I keep both machines on my desk. I use my personal Mac for 99% of everything I do and the corp-supplied Dell only for Outlook. A KVM lets me switch between the two.
"most of" is the key, here. I find Pages butchers my work-related Office docs. I tried NeoOffice, and it was better than Pages for.doc files, but not good enough; the same files looked wrong when brought back to the PC. I ended up buying Office 2011 Mac for adequate compatibility.
I like Pages and Numbers and would like to use them more, but work-related documents are easily 80% of my word-processing workload, and those apps just don't cut it. For now.
Duels weren't always fatal. In fact, some duels were "settled" by discharging the pistols into the ground, intentionally, allowing both parties to maintain their "honor" without either getting hurt.
However, in the short term, yes, I'd take a 50% mortality rate, if it changed peoples' behavior, overall, and I believe it would. First few reports of people dying in such circumstances, and lots of other borderline asshats would think twice about being an asshat. Sociopaths would probably take out a few people disproportionately, but, statistically speaking, they'd get theirs, at some point: they just couldn't avoid it. At which point, we're all better off: one less sociopath.
Contrast that with the current situation where people behave with no concern for consequences but project it toward infinity. Do you see the situation improving?
I got a job, once, where the "health insurance benefits" were a pamphlet from the local business association offering a membership in their policy. The company wouldn't pay anything toward your membership, but, hey, if you signed up, and paid in full, you were covered. Ergo, they offered "benefits".
I left after about 9 months - the owner was a scumbag; hello Mike K. from MicroTraining in Olean, you asshole - and went out of business after buying lots of equipment on credit, selling it to customers, and then not paying for the gear. Also billed his partner ~ $400 a month for a 56k leased line when DSL from Verizon was $30 a month. Top notch kind of guy.
I think we're channelling, here. I can't tell you how many times I've suggested to my wife or anyone that would listen that we bring back duels to settle matters of honor. Some asshole from Jersey - redundant, I know - cut you off? Chase him down and challenge him to a duel on the side of the road. Someone cut in front of you at the popular ride at the carnival? Challenge him to a fight, right there. Your boss steals the credit for your brilliant idea? Pistols at high noon in the parking lot.
Sure, people might lose their lives, but, on the plus side, we'd end up with fewer assholes, too. Or fewer people acting like assholes because there's no accountability.
Agree completely. Describes my experience with Linux - which I've used and liked, for the most part, since '95 - very closely. I now use a Mac as my primary machine. I get the close-to-the-metal experience - when I want it - with the ease of double-click installation.
I kid you not: I got hollered at by my boss for - gasp! - daring to add spaces to code that looked very much like your example. I was "wasting time" by making the code somewhat readable.
I have a cochlear implant for hearing; why can't they implant a whole phone? I could answer calls and texts with brain waves instead of muscle movements.
When I worked at a company that sounded like Rotomola, our group had this "team building" thing involving plastic fish. You came to meetings with a plastic fish. You went to team lunches carrying a plastic fish. Shades of Sneetches. That all stopped pretty quick when I circulated a department email promoting an "underground" group known as PAIN - People Against Ichthyoid Nonsense. H/t to Calvin & Hobbes.
One small point: "mixed martial artist" seems to carry a lot of weight - "Ooh, don't mess with him; he's a mixed martial artist" - but it's not black-and-white. I coached wrestlers for years and not all "wrestlers" are the same. Like any other distribution, you'll have some very good, lots of average, and some that just plain suck. Same with MMAs, too.
Now, if you said this guy makes GSP piss his pants in fear, then you'd have something.
That's true. What do you think of "administrative searches" that allow the TSA to grope your balls - assuming you're of that gender - among other searches by various agencies?
Yep. My last project was wonderful work - loved it - but the boss drove me nuts to the point where my right eye is now physically messed up and I need injections in the eye to manage it.
