Goody! I love getting into pissing contests with ACs! A Slashdot tradition.
To answer your bothersome nonsense: no, daylight savings has never had any bearing on whether I'm inside or outside. I go outside in order to get to work at the time the boss says, to go to the store, etc. These events happen both day and night, with no regard for what the numbers on any device say. Listen, I've gone months without *looking* at a clock - I simply knew that when I woke up, it was time to work, and when I was too tired to work anymore, it was time to go to bed!
The most energy-efficient way to manage your household environment, by the way, is to keep it at a constant, even temperature, year-round. And in any case, you want to tell me how we justify changing the whole society's circadian rythms just to appease the friggin' thermostats? Re-program the thermostats, already!
I don't bash Bush for being a moron. That's secondary to his preference for felating porcine specimens.
"Daylight savings time is an idiotic solution to a non-existent problem."
Shutup and listen, people: THIS POSTER IS CORRECT^! What the heck is going on with this thread?
The numbers on your clock are invented by people!!! They do not control nature. The sun gets up when it wanted to, anyway. It still snows during snow season, anyway.
Those of you with a job which actually *depends* on daylight (pilots? solar energy power plant workers? vampires?) are forgetting the 99% of the human race who don't. Prepare yourself for a shock: some people even work *graveyard shift*!
If you want more daylight, get up earlier. Or stay up later. Declaring 6am an hour later also necessitates declaring 6pm an hour later, so no daylight is actually saved or wasted - you just cut an hour off at one end and tack it onto the other. For those of us who awake with the roosters (crowing at 4 am, the "most normal" time to awaken for most diurnal species throughout the animal kingdom. Get up some morning before light and go outside. Hear the birds? They know when morning is!), we never miss an hour's daylight no matter what season it is.
Think of people who live at the arctic circle. They go months with almost no daylight at all! How do you think they cope? Think of people who work for any business that's open 24/7. Think of people who work underground or deep indoors. DS has no bearing for these people. And it's a complete illusion that it has any bearing on anybody. One a few of us cling to for convenience, but an illusion none the less.
A program that does nothing is augmented to do even more nothing for reasons which have nothing to do with it.
Daylight Savings was originally implemented by Ben Franklin (simplified version: "to get farmers out of bed and milking the cows"). When was the last time Daylight Savings had an impact on your life, except twice a year when you change stuff or check it? Or give you an annual convenient excuse to roll into work an hour late?
And it's just plain Dadaism to think it has anything at all to do with energy consumption. Do y'suppose Bush actually believes he controls the seasons by moving the clocks and calandar pages around? Wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Some of us have to sacrifice goats and burn black candles to get Google to index our site, while a nuclear friggin' plant didn't think to put name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" in their meta tags on a pageful of sensitive data before posting it on a web-accessible site.
I like how Bill Maher put it recently: "We can do security. Ever been to a casino? You can't do math in your head without being spotted, videotaped, apprehended, and dragged out to the desert to be buried by Joe Pesci."
When this movie does so well, Hollywood execs spend years trying to copy it's box-office success, spawning Polar Wars II - attack of the Penguins, Lord of the Icebergs, Antarctic Park...
to be taken from the story. These companies died, but millions more do business today in America the exact same way: by being all marketing-no substance!
How many times have you signed on with a new company, looking to see if they live up to their own hype, only to find yourself with broken equipment, grossly inadequate service, and ridiculous overcharges? How many times have you then gotten on the phone with them, only to find yourself talking to a "customer service" rep for whom "retarded" would be a grandiose compliment to their intelligence?
And on the other end, how many companies have you seen lay off more and more of their engineering, manufactoring, production, and anything else that constitutes actual work, while they keep expanding the marketing? With quotas for the phone reps to sell you more stuff instead of fixing what's wrong with what you already bought? I see something wrong with a ratio of ten managers, five marketers, and seven phone reps to every one producer, particularly when payday rolls around and instead of the raise I wanted, I get a stress-squishie or a dead calculator with the company name encrested on it as my "employee appreciation gift".
They know one thing most of us don't: To ensure your continued success, all you have to do is build upon the foundation of inexhaustable human ignorance. Works in business and politics!
I checked, and my OpenGL cards, drivers, and the programs that depend on them are still on MY computer, safe and sound. Microsoft hasn't touched them. Microsoft, in fact, cannot degrade OpenGL. OpenGL will be fine. Microsoft will only degrade itself - doing what it does best! - like with ActiveX.
