It would be even cooler if you could make them fly through windows and drop stink bombs. I can think of many times this would have been cool to have when I was 15.
Better yet, how about carrying a string of 200 firecrackers? A great way to give back to the neighbor with that annoying barking dog.
I personally would rather teach my children what crass behavior is exactly, rather than have some relgious-controlled, non-elected government entity define do it for me.
I don't know....I think I prefer crass to waking up to a loud speaker shouting, "Time for Teletubbies! Time for Teletubbies!" every morning for our government mandated exercise session. Also chanting Kumbiyah with your neighbors at sundown every day doesn't appeal to me either.
We are doomed to be food for Morlocks; it is becoming more obvious every day.
I thought it was just covered with wet-n-stick decals that say "42". I mean, if you're going up there and don't know what all the crap is on the outside, what possible good is a label going to do?
Soviets are pretty well-known for not being as through or careful as those in the US are before implementing technology. Though I can't point to a specific article, I can recall seeing several where NASA dislikes their QA process because it pretty much doesn't exist.
As far as your time tables are concerned, you are using the same source of this story - the news media and government (which you appear to disbelieve) - for the fact that the Soviets were 5 years behind us technologically. Sure, I'd believe that overall, life was not as modern in USSR as it was in the USA at the time. However, is it not remotely possible that at least a handful of people had access to more up-to-date western technology?
And finally, since your sig suggests you just have a problem with the government in general, what makes you think the CIA even thought of the negative consequences of leaving "sleeper" chips out in the open for the KGB to grab? Maybe they assumed the Soviets were behind in technology 5 years and didn't think they had anything to control like what they used the chips to control. What makes you think they planted chips to cause an explosion? More likely, they planted the chips to cause the slowdown of development of some technology, and the unintended result was an explosion.
Where in this whole thread do Republicans come into play? Or, were you just reaching to make some sort of over-generalization? Or maybe you just call everyone that has a differing opinion a republican, kinda like a swear word?
I get this resume once for a guy who is wanting to do website design. I forget the exact context, but he was ranking his skill in certain things as "very good", "very very good", "very very very good", etc.
I think he was Asian-Indian, and I imagine this has something to do with the translation of his native language to English. No, he didn't get the job. I can just imagine the front page saying, "We wish you to buy our very very very good software."
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I don't know man, a cylon chick with a big red eye? Sounds like goatse.cx to me. Yech.
I've got a better idea Mr. CEO. How about I give you the finger, and you try to put me in jail for 20 years. You're CEO because you see the big picture. I bet you wouldn't even know how to find, much less open, an excel spreadsheet that contains enough evidence to put me away.
I have a Delorean that does the same thing, and it runs off egg shells and vegetable trimmings. Let someone know I'll sell it for only $750 million if you would please. They can keep the $250 million and buy a few kegs or something. Just make sure they know they have to invite me to the kegger or its no deal.
They don't bring up the magnitude of the problem because they probably don't care. There is one guy in there saying that the turbines are the quivalent to an Exxon Valdez accident every year. Funny thing is that ~1000 birds per year did not seem as large an impact as the Valdez in terms of the ocean life, environment, AND birds affected.
Its pretty obvious that it is a bunch of rich people that want their home values to go up. So they make it too expensive to operate the wind farm, wind farm goes away. No wind farm = nice view = higher home value. The home prices in that area are insane anyway. Taking the "high road" for saving animals is the way to do it, because no one will publicly say anything against saving animals, at least in California. This is the state, and general area in the state, where a legal offense fund of $100k was made by donations just to throw away a guy's life. He apparently tossed a dog into traffic in an incident of road rage. They tossed him in the slammer for 5 years for killing a dog.
See, watch how many people think I'm psycho for not giving a shit about the dumb animal. If you were a public figure, you'd throw your career away telling the animal-rights people to go crawl under a rock. That wind farm is doomed.
if the project forks, you can "fork" it right back
Congratulations, you have found the hidden cost of open source software. You do realize that for a company to fork themselves, they have to pay for it?
See, companies like to buy stuff for a set price. An open ended price with recurring expenses is a bad thing. They want a quote for how much they will pay for software, how much it will cost to install it, and a time frame in which it will get done. Then they pay their IT guy that already maintains all IT related items to verify that the proper patches are applied and the configuration is changed as required.
