TFA tells us that people not only try to use ICQ and personal laptops on the LAN, they expect IT to support it for them. This is not a problem, boys and girls! Every time IT gets a request for such support, it's forwarded to an appropriate department so that the person requesting the support can be disciplined for their failure to follow company policy. No, it won't stop people from doing such things. It will, however, weed out those who can't manage on their own and are too stupid to learn from what happened the first time they asked for help.
its called fudging a resume. masters of fudge go a long way.
I used to have a friend who was a master of fudge. He was great at making up qualifications for jobs he wanted, and after a few years, he'd amassed a long list of jobs he'd gotten that way. The only problem was, he'd lost them all for the same reason: they kept finding out he'd lied to them and fired his sorry little ass. Once, he got a job as a trainee for tech support at an ISP; he didn't last until lunch on his first day.
Of course they'll lie and twist the truth. That's the point. You see, they'll twist the truth to make it look like they're qualified in their own opinion, and that will tell me what they think the qualifications are. That, in turn, will tell me what they think is the most important part of being president, and that's not exactly something they're eager to tell us, are they? It's not their qualifications I'm interested in, as those are a matter of public record, but how they view them. You have to think outside the box.
And while they're rambling, I'd be learning what they think the qualifications for the office are, because that's what they'd be emphasizing. It would also have the advantage of catching them off-guard, because most people never ask questions like that.
I must admit that the article in Wikipedia was as clear as mud to anybody who doesn't already understand the subject, including me. However, I think I have an idea what's going on here. AIUI, there are two elements involved: samarium and neodymium, with samarium decaying to form neodymium. The ratio of the two depends on two things: what type of mineral is involved (which determines the original ratio) and the time since the sample was last melted, because the longer the rock has remained solid, the less samarium there is and the more neodymium because of the decay mentioned above. I'm sure that if I've gotten it wrong, somebody (or, most likely several somebodies) will be eager to correct me.
If you don't have a good answer to that question, you don't belong at the interview. Both candidates claim to be qualified for the job, and I want to know just what they think their qualifications are. If nothing else, it would be interesting to see what they think it takes to be President.
It is a belief system with the assumption that you can create property.
And what makes you think you can't? That's what manufacturing is about, you know, creating property and selling it. For that matter, that's what agriculture is all about once you get past the subsistence stage.
Nuclear really can't because contractors are too inept or corrupt to do a job right.
So, let's see, that means that you're simply going to dismiss the technology because you assert that the people doing the work aren't capable of doing it correctly. Do you have any proof, or are you just expressing your own anti-nuclear bias. Oh, and before I forget, fusion is a form of nuclear energy as well.
you find people who really are trying to make the best product they can for computer users.
I'm sure there are. And the saddest part of this is that with all those people doing the best they can, every Microsoft product is a bloated, buggy mass of security holes.
By joining a union, an individual gives up personal freedom and the opportunity for exceptional advancement.
Just because you're a member of a union doesn't mean that you have to work for union scale. If you're good enough you can negotiate a deal and get more than scale. My father spent most of his working life as a union member, and except when he was just getting started he never, ever worked for scale.
"Wow, that's really fascinating. Can you prove it?"
I have a friend who's so liberal even he admits that he's well outside the mainstream. If you try something like that with him, he'll cite a number of far-left sources and insist that what they say is true. If you cite any contrary sources, he'll call them liars, adding that they're well-known for twisting the truth. If you ask for sources on that, he'll either refer you back to the original far-left sites or resort to argument by assertion. The sad thing is, he really thinks that he's proved his point by doing this. No matter what you do, in his mind, his ideology is correct and any facts that don't fit are wrong.
This would not stop spam but how does it sound getting $0.02 for each spam you receive?
As long as it's used parallel to SMTP, as you suggested, it will be worthless because spammers will simply refuse to use it. And, blocking all mail sent via SMTP and only accepting this new protocol won't help either, because not everybody's going to have access to it.
Again, I have little sympathy for people who let pride compromise their safety as well as others.
