No, it was a former patient from Arkham, who was a paranoid schizophrenic. It was most certainly not Cillian Murphy who was only in the very beginning of the movie where he was shown being little more than a 2-bit drug dealer.
They explained that most of the Jokers "henchmen" were psych ward patients who gravitated towards his character. Example: the human bomb in the Major Crimes unit who said that "The Joker promised he'd take all the bad and hurt out and put pretty lights in!"
The first time I refused to back down and wound up prompting the company owner to call the company lawyer, who literally passed a brick when the owner tried to explain that he didn't "feel" software piracy was wrong.
His language is very specific here, because while you might not feel like you're doing something wrong, that doesn't change the fact that it's illegal.
Eventually they knuckled down and paid full price for the package they were going to pirate.
The second time I was sacked on a friday afternoon after lunch ("Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week"). I called the BSA on the way out, and a few weeks later the company was audited to the bargained-down tune of $6,000, of which I received $500 for "doing the right thing".
Ultimately, it's a question of how questionable you'll allow your ethics to become; things like this may not travel from job to job or position to position but it's much easier to keep the high ground than to regain it once you've lost it.
This isn't necessarily a bad idea. When I worked for the Fortune 100 company's IT department, we had a pretty clear cut idea of when things were to be done, and how to log them into the ticket tracking system. We didn't have a formal SLA, but we had a pretty good grasp on what would be in it if we did.
I will say that from experience, when I worked at a small shop with no set goals, plans, or procedures, I got a lot less work done because I had to constantly define the problem and the level of severity from scratch every time. It didn't help that I somehow managed to pick up every de-motivator in the list you've given while I was there.
But the point I was getting to is the flipside of the coin: sometimes SLA's become over-binding. I worked recently as a state contractor, and the management was strictly suits. No one technical was in charge, so it was buzzwords and misinformed or ill-reasoned logic making the choices. The teir 1/2 support had their time strictly measured and quantified, and using the SLA as justification (and they were perfectly willing to beat you about the head and shoulders with it), they managed to do a pretty good job at pulling the human aspect out of tech support.
My fiance absolutely loves Sibelius, and loathes Finale. She has actually thrown out every single version of it she was "mandated" to buy with a book for coursework at school.
Not knowing enough about musical notation to judge, I have to nod and smile, but she says that it's worth every penny and exceptionally difficult to replace.
Subsequently, this doesn't strike me as an immediate market for Apple to jump into.
I actually got one today and you can rest anything you want, fingers or otherwise, on the mouse. There is no "sensor." It's a ball instead of a wheel and it's smaller than the average scroll wheel. It does register as a standard middle click when you click it, if you set it to "button three" instead of "Dashboard," which is where it's set by default.
The side buttons aren't touch buttons like everything thinks, but push buttons that you have to physically push (or squeeze) to register as a click. It's a smooth unit, but not slippery, though time remains the ultimate judge of that as I sweat on it and get it dirty;
I just wish the damn thing wasn't white. It'll be black within a year from all the grime (oil, dead skin, etc) in the average house or on the average hand.
This is absolutely off topic and will get me flamed to shit and back, but please, please, please, stop capitalizing "Mac."
MAC is the "unique" (ha, ha) address of your network device. A Mac is a Macintosh, a computer made by Apple. There are no "MAC developers".
Nothing against you personally but this is one of my longest standing pet peeves in the entire world.
I will concede both these points but Gotham is obviously on a large body of water that is linked to the ocean as it has a healthy shipping industry from its seedy docks. I guess that is the point I was trying to make, due to people suggesting it is supposed to be one of those land-locked cities.
Also, I tend to go with Morrisons "Arkham Asylum" one-shot when refering to the origin of the Asylum, even if it is ret-con, just because the book was so damned good.
Ahem, Arkham MA is not the same as Arkham Asylum. Arkham Asylum is outside of Gotham, but was named after a man, not a town.
Metropolis and Gotham are both on the eastern seaboard, so that rules out every single land-locked North American city you care to name.
They both started out as NYC, specifically Manhattan, but as time moved on and comics became more sophisticated, the cities gained lives of their own, so much so that neither bares any resemblance to the cities of origin any more.
They have never stated exactly which state these cities are located in for the sole reason that it doesn't do anything to enhance the stories told.
In ElseWorlds, whenever it would have made a difference, an established city in an established state was used, else they kept it deliberately vauge. Little details like that don't enhance or add anything to the story except geek bragging rights, and a good writer knows that sometimes every single little detail doesn't need to be spelled out. If you (the global you, not the personal you) read something other than Dan Brown books you'd appreciate the parts left out as much as the parts thrown in.
