Funnily enough, i.e. is actually an acronym for Id Est, a Latin phrase meaning "that is". e.g. is an acronym for Exempli Gratia, which means --as you correctly stated-- "for example". However, us pedantic type prefer the synonim v.g. that stands for Verbi Gratia.
dude have you never heard of "The Peter Principle"
Obviously, you have heard about it. And obviously you don't understand it. Follow your own link and read about the Peter Principle. At most, it would mean that the bloke remains in charge, but certainly not promoted.
Yes. Namely, TFA. In a nutshell: As they upgraded those 7 machines, the patch was applied to al 60K PCs, seriously breaking them. Even if you revert the 7 original ones, the 60K ones will remain broken.
I've noticed that in the last few years (maybe it's just my perspective, I don't know) computer support seem less and less likely to actually listen to their users. I have recurring popups in my PC that I get at least once a day and usually more. I have been going through this since the PC was new, when the techies refused to change the hard disk even though I wanted them to. Now I have too many files to make it a safe operation. Anyhow, I know what needs to be done and what I am suffering from, as I've been dealing with this for years. However, I find that I have to make appointments with 3 or 4 techies before I find one that listens to me at all. The others will go 'uh huh, uh huh, yeah, uh huh.' Then they give me some spyware checkers, or antivirus, or something else that doesn't help me get better. Why is it that even if we use technical terms, techies won't listen? Mr. Volkerding clearly at least has *some* idea of what he's talking about, and I find it sickening that his techies are paying so little attention to what he says. I don't even like it when it happens to me with a much less serious condition, I can't even imagine the frustration I would feel if my PC was hosed and the techies treated me with that much contempt. Tech support costs keep rising, techies keep getting fired, and the ones who are left don't listen to (or even seem to care about) their users... This is a serious problem that needs a solution fast.
Are you suggesting that we have to go.... outside?
You should try it sometimes. I did once. The graphics are absolutely amazing, textures look great, and I don't know what kind of hardware they use, but I never experienced any slowdowns. The gameplay sucks, tough.
Well, having a company require permission to run unchecked, arbitrary code that connects to their servers, in order to allow me to play a single player, not-online game would rank as much more dangerous than a hand up my ass (as long as in is gloved, of course). Seriously, if I cannot see the source, and it requires unchecked access to outside servers, how can I trust it?
And yet, you don't live in a reinforced concrete bunker, with armored doors and armed sentinels.
I'd rather be on the 'honor system' at the stores I go to.
But they don't strip search you everytime you walk out of them.
And It would be great if we didn't have to spend money on police, because I'm not a criminal.
And yet, you don't have a policeman permanently shadowing you, in case you do something illegal.
Too bad that there are always enough jackasses out there, that you can NEVER trust the public to do anything right, honest, or decent.
There is always a balance. As shown above, you need enough security to deter most illegal acts, but not so much that you make everything a hindrance. Many of us think that Valve went too far into "strip search" territory.
Don't unions collectively bargain for pay rates? Doesn't that ensure that every employee at a position category will receive the same pay no matter how well/poorly they perform? This doesn't exactly encourage people to put forth their best effort.
Neither does the current system, where brownnoses and incompetent fools get the raises, while good programmers with poor social skills get the shaft. Plus, programmers who are paid well enough WILL produce their best code out of sheer pride (or peer pressure).
Unions protect the employees by making employee termination much more difficult to the employer. While the advantages are probably pretty obvious, this puts additional burden on the employer to build a case against an employee for termination if the employee truly deserves termination? In extreme cases, this could lead the employer to additional risk if the employee is endangering people or projects.
Please. Tell me how can a programmer "endanger people or projects". Bulldozer operators or truckers are way more dangerous, and nobody seems to have a problem with their being unionized. Yes, unions make it harder to fire an employee without good cause and that is a Good Thing. The contract always specifies when an employee can be fired (and if you think that the employer will not fight for this tooth and nail, you don't know employers).
