I applaud Jim Sample's prime example of responsible leadership. He understands that his company pulled this stunt, he is in charge of his company, therefore he should take responsibility for it. However, I think his resignation also displays a level of weakness. The mayor of Boston is a belligerent imbecile. Because his own stupidity led to his embarrassment and that of an entire city, he chose to respond like a typical pigheaded schoolyard bully. And Jim caved.
Yes, CN put signs up in Boston. It did so in several cities. It advised all of the cities in advance. Bostonians and their leaders ignored the notice, overreacted, look stupid (are stupid) for it, and now are lashing out, becoming ever more idiotic. Jim should have accepted responsibility AND told Boston to grow a sense of humor.
Computers are a significant means of escape for social misfits without a sex life. Since even an ugly woman will find it easy to get laid with the proper application of alcohol and sufficient display of willingness, there's less need for women to escape in this manner. The same behavior seen in men usually ends with said men in jail.
"Can god create a stone so heavy god can't lift it?"
One would think that this kind of question would automatically negate the existence of God because of the very paradox implied. But really, what kind of response would you expect to get if you asked God this question? I suspect God's answer would be something like "Look, son, I think you're a little low on the food chain to be asking me to create anything."
Mind you, I'm not saying this as a fan of God. I just think these kinds of philosophical questions are silly (like SP said, "who cares?"), especially when you place them in the context of an actual (hypothetical?) conversation with your chosen supreme being.
I hate research claims like this, always trying to indicate that if you just behave like every high quality mindless drone your health will be better. Really - are these people healthier because they have positive emotions, or are they happier because they are healthier? Stupid, stupid research!
You are what? 13? 14? Maybe 16. Fact is, your analogy was not only inaccurate, it was stupid.
You don't "own" the software when you buy it. You've purchased permission (the license) to use the software on the media that accompanies the license. You might own the physical object (the disc), but you don't own the software on it. You are permitted to use it via the license, which spells out what the author will allow you to do with it. The license is there to protect the content owner's copyrights and trademarks. It's basically there to prevent unauthorized copying and distribution. If you don't agree with the license, if you feel it is too restrictive, don't buy or use the software. Buy/use something else. It's really that simple.
A better analogy than cars is a book. You might own the physical media, but you do not own the story in it. The author and/or publisher own that. It's copyrighted. Books do in fact include their own licenses (usually within the first 3-5 pages), that basically spell out what you are and are not allowed to do with the book (usually something basically saying you aren't allowed to copy/reproduce the contents).
So, stop being a whiny teenage retard. If you don't like the Vista license, do something useful: Don't cry about it, buy or use something else.
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I fall into the category - tech worker, dad, divorced. I don't have any kind of custody of my son, basically because my ex is from a rich family and I was dead broke at the time from paying her credit card bills. I do have standard visitation, though, and I'm always pushing for more.
Anyway, the point is, I don't think it's so much a question of the tech industry creating situations (lots of time in the office, high stress, bringing work home, etc etc) that lead it's people into divorce. I think, rather, that the tech industry is filled with people who lack the social skills required to make a marriage work.
First off, techies probably got into the field because they grew up spending more time with computers than humans because they were the geeky social outcasts. Second, because techies were likely geeky social outcasts, they probably glom'd onto the first person willing to marry them (but not necessarily the right person) because of a fear they would never find anyone else (low self-esteem is rampant in the geeky social outcast crowd). Third, not many geeky social outcasts with low self esteem are able to handle confrontation, which is inevitable even in a strong healthy marriage, so they probably avoided the problems (long hours at work) or behaved to aggressively in response (the ol' "yell louder to win" routine). Neither solves problems, both just make problems worse. Eventually, someone calls it quits. Either the techie grows a spine and realizes what a mess he or she is in and jumps ship, or the non-techie spouse gets fed up with the loser and leaves.
