Why should I entertain your nitpicking? You obviously don't believe what I wrote. Not the first time, not the second time, and probably not the third time.
When you say it was a "very effective deterrent" I assume it changed the behaviour of these former friends by stopping them from ever coming to your house or allowing you to talk to them again.
No. They apologized for their rude behavior and put their phones in silent mode.
Is this the phone that they featured in a TV commercial that have people pouring champagne on it and dipping into an aquarium? I don't like the idea of a water resistant phone. I have some friends who won't turn off their phones and insist on taking every call they get while I'm talking with them. Very annoying. Tossing their phones into my 25-gallon fish tank was very effective deterrent to this behavior.
No you didn't. The fact that you think you did is frigging hilarious!
My boss was the lead tester for that video game. He confirmed that I found every open bug that the video game shipped with. He was very impressed that I found them all.
Both of your examples are examples of fair use in the US.
That's not correct. Fair use is using the least amount of someone else's content to make a point in your own content. Using a still shot of a movie poster is acceptable fair use. Using 15 minutes of someone else's video in a 30-minute video is not acceptable fair use. Using three minutes or less would be acceptable fair use.
However, both of your examples would cause a DMCA notice despite being clear cases of fair use.
Both videos are subject to a DMCA take down notice. The movie poster video will most likely win an appeal. The extended video clip video won't even get that far.
So you're saying then, that even a short run-in with Java ruined your career?
Not at all. When I went back to school to learn computer programming, I was working as a black box tester (no programming). I wanted to become a white box tester (programming). But I got an IT support job and never looked back, making that my career instead. Knowing how to program helps immensely in solving many of the IT problems at work. I'm a firm believer in taking opportunities that present themselves rather than sticking to something where the opportunities don't present themselves. I have no regrets in not being a professional programmer.
A fellow lead tester got overruled on a last minute crash bug for code release. Developers were unable to reproduce the crash, and, since their bonus was on the line, got management to approve for release. Turned out that the executable file got infected with a virus when the developer zipped up the files for the ftp server, which caused the video game to crash after being burned to a CD. A quarter-million CDs got trashed when management learned that the CD master still had the virus. Not something you want to ship in a PC product. The developer had to give up all their past and future bonuses.
There is no such thing as a bug free product of any complexity.
Another developer guessed the login/password for the bug database, marked all their bugs as fixed (including a half-dozen crash bugs), and, since their bonus was on the line, demanded that the game code release immediately. The QA team spent six weeks re-testing all 3,000+ bugs to determine which bugs were still valid — and found quite a few more — that the developer had to fix before the game code release. The developer had to give up all their past and future bonuses.
When I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com bust, the CIS department couldn't afford a Microsoft site license for Visual Studio C++ and taught all flavors of Java. My opinion then, and still is today, it was a some language that I didn't want to learn. In fact, I went into IT support after getting my diploma and never used Java since then.
My first day as a video game tester, I was told find bugs in a newly released video game for the PC. I expected to find none, as I naively assumed no one would knowingly ship a product with bugs. By the end of the day, I presented the bugs found. I found every bug that the game shipped with, including a hard-to-reproduce crashed bug. When I later became a lead video game, I fought battles with the developers to ship bug free products and got overruled every time. Their bonuses were dependent on the game being shipped on time (which wasn't the case most of the time). They didn't care.
That sounds dangerous. I wouldn't want to change my 'laid off' unemployment qualification to "fired with cause".
Actually, it wasn't. My contract came up for renewal during an announced layoff period, locking out my boss from renewing my contract in the HR system. The lockout also prevented him from terminating my employment sooner than the scheduled layoff date. He still gave me a good reference.
You could have asked, is this a request from a customer? Because what if it was?
It wasn't a last minute request from a customer. It was an inexperienced waiter-turned-manager telling me how to do my job. My decision was based on three years of experience. The other cook also refused for the same reason, based on five years of experience. No Alfredo sauce order came in during the last 30 minutes of the night. A quarter-pan was still left over for the night.
So yeah you went by the book, belittled your manager, and made a scene.
I made a decision based on my experience. If I haven't quit, the kitchen manager would have supported my decision. Otherwise, if I had made another pan of Alfredo sauce, and the night ended with 1.25 pans of Alfredo sauce, my boss would have chewed me out for not saying no to the assistant manager.
Exactly the kind of reaction I'd expect from people at your talent level.
