Apart for all the people who get resuscitated after clinical death. Oh, the people who get accidentally misfiled as dead by bureaucrats and need to spend months to prove that they are alive, they don't count either. Anybody else with more than one death that you're missing?
I wonder if you even have a job: flexible, adaptable, people are going to get new hardware when they make a reasonable business case for it, and people who just spend money for the sake of being able to spend more money need to be fired
That ASSumes you're working for a flexible, adaptable business. Obviously, the poster works for an idiot, and while that idiot should probably be fired, it's not going to happen.
Oddly enough, one of my cow-orkers told me about an old programmer who started with Fortran. His COBOL variables were no more than 6 letters long and his integers started with letters I-N.
IMHO, it's all about how and why you piss people off. There's a difference between pissing people off by doing your job (printing real news), and pissing people off by NOT doing your job (printing "news" about Paris/Britteny/OJ and ignoring the financial collapse). All too often, I see the later, and those news organizations might as well FOAD.
Suppose they wiretap 1000 phones without a warrant. 999 of them are mistakes and nothing comes from it except the violation of citizen rights. (which is a huge thing, IMO) but that 1000th one yields a goldmine of terrorist activity that they would have missed had they been forced to wait for a warrant. Because of the wiretap being quickly put in place, they're able to stop a legitimate terrorist threat.
More likely scenario: They tap 1,000 phones and while they're sorting through 999 innocent people talking about crap, the one terrorist blows up a building. Maybe if they didn't waste their time on the innocents, they'd have caught the real enemy.
Unfortunately, I live in Missouri. My vote could be the difference between a Prez who makes me puke so hard I lose both lungs or one who only makes me lose one.
For some reason, I'm thinking about the story of the dog in the manger. Would they rather see the books vanish into obscurity than be digitized by Google?
Agreed! When WAS the last time Hollyweird came out with anything new? Nearly every movie I hear about is based on a book/comic/tv show, or is a sequel, or both.
In the previous three DHs, every other word was either "fuck" or "shit" (or "fucking shit! Motherfucker!"). I can't for the life of me understand why it's OK to show a bloody murder, but uttering "shit" gives you an R rating.
I didn't fully realize just how much cussing Bruce Willis did until I saw DH1 & 2 on TV. They replaced the words with a voiceover with milder language, and the vocieover didn't even sound like willis. It was more jarring to me than the language was. And "Yippie Kayay, Mr. Falcon"? Barf!
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If I try to run more than 3 apps under Vista, I run out of memory.
Zombies?
Yeah, it's sad that law enforcement actually doing their job the RIGHT way is news.
That ASSumes you're working for a flexible, adaptable business. Obviously, the poster works for an idiot, and while that idiot should probably be fired, it's not going to happen.
I don't know about MySpace, but I thought people were already "tweeting" about medical conditions. Or maybe it's just bathroom habits.
Oddly enough, one of my cow-orkers told me about an old programmer who started with Fortran. His COBOL variables were no more than 6 letters long and his integers started with letters I-N.
My favorite site is /. It's already trolled by spambots, you insensitive clod.
IMHO, it's all about how and why you piss people off. There's a difference between pissing people off by doing your job (printing real news), and pissing people off by NOT doing your job (printing "news" about Paris/Britteny/OJ and ignoring the financial collapse). All too often, I see the later, and those news organizations might as well FOAD.
More likely scenario: They tap 1,000 phones and while they're sorting through 999 innocent people talking about crap, the one terrorist blows up a building. Maybe if they didn't waste their time on the innocents, they'd have caught the real enemy.
Unfortunately, I live in Missouri. My vote could be the difference between a Prez who makes me puke so hard I lose both lungs or one who only makes me lose one.
Too bad he wasn't on the November ballot. :(
Considering the opposition, Cthulu might be the lesser evil!
Yeah, but it usually sound less clever when a PHB is saying it to me. :P
For some reason, I'm thinking about the story of the dog in the manger. Would they rather see the books vanish into obscurity than be digitized by Google?
Some of us surf from work, where we're stuck with non-adblocking browsers *cough*IE6*uncough*
I don't know about that. I'm pretty sure the old Germanic barbarians weren't too fond of Latin.
Coherent was my first exposure to Unix. I eventually had to delete it because my HD wasn't big enough for two OSs, but I liked it.
IIRC, Win95 could multitask Win32 programs. However, most programs at that time were 16 bit, and even with 100% Win32 it was far behind OS/2.
IMO, DOS 5.0 was the best OS Microsoft made.
Agreed! When WAS the last time Hollyweird came out with anything new? Nearly every movie I hear about is based on a book/comic/tv show, or is a sequel, or both.
WB created squat. WB bought the company that created those superheros.
I didn't fully realize just how much cussing Bruce Willis did until I saw DH1 & 2 on TV. They replaced the words with a voiceover with milder language, and the vocieover didn't even sound like willis. It was more jarring to me than the language was. And "Yippie Kayay, Mr. Falcon"? Barf!
Russia isn't "most countries". Our larger states are comparable in area to countries like France or Germany.
As for population/GDP, you're comparing apples to grapefruits. Our one country is only slightly smaller than your entire continent.
I'll admit you have a point about the debt. On that, we truly "rule".
This is Texas! Everyone knows that Texans don't evolve.
But if they really want to do the job right, they'll shoot you AND change your blood type in case you live long enough to get a transfusion.