Comment Re:I work in the Mexican Tourism industry... (Score 1) 8
Tacos schmacos. Try the water.
The name alone could be worth $25 million if managed properly, but that $527 mil debt really bumps the actual cost of the property significantly. Also with a cashflow that seriously negative, they'd better have some really quick plans to turn this operation around. I would expect to see a lot more marketing for SGI systems if this goes through, probably within months.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12049610
[SGI] lost $153 million during its 2008 fiscal year and its current bankruptcy filing lists $390 million in assets along with nearly $527 million in liabilities.
As part of its proposed purchase of SGI, Rackable has agreed to take on an undisclosed portion of those liabilities.
...Suddenly not peanuts anymore.
I voted for Vim since that's what I use on all my home systems.
There is no spoon.
Whoa. Blew your mind, didn't I?
There is no time either.
Time is an illusion... Lunchtime doubly so.
Most people in geeky professions love feeling smart and useful. Then, when a user comes along asking them to be useful and show their intelligence (i.e. help) the geek scorns their lack of knowledge instead of being happy to help. Yes it might be the hundredth time you've answered that question, but just look at it as "this is why I'm the expert" instead of "I'm an expert and you you're asking me THAT again?"
It's not that you're always fighting with users but they all have a similar lack of common sense when using a computer, i would never drive anywhere if everyone exibited the same lack of common sense on the road.
You haven't driven in St. Louis in the rain, have you? With the first sign of precipitation, drivers become as stupid as the stereotypical computer user. Scary.
It seems like no other specialists have that problem on such a routine basis. When someone's doctor says "you have X disease" they generally don't look at him and say "no I don't." When an electrician says that something needs to be rewired, they might get a second opinion but they don't usually argue with the guy. Same deal with mechanics. With almost any other specialist it's understood that if you come to them, it's because you recognize that they know a lot more about medicine, electricity, or auto repair than you do.
You don't know many doctors or mechanics on a personal basis, do you?
Hey you two, save your stalkings for Christmas and Santa might put something in them.
So, Santa's stocking the stalkings? Or stalking the stockings? Sounds simultaneously sickening! Sigh...
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