I talked with a friend in another group about the situation and she said, "Why not work for me?" Her project isn't the same type of work - less dev, more "other stuff" - but I thought, "Yeah, I like working on my current project, but I'm not going to change my boss, ever, and I can't keep going like this. Today, my eye; tomorrow, who knows what." So I left my current group and now work for my friend. It's too soon to cast a vote on the actual work I'm doing, but I'm happier, otherwise.
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Yeah, I see it, above, but that does not define "locking in his customers, limiting their freedoms and then making enormous profits over these".
I have an iPod. I also have an iPad. How is this "walled garden" limiting me? I can find apps, developed by thousands of developers all over the world, or by me, and transfer my data to and from either device at will. Again, kindly provide a concrete example of how we are locked in.
No dissin' Woz, but what, exactly, did he do after Apple? Jobs left Apple, founded NeXT, Pixar, and then took a dying Apple and turned it around again.
If Jobs was "just a design marketing guy", how did success manage to follow him? And if Woz was the real key to Apple's success, why couldn't he turn that into something else, somewhere else?
Could anyone else have created the tech that Woz did? Probably. Could anyone else market it like Jobs? Obviously not.
You guys already have that. Maybe it's not Apple selling it, but that stuff is out there. And how well are those companies doing?
The geek market is not the only market; it's a niche, at best. Apple sells to their customers: people who like simple things that work - most often - and don't require "man sometopic" to understand. If you're not in that market segment, go somewhere else. How hard is that to understand - especially for geeks?
I hear ya. I was driving along, one day, and my iPod, plugged into the Hyundai-provided connector, made my car swerve off the road, run over a puppy, and chase down some joggers before I was able to disconnect it. I swear, it was just like "Killdozer" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071717/
Fuckin' Apple crap - trying to make us do all sorts of sick shit...
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Ditto. Almost verbatim.
I keep both machines on my desk. I use my personal Mac for 99% of everything I do and the corp-supplied Dell only for Outlook. A KVM lets me switch between the two.
Maybe. Maybe not. I'm using Mono for Mac OSX and I can run quite a few of my .NET work apps straight on my Mac. They look different, but they run.
"most of" is the key, here. I find Pages butchers my work-related Office docs. I tried NeoOffice, and it was better than Pages for .doc files, but not good enough; the same files looked wrong when brought back to the PC. I ended up buying Office 2011 Mac for adequate compatibility.
I like Pages and Numbers and would like to use them more, but work-related documents are easily 80% of my word-processing workload, and those apps just don't cut it. For now.
Duels weren't always fatal. In fact, some duels were "settled" by discharging the pistols into the ground, intentionally, allowing both parties to maintain their "honor" without either getting hurt.
However, in the short term, yes, I'd take a 50% mortality rate, if it changed peoples' behavior, overall, and I believe it would. First few reports of people dying in such circumstances, and lots of other borderline asshats would think twice about being an asshat. Sociopaths would probably take out a few people disproportionately, but, statistically speaking, they'd get theirs, at some point: they just couldn't avoid it. At which point, we're all better off: one less sociopath.
Contrast that with the current situation where people behave with no concern for consequences but project it toward infinity. Do you see the situation improving?
I got a job, once, where the "health insurance benefits" were a pamphlet from the local business association offering a membership in their policy. The company wouldn't pay anything toward your membership, but, hey, if you signed up, and paid in full, you were covered. Ergo, they offered "benefits".
I left after about 9 months - the owner was a scumbag; hello Mike K. from MicroTraining in Olean, you asshole - and went out of business after buying lots of equipment on credit, selling it to customers, and then not paying for the gear. Also billed his partner ~ $400 a month for a 56k leased line when DSL from Verizon was $30 a month. Top notch kind of guy.
I think we're channelling, here. I can't tell you how many times I've suggested to my wife or anyone that would listen that we bring back duels to settle matters of honor. Some asshole from Jersey - redundant, I know - cut you off? Chase him down and challenge him to a duel on the side of the road. Someone cut in front of you at the popular ride at the carnival? Challenge him to a fight, right there. Your boss steals the credit for your brilliant idea? Pistols at high noon in the parking lot.
