Yah, but I'm sure there's a shitty contract somewhere in your past that you signed and got fucked on before you gained your 'wisdom'. Let's hear about that before you slam on others.
Nobody does the first contract right. Humans by nature are too trusting and get taken advantage of by unethical fuckheads.
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After eight hours in front of a CRT monitor at work, my eyes burn like hell. But after the commute home, my eyes are fine to sit in from of my LCD screens at home for hours.
I can't see the other way working at all. In my experience, CRTs cause much more eyestrain.
Now if companies/management could truly figure out how to keep us !bored. Some kind of active questing for "What are your true capabilities, interests, other than just the amount needed for your day to day drudgework."
Wouldn't that be nice! Actually using all my abilities rather than just letting most of them squander.
> You know a consistent menu bar is good UI design. right?...
Yes, a consistent menu-bar at the top of the window I'm working is, is good UI design. Having to leave my application to drag my cursor half-way across the desktop just to access a menu command seems like it would also make some kind of sense, to the heavily medicated.
> aaaand you know that something that throws you off.. means nothing to the rest of the world.
7% of the entire user-base (being generous I know) is "the rest of the world"?
> Everyone but you, it seems, knows to just look at the upper-left, next to the apple, and see what program they're in if they happen to get confused.
It's nice to know that all the work done by Skinner and Pavlov has paid off for an infinitesimal segment of our society. Enjoy the "Mac Experience" you happy little Rhesus monkey.
Yah yah, and the same fucking idiots that think the menu should be at the top of the screen, rather than attached to the app window, are the same fucking idiots that you have to remind that the underwear goes on the inside of your pants.
Spend your money on a decent UPS, power in my area has frequent partial-second interrupts. I used to lose drives often until then, with the UPS, they are lasting years now.
Menus attached to the window are a throwback to WHEN? I'd call that a throw forward compared to the corny Mac menu interface.
I take it you are saying the non-intuitive interface of having the menu for the current window at the top of the screen a good thing? Intuitive only to long time Mac users. Always throws me off completely - Is this the system menu or the application menu? Drag the floppy to the trash can to erase it or eject it?
You are quite the dumbass then. The salary is to pay you for your day to day work. The salary does not cover going way beyond the basics and coming up with a whole new profit portfolio for the company.
All you have to do is have the self confidence to tell them nicely that you won't do it for free, any more than you'd expect them to mow your lawn for free.
And it doesn't have to be for money. I have a good thing worked out with my neighbor - I help him out with his computer (Of course, he's not your classic idiot, so doesn't ask many questions or mess his machine up very often) during the year, and he does my sidewalks and driveway with his snowblower when it snows.
I've been thinking about running my own forehead auction - I'm from Omaha as well, and I'm a lot taller (6'5) than this guy, so my forehead will have more visibility.:)
No completely true, and in fact where the drug term came from in the first place. The word "Dope" has changed definitions over the years, as far as to which drug it refers.
Originally, it referred to "Airplane Dope" which we know these days as "Model Glue". By squirting the glue into a bag and breathing the fumes, you'd get a good high. The original "dopers" (1940ish?) were ones who did this.
Somewhere along the line (probably 1960s), the definition shifted (mainly because of term-illiterate media people who didn't really know what they were talking about, very similar to how the same idiots have morphed 'hacker' from a good to a bad thing over the years.) to refer to "dope" as marijuana/hemp and people who smoked it as "dopers". While heavy users of the original "dope" (airplane glue) did suffer from actual brain damage, the media tried to portray the use of marijuana (now known as "dope") as causing the same brain damage that airplane glue caused. Which we all know these days is complete FUD.
In the 1990s, with the rise of the use of methampetamine, the word has changed again so that "dope" now means speed. Which leads to confusing situations where an old stoner asks a kid these days if he wants to go smoke some "dope" and the kid is disappointed when the stoner pulls out a bag of weed - something that will make him go to sleep in the next few hours instead of something that will keep him wide awake for several days.
Weird, glad you liked reloaded, but seems very strange from my point of view. It seemed very uncreative, a lot like Back to the Future II where they were so busy with BTTF III that they didn't polish BTTF very well and we ended up with a sucky middle episode.
What is the deal with this HURD thing? I've been hearing about Gnu HURD for a few years now, and have never seen anything (early beta, extreme alpha, anything) about it. Is it anything but some vague plans on paper?
Weird, I find the last 15 minutes of Revolutions the best part of the two shitty "sequels". Surprised you were let down by it - the re-emergence of the black cat to bring in the full reset of the matrix with the rainbow sky was about the only part that made me think "Wow".
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"Left Wing Pinko" - There's an insult straight out of the McCarthy era. Is that the best you can do?
I suppose you are just loving the return to that era, huh? So American, so Patriotic, so 1984...
Yah, but I'm sure there's a shitty contract somewhere in your past that you signed and got fucked on before you gained your 'wisdom'. Let's hear about that before you slam on others.
Nobody does the first contract right. Humans by nature are too trusting and get taken advantage of by unethical fuckheads.
Uh, why's it say 'Brett' before the quote from Rudess? Nobody in Dream Theater named Brett so I'm lost. :)
Oops, you're right. Banky is from Chasing Amy. :)
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Anybody else hear the voice of Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) in Mallrats/Chasing Amy saying "Oh come ON!!???"
