When you have last seen a job listing for "CEO of a successful company"? You are ridiculous. There are three ways to end up in that position: (1) Be born into a family with lots of influence to begin with, (2) rise up through the ranks to get to the position, (3) start your own business and make it huge. 2 is very hard, and 3 is obviously very risky- many businesses do not succeed. The boss with a million dollar salary is reaping the rewards of his past success in face of the risks taken at the time, not just his current performance.
If you don't like it that someone else is making more money than you are, well, maybe you should have taken the tougher classes in school.
Except the boss who earns ten times as much as the programmer probably took classes ten times less tough, and for less than half the time. Your notion that revenue is a function of how hard your classes were is so absurd that it's effective comedy on its own.
Yes, if someone does harder work and gets paid better you should either work harder or stop complaining. The problem is that the boss is not working harder.
Inkjet cartridges don't clog, not before a couple of refills at any rate. And I've never heard of HP even acknowledging that there is such a thing as refilling cartridges. Anyway, so what if it clogs or the rubber is messed up? Then you chuck away the cartridge and buy a new one. Until then? Keep refilling. The worst that can happen is eventually you'll get a page printed all messed up because something failed, and if that gives you nightmares just keep a spare cartridge.
I refill my HP cartridges too, they are usually good for 3-6 refills. For some reason, the $40 cartridge can be refilled with that super expensive ink for some $2 and works just fine. I've barely had any problems with the printing either, what happens most often is the cartridge won't work after the particular refill.
It's no wonder the guy who sells very expensive cartridges whines about how they have no choice but to sell them at those prices because BS BS BS. It's practically common knowledge printer manufacturers sell the device at a loss and make it up with the profits from cartridges.
You also gotta love how they won't disclose ink volume because the "customer would get confused". Damn right I'd get confused when my cartridge has 10 ml of ink, and suddenly decides it's "empty" after 4 ml are used up.
based on the EVE Online universe. Keep it very dark, moving, and awe inspiring.
You mean like a million victims locked an evil corporation's vicious cycle of desperate addiction, all the while bleeding money into the same corp's pockets, and then one day a faulty fuse forces one of them to go outside and discover... A whole new world?
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You hire truckers who don't sleep on the job, and implement systems to monitor behavior in case any start to get sloppy. You educate employees about why it's very important for them not to screw up and what they can do about it.
The CEOs already do make "a bajillion" dollars, as you put it. They might as well do their end of the bargain. You don't like the job description? Feel free not to apply. It's not like thousands of CEOs for huge multinational energy corps are needed anyway.
Of course nobody is asking for you to be sued over an accident beyond your control, but that is beside the point. Many corporate-caused disasters occur for reasons quite under the corps' control: They cut corners on the preventive measures.
The olfactory system recognizes substances based on their chemical characteristic, mostly molecule shape. "Light", or photons carrying it, have no molecule shape or chemical characteristic, not in the sense of interacting with olfactory receptor proteins at any rate. You can't smell light. That's like saying I can "see" pain when someone jabs a spike in my eye.
When you spend 8 hours to gain what you might as well have gained in 8 minutes, you have wasted your time. It's not even about regret. And in a more relevant form, when you pay money to work a second job, overtime, you are wasting time.
Stop pretending hardcore MMO players are all perfectly well adjusted people with no issues in the name of rationalizing your little hobby. Why be so defensive anyway? So what if it's wasting time. Maybe you just enjoy wasting time.
By the way, the Sistine Chapel is something. A fictional language is something. Even a pornography collection, if it has an interesting theme or accentuates a surprising trend, is something. You can point to it and say "this is the product of my efforts, regardless of the value of that product, I accomplished something". What does a WoW player accomplish? The sword they looted was already there, in the game. The game they play has been designed literally in every detail. The action the player performs in order to acquire the carrot is already obvious and clear from the beginning, and it is clear what the carrot is and does. And the carrot is not even a physical object. Gaining the carrot provides absolutely no benefit of any kind, and cannot, because there is nothing to be gained, except maybe the approval of other players who are also pursuing the same worthless goal, and admire your "achievement" out of misguided envy.
