I think you're being a little harsh, not to mention very black and white.
Firstly, he's not a serial killer, he hasn't killed anyone; he's just irritated a LOT of people by installing infuriating software that's a pain to remove; in my view, this isn't quite of the same calibre as murdering people.
I was once stuck at a client waiting for someone else to do something. This was back in the days of VBScript worms. I spent a happy few hours taking one apart to see how it worked.
Hell, if I couldn't get a real job I'd probably be doing the same as him. Infecting a machine with UAC and IE running in protected mode is probably possible, but it sure as hell would be a challenge.
I never called it a rational period, but neither was it a random aberration of history as you seem to think. I suggest reading what I wrote instead of reacting out of anger.
Let's take another example from history. I'm sure we both agree that the Third Reich was an entirely negative event in history. Yet you have no hope of understanding or learning anything from it if you refuse to look at how it resulted from the struggle between socialism and capitalism in Germany.
That's not true either. The Third Reich wasn't about the 'struggle between socialism and capitalism'. Socialism and capitalism are abstract ideas, they don't struggle.
Rather the Third Reich was the result of one man's struggle to become Führer. You've been reading too many Marxist historians.
Maybe it's some sort of strategy. They want the students to like see the world rather than sitting in their cabins in underweat with the curtains shut trolling slashdot and IMing each other about how bored they are.
Wow, so when some commie dictatorship kills millions of people every single one of them must have been guilty of the crime they were accused of, rather than just being in the wrong place at the wrong time?
I'm in Taiwan at the moment and I've met people who escaped from China during the Cultural Revolution. It was nowhere near as rational a period as you seem to believe, presumably having read some dodgy pro Marxist website written by someone in Berkeley that can't read Chinese.
Maybe for your next trick you can explain how the Holdomor was a rational campaign against capitalists too.
Same reason we mess with anything else with the computers - because we can't get IT in to do what we need done in a reasonable time frame. I once told our IT guy - he's attached to my department - that I needed DVD burning software on a specific computer within 3 days. Even offered him ImgBurn as a free option. Didn't happen, so I loaded a pirate version of XP (so I could have admin rights), installed the software, and used it. Then called him and told him to re-image it when we had made all the copies of the data we needed.
You don't tell them they are 'attached to the department', you should physically attach them to the machine you want 'em to work on.
Once again the tool is blamed for the usage - there is nothing wrong with spreadsheets per se, its the user that needs to have the boundaries clearly defined.
How can you clearly define boundaries when spreadsheets support 65,000 rows or more and can bring in data from other spreadsheet files?
Graphing. CEOs can't understand numbers, they make their brains run out their ears.
Bleh. We are spatial, visual creatures by nature, graphs make complex and even simple representations of data much easier for everyone. Dunno, where exactly this whole mantra of it just being for stupid bosses came from when graphing functions were created for mathematicians.
It's a very ancient meme. The Ancient Greeks and Romans had stock characters of the scheming slave manipulating their foolish masters. I suppose in many ways the readers of slashdot are the galley slaves of the modern world. Joking takes people's minds off the fact that being on call is the modern equivalent of being chained to an oar.
MS gave our entire campus all the software we needed for less money than we gave the local bus service so students could ride the city bus at a heavy discount.
They are not taught concepts that is for sure. I once installed Open Office for an accounting friend of mine. He had been using Excel for years. Upon showing him how to add columns in OO he cheered and said "Cool I don't have to use my calculator anymore!"
Not only have you invented an imaginary friend to quote in arguments about rival office software packages on the internet, that friend is also an accountant.
An older motherboard that can't use bigger RAM sticks, for one. The only way I could put 2 GB into one of my PCs is if I were to buy an ATA enclosure for RAM and put swap on that.
Here's a nickel kid, go buy yourself a real computer.
