I occasionally do this on purpose, especially during the warmer months, so that I can go on a nice bike ride to retrieve the "forgotten" laptop.
Nothing shameful about it at all...
So just take a personal day and be done with it. Fabricating the "forgot laptop" story makes you look either like a forgetful idiot or a liar. Your coworkers and management can see right through it - we're not idiots you know. It's a lot easier to respect someone for taking a day when it's 75 and sunny, than that same person taking the day when it's 75 and sunny because they "forgot their laptop".
If you work for someone who doesn't like the honest approach, then get a better boss.
But I've definitely forgotten my power supply, so I have about 2 hours to figure how to make that "drive of shame" without being noticed...
For the price of your drive home, or at least my drive home, you can buy another power supply. Yeah, I bought one out of my own money to save me the hassle, even though it's work's computer. (shrug) When lappy goes back on lease-return, I'll put this power brick on eBay and buy one to fit the new laptop, just like I did last time. The hassle savings of remembering and dealing with the power supply every day twice are worth it.
The real question is, why the fark does Dell keep changing the damn plug on the things? Gratuitous change specifically to make the old charger not work on the new laptop is all I can figure.
Make no mistake, Obama has clearly stated he is against granting the telecoms immunity; there's simply nothing yuo can do when OTHER blue dog democrats with cushy incumbent seats wantto retain their fat lobbyist paychecks and vote with their wallets. rather than their constituent's values, defeating perfectly logical amendments.
Right. He voted for it because he was against it. This is the same behaviour that the Clintons use - play both sides of the fence so people like you will act as their apologists, and then they can claim they were on whichever side comes out as most useful to them at their convenience.
It's sad to see people manipulated like you're allowing yourself to be.
I get the same creepy feeling I get when I saw that commercial with George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton side by side. That could just be because I was being looked at by a sleazeball and a cold-blooded killer, though.
Yeah, I always wondered why Bush Sr. allowed himself to be seen with him.
My team supports around 2000 Unix servers, we have about 3000 Windows servers admin'd by my counterpart's team, and the naming schemes we're using seem to mostly work. Each server has (at least) 2 names. The system gets a hardware name like t2k123, and then a logical name, like clarify-web-prd-01. This way, I know it's a Sun T2000 (t2k), it has a number (123), and it's used for clarify, it's a webserver, it's production, and it's #1 in the (in this case) cluster. There's probably also a clarify-web-prd-02 which will be on hardware that isn't t2k123. And somewhere I bet there's a clarify-web-stg-01, a clarify-web-dev-01, and maybe even a clarify-app-prd-01 and so on.
This answers the important questions: Whose program is it for? What does it do? What's the criticality, and which one is it?
I suppose you could work location into the hardware name, but a simple spreadsheet or a file on the box saying where it is (building, room, rack) is just as effective.
It's interesting that the folks who chant "Bush Lied!!!eleventy!!!" haven't responded to this post showing all the Democrats who also...ahem..."lied". What you've done is pointed out the timelines (many of these are from before Bush was elected, of course), with cited references to verifiable quotes. How unfair of you. Now the "Bush Lied" camp needs to ignore the facts you have inconveniently posted.
I don't see why this is a big deal. I get better signal with AT&T than I did with my last 2 cell providers. Obviously that'll vary by location but (shrug)...is this just the principle of the thing, a "because we want to" kind of thing, or what's the motivation to unlock in the first place?
On a side note, I wonder how many of the people bitching that they won't buy one this time because of the subsidized price, were the same ones bitching last time because of the unsubsidized price.
Exchange's native whatever it is has a couple of things which IMAP does not - including such useful functionality as direct push email (the server sends you email as it comes in, no polling the server like with IMAP). And just a note, not everyone can expense stuff to the business - I know I can't.
Perhaps, but neither of these seem to make it "useless for business customers".
Can't be purchased on a business plan, no support for Exchange Server itself without Outlook (even Nokia has that).
