Kinda hard to compare one card against another if it's not in a spreadsheet. It's even harder if it's spread-out across a dozen different web pages.
Here's the spreadsheet version because MSOffice rocks and all:
http://www3.telus.net/cspowart/boing/vidcards.xls
A suspended sentence after causing that much havoc? Poor judgment you say? Bullshit. Even a ten-year-old knows the difference in this case.
But this just shows that the German judicial is so lax on offenders. Same thing with the case of Armin Meiwes. That guy lured a person to his home, sodomized him, amputated his penis, and let him bleed out. The bastard then slit the man's throat, carved him up, and ate him over the course of months. When he was tried, he was convicted of only manslaughter, and got only 8 years!!!
Not to mention the fact that both the victim and the perpetrator were both homosexuals....But I'll get back to that.
I'll explain why Germany's justice system is such a joke. It's because the German government has been brow-beaten for the last sixty years, to be as vehemently opposed to the days of the great Third Reich as they are now. They're too cowardly to look upon their previous glory with pride.
When Germany had it right (between 33 and 45), they would have done away with this little faggot in no time. Anyone causing public havoc or buggery would have been vanquished.
The underlying force here is that of international jewry. The jews are (and have always been) the ultimate spin doctors. So much, that they can pressure the German government into such lax justice, to further exacerbate their evil motives.
In the Miewes case, it would have never even gotten to trial. Infact, the crime wouldn't have even happened, because that homosexual would have been chimney soot before he even thought about conceiving it. Same thing with his homo victim.
I blame Hollywood, Kissinger, Einstein, Speilberg, Jerry Seinfeld, Mitnick, Kemeny, Dershowitz, and Leonard Cohen.
The same thing happened in Canada. Just look at the Karla Homolka case. She's out after 12 years. Why? Well jews of course. The french are to blame, too.
The German people used to be proud and superior. Gone are the days of jack-booted aryan style. Now they're just a bunch of pussies who can't even lay down the law on an anti-social prick like this kid. I'm sorry to say it, but the jews have won. Eternal Jews indeed.
--What did the white jew say to the black jew....Answer..."Hey you....Back of the oven!!!"
You didn't dispute it because you *knew* that you are a no-good slacker, and you deserved to lose your job.
You're probably a jew. Or a nigger. Or a nigger-jew.
Trolly troll troll trollllllllllllllllllllll troll troll TROLL TROLL.
I fUcked your mom and ate out your cat.
Doh dee doh doh doh....The holocaust never happened and at least Microsoft's shit "just works" (unlike penguin shit).
Oh yeah.....Niggers must die.
Just because things are running well and the work is getting done doesn't mean the employee is productive. It might mean that the employee is indeed a slackass, and that there's just not enough for him to do.
For example, this particular computer tech might be in charge of a computer area that experiences very little use. Therefore, there's less virii and garbage on the things for him to clean-off.
As this guy's employer, they have every right to make sure that he is fully engaged in something at all prescribed times, and they should do everything and anything in their power to exercise that right. If he's got so much ass-time, he could be helping out a clerk putting away books. Hell - he could even be pushing a broom. Really, they can make him do anything that they want him to; when he's on the clock, his ass belongs to the company. All the company has to do is watch out for his health & safety, and not grab his junk. (Harrassment stuff I mean). When you're on the clock, you're a bitch.
I disagree with the keylogging though. But not on the basis that it compromises his security, or that it's somehow an injustice. I disagree with the keylogging because it's just pussy-footing around. If they thought his work habits were slack, they should have just fired him. Or if they were feeling generous, march him outside, give him a spade, and make him dig holes to teach him a lesson. When he's done digging the holes, make him fill them back in, and dig 'em up again. When he's done that for a week or two, (and if they think he's learned his lesson, then consider bringing him back into white collar work). I'm sure his attitude would have been altered.
Red Forman said it best...."Work isn't supposed to be fun...If it was, they wouldn't call it work....They'd call it "fiddle-dee-dee""
IT "experts" need to stop resting on their laurels, and start busting their asses like the rest of us. You'd think that the dotcom crash would have taught them some humility...But no...All it did was weed some of them out. The remainder are still just as lazy and self-important as they were ten years ago.
