Your separation of religion / social constructs / culture makes no sense. Spend some time in Latin America (for example) and see if you don't think Catholicism is inextricably linked to social constructs & culture.
This story was submitted as an attempt to gain clicks. The site itself is probably meant as a joke, but it is certainly an entry in the "Contagious Media Showdown." The showdown is "a competition to create the most viral website, as measured by the number of unique visitors from now until June 9th."
Getting it submitted to Slashdot probably won it for those guys. Seems like ballot stuffing to me, though.
Coke *did* announce they were ditching their old formula. Sort of. They announced "New Coke" (which everyone agreed tasted like Pepsi), and then in response to the backlash quickly introduced "Coke Classic." Within a few years New Coke was gone.
See the beauty of the plan? Tell the world, "OK, you win, we're going to make our stuff more like the competition." The customers howl in protest "but the competition tastes like sh1t!" You say "exactly," and switch back to business as usual with a much more faithful customer base. I think pretending to lose the cola wars was a pretty damn ballsy genius move.
I think the analogy breaks there, because if Microsoft pretended to embrace Linux and managed to torpedo a specific distro, others would just take its place. But Microsoft's tried something like this before (remember their attempt to hijack Java with a proprietary version).
The standard of living is as good as the US, cost of living way cheaper. Beaches cleaner, girls better looking, racism less prevalent. I'll be on my way soon...
But the Republicrats want as many illegals as possible, for their votes and cheap labor...
Cheap labor, yes. But illegal aliens can't vote. Even legal aliens can't vote. You have to be a citizen. And even then sometimes you can't vote (under 18, felony conviction, etc.). Since kids, felons, and aliens have to pay sales, property, and other types of taxes, you might say this is taxation without representation. But that's an off topic rant for another time.
...where setting up wireless home networks is a black art.
Come on now, really. A black art? Win XP and Mac OS X will both find the SSID for you with no clicky required. The only thing you even have to do is set the WEP key, and you don't even have to do that (thank you neighbors!).
On the plus side, I'm going to start putting "black artist" down as my occupation.
Document everything you can about the situation. Capture as much as possible in emails, and print them out and/or forward them to your gmail account. Including interactions with your nutso boss, co-workers, clients, etc.
Because your question really isn't so much how do you leave on good terms (seems it's a bit late for that) but how do you do damage control going forward.
If you leave with some type of recorded dialog (again, email seems ideal) that shows you have been calm, level-headed, forthright, etc., you will always have this to point back to in case your professionalism comes into question.
It's a sad state of affairs, but by way of anecdote my own ass was best saved by an SMTP log after a nutso client claimed I had missed a deadline to email him a document. Log showed not only had I mailed it, but his SMTP server had accepted it. I didn't get an apology, but I did get the chance to smart-assedly refer him to some networking consultants @ $125/hr, should he continue to experience trouble with his mail domain.
"...It accounted for 40 percent of open source database deployments...
"I believe it will change how MySQL is perceived in the market," said Axmark, who then added that he thought this release would make MySQL an option for at least ten times as many users as before.
I can't wait to hear the mashup with Paul Simon's "The Sound of Silence"
Actually, it was originally titled "The Sounds of Sirens." A little known fact is that Paul Simon was collaborating with a Japanese artist who was upset with the constant racket in NYC, and came up with the original title. Paul misunderstood due to his co-author's accent, and the rest is history.
"Internet Explorer" the application is simply a wrapper for some OS-level objects. I doubt, for instance, that the stripped-down system ships without the MSHTML.dll. Microsoft wasn't kidding when they said they'd literally put the browser into the operating system, and it's the reason many rolled their eyes when Judge Jackson equated removing IE with deleting the shortcut icon from the desktop. It's the reason that so many Windows apps have what looks like a web page as part of the GUI. Check out the artist details panel in WinAmp, for instance.
I'm certainly no expert, I'm sure in the fine tradition of Slashdot many will dog-pile on to nitpick my description (I'm sure there are other DLLs and objects in addition to the one I mentioned). But the fact remains that IE is built in to the OS.
I'm not saying that Microsoft is lying on that level, or even lying at all. But come on for Chrissakes, with all of the huge "bulletproof" companies circling the drain over the past few years, don't you think it's maybe a tad naive to simply judge the health of a company by the financial results reported to the press?
I've been to Brazil several times. You have to list the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the people you'll be staying with. They do it to us, and we do it to them too. This has been going on for a long time. Nothing to see, move along.
Why can't we have concerts on board these flights, maybe a small club-like atmosphere in the upper decks, make the whole thing a little more interesting..