Your example behavior is horrendously rude; you should not force or trick people into using software over your personal political beliefs.
That said, I agree that if geeks like Chrome, they will try to get everyone else to use it, and since they are geeks, after all, people will be inclined to listen.
I, for one, find games more enjoyable with realistic weaponry, vehicles, physics, plots, and what have you. Especially if it introduces complexity beyond what a 10 year old can grasp in 5 minutes. (Not that I have anything against 10 year olds)
I wonder how an "original research license" would work. Say you are a physicist in the University of Mozarella somewhere, you go through the special registration form, get an activation email in your academic email address (probably after someone manually checks that the address is listed as belonging to a faculty member) and then get the ability to cite "John Cheeseface, Physics PhD" for your own additions. Obviously that doesn't guarantee the information is trustworthy, but at least it's very easy for me to look up the dude and decide if it is. If it gets popular enough, you could even have scientist use wikipedia as an auxiliary channel to publish research.
You want to set up a RAID array? Solder together a harddisk first! You want to figure out why 64-bit Ubuntu isn't running your program? Write an OS yourself first! You want to buy an airplane ticket? Build a glider from bicycle parts first!
Agreed. Please be aware that unless you con them with a really convincing windows lookalike (Ylmf OS?) they will realize you've done some fancy stuff on their computers, and may blame Linux for every problem they have. Once they are somewhat advanced, googling windows problems will get them numerous idiot-proof step by step instructions, whereas googling Linux problems may lead to CLI-induced nervous breakdowns. Remember that their friends likely use Windows and when they recommend such and such app or so and so trick and it turns out not to work on Linux, their first thought will not be "Gosh, I should find a Linux equivalent or something!". It will be "Man, this works for everyone except me, my computer must be broken."
It is also somewhat rude to force your opinions on other, unsuspecting people who may not necessarily share them. It's acceptable if you are actually responsible for maintenance of their system, but if they are asking you to install a nice utility or two busting out the LiveCD may not be the best approach.
If you insist on transitioning, explain to them in simple enough terms what an OS is, what the differences between the Linux distro and windows are (especially practical ones!) and why their problem can be solved and many future problems can be prevented by using a different OS. The idea is that they have an informed opinion. If you cannot achieve that, sticking them on Linux is a bad idea.
From personal experience, Kubuntu 9.04 was very similar to windows and extremely easy to navigate. I found the new KDE to be a bit confusing so you might want to go with Ubuntu if you want 9.10.
Consent? The body is an inanimate object. If it's in similar status to someone's property, such as their family and what not, sure you'd need their permission. For the same reason you'd need a permission to fuck their sofa.
I don't think cannibalism (of people who are dead to begin with, at any rate, with no relatives to object) is illegal. Wasn't there a journalist some years back who actually procured and ate some human meat?
Out of curiosity, shouldn't you at least have some sort of dead-man's switch type setup where a qualified 3rd party is informed in the event you setup fails? Simplest option would be to stay logged in a dummy IM account that someone monitors (reasoning that if your OS crashes, you'll go offline). Obviously much higher sophistication is possible.
I don't know if it will be weeks before the hypothetical problem is fixed, but at least it won't be weeks before someone who knows what he's doing tries to fix it.
Much like, say, the ability to spell, I would expect any PhD to have the common sense not to put the only copy of their half decade's hard work on one storage known to be very error prone. I think even a high school degree is dubious for the architect of such a masterful plan.
Besides, AC is obviously joking. What is this, some kind of sweatshop ultra tough school where you lock up the students in a bunker for 5 years and either the dissertation is good or screw them? The grad students I know email theirs to the prof every few days at least.
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When you have last seen a job listing for "CEO of a successful company"? You are ridiculous. There are three ways to end up in that position: (1) Be born into a family with lots of influence to begin with, (2) rise up through the ranks to get to the position, (3) start your own business and make it huge. 2 is very hard, and 3 is obviously very risky- many businesses do not succeed. The boss with a million dollar salary is reaping the rewards of his past success in face of the risks taken at the time, not just his current performance.
