The same was said about destructive cults. The adepts just kept said that God would help them and replace the bad people on the top, because... after all, they were God's chosen.
So don't just shove it off saying it's "bad management". Evil is evil. Period.
I remember reading a paper that compared fractal compression with zerotree embedded wavelet compression, saying they were equivalent. So I guess that's where it went.
What is this hydrogen cell going to run off, if not pressurized hydrogen?
Hydrogen stored in nanocells, for example. It's more compact than pressurized hydrogen, believe it or not. Of course, we need 10 or 20 years for the technology to become stable and commercially available. But there IS research being done, at an incredible rate. One discovery leads to another.
First they downplay you, then they issue FUD about you, then then strongarm vendors who want to bundle your software, then they buy your company and incorporate your technology into their OS.
You're right. That's why we need teamwork to defeat Microsoft.
Until Linux and Windows programmers get to agree, Microsoft will always win.
I found a paper about the 20 hydrogen myths (pdf format). It tells a lot about the Hindemburg, and other urban legends related to hydrogen.
Anyway, having pressurized hydrogen in your car is _NOT_ what the latest technology advancements are about. It's about hydrogen cells. And nanotechnology provides a way of storing hydrogen in solid media under low pressures.
For more info, check out nanoapex news and search the topic "nanoenergy".
(Note to editors: Do NOT, under ANY circumstances, moderate this post as 'insightful'!)
And a list of EVIL companies that do stupid stuf like the one you're in.
Just a question. This reminds me of the battered woman syndrome. Battered women would hate to sue their husbands because they have "nowhere else" to go.
Is yours a similar case? How long before the company brings you to tears and turns you into a complete mess of person, blaming yourself for everything?
Quit the damn company and screw them! Start selling your own software competing with them, and put them to shame.
Hmmm i remember reading the principle of Peter and "incompetence".
Someone who uses to do EVERYTHING that his superiors tell him (and doesn't stop to think if it's the best), gets their favor, and eventually scales up position. Eventually, he ends up in a position where he MUST think to do his job well. He has reached his level of incompetence.
On the contrary, there is the type of person who SHOULD be on the upper position, but will never go there, precisely because his he is "incompetent" at doing what he is "supposed" to do.
I'd recommend you quit your job and try to start your own. Gather some people, ask for a loan, etc... and then do what you used to do at your OLD job. (And maybe then CRUSH THEM in revenge... lol). The thing is trying to do things efficiently.
OR... you could give suggestions to your superior and try to practice your social skills (read: FLATTERY). Or you could find a weak spot in your boss and try to fight for HIS position.
Of course, that'd be impossible if he happens to be the brother-in-law of the owner of your company. I'd go away from there anyway. Those kinds of positions tend to destroy the company due to extreme accumulated incompetence.
Hey, here's an idea! You can seek for a job at the COMPETITION. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!! (ooooh yes, i love this)
I got a better idea for a book
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Bright, innocent, bushytailed overachiever geek, inexorably crushed by the harsh realities of corporate America, turns into
A corporate former-programmer evil brain who uses his monopoly to crush the competition!
1. Use a DDOS on the ICANN's website so they can't respond for 5 days. 2. Ask to buy their domain 3. Wait 'till they can't answer.... 4. You're done!:D
Step 1 - follow the leader Step 2 - wait till people adopt Linux Step 3 - silently switch from Novell to a free version of Linux. Step 4 - I don't need you now, fool! BWA HAHAHAHA!
Frankly, Novell is literally putting too much at risk. Maybe it's because they got no choice?
If you're an average Joe User, who'd you believe? Some vulgar bearded guy who says some documents were faked, or the President of the US?
High ranks in businesses ACTUALLY BELIEVE what Microsoft says. "It's Microsoft, why not believe them?". I've SEEN IT.
Ballmer doesn't lie to the people who don't trust them (DOH), but to the people who DO believe every piece of crap that Microsoft says.
Think of Microsoft as a "software cult". Opposers are qualified as evil, while supporters spend lots of resources in maintaining credibility behind a wall that is forbidden to cross.
So, if the pendulum analogy works on the things MOST SACRED for men (religion and their view of the world), what tells us that it won't work for file sharing?
file sharing <-> lawsuits against programmers <-> more file sharing <-> lawsuits against sharing networks <-> even more agressive file sharing <-> lawsuits against individuals <-> underground (encrypted) file sharing.
We're already seen this last stage of the pendulum. File sharers are beginning to use more cryptic activities, and closed networks to cover their tracks. Eventually, this is leading to whole underground encrypted networks (the Freenet project, the WASTE subnetworks, etc).
The electoral system in the US is about 2 or 3 centuries old. Compare with a country which just elected its first president democratically: Mexico.
