Exactly... they didn't need a competent sysadmin, they just had to do without until the cavalry arrived. That way, the IT department doesn't actually have to learn a whole lot about computers, they can just be glorified hardware techies that hire their buddies for good jobs, and pay vendors out the nose for tools and services they should be able to script or figure out themselves.
We bought support. The god-like powers of software vendors are obviously much superior to those of anyone that would work for us, even if the source code is open.
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Well, I, for one, never said that the USA was always in the right, just that if you fuck with us, you die.
Why do you people always go on about moral relativism, except in the cases where perpetrators are usually moral? I don't see you protesting Muslim women being stoned to death for adultery, yet, let an American murderer be put to death and it's an example of "American Brutality".
Fuck all you tranzi bastards. You don't think our way of life is worth playing dirty to protect? When Western civilization comes tumbling down around your ears I hope you're happy prostrating yourself before your Caliph, wrapping your womenfolk in beekeeper suits, and watching children tortured for the crimes of their parents.
The real skill is recognizing and choosing the best ways to solve problems with a computer in a given paradigm (OO, Functional, etc). Languages are easy to pick up, and almost all programmers (except maybe C) have a manual on their desk.
Memorizing the nitpicky details or anything more than basic syntax is worthless. I'm sure Dr. Knuth would fail your little test. He wouldn't bother memorizing stuff that is easy to look up.
I managed to get a job doing BASIC programming with little knowledge of BASIC. I knew C, C++, PASCAL, Perl, Python, and sh. It took me maybe 2-3 days to become comfortable with BASIC. Now I'm one of the best programmers they've ever had, and I'm cleaning up a lot of their old crap code written by people who sure knew BASIC, but couldn't design a readable program to save their own lives. I'm talking GOTOs every other line.
Every good programmer with a background in OO languages worth hiring would be able to pick up Java in a very short time. You're probably weeding out a lot of real talent.
Now go back to pretending you're a real programmer and getting your jollies mocking people who can't write a bunch of Java code off the tops of their heads without a manual to look at, yet dare to apply for a developer postition!
But can you just make stuff up and stage falsehoods in a documentary? Did you actually read any of the website I linked? It's not Moore's ideology I have a problem with, it's his dishonesty.
These people want to make Unix into a bad version of Windows.
I use shell commands for file management. I don't trust binary and opaque protocols.
Gnome is crap. Windows is crap. CORBA is crap. COM+ is crap.
Lusers who won't learn suck. People who cater to lusers who won't learn suck. People who think being popular is better than being good suck. People who copy inferior paradigms because they are more popular suck ass.
Icons aren't any easier than shell commands. Lusers can't figure out shell commands. Lusers can't figure out the fucking icons and folders either and you know it. You might as well get rid of that crap and quit pretending. It's much easier to tell the lusers what to type instead of which illiterate little cute little fucking pictures to click on ("Do I use the right mouse button again? Or the left?" BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! "DIE, LUSER!")
Miguel, Gnome fans, KDE fans, Microsoft and their entire horde of lusers and sycophants all suck. They are a bunch of top-posting, HTML-mailing, file-losing, mouse-clicking, virus-spreading, Bonzai-buddy-downloading, binary-document-and-protocol using, drooling, XML-abusing, idiots who would rather drown their own grandmothers than admit that their giant, unstable, digital house of cards isn't good for much else than Solitaire, Excel, and job-security. Oh yeah, and as a very expensive and unstable platform on which to run a terminal emulator so they can use a REAL FUCKING COMPUTER!!!
Because we all know that murderous criminals hate to break the law by carrying weapons.
Moron.
Trust a Euro to be hoodwinked by Statist propaganda.
It's as if your right to not be around "scary" guns is more important than my right to defend myself.
Newsflash. When U.S. states pass concealed carry laws, crime rates go down or remain constant. Law-abiding citizens don't go around shooting each other. Sometimes they will prevent rape or assault by drawing their weapon. Once in a while they will actually have to shoot. Too bad for the criminals.