Would it surprise you that I eventually ended up in IT support? Decision making isn't for the faint of heart.
Has anyone ever accomplished much of value in their two week period?
When I've gotten a two-notice that I was being laid off along with 10% of the company, I pissed off my boss by looking for a job and having phone interviews on company time every day. It's not like they were going to fire me before the layoff.
I worked at as a restaurant cook for three years after graduating from college when I got a software testing internship. Even though I had a new job, I kept working at the restaurant on Saturday nights for another three months. A waiter-turned-assistant-manager who blew off his kitchen training tried to bully me into making more Alfredo sauce 30 minutes before closing when we still had a quarter-pan left. After he threatened to write me up, I told him to make it himself and quit on the spot. He tried to bully another kitchen worker into making the Alfredo sauce but he refused for the same reason that I did. As an assistant manager, he should have been able to grab the recipe book and make the Alfredo sauce. He couldn't. When I went back in a week later to pick up my last paycheck, all the waiters were giving high-fives and thumbs up. The assistant manager had to redo his training and became less a cocky son of bitch after that incident.
So you're posting with Lynx? How does moderation/meta-moderation work with that, I wonder?
I only read Slashdot at work using Windows, as my time is too valuable to waste at home. Moderation/meta-moderation are probably clickable links in Lynx.
It IS compatible with iOS 9, and it will be several years before that is "impossibly too old".
I had a 1st gen iPod Touch that lasted eight years until the battery died. Used it as a Kindle reader. I'm not surprised that the iPad 2 isn't getting updated. I'm planning to retire my iPad2 as an alarm clock with an air raid siren when I get another iPad in the future.
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Show me the word open in your original statement.
Why should I entertain your nitpicking? You obviously don't believe what I wrote. Not the first time, not the second time, and probably not the third time.
When you say it was a "very effective deterrent" I assume it changed the behaviour of these former friends by stopping them from ever coming to your house or allowing you to talk to them again.
No. They apologized for their rude behavior and put their phones in silent mode.
Are they still your friends?
Nah... They moved down to Southern California, where talking to someone and taking phone calls at the same time is acceptable behavior.
I haven't seen the spec's but did Samsung claim it can take a soak in 5' of water?
That's what the small text says at the beginning of the commercial. Must be true. Advertising does not lie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aF23XpBwU
Is this the phone that they featured in a TV commercial that have people pouring champagne on it and dipping into an aquarium? I don't like the idea of a water resistant phone. I have some friends who won't turn off their phones and insist on taking every call they get while I'm talking with them. Very annoying. Tossing their phones into my 25-gallon fish tank was very effective deterrent to this behavior.
No you didn't. The fact that you think you did is frigging hilarious!
My boss was the lead tester for that video game. He confirmed that I found every open bug that the video game shipped with. He was very impressed that I found them all.
No, he's just an asshole.
That's true. What does my work experience in IT support have to do with this thread?
Both of your examples are examples of fair use in the US.
That's not correct. Fair use is using the least amount of someone else's content to make a point in your own content. Using a still shot of a movie poster is acceptable fair use. Using 15 minutes of someone else's video in a 30-minute video is not acceptable fair use. Using three minutes or less would be acceptable fair use.
However, both of your examples would cause a DMCA notice despite being clear cases of fair use.
Both videos are subject to a DMCA take down notice. The movie poster video will most likely win an appeal. The extended video clip video won't even get that far.
I did a Token Ring to Ethernet conversion project in 2005.
So you're saying then, that even a short run-in with Java ruined your career?
Not at all. When I went back to school to learn computer programming, I was working as a black box tester (no programming). I wanted to become a white box tester (programming). But I got an IT support job and never looked back, making that my career instead. Knowing how to program helps immensely in solving many of the IT problems at work. I'm a firm believer in taking opportunities that present themselves rather than sticking to something where the opportunities don't present themselves. I have no regrets in not being a professional programmer.
I would overrule you too.
A fellow lead tester got overruled on a last minute crash bug for code release. Developers were unable to reproduce the crash, and, since their bonus was on the line, got management to approve for release. Turned out that the executable file got infected with a virus when the developer zipped up the files for the ftp server, which caused the video game to crash after being burned to a CD. A quarter-million CDs got trashed when management learned that the CD master still had the virus. Not something you want to ship in a PC product. The developer had to give up all their past and future bonuses.
There is no such thing as a bug free product of any complexity.
