I have a better idea. Impose a tax on undertakers because murder causes enormous harm and economic loss to society.
I have a better idea, I say we tax stupidity. Then Legislators and common man alike will have to pay taxes for the stupidest ideas on the planet. Imagine how quick deficits would be taken care of if 2 cents a day were taxed to people making up stupid ideas like this.
WTF, is up with the TSA/CPB agents at airports wearing mirrored sunglasses and shit like that when working with the public (indoors).
It's so you can't see what or who they're looking at.
Or how scared shitless they are when they're realizing the man in front of them could probably wipe the floor with their face. Some of these TSA goons are as bright as a box of dead bulbs and just as dangerous
Agree, when working on IT I hated wearing my clothes to work just to go under a desk and get them all filthed. This and having to teach every moron on the office how to use Excel when they should know how made me migrate to development.
Strange. The places that I've work that require getting dirty usually supplied either cloth or paper jumpsuits to go over my clothes so that I wouldn't get dirty. They're cheap (particularly the paper ones that can be recycled), and temporary
This creates a new problem for support in keeping track of the company food chain and making sure those higher up get served first and those lower down get served last and making it politely clear to those waiting why they are waiting, or why you must continue on to assist someone else.
This is a bigger nightmare than you imply -- and only scratches the surface of who's hand you're licking in the food chain; particularly given a lot of the IT Help Desks that I work at have been production oriented where a ticket needs to be generated for the call for assistance, and whether or not sneaker-net is necessary for fixing the problem when remoting into the PC won't.
As people are generally visually oriented, knowing precisely where your IT people are in a given crowd can be extremely frustrating for your IT help desk who are zipping around trying to work whatever tickets have been dolled out to them, or whatever assignments needs to be done for the IT department. Think of it like putting out a flag on your IT people in an arena of bulls and expect them to clean up that arena.
The question I would be asking is, who in management is suggesting this? Chances are the person that is, is the one that hasn't a clue what your IT department is doing, and is looking for proof as to your Help Desk's Production Value by being able to visually spot them at all times any time during the day. If he's not your direct chain of command, get your manager involve in educating him. If he is, find a new job -- because things are only going to get worse.
Well, you tell me... How bad is Bea Arthur singing and dancing with Roadian Bounty Hunters?
I know it's hard for some of you/. folk to believe that Bea Arthur had a long career on the stage and it did involve singing, but she was actually not as bad in this as say... *cringe* Carrie Fisher singing in it.
On the bright side, it also has the cartoon introduction of Boba Fett, but that's the only redeeming quality.
Not enough to survive this Clockwork Orange torture of one's sanity. And back then, only the rich kids could tape it all and fast forward through the pain. The rest of us suffered for years afterward
2. No matter how much the apologists bray, the fact is that Windows has the most infections. The proof is in the pudding! Yes, user stupidity contributes to that... but it ignores deep design flaws in Windows itself! Will the infections ever go toward zero even with the best designs but dumbest users? No. But it sure doesn't excuse it being in the other extreme for Windows.
I think you miss the perspective on the level of human stupidity that's out there using computers. On a day to day basis, from any of these categories at least 20 times a night from people calling in looking to connect their laptops to a Wi-Fi Hotspot in a Hotel:
My internet isn't working, send someone up now to fix my problem!!!
My name and room number don't match, I'm running Windows 97
I'm calling from Room xxxx please turn on the internet for this room (It's always on, this is why it's Wi-Fi just like at Starbuck's).
You mean I have to have my laptop on in order for me to use the Internet?
I'm running the newest Windows -- Windows 2007 -- and I can't get it to find any Wi-Fi Hotspot
What do you mean I have to pay for the network wire?! You need to comp me for that immediately!
I'm on my business' laptop and I don't know what I'm looking at, can you remote into my computer and show me?
When two F2 (almost F3) tornados ripped right through my neighborhood in March, 2006, completely destroying the electrical infrastructure, we had power within a week. The telcos and cable took a month to get service restored, and they didn't even have to plant new poles.