Thus concludes my comic-shop rant. I'm going to bed.
Well, sitting next-door to the company AS/400 setup, I'm going to tell you right now that it's not a Unix/BSD/Linux/Minix/QNX/Multics/AIX/Whatever based solution in any but the most abstract concepts.
The AS/400 is nothing like a server, in the sense as it's used now. There is no client to serve data to. More often than not when you connect to the AS/400, you're opening a TN5250 Terminal session directly to the machine, the updated counterpart to an old-school DB15 serial connection. You're working on the AS/400 itself, and none of your tasks are handled locally. This more or less goes against what I understood to be the basic point of the client/server model.
The actual machine itself churns through amazingly huge amounts of data, in all but realtime, working with databases larger than the most hardcore college students MP3/Pr0n collection, constantly adding, appending, and deleting records. The I/O on even the mid-range solutions like the "now-outdated" AS/400 iSeries is, bar none, insane. Period.
And the reason new blood is so hard to bring in really amounts to a lack of training and willingness to train. I mean, it's a totally foreign environment compared to what so many people my age (18-25) have dealt with, and if you're not willing to just get in there and embrace it, you will burn out, quickly. The first time I saw an OS/400 command line I plotzed myself. The first time I had to clear a physical file member I thought the person training me was speaking gibberish. But if you find a chance, and a place of employment willing to train you, you'll find yourself learning to love the machine almost as much as your Linux desktop, Windows laptop, or for the more hardcore old-school among you, your AT&T System V boxen.
Working for the cable company, I can tell you right now that you being charged for services previous to us giving them to you is nothing new. The movie theater does it every time you go see Star Wars Trek Space Flight XXVII. This would be a bad thing if you were not refunded the difference (the term our customer service reps throw around is 'prorate'. I highly suggest you look it up.)It's a common practice for a lot of different service providers, though it's admittedly a holdover from another time and place (an age when things like telephone calls were made over twisted pairs of copper wire stretching miles! Miles!)
I'm not advocating one way or another, I'm simply saying that you're taking it a bit too seriously when you're expressing shock(!) or susprise(!) at it.
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No, it was a former patient from Arkham, who was a paranoid schizophrenic. It was most certainly not Cillian Murphy who was only in the very beginning of the movie where he was shown being little more than a 2-bit drug dealer.
They explained that most of the Jokers "henchmen" were psych ward patients who gravitated towards his character. Example: the human bomb in the Major Crimes unit who said that "The Joker promised he'd take all the bad and hurt out and put pretty lights in!"
I like to think of the brick he "laid" as the cornerstone of my career since then.
The first time I refused to back down and wound up prompting the company owner to call the company lawyer, who literally passed a brick when the owner tried to explain that he didn't "feel" software piracy was wrong. His language is very specific here, because while you might not feel like you're doing something wrong, that doesn't change the fact that it's illegal. Eventually they knuckled down and paid full price for the package they were going to pirate. The second time I was sacked on a friday afternoon after lunch ("Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week"). I called the BSA on the way out, and a few weeks later the company was audited to the bargained-down tune of $6,000, of which I received $500 for "doing the right thing". Ultimately, it's a question of how questionable you'll allow your ethics to become; things like this may not travel from job to job or position to position but it's much easier to keep the high ground than to regain it once you've lost it.
This isn't necessarily a bad idea. When I worked for the Fortune 100 company's IT department, we had a pretty clear cut idea of when things were to be done, and how to log them into the ticket tracking system. We didn't have a formal SLA, but we had a pretty good grasp on what would be in it if we did.
I will say that from experience, when I worked at a small shop with no set goals, plans, or procedures, I got a lot less work done because I had to constantly define the problem and the level of severity from scratch every time. It didn't help that I somehow managed to pick up every de-motivator in the list you've given while I was there.
But the point I was getting to is the flipside of the coin: sometimes SLA's become over-binding. I worked recently as a state contractor, and the management was strictly suits. No one technical was in charge, so it was buzzwords and misinformed or ill-reasoned logic making the choices. The teir 1/2 support had their time strictly measured and quantified, and using the SLA as justification (and they were perfectly willing to beat you about the head and shoulders with it), they managed to do a pretty good job at pulling the human aspect out of tech support.
My fiance absolutely loves Sibelius, and loathes Finale. She has actually thrown out every single version of it she was "mandated" to buy with a book for coursework at school. Not knowing enough about musical notation to judge, I have to nod and smile, but she says that it's worth every penny and exceptionally difficult to replace. Subsequently, this doesn't strike me as an immediate market for Apple to jump into.
