I've heard horror stories of young, presumptuous techs who promise to "fix" a computer, and then proceed to nuke somebody's Windows 95B OEM / Office 97 installation that they've been using for years, and install Ubuntu with OpenOffice. If they worked for my company, I would promptly fire them.
Same here. If that would ever happen, it would be immediate termination, followed by asking them for full payment of the time it takes somene with common sense to redo all the work. Serving the customer is rarely done by such behavior.
Next up we change the US government via sniper rifle.
Given your current government - DO IT, PLEASE.
What you think you have the right to have rifles for? Your founding fathers had the idea that a little rebellion every couple of hundred years is good for freedom - it gets rid of bad governments.
To me it looks like the time has really come again in the US.
We are in a similar situation. my mate and me, together, control 77% of the shares, on equal grounds. I am the IT brain in the company, and I act as chairman of the Board. He has way less IT background, and focuses on the daily operations as CEO, while also being in the board.
That puts me "officially" in the highest rank, which is a signal to customers and investors - we ARE a technology company. It also puts him into control of all the "getting revenue" stuff.
To add Insult to injury....
I reinstalled my windows some days ago. The option is unchecked by default.
So, the poster, basically, complaints about a setting he has set himself. Now THAT is smart.
Interesting. Volume licensing was cheapter than retail for MY company with just 5 (!) seats.
She should take her employer to court.
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What is this - dumpest investment bank ever?
* They let a trader onto an unsecured system without proper training (unfamiliar with computer system).
* The system is ocnfigured/programmed in such a way that there are no max trade orders, no security precautions, nothing at all in place.
What is so hard to explain here? I was dump, I did not make sure my trader was property trained and the system we ordered lacked any fundamental security precautions.
Poor trader - a dcase of a software/management fuckup and he has to pay.
Hm. THis is a very interesting point of view. Where exactly did you forget this thing called tolerance, human rights and other unimportant stuff?
Oh, and history.
"the forces of islam" do not exist. And they did not declare war against the United States in 1996. What happend is that an arrobant united states had finally managed to piss off a large enough portion of the planetstrong enough they determined they could not stand it anymore.
And this is the direct result of the United States administrations having been high nosed, incompetent and ignorant in anything regarding foreign policy they did since they won world war 2.::Then 9/11 happened, and we said
Well, looks like your government said "could you please crash the planes into the these buildings".::And now our troops are overseas in places like::Iraq and Afghanistan and the Philippines::fighting to defeat or destroy those who would::seek to inflict harm on our citizens.
Right. And on the way they are commiting atrocities, breaking human rights, destabilizing regions and breaking goverments.
Oh, and they lie. Basically you are run bya group of politicians that - in front of any criminal court - would be convicted of fraud and a lot of crimes.
But then, you are americans. It is ok if you are high nosed and arrogant and incompetent. As long as you can at least say you fight for the good thing.
And this, pretty much, sums up why you got 9/11.
::The US is also the biggest foriegn aide spender::in the world, has done more to rebuild::countries after major wars/catastrophies than::the UN ever has/will/can
Yes, but interesting enough most of these wars/catastrpopies are a direct consequence of idiotic foreign policy actions of said US.
Now, if you come to my house and ruin it, I would surely expec you to clean up the mess you did.
If you deduct this "american smartness tax" from the foreign aid, there is propably not much left. I would say they still own the world quite a lot, actually.
And for the other customers, the FBI raid is a non-issue.
Basically, if they guarantee MY server's uptime, and MY server is confiscated due to them not providing the data on another customer (important point) in time, THEY pay ME. Their fault.
OTOH some customer's may realize that 99% uptime mean an agreed upon downtime of about 3.5 days which CAN be taken in one block:-)
::More to the point, they are a lot harderto lose::than said rounds some draftees burried in a::combat situation in 1988.
This is beyond getting funny.
Look at the numbers, the value and the damn size of these things. How the hell can you "misplace" them? Just forget to lock them when you pak your plane before a burger kin? even this would not be "misplacement". It would be theft and accounted for as such.
Damn, "misplacing a tank". Great. Next thing is they forget where their own barracks are.
And the money - some people up there in the US belong to jail. Fast. ow can you not account for 1 trillion USD? WHoly damn shit, don#t they run computerized accounting and don't they have purchase order workflows in place?