On a side note: OpenGL, I predict, will become less important - new technologies premeire every year at those computer conventions we/ers attend. I have thought of doing simple 3D animations in an SDL/C++ game by rendering frames in POVray, saving them as flat images, then having plain old SDL Blit functions draw the frames onscreen. Just to point out, not EVERY 3D animation absolutely requires run-time ray-tracing. Also, all OpenGL is is a set of functions to simplify drawing the same pixels on the screen you'd be doing by hand, only you don't have to sit there punching co-ordinates into a calculator to figure out what angle and what shading.
In short, it's math. OOOOO, scary, scary math, bugga bugga! If you've seen AA-Lib http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/ you know we can even do 3D in text-mode, for cryin out loud. I, for one, do *not* predict the imminent death of 3D graphics.
I walked out realizing liberty and freedom are in fact at risk from with-in.
Well, allow me to congratulate you on your new-found wisdom. Though you are a step behind some very few others, you have still improved your lot immensely over those who do not see it at all!
Is that this story is running at the same time as the Verichip implant one on/.
Don't tell me - lemme guess. Who's been awarded the contract for writing the software that controls the Verichips and the remote-control devices? Microsoft, I suppose? So THAT's how they'll get people to buy Vista!
Now that Microsoft have cancelled all the planned new features for Vista, the only thing left for them to remove is stuff that works fine in current versions of Windows.
Goodbye, Solitare, Minesweeper, Freecell, and Hearts.
*ping* Gosh, I'm not sure whether to barf or applaud. You never know how a thread's gonna go on Slashie.
PS I don't know where the "just one text editor" thing came from, but anyway, good parody! (In fact, had I known someone would sit down and mock me line by line, I would have posted the Cliff's Notes version. I must have been tedius to study.) Linux has your precious IDE's (Glade, Kdev, etc.), too, there mainly for people who depend on them. As for 90% > 10% userbase...you can code and compile for Windows compatibility on Linux. You can test-run it in a Windows emulator. And (since we're all mimicking each other) 100% of the userbase (Windows and Linux together) > 90% of the userbase (Windows itself).
But anyway, my original post was a followup. I wasn't the first to bring Linux up in this thread. And (as I think I made it clear), I don't have anything against Windows programmers. But I would hope they were making conscious decisions based on experience, and not just staying on the "popularity boat" just because they've heard nothing but rumors about sharks in the water.
*Every* *single* time I've ever asked "Why do you stick with Windows?", the #1 response has always been, "Because everybody else uses it." I never got that, either. Is everybody else rich because of their Windows use? Does everybody else get laid more due to the Windows charisma? Does everybody else have whiter teeth and fresher breath thanks to the extra flouride protection of Windows? For going on ten years, it's been "Everybody uses Windows because everybody uses Windows because everybody uses Windows." Man, when that bubble bursts, I'll remember to duck!
Doesn't dropping Monad (Star Trek quote: "I...am...Monad!") mean that they're be sticking with DOS? The most famously targeted shell of all time? The CLI that makes veterans of other CLIs cringe in disgust? It seems like *anything* to replace DOS would be a win, even if it exploded on install, at least it would DO something.
I shake my head and marvel...poor, hoodwinked souls who see nothing but.NET and Visual Whatever and think they're on top of the world.
*sigh* The trolls do rush to these threads. Meanwhile, we on the Free Software side enjoy gcc, vi, EMACS, gdb, Python, Perl, Ruby, Bash, Common Lisp, gcj, Tcl/Tk, wish, GTK+, Qt, SDL, curses, SVGA, aa-lib, POVray, Audacity, PHP, XML, assembly, plus our standard C/C++, and all the open example code you could ever ask for, and half the internet full of tutorials, and man pages, info pages, HTML books, and Docbooks full of more documentation than you could read in a lifetime. All for a substantial monetary outlay of $0.00.
And what do people say to this? Dismiss it all with a handwave - Bah! - and stick with BASIC because they already know it. And it's easier.
Well, no arguements there! But I chose not to stick with BASIC. BASIC was fine on the Commodore Vic-20, and QBasic was good for a yuck or two on the Windows 3.1. DOS batch files were a primitive introduction to the beginning of shell scripting concepts. And by the time I got to paying money for Visual C++ Studio after paying more money for the operating system to run it on, knowing that what I wrote with it would run *only* on Windows for all of it's days, and installed it to discover the closest thing to a nightmare I have ever seen conscious and breathing, I asked myself if I was a man or a mouse.
