Damn, never thought I'd use that cliched phrase. Oh, well.
I am an American, though now an ex-pat. And I agree completely with the previous "mod parent up" poster. Most Americans don't understand that as well as you do.
Many specify Ubuntu because someone told them to. If they aren't Linux people, then they don't KNOW that it is better than anything else.
Many many many more people have not been told or didn't pay attention if they were told. They get a computer, they think it should "just work".
Even on Windows that is often impossible, but Windows has been dominant for so long that they can guarantee a large percentage of available apps that do "just work".
These people who run Windows usually don't run anything to combat viruses or malware. They don't know they have to. That's why you found people who had malware infested computers.
They just run their computer till it becomes so slow they can't stand it, then they get something new. Often they naively assume their computer has just gotten too old.
And many people don't identify themselves as gamers. But when someone at work tells them to try $X, or their precious grandkids come over and want to play $Y, they get upset if it doesn't work. They don't care that they are running the "wrong" OS. They don't believe there should be a wrong one.
If he was using calendar time, then it goes like this:
An average month is two days more than 4 weeks. If you spend a month writing a tool, then the tool completes the project in slightly under a week (perhaps 5 days?), then you have just one week of "free time". Due to project scheduling, the next planned project may not be ready yet.
If he was using business time, then it goes like this:
A month is... What? 30 days, or 4 weeks? To assist your point, we'll say it's 4 weeks. A week, of course, is 5 days. So he builds the tool in 4 weeks, it completes the project in less than a week (perhaps 3 days?), then you have 1.4 weeks of "free time".
Sorry, nowhere in there do you get 2 weeks of ass-sitting.
Not to mention that there was no sitting on of one's ass.
Yeah, that was a funny point for you to make, given that the point was about how someone filled up their free time with a positive business contribution rather than, I don't know, sitting on their ass shooting their mouth off on Slashdot.
Now, Perkins, get off the Internet and get back to work or you're fired! And be sure we are adding these points to your record.
Possibly from around the same time, it crashes Firefox when I am trying to type an email. Especially when I use control key movements like Next Word (Ctrl+Right) or if I hold the shift key down to make a selection.
Given my overlong posts, I am guaranteed to crash my browser every time I try to type an email.
I've taken to writing them in TextPad and the pasting them back in when I'm done. Wish I knew if it was GMail, Firefox, some extensions, or my whacked computer. *sigh*
The pronoun which refers to things; who (and its forms) refers to people; that usually refers to things, but it can also refer to people in a general kind of way.
Except, you know, my citation tends to show the original had no mistakes.:-)
He sponsored the Alien & Sedition Acts that eventually jailed the grandson of Benjamin Franklin for sedition (he wrote bad, probably true, things about Adams). Like the law that imprisoned him, he also had a short life.
And not only are you right that there is no law requiring "balanced reports", but the law has been tested on whether they are allowed to deliberately lie. They are.
Look, I couldn't afford the rental rates for the computer, so I just wanted a quick wank at the "Bosomy Babes of Bulgaria" web site you were hunched over. It wouldn't have killed you to lean back a bit, and you wouldn't have gotten anything in your eye.
By the way, in Japan the private rooms also provide a box of tissues. In case you get a cold, I believe.
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And it's so terribly inconvenient that they deserve praise for it?
Lowered Expectations.
syousef clearly did not understand the post he was criticizing, and 5 people were dumb enough to mod him up for it.
That is disabled.
This thing repeatedly crashed my browser!
About 3 times out of 4, when I would click on a link before AVG had finished scanning all 100 links on my Google search, it would crash the browser.
Maybe it was just my browser (at work and at home), but that's what prompted me to turn the sucker off.
In what universe?
If you go by the legal definition, which is the context of this article and the RIAA's entire existence, then you are absolutely... wrong.
"Personal use" does NOT apply to giving away to others.
As I and most other understand, you are thinking in the "wishful", not "legal", contexts. In your mind, such copying should never be a problem.
But that is not the context of this discussion, so your argument is specious.
It's just the RIAA business model applied to software, isn't it?
Damn, never thought I'd use that cliched phrase. Oh, well.