Neither of which makes it "useless for a business customer" or whatever the claim was. (Hint: there's this thing called quoting with context. Try it some time.) As to your claims - I've got unlimited data, more minutes than I use, and more SMS messages than I use by far, for 59 bux a month. Which I expense to my business. And, far as MS Exchange - I'm looking at the "add new email account" page in system properties, and Exchange is listed providing it's using this obscure (heh) protocal called "IMAP". So I'm not sure what the issue is here, it seems that your understanding of the reality is somewhat limited.
The iPhone didn't change the face of the cell phone market. It changed the face of the Idiot Bauble market by allowing them to buy a phone, but the most intense users of phones before the iPhone launch (corporate) still can't use the thing,
How so, exactly? It synchs to my calendar and email (outlook), out of the box. What is the problem? Reads.doc and.xls files natively too. I'm not seeing the "can't use the thing" aspect of this.
Or you could just take the battery out when you're not using the phone or charging the battery. No power = no signal.
I don't think it's that simple. The access badges I have for work, and my speedpass, and the anti-theft devices at stores, don't have batteries. I think the mechanism here is to produce a strong enough pulse so that an RF device of known frequency range, will respond with some sort of echo.
Disagree. He championed the important idea that sharing source code is a Good Thing, and did it with a degree of consistency over time that is remarkable.
At the time, it was necessary. About a decade ago, he got tiresome. In my opinion of course. "Yes, yes, we get it, thank you, let others speak about it now; you're not helping" kind of thing.
RMS, like EMACS, has decayed to irrelevance long ago. Guy ran out of interesting and useful things to say a decade ago or more. He's not running the all-singing-all-dancing app which used to be a text editor project any more? I'm having a hard time trying to care.
Really, who does not know the difference between an advertisement and an endorsement? You're not that dumb, why assume everyone else is. When a publication accepts an ad, that ad reflects on that publication. I have chosen to do business with companies specifically because of the reputation of the publications they advertise in. I trust those publications to filter acceptable ads for me, and only sell them to vendors who are worthy of the publication I'm reading.
I used to trust snopes. Based on this, meh, not so much any more. If they're willing to let their readers be duped for their profit, the veracity of the entire site is called into question.
Would you trust a site that pretends to have scientific information on, say, nuclear power, if it also contained ads for greenpeace and a tinfoil-hat vendor?
I would say anything firing over 40 rounds a minute should fall under an assault rifle ban. Yes that includes non-rifles such as SMG's but that fits in the spirit of an assault rifle ban
I think any car that can go over 65 MPH should be banned. After all, why would you need that? Just because you've never done anything wrong, doesn't mean that you shouldn't be limited.
See how that works?
How about 'automatic firearm'? Anything where you can hold down the trigger to hose down an area with bullets goes against the rules of safe handling I was taught. You mean the things that have been illeagal without a class 3 license since the 1930s?
Yes, this includes such things as machine pistols, which are not assault rifles by dint of not being rifles, but assault rifle is a stupid term anyway. Tell me, what does "assault rifle" meant to you? Because, to Clinton and those who rely on people like you to be ignorant, it means "guns that look like military rifles but aren't", yet to those in the know, it has a very specific definition.
RAM != Battery. You add RAM maybe once in a year. Most people who travel or use a laptop for anything other than a desktop have to switch the battery at least once a week because they don't have access to power (many places seem to frown on you charging appliances off their outlets).
If you say so. I have yet to have my laptop battery go dead because I couldn't charge it. (shrug) Maybe it's a big deal to you, but to me, not so much. For the record, I use my laptop on battery power several times a week - just not for 5 hours at a time without seeing an outlet I can use. Planes, trains, both have 'em. Automobiles, well, buy a charger if it matters. Not sure what the problem is.
I think it depends on the Mac. I've tried to open a grand total of two Apple laptops. One was surprisingly accessible and easy to crack open, one was a nightmare. Don't mean to be harsh, but more generally it's a bit lazy to think that getting the basic user experience right (thoughtful, consistent UI for example) is necessarily at odds with being able to pop open the hood.
