That error is a result of throwing an exception where it can't ever be caught. This is YOUR FAULT entirely and not PHP's fault, but nice try shifting blame and all that.
function __destruct() { throw new Exception('Look at me, I'm a fucking moron'); }
Just because you can't build a tree house doesn't mean it's the fault of the hammer. Nice try shifting blame though, you really sound far more intelligent than me and my crass reply to your idiocy.
You don't force people to fight, you compel people to fight, otherwise they are not good fighters.
America doesn't need the draft, it needs a makeover. The world doesn't have a favorable view of america, and americans have no faith in their government and are growing disenchanted with their country. You aren't going to win anything full of forced soldiers. How many times in history has that worked? Remember Vietnam?
America needs to remake its image. Not just the world, but with its own collective self esteem.
it's not a money sink, it's an excellent learning oppurtunity. So the science it promised hasn't come around, but we're figuring out how to live in space with this project, and considering that we want to start sending people to mars, back to the moon, and various other projects, I think it's a good thing the ISS is up there.
The first IT bubble taught us one thing: what's a good idea and what's a bad idea. Now that we figured that out, a second wave of technology money is washing over the world, only this time it's slower, more calculated, and less dumb. With articles all over the place saying that kids aren't getting into IT anymore, salaries will keep going up for skilled tech-savvy individuals who can get the job done.
The experimentation is over folks, it's time to get some real work done, and get paid handsomely for it since we are NOT a dime a dozen.
If a price is advertised as one thing, but costs different at checkout, you get 10% off the lesser price. The store is obligated to point this out if it happens (though many don't).
Some people in Quebec go as far as marking down on paper the price of everything they buy so that when they checkout, they can point out every mistake there is, and you'd be surprised how many mistakes there can be in an environment like a grocery store.
We got complaints once that the IT department was being rude and offensive. I sent out an IT staff wide email:
Apparently there are complaints going around that the IT staff are being rude to the [other office's] staff.
We in IT are quick and to the point and that can often times come off as being rude and inconsiderate towards others. Unfortunately, this is as much a fault of our smug sense of superiority as it is the emotionless nature of text over jabber.
As such, here are a list of suggestions designed to make your conversations with the sensitive people in [the other office] seem less harsh:
1) Smiley faces. An abundant use of smiley faces whether negative or positive, will add a nice light hearted touch to whatever it is your trying to explain to the user.
eg:
"That ticket is pointless and your suggestions irrelevant" seems pretty harsh just as is, but a few touch ups and you get:
":( That ticket is pointless, and your suggestions irrelevant:P"
That makes the message look cute and innocent, something that none of us are, except for [a fellow coworker], but are nonetheless necessary to convey that image to [the other office].
2) Diplomacy. It is said that a good leader compels, he does not force. Telling someone outright that their mental capabilities are sub par to that of the IT staff will only result in conflict. Making them BELIEVE it however will allow operations to continue on more smoothly and effectively.
"This is not a smart idea. This is in fact, a very dumb idea."
That is just downright insulting, and invites the user to contradict your response, however right it may be.
"See, the issue here is that your idea doesn't fit into the grand scheme of things. Sorry:("
That sounds more profound, not too profound as to make the recipient of your negative response feel inadequate, but profound enough to make them believe that their idea is in fact stupid. This also has the added benefit of them not bringing it up again.
3) Costs too much. If the user's proposal sounds ridiculous, even after you've rearranged the proposal in 100 different ways to account for user error, and you need to tell them this but don't feel like being diplomatic, just say it costs too much. Since most of the users you will be dealing with have probably accused you already of not being in a money-making mental state, this will be a double edged sword to making the user shut up.
"Your proposal is a waste of my time, closing ticket."
vs.
"Your proposal's cost is too high and after careful examination, I've concluded that the ROI (return on investment) is simply too small."
Lower echelons of the business world will accept that, but higher echelons may not be entirely convinced, which is where you use diplomacy as described in point #2.
Yes, these suggestions do involve a greater number of keystrokes per conversation, but it will avoid unnecessary headaches in the future.
