I took one of these tests years ago for a role in a support helldesk.
The results came out that I was : a) excellent at problem solving b) crap at being in a team c) crap at being micro-managed
When they fired me six months later, the reason given was "Despite being one of the best problem solvers (95% clean-up rate) I didn't fit with the team, and had a personality clash with the manager"
I told them that was the exact result from the test, and they said "Well, we assumed everyone lied on the test". Way to go...
I really liked the Shark idea when it first came out, so it's good to see something similar again. (Plus Shark worked on non-QWERTY 'boards as well, you just changed the settings on its initialisation)
It's no different to a vacuum cleaner still being called a "Hoover", despite Hoover losing market share over the years.
Or people flying on an Airbus "Jumbo Jet".
In similar vein, I suspect that people will still say they're googling for something even many years in the future when Google has died the death and been superceded by any number of semantic fuzzy search engines that come back with far better/more accurate results.
Manic Miner / Jet Set Willy : Disturbingly Addictive Elite : 3D in 32Kb Sabre Wulf : First (I think) forced-perspective 3d Daley Thomson's Decathlon - for single-handedly killing more Z and X keys than anything else on the market. Ever.
Well, I have to say that in my experience it's not because the BMW looks "angry", it's because the drivers tend to see their BMWs as safety cages, and thus can do what they want, when they want.
My other half used to laugh at my rational prejudice against BMW drivers, until I started pointing out how many times the cars that cut us up on the motorway, or failed to indicate (or both), or tailgated, or slammed across all three lanes of motorway to take the turn-off they hadn't appreciated, or jumped red lights, or (ad infinitum) were BMWs.
I don't know *why* so many BMW drivers are assholes, but the great majority certainly fulfil (and thus propagate) that conclusion.
If the guy can't understand his own statements, he should employ someone to do it for him. Paying a decent salary to someone to check the figures and transactions would've still saved him *cough* thousands.
That's what accountants and book-keepers are *for*, surely? (Lord knows, they don't have many other uses, other than as landfill)
In this case, TFA says the transactions were all through purchases of Dell equipment - so if you're not out there authorising payment for Dell machines, I'd reckon it's pretty simple to spot that one, regardless of share values, interest rates etc.
"Hmmm, £20,000 to Dell?" "[Serf], where's my new £20,000 of Dell equipment?" "You haven't bought anything from them."
While I freely admit that I don't send out 1000 checks a month or whatever, I never wait for the statement in the mail either.
After all, that's what internet banking is for, right? I check it every couple of days, and thus always know what my account's doing. And if anything's going weird, I contact the bank immediately - but any attack has had two days to work (at most) instead of 30+ between statements.
As such, I don't bother opening my statements all that often. I know what's going on anyway, and don't need the printed verification. As such, I sometimes don't see an update to banking T&Cs etc., because they've come in the post and not online.
Simple - just because that's what the form has asked for, it doesn't mean that's the data you have to put in.
Mother's maiden name? "Han solo" First Pet? "Giraffe" First car? "Slashdot"
I don't think I've *ever* put in the correct answers to those questions. So long as the answers are known to you, and you remember what you put against what, then what does it matter?
I can't say much when it comes to "too dark" or "too bloody" - part of my formative reading at about that age was the Icelandic sagas (Njal's saga etc.) which are some of the more bloodthirsty books around.
I also loved the "Prince with the Silver Hand" trio by Michael Moorcock - at the time I didn't know anything about his greater story curve with Elric of Melnibone etc., but the Prince Corum novels were also bloodthirsty enough to be mistaken for Icelandic sagas...
[Tangent] Tripods was also a TV series in the UK in late 70s/early 80s[/Tangent]
On a related note, you could also try some of the John Wyndham stuff - Chocky, Day of the Triffids etc., which might be a bit dated now, but are still good reads. (Related due to TV series of them at the same time as Tripods)
One that hasn't been mentioned is Jane Yolen - she did a bundle of dragon-based fantasy stuff which was pretty good (admittedly, that's based on me reading it twenty years ago) and Margaret Mahy did some excellent novels for the pre-teen/teen market.