I've been inside 3 Dells, one Toshiba, and one IBM Thinkpad. All three of them were a certified pain in the ass. Not sure how "hard to work on stuff inside" is in any way unique to Apple. In the case of the Air, from the pics, it's a case of "unscrew the cover and unplug the battery", which oddly enough is exactly the same thing I had to do to upgrade RAM on my Dell D600 - unscrew a cover, unplug something, and plug something else in.
Not disagreeing with your point, don't get me wrong - but it's funny that so many people started out whining about the battery not being replacable (it is), are now complaining that you need to (GASP!) use a screwdriver to do it. It's really not a big deal. The only drawback I see is that you can't have two batteries and swap them on the fly. I don't spend that much time away from some sort of power outlet, so for me, it's a non-problem.
To me this looks more like a plan. Apple wanted to communicate to their users: "Only use our products as we intended or we will simply break them." And now that the users got the message they play good cop and "unbrick" them for the users, so that the now "good" users will keep on purchasing Apple products, but will never try to use them in any way other than the intended one again.
Funny, it seems to me, that it's an example of Apple fixing phones that third-party unlocking (not unjailing, installation of other apps, but unlocking - modifying the firmware of the cellphone section of the iPhone) caused. The 1.1.2 firmware changed how the OS interacted with the radio - the 1.1.3 firmware made it so phones that worked on 1.1.1 but stopped working on 1.1.2, would now work in 1.1.3. In other words, they _fixed_ those phones, despite having no compelling reason to do that. Yet people like you now claim that proves they're evil somehow.
They can innovate to extraordinary levels in many ways, but so long as they keep the snotty outlook on the world at large, they're just another tech company. Apple, you need to stop acting like assholes, and stop treating your customers like every last one is a worthless idiot.
Yeah! How dare they release a $20 upgrade to an MP3 player that turns it into a wifi-connected PDA! What jerks those guys are! The nerve of them! To show how big of jerks they are, they even went further and added those features to the new ones, for free! Someone should do something about this!
Then again, it's not like you can just swap the battery when its flat (like every other phone ever made), so I guess your point has a little merit.
Odd, I was never able to find out how to swap out the battery on my Treo 600, which the iPhone replaced for me. I'm thinking that's because it couldn't be, what with there being no batter hatch. That said, there was probably a similar option as we have with the iPhone where I can send it to Apple for 50 or 60 bucks and get it swapped out, or third parties for significantly less. But, I understand, AC's like spreading FUD, or perhaps FUD-spreaders prefer to post as ACs. Either way, you're wrong.
The stuff I've read says that 1.1.3 is going to be fairly substantial.
Supposedly you're going to be able to move icons on the iPhone's "desktop", set icons for favorite websites, etc. Ah, as I can more or less do today with "smbprefs" and "customize".
But no, no Flash. Which makes no sense. For the people worried about battery life / CPU power, they could make Flash an opt-in setting. No flash, no upgrade, far as I'm concerned. Custom icons were solved months ago by the hacker community. Same with moving icons around on the screen. If that's all they've got for 1.1.3, I'll wait for Flash. Got a source for that info, by the way? I'd love to read it.
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Why don't they just say... "any computer that has an Intel chip?"
Because that wouldn't continue the incorrect perception that Mac's are immune to a virus.
Can you show us a (real) counterexample?
Sorry we hurt your field, mister... /obscure? //Can we have our ball back?
I occasionally do this on purpose, especially during the warmer months, so that I can go on a nice bike ride to retrieve the "forgotten" laptop.
Nothing shameful about it at all...
So just take a personal day and be done with it. Fabricating the "forgot laptop" story makes you look either like a forgetful idiot or a liar. Your coworkers and management can see right through it - we're not idiots you know. It's a lot easier to respect someone for taking a day when it's 75 and sunny, than that same person taking the day when it's 75 and sunny because they "forgot their laptop".
If you work for someone who doesn't like the honest approach, then get a better boss.