Sure there may be consultants needed from time to time, additional purchases, disaster recovery, etc. But in the commercial software world, you don't generally have the prospect of taking over development of the software itself. Maintenance is cheap compared to software development.
The whole highest-bidder at auction thing is moot, considering that companies that make software that function on the enterprise level are generally not in danger of disappearing. (Think Oracle, PeopleSoft, Microsoft, SAP, etc.) Source on this level is also generally placed in escrow somewhere so that if something does happen, there is a place that the enterprise customers can possibly obtain it.
My first thought was that it would be a picture of a hand flipping the bird with the text, "All your bases are belong to us!" below it.
Logic does not appear to be a part of hacking. A friend of mine hacked a women's clothing store a while back. Where is the logic there? Maybe there is something about him I don't know....
Relying on the computer to turn a light on is exactly what the problem is. Sure, you can see when your input clips, but that is only half the problem. At some point you have to mix the thing in with some other stuff. If you didn't clip, but had no room at the top of the spectrum, how is it that you are supposed to mix other stuff into it? The point is to record everything at an average level so that you can actually mix it without clipping it.
And then there is the output. Many of the Avid users have no idea how to balance input with output. They also add a variety of mixing consoles in the mix that may not have the same I/O impedence as the Avid output. Most professional machines are at +4 to +8db, while most consumer machines (and many Guitar-Center bought mixing consoles) are at -10db. If your impedence does match, you have to crank up the output of the console so that you get distortion and other anomolies.
Going direct digital doesn't help either since 1) all sound eventually gets converted into analog in order to be heard, so you really need VU meters, and 2) going direct digital into VU meters is a problem because you have to balance the D/A and A/D converters just right. Gain structure is totally ignored for the most part due to lack of experience. So if you really want to impress your clients and you use a digital workstation, learn about the gain structure and how to properly balance stuff. Your stuff will slide through processing farther down the line so smoothly and without complaints that they will likely keep coming back to you.
Well, this is most likely the problem. It probably isn't a louder is better trend. More than likely, it is the next generation of recording engineers that learned on Avids and cheap PC based eqipment, and ignored the whole measurement part. They ruined the whole job market for the experienced engineers. Now, no longer able to get work for more than $20/hr when they were getting $50-$75/hr, the experienced guys go to low-key post houses and mix sound effects into TV and radio commercials. At least that work is steady.
Of course, I've been called an elitest pig for suggesting that the Avid jockeys out there should not have gotten to where they are now with so little time learning to do the job. Now there are tons of these cheap engineers that are only good as long as the producer does not know how to read a VU meter. I say reap what you sew, and I'll stay an elitest. Perhaps when someone finally realizes what went wrong, it will be like the Cobol programmer's watershed of the late 90's.
Wow. You are extremely lucky. I hear cops are now storing the left over boxes of formfeed paper that have the Windows EULA printed on it in the trunks of their cars. I heard that they stopped one guy wearing a Linux t-shirt, and they taught him a "lesson" by shoving a ream full of the EULA papers in his rear.
I think it took the guy a year to stop coughing up those little tractor feed parts of the paper. He was depressed because it was a great party trick to suddenly pull 10 feet of tractor feed remnants out of your mouth after chugging a can of Fosters. He said he has had problems getting chicks since then too.....
Yeah, and it would be a real turn off to the customers to have some lard-ass, ex-geek sticking his greasy-haired head under the soda fountain and guzzling Coke every 10 minutes for his "fix."
I'm sure that someone with a higher IQ than the next 10 average customers in line combined wouldn't be good. I had a hard enough time dealing with idiot customers who couldn't figure out how to articulate their order when I worked there as a kid. I can imagine now:
Customer: I want 3 happy meals and 2 big mac meal deals.
Me: What kind of happy meals?
Customer: What kind are there?
Me: Its on the menu. The same place its been since I was 17 years old and working at this joint.
Customer: Hmm...lets see...where is it?
Me: *sigh* in the corner...hamburger, cheesburger, or mcnuggets?
Customer: All hamburger.
Me: Ok, what kind of drink with those?
Customer: With what?
Me: What were we just talking about? Wasn't it happy meals? What kind of drink with the happy meals?
Customer: oh, orange sprite (the list of drinks would have sprite follow orange on the menu, so it was common to have people order "orange sprite")
Me: No, its either orange or its sprite. Which one?
Customer: But it says orange sprite right there.