Raise your hand if this sounds familiar to you? It's basically the exact situation almost all of my divorced techie coworkers found themselves. It's pretty much where I found myself. At least I was fortunate to be the kind of techie who learned some self esteem and grew a backbone. While I may not have custody of my son due to my financial circumstances at the time, I do have a strong relationship with him, my experience has taught me invaluable lessons in how to make my second marriage a brilliant success, and . . . I guess i don't really have a third. But anyway.
To sum up, stop trying to blame someone else for what really is a failure between you and your spouse. The fault lies solely between the two of you and not with your employer. Grow a spine, learn some self esteem, and work harder at your marriage than at your job.
The anonymous COWARD who posted the parent to my thoughts here obviously is not a parent him or herself. The coward simply has no idea. The coward is totally clueless. As a parent, you can do absolutely everything right all the time and still end up with a kid who does something stupid and gets in trouble. Even good kids can screw up.
A few weeks ago there was that teaser taste where a few potential favorites were displayed. I liked several of them. This newly declared winning CSS does not impress me at all. Looks like a step backward. Chunky. Blocky. Wasted space. Nope, I don't like it. I don't like it at all.
Comcast gives away McAfee AV for free to customers, so I tried it out. The only time it ever caught anything at all was a false-positive. Complete file system scans never ever turned up anything. However, if I opened a folder with a file in it called SetupDVDDecrypter_3.5.4.0.exe in it, McAfee would call it a virus and delete it. Didn't matter which version of the installer actually, it would delete it. Didn't matter if the AV program was configured to only quarantine suspect files, it would delete it. Didn't matter if I made an empty text file then renamed it to SetupDVDDecrypter_3.5.4.0.exe, McAfee AV would delete it. If I renamed the installer to something else, McAfee AV did nothing.
Pretty obvious to me that it was just waiting to find files that media companies didn't like people to have on their own private property so I'm guessing that they must have gotten McAfee to agree to do their dirty work for them and call stuff they don't like a virus and automatically delete the file regardless of settings.
RMS is a dink who feeds off attention garnered from pseudo-news posted at online geek hideouts. Just squeeze him for a little hot air, it doesn't matter which end it comes out of, it still stinks.
Unions are NOT the answer. Individual people standing up for themselves IS the answer, particularly if as many people as possible do so. I have worked as a unionized employee just once, and it was not a pleasant experience. The union limited what I could do on the job, took my hard-earned money (because the company agreed to only hire union workers, who had to pay dues), yet never did anything for me.
Unions are NOT the answer. Indvidual people working together to assert their rights and make necessary changes is fine, but unions as they exist today are NOT ok in my book.
All Linux users are geeky little boys with no lives.
What... You mean to tell me that this is not true? Not all linux users are geeky little boys with no lives? Man, I've visited all the wrong LUGs.
No, no wait, I think you may be technically right with that sentence. Most of those I've seen at LUGs aren't little, and would usually fall under the "men" category.
I mean, how did this guy pay attention to all 6 screens at once, if he has a 1-track mind??
I think you failed to complete that thought. How did this guy pay attention to all 6 screens if he has a 1-track mind, and we all know what that one track is usually stuck on?
Well, if AMERICANS were thinking about that you might have an argument. But this is a report about BRITISH law enforcement. They have every right to determine how they run things in their country.
The fact that he does not actually shift his carcass over the the state line is irrelevant.
Your line of thinking causes me the following problem:
I live in Chicago and work from home for a major global IT services company.
The customer I support for my employer is in Indiana. They have offices all over the country. I provide server administrative services to servers at all of these locations.
By your line of thinking, I owe taxes in more than two dozen different states. For me, that would be a problem, especially because I've never been to any of them.
Although they may market the iPod as device for young, cool people, very few young people have them.
What rock have you been living under? My wife works at a high school, and on several occasions last year I was there during the school day between classes. As a very rough estimate, I'd say at least a quarter of the kids had the telltale white cords dangling from their ears while walking in the hallway.
And who says their parents are buying these for them? While a lot of kids probably get them as gifts, I bet most of them have summer and after-school jobs and bought their iPods with their own money.