But I've definitely forgotten my power supply, so I have about 2 hours to figure how to make that "drive of shame" without being noticed...
For the price of your drive home, or at least my drive home, you can buy another power supply. Yeah, I bought one out of my own money to save me the hassle, even though it's work's computer. (shrug) When lappy goes back on lease-return, I'll put this power brick on eBay and buy one to fit the new laptop, just like I did last time. The hassle savings of remembering and dealing with the power supply every day twice are worth it.
The real question is, why the fark does Dell keep changing the damn plug on the things? Gratuitous change specifically to make the old charger not work on the new laptop is all I can figure.
Make no mistake, Obama has clearly stated he is against granting the telecoms immunity; there's simply nothing yuo can do when OTHER blue dog democrats with cushy incumbent seats wantto retain their fat lobbyist paychecks and vote with their wallets. rather than their constituent's values, defeating perfectly logical amendments.
Right. He voted for it because he was against it. This is the same behaviour that the Clintons use - play both sides of the fence so people like you will act as their apologists, and then they can claim they were on whichever side comes out as most useful to them at their convenience. It's sad to see people manipulated like you're allowing yourself to be.
I get the same creepy feeling I get when I saw that commercial with George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton side by side. That could just be because I was being looked at by a sleazeball and a cold-blooded killer, though.
Yeah, I always wondered why Bush Sr. allowed himself to be seen with him.
My team supports around 2000 Unix servers, we have about 3000 Windows servers admin'd by my counterpart's team, and the naming schemes we're using seem to mostly work. Each server has (at least) 2 names. The system gets a hardware name like t2k123, and then a logical name, like clarify-web-prd-01. This way, I know it's a Sun T2000 (t2k), it has a number (123), and it's used for clarify, it's a webserver, it's production, and it's #1 in the (in this case) cluster. There's probably also a clarify-web-prd-02 which will be on hardware that isn't t2k123. And somewhere I bet there's a clarify-web-stg-01, a clarify-web-dev-01, and maybe even a clarify-app-prd-01 and so on.
This answers the important questions: Whose program is it for? What does it do? What's the criticality, and which one is it?
I suppose you could work location into the hardware name, but a simple spreadsheet or a file on the box saying where it is (building, room, rack) is just as effective.
It's interesting that the folks who chant "Bush Lied!!!eleventy!!!" haven't responded to this post showing all the Democrats who also...ahem..."lied". What you've done is pointed out the timelines (many of these are from before Bush was elected, of course), with cited references to verifiable quotes. How unfair of you. Now the "Bush Lied" camp needs to ignore the facts you have inconveniently posted.
I don't see why this is a big deal. I get better signal with AT&T than I did with my last 2 cell providers. Obviously that'll vary by location but (shrug)...is this just the principle of the thing, a "because we want to" kind of thing, or what's the motivation to unlock in the first place?
On a side note, I wonder how many of the people bitching that they won't buy one this time because of the subsidized price, were the same ones bitching last time because of the unsubsidized price.
You're right, but only if you're moving in geologic time. The referenced event was the University of Texas sniper
I'm guessing grandparent poster knew that, and was using a tactic known as "humor". You may want to look into the concept.Perhaps, but neither of these seem to make it "useless for business customers".
Neither of which makes it "useless for a business customer" or whatever the claim was. (Hint: there's this thing called quoting with context. Try it some time.) As to your claims - I've got unlimited data, more minutes than I use, and more SMS messages than I use by far, for 59 bux a month. Which I expense to my business. And, far as MS Exchange - I'm looking at the "add new email account" page in system properties, and Exchange is listed providing it's using this obscure (heh) protocal called "IMAP". So I'm not sure what the issue is here, it seems that your understanding of the reality is somewhat limited.
How so, exactly? It synchs to my calendar and email (outlook), out of the box. What is the problem? Reads
I don't think it's that simple. The access badges I have for work, and my speedpass, and the anti-theft devices at stores, don't have batteries. I think the mechanism here is to produce a strong enough pulse so that an RF device of known frequency range, will respond with some sort of echo.
