But parents need to stop using movie theaters as a way to keep their kids entertained for an afternoon. You come to a movie to see a movie, not to fucking socialize.
and to that idiot with the laser pointer, be happy I'm an old fuck and have too much to lose to shove it down your pie-hole - sideways.
You don't want to interact. Fair enough. Sounds a lot like you need to set up your own home theatre. Pretty cheap to do these days. $500 will buy you a 42 inch TV and a Bluray player.
I have a Transformer, a Novo 7 (China) and an iPad. I paid for the Transformer, the others are company owned test units.
I like them all. I haven't tried the Transformer with a keyboard, should have bought it. But that might be the one you want.
I haven't read the article, nor the summary, but I'm going to post anyway in fine slashdot tradition.
I would say vallium, as it has a better reputation than prozac. Once you're stoned out of your tree all the computing devices will look the same anyway.
"I have a lot of down time." Makes me think you did it on your employers time which you've already been paid for. If anything, I would either ask to retain the copyright or the right to release it open source.
He may well have but he states "The entire source was developed on personal equipment off company hours.". So if we answer his question at face value, he's done a lot of work in his spare time and goofed off at work? In which case, get a life outside of work (or heck get a second job), go above and beyond during your working hours, and you'll be a better employee at your current job or elsewhere. I think he knows perfectly well if he proposed doing this, his managers would approve it and make him do it during work hours.
Most organizations are not deserving of free work on the part of an employee, regardless of hourly or salaried compensation. The only two times I can think of that might warrant some kind of uncompensated work would be where either a a company is in trouble and employees pulling extra effort might save their jobs, or where the extra work is likely to result in a better position in the company.
I don't see either being the case in the way you describe it. If you can't do it on the clock or at the office, don't do it.
"The entire source was developed on personal equipment off company hours.". So if we answer his question at face value, he's done a lot of work in his spare time and goofed off at work? In which case, get a life outside of work (or heck get a second job), go above and beyond during your working hours, and you'll be a better employee at your current job or elsewhere. I think he knows perfectly well if he proposed doing this, his managers would approve it and make him do it during work hours.
Why, do they have to manually enter the details on their iPads to make it fast? It takes 3 days because it's easier to patch those mainframes. My bank shows instantly because eastern European banking infrastructure was built from the ground up in the 90's, not because they can't keep data safe.
Mainframes are locked down compared to your 90's client server mess, or your current Java mess. Less moving parts means less to go wrong. You are using features that are new and improved compared to older tech used by other banks but had your banks been on the ball. Stifle innovation and your banks will be using that tech till 2190 while the world moves on.
I'd rather your corp have a locked-down corporate environment in which data security is respected and my credit card and other personal information (including purchase history) is safe.
Fine. Then don't be the first to bitch when you are the last one to get mobile access to your credit card, and your online bank accounts take 3 days to show your transactions.
I will say, users are terrible for taking responsibility for their own mistakes.
Whereas sysadmins like to fall on their sword every second Tuesday???
Human beings are terrible at admitting and taking responsibility for their own mistakes, especially when that admission could see your arse fired and your family on welfare.
Typical user conceit "This is MY dingly dangly, it lights up and makes my balls feel warm! Oh SHIT, I BROKE the DINGLY! IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT."
Rinse, Lather, Repeat.
If you insist on loading your craptard software on my dingly dangly and instead of warming my balls it burns them (locks me out of my own shit), too fucking right mate! Fix it or I'll have you fixed!
Actually, Dick Smith is a great guy. Dick Smith Electronics on the other hand has been owned by Woolworths for over 20 years now and is useless compared to its former glory.
Any guy who supports a CEO getting a >$1 Million day pay rise closing down the company the following day and inconveniencing travellers just pressure workers into accepting pay cuts or reduced below CPI pay rises doesn't qualify as great to me. Dick Smith is no better than Gerry Harvey. (I'm talking about Qantas for those who don't know).
