The funny thing is, that whenever I have been forced to consult it to understand what the hell the latest meme is, I usually find the avergage ED article better written and more accurate than the average Wikipedia article.
Externalities. If 10% of the people who are waiting for their computer to boot up go and put the kettle on and make a coffee, suddenly you aren't saving so much energy any more. Yes, I made that number up, but this is generally what happens.
That's pretty normal. Financial services companies dismiss roughly 1% of their staff every year for dishonesty of one sort or another, and compared to TSA employees, they will face broadly similar levels of scrutiny in employment checking. The sad fact is that human nature is pretty predictable.
There's a lot of truth to what you say, but there's another angle to consider. When you have several sellers selling a very similar product, the tendency is for them all to sell roughly the same thing. When you go to a supermarket, you can guarantee that you will find 400g packs of thinly sliced ham. Why? There's no good reason for ham to come in 400g packs - only everyone else does it. The media is very similar. Some journalist will look at the Osama video and go, well, CNN hasn't run with it, NBC hasn't run with it, Fox hasn't run with it, it's obviously not important. Boom, instant burial.
I have to say, as a long time/. reader, until I saw these two posts modded to +5, I had no idea that this nonsense was going on. Seriously, people, have you nothing better to do?
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Hear, hear. For crying out loud, editors, think for a minute. Posting like this kicks up your page views in the short term, but I guarantee it's not doing anything to for your long term health. Does anyone else remember when the discussion was more insightful than the summary? Does anyone remember when a discussion didn't consist of nothing jokes and idiots who think tl;dr is a religion?
No. They will have a chain of delegated responsibility from the board to the contractor. The blame will lie with whoever "didn't tell them about it" (ie kept their mouths shut because they'd lose the contract).
Unfortunately, they can simply chuck you in jail till you agree to hand over the encryption keys. Not a good plan.
My company pulls off a disk image before you fly, wipes the drive and give you a live that just boots up, and downloads and replaces the disk image. Rinse and repeating before flying home. I imagine someone who implemented this commercially would be onto a nice little earner.
It covers what would be roughly a county in the US, area wise. They are fairly toothless beings, in that their roles are fairly clearly spelt out for them and their purse strings are fairly tightly held by central government (thank goodness). They run most of the government services you would expect to interact with regularly, like schools, road maintainance, parks, inspecting eateries, that kind of thing.
The incompetence of councils is limited, because they are overseen quite closely by central government, who can and do step in and roll heads if there are systemic failures. That said, most of the really egregious examples of corruption in the UK tend to come from local government.
But that doesn't mean the government has to get involved. I don't need any government to tell me who I am.
You have to present ID to get in. You do not (and under the Treaty of Rome, cannot be obliged to) have to have any British issued documentation to be able to stay here.
Why don't you ask why I should have to prove anything at all?
More to the point, this is stupid. ID cards in the EU are a waste of time. Requiring an EU citizen to have an ID card to come to the UK would be in breach of the Treaty of Rome (which allows free movement).
When 9/11 happened I was staying out in the country, with no TV. Slashdot was for most of the day the only news site that didn't fall over and managed to keep updating. This was rather important to me at the time, because my mother was on a plane to Miami around that time.
I don't have IM, thank god. My work isn't coding (or indeed geek related at all) but it does require a similar immersion in what I'm doing as I have to juggle several different mental tasks at any one moment. I open and process my email three times a day and have had senior managers asking me why I'm not making myself "available". I'm lucky in that I can throw my productivity stats around and make it clear that I get through significantly more work than those who have their phones on and email clients open. However, I am still in open conflict with the local culture; it doesn't matter, as I don't want a career there, but it is realy frustrating to see hundreds of people all performing well below par because nobody will step back and treat knowledge workers like knowledge workers, rather than assembly line workers.
How is calling people a noob adding value? Because if you didn't realise that's how you came across, you had the opportunity to think about what you say and how you say it and change your ways. Instead, you've behaved like a spoilt child and ignored what I was trying to tell you.
I didn't post that comment for anybody else's benefit than yours. Listen to me carefully. On slashdot, and on many places on the internet, who you are counts for absolutely nothing. It has nothing to do with the "slashdot-groove". If your comment wasn't +1, Insightful, then fuck off and don't waste mine or anybody else's time with whining about the "good ol' boys club". Come back when you have something worth saying. "The implementation of the comment system leaves much to be desired"...the comment system is the way it is for a damn good reason, which if you hang around for a while you might understand. It's not perfect, but come up with a better one and we'd be delighted to hear about it. You might even get a +1, Interesting.