And the younger kids? My 7-yr-old has an iPod shuffle that I got for him. He wasn't the first kid in his second grade class to have one either. He gets to listen to it while doing his homework.
I supposed it depends on the community you live in. Teens in blue-collar towns probably are less likely to have one.
This sounds promising, but I have two educational concerns:
1. Is this just a dumbed-down version of trig?...and on the opposite end of the spectrum...
2. Would this lead to bombarding students with too much math as the requirement shifts from alg/calc/trig to alg/calc/trig/trig2?
Let space exploration be a privately funded endeavor. At a time of unjust war, when far more important issues require money (education, anyone?), this strikes me as a horribly frivolous waste of my tax dollars.
Spend my tax dollars getting our soldiers OUT of Iraq. Spend my tax dollars educating our children. Spend my tax dollars to make basic health care affordable. Spend my tax dollars protecting the environment. Spend my tax dollars on anything that would improve the day-to-day lives of millions of Americans.
Going to Mars would be cool. Just don't use my money to get there.
Yes, schools hand out too much homework now. My first grader needs his backpack because he comes home every night with 5-10 pages of worksheets to complete, plus some books to read, plus projects to build. I didn't ever have a lick of homework until I was in 6th grade, and didn't "need" a bag to carry all my school crap until college.
However, he is better at math and reading in first grade than I was in 4th grade (I got A's throughout school). He is certainly much further along. The teacher spends a LOT MORE TIME teaching in the classroom and less time allowing her students to practice what they learn in the class.
However, I can see where that tactic is failing. Sure, my son (and many of his peers) are moving right along at a great pace because as parents we make certain our kids do that homeowrk, review it with them, practice some more at home (try to make games of learning so its not constant "work"). It fails though for those students in families who don't support the student at home like that. So far, that's almost all the minorities in my son's class. The black and latino students in my son's class are far behind the whites and asians (I volunteer time in his class to read with the kids, and see it every time - the white and asian kids can read circles around the black and latino kids, and I know it's not a result of poor teaching because the teacher spent all the time when volunteers were present working with those kids who struggled the most).
I'd also like to comment on an earlier response - some clueless @$$ stating that what our schools needs is better teachers. Um, no. That's wrong. What we need is MORE teachers who are at least as wonderful as those still willing to do the job today. And while we are at it, let's pay them a living salary for the incredibly difficult job they do, allow them to discipline children the way they need to, provide them the materials to teach in the class (one textbook per 3 kids and requiring the teacher to pay for paper/worksheets, crayons, pencils, erasers, chalk, markers, etc... is completely stupid), and cut out the huge bulk of beaurucratic BS that clogs their time.
Yeah, I actually postponed suicide until after the Return of the King, but by then I was engaged and generally pretty happy. Stupid timing. If I had never read that stupid article back in 1999 about the LOTR movies being made I'd be comfortably pushing up the daisies by now.
6 years to make, 60 minutes to install (*FIVE* count 'em *FIVE* CDs), and when all is said and done, the game doesn't WORK! All I get is choppy audio, flashing screens, no ability to move around. Heck, once I finally got the game to start (it crashed twice just starting), and went in the menu to configure keys and mouse it crashed again.
I've been robbed. Seriously. $55 plus tax, and I can't even take the damn thing back to the store, BECAUSE IT DOESN'T WORK.
Why this piece of crap didn't come on a DVD I simply don't know.
DOOM3 worked flawlessly out of the box with no need to mess with any of the settings. I suppose it was too much to assume that Valve, with one game under its belt, could actually make a second game that worked.
I am so seriously ticked off by this worthless piece of crap.
I've used each version of Firefox (or whatever their earlier names were) since 0.7. I am on PR1 now, or whatever the version label is. Oddly, I feel compelled to wait and not try this release candidate. I know the date of the planned 1.0 release and for some reason knowing that has me thinking it's perfectly ok to wait until then.
To state that "Richard Stallman was in the car earlier but apparently had been dropped off prior to the accident" is so incredibly RUDE and DISTASTEFUL and INSULTING, especially when the names of the dead and injured are left out. To even insinuate that we are all so lucky that Stallman wasn't hurt even tho these nameless folks got pasted infuriates me to no end. Heaps of SHAME and DISHONOR to the poster "michael" for his horrid thoughtlessness.
