Another one with the social skills of Elmer Fudd! I know what the acroynm stands for you condescending fool. I also know a bunch of technically brilliant but not overly mature people made the decision to call it that.
You could call your product "turd on a stick" and if it sold amazingly will consumers would call it a genius naming scheme.
Yes but you might be surprised that if you call a product "turd on a stick" you might not find it sells too well. (in fact shock horror some places might refuse to sell it). If you did such a thing and then were to whine about your product not selling I'd dismiss you as an idiot. It's unfortunate that somehow technical knowledge and understanding of social behaviour seem to be mutually exclusive in most people.
...and Gay means happy, however in common usage today the first thought people have if you call someone gay is that they're homosexual. Common usage, slang or otherwise trumps other meanings as that's the first association made.
Sadly, that's always the way with open source. I use The Gimp at work. Could you pick a worse name? I mean honestly do you know how hard it is to explain why you're using "The Gimp" or what "The Gimp" is? Until they see it's a graphical editor most people who haven't heard of it think I'm joking or their ears prick up wondering if they're going to have to call HR. You have Photoshop, Paintshop pro, and other well named image editors then you have "The Gimp". I mean honestly who comes up with this shit? Once you get past the name, it's a damn capable product even if it's not a total Photoshop replacement.
Fine then walk around being an asshole. See how far that gets you with people. You remind me of an intolerant old man who keeps yelling "damn youngsters! get off my lawn!".
Likely not. In the aircraft (or anywhere else), I am minding my own business and working. I also have no problem with normal conversation. Where problems crop up is people being completely unaware of their surroundings or those around them while they engage in LOUD intrusive dialogue.
Then you're a fool. Loud intrusive dialog does not require a mobile phone. Banning them on a plane because some people aren't aware of their surroundings is no different to banning conversation on a plane because some people don't know how to hold a quiet private conversation. It's perfectly possible to have a conversation at a reasonable volume on a mobile phone. However you seem quite content to punish everyone who uses a mobile phone for the actions of a few, because you don't happen to use one. This is the trouble with people these days. "I'm alright bugger the rest of you". Trouble is someone will find something you do can be done obtrusively as well, and be intolerant towards you.
f it is a normal conversation I probably would never notice them. However if it is like the two idiots on the plane from Sydney to LAX last time who were drunk, grabbing seats and the flight crew and yelling each and every word, they are likely in for a little discomfort. First by me and the other passengers who were disturbed, then jail time by the authorities on the receiving end of the flight.
Again two loud idiots behaving anti-socially are dealt with. An idiot on public transport that's yelling into their mobile can be dealt with in the same way. No need to ban them thanks.
You don't get out much, do you? I'd love to go on my merry way and ignore any conversation and almost always do. However, when you have some idiot sitting NEXT TO YOU talking about two octaves higher than necessary and making his conversation yours, you might not want to endure that much either after a couple of hours.
Actually I catch public transport most weekdays - an hour each way to and from work. I could tell you stories about some idiots but not one story would be about an idiot with a mobile, and people use mobiles on the train around me every day. On some trains it's standing room only, on other's it's almost deserted and I get the entire range in between.
Might I suggest you actually engage some people skills if the person doesn't come across as threatening and ask the person politely to speak a little less loudly next time you encounter this situation instead of whining about it like an infant and advocating a total ban of a device that's literally changed the world in the last decade or so? Or put more simply GROW THE FUCK UP.
Consider having your attitude adjusted. You're probably more annoying to those around you than anyone else having a phone conversation. Unless you're in a library or a theatre, expecting others to travel silence is unrealistic. If 2 people are having a conversation in the seat in front of you what do you do? Stand up and whisper shhhh!
Honestly it's none of your business. Don't listen in to their conversation. Focus on something else. Stop trying to dictate the actions of others. Your attitude will only make you and those around you miserable.
It has nothing to do with your creditentials blogger or journo. D'ya think every journalist gets a ticket into every event? Who the bouncer's told to let it depends on the business interests of the party holding the event. If they like you and think you'll help them sell product/service you're in. If they don't you're out. Blogger vs. journo is just an excuse. Nothing to do with rights online or anything else.
