"As for Aluminum - dont get me started on that nasty harsh material. There has been a disturbing trend for wannabee bikers to adopt the freakiest lightest materials at the expense of all other properties."
Why don't you take this unfounded and unsupportable opinion across to rec.bicycles.tech, where the people who know about bike frame materials live? It would be quite amusing watching you get spanked off the newsgroup.
"If you don't work in IT for the sheer love of it first and a paycheck second, your days are numbered"
Congratulations! You have passed the final test!
Move directly to your corner office where you will leave your clue in the trashcan, and the company barber will sculpt your remaining hair into two vigorous points.
Thank you for choosing the Titzware management aptitude assessment scheme (tm).
Titzware: "Advancing dolt's careers since this time last month"
"When I found out Starbuck was a woman, I was sure I wouldn't watch it. It completely destroys the "buddy" relationship that was so important to the original."
I agree. It's always disappointing to see the homo-erotic sub texts being ripped out of a series, and being replaced with bland, everyday unresolved heterosexual erotic tensions.
You know, like the ones where nine out of ten serving law enforcement officers are absolutely definitely thinking of quitting by the end of next week - if they don't get a 50% pay rise.
Of course, in the real world, the end of next week comes around and nothing much has changed - hey, donuts don't just give themselves away to civilians you know!
All of which is a bit unfair on the five-oh, but I reckon they're old and tough enough to take it.
But my point is this - there's a world of difference between:
a) What people say they're going to do in public, where they are bold, fearless, forthright and striving for the common good.
...and...
b) What people are actually going to do (in private), because they are, well, human. Weak, flawed, fearful and sometimes mean and greedy.
Who controls the Shuttle TV feed? I doubt that the BBC and Al-Jazeera would be showing much of anything that wasn't showing on the highly impartial US networks.
And what would Faux News be showing? Old Glory fluttering in a slow motion breeze, with the marine hymn's plaintive tones echoing on the soundtrack. Shrub wiping a manful tear from the corner of his eye as he drones on about Man's indomitable nature and the True American spirit. All this, non stop for seven days.
Rob Enderle seems to be confused by the difference between an analyst and an advocate:
An analyst basically does what it says on the box: Analyses, investigates, and draws conclusions from the evidence. An analyst lets the chips fall where they may.
An advocate comes in with an agenda (his/her paying client's agenda, of course), and seeks to persuade others that the client's view is nearest to the objective truth of the matter.
Look: About 4 other people have already pointed the "great chopsticks anomaly" out before me - the vagiaries of my browser refresh made it look like I had a clear run. Also, as one poster has pointed out, the OP probably meant the chow mein was a sino-western development in the 1800's, which is not at all contorversial.
At the moment, I'm "+5 Interesting", which is just wrong (in a moral sense).
"Given the history one would never have expected it to do as well as it has; like chopsticks, which were actually invented by immigrant restaurant owners in America's mining communities in the 1800s..."
"Carriers provide the ability to project power and do so well, but they only cover a small circle on the surface of the Earth. Our forward bomber bases similarly have a fairly small footprint, though bigger than a carrier. This still leaves huge portions of the world out of US reach"
Speaking as a resident of the world I don't see being "out of US reach", as such a bad thing.
"And if you still don't like SPAM, a can in the cupboard can keep you going for ages just like Dwarf bread.
Something along the lines of "I'm hungry, but for the love of God, I'm not that hungry." Repeat that thought process until something better than SPAM is available.
I think your Prof was using the academic equivalent of a bar-room bullshit tale to make a point.
I still do not believe that a multinational was stumped as to why a their product was doing well in millionaire's row, but was bombing in the barrio next door. It's just too slick. It's got the whiff of the email chain letter and 'net urban legend about it...
Sorry pal, but in order to swallow this tale, I'd need a whole truck load of Mallox (or should that be Alka-Seltzer?).
I really started to choke after you tell us, with a straight face, that the company spent billions ("litterally"), on this marketing problem. FYI Nike's global advertising budget in 2000 was $978 million.
In addition, are we expected to believe that a company that would invest megabucks would be completely ignorant of the demographics of their target market? With bells on, I expect.
This has all the hallmarks of an urban legend - the inclusion of a US flag as a fix being an especially nice touch. I'll pass this along to Snopes or the AFU archives when I've got a minute.
T&K.
