You're equating the "buggy whip/automobile" quantum leap with the "C/C#/C++/Ruby/Perl/python/haskell/lisp/whatever" language wars? Or "cloud/client/distributed/centralized"? Or even "sql/nosql"?
Straw man. We don't know what kind of conference this is.
I think that the point of
Asshole.
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BMO
which fork to use during which course during a fancy dinner
Whichever fork does the job. Any smart person will realize using fork X only for dish Y is an old fad.
Wrong, because as the server comes and takes away your plate from the first course he takes the used utensils along with it.
If you used table spoon for the grape fruit you'll be slicing the corners of your mouth every time you're forced to use the grapefruit spoon in another course.
If you used your dessert spoon spoon for the soup, the coffee spoon for your pasta, you'll look like a fucking retard when you have to use the soup spoon for dessert and the table spoon for coffee (or vice versa) later on. Hell, a proper set may not even allow your soup or tablespoon to fit inside the sugar bowl when it comes time for coffee. That kind of gaffe is the difference between taking the evening train home and staying in the guest suite with a pleasant visit from the countess.
We're already starting the 5th season (or "series") of Downton Abbey and you fools don't know this shit?!
which fork to use during which course during a fancy dinner
You go from the outside to the inside as the meal progresses, you uncultured swine.
I think that this article is psychologically linked to the recent article about internet trolls actually being very bad people. I love a good prank but this is just wanton sadistic behaviour. My phone provides me with much joy so anyone who would take that away from me and cost me hundreds of dollars for a laugh is wired seriously wrong; I'm lucky to have enough understanding to not fall for this sort of thing but it makes it just that much meaner to prey upon those who would.
Trolls are great. It's the idiots who are the bad people.
I don't see a warning about this, so am I still good to shoot my girlfriend through the bathroom door while on drugs?
-- Oscar Pistorius
Of course you are, you're in a shithole country and you're the most famous person there. You'll get away with cheating at the Olympics and with murder.
We don't need to, Mythbusters already did. Metal cutlery did nothing interesting. Foil and CDs give a light show. But they don't harm the microwave unless they are close enough to the case to arc across to it.
Trouble with technicians is that they believe their own myths.
Go ahead and put some actual steel into your microwave and turn it on, if you're so confident.
Post video for proof, include a piece of paper in the video with your Slashdot user name / id.
You're a fucking moron and you don't understand how microwaves operate. Hell, I once bought a different brand of butter that had a ever-so-slightly metallic wrapper. When I put 2 Tbsp of butter in the microwave for a few seconds to soften it I ended up getting arcs that marred the pyrex turntable. There's a 1 inch gouge in the surface that is permanently black.
I fucking dare you to do as fnj suggests and throw some actual steel into your microwave oven.
You could show ads that aren't related to the thing you're reviewing.
Untargetted ads?! IS THIS 1994?!?!!?
I know several business owners who swear by Angie's List. No corruption as far as I can see from them or their customers/reviewers.
"No company can pay to be on Angie's list!" was a total crock of shit, and they got sued hard and good for it.
Angie is as corrupt as any other.
To be fair what would you expect Yelp to do if they were offering a discount for five star reviews?
I'd expect Yelp to blackmail the restaurant, as they usually do.
nVidia technology fell into the past through a wormhole.
Luckily it was properly static-bagged, because it actually went back to 1912 and had to be stored until a computer could be developed to interface to it
This is really pretty simple. If the funding isn't available to send you to a conference in Vegas -- You don't go.
If it's so simple, why did you make such a sophomoric error? This is about the funding being available, but the decision not being made to spend it in this fashion.
It seems that you can't afford to go and your employer doesn't see value in sending you.
So which is it, do you understand that the funding is available, or don't you?
You're employer is under no requirement to pay for training unless they have asked you to job which requires that training and they hired you knowing that you did not have those skills.
Ignorance, you're displaying it freely. Every job pretty much demands that you take on other duties as required. The world is a changing place, and jobs change with it or companies go away. As the world changes, training is needed.
Your (note lack of apostrophe) employer is under no requirement to pay for training unless they want to stay in business. Then they should probably think about paying for people to have the skills they need to succeed.
If your company is laying stone or something, this may not apply to you. But if you are doing anything technical, then it does. If you think it doesn't, you are on the road to destruction.
CEO: "What happens if we don't, and they stay?"
CFO: "We get to keep a productive employee doing the things he's been doing well,
CTO: Unfortunately, the world is changing, and we need to change with it.
Oh, no CTO? Too bad, so sad. Thou shalt fail, o maker of buggy-whips. Enjoy this moment while it lasts.
While your statement is surely true in many (and I daresay most) cases, the reality is that companies make money making cuts and not investments.
False. That is the opposite of reality. Companies save money by making cuts, but they make money by making investments.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
