It's just a ruse. The pirates only seem to be retreating. They're just going to fall back into the fog, make a u-turn, and come right back at us, shooting canonballs and guns and parrot-powered bazookas!
1) Don't expect anyone to know what's going on, even the people who hired you. That's 'the tech department's job'. They're administrators. If they know how to turn on the computer, concider yourself lucky.
2) Don't expect the tech department to know about your project. Or care about it. Or help in any way. You're just a student, after all.
3) Don't expect anyone in any department to know what's happened previously with the project. That was 'the last guy's job'... and the guy before that and before that. You might be a trained professional, but they were students who hadn't finished their CS degree yet. Be prepared to start from scratch.
Yeah, so that's basically what to expect. The administrators are too far removed from the technology to know what you're doing. The in-house IT department can't be bothered with your little project when they have a network to maintain. Anyone who used to do your job was unskilled, untrained, and didn't document anything.
Okay, so it's basically like working for a regular company...
We live in a world of... supersonic passenger planes and... Smart people have accomplished enough to slack off here and there, IMO.
Well, even putting aside:
a) That my post was in jest
b) The "supersonic" thing
I still feel compelled to point out that the article refers to smart people defending bad ideas. Not coming up with bad ideas. Not not coming up with good ideas. I respect those who invented submarines.
I don't respect those who argued for the screen doors.
Like that time everyone wanted to give a multi-billion dollar corporation hundreds of millions of dollars to make another season of a mediocre TV show. That was a great idea, wasn't it?
Oh, and then there was the tens of thousands of dallars they gave to that guy who ran a copyright-material-file-trading-site. That turned out smashingly well.
The worst food to eat at a keyboard? The organs of my vanquished enemies. Getting guts out of a keyboard is a bitch-- not to mention all the DNA evidence it leaves behind for the CSIs. (Of course, they're pretty tasty too.)
We might as well do this in the same manner as every single H2G2-Movie thread in existence. If everyone will kindly file your comments in one of the following catagories:
1) "That's Not The Way *I* Would Have Done It" comments
2) "All What Those Hollywood Asshats Want To Do Is Make Money And Have Anal Sex With CS Lewis' Corpse" comments
3) "This Is The Greatest Movie Every And Everyone Else Should Shut The Fuck Up" comments
Yeah, I'm sure this will work out just fine... until the first joker locates one of these mics and commissions a punk rock band to sing/shout "Anarchy In The UK" into it 24/7.
... the emerging movement known as intelligent design, which posits that life's complexity cannot be explained without a supernatural creator
There's an interesting novel based on this idea: Calculating God, by Robert J. Sawyer. Basic premise: A coalition of aliens land on modern day Earth, and say "Take me to your archiologist". They're on a search for God, and the basis of their search is the reasons given by the article. Paraphrased: "If you came across a stopwatch on a beach, would you ask 'How did this form naturally', or would you ask 'Who made this?'". They're out to scientifically prove the existence of God.
Of course, the counter argument is always this: If life requires a creator, who created the creator? =)
Meh, who cares? Didn't time travel parties go out of fashion five days from now?
No one important goes to time travel parties anymore. Come on, we all know how that party will turn out. It's going to be that one lonely guy who shows up a hundred a fifty times so he can try every single pickup line in his book. And he's just going to get rejected a hundred a fifty times, then all of him will get drunk, unruly, and finally the temporal cops will show up and have to drag the hundred and fourty nine of excess copies of him away.
Okay, so the RIAA has sued 10,000 people. Fine, great. That's an interesting statstic. But I'm more interested in the RESULTS:
How many of the suits have gone to court, rather than being extorted... urr... "settled" out of court?
Of those that weren't settled out of court, how many are slated to go to trial?
Of those that have gone to trial, what are the results of the trail? How many traders were found guilty? What evidence has the RIAA presented thus far?
THAT is the information I'm more interested in. They can sue as many people as they want. I want to know what the results of those suits are.
It's note so much that I care about "open source". I just care about "better".
There are about 10 computers I take care of in my extended family. 99% of the problems I took care of were malware related, and most of those problems were on my father's computer. I'd be over to my father's house every week fixing the computer.
So one day I installed Mozilla on my father's computer.
It's been a year, and I haven't had to fix the computer since.
Is "open source" better? {shrug} That's a flamewar I'm not touching.
Is Mozilla better? Hell, yes. I've seen the results first hand. It's saved me hundreds of hours of tedious work (visitng my family =) ).
... the hacker hacked the machine, and then woke up the next morning without his liver and the paramedics said that the worm meat McDonalds burger he ate laid spider eggs in his hair and now he's dying of AIDS unless five hundred people forward a copy of an email around.
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Yeah, you know... if WWIII starts, I don't think the biggest worry on people's minds will be getting the latest issue of Penny Arcade.
