That wasn't why he wanted two seperate partitions. (As a note, the laptop I'm using is dual boot xp pro and fedora. I work in both, but I also play in the windows half).
He was thinking that he was going to have to do a whole seperate partition *just* to be able to use IIS. After explaining to him that he could just save his data from his laptop and reinstall it with pro, his reaction was basically "oh... ok"
Funny... I never really have any problems finding female companions.
I even dated a model for four years. When I go out, people tend to buy me drinks instead of the other way around.
I'm not totally slim, though I tend to be athletic. I'm about 6' tall, not all that tiny (I wear a 54 suit jacket because of my chest and shoulders), have long curly brown hair with blonde and red highlights, and have a tummy.
According to some of the girls, the biggest part of it is my attitude. I have fun, I'm confident, and I make people laugh without being stupid. Aparently, the fact that I look fairly Scottish doesn't hurt either.
Reminds me of a conversation last night. I had to talk someone out of doing a dual boot between XP home and XP pro. His reasoning behind this was that he wanted to run IIS on his laptop (he's learning ASP) and it won't really run on home.
I kid you not...
Here's the kicker - He's got a CS degree. I almost threatened to take it away from him.
Okay, pardon me as I bristle at the mistake you make on the Art of War. Sun-tzu wrote that one's real competition is the closer enemy, not the strongest of a more distant field.
This does not mean to make as many allies as possible. It means that you support "competitors" who are not really in your field in such a manner that you do not increase their power, because increasing their power could make them a threat to you.
This allows you to focus more closely on the real competition by placating those who would possibly interfere in minor ways until you can turn your attention to them...
Arcanum is a great game, and I still occasionally dust it off to play. The ability to have a half-elf mage packing an elephant gun is just wonderfully amusing =]
Jazz is always the first thing I think of upon hearing Epic Megagames. It's amazing how something you love as a kid can shape the reactions you have to certain phrases
One of my former bosses thought it was a crime for me to play music. Complained when I used it without headphones (and was not loud by any means. this was an office, not a cube) and I got griped at when I used headphones because he got complaints that people thought I wasn't paying attention to them (They would open the door, see from behind that I was wearing headphones, playing at a very low volume actually, *assume* that I would not be able to hear them and then leave without saying a word)
It made me want to scream and the days dragged past.
I've got news for you - "a few years into the future" may seem like a lot of time to you, but in reality, that's still damned fast to produce the kind of changes that they want.
It's a lot more difficult than just saying "this is what we're going to do". It literally requres a gradual restructring of the systems in place so that the emissions are lowered and the economy doesn't collapse because of the new requirements, quite possibly killing a large chunk of people in the process because they can't afford to feed their families anymore.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for less polution and actually living in a more eco-friendly manner. In fact, I do what I can (carpooling when possible, recycling, etc) I simply understand that it isn't as simple as everyone seems to think, especially since they tend to ignore the human side of the equation.
That may work in the UK, but in the United States, it runs into a problem of size. You have to consider that the UK, and indeed the member countries of the EU, are each the size of a single state or small groups of states in the United States.
That plus the fact that a great deal of that landmass is rural (ie sparsly populated) makes those things quite a bit more difficult for people in the United States, which may be one of the reasons that the government decided not to go along with Kyoto.
Yes, and I swear that all of them are in Ohio judging by how often I have come close to hitting them while driving (they've also totaled 2 of my cars in the last 6 years or so). =]
Most larger farms have their own gas tanks to fill vehicles. The gasoline distributer sends a tanker truck to the property, tops off the tank, and hands them the bill.
As a buisness, they are allowed to sell advertising to those who are willing to pay for it, provided the ad is not illegal. They are also prefectly within their rights to choose NOT to sell advertising to a given company or individual.
I read your post and started checking off the things in that list that I actually have.
Background in literature and drama/theater (they kept trying to recruit me again for productions when I got to college, but I had no time), I grock music theory though I never got into the advanced stuff (even used to play. I miss that and want to get into it again at some point), studied German (I'm a polyglot though I've lost a lot of it because of disuse. However, aparently I am truly amusing after a few drinks. Takes a team of my friends to translate), fenced for 3 years in college and trained in kung fu and muay thai before that, and I'm a science geek (primarily chem with some biochem and physics).
