Well, that and it was *years* before Quark had a product what would run native in OS X. It's been a while, but I seem to recall that Quark wouldn't even run in classic mode, so you couldn't get a new Mac for a very long time that would run Quark (esp after you couldn't dual-boot OS 9.2.2 and OS X anymore).
Perhaps that's what someone said it was supposed to be. I get the feeling that after going through the internal MS politics filters, it didn't end up like that at all. Sort of how Neil Gaiman says scripts end up in Hollywood: everyone gets their chance to pee on it, until it stinks so much that no one wants to touch it anymore.
Overall, does the "Dehli discount" really cut costs all that deeply? Or, by the time you write, and re-write, the specs, etc. do you end up spending more?
I'm no business expert, but I play one on TV.
There are apparently an increasing number of businesses who are now figuring out that short term outsourcing == mid-and-long-term headaches. Though it seems a lot of "sweeping under the rug" of the monetary effects can be done with fancy accounting techniques.
I need a steady job more than I need to be working in tech alone these days, and I resent the idea that we need to give up on the standard American Dream to do so.
You might resent it, but life ain't fair. You got dealt a hand that makes it harder and might require you to give up stuff, but then again, you also chose a lifestyle (parenting) that is a well-known resource drain. The "American Dream" is a marketing gimmick, not an inalienable right.
People ask me how hard it can be to find a tech support person, or a systems admin, or a programmer.
The answer is always "not hard, but it's hard to find a *good* one."
Folks like the original poster (and sadly, some management chains) hire specialists in every area except IT (it seems) with the idea that the person joining the organization is bringing their expertise to add to the knowledge base of the company. With IT, however, it seems that some people place them slightly above the cleaning staff. When someone suggests an idea and it's going to be bad for the company, it should be _expected_ that the systems admin / whoever says, "No, we shouldn't do that, and here's why." If they still do it anyway, the CYA email and documentation should be archived so that one can say, "I told you so" and the shit will hit someone else.
Good IT/devs/whatever aren't trained monkeys and can't be easily replaced without making sacrifices on the business level. You can always get someone cheaper, but as a growing mountain of anecdotal evidence seems to be showing, you're not going to get the same "quality" of expertise for 1/2 to 1/3 the going USD rate for a position.
Problem is that a lot of those shows make science/technology seem cool and push-button easy, and the characters are designed to be smart, but not so smart that the audience thinks they're all geeky and can't relate to them.
Which is why I'm surprised that FOX's show "Bones" is still going. There's the obligatory love story, but there's a significant portion of show content (including humor) that relies on audience knowledge without spoon feeding the technical background to the viewer.
Wow. While some of these have some kernel of truth, why didn't you just write "conform!" and avoid the space you wasted on the/. hard disks? It is indeed sometimes worth it to learn the political system of where you work, but it also frequently helps to sit *outside* that system, if for no other reason than it makes you better able to do your job. Also, people who "play by the rules" always and stick to the letter of the law rarely innovate in any amazing fashion.
If I didn't have work to do, I'd sit down and discuss this point by point, but at the moment the thing that really sticks out for me is that you seem to have spent a little too much time drinking the kool-aid of corporate life. You should try and comprehend the social system of the place you work at, but it's not necessary to buy into it. You seem to not want to seem "too geeky", or some other silly thing like that. Unless you've got some desperate need to actually move into a management position, I don't see the point of "playing the game" to the point you suggest. Make your deadlines, do good work.
I also tend to think that technical professionals (the ones that repeatably do good work, be they systems engineers, programmers, etc) *are* generally more intelligent than the average manager, if for no other reason that technically inclined people are generally more intelligent (in quantifiable ways, I don't know if there's a quantifiable way to objectively compare "soft skills" that are more necessary for management-track positions) than the population at large, in terms of reasoning/problem solving skills without regard to artificially created external limitations (which, it could be argued, could also be factors that create separation between those with good reasoning skills and those with exceptional ones). Now, being arrogant might not be wise, but being smarter than your coworkers and not hiding that fact shouldn't be discouraged.
Well, I don't know where to look to disprove you technically, but for practical purposes, you can go years without filing a return if you owe nothing. Might not be the official line, but sure is the real-life fact of the matter.
