... if that study says 2/5 bosses lie, then it really means 2/5 bosses are reasonably honest about lying to their employees. The other 3/5 are such huge liars that they wont even admit they lie.
When i worked for the postal service we had satalite internet connections and they considered "acceptable" ping times (the vsat provider) to be anything less than 5000... which requires a commandline arg to keep windows ping from timing out;P Those are just satalites around earth, the sats in mars orbit would have astoundingly high pings... I wonder how high exactly.
They're suing them for... 1.65 TRILLION dollars. Last I checked the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) for the ENTIRE country was about 750 BILLION dollars. Now this is where it even gets better... this only includes the songs from June to October 2006. They're charging $150,000 per song. If they had applied those numbers since the inception of AllofMp3.com which according to a quick whois lookup of the site name, is June of 2000... using the same numbers of sales each month as they have for the time period of J-O then they'd owe roughly the GDP of the entire world. What a joke.
Find a spot that is "roaming" and give your home phone a call, drop cell phone in roaming location in a plastic baggy over night. Repeat for a few weeks. They'll cancel you so fast your head will spin.
Humorously, a friend of mine lived in West Virginia in a little mountain town. His house was at the bottom of the hill, the school in the middle... unfortunetely for him his parents both worked. So he had to goto his grandparents house after school. So quite literally he walked uphill both ways and as anyone who has lived in the mountains can tell you, in some pretty damn deep snow in the winter;P
I live in Ohio also, was a hunter when I was a kid/teenager, I don't hunt anymore because I have nothing to do with the meat... I personally don't like venison and I won't kill something if it's not going to be eaten. The deer have been over populating most of Ohio for at least 20 years. My family lived on a farm for ~50 years in NE Ohio and deer were a constant problem. They knew the neighbors were poaching deer and they did some themselves and it never even put a dent in the deer problem.
A large portion of the problem is just lack of natural predators.
I've owned macs in the past, and yes, most of the "big" games come out for mac, but I would guess a good 30-40% of games I want to play DON'T come out for the mac. The day that 90% of games I want to play come out for mac i'll switch and never look back.
I hate microsoft because I'm required to use their bugridden craptastic software and I've been forced to use their bugridden craptastic software since the days of dos 5 and windows 3.1... because I'm a gamer.
I've hated them since 95 and I'll hate them until I die, I'm so god damn sick and tired of their broken ass shit its unreal. If its not a direct bug its a security hole if its not a security hole its a memory leak if its not a memory leak its a driver conflict if its not a driver conflict its a... etc.
I use Linux and BSD for just about everything, but they just don't cut it for games because the only system people develop for is windows.
Any language is only as good as the programmer using it.
I use a LAMP stack for the most part, many of the security holes in php aren't due to the language itself but the developers of the various webapps.
That being said, this requires a repost of the ol Adminspotting thang.
Choose no life. Choose no career. Choose no family. Choose a fucking big computer, choose disk arrays the size of washing machines, modem racks, CD-ROM writers, and electrical coffee makers. Choose no sleep, high caffeine and mental insurance. Choose no friends. Choose black jeans and matching combat boots. Choose chairs for your office in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose SMTP and wondering why the fuck you are logged on on a sunday morning. Choose sitting in that swivel chair looking at mind-numbing, spirit-crushing web sites, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in some miserable newsgroup, nothing more than an embarassment to the selfish, fucked up lusers Gates spawned to replace the computer-literate.
harry potter is evil. Just like d&d. In all honesty, there are a ton of nutbags who make out everything to be evil. They're very insecure in their belief and think everything that offers a slightly different view is EBIL! MMO's or anything that have non-Christian's in them... are legitimate targets for these nutter butters.
The problem is... the increase in price isn't a result of gold farming. It's from the never ending increase of money into the world with very few outlets out of the world. Gold farming just increases the speed of progression down the time line. When they start making economies that aren't horribily broken in the first place... when they start making working economies this problem with cease to exist.
Yah, but you get called anti-american or a terrorist these days if you disagree with the tripe they're putting out.
As for changing things, sure we can elect someone else next election or change senators and such...... but...
Evil Corrupt Lying Democrat who is in the pocket of various medical, ecological businesses, and other countries.
- or - Evil Corrupt Lying Republican who is in the pocket of the religious reich, the rich, and big business.
- or - Evil Corrupt Lying Independent who got shot down by one of the previous two parties, but is still a sell-out to the highest bidder for his/her vote.
WIN! Yes the choices we have are astounding, its all about who do you want your vote sold to... *rolls eyes*.
What I truly love about this whole thread is how everyone is telling me I'm buying into the bullshit, kool-aid, etc.