Me: Oh, so you couldn't find the damn happy meal, but can find the one spot on the menu where the order in which the choices of drink flavor are enumerated is a little ambiguous? It also appears to say diet coke ice-tea there too, but you know that would taste like shit and wouldn't order that. So, no orange-sprite, just orange or sprite. They are mutually exclusive, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?!?
Customer: ok, orange. I also want ketchup only on one of the happy meals, pickles only on one, and cheese only on one.
Me: Ok, first, why the hell didn't you specify the toppings were something other than the default back when we were standing on the imaginary circle in the imaginary state diagram that everyone in the world except you seems to follow when ordering fast food? And there is no CHEESE on a HAMBURGER you fucktard! Sorry, state token has expired, YOU EAT THE DEFAULT BIATCH!
Customer: You're rude, I want to speak with your manager!
Manager: What seems to be the problem here?
Customer: I was just trying to order some happy meals and your employee here was being rude and won't give me orange sprite.
Manager: Orange sprite? We don't have orange sprite.
Customer: It says so right there on the menu.
Manager: Hmmm....I see all the drinks, but I don't see orange sprite.
Me: She thinks because orange is next to sprite that it means orange sprite numnutz.
Manager: Oh, we're not allowed to mix drinks.
Me: Can we get this over with please?
Manager: Patience my young padawan burger flipper.
Me: Ok, thats it....where is the nearest sharp instrument? Or would you prefer to be stuffed into the ice machine?
I would have to agree. One of the problems is that even Microsoft is still releasing products that are based on BizTalk and Commerce Server, which seems sort of counter-intuitive. If you look at some of the new products being released by Microsoft Business Solutions (aka Great Plains), you have to wonder what they were thinking. Their business portal product is based on BizTalk, their.NET CRM application talks to the financial application through BizTalk, and they still have their e-commerce packages that are based on plain-old ASP and COM+.
I will say though that I have recently been working on a project to allow a unix legacy system talk to a web service to do real time credit card authorizations from a COBOL application. Using GCC 3.3, libxml2, libxml++, and libwww to post to a web service, it appears to be transacting quite nicely. I can see a lot of legacy application adapters being developed in this manner in the future. Now if only some of the documentation of these libraries were better....
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It'll put the zing back in your marriage!
Either that or she puts it on when she's pissed and chases you around the house trying to give you a bear-hug.
Best of all, it might kill off DRM/TCPA in one fell swoop.
What does software have to do with DRM? Why would you assume that if all software were free that content would also be free? The content is what gives the software meaning. For example, there probably wouldn't be any web browsers other than Mosaic had there not been content to view in the web browser. Its not to say that there won't be a lot of free content, but there will always be content you need to pay for. In my opinion, the content is where the money is since it has an arbitrary yet short lifecycle and new stuff is always in demand. (When a hit song is no longer a hit song, you don't have to maintain it anymore. Everyone wants the latest hit song....repeat, charge a buck for every download, and you'll be making more on music than you did in charging $50.00-$400.00 for that OS that runs the music player.)
Being unable to copy music freely sucks for the consumer, but consider how you would feel if you created that music and wanted to make money from your creation. Better yet, try to rationalize yourself spending a bunch of money to buy some frozen cookie dough, spending time in the kitchen baking the cookies, and then standing out on the street corner handing them out for free. I doubt most people would do that without some sort of incentive for return on their effort (monetary or otherwise).
You're not the only one. I've run into a few people using wordstar over the years. One was a guy using it on Win95 to keep track of old correspondence. The other, if you can believe it, was my computer science college professor that ran it under one of the Windows emulators for Linux!
But, by far, the oldest app I've seen was an audio console fader automation system. WordStar may pre-date it in history, but these were 8086 machines with Seagate st-225 20MB hard drives that ran Xenix. They were probably rarely turned off since the early '80s because they recorded and played back the fader movements on an early automated recording console. Everyone was afraid to turn them off in case the hard drives didn't spin back up.
Come to think of it, the timeframes of when the software and hardware was available may place it into the mid- to late- 80s, but I'm sure it caught up for hours running in that time after being powered up for so long.
Now that he helped make an electronic payment method to help the corrupt hide money and defraud eBay auctioneers, he has invented a punishment method for those caught in the act! Get caught using a hacked PayPal account, get blasted into space!
Or maybe it is to blast the 5 PayPal customer dis-service employees into space....
This guy doesn't look like Emperor Ming by any chance does he?