As I work for a telco/cable provider let me give you some insight into the accuracy of this. In the past it was the telco -- Ma Bell -- that provided the poles for the power wires to be strung up on. Now it's the Power company who's responsibility it is to plant the poles (even if they get some of the baby bells to do it for the power company on a contractual basis).
If the cable company or telco were to place their wires up on any of those poles prior to the power company, they will find these wires ripped down by the power company. The cable company and telco can even find their wires ripped down in a neighborhood that the power company has finished re-stringing the wires into but have not been properly cleared for power activation/restoration.
So, as a general rule to stop the needless waste of sending trucks out for re-wiring; the telcos and cable company will wait for the go-ahead (usually a call, sometimes a letter) from the power company telling them that the neighborhood is clear for their wiring. Sometimes the power company is efficient and will inform in an expedient manner. Most times the power company is a hulking monster with the right hand not telling the left hand what it's doing and delays occur. Long delays
I do not believe Tsar is saying the sentence is dumb, just that the residents of the city went dumb years ago.
Years ago? To have the level of stupid that I saw when I was in that neighborhood back in 2004, there had to have been a campaign that started two generations prior. That and scary summer teeth. I've never before saw it taking 5 people to show off a complete set of teeth.
Symantec provided a removal tool because their idiot programmers couldn't be assed to write a proper uninstaller for their shite product.
So basically what you're saying is that the idiot programmers used their ass to write a shoddy piece of code that you need a third party uninstaller to remove?
Yeah that sounds about right actually. And I'm finding the whole of the article, including Hall's bullshit spew to be absolutely hysterical, given that their product runs like a 5,000 pound pig in a 300 pound pig pen. Perhaps if they weren't so bloody quick to obsolete their products on a year to year basis, and trying to push out a new version every year that has even more bloat in it than the last year -- perhaps people wouldn't be so quick to rely on "free" anti-virus solutions as an alternative
Thanks to the Zero Attention Span Theater Generation we get vapid video games (as opposed to substantive ones of old)
Substantive games like...Pac-Man and Tetris? Or maybe you meant those complex, nuanced tabletop games like Solitaire or Cribbage. Seriously, do you really desire to play Xenogears while you're waiting in line at the bank? Think of the implications that has for your battery life. Sorry, I agree that everyone needs to work on their attention span, but putting long, complicated games on the cell phone just doesn't make sense.
Christ on a drunken rampage, you have got to be kidding me. What is so bleeding hard to stand in a bank line all of at most 10-20 minutes for doing business at a bank that you have to be twiddling your thumbs or playing with the gravity controls on your iPhone to play a game?
Or 8 - 15 minutes in line at the grocery store?
Or 10 - 20 minutes at the cinema (that's if you don't pull an order online for those tickets and take at most 5 minutes at the will-call line)?
Must your attention be constantly filled with something on a 2 inch screen with pretty graphics?
You talk about people needing to work on their attention span, but what they really need to do is work on their patience , which you didn't remotely cover when playing advocate in this argument here.
Being able to quantify the odds is an achievement. Why belittle it? Where's your paper on the multi-billion year evolution of the solar system?
Because it has been stated time and time and time again that it takes changes in the order of hundreds of thousands to millions and even billions of years for anything of the sort of happen within the cosmos. So it's going to take 3 billion years for this to possibly happen.
Do they honestly think that saying it now, we're going to remember this 3 billion years from now? Of course not. The average homo sapien can barely remember things happening in their lifetime. Further it has been discussed ad nausea here -- the obsolescence of technology will make that disappear to the cosmos just as quickly
So in essence there's an even stronger possibility of this being reinvented/rediscovered in that time -- if the other theory about civilizations stopping after 30 or so thousand years isn't in fact true.