Changing Debian to be easier to use isn't a bad thing. There's no reason that there should be no attention paid to ease of use, so long as the ability to configure something to my liking isn't removed. I don't see any indication that Debian is doing that. On a related subject, while I don't use Gentoo, I found it an unhappy bit of news to learn they'd removed their stage 1 installation option as a default documented path. Seemed pointless to me.
I think that the PC will remain king for games that require a highly customizable/customized interface. MMOs and flight sims fall into that category. It's a weakness of the console world that any game control system that isn't able to be distilled down to 6-8 buttons and 2 analog joysticks will require some pretty clever contextual interfaces in order to be usable. And those that can't, better be appealing to a wide range of players or it'll flop (see Guitar Hero and Steel Battalion for opposite ends on that one).
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At this point, it can only increase their stock price.
There's also the matter that selling the stock only indirectly effects the company. Unless you've got a significant number of shares (in which case, why are you on slashdot and not having sex with hot Jamaican girlfriend #7 on the beach?), AMD doesn't really care that you're selling their stock (unless everyone else is).
Why? Because if you're going to bother posting at all, ostensibly so that other people can real the textual expression of your ideas and opinions, you may as well make it readable. If you don't care about other people's ability to understand your post, why bother posting at all?
I don't know if you've noticed, but Debian isn't a "beginner" Linux dist and doesn't try to be. It's a distribution aligned behind an ideal. Now, no one is saying that you have to use Debian. Feel free to use Ubuntu, which is just Debian made easier (partially by restricting your options and partially by adding in software that doesn't jive with the driving ideal of Debian). That's fine, go nuts.
I don't see what the problem is here, really. The reason we have a lot of linux dists is exactly because people have different levels of technical aptitude, different levels of patience, and different expectations of their operating systems. Debian isn't your thing, that's fine. I'm not sure why you feel the need to have *them* change their dist practices and ideology when you can just go use RedHat/SUSE/Gentoo/Ubuntu/etc until you find the one you like.
*sigh* Simile. He's not saying that stupid or drug addled people perform the cracks that you list. He's saying that Hollywood's version of criminal motivation and the types of people that commit them often do not line up with reality.
the fault lines are moving all the time, generating vibrations as the plates move along eachother. when there's an impediment to that movement and it finally breaks free and shifts significantly (as is relative for such things), we feel the large regionally felt quakes, but the movement generates small "quakes" and constant vibrations just due to tectonic motion
On the contrary, the OP's point is true. We can't say that the US encourages personal freedoms for its citizens when we arbitrarily restrict behavior based on age *after* one becomes a legal adult. More clearly, if I'm a legal adult, why should I need to wait until an arbitrarily different age (and it *is* arbitrary) to take part in a particular legal activity? Especially since other similarly advanced western societies have more permissive policies and (to reference the current example) don't have an entire society full of raging binge drinkers killing themselves on a daily basis in huge numbers via alchohol poisoning and/or running each other over via DWI.
The problem lay in your kneejerk reaction (and those of like mind, who label themselves "patriots" but are closer to being "nationalists") to anything that even implies that America might not be the world's most free society in the in every respect, and may not have the most well-reasoned implementations of legal statutes. Criticizing the US isn't wrong, and pointing out flaws in the status quo is important. People of the "love it or leave it" nationalist mindset are simply handing over their critical thinking skills in favor of feel-good propaganda.
Yeah. Groups/persons with certain vested social and political interests apparently like to make it seem like there is an overwhelming white population in the US at the present time, when that isn't true. Still a majority, but not like in, for example, some northern European countries. You gotta admit that it's easier to make the case for being an under-represented minority when you can say that you're 20% of a country's total population. The amusing part is that in order to wield overwhelming social power, there's no real requirement historically for you to be a member of a majority population group.
I just don't know if that's true, because what you describe as "short term addiction" could apply to a great many things. Getting a new hobby could fall under your definition, for example. Plus, I think the difference here may lay in the details. Namely, that his real life friends also started playing the game. This sort of drifts then into "is playing online games social interaction?" conversation. I tend to think that it is, but there are people who disagree. I just don't think that "it was my main hobby for a few months and I spent a lot of time playing it, so didn't watch movies much at all" qualifies as an addiction.
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The D600/610 and the D620 series have completely different enclosures.
