This is the big problem with management. Pre-boom managers were PHBs, and thus promote PHBs. New skilled IT people look at PHBs and think, I don't want to be like that, so I won't become a manager.
So its a self-feeding cycle.
WE NEED MORE GEEKS IN MANAGEMENT.
Right now, I should be writing my MBA assignment, worth 25% of the subject, due in at midnight tommorrow, but instead I'm procrastinating on SlashDot. If that doesn't qualify me to be a geek manager, I don't know what does.
Yes, a Charity runs almost every State Government.
And the relevance is? That's like saying I've got 7 Microsoft certs, so I'm as qualified as the guy with a degree.
Any fool can win a state election. Shit. Queensland had Joh for, what, 24 years or something.
(Anyway, Last NSW election, I voted for the "abolish state government party". We don't need it. Merge local councils to form Municipal governments, and leave the State boundarys for sporting contests.)
I wouldn't vote for Lazuras if you paid me, but it woundn't suprise me if the Libs manage to win this election. At least in Latham the ALP has somebody who looks like a leader. Hell, anybody who decks a Sydney Cabbie deserves a vote.
someday someone's ging to say that Adam Sandler, or Affleck & Damon "sold out"
Adam Sandler sold out!
(happy now?)
Seriously, I hated Adam Sandler until I saw his performance in Punch Drunk Love. Everything else I've ever seen him: Waterboy, Big Daddy, Little Nicky; make me feel like gnawing off my own limbs.
Maybe he's made other good movies, but I'm not going to invest a huge amount of time trying to find out what they are.
Did my CO take my weapon PRIOR to giving me an order he knew I wouldn't follow? Did I somehow end up in a squad of sociopaths and not notice it?
The armed forces has more than its fair share of sociopaths, but thats another story.
Let follow your line of reasoning. Your CO gives you an order, you question the order, he commands you to do it or be shot on site, you draw your gun and shoot your CO. In the court martial you explain your situation. You are fucked.
The example that I used before is that of the young German officers who were instructed to shoot the recaptured POWs involved in "The Great Escape". If they refused to kill the unarmed prisoners, they would be shot. After the war, they were captured, tried, and something like 15 out of 23 were hanged.
Where was their choice?
Now think that military service was a compulsory part of life (as it still is in many countries), these guys had wives and maybe young families, and tell me that taking the bullet on priciple was the obvious choice.
I watched "The Great Escape" the other night. On the second DVD there's a recreation of the investigation of what really happened.
There was a recreated interogation of a young german officer who had received orders to shoot the escapers in the back of the head during a pee break (orders which came from Hitler). He questioned his orders, and was basically told do it, or we shoot you.
After the war he was captured, tried for murder, and hanged.
Obviously that was a different time, and a different place, but to be a young guy in that sort of "damned if I do, damned if I don't" situation must really suck.
Note that I am not saying the cretins above had any other choice.. unless it turns out that the employer was holding their mothers as captives and threatening conduct executions if the DDOS didn't go ahead.
That is why Sweden is near the top on all the quality of living surveys.
You guys may pay some of the highest taxes in the world, but in (my limited experience) it seems that the fundamental respect for other people, lost in so many other countries, still exists.
"Montecito", a spanish word, literally translates as "a small monte".
Thus I predict that this will be followed by a quad-core chip called the "monte", an 8-core chip called the "montote" (the big monte), and finally a 16-core chip known as "The Full Monte".
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot etiquette:
When you quote the entire article text, post as anonymous coward.
This is to stop people posting text in anticipation of a slashdotting in order to gain Karma, rather than to "provide a service."
What the mods did was correct. If the first poster made a mistake, he should have reposted a reply to his own post, with the same text, as AC.
Don't worry, there will be a huge outcry from brits so socially inept they need bluetooth to get laid on trains that somebody will step forward and support it.
What they're not telling you its that there are only four songs available through the service.
Hear hear!
This is the big problem with management. Pre-boom managers were PHBs, and thus promote PHBs. New skilled IT people look at PHBs and think, I don't want to be like that, so I won't become a manager.
So its a self-feeding cycle.
WE NEED MORE GEEKS IN MANAGEMENT.
Right now, I should be writing my MBA assignment, worth 25% of the subject, due in at midnight tommorrow, but instead I'm procrastinating on SlashDot. If that doesn't qualify me to be a geek manager, I don't know what does.
And the relevance is? That's like saying I've got 7 Microsoft certs, so I'm as qualified as the guy with a degree.
Any fool can win a state election. Shit. Queensland had Joh for, what, 24 years or something.
(Anyway, Last NSW election, I voted for the "abolish state government party". We don't need it. Merge local councils to form Municipal governments, and leave the State boundarys for sporting contests.)
