I have a hard time focusing. (Diagnosed ADD, among other things. And no, the drugs do NOT work for me. Not with serious and unpleasant side effects. Like losing weeks of memory.)
I just shut out the world.
I spent a hundred bucks on a good set of headphones for my laptop. I have a large collection of music on the hard drive.
So, the 1,000 managers will be followed by some 9,000 more, for a total of about 10% of the workforce - if the predictions / estimations are correct. If so, then this is very significant.
I have seen the problems the poster complained of, but ONLY in cases where I have ignores the install recomendations.
If you use the graphical default installer and you do not have enough memory, it will not complete. Using the text based installer corrects the problem unless you are running under 128megs of RAM.
There are a couple of motherboards that have problems. Almost every version of Linux has problems with these systems due to hardware quirks. Almost every one I have encountered has been documented and workarounds are available. Most of them involve just adding a parameter to the kernel line when you boot.
Some people think they can install on just any old machine and it will work. If the machine has problems, Linux (or anything else) will have problems.
Don't blame Fedora for not reading the docs or trying to figure out the cause of the problem before giving up.
Now he knows how all those Americans he fired felt when he closed down all the American operations for Mardrake a number of years back. (Just for being Americans.)
Could not have happened to a more deserving fellow.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you my friend are a moron. My bad if you're making 200-300% above the going rate in your area, but if not, why oh why are you working there? It's obvious with a "rule" like that your employee expects to wring every last ounce of viable labor out of you without regard to your health, happiness, or well being. Take your talent and move on. Life is way to short to be shafted like that.
I plan on it. I just found out about that rule today. (After coming down with the flu and not giving it to my co-workers. I will not be so stingy next time.)
If you take five unconnected sick days in a 12 month period, you are subject to disciplinary action. More than that and they can do anything, including firing you. No excuses. (Unless you qualify for short term disability.)
I have a hard time believing that the survelence had anything to do with Terrorists. If it did he would have had no problem with the FISA court. But what people weant you to forget it that the court was set up to prevent administrations like the current one from spying on their political enemies.
Out of a couple thousand requests to the FISA court, less than ten have been rejected. Most of them from the Buch White House.
On the Right wing talk shows they regularly define anyone who is not a cheerleader for Bush as a "traitor" or worse. It gives me an idea of who they really want to watch.
Until we have actual documentation of who was spied on and why, we cannot trust that it was only "terrorist suspects".
A friend of mine has a mini cooper with the ipod option. Pretty cool. The ipod just plugs into the glove compartment. The controls are accessable from the stereo. Better than listening to American radio.
Now if I could just get BBC 6radio in a car stereo.
If you think abusing programmers is going to get them to write better code, you need to stop huffing that canned circuit board cleaner.
What it will do is kill all but the most well funded projects. Anyone who can hire hoards of lawyers to defend themselves against the lawsuits will survive. The rest will give up and go into something that actually pays good money.
If we are going to play the accountability game, lets start at the top. When the public holds the current administration to account for even 1% of their crimes, then we might consider accountability elsewhere. I doubt it will ever happen in my lifetime.
No sane business operator enters a contract in which one party has the right to disregard its terms at will, but that's what HR-1201 permits.
That describes every DRMed product out there, every shrinkwrap license agreement, and most agreements that are imposed on consumers every day. Businesses can, and do, change the terms of "contracts" every day. With DRM they can change what you can and cannot do with a device or data at a whim or an update. Phone companies and cable companies change terms of service whenever it suits them.
When businesses do this to consumers, it is just "doing business". When the consumer can change the rules, it is "theft".
Of course some Libertarian twit is going to jump in and defend the rights of the poor trodden-on capitalists. I have found that no matter how blatent or evil the behaviour of someone in authority, there will be some toady leaping to their defense. If one side can change the terms at will, it is not a contract. In this case, the contract has already been invalidated by the actions of the producers. This is just a little payback.
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Read the article in the upcoming Make magazine.
I have a hard time focusing. (Diagnosed ADD, among other things. And no, the drugs do NOT work for me. Not with serious and unpleasant side effects. Like losing weeks of memory.)
I just shut out the world.
I spent a hundred bucks on a good set of headphones for my laptop. I have a large collection of music on the hard drive.
Lords of Acid gets me through the work day.
So, the 1,000 managers will be followed by some 9,000 more, for a total of about 10% of the workforce - if the predictions / estimations are correct. If so, then this is very significant.