Well, that and it was *years* before Quark had a product what would run native in OS X. It's been a while, but I seem to recall that Quark wouldn't even run in classic mode, so you couldn't get a new Mac for a very long time that would run Quark (esp after you couldn't dual-boot OS 9.2.2 and OS X anymore).
Perhaps that's what someone said it was supposed to be. I get the feeling that after going through the internal MS politics filters, it didn't end up like that at all. Sort of how Neil Gaiman says scripts end up in Hollywood: everyone gets their chance to pee on it, until it stinks so much that no one wants to touch it anymore.
I'm no business expert, but I play one on TV.
There are apparently an increasing number of businesses who are now figuring out that short term outsourcing == mid-and-long-term headaches. Though it seems a lot of "sweeping under the rug" of the monetary effects can be done with fancy accounting techniques.
You might resent it, but life ain't fair. You got dealt a hand that makes it harder and might require you to give up stuff, but then again, you also chose a lifestyle (parenting) that is a well-known resource drain. The "American Dream" is a marketing gimmick, not an inalienable right.
People ask me how hard it can be to find a tech support person, or a systems admin, or a programmer.
The answer is always "not hard, but it's hard to find a *good* one."
Folks like the original poster (and sadly, some management chains) hire specialists in every area except IT (it seems) with the idea that the person joining the organization is bringing their expertise to add to the knowledge base of the company. With IT, however, it seems that some people place them slightly above the cleaning staff. When someone suggests an idea and it's going to be bad for the company, it should be _expected_ that the systems admin / whoever says, "No, we shouldn't do that, and here's why." If they still do it anyway, the CYA email and documentation should be archived so that one can say, "I told you so" and the shit will hit someone else.
Good IT/devs/whatever aren't trained monkeys and can't be easily replaced without making sacrifices on the business level. You can always get someone cheaper, but as a growing mountain of anecdotal evidence seems to be showing, you're not going to get the same "quality" of expertise for 1/2 to 1/3 the going USD rate for a position.
Problem is that a lot of those shows make science/technology seem cool and push-button easy, and the characters are designed to be smart, but not so smart that the audience thinks they're all geeky and can't relate to them.
Which is why I'm surprised that FOX's show "Bones" is still going. There's the obligatory love story, but there's a significant portion of show content (including humor) that relies on audience knowledge without spoon feeding the technical background to the viewer.
Wow. While some of these have some kernel of truth, why didn't you just write "conform!" and avoid the space you wasted on the /. hard disks? It is indeed sometimes worth it to learn the political system of where you work, but it also frequently helps to sit *outside* that system, if for no other reason than it makes you better able to do your job. Also, people who "play by the rules" always and stick to the letter of the law rarely innovate in any amazing fashion.
If I didn't have work to do, I'd sit down and discuss this point by point, but at the moment the thing that really sticks out for me is that you seem to have spent a little too much time drinking the kool-aid of corporate life. You should try and comprehend the social system of the place you work at, but it's not necessary to buy into it. You seem to not want to seem "too geeky", or some other silly thing like that. Unless you've got some desperate need to actually move into a management position, I don't see the point of "playing the game" to the point you suggest. Make your deadlines, do good work.
I also tend to think that technical professionals (the ones that repeatably do good work, be they systems engineers, programmers, etc) *are* generally more intelligent than the average manager, if for no other reason that technically inclined people are generally more intelligent (in quantifiable ways, I don't know if there's a quantifiable way to objectively compare "soft skills" that are more necessary for management-track positions) than the population at large, in terms of reasoning/problem solving skills without regard to artificially created external limitations (which, it could be argued, could also be factors that create separation between those with good reasoning skills and those with exceptional ones). Now, being arrogant might not be wise, but being smarter than your coworkers and not hiding that fact shouldn't be discouraged.
There's a new note in that thread that there's a work around available at the end of this thread
Well, I don't know where to look to disprove you technically, but for practical purposes, you can go years without filing a return if you owe nothing. Might not be the official line, but sure is the real-life fact of the matter.
Changing Debian to be easier to use isn't a bad thing. There's no reason that there should be no attention paid to ease of use, so long as the ability to configure something to my liking isn't removed. I don't see any indication that Debian is doing that. On a related subject, while I don't use Gentoo, I found it an unhappy bit of news to learn they'd removed their stage 1 installation option as a default documented path. Seemed pointless to me.
