I run into this 'IT' problem all the time. Being that I am an electronic technologist with design experience designing in and programming embedded controllers, I run into recruiters and HR flacks who assume I am involved in fucking IT.
Far from it. IT are the janitors. They're the modern equivalent of file clerks. Any developer or technical person knows this.
It's Natalie Portman, man! Have you no sense of history?
Yes. I have a sense of history, and little tolerance for the newbies who pasted in Natalie Portman. The original concept was 'Mae Ling Mak, Naked and Petrified' and it gradually morphed over to the hollywood ditz.
Yeah, and if you don't want to get your fingers scanned, don't fly, or go to the mall, or use a bank..
Your bank issues 'season passes' for which there is a problem with people passing them around and 'sharing' them?
They already require a hell of a lot of authentication at every bank I've entered. You can always stick to cash, in which case you really have no reason to go into a bank.
Perhaps to be fair, Intel should modify their compiler to produce binaries that just plain won't run on an AMD part. That would be honest, direct, and only affect, say 2-5% of their customers in any way.
I had to buy a new monitor (my first color VGA monitor after a long happy spell with a grayscale VGA monitor) for SimEarth, after seeing it on a friend's color display.
The shareholders at hAndover.net or VA-what's-trendy-now (or whatever the 'boys in the back room' are calling it currently,) agree with your idea of re-running the highest hit-count troll-articles multiple times.
And we all know that real UltraSPARC processors aren't wasted running Linux. There's real business to conduct, and an OS written expressly for the UltraSPARC that suits it better than anything else.
The 'left wing' with their moves toward 'political correctness' have done a spiffy job of the same historical revision that you bemoan. Of course, to different purposes, superficially.
I regularily write five to ten page research papers from the comfort of my dorm room. ...without even needing to touch a keyboard, with just flicks of the mouse!
Agreed, but the big lumpy bound volumes of photocopied content that some professors assign (you have to go buy it at an assigned photocopy shop near or on campus) is a BIGGER racket, often enough.
And this sounds like the digital equivalent. Although not likely a money-scam, it sounds like the amorphous clod of poorly managed information that those big lumpy bound volumes are.
I'll admit I was suprised to see what appears to be a PDA article here in the land of 'PDAs are obsolete, get a cellphone.'
The thing is, my Palm Tungsten E works wether or not I pay a monthly fee to some cell subscription service or not.
Your cellphone might work just as well, but it's a little awkward carrying a cellphone that isn't a cellphone anymore, if you decide not to pay a monthly fee.
Some of us refuse to get hooked into a cellphone world. I am reachable by phone at home, and in my cubicle at work. Otherwise, I like the idea that no yakky relatives or friends can intrude.
It depends on how you define the terms 'success' and 'failure' with word processors. If a word processor is useful and at least one user gets productive use out of it, it's not a complete failure.
Some people find it delightful to be able to run a command line shell on their palm device through the serial interface as long as it's plugged into their PC.
Probably the main reason why I quit using my Pocket PC device, and went back to using a Palm (bought a new one for that purpose) is Outlook. I use Outlook at work, but prefer not to be forced to install a personal copy on my machine at home. The Palm Desktop has all the 'Outlook' features I need personally, and is a stand-alone application, not a gargantuan octopus reaching into all areas of my machine.
That said, I (obviously) don't use my Palm for work-related info, just my personal contacts, calendar, etc.
And for the record, you CAN sync your Palm to Outlook instead of the 'Palm Desktop' if you choose. The key is that it's a choice for you to make.
You get OpenOffice for free because Sun Microsystems purchased the company that created it and decided to release the source code. Not because somebody like yourself spun out OpenOffice over a few weekends and released it under the GPL.
Isn't it true that by the time Pink Floyd made that record album that had the inflatable pig tucked inside the record jacket, they already owned controlling interest in Lloyds of London?
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I run into this 'IT' problem all the time. Being that I am an electronic technologist with design experience designing in and programming embedded controllers, I run into recruiters and HR flacks who assume I am involved in fucking IT.
Far from it. IT are the janitors. They're the modern equivalent of file clerks. Any developer or technical person knows this.
It's Natalie Portman, man! Have you no sense of history?
Yes. I have a sense of history, and little tolerance for the newbies who pasted in Natalie Portman. The original concept was 'Mae Ling Mak, Naked and Petrified' and it gradually morphed over to the hollywood ditz.
"because in between shots Tom wanted to help people kick drugs and alcohol. "
translates:
"because in between shots Tom wanted to help people convert over from drugs and alcohol to scientology."