Getting the hearing aids was easy. (Of course, I have VA benefits, so it didn't cost me several thousand dollars each to get them.) The hard part was learning that it's OK to tell people that I have a hearing problem and that they need to speak clearly. (Not louder; in most cases that doesn't help, especially if it just means you're mumbling at the TOP OF YOUR LUNGS.) However, once you get past feeling funny about admitting it to others, you find that almost everybody cooperates once they're made aware of your needs.
It's not a matter of memory, as I mentioned elsewhere. It's more a matter of having enough things on my mind that the less important parts of driving went on auto-pilot. (The important things, like watching where I'm going, speed and deciding if/when to change lanes stayed in the foreground.) By the time you reach my age, you'll understand.
When you've been driving as many decades as I have, you'll find that you don't need to think about turning on your turn indicator. When you need it, you turn it on without thinking.
For some reason, the dashboard light just didn't catch my attention, except at night. I'm not sure why, but it might have been right where the line goes across my bifocals (Yes, I'm a six-eyes.) so that it was even less likely that I'd notice it if I weren't looking for it.
I'll second that! I've got it running on an old laptop (PII 266, 96Meg RAM) and it boots into a GUI in well under a minute. On a modern machine, if all you want is a CLI, I can well believe that claim of 7 seconds. If you want an easy, light weight editor, use nano, as has been mentioned elsewhere. It's not included by default, but a quick search of their user forum will find you a download.
That had nothing to do with her age and everything to do with her ability (or lack of it) to drive. This afternoon, I was in a parking lot when a lady started to back out in front of me, then stopped for me. I waved her on saying, "You're burning gas; I'm not." She continued, after thanking me, and said, "Backing up is scary." I'm sure it was, and not just for her, because at no time did she ever turn her head to see where she was going. At a guess, she was in her mid-30s.
I know you were at least partially joking, but I can tell you how that happens because it used to happen to me, when I was in my mid 50s: my hearing had deteriorated to the point that I often didn't hear the turn signal clicking if I had other things on my mind, so it would, in true Energizer Bunny fashion, keep going and going and going. I finally realized that I had a hearing issue and got hearing aids and it doesn't happen any more. Hearing loss is often gradual, and few people notice it until it's gotten fairly bad, so that elderly driver may simply not realize that they can't quite hear as well as they think they do.
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TFA tells us that people not only try to use ICQ and personal laptops on the LAN, they expect IT to support it for them. This is not a problem, boys and girls! Every time IT gets a request for such support, it's forwarded to an appropriate department so that the person requesting the support can be disciplined for their failure to follow company policy. No, it won't stop people from doing such things. It will, however, weed out those who can't manage on their own and are too stupid to learn from what happened the first time they asked for help.
I used to have a friend who was a master of fudge. He was great at making up qualifications for jobs he wanted, and after a few years, he'd amassed a long list of jobs he'd gotten that way. The only problem was, he'd lost them all for the same reason: they kept finding out he'd lied to them and fired his sorry little ass. Once, he got a job as a trainee for tech support at an ISP; he didn't last until lunch on his first day.
Of course they'll lie and twist the truth. That's the point. You see, they'll twist the truth to make it look like they're qualified in their own opinion, and that will tell me what they think the qualifications are. That, in turn, will tell me what they think is the most important part of being president, and that's not exactly something they're eager to tell us, are they? It's not their qualifications I'm interested in, as those are a matter of public record, but how they view them. You have to think outside the box.
And while they're rambling, I'd be learning what they think the qualifications for the office are, because that's what they'd be emphasizing. It would also have the advantage of catching them off-guard, because most people never ask questions like that.
I don't want to know how they would run my life, I want to know how they would run the country.
I must admit that the article in Wikipedia was as clear as mud to anybody who doesn't already understand the subject, including me. However, I think I have an idea what's going on here. AIUI, there are two elements involved: samarium and neodymium, with samarium decaying to form neodymium. The ratio of the two depends on two things: what type of mineral is involved (which determines the original ratio) and the time since the sample was last melted, because the longer the rock has remained solid, the less samarium there is and the more neodymium because of the decay mentioned above. I'm sure that if I've gotten it wrong, somebody (or, most likely several somebodies) will be eager to correct me.
If you don't have a good answer to that question, you don't belong at the interview. Both candidates claim to be qualified for the job, and I want to know just what they think their qualifications are. If nothing else, it would be interesting to see what they think it takes to be President.
