Unfortunately it's become fashionable in the US to profess your ignorance and stupidity. Although most people would still be ashamed to admit it if they were illiterate they proudly proclaim that they "know nothing about computers" or "can't do math".
There is nothing wrong with admitting you don't something and doing something about it. The unfortunate thing is when people fake knowledge and don't admit to ignorance or stupidity
Of course it does not help that the chattering classes continually sneer at the "intellectual elite" and bash the educated every opportunity they get. These days having an "east coast education" is out of fashion but listening to Toby Keith CDs all the rage.
I never knew education was considered elite. BTW I'm no good at maths or grammar, yet I can fix computers in my sleep and have a top 5% IQ rating, what does that make me?
Considering Reformatting can be easier and quicker than trying to hunt down all the spyware or your not certain you got all of it out. Then there is a good reson to format it is also easier for less computer literate people to do than go hunting around the registrey. There are plenty of times when it's worth reformatting because it is the quickest simpelest way especially when you don't have to worry about keeping any data. You don't have much experience of fixing problems and can be safley ignored
let the damn cheaters have office. There's precedent here that isn't worth challenging.
That's a very good way to start a war, when people know that there are cheaters in office they tend to want them out of office and are prepared to go to great lengths to get them out.
Witness Ukraine where a lot of people don't want a suspected cheater to take office they are threatening to become independent, something that would spark civil war. Yet you think letting the suspected cheater take office anyway would stop a civil war! Judging by the real world example your wrong.
As for saying there is precedent that's a pathetic excuse, what happened to Americas "moral" majority.
The CDs that you refer to are "crap", "old" ones or "grey imports" that the music UK [music] industry is trying to ban.
Tried and failed they may not be able to import from hong kong anymore but they can't stop them from importing from other countries in the EU at least not without being fined out of existance by the EU. Don't cuss his music tastes because he's not desperatley waiting for the next Shiteny spears release. IF you own a car you must get water in your petrol tank all the time.
Stop eating at the RITZ and you will get £2:00 a pint and £5:00 steak (yuck) dinners like the rest of us. if you can afford that you are rich or a labour MP.
Nah it's just the idiots who were buying have been embarressed out of buying them. Any nation that produces Briteney Spears and then actually turns her into more than a one "hit" wonder has no right to talk about crapflooding.;)
When it's this close it doesn't matter. It is within the margin of error of the system, so it is effectively a tie. You may as well flip a coin, or have the candidates arm wrestle to decide it. Recounting the votes will not give you a more accurate picture of the public's opinion
It's because of comments like this that American democracy is held in such low regard outside of the US.
Mark parent up insightful. When there are only tens of votes difference any politician in any country in world would ask for a recount, this should to ensure the result is beyond reproach.
Well, in reality I've noticed that most of his work on Thursdays and especially Fridays is very buggy. Also, he rarely has to fix his own bugs. He tends to introduce bugs into other people's code by refusing to step back and understand the whole system when he's in a rush to get work done. Then, the bug appears to have been caused by the developer who normally maintains that section so that developer ends up fixing it. I don't feel that it's worth me and several other developers giving up one day a week just to fix the bugs that this guy can generate in two days. He's reducing several people's productivity, not just his own.
This how we identify bad contractors were I work. When others pickup on his bugs make sure the work is sent back to him and only him to work on. Don't accept it until it is at least adequate. In addition to this create a report (weekly or monthly) of how much work is accepted i.e. actually done, you will want to include everyone for comparison and to not to look like your singling him out.
When you have enough to show a trend (PHB's love reports and can understand situations normally beyond there grasp with the help of one) go to someone in management and ask there advice on how to deal with this troubling situation (by asking or advice your creating the impression that this a serious and/or difficult problem), that your senior programmer is spending a lot of time in the office but is not doing as much work as everyone else, if he is the "darling" of management suggest that he could be overworked and that your concerned that's he's burning himself out.
We use the report were I work as a way of identifying which contractors really are doing the work and who just looks like there working hard.
much like the scene in Fight Club where they're discussing that it's cheaper to deal with the defects than to do recalls . . .
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere travelling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one.
Here's two real life examples of this kind of thinking Ford and Chevrolet. In both these cases the car manufacturer knew about the problems but figured it was cheaper to pay out any court cost rather than fix the problem.
we should probably have warnings on powder blue crayons too. cause god know how bad it is when one of those gets jammed up your nose and i know from experience that this happens all the time same with screwdrivers and pencils and pens, and come to think of it every other pointy object, they dont have warnings- it must be ok. There comes a point when people stop paying attention to warnings because they already know that they know better, which is often the case- the problem with this is that more often than not, truly important warnings get glossed over becuase they are assumed to be the regular "do not light on fire", "not to be taken internally", etc...... extended warranty, how can i lose!