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I applaud Jim Sample's prime example of responsible leadership. He understands that his company pulled this stunt, he is in charge of his company, therefore he should take responsibility for it. However, I think his resignation also displays a level of weakness. The mayor of Boston is a belligerent imbecile. Because his own stupidity led to his embarrassment and that of an entire city, he chose to respond like a typical pigheaded schoolyard bully. And Jim caved.
Yes, CN put signs up in Boston. It did so in several cities. It advised all of the cities in advance. Bostonians and their leaders ignored the notice, overreacted, look stupid (are stupid) for it, and now are lashing out, becoming ever more idiotic. Jim should have accepted responsibility AND told Boston to grow a sense of humor.
Computers are a significant means of escape for social misfits without a sex life. Since even an ugly woman will find it easy to get laid with the proper application of alcohol and sufficient display of willingness, there's less need for women to escape in this manner. The same behavior seen in men usually ends with said men in jail.
One would think that this kind of question would automatically negate the existence of God because of the very paradox implied. But really, what kind of response would you expect to get if you asked God this question? I suspect God's answer would be something like "Look, son, I think you're a little low on the food chain to be asking me to create anything."
Mind you, I'm not saying this as a fan of God. I just think these kinds of philosophical questions are silly (like SP said, "who cares?"), especially when you place them in the context of an actual (hypothetical?) conversation with your chosen supreme being.
I hate research claims like this, always trying to indicate that if you just behave like every high quality mindless drone your health will be better. Really - are these people healthier because they have positive emotions, or are they happier because they are healthier? Stupid, stupid research!
You are what? 13? 14? Maybe 16. Fact is, your analogy was not only inaccurate, it was stupid.
You don't "own" the software when you buy it. You've purchased permission (the license) to use the software on the media that accompanies the license. You might own the physical object (the disc), but you don't own the software on it. You are permitted to use it via the license, which spells out what the author will allow you to do with it. The license is there to protect the content owner's copyrights and trademarks. It's basically there to prevent unauthorized copying and distribution. If you don't agree with the license, if you feel it is too restrictive, don't buy or use the software. Buy/use something else. It's really that simple.
A better analogy than cars is a book. You might own the physical media, but you do not own the story in it. The author and/or publisher own that. It's copyrighted. Books do in fact include their own licenses (usually within the first 3-5 pages), that basically spell out what you are and are not allowed to do with the book (usually something basically saying you aren't allowed to copy/reproduce the contents).
So, stop being a whiny teenage retard. If you don't like the Vista license, do something useful: Don't cry about it, buy or use something else.
I fall into the category - tech worker, dad, divorced. I don't have any kind of custody of my son, basically because my ex is from a rich family and I was dead broke at the time from paying her credit card bills. I do have standard visitation, though, and I'm always pushing for more.
Anyway, the point is, I don't think it's so much a question of the tech industry creating situations (lots of time in the office, high stress, bringing work home, etc etc) that lead it's people into divorce. I think, rather, that the tech industry is filled with people who lack the social skills required to make a marriage work.
First off, techies probably got into the field because they grew up spending more time with computers than humans because they were the geeky social outcasts. Second, because techies were likely geeky social outcasts, they probably glom'd onto the first person willing to marry them (but not necessarily the right person) because of a fear they would never find anyone else (low self-esteem is rampant in the geeky social outcast crowd). Third, not many geeky social outcasts with low self esteem are able to handle confrontation, which is inevitable even in a strong healthy marriage, so they probably avoided the problems (long hours at work) or behaved to aggressively in response (the ol' "yell louder to win" routine). Neither solves problems, both just make problems worse. Eventually, someone calls it quits. Either the techie grows a spine and realizes what a mess he or she is in and jumps ship, or the non-techie spouse gets fed up with the loser and leaves.