No, choice is a bad thing for the uninitiated. Don't give Average Joe the choice of 50 linux distros. Give him ONE option that will suit ALL his needs relatively well. Once he gets used to it, then Average Joe will get promoted to Better-than-Average Joe and he can then start exploring other choices, other options.
I think a lot of the elitism that comes from technology stems from people who have worked with it for a while. People who have spent a lot of time tinkering, experimenting, exploring, customizing, and whathaveyou that they just fall in love.
Why aren't there MS fanboys arguing that Window's is better than Linux as ferociously as Linux users argue that Linux is better than Windows? Overall you spend less time messing with Windows because you can't. You can alter anything and everything in Linux, so people spend more time with Linux itself and thus develop an intimate relationship with it.
I'll risk Karma, but I'll compare technological devotion to the woman who gets beaten up by her husband, but is still in love with him and still sticks with him and even managed to defend him.
Oh, because you know, grand mama will think "etc" isn't a logical place to put miscellaneous files she creates, like a text file with someone's phone number. After all, "etc" stands for etcetera and the definition of etcetera is "a number of other things or persons unspecified.". The first time I ever looked at a *nix directory layout, I thought/var contained anything and everything that had to do with configuration. var... variables, what is a conf file? A bunch of variables!
You can replace the Explorer shell with a shell of your own. I dunno, I've managed to get some pretty nice looking desktops going on my Windows box, I even made XP have a similar interface to OS X (without the bottom scrolling icon thing that I never liked anyways) and that was just using XP's own theme engine.
You should take a look at BlackBox based shells or LiteStep (though I think development on LiteStep has all but stopped).
There are many other options as well to beautifying your desktop.
I don't think a lack of fear is going to make a terrorist more cocky when planting bombs. Removing fear doesn't necessarily remove logic. You have a mission, there are consequences personal or otherwise to the failure of that mission. Logically, those consequences are bad for the over all purpose of the mission. Getting rid of fear may cause you to knowingly inflict more personal damage (suicide bombers), but it won't make you forget that goals have to be achieved.
The conservatives have always been big businesses bitches and this simply reiterates it.
No it doesn't. "Hi, we'll allow you to extend ownership of your product if you lessen its value significantly" is not really playing into the hands of record companies. If anything, it's just dumb.
Consider history. The more ignorant among followers of DE will try to point to the process of 'natural selection' as evidence of DE and try to confuse the two very theories (though NS is clearly beyond the realm of theory.) There is no record of DE occuring. No observable examples. No fossils or DNA showing actual evidence of evolution occuring. I think a colony of crickets might disprove your statement. These crickets faced a threat, and evolved rather rapidly to avoid it and their populations subsequently increased again.
I don't really care about Google knowing what I do, so long as they don't know that it's me who does it. In order to build trends, I really don't see why my IP address has to be associated with anything I do. Target marketing and context-sensitive ads are fine but that should be completely doable without anything that can personally identify me.
Whatever, welcome to the new age of accountability.
Public is an opposite of private. Thus, if the meeting is not held in secrecy behind closed doors, then it's public. Just because the average joe (like the submitter's colleague) can't actually attend the meeting doesn't mean the meeting is obscured, hidden, or otherwise, PRIVATE.
what?! There were robotic vacuume cleaners in Star Wars and Red Dwarf, not to mention a full blown robotic maid in The Jetsons. I'm sorry, but many people predicted robotic vacuumes.
Canada's laws are not brought on by lobbyists. Sorry to say, but just look at the trust fund tax fiasco. The conservatives promised not to tax trust funds, then all major corporations decided to go under trusts and the conservatives did a complete 360 realizing the impact that would have on tax revenue. You think these multibillion dollar companies could've bought their way into government to prevent that from happening?
Mafiaa's influence is only by proxy through the US Government. It's their weight that has pushed (re: bullied) Canada into starting to adopt more draconian laws.
Definitely a long shot and most likely will fail, but judges can be incompetent and can be persuaded to side with things that may technically make sense but are spiritually flawed.
They explained this on the simpsons when trying to figure out why Fox News is so anti liberal while Fox airs Family Guy and other non-conservative shows.
