I worked for a moving company as a PC disconnect/reconnect technician. We moved Solar City to a different building in December 2010. I came across one table at the old location where someone practically raped the pine needles off a small Christmas tree. Very brutal. I felt sorry for the poor tree. That was my first and last time at Solar City.
You have a strange concept of how old dirt is. Some of us remember using operating systems before Windows 7.
I made two separate statements about PowerShell. Your reading comprehension (or lack thereof) combined the two statements into one statement. Something can be older than dirt while still being in use today. The oldest operating system I've worked on was DOS 6 (pre-Windows). So get off my lawn!
I work in government IT. The only paper products I have on my desk is a box of tissue and a notebook that I brought from home. There are no printers or copier machines. If we have an office supply cabinet, it's very well hidden.
I wouldn't be working in IT if I wasn't an asshole. Someone has to get the job done.
You seem to assume that non power users or non-admins don't use the command prompt or wouldn't have the need.
Non-admin users have no use case for PowerShell scripting, as 99.9% of them are non-technical. The few power users we have are masters of the Excel spreadsheet macros.
PowerShell is older than dirt. Nothing new there. I work in government IT and we use PowerShell on Windows 7. I personally would like to use Python but that's not on the approved software list.
which ain't gonna happen on tens of millions of corporate desktops...
I work in government IT and admins have full access to PowerShell scripting.
>> set it through Group Policy
nope, that won't won't be allowed either.
Admin accounts should be separate from ordinary user accounts. I access my admin account with a security token and my regular user account with my PIV card.
I see only pain ahead, and it's going to be felt worst by Betty Sues' who run this one command-line tool once a day/week on their shitty seven-year-old Dell desktop to their job, and the managers who will ask IT why they are getting screwed again. Maybe this is how the "year of the Linux Desktop" finally gets going?
Love it when users and managers play the victim game and blame IT. Even more funny when I replace their computer with a box of crayons.
"Battlefield: Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard was set a thousand years into the future, where humans were almost extinct due to aliens killing off humanity to strip mine the planet. Great minds think alike... Meh.
I thought of that before my response; your quote is (emphasis mine):
My quote came from a Republican consultant.
Even if we took "always" to mean "vast majority of the time", it's still wrong. In fact, about 24.8% of eligible American voters choose crazy over crooked (and roughly 50% of eligible voters either had their vote suppressed in some manner, or just kept their lazy ass at home. I'm betting on the latter being more prevalent.)
That's why voting should be a national weekend holiday and made mandatory for all citizens. It's unfair that the future of the country is decided by so few citizens.
You, labelling voters "stupid", immediately revealed your political leaning in this election.
Have you ever stopped to listen to how people talked about politics? I've known a lot of stupid people who can recite Fox News talking points by heart. If I try to correct them, they get very angry. As the bible says: "The person who loves correction loves knowledge, but anyone who hates a rebuke is stupid." (Proverbs 12:1)
Most people cringe at being called racist or homophobe, that why it's been such a powerful tool for silencing dissent.
The reality is everyone is racist to some extent. If someone accused me of being racist, I won't deny it. But an accusation of being racist isn't enough to silent my dissent.
Have you not been paying any attention at all this election cycle to the wall-to-wall coronation of Donald Trump by CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, The Washington Post, etc.?
FTFY - The lame stream media gave Donald Trump $2B+ in free advertising for the last 15 months.
Or are you just that much of an idiot?
As a moderate conservative, I'm well familiar with the right-wing echo chamber. A lie repeated enough times eventually becomes the truth by voters who are too stupid to think for themselves.
The stupidity of the left-wing voters will guarantee a Trump victory in 2020.
As a moderate conservative, I voted for Clinton. I'll probably vote for Michelle Obama in 2020.;)
You "progressives" who LOVE to label everyone who doesn't slurp your Kool-Aid as a "RAAAACIST!!!!" or "HOMOPHOBE" will HATE this!
As a moderate conservative, I can reassure you that people who are racist and homophobic are racist and homophobic, can't stand the idea that it's unacceptable to be racist and homophobic in the 21st century, and cringe at being labeled racist and homophobic in public.
Surfaces are made my Microsoft, not Google, and any fake news on a Surface, is the fault of the software it is running, not the tablet manufacturer.
When Microsoft made a deal with the NFL to provide Surfaces for use on the sidelines, the sports broadcasters on TV and radio kept calling them iPads. The power of free advertising.
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Raped or Ripped? PLEASE say the latter!
Raped, spread eagle.
I swear, it's becoming harder and harder to parody the left when so many of their own have become parodies of themselves.
I very much doubt anyone will be able to top the Trump parodies for the next four years.
I worked for a moving company as a PC disconnect/reconnect technician. We moved Solar City to a different building in December 2010. I came across one table at the old location where someone practically raped the pine needles off a small Christmas tree. Very brutal. I felt sorry for the poor tree. That was my first and last time at Solar City.
You have a strange concept of how old dirt is. Some of us remember using operating systems before Windows 7.
I made two separate statements about PowerShell. Your reading comprehension (or lack thereof) combined the two statements into one statement. Something can be older than dirt while still being in use today. The oldest operating system I've worked on was DOS 6 (pre-Windows). So get off my lawn!
I work in government IT. The only paper products I have on my desk is a box of tissue and a notebook that I brought from home. There are no printers or copier machines. If we have an office supply cabinet, it's very well hidden.
Love it when ass-holes post bullshit.