Raise your hand if this sounds familiar to you? It's basically the exact situation almost all of my divorced techie coworkers found themselves. It's pretty much where I found myself. At least I was fortunate to be the kind of techie who learned some self esteem and grew a backbone. While I may not have custody of my son due to my financial circumstances at the time, I do have a strong relationship with him, my experience has taught me invaluable lessons in how to make my second marriage a brilliant success, and . . . I guess i don't really have a third. But anyway.
To sum up, stop trying to blame someone else for what really is a failure between you and your spouse. The fault lies solely between the two of you and not with your employer. Grow a spine, learn some self esteem, and work harder at your marriage than at your job.
The anonymous COWARD who posted the parent to my thoughts here obviously is not a parent him or herself. The coward simply has no idea. The coward is totally clueless. As a parent, you can do absolutely everything right all the time and still end up with a kid who does something stupid and gets in trouble. Even good kids can screw up.
A few weeks ago there was that teaser taste where a few potential favorites were displayed. I liked several of them. This newly declared winning CSS does not impress me at all. Looks like a step backward. Chunky. Blocky. Wasted space. Nope, I don't like it. I don't like it at all.
each is good but i find myself liking the 2nd one ever so slightly more than the first one.
Comcast gives away McAfee AV for free to customers, so I tried it out. The only time it ever caught anything at all was a false-positive. Complete file system scans never ever turned up anything. However, if I opened a folder with a file in it called SetupDVDDecrypter_3.5.4.0.exe in it, McAfee would call it a virus and delete it. Didn't matter which version of the installer actually, it would delete it. Didn't matter if the AV program was configured to only quarantine suspect files, it would delete it. Didn't matter if I made an empty text file then renamed it to SetupDVDDecrypter_3.5.4.0.exe, McAfee AV would delete it. If I renamed the installer to something else, McAfee AV did nothing.
Pretty obvious to me that it was just waiting to find files that media companies didn't like people to have on their own private property so I'm guessing that they must have gotten McAfee to agree to do their dirty work for them and call stuff they don't like a virus and automatically delete the file regardless of settings.
But that's just my conspiracy theory.
RMS is a dink who feeds off attention garnered from pseudo-news posted at online geek hideouts. Just squeeze him for a little hot air, it doesn't matter which end it comes out of, it still stinks.
Unions are NOT the answer. Individual people standing up for themselves IS the answer, particularly if as many people as possible do so. I have worked as a unionized employee just once, and it was not a pleasant experience. The union limited what I could do on the job, took my hard-earned money (because the company agreed to only hire union workers, who had to pay dues), yet never did anything for me.
Unions are NOT the answer. Indvidual people working together to assert their rights and make necessary changes is fine, but unions as they exist today are NOT ok in my book.
All Linux users are geeky little boys with no lives.
What... You mean to tell me that this is not true? Not all linux users are geeky little boys with no lives? Man, I've visited all the wrong LUGs.
No, no wait, I think you may be technically right with that sentence. Most of those I've seen at LUGs aren't little, and would usually fall under the "men" category.
I mean, how did this guy pay attention to all 6 screens at once, if he has a 1-track mind??
I think you failed to complete that thought. How did this guy pay attention to all 6 screens if he has a 1-track mind, and we all know what that one track is usually stuck on?
Well, if AMERICANS were thinking about that you might have an argument. But this is a report about BRITISH law enforcement. They have every right to determine how they run things in their country.
The fact that he does not actually shift his carcass over the the state line is irrelevant.
Your line of thinking causes me the following problem:
I live in Chicago and work from home for a major global IT services company.
The customer I support for my employer is in Indiana. They have offices all over the country. I provide server administrative services to servers at all of these locations.
By your line of thinking, I owe taxes in more than two dozen different states. For me, that would be a problem, especially because I've never been to any of them.
What rock have you been living under? My wife works at a high school, and on several occasions last year I was there during the school day between classes. As a very rough estimate, I'd say at least a quarter of the kids had the telltale white cords dangling from their ears while walking in the hallway.