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Beat it? Christ, I can whup that without breaking sweat!
I get 25 days holiday just by walking into my present job (in addition to public holidays).
After 5 years, it rises to 30 + public holidays.
Go Walmart! Yay!
T&K.
This is plain bad management
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Most reasonable companies budget for two Grandmother's funerals per year, per employee.
"Threatening people to become your customers is a shady business practice and one that I doubt will work."
SCO management beg to differ and they're going to sue your ass back to the stone age. Don't you know that SCO owns the business process patent on threatening people to become your customers:
Patent No: 666-GOATSE:
"A novel process for migrating corporations from GNU/Linux onto UnixWare, whether they want to or not, by indiscriminate use of FUD, vague threats, and some absolutely shocking distortions."
I think they had to license the use of FUD from IBM via MicroSoft, though.
"Why hope to see them [SCO} crushed? They provide a pretty useful service to the public: demonstrating that the concept of intellectual property leads to poor results if applied in the manner shown by SCO."
This is exactly why I want to see them crushed. And even more: Their offices should be razed with fire and the ashes ploughed into he earth and the earth to be salted so it shall remain barren, yea even unto the seventh generation.
A few years hence, the following scene will be played out in a corporate boardroom:
Corporate yahoo #1: "Let's hijack Linux. In fact let's try and snag every non-MS operating system there is"
Corporate yahoo #2: "Fuck that! Remember SCO?"
Corporate yahoo #1: "Who?"
Corporate yahoo #2: "Exactly!"
A beautiful little morality play, I think you'd agree...
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Watch what you're saying, this is Slashdot fer chrissakes: Don't go giving them ideas!
Next time I'm watching the news and see an item about short buses being besieged by hordes of slavering geeks, I'll know who to blame...
T&K.
I met him (Gareth Thomas) at the opening of "Fab Cafe" in Manchester, and he seemed pretty pissed, but more in the UK sense.
T&K.
"As for Aluminum - dont get me started on that nasty harsh material. There has been a disturbing trend for wannabee bikers to adopt the freakiest lightest materials at the expense of all other properties."
Why don't you take this unfounded and unsupportable opinion across to rec.bicycles.tech, where the people who know about bike frame materials live? It would be quite amusing watching you get spanked off the newsgroup.
T&K.
It's been done before, many many years ago. see Bicycling Science
Move along there, nothing to see.
T&K
In that case...
T&K.
Someone - anyone - can say that they hacked trade secret/patent protected/copyright code into, say, the Linux kernel.
Unless these claims are matched in the version control and change logs, they'll have a hard time proving it.
T&K.
"If you don't work in IT for the sheer love of it first and a paycheck second, your days are numbered"
Congratulations! You have passed the final test!
Move directly to your corner office where you will leave your clue in the trashcan, and the company barber will sculpt your remaining hair into two vigorous points.
Thank you for choosing the Titzware management aptitude assessment scheme (tm).
Titzware: "Advancing dolt's careers since this time last month"
T&K.
" If he did, he'd fund security for our ports, nuclear facilities, water processing plants, etc..."
What security facilities do ports need?
T&K.
"When I found out Starbuck was a woman, I was sure I wouldn't watch it. It completely destroys the "buddy" relationship that was so important to the original."
I agree. It's always disappointing to see the homo-erotic sub texts being ripped out of a series, and being replaced with bland, everyday unresolved heterosexual erotic tensions.
T&K.
This is a survey, people!
You know, like the ones where nine out of ten serving law enforcement officers are absolutely definitely thinking of quitting by the end of next week - if they don't get a 50% pay rise.
Of course, in the real world, the end of next week comes around and nothing much has changed - hey, donuts don't just give themselves away to civilians you know!
All of which is a bit unfair on the five-oh, but I reckon they're old and tough enough to take it.
But my point is this - there's a world of difference between:
a) What people say they're going to do in public, where they are bold, fearless, forthright and striving for the common good.
b) What people are actually going to do (in private), because they are, well, human. Weak, flawed, fearful and sometimes mean and greedy.
T&K.
Who controls the Shuttle TV feed? I doubt that the BBC and Al-Jazeera would be showing much of anything that wasn't showing on the highly impartial US networks.
And what would Faux News be showing? Old Glory fluttering in a slow motion breeze, with the marine hymn's plaintive tones echoing on the soundtrack. Shrub wiping a manful tear from the corner of his eye as he drones on about Man's indomitable nature and the True American spirit. All this, non stop for seven days.