At the time, it was necessary. About a decade ago, he got tiresome. In my opinion of course. "Yes, yes, we get it, thank you, let others speak about it now; you're not helping" kind of thing.
RMS, like EMACS, has decayed to irrelevance long ago. Guy ran out of interesting and useful things to say a decade ago or more. He's not running the all-singing-all-dancing app which used to be a text editor project any more? I'm having a hard time trying to care.
I used to trust snopes. Based on this, meh, not so much any more. If they're willing to let their readers be duped for their profit, the veracity of the entire site is called into question.
Would you trust a site that pretends to have scientific information on, say, nuclear power, if it also contained ads for greenpeace and a tinfoil-hat vendor?
I think any car that can go over 65 MPH should be banned. After all, why would you need that? Just because you've never done anything wrong, doesn't mean that you shouldn't be limited. See how that works?
Tell me, what does "assault rifle" meant to you? Because, to Clinton and those who rely on people like you to be ignorant, it means "guns that look like military rifles but aren't", yet to those in the know, it has a very specific definition.
If you say so. I have yet to have my laptop battery go dead because I couldn't charge it. (shrug) Maybe it's a big deal to you, but to me, not so much. For the record, I use my laptop on battery power several times a week - just not for 5 hours at a time without seeing an outlet I can use. Planes, trains, both have 'em. Automobiles, well, buy a charger if it matters. Not sure what the problem is.
I've been inside 3 Dells, one Toshiba, and one IBM Thinkpad. All three of them were a certified pain in the ass. Not sure how "hard to work on stuff inside" is in any way unique to Apple. In the case of the Air, from the pics, it's a case of "unscrew the cover and unplug the battery", which oddly enough is exactly the same thing I had to do to upgrade RAM on my Dell D600 - unscrew a cover, unplug something, and plug something else in.
Not disagreeing with your point, don't get me wrong - but it's funny that so many people started out whining about the battery not being replacable (it is), are now complaining that you need to (GASP!) use a screwdriver to do it. It's really not a big deal. The only drawback I see is that you can't have two batteries and swap them on the fly. I don't spend that much time away from some sort of power outlet, so for me, it's a non-problem.
Funny, it seems to me, that it's an example of Apple fixing phones that third-party unlocking (not unjailing, installation of other apps, but unlocking - modifying the firmware of the cellphone section of the iPhone) caused. The 1.1.2 firmware changed how the OS interacted with the radio - the 1.1.3 firmware made it so phones that worked on 1.1.1 but stopped working on 1.1.2, would now work in 1.1.3. In other words, they _fixed_ those phones, despite having no compelling reason to do that. Yet people like you now claim that proves they're evil somehow.
Yeah! How dare they release a $20 upgrade to an MP3 player that turns it into a wifi-connected PDA! What jerks those guys are! The nerve of them! To show how big of jerks they are, they even went further and added those features to the new ones, for free! Someone should do something about this!
Odd, I was never able to find out how to swap out the battery on my Treo 600, which the iPhone replaced for me. I'm thinking that's because it couldn't be, what with there being no batter hatch. That said, there was probably a similar option as we have with the iPhone where I can send it to Apple for 50 or 60 bucks and get it swapped out, or third parties for significantly less. But, I understand, AC's like spreading FUD, or perhaps FUD-spreaders prefer to post as ACs. Either way, you're wrong.
Supposedly you're going to be able to move icons on the iPhone's "desktop", set icons for favorite websites, etc.
Ah, as I can more or less do today with "smbprefs" and "customize".
But no, no Flash. Which makes no sense. For the people worried about battery life / CPU power, they could make Flash an opt-in setting. No flash, no upgrade, far as I'm concerned. Custom icons were solved months ago by the hacker community. Same with moving icons around on the screen. If that's all they've got for 1.1.3, I'll wait for Flash. Got a source for that info, by the way? I'd love to read it.