And all of that proves his straight credentials.... how? You're aware there've been some big gay surprises in the Republican party lately, right? "Don't ask, don't tell" was instituted for a reason.
So it wasn't the kind of sleazy bar you might imagine. (emphasis mine)
I've been to a lot of bars all over the world: gay, lesbian, sports, country, local pubs, dance clubs... you name it. Gay bars, by and large, that I've visited are no more sleazy than any of the others. In fact, less so, in many cases. On a side note, I'm decidedly not gay and they still let me in. I wonder if the Blue Grouch would be as welcoming to a gay person.
I'm not trying put you down, but that sleazy crack bothered me a little.
I have the dozen-or-so friends over once or twice a week, sometimes more. Nice, because I still get to hang out with all of them and don't have to get a babysitter. I provide nice TV viewing/their cable tv fix in exchange for company and the food they bring over. Everyone wins!
You've got a point about the projector, but it wouldn't work in my place. I don't have a good place to put it where it would still project onto a suitable wall without doing some serious remodeling. Even it I did, I have TV parties too often to want to drag out and hook up a projector. Of course, YMMV.
My LCD also has a couple game consoles and my "server" hooked to it full-time and switching between the sources is as simple as hitting the Input button on the Tivo remote. You could probably do something similar using a projector as your display if you have a better receiver than I do to run everything through (second hand for $80 but does 5.1 surround sound for everything and has a built-in DVD player & AM/FM tuner), but then it's nice to have the PIP options the TV has occasionally as well. Since it's wall-mounted with an adjustable mounting arm, I can pull the display out or angle it for optimal viewing from different locations in the room easily as well. And all the wires run through a couple sets of grommets behind the component rack and display so it all appears wire-free. It's turned out to be a very nice, convenient little setup for the money.
In spite of all that, my daughter still stands two feet away from it when Sesame Street is on though.:^)
Have fun with your giant TV- my montior is higher resolution, and my thinkpad is certainly cheaper than your plasma or LCD tv.
Try sitting across a 16' x 20'(or larger) living room from you monitor with a dozen of your friends sometime and then maybe an investment in a wall-mounted LCD or plasma screen might start to make more sense.
HDMI cables are crazy expensive and you don't have the freedom to run them through a tivo or STB-- seriously, running everything through a nice set top box or media PC has been de facto since the VCR days, and you're just putting up with that freedom being taken away?
I beg to differ. My Series3 Tivo is presently hooked to my 42" HD LCD with the HDMI cable that came with it. The total package would run about $1300 now. Less than my MacBookPro by about $700.
He's already stumbled on part of the answer to his question anyway. If you cannot find candidates to interview that have even heard of the platform you're hiring to support, that's a pretty good indication that the rest of the world has moved on... And perhaps you should as well.
Been there, done that, rather not do it again. Better to have a pool of people from whom you must determine who sucks, who doesn't, who's a scheister, and who's the straight shooter than a pool of one who could be any combination of the above.
If you don't want to get filtered internet access, then use an ISP that isn't on the list. It's that easy.
It's that easy if you have more than one option. And dialup to AOL doesn't count.
For that matter, if someone's kid is clever enough to pop in a live cd to get around a locally installed software filter, they're probably smart enough to use an AOL CD to dial their way around Mom and Dad's chosen ISP as well.
Here's an idea.... Maybe parents in favor of this rating system could actually have a conversation with their children about pornography, why they think it's wrong or bad, some of the consequences of viewing it, the consequences of making it, etc. Perhaps then, someday, when they encounter something that doesn't fit their worldview they might actually have some meaningful basis for rejecting the content themselves. Or at least they'll have a little, growing nugget of guilt that grows just a little bit every time they make a decision that runs contrary to their parents' wishes.
1) Cancel the War On Drugs, the War on Poverty, the War on Terror, etc.
2) Eliminate the USPS, the FCC, the DEA, the Departments of Education, Labor, Homeland Security, and probably several others.
3) Lower personal income taxes across the board.
4) Increase funding for NASA, NIH, CDC, and the NSF
5) Double the amount of pre-tax contributions that can be made to private investment accounts.
6) Fund research into the development of alternative energy resources (FU OPEC!).
