Well, in the case of my previous employer, it was due to the CTO fucking around with irrelevant aspects of the project and having hours and hours of meetings that achieved nothing but arguments - and then bang, the deadline was a week away and they'd achieved nothing. And thus the all-nighters began.
It's not the voluntary all-night hack-a-thons that society needs to worry about. It's the insistence by employers that their staff work all night, because of deadline screwups by management, or by the requirement that staff have to do on-call, rather than employing people specifically for night shifts.
I wouldn't lose any sleep at all, if it wasn't for idiotic decisions by my employer.
I'm in a perfect position to make a comment on a game that I consider to be dull, boring and pointless. There's nothing to this game - people would be/far/ better to go and learn a real guitar than play this dross; or play a better, more interesting game instead.
The difference is likely that those games might actually be fun.
Guitar Hero is just dull: wow, hit the right colours at the right time. A modern day equivalent of "Simon". They must have put/so/ much thought into that.
Guitar Hero must be one of the most overrated, unexciting games I've ever played. I thoroughly agree with the subtle point being put across in South Park's Guitar Queer-o episode; why waste hundreds of hours of your life playing this game, when you could learn a real guitar? And the clicking of the keys sounds ridiculous.
Hopefully this device will actually help some kids learn to play a guitar properly.
[Note: I can't play the guitar or any other musical instrument at all, for that matter. This isn't elitism speaking here, although I rather wish it was]
...that someone would declare all this new-age bullshit like "team-building", LEAN and Six Sigma to be a religion. Every frigging employer I've ever has tried to ram that rubbish down my throat at some point or other. I don't believe any of it works, and I never will.
How can an operating system be so stupidly written that what should be a user application can bring down the entire thing? What is iTunes doing that needs to run at a privileged level?
Why doesn't anyone see a problem with this? It's one thing to incarcerate someone, but to have torture (ie, rape) thrown into the mix is a cruel and inhumane punishment for anyone, yet society seems to merely make light of this.
Why can't prisons keep all prisoners separate from one another (one per cell) to prevent this from happening?
I get so much more done working from home, with my fast PC and large monitor, than I do stuck in an office, hunched over a 2005-era laptop and being bothered by inane questions or stupid smalltalk all day long by co-workers.
I don't have to put up with the smell of other people's lunches, I don't have to put up with alpha-male managers sitting on my desk while they discuss their sportscar's superior performance with some idiot who sits behind me.
Humans were not meant to spent eight hours a day in the close proximity of other people. Telecommuting is the future.
If they are working hours that they aren't getting paid for, then they are being treated like slaves.
Companies should pay for *every* hour that their employees work. Would Apple perform a service call to a business for free? No. Then why should their workers work more than 40 hours per week without being paid extra for it?
And don't you think DHS knows this and would then disregard the attitude of the person in question?
You're assuming that they are employing qualified, trained, highly-paid officers, rather than the surly, minimum-wage monkeys who don't give a shit that they have now.
This is what happens when countries vote in right-wing governments. Yes, that's right. Sweden has a right-wing government. Maybe not by US standards, but certainly by European standards.
Since when did the Chinese government care about privacy and identity theft? They don't even care about human rights. You'd probably get a bullet for even mentioning the issue, in China.
I will be boycotting the Olympics this year. I refuse to support such an event in a country that has such disregard for human rights and democracy.
China should not have been allowed to host such an event until they demonstrate that they can behave decently.
Why would you want to become a manager? Management is reprehensible. They are small-brained, unskilled in anything other than being able to bully people, and are typically alpha-males.
The world is so over-burdened with useless management types that productivity would increase significantly just by removing a third of these dead-wood morons from the workforce and boiling their bodies down into soap.
You will be bored silly in a management position. There's nothing to be done but paperwork, meetings and dealing with idiot staff who will drive you insane.
Get into contracting instead. More money, more interesting work, flexibility and you're not tied down.
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Well, in the case of my previous employer, it was due to the CTO fucking around with irrelevant aspects of the project and having hours and hours of meetings that achieved nothing but arguments - and then bang, the deadline was a week away and they'd achieved nothing. And thus the all-nighters began.
It's not the voluntary all-night hack-a-thons that society needs to worry about. It's the insistence by employers that their staff work all night, because of deadline screwups by management, or by the requirement that staff have to do on-call, rather than employing people specifically for night shifts.