This is how it should work:
"Johnson....You've got 1500 lines of assembly to finish before 10 am. When you're done that, go file your TPS reports. Then go down to the print stations, and sort through the recycle bin and try to recover any pieces of paper that were thrown in there by mistake. Then write me an e-mail explaining this, and be sure to justify how much time it took you to do it. This should take you until about 11 am. Then go see the building operator, sign out the power-buffer, and go polish the floor in the server room. Take your thirty minute lunch break, and report back to me for your next assignment. Do it and like it. Your reward is your paycheque. If not, I suggest you stop being so partial to food and shelter. Now get out of my office and get to work."
So your notes and scribbles get transcribed and uploaded onto your classes website? All fine and good for the "pointdexter" students, but what about the majority of students (shitrats). Just because it's there, doesn't mean that the bulk of students will take advantage of it.
Typically your standard "bad" student will take no notes (or junk notes). He might write the first two ideas in point form, and promptly fill the rest of the page with doodles of boobies (or rock band logos). What makes you think that he'll logon to the website to look at the teachers notes? Chances are, he won't even crack his backpack open when he gets home. If he does anything on a computer when he gets home, it's gaming.
Now University on the other hand....The profs are waaaay crappier than K12 teachers, and they just don't give a shit. They're smart people, I'll give you that. But they don't want to be there; they'd rather be doing their research stuff. It sucks to go to their classes. It's just them talking in the same old monotone voice, running through a bunch of crap that could be best learned on an individual basis.
That's where this stuff would do most good. You'd be able to avoid going to class, and still do fairly well. It would free-up your time to do important university stuff like masturbating, smoking reefer, eating like crap, and getting floor-licking drunk. But I digress.
Besides all that, this product is the same tired-old-shit. Nothing innovative here.
Interfaces for computing need to be revamped totally. Monitors suck. (Even LCD ones). Keyboards suck. Mice? Don't even get me started. All tired-old-shit. And I'm not talking about education. I'm talking about computing in general.
Ever see the movie Minority Report? Do ya remember the setup that Tom Cruise was using there? Now that's the shit I'm talking about. Visuals in mid-air. Moveable with your hands and shit.
Remember DS9? Cardassians had a pretty cool 2D interface. I know it was all just bullshit, but it certainly looked cool and looked like it could efficient at representing something (or anything).
Or let's just talk about something as simple as computing in bed. There's still nothing that works well here. Can't really lay on your belly with a laptop. The laptop overheats because it gets poor airflow on the bedsheets. It's also ergonomically wrong, because you're supporting your weight on your elbows while trying to type. It kinks the neck, and it's hard on your junk.
Ya can't lie on your side. One-handed typing. Blech.
Some kind of hospital tray perhaps with a laptop or a projection screen? Nope. Still no good because you have to sit up a bit.
What needs to be done is the keyboard needs to be split in half, and each chunk lies on each of your sides. Your arms rest on the bed, parallel to your body, with your fingers on the keyboard halves. A big screen (42" plasma) needs to be about 3-4 feet from your face, suspended from the ceiling with a slight angle.
What we really need is a decent voice command language that works for all aspects of computing. ie) Graphic manipulation, Cad, web browsing, e-mail, word processing, spreadsheeting, presentations, music composition, system administration, programming, and simple pr0n surfing. Imagine being able to fly through a pr0n tgp without having to lay a hand on a keyboard or a mouse. Woohoo!
Eye motion tracking and neural telepathy shit too. I'm all over that shit.
But until we can solve even that little problem of bedtime computing, we can't say that we've made it anywhere. And this glorified smartboard crap is just the same tired-old-shit being sold to bone-headed educational administrators who really can't afford it.
If you want to educate a bunch of slackers, hire more spastic/unstable male teachers. You know - the ones that seem to be easy-going and laid back and take endless amounts of bullshit from the students? Then all of a sudden they explode on some little shitrat in a rage of yelling and kicking desks. Wakes everyone-the-fuck-up and suddenly everyone's taking really good notes and really paying some good fucking attention.