I don't know how it is in Australia, but around here, you can return anything you bought online within 14 days and get your money back (as long as you can actually return it as you got it, so food/software etc usually not included). What do people expect happens to stuff that gets returned? Of course it goes on sale again. Otherwise selling online would be economic suicide...
In Australia it is illegal to re-sell used returned goods as new. The goods can be re-sold but must clearly be marked as returned items, and usually a discount is offered for accepting the goods in this condition. (The discount might not be offered if the item is in high demand).
What's more if goods have been returned and the item registered or activated online or similar they are not suppose to sell the item. That is the secondary reason that computer software isn't returnable at most stores (though there are exceptions like EB games).
I ride the bus to and from work every day. I could carry a dumb phone, plus an mp3 player, plus a netbook, I suppose... but instead I have an original Droid, and it gets all that done in a much smaller and more convenient package, along with GPS navigation, flash drive file transport, encrypted password wallet, and a cheap camera.
You left out web browser, ebook reader, games platform, note taking took, guitar tuner, noise level meter, planetarium, spirit level, and many many many more. It easily replaces the Palm pilot I've been carrying for years.
Man who does not need bells and whistles says bells and whistles not needed. Story at 11.
Some of us not wanting the bells and whistles aren't doing it out of lack of desire for the bells and whistles, but because the costs of plans are, to our way of thinking, a sudden and large monthly expense.
I bought an Acer Liquid Metal smartphone for $128 outright this year. You don't HAVE to have the highest end model. I'm still on a plan till Feb at which time I'll move to another carrier due to crappy reception. At that point I'll decide if there's a phone available on a plan that suits me. If not I'll just sign up for a cheaper plan and bypass the phone.
I wouldn't be calling other people stupid. Altimeters are also used to maintain aircraft separation around busy airports, avoid bad weather etc. Your assertion that everything other than not hitting the ground is a use that is "just for fun" is ridiculous.
Your post is full of FUD. A million people die annually because of human drivers. A driverless car killing half that many would still be an improvement.
Woahhhhh back up there. When did we start talkinga bout terminators? A single driverless car killing half a million people!?
Oh no, they told me I should never use the same combination twice and I already use that on my luggage! (How many security WTFs is that rolled into one?)
1 end user's worth. That is the official unit of security WTFs.
And it'll be a cold day in hell before I trust anything more important to my fetish porn collection to a WD drive...
Why is that? Of all the drive problems I've ever had, from failures to DOAs to Linux incompatibility issues, the one manufacturer that has stood out as being the most reliable is in fact Western Digital. Why do you distrust WD?
Can't speak for the grandparent but have you ever monitored a 1TB or 2TB elements drive for temperature? Put simply having no holes in the case was an idiot move and I've even had one drive cook itself on arrival when I transferred enough to fill it using robocopy. Drives aren't meant to run at around 80 degrees celcius.
Seagate isn't that much better. I pretend the drives have no warranty because usually my only option is to get a brand new drive replaced with "refurbished" drive after giving up a device that no longer works but has personal data on it. Not what I'd call a warranty worth having.
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ok, I like kids.
But parents need to stop using movie theaters as a way to keep their kids entertained for an afternoon. You come to a movie to see a movie, not to fucking socialize.
and to that idiot with the laser pointer, be happy I'm an old fuck and have too much to lose to shove it down your pie-hole - sideways.
You don't want to interact. Fair enough. Sounds a lot like you need to set up your own home theatre. Pretty cheap to do these days. $500 will buy you a 42 inch TV and a Bluray player.
Idiot.
Your post is amusing because it is unintentionally self-descriptive.
I have a Transformer, a Novo 7 (China) and an iPad. I paid for the Transformer, the others are company owned test units.
I like them all. I haven't tried the Transformer with a keyboard, should have bought it. But that might be the one you want.
I haven't read the article, nor the summary, but I'm going to post anyway in fine slashdot tradition.
I would say vallium, as it has a better reputation than prozac. Once you're stoned out of your tree all the computing devices will look the same anyway.
Don't be silly. That's what the TV is for.
TV isn't any good as a babysitter. It doesn't make their lunch for them or change their nappy.
