If your attitude to even the mildest criticism here is indicative of your attitude on the job you're in trouble... oh wait! You work as a helpdesk lackey in a Windows shop. You have a job for life.
Aw diddums, don't be angry. I know it's embarrassing to have your own idiocy pointed out to you. What you should have accounted for are those of us in IT who don't run Windows.
Thanks palad1! I was stumbling over the "will do anything" part. Haven't had the opportunity to speak French regularly since 1993, when I was lucky enough to live in Paris for a year.
Swing on a Mac finally doens't look like someone did doo-doo on my screen anymore
You mention in your sig that German is your first language, not English. All I can say is that I wish I spoke German well enough to be able to throw idiomatic phrases like "doo-doo" in the mix...! Good job man.
Jesus! GBP 15,000? At current exchange rates, that's, what, US$28,000? You are most certainly getting the shaft. In general, the cost of living in the UK has become outrageous... (visited there over the summer for my brother's funeral).
That it's "cool" doesn't take away from the fact that it's a great platform and also has great design. I didn't buy a PB because I wanted to be "cool" (believe me, I abandoned that "dream" a looooong time ago) but because I, personally, loved the OS and the hardware.
I thought that I'd use my desktops (XP Pro and Linux) once the novelty of my PB 17" wore off... I sold them off realized that I hadn't booted either in a few months. Still going strong with that PB!
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Some currency manipulation, true. The Chinese Yuan should be allowed to float freely, for example. But mostly it's the massive deficits run by the US in the past 4 years. The USA is living beyond its means. Oh, and it was Bretton Woods, not Brenton Woods.
So you stay in the USA, the original poster stays in Europe, everybody's happy, right? And healthcare does NOT cost 25% of GDP (that's Gross Domestic Product... think about it).
Ooh, touchy touchy! Why doesn't your government obey the very rules it insisted upon? You know what I'm talking about. Before you get snotty with the Swedish poster, or me, perhaps you should consider that. The Swedes had very good reasons for not joining and those should be respected.
You look remarkably like Walter, a fellow I worked with at Insight / Hoskyns, 83 Lower Leeson St., in 1993... Walter, is that you? If so, what's with the Cliph Winters moniker? Still living the hedonistic lifestyle man? How's yer ma?
Given the way you lot (the Germans) and the French, amongst others, have been breaking the rules established to ensure a stable currency, some of us who did join (and studiously obeyed said rules) are now wondering if maybe the Swedes, Danes and Brits weren't right all along? Oh, that's right... the rules don't apply to the big countries. Arrogance.
Well, it *is* a Java web container... you know, JSPs, servlets, etc.? WAR stands for Web ARchive. Similar to JAR (Java ARchive) and EAR (Enterprise ARchive), all Java-specific. You could have downloaded binaries of Ant, too, and avoided compilation.
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Shame you can't seem to stop exporting all of that arrogance that you keep displaying to the rest of us.
If your attitude to even the mildest criticism here is indicative of your attitude on the job you're in trouble... oh wait! You work as a helpdesk lackey in a Windows shop. You have a job for life.
Aw diddums, don't be angry. I know it's embarrassing to have your own idiocy pointed out to you. What you should have accounted for are those of us in IT who don't run Windows.
So good of you to speak for all of us IT people. It's just that I don't remember voting you in as spokesperson.
Thanks palad1! I was stumbling over the "will do anything" part. Haven't had the opportunity to speak French regularly since 1993, when I was lucky enough to live in Paris for a year.
Jesus! GBP 15,000? At current exchange rates, that's, what, US$28,000? You are most certainly getting the shaft. In general, the cost of living in the UK has become outrageous... (visited there over the summer for my brother's funeral).
They're selling like hotcakes in Europe, too -- plenty of well-off individuals there too.
That it's "cool" doesn't take away from the fact that it's a great platform and also has great design. I didn't buy a PB because I wanted to be "cool" (believe me, I abandoned that "dream" a looooong time ago) but because I, personally, loved the OS and the hardware.
I thought that I'd use my desktops (XP Pro and Linux) once the novelty of my PB 17" wore off... I sold them off realized that I hadn't booted either in a few months. Still going strong with that PB!
Some currency manipulation, true. The Chinese Yuan should be allowed to float freely, for example. But mostly it's the massive deficits run by the US in the past 4 years. The USA is living beyond its means. Oh, and it was Bretton Woods, not Brenton Woods.
So you stay in the USA, the original poster stays in Europe, everybody's happy, right? And healthcare does NOT cost 25% of GDP (that's Gross Domestic Product... think about it).
I laughed my head off when I read that too - such brown-nosing bullshit. Timothy is a wanker.
Finish your sentences!!! His irritating WHAT? Or did you mean "you're irritating"?
It's true, I've noticed this too. It's become trendy lately to describe a bunch of applications thrown together as a "stack". It's annoying.
Ooh, touchy touchy! Why doesn't your government obey the very rules it insisted upon? You know what I'm talking about. Before you get snotty with the Swedish poster, or me, perhaps you should consider that. The Swedes had very good reasons for not joining and those should be respected.
You look remarkably like Walter, a fellow I worked with at Insight / Hoskyns, 83 Lower Leeson St., in 1993... Walter, is that you? If so, what's with the Cliph Winters moniker? Still living the hedonistic lifestyle man? How's yer ma?
Given the way you lot (the Germans) and the French, amongst others, have been breaking the rules established to ensure a stable currency, some of us who did join (and studiously obeyed said rules) are now wondering if maybe the Swedes, Danes and Brits weren't right all along? Oh, that's right... the rules don't apply to the big countries. Arrogance.
Ah, what a fine opportunity this situation presents for you to indulge in polemic... asshole.
Hi Pat! (Irish) Ray from the AG Edwards days here... I see from your posting history that you got married. Congratulations! Bye for now.
Well, it *is* a Java web container... you know, JSPs, servlets, etc.? WAR stands for Web ARchive. Similar to JAR (Java ARchive) and EAR (Enterprise ARchive), all Java-specific. You could have downloaded binaries of Ant, too, and avoided compilation.
I was just joking, defy_god -- no offense intended. :-)
No, no -- it's "guns don't kill people, rappers do." Apologies to Goldie Lookin' Chain.