Being rude is turning up late to a meeting. It's not offering a 'warm beverage' to guests. It's not saying your pleases and thank-yous. It's not wiping your feet before entering. It's answering a phone call whilst in someone's company. It's not holding the door open for someone.
It's all about showing a lack of manners.
Online? With posts being too easy to take the wrong way, there is little rudeness. What people are talking about is abuse, name calling and crudeness - and that's too easy.
You want rude online? It's too difficult to explain to the average poster on Slashdot.;p
I did that for years. Never caught a virus, malware or any type of shitware.
But today, the attack vectors are Flash and Adobe PDF Reader, not Outlook and IE. You missed those two applications you've missed off your list. Any others missing that we do;t know about?
10 years ago I surfed naked. These days the risks are too strong, what with doing so many transactions online (almost all of them).
The best parts of my day are talking to the cleaners while having a smoke. They're normally good people with good social skills and good stories to tell.
When I see the management throwing paper towels on the floor because the bin is full, I cry a little inside.
There's a script floating about in the office that everyone loves. You select an image in MS Word, run the macro, and it shrinks the image size down to the page margins, keeping the aspect ratio. 10 lines of code passed around in emails with a little note about user operation.
We write a lot of reports. People love the script. Whoever wrote it is a god around here. No one knows what "aspect ratio" means, "page margins" are fuzzy, "macro" is a voodoo word, but they love the script. And why not? **
If only more people could write little scripts like this, we'd be far more productive.
Teach them JS. Teach them the lingo. It's all transferable to other languages like VBA. Don't expect people to write VM front-ends to remotes DBs in the cloud; it's never going to happen.
**When I added a loop, so that more than one image could be selected at once, I became the scripting god. Bow down before my skills. No, seriously, bow down and kiss my ring, for I am the god of VBA!
Honestly, in the UK they come in both. 250ml to 500ml sizes. Cans are cheaper. Bottles don't go flat as fast. Cans are better for the fridge. Take your pick.
Whenever I see a Range Rover Discovery, I call it a P38 or a P38a. This was the inside name when it was being developed. I made a 25% weight saving on a panel somewhere near a rear seatbelt mount, some patterns for the tooling and a couple of checking fixtures.
The manufacture calls it a P38.
All the magazines, salesmen and dealerships call it a Discovery.
Slashdot Mirror
OK, I'll bite.
Worse than the UK one?
If I want to send anyone money in the UK here's what I do:
1. Login to my bank's website
2a. If I've sent money to this person before: type in their sort code, account number and value.
2b. If I've not sent money to this person before: two factor authorisation, type in their sort code, account number and value.
3. Click the Go button
This is called BACS and is instant for the vast majority of transactions and basically free. We also have the faster but more expensive CHAPS.
Of course, give me an International Bank Account Number (IBAN) and I can send money to anyone anywhere.
We freely give out bank account numbers too. There's not a lot you can do with them except pay money in.
Being rude is turning up late to a meeting. It's not offering a 'warm beverage' to guests. It's not saying your pleases and thank-yous. It's not wiping your feet before entering. It's answering a phone call whilst in someone's company. It's not holding the door open for someone.
;p
It's all about showing a lack of manners.
Online? With posts being too easy to take the wrong way, there is little rudeness. What people are talking about is abuse, name calling and crudeness - and that's too easy.
You want rude online? It's too difficult to explain to the average poster on Slashdot.
pssst. No one's complaining, far from it, but we normally have to wait months for our answers. ;)
Apart from telling terrible umbrella jokes, what do you do on rainy days?
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all?
Sod that. Record the audio. Upload the audio. Link to the audio.
We're talking about the UK. The vast majority of MPs are already rich. Their parents made them so. It's a social class thing.
A report 12 months or so ago showed that 80% of MPs in the cabinet were millionaires.
Whilst that's true, life wont get any worse with death.
Imagine you think you've hit rock bottom, only for the next day to be even worse. Can you handle another day if it gets worse still?
Must be a horrible situation.
I don't know about Blackberry but it's too easy on Android.
Message recipients > Group > My Contacts > Select all.
It would be too easy to select the "My Contacts" group or "My Swimming contacts" group, instead of the "My shagging partners" group.
Gee thanks for that.
Why would a troll post as AC here and then leave a trail?
http://www.jaylittle.com/
The wedding photos made me smile.