According to a high school physics teacher of mine (back in the early 90s) in Aus you're lucky to see a few cents per book. He said every couple of years he gets a cheque for a couple of hundred bucks for one of the textbooks we were using.
I think if I ever write anything worth sharing, I'd just put it out on a web site and on P2P and hope.
See the last sentence for 2 reasons I don't plan on writing a book.
Gotta love sweeping statements based on very limited observations.
Not all public service employees are time wasting slackers with no spine. Not all private sector employees are highly efficient. I've seen gross incompetence at all levels in both public and private sectors. I've also seen people go above and beyond in both public and private sectors. I've had one private sector employee try to get me to do their work for them at a full time paid job. I've seen an IT manager who insisted work be done on a compiler in a one week time frame that would require 6 months because she had no idea how compilers worked and wasn't willing to listen to her staff. I've seen private sector work places where it didn't matter what work you did so long as you were there past 9pm (talk about being good at nothing but looking busy!).
There was a discussion on the radio this morning about teachers and whether or not they're overpaid babysitters. One guy rang in and said his old teachers now frequent the golf course he works at not long after 3pm. Another woman rang in and said her daughter's working such long hours she's finding it tough to find time for a relationship.
The generalisation you are making is even grander than one made for a specific profession. Do you seriously think everyone in a given profession has the same standards and work ethic? If so what are you smoking? How is it any more reasonable to conclude that all public sector employees share the same work ethic?
Have you ever considered that perhaps the public service establishments you have worked in were particularly badly run? Privatising them wouldn't instantly make them efficient. The myth that privatisation makes organisations efficient is a dangerous and silly fantasy.
You don't know some of the teachers I know. Don't get me wrong - I know some good ones too. In fact I'm about to marry a teacher.
Your other statement is puzzling. The uni makes you do it but you're not a teacher? Huh? If it's part of your paid duties, or part of earning your qualifications, you're a teacher.
So let me get this straight. A license that says "you can only use me in a very limited way and you have to pay me for the privellege" is okay, but one that says "use me any way you like for free, except you have to let anyone else use what you build for free as well" is selfish.
That's twisted and disingenuous. Why don't you just admit that what you want to do is sell other people's work and turn a profit using the fruits of their labours (with only minor changes)? You're just bitter that they won't give it over. Yet proprietary software makers certainly don't give you more freedom.
So the big thing you've got in this version of the Playstation seems to be advertising, and branded virtual items ala second life. This is suppose to be the difference between the PS3 being good and it being a steaming pile of dung? Give me and my wallet a break. I don't want any damned ads in my games. I don't want games that require that I be online. All of that should be possible but not required to get the most out of what essentially should be an arcade games machine for the home.
See this is what I don't understand. How much money are you going to get out of selling 4000 books anyway? Around a buck each?
Type-setting isn't hard these days. Editing/proof-reading shouldn't be too hard either. Why not cut out the middle man and release it as a non DRM encumbered ebook form yourself. Sell it for a buck and make it clear that if you want to legally own and read the book you need to pay $1 to a bank account you nominate. Hell you could even do your own print run and charge $1 over cost. Why feed greedy good for nothing book publishers? It seems to me the only thing you get out of them is an ISBN...
I even told a student that a reference they had cited was wrong in claiming that you would freeze to death in the Sun's corona, the argument being that you wouldn't freeze for the same reason you wouldn't burn: no particles to transport heat.
That's a pretty disturbing mistake to make if you're teaching. If there were no mechanism for heat transfer in a vacuum, how do you expect the Earth is heated by the sun? If you think it takes an atmosphere, or an active inner core, take a look at planet Mercury.
In Australia the laws are usually draconian and the enforcement of those laws is usually lax unless there's a political agenda. This of course opens the draconian laws up to incredible misuse. It's quite sickening actually.
Millions of tons of CO2 is a drop in the bucket. Much less than a percent of what we're putting into the atmosphere. This whole debate is a complete non-issue. Trying to fix our greenhouse gas problem by limiting the use of incandescent bulbs is like trying to put a band aid on a gaping battle field wound. It's all about distracting the consumer and milking them for every last cent while large corps continue to rape and pillage the atmosphere.
One of my friends, who was intelligent but should never have been programming once admitted to me that on a commercial project he used cut and paste because he didn't know for loop syntax. 100 lines later...