Unions typically prohibit companies from hiring non-union employees. If you as a software programmer want to work for company X, you can only do so by joining the union, even if you don't want to. Union's will look at any attempts to hire a non-union employee as "stealing a job" from a union worker.
And why in hell would you not want to be unionized? To get less pay? More work hours? What am I missing here?
Unions see overtime as potential for another worker rather than an opportunity for current union members to pick up additional income. (This is the case with my father, a plumber, who made more money as a non-union plumber due to being able to work overtime. When his shop was unionized, his annual income went from about $54K to $32K. Sure, he didn't have to work any overtime, but now he can't possibly make enough money to maintain his lifestyle. As pointed out above, he can't potentially make any more money due to the union setting the rate.)
This would be a good point... except it's crap. No programmer gets extra hours anyway. To follow with your father's example, his income would not have come down... he would have been earning 23K for the get go, while working extra hours anyway.
I get the feeling that you are sincere, but can't help to take the employer's point of view. See it from the worker's and it will all make a lot more sense.
Rove echoed Bush's contention that the phrase referred to the carrier crew's completing their 10-month mission, not the military's completing its mission in Iraq.
True or not, at least it's consistent with parent's story. Well, he said 9 months... maybe it IS a conspiracy after all....
Do you think they'll use Tiger Teams to coordinate synergies into digital convergence devices in order to create Best-of-Breed teleporters? (I have got to stop taliing to marketers. It's not healthy).
Let's see - 50 engineers * 10K (including overhead) a month = $500,000/month Spread over 5,000 boxes a month, that's US$500 per box for the software alone, compared to (I guess) US$80 for the Windows version.
You may want to check your math. Even your own pulled-out-of-the-ass numbers are not supporting your point.
Nobody --and I mean nobody-- knows why the Mayan civilization disappeared. It's one of the great mysteries of history. If you have evidence about this ecological disaster, there are hundreds of archeologists that would love to know about it.
Salination of the Tigris/Euphrates flood-plain thanks to intensive over-irrigation.
This could have happened. But Babylon was destroyed by a series of wars, not by any kind of ecological disaster. Famine was not a factor in its destruction.
Several chinese dynastic collapses seem to be linked to failure of irrigation systems (some dispute as to which way the causality runs in these events however). There are others, but off the top of my head I don't recall specific details.
Nothing further.
I just need to add that it's funny how so-called ecologists have to grasp at straws to come up with "examples" of big civilizatios destroyed by climate changes (I have yet to see one), and utterly disregard the fact that the real big civilizations --Greece, Rome, Egypt, China-- have been destroyed by plenty of other means.
Self-inflicted ecological disaster is one of the most frequent ways in which big civilizations end.
What the hell are you talking about? I mean, yeah, in science fiction books maybe, but not in real life. At least, not in this planet. Unless, of course, I slept through the Roman Glaciation or the British Great Flood of 1800 in history class... any examples?
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Funnily enough, i.e. is actually an acronym for Id Est, a Latin phrase meaning "that is".
e.g. is an acronym for Exempli Gratia, which means --as you correctly stated-- "for example". However, us pedantic type prefer the synonim v.g. that stands for Verbi Gratia.
dude have you never heard of "The Peter Principle"
Obviously, you have heard about it. And obviously you don't understand it.
Follow your own link and read about the Peter Principle. At most, it would mean that the bloke remains in charge, but certainly not promoted.
or have I missed something?
Yes. Namely, TFA.
In a nutshell: As they upgraded those 7 machines, the patch was applied to al 60K PCs, seriously breaking them. Even if you revert the 7 original ones, the 60K ones will remain broken.
As you can read here in his last post on /.
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Otherwise, it's creepy.
