The girl in the cubicle next to mine runs AutoCAD. She double-clicks the file in "My Computer" to open it. When she's done, she habitually hits the minimize button instead of close program. At least once a month I hear her complaining about how "slow the network is today". I go over and close the dozen instances of AutoCAD she has running and automagically "the network speeds up". And this chick is a licensed Professional Engineer. And we've been doing thhis routine for about five years and she still hasn't got it figured out.
You know, it doesn't surprise me at all that someone posted this, especially as AC. I've been around/. a long time and expected it the minute I saw the story in the mysterious future.
I guess I'm just not jaded enough yet, to be unfazed by someone wasting an "Insightful" mod point on it, especially on an AC post.
Your story gives me the shivers. It is earily close to my own, except that I was the father out of the house working all the time and it was my ex spoiling her daughter and ignoring our son.
Luckily I wised up to what was going on and had guts enough, after trying and failing to make changes at home, to leave her and fight for the kids. Unfortunately, I couldn't get custody of her daughter, but I did get my son. Now he's 12, an honor student at the magnet school, active in scouts, and overall someone I am very proud of. I'm active in his life, we take family trips together he, my father, and I, and we spend a lot of time talking about the news, current events, interesting things, etc. But I hate to think how things would be if I had stayed working the 70 hour weeks and trusting my lovely bride to raise the kids. The pay cut (and divorce costs) hurt those first years, but the payoff has been more than worth it.
BTW, the daughter had a baby at 17, no job, no diploma, no future. Although since the baby, she has been talking to me a lot more. Even made the comment that she wishes I would repeat all that stuff I said when she was 15 because she didn't listen then, and thinks it might be important now.
Once again Apple leads the world in innovation! They did this decades ago... not only that, but they added a position sensor to the bottom of this "one-key keyboard" to allow fast positioning of the cursor on the screen. WOW, now that is impressive.
Yeah, like the Indian support tech that takes my Comcast complaint calls will understand a port unblock request. As is, I have to spend ten minutes explaining that: yes, I have already reset my modem; no, I have disconnected my firewall (Actually I've stopped telling them I even have a firewall, because twice I've had them say that the problem had to be my firewall and was therefore outside thier support coverage, thank you, goodbye.) and it still doesn't work. After finally convincing them it is a problem on their network they tell me they'll send a technician out to look at it.
This actually happens almost every time anyone on my local loop gets new broadband service. Apparently, I'm at the end of the line and for some reason every time they hook a new person in it knocks me off. I worked cable broadband for 4 years, and have no idea how they could possibly have configured the local switch to cause the problem. One of these days I'll see the tech at the box at the end of my street and get him to show me how they are hooking us all up. Maybe get him to leave a laminated note in the box instructing any tech that gets into the box in what to do to make sure I don't get knocked off when they are done.
What is missing from your descriptin is the numbers. Typically 20-50 eggs are introduced to sperm. From these, normally 10-20 will fertilize. Of those 10-20, 2-5 will usually be implanted, and 1-3 will normally grow to babies and be born. For each step more source material than necessary is used in the process to better insure the eventual outcome of at least one healthy baby. Along the way there are many decisions made by the doctors, which the IVF couple usually never even hears about, that result in the destruction of many potentially viable cells.
Actually I was thinking the guys that thought up this idea were geniuses.
Work at a three-letter-agency, and get caught surfing porn at your desk... "Uh, sure boss, I was checking for terrorist messages hidden in the images. You know I don't actually like looking at this stuff don't you?"
Then someone will post an OS X booting version on a fanfic site and everyone will agree that that is the way it should have been done in the first place.
Recap, almost all Win users run as Admin. Mostly because that is the default, everything they use works, and some things that shouldn't require admin privledges do.
Microsoft's solution then is to cripple Admin so that "bad things" can't be done in that mode.
This will inevitably lead to Admin on Win being reduced to an equivalent of user mode in *nix. Eventually we will see a new Super Admin that can be entered to do the things that MS takes away from Admin. As long as we can keep developers from writing programs requiring super admin privleges, Win might actually eventually get to where it should have started out at.
Actually I spend a lot of time worring about the atoms of my underwear doing that...
OK, I'll be honest. I spend a lot of time hoping the atoms of the underwear the hostess of the party will do that... but then I don't tend to get invited to those kinds of parties.
I guess I would see almost no difference. Since I'm always thinking about pron, I'd be seeing the same websites all the time that I see now. And if it works off conscious thought, my reflex left-click on pron links is much faster than concious thought at this point, anyway.
From TFA:
I have been ordered to submit IP info on two separate incidents having to do with subdomains hosted on flag. Both of these are in regard to claimed or threatened responsibility for acts of propaganda by the deed. Both incidents involve topics which are completely out of line for consideration here at flag
depending on just what "acts of propoganda by the deed" means, it sounds like someone on one of his subdomains posted claiming responsibility for an illegal act. The FBI got a subpeona for his logs to find out who it is claiming responsibility.
