So, after losing your job and depleting your savings and approaching the end of your unemployment benefits, you'd take a job as Senior Puppy Stomper? Anything to feed the kids, right?
Some have morals, and I would only choose to employ those that were at least in the same ballpark as my own.
While unemployed a few years ago (post dot-com burn-off), I personally turned down several job offers that had anything involving Microsoft in the job description (even though I have the unfortunate requisite experience - I, unlike many others, don't choose to fight my "Pavlovian reaction" to such work). I was willing to face the very real possibility of having to pack my things into a U-Haul and move back in with my parents (at 27 having been independent since 18). I have worked for bad employers before - silly, worthless products; bad business plans; inane "teambuilding" - but at least I can settle in and enjoy my work, not fight my OS.
You might have to narrow your search to jobs that might pay a little less or might not buy your alcoholic ass free booze on fridays, but some things are worth fighting for.
Oh, and P.S. - "its" means "thing that is owned by 'it'". "it's" means "it is". Each has it's appropriate time and place.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of the guns, and I too am familiar with the fact that only one legally-owned automatic weapon has ever been used in a crime (the fact that it was a cop is one tidbit I relish as well).
I didn't mean "that guy should have it taken away" - I meant "who the hell would need that?" in a more rhetorical sense. Just being cute, not anti-BFG.
"In the Logan Airport experiment, photographs of 40 airport employees were put into a database. The employees then attempted to pass through two security checkpoints where ass-recognition cameras were used."
ass-recognition, eh.
I wonder if how my (male) co-workers would compare. It seems like they can sense an ass before it's even in the room. Unfortunately for our national security, their sensors only work on female "terrorists" which are significantly less prevalent as compared to their male terrorist counterparts.
I think you have quite a misunderstanding of the difference between "false negative" (which is what the 61% was referring to) and "false positive" (which was not mentioned).
The president was black in The Fifth Element, and that came out a year earlier. And that's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there have been others.
If I had mpd points, I would mod you up +1 Insightful.
It's the "I patched it once, what more do you want from me?" type logic that lets an already inferior OS cause the level of problems for everyone else like it does. Irritating.
Consider any electrical device - now, from your experience, once the smoke "gets out", does it work anymore? No. Because it's magic smoke and the magic smoke is what makes the electronic guts work.
I dunno - a 'toaster' slot is just asking for a lot of skanky crap to fall down in there. Think of a real toaster. Now think of the nasty stuff you find in a car after a few years. Ew.
Now if it plugged in upside down (wouldn't work in my car, but up on the ceiling portion above/in front of the rearview in some cars would work), then it would make sense, I think.
I completely agree. If I didn't know the lingo, I wouldn't have known to upgrade to an extra strength Muffler Bearing and Forged Kuhneutson Valve. And, of course, with all that extra power, I needed the Cross Drilled Brake Lines. I don't normally reveal my sources, but I trust the Slashdot crowd - my supplier kicks butt! They have everything in stock to get your car ready for serious driving!
Thank God I found a local mechanic who was honest enough to make sure I had these pivotal items installed. I can't believe the DOT doesn't require them!
Seriously. Every consumer should take the time to become as educated as I have.
It is quite apparent that you have no idea what you're talking about.
MANY banks (as we are focusing on them) still have to run HPUX 9, NeXT cubes and even Windows NT 3.51. It is absolutely not because of laziness, it's because of SLAs demanded by customers. There's little point in trying to renegotiate because your heavy-hitters won't stand for adjustments. Remember, it's not just your backend that's being updated. You have to convince all of your customers who pay for those services to upgrade, too. And some don't like any changes, even for the better. Those tend to be the larger companies (bigger, thus, harder to change) who, should you alienate, can completely obliviate a project at least, an entire branch at worst.
I speak from experience, here. I was on Y2K watch and had to reboot all the WinNT 3.51 boxes at 00:01 because we had to just suck it up and let the proprietary software roll to year "19100". There was no option to upgrade because we were using a very specific build of some very specific software to do some very specific processing of several billion dollars a month. No way could we just tell all those customers "do things differently now - sorry it's a pain in the ass for you"
"Close to end-of-life" is not "end-of-life". I'm sure some of their enterprise-level customers (banks, for instance) where "just upgrade the server" isn't an option will have some very favorable (meaning bad for Microsoft) spending decisions next time around.
Who wants to buy an operating system from a company that lets their OSes die before their EOL? I sure wouldn't. The point of an EOL announcement is telling the world that 'as of xx/xx/xx, this product is dead as far as support goes'. Not 'when date xx/xx/xx is nearish, you're SOL'.
At my I-don't-really-care comment browsing of 2+, I only see 8 of 444 comments. Is there no moderation today?
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I never planned on getting paind for "doing computer stuff" and, at this point, I am just waiting to happen into a situation where I can quit and go back to it being a hobby for me. But the finances are what stop me - I like having the things that I have - a nice motorcycle, a big TV, lots of computers (ironically). If I could make, say, 2/3rds of my salary being a mechanic, I would take it in a heartbeat.
Anyone need an overpriced mechanic who specializes in aircooled VWs/Porsches?
Why did they assume they needed to defend it full force? They could have just asked him, and they didn't. They sent their hired thugs.
And it's not some random fan site, he was providing a service that they themselves could not (even though he offered) and they had supported/encouraged that for 6 years.