I'm pretty sure this will be modded down to Troll, but what the hell.
Actually, this shows how clueless the open source community really is when it comes to business. This is a product that lets you do the same things you are already doing, so what is the incentive to change? It is most certainly not going to work exactly like it does in Windows, and that is a pretty big risk when making a major decision. I can only imagine that this was made to "save money" for people adopting Linux. Truth is, this only saves the cheapest part of the whole software suite - the OS. As far as a tool for transition - maybe, but the maintenance of the OS requires people with different skill sets that are not found in the skill pool that they found their last IT guy from. As an engineer, I can see some long term benefits from this with low risk in the near term. The low risk is from knowledge that if no one competent can be found to make the stuff work, I know I can make it work. From a business person standpoint, the risk is too great, the up-front cost is too great, etc.
Diablo was/is a little different from more traditional online RPGs
Yeah, I'd say shooting an arrow out of your nether region is something that no AD&D geek had ever thought of. I mean, Pikachu farts lightning, but that is hardly the same thing.
Or if he did his farking homework instead of slacking for a while, they might be lulled into complacency and not bother to check his grades for a while. Ever see Cool-Hand Luke? He used a similar concept to escape a second time (or was it the first time?) Of course, if he isn't doing his homework, he probably isn't up to date on his classic movies.
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So were you able to hit "The Moving Target" with your bigger tool?
Better yet, how about carrying a string of 200 firecrackers? A great way to give back to the neighbor with that annoying barking dog.
I don't know....I think I prefer crass to waking up to a loud speaker shouting, "Time for Teletubbies! Time for Teletubbies!" every morning for our government mandated exercise session. Also chanting Kumbiyah with your neighbors at sundown every day doesn't appeal to me either.
We are doomed to be food for Morlocks; it is becoming more obvious every day.
I thought it was just covered with wet-n-stick decals that say "42". I mean, if you're going up there and don't know what all the crap is on the outside, what possible good is a label going to do?
As far as your time tables are concerned, you are using the same source of this story - the news media and government (which you appear to disbelieve) - for the fact that the Soviets were 5 years behind us technologically. Sure, I'd believe that overall, life was not as modern in USSR as it was in the USA at the time. However, is it not remotely possible that at least a handful of people had access to more up-to-date western technology?
And finally, since your sig suggests you just have a problem with the government in general, what makes you think the CIA even thought of the negative consequences of leaving "sleeper" chips out in the open for the KGB to grab? Maybe they assumed the Soviets were behind in technology 5 years and didn't think they had anything to control like what they used the chips to control. What makes you think they planted chips to cause an explosion? More likely, they planted the chips to cause the slowdown of development of some technology, and the unintended result was an explosion.
Where in this whole thread do Republicans come into play? Or, were you just reaching to make some sort of over-generalization? Or maybe you just call everyone that has a differing opinion a republican, kinda like a swear word?
I think he was Asian-Indian, and I imagine this has something to do with the translation of his native language to English. No, he didn't get the job. I can just imagine the front page saying, "We wish you to buy our very very very good software."
I don't know man, a cylon chick with a big red eye? Sounds like goatse.cx to me. Yech.
I've got a better idea Mr. CEO. How about I give you the finger, and you try to put me in jail for 20 years. You're CEO because you see the big picture. I bet you wouldn't even know how to find, much less open, an excel spreadsheet that contains enough evidence to put me away.
I have a Delorean that does the same thing, and it runs off egg shells and vegetable trimmings. Let someone know I'll sell it for only $750 million if you would please. They can keep the $250 million and buy a few kegs or something. Just make sure they know they have to invite me to the kegger or its no deal.
Its pretty obvious that it is a bunch of rich people that want their home values to go up. So they make it too expensive to operate the wind farm, wind farm goes away. No wind farm = nice view = higher home value. The home prices in that area are insane anyway. Taking the "high road" for saving animals is the way to do it, because no one will publicly say anything against saving animals, at least in California. This is the state, and general area in the state, where a legal offense fund of $100k was made by donations just to throw away a guy's life. He apparently tossed a dog into traffic in an incident of road rage. They tossed him in the slammer for 5 years for killing a dog.
See, watch how many people think I'm psycho for not giving a shit about the dumb animal. If you were a public figure, you'd throw your career away telling the animal-rights people to go crawl under a rock. That wind farm is doomed.
