And Base is an offense before God and Richard Stallman both, what's your point?
I/absolutely guarantee/ that if you put that radio button there, eighty percent of Dell's residential customers will suddenly find they can manage to survive without Office.
Links to pages rather than links to installer packages would've been about a million times more helpful -- although I suppose I/could/ just go ahead and click okay and install them without knowing what they do. d:
"All them dudes lie" is not criticism I need to calmly reflect on, and you need to keep in mind that I owe my employees a calm response -- you aren't one, I don't have any especial power over you, and I don't really have to worry about the amount of respect you feel is owed to you.
That's not the first time that complaint has showed up in this thread, so let's make that clear -- I treat people I have power over differently than I treat Teh Interweb People. You all know very well that "contemptous indifference" is a perfectly reasonable response out here, whereas even if I'm the bastard claimed, my employees are trained resources whose jobs and responsibilities I've hand-tuned.
And as for unexpected things, my job is really nothing but -- if everything was going to work fine, they wouldn't need me at all, now would they?
My employees know that when something breaks, I'll come running -- literally -- and they know that I've been there and made every screwup on record and leap for joy whenever they come tell me something broke instead of passing something broken on.
And last, if a slight against my professional honor (even one not meant personally) is truly is a bad fight to pick, then just let it pass and pretend I said something derogatory about rolling Shamans. Or something positive about them. Whatever.
Oh, I'm not gonna tell you it's not common -- I was shocked it only came in at forty. I just took issue with 100%, is all.
I don't even understand what the damn problem is. It's not hard to keep straight. There are things I can do and things I can get permission to do. I will either do or not do things, and I will either be allowed or not be allowed to do things.
I'm not invulnerable to error -- if I say I will do something, I might well not do it. But when challenged, I'll acknowledge my failure and spend effort commensurate to the speaker's perception of the issue's importance to resolve it.
Management is not a hard problem. You've got work to be done and guys who want to get work done. In fact, they even take pride in getting work done. How hard to do you have to work to screw this up?
Yeah yeah yeah, thank you for your insightful psychoanalysis, you're too kind.
We done there? I do get to take the first post personally, I do get to take what you're saying personally -- except I won't, because the first poster was honestly wrong and you're just Some Internet Asshat -- and I do get to reply.
I take what I do very seriously. I've seen too many jerks screw it up, I swore I wouldn't be like them, and whaddya know -- I'm not. 'Cause I get enough done that I don't have to be.
If I say a thing, then my name is upon it, and it is TRUE to the best of my knowledge, and I have made an effort well beyond good-faith to know this. My employees may rely on such things. If by some mischance it was not true, then I either go make it true or inform everyone affected by my error. If it was made untrue, then I'm by-God gonna find out why.
I do not have to lie, not through omission, not through commission, and not through ignorance.
You wanna say almost all meatbags, given power, are tyrannical, deceptive little bastards? Fine by me. But not all of 'em -- or not this one.
Hey, everybody, help me out here -- is there a specific logical fallacy that covers this, or do we need to make a new one?
If we do, then I'm going to formally recommend we entitle the fallacy of assuming one snapshot of a vocal fragment of a pseudoanonymous userbase represents the beliefs of every such member, and can be compared to other such snapshots without limit, the "Damn You, User #4466" logical fallacy.
So, back to you, RelliK. You say that Slashdot lambasted Diebold for hiring criminals, then lambasted the article for daring to suggest that background checks were a good idea? That Slashdot is unbalanced, hypocritical, and biased?
The Air Force was assigned the uncontestable right to use certain frequencies, it has made use of this right, some class B devices were manufactured that are by statute designed to fail in this exact circumstance, and now it's the government that needs to start writing checks?
You're right, to a point -- but if he's not using pixels, then what we're actually looking at is a Novel Compression Scheme.
This Novel Compression Scheme can apparently compress data equivalent to (I'm taking an answer from above, this isn't my math) 30000 dpi and render it in the space of 300 dpi. Were this true, then they could take a TIFF of that same image and still enjoy luxurious 100x compression without ever bothering to print something out.