Quitting anything totally depends on if you're useful somewhere else. Chances are, the people reading your "ask slashdot" will never know your level of competence at anything. Keep in mind, that "what you know" and "what you're certified in" are completely different things.
Let me give you my story. Seven years ago (when I was in University), I got a summer job as a programmer at a College. The reason that I got the job was that I kissed-ass for months at the school that I went to. Some people pushed for me to get the job as well. I had some meagre coding skills, and the job was befitting of such an inexperienced coder. It was basically Macromedia garbage. Anyone remember Lingo?:)
I left the job at the end of the summer to go into third year. (Different major completely - Biology). I imagine I could have stayed on if I kissed ass again. After all, there was still work to do.
Half-way though that year, I ended up dropping out of school anyway. I got involved with a woman, and foolishly put my entire focus on that. I eventually had to find work because I am partial to food and shelter. I ended up as a Security Guard, making half of what I made as a lame coder.
Then I had a kid on the way. You can bet I was kicking myself for not trying to stay on at my old job.
I worked my way into a better Security job in a remote town.
Almost six years later, I'm doing the same damn thing. Sure, I've had raises and the work has become more interesting. I even get opportunities to do things that are more "my cup of tea" such as computer stuff. Granted, it's database crap, but it's better than rattling door knobs.
Over those six years, there's been several times that I've been sure that I was going to be fired. ie) Traffic accidents, horseplay, tardiness, breaches of confidentiality, etc. Basically it amounted to me being complacent and stupid. Oh damn, did I ever sweat it.
I sweated it because I knew that I wasn't marketable. Sure, I was (and am) valuble to my current employer. But I knew that once I as out in the cold, my ass was screwed. I would have been faced with the "janitorial arts" at one third of what I was making as a Security Guard.
So please - don't bullshit us all about geek morals. Geek morals don't exist. For the right money, any of us would toss Billy's salad and pretend that it was french vanilla ice cream. Unless your Richard Stallman. But just look at the guy. Geez.
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Kinda hard to compare one card against another if it's not in a spreadsheet. It's even harder if it's spread-out across a dozen different web pages. Here's the spreadsheet version because MSOffice rocks and all: http://www3.telus.net/cspowart/boing/vidcards.xls
Well poo poo to you, stupid head. Troll power!
A suspended sentence after causing that much havoc? Poor judgment you say? Bullshit. Even a ten-year-old knows the difference in this case.
But this just shows that the German judicial is so lax on offenders. Same thing with the case of Armin Meiwes. That guy lured a person to his home, sodomized him, amputated his penis, and let him bleed out. The bastard then slit the man's throat, carved him up, and ate him over the course of months. When he was tried, he was convicted of only manslaughter, and got only 8 years!!!
Not to mention the fact that both the victim and the perpetrator were both homosexuals....But I'll get back to that.
I'll explain why Germany's justice system is such a joke. It's because the German government has been brow-beaten for the last sixty years, to be as vehemently opposed to the days of the great Third Reich as they are now. They're too cowardly to look upon their previous glory with pride.
When Germany had it right (between 33 and 45), they would have done away with this little faggot in no time. Anyone causing public havoc or buggery would have been vanquished.
The underlying force here is that of international jewry. The jews are (and have always been) the ultimate spin doctors. So much, that they can pressure the German government into such lax justice, to further exacerbate their evil motives.
In the Miewes case, it would have never even gotten to trial. Infact, the crime wouldn't have even happened, because that homosexual would have been chimney soot before he even thought about conceiving it. Same thing with his homo victim.
I blame Hollywood, Kissinger, Einstein, Speilberg, Jerry Seinfeld, Mitnick, Kemeny, Dershowitz, and Leonard Cohen.
The same thing happened in Canada. Just look at the Karla Homolka case. She's out after 12 years. Why? Well jews of course. The french are to blame, too.
The German people used to be proud and superior. Gone are the days of jack-booted aryan style. Now they're just a bunch of pussies who can't even lay down the law on an anti-social prick like this kid. I'm sorry to say it, but the jews have won. Eternal Jews indeed.