Nothing like an ad-hominem attack when you disagree. So cute.
Fact is folks, I'm a libertarian. Fuck the democrats and the lets make society right by extremely huge government. Fuck the republicans and their right wing religious agenda. Fuck anyone who I missed in congress presently because they're sell outs.
Truth is, both parties are insanely corrupt. Both parties represent the big companies who can afford to pay them millions for their next campaign and basically don't represent the people who elect them. The democrats are NO better than the republicans in the grand scheme.
However, in the grand scheme of lies, Bush's lies stand out as a oh... bit more serious than Clinton's lies. Not that they're not both liars and cheats in some way.
Those of you who are willing to suck the conservatives or the liberals dicks without putting any thought into it... get fucked. YOU are what is wrong with this country.
*yawn* I would have cut and pasted but slashdot won't let you do that. Since neither person could be bothered to actually READ what I wrote... why should I bother with them? I have already replied and pasted the relevant portion to one of the people above and it applies to the other also. Why take the time to write a logical well thought out response when people can't even bother to read your original post before making shit up and pulling it out of their ass as to what was said. Genius.
I'm hardly flustered, it's just not worth the time. End of story. If that is a flame, I'm sorry for your personal state of being... I'd call that pathetic for a flame at best... go hang out on usenet for 10-15 years and then get back with me when you actually have an idea how to write a flame.
> Most of the time by the time we discover a problem exists there is a newer version of the software out already fixing the problem (we run a few versions behind the most recent version usually.)
Really can't read can you. Remedial english for you.
I use it on linux but not the way I use it on windows. So you may well be right about the linux side of firefox, but I don't use it in a way there that would cause anything like you're experiencing... but my windows usage should, and it doesn't... so I'd guess at least one branch of firefox isn't leaking like that and perhaps that is where the reluctance to "fix it" is coming from... its not a universal issue.
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... if that study says 2/5 bosses lie, then it really means 2/5 bosses are reasonably honest about lying to their employees. The other 3/5 are such huge liars that they wont even admit they lie.
When i worked for the postal service we had satalite internet connections and they considered "acceptable" ping times (the vsat provider) to be anything less than 5000... which requires a commandline arg to keep windows ping from timing out ;P Those are just satalites around earth, the sats in mars orbit would have astoundingly high pings... I wonder how high exactly.
They're suing them for... 1.65 TRILLION dollars. Last I checked the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) for the ENTIRE country was about 750 BILLION dollars. Now this is where it even gets better... this only includes the songs from June to October 2006. They're charging $150,000 per song. If they had applied those numbers since the inception of AllofMp3.com which according to a quick whois lookup of the site name, is June of 2000... using the same numbers of sales each month as they have for the time period of J-O then they'd owe roughly the GDP of the entire world. What a joke.
For a moment there I thought we were talking the start of the matrix :P
Because sometimes even Advertisers get mod points ;P
you'll be lost if you lose your cool over loose being used as a loss.
Find a spot that is "roaming" and give your home phone a call, drop cell phone in roaming location in a plastic baggy over night. Repeat for a few weeks. They'll cancel you so fast your head will spin.
Humorously, a friend of mine lived in West Virginia in a little mountain town. His house was at the bottom of the hill, the school in the middle... unfortunetely for him his parents both worked. So he had to goto his grandparents house after school. So quite literally he walked uphill both ways and as anyone who has lived in the mountains can tell you, in some pretty damn deep snow in the winter ;P
I live in Ohio also, was a hunter when I was a kid/teenager, I don't hunt anymore because I have nothing to do with the meat... I personally don't like venison and I won't kill something if it's not going to be eaten. The deer have been over populating most of Ohio for at least 20 years. My family lived on a farm for ~50 years in NE Ohio and deer were a constant problem. They knew the neighbors were poaching deer and they did some themselves and it never even put a dent in the deer problem.
A large portion of the problem is just lack of natural predators.
I've owned macs in the past, and yes, most of the "big" games come out for mac, but I would guess a good 30-40% of games I want to play DON'T come out for the mac. The day that 90% of games I want to play come out for mac i'll switch and never look back.
... don't I wish!
... microsoft is simple.
I hate microsoft because I'm required to use their bugridden craptastic software and I've been forced to use their bugridden craptastic software since the days of dos 5 and windows 3.1... because I'm a gamer.
I've hated them since 95 and I'll hate them until I die, I'm so god damn sick and tired of their broken ass shit its unreal. If its not a direct bug its a security hole if its not a security hole its a memory leak if its not a memory leak its a driver conflict if its not a driver conflict its a... etc.