I actually got one today and you can rest anything you want, fingers or otherwise, on the mouse. There is no "sensor." It's a ball instead of a wheel and it's smaller than the average scroll wheel. It does register as a standard middle click when you click it, if you set it to "button three" instead of "Dashboard," which is where it's set by default.
The side buttons aren't touch buttons like everything thinks, but push buttons that you have to physically push (or squeeze) to register as a click. It's a smooth unit, but not slippery, though time remains the ultimate judge of that as I sweat on it and get it dirty; I just wish the damn thing wasn't white. It'll be black within a year from all the grime (oil, dead skin, etc) in the average house or on the average hand.
This is absolutely off topic and will get me flamed to shit and back, but please, please, please, stop capitalizing "Mac." MAC is the "unique" (ha, ha) address of your network device. A Mac is a Macintosh, a computer made by Apple. There are no "MAC developers". Nothing against you personally but this is one of my longest standing pet peeves in the entire world.
Azureus is broken now, segfaults into a long error message.
I will concede both these points but Gotham is obviously on a large body of water that is linked to the ocean as it has a healthy shipping industry from its seedy docks. I guess that is the point I was trying to make, due to people suggesting it is supposed to be one of those land-locked cities.
Also, I tend to go with Morrisons "Arkham Asylum" one-shot when refering to the origin of the Asylum, even if it is ret-con, just because the book was so damned good.
Why are any of us even hashing this out?
Ahem, Arkham MA is not the same as Arkham Asylum. Arkham Asylum is outside of Gotham, but was named after a man, not a town. Metropolis and Gotham are both on the eastern seaboard, so that rules out every single land-locked North American city you care to name. They both started out as NYC, specifically Manhattan, but as time moved on and comics became more sophisticated, the cities gained lives of their own, so much so that neither bares any resemblance to the cities of origin any more. They have never stated exactly which state these cities are located in for the sole reason that it doesn't do anything to enhance the stories told. In ElseWorlds, whenever it would have made a difference, an established city in an established state was used, else they kept it deliberately vauge. Little details like that don't enhance or add anything to the story except geek bragging rights, and a good writer knows that sometimes every single little detail doesn't need to be spelled out. If you (the global you, not the personal you) read something other than Dan Brown books you'd appreciate the parts left out as much as the parts thrown in. Thus concludes my comic-shop rant. I'm going to bed.
Just turn it off in preferences. It's called "Group compilations while browsing".
Well, sitting next-door to the company AS/400 setup, I'm going to tell you right now that it's not a Unix/BSD/Linux/Minix/QNX/Multics/AIX/Whatever based solution in any but the most abstract concepts.
The AS/400 is nothing like a server, in the sense as it's used now. There is no client to serve data to. More often than not when you connect to the AS/400, you're opening a TN5250 Terminal session directly to the machine, the updated counterpart to an old-school DB15 serial connection. You're working on the AS/400 itself, and none of your tasks are handled locally. This more or less goes against what I understood to be the basic point of the client/server model.
The actual machine itself churns through amazingly huge amounts of data, in all but realtime, working with databases larger than the most hardcore college students MP3/Pr0n collection, constantly adding, appending, and deleting records. The I/O on even the mid-range solutions like the "now-outdated" AS/400 iSeries is, bar none, insane. Period.
And the reason new blood is so hard to bring in really amounts to a lack of training and willingness to train. I mean, it's a totally foreign environment compared to what so many people my age (18-25) have dealt with, and if you're not willing to just get in there and embrace it, you will burn out, quickly. The first time I saw an OS/400 command line I plotzed myself. The first time I had to clear a physical file member I thought the person training me was speaking gibberish. But if you find a chance, and a place of employment willing to train you, you'll find yourself learning to love the machine almost as much as your Linux desktop, Windows laptop, or for the more hardcore old-school among you, your AT&T System V boxen.
Now pass me my rainbow suspenders.
Working for the cable company, I can tell you right now that you being charged for services previous to us giving them to you is nothing new. The movie theater does it every time you go see Star Wars Trek Space Flight XXVII. This would be a bad thing if you were not refunded the difference (the term our customer service reps throw around is 'prorate'. I highly suggest you look it up.)It's a common practice for a lot of different service providers, though it's admittedly a holdover from another time and place (an age when things like telephone calls were made over twisted pairs of copper wire stretching miles! Miles!) I'm not advocating one way or another, I'm simply saying that you're taking it a bit too seriously when you're expressing shock(!) or susprise(!) at it.
Actually, Dual was pretty bad no matter what language you watch it in.