I am an American, though now an ex-pat. And I agree completely with the previous "mod parent up" poster. Most Americans don't understand that as well as you do.
So, Anonymous Coward, if that is your real name...
Why did you criticize his actions but, from your wealth of superior knowledge, refuse to offer the correct procedure for this person to follow?
Or maybe it was Sinbad.
Many specify Ubuntu because someone told them to. If they aren't Linux people, then they don't KNOW that it is better than anything else.
Many many many more people have not been told or didn't pay attention if they were told. They get a computer, they think it should "just work".
Even on Windows that is often impossible, but Windows has been dominant for so long that they can guarantee a large percentage of available apps that do "just work".
These people who run Windows usually don't run anything to combat viruses or malware. They don't know they have to. That's why you found people who had malware infested computers.
They just run their computer till it becomes so slow they can't stand it, then they get something new. Often they naively assume their computer has just gotten too old.
And many people don't identify themselves as gamers. But when someone at work tells them to try $X, or their precious grandkids come over and want to play $Y, they get upset if it doesn't work. They don't care that they are running the "wrong" OS. They don't believe there should be a wrong one.
And that is true even if they run a Mac.
If he was using calendar time, then it goes like this:
An average month is two days more than 4 weeks. If you spend a month writing a tool, then the tool completes the project in slightly under a week (perhaps 5 days?), then you have just one week of "free time". Due to project scheduling, the next planned project may not be ready yet.
If he was using business time, then it goes like this:
A month is... What? 30 days, or 4 weeks? To assist your point, we'll say it's 4 weeks. A week, of course, is 5 days. So he builds the tool in 4 weeks, it completes the project in less than a week (perhaps 3 days?), then you have 1.4 weeks of "free time".
Sorry, nowhere in there do you get 2 weeks of ass-sitting.
Not to mention that there was no sitting on of one's ass.
Yeah, that was a funny point for you to make, given that the point was about how someone filled up their free time with a positive business contribution rather than, I don't know, sitting on their ass shooting their mouth off on Slashdot.
Now, Perkins, get off the Internet and get back to work or you're fired! And be sure we are adding these points to your record.
Note the past tense, as management cannot seem to.
In IT work, many people often find lulls between projects, and they try to fill them with something productive.
Asshat managers assume that past free time == constant free time. How assinine.
Kanji means Chinese characters.
going to get their Ryder vans on top of these blurry roofs?
Possibly from around the same time, it crashes Firefox when I am trying to type an email. Especially when I use control key movements like Next Word (Ctrl+Right) or if I hold the shift key down to make a selection.
Given my overlong posts, I am guaranteed to crash my browser every time I try to type an email.
I've taken to writing them in TextPad and the pasting them back in when I'm done. Wish I knew if it was GMail, Firefox, some extensions, or my whacked computer. *sigh*
Maybe black mariah is an upper class tit.
Except, you know, my citation tends to show the original had no mistakes. :-)
then why isn't He enforcing them?
If he can't, then they aren't rights.
if it was never ratified legally.
But that never stopped a taxman yet.
The excuses given for it NEVER held water, and "changing" it is just as stupid as keeping it the way it is.
Bantams, now, they are pretty good fliers.
What would you rather have close to hand? A beer, or a cell phone?
Hmm, another tough decision.
He sponsored the Alien & Sedition Acts that eventually jailed the grandson of Benjamin Franklin for sedition (he wrote bad, probably true, things about Adams). Like the law that imprisoned him, he also had a short life.
And not only are you right that there is no law requiring "balanced reports", but the law has been tested on whether they are allowed to deliberately lie. They are.
Look, I couldn't afford the rental rates for the computer, so I just wanted a quick wank at the "Bosomy Babes of Bulgaria" web site you were hunched over. It wouldn't have killed you to lean back a bit, and you wouldn't have gotten anything in your eye.
By the way, in Japan the private rooms also provide a box of tissues. In case you get a cold, I believe.
It's called THE OTHER CANDIDATE.
Goddamn, Satan himself would have been a better choice, and you think two progressives are somehow worse?
Since anyone pointing out the bugs in the administration's activities is declared a traitor/terrorist/communist.
Sorry for the political spew, but it seems every bad thing in the world somehow mirrors American politics lately.