Do what they say, say what they mean One thing leads to another You told me something wrong, I know I listened too long But then one thing leads to another One thing leads to another
Ug, you both make great points. I agree with both. Is there some kind of middle ground?
I think an informed jury is an effective jury, but I also agree that the accused has a right to challenge any information used by the jury to make their decision. Shit. How to rectify both?
Money/Wealth will become irrelevant? Just wait till you need to refuel your fuel tank. What do you use if money is irrelevant? I guess it could be straight barter, but it's so time-consuming to do so.
Off-Earth loans might become irrelevant, as it's pretty expensive to go repo a space cruiser.
What kind of revisionist history is this? They've NEVER been too cool about people writing their own programs for their machines.
I learned that in the Apple ][ days - back then I had a bunch of detentions to make up in high school my senior year. The principal made me a deal - (I was the star computer geek of my little mid-Nebraska high school) if I'd write software to track detentions, then I wouldn't have to sit for 200+ hours in detention before graduating. (I got one hour of detention originally for taing a "long lunch" with my girlfriend [Yes, I'm a freak of nature - I had both a computer and a girlfriend in high school!], but they had a policy of doubling the number every time you didn't show up. I got to 2^8 and then they realized it was retarded.)
I thought it was a great deal and accepted. Their computer lab at school was based on TRS-80 Model IV's at the time, and I had a C64 at home. Could have done it quickly on either. Then I found out he wanted it done on an Apple ][e as that's what they used in the office. I tried really hard, but could not find any information about doing random access files (The way to store data back in the pre-SQL days.) on an Apple. I called the local Apple dealer, I read everything I could find, and could not get any info other than "Apple doesn't usually give out this information". I was used to the more open C64/TRS-80 world, where tech specs were easily accessible.
So, I didn't get out of my detentions, I went to the last day of school, went the next Monday and took my GED test (Scoring 100% on 3 of 5 tests, and 99%s on the other two), got my GED, went to collge, never looked back, and thus began my detesting of anything Apple.
So FUCK YOU Steve Jobs, your power-mad ways cost me my high school diploma. (Not that it hurt me much, (Probably set me back three years on getting my career going well) but it's the principle of the thing. No reason to withhold tech specs on your shiny toys.) I shall malign your company and products forever! Fuck Apple, fuck Steve Jobs.
Oh wow, I didn't even see that obvious name. They really fucked up considering the plural of their other main product is "Macs" - Macs iPad. (Or Mac's iPad)
As a buyer, I refuse to do business with any company that I haven't visited directly that doesn't take PayPal. I am not giving my credit card or bank account number directly to any establishment. While PayPal may get dinged for freezing money on sellers accounts, I'd say most of the freezes are put on scammy accounts rather than trustable accounts.
As a purchaser - it's PayPal or the Highway. It's not worth the risk to have to evaluate every single company for honesty. (And my neighbor works for PayPal, so if I ever encountered problems with them, he'd help. But so far zero problems with PayPal in a decade.) PayPal will intercede on my behalf if the company I'm buying from gives me a hard time, so it's the reverse of this situation - instead of 3DS transferring the liability to me, I'm instead transferring the liability to PayPal, so it's a total win for me.
If you'd have said an "open source" implementation, I'd have jumped. But since you went with the "Oh So Lame" term "FOSS", I'm out.
I dunno what the deal is, not a lot of logic behind it, but FOSS just infuriates me. I think because of the inherent redundancy - Hey d00ds, let's write some Free Open Source Software software that will be free and open source even! Duuhhhhh...
How about EOSH - Expensive Open Source Hardware? See, it's a dumb term.
Fuck VOIP if it interferes with ANYTHING else. I used to work for a shitty company where the head of telecom was on this big VOIP push - every time he talked on the phone, normal network activity slowed to a crawl, including file transfers from the server two stories below me. Ever since then it's been "VOIP sucks, if you want a free ride, that's fine, but dont expect the rest of us to give you special priority just because you're being a cheap ass."
> And No, Mozilla as an organization is not interested in my solutions because they dont want to support GPOs and central management.
No wonder you have such a negative view - you have no confidence in yourself. All you can imagine is some spaghetti scripting. Yes, they'll reject that. Right away.
And you need to drop the Microsoft terminology - GPO is an Active Directory/MOM term.
The source is out there, use it, and you won't need to resort to spaghetti hacks. And even if you do, if you can't sell that to management, then you need to improve your sales skills and quit playing the victim.
We haven't failed yet. You just keep telling yourself that... This time it's far worse than they are letting on. The system HAS failed, they just aren't going to tell you until you figure it out yourself. This opening of the doors to the corporations is just nails in the coffin. The long term of this will be the corps can distort reality even more than they do today. Ever heard the parable of how to boil a frog?