You're _almost_ there. Take it a step further. There should be a limit to what you pay for legal representation, so that whoever wins isn't who has the most expensive lawyer. Some things don't work well in a free market. Megacorp vs JoeAverage is just one.
I'm at work. It's after hours and I'm on my own time. I don't think I'm going to click that link for fear that someone like you might be sysadmining.
or at least open your eyes while you pretend to read
Very clever insult...for a four year old.
I don't give a dingo's kidney if someone wants to pay their bills using company equipment. If they don't have authorization, they can't.
It's at least partially your job to determine if that is a reasonable use of company equipment. Presumable you have some authority since you like to bandy it around. If not it's your job to forward that request on up the chain instead of playing the Seinfeld soup Nazi.
I don't make policy, I just implement it.
That didn't fly in Neremburg and it doesn't fly with me. You're no doubt consulted about things. Your attitude is clearly "lets make my job as easy as possible" at the expense of the employees you're meant to be serving.
I'd really like to see that discussion between the billing manager and the GLM... "um, Carlos wants internet access to he can pay his bills".
A perfectly reasonable request, particularly if Carlos doesn't have time to sit in a queue because he's doing overtime. You seem to be missing the simple point that people's lives and humanity don't end when they sign an employment contract. By the way I occassionally pay my bills at work, and it's policy here that REASONABLE use of the Internet for personal reasons is quite acceptable. You see I don't work in an IT sweatshop and I wouldn't choose to as long as I have other options.
With regards to "work related" software, where the flying fuck did you read that gem? You are the poster child for ASS-u-ming. Y
Your exact words were: I'm not going to have anyone of my guys jump through paperwork hoops to keep CAP or CLIA or MediCal happy so someone can have their computer go "ding" at a certain time using their favorite software.
That's your JOB. That's why I called you an asshole. You are there to SERVE the users not herd them like animals. If that little application going ding makes his job easier or makes life easier or happier or more comfortable so he can do his job, it's your job to have your guys do that paperwork and get him what he wants or needs. You really are a clueless power mongering fool if you think otherwise. IT is a service industry. We're servants to the business and only one part of our job is to keep their information protected.
You've no idea the federal and state regulations with regards to software, access, information/patient protection measures that are required in the healthcare industry. It's not a matter of CONTROL, it's a matter of CAP or CLIA or MediCal compliance.
I don't even live in the same country as you. I'm glad that where I am we don't have stupid regulations that turn me into a wage slave.
The biller who whats to pay his bills -- remember him? How's he going to pay after he gets his last paycheck because the lab lost it's MediCal licence for compliance violations and we can no longer collect revenue?
If you're seriously telling me that laws exist in the US that prevent a user from loading software on their work computer well then that RIGHT THERE is why your country is going down the fucking toilet.
Ignorant prick.
Please tell me exactly what I'm ignorant of? The ability to insult someone as if I was a profane 4 year old child? The ability to argue by shouting as loud as possible while saying very little of consequence or value?
Now what's your work policy about profanity from a work computer? Not at a work computer? Well what's your company policy on things you do that may reflect on the company? Who monitors your usage of company equipment? Hypocrite.
You may be surprised that life and even work isn't about sitting in a cubicle complying with inane laws.
No amount of school-enforced punishment will be effective if the child goes home and is congratulated by the parent(s) for bullying yet another high school loser. I know of many parents who would do just such a thing, without realizing the kind of little monsters they are creating.
You're assuming that the parents are human and socially adjusted ones at that. Many realise just what they're turning their kids into. Little versions of their sociopathic selves that can't be held to account as much until the law deems them to be adults.
The answer isn't to shield kids from bullying, it's to teach them how to deal with it. Someone talks shit, get up in their face and make them back it up or back the fuck off.
These days more than ever, in some places, you're more likely to get stabbed or shot behaving like that than you are to end up in a fist fight. You see what you are saying assumes that kids are kids instead of homicidal maniacs, and too often now that's not the case.
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I'm currently working on a next-generation graphics editing program called 'Broomstick Up The Ass'. Would you be interested in beta-testing it?
What are the bugs? Splinters? Is it any better than your last work: Shitting bricks?