...I could win the PowerBall or MegaMillion jackpot if it's actually over $150 million. And in about the same time as the slight possibility of the Earth, Mars, or Venus change orbit enough to actually collide....
Really... Isn't this as much as the story some years back when it was shown that using the use of atmospheric breaking causing Jupiter's rotation to lose a second of time over 50,000 or more years?
I call FUD. Next up.. How to make a tinfoil hat that can stop the CIA's mind control rays.
Far more sensible for MS to move to Mumbai for most of their operations and keep the Dublin setup as it is. Staffing is cheap in Mumbai and there is a fast-growing computer/IT industry there and to top it all off a government that is willing to bend over backwards - for a small fee.
Sure! Why not.. Then we can see the irony of this happening: Tech Support Irony
Yes, this is extremely handy. I generally have 30+ tabs open, and it would be impossible to keep track of them without TST. It's not perfect for small screens, but on a widescreen with decent resolution it really works better than the tabs across the top.
Umm... If you're running 30 or more tabs at any given time, I don't think the organization of tabs is truly your problem. Might I instead suggest talking to a professional, or even a physician or chemist about upping the prescription to Ritalin or Adderall?
Sounds like one of those open secrets like "When did the shuttle launch?"
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All this noise because he revealed one of the many cubbyholes they can stuff the President/Vice-President in when there's threats to the chain of command for the United States?
Any strategist knows that there has to be several of them; it would be completely foolish to think there's only one.
If you move out, she won't have to leave you a message saying dinner is ready.
-1 Trolling. That doesn't even make sense.
Just b/c it has the word "Mother" in it doesn't mean it relates to 1) "Your mom" jokes or 2) basement jokes.
Sure it does. If you honestly moved out and cut the apron strings, you get calls from your mother saying, "Don't you remember you were invited over to dinner tonight? Call me." and not, "Dinner's ready..."
And the fact that I had to explain it to you tells me, that you haven't truly cut the apron strings.
If you read their site you'll see they seemed to do lots of fun stuff along the years.
Really? Well, I've attempted several times this morning to actually load up their site and I'm seeing Page Load Errors. Seems that they're officially gone off the web for the moment.
How such an important function was run by a single country.
The problem is how do you structure such an important organisation so that it is run by the international community and actually get things done, rather than just debate and run around in circles!
That's what I fear. Pleading for them to get their hands on it, without properly setting up a structure for the take-over/transition/whatever they want to call it will spell certain disaster.
Try giving somebody instructions for setting up a static IP on windows, that will work on windows XP/vista/7. For configuration GUIs can suck my balls, i'll take a text file with a nice header over a fancy GUI, especially as you only configure something once!
That's the problem, I do this all the time, and it's by far easier walking people calling in through a GUI interface than having them have to drop to a terminal and typing/editing commands. Not everyone in the world lives at the command prompt; most of them get intimidated when asked to pull one up. I'm not about to tout the superiority of Linux when the first and only thing that they want is to get their computers configured and online
Further, I can't drive to Orange County, CA (from Rhode Island) at 3 in the morning when I'm tech supporting a short between the keyboard and the seat. It needs to be done quickly so that Mister Short can get it plugged in, and online so that he can get to bed at some point; and I can move on to the next person that's complaining about something else not working on the network.
So you can tout "...Configuration GUIs can suck my balls..." all you want. But just remember, the people that know how to troubleshoot are in the minority; and those that are there need to drag the rest of humanity along until they're ready to learn/re-learn a foreign OS.
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I have a better idea. Impose a tax on undertakers because murder causes enormous harm and economic loss to society.
I have a better idea, I say we tax stupidity. Then Legislators and common man alike will have to pay taxes for the stupidest ideas on the planet. Imagine how quick deficits would be taken care of if 2 cents a day were taxed to people making up stupid ideas like this.
It's so you can't see what or who they're looking at.
