So much that they gave up on trying to fix the crashes, now they have created some "crash recovery" stuff that will recover the documents you lost with the last crash. If you're lucky, the "recovered" document will not be filled with hieroglyphs.
Forgetting to take the padlock out is the most common mistake. Usually with no consequences except for public humiliation.
Of course it could have nothing to do with motorcycles, but this particular case was in fact a stupid motorcycle accident, with serious consequences. It shows that you can kill yourself on a bike, even stopped.
I know a highly skilled motorcyclist who forgot to take his padlock from the rear wheel and fell to the left side when trying to leave the parking spot. Please note that he fell at 0 Km/h velocity.
He had all the protections in place, helmet, leather jacket and leather gloves, but his left elbow hit his left abdomen causing the spleen to rupture. He didn't notice anything, but half an hour later he started feeling incapacitating pain and passed out. He spent two weeks in the hospital and lots of time at home, recovering. The doctors said he nearly died.
This quite stupid incident makes you have respect for bykes. I always wear my safety gear and avoid having the stupid behavior I observe in many motorcyclists around here.
Everything that extracts carbon from the atmosphere helps reduce global warming. The bacteria don't invent the carbon. They have to get it from somewhere.
Global warming happens because people are taking huge masses of carbon that's stored for millions years under the ground and release it to the atmosphere.
I don't believe in self-taught that much. Everybody absorbs knowledge from someone else, even unintentionally. Someone that tries to teach himself could spend months following the wrong paths when a more experienced person (or a book, by the way) could teach them how to do it in some days.
I have come across quite a few people that work their ass off because they refuse to learn new methods or technologies. Without insightful managers it's very hard that things will change because a person like this appears to be a valuable employee, and if you try to go against his methods you're in trouble.
I'm a strong believer in the free transmission of knowledge. I hate arrogant veterans that hold their knowledge like a treasure, and arrogant newbies that just like to be ignorant.
Some weeks ago, there was an election for mayor in the capital city of my country. The most obvious candidate won. The next day, the headlines in the international press were "First black mayor in an European capital". That stroke me hard, because I never have thought about that before. Who the fuck cares if the guy is black or not?
Not having women around makes our working environment a pretty dull one. I don't even bother to shower or shave anymore. And the usual dialogs here remind me of the first scene of Reservoir Dogs.
Well, at least, there's no employment problems in IT.
OpenOffice is not able to handle the full array of rubbish that Microsoft Word produces leading to the inevitable - 'Oh that's strange I looks fine on my computer'
I'd say even more: Microsoft Word is not able to handle the full array of rubbish that Microsoft Word produces leading to the inevitable - 'Oh that's strange I looks fine on my computer'
The impression I get on my job is that the big companies don't give a great deal of support, so after spending huge in their expensive hardware and software, you're pretty much on your own.
People that have security jobs are usually not very competitive on the job market. Refusing to take an order is a reason for getting immediately fired even here in Europe. I don't think the security guy would like to lose his job. It's not like they are forcing him to slay people, is it? And he probably doesn't even have the knowledge to realise his actions are illegal.
The laws are not created to be strictly followed and in most cases things are left to common sense. It would be impossible to live in a world where laws are followed by the book all the time. There's a Latin name for that but I can't recall it.
If they were taping the film with intent to pirate, all this would be fine, but for a 20 secs clip one would expect the theater manager to have some common sense, give the girl a warning and leave the courts for something more important. That guy is a copyright nazi.
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I can't tell if they are stupid or evil, but I always thought business men were really smart, learn really fast and have a huge outlook. None of that can be said about music industry executives.
I guess they've been sitting on their asses receiving a shower of money for too long. They can read the writings on the wall, but it's too much for them to handle.
My country has a lot of textile industry. Years ago, the WTO decided to open the textile market to China in 10 years. The industrials had 10 years to change their business models, and did nothing. The 10 year period has ended and Chinese textiles invaded the market. Now they are all crying and demanding government protection. Factories are shutting down like crazy and many people are being thrown into unemployment.
Just like the oil business executives, they stick to their dying business model and try to protect it with all kinds of artificial measures. They just can't face the truth.
I receive functional specs and requirements specs that I have to use in my job. They are usually image-loaded Word files with several megabytes size. It's a pain to read that using Word, it's very slow and crashes all the time. I convert them to PDF immediately and delete all that Word shit.
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Giving up on progress doesn't help a little bit the ones that don't have it yet.
I love Excel, but Word is a buggy piece of shit.
So much that they gave up on trying to fix the crashes, now they have created some "crash recovery" stuff that will recover the documents you lost with the last crash. If you're lucky, the "recovered" document will not be filled with hieroglyphs.
One day all developers will have to put a leash in every single electron that runs inside the computer.
Forgetting to take the padlock out is the most common mistake. Usually with no consequences except for public humiliation.
