Me and my brothers went to "It's a small world" because "hey, the line is long it must be good". We were in line for at least 20 minutes before we could see the sign that said what the ride was. Small World? hmmm... maybe its like that mars ride or something. Another 20 minute in line before we found a book that told us what it was about. Dolls? Singing? WTF?
The ride didn't break down or anything (thank god!), but that ride is fucking long. And they just sing "its a small world after all" over and over again. Those emergency exits were looking pretty damn tempting halfway through.
Of course this was long before we had the wisdom of the simpsons to guide us... if only....
I am amazed by the number of applicants that think that a 'resume' is a listing of every single application you have ever seen, or read about in a magazine.
Problem is, if they don't list everything the HR idiots will think they don't know it. I know someone who was denied a job because they didn't list that they knew how to fax as a job skill.
Oh man... that explains it. I'm in Moncton too and there is nothing. I just came back from Jamaica and the job market there is much better than it is here.
Moncton is worse than a third world nation for Tech Jobs.
Don'tcount it out... Europe hasn't forgotten the bad experiences they've had in appeasing bullies. Besides that, they woudln't have to switch everything to linux overnight. Microsoft can't delete the windows installed already.
The Russian space programme is a very professional organisation, and I know for a FACT that there absolutely no drunken astronauts there. For shame! They are drunken cosmonauts, not astronauts.
This one's been around for awhile. He does push it a bit at the end, but that's the mark of a good troll. It's easily identified as a troll, but it still gets a lot of bites. This is because the biters are so ready to get into an argument with someone over this they rush to the Reply button without reading it thoughtfully.
Well, I think Microsoft does this because they know that people will wait for their products. Look at windows 95... People could have upgraded to OS/2 long before windows 95 came out, but chose to wait for windows.
Mostly I think its because people are afraid of computers and don't want to switch to something different because "it might break it". This way of thinking is whyt microsoft is the powerhouse it is today.
With Macs, well their customers worship Apple and would never even consider diverging from Jobs' Golden Path. And besides with Hardware people tend to buy what's available right now since hardware is always in a state of flux.
No, he's right, simple logos are better. Show people tux and ask them what they think. Penguin! Tell that its Tux and he's the linux mascot. Show them again ask what they think again. Penguin!
Yeah, people like penguins and everything, but the Tux is a cartoon penguin, not a logo. No matter how many times people see it, they are gonna think penguin, not linux.
Same thing with the mozilla logo. The dinosaur head is really nice and all, but at the end of the day its just a dinosaur head. Mozilla needs a logo thats easily identifiable and suggests that its a browser. As it is now it looks like it might be the icon for a video game about dinosaurs.
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Yeah this is the exact dilema I've faced. I had two machines with Windows XP, but their licenses gave the option of going back to 2K. It was damn tempting to do that, since quite frankly, XP bites monkey turds. But then you have to think about support and patches.... arrrgh
OK they pay a lot of taxes in Europe. So now they're gonna pay more taxes to pay for satellites which will monitor traffic to determine how much more taxes people need to pay. All because they don't want to pay more gas taxes.
Well I disagree with you on one point. I think GNOME is fine for linux geeks. I'm a linux geek and I love it. It has a nice clean interface, you can configure the panels any way you want to, and it looks damn good.
KDE is nice, but I find it too cluttered, and the only reason people may find it easy to use is because they are used to windows so they find it familiar. Why do you click "K" to start programmes? because its in the same place as the start button in windows that's why. If I want to start an aplication in GNOME... hmmm, I wonder... maybe I click on Applications in the upper left corner? Not because its like windows, but because its damn obvious.
As a programmer, I can appreciate the KISS philosophy. KDE's philosophy is KILW: Keep It Like Windows.
I switched to GNOME a couple of months ago. I'm already happy... the only app I miss is Noatun (it had cooler themes). KDE will be hard pressed to get me back...
Well, see, with computer security vunerabilites you are talking about people making unexpected use of your product.
Ummm... so connecting Windows XP to the Internet is an unexpected use of the product?
And looking at the analogy of the automobiles and software... well when there is a defect in an automobile the manufacturer recalls the vehicles by contacting all of the owners of the vehicles. I did not get any email or any kind of notice from Microsoft before or after the virus hit. This despite the fact that my workplace spent a huge amount of money for a windows 2000 server license and exchange licenses. I am expected to use MY internet connection to download the patch on MY time and MY banwidth.
If microsoft really were taking responsibility, they would deliver CDs with the patches to all of their customers when there was a problem like this. God knows they have the resources to do this.
That is indeed a truly excellent idea, and I'm sure it will be stolen as soon as the technology is there to implement it.