More eyestrain from an LCD? How do you figure?
After eight hours in front of a CRT monitor at work, my eyes burn like hell. But after the commute home, my eyes are fine to sit in from of my LCD screens at home for hours.
I can't see the other way working at all. In my experience, CRTs cause much more eyestrain.
Did you see that fast Sunoma Bitch go by? :)
Oh cool, it's not just me then... :)
Now if companies/management could truly figure out how to keep us !bored. Some kind of active questing for "What are your true capabilities, interests, other than just the amount needed for your day to day drudgework."
Wouldn't that be nice! Actually using all my abilities rather than just letting most of them squander.
> You know a consistent menu bar is good UI design. right? ...
Yes, a consistent menu-bar at the top of the window I'm working is, is good UI design. Having to leave my application to drag my cursor half-way across the desktop just to access a menu command seems like it would also make some kind of sense, to the heavily medicated.
> aaaand you know that something that throws you off.. means nothing to the rest of the world.
7% of the entire user-base (being generous I know) is "the rest of the world"?
> Everyone but you, it seems, knows to just look at the upper-left, next to the apple, and see what program they're in if they happen to get confused.
It's nice to know that all the work done by Skinner and Pavlov has paid off for an infinitesimal segment of our society. Enjoy the "Mac Experience" you happy little Rhesus monkey.
Yah yah, and the same fucking idiots that think the menu should be at the top of the screen, rather than attached to the app window, are the same fucking idiots that you have to remind that the underwear goes on the inside of your pants.
Spend your money on a decent UPS, power in my area has frequent partial-second interrupts. I used to lose drives often until then, with the UPS, they are lasting years now.
Menus attached to the window are a throwback to WHEN? I'd call that a throw forward compared to the corny Mac menu interface.
I take it you are saying the non-intuitive interface of having the menu for the current window at the top of the screen a good thing? Intuitive only to long time Mac users. Always throws me off completely - Is this the system menu or the application menu? Drag the floppy to the trash can to erase it or eject it?
You are quite the dumbass then. The salary is to pay you for your day to day work. The salary does not cover going way beyond the basics and coming up with a whole new profit portfolio for the company.
The company ethically owes you 10% of the value.
All you have to do is have the self confidence to tell them nicely that you won't do it for free, any more than you'd expect them to mow your lawn for free.
And it doesn't have to be for money. I have a good thing worked out with my neighbor - I help him out with his computer (Of course, he's not your classic idiot, so doesn't ask many questions or mess his machine up very often) during the year, and he does my sidewalks and driveway with his snowblower when it snows.
EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY Domain Controllers for 9070 workstations? What in the hell for? A domain controller for every 11 workstations?
Somebody's got a crackhead for an architect.
Sorry, it is spelled right in my SSID, I am typically a (silent) spelling nazi myself, just didn't cut and paste, and really don't give a shit.
Now please go have yourself a big old bowl of STFU!!
That's my current SSID. On my old 11 MB AP, I had it set to RealmOfTheElectricDog. Had one neighbor ask me about that one. :)
I've been thinking about running my own forehead auction - I'm from Omaha as well, and I'm a lot taller (6'5) than this guy, so my forehead will have more visibility. :)
He said silicone... Hahahaha.
No completely true, and in fact where the drug term came from in the first place. The word "Dope" has changed definitions over the years, as far as to which drug it refers.
Originally, it referred to "Airplane Dope" which we know these days as "Model Glue". By squirting the glue into a bag and breathing the fumes, you'd get a good high. The original "dopers" (1940ish?) were ones who did this.
Somewhere along the line (probably 1960s), the definition shifted (mainly because of term-illiterate media people who didn't really know what they were talking about, very similar to how the same idiots have morphed 'hacker' from a good to a bad thing over the years.) to refer to "dope" as marijuana/hemp and people who smoked it as "dopers". While heavy users of the original "dope" (airplane glue) did suffer from actual brain damage, the media tried to portray the use of marijuana (now known as "dope") as causing the same brain damage that airplane glue caused. Which we all know these days is complete FUD.
In the 1990s, with the rise of the use of methampetamine, the word has changed again so that "dope" now means speed. Which leads to confusing situations where an old stoner asks a kid these days if he wants to go smoke some "dope" and the kid is disappointed when the stoner pulls out a bag of weed - something that will make him go to sleep in the next few hours instead of something that will keep him wide awake for several days.
Weird, glad you liked reloaded, but seems very strange from my point of view. It seemed very uncreative, a lot like Back to the Future II where they were so busy with BTTF III that they didn't polish BTTF very well and we ended up with a sucky middle episode.
What is the deal with this HURD thing? I've been hearing about Gnu HURD for a few years now, and have never seen anything (early beta, extreme alpha, anything) about it. Is it anything but some vague plans on paper?
Turn over the reins, what, like Roddenbery did with that Bermen guy? Yah, that sure made Start Wreck a lot better... Not.
Weird, I find the last 15 minutes of Revolutions the best part of the two shitty "sequels". Surprised you were let down by it - the re-emergence of the black cat to bring in the full reset of the matrix with the rainbow sky was about the only part that made me think "Wow".
But then again, that's just me...