Translation: I'm for freedom of speech, so long as it is speech I agree with.
Apparently you are not the target audience for freenet. Or the 1st amendment, for that matter.
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While these things certainly were an *option*, I know from experience at the time (in a higher-ed environment, I might add), that all the iMacs still had external floppies (in addition to the Zip drives and the very occasional Jazz drive). People didn't want to muck around with putting a disk in one machine in order to move it to the network, etc etc. They wanted it to "just work", and in this sense, it didn't. If you don't remember the amount of bitching that happened when the iMacs showed up in computer labs without floppies, I dunno what to tell you.
For my part, I've never seen IR printing adopted in any significant way in any place I've worked.
If I recall correctly, at the time pretty much everyone ended up buying a USB floppy drive for these things anyway. Not really a floppy-killer. I mean, how do you think people got info off their old floppies in the first place? Thinking really hard about Steve Jobs' shirts?
I don't really understand their motivation. WoW is the uncontested king of MMOs and there's no one in sight that can possibly undo their massive, massive lead in terms of subscribers and active accounts.
The only thing that can kill Blizzard's advantage is Blizzard itself, either by slowly alienating their player base, or releasing uninspired, rehashed content. My bet is on a mixture of both.
If they had tech support full time, it was probably either a private secondary school or a university. K-12 public schools typically don't have the money to pay for real tech support.
You work in a company that has a very permissable policy on non-corporate machines, then.
We don't allow personal machines on our network, period. This is not an unusual policy in corporations. What you're describing is more common in small businesses and some academic environments.
Yes, our network is bigger, more complex, and more secure than yours.
Calling people names really shouldn't be illegal, I don't care what the content is, particularly when its trash talk. I'm not a proponent of PC, obviously. Also, I don't think that saying things like "I got Jewed out of " is necessarily indicative of someone being anti-semitic, than "stupid faggot" is indicative of someone being homophobic. Again, particularly in trash talking. Take that far enough and calling people "idiots" is discriminatory against people who are stupid, and "waste of skin" is racist against humans.
As for the rest of the comment, I was primarily addressing the JDL and it's thin skin. I understand the whole "never again" bit, but by overreacting to every little thing, they just give hardcore anti-semites more ammunition, and risk alienating those who previously didn't care either way.
It is pedantry. If you're unable to understand what this thread is about based on the abundant information that is supplying the context for "wiki", perhaps a text-based conversation system just isn't for you.
Haven't you heard? If you don't speak of the Jews in a glowingly positive manner, you're anti-semitic.
The Jewish Defense League has done more to make people dislike Jews in the last 30 years than it has to help in any form. Seriously. It's like a whole league broadcasting Al Sharpton-esque reactionary sensitivity to anything even remotely unkind said to/about anyone even remotely Jewish-like.
Yes, if you're looking for meaning in your job, be sure to pursue a career where you mindlessly enforce laws, regardless of whether they're good ones or not. Law enforcement isn't about critical thinking, it's about being a cog in a large, often maddeningly bureaucratic system that has little patience for individuality in the workplace.
I'm creeping up on my 10th year where I could be said to be doing computer support professionally. I went through about 5 years where I was like, "wow, this sucks and isn't very challenging".
I figured out though that there's real benefit in having a job where I can go home and the end of the day and forget about work and do stuff I like. Not to mention that even though the things I do from day to day aren't amazingly challenging, it isn't that way for everyone I work with, and as such, it's much easier to stand out and be regarded as excellent in my professional field.
So yeah, look around and consider all the options, but my advice? Don't make your work your life... unless you're getting paid millions of dollars quarterly, then make it your life for 10 years and retire.:D
But I think what much of you are saying is true. It's just that most administrators are pretty bad at what they do and most IT environments are poorly run.
Get a good mass of those two, and IT work can be stressful when something breaks unexpectedly, but also amazingly routine work.
It always amazes me how romanticized people's descriptions of breeding can be.
Face it, you evolved to have those feelings in order to perpetuate the species. It's not amazing, it's love, it's just you passing on genes to offspring.
Seems like it would be somewhat relevant. If his attorney is any good it'll get brought up on appeal, I'd imagine, since one would think that the decision by the judge to exclude that sort of thing is a procedural error.
AFAIK things like ice cores can give us indirect (but very usable) evidence of temperatures for much longer time periods. Of course, with all the ice shelves/glaciers melting, that particular method might not be all that useful for much longer. However, I imagine that other geological methods can also give us indirect, usable evidence of climate over longer periods than, say, just using tree rings or the like.
Apple is driving the market and has been doing so since introducing the iMac. Apple invests in technology years in advance while the Dells and HPs are running their businesses on a quarterly basis.
Different target markets. Unless Apple is going to compete with razor thin margins against Dell/HP/Lenovo, they're really making no in-roads.
You're correct that Apple is making impressive inroads in the consumer market, but they're still by far the minority shareholder.
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Sadly, punishment is no guarantee of behavior modification.
Well, I'm sure the IR connections *work*, but I can think of one time in the last decade when I actually saw someone use it.
FreeNet is about endorsing and facilitating free speech, not about "endorsing free speech, so long as its not something I disagree with".
As I said, he is obviously not the target audience of either those two mechanisms for promotion of this concept.
Translation: I'm for freedom of speech, so long as it is speech I agree with.
