Look at Open Office. Great idea, lousy implementation. Apart from the cost, what benefit does it have over Microsoft Office? There's nothing new in it, nothing innovative.
Holy crap! It's assholes like you who make OO suck so much. FORGET innovation. Just focus on making it do everything a word processor ever evr EVER needs to do, i.e. make it as close to a gui-verson WordPerfect 5.1 as you can, and REMOVE THE BUGS.
There are absolutly no new features beyond, say, automated spell checking as you type that provide me any value over what I had back in , what, 1980-something!?! I mean seriously, people, a word processor it a word processor. There is only so much "innovation" you can do before it starts checking your email for you. And I am willing to bet there are another 98% of the office-using population who think just like me.
If these "certifications" really meant that you were competent to do suchandsuch, then there would be no cramming needed or possible. You can't "cram" to be an eye surgeon. You can't "cram" to be a helicopter pilot. Bascially, this just proves what I suspected all along, these certifications aren't worth the paper they are printed on. Or, more precicely, they are indeed worth the paper they are printed on because that is what you are actually paying for, not learning a skill..
But, hey, they cost money so somone makes out, and capitalisim is awesome, right? Ok, from now on, I am officially gonna be in the certification bidness. You need to be certified in something? Come to me. I gots me a laser printer and photoshop, and I guarantee that all of my certifications are fully accredited*. No exams, just pay the money!
I mean, you are going to make 100 billion dollars on your new MegaTowers Elite complex... *Why* do you have to skim and put some family out of thier home and send them packing with a check for $20k? I mean, do you really *have* to be such a fucktard? Why can't you put a check for a million dollars in the pocket of each family member? You'll STILL be making 100 billion bucks, and also you'll have good karma and show the world that capitalists can coexist together with normal society at the same time.
"Ok bench, I'm going to sit on you, and I don't want you to sigh in satisfation of a job well done and say it was your pleasure to be sat on."
"mmm hmm"
"And I don't want you to tell me how small my butt is today, or how wonderful a day it is, or mention how particularly stunning the trash bin is this morning."
It is also used as a lunch-time reward for students: The children watched Black Beauty on the same screen that was used earlier for geography.
I'm not sure where the "reward" is in this... Except maybe in the apperciation of irony in that the geography lesson may have actually been more entertaining and had better cinematography?
So, get yourself an egg timer... Set it to 24. When it rings at 8:24 monday morning, go to your boss and say "1% of my work week has passed, which is all you said I was required to work as a sysadmin. Please feel free to report any problems to me next week between 8:00 and 8:24."
You NON US citizens need to put things in perspective.
The election was very close, so there are at least a 150 million or therabouts americans who feel exactly the same way as you do... That's a bunch of people.
No, it's about whether the method for gathering evidence is "generally accepted". And the use of a breathalizer test is generally accepted, and this kind of ruling only falls under the category of a rogue judiciary.
Dropping suspected witches into lakes and seeing if they drowned was an "accepted" method of proving witchery... So, by your logic, you believe that there was nothing wrong with this... It was "generally accepted" after all...
It's not really "evidence produced by an unknown method" (the company that makes the kit knows it) just one that is not revealed to the defendant.
But this is stupid: does fraud over a telephone line become acquit-able because the defendant doesn't know how a (software-controlled) telephone exchange works and the telco wants to keep its code secret?
Why does the defendant have a right to know how equipment used to obtain evidence works? As long as there exists an independent process that has evaluated the equipment's operation, and found it to be valid and not biassed in favour of false positives, say, this should be enough. I assume that states do actually check the equipment used for breath tests (do they?
By your logic, the "evidence" of psycics should be admissable as witness testimony. But you answer your own question: "...and found it to be valid and not biassed in favour of false positives, say, this should be enough". Validated by who?
Microsoft is calling all UK kids aged 14-17 to enter its Thought Thieves Competition. Remember kids, finalists must agree to formally license all intellectual property rights in their film on terms acceptable to Microsoft
Is this fucking Irony Day or something? How do people come up with these things without realising how utterly TRANSPARENT thier hypocrisy is? I mean, for fuck's sake, please!
You jest, but that DOS Memory management stuff was essential PC knowledge until 1995 or later.
I finished High School in 94 and then went to college for four years... so by the time I was ready to hit the work-force... 1998, that data was COMPLETELY useless.
Who cares? If you love your old XBOX games that much, just keep it and play your old XBOX games on it.
It's so simple, i'm surpised you didn't just realise it yourself... Ok, sure, if you are only selling to the exact same people as bought the first XBox then maybe you could just tell them to all plug in thier old XBoes and play... But what about new users? Are you expecting to sell to them?