7) Establish a program similar to private investment accounts with tax exempt status for first-time home buyers.
8) Repeal all 3-strikes legislation and roll back privatization of the federal prison system.
BS. If any site should have the wherewithall to right scripts to detect near duplicates, it should be Slashdot. It's not a new concept. These days, it de riguer in electronic discovery data processing and probably a bunch of other fields.
Attacks can be launched from unsecured access points that have pretty serious consequences. While they may not lead directly to someone's death, they could lead to injury in plenty of other ways.
Death is a pretty extreme and unlikely result, true. But someone could shoot a target, the bullet could continue traveling, and it could just break your window. You may not bleed, but you'll probably buy a new window. You're still less than whole as a consequence of someone else's negligence.
So if someone is shooting a pistol at a target in his yard and doesn't know bullets don't always stop when they hit what they're shot at, the shooter doesn't need to worry if it goes right through the paper target, through your living room window, and into you?
An access point can be an unwitting tool for Bad Things(tm) too. It's not simply a convenience item for its owner right out of the box. Some responsibility should go with it as well.
You'll notice I didn't say a thing about upper-level management salaries. In any case, their ridiculous salaries are apparently what the market will bear. Someday -- much to your delite, I take it -- the market may take them down a peg, just as it is doing to organized labor now.
Re:Get rid of the 100 VP "frat house" that is mgt.
on
Is the IT Department Dead?
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Small wonder people stopped buying U.S. made products, vs. those from other nations (automobiles being 1 example thereof), because cost cuts lead to inferior products, AND SERVICES, period. Everyone knows it.
Nah. Even if one were to agree with this, it isn't for the reason you cite. The third world is making all of the products and providing the services now. Period. More importantly, they're making them CHEAPER (notice I didn't say better?). That's what all the rubes in management know that you don't, apparently.
Salaried pay was the KEY to that shenanigan, & little to no benefits was next, & then UNION BUSTING.
Union busting. Right. Take a closer look at the auto companies and tell me how exactly the UAW isn't responsible for their collapse? How do you justify generation after generation of white collar salaries for what amounts to, basically, unskilled- or minimally-skilled labor and not kill the goose that laid the golden egg?
You're right that American workers are among the most productive in the world. Too bad they're just not a little smarter about economics, generally. That whole notion of At Will employment cuts two ways. Imagine if American labor dispensed with their lapdog notions of loyalty and infantile desires for security and took a more mercenary approach to their work instead of letting "the union" worry about that for them.
Pay your own way. You may not ever be completely satisfied with what you get, but you'll never have a chance to be completely satisfied until you do.
Exactly. The title of this is misleading. IT is not going away as we know anytime soon. Mr. Carr may be onto something with the idea that storage (in particular), data processing, and indexing may be on their way to the cloud and out of the hands of your local "Bob, NAS administrator." It is hard to justify the costs of temporary and HUGE amounts of disk space that may not be needed in a few months. And they are insanely expensive, even before you consider redundant systems, disaster recovery, etc.
However, support functions and basic networking would be a lot harder to ship off to a third party with marginal personal interest in the multitude of operations they would be supporting. Disagree? Then I give you EDS and their infamous Navy IT services contract, and countless other examples.
Airline travel isn't the exclusive domain of the upper-middle class anymore and hasn't been for well over a decade. Maybe you haven't been on a commercial flight lately? Regardless, this has at least as much to do with the "comfort of the middle class" as it does with restrictions on freedom of movement.... something that is a concern to all classes of people -- especially poor people.
BTW, these a rather curious sentiments from one who lives smack in the center of the financial capitol of the world. Do you live in a refrigerator box?
Slashdot Mirror
Justice Stevens is 88 next month. My money's on at least one appointment to the SC for the next administration.
And yet it's "Interesting." I am humbled, and have lost all hope of ever understanding the mystery of the ModGods.
BTW, it's funny because it's real.
I'm not trying put you down, but that sleazy crack bothered me a little.
You've got a point about the projector, but it wouldn't work in my place. I don't have a good place to put it where it would still project onto a suitable wall without doing some serious remodeling. Even it I did, I have TV parties too often to want to drag out and hook up a projector. Of course, YMMV.