Apparently you are not the target audience for freenet. Or the 1st amendment, for that matter.
While these things certainly were an *option*, I know from experience at the time (in a higher-ed environment, I might add), that all the iMacs still had external floppies (in addition to the Zip drives and the very occasional Jazz drive). People didn't want to muck around with putting a disk in one machine in order to move it to the network, etc etc. They wanted it to "just work", and in this sense, it didn't. If you don't remember the amount of bitching that happened when the iMacs showed up in computer labs without floppies, I dunno what to tell you.
For my part, I've never seen IR printing adopted in any significant way in any place I've worked.
If I recall correctly, at the time pretty much everyone ended up buying a USB floppy drive for these things anyway. Not really a floppy-killer. I mean, how do you think people got info off their old floppies in the first place? Thinking really hard about Steve Jobs' shirts?
Ahhhhh the C64. Good times.
I know you probably figured that was a clever come-back... but it actually is fairly mundane and uninteresting.
In short, come up with something more original or don't reply (aka feed the trolls) at all.
I don't really understand their motivation. WoW is the uncontested king of MMOs and there's no one in sight that can possibly undo their massive, massive lead in terms of subscribers and active accounts.
The only thing that can kill Blizzard's advantage is Blizzard itself, either by slowly alienating their player base, or releasing uninspired, rehashed content. My bet is on a mixture of both.
If you work for a telco, I doubt your network is more secure :D
BOFH is not an "odd fanfic", but rather an institution unto itself.
You should know better with a UID as low as yours.
If they had tech support full time, it was probably either a private secondary school or a university. K-12 public schools typically don't have the money to pay for real tech support.
You also voided your warranty in doing so. Really stupid policy on Apple's part.
Managers on up often have laptops, as well as sales folks.
People who just sit at their desks all day rarely have laptops. At least in my experience.
You work in a company that has a very permissable policy on non-corporate machines, then.
We don't allow personal machines on our network, period. This is not an unusual policy in corporations. What you're describing is more common in small businesses and some academic environments.
Yes, our network is bigger, more complex, and more secure than yours.
Calling people names really shouldn't be illegal, I don't care what the content is, particularly when its trash talk. I'm not a proponent of PC, obviously. Also, I don't think that saying things like "I got Jewed out of " is necessarily indicative of someone being anti-semitic, than "stupid faggot" is indicative of someone being homophobic. Again, particularly in trash talking. Take that far enough and calling people "idiots" is discriminatory against people who are stupid, and "waste of skin" is racist against humans.
As for the rest of the comment, I was primarily addressing the JDL and it's thin skin. I understand the whole "never again" bit, but by overreacting to every little thing, they just give hardcore anti-semites more ammunition, and risk alienating those who previously didn't care either way.
It is pedantry. If you're unable to understand what this thread is about based on the abundant information that is supplying the context for "wiki", perhaps a text-based conversation system just isn't for you.
Haven't you heard? If you don't speak of the Jews in a glowingly positive manner, you're anti-semitic.
The Jewish Defense League has done more to make people dislike Jews in the last 30 years than it has to help in any form. Seriously. It's like a whole league broadcasting Al Sharpton-esque reactionary sensitivity to anything even remotely unkind said to /about anyone even remotely Jewish-like.
Thinnest skins in the land.
Yes, if you're looking for meaning in your job, be sure to pursue a career where you mindlessly enforce laws, regardless of whether they're good ones or not. Law enforcement isn't about critical thinking, it's about being a cog in a large, often maddeningly bureaucratic system that has little patience for individuality in the workplace.
I'm creeping up on my 10th year where I could be said to be doing computer support professionally. I went through about 5 years where I was like, "wow, this sucks and isn't very challenging".
I figured out though that there's real benefit in having a job where I can go home and the end of the day and forget about work and do stuff I like. Not to mention that even though the things I do from day to day aren't amazingly challenging, it isn't that way for everyone I work with, and as such, it's much easier to stand out and be regarded as excellent in my professional field.
So yeah, look around and consider all the options, but my advice? Don't make your work your life... unless you're getting paid millions of dollars quarterly, then make it your life for 10 years and retire. :D
A lot of folks are laughing at you.
But I think what much of you are saying is true. It's just that most administrators are pretty bad at what they do and most IT environments are poorly run.
Get a good mass of those two, and IT work can be stressful when something breaks unexpectedly, but also amazingly routine work.
It always amazes me how romanticized people's descriptions of breeding can be.
Face it, you evolved to have those feelings in order to perpetuate the species. It's not amazing, it's love, it's just you passing on genes to offspring.
Seems like it would be somewhat relevant. If his attorney is any good it'll get brought up on appeal, I'd imagine, since one would think that the decision by the judge to exclude that sort of thing is a procedural error.
AFAIK things like ice cores can give us indirect (but very usable) evidence of temperatures for much longer time periods. Of course, with all the ice shelves/glaciers melting, that particular method might not be all that useful for much longer. However, I imagine that other geological methods can also give us indirect, usable evidence of climate over longer periods than, say, just using tree rings or the like.
Different target markets. Unless Apple is going to compete with razor thin margins against Dell/HP/Lenovo, they're really making no in-roads.
You're correct that Apple is making impressive inroads in the consumer market, but they're still by far the minority shareholder.