Never. You're supposed to never get pissed off, never get irritated, this is work you're talking about.
If you need a larger team of people to help you do your job, because it's impossible to educate your user base, then you're supposed to make that happen. It's absoloutely your responsibility to make the environment you work in, and the people you work with, one that you are completely happy with.
1. Politely ask the culprit not to
2. Do it again
3. Do it a third time
4. Speak to your line manager / CTO / whatever about instituting a formal door policy.
Steps will be completely different according to your corporate culture. What you want always want to do in this situation though is influence people; Step 0 is always trying to see things from others' point of view and never act like an asshole, step x is pursuasion.
Not good at pursuasion? Falling back to being 'hard' on people? Make improving 'soft skills' like this your primary learning goal for 2012 over any particular piece of hardware.
You put it on *road signs*? UK here; all commerce, retail, and pretty much everything else is done in metric. Roadsigns are done in miles.
All the plus, none of the fuss.
Who would download a tool like nmap from download.com? What sort of person does this? How is this a thing that happens?
It's a direct quote from Ben Goldacre in the article. He's saying that he can't see an argument against publishing these concerns in a journal.
"Consistency: It's only a virtue if you're not a screwup"
That's a fantastic way for him to test or disprove this notion that he can see in UV!
the cure for AIDS, coming at you faster than the speed of light!
Except kitchen knives aren't sold on the basis that they're cool.
From wickedlasers.com:
"If you enjoyed wielding the awesome power of the S3 Arctic, then you'll want the S3 Krypton the most visible handheld laser on Earth, in your hands."
then
"The S3 Krypton is too powerful to be used as a laser pointer or a gunsight. Never point it at another person, an animal or a vehicle."
It's unequivocally being sold as fucking toy. This business is disgusting.
NO, it's a damn weapon. If you're out walking the streets with this, the police should be about as suspicious as if you're walking around with a kitchen knife in your pocket.
No that's backwards, the GPL tells you what you can do; it doesn't take away any rights you don't have without it.
The way I see it is, by default, if I give you the source for some software I own the copyright for, you're not allowed to distribute it, or works derived from it, at all. I'm the only person with a right to copy and distribute...the 'copyright'. You can do whatever you like with it on your own (unless I made you sign a EULA where you gave up some of your rights before you use it), but when it comes to distributing it yourself - forget about it.
So say for whatever reason I want to allow other people to distribute my code or works derived from it, I'd have to either relinquish my copyright, or grant them a license to distribute it. I might want to grant them a very permissive license saying "hey, distribute this as you like, I don't care" which is pretty much what the BSD licenses do. On the other hand, if I wanted to guarantee that all the end users have the freedoms espoused by the FSF, I might only grant you a right to distribute it under certain conditions (which is what the GPL says).
If you want it in a nutshell, I think the GPL was created specifically to allow rights holders to grant recipients of their work the right to re-distribute it without allowing them to withold rights from the people they re-distribute it to.
Seen what? A company offering a service then open sourcing it when they decide it doesn't fit in with what they do any more?
Services get obsoleted, if you can't accept that for a given project - then yeah, only use one where agreements that satisfy your needs can be put in place.
As for the apparent oddity in suggesting people get started whilst announcing the closure of the service, I think the first line in TFA clarifies: "With the winding down of Google Labs, Google will discontinue App Inventor as a Google product and will open source the code."
So? If that's a concern just back up all your gmail. If you rolled your own you'd have to do that anyway, and it wouldn't be much more complex.
Yeah, the gnome network manager!
A google search for postgres gui should return http://www.pgadmin.org/ on the first page. It seems largely equivalent to MySQL workbench (which I understand replaces the MySQL Admin gui / query browser?)
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
