Comment Re:The real question (Score 1) 419
What would the dad have done if this were around eight years ago and his kids wanted to play Persona 3?
Well, since his kids would have been 2 and 3, he would probably have told them that it was nap time.
What would the dad have done if this were around eight years ago and his kids wanted to play Persona 3?
Well, since his kids would have been 2 and 3, he would probably have told them that it was nap time.
On Melatonin, this study says there is no decrease in testoserone production.
You're right. Encouraging kids belief in fictional places like Jerusalem, Shuafat, Golan Heights and Tel Aviv is never good.
I think that every American should have to take a trip to the war zone
The last time they tried that was in the late 60s. It didn't go so well.
Seems pretty obvious you didn't try and click through....
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After which the [vendor] will tell you that they're **you** failed because **you** didn't allocate more memory for IPv4 routes. [vendor] will tell management how they had foreseen this problem in 2006 and how they warned customers in advance.
I wish [vendor representative] luck in pursuing other interests outside of [vendor]. You pay enterprise suppliers the insanely big bucks to be diplomatic enough to not tell the truth about just who screwed things up. Given the choice between calling the customer an idiot and having the customer continue buying expensive toys with a lot of zeroes in their prices it is usually preferable to just say something about how you will look into how the warning wasn't delivered to the right people, and then shut up and never speak of it again.
"we bought cheap noname switched back then because the head of IT cut the budget by 20%."
Deflecting blame to the department head may make you feel better but it's a dangerous move. When life hands you a bucket full of... let's just say "waste products" you can hand it to someone else, empty it out the window and trust that nobody is on the sidewalk or carry it to the dumpster yourself. Throwing it directly upwards shows a distinct misunderstanding of how gravity works.
This is exactly the kind of problem that makes you glad you overpaid for name brand hardware.
Which of these two answers to the question "Why did our network fall over and sink into the swamp yesterday?" would you like to give?
"Um, it's because I recommended saving a bit of money on buying off-brand routers that couldn't handle everything. I'll go clean out my desk."
or...
"It's not my fault! We bought [insert name brand here] because they were supposed to be better. Round up the rest of the management team and we'll have a conference call with [vendor] this afternoon and get them to explain how they failed us."
(RoundRect was what the Rounded-corner Rectangle was called in old Apple developer docs, either when drawing a button, or using that shape directly in QuickDraw).
At the time, it wasn't easy drawing rounded corners.
Steve [Jobs] suddenly got more intense. "Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere! Just look around this room!". And sure enough, there were lots of them, like the whiteboard and some of the desks and tables. Then he pointed out the window. "And look outside, there's even more, practically everywhere you look!". He even persuaded Bill [Atkinson] to take a quick walk around the block with him, pointing out every rectangle with rounded corners that he could find.
When Steve and Bill passed a no-parking sign with rounded corners, it did the trick. "OK, I give up", Bill pleaded. "I'll see if it's as hard as I thought." He went back home to work on it.
Fast-forward to the next century where rectangles with rounded corners are still everywhere, but only Steve's company is allowed to use them.
It's good to know you're not an "abusive user."
He only drops the phone when it makes him angry. It's the phone's fault, really.
The argument is that the government doesn't create wealth. While you can look at defense contractors as the government creating jobs it is at best intellectually dishonest. The government doesn't create wealth, it acquires from other parties and redistributes it to further parties. Those first parties, from which the taxes are collected, would have been otherwise able to use those tax monies which would have stimulated other businesses and created the need and opportunities for jobs. Now these specific jobs probably wouldn't exist and the jobs that would be here may not be as well paying but in a climate where we consider part time jobs replacing full time positions to be job creation, I hardly think that matters.
Those jobs are taken from companies like mine that paid the taxes being used to pay for those jobs. Therefore, no net jobs are created and, in fact, net jobs are lost. The government doesn't create wealth - with the caveat being "usually" but "certainly not in this case".
When you're getting capital at below the rate of inflation you'd be stupid not to take the money so long as you have something useful to do with it.
I'm going to have to go with the same answer I give at most project post-mortems when asked the question "What was the root cause of our problems?"
"Lax hiring practices."
Real Programs don't use shared text. Otherwise, how can they use functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?
