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oiuytghyuj
16y ago
Rolled in at 4pm - when he wanted. The problem is when you start at 8am, work all day, waste time in meetings - then have to stay til 10pm every night to meet some deadline so that a sales guy gets a bonus.
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oiuytghyuj
16y ago
Luxury .... We used to have to get up 10mins before we went to sleep, toggle the OS into a turing machine with our teeth and pay SAP for doing it.....
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oiuytghyuj
16y ago
Yes they admire the flinty eyed self reliant cowboy - while he collects his farm subsidy check and writes his humvee off as a work truck.
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oiuytghyuj
16y ago
MS calls the shots. Asus can ship a linux machine, but then they will have to go and buy the copies of Windows for all their other machines from BestBuy
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oiuytghyuj
16y ago
Not just Asus: The original mini was small and cheap, the new mini is the size (and cost) of a low end BMW - ditto the VW Golf and Beatle
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oiuytghyuj
16y ago
No that's just what they told HR and the blogosphere - they may have all left to become supermodels.
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oiuytghyuj
16y ago
Company hires a new senior manager. All the engineers that report to him start to leave. The company decides the manager is the problem. The company actaully fires the manager instead of blaming the engineers!!!!!
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oiuytghyuj
16y ago
Isn't that rather the point of opensource? I rely version 2.xx of Blah, i want security fixes to version 2 without being forced to update to blah 7, with all it's new incompatibilities and bugs, just because somebody has a sales target
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16y ago
Not planning on going quite that far - but we are thinking of saving $200,000 by buying a one bedroom apartment with a few Kindle's instead of a 2Bed place with lots of bookshelves. All the DVDs are already ripped to a couple of hard drives
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oiuytghyuj
16y ago
Not a problem with "Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses"
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oiuytghyuj
16y ago
Happened in the UK, the same parents also overturned a ban on kids having cell phones. Apparently it's vital for their safety that they keep a 1W 1.8Ghz transmitter glued to their head at all times, but it's lethal to have a 100mW 2.4Ghz tr
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16y ago
Well as a physicst I say you can't understand a computer unless you understand the wavefunction of an electron crossing a potential barrier. So ner-ner-ni-ner-ner.....
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16y ago
Yes - IBM already did it http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2007/10/22/the-ibm-patent-tro...