Yeah, and if you don't want to get your fingers scanned, don't fly, or go to the mall, or use a bank..
Your bank issues 'season passes' for which there is a problem with people passing them around and 'sharing' them?
They already require a hell of a lot of authentication at every bank I've entered. You can always stick to cash, in which case you really have no reason to go into a bank.
I had a nice 'vote for nobody' campaign button back in 1980. . .
Anything that loads it's little bullshit icon in the system tray slows the machine down. And everbuddy wants their little icon in the system tray.
Perhaps to be fair, Intel should modify their compiler to produce binaries that just plain won't run on an AMD part. That would be honest, direct, and only affect, say 2-5% of their customers in any way.
Lear-Siegler sells their ADM-3A 'thin client.'
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Oh wait! That was back in aprox. 1974. .
....'cobblestone texture' treadmills, being sold on late night cable to little old ladies with an inheritance to blow.
I had to buy a new monitor (my first color VGA monitor after a long happy spell with a grayscale VGA monitor) for SimEarth, after seeing it on a friend's color display.
The shareholders at hAndover.net or VA-what's-trendy-now (or whatever the 'boys in the back room' are calling it currently,) agree with your idea of re-running the highest hit-count troll-articles multiple times.
And we all know that real UltraSPARC processors aren't wasted running Linux. There's real business to conduct, and an OS written expressly for the UltraSPARC that suits it better than anything else.
The 'left wing' with their moves toward 'political correctness' have done a spiffy job of the same historical revision that you bemoan. Of course, to different purposes, superficially.
I regularily write five to ten page research papers from the comfort of my dorm room. ...without even needing to touch a keyboard, with just flicks of the mouse!
Agreed, but the big lumpy bound volumes of photocopied content that some professors assign (you have to go buy it at an assigned photocopy shop near or on campus) is a BIGGER racket, often enough.
And this sounds like the digital equivalent. Although not likely a money-scam, it sounds like the amorphous clod of poorly managed information that those big lumpy bound volumes are.
I'll admit I was suprised to see what appears to be a PDA article here in the land of 'PDAs are obsolete, get a cellphone.'
The thing is, my Palm Tungsten E works wether or not I pay a monthly fee to some cell subscription service or not.
Your cellphone might work just as well, but it's a little awkward carrying a cellphone that isn't a cellphone anymore, if you decide not to pay a monthly fee.
Some of us refuse to get hooked into a cellphone world. I am reachable by phone at home, and in my cubicle at work. Otherwise, I like the idea that no yakky relatives or friends can intrude.
It depends on how you define the terms 'success' and 'failure' with word processors. If a word processor is useful and at least one user gets productive use out of it, it's not a complete failure.
Depends on what you mean by 'useful'.
Some people find it delightful to be able to run a command line shell on their palm device through the serial interface as long as it's plugged into their PC.
Anything more is just frills, isn't it?
Probably the main reason why I quit using my Pocket PC device, and went back to using a Palm (bought a new one for that purpose) is Outlook. I use Outlook at work, but prefer not to be forced to install a personal copy on my machine at home. The Palm Desktop has all the 'Outlook' features I need personally, and is a stand-alone application, not a gargantuan octopus reaching into all areas of my machine.
That said, I (obviously) don't use my Palm for work-related info, just my personal contacts, calendar, etc.
And for the record, you CAN sync your Palm to Outlook instead of the 'Palm Desktop' if you choose. The key is that it's a choice for you to make.
For reference, in your browser window, click "Help -> About IE".
Damn. I just tried that, and all it had was an 'About Mozilla' menu item.
You get OpenOffice for free because Sun Microsystems purchased the company that created it and decided to release the source code. Not because somebody like yourself spun out OpenOffice over a few weekends and released it under the GPL.
Isn't it true that by the time Pink Floyd made that record album that had the inflatable pig tucked inside the record jacket, they already owned controlling interest in Lloyds of London?
To paraphrase a line from a song by that band with the Pedophile guitar player:
'Say hello to the new boss. Same as the old boss.'
The NEA as an institution-- along with Public Television, etc.-- made powerful enemies.
Didn't have to be that way, but there's always a prick with an agenda in any crowd.
The weird thing is that OpenBSD is the one and only of the freenix BSDs that I cannot download a free installable official ISO of.
(Yeah, yeah. 'It's for the best of the project, etc. etc. etc.' Why do NetBSD and FreeBSD have freely available official ISOs?)