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The funny thing is, that whenever I have been forced to consult it to understand what the hell the latest meme is, I usually find the avergage ED article better written and more accurate than the average Wikipedia article.
Sixty replies, and still no wonder has speculated on the possibility of a Beowulf cluster? Changed days...
Externalities. If 10% of the people who are waiting for their computer to boot up go and put the kettle on and make a coffee, suddenly you aren't saving so much energy any more. Yes, I made that number up, but this is generally what happens.
That's pretty normal. Financial services companies dismiss roughly 1% of their staff every year for dishonesty of one sort or another, and compared to TSA employees, they will face broadly similar levels of scrutiny in employment checking. The sad fact is that human nature is pretty predictable.
I have good news for ya. Firefox 3 is out. It has crunchy goodness.
There's a lot of truth to what you say, but there's another angle to consider. When you have several sellers selling a very similar product, the tendency is for them all to sell roughly the same thing. When you go to a supermarket, you can guarantee that you will find 400g packs of thinly sliced ham. Why? There's no good reason for ham to come in 400g packs - only everyone else does it. The media is very similar. Some journalist will look at the Osama video and go, well, CNN hasn't run with it, NBC hasn't run with it, Fox hasn't run with it, it's obviously not important. Boom, instant burial.
Who the FUCK moderated this shit insightful? Three times? Jesus fucking christ, people. You probably watch your television in black and white, too.
I have to say, as a long time /. reader, until I saw these two posts modded to +5, I had no idea that this nonsense was going on. Seriously, people, have you nothing better to do?
Hear, hear. For crying out loud, editors, think for a minute. Posting like this kicks up your page views in the short term, but I guarantee it's not doing anything to for your long term health. Does anyone else remember when the discussion was more insightful than the summary? Does anyone remember when a discussion didn't consist of nothing jokes and idiots who think tl;dr is a religion?
Probably an attempt at trolling. Check the UID.
No. They will have a chain of delegated responsibility from the board to the contractor. The blame will lie with whoever "didn't tell them about it" (ie kept their mouths shut because they'd lose the contract).
My company pulls off a disk image before you fly, wipes the drive and give you a live that just boots up, and downloads and replaces the disk image. Rinse and repeating before flying home. I imagine someone who implemented this commercially would be onto a nice little earner.
Speaking as someone vaguely approximating to a musician, I can assure you that that is exactly what an awful lot of people do.
I'm still waiting for the meteorite...
The incompetence of councils is limited, because they are overseen quite closely by central government, who can and do step in and roll heads if there are systemic failures. That said, most of the really egregious examples of corruption in the UK tend to come from local government.
You have to present ID to get in. You do not (and under the Treaty of Rome, cannot be obliged to) have to have any British issued documentation to be able to stay here.
More to the point, this is stupid. ID cards in the EU are a waste of time. Requiring an EU citizen to have an ID card to come to the UK would be in breach of the Treaty of Rome (which allows free movement).
It's not funny. It's insulting. Treating people like this is why we can't have nice things (like Sara).
Be fair. They aren't doing that by their own choice. Industry professionals do what they are asked to do, not what they think is best.
WTF? Why the hell are logs not automatically written to /dev/null? I mean how fucking pointless is it to run a proxy and *keep* the logs?
When 9/11 happened I was staying out in the country, with no TV. Slashdot was for most of the day the only news site that didn't fall over and managed to keep updating. This was rather important to me at the time, because my mother was on a plane to Miami around that time.
I came.
Thanks.
I don't have IM, thank god. My work isn't coding (or indeed geek related at all) but it does require a similar immersion in what I'm doing as I have to juggle several different mental tasks at any one moment. I open and process my email three times a day and have had senior managers asking me why I'm not making myself "available". I'm lucky in that I can throw my productivity stats around and make it clear that I get through significantly more work than those who have their phones on and email clients open. However, I am still in open conflict with the local culture; it doesn't matter, as I don't want a career there, but it is realy frustrating to see hundreds of people all performing well below par because nobody will step back and treat knowledge workers like knowledge workers, rather than assembly line workers.
I didn't post that comment for anybody else's benefit than yours. Listen to me carefully. On slashdot, and on many places on the internet, who you are counts for absolutely nothing. It has nothing to do with the "slashdot-groove". If your comment wasn't +1, Insightful, then fuck off and don't waste mine or anybody else's time with whining about the "good ol' boys club". Come back when you have something worth saying. "The implementation of the comment system leaves much to be desired"...the comment system is the way it is for a damn good reason, which if you hang around for a while you might understand. It's not perfect, but come up with a better one and we'd be delighted to hear about it. You might even get a +1, Interesting.