Or how scared shitless they are when they're realizing the man in front of them could probably wipe the floor with their face. Some of these TSA goons are as bright as a box of dead bulbs and just as dangerous
Agree, when working on IT I hated wearing my clothes to work just to go under a desk and get them all filthed. This and having to teach every moron on the office how to use Excel when they should know how made me migrate to development.
Strange. The places that I've work that require getting dirty usually supplied either cloth or paper jumpsuits to go over my clothes so that I wouldn't get dirty. They're cheap (particularly the paper ones that can be recycled), and temporary
This creates a new problem for support in keeping track of the company food chain and making sure those higher up get served first and those lower down get served last and making it politely clear to those waiting why they are waiting, or why you must continue on to assist someone else.
This is a bigger nightmare than you imply -- and only scratches the surface of who's hand you're licking in the food chain; particularly given a lot of the IT Help Desks that I work at have been production oriented where a ticket needs to be generated for the call for assistance, and whether or not sneaker-net is necessary for fixing the problem when remoting into the PC won't.
As people are generally visually oriented, knowing precisely where your IT people are in a given crowd can be extremely frustrating for your IT help desk who are zipping around trying to work whatever tickets have been dolled out to them, or whatever assignments needs to be done for the IT department. Think of it like putting out a flag on your IT people in an arena of bulls and expect them to clean up that arena.
The question I would be asking is, who in management is suggesting this? Chances are the person that is, is the one that hasn't a clue what your IT department is doing, and is looking for proof as to your Help Desk's Production Value by being able to visually spot them at all times any time during the day. If he's not your direct chain of command, get your manager involve in educating him. If he is, find a new job -- because things are only going to get worse.
Well, you tell me... How bad is Bea Arthur singing and dancing with Roadian Bounty Hunters?
I know it's hard for some of you /. folk to believe that Bea Arthur had a long career on the stage and it did involve singing, but she was actually not as bad in this as say... *cringe* Carrie Fisher singing in it.
On the bright side, it also has the cartoon introduction of Boba Fett, but that's the only redeeming quality.
Not enough to survive this Clockwork Orange torture of one's sanity. And back then, only the rich kids could tape it all and fast forward through the pain. The rest of us suffered for years afterward
Its Wookie grunting for Half the show and a little kid Wookie that you want to strangle.
Jefferson Airplane play some songs.
Han Solo and Chewee make an appearance and last but not least Luke Skywalker shows up.
The Luke Skywalker appearance is the most interesting part as his face is caked in makeup - think Geisha and then double it.
Mark Hamill was recovering from a car crash which led to him having plastic surgery to repair his face.
Singing!!!! How can you forget the singing?!? My ears begin bleeding profusely at the mere remembrance of it!!!
2. No matter how much the apologists bray, the fact is that Windows has the most infections. The proof is in the pudding! Yes, user stupidity contributes to that... but it ignores deep design flaws in Windows itself! Will the infections ever go toward zero even with the best designs but dumbest users? No. But it sure doesn't excuse it being in the other extreme for Windows.
I think you miss the perspective on the level of human stupidity that's out there using computers. On a day to day basis, from any of these categories at least 20 times a night from people calling in looking to connect their laptops to a Wi-Fi Hotspot in a Hotel:
My internet isn't working, send someone up now to fix my problem!!!
My name and room number don't match, I'm running Windows 97
I'm calling from Room xxxx please turn on the internet for this room (It's always on, this is why it's Wi-Fi just like at Starbuck's).
You mean I have to have my laptop on in order for me to use the Internet?
I'm running the newest Windows -- Windows 2007 -- and I can't get it to find any Wi-Fi Hotspot
What do you mean I have to pay for the network wire?! You need to comp me for that immediately!
I'm on my business' laptop and I don't know what I'm looking at, can you remote into my computer and show me?
inventing a fourth type of lie.
I suggest Wicanard
Is Editard out of the running?
Well I had sex with your wife!
Cupcake... Wives don't have inflatable nozzles. So please stop showing off your prowess when you're raiding someone's toys in the closet.
