Here i was, thinking that Quebeckers would be the last to be insulted by such a joke... but making a post with only an insult in Quebecker isn't gonna help you in any way, it's making us look like rude people...
put the beaker full of water on the desk that the two cheerleaders in class sat at so when it went phooey they were the ones that ended up soaking wet.
Then you'll have to buy the games with their service.... oops i mean rent the games... at most probably the exact same price as the retail versions... and be stuck paying 50$ a year to have the priviledge of not losing the right to play the games you paid for...
I remember back in the days, me, my brother and my father were fighting hard for the remote... hitting each other with the newspaper, throwing the kleenex box... all that because we all wanted a single device...
Now, people are gonna fight over making each other stop using their smartphones... If each person has a smartphone, everyone can change channels and mess with the TV... that can make them anonymous and bring on the anti-zapping software that would scramble all the other "remotes"...
That will be a real technological war instead for control instead of a good old physical fight over it... who's gonna be the Alpha Male with the TV contol? the geeky kid... who gonna get his phone smashed by the real Alpha Male...
3. Get your head examined.:) If you enjoy coding, nothing will kill that love faster than doing it day-in, day-out under the "guidance" of PHBs and Marketing-directed design... (What? Me? Bitter?)
That's the one reason I've never been into any computer-related work.... If I get hired for doing what i like doing for friends and relatives, building systems and debugging mainly, I'm sure i'll start hating it and will not enjoy myself when i do the same for me...
I never baught a single piece of music in my entire life. Instead I relied on radio and tapes to listen back to the songs I liked.
As for today's times, I barely listen to radio anymore, I rely on webradios and the few MP3 that i have, wich are mostly songs that can't be baught anywhere in North America legally anyways...
So your boss likes having customers that pays, but doesn't like to give them any services... you got a hell of a lot too much traffic for the bandwith you have and the only solution he comes up with is reducing what he gives to the customers...
Screwing up the customers that have no alternative is plain cheap...
Back in my childhood, my dad took a couple thousands of those phased out punch cards... we used them to takes notes for YEARS, we just had a lot of them... at least all that paper was used for transferring information, even if not used for it's original purpose...
as Bruce Perens famously said at Linux SF Con 2006, Linux is only free if your time has no value
Three years is a long time in computing years. Too bad you're missing out on everything linux has to offer nowadays. Enjoy your vendor lock-in, and don't forget, Microsoft wants you to pay the tax again in a year or so.
So how much more time do you pay with Windows in time? it takes a frikking full day to update XP when you get up to date versions of Linux pretty easily...
There has been so many news about breakthrough in power cells technology... making them cheaper and more efficient... but why the hell are they still so damned expensive?
I agree with parent, if the management is good enough, they should follow well enough to know who really deserve a promotion and who is just doing enough to have enough time to ask for a promotion 10 times a week...
Sadly, there is very few employers who can do that... so the good guy will probably lose his job, and the asshole will get a promotion for stealing someone else's hard work...
Not spending money on music = Spending money on something else
If people don't spend a thousand "dollars" on music, they might buy a new TV... TVs are probably bringing more money to the Dutch economy than buying songs online where not even a penny is going back to the country's economy...
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You consider yourself to be a frenchmen?
Here i was, thinking that Quebeckers would be the last to be insulted by such a joke... but making a post with only an insult in Quebecker isn't gonna help you in any way, it's making us look like rude people...
put the beaker full of water on the desk that the two cheerleaders in class sat at so when it went phooey they were the ones that ended up soaking wet.
Wet T-shirt contest!
Then you'll have to buy the games with their service.... oops i mean rent the games... at most probably the exact same price as the retail versions... and be stuck paying 50$ a year to have the priviledge of not losing the right to play the games you paid for...
I remember back in the days, me, my brother and my father were fighting hard for the remote... hitting each other with the newspaper, throwing the kleenex box... all that because we all wanted a single device...