I mean, Imagine yourself as a new user... you just boughtt a very expensive XBox 360 and bought your one *very* expensive "awesome" game... Now you are not yet a millionaire, but you do get bored with playing the same game over and over... But there is no way in hell you can afford to buy more of the really sweet looking XBox360 games... so what's the solution?
Well, at least for the PS2, you went into the "Bargian Bin" and bought ten $5-$30 ps1 games just so you have something to do while earning up enough to get another $70-$150 "awesome" game...
Sadly, kids need skills with Windows, specifically its office applicatons for jobs and the real world(tm) in general. I can't get hired by some places because I've refused to learn how to learn some MS products.
But that's a lie... The programs you could have learned in High School are NOT the same ones that are around today. Next time you go for a Job interview and they ask you if you know how to use Word 2003, say "No, but I know how to use Word 3, so that's ok right?" and you'll get the same damn result as knowing NO version of Word.
Teaching children GNU/Linux and other free software exclusively will merely limit their employment opportunities.
Um, yeah.. My school used DOS 5.0 machines and taught Turbo Pascal... Oh boy does that help expand my employment opportunities today... I mean, I can't tell you how often I've needed to know how to run TSR programs, set HIMEM in my config.sys and program in Pascal. Without those skills, I'd be unemployable today.
I spend huge amounts of time just looking at if things are compliant or now.
Your typo actually has a good point... With OSS software you know that your software will be "compliant" fifty years from now even if every developer in the world decides to drop it and move on to something else... because you can port the code yourself. Try that with most closed source 20, 10, even a measly 5 years old...
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Look at Open Office. Great idea, lousy implementation. Apart from the cost, what benefit does it have over Microsoft Office? There's nothing new in it, nothing innovative.
Holy crap! It's assholes like you who make OO suck so much. FORGET innovation. Just focus on making it do everything a word processor ever evr EVER needs to do, i.e. make it as close to a gui-verson WordPerfect 5.1 as you can, and REMOVE THE BUGS.
There are absolutly no new features beyond, say, automated spell checking as you type that provide me any value over what I had back in , what, 1980-something!?! I mean seriously, people, a word processor it a word processor. There is only so much "innovation" you can do before it starts checking your email for you. And I am willing to bet there are another 98% of the office-using population who think just like me.
If these "certifications" really meant that you were competent to do suchandsuch, then there would be no cramming needed or possible. You can't "cram" to be an eye surgeon. You can't "cram" to be a helicopter pilot. Bascially, this just proves what I suspected all along, these certifications aren't worth the paper they are printed on. Or, more precicely, they are indeed worth the paper they are printed on because that is what you are actually paying for, not learning a skill..
But, hey, they cost money so somone makes out, and capitalisim is awesome, right? Ok, from now on, I am officially gonna be in the certification bidness. You need to be certified in something? Come to me. I gots me a laser printer and photoshop, and I guarantee that all of my certifications are fully accredited*. No exams, just pay the money!
*accreditied by the Me Accreditation Institute
I mean, you are going to make 100 billion dollars on your new MegaTowers Elite complex... *Why* do you have to skim and put some family out of thier home and send them packing with a check for $20k? I mean, do you really *have* to be such a fucktard? Why can't you put a check for a million dollars in the pocket of each family member? You'll STILL be making 100 billion bucks, and also you'll have good karma and show the world that capitalists can coexist together with normal society at the same time.
"Ok bench, I'm going to sit on you, and I don't want you to sigh in satisfation of a job well done and say it was your pleasure to be sat on."
...
"mmm hmm"
"And I don't want you to tell me how small my butt is today, or how wonderful a day it is, or mention how particularly stunning the trash bin is this morning."
"mmm hmm"
"Ok, here goes..."
"whew, not a sound!"
"IS THAT THE WAY YOU LIKE IT MR. BEEBLEBROX?"
It is also used as a lunch-time reward for students: The children watched Black Beauty on the same screen that was used earlier for geography.
I'm not sure where the "reward" is in this... Except maybe in the apperciation of irony in that the geography lesson may have actually been more entertaining and had better cinematography?
Wasn't this pointed out in "Revenge of the Nerds" like two or three decades ago?
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang _en&safe=off&c2coff=1&client=firefox&rls=org.mozil la%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&q=1%25+of+40+hours&btnG=Se arch
1% of (40 hours) = 24 minutes
So, get yourself an egg timer... Set it to 24. When it rings at 8:24 monday morning, go to your boss and say "1% of my work week has passed, which is all you said I was required to work as a sysadmin. Please feel free to report any problems to me next week between 8:00 and 8:24."
You NON US citizens need to put things in perspective.