So it sounds like these morons were completely free to say absolutely anything they wanted to, until they acted on thier threats and broke the law.
The difference is that with books, all you will need to read them in 40 years is your mental ability to read, your natural vision, and maybe a set of bifocals.
In 40 years try to find a way to read your DVD full of MSAccess95 DBs, Word 95 docs, etc. Heck I still have a shoebox full of cassette tapes that (at least used to) have Commodore VIC20 software on them. I've got an 8" floppy-disk that we use as a frisby in the office. None of those have anywhere near the longevity of a book, due to technilogical change, totally seperate from any media degredation. From TFA:
(One should consider the issues of digital obsolescence and migration - Is 100 years (or 'forever') really practical for typical long-term digital storage strategies? While you may need to preserve data for a particular length of time, is it really necessary to preserve that data on any particular technology or can it be migrated to newer technologies?).
In-game fantasy rape is immoral, but in-game fantasy murder is a great wholesome pastime.
Even better, real-life public endangerment and the possiblity of actually killing someone in an accident are great times... "Man those were the days..."
And many times must be decided on a case-by-case basis. I have no problem with downloading the White Album. The creators of the music get no money from my buying a copy, it just goes to Michael Jackson, and soon back to Sony.
I have no problem with downloading the newest Metallica album to decide if it is any good. If it is, I will then go buy an actual copy from a real store. Everyone in the chain gets their money. If I don't like it, I delete the songs and go on with life. Metallica, and the rest of the leeches that get money from a sale, don't get any money from me, from their perspective, but from my perspective I didn't get ripped off by having to purchase their un-returnable latest piece of commercialist crap, without hearing it first.
I would love if the Thunderbird group and Firefox could get their acts together on plugins. Trying to get a specific plugin, i.e. Mouse Gestures, working in both apps is an exercise in frustration and profane language skills. It wouldn't be bad if they were two seperate apps that required two seperate plugins that were all unaware of each other. Instead, they try to integrate, and everytime you try to install a Thunderbird plugin, it tries to install itself as a Firefox plugin instead, even though it's already there. So you just end up re-installing it on Firefox, and never on Thunderbird.
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Wrong answer.
The girl in the cubicle next to mine runs AutoCAD. She double-clicks the file in "My Computer" to open it. When she's done, she habitually hits the minimize button instead of close program. At least once a month I hear her complaining about how "slow the network is today". I go over and close the dozen instances of AutoCAD she has running and automagically "the network speeds up". And this chick is a licensed Professional Engineer. And we've been doing thhis routine for about five years and she still hasn't got it figured out.
As Scott Adams would say, "She also votes."
You know, it doesn't surprise me at all that someone posted this, especially as AC. I've been around
I guess I'm just not jaded enough yet, to be unfazed by someone wasting an "Insightful" mod point on it, especially on an AC post.
First you must realize...
there is no spoon.
Your story gives me the shivers. It is earily close to my own, except that I was the father out of the house working all the time and it was my ex spoiling her daughter and ignoring our son.
Luckily I wised up to what was going on and had guts enough, after trying and failing to make changes at home, to leave her and fight for the kids. Unfortunately, I couldn't get custody of her daughter, but I did get my son. Now he's 12, an honor student at the magnet school, active in scouts, and overall someone I am very proud of. I'm active in his life, we take family trips together he, my father, and I, and we spend a lot of time talking about the news, current events, interesting things, etc. But I hate to think how things would be if I had stayed working the 70 hour weeks and trusting my lovely bride to raise the kids. The pay cut (and divorce costs) hurt those first years, but the payoff has been more than worth it.
BTW, the daughter had a baby at 17, no job, no diploma, no future. Although since the baby, she has been talking to me a lot more. Even made the comment that she wishes I would repeat all that stuff I said when she was 15 because she didn't listen then, and thinks it might be important now.
I just know there has to be a really bad beastiality joke in there somewhere...
Once again Apple leads the world in innovation! They did this decades ago... not only that, but they added a position sensor to the bottom of this "one-key keyboard" to allow fast positioning of the cursor on the screen. WOW, now that is impressive.
Yeah, like the Indian support tech that takes my Comcast complaint calls will understand a port unblock request. As is, I have to spend ten minutes explaining that: yes, I have already reset my modem; no, I have disconnected my firewall (Actually I've stopped telling them I even have a firewall, because twice I've had them say that the problem had to be my firewall and was therefore outside thier support coverage, thank you, goodbye.) and it still doesn't work. After finally convincing them it is a problem on their network they tell me they'll send a technician out to look at it.
This actually happens almost every time anyone on my local loop gets new broadband service. Apparently, I'm at the end of the line and for some reason every time they hook a new person in it knocks me off. I worked cable broadband for 4 years, and have no idea how they could possibly have configured the local switch to cause the problem. One of these days I'll see the tech at the box at the end of my street and get him to show me how they are hooking us all up. Maybe get him to leave a laminated note in the box instructing any tech that gets into the box in what to do to make sure I don't get knocked off when they are done.
