Hasn't written material traditionally been exempt from obscenity laws? It would be unlikely that any written material would fall under this law, so unless Powell's is selling Hustler magazine or porn videos to kids, I doubt seriously that they have any legitimate concerns.
It cracks me up how the U.S. government is always taking ludicrous steps to "protect national security," fighting off hacker attacks with billions of dollars in specialized firewalls and security, using NSA backdoors into windows, etc. And all the while they're lecturing us on all these heavy-handed precautions, they're doing EVERYTHING, classified and not, on computers built largely of Taiwanese and Chinese manufactured chips and motherboards.
Looks like someone finally clued these geniuses of national security in on the obvious Archilles' heel in their web of protection.
I just hope our clueless protectors have at least had the common sense to slip in some spys at that new big "Fab 68" Intel plant they're building in China.
That's the best advice you can give for ANY job, not just IT. Nothing pisses me off faster than a worker who doesn't know how to do something and refuses to learn. A human being who is lazy and incurious is absolutely worthless.
Actually, "technical assistant" in that case was just a euphemism for "hooker procurer." And he only earned the MS Office job by having the foresight to keep copies of some embarrassing pictures.
Since Canonical is a for-profit company, this raises an interesting question. Namely, how exactly are they making money? Their wikipedia entry only indicates a couple of minor proprietary products, neither of which I've ever even heard of. Is this one of those internet boom style companies that only makes money in theory, or do they actually have an income source?
Did you just seriously say that it shouldn't matter that it doesn't work in IE?!?!? Are you retarded? You seriously think a real-world business should have a website that looks like dogshit for 75% of their customers just because a bunch of anal-retentive developers don't like tables?
In the real-world no one gives a shit HOW you get there, only THAT you get there.
Seriously, you anal-retentive developers are truly annoying. You not only miss the forest for the trees, you miss the forest for the bark on an individual tree. You're like that little snot in grad school, who when asked to critique someone's paper, focuses on every formatting error, grammatical error, spelling error, etc. down the the millimeter. You know, the guy who, when asked about the actual ARGUMENT and SUBSTANCE of the paper, responds with "Argument?"
They're not invalid because of apathy and ignorance, they're invalid because the people coding them aren't a bunch of anal-retentive obsessives who care more about the "validity" of their code than the real-world appearance and functionality of the webpage in a browser.
I would say that you cannot build good, quality websites ONLY with WYSIWYG editors. I personally use a combination of a WYSIWYG editor and hand-coding. For simple stuff, the WYSIWYG editor saves me a lot of time and effort (specifically on tedious crap like table layout). But nothing beats hand-coding for more complex tweaks.
I just had a horrid flashback to all the shitty jobs I worked before I got my degree. No matter what I do now, I can always say that at least it's better than cutting tobacco, working as a janitor, or working in a convenience store.
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The way everyone else seems to look at it, I'm an overweight aging asshole in an old Toyota Corolla.
I've also found out that when you shoot someone in real life, the cops don't just forget about it once you're out of their search radius.
Hasn't written material traditionally been exempt from obscenity laws? It would be unlikely that any written material would fall under this law, so unless Powell's is selling Hustler magazine or porn videos to kids, I doubt seriously that they have any legitimate concerns.
Not only that, but what if China ever decided to embargo us? It would (for a time at least) cripple most of our tech industry.
You must have my old assistant.
Looks like someone finally clued these geniuses of national security in on the obvious Archilles' heel in their web of protection.
I just hope our clueless protectors have at least had the common sense to slip in some spys at that new big "Fab 68" Intel plant they're building in China.
That's the best advice you can give for ANY job, not just IT. Nothing pisses me off faster than a worker who doesn't know how to do something and refuses to learn. A human being who is lazy and incurious is absolutely worthless.
Actually, "technical assistant" in that case was just a euphemism for "hooker procurer." And he only earned the MS Office job by having the foresight to keep copies of some embarrassing pictures.
Since Canonical is a for-profit company, this raises an interesting question. Namely, how exactly are they making money? Their wikipedia entry only indicates a couple of minor proprietary products, neither of which I've ever even heard of. Is this one of those internet boom style companies that only makes money in theory, or do they actually have an income source?
Did you just seriously say that it shouldn't matter that it doesn't work in IE?!?!? Are you retarded? You seriously think a real-world business should have a website that looks like dogshit for 75% of their customers just because a bunch of anal-retentive developers don't like tables?
No thanks.
And what makes you so sure the browsers of tomorrow will conform to the "standards" of today? They never have before.
Seriously, you anal-retentive developers are truly annoying. You not only miss the forest for the trees, you miss the forest for the bark on an individual tree. You're like that little snot in grad school, who when asked to critique someone's paper, focuses on every formatting error, grammatical error, spelling error, etc. down the the millimeter. You know, the guy who, when asked about the actual ARGUMENT and SUBSTANCE of the paper, responds with "Argument?"
They're not invalid because of apathy and ignorance, they're invalid because the people coding them aren't a bunch of anal-retentive obsessives who care more about the "validity" of their code than the real-world appearance and functionality of the webpage in a browser.
I would say that you cannot build good, quality websites ONLY with WYSIWYG editors. I personally use a combination of a WYSIWYG editor and hand-coding. For simple stuff, the WYSIWYG editor saves me a lot of time and effort (specifically on tedious crap like table layout). But nothing beats hand-coding for more complex tweaks.
Does it matter?
I'm sure they're locating to L.A. because it's a great place to fight kiddie porn, not because the MPAA and RIAA are headquartered there.
BIOS passwords are useless if you have physical access to the machine. It's a simple pin jump to clear it.
Without his money no one, man or woman, is going to fuck him.
Not if you're single with no kids!
I just had a horrid flashback to all the shitty jobs I worked before I got my degree. No matter what I do now, I can always say that at least it's better than cutting tobacco, working as a janitor, or working in a convenience store.
Not if the Care Bears beat them to it!
Too complicated. I just use "savages" as a shortcut.
First he will be bathed, then there will be cake.
Wouldn't help. Evil never dies.