The sad thing is that excessive swearing is a sign that the person in question is lacking in vocabulary. Swear words are mostly used in sentences as replacement for more complex words or sentence structures.
I call shananagins on this one.
I've had this same drivel spouted at me several dozen times. In normal conversation I swear up a storm and can still form and communicate complex ideas and emotions using just "dude, fuck, yo, shit".
Yet, as part of my job as an engineer (surprise, surprise on slashdot) I frequently create and edit technical documents and lead design meetings attended by customers and subcontractors. Not overly elegant, but no gutter speak.
I'm not special in this. Profuse and creative swearing is in no way indication of a persons vocabulary, education, or relative intelligence.
I didn't know what "Deus Ex Machina" was, and your comment inspired me to look it up.
I can see where Dogbert can be labled like that*. He does seem to help Dilbert out of some scraps, and does it in 'god-like' and illogical ways. The two coming immediatly to mind are: 1. pouring water on the accountant witch who enslaved dilbert. 2. Putting the mutant cucumbers through the salad shooter
After watching the show for a while now, it is obvious that each of you have, umm, a strong personality and often have differing (but technically valid) approaches to setting up a test.
Who's ideas tend to win out, or is it staged to add a flare of drama?
Hands down, happiness wins
on
Pay vs. Happiness
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
I'm all about the happiness/contentment.
I've worked in the worst conditions: slave hours, late paychecks, intrusive checks, back stabbing co-workers, and flat out vicious bosses.
Got lucky switching to a new industry at about the same pay in a less expensive town in California, and never looked back. The work is stimulating and pretty much everyone is within my age and socio-economic group. The work is more service based, so I get out of the office quite a bit and get to interact with customers. For a mid-size company, everyone pulls their own weight to just get the work done.
No time cards, just need to get the work done on time and to the customer satisfication. It is great. Get a couple days ahead? Get a couple guys together and go golphing.
After 2 years working here, I've gotten about a dozen job offers. 3 of them for double my current salary. Funk that. I'll just be able to afford $500 loafers to kick myself with after recieving my first TPS report.
An easy way to post a shadow on this is find someone to write a proof of concept worm/virus that systematically sends the destruct code to every IP address.
People won't care if an honest company like sony is protecting them, but would raise a shit storm if _any body_ could disable their childs Finding Nemo.
Our xerox does this... I just followed the instructions in TFA:
The dots' minuscule size, covering less than one-thousandth of the page, along with their color combination of yellow on white, makes them invisible to the naked eye, Crean says. One way to determine if your color laser is applying this tracking process is to shine a blue LED light--say, from a keychain laser flashlight--on your page and use a magnifier.
I checked up on the task force and sent a request for more information. You can to here: info@sachitechcops.org.
From the looks of their website, they are a loose collection of law enforcement agencies that are using this organization so they can be associated with a group with "High Tech" and "Task Force" in the title
I think this title association was described in a Dilbert book...
well, the first link returned from a google search "temperature typing errors" gives a link to a Cornel University study
From the article: "When the office temperature in a month-long study increased from 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, typing errors fell by 44 percent and typing output jumped 150 percent...raising the temperature to a more comfortable thermal zone saves employers about $2 per worker, per hour"
If I employed only 5 typists, thats $400/wk. More than enough to pay the increased heating and start saving for my end of year bonus for being clever and commissioning the study.
Same here, graduated in '02... But I got to say it really was headed way into the crapper in '01. All the good instructors (Hoff, Tseng, the signal integrity guy) retired and were replaced by crappy know-nothings pandering for their tenure. Plus changing the CMPE curriculum to remove electronics and other EE courses in favor of more math and CS.
Hate to say it, but chico's EE and CMPE program has become pretty watered down.
Haloween is where it is at now... Chico's population doubles for a night and they call in extra police from every town down to sacremento. Labor day on the Sac isn't bad either.
You know it's a Chico party when the national guard has to mark it on their calendar.
From TFA: Moreover, the original purpose of the personal device is unaltered. For example, if it's an MP3 player, it will remain so.
While there are other MP3 players besides an iPod, my point was this is more than just using it as a mass storage device. Its one thing to trash a music player down to only its storage roots, and quite another to integrate it without losing its original functionality. Try getting your USB stick to play MP3's and boot linux...