Those are all obvious. do you think that it's obviouse your cell phone could explode?
It's true you can't help some people no matter what you do, but does that meen the more inteligent members of society who do read warnings should potentially suffer for the others stupidity.
I don't get why they don't want to put a warning on. Usually companies put the stupidest of warnings on just to make sure they can't be sued for not warning people.
I'm cowering in fear of the morons in security who haven't got the brains or basic good sense of the plastic crochet hooks they confiscate from grannies.
You fool they could have someone's eye's out with those hooks.
That was something my granny used to say whenever I picked up something she didn't want me to touch, even if it was the size of my head. Ironically she was often doing crochet.
You can't really own it, just manage it, because it's everybody's and nobody's at the same time. - aha, that kind of thinking exactly worked great for the former USSR, why, they are still around to boast their might. Oh wait, no they are not. Everything belonged to noone and to everyone at once, so amazing management possibilities opened up if you know what I am talking about...
Well the USSR didn't pratice what it preached. secondly it doesn't work for everything just things like the airwaves the sea etc. Next we will be seing sections of irspace being sold of to airline companys.
I hope they make provision for the amateur bands and we (radio enthusiasts) don't have to club together to buy them. I wonder if licenses will be required still?
Oh, I am quite certain that the government will forgo making some money auctioning off radio spectrum to help a small and politically insignificant group. Having said that I hope they do but for some reason I have my doubts. I seem to grow more cynical about governments with each passing year.
More interestingly, the Review suggests that it would be a good idea to allow some people to increase the broadcast power in the unlicensed bands, to allow longer-range links in rural areas. The problem, he acknowledged, was how to define what areas ARE rural, and how the devices will now whether they are in a rural area: "We're about to kick off a research program, on how best to do this in a practical sense."
well from the above they seem to have plans to improve it also there is still the Citizen band the only one amateur are allowed to use anyway.
By the way there is a diffrence between ofcom and the government. The government sets the laws, ofcom setup there regulations around the law and are the ones who will be responsible for the auctions. Ofcom have certain duties to ensure that customers get a good service.
Your right if it was the government this announcement would state 100% to be sold including citizen band and the bit owned by the military.
if by hoarding, you mean people buying up spectrum and not actually using it, I don't think it's possible. Assuming prices are allowed to float freely, spectrum will be expensive. If you buy it and don't use it, it's like buying an expensive piece of real estate and not building anything there.
Well by hoarding you can make it even more expensive and sell at a higher profit. Diamonds and other gems are expensive but companies still hoard them away to make sure they stay expensive.
Once their franchise was lost, the Government took over running of the South East railways setting up South Eastern Trains. The service is pretty good, there's a new fleet of trains on the way, the stations are being updated, new ticket services are being introduced and more checks are carried out on tickets. However, as i happened to read in the Private Eye (Today as it happens), the Government seem set to hand over control to another private franchise. Oh well, i'll have stopped going to college by then i hope!
Typical Government thinking "it failed so why don't we try it again and again.... and again....and again", when will they Listen to those that advise them.
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There is nothing wrong with admitting you don't something and doing something about it. The unfortunate thing is when people fake knowledge and don't admit to ignorance or stupidity
Of course it does not help that the chattering classes continually sneer at the "intellectual elite" and bash the educated every opportunity they get. These days having an "east coast education" is out of fashion but listening to Toby Keith CDs all the rage.
I never knew education was considered elite. BTW I'm no good at maths or grammar, yet I can fix computers in my sleep and have a top 5% IQ rating, what does that make me?
Considering Reformatting can be easier and quicker than trying to hunt down all the spyware or your not certain you got all of it out. Then there is a good reson to format it is also easier for less computer literate people to do than go hunting around the registrey. There are plenty of times when it's worth reformatting because it is the quickest simpelest way especially when you don't have to worry about keeping any data. You don't have much experience of fixing problems and can be safley ignored
Maybe he's not American.
That's a very good way to start a war, when people know that there are cheaters in office they tend to want them out of office and are prepared to go to great lengths to get them out.
Witness Ukraine where a lot of people don't want a suspected cheater to take office they are threatening to become independent, something that would spark civil war. Yet you think letting the suspected cheater take office anyway would stop a civil war! Judging by the real world example your wrong.