What is missing from your descriptin is the numbers. Typically 20-50 eggs are introduced to sperm. From these, normally 10-20 will fertilize. Of those 10-20, 2-5 will usually be implanted, and 1-3 will normally grow to babies and be born. For each step more source material than necessary is used in the process to better insure the eventual outcome of at least one healthy baby. Along the way there are many decisions made by the doctors, which the IVF couple usually never even hears about, that result in the destruction of many potentially viable cells.
Man, I wish I still had mod points.
I wonder how many dotters will completely miss the point of your post.
Your mouth to God's ears
Actually I was thinking the guys that thought up this idea were geniuses.
Work at a three-letter-agency, and get caught surfing porn at your desk... "Uh, sure boss, I was checking for terrorist messages hidden in the images. You know I don't actually like looking at this stuff don't you?"
Are you the very model of a modern major general?
Then someone will post an OS X booting version on a fanfic site and everyone will agree that that is the way it should have been done in the first place.
It's not slashdot, it's Totaldot.
Recap, almost all Win users run as Admin. Mostly because that is the default, everything they use works, and some things that shouldn't require admin privledges do.
Microsoft's solution then is to cripple Admin so that "bad things" can't be done in that mode.
This will inevitably lead to Admin on Win being reduced to an equivalent of user mode in *nix. Eventually we will see a new Super Admin that can be entered to do the things that MS takes away from Admin. As long as we can keep developers from writing programs requiring super admin privleges, Win might actually eventually get to where it should have started out at.
No you were mod'd negatively for admitting to reading the TFA at all. This is
Even better! I found the Stargate!
Actually I spend a lot of time worring about the atoms of my underwear doing that...
OK, I'll be honest. I spend a lot of time hoping the atoms of the underwear the hostess of the party will do that... but then I don't tend to get invited to those kinds of parties.
DNA, you are missed.
I guess I would see almost no difference. Since I'm always thinking about pron, I'd be seeing the same websites all the time that I see now. And if it works off conscious thought, my reflex left-click on pron links is much faster than concious thought at this point, anyway.
From TFA: I have been ordered to submit IP info on two separate incidents having to do with subdomains hosted on flag. Both of these are in regard to claimed or threatened responsibility for acts of propaganda by the deed. Both incidents involve topics which are completely out of line for consideration here at flag
depending on just what "acts of propoganda by the deed" means, it sounds like someone on one of his subdomains posted claiming responsibility for an illegal act. The FBI got a subpeona for his logs to find out who it is claiming responsibility.
So it sounds like these morons were completely free to say absolutely anything they wanted to, until they acted on thier threats and broke the law.
The difference is that with books, all you will need to read them in 40 years is your mental ability to read, your natural vision, and maybe a set of bifocals.
In 40 years try to find a way to read your DVD full of MSAccess95 DBs, Word 95 docs, etc. Heck I still have a shoebox full of cassette tapes that (at least used to) have Commodore VIC20 software on them. I've got an 8" floppy-disk that we use as a frisby in the office. None of those have anywhere near the longevity of a book, due to technilogical change, totally seperate from any media degredation. From TFA:
(One should consider the issues of digital obsolescence and migration - Is 100 years (or 'forever') really practical for typical long-term digital storage strategies? While you may need to preserve data for a particular length of time, is it really necessary to preserve that data on any particular technology or can it be migrated to newer technologies?).
Gotta appreciate the relative morality...
In-game fantasy rape is immoral, but in-game fantasy murder is a great wholesome pastime.
Even better, real-life public endangerment and the possiblity of actually killing someone in an accident are great times... "Man those were the days..."
And many times must be decided on a case-by-case basis. I have no problem with downloading the White Album. The creators of the music get no money from my buying a copy, it just goes to Michael Jackson, and soon back to Sony.
I have no problem with downloading the newest Metallica album to decide if it is any good. If it is, I will then go buy an actual copy from a real store. Everyone in the chain gets their money. If I don't like it, I delete the songs and go on with life. Metallica, and the rest of the leeches that get money from a sale, don't get any money from me, from their perspective, but from my perspective I didn't get ripped off by having to purchase their un-returnable latest piece of commercialist crap, without hearing it first.
I would love if the Thunderbird group and Firefox could get their acts together on plugins. Trying to get a specific plugin, i.e. Mouse Gestures, working in both apps is an exercise in frustration and profane language skills. It wouldn't be bad if they were two seperate apps that required two seperate plugins that were all unaware of each other. Instead, they try to integrate, and everytime you try to install a Thunderbird plugin, it tries to install itself as a Firefox plugin instead, even though it's already there. So you just end up re-installing it on Firefox, and never on Thunderbird.
GrRRRRrrrr
No problem...
Just filter based on the evil bit.