I believe the Romans called this Decimation.
And if you don't make a fun game, you get fed to Albert the Alligator.
Most of the people I know mute the commercials to make them easier to ignore. Are they going to disable that too?
The future is becoming more and more like the one predicted on Max Headroom. Some day it will be illegal to turn the TV off.
"I say we blow the fuckers up!"
If they keep using younger and younger children for childporn, the kids would be at a negative number by this time.
The Justice Department does not know if they are cumming or going.
I am expecting lots of comments about Alienware being probed by "Dell Dough".
All memory of those posts will not be erased from your memory.
I have seen the problems the poster complained of, but ONLY in cases where I have ignores the install recomendations.
If you use the graphical default installer and you do not have enough memory, it will not complete. Using the text based installer corrects the problem unless you are running under 128megs of RAM.
There are a couple of motherboards that have problems. Almost every version of Linux has problems with these systems due to hardware quirks. Almost every one I have encountered has been documented and workarounds are available. Most of them involve just adding a parameter to the kernel line when you boot.
Some people think they can install on just any old machine and it will work. If the machine has problems, Linux (or anything else) will have problems.
Don't blame Fedora for not reading the docs or trying to figure out the cause of the problem before giving up.
Now he knows how all those Americans he fired felt when he closed down all the American operations for Mardrake a number of years back. (Just for being Americans.)
Could not have happened to a more deserving fellow.
They have changed the name to Gororaa for the later versions using Gnome.
Sounds like a social disease though.
"I got Gororaa over the weekend!"
I plan on it. I just found out about that rule today. (After coming down with the flu and not giving it to my co-workers. I will not be so stingy next time.)
If you take five unconnected sick days in a 12 month period, you are subject to disciplinary action. More than that and they can do anything, including firing you. No excuses. (Unless you qualify for short term disability.)
I work for a "Healthcare company".
I have a hard time believing that the survelence had anything to do with Terrorists. If it did he would have had no problem with the FISA court. But what people weant you to forget it that the court was set up to prevent administrations like the current one from spying on their political enemies.
Out of a couple thousand requests to the FISA court, less than ten have been rejected. Most of them from the Buch White House.
On the Right wing talk shows they regularly define anyone who is not a cheerleader for Bush as a "traitor" or worse. It gives me an idea of who they really want to watch.
Until we have actual documentation of who was spied on and why, we cannot trust that it was only "terrorist suspects".
I guess I have to get DVD-Jon something else for Christmas.
My brain is having problems with "Microsoft" and "sharing" being in the same sentence without "against" or "forbids" being involved.
It is not bigger, they just know how to use it.
Maybe you should not have tried mooning them.
A friend of mine has a mini cooper with the ipod option. Pretty cool. The ipod just plugs into the glove compartment. The controls are accessable from the stereo. Better than listening to American radio.
Now if I could just get BBC 6radio in a car stereo.
If you think abusing programmers is going to get them to write better code, you need to stop huffing that canned circuit board cleaner.
What it will do is kill all but the most well funded projects. Anyone who can hire hoards of lawyers to defend themselves against the lawsuits will survive. The rest will give up and go into something that actually pays good money.
If we are going to play the accountability game, lets start at the top. When the public holds the current administration to account for even 1% of their crimes, then we might consider accountability elsewhere. I doubt it will ever happen in my lifetime.
That describes every DRMed product out there, every shrinkwrap license agreement, and most agreements that are imposed on consumers every day. Businesses can, and do, change the terms of "contracts" every day. With DRM they can change what you can and cannot do with a device or data at a whim or an update. Phone companies and cable companies change terms of service whenever it suits them.
When businesses do this to consumers, it is just "doing business". When the consumer can change the rules, it is "theft".
Of course some Libertarian twit is going to jump in and defend the rights of the poor trodden-on capitalists. I have found that no matter how blatent or evil the behaviour of someone in authority, there will be some toady leaping to their defense. If one side can change the terms at will, it is not a contract. In this case, the contract has already been invalidated by the actions of the producers. This is just a little payback.
I'm still thrown into fits of uncontrollable giggles on the sumo wrestler missions.
Especially when he eats children.
I liked the objective of the game.
To finish you have to destroy the entire solar system by rolling it up in your katamari.
Such destructive pleasures...
It makes you question your believe in Cod.
I think I am getting eel...
If one side can arbitrarily change the terms of the agreement on a whim, then it is not a contract.