I've noticed that in the last few years (maybe it's just my perspective, I don't know) computer support seem less and less likely to actually listen to their users. I have recurring popups in my PC that I get at least once a day and usually more. I have been going through this since the PC was new, when the techies refused to change the hard disk even though I wanted them to. Now I have too many files to make it a safe operation. Anyhow, I know what needs to be done and what I am suffering from, as I've been dealing with this for years. However, I find that I have to make appointments with 3 or 4 techies before I find one that listens to me at all. The others will go 'uh huh, uh huh, yeah, uh huh.' Then they give me some spyware checkers, or antivirus, or something else that doesn't help me get better. Why is it that even if we use technical terms, techies won't listen? Mr. Volkerding clearly at least has *some* idea of what he's talking about, and I find it sickening that his techies are paying so little attention to what he says. I don't even like it when it happens to me with a much less serious condition, I can't even imagine the frustration I would feel if my PC was hosed and the techies treated me with that much contempt. Tech support costs keep rising, techies keep getting fired, and the ones who are left don't listen to (or even seem to care about) their users... This is a serious problem that needs a solution fast.
1. Talk to a trustworthy accountant
2. Find a decent lawyer as well
3. Find a unicorn.
4. Slay the migthy Tiamat.
Oh, and as long as we're discussing mythology:
5. Profit!
Just because something isn't used as much anymore by the majority of the people as it used to be, doesn't necessarily mean it's dead.
You mean... BSD... is alive?
Are you suggesting that we have to go.... outside?
You should try it sometimes. I did once. The graphics are absolutely amazing, textures look great, and I don't know what kind of hardware they use, but I never experienced any slowdowns.
The gameplay sucks, tough.
As a result, my first experience (*) will be much more enjoyable and safe for both parties involved
Yes, it's always better not to hurt your hand (*)
(*)Slashdot stereotype implied.
Well, having a company require permission to run unchecked, arbitrary code that connects to their servers, in order to allow me to play a single player, not-online game would rank as much more dangerous than a hand up my ass (as long as in is gloved, of course).
Seriously, if I cannot see the source, and it requires unchecked access to outside servers, how can I trust it?
That's OK, you can still go. Just don't wear the sailor moon outfit again.
Who ya calling Nerd, man? Think you can come into our forums and call us nerds? We'll pop a cap on your clown ass, you gopherfreaking asshat!
Yes, and I'd rather not lock my doors at night.
And yet, you don't live in a reinforced concrete bunker, with armored doors and armed sentinels.
I'd rather be on the 'honor system' at the stores I go to.
But they don't strip search you everytime you walk out of them.
And It would be great if we didn't have to spend money on police, because I'm not a criminal.
And yet, you don't have a policeman permanently shadowing you, in case you do something illegal.
Too bad that there are always enough jackasses out there, that you can NEVER trust the public to do anything right, honest, or decent.
There is always a balance. As shown above, you need enough security to deter most illegal acts, but not so much that you make everything a hindrance. Many of us think that Valve went too far into "strip search" territory.
uh huh. well, it's claimed by a poster on slashdot.org that Natalie Portman pours hot grits down my pants.
No, no, no, NO! She can't pour anything! She's petrified!
Newbies.
Don't unions collectively bargain for pay rates? Doesn't that ensure that every employee at a position category will receive the same pay no matter how well/poorly they perform? This doesn't exactly encourage people to put forth their best effort.
Neither does the current system, where brownnoses and incompetent fools get the raises, while good programmers with poor social skills get the shaft. Plus, programmers who are paid well enough WILL produce their best code out of sheer pride (or peer pressure).
Unions protect the employees by making employee termination much more difficult to the employer. While the advantages are probably pretty obvious, this puts additional burden on the employer to build a case against an employee for termination if the employee truly deserves termination? In extreme cases, this could lead the employer to additional risk if the employee is endangering people or projects.
Please. Tell me how can a programmer "endanger people or projects". Bulldozer operators or truckers are way more dangerous, and nobody seems to have a problem with their being unionized.