Another way to say "Novel Compression Scheme" is "scam", and unless your name is Diffie or Helman it's generally gonna stick. (There are advances in the field, but far as I know they're incremental. Someone who knows more than I could better address this, though.)
It appears you have mistakenly used the word "thief", when you meant to use the phrase "infringing distributor of copyrighted or otherwise-restricted information". As you may not have been aware, using "thief" or related words, such as "theft", in this context is impermissible. "Piracy" is similarly inaccurate, although I'm fast losing ground there, but here I draw the line. You're damaging my language, and I will not permit you to conflate these two wildly disparate ideas without challenge.
Hmm... I'm going to disagree with you there. The Constitution was pretty clear in its aims, and I'm comfortable with the resulting temporary arrangement with the rights-holder being characterized as "intellectual property".
'Course, "temporary" is not what we have now, and the whole exercise has turned out so badly I'm also comfortable with scrapping the whole system.
Sorry, hold up there. He mass-distributed/infringing intellectual property/. Labeling it as or drawing analogies comparing it to theft damages my language, and I don't intend to allow that.
The/crime detection/ rate is up by 15%? Just great. How many headless corpses and savage beatings were we not noticing before this? Are they finally going to start ticketing that bastard who parks in the middle of four spaces in my complex or something?
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And Base is an offense before God and Richard Stallman both, what's your point?
/absolutely guarantee/ that if you put that radio button there, eighty percent of Dell's residential customers will suddenly find they can manage to survive without Office.
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You put a radio button that reads "( ) OpenOffice, FREE ( ) MS Office, $49.99 Dell Discount Rate" and we'll talk about consumer demand.
Links to pages rather than links to installer packages would've been about a million times more helpful -- although I suppose I /could/ just go ahead and click okay and install them without knowing what they do. d:
"All them dudes lie" is not criticism I need to calmly reflect on, and you need to keep in mind that I owe my employees a calm response -- you aren't one, I don't have any especial power over you, and I don't really have to worry about the amount of respect you feel is owed to you.
That's not the first time that complaint has showed up in this thread, so let's make that clear -- I treat people I have power over differently than I treat Teh Interweb People. You all know very well that "contemptous indifference" is a perfectly reasonable response out here, whereas even if I'm the bastard claimed, my employees are trained resources whose jobs and responsibilities I've hand-tuned.
And as for unexpected things, my job is really nothing but -- if everything was going to work fine, they wouldn't need me at all, now would they?
My employees know that when something breaks, I'll come running -- literally -- and they know that I've been there and made every screwup on record and leap for joy whenever they come tell me something broke instead of passing something broken on.
And last, if a slight against my professional honor (even one not meant personally) is truly is a bad fight to pick, then just let it pass and pretend I said something derogatory about rolling Shamans. Or something positive about them. Whatever.
Oh, I'm not gonna tell you it's not common -- I was shocked it only came in at forty. I just took issue with 100%, is all.
I don't even understand what the damn problem is. It's not hard to keep straight. There are things I can do and things I can get permission to do. I will either do or not do things, and I will either be allowed or not be allowed to do things.
I'm not invulnerable to error -- if I say I will do something, I might well not do it. But when challenged, I'll acknowledge my failure and spend effort commensurate to the speaker's perception of the issue's importance to resolve it.
Management is not a hard problem. You've got work to be done and guys who want to get work done. In fact, they even take pride in getting work done. How hard to do you have to work to screw this up?
Yeah yeah yeah, thank you for your insightful psychoanalysis, you're too kind.
We done there? I do get to take the first post personally, I do get to take what you're saying personally -- except I won't, because the first poster was honestly wrong and you're just Some Internet Asshat -- and I do get to reply.
I take what I do very seriously. I've seen too many jerks screw it up, I swore I wouldn't be like them, and whaddya know -- I'm not. 'Cause I get enough done that I don't have to be.
Drop dead.