--What did the white jew say to the black jew....Answer..."Hey you....Back of the oven!!!"
You didn't dispute it because you *knew* that you are a no-good slacker, and you deserved to lose your job. You're probably a jew. Or a nigger. Or a nigger-jew.
But here's a good question...
When Jesus had sex, who's name did he cry out....His own or his fathers?
--The only good nigger, is a dead nigger!
Trolly troll troll trollllllllllllllllllllll troll troll TROLL TROLL. I fUcked your mom and ate out your cat. Doh dee doh doh doh....The holocaust never happened and at least Microsoft's shit "just works" (unlike penguin shit). Oh yeah.....Niggers must die.
Just because things are running well and the work is getting done doesn't mean the employee is productive. It might mean that the employee is indeed a slackass, and that there's just not enough for him to do.
For example, this particular computer tech might be in charge of a computer area that experiences very little use. Therefore, there's less virii and garbage on the things for him to clean-off.
As this guy's employer, they have every right to make sure that he is fully engaged in something at all prescribed times, and they should do everything and anything in their power to exercise that right. If he's got so much ass-time, he could be helping out a clerk putting away books. Hell - he could even be pushing a broom. Really, they can make him do anything that they want him to; when he's on the clock, his ass belongs to the company. All the company has to do is watch out for his health & safety, and not grab his junk. (Harrassment stuff I mean). When you're on the clock, you're a bitch.
I disagree with the keylogging though. But not on the basis that it compromises his security, or that it's somehow an injustice. I disagree with the keylogging because it's just pussy-footing around. If they thought his work habits were slack, they should have just fired him. Or if they were feeling generous, march him outside, give him a spade, and make him dig holes to teach him a lesson. When he's done digging the holes, make him fill them back in, and dig 'em up again. When he's done that for a week or two, (and if they think he's learned his lesson, then consider bringing him back into white collar work). I'm sure his attitude would have been altered.
Red Forman said it best...."Work isn't supposed to be fun...If it was, they wouldn't call it work....They'd call it "fiddle-dee-dee""
IT "experts" need to stop resting on their laurels, and start busting their asses like the rest of us. You'd think that the dotcom crash would have taught them some humility...But no...All it did was weed some of them out. The remainder are still just as lazy and self-important as they were ten years ago.
This is how it should work:
"Johnson....You've got 1500 lines of assembly to finish before 10 am. When you're done that, go file your TPS reports. Then go down to the print stations, and sort through the recycle bin and try to recover any pieces of paper that were thrown in there by mistake. Then write me an e-mail explaining this, and be sure to justify how much time it took you to do it. This should take you until about 11 am. Then go see the building operator, sign out the power-buffer, and go polish the floor in the server room. Take your thirty minute lunch break, and report back to me for your next assignment. Do it and like it. Your reward is your paycheque. If not, I suggest you stop being so partial to food and shelter. Now get out of my office and get to work."
Typically your standard "bad" student will take no notes (or junk notes). He might write the first two ideas in point form, and promptly fill the rest of the page with doodles of boobies (or rock band logos). What makes you think that he'll logon to the website to look at the teachers notes? Chances are, he won't even crack his backpack open when he gets home. If he does anything on a computer when he gets home, it's gaming.
Now University on the other hand....The profs are waaaay crappier than K12 teachers, and they just don't give a shit. They're smart people, I'll give you that. But they don't want to be there; they'd rather be doing their research stuff. It sucks to go to their classes. It's just them talking in the same old monotone voice, running through a bunch of crap that could be best learned on an individual basis.
That's where this stuff would do most good. You'd be able to avoid going to class, and still do fairly well. It would free-up your time to do important university stuff like masturbating, smoking reefer, eating like crap, and getting floor-licking drunk. But I digress.
Besides all that, this product is the same tired-old-shit. Nothing innovative here.
Interfaces for computing need to be revamped totally. Monitors suck. (Even LCD ones). Keyboards suck. Mice? Don't even get me started. All tired-old-shit. And I'm not talking about education. I'm talking about computing in general.