Congratulations, you have found the hidden cost of open source software. You do realize that for a company to fork themselves, they have to pay for it?
See, companies like to buy stuff for a set price. An open ended price with recurring expenses is a bad thing. They want a quote for how much they will pay for software, how much it will cost to install it, and a time frame in which it will get done. Then they pay their IT guy that already maintains all IT related items to verify that the proper patches are applied and the configuration is changed as required.
Sure there may be consultants needed from time to time, additional purchases, disaster recovery, etc. But in the commercial software world, you don't generally have the prospect of taking over development of the software itself. Maintenance is cheap compared to software development.
The whole highest-bidder at auction thing is moot, considering that companies that make software that function on the enterprise level are generally not in danger of disappearing. (Think Oracle, PeopleSoft, Microsoft, SAP, etc.) Source on this level is also generally placed in escrow somewhere so that if something does happen, there is a place that the enterprise customers can possibly obtain it.
My first thought was that it would be a picture of a hand flipping the bird with the text, "All your bases are belong to us!" below it. Logic does not appear to be a part of hacking. A friend of mine hacked a women's clothing store a while back. Where is the logic there? Maybe there is something about him I don't know....
And then there is the output. Many of the Avid users have no idea how to balance input with output. They also add a variety of mixing consoles in the mix that may not have the same I/O impedence as the Avid output. Most professional machines are at +4 to +8db, while most consumer machines (and many Guitar-Center bought mixing consoles) are at -10db. If your impedence does match, you have to crank up the output of the console so that you get distortion and other anomolies.
Going direct digital doesn't help either since 1) all sound eventually gets converted into analog in order to be heard, so you really need VU meters, and 2) going direct digital into VU meters is a problem because you have to balance the D/A and A/D converters just right. Gain structure is totally ignored for the most part due to lack of experience. So if you really want to impress your clients and you use a digital workstation, learn about the gain structure and how to properly balance stuff. Your stuff will slide through processing farther down the line so smoothly and without complaints that they will likely keep coming back to you.
Well, this is most likely the problem. It probably isn't a louder is better trend. More than likely, it is the next generation of recording engineers that learned on Avids and cheap PC based eqipment, and ignored the whole measurement part. They ruined the whole job market for the experienced engineers. Now, no longer able to get work for more than $20/hr when they were getting $50-$75/hr, the experienced guys go to low-key post houses and mix sound effects into TV and radio commercials. At least that work is steady.
Of course, I've been called an elitest pig for suggesting that the Avid jockeys out there should not have gotten to where they are now with so little time learning to do the job. Now there are tons of these cheap engineers that are only good as long as the producer does not know how to read a VU meter. I say reap what you sew, and I'll stay an elitest. Perhaps when someone finally realizes what went wrong, it will be like the Cobol programmer's watershed of the late 90's.
I think it took the guy a year to stop coughing up those little tractor feed parts of the paper. He was depressed because it was a great party trick to suddenly pull 10 feet of tractor feed remnants out of your mouth after chugging a can of Fosters. He said he has had problems getting chicks since then too.....
I'm sure that someone with a higher IQ than the next 10 average customers in line combined wouldn't be good. I had a hard enough time dealing with idiot customers who couldn't figure out how to articulate their order when I worked there as a kid. I can imagine now:
Customer: I want 3 happy meals and 2 big mac meal deals.
Me: What kind of happy meals?
Customer: What kind are there?
Me: Its on the menu. The same place its been since I was 17 years old and working at this joint.
Customer: Hmm...lets see...where is it?
Me: *sigh* in the corner...hamburger, cheesburger, or mcnuggets?
Customer: All hamburger.
Me: Ok, what kind of drink with those?
Customer: With what?
Me: What were we just talking about? Wasn't it happy meals? What kind of drink with the happy meals?
Customer: oh, orange sprite (the list of drinks would have sprite follow orange on the menu, so it was common to have people order "orange sprite")
Me: No, its either orange or its sprite. Which one?
Customer: But it says orange sprite right there.
Me: Oh, so you couldn't find the damn happy meal, but can find the one spot on the menu where the order in which the choices of drink flavor are enumerated is a little ambiguous? It also appears to say diet coke ice-tea there too, but you know that would taste like shit and wouldn't order that. So, no orange-sprite, just orange or sprite. They are mutually exclusive, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?!?
Customer: ok, orange. I also want ketchup only on one of the happy meals, pickles only on one, and cheese only on one.
