Your post reminded me of the Peter Principle. "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence."
The mistake a lot of companies make is assuming that if a person excels at one job, they'll excel at another job that is similar. Unfortunately, reality tends not to line up with the expectation
I had a phone cable dug up recently because MTS didn't mark it on a cable locate. The responses ranged from "sorry, you're out of luck" to "where else are you going to go for phone service?" I feel bad for the guy, but unless he takes it to court he isn't getting any help from MTS.
It's not that her death is considered entertainment, it's that she was involved in entertainment. Unfortunately,/. doesn't have a "Dead Entertainers" category, so this is the best they can do.
Teachers are incredibly undereducated when it comes to technology.
Why the colleges that teach these teachers are choosing to NOT require classes in technology is beyond me.
I think it's safe to say a lot of teachers are undereducated when it comes to technology, but not all of them, and the ones that are undereducated are gradually being replaced with teachers that have been educated properly educated on it.
My wife's a teacher and she had to take technology courses for her degree. Not just the usual ones where they spend an hour and a half explaining how a mouse works, but classes like "Technology in the Classroom" where they discussed its impact on learning and how to use it effectively in class.
Sadly, the experiment succeeds whether the result is good or bad. If this makes money they can say it's because it was a novel distribution method, but if it loses them money they can blame it on pirates.
Well, I guess I'll be the one to kill the joke...
His (or possibly her) custom anti-virus solution blocks everything, hence the part about not asking what the false positive rate is.
We could call the game "Antitrust Frogger". You start a merger and jump out of the way just before you get hit by the DOJ. I'm not sure what your reward would be for making it to the other side of the road though...
Per person it's 2884.48. For a family of 4, that works out to $11.5k, almost half the poverty line in the USA. For a lot of families, that sort of money would be enough to get high interest debts out of the way, increasing available income, and digging a lot of people out of the hole they've dug themselves into.
People are funny that way. The problem is that a lot (or at least enough) of the people that got themselves into the hole in the first place will keep digging no matter what kind of help you offer them. It's hard to get "free money" and not want to spend it.
"I want this game, and I took it for free. If you can find a more secure drm, you will make more money from me"
Uh. No it doesn't.
It says that I want the game, but I'm not willing to put up with the drm you put on it.
If you remove the drm, I will buy the game.
The drm, will always be circumvented by pirates. Every drm we make, we can come up with ways to defeat.
Huh... I think the part I put in bold is pretty much all it says when you pirate a game. Pirating says nothing about your stance on DRM. Please don't waste anyone's time saying that it does.
You see, Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reached their limit and shutdown
Shorter, but yes, bigger. They also had larger brains. What they didn't have though was a larger frontal cortex. i.e. they were very likely not as 'smart' as homo sapiens.
To further the larger brains thing, way back when, computers took up entire rooms. Today, you can get a calculator that has more computing power and fits in your pocket. A theory I've seen a lot is that even though their brains were larger, they weren't wired as well as ours are now. [citation needed]
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Any creature is good to eat if you season it right! ;)
Not anymore. Now they'll be made out of styrofoam.
Your post reminded me of the Peter Principle. "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence."
The mistake a lot of companies make is assuming that if a person excels at one job, they'll excel at another job that is similar. Unfortunately, reality tends not to line up with the expectation
The FOSS community should also ask for a bailout since most of them don't get any money for their products either. ;)
I had a phone cable dug up recently because MTS didn't mark it on a cable locate. The responses ranged from "sorry, you're out of luck" to "where else are you going to go for phone service?" I feel bad for the guy, but unless he takes it to court he isn't getting any help from MTS.
It's not that her death is considered entertainment, it's that she was involved in entertainment. Unfortunately, /. doesn't have a "Dead Entertainers" category, so this is the best they can do.
Anyway, she'll be missed.
Teachers are incredibly undereducated when it comes to technology.
Why the colleges that teach these teachers are choosing to NOT require classes in technology is beyond me.
I think it's safe to say a lot of teachers are undereducated when it comes to technology, but not all of them, and the ones that are undereducated are gradually being replaced with teachers that have been educated properly educated on it.
My wife's a teacher and she had to take technology courses for her degree. Not just the usual ones where they spend an hour and a half explaining how a mouse works, but classes like "Technology in the Classroom" where they discussed its impact on learning and how to use it effectively in class.
Sadly, the experiment succeeds whether the result is good or bad. If this makes money they can say it's because it was a novel distribution method, but if it loses them money they can blame it on pirates.
Win-win, really.
Well, I guess I'll be the one to kill the joke... His (or possibly her) custom anti-virus solution blocks everything, hence the part about not asking what the false positive rate is.
We could call the game "Antitrust Frogger". You start a merger and jump out of the way just before you get hit by the DOJ. I'm not sure what your reward would be for making it to the other side of the road though...
Per person it's 2884.48. For a family of 4, that works out to $11.5k, almost half the poverty line in the USA. For a lot of families, that sort of money would be enough to get high interest debts out of the way, increasing available income, and digging a lot of people out of the hole they've dug themselves into.
People are funny that way. The problem is that a lot (or at least enough) of the people that got themselves into the hole in the first place will keep digging no matter what kind of help you offer them. It's hard to get "free money" and not want to spend it.
"I want this game, and I took it for free. If you can find a more secure drm, you will make more money from me"
Uh. No it doesn't. It says that I want the game, but I'm not willing to put up with the drm you put on it. If you remove the drm, I will buy the game. The drm, will always be circumvented by pirates. Every drm we make, we can come up with ways to defeat.
Huh... I think the part I put in bold is pretty much all it says when you pirate a game. Pirating says nothing about your stance on DRM. Please don't waste anyone's time saying that it does.
The commercial is done by the time they finish with Google.
Maybe if they'd put a warning similar to "screen images simulated, not really an iphone, 5x speed, etc." it wouldn't have been pulled.
What, is this some sort of Schrodinger's player?
Yes and no.
You see, Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reached their limit and shutdown
Our favorite nerdy line in high school was that time stopped for exactly three seconds.
Shorter, but yes, bigger. They also had larger brains. What they didn't have though was a larger frontal cortex. i.e. they were very likely not as 'smart' as homo sapiens.
To further the larger brains thing, way back when, computers took up entire rooms. Today, you can get a calculator that has more computing power and fits in your pocket. A theory I've seen a lot is that even though their brains were larger, they weren't wired as well as ours are now. [citation needed]
I think you need to find different friends
I think almost everyone has an asshole "friend" that would pull a stunt like that.
Well, the upside is you'd have no trouble getting it hard.
If Budweiser tasted like carbonated urine, it would be a step up.
Without some brave soul to establish a frame of reference, who's to say it doesn't taste like carbonated urine?
Well, at least they'd have a place to dump the body should the need for a cover-up arise.
So what would you achieve? The employee having to get up and turn a TV back on? Brilliant! :)
That's genius! You've saved the American economy by creating new jobs!
and therefore has all the disadvantages (removing crops from possible consumption) to the supply of food that our current techniques have.
Really? When's the last time you ate algae? Or wood chips?
There are options that don't require cutting into the food chain. I'm not sure why so many people assume biofuels == food shortage.
We're still talking about hard drives, right?
The fact that your post got modded informative probably means someone missed the joke. ;)
(I know, I know... Or they just wanted to give you karma...)