's license for 2 years.
...are Fark and Digg considered 'technical culture' sites. Seriously, this isn't 2001. Last time I checked, the Internet had sort of entered the mainstream and 'slacking off at work' isn't really considered exclusively IT.
My wife is an OR (operating room) nurse who is paid to be on call, which I would consider to be roughly analogous to this topic. However, there are a couple of major differences:
1. She has to go to a specific location (the hospital) when called in. It's not like she can do her job from home. 2. She's paid hourly. 3. Usually if she gets called in, someone is dying. I would rarely, if ever, classify an IT emergency anywhere near as important as that.
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Bombing range.
Ha! I'm a credited contributor to that site! woot!
April Fools is over, guys.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WR
I thought this might be about a new album.
Color me bummed.
I derive a great amount of personal satisfaction from learning and understanding how things work. I find I'm definitely a minority in that respect. It saddens me.
I'm a Niner and am waiting to see what comes of this. Should be interesting... I hated ST:O. Good luck.
P.S. It's DS9 not DSN :)
Norton123 posted this from April 1, 2011.
So I'm not being a curmudgeonly old jackass when I think this generation is stupid.
If they didn't sell the client, just the service, this wouldn't really be an issue, would it?
That's bullshit and if I had mod points I would mod parent down.
You're talking about Drupal, pal.
But that's not how 99.9% of people will remember it. It's the 'bang' that got their attention. And that's really all that matters anymore.
He sounds more like a computer repairman.
Apple is LCD (lowest common denominator) computing with aesthetics that are light-years ahead of everyone else. What a beautiful way to have a LCD flashlight. If they could mesh with people who actually perform work, it would be epic.
Unless you have an 8 hour a day meeting in mind, it's counterproductive.
Developers like to share ideas and get direction periodically and then go work in solitude.
I agree. AVG was awesome up until 8.5. 9.0 is the buggiest resource-hogging, system-locking piece of shit I've seen since Norton and Mcafee. Problem is 9.0 came out about ten minutes after I renewed our company's license for 2 years.
Err, doesn't the sun already do that?
That's a pretty crappy business model.
This bodes well for the possibility of finding alien life.
...are Fark and Digg considered 'technical culture' sites. Seriously, this isn't 2001. Last time I checked, the Internet had sort of entered the mainstream and 'slacking off at work' isn't really considered exclusively IT.
This is why we can't have nice things.
My wife is an OR (operating room) nurse who is paid to be on call, which I would consider to be roughly analogous to this topic. However, there are a couple of major differences:
1. She has to go to a specific location (the hospital) when called in. It's not like she can do her job from home.
2. She's paid hourly.
3. Usually if she gets called in, someone is dying. I would rarely, if ever, classify an IT emergency anywhere near as important as that.
IT is more akin to a boring ubiquitous commodity than a gee-whiz technological marvel.
These days we're more like car mechanics and plumbers than 'gurus'.
I think I have one of each of these in a desk drawer in my house. Everytime I stick my hand in there I get cut.
Terrible idea. Just steal your neighbor's wifi.