If I say a thing, then my name is upon it, and it is TRUE to the best of my knowledge, and I have made an effort well beyond good-faith to know this. My employees may rely on such things. If by some mischance it was not true, then I either go make it true or inform everyone affected by my error. If it was made untrue, then I'm by-God gonna find out why.
I do not have to lie, not through omission, not through commission, and not through ignorance.
You wanna say almost all meatbags, given power, are tyrannical, deceptive little bastards? Fine by me. But not all of 'em -- or not this one.
... Green Eggs Soon To Follow.
In other news, Hormel spokesperson Sam I Am is the Public Relations Man Of The Year according to...
This guy says that HP makes products that work. How far they've come since they bounced you out on your ass.
Hey, everybody, help me out here -- is there a specific logical fallacy that covers this, or do we need to make a new one?
If we do, then I'm going to formally recommend we entitle the fallacy of assuming one snapshot of a vocal fragment of a pseudoanonymous userbase represents the beliefs of every such member, and can be compared to other such snapshots without limit, the "Damn You, User #4466" logical fallacy.
So, back to you, RelliK. You say that Slashdot lambasted Diebold for hiring criminals, then lambasted the article for daring to suggest that background checks were a good idea? That Slashdot is unbalanced, hypocritical, and biased?
Damn you, user #4466!
This is an excellent point.
Having read the comments, the article, and the linked document from TechNet, I slowly and deliberately type the following:
OMG OFFICE SUCKS.
Wait, what?
The Air Force was assigned the uncontestable right to use certain frequencies, it has made use of this right, some class B devices were manufactured that are by statute designed to fail in this exact circumstance, and now it's the government that needs to start writing checks?
And Sonk had a more complete header on it, with links to the Coral cache.
You're right, to a point -- but if he's not using pixels, then what we're actually looking at is a Novel Compression Scheme.
This Novel Compression Scheme can apparently compress data equivalent to (I'm taking an answer from above, this isn't my math) 30000 dpi and render it in the space of 300 dpi. Were this true, then they could take a TIFF of that same image and still enjoy luxurious 100x compression without ever bothering to print something out.
Another way to say "Novel Compression Scheme" is "scam", and unless your name is Diffie or Helman it's generally gonna stick. (There are advances in the field, but far as I know they're incremental. Someone who knows more than I could better address this, though.)
Why do I have insurance? Because filthy bastards purchased laws to make buy insurance.
Informative? I hope to god I find that guy in meta. Meta-moderation needs a "nominate for public humiliation" button.
Hold up there!
It appears you have mistakenly used the word "thief", when you meant to use the phrase "infringing distributor of copyrighted or otherwise-restricted information". As you may not have been aware, using "thief" or related words, such as "theft", in this context is impermissible. "Piracy" is similarly inaccurate, although I'm fast losing ground there, but here I draw the line. You're damaging my language, and I will not permit you to conflate these two wildly disparate ideas without challenge.
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Which really explains a lot...
Hmm... I'm going to disagree with you there. The Constitution was pretty clear in its aims, and I'm comfortable with the resulting temporary arrangement with the rights-holder being characterized as "intellectual property".
'Course, "temporary" is not what we have now, and the whole exercise has turned out so badly I'm also comfortable with scrapping the whole system.
Sorry, hold up there. He mass-distributed /infringing intellectual property/. Labeling it as or drawing analogies comparing it to theft damages my language, and I don't intend to allow that.
Yeah, it was. The second part was in there from the very beginning.
So is it Gargoyles or Star Trek VI?
There's always Suikoden.
"Hey, Bob, you know what this game really needs?"
"What's that, Tim?"
"Everybody in Illinois."
"That's a great idea. You get started on the art, Jake will call the Census Bureau, and I'll work on the dopey side-quests."
The /crime detection/ rate is up by 15%? Just great. How many headless corpses and savage beatings were we not noticing before this? Are they finally going to start ticketing that bastard who parks in the middle of four spaces in my complex or something?
I got aggravated as soon as I saw the summary -- hey, big news guys, install ssl/omgpwned.o into the kernel as root and you're in ~o trou-ble o~ !!!
'Tards.