How incredibly naive you are. In case you hadn't heard, human predators exist and are extremely dangerous, and groveling for your life is not generally considered more manly than shooting the bastards. At least, not in civilized society.
"Thank goodness that scary person with that dangerous device is gone. No one has the right to use deadly force in defense of their own life, what is that idiot thinking? I think I will get in my half-ton vehicle and drive home at 100 kph while miraculously suppressing my perfectly normal homicidal urges to mow down every pedestrian I see."
While I think it's great people can't carry knives and guns leagally here...
BTW, GUN CRIME IS UP !
So why, exactly, is it so great that people can't legally carry knives and guns? So the poor little criminals who have no qualms about carrying don't get hurt by their intended victims?
I really worry about the Anglosphere anymore... when was it that everyone except the Americans lost their balls?
To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.
Horseshit. No one is forcing anyone to break into people's homes and steal things. If they get shot and killed while burglarizing, that's their own fault. Fuck the dumbshits, it's Darwin award time.
That's how we see it here, anyway.
The State and the Crown will surely use deadly force to protect their property. I guess that's the difference between a government that represents the people versus a government that presides over the people. The latter thinks it is more important than its "subjects".
... work my ass off and hope for the best. I refuse to suck up. I just treat everyone like an equal, which many "higher-ups" appreciate. They like it when their employees say "Hi" and crack jokes and ask about their kids' soccer games. Some of them don't, I'm just polite to them.
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Chlorine is a deadly poison. Does Sodium really change it all that much?
Exactly... they didn't need a competent sysadmin, they just had to do without until the cavalry arrived. That way, the IT department doesn't actually have to learn a whole lot about computers, they can just be glorified hardware techies that hire their buddies for good jobs, and pay vendors out the nose for tools and services they should be able to script or figure out themselves.
Awww, don't get you panties in a wad. I was just going for some "Funny" karma.
We bought support. The god-like powers of software vendors are obviously much superior to those of anyone that would work for us, even if the source code is open. </PHB>
Don't bother trying to talk sense to liberal pinheads, it will just piss you off.
Japan? Germany? The entire Soviet bloc?
Read a book.
Hmmm. A trunk-mounted proximity detector coupled to a pair of M2s would be simple enough... wouldn't leave much room for the groceries, though.
It must be wonderful to be able to excuse one's own moral cowardice with "Shades-of-Gray" rhetoric.
Point.
Well, I, for one, never said that the USA was always in the right, just that if you fuck with us, you die.
Why do you people always go on about moral relativism, except in the cases where perpetrators are usually moral? I don't see you protesting Muslim women being stoned to death for adultery, yet, let an American murderer be put to death and it's an example of "American Brutality".
Fuck all you tranzi bastards. You don't think our way of life is worth playing dirty to protect? When Western civilization comes tumbling down around your ears I hope you're happy prostrating yourself before your Caliph, wrapping your womenfolk in beekeeper suits, and watching children tortured for the crimes of their parents.
Troll?! That's outrageous!
Looks like the cowards are moderating down people who make them feel shame.
I thought this was an insightful post, anyone who thinks it is a troll is obviously an internet newbie who has no idea what "troll" means.
Morons. Cowards. Newbies!
The real skill is recognizing and choosing the best ways to solve problems with a computer in a given paradigm (OO, Functional, etc). Languages are easy to pick up, and almost all programmers (except maybe C) have a manual on their desk.
Memorizing the nitpicky details or anything more than basic syntax is worthless. I'm sure Dr. Knuth would fail your little test. He wouldn't bother memorizing stuff that is easy to look up.
I managed to get a job doing BASIC programming with little knowledge of BASIC. I knew C, C++, PASCAL, Perl, Python, and sh. It took me maybe 2-3 days to become comfortable with BASIC. Now I'm one of the best programmers they've ever had, and I'm cleaning up a lot of their old crap code written by people who sure knew BASIC, but couldn't design a readable program to save their own lives. I'm talking GOTOs every other line.