Ah, Mr Fake Chinaman, but you fail at the basics of being able to think down to your "competition's" level. Always you must keep that in your mind, if you are to communicate effectively and thus win the great game.// Zing! Pop! Whooooosssshhh!!!
Dammit boy, back in my day I had to walk around to everyone's desk to do anything. Uphill both ways. By myself. And I liked it.
While you do have a very excellent point about managing a large installed base in today's automated society, I still gotta say I'm kinda smirking at you for thinking it's NOT part of your job as a sysadmin to find a way to do it yourself and instead whining about your lack of skills on the internet instead. Really lame dude.
If you think it's a sin that everyone is re-inventing the wheel, then fine a clean way to integrate the needed functionality into FireFox and then submit it to the FireFox project - it is an OS project, ain't it?
But, then again, how many more people would get laid off if your job fell all the way down to just working from predigested checklists? Oh wait, that's how you must like it since you're afraid of a challenge.
Maybe you need to think about changing careers. What, if MOM can't do it, you can't do it? It's open-source, I'm sure you can find a way to do what you need.
Yes, Matilda, there really ARE things more important than money... Societal survival, making sure your kids aren't enslaved, many things are more important than market share, and the inhumane corporations of the world are just starting to realize that.
Try not acting like a mindless virus (Breed & Eat, Breed & Eat,..., until your environment is destroyed), instead act like a self-aware lifeform that knows the secret to longevity is to not consume all, but to maintain a balance.
Making money from bad people/governments leads to bad money in your pocket, sucking your lifeforce while you dive to the bottom of the abyss.
Wake up! Before it's too late. Do not worship money for money's sake, if you must worship it, then worship it for it's power to enable good things to happen when handled by the wise.
Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage? [Floyd]
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Weird, I've used NP++ for years and have NEVER had it crash. Maybe it's cause I don't open any PHP files with it??
Do what they say, say what they mean
One thing leads to another
You told me something wrong, I know I listened too long
But then one thing leads to another
One thing leads to another
Ug, you both make great points. I agree with both. Is there some kind of middle ground?
I think an informed jury is an effective jury, but I also agree that the accused has a right to challenge any information used by the jury to make their decision. Shit. How to rectify both?
I thought you just said you were too close to retirement to risk pissing anyone off?
And then you go ahead and do this...
That's always been my stance on it to - arrest me once I've proven that I can get there! :)
Money/Wealth will become irrelevant? Just wait till you need to refuel your fuel tank. What do you use if money is irrelevant? I guess it could be straight barter, but it's so time-consuming to do so.
Off-Earth loans might become irrelevant, as it's pretty expensive to go repo a space cruiser.
Holy shit, have you ever seen anyone on Slashdot use both "principle" and "principal" correctly before?!
(But then I blew it with "went to collge" ;)
What kind of revisionist history is this? They've NEVER been too cool about people writing their own programs for their machines.
I learned that in the Apple ][ days - back then I had a bunch of detentions to make up in high school my senior year. The principal made me a deal - (I was the star computer geek of my little mid-Nebraska high school) if I'd write software to track detentions, then I wouldn't have to sit for 200+ hours in detention before graduating. (I got one hour of detention originally for taing a "long lunch" with my girlfriend [Yes, I'm a freak of nature - I had both a computer and a girlfriend in high school!], but they had a policy of doubling the number every time you didn't show up. I got to 2^8 and then they realized it was retarded.)
I thought it was a great deal and accepted. Their computer lab at school was based on TRS-80 Model IV's at the time, and I had a C64 at home. Could have done it quickly on either. Then I found out he wanted it done on an Apple ][e as that's what they used in the office. I tried really hard, but could not find any information about doing random access files (The way to store data back in the pre-SQL days.) on an Apple. I called the local Apple dealer, I read everything I could find, and could not get any info other than "Apple doesn't usually give out this information". I was used to the more open C64/TRS-80 world, where tech specs were easily accessible.
So, I didn't get out of my detentions, I went to the last day of school, went the next Monday and took my GED test (Scoring 100% on 3 of 5 tests, and 99%s on the other two), got my GED, went to collge, never looked back, and thus began my detesting of anything Apple.
So FUCK YOU Steve Jobs, your power-mad ways cost me my high school diploma. (Not that it hurt me much, (Probably set me back three years on getting my career going well) but it's the principle of the thing. No reason to withhold tech specs on your shiny toys.) I shall malign your company and products forever! Fuck Apple, fuck Steve Jobs.
Oh wow, I didn't even see that obvious name. They really fucked up considering the plural of their other main product is "Macs" - Macs iPad. (Or Mac's iPad)
Muahahahaha! That's great!
Hell, explain it for people born BEFORE 1970, that made no sense at all.