A lot of the Ursula K LeGuin stuff - particularly the Earthsea novels - might be worth a go, along with Susan Cooper's "Dark Is Rising" sequence, and Alan Garner's novels (sorry, can't recall the name of the big series of his ones)
And would William Gibson's NeuroMancer trilogy be in the right age-zone? There's very little sex/violence, as I recall, but they make for damn good reads. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is possibly a bit too old for them, but is worth remembering - again, it's more story than sex/violence, but there's more of it than in the other recommendations.
Then again, maybe natural selection is a good thing.
With idiots like this, there's no 'maybe' about it.
My issue is more with the people they take with them. Sure, if some idiot wants to send a text message and ends up getting intimate with a brick wall, or some other inanimate object, fine. It's when they whack into the car coming the other way, and take out the occupants of that vehicle as well that I get annoyed.
There's nothing Darwinian about collateral damage.
Slashdot Mirror
No - but it sounds like they killed Kenny. The bastards.
I took one of these tests years ago for a role in a support helldesk.
The results came out that I was :
a) excellent at problem solving
b) crap at being in a team
c) crap at being micro-managed
When they fired me six months later, the reason given was "Despite being one of the best problem solvers (95% clean-up rate) I didn't fit with the team, and had a personality clash with the manager"
I told them that was the exact result from the test, and they said "Well, we assumed everyone lied on the test". Way to go...
Unless they're on an IIS box/shed. In which case case-sensitivity goes out the window.
If I had mod points right now, that would've gotten you a +1 Insightful
Thanks for that - if I'd been drinking at the time, you'd now owe me for a new keyboard.
This looks like the Shark typing method created for IBM a few years back.
I really liked the Shark idea when it first came out, so it's good to see something similar again. (Plus Shark worked on non-QWERTY 'boards as well, you just changed the settings on its initialisation)
It's no different to a vacuum cleaner still being called a "Hoover", despite Hoover losing market share over the years.
Or people flying on an Airbus "Jumbo Jet".
In similar vein, I suspect that people will still say they're googling for something even many years in the future when Google has died the death and been superceded by any number of semantic fuzzy search engines that come back with far better/more accurate results.
To LingNoi,
Please submit $50 for a replacement keyboard.
Oh, and $0.95 for a new can of diet coke.
Sincerely
Ozbon.
Depends on how it's done, I suppose, but I find that use of KY jell tends to make my other half *much* noisier...
Although she doesn't squeak as much, so that's a bonus...
Manic Miner / Jet Set Willy : Disturbingly Addictive
Elite : 3D in 32Kb
Sabre Wulf : First (I think) forced-perspective 3d
Daley Thomson's Decathlon - for single-handedly killing more Z and X keys than anything else on the market. Ever.
Imagine a beowolf cluster of these!
Like making your undies *really* white.
Even if they were black when they started...
Well, I have to say that in my experience it's not because the BMW looks "angry", it's because the drivers tend to see their BMWs as safety cages, and thus can do what they want, when they want.
My other half used to laugh at my rational prejudice against BMW drivers, until I started pointing out how many times the cars that cut us up on the motorway, or failed to indicate (or both), or tailgated, or slammed across all three lanes of motorway to take the turn-off they hadn't appreciated, or jumped red lights, or (ad infinitum) were BMWs.
I don't know *why* so many BMW drivers are assholes, but the great majority certainly fulfil (and thus propagate) that conclusion.
I still maintain that the Chrysler 300C is the most butt-ugly modern car. It beats the Multipla hands down, and looks like a brick on wheels.
As for being wary/weary of BMW drivers, I'm not wary of them, but instead just tend to expect BMW drivers to do stupid things at any given moment.
Also, I swear that working indicators are an optional extra on BMWs - there seem to be an awful lot of owners who have no idea what they do.
Balls.
If the guy can't understand his own statements, he should employ someone to do it for him. Paying a decent salary to someone to check the figures and transactions would've still saved him *cough* thousands.