That would be swell except for the fact that it would probably jack up the average ticket price by $100 or more. If a single olive in the salad costs $40,000 per year, what you're describing sounds pretty expensive, not to mention a logistics nightmare (they have a big enough challenge with peanuts and wing de-icer).
As for me, I hate flying as much as you do. But I love to travel, and I have very little disposable income. The biggest barrier to me being able to travel is cost, and I don't want to see that barrier get higher just so the flight will suck a little less.
In case you're wondering, there's no money in it. Tuition goes to pay rent. Occasionally there's a little left over to have a weekend seminar or buy equipment. But then I guess profit would have just been a nice side-effect, that's not really why I do it.
With the massive recent investment in "anti-terror" technology (Total Information Awareness, for one), combined with ongoing projects such Echelon, you would have to be pretty foolish to think that the US government wasn't recording just about every phone call, satellite transmission, email, fax, etc.
You'd have to be foolish too to think that whatever ordinary encryption methods you use would even slow them down, let alone stop them.
The hard part isn't intercepting and decrypting any signal they want. The hard part is separating the wheat from the chaff. There isn't (I assume) any good software yet, or enough analysts, to process all the chatter. But if "they" want to zero in on you specifically, you should either 1) bet your sweet ass that they know every packet that goes back and forth, or 2) kiss it goodbye.
Object files and executables come in several formats. One is ELF (Executable and Linking Format) and
another is COFF (Common Object-File Format). ELF is used on SystemVr4 UNIX systems, while COFF is
used on Windows systems.
This article and others detail SCO's failed attempt to support its claim to ownership of Linux with its claim that it (SCO) owned ELF.
I believe it is the case that SCO is only claiming ownership and suing people over the VR5 Unix source and derivatives (aside: what exactly SCO owns of VR5 and any of its derivatives, or even what those derivatives are is under intense debate, as you may have noticed). Pre-VR5 elements of Unix (IIRC) are not being contested by SCO.
Yeah yeah yeah it's a long way to go for not much payoff. But maybe the ELF fuss inspired the author to have a little fun by shoving SCO's nose in the fact that ELF was pre-VR5...?
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Your separation of religion / social constructs / culture makes no sense. Spend some time in Latin America (for example) and see if you don't think Catholicism is inextricably linked to social constructs & culture.
Dear Sir,
Please disregard my recent job application to your organization.
Thanks,
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This story was submitted as an attempt to gain clicks. The site itself is probably meant as a joke, but it is certainly an entry in the "Contagious Media Showdown." The showdown is "a competition to create the most viral website, as measured by the number of unique visitors from now until June 9th."
Getting it submitted to Slashdot probably won it for those guys. Seems like ballot stuffing to me, though.
OK, before you mod me down, I was talking about the page header they seem to have stolen from Groklaw.
Coke *did* announce they were ditching their old formula. Sort of. They announced "New Coke" (which everyone agreed tasted like Pepsi), and then in response to the backlash quickly introduced "Coke Classic." Within a few years New Coke was gone.
See the beauty of the plan? Tell the world, "OK, you win, we're going to make our stuff more like the competition." The customers howl in protest "but the competition tastes like sh1t!" You say "exactly," and switch back to business as usual with a much more faithful customer base. I think pretending to lose the cola wars was a pretty damn ballsy genius move.
I think the analogy breaks there, because if Microsoft pretended to embrace Linux and managed to torpedo a specific distro, others would just take its place. But Microsoft's tried something like this before (remember their attempt to hijack Java with a proprietary version).
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand. Or so I have read.
The standard of living is as good as the US, cost of living way cheaper. Beaches cleaner, girls better looking, racism less prevalent. I'll be on my way soon...
But the Republicrats want as many illegals as possible, for their votes and cheap labor...
Cheap labor, yes. But illegal aliens can't vote. Even legal aliens can't vote. You have to be a citizen. And even then sometimes you can't vote (under 18, felony conviction, etc.). Since kids, felons, and aliens have to pay sales, property, and other types of taxes, you might say this is taxation without representation. But that's an off topic rant for another time.
Come on now, really. A black art? Win XP and Mac OS X will both find the SSID for you with no clicky required. The only thing you even have to do is set the WEP key, and you don't even have to do that (thank you neighbors!).
On the plus side, I'm going to start putting "black artist" down as my occupation.
Document everything you can about the situation. Capture as much as possible in emails, and print them out and/or forward them to your gmail account. Including interactions with your nutso boss, co-workers, clients, etc.
Because your question really isn't so much how do you leave on good terms (seems it's a bit late for that) but how do you do damage control going forward.
