My dad was a pinko pacifist and always told me fighting was wrong. He said I should ignore the bullying. After years of me being tormented and beat up, he finally woke up and sent me to self defense training. By then it was mostly too late. By the time you get to high school, kids caught fighting were actually punished rather than merely separated and given a good "talking to." By the time I was done with high school I'd squared off with 90% of my tormentors and beaten most of them, despite the punishments the school meted out.
Standing up to a boss who is a bully (and most are) will get you fired. As an adult in most states, getting physical (even after you have been physically attacked) with a bully is going to win you a criminal record and make you unemployable.
So yeah, teach your kids from the earliest age possible to fight back with everything they've got. Tell them not to worry about hurting the bully. The bully deserves whatever they get.
I feel the same. I don't care how slick SuSE is; I'll never recommend it. Novell showed its true colors when it sucked up to MSFT. After all, Novell was all about services for Windows clients for most of its profitable lifetime.
Yeah, you should only be able to patent implementations of ideas, not ideas. If you are able to patent the idea you are then able to do a poorly conceived, inefficient implementation which nobody else will be able to improve upon unless they have deeper pockets than you and can afford to fight you in patent court for the next 20 years.
I could not agree with you guys more. Sadly, this completely amoral attitude trickles down into the entire organization. Even people with absolutely no stake in the business behave the same way.
I was so pissed to find out Netflix chose Silverlight to deliver steaming movies. You're actually complementing it when you call Silverlight, clumsy. "Flaming paper bag full of doggie dirt" is more accurate.
Oh yeah. HR would have been SUPER helpful.
1. HR in most organizations is mostly (if not 90%) staffed by women. Most guys are not going to talk about something like this to a woman. Not even their wife.
2. HR departments exist mainly to protect the organization from the employees. They are not there to help employees.
What made it even more "special" was, the Dell laptop they gave me had a bug in the CMOS whereby the CPU frequency throttling would set the CPU to 100 megahertz when the machine was mostly idle. That laptop caused me no end of headaches. And WinXP 64 sucks balls, too. Vista prolly would have been better and I say this as a Microsoft hater.
Yeah. I had a boss who insisted that I run vmware on a WinXP_64 laptop so I could run Linux guest instances. I didn't last long under his administration.
Replace your "PC's" and "Mini's" with PCs and Minis. Aside from that, I agree with you.
You add an "s" to make something plural. You don't need the apostrophe.
Larger businesses tend to have organizational layers that insulate IT people from those people in the company who fear and resent computers and can't acknowledge the need for them. Been there.
Yeah, if the server is compromised by a remote attacker (which is the most likely scenario) its disks will already have been decrypted upon boot so that the applications can access the filesystem / data on them. Thus they are necessarily available to the remote attacker. Since the vast majority of servers run in physically secure data centers, the chance of seeing entire disks or servers being stolen is not great. If my medical data were stored in a single file (that was rarely accessed) on a server I might want my HMO to encrypt it. Since it's just a tiny part of a massive database, I know encryption is not the answer.
I shudder to think about how vulnerable my physician's Windoze PC is sitting in his office and hope he never stores patient info on his local drive. In this case, my physician ought to be required to encrypt all patient data.
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My dad was a pinko pacifist and always told me fighting was wrong. He said I should ignore the bullying.
After years of me being tormented and beat up, he finally woke up and sent me to self defense training. By then it was mostly too late. By the time you get to high school, kids caught fighting were actually punished rather than merely separated and given a good "talking to." By the time I was done with high school I'd squared off with 90% of my tormentors and beaten most of them, despite the punishments the school meted out.
Standing up to a boss who is a bully (and most are) will get you fired. As an adult in most states, getting physical (even after you have been physically attacked) with a bully is going to win you a criminal record and make you unemployable.
So yeah, teach your kids from the earliest age possible to fight back with everything they've got. Tell them not to worry about hurting the bully. The bully deserves whatever they get.
I feel the same. I don't care how slick SuSE is; I'll never recommend it.
Novell showed its true colors when it sucked up to MSFT.
After all, Novell was all about services for Windows clients for most of its profitable lifetime.
Yeah, you should only be able to patent implementations of ideas, not ideas. If you are able to patent the idea you are then able to do a poorly conceived, inefficient implementation which nobody else will be able to improve upon unless they have deeper pockets than you and can afford to fight you in patent court for the next 20 years.
I could not agree with you guys more. Sadly, this completely amoral attitude trickles down into the entire organization. Even people with absolutely no stake in the business behave the same way.
LULs
I was so pissed to find out Netflix chose Silverlight to deliver steaming movies. You're actually complementing it when you call Silverlight, clumsy. "Flaming paper bag full of doggie dirt" is more accurate.
I meant to type "white."
Of course nobody would mind having a while hole in the neighborhood.
ORLY?
As soon as I sell my Fijian island.
HAW-HAW
If anyone ever creates a purple tangerine, it should be called The Octerine. And yeah, I do like Terry Pratchett's books.
Perhaps. Then again, most HR droids are about as smart as a dairy cow.
MOO!
Word.
I heart your sig file. It made me LOL.
Oh yeah. HR would have been SUPER helpful.
1. HR in most organizations is mostly (if not 90%) staffed by women. Most guys are not going to talk about something like this to a woman. Not even their wife.
2. HR departments exist mainly to protect the organization from the employees. They are not there to help employees.
The plural of Nazi is Nazis, and you made a punctuation error not a grammar mistake.
It's a "chef's knife." Meat cleavers look like hatchets, and are heavy, thick blades made for cutting through joints. http://www.cooksillustrated.com/equipment/overview.asp?docid=10365
What made it even more "special" was, the Dell laptop they gave me had a bug in the CMOS whereby the CPU frequency throttling would set the CPU to 100 megahertz when the machine was mostly idle. That laptop caused me no end of headaches. And WinXP 64 sucks balls, too. Vista prolly would have been better and I say this as a Microsoft hater.
Yeah. I had a boss who insisted that I run vmware on a WinXP_64 laptop so I could run Linux guest instances. I didn't last long under his administration.
Then what about, not "than" what about.
Replace your "PC's" and "Mini's" with PCs and Minis. Aside from that, I agree with you.
You add an "s" to make something plural. You don't need the apostrophe.
The Vega upgrade would be WAY easier to do! I can't imagine how they got a V8 into such a small engine well. Their mechanic has some serious skills.
They cut the poor woman in half!
Larger businesses tend to have organizational layers that insulate IT people from those people in the company who fear and resent computers and can't acknowledge the need for them. Been there.
Yeah, if the server is compromised by a remote attacker (which is the most likely scenario) its disks will already have been decrypted upon boot so that the applications can access the filesystem / data on them. Thus they are necessarily available to the remote attacker. Since the vast majority of servers run in physically secure data centers, the chance of seeing entire disks or servers being stolen is not great. If my medical data were stored in a single file (that was rarely accessed) on a server I might want my HMO to encrypt it. Since it's just a tiny part of a massive database, I know encryption is not the answer. I shudder to think about how vulnerable my physician's Windoze PC is sitting in his office and hope he never stores patient info on his local drive. In this case, my physician ought to be required to encrypt all patient data.