Like how 'initialization' was change to 'instantiation'.
Oh, but there is a difference. Any CS graduate would be happy to explain it to you. And in the hour or so that this takes, you and I could get a couple of hundred lines of code written.
... would have been to install hidden compartments for different customers for various uses.
"Sure. Its possible some of my compartments may have been used for drugs. But look at all the people who use them to hide valuables from car prowlers and guns from kids."
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
Of the 61 directors who failed to get majority approval, only six actually stepped down or were asked to resign. Fifty-one are still in place, as of the most recent proxy filings.
61 - ( 51 + 6 ) = 4
The other four were dragged out and burned at the stake by irate shareholders. Encourage this response and I'm certain the other BoD members will straighten their acts out. You only need to make a few examples.
I've worked in businesses which had the opposite attitude. I got paid for what I knew, not necessarily for what I was doing.
It's up to management to allocate resources correctly. So its not an individual's fault if they get assigned the occasional job that is beneath them. And when times get tough, good management is apt to protect their more capable people and keep them busy with whatever work is available.
Boeing used to build furniture. Not because they wanted to be in that business. Or even because they could be competitive in it. It was a way for them to keep their skilled carpenters (when airplanes were made of wood) employed during tough times.
Not just pay, but IT people in small firms get involved in much more diverse tasks than one would in a large cloud center.
Instead of spending your life chasing cable through raised floors, you cold be working lots of admin tasks, troubleshooting desktops, helping management spec h/w and s/w acquisition. Maybe even a bit of application development and testing.
What they'd get is a population that isn't held in a constant state of fear as an excuse to fund their expensive military apparatus and all those generals. That's where the real political power lies. When they can stop diverting so much GDP to that nonsense, they will begin to thrive.
And once they figure out how to pull this off, they can tell us so we can do the same.
whoever can talk the most BS gets funded. Speak clearly and they ignore you, use meaningless buzzwords and they buy in.
Yes, I have a low opinion of all businessmen, fucking retards to the end.
It's amazing how many people think like that. Tell some startup that they need to put some more thought into their business plan and they stomp off, saying
You can go fuck yourself.
Word gets around. And people who aren't willing to take constructive criticism will get shunned by everyone. Keep in mind that most startups fail because of poor business planning, financing or marketing. Not crappy technology. You might have the neatest gizmo on the Internet. But if you can't demonstrate that you can bring it to market, you are worthless. If you are wiling to take a few rejections gracefully and listen to advice, eventually someone might fund you.
Thankfully, most VC funds don't advertise information about failures. Or someone like Reuters might start putting together lists of would be entrepreneurs who are repeat screw-ups.
Slashdot Mirror
This is Facebook we're talking about,
Not just FB, all social media*. Come on, Kimomaru, cough it up.
I've posted a few spicy tidbits about Boeing. I'm waiting for a knock at the door.
*OK, I suppose we could classify Slashdot as anti-social media.
That would be just great for the E911 system. Ask someone to enter a four digit code while they are being raped/stabbed/beaten to death.
Like how 'initialization' was change to 'instantiation'.
Oh, but there is a difference. Any CS graduate would be happy to explain it to you. And in the hour or so that this takes, you and I could get a couple of hundred lines of code written.
That would be the "I wish never to do business with you" button on their web site.
It's not like the airlines are packing customers in like freight.
The industry acronym for passengers is SLF (self loading freight).
I'm sure you don't want your wife to see any porn you've visited,
I don't know about that. "Study this, honey. Be ready for tonight."
From TFA:
that private users may want to toggle "off."
Implying that this feature is on by default. Bad idea. Such a feature should be off and very, very difficult to enable accidentally.
The Iphone is awesome for porn!
And so the phrase "you're holding it wrong" is born.
One-handed operation,
Speak for yourself.
I can't tell either. Is marketing gibberish left or right associative?
"What do you mean, 'large quantities of cash', your honor? Everyone knows this stuff is worthless. My clients hide it to avoid embarrassment."
I guess we really were never supposed to win.
Not in California. Possessing wealth is prima facie evidence of wrongdoing.
Editors can go into the future and fetch news that isn't quite so old.
"Sure. Its possible some of my compartments may have been used for drugs. But look at all the people who use them to hide valuables from car prowlers and guns from kids."
Ixnay on the otray irteenthay.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
That's how we dealt with drive bearing noise back in my day, kid.
Now get off my lawn!
Of the 61 directors who failed to get majority approval, only six actually stepped down or were asked to resign. Fifty-one are still in place, as of the most recent proxy filings.
61 - ( 51 + 6 ) = 4
The other four were dragged out and burned at the stake by irate shareholders. Encourage this response and I'm certain the other BoD members will straighten their acts out. You only need to make a few examples.
I've worked in businesses which had the opposite attitude. I got paid for what I knew, not necessarily for what I was doing.
It's up to management to allocate resources correctly. So its not an individual's fault if they get assigned the occasional job that is beneath them. And when times get tough, good management is apt to protect their more capable people and keep them busy with whatever work is available.
Boeing used to build furniture. Not because they wanted to be in that business. Or even because they could be competitive in it. It was a way for them to keep their skilled carpenters (when airplanes were made of wood) employed during tough times.
Instead of spending your life chasing cable through raised floors, you cold be working lots of admin tasks, troubleshooting desktops, helping management spec h/w and s/w acquisition. Maybe even a bit of application development and testing.
Good catch.
I get "Twylyte" with ispell --mode Zappa
Thanks. I was wondering who would be interested in seeing a bunch of message boxes with little Mac smiley faces or pictures of bombs.
What they'd get is a population that isn't held in a constant state of fear as an excuse to fund their expensive military apparatus and all those generals. That's where the real political power lies. When they can stop diverting so much GDP to that nonsense, they will begin to thrive.
And once they figure out how to pull this off, they can tell us so we can do the same.
whoever can talk the most BS gets funded. Speak clearly and they ignore you, use meaningless buzzwords and they buy in.
Yes, I have a low opinion of all businessmen, fucking retards to the end.
It's amazing how many people think like that. Tell some startup that they need to put some more thought into their business plan and they stomp off, saying
You can go fuck yourself.
Word gets around. And people who aren't willing to take constructive criticism will get shunned by everyone. Keep in mind that most startups fail because of poor business planning, financing or marketing. Not crappy technology. You might have the neatest gizmo on the Internet. But if you can't demonstrate that you can bring it to market, you are worthless. If you are wiling to take a few rejections gracefully and listen to advice, eventually someone might fund you.
Thankfully, most VC funds don't advertise information about failures. Or someone like Reuters might start putting together lists of would be entrepreneurs who are repeat screw-ups.