Didn't Amazon have a similar flaw for quite a while? A negative number in the quantity would credit you back, if I remember correctly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.
Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
I was responding to the phrase 'genocides of German soldiers and contractors'. There is no entire race of German soldiers and contractors. There is not a German race either.
First of all, the word genocide does not mean what you think it means. Second of all, the prohibition was of using the 'just following orders' defense. Yes, the ones that gave the orders were liable. But, and this is what is applicable here, so was anyone committing war crimes under orders from their superiors. Not everyone following the Nazis, everyone committing crimes against humanity under orders.
Been there, done that. Would have got the T-shirt, except that Dave was too emotional about the situation.
I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.
Instead of leaving for a week, spend a week documenting what actually happened (or didn't) because you were there and imagining what else there is that could or could not happen due to your absence. After making your lists, categorize into kinds of services that have value and extrapolate from there. Now you have a list of what valued services you provide and a start of a more detailed way to categorize events and successes into what service they belong.
For example: 1. Server #xx load spike, killed rogue process 2. Migrate dept #xx to using server #yy for applications 3. New hire added to servers 4. Rewrote procedure #xx for clarity 5. UPS test 6. Investigated report of fan noise 7. Tracked down rogue wireless access point
Server maintenance 1, 2, 3, 6 Security 2, 4, 5, 7 User services 2, 3, 6
OK, now there are some tasks that overlap, either divide their time, or better split into two distinct jobs and assign each part of the task according to how much it belongs in each category.
When I did this, I found that with a requirement of too much detail I was averaging about 300 tasks per week, and obviously that made for a large amount of overhead keeping track of them with such fine granularity. I asked for, and eventually got, the ability to just account for tasks taking over a half hour with that much detail and assigning all the other time proportional to how many people there were in each area.
Why would it cost more than three times as much to bury fiber as I recently paid to get a water line ran? Plastic conduit is cheaper and easier to work with than copper pipe (by far). Have you paid for having anything ran from curbside to inside a house? I have.
The title usually abbreviated as USAPATRIOT, quoted from the bill itself is:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE- This Act may be cited as the `Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001'.
There is no such thing as a Patriot Act, there is a USAPATRIOT Act, calling it a Patriot Act makes it seem like it has something to do with patriotism, which it does not.
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Nice, I will have to watch this to see if it compromises the mission.
I always suspected that HAL's issues were not with the technology, but with the humans.
Wait, what? I don't think that is what they died for. Not that I was there or anything.
It is famous, isn't it? I feel so much better now.
So, actually not a malfunction. Working as designed. Thank you kind sir.
Could be, I don't remember.
Wish I had mod points. Insightful +1
Didn't Amazon have a similar flaw for quite a while? A negative number in the quantity would credit you back, if I remember correctly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I did enjoy that line.
Even though the mission is the most important thing to keep in mind, I do find these other references to be of interest.
Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.
Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
I was responding to the phrase 'genocides of German soldiers and contractors'. There is no entire race of German soldiers and contractors. There is not a German race either.
First of all, the word genocide does not mean what you think it means. Second of all, the prohibition was of using the 'just following orders' defense. Yes, the ones that gave the orders were liable. But, and this is what is applicable here, so was anyone committing war crimes under orders from their superiors. Not everyone following the Nazis, everyone committing crimes against humanity under orders.
So, in your world the Nurenberg defense should have worked?
Been there, done that. Would have got the T-shirt, except that Dave was too emotional about the situation.
I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.
Instead of leaving for a week, spend a week documenting what actually happened (or didn't) because you were there and imagining what else there is that could or could not happen due to your absence. After making your lists, categorize into kinds of services that have value and extrapolate from there. Now you have a list of what valued services you provide and a start of a more detailed way to categorize events and successes into what service they belong.
For example:
1. Server #xx load spike, killed rogue process
2. Migrate dept #xx to using server #yy for applications
3. New hire added to servers
4. Rewrote procedure #xx for clarity
5. UPS test
6. Investigated report of fan noise
7. Tracked down rogue wireless access point
Server maintenance 1, 2, 3, 6
Security 2, 4, 5, 7
User services 2, 3, 6
OK, now there are some tasks that overlap, either divide their time, or better split into two distinct jobs and assign each part of the task according to how much it belongs in each category.
When I did this, I found that with a requirement of too much detail I was averaging about 300 tasks per week, and obviously that made for a large amount of overhead keeping track of them with such fine granularity. I asked for, and eventually got, the ability to just account for tasks taking over a half hour with that much detail and assigning all the other time proportional to how many people there were in each area.
YMMV - HTH
I have got to call bullshite on that assertion.
Why would it cost more than three times as much to bury fiber as I recently paid to get a water line ran? Plastic conduit is cheaper and easier to work with than copper pipe (by far). Have you paid for having anything ran from curbside to inside a house? I have.
There is no such thing as a Patriot Act, there is a USAPATRIOT Act, calling it a Patriot Act makes it seem like it has something to do with patriotism, which it does not.
If I am creating a shield against hand grenades, and it is not legal under any circumstances to have a hand grenade, then how shall I test my product?
That was unkind of you, I was under duress.
Don't make me post the transcripts of recordings I have of you.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.