You telling the police "I'm not a gut who robbed that bank" is not the same as having an ID that easily proves that.
Oh, I do apologise - I hadn't realised that bank robbers have to show valid ID as part of committing the crime. Because lets face it, that's the only way that having a different ID paper easily proves you aren't the one.
What the fuck makes you think ID actually helps? You can't get much more personally identifying than DNA, and knowing exactly who is was is what caused this guy six months in prison for a crime he didn't commit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-17953266
Personally I think anonymity is important. I've been in East Germany and seen the effects of pervasive surveillance and I don't like it.
Asset management is important - although amortisation rates tend to be dictated by the Finance department anyway (or by regulators). Capturing maintenance overheads is usually not the issue, realising that systems (software, hardware, other infrastructure) are assets that need maintenance tends to be the issue.
Annual licence renewal/support costs are easily budgeted, but few companies will budget for the maintenance overhead on software updates and upgrades. Adopting MRO traceability sidesteps the implicit architectural debt of neglecting a software installation, and IT and Finance departments are both very bad at understanding that, let alone convincing senior management to allocate funding for it or prioritising where to spend those budgets.
I acquire media via DVDs that's not available through other channels.
Not on USB drives, not on Pirate Bay, not available over the Internet at all. My next laptop probably wont have an optical drive as I'll buy a 15" one and use the space for a second hard disk, but I'll be keeping the current laptop so that I can access that media (and copy it onto my NAS and access it from my new laptop).
I also rent and buy films on DVD still. I don't have a computer hooked up to my main TV (which still has a CRT in it - it still works and a new TV would be no better) and DVDs kind of work.
Such an aggression can, and probably would, lead to NATO forces declaring war against Russia.
Extremely very unlikely. It would lead to a lot of people saying very pointed things in very loud voices, but Europe isn't going to declare war on Russia over a single airstrike.
the military forces of other NATO nations are not so stretched and are not an easy match for Russia
Were Russia attempting to invade, I'd agree completely. However, bear in mind how difficult France and England found it to maintain air superiority over.. Libya. Two of the largest defence budgets in Europe and we struggled to pacify a country with four working aircraft?
I know who I am. I don't need to carry ID to remind myself.
If the police stop and ask me, I tell them who I am. I ask who they are. I don't demand to see papers that prove it.
Why should I be forced to adopt your totalitarian system, just to make life easier for you? Fuck you and your cherry flavoured beer.
(Which caused my Belgian friends great amusement, as I found it tasty despite being heterosexual and walking around the town with no ID on me. Shit, the worse that could've happened would've been getting deported, which given the fuckwits at the airport refused to let me board anyway would've just got me home quicker)
Doesn't work for me either. But I also think the Mona Lisa's just a painting of some ugly bint. Doesn't stop it adding value to other peoples' lives though, and I don't infer intelligence based on their preference on such matters.
Ronnie O'Sullivan scored a 147 break in snooker in 5 minutes and 20 seconds. It's on Youtube, go check it.
There isn't another person on the planet capable of doing that. There quite possibly never has been, and quite possibly never will be another.
Anything getting that close to perfection is worth experiencing. The emotional journey of watching that unfolding as it happens is at least the equal of any emotion caused by other forms of art.
I love mechanical watches because they stretch the boundaries of materials science. I love watching Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker because he stretches the boundaries of human performance.
"Sr. Developer", "Director of Software Development", and "Chief Technology Officer."
All roles that have fuck all to do with computer science. Give me a good software engineer for the first one, a technically proficient man-manager for the second and a diligent technically proficient business manager for the last one.
Computer scientists? They have their uses, but it's their other skills I'd tend to hire them for.
He committed fraud. If I were a Yahoo shareholder I'd be demanding that he be prosecuted.
People lie all the time, about much more important and serious things than the words printed on a scrap of paper they received from some worthless institution.
