What would make driving safer would be to require better qualifications and a different license class for 5'1" women to drive 12,000 pound, 20-foot trucks in parking lots designed for sedans and hatchbacks.
What would make driving safer would be to require better qualifications and a different license class for 5'1" women to drive trucks with 400 horsepower engines which are utilized primarily to travel the two blocks from the bank to the grocery store at 75MPH, tailgating everyone else on the road all the way.
That would be a start. Yeah, the radar might help too, but then again, perhaps there wouldn't be a ten-yard wide blind spot if a) the windows weren't five feet off the ground and b) if a more sensible vehicle size could be offered, like say, five tons instead of six.
post a link to your site, I want to see the site that took at least a 1000 hours to design
I'd be more interested in a site that gets one page view every five days. Now that would take a lot of work. Even just the search engine bots generate more traffic than that.
By the way, what does any of this have to do with Google? I notice nobody bothered to address the original question.
I haven't the foggiest idea what you're talking about. I suppose you know what Google "wants?"
We're not doing badly. Our daily pageviews are up 18,000% in 12 months, without a top 50 Google listing.
And just what is wrong with our sites as designed? Should we delete our keywords? Delete our descriptive paragraphs? I know! We should redesign our whole site (1000 hours of work at least) because Google doesn't like it. And then do it all over again every time Google says so.
I bet you were one of the sites that got blocked because you were filling pages with invisible text, or other such offenses that google won't stand for.
No.
We put keywords in meta elements, and keywords in the title. We have a short descriptive paragraph on our main pages. We just made sure our keywords and key phrases were popular and relevant to the site, and they were. We don't have invisible text or unnecessarily repeated words.
Site used to be in the top 50. Now it's not even in the top 200, and we don't have a lot of competition.
Two of our sites flat vanished from Google during the last change in the way sites are ranked. Ours had good keywords and descriptions too. Didn't matter at all.
I guess it's just part of the way things are done(tm) with computers. Every few months, everything breaks and you start over. Glad other industries don't work this way. We'd still be living in caves.
It's a wonderful way to run a business too: like running a neighborhood hardware store that teleports 500 miles every six weeks.
To export software or spreadsheets, somebody just needs to hit Return.
That about says it all. No wonder it's so easy to fire people. "All you do all day is hit return!"
This is what happens when people are asked to manage something they refuse to understand. Knowledge is destroyed and the economy is damaged. Think of the thousands of years and tens of millions of dollars worth of education that are being wasted right now.
"But isn't part of this country's vitality its ability to make these kinds of changes?" I counter. "We've done it before - going from farm to factory, from factory to knowledge work, and from knowledge work to whatever's next."
This isn't what makes discussions valuable. It's just talking to hear themselves sound intelligent.
64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems is only compatible with 64-bit
You will need 64-bit RAM and a 64-bit CPU and the latest versions of Disk64, Monitor64 and Soundcard64 with the extra-fast super-amazing 8064-bit VIDEOZAP ULTRA MEGA ZING FLAPPA ULTREON WOW VIDEO card.
Everything is obsolete again! Now all the Xbox games will have to be recompiled and repurchased! And all that wonderful happy talk about how games could be easily developed using DirectX goes straight into the crapper! Woohooo!
Once again, the bar is raised (or lowered depending on your POV) for game developers! Instead of using standard, simple and easy tools which would allow game developers to concentrate their effort (and money) on a good, well thought-out and well written game design, now game developers have to invent everything from the project equivalent of the Bronze Age to the Industrial Age in a standard development cycle!!
And of course, the moment an engine/game/toolset is debugged, stable and begins to improve workflow, the game press will declare it (echo effect) OB-SO-LEET and demand that the developers leap from their chairs to cram it into the nearest shithole and start over because this other unstable, buggy piece of shit engine says it can draw five more voxel-angles-a-second.
So, that means more sequels, more clones and more under-engineered over-graphicized $50 a box crap for everyone!! Yeah! Let's have a big round of applause!
(a small jazz ensemble in straw hats starts playing "Happy Days are Here Again")
You're right. I should change instead of asking middle managers to stop being liars.
I suppose next you'll tell me you've never worked for anyone else,
I've had dozens of jobs.
and have never had a "middle" manager as a boss.
Unfortunately, I've had far too many lying cheat rat-bastard middle management bosses.
And that your cute nickname here
I suppose the name is ironic. I wouldn't complain if I hadn't seen my career systematically destroyed by liars. I wouldn't complain if I didn't know for a fact that many of the people I know (some of whom have families) are likely to see the exact same thing happen to their careers, if it hasn't already.