I picked man. I decided to take the brave step where few dare to tread and learn more than the little scraps Windows was feeding me inside my little box it kept me in. After all, I reasoned, if my sole criteria were "easy to use" and "I already know it", then by the same logic I should be still in diapers and crawling on all fours and drinking out of bottles.
Anyway, it's no skin off my nose. So go on, Microsoft serfs, enjoy your little bag of tricks for your script typewriter! Have your fun. Nobody said that we all had to be professionals! And at least you have one thing to brag about - VB makes a damn fine virus writer! Yes, every virus sample I capture in the wild and study with a hex editor, I discover the words "Visual Basic" stamped proudly right on the binary! For our convenience, of course, so we can set up daemons who grep files for that string and delete what they find before we ever see it. They don't call it "trusted computing" for nothing!
Hey, wait a minute, I thought the rationale was that an unformed fetus may yet be swayed to vote Republican, particularly if they make it feel indebted for it's life later on, whereas a criminal on death row may never vote at all, and if allowed to reproduce, will almost certainly spawn Democrats?
No, you wall-eyed knuckle-head, there is no discrepency. "Information" in this context means "knowledge, learning, education". It can be used by other people to do good. If I discover a cure for AIDS, then the rest of the human race deserves to know what exactly it is so that the maximum number of lives can be saved. "Data" as in personal data, belongs to the individual. My address and phone number can be of little good to people all over the world, and can also be used to invade my privacy.
Which nobody has ever said any different, except for wall-eyed knuckleheads who try to twist what we say around to mean damn near the exact opposite. Didn't you mean to post this in AOL 20's chat?
Except how ignorant. How primitive. How savage. In a word, how United States.
Here, here! And while we're at it, let's make further laws to the effect that all mental disease is caused by demonic possession, milk goes sour and tomatos rot because there is a witch living next door who must be burned at the stake, anybody who isn't white is only 3/5ths of a human being, and the world is flat.
Yesterday I cruised the mall and saw something in a gift-shop window which disturbed me. A statue of a an American soldier and an angel. The soldier was in cammies, face contorted in a barbaric howl, rifle drawn, charging in. The angel hovered over him, beaming down on his act. As I watched, somebody BOUGHT it. A huge 400-pound woman with ape-like teeth and a cell-phone growing out of one side of her head. Her beady, reptilian eyes swiveled to me as the cashier rang her Discover card. She looked hungry. I backed out and fled the mall, before the mob could close in and slaughter and devour me and wear my pinkie bones through their noses.
It's not just stupid or crazy anymore. This society is very, very sick, in the most hideous of ways. You either see it from the outside, or you have it and think it's a blessing.
And the voice did thunder from on high, and spake, "Yea verily, a handful of trained, competent workers can produce better code than 100 Elbonian crack monkeys chained to keyboards, though the latter be content to recieve bananas as payment." And the Pointy Hairs of the Bosses did turn white with the fear of wisdom, and they were blinded by the enlightenment.
You could also get the source code, grep it for library references, and hook things up to your needs and compile it and install it yourself, by hand, coding the occasional softlink and/or shell script to make it work your way. But, oops, I forgot, it's hedistic sacriledge to even mention such a thing in a Linux discussion on Slashdot, in these days of Ubuntu/Mandriva dominance. Forget I mentioned that. What I meant to say is, programs are written by the program fairy, and cannot be installed on a system without the magic install wizard.
"Oh, you wanted to spend $2500 with us? Fsck you, your web browser isn't L33t enough".
But you must have *some* standards for dealing with a client? What if a customer came in buck naked, pissed on the reception desk, and proceeded to dry-hump the receptionist's leg? $2500 still make that OK, too?
Many companys have standards for refusing service. I've met businesses that wouldn't take checks, just cash or credit. Auto dealers won't sell to you without insurance. Bartenders need to see some ID before selling you a beer. Etc...
The web is broken. It still works, but at a limp when it should be running. It's pandering to wussy little browsers that can't walk and chew gum at the same time that makes the web broken. I can remember the Arpanet, FTP, Usenet days, where if you didn't know what you were doing, you got NOWHERE, and that was all you deserved.
You know, I want to build a car that only drives sideways. I know that's wrong but I just don't care. I insist that all the roads, intersections, traffic lights, driveways, parking garages, gas stations, and tollboothes be re-built to accomodate the limitations of my new design. Now, isn't that reasonable?