If you leave with some type of recorded dialog (again, email seems ideal) that shows you have been calm, level-headed, forthright, etc., you will always have this to point back to in case your professionalism comes into question.
It's a sad state of affairs, but by way of anecdote my own ass was best saved by an SMTP log after a nutso client claimed I had missed a deadline to email him a document. Log showed not only had I mailed it, but his SMTP server had accepted it. I didn't get an apology, but I did get the chance to smart-assedly refer him to some networking consultants @ $125/hr, should he continue to experience trouble with his mail domain.
How cool would that be? I mean, right up until you accidentally chopped a limb off. But before that, *awesome* !
My original post was meant to be a joke. I suppose it was less than 100% successful.
According to my math, anyway.
"...It accounted for 40 percent of open source database deployments...
"I believe it will change how MySQL is perceived in the market," said Axmark, who then added that he thought this release would make MySQL an option for at least ten times as many users as before.
I can't wait to hear the mashup with Paul Simon's "The Sound of Silence"
Actually, it was originally titled "The Sounds of Sirens." A little known fact is that Paul Simon was collaborating with a Japanese artist who was upset with the constant racket in NYC, and came up with the original title. Paul misunderstood due to his co-author's accent, and the rest is history.
"Internet Explorer" the application is simply a wrapper for some OS-level objects. I doubt, for instance, that the stripped-down system ships without the MSHTML.dll. Microsoft wasn't kidding when they said they'd literally put the browser into the operating system, and it's the reason many rolled their eyes when Judge Jackson equated removing IE with deleting the shortcut icon from the desktop. It's the reason that so many Windows apps have what looks like a web page as part of the GUI. Check out the artist details panel in WinAmp, for instance.
I'm certainly no expert, I'm sure in the fine tradition of Slashdot many will dog-pile on to nitpick my description (I'm sure there are other DLLs and objects in addition to the one I mentioned). But the fact remains that IE is built in to the OS.
Enron had record numbers too.
I'm not saying that Microsoft is lying on that level, or even lying at all. But come on for Chrissakes, with all of the huge "bulletproof" companies circling the drain over the past few years, don't you think it's maybe a tad naive to simply judge the health of a company by the financial results reported to the press?
I mean, doesn't it make it easier for law enforcement to go get the bad guys when someone points them out?
I've been to Brazil several times. You have to list the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the people you'll be staying with. They do it to us, and we do it to them too. This has been going on for a long time. Nothing to see, move along.
Why can't we have concerts on board these flights, maybe a small club-like atmosphere in the upper decks, make the whole thing a little more interesting ..
That would be swell except for the fact that it would probably jack up the average ticket price by $100 or more. If a single olive in the salad costs $40,000 per year, what you're describing sounds pretty expensive, not to mention a logistics nightmare (they have a big enough challenge with peanuts and wing de-icer).
As for me, I hate flying as much as you do. But I love to travel, and I have very little disposable income. The biggest barrier to me being able to travel is cost, and I don't want to see that barrier get higher just so the flight will suck a little less.
But Iran's so far away...
http://www.gnuware.com/icecast/
In case you're wondering, there's no money in it. Tuition goes to pay rent. Occasionally there's a little left over to have a weekend seminar or buy equipment. But then I guess profit would have just been a nice side-effect, that's not really why I do it.
With the massive recent investment in "anti-terror" technology (Total Information Awareness, for one), combined with ongoing projects such Echelon, you would have to be pretty foolish to think that the US government wasn't recording just about every phone call, satellite transmission, email, fax, etc.
You'd have to be foolish too to think that whatever ordinary encryption methods you use would even slow them down, let alone stop them.
The hard part isn't intercepting and decrypting any signal they want. The hard part is separating the wheat from the chaff. There isn't (I assume) any good software yet, or enough analysts, to process all the chatter. But if "they" want to zero in on you specifically, you should either 1) bet your sweet ass that they know every packet that goes back and forth, or 2) kiss it goodbye.
This article and others detail SCO's failed attempt to support its claim to ownership of Linux with its claim that it (SCO) owned ELF.
I believe it is the case that SCO is only claiming ownership and suing people over the VR5 Unix source and derivatives (aside: what exactly SCO owns of VR5 and any of its derivatives, or even what those derivatives are is under intense debate, as you may have noticed). Pre-VR5 elements of Unix (IIRC) are not being contested by SCO.
Yeah yeah yeah it's a long way to go for not much payoff. But maybe the ELF fuss inspired the author to have a little fun by shoving SCO's nose in the fact that ELF was pre-VR5...?
This is almost as surprising as the revelation that, in fact, combat operations do NOT seem to be over in Iraq. What gives???