You asked for it, you got it!
T&K.
I can go along with this apart from the "intellectual" part.
T&K.
Rob Enderle seems to be confused by the difference between an analyst and an advocate:
An analyst basically does what it says on the box: Analyses, investigates, and draws conclusions from the evidence. An analyst lets the chips fall where they may.
An advocate comes in with an agenda (his/her paying client's agenda, of course), and seeks to persuade others that the client's view is nearest to the objective truth of the matter.
T&K.
That's all. It's a question that I've never thought of, and I'd like to see the answer. How old is Linus, BTW?
Look: About 4 other people have already pointed the "great chopsticks anomaly" out before me - the vagiaries of my browser refresh made it look like I had a clear run. Also, as one poster has pointed out, the OP probably meant the chow mein was a sino-western development in the 1800's, which is not at all contorversial.
At the moment, I'm "+5 Interesting", which is just wrong (in a moral sense).
T&K.
"Given the history one would never have expected it to do as well as it has; like chopsticks, which were actually invented by immigrant restaurant owners in America's mining communities in the 1800s..."
I feel sure that chopstcks were used long before the 1800's
T&K.
"Carriers provide the ability to project power and do so well, but they only cover a small circle on the surface of the Earth. Our forward bomber bases similarly have a fairly small footprint, though bigger than a carrier. This still leaves huge portions of the world out of US reach"
Speaking as a resident of the world I don't see being "out of US reach", as such a bad thing.
T&K.
"And if you still don't like SPAM, a can in the cupboard can keep you going for ages just like Dwarf bread.
Something along the lines of "I'm hungry, but for the love of God, I'm not that hungry." Repeat that thought process until something better than SPAM is available.
T&K.
I think your Prof was using the academic equivalent of a bar-room bullshit tale to make a point.
I still do not believe that a multinational was stumped as to why a their product was doing well in millionaire's row, but was bombing in the barrio next door. It's just too slick. It's got the whiff of the email chain letter and 'net urban legend about it...
T&K.
Sorry pal, but in order to swallow this tale, I'd need a whole truck load of Mallox (or should that be Alka-Seltzer?).
I really started to choke after you tell us, with a straight face, that the company spent billions ("litterally"), on this marketing problem.
FYI Nike's global advertising budget in 2000 was $978 million.
In addition, are we expected to believe that a company that would invest megabucks would be completely ignorant of the demographics of their target market? With bells on, I expect.
This has all the hallmarks of an urban legend - the inclusion of a US flag as a fix being an especially nice touch. I'll pass this along to Snopes or the AFU archives when I've got a minute.
T&K.
Beat it? Christ, I can whup that without breaking sweat!
I get 25 days holiday just by walking into my present job (in addition to public holidays).
After 5 years, it rises to 30 + public holidays.
Go Walmart! Yay!
T&K.
Most reasonable companies budget for two Grandmother's funerals per year, per employee.
T&K.
Are you f*cking blind or something?!
Can't you read the frggin' article?
Uh
T&K.
"Threatening people to become your customers is a shady business practice and one that I doubt will work."
SCO management beg to differ and they're going to sue your ass back to the stone age. Don't you know that SCO owns the business process patent on threatening people to become your customers:
Patent No: 666-GOATSE:
"A novel process for migrating corporations from GNU/Linux onto UnixWare, whether they want to or not, by indiscriminate use of FUD, vague threats, and some absolutely shocking distortions."
I think they had to license the use of FUD from IBM via MicroSoft, though.
T&K.
"Why hope to see them [SCO} crushed? They provide a pretty useful service to the public: demonstrating that the concept of intellectual property leads to poor results if applied in the manner shown by SCO."
This is exactly why I want to see them crushed. And even more: Their offices should be razed with fire and the ashes ploughed into he earth and the earth to be salted so it shall remain barren, yea even unto the seventh generation.
A few years hence, the following scene will be played out in a corporate boardroom:
Corporate yahoo #1: "Let's hijack Linux. In fact let's try and snag every non-MS operating system there is"
Corporate yahoo #2: "Fuck that! Remember SCO?"
Corporate yahoo #1: "Who?"
Corporate yahoo #2: "Exactly!"
A beautiful little morality play, I think you'd agree...
T&K.