Recent versions of VLC have left me very disappointed. Video quality is just bad; VLC isn't even doing decent upsampling (I just get nearest neighbor!). Plus performance is abysmal on Linux. Hence, I have switched allegiances and now use SMPlayer* on both my Linux and Windows machines. SMPlayer has better video quality, a nicer GUI, and proper subtitle support. There is a codec pack to download, but installation is trivial.
(* It's really just a nice frontend for MPlayer.)
It's a pity, because VLC can do a bunch of awesome network streaming stuff. Sometimes I get the feeling that VLC's mission isn't very clear. There was a time when it set out to be something more interesting than just another movie player.
Windows Media Player on Windows 7 will let the blind see and the lame walk. The tears of Windows Media player will cure cancer, but this will not help Steve Jobs because he will refuse to use it.
Wrong. You would ask her if she fancies going out for a drink sometime.
Not really. Jeri Ryan doesn't do it for me. To each their own I suppose but I'm not a big fan of blonde hair and I had the misfortune of dating a German once......
There weren't really any capitalist roaders in Mao's China either - it was far too repressive a regime to allow any opposition at all. The Cultural Revolution was quite literally a witch hunt.
They are anything but conventional. They run as an precooled jet engine upto Mach 5.5 breathing air from the atmosphere and then close an inlet and run as a rocket using onboard liquid oxygen as an oxidizer.
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> Hmmm... I've yet to get the shit beat out of me on the internet, but have gotten my ass kicked at a playground a couple times.
Bruises heal without any effort, and as a kid it's usually within days.
Emotional scars can last a lifetime.
If you're a sissy maybe.
Yeah, that's wrong. You can only stop reading when you encounter a // or a /*
This is your brain on a 7/100 work week.
Let's just hope the aliens don't destroy all the Starbucks first.
I think you should apply for the job of President of Iraq.
I think you're being a little harsh, not to mention very black and white.
Firstly, he's not a serial killer, he hasn't killed anyone; he's just irritated a LOT of people by installing infuriating software that's a pain to remove; in my view, this isn't quite of the same calibre as murdering people.
I was once stuck at a client waiting for someone else to do something. This was back in the days of VBScript worms. I spent a happy few hours taking one apart to see how it worked.
Hell, if I couldn't get a real job I'd probably be doing the same as him. Infecting a machine with UAC and IE running in protected mode is probably possible, but it sure as hell would be a challenge.
I never called it a rational period, but neither was it a random aberration of history as you seem to think. I suggest reading what I wrote instead of reacting out of anger.
Let's take another example from history. I'm sure we both agree that the Third Reich was an entirely negative event in history. Yet you have no hope of understanding or learning anything from it if you refuse to look at how it resulted from the struggle between socialism and capitalism in Germany.
That's not true either. The Third Reich wasn't about the 'struggle between socialism and capitalism'. Socialism and capitalism are abstract ideas, they don't struggle.
Rather the Third Reich was the result of one man's struggle to become Führer. You've been reading too many Marxist historians.
Maybe it's some sort of strategy. They want the students to like see the world rather than sitting in their cabins in underweat with the curtains shut trolling slashdot and IMing each other about how bored they are.
Or something.
I know some guy who went without email access for a whole month. Mind you, he ate his own head.
Still if you're not one of those types who defines himself by being "l33t" or a "gamer" you'll be ok.
Wow, so when some commie dictatorship kills millions of people every single one of them must have been guilty of the crime they were accused of, rather than just being in the wrong place at the wrong time?
I'm in Taiwan at the moment and I've met people who escaped from China during the Cultural Revolution. It was nowhere near as rational a period as you seem to believe, presumably having read some dodgy pro Marxist website written by someone in Berkeley that can't read Chinese.
Maybe for your next trick you can explain how the Holdomor was a rational campaign against capitalists too.
