I had a friend who was an installer for 1 carrier and his company issued phone was from the competitor. His own company could not get a signal to him when he was in a basement comm room so they provided him with a competitors phone that they could call him.
For this kind of question any study will come up with any results that you want. The open/closed source question has so many assumptions built in and so many variables to consider that you can justify just about any answer you want simply by the assumptions and/or simplifications you make going into the study.
These studies are more useful for exposing the biases of the people doing the studies than they are actually providing concrete answers.
Some games influenced history no by their success but rather by their failure. The above mentioned ET for the 2600 cost Atari millions and was a contributing factor in the videogame crash of 83. It had a very definite role in shaping video game history because it was NOT fun.
A help desk system would have way too much overhead. Each tech would end up spending more time filling out and managing tickets than they actually spend answering the question. The act of filling out a ticket would slow down the system dramatically and the techs would not be able to keep up.
So your suggestion for how to deal with an bad situation is to make it worse by making things up about about your former boss. If your new employer does any checking then you can kiss the job goodbye, even after you were hired.
Employers do not like fraudulent applications, it says that you cannot be trusted.
Did you notice the guestbook? There are a few entries from 1999/2000 but the bulk of them are from today. He probably has more traffic today than the last 10 years combined.
I can't take seriously someone who claims he loves Vista AND considers XP to be crap.
Lets be realistic here. Solitare on vista is much prettier that XP. For some people that the only thing the computer is being used for, therefore vista has to be better.
>>>You don't dare click "don't ask me this again" because you can never get that back again unless you know the magic about:: command on firefox.
False.
Tools--->Options--->Main Tab--->click the "check now" button at bottom, and that will change all your defaults to Firefox. No need to remember text commands.
Currently in firefox 3.06 its Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> click the "check now" button
So instead of knowing about the about:: command you still have to find the option 5 clicks deep within the menu. The average user would be hard pressed finding that unless they knew where to look in the first place.
Many, many times in history we've seen this initial gut reaction to the idea of "remote data". And many, many organizations are recognizing the business benefit of no longer hosting/maintaining their own infrastructure.
Focus on the business at hand (e.g. coding) and quit wasting time on infrastructure (version control, defect tracking, build systems, backup & recovery, server sizing, etc...).
Many, many people decided to do just that and entrusted their bookmarks to a service called ma.gnolia.com
We all know how well that worked out.
If I don't do backups and the system dies then its my fault. If in entrust my data to someone else and the system dies and loses my data its still my fault. If I am responsible for ensuring that the systems are up and running and secure and reliable and everything else then I want to be running them. Then I will only get blamed for my own mistakes and not mistakes by someone else..
Maybe that's my problem. I only used KDE4 for a week before throwing up my hands and went back to 3.5 So if I want to do this right do I have to use KDE4 for another week or do I have to start over again from the beginning?
But to me he will always be the author of that notorious time sink, Empire
Now I know who to blame.
I spent many many hours playing empire when I should have been doing something usefull. For the sake of my current productivity, please reassure me that there is no linux version.
1) Incompetence 2) They have someone in mind that they want to give the job, but who is not qualified, so they make sure that no one else is qualified either. Once they fail to find any qualified applicants they can ignore any requirements and give it to whoever they want.
*ALL* the buildings are better. I doubt it. Unless its an expensive area there are simply too many people who are not willing to pay for quality and will insist on the cheapest possible job, and there are too many builders willing to comply.
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Every population is bound to have some idiots, the larger the population the more idiots there will be. But since idiots attract more attention then average the whole population gets tainted. To make it worse many idiots are so sure of their genius that they actively try to promote their idiocy.
Unfortunately in any forum/social networking site/online community there will always be people who will try to game the system for their own benefit. That benefit may be financial or it may be social (ie top ranking). The trick is building a system that rewards participation and discourages the gaming. I don't think anyone has managed to get it right yet.
Perl is a language that can be written at many levels. If you use every shortcut and every default action then you are going to get a program that only an expert can decipher. However by avoiding all the little tricks you can create code that is clear and understandable even by someone who has limited experience with perl.
Until you start with regular expressions, then all bets are off.
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In an earlier post the submitter stated that its actually 100,000+ a day not 1000+.
The story summary should be modified.
Isn't the argument "lets err on the side of caution" just another way of saying "I cant prove it, lets do it my way anyway"?
I had a friend who was an installer for 1 carrier and his company issued phone was from the competitor. His own company could not get a signal to him when he was in a basement comm room so they provided him with a competitors phone that they could call him.
For this kind of question any study will come up with any results that you want. The open/closed source question has so many assumptions built in and so many variables to consider that you can justify just about any answer you want simply by the assumptions and/or simplifications you make going into the study.
