Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

[Flagg]

He was a grunt basically. If he'd been an officer he would have walked.

[Darksi4190]

So i'm sitting in the computer lab at school, and I realize that these are the same damn computers that they had when I took my first semester here back in 2005. Shouldn't these things be suffering from hardware failure by now?

[>:3]

maybe they have. for all you know they could've all had multiple part replacements.

[Infinity Biscuit]

I was just told I would be an excellent queen of the krogans

One of the better compliments I've received

[Oxymoron]

Is it telling of the average quality of the compliments you receive, or am I missing something here ?

[Flagg]

I was just told I would be an excellent queen of the krogans

One of the better compliments I've received

Do you wear a burqa or something?

[Veef]

http://www.lowellsun.com/news/ci_239438 ... ade-dracut

we were in the news!

but the interviewer couldn't spell "chogokin" right

[Darksi4190]

I was just told I would be an excellent queen of the krogans

One of the better compliments I've received

Do you wear a burqa or something?

Perhaps she's just naturally aggressive?

[adr]

international mailing is a pain in the ass

the usps considers magnets to be hazardous to send by air. i didn't know that.

[Oxymoron]

Well, imagine they package it next to another packet with magnetic tapes, or something else like that.

[joviwan]

So i'm sitting in the computer lab at school, and I realize that these are the same damn computers that they had when I took my first semester here back in 2005. Shouldn't these things be suffering from hardware failure by now?

As someone maintaining workstations from 2005 in a school environment, I can tell you that replacement parts go a long way to stretching out the life of hardware.

Most common replacements:
HDD
PSU (hard to find though, dell PSU's are unique)
RAM

Most of these are pillaged from other workstations.

[adr]

Well, imagine they package it next to another packet with magnetic tapes, or something else like that.

aye, the rules talk about disrupting compasses too, so maybe they were worried about it throwing off the airplane navigation.

It makes sense, it just adds hassle for me.


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speaking of hassle my code thing got a feature request today to split it into multiple files

but i've been merging files together. it is so much more convenient to have fewer files. besides if two files depend on each other, you haven't actually gained anything regardless. the user would still have to get them both!

the person asking for it says it would make the code easier to read, but meh, i aint gonna do it.

if anything, i'll be combining even more files. and reducing dependencies at the same time.

[Agent Bert Macklin]

Who is the dude here who had some great opinions on Breaking Bad's weaknesses?

[F.J. Prefect, Esq]

Nietzslime

[Big Orangutan]

Hum, what ?

in one of the threads w/saxtonite, haiti came up because someone said black-run countries have been historically failures like haiti, and then thanas started talking about how haiti was horrible because of the massacres at the end of the revolution, and he wrote as part of that that he couldn't believe that the entire white population was complicit in abuses, which is funny because of how small it was. of course, they probably weren't all guilty enough for him to accept it, but this of course ignores that this was largely a reprisal for the brutality of the french generals and had to be directly enforced by the guy that came up with it.

He strikes me as the Kool Aid drinking sort. Other Kool Aid drinkers of another sort on SD.Net are Hillary.

[Oxymoron]

There'd be a joke to be made relating this Haiti thing with WW2 Germany, but quite honestly it'd be really low and not at all funny.

[RyanThunder]

Shroom found it

Well, there we have it. People cannot handle accountability, to the point where it stresses them out, lowers their productivity, etc.

[adr]

it bugs me when ppl watch me w0rk cuz then they'd know i'm actually totally full of shit and make it up as I go

that is when I actually bother to work at all lol

but at the end of the day I get the job done so does it matter how? I think the diff between accountability and surveillance is one is a strange frenchy word that shouldn't be used in English. though I actually spelled it right the first time this time apparently it ain't underlined. lololol


anywho the diff is one watches shit that isn't really important, and the other looks at what matters. if the job isn't done or is late or blew the budget or whatever, I can live with being fired over that

but someone constantly watching is annoying cuz you know they're judging you and could at any moment turn into micromanagement


PS if you know so fucking much about my job and have the time to harass me all day why don't you just do it yourself????????????

[Infinity Biscuit]

I know I did my best work when I either didn't have a supervisor around or had one who was sympathetic and let me do what I wanted. If I don't feel I have to work for work's sake or other things to keep up appearances, I can actually focus on doing stuff well and feeling good about it.

[RyanThunder]

Hm. Maybe they did the study on that sort of thing instead of actual surveillance. Because yeah, if my boss is breathing down my neck all the time my productivity goes to shit.

[evilsoup]

accountability=if you fuck up, you're punished for it (and conversely: if you do exceptionally well you should be rewarded)
surveillance=you're always being watched moo hoo ha ha
these are not the same thing
ryanthunder, learn to english

[RyanThunder]

But what the hell else are you going to conclude from "people can't handle surveillance"?

It's not the mere act of being watched, since you can walk through crowds without having a nervous breakdown. it's the fact that it's recorded and can be used against you later (we'll ignore that it can totally exonerate you of a crime you didn't commit, as well)

[Infinity Biscuit]

Hmm maybe people have some sort of desire for privacy and being left alone

obviously a negligible defect let's just ignore it

[Infinity Biscuit]

It's also a matter of control and perception of control.

If it's just people looking around, you can have some control over how they perceive you and you can leave and make the stop perceiving you at any time. With a recording all that control is taken away.

It's the same way I don't mind being looked at often but take a picture of me without my permission and I'm gonna get severely uncomfortable

[adr]

my brother just linked this to me and I lol'd:

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2479