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Appearently there are to support that idea.
Just playing devil's advocate. Can't have it both ways, even though I think its crap.
I call shananagins on this one.
I've had this same drivel spouted at me several dozen times. In normal conversation I swear up a storm and can still form and communicate complex ideas and emotions using just "dude, fuck, yo, shit".
Yet, as part of my job as an engineer (surprise, surprise on slashdot) I frequently create and edit technical documents and lead design meetings attended by customers and subcontractors. Not overly elegant, but no gutter speak.
I'm not special in this. Profuse and creative swearing is in no way indication of a persons vocabulary, education, or relative intelligence.
Especially in the mobile and home entertainment devices.
I can see where Dogbert can be labled like that*. He does seem to help Dilbert out of some scraps, and does it in 'god-like' and illogical ways. The two coming immediatly to mind are:
1. pouring water on the accountant witch who enslaved dilbert.
2. Putting the mutant cucumbers through the salad shooter
*I relise I am reading far too much into this :)
*posted from airport extreme on a ydl 4.1 ibook g4
Who's ideas tend to win out, or is it staged to add a flare of drama?
Drive a stake through his heart?
Got lucky switching to a new industry at about the same pay in a less expensive town in California, and never looked back. The work is stimulating and pretty much everyone is within my age and socio-economic group. The work is more service based, so I get out of the office quite a bit and get to interact with customers. For a mid-size company, everyone pulls their own weight to just get the work done.
No time cards, just need to get the work done on time and to the customer satisfication. It is great. Get a couple days ahead? Get a couple guys together and go golphing.
After 2 years working here, I've gotten about a dozen job offers. 3 of them for double my current salary. Funk that. I'll just be able to afford $500 loafers to kick myself with after recieving my first TPS report.
'cause you can get
Anything you want
at Alices Restruant.
People won't care if an honest company like sony is protecting them, but would raise a shit storm if _any body_ could disable their childs Finding Nemo.
I've only caught one guy ever take a second glance, then smile...
Thats how I was introduced to linux, needed a gateway I could manage so 20+ napster lovers didn't interfear with my counterstrike...
The dots' minuscule size, covering less than one-thousandth of the page, along with their color combination of yellow on white, makes them invisible to the naked eye, Crean says. One way to determine if your color laser is applying this tracking process is to shine a blue LED light--say, from a keychain laser flashlight--on your page and use a magnifier.
The Bee's Erika Chavez can be reached at (916) 321-1203 or echavez@sacbee.com.
from http://sacbee.com/content/news/crime/story/1320241 9p-14045441c.html
The Bee's Erika Chavez can be reached at:
(916) 321-1203
or echavez@sacbee.com
courtesy of: http://sacbee.com/content/news/crime/story/132024
I checked up on the task force and sent a request for more information. You can to here: info@sachitechcops.org.
From the looks of their website, they are a loose collection of law enforcement agencies that are using this organization so they can be associated with a group with "High Tech" and "Task Force" in the title
I think this title association was described in a Dilbert book...
'Cause you may want to listen to your songs more than once?
This should be on the movie poster... Almost feels like a quote from a Kevin Smith movie.
That would be surreal. It makes me wonder if he was satified in the path his technology has taken... or just pissed about royalties.
Ah, buy you're a clever one... it's turtles all the way down.
From the article: "When the office temperature in a month-long study increased from 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, typing errors fell by 44 percent and typing output jumped 150 percent...raising the temperature to a more comfortable thermal zone saves employers about $2 per worker, per hour"
If I employed only 5 typists, thats $400/wk. More than enough to pay the increased heating and start saving for my end of year bonus for being clever and commissioning the study.
I wanted an all in one dish-washer/dinner-maker so bad, I married one!
Hate to say it, but chico's EE and CMPE program has become pretty watered down.
You know it's a Chico party when the national guard has to mark it on their calendar.
While there are other MP3 players besides an iPod, my point was this is more than just using it as a mass storage device. Its one thing to trash a music player down to only its storage roots, and quite another to integrate it without losing its original functionality.
Try getting your USB stick to play MP3's and boot linux...