In my experience, most IT managers couldn't find their ass with both hands and a hunting dog.
That's been my experience as well, and also that an IT manager qualifies as a computer expert if they don't yell into the mouse or shake the monitor to reboot it, whereas an IT worker is treated like Forest Gump no matter how many degrees and years of experience they have.
Folks, managers see IT workers as...plumbers. Plumbers who sit and watch the data flow through the pipes in the basement. When the pipes clog, they suddenly discover the IT department to ream them about it. The rest of the time, you don't exist, especially not every two weeks.
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To answer your bothersome nonsense: no, daylight savings has never had any bearing on whether I'm inside or outside. I go outside in order to get to work at the time the boss says, to go to the store, etc. These events happen both day and night, with no regard for what the numbers on any device say. Listen, I've gone months without *looking* at a clock - I simply knew that when I woke up, it was time to work, and when I was too tired to work anymore, it was time to go to bed!
The most energy-efficient way to manage your household environment, by the way, is to keep it at a constant, even temperature, year-round. And in any case, you want to tell me how we justify changing the whole society's circadian rythms just to appease the friggin' thermostats? Re-program the thermostats, already!
I don't bash Bush for being a moron. That's secondary to his preference for felating porcine specimens.
Shutup and listen, people: THIS POSTER IS CORRECT^! What the heck is going on with this thread?
The numbers on your clock are invented by people!!! They do not control nature. The sun gets up when it wanted to, anyway. It still snows during snow season, anyway.
Those of you with a job which actually *depends* on daylight (pilots? solar energy power plant workers? vampires?) are forgetting the 99% of the human race who don't. Prepare yourself for a shock: some people even work *graveyard shift*!
If you want more daylight, get up earlier. Or stay up later. Declaring 6am an hour later also necessitates declaring 6pm an hour later, so no daylight is actually saved or wasted - you just cut an hour off at one end and tack it onto the other. For those of us who awake with the roosters (crowing at 4 am, the "most normal" time to awaken for most diurnal species throughout the animal kingdom. Get up some morning before light and go outside. Hear the birds? They know when morning is!), we never miss an hour's daylight no matter what season it is.
Think of people who live at the arctic circle. They go months with almost no daylight at all! How do you think they cope? Think of people who work for any business that's open 24/7. Think of people who work underground or deep indoors. DS has no bearing for these people. And it's a complete illusion that it has any bearing on anybody. One a few of us cling to for convenience, but an illusion none the less.
Maya definition #2: http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/en try?id=m0163500 . You are now free to move about the country.
Daylight Savings was originally implemented by Ben Franklin (simplified version: "to get farmers out of bed and milking the cows"). When was the last time Daylight Savings had an impact on your life, except twice a year when you change stuff or check it? Or give you an annual convenient excuse to roll into work an hour late?
And it's just plain Dadaism to think it has anything at all to do with energy consumption. Do y'suppose Bush actually believes he controls the seasons by moving the clocks and calandar pages around? Wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Some of us have to sacrifice goats and burn black candles to get Google to index our site, while a nuclear friggin' plant didn't think to put name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" in their meta tags on a pageful of sensitive data before posting it on a web-accessible site.
I thought he wore black leather stillettos?
I like how Bill Maher put it recently: "We can do security. Ever been to a casino? You can't do math in your head without being spotted, videotaped, apprehended, and dragged out to the desert to be buried by Joe Pesci."
That train is *never* late!
When this movie does so well, Hollywood execs spend years trying to copy it's box-office success, spawning Polar Wars II - attack of the Penguins, Lord of the Icebergs, Antarctic Park...
How many times have you signed on with a new company, looking to see if they live up to their own hype, only to find yourself with broken equipment, grossly inadequate service, and ridiculous overcharges? How many times have you then gotten on the phone with them, only to find yourself talking to a "customer service" rep for whom "retarded" would be a grandiose compliment to their intelligence?
And on the other end, how many companies have you seen lay off more and more of their engineering, manufactoring, production, and anything else that constitutes actual work, while they keep expanding the marketing? With quotas for the phone reps to sell you more stuff instead of fixing what's wrong with what you already bought? I see something wrong with a ratio of ten managers, five marketers, and seven phone reps to every one producer, particularly when payday rolls around and instead of the raise I wanted, I get a stress-squishie or a dead calculator with the company name encrested on it as my "employee appreciation gift".
Dot-com bust? Tip 'o the iceberg!