Our current electoral system is less than 50 years (60 at most) old, but the latest changes are less than 10 years old.
These changes include an impartial instance where controversies are handled: The Electoral Federal Institute (IFE). These guys regulate the amount of money used in campaigns, who can be chosen as candidate, etc.
Litigations are handled by the (also impartial) Supreme Court's Electoral Tribunal.
Elector ID's have photograph, and all the votes are counted manually. There are independent citizen volunteers who aid in the revision of the vote counting, and all parties have someone representative who is part of the revision team. It's these representatives who impugnate against anything suspicious, and in certain circumstances, all the votes for a certain ballot are declared null.
That's not much of a problem because the ballots are distributed all over the city. (I live in Mexico city. It IS crowded, trust me). No big buildings where people get in line 8-hours to vote. Instead, the ballot posts are installed in high schools, or (smal) public libraries.
The voting system is easy to understand: You just grab a crayon and mark an "X" over who you want to win. (Their picture is printed on the sheet, and their name is below the picture). If you want to declare a null vote, you just mark an X over the whole sheet.
You're given 5 or 6 sheets, depending on what Office the candidates postulate for, and deposit them in different ballots.
After you're voted, your electoral ID is marked as "voted" for this year, and your thumb is marked with a special biological dye. This prevents you from voting twice.
I may have to stress that this whole system was designed by the opposing parties to prevent extremely old forms of electoral fraud used by the official party (PRI), which were part of the everyday political life of our country (People who voted many times, "pregnant" ballots which were already full before the official election time started, etc) since 70 years ago.
So the new electoral system is practically bullet-proof, and this allowed Vicente Fox to be the first president coming from an opposition party.
The system also allows multiple parties to compete for a certain Office, and because they use popular vote (instead of electoral votes, aka WTF?), a party can be allowed to remain registered if its total votes are greater than a certain percentage.
The mexican electoral system may have its flaws, but at least it makes me proud of not being an american.
Now if some person in the US put some of these ideas into practice... *sigh*
Why don't the govt just count one vote for person, and determine the winner using the total votes!?!? That way EVERY VOTE would count.
Look at what happened in the 2000 elections. Suddenly, the vote of just the people in florida became over-representative. Add a bipartite system, and what do you get? Either democrats, or republicans.
So, IMHO, the three great evils of US politics are:
1) Presidential system 2) "Electoral" vote system 3) Bipartite system.
Now ask yourself why don't the people in charge (the senate, congressmen, president) do anything to change this. Because THEY DON'T WANT TO LET GO OF THE POWER.
And this isn't exclusive of the US. Wher I live, we have a similarly corrupted system. The congressmen don't work as they should, but they'll never aprove laws to regulate themselves.
This is a terrible evil in national politics. The ones who are to blame are the only ones who COULD change the system... if they wanted. But they don't want, and nobody can punish them for not wanting.
Serious. Who taught web design to this moron? All his page is composed of HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES! No wonder it got slashdoted after the first 100 visits or so (wild guess). I'm reading the coral link.
Doesn't he know how to use thumbnails? Perhaps we should add a guide to/. Before posting:
I. Thou shalt not use high resolution images on your webpages.
II. If thou do and link them from/., thou shalt be damned.
I speak from experience with a client. He has a Toshiba Laptop.
The Toshiba guys have some sort of CLONED CD from a hard drive, and when something goes wrong with your legitimate Windows XP (Home - ack), there's no choice. You can't just insert the Microsoft Windows XP CD and choose "repair". No. You have to insert the cloned CD from Toshiba, make it repartition your HD, format it, and install their already-tweaked version.
Microsoft could do their users a BIG favor if they forced their re-vendors to distribute "rescue" CD's in case some of these stupidities happen.
Oh, you wanna know how this guy's HD was messed up in the first place? He said "yes" when asked to install SP2.
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The same was said about destructive cults. The adepts just kept said that God would help them and replace the bad people on the top, because... after all, they were God's chosen.
So don't just shove it off saying it's "bad management". Evil is evil. Period.
I remember reading a paper that compared fractal compression with zerotree embedded wavelet compression, saying they were equivalent. So I guess that's where it went.
What is this hydrogen cell going to run off, if not pressurized hydrogen?
Hydrogen stored in nanocells, for example. It's more compact than pressurized hydrogen, believe it or not. Of course, we need 10 or 20 years for the technology to become stable and commercially available. But there IS research being done, at an incredible rate. One discovery leads to another.
This reminds me of famous movies where the guy is scared of the monster/bully/big guy/goon/etc.
*closes fists* "I-i-ii...'m... no-not sc-cared of you... you... yuuu!"
Aww poor Microsoft... got scared of a kid stronger than you? B-)
First they downplay you, then they issue FUD about you, then then strongarm vendors who want to bundle your software, then they buy your company and incorporate your technology into their OS.