Well what do you expect? Parents that actually interact with their kids?
It'll prevent kids forgetting their $subject book every few days... and cause less back pain. Not much more though.
Yep because it will price the student out of being able to afford them, and they won't be able to re-sell them or keep them indefinitely.
Ebooks should be DIRT cheap not ladden with more ways to prevent you from accessing them than a missile silo.
I love ebooks, but I don't love the publishers. It doesn't have to be this way, but that's where it's headed.
Looks more like jumpcrashing to me.
It is in the tradition of all experimenting with robotic movement - reminiscent of a slashdot user at a boy-girl dance ;-)
"I have a lot of down time." Makes me think you did it on your employers time which you've already been paid for. If anything, I would either ask to retain the copyright or the right to release it open source.
He may well have but he states "The entire source was developed on personal equipment off company hours.". So if we answer his question at face value, he's done a lot of work in his spare time and goofed off at work? In which case, get a life outside of work (or heck get a second job), go above and beyond during your working hours, and you'll be a better employee at your current job or elsewhere. I think he knows perfectly well if he proposed doing this, his managers would approve it and make him do it during work hours.
Most organizations are not deserving of free work on the part of an employee, regardless of hourly or salaried compensation. The only two times I can think of that might warrant some kind of uncompensated work would be where either a a company is in trouble and employees pulling extra effort might save their jobs, or where the extra work is likely to result in a better position in the company.
I don't see either being the case in the way you describe it. If you can't do it on the clock or at the office, don't do it.
"The entire source was developed on personal equipment off company hours.". So if we answer his question at face value, he's done a lot of work in his spare time and goofed off at work? In which case, get a life outside of work (or heck get a second job), go above and beyond during your working hours, and you'll be a better employee at your current job or elsewhere. I think he knows perfectly well if he proposed doing this, his managers would approve it and make him do it during work hours.
Why, do they have to manually enter the details on their iPads to make it fast? It takes 3 days because it's easier to patch those mainframes. My bank shows instantly because eastern European banking infrastructure was built from the ground up in the 90's, not because they can't keep data safe.
Mainframes are locked down compared to your 90's client server mess, or your current Java mess. Less moving parts means less to go wrong. You are using features that are new and improved compared to older tech used by other banks but had your banks been on the ball. Stifle innovation and your banks will be using that tech till 2190 while the world moves on.
I'd rather your corp have a locked-down corporate environment in which data security is respected and my credit card and other personal information (including purchase history) is safe.
Fine. Then don't be the first to bitch when you are the last one to get mobile access to your credit card, and your online bank accounts take 3 days to show your transactions.
> Okay, everybody tell me how wrong I am.
I will say, users are terrible for taking responsibility for their own mistakes.
Whereas sysadmins like to fall on their sword every second Tuesday???
Human beings are terrible at admitting and taking responsibility for their own mistakes, especially when that admission could see your arse fired and your family on welfare.
Typical user conceit "This is MY dingly dangly, it lights up and makes my balls feel warm! Oh SHIT, I BROKE the DINGLY! IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT."
Rinse, Lather, Repeat.
If you insist on loading your craptard software on my dingly dangly and instead of warming my balls it burns them (locks me out of my own shit), too fucking right mate! Fix it or I'll have you fixed!
Sincerely,
A user who's also a tech head.
Actually, Dick Smith is a great guy. Dick Smith Electronics on the other hand has been owned by Woolworths for over 20 years now and is useless compared to its former glory.
Any guy who supports a CEO getting a >$1 Million day pay rise closing down the company the following day and inconveniencing travellers just pressure workers into accepting pay cuts or reduced below CPI pay rises doesn't qualify as great to me. Dick Smith is no better than Gerry Harvey. (I'm talking about Qantas for those who don't know).
I don't know how it is in Australia, but around here, you can return anything you bought online within 14 days and get your money back (as long as you can actually return it as you got it, so food/software etc usually not included).
What do people expect happens to stuff that gets returned? Of course it goes on sale again. Otherwise selling online would be economic suicide...