They know one thing most of us don't: To ensure your continued success, all you have to do is build upon the foundation of inexhaustable human ignorance. Works in business and politics!
On a side note: OpenGL, I predict, will become less important - new technologies premeire every year at those computer conventions we /ers attend. I have thought of doing simple 3D animations in an SDL/C++ game by rendering frames in POVray, saving them as flat images, then having plain old SDL Blit functions draw the frames onscreen. Just to point out, not EVERY 3D animation absolutely requires run-time ray-tracing. Also, all OpenGL is is a set of functions to simplify drawing the same pixels on the screen you'd be doing by hand, only you don't have to sit there punching co-ordinates into a calculator to figure out what angle and what shading.
In short, it's math. OOOOO, scary, scary math, bugga bugga! If you've seen AA-Lib http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/ you know we can even do 3D in text-mode, for cryin out loud. I, for one, do *not* predict the imminent death of 3D graphics.
Well, allow me to congratulate you on your new-found wisdom. Though you are a step behind some very few others, you have still improved your lot immensely over those who do not see it at all!
Don't tell me - lemme guess. Who's been awarded the contract for writing the software that controls the Verichips and the remote-control devices? Microsoft, I suppose? So THAT's how they'll get people to buy Vista!
Goodbye, Solitare, Minesweeper, Freecell, and Hearts.
PS I don't know where the "just one text editor" thing came from, but anyway, good parody! (In fact, had I known someone would sit down and mock me line by line, I would have posted the Cliff's Notes version. I must have been tedius to study.) Linux has your precious IDE's (Glade, Kdev, etc.), too, there mainly for people who depend on them. As for 90% > 10% userbase...you can code and compile for Windows compatibility on Linux. You can test-run it in a Windows emulator. And (since we're all mimicking each other) 100% of the userbase (Windows and Linux together) > 90% of the userbase (Windows itself).
But anyway, my original post was a followup. I wasn't the first to bring Linux up in this thread. And (as I think I made it clear), I don't have anything against Windows programmers. But I would hope they were making conscious decisions based on experience, and not just staying on the "popularity boat" just because they've heard nothing but rumors about sharks in the water.
*Every* *single* time I've ever asked "Why do you stick with Windows?", the #1 response has always been, "Because everybody else uses it." I never got that, either. Is everybody else rich because of their Windows use? Does everybody else get laid more due to the Windows charisma? Does everybody else have whiter teeth and fresher breath thanks to the extra flouride protection of Windows? For going on ten years, it's been "Everybody uses Windows because everybody uses Windows because everybody uses Windows." Man, when that bubble bursts, I'll remember to duck!
Doesn't dropping Monad (Star Trek quote: "I...am...Monad!") mean that they're be sticking with DOS? The most famously targeted shell of all time? The CLI that makes veterans of other CLIs cringe in disgust? It seems like *anything* to replace DOS would be a win, even if it exploded on install, at least it would DO something.
*sigh* The trolls do rush to these threads. Meanwhile, we on the Free Software side enjoy gcc, vi, EMACS, gdb, Python, Perl, Ruby, Bash, Common Lisp, gcj, Tcl/Tk, wish, GTK+, Qt, SDL, curses, SVGA, aa-lib, POVray, Audacity, PHP, XML, assembly, plus our standard C/C++, and all the open example code you could ever ask for, and half the internet full of tutorials, and man pages, info pages, HTML books, and Docbooks full of more documentation than you could read in a lifetime. All for a substantial monetary outlay of $0.00.
And what do people say to this? Dismiss it all with a handwave - Bah! - and stick with BASIC because they already know it. And it's easier.
Well, no arguements there! But I chose not to stick with BASIC. BASIC was fine on the Commodore Vic-20, and QBasic was good for a yuck or two on the Windows 3.1. DOS batch files were a primitive introduction to the beginning of shell scripting concepts. And by the time I got to paying money for Visual C++ Studio after paying more money for the operating system to run it on, knowing that what I wrote with it would run *only* on Windows for all of it's days, and installed it to discover the closest thing to a nightmare I have ever seen conscious and breathing, I asked myself if I was a man or a mouse.
I picked man. I decided to take the brave step where few dare to tread and learn more than the little scraps Windows was feeding me inside my little box it kept me in. After all, I reasoned, if my sole criteria were "easy to use" and "I already know it", then by the same logic I should be still in diapers and crawling on all fours and drinking out of bottles.