Sure, people might lose their lives, but, on the plus side, we'd end up with fewer assholes, too. Or fewer people acting like assholes because there's no accountability.
Agree completely. Describes my experience with Linux - which I've used and liked, for the most part, since '95 - very closely. I now use a Mac as my primary machine. I get the close-to-the-metal experience - when I want it - with the ease of double-click installation.
What 7-Vodka said. You need some cash for a legal fight? I'll pitch in. Mother-fuckers...
Can you link to a press article on this, or didn't it make the news?
You -don't- need to submit to it. Simply refuse. Or ask them to show a warrant.
He posted AC - not even a karma boost.
I kid you not: I got hollered at by my boss for - gasp! - daring to add spaces to code that looked very much like your example. I was "wasting time" by making the code somewhat readable.
I have a cochlear implant for hearing; why can't they implant a whole phone? I could answer calls and texts with brain waves instead of muscle movements.
When I worked at a company that sounded like Rotomola, our group had this "team building" thing involving plastic fish. You came to meetings with a plastic fish. You went to team lunches carrying a plastic fish. Shades of Sneetches. That all stopped pretty quick when I circulated a department email promoting an "underground" group known as PAIN - People Against Ichthyoid Nonsense. H/t to Calvin & Hobbes.
Not "redundant", but ignored.
Don't have mod points. +1, anyway.
Eli Pine, "How to Enjoy Calculus". When I had to redo the class, I ignored the teacher, went from this, and aced it.
One small point: "mixed martial artist" seems to carry a lot of weight - "Ooh, don't mess with him; he's a mixed martial artist" - but it's not black-and-white. I coached wrestlers for years and not all "wrestlers" are the same. Like any other distribution, you'll have some very good, lots of average, and some that just plain suck. Same with MMAs, too.
Now, if you said this guy makes GSP piss his pants in fear, then you'd have something.
That's true. What do you think of "administrative searches" that allow the TSA to grope your balls - assuming you're of that gender - among other searches by various agencies?
Yep. My last project was wonderful work - loved it - but the boss drove me nuts to the point where my right eye is now physically messed up and I need injections in the eye to manage it.
I talked with a friend in another group about the situation and she said, "Why not work for me?" Her project isn't the same type of work - less dev, more "other stuff" - but I thought, "Yeah, I like working on my current project, but I'm not going to change my boss, ever, and I can't keep going like this. Today, my eye; tomorrow, who knows what." So I left my current group and now work for my friend. It's too soon to cast a vote on the actual work I'm doing, but I'm happier, otherwise.
Yeah, I see it, above, but that does not define "locking in his customers, limiting their freedoms and then making enormous profits over these".
I have an iPod. I also have an iPad. How is this "walled garden" limiting me? I can find apps, developed by thousands of developers all over the world, or by me, and transfer my data to and from either device at will. Again, kindly provide a concrete example of how we are locked in.
No dissin' Woz, but what, exactly, did he do after Apple? Jobs left Apple, founded NeXT, Pixar, and then took a dying Apple and turned it around again.
If Jobs was "just a design marketing guy", how did success manage to follow him? And if Woz was the real key to Apple's success, why couldn't he turn that into something else, somewhere else?
Could anyone else have created the tech that Woz did? Probably. Could anyone else market it like Jobs? Obviously not.
In other news, in a spectacular ceremony at the Vatican, the Pope granted immediate sainthood to Ballmer, Gates, Ellison and Fiorina...
You guys already have that. Maybe it's not Apple selling it, but that stuff is out there. And how well are those companies doing?
The geek market is not the only market; it's a niche, at best. Apple sells to their customers: people who like simple things that work - most often - and don't require "man sometopic" to understand. If you're not in that market segment, go somewhere else. How hard is that to understand - especially for geeks?
I hear ya. I was driving along, one day, and my iPod, plugged into the Hyundai-provided connector, made my car swerve off the road, run over a puppy, and chase down some joggers before I was able to disconnect it. I swear, it was just like "Killdozer" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071717/
Fuckin' Apple crap - trying to make us do all sorts of sick shit...