If you have a problem with a neighber being loud, do you call some big guy with a bat, or do you give them a call/walk over and say 'hey, the baby's sleeping'?
If your neighbor did the former, would you invite them over for tea?
But he had been in contact with them a few times. They knew his general demeanor. I mean, he tried to give them the db before!
The site certainly didn't appear to be malicious in any way. If the websites 'matched' even remotely, I could see proceeding more on a legal level. But the logo didn't even 'fit in' on Jim's site.
To revisit the car-based analogies (hehe), shops get to put the logos on their signs, right?
Why not sent him an offer letter on company letterhead?
Lawyers, for most people, are a threat. I don't think that's any surprise. They didn't need to say it through a lawyer to make a point or propose something to him.
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Bad water? Breathing in dihydrogen oxide is the kills more people than any other chemical!
Some have morals, and I would only choose to employ those that were at least in the same ballpark as my own.
While unemployed a few years ago (post dot-com burn-off), I personally turned down several job offers that had anything involving Microsoft in the job description (even though I have the unfortunate requisite experience - I, unlike many others, don't choose to fight my "Pavlovian reaction" to such work). I was willing to face the very real possibility of having to pack my things into a U-Haul and move back in with my parents (at 27 having been independent since 18). I have worked for bad employers before - silly, worthless products; bad business plans; inane "teambuilding" - but at least I can settle in and enjoy my work, not fight my OS.
You might have to narrow your search to jobs that might pay a little less or might not buy your alcoholic ass free booze on fridays, but some things are worth fighting for.
Oh, and P.S. - "its" means "thing that is owned by 'it'". "it's" means "it is". Each has it's appropriate time and place.
I didn't mean "that guy should have it taken away" - I meant "who the hell would need that?" in a more rhetorical sense. Just being cute, not anti-BFG.
"**SOLD**"
Yeesh. There aren't many people I trust with one of those. Crasy-guy-with-an-extra-seventeen-and-a-half-thou isn't up on the list.
ass-recognition, eh.
I wonder if how my (male) co-workers would compare. It seems like they can sense an ass before it's even in the room. Unfortunately for our national security, their sensors only work on female "terrorists" which are significantly less prevalent as compared to their male terrorist counterparts.
I think you have quite a misunderstanding of the difference between "false negative" (which is what the 61% was referring to) and "false positive" (which was not mentioned).
So there.
It's the "I patched it once, what more do you want from me?" type logic that lets an already inferior OS cause the level of problems for everyone else like it does. Irritating.
Consider any electrical device - now, from your experience, once the smoke "gets out", does it work anymore? No. Because it's magic smoke and the magic smoke is what makes the electronic guts work.
Linux 5.2+, eh? What super-ultra-double-alpha version of Linux are you running?
Now if it plugged in upside down (wouldn't work in my car, but up on the ceiling portion above/in front of the rearview in some cars would work), then it would make sense, I think.
Thank God I found a local mechanic who was honest enough to make sure I had these pivotal items installed. I can't believe the DOT doesn't require them!
Seriously. Every consumer should take the time to become as educated as I have.
MANY banks (as we are focusing on them) still have to run HPUX 9, NeXT cubes and even Windows NT 3.51. It is absolutely not because of laziness, it's because of SLAs demanded by customers. There's little point in trying to renegotiate because your heavy-hitters won't stand for adjustments. Remember, it's not just your backend that's being updated. You have to convince all of your customers who pay for those services to upgrade, too. And some don't like any changes, even for the better. Those tend to be the larger companies (bigger, thus, harder to change) who, should you alienate, can completely obliviate a project at least, an entire branch at worst.
I speak from experience, here. I was on Y2K watch and had to reboot all the WinNT 3.51 boxes at 00:01 because we had to just suck it up and let the proprietary software roll to year "19100". There was no option to upgrade because we were using a very specific build of some very specific software to do some very specific processing of several billion dollars a month. No way could we just tell all those customers "do things differently now - sorry it's a pain in the ass for you"
So, little troll, I bit. There you go.
Or were you asking to have three of the panes fixed?
That said, I like the Borg more, too. maybe just revamp it to a cleaner graphic or something (it was looking old - bit rot, I guess).
Who wants to buy an operating system from a company that lets their OSes die before their EOL? I sure wouldn't. The point of an EOL announcement is telling the world that 'as of xx/xx/xx, this product is dead as far as support goes'. Not 'when date xx/xx/xx is nearish, you're SOL'.
But, then, I'm just an admin, what do I know?
My 2100 is 160MHz.
I fed the troll, didn't I?
...the shipping confirmation for my Total Information Awareness thong.
At my I-don't-really-care comment browsing of 2+, I only see 8 of 444 comments. Is there no moderation today?
Anyone need an overpriced mechanic who specializes in aircooled VWs/Porsches?
And it's not some random fan site, he was providing a service that they themselves could not (even though he offered) and they had supported/encouraged that for 6 years.
If your neighbor did the former, would you invite them over for tea?
The site certainly didn't appear to be malicious in any way. If the websites 'matched' even remotely, I could see proceeding more on a legal level. But the logo didn't even 'fit in' on Jim's site.
To revisit the car-based analogies (hehe), shops get to put the logos on their signs, right?
Just like watching the bully getting dragged by the ear to the car by his mom.
Lawyers, for most people, are a threat. I don't think that's any surprise. They didn't need to say it through a lawyer to make a point or propose something to him.