I mean, MP3 is great and all... but when will it support ogg-vobis?
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You can spend -$5 on gas, and +$5 on SPF-30. Eventually, things will balance out.
It's just a ruse. The pirates only seem to be retreating. They're just going to fall back into the fog, make a u-turn, and come right back at us, shooting canonballs and guns and parrot-powered bazookas!
Forget the jokes. That setup kicks the ass out of any beowulf cluster. Heh.
I suppose this eliminates them from being the location for the next Survivor season.
"Well, Jeff, we couldn't get any fire, food, water or shelter going-- so we were on the Internet in minutes registering our disgust."
Or learn "would you like fries with that?"
1) Don't expect anyone to know what's going on, even the people who hired you. That's 'the tech department's job'. They're administrators. If they know how to turn on the computer, concider yourself lucky.
2) Don't expect the tech department to know about your project. Or care about it. Or help in any way. You're just a student, after all.
3) Don't expect anyone in any department to know what's happened previously with the project. That was 'the last guy's job'... and the guy before that and before that. You might be a trained professional, but they were students who hadn't finished their CS degree yet. Be prepared to start from scratch.
Yeah, so that's basically what to expect. The administrators are too far removed from the technology to know what you're doing. The in-house IT department can't be bothered with your little project when they have a network to maintain. Anyone who used to do your job was unskilled, untrained, and didn't document anything.
Okay, so it's basically like working for a regular company...
Well, even putting aside:
a) That my post was in jest
b) The "supersonic" thing
I still feel compelled to point out that the article refers to smart people defending bad ideas. Not coming up with bad ideas. Not not coming up with good ideas. I respect those who invented submarines.
I don't respect those who argued for the screen doors.
Like that time everyone wanted to give a multi-billion dollar corporation hundreds of millions of dollars to make another season of a mediocre TV show. That was a great idea, wasn't it?
Oh, and then there was the tens of thousands of dallars they gave to that guy who ran a copyright-material-file-trading-site. That turned out smashingly well.
And-- umm--- hrm.
{pause}
Next.
The worst food to eat at a keyboard? The organs of my vanquished enemies. Getting guts out of a keyboard is a bitch-- not to mention all the DNA evidence it leaves behind for the CSIs. (Of course, they're pretty tasty too.)
I don't get it. Movies != TV. WTF?
Good job.
1) "That's Not The Way *I* Would Have Done It" comments
2) "All What Those Hollywood Asshats Want To Do Is Make Money And Have Anal Sex With CS Lewis' Corpse" comments
3) "This Is The Greatest Movie Every And Everyone Else Should Shut The Fuck Up" comments
4) Legitimate comments.
Yeah, I'm sure this will work out just fine... until the first joker locates one of these mics and commissions a punk rock band to sing/shout "Anarchy In The UK" into it 24/7.
There's an interesting novel based on this idea: Calculating God, by Robert J. Sawyer. Basic premise: A coalition of aliens land on modern day Earth, and say "Take me to your archiologist". They're on a search for God, and the basis of their search is the reasons given by the article. Paraphrased: "If you came across a stopwatch on a beach, would you ask 'How did this form naturally', or would you ask 'Who made this?'". They're out to scientifically prove the existence of God.
Of course, the counter argument is always this: If life requires a creator, who created the creator? =)
I deface their website in the most horrible way possible: I made it run IIS!
4200 AOL users not being warned of an incoming hurricane isn't a glitch. It's natural selection.
No one important goes to time travel parties anymore. Come on, we all know how that party will turn out. It's going to be that one lonely guy who shows up a hundred a fifty times so he can try every single pickup line in his book. And he's just going to get rejected a hundred a fifty times, then all of him will get drunk, unruly, and finally the temporal cops will show up and have to drag the hundred and fourty nine of excess copies of him away.
Meh.
How many of the suits have gone to court, rather than being extorted... urr... "settled" out of court?
Of those that weren't settled out of court, how many are slated to go to trial?
Of those that have gone to trial, what are the results of the trail? How many traders were found guilty? What evidence has the RIAA presented thus far?
THAT is the information I'm more interested in. They can sue as many people as they want. I want to know what the results of those suits are.
There are about 10 computers I take care of in my extended family. 99% of the problems I took care of were malware related, and most of those problems were on my father's computer. I'd be over to my father's house every week fixing the computer.
So one day I installed Mozilla on my father's computer.
It's been a year, and I haven't had to fix the computer since.
Is "open source" better? {shrug} That's a flamewar I'm not touching.
Is Mozilla better? Hell, yes. I've seen the results first hand. It's saved me hundreds of hours of tedious work (visitng my family =) ).
No, it isn't. My daddy's Excel book steered clear of the trite cliches.
{rolls eyes}