Another one with the social skills of Elmer Fudd! I know what the acroynm stands for you condescending fool. I also know a bunch of technically brilliant but not overly mature people made the decision to call it that.
You could call your product "turd on a stick" and if it sold amazingly will consumers would call it a genius naming scheme.
Yes but you might be surprised that if you call a product "turd on a stick" you might not find it sells too well. (in fact shock horror some places might refuse to sell it). If you did such a thing and then were to whine about your product not selling I'd dismiss you as an idiot. It's unfortunate that somehow technical knowledge and understanding of social behaviour seem to be mutually exclusive in most people.
...and Gay means happy, however in common usage today the first thought people have if you call someone gay is that they're homosexual. Common usage, slang or otherwise trumps other meanings as that's the first association made.
Please let this be a Joke thats a terrible name.
Sadly, that's always the way with open source. I use The Gimp at work. Could you pick a worse name? I mean honestly do you know how hard it is to explain why you're using "The Gimp" or what "The Gimp" is? Until they see it's a graphical editor most people who haven't heard of it think I'm joking or their ears prick up wondering if they're going to have to call HR. You have Photoshop, Paintshop pro, and other well named image editors then you have "The Gimp". I mean honestly who comes up with this shit? Once you get past the name, it's a damn capable product even if it's not a total Photoshop replacement.
No. Go bother someone else.
Fine then walk around being an asshole. See how far that gets you with people. You remind me of an intolerant old man who keeps yelling "damn youngsters! get off my lawn!".
Likely not. In the aircraft (or anywhere else), I am minding my own business and working. I also have no problem with normal conversation. Where problems crop up is people being completely unaware of their surroundings or those around them while they engage in LOUD intrusive dialogue.
Then you're a fool. Loud intrusive dialog does not require a mobile phone. Banning them on a plane because some people aren't aware of their surroundings is no different to banning conversation on a plane because some people don't know how to hold a quiet private conversation. It's perfectly possible to have a conversation at a reasonable volume on a mobile phone. However you seem quite content to punish everyone who uses a mobile phone for the actions of a few, because you don't happen to use one. This is the trouble with people these days. "I'm alright bugger the rest of you". Trouble is someone will find something you do can be done obtrusively as well, and be intolerant towards you.
f it is a normal conversation I probably would never notice them. However if it is like the two idiots on the plane from Sydney to LAX last time who were drunk, grabbing seats and the flight crew and yelling each and every word, they are likely in for a little discomfort. First by me and the other passengers who were disturbed, then jail time by the authorities on the receiving end of the flight.
Again two loud idiots behaving anti-socially are dealt with. An idiot on public transport that's yelling into their mobile can be dealt with in the same way. No need to ban them thanks.
You don't get out much, do you? I'd love to go on my merry way and ignore any conversation and almost always do. However, when you have some idiot sitting NEXT TO YOU talking about two octaves higher than necessary and making his conversation yours, you might not want to endure that much either after a couple of hours.
Actually I catch public transport most weekdays - an hour each way to and from work. I could tell you stories about some idiots but not one story would be about an idiot with a mobile, and people use mobiles on the train around me every day. On some trains it's standing room only, on other's it's almost deserted and I get the entire range in between.
Might I suggest you actually engage some people skills if the person doesn't come across as threatening and ask the person politely to speak a little less loudly next time you encounter this situation instead of whining about it like an infant and advocating a total ban of a device that's literally changed the world in the last decade or so? Or put more simply GROW THE FUCK UP.
Consider having your attitude adjusted. You're probably more annoying to those around you than anyone else having a phone conversation. Unless you're in a library or a theatre, expecting others to travel silence is unrealistic. If 2 people are having a conversation in the seat in front of you what do you do? Stand up and whisper shhhh!
Honestly it's none of your business. Don't listen in to their conversation. Focus on something else. Stop trying to dictate the actions of others. Your attitude will only make you and those around you miserable.
It has nothing to do with your creditentials blogger or journo. D'ya think every journalist gets a ticket into every event? Who the bouncer's told to let it depends on the business interests of the party holding the event. If they like you and think you'll help them sell product/service you're in. If they don't you're out. Blogger vs. journo is just an excuse. Nothing to do with rights online or anything else.