Another developer guessed the login/password for the bug database, marked all their bugs as fixed (including a half-dozen crash bugs), and, since their bonus was on the line, demanded that the game code release immediately. The QA team spent six weeks re-testing all 3,000+ bugs to determine which bugs were still valid — and found quite a few more — that the developer had to fix before the game code release. The developer had to give up all their past and future bonuses.
I became a lead video game tester, but that came three years later.
When I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com bust, the CIS department couldn't afford a Microsoft site license for Visual Studio C++ and taught all flavors of Java. My opinion then, and still is today, it was a some language that I didn't want to learn. In fact, I went into IT support after getting my diploma and never used Java since then.
My first day as a video game tester, I was told find bugs in a newly released video game for the PC. I expected to find none, as I naively assumed no one would knowingly ship a product with bugs. By the end of the day, I presented the bugs found. I found every bug that the game shipped with, including a hard-to-reproduce crashed bug. When I later became a lead video game, I fought battles with the developers to ship bug free products and got overruled every time. Their bonuses were dependent on the game being shipped on time (which wasn't the case most of the time). They didn't care.
That sounds dangerous. I wouldn't want to change my 'laid off' unemployment qualification to "fired with cause".
Actually, it wasn't. My contract came up for renewal during an announced layoff period, locking out my boss from renewing my contract in the HR system. The lockout also prevented him from terminating my employment sooner than the scheduled layoff date. He still gave me a good reference.
Wow what a whiner you are.
Did you work as a waiter in a previous life?
You could have asked, is this a request from a customer? Because what if it was?
It wasn't a last minute request from a customer. It was an inexperienced waiter-turned-manager telling me how to do my job. My decision was based on three years of experience. The other cook also refused for the same reason, based on five years of experience. No Alfredo sauce order came in during the last 30 minutes of the night. A quarter-pan was still left over for the night.
So yeah you went by the book, belittled your manager, and made a scene.
I made a decision based on my experience. If I haven't quit, the kitchen manager would have supported my decision. Otherwise, if I had made another pan of Alfredo sauce, and the night ended with 1.25 pans of Alfredo sauce, my boss would have chewed me out for not saying no to the assistant manager.
Exactly the kind of reaction I'd expect from people at your talent level.
Would it surprise you that I eventually ended up in IT support? Decision making isn't for the faint of heart.
Has anyone ever accomplished much of value in their two week period?
When I've gotten a two-notice that I was being laid off along with 10% of the company, I pissed off my boss by looking for a job and having phone interviews on company time every day. It's not like they were going to fire me before the layoff.
I worked at as a restaurant cook for three years after graduating from college when I got a software testing internship. Even though I had a new job, I kept working at the restaurant on Saturday nights for another three months. A waiter-turned-assistant-manager who blew off his kitchen training tried to bully me into making more Alfredo sauce 30 minutes before closing when we still had a quarter-pan left. After he threatened to write me up, I told him to make it himself and quit on the spot. He tried to bully another kitchen worker into making the Alfredo sauce but he refused for the same reason that I did. As an assistant manager, he should have been able to grab the recipe book and make the Alfredo sauce. He couldn't. When I went back in a week later to pick up my last paycheck, all the waiters were giving high-fives and thumbs up. The assistant manager had to redo his training and became less a cocky son of bitch after that incident.
That's a billion FUs.
I'd only buy one if it fit in a 5.25-inch bay.
I used to find Bigfoot drives in Compaq systems. The last 5.25" hard drive I owned was a 20MB RLL for an IBM AT.
They expect government to do their parenting for them, in schools, the police etc.
Only if you grew up in a household without a TV.
Patrick Stewart on Human Rights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfmAY6M6aA
I wouldn't buy Quantum Bigfoot hard drives back in the day. I'm sure as hell not buying a Quantum computer any time soon.
So you're posting with Lynx? How does moderation/meta-moderation work with that, I wonder?
I only read Slashdot at work using Windows, as my time is too valuable to waste at home. Moderation/meta-moderation are probably clickable links in Lynx.
It IS compatible with iOS 9, and it will be several years before that is "impossibly too old".
I had a 1st gen iPod Touch that lasted eight years until the battery died. Used it as a Kindle reader. I'm not surprised that the iPad 2 isn't getting updated. I'm planning to retire my iPad2 as an alarm clock with an air raid siren when I get another iPad in the future.