The mildly amusing upshot of all of this is that I frequently get accused of looking like a bouncer or hitman and sounding like a professor by the people I work with. Of course, I also get refered to as the resident ninja because of my wardrobe and the fact that I just seem to disappear without a sound.
Actually, there was a link to the unlatered archives of the blog in the article linked here. There wasn't really anything sensitive. A few things that HR might not like, but nothing to get your boxers in a knot over, really.
I think my favorite part of the whole thing was his briefly discussing their relocation package (which, personally, should not be something to get angry over. It's something I'd bloody well want to know about before I signed up with them).
"so i happened to look over my finances this past weekend and i realized something: i'm broke. which is odd, because i had a bunch of liquid capital in my checking account last time i checked, and now all of a sudden i have nothing.
i realized the root problem was that google's relocation process requires the employee to pay all the expenses up front and then get reimbursed for them later. that means you have to cover an apartment hunting trip, your final relocation, lease termination fees and temporary housing expenses all in advance. not to mention that they don't pay out your signing bonus and relocation money until your first paycheck (which i haven't received yet). finally, add in the fact that i had to put down two months rent as a deposit for my new lease, and i'm flat broke.
on the plus side, this first paycheck is going to be huge... (which unfortunately means i'll probably end up getting taxed huge on it. doh!)"
Actually, they've been discussing ways to cut the amount of money that each people takes for years because of the decreasing ratio of people paying in to people being paid. Everything from increasing the retirement age to decreasing benefits. That covers poit A for the people.
B) When the system can't sustain itself, it collapses under its own weight like most pyramids. When it collapses, the payments stop.
Sorry to break it to you, but there is a flaw in the system. Basically, the people paying into it now are providing for the people who are retiring/retired now in the hopes that they will get the same benefits in the future.
There's a problem with this. It's called the baby boomers. We're looking at loosing a fairly large chunck of the current workforce to retirement in the not too distant future which isn't going to be replaced.
If it makes you feel happy, you can consider it a *modified* pyramid scheme since you seem to be stuck on rigid definitions (which tend to be fairly useless at times except to twist the truth to your point of view/reality. Remember that all of the companies that we decry do the same thing. "We're not doing anything illegal. This is *completely* different." It's not really different and the end result is the same. It's all just semantics and rhetoric.), but it still really is a pyramid.
"a) leads to benefit payments primarily for enrolling other people, and/or b) refuses to pay benefits to those who invest"
okay, I'll bite. a) is true because the greater number of people paying in per retiring worker benefits the people on top (ie the retiring person). The payments are benefited by bringing in more people into the system (having more children) to pay for the people on their way to retirement.
b) there comes a point where this can't be sustained and the current workers (the people on the bottom) get hosed.
Giving up the title, in this case at any rate, is not the same as giving up the power. You'll find that Gates has much more power than his position would normally grant.
"There can be no question that they have just an enormous number of extremely competent, indeed smart, people working for them (yes, they do). "
I think my favorite response along those lines was by a prof of mine a few years ago. "Microsoft hires a lot of really intelligent people. What they *do* with them I have *no* idea..."
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It really depends on the mentality of the person more than the clothing or the setting. Some people use certain types of clothing to get into a "work" frame of mind. Others can only seem to get work done in their office and not when they work from home.
With me, it's not so much what I wear or where I am but rather that I sort of mentally designate the place as somewhere to do work instead of play games or read slashdot.
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That wasn't why he wanted two seperate partitions. (As a note, the laptop I'm using is dual boot xp pro and fedora. I work in both, but I also play in the windows half).
He was thinking that he was going to have to do a whole seperate partition *just* to be able to use IIS. After explaining to him that he could just save his data from his laptop and reinstall it with pro, his reaction was basically "oh... ok"
Funny... I never really have any problems finding female companions.
I even dated a model for four years. When I go out, people tend to buy me drinks instead of the other way around.