I wouldn't be working in IT if I wasn't an asshole. Someone has to get the job done.
You seem to assume that non power users or non-admins don't use the command prompt or wouldn't have the need.
Non-admin users have no use case for PowerShell scripting, as 99.9% of them are non-technical. The few power users we have are masters of the Excel spreadsheet macros.
You also assume powershell isn't bloatware.
PowerShell is an IT tool.
On the bright side, PowerShell has alias for most commonly used Linux shell commands. I'm always typing in ls instead of dir for a directory listing.
Trump reportedly doesn't use computers. He will probably have his maid print out any classified emails he needs to read.
PowerShell is older than dirt. Nothing new there. I work in government IT and we use PowerShell on Windows 7. I personally would like to use Python but that's not on the approved software list.
>> Open Powershell as administrator
which ain't gonna happen on tens of millions of corporate desktops...
I work in government IT and admins have full access to PowerShell scripting.
>> set it through Group Policy
nope, that won't won't be allowed either.
Admin accounts should be separate from ordinary user accounts. I access my admin account with a security token and my regular user account with my PIV card.
I see only pain ahead, and it's going to be felt worst by Betty Sues' who run this one command-line tool once a day/week on their shitty seven-year-old Dell desktop to their job, and the managers who will ask IT why they are getting screwed again. Maybe this is how the "year of the Linux Desktop" finally gets going?
Love it when users and managers play the victim game and blame IT. Even more funny when I replace their computer with a box of crayons.
You're assuming you're actually better than a cockroach, when in fact, you are just the same.
You're the one making an assumption.
Except I believe cockroaches will outlive humans.
Of course.
That's the mentality of a cockroach. Where's my can of RAID?!
"Battlefield: Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard was set a thousand years into the future, where humans were almost extinct due to aliens killing off humanity to strip mine the planet. Great minds think alike... Meh.
I thought of that before my response; your quote is (emphasis mine):
My quote came from a Republican consultant.
Even if we took "always" to mean "vast majority of the time", it's still wrong. In fact, about 24.8% of eligible American voters choose crazy over crooked (and roughly 50% of eligible voters either had their vote suppressed in some manner, or just kept their lazy ass at home. I'm betting on the latter being more prevalent.)
That's why voting should be a national weekend holiday and made mandatory for all citizens. It's unfair that the future of the country is decided by so few citizens.
I'm posting from the future, and it turns out he was horribly wrong.
Did they abolished the electoral college in the future? Hillary has 1M+ votes in the popular vote so far.
http://time.com/4572295/hillary-clinton-popular-vote-lead/
Translation: "The British are the new French. Move the pissing brigades into place!"
You, labelling voters "stupid", immediately revealed your political leaning in this election.
Have you ever stopped to listen to how people talked about politics? I've known a lot of stupid people who can recite Fox News talking points by heart. If I try to correct them, they get very angry. As the bible says: "The person who loves correction loves knowledge, but anyone who hates a rebuke is stupid." (Proverbs 12:1)
Calling a candidate a clown, a sex offender, Hitler reincarnate, etc, doesn't sound like free advertising.
Not all free advertising is positive. Not all negative advertising is bad. It certainly didn't prevent Trump from getting elected.
Most people cringe at being called racist or homophobe, that why it's been such a powerful tool for silencing dissent.
The reality is everyone is racist to some extent. If someone accused me of being racist, I won't deny it. But an accusation of being racist isn't enough to silent my dissent.
Yes, dumbass, we all know the main stream left-wing media writes a few token stories that run contrary to the democrat party line.
As we say in California, "What are you smoking and where can I get some?"
It's the other 95 percent of the time when they were full-on shilling for "Herr Trump" that we are referring to.
FTFY - Thanks to the lame main stream media, Trump got $2B+ in free advertising that his campaign didn't deserve.
You are such an imbecile I don't know if it's satire sometimes.
The purpose of Slashdot is to keep me amuse while I'm waiting for a script to finish at work. Thank you for your participation!
Have you not been paying any attention at all this election cycle to the wall-to-wall coronation of Donald Trump by CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, The Washington Post, etc.?
FTFY - The lame stream media gave Donald Trump $2B+ in free advertising for the last 15 months.
Or are you just that much of an idiot?
As a moderate conservative, I'm well familiar with the right-wing echo chamber. A lie repeated enough times eventually becomes the truth by voters who are too stupid to think for themselves.
The stupidity of the left-wing voters will guarantee a Trump victory in 2020.
As a moderate conservative, I voted for Clinton. I'll probably vote for Michelle Obama in 2020. ;)
They provide enough conservatism to claim being conservative and nothing more.
Conservatives are such easy marks. Anyone can con them into giving money.
You "progressives" who LOVE to label everyone who doesn't slurp your Kool-Aid as a "RAAAACIST!!!!" or "HOMOPHOBE" will HATE this!
As a moderate conservative, I can reassure you that people who are racist and homophobic are racist and homophobic, can't stand the idea that it's unacceptable to be racist and homophobic in the 21st century, and cringe at being labeled racist and homophobic in public.
In what bizarre alternate reality is Bill O'Reilly left of center?
Alt-right!
Surfaces are made my Microsoft, not Google, and any fake news on a Surface, is the fault of the software it is running, not the tablet manufacturer.
When Microsoft made a deal with the NFL to provide Surfaces for use on the sidelines, the sports broadcasters on TV and radio kept calling them iPads. The power of free advertising.