Me: Ok, first, why the hell didn't you specify the toppings were something other than the default back when we were standing on the imaginary circle in the imaginary state diagram that everyone in the world except you seems to follow when ordering fast food? And there is no CHEESE on a HAMBURGER you fucktard! Sorry, state token has expired, YOU EAT THE DEFAULT BIATCH!
Customer: You're rude, I want to speak with your manager!
Manager: What seems to be the problem here?
Customer: I was just trying to order some happy meals and your employee here was being rude and won't give me orange sprite.
Manager: Orange sprite? We don't have orange sprite.
Customer: It says so right there on the menu.
Manager: Hmmm....I see all the drinks, but I don't see orange sprite.
Me: She thinks because orange is next to sprite that it means orange sprite numnutz.
Manager: Oh, we're not allowed to mix drinks.
Me: Can we get this over with please?
Manager: Patience my young padawan burger flipper.
Me: Ok, thats it....where is the nearest sharp instrument? Or would you prefer to be stuffed into the ice machine?
Ah, to be young again....
I will say though that I have recently been working on a project to allow a unix legacy system talk to a web service to do real time credit card authorizations from a COBOL application. Using GCC 3.3, libxml2, libxml++, and libwww to post to a web service, it appears to be transacting quite nicely. I can see a lot of legacy application adapters being developed in this manner in the future. Now if only some of the documentation of these libraries were better....
Either that or she puts it on when she's pissed and chases you around the house trying to give you a bear-hug.
So what you're saying is that sometimes the job sucks but they still didn't do their jobs?
What does software have to do with DRM? Why would you assume that if all software were free that content would also be free? The content is what gives the software meaning. For example, there probably wouldn't be any web browsers other than Mosaic had there not been content to view in the web browser. Its not to say that there won't be a lot of free content, but there will always be content you need to pay for. In my opinion, the content is where the money is since it has an arbitrary yet short lifecycle and new stuff is always in demand. (When a hit song is no longer a hit song, you don't have to maintain it anymore. Everyone wants the latest hit song....repeat, charge a buck for every download, and you'll be making more on music than you did in charging $50.00-$400.00 for that OS that runs the music player.)
Being unable to copy music freely sucks for the consumer, but consider how you would feel if you created that music and wanted to make money from your creation. Better yet, try to rationalize yourself spending a bunch of money to buy some frozen cookie dough, spending time in the kitchen baking the cookies, and then standing out on the street corner handing them out for free. I doubt most people would do that without some sort of incentive for return on their effort (monetary or otherwise).
But, by far, the oldest app I've seen was an audio console fader automation system. WordStar may pre-date it in history, but these were 8086 machines with Seagate st-225 20MB hard drives that ran Xenix. They were probably rarely turned off since the early '80s because they recorded and played back the fader movements on an early automated recording console. Everyone was afraid to turn them off in case the hard drives didn't spin back up.
Come to think of it, the timeframes of when the software and hardware was available may place it into the mid- to late- 80s, but I'm sure it caught up for hours running in that time after being powered up for so long.
Or maybe it is to blast the 5 PayPal customer dis-service employees into space....
This guy doesn't look like Emperor Ming by any chance does he?
Actually, this shows how clueless the open source community really is when it comes to business. This is a product that lets you do the same things you are already doing, so what is the incentive to change? It is most certainly not going to work exactly like it does in Windows, and that is a pretty big risk when making a major decision. I can only imagine that this was made to "save money" for people adopting Linux. Truth is, this only saves the cheapest part of the whole software suite - the OS. As far as a tool for transition - maybe, but the maintenance of the OS requires people with different skill sets that are not found in the skill pool that they found their last IT guy from. As an engineer, I can see some long term benefits from this with low risk in the near term. The low risk is from knowledge that if no one competent can be found to make the stuff work, I know I can make it work. From a business person standpoint, the risk is too great, the up-front cost is too great, etc.
Yeah, I'd say shooting an arrow out of your nether region is something that no AD&D geek had ever thought of. I mean, Pikachu farts lightning, but that is hardly the same thing.
Talk about rape prevention....sheesh.
Or if he did his farking homework instead of slacking for a while, they might be lulled into complacency and not bother to check his grades for a while. Ever see Cool-Hand Luke? He used a similar concept to escape a second time (or was it the first time?) Of course, if he isn't doing his homework, he probably isn't up to date on his classic movies.