What a wonder the US military won in Irak. Imagine, the commander orders an attack and his troops are "misplaced" in the wrong country:-)
::Moreover, there's nothing stopping Norwegians::with US partners setting up ASCII mail aliases
Yeah, right.
And who says the chinese guy whom I should ask about something and whose (chinese written) email address was forwarded to me should actually has done so?
Damn.
And:::that's why the proposals work by translating::international characters into ASCII.
Ah. Am I supposed to understand them? I can not evne name the funny chinese chars, how am I supposed to translate them?
What about the uniqueness if these?::If you're German, surely you can see how nice::it would be to be able to have proper German::spellings in DNS?
As a german exchanging 95%+ of his emails with international partners - god beware.
We already forbid them in the company directory for this reason.
::International characters in email addresses
BAD idea. VERY bad idea.
I can really see an american struggling over his english keyboard enting a norwegian char to send an email to his norgwegian partner. Funny (with me being in german)
That said, for me it is NOT that funny anymore (being in german) when I have to figure out a way to enter a chinese char into a chinese email address given that I have no clue about how their char system works at all.
PLEASE spare us international chars in emails and wbsite domains.
Never had to answer 20 emails?
Great.
Just hope you are online all the time and not coming back from a trip or something, where some emails may have acumulated in your outbox.
20 emails is VERY low - I am now going on a three day trip, and I can bet I will have 40-50 outgoing mails in my mailbox when I return, just waiting to hit our email server.
So, with their definition I would be in trouble.
WHOW.
Not generalizing americans, generalizig the majority of americans. The o50% still believing Irak HAD weapons of mass destructions.::This is like saying that your poor grammar::("american's"?), is a good indication that::Brits don't brush their teeth.
EXCEPT that I am not a brit and not even living in the UK, but a German. So there is no relation to brits at all, besides the copany I do work for.
That said, I am suer your german is much better than my enlish. Once, naturally, someone told you where germany is.
The problem is that the driver "intgrates" into the VM - it basically uses non-stnadard methods to directly forward commands to the VirtualPC part that then handles it. THis can work as good as emulating DirectX / OpenGL without any significant speed impact, although the emulated graphics card (s3 Trio) is just garbage in the 3d sense.
No, this is part of the VM. Not sure someone could NOT pull it off, but this is internal API only.
MS has dropped SUPPORT for Linux. VirtualPc could always run linux, but until now (from conectix) ths was official. Means: you could call connectix and ask for help when your linux started to misbehave.
MS is now dropping SUPPORT for Linux. Means: you CAN run Linux, as this basically is a i386 emulator, but if you run into trouble, don't call Microsoft. Also, dont expect MS to provide the nice (and necessary) accelerated graphics drivers that emulators normally come with. Ms will only support Windows.
THis is all MS ever said - actually they pretty directly said Linux will run all the time.
But then, you really had to read to understand this. And eweek seems to have lost this ability.
::the key was to install cde and tcsh and say it::was solaris x86
WOuld get you fired here immediatly. Termination of contract without remorse.
Reason: you willfully lied about company assets.
I see open source == criminal?
::Can a company really be held liable for::software it didn't write?
Yes. I made a teal with Installshield a month ago about getting their next version free or taking them to court on base of the quality of their product.
NOW - how is this applicable? I never asked THEM for the deal. I told the dealer to fix the shit or face a lawsuit. When he said he is only the dealer, I pointed him to pretty exactly this part of the law - HE is my legal partner, NOT the manufacturer.
What about the generic unified type system, allowing the definition of additional primitive types? The Java VM only knows how to handle her own defined types as primitives, the rest are classes (with the performance implications).
::How many successfull terrorist acts have::occured on US soil since 9/11
Howm any successfull terrist acts have occured on GERMAN soil since 9/11 WITHOUT homeland security? ZERO.
Howm any successfull terrist acts have occured on US soil since in the year before 9/11 WITHOUT homeland security? ZERO.
Your statistics base is too weak.
Well, how can the ACTOR look at the scene WHILE he is playing it, without looking like he is looking at a scene.
Also the director is propably more concentrated on the screenplay.
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I've heard horror stories of young, presumptuous techs who promise to "fix" a computer, and then proceed to nuke somebody's Windows 95B OEM / Office 97 installation that they've been using for years, and install Ubuntu with OpenOffice. If they worked for my company, I would promptly fire them.
Same here. If that would ever happen, it would be immediate termination, followed by asking them for full payment of the time it takes somene with common sense to redo all the work. Serving the customer is rarely done by such behavior.