These studies are more useful for exposing the biases of the people doing the studies than they are actually providing concrete answers.
Fun != Influential
Fun != Historical
Some games influenced history no by their success but rather by their failure. The above mentioned ET for the 2600 cost Atari millions and was a contributing factor in the videogame crash of 83. It had a very definite role in shaping video game history because it was NOT fun.
What about Duct Hunt? You cant forget Duck Hunt!
A help desk system would have way too much overhead. Each tech would end up spending more time filling out and managing tickets than they actually spend answering the question. The act of filling out a ticket would slow down the system dramatically and the techs would not be able to keep up.
You are equating creepy with geek.
NO.
inept != creepy
geek = inept
therefore
geek != creepy
Creepy is just creepy, it doesn't need to be associated with anything else.
So your suggestion for how to deal with an bad situation is to make it worse by making things up about about your former boss. If your new employer does any checking then you can kiss the job goodbye, even after you were hired.
Employers do not like fraudulent applications, it says that you cannot be trusted.
Did you notice the guestbook? There are a few entries from 1999/2000 but the bulk of them are from today. He probably has more traffic today than the last 10 years combined.
I can't take seriously someone who claims he loves Vista AND considers XP to be crap.
Lets be realistic here. Solitare on vista is much prettier that XP. For some people that the only thing the computer is being used for, therefore vista has to be better.
>>>You don't dare click "don't ask me this again" because you can never get that back again unless you know the magic about:: command on firefox.
False.
Tools--->Options--->Main Tab--->click the "check now" button at bottom, and that will change all your defaults to Firefox. No need to remember text commands.
Currently in firefox 3.06 its Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> click the "check now" button
So instead of knowing about the about:: command you still have to find the option 5 clicks deep within the menu. The average user would be hard pressed finding that unless they knew where to look in the first place.
Many, many times in history we've seen this initial gut reaction to the idea of "remote data". And many, many organizations are recognizing the business benefit of no longer hosting/maintaining their own infrastructure.
Focus on the business at hand (e.g. coding) and quit wasting time on infrastructure (version control, defect tracking, build systems, backup & recovery, server sizing, etc...).
Many, many people decided to do just that and entrusted their bookmarks to a service called ma.gnolia.com
We all know how well that worked out.
If I don't do backups and the system dies then its my fault. If in entrust my data to someone else and the system dies and loses my data its still my fault. If I am responsible for ensuring that the systems are up and running and secure and reliable and everything else then I want to be running them. Then I will only get blamed for my own mistakes and not mistakes by someone else..
Maybe that's my problem. I only used KDE4 for a week before throwing up my hands and went back to 3.5 So if I want to do this right do I have to use KDE4 for another week or do I have to start over again from the beginning?
But to me he will always be the author of that notorious time sink, Empire
Now I know who to blame.
I spent many many hours playing empire when I should have been doing something usefull. For the sake of my current productivity, please reassure me that there is no linux version.
Actually there is:
http://www.amazon.com/Joomla-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/047043287X
In the hitchhikers universe anyone who wanted to be president was automatically disqualified from actually becoming president.
I sometimes think that would be a pretty good system.
Or just about any episode of MythBusters.
Heat in the winter is nice. Heat in the summer is another matter entirely.
Paying for that heat twice is even worse, the first time to generate it and the second time to remove it via air conditioning.
2 possible answers.
1) Incompetence
2) They have someone in mind that they want to give the job, but who is not qualified, so they make sure that no one else is qualified either. Once they fail to find any qualified applicants they can ignore any requirements and give it to whoever they want.
*ALL* the buildings are better. I doubt it. Unless its an expensive area there are simply too many people who are not willing to pay for quality and will insist on the cheapest possible job, and there are too many builders willing to comply.
Every population is bound to have some idiots, the larger the population the more idiots there will be. But since idiots attract more attention then average the whole population gets tainted. To make it worse many idiots are so sure of their genius that they actively try to promote their idiocy.
Remember half the population is below average.
Unfortunately in any forum/social networking site/online community there will always be people who will try to game the system for their own benefit. That benefit may be financial or it may be social (ie top ranking). The trick is building a system that rewards participation and discourages the gaming. I don't think anyone has managed to get it right yet.
Perl is a language that can be written at many levels. If you use every shortcut and every default action then you are going to get a program that only an expert can decipher. However by avoiding all the little tricks you can create code that is clear and understandable even by someone who has limited experience with perl.
Until you start with regular expressions, then all bets are off.
Are you not then making some assumptions about the collective intelligence of the average lottery player?