And when they gain financial advantage for doing so, they're committing a crime in this country. For good reason.
All of this bullshit bureaucracy should be permanently abolished.
I'm cool with that. If you're good enough to be a CEO, the type of your degree is frankly fucking irrelevant. So point that out to the people recruiting for the position. Don't lie about it.
I've lied on my resume to get an interview and eventually the job.
Ah. A fraudster.
I've also interviewed people who had obviously lied on their resume, but they sounded smart enough and enthusiastic enough to pick up the lacking skills, so I've given them the job
Ah. A fraudster that recruits fraudsters.
Please, tell me where you work? I'd like to avoid your company and its products.
How many IT departments have a storeroom? Every single one.
How many "do formal MRO"? Well, if "formal MRO" were worth doing, many would. I disagree with you on that front.
There are many ways a company can internally recharge its IT costs, recognise IT driven revenue, and manage its internal budgets. Formal MRO might work at your organisation but there are other, better approaches.
Oh, and stop calling them "bean counters" or you sound ignorant and bigoted.
Ah, nod. A brand I've never heard of, on a site I don't trust, with no UK suppliers providing it.
Most of the astroturfing has been good though, I agree:)
Given the resolution you can get on the iPad2 it's reasonable to expect 2560x1440 for $400, especially without the free iPad2 thrown in too. It has taken monitor providers several years to really push into that market though.
Even the one you're linking to.. 27 inches? Why not 22? Hell, I'll happily use a 15" 1920x1080 screen, so why not a 19" screen with 2550. It's ludicrous that monitor manufacturers can't compete with handheld computers for screen quality.
I let my friends connect to my wifi. Why shouldn't I? Of course, I don't monitor their activity - they're adults, they take responsibility for their own actions.
More relevantly, it's illegal for me to monitor their activity. Interception of electronic communications without permission of both parties is illegal in this country.
So I can't watch what they're doing, I can't validate their activities and you want me responsible for all of it?
In Rugby Football people tackle with their shoulders. "High" tackles are banned. In American Football it looks like players run headfirst into each other as part of the blocking. It's a fundamentally different approach, and is likely to lead to different injuries.
Football players are more likely to suffer brain injury than Rugby players due to heading the ball - which has been researched and does cause brain damage. It's the act of heading the ball doing the damage though, not the contact nature of the sport.
I think watching professional sports is for sub-80 IQ types
Oh? You hate other forms of culture and art too?
How would you have people spend their time? Ploughing the earth? Building a space elevator? Giving you a massage?
I think watching professional sports is one of the least destructive forms of entertainment available, and encourages people to do physical things that benefit their health. I also greatly appreciate the mental health benefits that result from this activity, and continue to be in complete awe of the discipline, skill and mental strength of certain specific professional sportsmen, who bring all of those things together into moments of raw artistry.
I believe Apple demand that the in-app price is the same as the price.
I guess it could be interesting to try a "Price to you is X, plus our costs of sale" where costs of sale via Apple are 42% and costs of sale via the website are the 1.5% credit card charge.
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You telling the police "I'm not a gut who robbed that bank" is not the same as having an ID that easily proves that.
Oh, I do apologise - I hadn't realised that bank robbers have to show valid ID as part of committing the crime. Because lets face it, that's the only way that having a different ID paper easily proves you aren't the one.
What the fuck makes you think ID actually helps? You can't get much more personally identifying than DNA, and knowing exactly who is was is what caused this guy six months in prison for a crime he didn't commit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-17953266
Personally I think anonymity is important. I've been in East Germany and seen the effects of pervasive surveillance and I don't like it.
Asset management is important - although amortisation rates tend to be dictated by the Finance department anyway (or by regulators). Capturing maintenance overheads is usually not the issue, realising that systems (software, hardware, other infrastructure) are assets that need maintenance tends to be the issue.
