Yes, but soon a new MS patch with alter the docx format slightly so they will all break again in anything other than the most recent version of MS Office.
Let's hope it's quicker to re-install. I never had to re-install MS Office before the 2013 version came out but since then I've lost track of how many machines it's been fucked up that badly on. Maybe they should roll the codebase back to the 2010 version and go on from there.
Without hardware knowledge people do stupid shit like sort on disk instead of in memory. A lot more of that happens in scientific and engineering computing than it should, sometimes wasting many hours of time per project.
Stop giving cutting-edge technology to your people in IT because most of the rest of the company (or the world, if you work with the Web) never has cutting-edge hardware either.
Spot on. Unmentored young developers with uber-machines who ran nothing but MS stuff with full admin rights were a blight on software for years because they expected everyone else to have the same. The only thing that's saved us recently is that poorly skilled programmers can only do single threaded stuff so multiple cores cuts down on the pain.
Depends - I was one of those and since the number of employees in my section was not large and the tasks were not frequently changing the skill level required was not high. 25 year old "supervisors" are fine if they have someone to fall back on when they are not, and if they know to do so when they are out of their depth.
Because without some sort of constraint of the plot device it removes a whole lot of plot opportunities (and a constraint makes things look a bit less like magic). For instance why bother having Starfleet at all if you can teleport instantly by belt-buckle to the Klingon homeworld?
That is a stupid thing to say in one way, and an insightful thing to say in another.
Analogies are like that - meant to shine light on a thing without actually being the thing. However you didn't get to the end of it - "bbq in synagogue level squared". I suggest you reply to what is written instead of a strawman - that shit is getting old.
because you do not believe in
Yes your iimaginary strawman in your head is a prick - how about being brave enough to deal with reality instead of yelling at shadows? Also learn about Wilders - he's opposed to freedom of speech and freedom of any religeon apart from his own sub-sect - so if you are a Baptist, Catholic, Methodist and so on you are evil in his eyes. On race, if you've got anything other than pure Dutch blood and a Dutch upbringing you are evil in his eyes. So the standoff is one piece of shit baiting a different sort of piece of shit.
It's about pissing on beliefs. an analogy is an analogy. I'm sure you can choose a different analogy that makes more sense to you if you try hard enough instead of arguing two or three levels removed from the actual issue. Anyway, here's a clue. The bait is in Texas so unclean American blood can be spilled instead of clean Dutch blood. Wilders is not on your side. The guys that want to shoot him are not on your side either.
Were the sexual comments directed towards the person in the article?
Does it matter? It was probably enough to potentially drive kids away as the author is suggesting.
Is this an individual teenager complaining
The incident appears to have happened so we don't need a statistically significant number of complaints, just that it happened is enough for it to be used as an example to illustrate a point as is done in the article.
What facts exist that point to the Lena image being the exclusive cause of the "boys' sexual comments?"
The chain is events is pretty obvious, whether other incidents are going to happen or not this one was caused by a preventable fuckup by a teacher and the author then took steps to try to prevent it happening again.
The whole thing is written by a teen
Which is why some of the attacks on her by posters other than yourself are deplorable. Young or not, she's getting hassles in a computer class that have nothing to do with the subject and I think she has a point with the source of it. Maybe think of it like a missing bit of railing on a platform - an obvious accident waiting to happen, easy to fix, so why not fix it?
and the choice of Lena's image in particular
The problem is the teacher asking the students to search for it instead of merely providing the image which would be the professional thing to do. Allowing teenage boys to find the source and then bully other kids based on the baggage associated with Playboy is the unprofessional thing to do IMHO. I had enough trouble with first year engineering boys bullying the few girls in my classes so I think I can imagine what high school boys would be like in this situation.
It's a pity this issue has been blown so far out of proportion to be a "Friday night fight" about women in IT and engineering.
This whole thing is just an example to illustrate the problem of girls getting a hard time in class, so while discussions about the place of nudity in society may be interesting they have little or nothing to do with TFA.
Muslims and Arabs and Africans are free to practice their unique ways in their own countries. There is simply no reason for those people to be in Europe
Consider those words and then consider the vast majority of migrants to the colonies in America. The entire place was based on being able to run things differently to the way the Catholic and English churches wanted people to run their lives.
It's all fun and games until their trolling incites someone to successfully blow up some innocent kids that have been dragged along by their idiot parents. Even if it's just the idiot parents that get blown up it's a stupidly high price for the sake of stirring up a bit of hate for fun. At best they are fanning the flames and turning people who wouldn't consider joining extremists into being extremists.
