Comment Stored in a dungeon... (Score 1) 261
Only the quester whom the gods have chosen can defeat the traps and the monsters to reach the fabled Desktop of Destiny.
“A lot of people consider the styling of the DeLorean timeless,” said Toby Peterson, who operates a DMC franchise in Seattle, Wa. and has personally owned a DeLorean for 20 years. “It was state of the art 30 years ago, and it looks state of the art now. It’s a style that has transcended the decades.”
State of the art 30 years ago? 80's Ferrari, yes. 80's Corvette, yes. 80's hatch-box with alien ejector doors, no. I never did get the appeal of this car.
For the vast majority of users, I think pushing updates without confirmation is a good thing. Most people really don't care about having maximum control over exactly what gets installed on their machine. They just want something that works well and stays secure. Trouble is they don't appreciate that means regular updates. Much better to do it for them in my opinion.
Except that's totally giving the middle finger to the core group of Firefox users, isn't it? That's exactly what I feel Moz has done. I loved the browser because of the control. It's been an invaluable tool for me, professionally (as a web developer) and otherwise, but since v4 I've been dealing with glitchy behaviour, multiple frequent crashes, and a bunch of updates that are mucking with my development cycle because I can't trust that the newest version won't be worse than the last one.
If they had just moved to rapid release and changed their version numbers, it would have been fine. Keep the program, make some changes, make them work, push them out. That's what they were doing, but that's not what they do now. They've made a new beast and killed the old one, and the new one's not as furry and friendly as the old one.
They're screwing themselves. Personally, I'm waiting to see whether or not this will calm down by the time they get to v10. If it doesn't, I'll probably ditch it, so that I can at least go with something stable and then enjoy FF once again in nostalgia.
I use a GNU GPL licensed modelling program created at Carnegie Mellon. http://www.ascend4.org/
Any location where I don't have to change my friggin clocks twice a year would be great.
I say the world should focus on capturing those elusive alien spacecraft first. Once we've got our hands on their technology, we can worry about space economics.
Maybe I'll get lucky and there'll be some strong aftershocks. That would rock!
I'm 30 miles from the epicenter... and that was my first earthquake. I'd prefer it if there were no further activity, thank you. I thought the friggin building was going to collapse.
and it reminds me of that freaky 80's Herbie Hancock video, "Rockit". Still gives me the shivers...
The village idiot maxes out his Peter Principle at doing about one thing at a time. The short order cook from the article apparently maxes out around two dozen or whatever. Everyone else bell curves in the middle.
All right! I made it up to village idiot!
... but it is broken
... seems to for me. Any time I pick up a pair of pliers or a screwdriver, open a pocket knife, take out my ATM card, see a rotary phone, open a PC, hear certain songs, use an internet protocol, talk to my parents (who were both big Bell employees most of their adult lives,) see a floppy, see green and black together.. or that ugly orange-ish color and black...
when I was 20. I'd never programmed before, either, and had had only one college-level class in programming. So I ended up managing support (hiring, firing, scheduling, etc.), doing tier-2 support, writing software, and working to come up with ways to improve the company -- its offerings to customers, and internally. I was originally doing well with 40-50 hour weeks and paid overtime. Then the boss put me on salary so that he didn't have to pay me overtime. I had a small amount of stock options that vested slowly (which remained worthless even after I left), but no other compensation. The salary wasn't terrible for someone with my lack of experience. But, then he said I needed to work 50+ hours every week without additional compensation. That took its toll on me physically, mentally and emotionally. There were no perks. It was me and a desk almost every waking hour of the week, not including the work I was taking home. Relationships in and outside of work started to suffer. Looking back, I was treated like a pack mule, and for no apparent reason. I was scrambling to keep up with the workload all day, every day. And there was no clear ambition I'd been informed of. No overall "goal" I was working toward. No end in sight to the overworking. Had there been a clear goal... a plan to achieve it... an end... I think it would've been somewhat easier. But it still would've taken significantly more compensation to make it even close to worthwhile. I should've quit and continued my education when he starting his routine of overworking me. Having that as my first experience working in an office did not make my life easier, either. I think I was actually so busy I never had time to fully consider the toll it was taking on me (though I certainly was aware of it), and whether or not it was really worth it.
My point is, tread carefully. I don't think there's an easy answer here, and no matter what happens, each of you will need to decide whether or not the kind of change the boss is offering is really the right change for you at the present time.
Good luck. Hope your boss is easier to negotiate with than mine was.
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