Essentially, they said that the FCC fines Fox and that money goes into republican coffers.
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Saying eggs are alive is like saying your tupperware container is alive just because you put a mouse and some nuts in it.
As with a lot of our other trash, we simply shipped Celine Dion to America. Now she's your problem, enjoy.
That error is a result of throwing an exception where it can't ever be caught. This is YOUR FAULT entirely and not PHP's fault, but nice try shifting blame and all that.
Just because you can't build a tree house doesn't mean it's the fault of the hammer. Nice try shifting blame though, you really sound far more intelligent than me and my crass reply to your idiocy.
You don't force people to fight, you compel people to fight, otherwise they are not good fighters.
America doesn't need the draft, it needs a makeover. The world doesn't have a favorable view of america, and americans have no faith in their government and are growing disenchanted with their country. You aren't going to win anything full of forced soldiers. How many times in history has that worked? Remember Vietnam?
America needs to remake its image. Not just the world, but with its own collective self esteem.
it's not a money sink, it's an excellent learning oppurtunity. So the science it promised hasn't come around, but we're figuring out how to live in space with this project, and considering that we want to start sending people to mars, back to the moon, and various other projects, I think it's a good thing the ISS is up there.
The first IT bubble taught us one thing: what's a good idea and what's a bad idea. Now that we figured that out, a second wave of technology money is washing over the world, only this time it's slower, more calculated, and less dumb. With articles all over the place saying that kids aren't getting into IT anymore, salaries will keep going up for skilled tech-savvy individuals who can get the job done.
The experimentation is over folks, it's time to get some real work done, and get paid handsomely for it since we are NOT a dime a dozen.
If a price is advertised as one thing, but costs different at checkout, you get 10% off the lesser price. The store is obligated to point this out if it happens (though many don't).
Some people in Quebec go as far as marking down on paper the price of everything they buy so that when they checkout, they can point out every mistake there is, and you'd be surprised how many mistakes there can be in an environment like a grocery store.
We got complaints once that the IT department was being rude and offensive. I sent out an IT staff wide email:
:P"
:("
Apparently there are complaints going around that the IT staff are being rude to the [other office's] staff.
We in IT are quick and to the point and that can often times come off as being rude and inconsiderate towards others. Unfortunately, this is as much a fault of our smug sense of superiority as it is the emotionless nature of text over jabber.
As such, here are a list of suggestions designed to make your conversations with the sensitive people in [the other office] seem less harsh:
1) Smiley faces. An abundant use of smiley faces whether negative or positive, will add a nice light hearted touch to whatever it is your trying to explain to the user.
eg:
"That ticket is pointless and your suggestions irrelevant" seems pretty harsh just as is, but a few touch ups and you get:
":( That ticket is pointless, and your suggestions irrelevant
That makes the message look cute and innocent, something that none of us are, except for [a fellow coworker], but are nonetheless necessary to convey that image to [the other office].
2) Diplomacy. It is said that a good leader compels, he does not force. Telling someone outright that their mental capabilities are sub par to that of the IT staff will only result in conflict. Making them BELIEVE it however will allow operations to continue on more smoothly and effectively.
"This is not a smart idea. This is in fact, a very dumb idea."
That is just downright insulting, and invites the user to contradict your response, however right it may be.
"See, the issue here is that your idea doesn't fit into the grand scheme of things. Sorry
That sounds more profound, not too profound as to make the recipient of your negative response feel inadequate, but profound enough to make them believe that their idea is in fact stupid. This also has the added benefit of them not bringing it up again.
3) Costs too much. If the user's proposal sounds ridiculous, even after you've rearranged the proposal in 100 different ways to account for user error, and you need to tell them this but don't feel like being diplomatic, just say it costs too much. Since most of the users you will be dealing with have probably accused you already of not being in a money-making mental state, this will be a double edged sword to making the user shut up.
"Your proposal is a waste of my time, closing ticket."
vs.
"Your proposal's cost is too high and after careful examination, I've concluded that the ROI (return on investment) is simply too small."
Lower echelons of the business world will accept that, but higher echelons may not be entirely convinced, which is where you use diplomacy as described in point #2.