Annual licence renewal/support costs are easily budgeted, but few companies will budget for the maintenance overhead on software updates and upgrades. Adopting MRO traceability sidesteps the implicit architectural debt of neglecting a software installation, and IT and Finance departments are both very bad at understanding that, let alone convincing senior management to allocate funding for it or prioritising where to spend those budgets.
None of which is on topic :)
i do not remember last time i saw a real DVD disc
I acquire media via DVDs that's not available through other channels.
Not on USB drives, not on Pirate Bay, not available over the Internet at all. My next laptop probably wont have an optical drive as I'll buy a 15" one and use the space for a second hard disk, but I'll be keeping the current laptop so that I can access that media (and copy it onto my NAS and access it from my new laptop).
I also rent and buy films on DVD still. I don't have a computer hooked up to my main TV (which still has a CRT in it - it still works and a new TV would be no better) and DVDs kind of work.
VLC's awful. I've switched to another (free) video player.
Still have it installed to be fair - being awful continues to be better than "doesn't support this codec" :)
If they were going to expend the majority of their arsenal, they'd have little bargaining power, ever again.
...because there'd be nobody left to bargain with.
Such an aggression can, and probably would, lead to NATO forces declaring war against Russia.
Extremely very unlikely. It would lead to a lot of people saying very pointed things in very loud voices, but Europe isn't going to declare war on Russia over a single airstrike.
the military forces of other NATO nations are not so stretched and are not an easy match for Russia
Were Russia attempting to invade, I'd agree completely. However, bear in mind how difficult France and England found it to maintain air superiority over.. Libya. Two of the largest defence budgets in Europe and we struggled to pacify a country with four working aircraft?
It shows that you aren't a military strategist.
nost of the russian hardware was in so disrepair that it probably would have misfired.
Sure. Russia never designs or builds weapons that can be maintained and used with minimal training or effort.
The Germans ignored the T34 during WWII. Nobody in Africa owns an AK47. You're the bastard offspring of Napoleon and Hitler.
I know who I am. I don't need to carry ID to remind myself.
If the police stop and ask me, I tell them who I am. I ask who they are. I don't demand to see papers that prove it.
Why should I be forced to adopt your totalitarian system, just to make life easier for you? Fuck you and your cherry flavoured beer.
(Which caused my Belgian friends great amusement, as I found it tasty despite being heterosexual and walking around the town with no ID on me. Shit, the worse that could've happened would've been getting deported, which given the fuckwits at the airport refused to let me board anyway would've just got me home quicker)
What's your term for someone that answers "No" to the question "Does the Flying Spaghetti Monster exist?"
What's your term for someone that answers "No" to the question "Do flying pink unicorns exist?"
What's your term for someone that answers "Yes" to the question "Am I a fucking idiot?"
Karl Marx, who explicitly wrote that religion was a "bourgeoisie" habit that had to go, and went out of his way to explain why
Cool, at least he got something right.
It's an ironic socio-political commentary on the Israeli exploitation of Palestine. In joke form.
Doesn't work for me either. But I also think the Mona Lisa's just a painting of some ugly bint. Doesn't stop it adding value to other peoples' lives though, and I don't infer intelligence based on their preference on such matters.
Ronnie O'Sullivan scored a 147 break in snooker in 5 minutes and 20 seconds. It's on Youtube, go check it.
There isn't another person on the planet capable of doing that. There quite possibly never has been, and quite possibly never will be another.
Anything getting that close to perfection is worth experiencing. The emotional journey of watching that unfolding as it happens is at least the equal of any emotion caused by other forms of art.
I love mechanical watches because they stretch the boundaries of materials science. I love watching Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker because he stretches the boundaries of human performance.
Maybe I measure IQ wrongly.
The irony.
"Sr. Developer", "Director of Software Development", and "Chief Technology Officer."
All roles that have fuck all to do with computer science. Give me a good software engineer for the first one, a technically proficient man-manager for the second and a diligent technically proficient business manager for the last one.