Same reason we mess with anything else with the computers - because we can't get IT in to do what we need done in a reasonable time frame. I once told our IT guy - he's attached to my department - that I needed DVD burning software on a specific computer within 3 days. Even offered him ImgBurn as a free option. Didn't happen, so I loaded a pirate version of XP (so I could have admin rights), installed the software, and used it. Then called him and told him to re-image it when we had made all the copies of the data we needed.
You don't tell them they are 'attached to the department', you should physically attach them to the machine you want 'em to work on.
Once again the tool is blamed for the usage - there is nothing wrong with spreadsheets per se, its the user that needs to have the boundaries clearly defined.
How can you clearly define boundaries when spreadsheets support 65,000 rows or more and can bring in data from other spreadsheet files?
650 rows should be enough for anyone, eh?
I like this
http://www1.plala.or.jp/chikada/vba/pac/pacelle_dl.htm
Excel PacMan. Best thing is it has all the sounds of the original arcade machine, and the graphics are pixel perfect copies.
Graphing. CEOs can't understand numbers, they make their brains run out their ears.
Bleh. We are spatial, visual creatures by nature, graphs make complex and even simple representations of data much easier for everyone. Dunno, where exactly this whole mantra of it just being for stupid bosses came from when graphing functions were created for mathematicians.
It's a very ancient meme. The Ancient Greeks and Romans had stock characters of the scheming slave manipulating their foolish masters. I suppose in many ways the readers of slashdot are the galley slaves of the modern world. Joking takes people's minds off the fact that being on call is the modern equivalent of being chained to an oar.
MS gave our entire campus all the software we needed for less money than we gave the local bus service so students could ride the city bus at a heavy discount.
That was very generous of them! What nice people.
They are not taught concepts that is for sure. I once installed Open Office for an accounting friend of mine. He had been using Excel for years. Upon showing him how to add columns in OO he cheered and said "Cool I don't have to use my calculator anymore!"
Not only have you invented an imaginary friend to quote in arguments about rival office software packages on the internet, that friend is also an accountant.
I think you know what you have to do.
An older motherboard that can't use bigger RAM sticks, for one. The only way I could put 2 GB into one of my PCs is if I were to buy an ATA enclosure for RAM and put swap on that.
Here's a nickel kid, go buy yourself a real computer.
Recent versions of VLC have left me very disappointed. Video quality is just bad; VLC isn't even doing decent upsampling (I just get nearest neighbor!). Plus performance is abysmal on Linux. Hence, I have switched allegiances and now use SMPlayer* on both my Linux and Windows machines. SMPlayer has better video quality, a nicer GUI, and proper subtitle support. There is a codec pack to download, but installation is trivial.
(* It's really just a nice frontend for MPlayer.)
It's a pity, because VLC can do a bunch of awesome network streaming stuff. Sometimes I get the feeling that VLC's mission isn't very clear. There was a time when it set out to be something more interesting than just another movie player.
Windows Media Player on Windows 7 will let the blind see and the lame walk. The tears of Windows Media player will cure cancer, but this will not help Steve Jobs because he will refuse to use it.
It's a picture of a cute doggy.
Wrong. You would ask her if she fancies going out for a drink sometime.
Not really. Jeri Ryan doesn't do it for me. To each their own I suppose but I'm not a big fan of blonde hair and I had the misfortune of dating a German once......
http://home.comcast.net/~speedyturkey/nothitit.jpg
There weren't really any capitalist roaders in Mao's China either - it was far too repressive a regime to allow any opposition at all. The Cultural Revolution was quite literally a witch hunt.
Wrong. You would ask her if she fancies going out for a drink sometime.
Not true, really. Remember the Cultural Revolution? It was primarily against the "capitalist roaders" in the Party.
To the extent that the Salem Witch trials were against witches.
Because only subscribers can add tags?
They are anything but conventional. They run as an precooled jet engine upto Mach 5.5 breathing air from the atmosphere and then close an inlet and run as a rocket using onboard liquid oxygen as an oxidizer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_Engines_SABRE