As a buyer, I refuse to do business with any company that I haven't visited directly that doesn't take PayPal. I am not giving my credit card or bank account number directly to any establishment. While PayPal may get dinged for freezing money on sellers accounts, I'd say most of the freezes are put on scammy accounts rather than trustable accounts.
As a purchaser - it's PayPal or the Highway. It's not worth the risk to have to evaluate every single company for honesty. (And my neighbor works for PayPal, so if I ever encountered problems with them, he'd help. But so far zero problems with PayPal in a decade.) PayPal will intercede on my behalf if the company I'm buying from gives me a hard time, so it's the reverse of this situation - instead of 3DS transferring the liability to me, I'm instead transferring the liability to PayPal, so it's a total win for me.
If you'd have said an "open source" implementation, I'd have jumped. But since you went with the "Oh So Lame" term "FOSS", I'm out.
I dunno what the deal is, not a lot of logic behind it, but FOSS just infuriates me. I think because of the inherent redundancy - Hey d00ds, let's write some Free Open Source Software software that will be free and open source even! Duuhhhhh...
How about EOSH - Expensive Open Source Hardware? See, it's a dumb term.
On a unicorn, sure, but did she bring her flute? That's the important part! ;)
That's what garbage dumps are for - they are going to be fascinated digging through all our trash.
Edward's at the library again?
Facts? Where we're going, you don't need FACTS...
(Actually, look all around you, there's lot of them. I didn't think my comment needed them, it was a summarization.)
Fuck VOIP if it interferes with ANYTHING else. I used to work for a shitty company where the head of telecom was on this big VOIP push - every time he talked on the phone, normal network activity slowed to a crawl, including file transfers from the server two stories below me. Ever since then it's been "VOIP sucks, if you want a free ride, that's fine, but dont expect the rest of us to give you special priority just because you're being a cheap ass."
> And No, Mozilla as an organization is not interested in my solutions because they dont want to support GPOs and central management.
No wonder you have such a negative view - you have no confidence in yourself. All you can imagine is some spaghetti scripting. Yes, they'll reject that. Right away.
And you need to drop the Microsoft terminology - GPO is an Active Directory/MOM term.
The source is out there, use it, and you won't need to resort to spaghetti hacks. And even if you do, if you can't sell that to management, then you need to improve your sales skills and quit playing the victim.
We haven't failed yet. You just keep telling yourself that... This time it's far worse than they are letting on. The system HAS failed, they just aren't going to tell you until you figure it out yourself. This opening of the doors to the corporations is just nails in the coffin. The long term of this will be the corps can distort reality even more than they do today. Ever heard the parable of how to boil a frog?
Ah, Mr Fake Chinaman, but you fail at the basics of being able to think down to your "competition's" level. Always you must keep that in your mind, if you are to communicate effectively and thus win the great game. // Zing! Pop! Whooooosssshhh!!!
Dammit boy, back in my day I had to walk around to everyone's desk to do anything. Uphill both ways. By myself. And I liked it.
While you do have a very excellent point about managing a large installed base in today's automated society, I still gotta say I'm kinda smirking at you for thinking it's NOT part of your job as a sysadmin to find a way to do it yourself and instead whining about your lack of skills on the internet instead. Really lame dude.
If you think it's a sin that everyone is re-inventing the wheel, then fine a clean way to integrate the needed functionality into FireFox and then submit it to the FireFox project - it is an OS project, ain't it?
But, then again, how many more people would get laid off if your job fell all the way down to just working from predigested checklists? Oh wait, that's how you must like it since you're afraid of a challenge.
I think you might gotten trolled. But I'm not entirely sure. But yes, GMail is now SSL by default.
Maybe you need to think about changing careers. What, if MOM can't do it, you can't do it? It's open-source, I'm sure you can find a way to do what you need.
Yes, yes, yes, you fucking Asia-snob, Samurai are not Chinese, but it still works... STFU.
It still works cause most of our uneducated masses couldn't tell the difference between the two.
China? Yah, that's the capital of Japan.
Makes no sense? Are you serious?
Yes, Matilda, there really ARE things more important than money... Societal survival, making sure your kids aren't enslaved, many things are more important than market share, and the inhumane corporations of the world are just starting to realize that.
Try not acting like a mindless virus (Breed & Eat, Breed & Eat, ..., until your environment is destroyed), instead act like a self-aware lifeform that knows the secret to longevity is to not consume all, but to maintain a balance.
Making money from bad people/governments leads to bad money in your pocket, sucking your lifeforce while you dive to the bottom of the abyss.
Wake up! Before it's too late. Do not worship money for money's sake, if you must worship it, then worship it for it's power to enable good things to happen when handled by the wise.
Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage? [Floyd]