To avoid posts like yours I put the following on my first post as a sort of intelligence test:
I am in no way defending either the loud xenophobic fascist Wilders or anyone that wants to take a shot at him.
Guess how you did in the test? I don't know whether it's attention span that let you down, but for some reason you've been arguing with a strawman all this time despite the obvious signpost above.
Recalibrate. I'm sure you're not a stupid or bad person... just, recalibrate.
Rather arrogant, especially when you didn't even pay attention to what my view on the topic is!
It's quite simple. "Deliberate pissing on beliefs" is generally good when the beliefs are crap
You should note that the belief you say is crap is the belief of not worshipping idols - one which you probably share. In my mind the crap is the extremes it gets taken to and how they react about it (eg. murder). Good job in blowing a molehill of a post that was really about deliberately poking the bear into a mountain over other stuff because apparently it wasn't interesting enough. The personal attack with "You need to get your... *something* re-calibrated" is a nice touch.
Oh so I've got to "correct my worldview" with some random goatse link or something instead of expressing freedom of speech - funny how libertarians do that when someone wants to say something other than propaganda they want to spread.
This thing in Texas was a deliberate case of shouting fire in a crowded theatre - you can do it but consequences should be expected.
I am in no way defending them but that still does not change this being a stupid stunt carried out by a man that's almost as bad as the people you describe.
It may not be hard to do, but deliberate trolling is definitely what is going on. It looks like it's counterproductive and just adds more fuel to those who want to recruit more radicals. "See this thing in Texas kids, it means all of America hates us - so sign up now to teach them what we taught the Russians in Afganistan". That's how it goes. Stupid in every level (especially the bit about the Russians but they do believe it) but still just adding fuel to the flames for a bit of personal publicity aided by useful idiots.
Then join with me in BBQ pig in a synagogue. Surely they'd be no reaction to that? I may not share beliefs with them but I can recognise deliberate pissing on beliefs to draw a response when I see it.
That's the level of deliberate stirring we're seeing and it is designed to get a response - bbq in synagogue level squared. If I was in law enforcement in that place I'd make them have their international trollfest way out in the desert so bystanders don't get killed if someone takes the bait.
He's definitely one, the others are something else and something worse because they are prepared to murder him just because he is spouting his beliefs. Happy now? Or did I disappoint you be being a real person that thinks both sides in this issue are deplorable and not a handy strawman on one side or the other?
Come on now, if you try very hard to get people angry why the shock when it happens? I am in no way defending either the loud xenophobic fascist Wilders or anyone that wants to take a shot at him.
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Yes, but soon a new MS patch with alter the docx format slightly so they will all break again in anything other than the most recent version of MS Office.
Let's hope it's quicker to re-install. I never had to re-install MS Office before the 2013 version came out but since then I've lost track of how many machines it's been fucked up that badly on.
Maybe they should roll the codebase back to the 2010 version and go on from there.
Without hardware knowledge people do stupid shit like sort on disk instead of in memory.
A lot more of that happens in scientific and engineering computing than it should, sometimes wasting many hours of time per project.
Spot on. Unmentored young developers with uber-machines who ran nothing but MS stuff with full admin rights were a blight on software for years because they expected everyone else to have the same. The only thing that's saved us recently is that poorly skilled programmers can only do single threaded stuff so multiple cores cuts down on the pain.
Depends - I was one of those and since the number of employees in my section was not large and the tasks were not frequently changing the skill level required was not high. 25 year old "supervisors" are fine if they have someone to fall back on when they are not, and if they know to do so when they are out of their depth.
Because without some sort of constraint of the plot device it removes a whole lot of plot opportunities (and a constraint makes things look a bit less like magic).
For instance why bother having Starfleet at all if you can teleport instantly by belt-buckle to the Klingon homeworld?
Analogies are like that - meant to shine light on a thing without actually being the thing.
However you didn't get to the end of it - "bbq in synagogue level squared". I suggest you reply to what is written instead of a strawman - that shit is getting old.
Yes your iimaginary strawman in your head is a prick - how about being brave enough to deal with reality instead of yelling at shadows?
Also learn about Wilders - he's opposed to freedom of speech and freedom of any religeon apart from his own sub-sect - so if you are a Baptist, Catholic, Methodist and so on you are evil in his eyes. On race, if you've got anything other than pure Dutch blood and a Dutch upbringing you are evil in his eyes. So the standoff is one piece of shit baiting a different sort of piece of shit.
It's about pissing on beliefs. an analogy is an analogy. I'm sure you can choose a different analogy that makes more sense to you if you try hard enough instead of arguing two or three levels removed from the actual issue.
