All users will be assigned Social Security Numbers for standardized interaction with all systems. Thank you for your compliance with this exciting and mandatory efficiency initiative.
FTFY - That "problem" got fixed in 1987 when the IRS required Social Security Numbers to claim children dependents on tax returns. Your tax dollars at work.
I was working the help desk at Intuit when a beautiful Indian woman employee required assistance with her laptop. Her last name was 26 characters long and ended with the word "porn". No one could pronounce her last name beyond the first few syllables. My coworkers and I referred to her as "Miss Porn" while repairing her laptop. Behind her back, of course.
Gosh, the police will call your home phone to ask for donations to the policeman's whatever, and if you contribute they'll give you a sticker to put in the rear window of your car.
The punchline for the old joke is: "Police don't have balls."
As George Takai said from Star Trek: (Hey it has stars in it.) "You are full of stupid."
Please enlighten me as to where you think I'm being stupid. When I learned about astronomy, I also learned about astrology. One is a science, the other is not. Both have a very long and interesting history together.
Not that strange. I had a one-day IT contract assignment at a building next to a freeway. Google Maps guided me to the general area but I couldn't find the building. None of the buildings had addresses that were visible from the street or painted on the curb. The addresses were clearly visible from the freeway. I had to drive into the parking lot each building to discover the address.
Your ilk who want to shut everyone up who disagrees with your progressive, anti-human agenda by branding them as racists?
I'm not trying to shut you up. I have no problem with you going up to a group of young black men and calling them {church bells]. If they beat your sorry ass to a pulp, don't come crying to me about how your First Amendment right got infringed. You started a fight by opening your mouth, pay the price for your freedom.
Free speech shouldn't have "consequences", that's authoritarian speak for not having the right to free speech.
Free speech has consequences. If it didn't, no one would die to protect it.
Just remember, in some areas pro-police bumper stickers can get you more scrutiny by the police as well.
My father and I drove up from California to Idaho to bury my mother's ashes with her parents in 2004. He did a California rolling stop through a four-way intersection and we got jeered from all sides because we had California license plates. Californians got blamed for real estate prices, drive by shootings and drug activity by people in Idaho. Never mind that my extended family has been involved with the drug trade for decades. My father and his brothers bought tax-free cigarettes in Oregon and sold them out of the trunk of their cars in Southern California. A cousin is in the Florida state pen for running coke from Cuba. I followed Nancy Reagan's advice and said no to that nonsense.
If you're that public about your beliefs, you should expect that people know about it.
The people who scream the loudest about "political correctness" are the same people who want to say something socially unacceptable — "The president is a [church bells]!" to paraphrase Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles — without suffering the consequences.
A while back I saw a study about bumper stickers and traffic tickets. You're more likely to get a traffic ticket if you have an anti-police ("I shot the pig!") or pro-crime ("Legalized pot forever!") on the rear bumper. You're less likely to get a traffic ticket for having bumper stickers on the front bumper. Go figure.
Usually the younger ones, though, so there might have been a recent cultural shift.
I went back to community college after the dot com bust in 2001 to learn computer programming and earn my technical certifications. Healthcare became the new money major. So everyone and their grandparents dropped computers to get into healthcare. Everyone thought I was crazy to stay in computers. Several of my friends in healthcare are making great money but are unhappy because they don't like the job. Ironically, some of my best paying IT contracts came from hospitals.
Astrologers use 12 of these constellations as signs of the Zodiac, omitting Ophiuchus, to make predictions. [Unlike astronomy, astrology is not a science.] Signs differ from constellations, bearing only a loose reference to one another. The sign of Pisces, for instance, corresponds to the rise of the constellation of Aquarius. Ironically, if you are born under a particular sign, that constellation it is named for is not visible at night. Instead, the sun is passing through it around that time of year, making it a daytime constellation that can't be seen.
You might as well say an astrology course counts as astronomy.
You don't know much about constellations then.
A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure. Modern astronomers divide the sky into eighty-eight constellations with defined boundaries.
Actual computer scientists have nothing to fear from this CS for everybody bullshit, CS is still hard and at some point the rubber hits the road.