You're right. That's why we need teamwork to defeat Microsoft.
Until Linux and Windows programmers get to agree, Microsoft will always win.
The Mozilla and IE icons together in slashdot.
The browser wars are BACK.
Beautiful.
I found a paper about the 20 hydrogen myths (pdf format). It tells a lot about the Hindemburg, and other urban legends related to hydrogen.
Anyway, having pressurized hydrogen in your car is _NOT_ what the latest technology advancements are about. It's about hydrogen cells. And nanotechnology provides a way of storing hydrogen in solid media under low pressures.
For more info, check out nanoapex news and search the topic "nanoenergy".
(Note to editors:
Do NOT, under ANY circumstances, moderate this post as 'insightful'!)
And a list of EVIL companies that do stupid stuf like the one you're in.
Just a question. This reminds me of the battered woman syndrome. Battered women would hate to sue their husbands because they have "nowhere else" to go.
Is yours a similar case? How long before the company brings you to tears and turns you into a complete mess of person, blaming yourself for everything?
Quit the damn company and screw them! Start selling your own software competing with them, and put them to shame.
Hmmm i remember reading the principle of Peter and "incompetence".
Someone who uses to do EVERYTHING that his superiors tell him (and doesn't stop to think if it's the best), gets their favor, and eventually scales up position. Eventually, he ends up in a position where he MUST think to do his job well. He has reached his level of incompetence.
On the contrary, there is the type of person who SHOULD be on the upper position, but will never go there, precisely because his he is "incompetent" at doing what he is "supposed" to do.
I'd recommend you quit your job and try to start your own. Gather some people, ask for a loan, etc... and then do what you used to do at your OLD job. (And maybe then CRUSH THEM in revenge... lol). The thing is trying to do things efficiently.
OR... you could give suggestions to your superior and try to practice your social skills (read: FLATTERY). Or you could find a weak spot in your boss and try to fight for HIS position.
Of course, that'd be impossible if he happens to be the brother-in-law of the owner of your company. I'd go away from there anyway. Those kinds of positions tend to destroy the company due to extreme accumulated incompetence.
Hey, here's an idea! You can seek for a job at the COMPETITION. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!! (ooooh yes, i love this)
Bright, innocent, bushytailed overachiever geek, inexorably crushed by the harsh realities of corporate America, turns into
A corporate former-programmer evil brain who uses his monopoly to crush the competition!
Yes! That'd be a wonderful story - oh, wait...
Time to do so with your Linux products!
1. Use a DDOS on the ICANN's website so they can't respond for 5 days. :D
2. Ask to buy their domain
3. Wait 'till they can't answer....
4. You're done!
Does this release support overflow-x and overflow-y?
Step 1. Use PSYCHIC spam in written pdf documents to confuse the executive with buzzwords and mixed up terms.
Step 2. Use taxpayers' money to demonstrate the effect.
Step 3: Now you see it, now you don't. IT WORKS!!!!
with the money you earned, you can purchase some DVD's, rip 'em and give some Divx to your friend the pirate.
Yee haw!!! Creating your own lawsuits er... market.
Isn't that sweet? O:)
Ingredients:
* AOL
* corn disks
* Computer cookery 5000 with Intel Pentium Prescott (TM) as the heat source.
What do you get?
FREE POPCORN!
Step 1 - follow the leader
Step 2 - wait till people adopt Linux
Step 3 - silently switch from Novell to a free version of Linux.
Step 4 - I don't need you now, fool! BWA HAHAHAHA!
Frankly, Novell is literally putting too much at risk. Maybe it's because they got no choice?
If you're an average Joe User, who'd you believe? Some vulgar bearded guy who says some documents were faked, or the President of the US?
High ranks in businesses ACTUALLY BELIEVE what Microsoft says. "It's Microsoft, why not believe them?". I've SEEN IT.
Ballmer doesn't lie to the people who don't trust them (DOH), but to the people who DO believe every piece of crap that Microsoft says.
Think of Microsoft as a "software cult". Opposers are qualified as evil, while supporters spend lots of resources in maintaining credibility behind a wall that is forbidden to cross.
Various examples:
RELIGION:
=========
Catholic censorship <-> Protestant Reformation <-> Catholic Counterreform.
Bible fundamentalism <-> Atheism <-> Stronger bible fundamentalism <-> NeoPaganism (wicca, new age).
Bible fundamentalism <-> Evolutionism <-> Creation science.
POLITICS:
=========
Imperial Colonialism <-> Islamic extremism <-> semitic extremism <-> Terrorism <-> Operation Iraqi freedom, Yee haw!