Yes, these suggestions do involve a greater number of keystrokes per conversation, but it will avoid unnecessary headaches in the future.
No, choice is a bad thing for the uninitiated. Don't give Average Joe the choice of 50 linux distros. Give him ONE option that will suit ALL his needs relatively well. Once he gets used to it, then Average Joe will get promoted to Better-than-Average Joe and he can then start exploring other choices, other options.
I think a lot of the elitism that comes from technology stems from people who have worked with it for a while. People who have spent a lot of time tinkering, experimenting, exploring, customizing, and whathaveyou that they just fall in love.
Why aren't there MS fanboys arguing that Window's is better than Linux as ferociously as Linux users argue that Linux is better than Windows? Overall you spend less time messing with Windows because you can't. You can alter anything and everything in Linux, so people spend more time with Linux itself and thus develop an intimate relationship with it.
I'll risk Karma, but I'll compare technological devotion to the woman who gets beaten up by her husband, but is still in love with him and still sticks with him and even managed to defend him.
Oh, because you know, grand mama will think "etc" isn't a logical place to put miscellaneous files she creates, like a text file with someone's phone number. After all, "etc" stands for etcetera and the definition of etcetera is "a number of other things or persons unspecified.". The first time I ever looked at a *nix directory layout, I thought /var contained anything and everything that had to do with configuration. var... variables, what is a conf file? A bunch of variables!
You can replace the Explorer shell with a shell of your own. I dunno, I've managed to get some pretty nice looking desktops going on my Windows box, I even made XP have a similar interface to OS X (without the bottom scrolling icon thing that I never liked anyways) and that was just using XP's own theme engine.
You should take a look at BlackBox based shells or LiteStep (though I think development on LiteStep has all but stopped).
There are many other options as well to beautifying your desktop.
If only I could get porn that fast
there I said it, let's move on now.
I don't think a lack of fear is going to make a terrorist more cocky when planting bombs. Removing fear doesn't necessarily remove logic. You have a mission, there are consequences personal or otherwise to the failure of that mission. Logically, those consequences are bad for the over all purpose of the mission. Getting rid of fear may cause you to knowingly inflict more personal damage (suicide bombers), but it won't make you forget that goals have to be achieved.
No it doesn't. "Hi, we'll allow you to extend ownership of your product if you lessen its value significantly" is not really playing into the hands of record companies. If anything, it's just dumb.
I don't really care about Google knowing what I do, so long as they don't know that it's me who does it. In order to build trends, I really don't see why my IP address has to be associated with anything I do. Target marketing and context-sensitive ads are fine but that should be completely doable without anything that can personally identify me.
Whatever, welcome to the new age of accountability.
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Public is an opposite of private. Thus, if the meeting is not held in secrecy behind closed doors, then it's public. Just because the average joe (like the submitter's colleague) can't actually attend the meeting doesn't mean the meeting is obscured, hidden, or otherwise, PRIVATE.
uhm
are you forgetting about Bush's veto of the budget?
what?! There were robotic vacuume cleaners in Star Wars and Red Dwarf, not to mention a full blown robotic maid in The Jetsons. I'm sorry, but many people predicted robotic vacuumes.
Canada's laws are not brought on by lobbyists. Sorry to say, but just look at the trust fund tax fiasco. The conservatives promised not to tax trust funds, then all major corporations decided to go under trusts and the conservatives did a complete 360 realizing the impact that would have on tax revenue. You think these multibillion dollar companies could've bought their way into government to prevent that from happening?
Mafiaa's influence is only by proxy through the US Government. It's their weight that has pushed (re: bullied) Canada into starting to adopt more draconian laws.
... Vista is marketed for media purposes as well.
Definitely a long shot and most likely will fail, but judges can be incompetent and can be persuaded to side with things that may technically make sense but are spiritually flawed.
islamic terrorists is so 2002. Now it's all about islamofacism.
They explained this on the simpsons when trying to figure out why Fox News is so anti liberal while Fox airs Family Guy and other non-conservative shows.
Essentially, they said that the FCC fines Fox and that money goes into republican coffers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFtsfDjOGjs - watch that.