When two F2 (almost F3) tornados ripped right through my neighborhood in March, 2006, completely destroying the electrical infrastructure, we had power within a week. The telcos and cable took a month to get service restored, and they didn't even have to plant new poles.
As I work for a telco/cable provider let me give you some insight into the accuracy of this. In the past it was the telco -- Ma Bell -- that provided the poles for the power wires to be strung up on. Now it's the Power company who's responsibility it is to plant the poles (even if they get some of the baby bells to do it for the power company on a contractual basis).
If the cable company or telco were to place their wires up on any of those poles prior to the power company, they will find these wires ripped down by the power company. The cable company and telco can even find their wires ripped down in a neighborhood that the power company has finished re-stringing the wires into but have not been properly cleared for power activation/restoration.
So, as a general rule to stop the needless waste of sending trucks out for re-wiring; the telcos and cable company will wait for the go-ahead (usually a call, sometimes a letter) from the power company telling them that the neighborhood is clear for their wiring. Sometimes the power company is efficient and will inform in an expedient manner. Most times the power company is a hulking monster with the right hand not telling the left hand what it's doing and delays occur. Long delays
I do not believe Tsar is saying the sentence is dumb, just that the residents of the city went dumb years ago.
Years ago? To have the level of stupid that I saw when I was in that neighborhood back in 2004, there had to have been a campaign that started two generations prior. That and scary summer teeth. I've never before saw it taking 5 people to show off a complete set of teeth.
Symantec provided a removal tool because their idiot programmers couldn't be assed to write a proper uninstaller for their shite product.
So basically what you're saying is that the idiot programmers used their ass to write a shoddy piece of code that you need a third party uninstaller to remove?
Yeah that sounds about right actually. And I'm finding the whole of the article, including Hall's bullshit spew to be absolutely hysterical, given that their product runs like a 5,000 pound pig in a 300 pound pig pen. Perhaps if they weren't so bloody quick to obsolete their products on a year to year basis, and trying to push out a new version every year that has even more bloat in it than the last year -- perhaps people wouldn't be so quick to rely on "free" anti-virus solutions as an alternative
Thanks to the Zero Attention Span Theater Generation we get vapid video games (as opposed to substantive ones of old)
Substantive games like...Pac-Man and Tetris? Or maybe you meant those complex, nuanced tabletop games like Solitaire or Cribbage. Seriously, do you really desire to play Xenogears while you're waiting in line at the bank? Think of the implications that has for your battery life. Sorry, I agree that everyone needs to work on their attention span, but putting long, complicated games on the cell phone just doesn't make sense.
Christ on a drunken rampage, you have got to be kidding me. What is so bleeding hard to stand in a bank line all of at most 10-20 minutes for doing business at a bank that you have to be twiddling your thumbs or playing with the gravity controls on your iPhone to play a game?
Or 8 - 15 minutes in line at the grocery store?
Or 10 - 20 minutes at the cinema (that's if you don't pull an order online for those tickets and take at most 5 minutes at the will-call line)?
Must your attention be constantly filled with something on a 2 inch screen with pretty graphics?
You talk about people needing to work on their attention span, but what they really need to do is work on their patience , which you didn't remotely cover when playing advocate in this argument here.
Being able to quantify the odds is an achievement. Why belittle it? Where's your paper on the multi-billion year evolution of the solar system?
Because it has been stated time and time and time again that it takes changes in the order of hundreds of thousands to millions and even billions of years for anything of the sort of happen within the cosmos. So it's going to take 3 billion years for this to possibly happen.
Do they honestly think that saying it now, we're going to remember this 3 billion years from now? Of course not. The average homo sapien can barely remember things happening in their lifetime. Further it has been discussed ad nausea here -- the obsolescence of technology will make that disappear to the cosmos just as quickly
So in essence there's an even stronger possibility of this being reinvented/rediscovered in that time -- if the other theory about civilizations stopping after 30 or so thousand years isn't in fact true.