According to a high school physics teacher of mine (back in the early 90s) in Aus you're lucky to see a few cents per book. He said every couple of years he gets a cheque for a couple of hundred bucks for one of the textbooks we were using.
I think if I ever write anything worth sharing, I'd just put it out on a web site and on P2P and hope.
See the last sentence for 2 reasons I don't plan on writing a book.
Gotta love sweeping statements based on very limited observations.
Not all public service employees are time wasting slackers with no spine. Not all private sector employees are highly efficient. I've seen gross incompetence at all levels in both public and private sectors. I've also seen people go above and beyond in both public and private sectors. I've had one private sector employee try to get me to do their work for them at a full time paid job. I've seen an IT manager who insisted work be done on a compiler in a one week time frame that would require 6 months because she had no idea how compilers worked and wasn't willing to listen to her staff. I've seen private sector work places where it didn't matter what work you did so long as you were there past 9pm (talk about being good at nothing but looking busy!).
There was a discussion on the radio this morning about teachers and whether or not they're overpaid babysitters. One guy rang in and said his old teachers now frequent the golf course he works at not long after 3pm. Another woman rang in and said her daughter's working such long hours she's finding it tough to find time for a relationship.
The generalisation you are making is even grander than one made for a specific profession. Do you seriously think everyone in a given profession has the same standards and work ethic? If so what are you smoking? How is it any more reasonable to conclude that all public sector employees share the same work ethic?
Have you ever considered that perhaps the public service establishments you have worked in were particularly badly run? Privatising them wouldn't instantly make them efficient. The myth that privatisation makes organisations efficient is a dangerous and silly fantasy.
Thanks for making me laugh! Well done.
You don't know some of the teachers I know. Don't get me wrong - I know some good ones too. In fact I'm about to marry a teacher.
Your other statement is puzzling. The uni makes you do it but you're not a teacher? Huh? If it's part of your paid duties, or part of earning your qualifications, you're a teacher.
So let me get this straight. A license that says "you can only use me in a very limited way and you have to pay me for the privellege" is okay, but one that says "use me any way you like for free, except you have to let anyone else use what you build for free as well" is selfish.
That's twisted and disingenuous. Why don't you just admit that what you want to do is sell other people's work and turn a profit using the fruits of their labours (with only minor changes)? You're just bitter that they won't give it over. Yet proprietary software makers certainly don't give you more freedom.
So the big thing you've got in this version of the Playstation seems to be advertising, and branded virtual items ala second life. This is suppose to be the difference between the PS3 being good and it being a steaming pile of dung? Give me and my wallet a break. I don't want any damned ads in my games. I don't want games that require that I be online. All of that should be possible but not required to get the most out of what essentially should be an arcade games machine for the home.
See this is what I don't understand. How much money are you going to get out of selling 4000 books anyway? Around a buck each?
Type-setting isn't hard these days. Editing/proof-reading shouldn't be too hard either. Why not cut out the middle man and release it as a non DRM encumbered ebook form yourself. Sell it for a buck and make it clear that if you want to legally own and read the book you need to pay $1 to a bank account you nominate. Hell you could even do your own print run and charge $1 over cost. Why feed greedy good for nothing book publishers? It seems to me the only thing you get out of them is an ISBN...
I even told a student that a reference they had cited was wrong in claiming that you would freeze to death in the Sun's corona, the argument being that you wouldn't freeze for the same reason you wouldn't burn: no particles to transport heat.
That's a pretty disturbing mistake to make if you're teaching. If there were no mechanism for heat transfer in a vacuum, how do you expect the Earth is heated by the sun? If you think it takes an atmosphere, or an active inner core, take a look at planet Mercury.
In Australia the laws are usually draconian and the enforcement of those laws is usually lax unless there's a political agenda. This of course opens the draconian laws up to incredible misuse. It's quite sickening actually.
Millions of tons of CO2 is a drop in the bucket. Much less than a percent of what we're putting into the atmosphere. This whole debate is a complete non-issue. Trying to fix our greenhouse gas problem by limiting the use of incandescent bulbs is like trying to put a band aid on a gaping battle field wound. It's all about distracting the consumer and milking them for every last cent while large corps continue to rape and pillage the atmosphere.
One of my friends, who was intelligent but should never have been programming once admitted to me that on a commercial project he used cut and paste because he didn't know for loop syntax. 100 lines later...
