You know what shrink wrap is supposed to mean?, it means I'm guaranteed on getting an UNALTERED product.
Or that they have a shrink wrap machine in the back. According to Google, you can pick up a small one for 500 GBP. Sell enough used/altered stuff as "new" and it'll pay for itself in no time.
A bug you didn't mean to be there, sure. But leaving some you know about in there, or planting some deliberate ones, isn't a terrible way to A the Q of your QA. They're human too, after all.
When I worked in the electricity industry, I had to call various companies and ask how their meter readers had got a six-digit read off a five-digit meter, whether they really thought an irrigation pump could have burned 999,999kWh in a month, etc.
One of these companies was so dreadful that we just called them "the chimps". (Scary part is, they weren't the worst.) Imagine how hard it was to keep a straight face the day a bloke called Simeon answered the phone...
If you mean errors, how about: "We also spend the most money per prisoner annually than any other state in the union." I suppose I should be pleased that it was "than" and not "then", but really, if a school superintendent wrote that, we're boned.
If I go to your official site, and still have to go to Wikipedia to find out what the hell it is you're making, then your official site is a miserable failure.
I don't need Internet 101, thank you very much, especially after having had it from the other respondents whose posts you presumably skipped in your rush to deliver it, but I hope the warm glow of smug superiority brightened your day.:)
Most of developers at our company have 2 monitors but that`s only because we`re on laptops.
Have you tried hanging a third one off a USB graphics card? I had passable results, as long as I didn't try driving a huge display or asking it to do video. Command windows, logs, that sort of thing, it did OK. I didn't persist with it though, mainly because I never really got comfortable with three monitors in the same way that I did with two.
ThinkGeek sell those dinky little USB displays... I always fancied giving them a go, but not enough to fancy shelling out for one.
Yeeeees, but you've got to be careful with that. You will get EXACTLY what you actually ask for, no more and no less, which is almost never what you really meant or want.
[...] The problem with incentives is that exceedingly few people are capable of setting them correctly.
Like when I worked in McJail and got put in Drive-Thru for a shift. The shift manager promised us 20GBP of record store vouchers if we got our service times under 90 seconds. We negotiated that up to 30GBP.
90 seconds was the service standard. It never happened, but it was the service standard. In other words, it was our job. It was also an average.
We were queued out the car park, the whole thing was a royal fustercluck, and the service times were well north of 250 seconds. But we figured out that if we rang up a couple of "Free fries" between each car and served the orders off immediately, the average would drop like a rock and the till would still be right. Transaction count would be sky high, but that would explain the massive honking queue.
87 seconds at the end of the shift. We took them to the cleaners a few more times before the store manager killed the vouchers altogether, but they never figured out what we were doing...
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I'm in ur-text lurnin ur Cz?
What's more revolutionary than a flywheel? :)
Then rinse in one of these: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14114555
You know what shrink wrap is supposed to mean?, it means I'm guaranteed on getting an UNALTERED product.
Or that they have a shrink wrap machine in the back. According to Google, you can pick up a small one for 500 GBP. Sell enough used/altered stuff as "new" and it'll pay for itself in no time.
Taco actually left two years ago.
I work in a sperm bank, you insensitive clod!
I'll bet some collector would pay ten times that to have one of these on his shelf. Imagine how much they'll be worth when they get to Jupiter!
When it's profitable to send a probe to bring them back and stick them on Ebay, we've won. :)
A bug you didn't mean to be there, sure. But leaving some you know about in there, or planting some deliberate ones, isn't a terrible way to A the Q of your QA. They're human too, after all.
When I worked in the electricity industry, I had to call various companies and ask how their meter readers had got a six-digit read off a five-digit meter, whether they really thought an irrigation pump could have burned 999,999kWh in a month, etc.
One of these companies was so dreadful that we just called them "the chimps". (Scary part is, they weren't the worst.) Imagine how hard it was to keep a straight face the day a bloke called Simeon answered the phone...
If you mean errors, how about: "We also spend the most money per prisoner annually than any other state in the union." I suppose I should be pleased that it was "than" and not "then", but really, if a school superintendent wrote that, we're boned.
Uploader confirms this in the comments. It's moonlight.
If I go to your official site, and still have to go to Wikipedia to find out what the hell it is you're making, then your official site is a miserable failure.
I don't need Internet 101, thank you very much, especially after having had it from the other respondents whose posts you presumably skipped in your rush to deliver it, but I hope the warm glow of smug superiority brightened your day. :)
TL;DR: You're on the Internet. Use it.
I guess you missed the part where I used the Internet to go find the official MeeGo site. TL;DR indeed.
Thanks, now I don't feel quite as dumb as I did :)
Thank you! :)
Now why couldn't *they* say that...
I'm sure this is all very exciting if you know what MeeGo is.
I've gone to the site, read the homepage and got a hint. Then I read the About page and got corporate name-checks and drivel about leveraging stuff.
Is it an OS? Or what?
An ATM guy called Kioskli. Classic.
FWIW, this is the one I have:
http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=tritton+see2&cid=2976442372253432122
"he"? I'd be asking where spaceyhackerlady is and whether she's Tinkode. :)
Have you tried hanging a third one off a USB graphics card? I had passable results, as long as I didn't try driving a huge display or asking it to do video. Command windows, logs, that sort of thing, it did OK. I didn't persist with it though, mainly because I never really got comfortable with three monitors in the same way that I did with two.
ThinkGeek sell those dinky little USB displays... I always fancied giving them a go, but not enough to fancy shelling out for one.
Like when I worked in McJail and got put in Drive-Thru for a shift. The shift manager promised us 20GBP of record store vouchers if we got our service times under 90 seconds. We negotiated that up to 30GBP.
90 seconds was the service standard. It never happened, but it was the service standard. In other words, it was our job. It was also an average.
We were queued out the car park, the whole thing was a royal fustercluck, and the service times were well north of 250 seconds. But we figured out that if we rang up a couple of "Free fries" between each car and served the orders off immediately, the average would drop like a rock and the till would still be right. Transaction count would be sky high, but that would explain the massive honking queue.
87 seconds at the end of the shift. We took them to the cleaners a few more times before the store manager killed the vouchers altogether, but they never figured out what we were doing...
...and still no superheroes :(
Yeah, they said that about their Concorde too.
I have mod points but sadly I can't mod the article into oblivion. It's April Fool's Day, we get it already.
Good old Slashdot... That's one heck of a CV you have there, by the way.