Anyway, here's a clue. The bait is in Texas so unclean American blood can be spilled instead of clean Dutch blood. Wilders is not on your side. The guys that want to shoot him are not on your side either.
Does it matter? It was probably enough to potentially drive kids away as the author is suggesting.
The incident appears to have happened so we don't need a statistically significant number of complaints, just that it happened is enough for it to be used as an example to illustrate a point as is done in the article.
The chain is events is pretty obvious, whether other incidents are going to happen or not this one was caused by a preventable fuckup by a teacher and the author then took steps to try to prevent it happening again.
Which is why some of the attacks on her by posters other than yourself are deplorable. Young or not, she's getting hassles in a computer class that have nothing to do with the subject and I think she has a point with the source of it. Maybe think of it like a missing bit of railing on a platform - an obvious accident waiting to happen, easy to fix, so why not fix it?
The problem is the teacher asking the students to search for it instead of merely providing the image which would be the professional thing to do. Allowing teenage boys to find the source and then bully other kids based on the baggage associated with Playboy is the unprofessional thing to do IMHO. I had enough trouble with first year engineering boys bullying the few girls in my classes so I think I can imagine what high school boys would be like in this situation.
It's a pity this issue has been blown so far out of proportion to be a "Friday night fight" about women in IT and engineering.
From the article:
This whole thing is just an example to illustrate the problem of girls getting a hard time in class, so while discussions about the place of nudity in society may be interesting they have little or nothing to do with TFA.
I wrote as much way above in my first post did I not? It's indefensible.
Consider those words and then consider the vast majority of migrants to the colonies in America. The entire place was based on being able to run things differently to the way the Catholic and English churches wanted people to run their lives.
It's all fun and games until their trolling incites someone to successfully blow up some innocent kids that have been dragged along by their idiot parents. Even if it's just the idiot parents that get blown up it's a stupidly high price for the sake of stirring up a bit of hate for fun.
At best they are fanning the flames and turning people who wouldn't consider joining extremists into being extremists.
So I'm lying terrorist scum now am I?
How simplisticly stupid. See basic road safety for kids if you want to see how easily your accusation breaks down.
Guess how you did in the test? I don't know whether it's attention span that let you down, but for some reason you've been arguing with a strawman all this time despite the obvious signpost above.
Rather arrogant, especially when you didn't even pay attention to what my view on the topic is!
You should note that the belief you say is crap is the belief of not worshipping idols - one which you probably share. In my mind the crap is the extremes it gets taken to and how they react about it (eg. murder).
Good job in blowing a molehill of a post that was really about deliberately poking the bear into a mountain over other stuff because apparently it wasn't interesting enough. The personal attack with "You need to get your... *something* re-calibrated" is a nice touch.
"I am in no way defending either the loud xenophobic fascist Wilders or anyone that wants to take a shot at him."
Now I suggest you get off the computer before your daddy comes back and wonders why you are on his account lying about what people have written.
Sometimes it can be expected. This is one of those times.
No, he is not cooking a pig in a mosque. Look up analogy or stop pretending you are too stupid to understand what I have written.
Oh so I've got to "correct my worldview" with some random goatse link or something instead of expressing freedom of speech - funny how libertarians do that when someone wants to say something other than propaganda they want to spread.
This thing in Texas was a deliberate case of shouting fire in a crowded theatre - you can do it but consequences should be expected.
He's not into that sort of stuff.
It may not be hard to do, but deliberate trolling is definitely what is going on.
It looks like it's counterproductive and just adds more fuel to those who want to recruit more radicals. "See this thing in Texas kids, it means all of America hates us - so sign up now to teach them what we taught the Russians in Afganistan". That's how it goes. Stupid in every level (especially the bit about the Russians but they do believe it) but still just adding fuel to the flames for a bit of personal publicity aided by useful idiots.
Then join with me in BBQ pig in a synagogue. Surely they'd be no reaction to that? I may not share beliefs with them but I can recognise deliberate pissing on beliefs to draw a response when I see it.
That's the level of deliberate stirring we're seeing and it is designed to get a response - bbq in synagogue level squared. If I was in law enforcement in that place I'd make them have their international trollfest way out in the desert so bystanders don't get killed if someone takes the bait.
You clearly know almost nothing about him
He's definitely one, the others are something else and something worse because they are prepared to murder him just because he is spouting his beliefs.
Happy now? Or did I disappoint you be being a real person that thinks both sides in this issue are deplorable and not a handy strawman on one side or the other?
Come on now, if you try very hard to get people angry why the shock when it happens?
I am in no way defending either the loud xenophobic fascist Wilders or anyone that wants to take a shot at him.