We ran two two-billion Euro projects off Access.
The "database gods" told me I couldn't store BLOBS in there (no shit), so I stored URLs.
They told me it would fall over (no shit), but the number of rows was always going to be managable.
They told me they couldn't support it (no shit!), so I got a boy in for that, and trained him up with the basics.
They told me I needed MySQL on the back end because the Access engine was shit (no shit), and that was all elitist bullshit too.
In good old fashioned MS style, the DB survived two migrations. Office 2003 > 2007 > 2010.
Sledgehammer. Nuts.
I'm sorry but we (the slashdot group thinkers) trashed AVG on a previous story.
What was it? A proxy to AVG's servers, if I remember right. It was nasty enough for me to ditch it, that's for sure.
I did that for years. Never caught a virus, malware or any type of shitware.
But today, the attack vectors are Flash and Adobe PDF Reader, not Outlook and IE. You missed those two applications you've missed off your list. Any others missing that we do;t know about?
10 years ago I surfed naked. These days the risks are too strong, what with doing so many transactions online (almost all of them).
In the UK we can fill our tyres with Nitrogen for a small charge (five quid for the whole car if I remember correctly).
* Air, as you said, contains water vapour. This leads to corrosion of the wheels.
* The molecules of Nitrogen are larger, leading to less pressure loss.
The AA support this new way of filling tyres. http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/safety/filling-tyres-with-nitrogen.html
Here's a sensible reply...
I saw the Google van last month in the South West of England which, last time I checked, is part of Europe.
The best parts of my day are talking to the cleaners while having a smoke. They're normally good people with good social skills and good stories to tell.
When I see the management throwing paper towels on the floor because the bin is full, I cry a little inside.
There's a script floating about in the office that everyone loves. You select an image in MS Word, run the macro, and it shrinks the image size down to the page margins, keeping the aspect ratio. 10 lines of code passed around in emails with a little note about user operation.
We write a lot of reports. People love the script. Whoever wrote it is a god around here. No one knows what "aspect ratio" means, "page margins" are fuzzy, "macro" is a voodoo word, but they love the script. And why not? **
If only more people could write little scripts like this, we'd be far more productive.
Teach them JS. Teach them the lingo. It's all transferable to other languages like VBA. Don't expect people to write VM front-ends to remotes DBs in the cloud; it's never going to happen.
**When I added a loop, so that more than one image could be selected at once, I became the scripting god. Bow down before my skills. No, seriously, bow down and kiss my ring, for I am the god of VBA!
After uploading casual photos to Google, and Google reconising half the people in the photos, I'd say none of your tips would work.
Open source and making money can go hand in hand.
I'd buy one because I don't have the skills or resources to make one myself. I am one of many.
Which wiretapping laws would they be?
"Nestle plans to stalk UK consumers"
All of them.
Honestly, in the UK they come in both. 250ml to 500ml sizes. Cans are cheaper. Bottles don't go flat as fast. Cans are better for the fridge. Take your pick.
Blocked at work for being "...part of a group of web pages categorised as: Social Networking."
/. the future is obvious.
If that happens to
Here's my own research:
1. Find a release.
2. Find the torrent.
3. Connect.
4. Realise that there are only 5,000 seeds/peers on the largest torrent site on the internet.
5. Realise 5,000 is a very small number.
On a side note, Avatar, the largest total download ever: Could I find a simple 700mb copy the other day with seeds? Could I bollocks.
Could I pay for a simple 700mb copy? Could I bollocks.
Piracy. It's all bollocks.
That's true for me too.
Sometimes "it" guesses I'm in the South West of England.
Sometimes "it" uses one of the switches six hops away from me which is in Birmingham.
Do not look at microwave with remaining eye?
In no particular order, I'd choose:
A 12-gauge auto-loader.
A phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range
An Uzi nine millimetre.
Whenever I see a Range Rover Discovery, I call it a P38 or a P38a. This was the inside name when it was being developed. I made a 25% weight saving on a panel somewhere near a rear seatbelt mount, some patterns for the tooling and a couple of checking fixtures.
The manufacture calls it a P38.
All the magazines, salesmen and dealerships call it a Discovery.
All the fan clubs call it a P38.
I'll take a +1 imformative for that please, Bob.