Ever see the movie Minority Report? Do ya remember the setup that Tom Cruise was using there? Now that's the shit I'm talking about. Visuals in mid-air. Moveable with your hands and shit.
Remember DS9? Cardassians had a pretty cool 2D interface. I know it was all just bullshit, but it certainly looked cool and looked like it could efficient at representing something (or anything).
Or let's just talk about something as simple as computing in bed. There's still nothing that works well here. Can't really lay on your belly with a laptop. The laptop overheats because it gets poor airflow on the bedsheets. It's also ergonomically wrong, because you're supporting your weight on your elbows while trying to type. It kinks the neck, and it's hard on your junk.
Ya can't lie on your side. One-handed typing. Blech.
Some kind of hospital tray perhaps with a laptop or a projection screen? Nope. Still no good because you have to sit up a bit.
What needs to be done is the keyboard needs to be split in half, and each chunk lies on each of your sides. Your arms rest on the bed, parallel to your body, with your fingers on the keyboard halves. A big screen (42" plasma) needs to be about 3-4 feet from your face, suspended from the ceiling with a slight angle.
What we really need is a decent voice command language that works for all aspects of computing. ie) Graphic manipulation, Cad, web browsing, e-mail, word processing, spreadsheeting, presentations, music composition, system administration, programming, and simple pr0n surfing. Imagine being able to fly through a pr0n tgp without having to lay a hand on a keyboard or a mouse. Woohoo!
Eye motion tracking and neural telepathy shit too. I'm all over that shit.
But until we can solve even that little problem of bedtime computing, we can't say that we've made it anywhere. And this glorified smartboard crap is just the same tired-old-shit being sold to bone-headed educational administrators who really can't afford it.
If you want to educate a bunch of slackers, hire more spastic/unstable male teachers. You know - the ones that seem to be easy-going and laid back and take endless amounts of bullshit from the students? Then all of a sudden they explode on some little shitrat in a rage of yelling and kicking desks. Wakes everyone-the-fuck-up and suddenly everyone's taking really good notes and really paying some good fucking attention.
Quitting anything totally depends on if you're useful somewhere else. Chances are, the people reading your "ask slashdot" will never know your level of competence at anything. Keep in mind, that "what you know" and "what you're certified in" are completely different things.
:)
Let me give you my story. Seven years ago (when I was in University), I got a summer job as a programmer at a College. The reason that I got the job was that I kissed-ass for months at the school that I went to. Some people pushed for me to get the job as well. I had some meagre coding skills, and the job was befitting of such an inexperienced coder. It was basically Macromedia garbage. Anyone remember Lingo?
I left the job at the end of the summer to go into third year. (Different major completely - Biology). I imagine I could have stayed on if I kissed ass again. After all, there was still work to do.
Half-way though that year, I ended up dropping out of school anyway. I got involved with a woman, and foolishly put my entire focus on that. I eventually had to find work because I am partial to food and shelter. I ended up as a Security Guard, making half of what I made as a lame coder.
Then I had a kid on the way. You can bet I was kicking myself for not trying to stay on at my old job.
I worked my way into a better Security job in a remote town.
Almost six years later, I'm doing the same damn thing. Sure, I've had raises and the work has become more interesting. I even get opportunities to do things that are more "my cup of tea" such as computer stuff. Granted, it's database crap, but it's better than rattling door knobs.
Over those six years, there's been several times that I've been sure that I was going to be fired. ie) Traffic accidents, horseplay, tardiness, breaches of confidentiality, etc. Basically it amounted to me being complacent and stupid. Oh damn, did I ever sweat it.
I sweated it because I knew that I wasn't marketable. Sure, I was (and am) valuble to my current employer. But I knew that once I as out in the cold, my ass was screwed. I would have been faced with the "janitorial arts" at one third of what I was making as a Security Guard.
So please - don't bullshit us all about geek morals. Geek morals don't exist. For the right money, any of us would toss Billy's salad and pretend that it was french vanilla ice cream. Unless your Richard Stallman. But just look at the guy. Geez.