I'm not totally slim, though I tend to be athletic. I'm about 6' tall, not all that tiny (I wear a 54 suit jacket because of my chest and shoulders), have long curly brown hair with blonde and red highlights, and have a tummy.
According to some of the girls, the biggest part of it is my attitude. I have fun, I'm confident, and I make people laugh without being stupid. Aparently, the fact that I look fairly Scottish doesn't hurt either.
Reminds me of a conversation last night. I had to talk someone out of doing a dual boot between XP home and XP pro. His reasoning behind this was that he wanted to run IIS on his laptop (he's learning ASP) and it won't really run on home.
I kid you not...
Here's the kicker - He's got a CS degree. I almost threatened to take it away from him.
Not all time spent on things like games would otherwise be spent working.
There is, after all, this thing called recreation. Assuming that you are defined by what work you do is a foolish and dangerous thing.
That being said, I think I'm going out for the day.
Okay, pardon me as I bristle at the mistake you make on the Art of War. Sun-tzu wrote that one's real competition is the closer enemy, not the strongest of a more distant field.
This does not mean to make as many allies as possible. It means that you support "competitors" who are not really in your field in such a manner that you do not increase their power, because increasing their power could make them a threat to you.
This allows you to focus more closely on the real competition by placating those who would possibly interfere in minor ways until you can turn your attention to them...
Arcanum is a great game, and I still occasionally dust it off to play. The ability to have a half-elf mage packing an elephant gun is just wonderfully amusing =]
"Herpes the Love Bug"
And I suddenly think of Ice Pirates (great, cheesy movie)-
"What was THAT???"
"The manifest says it's a..."*mumbles*"space herpee..."
At this point I get the evil thought of "if only they could be aimed at a terrestrial target..."
hmmmmm....
Ground a tesla coil to my old boss' office chair
OR
Fry him with radioactive lightning....
Option 2 just sounds like more fun.
Shame it can't be done... =]
Jazz is always the first thing I think of upon hearing Epic Megagames. It's amazing how something you love as a kid can shape the reactions you have to certain phrases
One of my former bosses thought it was a crime for me to play music. Complained when I used it without headphones (and was not loud by any means. this was an office, not a cube) and I got griped at when I used headphones because he got complaints that people thought I wasn't paying attention to them (They would open the door, see from behind that I was wearing headphones, playing at a very low volume actually, *assume* that I would not be able to hear them and then leave without saying a word)
It made me want to scream and the days dragged past.
I've got news for you - "a few years into the future" may seem like a lot of time to you, but in reality, that's still damned fast to produce the kind of changes that they want.
It's a lot more difficult than just saying "this is what we're going to do". It literally requres a gradual restructring of the systems in place so that the emissions are lowered and the economy doesn't collapse because of the new requirements, quite possibly killing a large chunk of people in the process because they can't afford to feed their families anymore.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for less polution and actually living in a more eco-friendly manner. In fact, I do what I can (carpooling when possible, recycling, etc) I simply understand that it isn't as simple as everyone seems to think, especially since they tend to ignore the human side of the equation.
That may work in the UK, but in the United States, it runs into a problem of size. You have to consider that the UK, and indeed the member countries of the EU, are each the size of a single state or small groups of states in the United States.
That plus the fact that a great deal of that landmass is rural (ie sparsly populated) makes those things quite a bit more difficult for people in the United States, which may be one of the reasons that the government decided not to go along with Kyoto.
"millions of deer"
Yes, and I swear that all of them are in Ohio judging by how often I have come close to hitting them while driving (they've also totaled 2 of my cars in the last 6 years or so). =]
Most larger farms have their own gas tanks to fill vehicles. The gasoline distributer sends a tanker truck to the property, tops off the tank, and hands them the bill.
As a buisness, they are allowed to sell advertising to those who are willing to pay for it, provided the ad is not illegal. They are also prefectly within their rights to choose NOT to sell advertising to a given company or individual.
I read your post and started checking off the things in that list that I actually have.