I wouldn't lose any sleep at all, if it wasn't for idiotic decisions by my employer.
Sigh, how ridiculous. I'd walk out of a meeting (and probably quit, while I'm at it) rather than do something as truely idiotic as that.
Why would you want the interface? It sucks.
Linux has far better desktops than Windows.
I'm in a perfect position to make a comment on a game that I consider to be dull, boring and pointless. There's nothing to this game - people would be /far/ better to go and learn a real guitar than play this dross; or play a better, more interesting game instead.
The difference is likely that those games might actually be fun.
Guitar Hero is just dull: wow, hit the right colours at the right time. A modern day equivalent of "Simon". They must have put /so/ much thought into that.
Guitar Hero must be one of the most overrated, unexciting games I've ever played. I thoroughly agree with the subtle point being put across in South Park's Guitar Queer-o episode; why waste hundreds of hours of your life playing this game, when you could learn a real guitar? And the clicking of the keys sounds ridiculous.
Hopefully this device will actually help some kids learn to play a guitar properly.
[Note: I can't play the guitar or any other musical instrument at all, for that matter. This isn't elitism speaking here, although I rather wish it was]
...that someone would declare all this new-age bullshit like "team-building", LEAN and Six Sigma to be a religion. Every frigging employer I've ever has tried to ram that rubbish down my throat at some point or other. I don't believe any of it works, and I never will.
Epiphany is a featureless, heap of junk. Don't go anywhere near it.
How can an operating system be so stupidly written that what should be a user application can bring down the entire thing? What is iTunes doing that needs to run at a privileged level?
Why doesn't anyone see a problem with this? It's one thing to incarcerate someone, but to have torture (ie, rape) thrown into the mix is a cruel and inhumane punishment for anyone, yet society seems to merely make light of this.
Why can't prisons keep all prisoners separate from one another (one per cell) to prevent this from happening?
I get so much more done working from home, with my fast PC and large monitor, than I do stuck in an office, hunched over a 2005-era laptop and being bothered by inane questions or stupid smalltalk all day long by co-workers.
I don't have to put up with the smell of other people's lunches, I don't have to put up with alpha-male managers sitting on my desk while they discuss their sportscar's superior performance with some idiot who sits behind me.
Humans were not meant to spent eight hours a day in the close proximity of other people. Telecommuting is the future.
If I want to watch people running, I can go to my local park and do so for free.
Not that I would.
If they are working hours that they aren't getting paid for, then they are being treated like slaves.
Companies should pay for *every* hour that their employees work. Would Apple perform a service call to a business for free? No. Then why should their workers work more than 40 hours per week without being paid extra for it?
And don't you think DHS knows this and would then disregard the attitude of the person in question?
You're assuming that they are employing qualified, trained, highly-paid officers, rather than the surly, minimum-wage monkeys who don't give a shit that they have now.
I've seen cases of murderers getting less than this.
This is what happens when countries vote in right-wing governments. Yes, that's right. Sweden has a right-wing government. Maybe not by US standards, but certainly by European standards.
Since when did the Chinese government care about privacy and identity theft? They don't even care about human rights. You'd probably get a bullet for even mentioning the issue, in China.
...would be pretty nasty if someone if someone figured out how the radio comms for this function worked.
Why do these illnesses always spring up in China first? Is there a severe lack of hygiene there, or something?
The United States is really big on competition. Everyone else has to compete. Why is this monopoly allowed to exist?
If my boss was moving me from an office into a cubicle, I'd be looking for another job. That's just insulting.
I will be boycotting the Olympics this year. I refuse to support such an event in a country that has such disregard for human rights and democracy. China should not have been allowed to host such an event until they demonstrate that they can behave decently.
...helping pay for this country were at least partially directed into wiping out all traces of religion there, it might be worth it.
There is no god. Stop deluding yourselves, you morons.
Why would you want to become a manager? Management is reprehensible. They are small-brained, unskilled in anything other than being able to bully people, and are typically alpha-males.
The world is so over-burdened with useless management types that productivity would increase significantly just by removing a third of these dead-wood morons from the workforce and boiling their bodies down into soap.
You will be bored silly in a management position. There's nothing to be done but paperwork, meetings and dealing with idiot staff who will drive you insane.
Get into contracting instead. More money, more interesting work, flexibility and you're not tied down.