I wouldn't complain if the years we all spent in school, and the years we all spent gaining professional technical experience and knowledge weren't all arbitrariliy declared "insufficient" by some committee, and recommended to be deleted from our resumes because it might confuse some stupid HR drone.
Our educations are valueless and our experience and knowledge are meaningless. What remains? Upon what should we build a career? How can we possibly, with a straight face, sign a 30-year mortgage and start saving for college funds with this as a "career?"
from geekdom into middle management over the years
That's good. I've never seen a middle manager promoted from a technical job. I think it's great to see people who know what they are doing promoted for a change, and I'm sure it improves the company a great deal.
The managers I have worked with were mostly promoted from the donut list, and were totally incompetent to do anything, except write down donut orders.:)
I've seen this crap everywhere I've worked. It's ridiculous.
I responded to the memo and asked for a definition of which particular pieces of Open Source software were either approved or unapproved.
lol And nobody knows what "Open Source" software is. Same thing happens at a lot of companies. All-important middle management announces sweeping policies without the foggiest idea what they are talking about.
I know a consultant who has a policy of "we use Linux or I quit." Seems to work.:)
Whatever was the case in the past, MM is now *all* about efficiency.
Which they seek to achieve by firing people, or, making people do shit work for shit wages in shit offices for shit companies who employ shithead managers. Batting 1.000 so far.
In many cases, they don't yet know what "something different" is or should be, but they are on the lookout for something - anything - that means they won't be leading their team into the unemployment office in 12 months' time.
No. They are looking for something - anything that means they won't be leading themselves into the unemployment office. They don't give a FUCK about their "team."
If you do it right, your MM will realise
No. Your middle manager will:
a) say "we should wait and see" and give no reason or schedule for it.
b) refuse outright
c) schedule a meeting and invite other people to tell the "idea person" to fuck off
The average middle manager wouldn't know a Postfix/procmail e-mail system if it crawled out of their ass, jumped up on their desk and did the tap number from 42nd street.
and is probably something you should show your Boss."
Corporate middle management is not interested in facts. They are not interested in improvement. They are not interested in efficiency that is not accomplished by either making people shovel shit or firing people.
Middle management seeks to maintain the status quo, and to do nothing unless it is absolutely necessary. Incompetence, bankruptcy, waste, stupidity, anything is better than trying and failing.
They have failed to learn that the raw materials for success are failures. They have failed to learn this because they do not listen. They do not seek the advice of people who know better than they do. Faced with irrefutable truth, middle management will very often if not always follow the path of maximum stupidity.
Therefore, middle management will very often if not always refuse to allow Linux to be used to improve their business. No accomplishment, no fact, nothing will change this. Discussing Linux with a middle manager is nothing more than an amusing waste of time.
Isn't it? How everyone is a fucking rocket scientist when it comes to warezzzzzzing the numbers on some picture of a sunset or some midwestern tourist landmark, but seven-letter words are beyond spelling correctly.
By the way, just to wander completely off-topic, Red Hat 9 is broken out of the box. The install program is enough to drain every last glimmer of light and goodness from a room, especially when it fails at 78% 11 times in a row, and then fucks itself into an infinite loop of "broken! try again? broken!"
Memorandum: An install program should always always ALWAYS have an option to continue CURRENT ERROR NOTWITHSTANDING unless that error involves a 50-foot wide chasm opening directly under the workstation.
By way of contrast, Red Hat 5.2 NEVER EVER, not even ONCE failed to install correctly.
Slashdot Mirror
What would make driving safer would be to require better qualifications and a different license class for 5'1" women to drive 12,000 pound, 20-foot trucks in parking lots designed for sedans and hatchbacks.
What would make driving safer would be to require better qualifications and a different license class for 5'1" women to drive trucks with 400 horsepower engines which are utilized primarily to travel the two blocks from the bank to the grocery store at 75MPH, tailgating everyone else on the road all the way.
That would be a start. Yeah, the radar might help too, but then again, perhaps there wouldn't be a ten-yard wide blind spot if a) the windows weren't five feet off the ground and b) if a more sensible vehicle size could be offered, like say, five tons instead of six.
Just a thought.
Wow. I said almost exactly the same thing and was modded "troll."
Not that it matters, since I have about 900 karma.
By the way, I agree.
post a link to your site, I want to see the site that took at least a 1000 hours to design
I'd be more interested in a site that gets one page view every five days. Now that would take a lot of work. Even just the search engine bots generate more traffic than that.