Yes, unions make it harder to fire an employee without good cause and that is a Good Thing. The contract always specifies when an employee can be fired (and if you think that the employer will not fight for this tooth and nail, you don't know employers).
Unions typically prohibit companies from hiring non-union employees. If you as a software programmer want to work for company X, you can only do so by joining the union, even if you don't want to. Union's will look at any attempts to hire a non-union employee as "stealing a job" from a union worker.
And why in hell would you not want to be unionized? To get less pay? More work hours? What am I missing here?
Unions see overtime as potential for another worker rather than an opportunity for current union members to pick up additional income. (This is the case with my father, a plumber, who made more money as a non-union plumber due to being able to work overtime. When his shop was unionized, his annual income went from about $54K to $32K. Sure, he didn't have to work any overtime, but now he can't possibly make enough money to maintain his lifestyle. As pointed out above, he can't potentially make any more money due to the union setting the rate.)
This would be a good point... except it's crap. No programmer gets extra hours anyway. To follow with your father's example, his income would not have come down... he would have been earning 23K for the get go, while working extra hours anyway.
I get the feeling that you are sincere, but can't help to take the employer's point of view. See it from the worker's and it will all make a lot more sense.
No, no, no... it's "When John Romero makes me his bitch".
From the same article you liked to:
Rove echoed Bush's contention that the phrase referred to the carrier crew's completing their 10-month mission, not the military's completing its mission in Iraq.
True or not, at least it's consistent with parent's story.
Well, he said 9 months... maybe it IS a conspiracy after all....
Yeah, there are lots of iraqui civilians expecting an American bullet. Send those flak jackets!
Do you think they'll use Tiger Teams to coordinate synergies into digital convergence devices in order to create Best-of-Breed teleporters?
(I have got to stop taliing to marketers. It's not healthy).
Let's see - 50 engineers * 10K (including overhead) a month = $500,000/month
Spread over 5,000 boxes a month, that's US$500 per box for the software alone, compared to (I guess) US$80 for the Windows version.
You may want to check your math. Even your own pulled-out-of-the-ass numbers are not supporting your point.
She walked all the way to Ebay headquarters bearfoot
I'm not into furries. Thanks anyway.
>> ...is basically a gigantic mouth, with rows of inwardly facing teeth and a number of sticky tentacles that it uses to snare unsuspecting prey."
> Oh come on! It looks like an anus! You know it, and I know it!
Dude, I don't know who you hang out with, but they have scary ass anuses. That's not natural.
On the contrary, it just got you modded down. ;-)
Think he can sue the DOJ over lost karma?
Maybe we should make it a class action (or, in shashdot-speak, a beowulf cluster of lawsuits)
Easter Island - already mentioned upthread.
And Easter Island was a "big civilization"?
Maya - C9th AD.
Nobody --and I mean nobody-- knows why the Mayan civilization disappeared. It's one of the great mysteries of history. If you have evidence about this ecological disaster, there are hundreds of archeologists that would love to know about it.
Salination of the Tigris/Euphrates flood-plain thanks to intensive over-irrigation.
This could have happened. But Babylon was destroyed by a series of wars, not by any kind of ecological disaster. Famine was not a factor in its destruction.
Several chinese dynastic collapses seem to be linked to failure of irrigation systems (some dispute as to which way the causality runs in these events however). There are others, but off the top of my head I don't recall specific details.
Nothing further.
I just need to add that it's funny how so-called ecologists have to grasp at straws to come up with "examples" of big civilizatios destroyed by climate changes (I have yet to see one), and utterly disregard the fact that the real big civilizations --Greece, Rome, Egypt, China-- have been destroyed by plenty of other means.
Self-inflicted ecological disaster is one of the most frequent ways in which big civilizations end.
What the hell are you talking about? I mean, yeah, in science fiction books maybe, but not in real life. At least, not in this planet.
Unless, of course, I slept through the Roman Glaciation or the British Great Flood of 1800 in history class... any examples?