As for saying there is precedent that's a pathetic excuse, what happened to Americas "moral" majority.
putting it like that is practially an admission you are.
Tried and failed they may not be able to import from hong kong anymore but they can't stop them from importing from other countries in the EU at least not without being fined out of existance by the EU. Don't cuss his music tastes because he's not desperatley waiting for the next Shiteny spears release. IF you own a car you must get water in your petrol tank all the time.
Stop eating at the RITZ and you will get £2:00 a pint and £5:00 steak (yuck) dinners like the rest of us. if you can afford that you are rich or a labour MP.
It means you have taste. "streets" makes me want to slit my wrists.
Fleetwood Mac
Peter green
Pink Floyd
Mettalica (until i heard of there stance and refuse to buy anymore how ironic)
Alicia Keyes
Frank sinatra
Robert Johnson
Jefferson Airplane
Mike oldfield
William Orbit
steve vai
And i cant be bothered to go on but that's about half of them, all have benefitted from me being able to download there music via P2P.
Who buys a pirate DVD? have these people never heard of P2P?
Nah it's just the idiots who were buying have been embarressed out of buying them. Any nation that produces Briteney Spears and then actually turns her into more than a one "hit" wonder has no right to talk about crapflooding. ;)
According to the history no one has touched that page for about 20 days and then there are 15 entries all from today.
It's because of comments like this that American democracy is held in such low regard outside of the US.
Mark parent up insightful. When there are only tens of votes difference any politician in any country in world would ask for a recount, this should to ensure the result is beyond reproach.
This how we identify bad contractors were I work. When others pickup on his bugs make sure the work is sent back to him and only him to work on. Don't accept it until it is at least adequate. In addition to this create a report (weekly or monthly) of how much work is accepted i.e. actually done, you will want to include everyone for comparison and to not to look like your singling him out.
When you have enough to show a trend (PHB's love reports and can understand situations normally beyond there grasp with the help of one) go to someone in management and ask there advice on how to deal with this troubling situation (by asking or advice your creating the impression that this a serious and/or difficult problem), that your senior programmer is spending a lot of time in the office but is not doing as much work as everyone else, if he is the "darling" of management suggest that he could be overworked and that your concerned that's he's burning himself out.
We use the report were I work as a way of identifying which contractors really are doing the work and who just looks like there working hard.
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere travelling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one.
Here's two real life examples of this kind of thinking Ford and Chevrolet. In both these cases the car manufacturer knew about the problems but figured it was cheaper to pay out any court cost rather than fix the problem.
Those are all obvious. do you think that it's obviouse your cell phone could explode?
It's true you can't help some people no matter what you do, but does that meen the more inteligent members of society who do read warnings should potentially suffer for the others stupidity.
I don't get why they don't want to put a warning on. Usually companies put the stupidest of warnings on just to make sure they can't be sued for not warning people.
You fool they could have someone's eye's out with those hooks.
That was something my granny used to say whenever I picked up something she didn't want me to touch, even if it was the size of my head. Ironically she was often doing crochet.
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Well the USSR didn't pratice what it preached. secondly it doesn't work for everything just things like the airwaves the sea etc. Next we will be seing sections of irspace being sold of to airline companys.
Oh, I am quite certain that the government will forgo making some money auctioning off radio spectrum to help a small and politically insignificant group. Having said that I hope they do but for some reason I have my doubts. I seem to grow more cynical about governments with each passing year.
More interestingly, the Review suggests that it would be a good idea to allow some people to increase the broadcast power in the unlicensed bands, to allow longer-range links in rural areas. The problem, he acknowledged, was how to define what areas ARE rural, and how the devices will now whether they are in a rural area: "We're about to kick off a research program, on how best to do this in a practical sense."
well from the above they seem to have plans to improve it also there is still the Citizen band the only one amateur are allowed to use anyway.
By the way there is a diffrence between ofcom and the government. The government sets the laws, ofcom setup there regulations around the law and are the ones who will be responsible for the auctions. Ofcom have certain duties to ensure that customers get a good service.
Your right if it was the government this announcement would state 100% to be sold including citizen band and the bit owned by the military.
Well by hoarding you can make it even more expensive and sell at a higher profit. Diamonds and other gems are expensive but companies still hoard them away to make sure they stay expensive.
Typical Government thinking "it failed so why don't we try it again and again.... and again....and again", when will they Listen to those that advise them.
Didn't you know there is a difference between government and the public sector?