So, if the pendulum analogy works on the things MOST SACRED for men (religion and their view of the world), what tells us that it won't work for file sharing?
file sharing <-> lawsuits against programmers <-> more file sharing <-> lawsuits against sharing networks <-> even more agressive file sharing <-> lawsuits against individuals <-> underground (encrypted) file sharing.
We're already seen this last stage of the pendulum. File sharers are beginning to use more cryptic activities, and closed networks to cover their tracks. Eventually, this is leading to whole underground encrypted networks (the Freenet project, the WASTE subnetworks, etc).
Place your bets.
You know, the ones played by oldbies that DO KNOW how to enjoy their experience!
i.e. "MUD for oldbies. By oldbies".
_OR_ the MUD could have different "esoteric" levels, where people in the inner circles would be able to play with different rules than the newbies.
Where I said "ballot", i meant to say "urn". (Sorry, English is not my first language).
You know, something just hit me.
The electoral system in the US is about 2 or 3 centuries old. Compare with a country which just elected its first president democratically: Mexico.
Our current electoral system is less than 50 years (60 at most) old, but the latest changes are less than 10 years old.
These changes include an impartial instance where controversies are handled: The Electoral Federal Institute (IFE). These guys regulate the amount of money used in campaigns, who can be chosen as candidate, etc.
Litigations are handled by the (also impartial) Supreme Court's Electoral Tribunal.
Elector ID's have photograph, and all the votes are counted manually. There are independent citizen volunteers who aid in the revision of the vote counting, and all parties have someone representative who is part of the revision team. It's these representatives who impugnate against anything suspicious, and in certain circumstances, all the votes for a certain ballot are declared null.
That's not much of a problem because the ballots are distributed all over the city. (I live in Mexico city. It IS crowded, trust me). No big buildings where people get in line 8-hours to vote. Instead, the ballot posts are installed in high schools, or (smal) public libraries.
The voting system is easy to understand: You just grab a crayon and mark an "X" over who you want to win. (Their picture is printed on the sheet, and their name is below the picture). If you want to declare a null vote, you just mark an X over the whole sheet.
You're given 5 or 6 sheets, depending on what Office the candidates postulate for, and deposit them in different ballots.
After you're voted, your electoral ID is marked as "voted" for this year, and your thumb is marked with a special biological dye. This prevents you from voting twice.
I may have to stress that this whole system was designed by the opposing parties to prevent extremely old forms of electoral fraud used by the official party (PRI), which were part of the everyday political life of our country (People who voted many times, "pregnant" ballots which were already full before the official election time started, etc) since 70 years ago.
So the new electoral system is practically bullet-proof, and this allowed Vicente Fox to be the first president coming from an opposition party.
The system also allows multiple parties to compete for a certain Office, and because they use popular vote (instead of electoral votes, aka WTF?), a party can be allowed to remain registered if its total votes are greater than a certain percentage.
The mexican electoral system may have its flaws, but at least it makes me proud of not being an american.
Now if some person in the US put some of these ideas into practice... *sigh*
Why don't the govt just count one vote for person, and determine the winner using the total votes!?!? That way EVERY VOTE would count.
Look at what happened in the 2000 elections. Suddenly, the vote of just the people in florida became over-representative. Add a bipartite system, and what do you get? Either democrats, or republicans.
So, IMHO, the three great evils of US politics are:
1) Presidential system
2) "Electoral" vote system
3) Bipartite system.
Now ask yourself why don't the people in charge (the senate, congressmen, president) do anything to change this. Because THEY DON'T WANT TO LET GO OF THE POWER.
And this isn't exclusive of the US. Wher I live, we have a similarly corrupted system. The congressmen don't work as they should, but they'll never aprove laws to regulate themselves.
This is a terrible evil in national politics. The ones who are to blame are the only ones who COULD change the system... if they wanted. But they don't want, and nobody can punish them for not wanting.
Seriously, how did we get in this mess?
Serious. Who taught web design to this moron? All his page is composed of HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES! No wonder it got slashdoted after the first 100 visits or so (wild guess). I'm reading the coral link.
/.
/., thou shalt be damned.
Doesn't he know how to use thumbnails?
Perhaps we should add a guide to
Before posting:
I. Thou shalt not use high resolution images on your webpages.
II. If thou do and link them from
I speak from experience with a client. He has a Toshiba Laptop.
The Toshiba guys have some sort of CLONED CD from a hard drive, and when something goes wrong with your legitimate Windows XP (Home - ack), there's no choice. You can't just insert the Microsoft Windows XP CD and choose "repair". No. You have to insert the cloned CD from Toshiba, make it repartition your HD, format it, and install their already-tweaked version.
Microsoft could do their users a BIG favor if they forced their re-vendors to distribute "rescue" CD's in case some of these stupidities happen.
Oh, you wanna know how this guy's HD was messed up in the first place? He said "yes" when asked to install SP2.