Why do you consider yourself qualified to be President of the United States of America?
And what makes you think you can't? That's what manufacturing is about, you know, creating property and selling it. For that matter, that's what agriculture is all about once you get past the subsistence stage.
So, let's see, that means that you're simply going to dismiss the technology because you assert that the people doing the work aren't capable of doing it correctly. Do you have any proof, or are you just expressing your own anti-nuclear bias. Oh, and before I forget, fusion is a form of nuclear energy as well.
I'm sure there are. And the saddest part of this is that with all those people doing the best they can, every Microsoft product is a bloated, buggy mass of security holes.
Just because you're a member of a union doesn't mean that you have to work for union scale. If you're good enough you can negotiate a deal and get more than scale. My father spent most of his working life as a union member, and except when he was just getting started he never, ever worked for scale.
I have a friend who's so liberal even he admits that he's well outside the mainstream. If you try something like that with him, he'll cite a number of far-left sources and insist that what they say is true. If you cite any contrary sources, he'll call them liars, adding that they're well-known for twisting the truth. If you ask for sources on that, he'll either refer you back to the original far-left sites or resort to argument by assertion. The sad thing is, he really thinks that he's proved his point by doing this. No matter what you do, in his mind, his ideology is correct and any facts that don't fit are wrong.
Thank you! I've just snarffed that for my Usenet sigmonster.
As long as it's used parallel to SMTP, as you suggested, it will be worthless because spammers will simply refuse to use it. And, blocking all mail sent via SMTP and only accepting this new protocol won't help either, because not everybody's going to have access to it.
Getting the hearing aids was easy. (Of course, I have VA benefits, so it didn't cost me several thousand dollars each to get them.) The hard part was learning that it's OK to tell people that I have a hearing problem and that they need to speak clearly. (Not louder; in most cases that doesn't help, especially if it just means you're mumbling at the TOP OF YOUR LUNGS.) However, once you get past feeling funny about admitting it to others, you find that almost everybody cooperates once they're made aware of your needs.
Same here. I don't need adult diapers, and as for the other, well, I'm here on Slashdot, aren't I?
It's not a matter of memory, as I mentioned elsewhere. It's more a matter of having enough things on my mind that the less important parts of driving went on auto-pilot. (The important things, like watching where I'm going, speed and deciding if/when to change lanes stayed in the foreground.) By the time you reach my age, you'll understand.
When you've been driving as many decades as I have, you'll find that you don't need to think about turning on your turn indicator. When you need it, you turn it on without thinking.
For some reason, the dashboard light just didn't catch my attention, except at night. I'm not sure why, but it might have been right where the line goes across my bifocals (Yes, I'm a six-eyes.) so that it was even less likely that I'd notice it if I weren't looking for it.
I'll second that! I've got it running on an old laptop (PII 266, 96Meg RAM) and it boots into a GUI in well under a minute. On a modern machine, if all you want is a CLI, I can well believe that claim of 7 seconds. If you want an easy, light weight editor, use nano, as has been mentioned elsewhere. It's not included by default, but a quick search of their user forum will find you a download.
I'm a baby boomer, and quite frankly, it sounds good to me!
That had nothing to do with her age and everything to do with her ability (or lack of it) to drive. This afternoon, I was in a parking lot when a lady started to back out in front of me, then stopped for me. I waved her on saying, "You're burning gas; I'm not." She continued, after thanking me, and said, "Backing up is scary." I'm sure it was, and not just for her, because at no time did she ever turn her head to see where she was going. At a guess, she was in her mid-30s.
I know you were at least partially joking, but I can tell you how that happens because it used to happen to me, when I was in my mid 50s: my hearing had deteriorated to the point that I often didn't hear the turn signal clicking if I had other things on my mind, so it would, in true Energizer Bunny fashion, keep going and going and going. I finally realized that I had a hearing issue and got hearing aids and it doesn't happen any more. Hearing loss is often gradual, and few people notice it until it's gotten fairly bad, so that elderly driver may simply not realize that they can't quite hear as well as they think they do.
English comes to mind, but considering some of the posts I see here, I have my doubts.