Of course it could have nothing to do with motorcycles, but this particular case was in fact a stupid motorcycle accident, with serious consequences. It shows that you can kill yourself on a bike, even stopped.
So, probably his dick was a meter long, not his feet.
I know a highly skilled motorcyclist who forgot to take his padlock from the rear wheel and fell to the left side when trying to leave the parking spot. Please note that he fell at 0 Km/h velocity.
He had all the protections in place, helmet, leather jacket and leather gloves, but his left elbow hit his left abdomen causing the spleen to rupture. He didn't notice anything, but half an hour later he started feeling incapacitating pain and passed out. He spent two weeks in the hospital and lots of time at home, recovering. The doctors said he nearly died.
This quite stupid incident makes you have respect for bykes. I always wear my safety gear and avoid having the stupid behavior I observe in many motorcyclists around here.
I need strings, I play the guitar, you insensitive clod!
Everything that extracts carbon from the atmosphere helps reduce global warming. The bacteria don't invent the carbon. They have to get it from somewhere.
Global warming happens because people are taking huge masses of carbon that's stored for millions years under the ground and release it to the atmosphere.
I don't believe in self-taught that much. Everybody absorbs knowledge from someone else, even unintentionally. Someone that tries to teach himself could spend months following the wrong paths when a more experienced person (or a book, by the way) could teach them how to do it in some days.
I have come across quite a few people that work their ass off because they refuse to learn new methods or technologies. Without insightful managers it's very hard that things will change because a person like this appears to be a valuable employee, and if you try to go against his methods you're in trouble.
I'm a strong believer in the free transmission of knowledge. I hate arrogant veterans that hold their knowledge like a treasure, and arrogant newbies that just like to be ignorant.
Some weeks ago, there was an election for mayor in the capital city of my country. The most obvious candidate won. The next day, the headlines in the international press were "First black mayor in an European capital". That stroke me hard, because I never have thought about that before. Who the fuck cares if the guy is black or not?
Not having women around makes our working environment a pretty dull one. I don't even bother to shower or shave anymore. And the usual dialogs here remind me of the first scene of Reservoir Dogs.
Well, at least, there's no employment problems in IT.
OpenOffice is not able to handle the full array of rubbish that Microsoft Word produces leading to the inevitable - 'Oh that's strange I looks fine on my computer'
I'd say even more:
Microsoft Word is not able to handle the full array of rubbish that Microsoft Word produces leading to the inevitable - 'Oh that's strange I looks fine on my computer'
The impression I get on my job is that the big companies don't give a great deal of support, so after spending huge in their expensive hardware and software, you're pretty much on your own.
People that have security jobs are usually not very competitive on the job market. Refusing to take an order is a reason for getting immediately fired even here in Europe. I don't think the security guy would like to lose his job. It's not like they are forcing him to slay people, is it? And he probably doesn't even have the knowledge to realise his actions are illegal.
If he was demanded to do so, it's not poor human behavior, it's called "doing your job".
The laws are not created to be strictly followed and in most cases things are left to common sense. It would be impossible to live in a world where laws are followed by the book all the time. There's a Latin name for that but I can't recall it.
If they were taping the film with intent to pirate, all this would be fine, but for a 20 secs clip one would expect the theater manager to have some common sense, give the girl a warning and leave the courts for something more important. That guy is a copyright nazi.
I can't tell if they are stupid or evil, but I always thought business men were really smart, learn really fast and have a huge outlook. None of that can be said about music industry executives.
I guess they've been sitting on their asses receiving a shower of money for too long. They can read the writings on the wall, but it's too much for them to handle.
My country has a lot of textile industry. Years ago, the WTO decided to open the textile market to China in 10 years. The industrials had 10 years to change their business models, and did nothing. The 10 year period has ended and Chinese textiles invaded the market. Now they are all crying and demanding government protection. Factories are shutting down like crazy and many people are being thrown into unemployment.
Just like the oil business executives, they stick to their dying business model and try to protect it with all kinds of artificial measures. They just can't face the truth.
What about "My generation" and "Behind blue eyes" by Limp Bizkit?
The Who are great songwriters, it's not hard to make a hit using one of their songs.
If The Open Group is "making standards work" (TM), then who is Making Work Standard?
Well, Soviet Russia, of course!
I receive functional specs and requirements specs that I have to use in my job. They are usually image-loaded Word files with several megabytes size. It's a pain to read that using Word, it's very slow and crashes all the time. I convert them to PDF immediately and delete all that Word shit.
I feel the opposite, inhabitants bother me far more than tourists. And my city is very touristic (Lisbon).
I wish half the population would boycott the city and move to somewhere else so I could go to work without (sigh) traffic jams.
So, he admits being wrong? Nooo, that's not how human beings behave, stop it! What's this World coming to?
And I always pay royalties for my open-source MP3 players. How much is 10% of zero?
That's sooooo nineties!
Vi and Emacs have more features than you imagine.