Computer scientists? They have their uses, but it's their other skills I'd tend to hire them for.
Creative accountancy is excellent fun. It was so nearly my career; good accountants pull the strings of a business.
Instead I went into IT and earned less, had less influence, and only had a little more fun. So these days I tell the accountants how to structure IT :)
He did what he had to do to get ahead.
He committed fraud. If I were a Yahoo shareholder I'd be demanding that he be prosecuted.
People lie all the time, about much more important and serious things than the words printed on a scrap of paper they received from some worthless institution.
And when they gain financial advantage for doing so, they're committing a crime in this country. For good reason.
All of this bullshit bureaucracy should be permanently abolished.
I'm cool with that. If you're good enough to be a CEO, the type of your degree is frankly fucking irrelevant. So point that out to the people recruiting for the position. Don't lie about it.
I've lied on my resume to get an interview and eventually the job.
Ah. A fraudster.
I've also interviewed people who had obviously lied on their resume, but they sounded smart enough and enthusiastic enough to pick up the lacking skills, so I've given them the job
Ah. A fraudster that recruits fraudsters.
Please, tell me where you work? I'd like to avoid your company and its products.
erm. What's "taring"?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Taring isn't helping me much on this one.
Anyway, CEO isn't a tech job.
How many IT departments have a storeroom? Every single one.
How many "do formal MRO"? Well, if "formal MRO" were worth doing, many would. I disagree with you on that front.
There are many ways a company can internally recharge its IT costs, recognise IT driven revenue, and manage its internal budgets. Formal MRO might work at your organisation but there are other, better approaches.
Oh, and stop calling them "bean counters" or you sound ignorant and bigoted.
Ah, nod. A brand I've never heard of, on a site I don't trust, with no UK suppliers providing it.
Most of the astroturfing has been good though, I agree :)
Given the resolution you can get on the iPad2 it's reasonable to expect 2560x1440 for $400, especially without the free iPad2 thrown in too. It has taken monitor providers several years to really push into that market though.
Even the one you're linking to.. 27 inches? Why not 22? Hell, I'll happily use a 15" 1920x1080 screen, so why not a 19" screen with 2550. It's ludicrous that monitor manufacturers can't compete with handheld computers for screen quality.
Like I said... I'm a hard-ass.
Not the term I'd use.
I let my friends connect to my wifi. Why shouldn't I? Of course, I don't monitor their activity - they're adults, they take responsibility for their own actions.
More relevantly, it's illegal for me to monitor their activity. Interception of electronic communications without permission of both parties is illegal in this country.
So I can't watch what they're doing, I can't validate their activities and you want me responsible for all of it?
No, 'hard-ass' isn't the term I'd use.
In Rugby Football people tackle with their shoulders. "High" tackles are banned. In American Football it looks like players run headfirst into each other as part of the blocking. It's a fundamentally different approach, and is likely to lead to different injuries.
Football players are more likely to suffer brain injury than Rugby players due to heading the ball - which has been researched and does cause brain damage. It's the act of heading the ball doing the damage though, not the contact nature of the sport.
I think watching professional sports is for sub-80 IQ types
Oh? You hate other forms of culture and art too?
How would you have people spend their time? Ploughing the earth? Building a space elevator? Giving you a massage?
I think watching professional sports is one of the least destructive forms of entertainment available, and encourages people to do physical things that benefit their health. I also greatly appreciate the mental health benefits that result from this activity, and continue to be in complete awe of the discipline, skill and mental strength of certain specific professional sportsmen, who bring all of those things together into moments of raw artistry.
I bet you hate mechanical watches too.
I demand Youtube video of this. Please? I'll help pay..
I believe Apple demand that the in-app price is the same as the price.
I guess it could be interesting to try a "Price to you is X, plus our costs of sale" where costs of sale via Apple are 42% and costs of sale via the website are the 1.5% credit card charge.