If you don't like it that someone else is making more money than you are, well, maybe you should have taken the tougher classes in school.
Except the boss who earns ten times as much as the programmer probably took classes ten times less tough, and for less than half the time. Your notion that revenue is a function of how hard your classes were is so absurd that it's effective comedy on its own.
Yes, if someone does harder work and gets paid better you should either work harder or stop complaining. The problem is that the boss is not working harder.
Inkjet cartridges don't clog, not before a couple of refills at any rate. And I've never heard of HP even acknowledging that there is such a thing as refilling cartridges. Anyway, so what if it clogs or the rubber is messed up? Then you chuck away the cartridge and buy a new one. Until then? Keep refilling. The worst that can happen is eventually you'll get a page printed all messed up because something failed, and if that gives you nightmares just keep a spare cartridge.
I refill my HP cartridges too, they are usually good for 3-6 refills. For some reason, the $40 cartridge can be refilled with that super expensive ink for some $2 and works just fine. I've barely had any problems with the printing either, what happens most often is the cartridge won't work after the particular refill.
It's no wonder the guy who sells very expensive cartridges whines about how they have no choice but to sell them at those prices because BS BS BS. It's practically common knowledge printer manufacturers sell the device at a loss and make it up with the profits from cartridges.
You also gotta love how they won't disclose ink volume because the "customer would get confused". Damn right I'd get confused when my cartridge has 10 ml of ink, and suddenly decides it's "empty" after 4 ml are used up.
And why is the parent Funny again?
based on the EVE Online universe. Keep it very dark, moving, and awe inspiring.
You mean like a million victims locked an evil corporation's vicious cycle of desperate addiction, all the while bleeding money into the same corp's pockets, and then one day a faulty fuse forces one of them to go outside and discover... A whole new world?
You hire truckers who don't sleep on the job, and implement systems to monitor behavior in case any start to get sloppy. You educate employees about why it's very important for them not to screw up and what they can do about it.
The CEOs already do make "a bajillion" dollars, as you put it. They might as well do their end of the bargain. You don't like the job description? Feel free not to apply. It's not like thousands of CEOs for huge multinational energy corps are needed anyway.
Of course nobody is asking for you to be sued over an accident beyond your control, but that is beside the point. Many corporate-caused disasters occur for reasons quite under the corps' control: They cut corners on the preventive measures.
The olfactory system recognizes substances based on their chemical characteristic, mostly molecule shape. "Light", or photons carrying it, have no molecule shape or chemical characteristic, not in the sense of interacting with olfactory receptor proteins at any rate. You can't smell light. That's like saying I can "see" pain when someone jabs a spike in my eye.
When you spend 8 hours to gain what you might as well have gained in 8 minutes, you have wasted your time. It's not even about regret. And in a more relevant form, when you pay money to work a second job, overtime, you are wasting time.
Stop pretending hardcore MMO players are all perfectly well adjusted people with no issues in the name of rationalizing your little hobby. Why be so defensive anyway? So what if it's wasting time. Maybe you just enjoy wasting time.
By the way, the Sistine Chapel is something. A fictional language is something. Even a pornography collection, if it has an interesting theme or accentuates a surprising trend, is something. You can point to it and say "this is the product of my efforts, regardless of the value of that product, I accomplished something". What does a WoW player accomplish? The sword they looted was already there, in the game. The game they play has been designed literally in every detail. The action the player performs in order to acquire the carrot is already obvious and clear from the beginning, and it is clear what the carrot is and does. And the carrot is not even a physical object. Gaining the carrot provides absolutely no benefit of any kind, and cannot, because there is nothing to be gained, except maybe the approval of other players who are also pursuing the same worthless goal, and admire your "achievement" out of misguided envy.
You might as well troll a fashion messageboard with "obviously you've never heard of Emacs."
Haha, so true! Silly emacs users thinking their tiny cult is relevant in the real world. Wake up you nerds! Anybody who's anybody is using vi!
Your example behavior is horrendously rude; you should not force or trick people into using software over your personal political beliefs.
