Indeed, however, poking at your phone is a bit harder to disguise as real work...;)
It does raise a valid (ever so slightly offtopic) point though, a company/person making their Google+ page their main portal will exclude a percentage of their audience for ~8 hours a day.
Even if this isn't goofing off time (which I am sure we are all innocent of), it can be eating lunch at your desk or whatever. I keep my mayo fingers off my phone
Yes, which does mean I get mayo on my mouse... and keyboard...
Arrgh - well Google+ is blocked by my companies web filter so I can't judge myself until I go home... I presume there are plenty of others in the same boat.
It could get irritating if Google+ is adopted by others in this way.
It is doing some marvellous AJAXY wonderment, the true purpose of which is not understandable to the mere mortal Slashdot user. Please read the sign.
ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN.
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER WORKENSPINNEN.
Ahh Sneakers! Now there is a blast from the past for me - remember how you could hide right at the right hand edge in that metor mode and only have to dodge about 2 of them?
I presume the tilde was some funny codepage error, we call the accent a "fadda" which means "long", so you pronounce it aaras an uachtaraain (kinda translates to residence of the hightest leader).
Irony is though, the president has pretty much no power - it's just a figurehead, political decisions are made by the Teaoseach and the Oireachtas
I do think it's a big blocker to proponents of OSS being taken seriously though, it's just ad hominem. If you want people to listen you should be able to form a decent argument.
This seems to be the key point to me. Those in charge of the network will presume that if you use Linux, you will be able to figure it out for yourself.
IMHO, this "matter of little consequence" is one of the main reasons why OSS communities do not get the serious consideration they deserve. To an outsider this just looks juvenile and the argument itself gets lost. It's kinda like people who post as AC to make snide comments...
True indeed, but this seems like closing the stable door well after the horse has bolted. Although, to your credit, the airline industry seems to take the same line for finding the real edge case bugs.
So who is responsible after the first driver is killed? I have always thought programmers need insurance.....
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OOOOoooooo this sounds good! Will try it out, many thanks!
Indeed, however, poking at your phone is a bit harder to disguise as real work... ;)
It does raise a valid (ever so slightly offtopic) point though, a company/person making their Google+ page their main portal will exclude a percentage of their audience for ~8 hours a day.
Even if this isn't goofing off time (which I am sure we are all innocent of), it can be eating lunch at your desk or whatever. I keep my mayo fingers off my phone
Yes, which does mean I get mayo on my mouse... and keyboard...
Arrgh - well Google+ is blocked by my companies web filter so I can't judge myself until I go home... I presume there are plenty of others in the same boat.
It could get irritating if Google+ is adopted by others in this way.
And now you face... the final cuurrrtaaaiiinnn...
There are naked women if you wait long enough, the RealPlayer feed is buffering...
It is doing some marvellous AJAXY wonderment, the true purpose of which is not understandable to the mere mortal Slashdot user. Please read the sign.
ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER WORKENSPINNEN.
My thoughts exactly - doesn't seem like this one will fly...
Bah! May the infidels be collapsed upon by a Hrung!
Nope, a brown dwarf is a really froody dude who always knows where his towel is.
We are suffering from Slashvertisment by Proxy...
(every possible pun intended, even ones I didn't think of)
Ahh Sneakers! Now there is a blast from the past for me - remember how you could hide right at the right hand edge in that metor mode and only have to dodge about 2 of them?
One for me please! rorycosgrove(splat)gmail
...(kinda translates to residence of the hightest leader)....
err... highest even... my fingers have their own typing logic... and I type test lots...
Err... it is Áras an Uachtaráin...
I presume the tilde was some funny codepage error, we call the accent a "fadda" which means "long", so you pronounce it aaras an uachtaraain (kinda translates to residence of the hightest leader).
Irony is though, the president has pretty much no power - it's just a figurehead, political decisions are made by the Teaoseach and the Oireachtas
Any other frustrated bad amateur musicians seeing the really cool side to this?
Despite my best efforts I remain a really bad Guitar player and do even worse on a Ukulele... My neighbours might club together and buy me one ....
Please mod this entire thread offtopic.... Legal weed wooo!
Yep I agree - there are plenty of things higher up - but the general attitude of "M$" type comments is _one_ of the ones which is very apparent.
And besides - it bugs the shit out of me ;P
They should send the coppers around to arrest them... don't ya zinc? It shouldn't be alloyed!
Ok we are running seriously offtopic here!!
I do think it's a big blocker to proponents of OSS being taken seriously though, it's just ad hominem. If you want people to listen you should be able to form a decent argument.
Urgh... Good Luck With That... Why is the technology world today turning into a bad version of office politics?
This seems to be the key point to me. Those in charge of the network will presume that if you use Linux, you will be able to figure it out for yourself.
Not ideal but probably true.
Haha ok Mr. AC, I will bite...
IMHO, this "matter of little consequence" is one of the main reasons why OSS communities do not get the serious consideration they deserve. To an outsider this just looks juvenile and the argument itself gets lost. It's kinda like people who post as AC to make snide comments...
Feel free to troll back and strengthen my case :)
Arrragh!!! Can we please stop calling it M$, Windoze, Window$ or what bloody ever.
This is really starting to drive me insane and is a reason for people not to take this site seriously.... It also ruins quite an intelligent comment.
True indeed, but this seems like closing the stable door well after the horse has bolted. Although, to your credit, the airline industry seems to take the same line for finding the real edge case bugs.
So who is responsible after the first driver is killed? I have always thought programmers need insurance.....
Would we accept a computer system that causes hundreds of people to die? Of course not..
I know the Therac-25 didn't kill hundreds, but, a radiation therapy machine is not a car.
So any computer system that's considered capable of driving a car will almost certainly be safer than a human driver. Probably a thousand times safer.
Probably not if I wrote the code...