My LCD also has a couple game consoles and my "server" hooked to it full-time and switching between the sources is as simple as hitting the Input button on the Tivo remote. You could probably do something similar using a projector as your display if you have a better receiver than I do to run everything through (second hand for $80 but does 5.1 surround sound for everything and has a built-in DVD player & AM/FM tuner), but then it's nice to have the PIP options the TV has occasionally as well. Since it's wall-mounted with an adjustable mounting arm, I can pull the display out or angle it for optimal viewing from different locations in the room easily as well. And all the wires run through a couple sets of grommets behind the component rack and display so it all appears wire-free. It's turned out to be a very nice, convenient little setup for the money.
In spite of all that, my daughter still stands two feet away from it when Sesame Street is on though. :^)
And then there's this to consider.
Good housekeepers can cost well into five figures per year if you're not ripping them off. The robot doesn't sound so bad.
Been there, done that, rather not do it again. Better to have a pool of people from whom you must determine who sucks, who doesn't, who's a scheister, and who's the straight shooter than a pool of one who could be any combination of the above.
Never thought I'd be asking this, but don't you mean loosing intelligence?
For that matter, if someone's kid is clever enough to pop in a live cd to get around a locally installed software filter, they're probably smart enough to use an AOL CD to dial their way around Mom and Dad's chosen ISP as well.
Here's an idea.... Maybe parents in favor of this rating system could actually have a conversation with their children about pornography, why they think it's wrong or bad, some of the consequences of viewing it, the consequences of making it, etc. Perhaps then, someday, when they encounter something that doesn't fit their worldview they might actually have some meaningful basis for rejecting the content themselves. Or at least they'll have a little, growing nugget of guilt that grows just a little bit every time they make a decision that runs contrary to their parents' wishes.
U and S! Resulting in a viral spread of democracy throughout the world!
Oh yeah... 9) Constitutional amendment requiring a balanced Federal budget.
2) Eliminate the USPS, the FCC, the DEA, the Departments of Education, Labor, Homeland Security, and probably several others.
3) Lower personal income taxes across the board.
4) Increase funding for NASA, NIH, CDC, and the NSF
5) Double the amount of pre-tax contributions that can be made to private investment accounts.
6) Fund research into the development of alternative energy resources (FU OPEC!).
7) Establish a program similar to private investment accounts with tax exempt status for first-time home buyers.
8) Repeal all 3-strikes legislation and roll back privatization of the federal prison system.
That's my gameplan.
BS. If any site should have the wherewithall to right scripts to detect near duplicates, it should be Slashdot. It's not a new concept. These days, it de riguer in electronic discovery data processing and probably a bunch of other fields.
Well, personally, I'd consider losing my entire pension or my identity a much worse outcome than a mere flesh wound.
Death is a pretty extreme and unlikely result, true. But someone could shoot a target, the bullet could continue traveling, and it could just break your window. You may not bleed, but you'll probably buy a new window. You're still less than whole as a consequence of someone else's negligence.
An access point can be an unwitting tool for Bad Things(tm) too. It's not simply a convenience item for its owner right out of the box. Some responsibility should go with it as well.
"He snorts coke and has a commercial lumber company."
Or
"He has cold, and probably a clogged toilet."
I'm surprised you don't more traffic.
So long, Mr. Marx. It's been most entertaining.
You're right that American workers are among the most productive in the world. Too bad they're just not a little smarter about economics, generally. That whole notion of At Will employment cuts two ways. Imagine if American labor dispensed with their lapdog notions of loyalty and infantile desires for security and took a more mercenary approach to their work instead of letting "the union" worry about that for them.
Pay your own way. You may not ever be completely satisfied with what you get, but you'll never have a chance to be completely satisfied until you do.
And then we get the Information Workers Local #$Number to "help" us and our employers better define the bureaucracy plaguing us already? No thanks.
However, support functions and basic networking would be a lot harder to ship off to a third party with marginal personal interest in the multitude of operations they would be supporting. Disagree? Then I give you EDS and their infamous Navy IT services contract, and countless other examples.
BTW, these a rather curious sentiments from one who lives smack in the center of the financial capitol of the world. Do you live in a refrigerator box?