I think that the PC will remain king for games that require a highly customizable/customized interface. MMOs and flight sims fall into that category. It's a weakness of the console world that any game control system that isn't able to be distilled down to 6-8 buttons and 2 analog joysticks will require some pretty clever contextual interfaces in order to be usable. And those that can't, better be appealing to a wide range of players or it'll flop (see Guitar Hero and Steel Battalion for opposite ends on that one).
At this point, it can only increase their stock price.
There's also the matter that selling the stock only indirectly effects the company. Unless you've got a significant number of shares (in which case, why are you on slashdot and not having sex with hot Jamaican girlfriend #7 on the beach?), AMD doesn't really care that you're selling their stock (unless everyone else is).
... people still play Everquest? o_O
Why? Because if you're going to bother posting at all, ostensibly so that other people can real the textual expression of your ideas and opinions, you may as well make it readable. If you don't care about other people's ability to understand your post, why bother posting at all?
I don't know if you've noticed, but Debian isn't a "beginner" Linux dist and doesn't try to be. It's a distribution aligned behind an ideal. Now, no one is saying that you have to use Debian. Feel free to use Ubuntu, which is just Debian made easier (partially by restricting your options and partially by adding in software that doesn't jive with the driving ideal of Debian). That's fine, go nuts.
I don't see what the problem is here, really. The reason we have a lot of linux dists is exactly because people have different levels of technical aptitude, different levels of patience, and different expectations of their operating systems. Debian isn't your thing, that's fine. I'm not sure why you feel the need to have *them* change their dist practices and ideology when you can just go use RedHat/SUSE/Gentoo/Ubuntu/etc until you find the one you like.
*sigh* Simile. He's not saying that stupid or drug addled people perform the cracks that you list. He's saying that Hollywood's version of criminal motivation and the types of people that commit them often do not line up with reality.
"Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!"
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For chrissake use punctuation and paragraphs. What's the matter with you? Even if your point is valid, I can't understand a damn thing you wrote.
Isn't that what the non-free repositories are for?
the fault lines are moving all the time, generating vibrations as the plates move along eachother. when there's an impediment to that movement and it finally breaks free and shifts significantly (as is relative for such things), we feel the large regionally felt quakes, but the movement generates small "quakes" and constant vibrations just due to tectonic motion
On the contrary, the OP's point is true. We can't say that the US encourages personal freedoms for its citizens when we arbitrarily restrict behavior based on age *after* one becomes a legal adult. More clearly, if I'm a legal adult, why should I need to wait until an arbitrarily different age (and it *is* arbitrary) to take part in a particular legal activity? Especially since other similarly advanced western societies have more permissive policies and (to reference the current example) don't have an entire society full of raging binge drinkers killing themselves on a daily basis in huge numbers via alchohol poisoning and/or running each other over via DWI.
The problem lay in your kneejerk reaction (and those of like mind, who label themselves "patriots" but are closer to being "nationalists") to anything that even implies that America might not be the world's most free society in the in every respect, and may not have the most well-reasoned implementations of legal statutes. Criticizing the US isn't wrong, and pointing out flaws in the status quo is important. People of the "love it or leave it" nationalist mindset are simply handing over their critical thinking skills in favor of feel-good propaganda.
Yeah. Groups/persons with certain vested social and political interests apparently like to make it seem like there is an overwhelming white population in the US at the present time, when that isn't true. Still a majority, but not like in, for example, some northern European countries. You gotta admit that it's easier to make the case for being an under-represented minority when you can say that you're 20% of a country's total population. The amusing part is that in order to wield overwhelming social power, there's no real requirement historically for you to be a member of a majority population group.
I just don't know if that's true, because what you describe as "short term addiction" could apply to a great many things. Getting a new hobby could fall under your definition, for example. Plus, I think the difference here may lay in the details. Namely, that his real life friends also started playing the game. This sort of drifts then into "is playing online games social interaction?" conversation. I tend to think that it is, but there are people who disagree. I just don't think that "it was my main hobby for a few months and I spent a lot of time playing it, so didn't watch movies much at all" qualifies as an addiction.
These laws may also not apply to emancipated minors, but YMMV.