The election was very close, so there are at least a 150 million or therabouts americans who feel exactly the same way as you do... That's a bunch of people.
So, other than evil, what use are these new laws? Could somone walk me through a legit scenario that doesn't mimic a sub-plot of 1984?
No, it's about whether the method for gathering evidence is "generally accepted". And the use of a breathalizer test is generally accepted, and this kind of ruling only falls under the category of a rogue judiciary.
Dropping suspected witches into lakes and seeing if they drowned was an "accepted" method of proving witchery... So, by your logic, you believe that there was nothing wrong with this... It was "generally accepted" after all...
It's not really "evidence produced by an unknown method" (the company that makes the kit knows it) just one that is not revealed to the defendant.
But this is stupid: does fraud over a telephone line become acquit-able because the defendant doesn't know how a (software-controlled) telephone exchange works and the telco wants to keep its code secret?
Why does the defendant have a right to know how equipment used to obtain evidence works? As long as there exists an independent process that has evaluated the equipment's operation, and found it to be valid and not biassed in favour of false positives, say, this should be enough. I assume that states do actually check the equipment used for breath tests (do they?
By your logic, the "evidence" of psycics should be admissable as witness testimony. But you answer your own question: "...and found it to be valid and not biassed in favour of false positives, say, this should be enough". Validated by who?
So, what, a movie, nice dinner and a love hotel then? Yeah, I think people over here can afford it.
rundll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
Bleedin' obvious, innit?
It's like every other windows manager out there... but more sucky out of the box!
that Alanis Morissette song (or more precisely the fact that the song isn't ironic at all)
And just to enhance the irony... That song does talk about ironic things, people just don't know the dictionary definitions of irony...
Microsoft is calling all UK kids aged 14-17 to enter its Thought Thieves Competition. Remember kids, finalists must agree to formally license all intellectual property rights in their film on terms acceptable to Microsoft
Is this fucking Irony Day or something? How do people come up with these things without realising how utterly TRANSPARENT thier hypocrisy is? I mean, for fuck's sake, please!
You jest, but that DOS Memory management stuff was essential PC knowledge until 1995 or later.
I finished High School in 94 and then went to college for four years... so by the time I was ready to hit the work-force... 1998, that data was COMPLETELY useless.
Who cares? If you love your old XBOX games that much, just keep it and play your old XBOX games on it.
It's so simple, i'm surpised you didn't just realise it yourself... Ok, sure, if you are only selling to the exact same people as bought the first XBox then maybe you could just tell them to all plug in thier old XBoes and play... But what about new users? Are you expecting to sell to them?
I mean, Imagine yourself as a new user... you just boughtt a very expensive XBox 360 and bought your one *very* expensive "awesome" game... Now you are not yet a millionaire, but you do get bored with playing the same game over and over... But there is no way in hell you can afford to buy more of the really sweet looking XBox360 games... so what's the solution?
Well, at least for the PS2, you went into the "Bargian Bin" and bought ten $5-$30 ps1 games just so you have something to do while earning up enough to get another $70-$150 "awesome" game...
Sadly, kids need skills with Windows, specifically its office applicatons for jobs and the real world(tm) in general. I can't get hired by some places because I've refused to learn how to learn some MS products.
But that's a lie... The programs you could have learned in High School are NOT the same ones that are around today. Next time you go for a Job interview and they ask you if you know how to use Word 2003, say "No, but I know how to use Word 3, so that's ok right?" and you'll get the same damn result as knowing NO version of Word.
Teaching children GNU/Linux and other free software exclusively will merely limit their employment opportunities.
Um, yeah.. My school used DOS 5.0 machines and taught Turbo Pascal... Oh boy does that help expand my employment opportunities today... I mean, I can't tell you how often I've needed to know how to run TSR programs, set HIMEM in my config.sys and program in Pascal. Without those skills, I'd be unemployable today.
beg to your boss for the SUBSTANTIAL budget increase that it would require to deploy RedHat/SuSE
What budget increase? Ooooh, you mean because of all the lavish parties we'll be throwing in celebration...
I spend huge amounts of time just looking at if things are compliant or now.
Your typo actually has a good point... With OSS software you know that your software will be "compliant" fifty years from now even if every developer in the world decides to drop it and move on to something else... because you can port the code yourself. Try that with most closed source 20, 10, even a measly 5 years old...
root# emerge fedorea/core4
Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "fedorea/core4".
Damn...
*I* want an epically long game that I can play in 5-10 minute chunks over the course of a friggin year!
ust a correction to the original story, Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite 1.7.*7* was released today, not 1.7.
Ironically, the regexp 1.7.*7* matches 1.7 just fine.