In Australia it is illegal to re-sell used returned goods as new. The goods can be re-sold but must clearly be marked as returned items, and usually a discount is offered for accepting the goods in this condition. (The discount might not be offered if the item is in high demand).
What's more if goods have been returned and the item registered or activated online or similar they are not suppose to sell the item. That is the secondary reason that computer software isn't returnable at most stores (though there are exceptions like EB games).
Absolutely. Use security screws on the cases, and use cables to secure the desktops, monitors, etc. to something immobile.
Depending on your plans for the course, you might want to disable the USB ports and optical drives, and look into software like Deepfreeze.
So your plan for the course would be to stifle any innovative spirit the kid might have in the name of security?
Principle of least privilege is also principle of least innovation.
If they want to get used to working in a real-world computer environment:
1. Terrible and abrasive neon lights.
2. Cubicles.
Are these mainly male high school students? Do you have Interwebs access? Cubicles better have a large supply of tissues!!!
I ride the bus to and from work every day. I could carry a dumb phone, plus an mp3 player, plus a netbook, I suppose... but instead I have an original Droid, and it gets all that done in a much smaller and more convenient package, along with GPS navigation, flash drive file transport, encrypted password wallet, and a cheap camera.
You left out web browser, ebook reader, games platform, note taking took, guitar tuner, noise level meter, planetarium, spirit level, and many many many more. It easily replaces the Palm pilot I've been carrying for years.
Man who does not need bells and whistles says bells and whistles not needed. Story at 11.
Some of us not wanting the bells and whistles aren't doing it out of lack of desire for the bells and whistles, but because the costs of plans are, to our way of thinking, a sudden and large monthly expense.
I bought an Acer Liquid Metal smartphone for $128 outright this year. You don't HAVE to have the highest end model. I'm still on a plan till Feb at which time I'll move to another carrier due to crappy reception. At that point I'll decide if there's a phone available on a plan that suits me. If not I'll just sign up for a cheaper plan and bypass the phone.
I've studied this stuff, it's down to STUPID programmers. Hire people that can type properly. This was everybody wins ...
Easily avoided then. Stop programming in STUPID.
Are there other jobs that have their job performance drop considerably during these two months?
If not, what can be used to explain this anomaly? Bogus study? Something unique to programmers?
Peanuts grow best in the months just prior so peanuts are in abundance.
You pay peanuts, you get monkeys!
"but also something just a touch smaller — a Venus."
If there's a Venus and no known Mars... then does that mean it's all women?
Sign me up!
Have you learnt nothing from all your years of watching Star Trek? The women are all blue or green, have 3 breasts, and want to KILL you!
I wouldn't be calling other people stupid. Altimeters are also used to maintain aircraft separation around busy airports, avoid bad weather etc. Your assertion that everything other than not hitting the ground is a use that is "just for fun" is ridiculous.
Your post is full of FUD. A million people die annually because of human drivers. A driverless car killing half that many would still be an improvement.
Woahhhhh back up there. When did we start talkinga bout terminators? A single driverless car killing half a million people!?
Oh no, they told me I should never use the same combination twice and I already use that on my luggage! (How many security WTFs is that rolled into one?)
1 end user's worth. That is the official unit of security WTFs.
And it'll be a cold day in hell before I trust anything more important to my fetish porn collection to a WD drive...
Why is that? Of all the drive problems I've ever had, from failures to DOAs to Linux incompatibility issues, the one manufacturer that has stood out as being the most reliable is in fact Western Digital. Why do you distrust WD?
Can't speak for the grandparent but have you ever monitored a 1TB or 2TB elements drive for temperature? Put simply having no holes in the case was an idiot move and I've even had one drive cook itself on arrival when I transferred enough to fill it using robocopy. Drives aren't meant to run at around 80 degrees celcius.
Seagate isn't that much better. I pretend the drives have no warranty because usually my only option is to get a brand new drive replaced with "refurbished" drive after giving up a device that no longer works but has personal data on it. Not what I'd call a warranty worth having.