I worked at the Google help desk in 2008. I got a phone call from a recent graduate of the Stanford CS program who wanted someone to turn on his computer. I had to explain to him that a cubicle farm isn't the same as a university computer lab. No one was standing around to turn on his computer. (Most companies I've worked for had policies that prevent help desk techs from remotely turning or rebooting computers.) Except he didn't know how to turn on a comp. I'm always surprised to find out that computer scientists don't know a whole lot about PC hardware.
I tested Unreal Tournament 2004 multiplayer at Atari. I've noticed that all the testers were using male characters, including the female testers. I used the Asian female character as my avatar, picked up the sniper rifle and started camping. My coworkers eventually got tired of the multiple headshots, flushed me out and chased me through the level. Since I was the only female character in the game, everyone knew it was me. They weren't happy that I could snipe — HEADSHOT! — and run at the same time.
Yes. They're called Fortune 500 companies with IT infrastructure built on Windows.
And, further... there are companies using Outlook that have their employees storing their email locally on PST files on their local hard drives?
The archive PST file is typically stored on the local hard drive. Most companies I worked for don't have the Windows user profiles stored on the network. After transferring the data over to a new PC, it's necessary to walk users through the process of opening their archive PST file in Outlook. Otherwise, they panic and call the help desk.
You could easily have one single tech (paid bottom dollar since their job is mostly inventory control) armed with 20+ network ports and 5 USB sticks reimaging hundreds of machines a day.
I did that for a PC refresh project at a hospital. Forty brand new Dells on a rack, a 48-port switch and five USB sticks to image over the network. I did 1,500 PCs and 3,000 monitors by myself for nine months. I was also paid bottom dollar as well, making $20 per hour when it should have been $25 per hour.
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All users will be assigned Social Security Numbers for standardized interaction with all systems. Thank you for your compliance with this exciting and mandatory efficiency initiative.
FTFY - That "problem" got fixed in 1987 when the IRS required Social Security Numbers to claim children dependents on tax returns. Your tax dollars at work.
http://www.snopes.com/business/taxes/dependents.asp
I was working the help desk at Intuit when a beautiful Indian woman employee required assistance with her laptop. Her last name was 26 characters long and ended with the word "porn". No one could pronounce her last name beyond the first few syllables. My coworkers and I referred to her as "Miss Porn" while repairing her laptop. Behind her back, of course.
Gosh, the police will call your home phone to ask for donations to the policeman's whatever, and if you contribute they'll give you a sticker to put in the rear window of your car.
The punchline for the old joke is: "Police don't have balls."
Works for me... Zzz...
As George Takai said from Star Trek: (Hey it has stars in it.) "You are full of stupid."
Please enlighten me as to where you think I'm being stupid. When I learned about astronomy, I also learned about astrology. One is a science, the other is not. Both have a very long and interesting history together.
Legalizing the stuff would give us a significant drop in the crime rate.
And put quite a few cops out of business.
"per se"? Huh?
He paid the workers in Mexican pesos instead of American dollars. Cheapskate.
Not that strange. I had a one-day IT contract assignment at a building next to a freeway. Google Maps guided me to the general area but I couldn't find the building. None of the buildings had addresses that were visible from the street or painted on the curb. The addresses were clearly visible from the freeway. I had to drive into the parking lot each building to discover the address.
Your ilk who want to shut everyone up who disagrees with your progressive, anti-human agenda by branding them as racists?
I'm not trying to shut you up. I have no problem with you going up to a group of young black men and calling them {church bells]. If they beat your sorry ass to a pulp, don't come crying to me about how your First Amendment right got infringed. You started a fight by opening your mouth, pay the price for your freedom.
Free speech shouldn't have "consequences", that's authoritarian speak for not having the right to free speech.
Free speech has consequences. If it didn't, no one would die to protect it.
do you know the difference between cause and correlation?
If you got a point, make it. Otherwise, don't waste my time on a Wikipedia article and wondering what your point was.
The Death Star would be Planet X with X being the location of the exposed exhaust port.
Google had a help desk that took phone calls? Was that only available if you knew the secret Stanford handshake, or what?
The help desk was for Google employees who were experiencing IT issues.
Just remember, in some areas pro-police bumper stickers can get you more scrutiny by the police as well.