Now, people are gonna fight over making each other stop using their smartphones... If each person has a smartphone, everyone can change channels and mess with the TV... that can make them anonymous and bring on the anti-zapping software that would scramble all the other "remotes"...
That will be a real technological war instead for control instead of a good old physical fight over it... who's gonna be the Alpha Male with the TV contol? the geeky kid... who gonna get his phone smashed by the real Alpha Male...
"sir please stop stressing over your stress level"
"sir your stress level is still rising"
"sir, i must stress, that if you stress level doesn't lower, your health might be in danger"
3. Get your head examined. :) If you enjoy coding, nothing will kill that love faster than doing it day-in, day-out under the "guidance" of PHBs and Marketing-directed design... (What? Me? Bitter?)
That's the one reason I've never been into any computer-related work.... If I get hired for doing what i like doing for friends and relatives, building systems and debugging mainly, I'm sure i'll start hating it and will not enjoy myself when i do the same for me...
I never stopped buying CDs, and never will!
One simple reason: I never started...
I never baught a single piece of music in my entire life. Instead I relied on radio and tapes to listen back to the songs I liked.
As for today's times, I barely listen to radio anymore, I rely on webradios and the few MP3 that i have, wich are mostly songs that can't be baught anywhere in North America legally anyways...
If you offer to buy their beer, they'll come in packs to do whatever you want..... they might even listen too!
They should have the rights to "bare-fangs-of-Adamantium"
At least, if this laptop catches fire, it won't burn black, toxic, smoke like most laptops do.
I was sure that, for that price, they were made by well-trained monkeys! If not, they should be!
So your boss likes having customers that pays, but doesn't like to give them any services... you got a hell of a lot too much traffic for the bandwith you have and the only solution he comes up with is reducing what he gives to the customers...
Screwing up the customers that have no alternative is plain cheap...
In the same way, we can use a car analogy:
Is a Ford Taurus a car? Is a car a Ford Taurus?
Ubuntu is Linux, but Linux isn't Ubuntu about the same way that a Ford Taurus being a car, but all cars aren't Ford Tauruses...
Back in my childhood, my dad took a couple thousands of those phased out punch cards... we used them to takes notes for YEARS, we just had a lot of them... at least all that paper was used for transferring information, even if not used for it's original purpose...
A porn star downloading porn would be like a programmer reading Slashdot!
Does "Hello World" in BASIC count me as a programmer?
Does "Hello World" in Notepad count me as a programmer?
if i worship my genitals, does it means that google maps will legally be bound to blur my house?
Was that the process that Michael Jackson used?
That means we can finally all build ourselves our own presidential helicopter!
35000 !!! Lucky bastard... I got 52000 just to try the damned thing, I have no idea if i'll even like the damned thing!
as Bruce Perens famously said at Linux SF Con 2006, Linux is only free if your time has no value
Three years is a long time in computing years. Too bad you're missing out on everything linux has to offer nowadays. Enjoy your vendor lock-in, and don't forget, Microsoft wants you to pay the tax again in a year or so.
So how much more time do you pay with Windows in time? it takes a frikking full day to update XP when you get up to date versions of Linux pretty easily...
There has been so many news about breakthrough in power cells technology... making them cheaper and more efficient... but why the hell are they still so damned expensive?
I use candlelight so i'm safe from infriging that copyright.
I agree with parent, if the management is good enough, they should follow well enough to know who really deserve a promotion and who is just doing enough to have enough time to ask for a promotion 10 times a week...
Sadly, there is very few employers who can do that... so the good guy will probably lose his job, and the asshole will get a promotion for stealing someone else's hard work...
We are seeking for few talanted VOLUNTEERS
I hope they're looking for typecheckers too... They need one ASAP!
Not spending money on music = Spending money on something else
If people don't spend a thousand "dollars" on music, they might buy a new TV... TVs are probably bringing more money to the Dutch economy than buying songs online where not even a penny is going back to the country's economy...