By the way, what does any of this have to do with Google? I notice nobody bothered to address the original question.
I haven't the foggiest idea what you're talking about. I suppose you know what Google "wants?"
We're not doing badly. Our daily pageviews are up 18,000% in 12 months, without a top 50 Google listing.
And just what is wrong with our sites as designed? Should we delete our keywords? Delete our descriptive paragraphs? I know! We should redesign our whole site (1000 hours of work at least) because Google doesn't like it. And then do it all over again every time Google says so.
Uh huh.
I bet you were one of the sites that got blocked because you were filling pages with invisible text, or other such offenses that google won't stand for.
No.
We put keywords in meta elements, and keywords in the title. We have a short descriptive paragraph on our main pages. We just made sure our keywords and key phrases were popular and relevant to the site, and they were. We don't have invisible text or unnecessarily repeated words.
Site used to be in the top 50. Now it's not even in the top 200, and we don't have a lot of competition.
Two of our sites flat vanished from Google during the last change in the way sites are ranked. Ours had good keywords and descriptions too. Didn't matter at all.
I guess it's just part of the way things are done(tm) with computers. Every few months, everything breaks and you start over. Glad other industries don't work this way. We'd still be living in caves.
It's a wonderful way to run a business too: like running a neighborhood hardware store that teleports 500 miles every six weeks.
Those ads depend on people clicking on them. If the percentage drops below a certain level, the ads disappear.
Now I may not be an advertising expert, but how can advertising be designed to depend on what other people do?
To export software or spreadsheets, somebody just needs to hit Return.
That about says it all. No wonder it's so easy to fire people. "All you do all day is hit return!"
This is what happens when people are asked to manage something they refuse to understand. Knowledge is destroyed and the economy is damaged. Think of the thousands of years and tens of millions of dollars worth of education that are being wasted right now.
"But isn't part of this country's vitality its ability to make these kinds of changes?" I counter. "We've done it before - going from farm to factory, from factory to knowledge work, and from knowledge work to whatever's next."
This isn't what makes discussions valuable. It's just talking to hear themselves sound intelligent.
Notice how the article starts with:
"here's the typical programmer: screaming, wide-eyed, posting stupid web sites, holding up signs"
"Now, here are the smiling faces of his replacements..."
Any questions on where this is going?
They just had to add one computer language, didn't they? Why not add a couple of text editors too?
Yamhill
Sounds like a tractor.
Ooooh, I never thought of that! Anyone have the benchmarks on how much faster solitare is in 64-bit? :)
Yeah. It gets about 520 frames per second on a half-gig video card. The bouncing card animation after winning takes about 0.8 seconds.
64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems is only compatible with 64-bit
You will need 64-bit RAM and a 64-bit CPU and the latest versions of Disk64, Monitor64 and Soundcard64 with the extra-fast super-amazing 8064-bit VIDEOZAP ULTRA MEGA ZING FLAPPA ULTREON WOW VIDEO card.
"Then can I write this 27-line spreadsheet?"
I wonder if a 64 bit OS will make any performance difference for the average desktop user.
Of course! We need an operating system that will support a pointer to all the RAM on the planet.
Everything is obsolete again! Now all the Xbox games will have to be recompiled and repurchased! And all that wonderful happy talk about how games could be easily developed using DirectX goes straight into the crapper! Woohooo!
Once again, the bar is raised (or lowered depending on your POV) for game developers! Instead of using standard, simple and easy tools which would allow game developers to concentrate their effort (and money) on a good, well thought-out and well written game design, now game developers have to invent everything from the project equivalent of the Bronze Age to the Industrial Age in a standard development cycle!!
And of course, the moment an engine/game/toolset is debugged, stable and begins to improve workflow, the game press will declare it (echo effect) OB-SO-LEET and demand that the developers leap from their chairs to cram it into the nearest shithole and start over because this other unstable, buggy piece of shit engine says it can draw five more voxel-angles-a-second.
So, that means more sequels, more clones and more under-engineered over-graphicized $50 a box crap for everyone!! Yeah! Let's have a big round of applause!
(a small jazz ensemble in straw hats starts playing "Happy Days are Here Again")
Your attitude is pathetic.
You're right. I should change instead of asking middle managers to stop being liars.
I suppose next you'll tell me you've never worked for anyone else,
I've had dozens of jobs.
and have never had a "middle" manager as a boss.
Unfortunately, I've had far too many lying cheat rat-bastard middle management bosses.