Does anyone else remember the game starflight (I think that was the name)? You had a communications officer and depending on the skill, the aliens woult range from being unintelligible to having poor grammar to having perfect english (with a few screwed up colloquilisms like "see you later crocadile"). This was all in text, of course.
Wow... you're a genius... I wonder why no one else ever thought of that.
Oh right, it's pretty much the entire point of the article.
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Speaking, of which, where have you been man? I haven't seen you on K5 since Christ was a cowboy. But then, I guess I haven't bothered posting much either lately, so who am I to talk
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The ride didn't break down or anything (thank god!), but that ride is fucking long. And they just sing "its a small world after all" over and over again. Those emergency exits were looking pretty damn tempting halfway through.
Of course this was long before we had the wisdom of the simpsons to guide us... if only....
Not me... Google taught me php
What? You're arguing that slashdot users don't practice group-think? Who are you kidding?
Thankyou. Also thankyou to the Mozilla-firebird developers for including the ability to close a tab without viewing it.
Problem is, if they don't list everything the HR idiots will think they don't know it. I know someone who was denied a job because they didn't list that they knew how to fax as a job skill.
Moncton is worse than a third world nation for Tech Jobs.
Well it sure feels like 5 years...
Don'tcount it out... Europe hasn't forgotten the bad experiences they've had in appeasing bullies. Besides that, they woudln't have to switch everything to linux overnight. Microsoft can't delete the windows installed already.
The Russian space programme is a very professional organisation, and I know for a FACT that there absolutely no drunken astronauts there. For shame! They are drunken cosmonauts, not astronauts.
This is another good example of such trolling.
Mostly I think its because people are afraid of computers and don't want to switch to something different because "it might break it". This way of thinking is whyt microsoft is the powerhouse it is today.
With Macs, well their customers worship Apple and would never even consider diverging from Jobs' Golden Path. And besides with Hardware people tend to buy what's available right now since hardware is always in a state of flux.
Yeah, people like penguins and everything, but the Tux is a cartoon penguin, not a logo. No matter how many times people see it, they are gonna think penguin, not linux.
Same thing with the mozilla logo. The dinosaur head is really nice and all, but at the end of the day its just a dinosaur head. Mozilla needs a logo thats easily identifiable and suggests that its a browser. As it is now it looks like it might be the icon for a video game about dinosaurs.
Yeah this is the exact dilema I've faced. I had two machines with Windows XP, but their licenses gave the option of going back to 2K. It was damn tempting to do that, since quite frankly, XP bites monkey turds. But then you have to think about support and patches.... arrrgh
OK they pay a lot of taxes in Europe. So now they're gonna pay more taxes to pay for satellites which will monitor traffic to determine how much more taxes people need to pay. All because they don't want to pay more gas taxes.
Of course we wouldn't want SUV owners pay more per mile than economy car owners do we? That wouldn't be fair!
KDE is nice, but I find it too cluttered, and the only reason people may find it easy to use is because they are used to windows so they find it familiar. Why do you click "K" to start programmes? because its in the same place as the start button in windows that's why. If I want to start an aplication in GNOME... hmmm, I wonder... maybe I click on Applications in the upper left corner? Not because its like windows, but because its damn obvious.
As a programmer, I can appreciate the KISS philosophy. KDE's philosophy is KILW: Keep It Like Windows.
I switched to GNOME a couple of months ago. I'm already happy... the only app I miss is Noatun (it had cooler themes). KDE will be hard pressed to get me back...
So if you encrypt all your documents with PGP, all I need to do to read them is buy a copy of PGP and reverse engineer it?
I guess failure is indeed an ooption.
Ummm... so connecting Windows XP to the Internet is an unexpected use of the product?
And looking at the analogy of the automobiles and software... well when there is a defect in an automobile the manufacturer recalls the vehicles by contacting all of the owners of the vehicles. I did not get any email or any kind of notice from Microsoft before or after the virus hit. This despite the fact that my workplace spent a huge amount of money for a windows 2000 server license and exchange licenses. I am expected to use MY internet connection to download the patch on MY time and MY banwidth.
If microsoft really were taking responsibility, they would deliver CDs with the patches to all of their customers when there was a problem like this. God knows they have the resources to do this.
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Does anyone else remember the game starflight (I think that was the name)? You had a communications officer and depending on the skill, the aliens woult range from being unintelligible to having poor grammar to having perfect english (with a few screwed up colloquilisms like "see you later crocadile"). This was all in text, of course.
Oh right, it's pretty much the entire point of the article.
Speaking, of which, where have you been man? I haven't seen you on K5 since Christ was a cowboy. But then, I guess I haven't bothered posting much either lately, so who am I to talk
You are absolutely right... we need to destroy all automation! I suggest that you start with the computer sitting in front of you.