My father and I drove up from California to Idaho to bury my mother's ashes with her parents in 2004. He did a California rolling stop through a four-way intersection and we got jeered from all sides because we had California license plates. Californians got blamed for real estate prices, drive by shootings and drug activity by people in Idaho. Never mind that my extended family has been involved with the drug trade for decades. My father and his brothers bought tax-free cigarettes in Oregon and sold them out of the trunk of their cars in Southern California. A cousin is in the Florida state pen for running coke from Cuba. I followed Nancy Reagan's advice and said no to that nonsense.
If you're that public about your beliefs, you should expect that people know about it.
The people who scream the loudest about "political correctness" are the same people who want to say something socially unacceptable — "The president is a [church bells]!" to paraphrase Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles — without suffering the consequences.
A while back I saw a study about bumper stickers and traffic tickets. You're more likely to get a traffic ticket if you have an anti-police ("I shot the pig!") or pro-crime ("Legalized pot forever!") on the rear bumper. You're less likely to get a traffic ticket for having bumper stickers on the front bumper. Go figure.
Usually the younger ones, though, so there might have been a recent cultural shift.
I went back to community college after the dot com bust in 2001 to learn computer programming and earn my technical certifications. Healthcare became the new money major. So everyone and their grandparents dropped computers to get into healthcare. Everyone thought I was crazy to stay in computers. Several of my friends in healthcare are making great money but are unhappy because they don't like the job. Ironically, some of my best paying IT contracts came from hospitals.
Constellations have nothing to do with astrology.
Space.com disagrees with you.
Astrologers use 12 of these constellations as signs of the Zodiac, omitting Ophiuchus, to make predictions. [Unlike astronomy, astrology is not a science.] Signs differ from constellations, bearing only a loose reference to one another. The sign of Pisces, for instance, corresponds to the rise of the constellation of Aquarius. Ironically, if you are born under a particular sign, that constellation it is named for is not visible at night. Instead, the sun is passing through it around that time of year, making it a daytime constellation that can't be seen.
http://www.space.com/15722-constellations.html
You might as well say an astrology course counts as astronomy.
You don't know much about constellations then.
A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure. Modern astronomers divide the sky into eighty-eight constellations with defined boundaries.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/constellation
Actual computer scientists have nothing to fear from this CS for everybody bullshit, CS is still hard and at some point the rubber hits the road.
I worked at the Google help desk in 2008. I got a phone call from a recent graduate of the Stanford CS program who wanted someone to turn on his computer. I had to explain to him that a cubicle farm isn't the same as a university computer lab. No one was standing around to turn on his computer. (Most companies I've worked for had policies that prevent help desk techs from remotely turning or rebooting computers.) Except he didn't know how to turn on a comp. I'm always surprised to find out that computer scientists don't know a whole lot about PC hardware.
Oh right, I'm a straight white male . . .
I tested Unreal Tournament 2004 multiplayer at Atari. I've noticed that all the testers were using male characters, including the female testers. I used the Asian female character as my avatar, picked up the sniper rifle and started camping. My coworkers eventually got tired of the multiple headshots, flushed me out and chased me through the level. Since I was the only female character in the game, everyone knew it was me. They weren't happy that I could snipe — HEADSHOT! — and run at the same time.
We have moved beyond mere networking in those terms, we are now talking in terms of SPHERES!
It was only yesterday we were talking about SQUARES! So much for the future of CUBISM.
There are still companies using Outlook?
Yes. They're called Fortune 500 companies with IT infrastructure built on Windows.
And, further... there are companies using Outlook that have their employees storing their email locally on PST files on their local hard drives?
The archive PST file is typically stored on the local hard drive. Most companies I worked for don't have the Windows user profiles stored on the network. After transferring the data over to a new PC, it's necessary to walk users through the process of opening their archive PST file in Outlook. Otherwise, they panic and call the help desk.
The whole project could have netted you $35,000 for a day's work.
The contracting agency made a lot more than that for nine months of work.
You could easily have one single tech (paid bottom dollar since their job is mostly inventory control) armed with 20+ network ports and 5 USB sticks reimaging hundreds of machines a day.
I did that for a PC refresh project at a hospital. Forty brand new Dells on a rack, a 48-port switch and five USB sticks to image over the network. I did 1,500 PCs and 3,000 monitors by myself for nine months. I was also paid bottom dollar as well, making $20 per hour when it should have been $25 per hour.