Background in literature and drama/theater (they kept trying to recruit me again for productions when I got to college, but I had no time), I grock music theory though I never got into the advanced stuff (even used to play. I miss that and want to get into it again at some point), studied German (I'm a polyglot though I've lost a lot of it because of disuse. However, aparently I am truly amusing after a few drinks. Takes a team of my friends to translate), fenced for 3 years in college and trained in kung fu and muay thai before that, and I'm a science geek (primarily chem with some biochem and physics).
The mildly amusing upshot of all of this is that I frequently get accused of looking like a bouncer or hitman and sounding like a professor by the people I work with. Of course, I also get refered to as the resident ninja because of my wardrobe and the fact that I just seem to disappear without a sound.
Actually, there was a link to the unlatered archives of the blog in the article linked here. There wasn't really anything sensitive. A few things that HR might not like, but nothing to get your boxers in a knot over, really.
I think my favorite part of the whole thing was his briefly discussing their relocation package (which, personally, should not be something to get angry over. It's something I'd bloody well want to know about before I signed up with them).
"so i happened to look over my finances this past weekend and i realized something: i'm broke. which is odd, because i had a bunch of liquid capital in my checking account last time i checked, and now all of a sudden i have nothing.
i realized the root problem was that google's relocation process requires the employee to pay all the expenses up front and then get reimbursed for them later. that means you have to cover an apartment hunting trip, your final relocation, lease termination fees and temporary housing expenses all in advance. not to mention that they don't pay out your signing bonus and relocation money until your first paycheck (which i haven't received yet). finally, add in the fact that i had to put down two months rent as a deposit for my new lease, and i'm flat broke.
on the plus side, this first paycheck is going to be huge... (which unfortunately means i'll probably end up getting taxed huge on it. doh!)"
Tank Girl was based on the comic. No game needed. =]
Do you want your toast turning into flaming death and being shot at you when your toaster blue screens?
And imagine the viruses. While it may keep me on my toes, suriken toast is not something I want to deal with in the morning...
Actually, they've been discussing ways to cut the amount of money that each people takes for years because of the decreasing ratio of people paying in to people being paid. Everything from increasing the retirement age to decreasing benefits. That covers poit A for the people.
B) When the system can't sustain itself, it collapses under its own weight like most pyramids. When it collapses, the payments stop.
Sorry to break it to you, but there is a flaw in the system. Basically, the people paying into it now are providing for the people who are retiring/retired now in the hopes that they will get the same benefits in the future.
There's a problem with this. It's called the baby boomers. We're looking at loosing a fairly large chunck of the current workforce to retirement in the not too distant future which isn't going to be replaced.
If it makes you feel happy, you can consider it a *modified* pyramid scheme since you seem to be stuck on rigid definitions (which tend to be fairly useless at times except to twist the truth to your point of view/reality. Remember that all of the companies that we decry do the same thing. "We're not doing anything illegal. This is *completely* different." It's not really different and the end result is the same. It's all just semantics and rhetoric.), but it still really is a pyramid.
"a) leads to benefit payments primarily for enrolling other people, and/or
b) refuses to pay benefits to those who invest"
okay, I'll bite. a) is true because the greater number of people paying in per retiring worker benefits the people on top (ie the retiring person). The payments are benefited by bringing in more people into the system (having more children) to pay for the people on their way to retirement.
b) there comes a point where this can't be sustained and the current workers (the people on the bottom) get hosed.
sorry to burst your bubble.
Giving up the title, in this case at any rate, is not the same as giving up the power. You'll find that Gates has much more power than his position would normally grant.
Kent.... Wake up, Kent...
This is Jesus, Kent, and you've been a very...Naughty....BOY!
And stop playing with yourself...
"There can be no question that they have just an enormous number of extremely competent, indeed smart, people working for them (yes, they do). "
I think my favorite response along those lines was by a prof of mine a few years ago. "Microsoft hires a lot of really intelligent people. What they *do* with them I have *no* idea..."
It really depends on the mentality of the person more than the clothing or the setting. Some people use certain types of clothing to get into a "work" frame of mind. Others can only seem to get work done in their office and not when they work from home.
With me, it's not so much what I wear or where I am but rather that I sort of mentally designate the place as somewhere to do work instead of play games or read slashdot.