Next up we change the US government via sniper rifle.
Given your current government - DO IT, PLEASE.
What you think you have the right to have rifles for? Your founding fathers had the idea that a little rebellion every couple of hundred years is good for freedom - it gets rid of bad governments.
To me it looks like the time has really come again in the US.
Until the next Hitler comes along.
He is already here. His name is George W. Bush. Sieg Heil to all american friends of him.
Works like a charm.
We are in a similar situation. my mate and me, together, control 77% of the shares, on equal grounds. I am the IT brain in the company, and I act as chairman of the Board. He has way less IT background, and focuses on the daily operations as CEO, while also being in the board.
That puts me "officially" in the highest rank, which is a signal to customers and investors - we ARE a technology company. It also puts him into control of all the "getting revenue" stuff.
And it works.
To add Insult to injury.... I reinstalled my windows some days ago. The option is unchecked by default. So, the poster, basically, complaints about a setting he has set himself. Now THAT is smart.
Interesting. Volume licensing was cheapter than retail for MY company with just 5 (!) seats.
What is this - dumpest investment bank ever? * They let a trader onto an unsecured system without proper training (unfamiliar with computer system). * The system is ocnfigured/programmed in such a way that there are no max trade orders, no security precautions, nothing at all in place. What is so hard to explain here? I was dump, I did not make sure my trader was property trained and the system we ordered lacked any fundamental security precautions. Poor trader - a dcase of a software/management fuckup and he has to pay.
Hm. THis is a very interesting point of view. Where exactly did you forget this thing called tolerance, human rights and other unimportant stuff? Oh, and history. "the forces of islam" do not exist. And they did not declare war against the United States in 1996. What happend is that an arrobant united states had finally managed to piss off a large enough portion of the planetstrong enough they determined they could not stand it anymore. And this is the direct result of the United States administrations having been high nosed, incompetent and ignorant in anything regarding foreign policy they did since they won world war 2. ::Then 9/11 happened, and we said
Well, looks like your government said "could you please crash the planes into the these buildings". ::And now our troops are overseas in places like ::Iraq and Afghanistan and the Philippines ::fighting to defeat or destroy those who would ::seek to inflict harm on our citizens.
Right. And on the way they are commiting atrocities, breaking human rights, destabilizing regions and breaking goverments.
Oh, and they lie. Basically you are run bya group of politicians that - in front of any criminal court - would be convicted of fraud and a lot of crimes.
But then, you are americans. It is ok if you are high nosed and arrogant and incompetent. As long as you can at least say you fight for the good thing.
And this, pretty much, sums up why you got 9/11.
You may not like this.
Here in germany the definition of a small company includes a 5 million EUR revenue shop that has 25 employees.
And with 25 employees, one may and propably is a dedicated financial guy.
::The US is also the biggest foriegn aide spender ::in the world, has done more to rebuild ::countries after major wars/catastrophies than ::the UN ever has/will/can
Yes, but interesting enough most of these wars/catastrpopies are a direct consequence of idiotic foreign policy actions of said US.
Now, if you come to my house and ruin it, I would surely expec you to clean up the mess you did.
If you deduct this "american smartness tax" from the foreign aid, there is propably not much left. I would say they still own the world quite a lot, actually.
Exactly.
:-)
And for the other customers, the FBI raid is a non-issue.
Basically, if they guarantee MY server's uptime, and MY server is confiscated due to them not providing the data on another customer (important point) in time, THEY pay ME. Their fault.
OTOH some customer's may realize that 99% uptime mean an agreed upon downtime of about 3.5 days which CAN be taken in one block
::More to the point, they are a lot harderto lose ::than said rounds some draftees burried in a ::combat situation in 1988.
:-)
This is beyond getting funny.
Look at the numbers, the value and the damn size of these things. How the hell can you "misplace" them? Just forget to lock them when you pak your plane before a burger kin? even this would not be "misplacement". It would be theft and accounted for as such.
Damn, "misplacing a tank". Great. Next thing is they forget where their own barracks are.
And the money - some people up there in the US belong to jail. Fast. ow can you not account for 1 trillion USD? WHoly damn shit, don#t they run computerized accounting and don't they have purchase order workflows in place?
What a wonder the US military won in Irak. Imagine, the commander orders an attack and his troops are "misplaced" in the wrong country
::Moreover, there's nothing stopping Norwegians ::with US partners setting up ASCII mail aliases
::that's why the proposals work by translating ::international characters into ASCII.