That said, I agree that if geeks like Chrome, they will try to get everyone else to use it, and since they are geeks, after all, people will be inclined to listen.
Fat is not an opiate! What is this tomfoolery?
I, for one, find games more enjoyable with realistic weaponry, vehicles, physics, plots, and what have you. Especially if it introduces complexity beyond what a 10 year old can grasp in 5 minutes. (Not that I have anything against 10 year olds)
Who cares? With so much content being regurgitated by everyone, maybe some paywalls would get rid of duplicate content on the internet.
Don't you mean +1 bad car analogy and +1 stupid nit pick on car analogy?
I wonder how an "original research license" would work. Say you are a physicist in the University of Mozarella somewhere, you go through the special registration form, get an activation email in your academic email address (probably after someone manually checks that the address is listed as belonging to a faculty member) and then get the ability to cite "John Cheeseface, Physics PhD" for your own additions. Obviously that doesn't guarantee the information is trustworthy, but at least it's very easy for me to look up the dude and decide if it is. If it gets popular enough, you could even have scientist use wikipedia as an auxiliary channel to publish research.
You want to set up a RAID array? Solder together a harddisk first! You want to figure out why 64-bit Ubuntu isn't running your program? Write an OS yourself first! You want to buy an airplane ticket? Build a glider from bicycle parts first!
Heaven forbid you actually have to go out there and make friends or network.
Design firm looking into "creative advertising".
Agreed. Please be aware that unless you con them with a really convincing windows lookalike (Ylmf OS?) they will realize you've done some fancy stuff on their computers, and may blame Linux for every problem they have. Once they are somewhat advanced, googling windows problems will get them numerous idiot-proof step by step instructions, whereas googling Linux problems may lead to CLI-induced nervous breakdowns. Remember that their friends likely use Windows and when they recommend such and such app or so and so trick and it turns out not to work on Linux, their first thought will not be "Gosh, I should find a Linux equivalent or something!". It will be "Man, this works for everyone except me, my computer must be broken."
It is also somewhat rude to force your opinions on other, unsuspecting people who may not necessarily share them. It's acceptable if you are actually responsible for maintenance of their system, but if they are asking you to install a nice utility or two busting out the LiveCD may not be the best approach.
If you insist on transitioning, explain to them in simple enough terms what an OS is, what the differences between the Linux distro and windows are (especially practical ones!) and why their problem can be solved and many future problems can be prevented by using a different OS. The idea is that they have an informed opinion. If you cannot achieve that, sticking them on Linux is a bad idea.
From personal experience, Kubuntu 9.04 was very similar to windows and extremely easy to navigate. I found the new KDE to be a bit confusing so you might want to go with Ubuntu if you want 9.10.
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Use free software. Or alternatively, pirate everything. If the morality bugs you, buy the software, shred the disk, then pirate it.
Consent? The body is an inanimate object. If it's in similar status to someone's property, such as their family and what not, sure you'd need their permission. For the same reason you'd need a permission to fuck their sofa.
I don't think cannibalism (of people who are dead to begin with, at any rate, with no relatives to object) is illegal. Wasn't there a journalist some years back who actually procured and ate some human meat?
Out of curiosity, shouldn't you at least have some sort of dead-man's switch type setup where a qualified 3rd party is informed in the event you setup fails? Simplest option would be to stay logged in a dummy IM account that someone monitors (reasoning that if your OS crashes, you'll go offline). Obviously much higher sophistication is possible.
I don't know if it will be weeks before the hypothetical problem is fixed, but at least it won't be weeks before someone who knows what he's doing tries to fix it.
Much like, say, the ability to spell, I would expect any PhD to have the common sense not to put the only copy of their half decade's hard work on one storage known to be very error prone. I think even a high school degree is dubious for the architect of such a masterful plan.
Besides, AC is obviously joking. What is this, some kind of sweatshop ultra tough school where you lock up the students in a bunker for 5 years and either the dissertation is good or screw them? The grad students I know email theirs to the prof every few days at least.
I'd like to add that my internet connection is absolute crap, but I can use YouTube and Pandora with absolutely no problem through Tor.