It comes from being nearly 100% correct throughout academic life, often correcting teachers because we know all the subject matter better than them. It's a learned trait. I remember becoming arrogant in 4th grade because my teacher insisted that the plural of deer was deers. After that point, I realized that I could be more knowledgable than a teacher. That has stayed with me to this day and has served me well throughout life. I've learned to hide my opinion of others for social reasons, but it's rare for me to ask their opinion on anything.
Plus chicks dig it.
Anything to push sysadmins closer to Windows 8. Of course, you can install windows 7 once, update, sysprep, then clone with your favorite cloning software.
This *is* the answer to any title-as-a-question. Hmm, that reminds me: I need to post "Did Culture20 not win several billion dollars recently?" as a new story.
Even simple little things, like the switch from "Shift-DEL / Shift-INS" to "Ctrl-X / Ctrl-V" for cut and paste, can become a major pain until you get used to them and retrain the muscle memories.
And further, the IT staff have to juggle all implementations. I juggle Windows/Mac/Linux in my job, so every once in a while I attempt to change to the last used GUI window by typing ctrl-a ctrl-a (a screen convention), or copy from a Mac GUI or Linux terminal using ctrl-c. Those little differences slow me down, but they would be enough to totally screw with some business people's heads. We all know people where we work who break down if an icon disappears from their desktop (bonus points if they created it in the first place). Changing an interface for the sake of change is a net loss of productivity.
In countries where honor is still... honored? Ask anyone younger than 60 in the US about honor these days and you'll get laughed at 19 times out of 20. Honesty, sure. Humility, no problem. Courage, still respected. Honor is the red headed step child.
you know how MS is pushing you to mess with all your PC's again?
FOSS operating systems aren't going to fix that problem. Even RHEL WS, CENTOS, SLED, and Ubuntu LTS make you upgrade sooner than 10 years. I suppose you could pay out the wazoo to get someone to fork them and backport patches forever, but that's a losing game too. A better phrasing might be
you know how MS is pushing you to pay for all your PC's again?
But management already does that for MS Office and Visio and Acrobat and Creative Suite, etc. An extra $X per machine for a site license of Windows 7/8 is a drop in the bucket. Trying to explain to them that Open/LibreOffice and GIMP/pdfedit/etc can satisfy 99% of use-cases falls on deaf ears a lot.
maybe
you know how MS has you locked in to only using MS products again?
To which their response is: "Yeah, we're already locked in. Tell that to some startup companies so they don't make the mistakes we did." or "Huh? It gets the job done. What's your angle?"
Actually, Redhat Enterprise Linux is on version 6, but it's kind of like version 15 because there were 9 versions of Redhat Linux before RHEL.
RHEL 3 (released in 2004) has an end of extended life of 2014-01-30.
FYI, RedHat Linux 1 was released in 1994, well before XP.
Scientific American is a business, and thus has managers and editors who are likely sociopaths. Describing them as geniuses is just a discreet method of brown nosing.
This game would be excellent as a new port. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboSport
"The player creates teams of robots and maneuvers them around a board to map out one "turn" of movement. The other players and AI do the same and then all movement is played out simultaneously."
You can also set minor programming branches (if see enemy stop and fire).
I can now state empirically that you're completely ignorant of science and scientists.
From one sample, you can determine that I am completely ignorant regarding science? What marvelous new science predicts this? Is it related to phrenology?
What will the next thing be? No double burgers? Only one alcoholic drink per night? Only one scoop of ice cream? Steak can't be larger than 8oz? No more cheese on your deli sandwich? Must you lite mayo instead of real mayo? Can't sell white bread only wheat?
"Those are all good. Keep 'em coming." - Mayor Bloomberg
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It comes from being nearly 100% correct throughout academic life, often correcting teachers because we know all the subject matter better than them. It's a learned trait. I remember becoming arrogant in 4th grade because my teacher insisted that the plural of deer was deers. After that point, I realized that I could be more knowledgable than a teacher. That has stayed with me to this day and has served me well throughout life. I've learned to hide my opinion of others for social reasons, but it's rare for me to ask their opinion on anything.
Plus chicks dig it.
To poke more than once, both sides have to willingly engage in the poking. If one side deems the poking annoying, they just have to ignore the poke.
Anything to push sysadmins closer to Windows 8. Of course, you can install windows 7 once, update, sysprep, then clone with your favorite cloning software.
including locations in New York City, San Diego, Miami, and Chicago.