::If you're German, surely you can see how nice ::it would be to be able to have proper German ::spellings in DNS?
Yeah, right.
And who says the chinese guy whom I should ask about something and whose (chinese written) email address was forwarded to me should actually has done so?
Damn.
And:
Ah. Am I supposed to understand them? I can not evne name the funny chinese chars, how am I supposed to translate them?
What about the uniqueness if these?
As a german exchanging 95%+ of his emails with international partners - god beware.
We already forbid them in the company directory for this reason.
::International characters in email addresses BAD idea. VERY bad idea. I can really see an american struggling over his english keyboard enting a norwegian char to send an email to his norgwegian partner. Funny (with me being in german) That said, for me it is NOT that funny anymore (being in german) when I have to figure out a way to enter a chinese char into a chinese email address given that I have no clue about how their char system works at all. PLEASE spare us international chars in emails and wbsite domains.
Never had to answer 20 emails? Great. Just hope you are online all the time and not coming back from a trip or something, where some emails may have acumulated in your outbox. 20 emails is VERY low - I am now going on a three day trip, and I can bet I will have 40-50 outgoing mails in my mailbox when I return, just waiting to hit our email server. So, with their definition I would be in trouble. WHOW.
Made some commercial .NET work 5 years ago.
Definitly possible.
You HAD to be in the official beta program for this, though, so you talk about a hundred or so people plus the folks at MS.
::of people generalizing americans.
::This is like saying that your poor grammar ::("american's"?), is a good indication that ::Brits don't brush their teeth.
Not generalizing americans, generalizig the majority of americans. The o50% still believing Irak HAD weapons of mass destructions.
EXCEPT that I am not a brit and not even living in the UK, but a German. So there is no relation to brits at all, besides the copany I do work for.
That said, I am suer your german is much better than my enlish. Once, naturally, someone told you where germany is.
VirtualPC only, sorry.
The problem is that the driver "intgrates" into the VM - it basically uses non-stnadard methods to directly forward commands to the VirtualPC part that then handles it. THis can work as good as emulating DirectX / OpenGL without any significant speed impact, although the emulated graphics card (s3 Trio) is just garbage in the 3d sense.
No, this is part of the VM. Not sure someone could NOT pull it off, but this is internal API only.
::In case you don't remember, Connectix makes the ::VMWare series of products
No, they never did.
Connectix made the VirtualPC series of products, and VmWare made the VMWare series of products.
Connectix was bought by Microsoft, but VMWare is independant.
...expecially the ones from eweek.
MS has dropped SUPPORT for Linux. VirtualPc could always run linux, but until now (from conectix) ths was official. Means: you could call connectix and ask for help when your linux started to misbehave.
MS is now dropping SUPPORT for Linux. Means: you CAN run Linux, as this basically is a i386 emulator, but if you run into trouble, don't call Microsoft. Also, dont expect MS to provide the nice (and necessary) accelerated graphics drivers that emulators normally come with. Ms will only support Windows.
THis is all MS ever said - actually they pretty directly said Linux will run all the time.
But then, you really had to read to understand this. And eweek seems to have lost this ability.
::the key was to install cde and tcsh and say it ::was solaris x86
WOuld get you fired here immediatly. Termination of contract without remorse.
Reason: you willfully lied about company assets.
I see open source == criminal?
::Can a company really be held liable for ::software it didn't write?
Yes. I made a teal with Installshield a month ago about getting their next version free or taking them to court on base of the quality of their product.
NOW - how is this applicable? I never asked THEM for the deal. I told the dealer to fix the shit or face a lawsuit. When he said he is only the dealer, I pointed him to pretty exactly this part of the law - HE is my legal partner, NOT the manufacturer.
What about the generic unified type system, allowing the definition of additional primitive types? The Java VM only knows how to handle her own defined types as primitives, the rest are classes (with the performance implications).
::How many successfull terrorist acts have ::occured on US soil since 9/11
Howm any successfull terrist acts have occured on GERMAN soil since 9/11 WITHOUT homeland security? ZERO.
Howm any successfull terrist acts have occured on US soil since in the year before 9/11 WITHOUT homeland security? ZERO.
Your statistics base is too weak.
Well, how can the ACTOR look at the scene WHILE he is playing it, without looking like he is looking at a scene. Also the director is propably more concentrated on the screenplay.