If you are having problems with individuals like that, HR and upper management cannot act on just a leads observations. They need documented evidence that either the person is or is not doing their job.
Bzzzt. Wrong. You won't find the bad apple with paperwork. You find the uber programmer who can't be bothered to fill those out.
their status reports will reflect how simple tasks are taking them extremely too long. And the best thing is, it's in their own words!
Yep. Like you never underestimated a problem before. Remember, good programmer == big ego.
Next time I'm making near minimum wage and my kid is hospitalized for something like this I'll tell him to go rob a bank since apparently you can get away without going to court if you're sick...
How would you like to have your hospitalized kid sentenced to jail because he can't show up in court, regardless whether he actually robbed that bank? That's what the article was about.
"This site you have attempted to access is identified by the Internet Watch Foundation as a site containing potentially illegal content. Access has been blocked.
Deliberate attempts to access this or related sites may result in you committing a serious criminal offence."
You've never had to upgrade video drivers after patching Windows? Not usually on the smaller patches, but going from SP1 to SP2 or even going from 2000 to XP can cause that problem.
Installing a new operating system (XP is not 2000) doesn't really count as "patching".
Reality is that most people pirate stuff they wouldn't buy in the first place. No loss there except free marketing. The only problem is people pirating stuff they would normally buy. But with a good product, good support and harassment-free incentives to buy the product, you should be able to turn those people into paying for products.
Spot on. Case study: me and WoW.
I started playing on a free server, after one of my friends started doing so as well. The client itself has no copy protection whatsoever, it's fully playable by just copying over the game directory and running wow.exe.
Meanwhile, I moved 2000 miles, and now I'm in the position to pay the monthly fee, so I decided to do so. I wouldn't have considered buying it, let alone pay monthly, had I not played it before.
I think most people aren't especially bothered by the idea of having automated advertisements sitting next to what they're doing.
Except when you have a mobile dial-up, and you get 3 Gb a month. Then, anything that tries to download anything I didn't tell it to gets deleted, fast. Like MSN Messenger.
Shifting security to the user by having them approve everything?
As opposed to, say, not asking you if you want to allow that email attachment you ran to change your network settings?
Sorry to break the groupthink, but UAC is the one thing they DID right with Vista.
Disclaimer: I'm a Gentoo fan, but I'm forced to use Vista for the time being, and the one time I didn't expect a Cancel/Allow dialog to pop up, the program triggering it was indeed malicious.
The point isn't to make you feel better. The point is to be able to address what happened and move on...
Making someone relive the worse experience in their life is not just torture, it entrenches the trauma even more in their life.
As for other things you can do to help, try NLP. Oh, and exactly what use is empirically backing something with excellent studies that doesn't work? NLP does.
How are my thoughts physically relevant to anything, again? Remember, we're talking about the same country that wants to teach Intelligent Design in science class.
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There is no reason to not to have an SSD in your laptop.
Vista.
If you are having problems with individuals like that, HR and upper management cannot act on just a leads observations. They need documented evidence that either the person is or is not doing their job.
Bzzzt. Wrong. You won't find the bad apple with paperwork. You find the uber programmer who can't be bothered to fill those out.
their status reports will reflect how simple tasks are taking them extremely too long. And the best thing is, it's in their own words!
Yep. Like you never underestimated a problem before. Remember, good programmer == big ego.
Fragmentation causes more needle shifts than regular burst read/writes.
Of course most people don't think "stable" means "kills your drive slower" for an OS. Especially not in a discussion about SSD's.
What the UK needs is common sense.
I came here from a former Communist country, and the laws here... let's just say it's more like what my dad used to tell stories about.
And once the codes to do this leak into the wild, laptop hijacking and ransoms will be next.
Nah. More like a new level of DRM.
Next time I'm making near minimum wage and my kid is hospitalized for something like this I'll tell him to go rob a bank since apparently you can get away without going to court if you're sick...
How would you like to have your hospitalized kid sentenced to jail because he can't show up in court, regardless whether he actually robbed that bank? That's what the article was about.
That link you gave is broken :)
"This site you have attempted to access is identified by the Internet Watch Foundation as a site containing
potentially illegal content. Access has been blocked.
Deliberate attempts to access this or related sites may result in you committing a serious criminal offence."
Vodafone UK.
Note the language though, emphasis mine.
"Java is slow" is a stupid old myth. Does it not occur to you that JIT compilers compile to native code?
Yes. At runtime.
Since when have people been upgrading to vista?
The Windows 7 beta must be out already.
What I do NOT understand is why those peole cannot see that if everyone does what they do, no new content will be produced.
Of course not. Everyone knows that only big corporations can be artistic.
P2P isn't based on "leeching". It's based on sharing. Re-read until you understand the difference.
I'm going to pirate it. Much cleaner that way.
You've never had to upgrade video drivers after patching Windows? Not usually on the smaller patches, but going from SP1 to SP2 or even going from 2000 to XP can cause that problem.
Installing a new operating system (XP is not 2000) doesn't really count as "patching".
Oh, and don't feed the troll.
Each game could come with a masked guy holding a whip.
Make that a masked girl holding a whip, and I'll buy it.
Reality is that most people pirate stuff they wouldn't buy in the first place. No loss there except free marketing. The only problem is people pirating stuff they would normally buy. But with a good product, good support and harassment-free incentives to buy the product, you should be able to turn those people into paying for products.
Spot on. Case study: me and WoW.
I started playing on a free server, after one of my friends started doing so as well. The client itself has no copy protection whatsoever, it's fully playable by just copying over the game directory and running wow.exe.
Meanwhile, I moved 2000 miles, and now I'm in the position to pay the monthly fee, so I decided to do so. I wouldn't have considered buying it, let alone pay monthly, had I not played it before.
I think most people aren't especially bothered by the idea of having automated advertisements sitting next to what they're doing.
Except when you have a mobile dial-up, and you get 3 Gb a month. Then, anything that tries to download anything I didn't tell it to gets deleted, fast. Like MSN Messenger.
Shifting security to the user by having them approve everything?
As opposed to, say, not asking you if you want to allow that email attachment you ran to change your network settings?
Sorry to break the groupthink, but UAC is the one thing they DID right with Vista.
Disclaimer: I'm a Gentoo fan, but I'm forced to use Vista for the time being, and the one time I didn't expect a Cancel/Allow dialog to pop up, the program triggering it was indeed malicious.
A Website that can't be viewed with Lynx is a Web site not worth visiting.
So how would you rate my university's website, the only place I can sign up for my classes (IE only)? Should I quit until they fix it for lynx?
The good news is you don't have to pay taxes on the money you didn't earn
Excuse me, but how is this good news again? I thought that was normal.
God damn, I thought people in /. would know better...
Sorry, we're using Linux.
or by reducing the number of smokers
Don't you think the life of a smoker is hard enough in the UK yet?
Don't reduce me, bro.
The point isn't to make you feel better. The point is to be able to address what happened and move on...
Making someone relive the worse experience in their life is not just torture, it entrenches the trauma even more in their life.
As for other things you can do to help, try NLP. Oh, and exactly what use is empirically backing something with excellent studies that doesn't work? NLP does.
but is rather physically relevant to the case
How are my thoughts physically relevant to anything, again? Remember, we're talking about the same country that wants to teach Intelligent Design in science class.
Do we have enough porn for an entirely new Internet?
Build P2P right into the new net, and we will in about 3 seconds.
The "right" license for Qt would be LGPL.
Wrong. You should be thankful Trolltech released Qt as GPL after KDE got flamed for using a non-Free library.
However, Trolltech is still a for-profit company.