...I could win the PowerBall or MegaMillion jackpot if it's actually over $150 million. And in about the same time as the slight possibility of the Earth, Mars, or Venus change orbit enough to actually collide.... Really... Isn't this as much as the story some years back when it was shown that using the use of atmospheric breaking causing Jupiter's rotation to lose a second of time over 50,000 or more years? I call FUD. Next up.. How to make a tinfoil hat that can stop the CIA's mind control rays.
Far more sensible for MS to move to Mumbai for most of their operations and keep the Dublin setup as it is. Staffing is cheap in Mumbai and there is a fast-growing computer/IT industry there and to top it all off a government that is willing to bend over backwards - for a small fee.
Sure! Why not.. Then we can see the irony of this happening: Tech Support Irony
Try this.
Holy hell.. This is clearly proof that the Gene Pool is in serious need of a fungicide.
Yes, this is extremely handy. I generally have 30+ tabs open, and it would be impossible to keep track of them without TST. It's not perfect for small screens, but on a widescreen with decent resolution it really works better than the tabs across the top.
Umm... If you're running 30 or more tabs at any given time, I don't think the organization of tabs is truly your problem. Might I instead suggest talking to a professional, or even a physician or chemist about upping the prescription to Ritalin or Adderall?
Sounds like one of those open secrets like "When did the shuttle launch?"
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All this noise because he revealed one of the many cubbyholes they can stuff the President/Vice-President in when there's threats to the chain of command for the United States?
Any strategist knows that there has to be several of them; it would be completely foolish to think there's only one.
WARNING: If you are at work, do NOT image search "DPS" with safesearch off. What? Sure boss, I'll come right into your office. Just give me one sec.
Errr, the Department of Public Safety is stealth porn since when?
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Also, save your typing. I know I have father issues.
There. Fixed that for you.
If you move out, she won't have to leave you a message saying dinner is ready.
-1 Trolling. That doesn't even make sense.
Just b/c it has the word "Mother" in it doesn't mean it relates to 1) "Your mom" jokes or 2) basement jokes.
Sure it does. If you honestly moved out and cut the apron strings, you get calls from your mother saying, "Don't you remember you were invited over to dinner tonight? Call me." and not, "Dinner's ready..."
And the fact that I had to explain it to you tells me, that you haven't truly cut the apron strings.
If you read their site you'll see they seemed to do lots of fun stuff along the years.
Really? Well, I've attempted several times this morning to actually load up their site and I'm seeing Page Load Errors. Seems that they're officially gone off the web for the moment.
How such an important function was run by a single country. The problem is how do you structure such an important organisation so that it is run by the international community and actually get things done, rather than just debate and run around in circles!
That's what I fear. Pleading for them to get their hands on it, without properly setting up a structure for the take-over/transition/whatever they want to call it will spell certain disaster.
Try giving somebody instructions for setting up a static IP on windows, that will work on windows XP/vista/7. For configuration GUIs can suck my balls, i'll take a text file with a nice header over a fancy GUI, especially as you only configure something once!
That's the problem, I do this all the time, and it's by far easier walking people calling in through a GUI interface than having them have to drop to a terminal and typing/editing commands. Not everyone in the world lives at the command prompt; most of them get intimidated when asked to pull one up. I'm not about to tout the superiority of Linux when the first and only thing that they want is to get their computers configured and online
Further, I can't drive to Orange County, CA (from Rhode Island) at 3 in the morning when I'm tech supporting a short between the keyboard and the seat. It needs to be done quickly so that Mister Short can get it plugged in, and online so that he can get to bed at some point; and I can move on to the next person that's complaining about something else not working on the network.
So you can tout "...Configuration GUIs can suck my balls..." all you want. But just remember, the people that know how to troubleshoot are in the minority; and those that are there need to drag the rest of humanity along until they're ready to learn/re-learn a foreign OS.