And who says their parents are buying these for them? While a lot of kids probably get them as gifts, I bet most of them have summer and after-school jobs and bought their iPods with their own money.
And the younger kids? My 7-yr-old has an iPod shuffle that I got for him. He wasn't the first kid in his second grade class to have one either. He gets to listen to it while doing his homework.
I supposed it depends on the community you live in. Teens in blue-collar towns probably are less likely to have one.
This sounds promising, but I have two educational concerns: 1. Is this just a dumbed-down version of trig? ...and on the opposite end of the spectrum...
2. Would this lead to bombarding students with too much math as the requirement shifts from alg/calc/trig to alg/calc/trig/trig2?
Spend my tax dollars getting our soldiers OUT of Iraq. Spend my tax dollars educating our children. Spend my tax dollars to make basic health care affordable. Spend my tax dollars protecting the environment. Spend my tax dollars on anything that would improve the day-to-day lives of millions of Americans.
Going to Mars would be cool. Just don't use my money to get there.
Yes, schools hand out too much homework now. My first grader needs his backpack because he comes home every night with 5-10 pages of worksheets to complete, plus some books to read, plus projects to build. I didn't ever have a lick of homework until I was in 6th grade, and didn't "need" a bag to carry all my school crap until college. However, he is better at math and reading in first grade than I was in 4th grade (I got A's throughout school). He is certainly much further along. The teacher spends a LOT MORE TIME teaching in the classroom and less time allowing her students to practice what they learn in the class. However, I can see where that tactic is failing. Sure, my son (and many of his peers) are moving right along at a great pace because as parents we make certain our kids do that homeowrk, review it with them, practice some more at home (try to make games of learning so its not constant "work"). It fails though for those students in families who don't support the student at home like that. So far, that's almost all the minorities in my son's class. The black and latino students in my son's class are far behind the whites and asians (I volunteer time in his class to read with the kids, and see it every time - the white and asian kids can read circles around the black and latino kids, and I know it's not a result of poor teaching because the teacher spent all the time when volunteers were present working with those kids who struggled the most). I'd also like to comment on an earlier response - some clueless @$$ stating that what our schools needs is better teachers. Um, no. That's wrong. What we need is MORE teachers who are at least as wonderful as those still willing to do the job today. And while we are at it, let's pay them a living salary for the incredibly difficult job they do, allow them to discipline children the way they need to, provide them the materials to teach in the class (one textbook per 3 kids and requiring the teacher to pay for paper/worksheets, crayons, pencils, erasers, chalk, markers, etc... is completely stupid), and cut out the huge bulk of beaurucratic BS that clogs their time.
Yeah, I actually postponed suicide until after the Return of the King, but by then I was engaged and generally pretty happy. Stupid timing. If I had never read that stupid article back in 1999 about the LOTR movies being made I'd be comfortably pushing up the daisies by now.
I've been robbed. Seriously. $55 plus tax, and I can't even take the damn thing back to the store, BECAUSE IT DOESN'T WORK.
Why this piece of crap didn't come on a DVD I simply don't know.
DOOM3 worked flawlessly out of the box with no need to mess with any of the settings. I suppose it was too much to assume that Valve, with one game under its belt, could actually make a second game that worked.
I am so seriously ticked off by this worthless piece of crap.
I've used each version of Firefox (or whatever their earlier names were) since 0.7. I am on PR1 now, or whatever the version label is. Oddly, I feel compelled to wait and not try this release candidate. I know the date of the planned 1.0 release and for some reason knowing that has me thinking it's perfectly ok to wait until then.
Actually, I am serious. I would ditch windows in a second if I could put osx onto my PC instead.
To state that "Richard Stallman was in the car earlier but apparently had been dropped off prior to the accident" is so incredibly RUDE and DISTASTEFUL and INSULTING, especially when the names of the dead and injured are left out. To even insinuate that we are all so lucky that Stallman wasn't hurt even tho these nameless folks got pasted infuriates me to no end. Heaps of SHAME and DISHONOR to the poster "michael" for his horrid thoughtlessness.