You're _almost_ there. Take it a step further. There should be a limit to what you pay for legal representation, so that whoever wins isn't who has the most expensive lawyer. Some things don't work well in a free market. Megacorp vs JoeAverage is just one.
Have you tried buying a Dell today? They've already removed the option of buying their PCs with XP?
The trouble with an eye for an eye is that everyone ends up blind.
I'm a control freak?
Yes, actually you are.
You are an asshat
I'm at work. It's after hours and I'm on my own time. I don't think I'm going to click that link for fear that someone like you might be sysadmining.
or at least open your eyes while you pretend to read
Very clever insult...for a four year old.
I don't give a dingo's kidney if someone wants to pay their bills using company equipment. If they don't have authorization, they can't.
It's at least partially your job to determine if that is a reasonable use of company equipment. Presumable you have some authority since you like to bandy it around. If not it's your job to forward that request on up the chain instead of playing the Seinfeld soup Nazi.
I don't make policy, I just implement it.
That didn't fly in Neremburg and it doesn't fly with me. You're no doubt consulted about things. Your attitude is clearly "lets make my job as easy as possible" at the expense of the employees you're meant to be serving.
I'd really like to see that discussion between the billing manager and the GLM... "um, Carlos wants internet access to he can pay his bills".
A perfectly reasonable request, particularly if Carlos doesn't have time to sit in a queue because he's doing overtime. You seem to be missing the simple point that people's lives and humanity don't end when they sign an employment contract. By the way I occassionally pay my bills at work, and it's policy here that REASONABLE use of the Internet for personal reasons is quite acceptable. You see I don't work in an IT sweatshop and I wouldn't choose to as long as I have other options.
With regards to "work related" software, where the flying fuck did you read that gem? You are the poster child for ASS-u-ming. Y
Your exact words were: I'm not going to have anyone of my guys jump through paperwork hoops to keep CAP or CLIA or MediCal happy so someone can have their computer go "ding" at a certain time using their favorite software.
That's your JOB. That's why I called you an asshole. You are there to SERVE the users not herd them like animals. If that little application going ding makes his job easier or makes life easier or happier or more comfortable so he can do his job, it's your job to have your guys do that paperwork and get him what he wants or needs. You really are a clueless power mongering fool if you think otherwise. IT is a service industry. We're servants to the business and only one part of our job is to keep their information protected.
You've no idea the federal and state regulations with regards to software, access, information/patient protection measures that are required in the healthcare industry. It's not a matter of CONTROL, it's a matter of CAP or CLIA or MediCal compliance.
I don't even live in the same country as you. I'm glad that where I am we don't have stupid regulations that turn me into a wage slave.
The biller who whats to pay his bills -- remember him? How's he going to pay after he gets his last paycheck because the lab lost it's MediCal licence for compliance violations and we can no longer collect revenue?
If you're seriously telling me that laws exist in the US that prevent a user from loading software on their work computer well then that RIGHT THERE is why your country is going down the fucking toilet.
Ignorant prick.
Please tell me exactly what I'm ignorant of? The ability to insult someone as if I was a profane 4 year old child? The ability to argue by shouting as loud as possible while saying very little of consequence or value?
Now what's your work policy about profanity from a work computer? Not at a work computer? Well what's your company policy on things you do that may reflect on the company? Who monitors your usage of company equipment? Hypocrite.
You may be surprised that life and even work isn't about sitting in a cubicle complying with inane laws.
No amount of school-enforced punishment will be effective if the child goes home and is congratulated by the parent(s) for bullying yet another high school loser. I know of many parents who would do just such a thing, without realizing the kind of little monsters they are creating.
You're assuming that the parents are human and socially adjusted ones at that. Many realise just what they're turning their kids into. Little versions of their sociopathic selves that can't be held to account as much until the law deems them to be adults.
The answer isn't to shield kids from bullying, it's to teach them how to deal with it. Someone talks shit, get up in their face and make them back it up or back the fuck off.
These days more than ever, in some places, you're more likely to get stabbed or shot behaving like that than you are to end up in a fist fight. You see what you are saying assumes that kids are kids instead of homicidal maniacs, and too often now that's not the case.