Every good programmer with a background in OO languages worth hiring would be able to pick up Java in a very short time. You're probably weeding out a lot of real talent.
Now go back to pretending you're a real programmer and getting your jollies mocking people who can't write a bunch of Java code off the tops of their heads without a manual to look at, yet dare to apply for a developer postition!
But can you just make stuff up and stage falsehoods in a documentary? Did you actually read any of the website I linked? It's not Moore's ideology I have a problem with, it's his dishonesty.
Ah yes, "Bowling for Columbine", the answer to the age-old question, "when is a documentary not a documentary?"
Why, that's almost 6 percent!
These people want to make Unix into a bad version of Windows.
I use shell commands for file management. I don't trust binary and opaque protocols.
Gnome is crap. Windows is crap. CORBA is crap. COM+ is crap.
Lusers who won't learn suck. People who cater to lusers who won't learn suck. People who think being popular is better than being good suck. People who copy inferior paradigms because they are more popular suck ass.
Icons aren't any easier than shell commands. Lusers can't figure out shell commands. Lusers can't figure out the fucking icons and folders either and you know it. You might as well get rid of that crap and quit pretending. It's much easier to tell the lusers what to type instead of which illiterate little cute little fucking pictures to click on ("Do I use the right mouse button again? Or the left?" BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! "DIE, LUSER!")
Miguel, Gnome fans, KDE fans, Microsoft and their entire horde of lusers and sycophants all suck. They are a bunch of top-posting, HTML-mailing, file-losing, mouse-clicking, virus-spreading, Bonzai-buddy-downloading, binary-document-and-protocol using, drooling, XML-abusing, idiots who would rather drown their own grandmothers than admit that their giant, unstable, digital house of cards isn't good for much else than Solitaire, Excel, and job-security. Oh yeah, and as a very expensive and unstable platform on which to run a terminal emulator so they can use a REAL FUCKING COMPUTER!!!
Because we all know that murderous criminals hate to break the law by carrying weapons.
Moron.
Trust a Euro to be hoodwinked by Statist propaganda.
It's as if your right to not be around "scary" guns is more important than my right to defend myself.
Newsflash. When U.S. states pass concealed carry laws, crime rates go down or remain constant. Law-abiding citizens don't go around shooting each other. Sometimes they will prevent rape or assault by drawing their weapon. Once in a while they will actually have to shoot. Too bad for the criminals.
How incredibly naive you are. In case you hadn't heard, human predators exist and are extremely dangerous, and groveling for your life is not generally considered more manly than shooting the bastards. At least, not in civilized society.
"Oh good heavens, a gun!"
(Faints dead away. Swishingly.)
(Wakes up.)
"Thank goodness that scary person with that dangerous device is gone. No one has the right to use deadly force in defense of their own life, what is that idiot thinking? I think I will get in my half-ton vehicle and drive home at 100 kph while miraculously suppressing my perfectly normal homicidal urges to mow down every pedestrian I see."
While I think it's great people can't carry knives and guns leagally here...
BTW, GUN CRIME IS UP !
So why, exactly, is it so great that people can't legally carry knives and guns? So the poor little criminals who have no qualms about carrying don't get hurt by their intended victims?
I really worry about the Anglosphere anymore... when was it that everyone except the Americans lost their balls?
To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.
Charming.
Horseshit. No one is forcing anyone to break into people's homes and steal things. If they get shot and killed while burglarizing, that's their own fault. Fuck the dumbshits, it's Darwin award time.
That's how we see it here, anyway.
The State and the Crown will surely use deadly force to protect their property. I guess that's the difference between a government that represents the people versus a government that presides over the people. The latter thinks it is more important than its "subjects".
Score:-1, Chomsky Reference.
... behold the dangers of marijuana!
... work my ass off and hope for the best. I refuse to suck up. I just treat everyone like an equal, which many "higher-ups" appreciate. They like it when their employees say "Hi" and crack jokes and ask about their kids' soccer games. Some of them don't, I'm just polite to them.
I haven't been laid off yet.