And that your cute nickname here
I suppose the name is ironic. I wouldn't complain if I hadn't seen my career systematically destroyed by liars. I wouldn't complain if I didn't know for a fact that many of the people I know (some of whom have families) are likely to see the exact same thing happen to their careers, if it hasn't already.
I wouldn't complain if the years we all spent in school, and the years we all spent gaining professional technical experience and knowledge weren't all arbitrariliy declared "insufficient" by some committee, and recommended to be deleted from our resumes because it might confuse some stupid HR drone.
Our educations are valueless and our experience and knowledge are meaningless. What remains? Upon what should we build a career? How can we possibly, with a straight face, sign a 30-year mortgage and start saving for college funds with this as a "career?"
from geekdom into middle management over the years
:)
That's good. I've never seen a middle manager promoted from a technical job. I think it's great to see people who know what they are doing promoted for a change, and I'm sure it improves the company a great deal.
The managers I have worked with were mostly promoted from the donut list, and were totally incompetent to do anything, except write down donut orders.
We must work for the same company! :-)
:)
I've seen this crap everywhere I've worked. It's ridiculous.
I responded to the memo and asked for a definition of which particular pieces of Open Source software were either approved or unapproved.
lol And nobody knows what "Open Source" software is. Same thing happens at a lot of companies. All-important middle management announces sweeping policies without the foggiest idea what they are talking about.
I know a consultant who has a policy of "we use Linux or I quit." Seems to work.
Whatever was the case in the past, MM is now *all* about efficiency.
Which they seek to achieve by firing people, or, making people do shit work for shit wages in shit offices for shit companies who employ shithead managers. Batting 1.000 so far.
In many cases, they don't yet know what "something different" is or should be, but they are on the lookout for something - anything - that means they won't be leading their team into the unemployment office in 12 months' time.
No. They are looking for something - anything that means they won't be leading themselves into the unemployment office. They don't give a FUCK about their "team."
If you do it right, your MM will realise
No. Your middle manager will:
a) say "we should wait and see" and give no reason or schedule for it.
b) refuse outright
c) schedule a meeting and invite other people to tell the "idea person" to fuck off
The average middle manager wouldn't know a Postfix/procmail e-mail system if it crawled out of their ass, jumped up on their desk and did the tap number from 42nd street.
It is, however, a truism that people will always belittle the group directly above them
That's nice. I don't work for a middle manager. In fact, I don't have a boss. How does that work into your forumula?
But in the end, maybe you'll realize that the managers above you are NOT there simply to make your life miserable.
No. They are there to protect their own fat-assed paycheck, even if that means taking a giant shit on everyone else.
But given a pessimistic attitude like yours, I wouldn't expect to climb much higher in the world than you already are. Maybe you're "happy" with that.
See above.
and is probably something you should show your Boss."
Corporate middle management is not interested in facts. They are not interested in improvement. They are not interested in efficiency that is not accomplished by either making people shovel shit or firing people.
Middle management seeks to maintain the status quo, and to do nothing unless it is absolutely necessary. Incompetence, bankruptcy, waste, stupidity, anything is better than trying and failing.
They have failed to learn that the raw materials for success are failures. They have failed to learn this because they do not listen. They do not seek the advice of people who know better than they do. Faced with irrefutable truth, middle management will very often if not always follow the path of maximum stupidity.
Therefore, middle management will very often if not always refuse to allow Linux to be used to improve their business. No accomplishment, no fact, nothing will change this. Discussing Linux with a middle manager is nothing more than an amusing waste of time.
Very healthy things to have on your resume.
And you actually think that anybody gives a flying fuck what's on a resume any more?
Isn't it? How everyone is a fucking rocket scientist when it comes to warezzzzzzing the numbers on some picture of a sunset or some midwestern tourist landmark, but seven-letter words are beyond spelling correctly.
By the way, just to wander completely off-topic, Red Hat 9 is broken out of the box. The install program is enough to drain every last glimmer of light and goodness from a room, especially when it fails at 78% 11 times in a row, and then fucks itself into an infinite loop of "broken! try again? broken!"
Memorandum: An install program should always always ALWAYS have an option to continue CURRENT ERROR NOTWITHSTANDING unless that error involves a 50-foot wide chasm opening directly under the workstation.
By way of contrast, Red Hat 5.2 NEVER EVER, not even ONCE failed to install correctly.
</rant>
Yeah, yeah. -1 Off-topic, troll, flamebait. Whatever. I've got about 879 karma anyway.
Those are the top ten commercials?
Apple? Coke? Of course.
But what about the monkey ad? What about the Bud Bowl? (The commercial with about eight sequels) Who voted for these?