Doubtlessly including lesser known cities. How to know if we're affected?
Further proof that daylight savings time needs to die; people still don't understand it.
That means that nerd doesn't belong or is it a second level?
Nerds never belong, especially not at second level. They require name-level (10 or greater) to attract followers, and only after constructing a keep.
This *is* the answer to any title-as-a-question. Hmm, that reminds me: I need to post "Did Culture20 not win several billion dollars recently?" as a new story.
Even simple little things, like the switch from "Shift-DEL / Shift-INS" to "Ctrl-X / Ctrl-V" for cut and paste, can become a major pain until you get used to them and retrain the muscle memories.
And further, the IT staff have to juggle all implementations. I juggle Windows/Mac/Linux in my job, so every once in a while I attempt to change to the last used GUI window by typing ctrl-a ctrl-a (a screen convention), or copy from a Mac GUI or Linux terminal using ctrl-c. Those little differences slow me down, but they would be enough to totally screw with some business people's heads. We all know people where we work who break down if an icon disappears from their desktop (bonus points if they created it in the first place). Changing an interface for the sake of change is a net loss of productivity.
In some newer cars, they have steer by wire steering wheels that don't give road feedback. Still better than a game controller though.
Sure, blame it on the whale. We all know it was a poltergeist.
In countries where honor is still... honored? Ask anyone younger than 60 in the US about honor these days and you'll get laughed at 19 times out of 20. Honesty, sure. Humility, no problem. Courage, still respected. Honor is the red headed step child.
you know how MS is pushing you to mess with all your PC's again?
FOSS operating systems aren't going to fix that problem. Even RHEL WS, CENTOS, SLED, and Ubuntu LTS make you upgrade sooner than 10 years. I suppose you could pay out the wazoo to get someone to fork them and backport patches forever, but that's a losing game too. A better phrasing might be
you know how MS is pushing you to pay for all your PC's again?
But management already does that for MS Office and Visio and Acrobat and Creative Suite, etc. An extra $X per machine for a site license of Windows 7/8 is a drop in the bucket. Trying to explain to them that Open/LibreOffice and GIMP/pdfedit/etc can satisfy 99% of use-cases falls on deaf ears a lot.
maybe
you know how MS has you locked in to only using MS products again?
To which their response is: "Yeah, we're already locked in. Tell that to some startup companies so they don't make the mistakes we did." or "Huh? It gets the job done. What's your angle?"
Actually, Redhat Enterprise Linux is on version 6, but it's kind of like version 15 because there were 9 versions of Redhat Linux before RHEL.
RHEL 3 (released in 2004) has an end of extended life of 2014-01-30.
FYI, RedHat Linux 1 was released in 1994, well before XP.
Stay awake at night in your dorm room bed. He might enter or leave your closet, leaving no trace. That's when you know you have a Real Genius.
Scientific American is a business, and thus has managers and editors who are likely sociopaths. Describing them as geniuses is just a discreet method of brown nosing.
...to closed source software. And incestuous design methods. And to advertising money.
I doubt that. The Guthrie family has produced a good percentage of Mutants.
I answered that site in a cartoonishly Republican/Tea Party manner, and got:
Cartoonishly, i.e. how someone on the left thinks someone on the right thinks. More proof that the site is biased.
Is like a silk shirt on a pig.
This game would be excellent as a new port.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboSport
"The player creates teams of robots and maneuvers them around a board to map out one "turn" of movement. The other players and AI do the same and then all movement is played out simultaneously."
You can also set minor programming branches (if see enemy stop and fire).
Confederate flag to double the sales.
Do you know for certain that /. did not get prior specific permission and/or pay a fee? Maybe Dice got permission and/or paid the fee?
I can now state empirically that you're completely ignorant of science and scientists.
From one sample, you can determine that I am completely ignorant regarding science? What marvelous new science predicts this? Is it related to phrenology?
me personally, have trouble finishing a 12 ounce can of soda.
Perhaps you don't know where cans' erogenous zones are located?
What will the next thing be? No double burgers? Only one alcoholic drink per night? Only one scoop of ice cream? Steak can't be larger than 8oz? No more cheese on your deli sandwich? Must you lite mayo instead of real mayo? Can't sell white bread only wheat?
"Those are all good. Keep 'em coming." - Mayor Bloomberg