Anyway, it's no skin off my nose. So go on, Microsoft serfs, enjoy your little bag of tricks for your script typewriter! Have your fun. Nobody said that we all had to be professionals! And at least you have one thing to brag about - VB makes a damn fine virus writer! Yes, every virus sample I capture in the wild and study with a hex editor, I discover the words "Visual Basic" stamped proudly right on the binary! For our convenience, of course, so we can set up daemons who grep files for that string and delete what they find before we ever see it. They don't call it "trusted computing" for nothing!
Hey, wait a minute, I thought the rationale was that an unformed fetus may yet be swayed to vote Republican, particularly if they make it feel indebted for it's life later on, whereas a criminal on death row may never vote at all, and if allowed to reproduce, will almost certainly spawn Democrats?
How did I get this wrong?
No, you wall-eyed knuckle-head, there is no discrepency. "Information" in this context means "knowledge, learning, education". It can be used by other people to do good. If I discover a cure for AIDS, then the rest of the human race deserves to know what exactly it is so that the maximum number of lives can be saved. "Data" as in personal data, belongs to the individual. My address and phone number can be of little good to people all over the world, and can also be used to invade my privacy.
Which nobody has ever said any different, except for wall-eyed knuckleheads who try to twist what we say around to mean damn near the exact opposite. Didn't you mean to post this in AOL 20's chat?
Here, here! And while we're at it, let's make further laws to the effect that all mental disease is caused by demonic possession, milk goes sour and tomatos rot because there is a witch living next door who must be burned at the stake, anybody who isn't white is only 3/5ths of a human being, and the world is flat.
Yesterday I cruised the mall and saw something in a gift-shop window which disturbed me. A statue of a an American soldier and an angel. The soldier was in cammies, face contorted in a barbaric howl, rifle drawn, charging in. The angel hovered over him, beaming down on his act. As I watched, somebody BOUGHT it. A huge 400-pound woman with ape-like teeth and a cell-phone growing out of one side of her head. Her beady, reptilian eyes swiveled to me as the cashier rang her Discover card. She looked hungry. I backed out and fled the mall, before the mob could close in and slaughter and devour me and wear my pinkie bones through their noses.
It's not just stupid or crazy anymore. This society is very, very sick, in the most hideous of ways. You either see it from the outside, or you have it and think it's a blessing.
And the voice did thunder from on high, and spake, "Yea verily, a handful of trained, competent workers can produce better code than 100 Elbonian crack monkeys chained to keyboards, though the latter be content to recieve bananas as payment." And the Pointy Hairs of the Bosses did turn white with the fear of wisdom, and they were blinded by the enlightenment.
The Redmond mafia *is* it's own ad network. Marketing is all they *do*.
You could also get the source code, grep it for library references, and hook things up to your needs and compile it and install it yourself, by hand, coding the occasional softlink and/or shell script to make it work your way. But, oops, I forgot, it's hedistic sacriledge to even mention such a thing in a Linux discussion on Slashdot, in these days of Ubuntu/Mandriva dominance. Forget I mentioned that. What I meant to say is, programs are written by the program fairy, and cannot be installed on a system without the magic install wizard.
But you must have *some* standards for dealing with a client? What if a customer came in buck naked, pissed on the reception desk, and proceeded to dry-hump the receptionist's leg? $2500 still make that OK, too?
Many companys have standards for refusing service. I've met businesses that wouldn't take checks, just cash or credit. Auto dealers won't sell to you without insurance. Bartenders need to see some ID before selling you a beer. Etc...
The web is broken. It still works, but at a limp when it should be running. It's pandering to wussy little browsers that can't walk and chew gum at the same time that makes the web broken. I can remember the Arpanet, FTP, Usenet days, where if you didn't know what you were doing, you got NOWHERE, and that was all you deserved.
You know, I want to build a car that only drives sideways. I know that's wrong but I just don't care. I insist that all the roads, intersections, traffic lights, driveways, parking garages, gas stations, and tollboothes be re-built to accomodate the limitations of my new design. Now, isn't that reasonable?
That's been my experience as well, and also that an IT manager qualifies as a computer expert if they don't yell into the mouse or shake the monitor to reboot it, whereas an IT worker is treated like Forest Gump no matter how many degrees and years of experience they have.
Folks, managers see IT workers as...plumbers. Plumbers who sit and watch the data flow through the pipes in the basement. When the pipes clog, they suddenly discover the IT department to ream them about it. The rest of the time, you don't exist, especially not every two weeks.