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Charles Programmer wrote: Do that a few times, and you get to the point that you're not motivated to even trust an employer.
Right.
I've worked those kinds of places also. I'm sorry you've gone through that. It's quite terrible.
Anyways, I'm not thinking about creativity and employment as being together at all.
At work, someone smarter than me always has the answers so I need do very little thinking at all.
"But we could..."
"Uh...no...We're going to..."
"But, if we..."
"Well, no. And you're beginning to make the meeting go long."
I'll just shuffle back to my cubicle.  There's coffee there.
I'm kidding mostly.
Creativity is for the good stuff. The stuff where I'm making the decisions.
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One gets to the point where the actual implementation becomes more of a chore (that one would like to delegate) than the “high” one gets from simply coming up with a feasible solution (in one’s mind) to a particular problem.
It may take years for a project to be “ready” before it feels “right”.
I have a project like that. I first toyed with it in Paradox back in the 90’s. Now with .NET, C#, Web Services, 3rd party libraries, cross-platform IDEs, etc.; the project is back in active development (with enthusiasm).
See if you can find more tools to help you along. Modify them for your own (fair) use. Often that generates interesting and revealing side projects.
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: See if you can find more tools to help you along
Those are great ways of thinking to launch other products.
I always think like a user to generate ideas.
I start thinking, "I wish I had a..." Then I force myself to make it, even if it is impossible.
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Hi,
Time for a winge, I spent last night in casualty of my Hospital as some **** zapped my right eye with a laser pointer. The worst part was I was in a local park walking with my Dad who is not in the best of shape. The zap caused a black hole in my vision, which over time turned brown and has cleared now (the eye is still sore!  ). I feel I should report it to the plod if they had zapped my Dad (who has eye problems) it could have caused real damage! problem is I don't know the names of the chavvy little ****s and can' supply a description.
Also what is the name of Talk Talks parent company? Have the evil hackers got to them?
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Little sods.
If you can't tell Plod who it was (or even a vague description) then unless the park has good CCTV it's a waste of your time.
TalkTalk is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Satan Holdings plc.
And it looks like TalkTalk did have reasonable security after all:
We know it’s been a worrying and frustrating time since Wednesday’s cyber attack on our website. We’re doing everything we can to get to the bottom of what happened as soon as possible and to keep you updated. Our investigations are currently showing the following:
• The number of customers affected and the amount of data potentially stolen is smaller than originally thought. Our website was attacked, but our core systems weren’t and remain secure.
• On its own, none of the data that may have been accessed could be used to leave you financially worse off.
• We don’t store unencrypted credit or debit card data on our site, so any card details which may have been accessed have the 6 middle digits blanked out. For example, it would appear as 012345XXXXXX6789. This means it can’t be used for financial transactions.
• No My Account passwords have been accessed.
• No banking details were taken that you won’t already be sharing with people when you write a cheque or give to someone so they can pay money into your account.
We will continue investigating and promise to keep you updated as we know more. In the meantime, we strongly encourage that you:
• Sign up to your free credit reporting service using this code: [REDACTED]. We have partnered with Noddle, one of the leading credit reference agencies, to offer 12 months of credit monitoring alerts for all customers. You can find out more at [REDACTED].
• Stay vigilant - TalkTalk will NEVER call customers and ask you to provide personal details or passwords. Please take all steps to check the true identity of any organisation that calls requesting personal information. If you have any doubts, please call us on [REDACTED] or [REDACTED].
From the latest email they sent me.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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TalkTalk is the parent company!
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Find 'em and hospitalize 'em. 
Next to that I'd start with social engineering.
wow m8 gr8 b8 I r8 an 8/8. though it was a little l8 and it seems you h8 f8, it still has that tr8 that makes you acceler8.
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Quote: Find 'em and hospitalize 'em. Wink |
I wanted to & was about to, until my Dad managed to talk me down thankfully.
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Hi Glen, My sympathies, that's a very scary attack.
I am amazed you haven't filed a police report on what in the U.S. would be felony assault. Have you considered that alerting the police to the incident might cause them to patrol the area more frequently, or install some/more cameras ?
If other people are getting attacked like this, reports from folks like you may indicate some sort of pattern to the police. Publicity might be put out in the areas it occurs alerting people to report anyone using a laser pointer in public ... and so forth.
best wishes for your health and peace of mind !
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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My Mum has since called Crime Stoppers, it turns out there is a CCTV camera near by, I went to have a look this afternoon. Eye is sore today! 
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Just out of curiosity, what color was the laser? Best wishes for your recovery!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The actual distance I was from them mean't it was 2 Watt, Green one! Red I would be paniced that a Sniper was after me!
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That happened at the high school next to where I live. The bastard used a BLUE laser and permanently blinded several freshmen. That person was only 16, but was tried as an adult and is currently serving 25 years in prison, after it was discovered he was also behind four murders(!) in the area, as well as several break-ins, burglaries, and various other crimes.
I think he should have been given a life sentence. What a fruitcake!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Absolute swine! What I can't understand is the 'nanny state' has banned pretty much everything fun and or dangerous but not laser pointers, my fear was for my Dad as his eyes are in a state due Cateracts and Macular Denigration. The worst thing is if I had happened to go for them I would have ended up arrested while they would have got away with 'Having a laugh!'
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The US govt has largely banned sales of high power laser pointers.
I'm sure I'm not the only person who has one sitting in his closet with no clue WTF to do with it that was bought primarily to give a finger to the nanny state while I still could. (A severe lack of windowless rooms in my apartment leaves me with nowhere to put on my protective glasses and safely zap balloons to death until I get tired of blowing them up.  )
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quote: zap balloons to death until I get tired of blowing them up. Cry |
Finally a use for them!
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Well there's not much else I could do with one. I don't smoke, so using it as a cigarette lighter is out. And a few years back they removed wound cauterization from the list of potential uses and replaced it with a warning that shining the beam on yourself could cause cancer. (OTOH the latter was mostly theoretical to begin with; the demos from using it to ignite a cancer stick took long enough that I'm almost certain that you'd bleed out from any injury severe enough to justify the process shut before you actually managed to burn all the bleeders shut.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Google is not your friend with a decision as important as a full-year's commitment to medical care.
The first time I tried to shop for a medical plan, wow, disaster.
Will those who have both failed and succeeded in this space please offer your knowledge ?
I'm not so much after specific company names as I am in specific questions to ask, and formulas, and schemes, and so on, particularly with what they don't tell you until after they've acquired your signature.
I know the WRONG way to shop for medical coverage; I would like to know the RIGHT way.
Or, at least get better than I was last time.
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The best way to get medical coverage is to move to Europe 
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He said medical coverage, not nanny state.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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"Comes with a Youtube clip."
Funniest thing I've seen all week, credit to one Jason Elrick for the above comment to a Facebook post about online conversion to Islam.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
modified 25-Oct-15 7:05am.
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What language is it written in? I doubt the efficiency. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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What is the funniest thing you've seen ? Did you mean to post a link ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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