I use Linux and BSD for just about everything, but they just don't cut it for games because the only system people develop for is windows.
Get fucked Microsoft.
It isn't just a decrease in the value of a dollar, it's also an increase in the value of the metals.
Any language is only as good as the programmer using it.
I use a LAMP stack for the most part, many of the security holes in php aren't due to the language itself but the developers of the various webapps.
That being said, this requires a repost of the ol Adminspotting thang.
Choose no life. Choose no career. Choose no family.
Choose a fucking big computer, choose disk arrays the
size of washing machines, modem racks, CD-ROM writers,
and electrical coffee makers. Choose no sleep, high
caffeine and mental insurance. Choose no friends.
Choose black jeans and matching combat boots. Choose
chairs for your office in a range of fucking fabrics.
Choose SMTP and wondering why the fuck you are logged
on on a sunday morning. Choose sitting in that swivel
chair looking at mind-numbing, spirit-crushing web sites,
stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose
rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in
some miserable newsgroup, nothing more than an
embarassment to the selfish, fucked up lusers Gates
spawned to replace the computer-literate.
Choose your future.
Choose to sysadmin.
Not a TLA BEI is BOFH.
>Employees who work from home or in remote branch offices often feel disconnected from corporate life
I thought that was the PRIMARY benefit! What more could you want? Do yer job, do it right, do it in your PJs.
harry potter is evil. Just like d&d. In all honesty, there are a ton of nutbags who make out everything to be evil. They're very insecure in their belief and think everything that offers a slightly different view is EBIL! MMO's or anything that have non-Christian's in them... are legitimate targets for these nutter butters.
The problem is... the increase in price isn't a result of gold farming. It's from the never ending increase of money into the world with very few outlets out of the world. Gold farming just increases the speed of progression down the time line. When they start making economies that aren't horribily broken in the first place... when they start making working economies this problem with cease to exist.
Yah, slow change is often better than revolutionary immediate change... see Russia.
Yah, but you get called anti-american or a terrorist these days if you disagree with the tripe they're putting out.
... but ...
As for changing things, sure we can elect someone else next election or change senators and such...
Evil Corrupt Lying Democrat who is in the pocket of various medical, ecological businesses, and other countries.
- or -
Evil Corrupt Lying Republican who is in the pocket of the religious reich, the rich, and big business.
- or -
Evil Corrupt Lying Independent who got shot down by one of the previous two parties, but is still a sell-out to the highest bidder for his/her vote.
WIN! Yes the choices we have are astounding, its all about who do you want your vote sold to... *rolls eyes*.
What I truly love about this whole thread is how everyone is telling me I'm buying into the bullshit, kool-aid, etc.
Nothing like an ad-hominem attack when you disagree. So cute.
Fact is folks, I'm a libertarian. Fuck the democrats and the lets make society right by extremely huge government. Fuck the republicans and their right wing religious agenda. Fuck anyone who I missed in congress presently because they're sell outs.
Truth is, both parties are insanely corrupt. Both parties represent the big companies who can afford to pay them millions for their next campaign and basically don't represent the people who elect them. The democrats are NO better than the republicans in the grand scheme.
However, in the grand scheme of lies, Bush's lies stand out as a oh... bit more serious than Clinton's lies. Not that they're not both liars and cheats in some way.
Those of you who are willing to suck the conservatives or the liberals dicks without putting any thought into it... get fucked. YOU are what is wrong with this country.
mmm...dolphin... i mean, i love tuna tuna! yah thats it. no Freudian slips here.
*yawn* I would have cut and pasted but slashdot won't let you do that. Since neither person could be bothered to actually READ what I wrote... why should I bother with them? I have already replied and pasted the relevant portion to one of the people above and it applies to the other also. Why take the time to write a logical well thought out response when people can't even bother to read your original post before making shit up and pulling it out of their ass as to what was said. Genius.
I'm hardly flustered, it's just not worth the time. End of story. If that is a flame, I'm sorry for your personal state of being... I'd call that pathetic for a flame at best... go hang out on usenet for 10-15 years and then get back with me when you actually have an idea how to write a flame.
> Most of the time by the time we discover a problem exists there is a newer version of the software out already fixing the problem (we run a few versions behind the most recent version usually.)
Really can't read can you. Remedial english for you.
I use it on linux but not the way I use it on windows. So you may well be right about the linux side of firefox, but I don't use it in a way there that would cause anything like you're experiencing... but my windows usage should, and it doesn't... so I'd guess at least one branch of firefox isn't leaking like that and perhaps that is where the reluctance to "fix it" is coming from... its not a universal issue.