That's what accountants and book-keepers are *for*, surely? (Lord knows, they don't have many other uses, other than as landfill)
In this case, TFA says the transactions were all through purchases of Dell equipment - so if you're not out there authorising payment for Dell machines, I'd reckon it's pretty simple to spot that one, regardless of share values, interest rates etc.
"Hmmm, £20,000 to Dell?"
"[Serf], where's my new £20,000 of Dell equipment?"
"You haven't bought anything from them."
Yoo-hoo, fraudulent transaction ahoy...
While I freely admit that I don't send out 1000 checks a month or whatever, I never wait for the statement in the mail either.
After all, that's what internet banking is for, right? I check it every couple of days, and thus always know what my account's doing. And if anything's going weird, I contact the bank immediately - but any attack has had two days to work (at most) instead of 30+ between statements.
As such, I don't bother opening my statements all that often. I know what's going on anyway, and don't need the printed verification. As such, I sometimes don't see an update to banking T&Cs etc., because they've come in the post and not online.
Out of interest, when are you planning on watching all that?
After all, it's hard to avoid the results from the bits you recorded - they were all over the media, etc. etc.
And just how many hours does that 250Gb consist of? I guess you must be taking a week or two off in order to watch it all?
Hmmm, "Bright young kid smarter than politicians" - that'll never be a headline.
Now, "Politician smarter than house-brick" - *that* would be a headline...
Simple - just because that's what the form has asked for, it doesn't mean that's the data you have to put in.
Mother's maiden name? "Han solo"
First Pet? "Giraffe"
First car? "Slashdot"
I don't think I've *ever* put in the correct answers to those questions. So long as the answers are known to you, and you remember what you put against what, then what does it matter?
I still say the worst is the "Secured by Visa" and/or "Secured by Mastercard" validation at the moment.
If you can't remember your validation password, you can go to "generate new password", where the security information you need to enter is primarily:
card no
CVV code from back of card
date of birth
And that's about it.
Truly scary.
I can't say much when it comes to "too dark" or "too bloody" - part of my formative reading at about that age was the Icelandic sagas (Njal's saga etc.) which are some of the more bloodthirsty books around.
I also loved the "Prince with the Silver Hand" trio by Michael Moorcock - at the time I didn't know anything about his greater story curve with Elric of Melnibone etc., but the Prince Corum novels were also bloodthirsty enough to be mistaken for Icelandic sagas...
[Tangent] Tripods was also a TV series in the UK in late 70s/early 80s[/Tangent]
On a related note, you could also try some of the John Wyndham stuff - Chocky, Day of the Triffids etc., which might be a bit dated now, but are still good reads. (Related due to TV series of them at the same time as Tripods)
One that hasn't been mentioned is Jane Yolen - she did a bundle of dragon-based fantasy stuff which was pretty good (admittedly, that's based on me reading it twenty years ago) and Margaret Mahy did some excellent novels for the pre-teen/teen market.
A lot of the Ursula K LeGuin stuff - particularly the Earthsea novels - might be worth a go, along with Susan Cooper's "Dark Is Rising" sequence, and Alan Garner's novels (sorry, can't recall the name of the big series of his ones)
And would William Gibson's NeuroMancer trilogy be in the right age-zone? There's very little sex/violence, as I recall, but they make for damn good reads. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is possibly a bit too old for them, but is worth remembering - again, it's more story than sex/violence, but there's more of it than in the other recommendations.
Surely for the Windows servers it's better to have names from the muppet show?
My setup used to include Kermit, Piggy, Animal and Ralph...
If you'd RTFA, you'd know that "this guy" is actually a girl.
With idiots like this, there's no 'maybe' about it.
My issue is more with the people they take with them. Sure, if some idiot wants to send a text message and ends up getting intimate with a brick wall, or some other inanimate object, fine. It's when they whack into the car coming the other way, and take out the occupants of that vehicle as well that I get annoyed.
There's nothing Darwinian about collateral damage.