I wouldn't vote for Lazuras if you paid me, but it woundn't suprise me if the Libs manage to win this election. At least in Latham the ALP has somebody who looks like a leader. Hell, anybody who decks a Sydney Cabbie deserves a vote.
Ayayayay.
I see the humorless have been given mod points again.
Do you want me to explain the joke using small words, or should I leave it to you as an exercise?
Give it a go once "Smackdown" finishes. (Its not real, by the way. They are ACTORS).
Fine. I'll hold off installing XP until 2011 then.
Adam Sandler sold out!
(happy now?)
Seriously, I hated Adam Sandler until I saw his performance in Punch Drunk Love. Everything else I've ever seen him: Waterboy, Big Daddy, Little Nicky; make me feel like gnawing off my own limbs.
Maybe he's made other good movies, but I'm not going to invest a huge amount of time trying to find out what they are.
system integration - Check. I installed Samba last week
digital logic - Check. That's ones and zeros, right?
SDRAM - Check. I use that in my camera
Flash - Check. I flashed my DVD-rom thingy to be region free
ASIC - Um. That's like a CPU for a nintendo.
processor selection - Check. AMD beats Intel every time. Only fan boys use Intel.
ATAPI - Check. I've installed Harddrives before
various communication protocols (ie: GSM, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11, Firewire, and USB) - Check: I've got a GSM phone and a USB flash drive.
display types and video and analog integration. - Check. How easy peasy! Just match the colors on the cable plugs and the sockets.
Apple, here I come!
Wonder if I should change my name to "iMateito"?
caller: Hi. Is that KFC
you: No...
caller: Got any chicken?
caller: *giggle*giggle*giggle* [hangup]
In the new version, Dante shoots first.
(If this makes no sense, look for the original "alternate" ending to Clerks.)
Just consider it... insurance.
Obfuscate... or be outsourced.
What's the take on "mouse" when referring to the computer peripheral?
Is it "Mouses" or "Mice"?
I tend to use "Mices" to keep everybody happy.
MONEY
I like it!
... and he should upgrade to Longhorn, why?
C'mon, this is the man credited with saying (on more than one accasion I might add):
"Bwahahahahahaha. Fools! I'll destroy them all!
So I'm going to have to upgrade to a 5GHz Pentium IV so XP runs efficiently?
So what's changed?
Did my CO take my weapon PRIOR to giving me an order he knew I wouldn't follow? Did I somehow end up in a squad of sociopaths and not notice it?
The armed forces has more than its fair share of sociopaths, but thats another story.
Let follow your line of reasoning. Your CO gives you an order, you question the order, he commands you to do it or be shot on site, you draw your gun and shoot your CO. In the court martial you explain your situation. You are fucked.
The example that I used before is that of the young German officers who were instructed to shoot the recaptured POWs involved in "The Great Escape". If they refused to kill the unarmed prisoners, they would be shot. After the war, they were captured, tried, and something like 15 out of 23 were hanged.
Where was their choice?
Now think that military service was a compulsory part of life (as it still is in many countries), these guys had wives and maybe young families, and tell me that taking the bullet on priciple was the obvious choice.
No, because with War-Crimes the punishment for doing the right thing is an immediately administered bullet through the temple.
Your choice is "certain death now" or "do the wrong thing and live with my conscience and the posibility of execution/incarceration later".
Its really not much of a choice.
Unlike traffic cops, I feel that some people who committed war-crimes have a case, and are as much victims. This is especially true for conscripts.
I watched "The Great Escape" the other night. On the second DVD there's a recreation of the investigation of what really happened.
There was a recreated interogation of a young german officer who had received orders to shoot the escapers in the back of the head during a pee break (orders which came from Hitler). He questioned his orders, and was basically told do it, or we shoot you.
After the war he was captured, tried for murder, and hanged.
Obviously that was a different time, and a different place, but to be a young guy in that sort of "damned if I do, damned if I don't" situation must really suck.
Note that I am not saying the cretins above had any other choice.. unless it turns out that the employer was holding their mothers as captives and threatening conduct executions if the DDOS didn't go ahead.
After their, what, 13 years(?) in the political wilderness, I think its fair to label the ALP as a charity.
That is why Sweden is near the top on all the quality of living surveys.
You guys may pay some of the highest taxes in the world, but in (my limited experience) it seems that the fundamental respect for other people, lost in so many other countries, still exists.
"Montecito", a spanish word, literally translates as "a small monte".
Thus I predict that this will be followed by a quad-core chip called the "monte", an 8-core chip called the "montote" (the big monte), and finally a 16-core chip known as "The Full Monte".
YES!!!
So when you find that you can't fully reduce a matrix, you just bring on SUPER MARIO to kick the living shit out of the rouge entries.
ROCK AND ROLL.
Oh. I hadn't heard that.
I'm still waiting for this month's Sci-Am to arrive.