Not always true, but when it is... it hurts!!!

Or something like that...

If a system you use /ever/ crashes, get one that doesn't.

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Originally posted by Jack William Bell:
My law? "When in doubt scream and shout, wave your arms and run about!"

Or something like that...

Jack

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"Any anamolous sounds your computer makes will only get louder the closer you get to the end of the warranty period."

BeauSabre

My other law is "You cannot be hired by someone who has a clue about what you can accomplish with your skills. People may be dumb, but your boss is even dumber."

2) The task is only worth the amount of time YOU are willing to put into it

3) If they're paying you, don't leave until someone else will

4) Corporate America isn't so evil when a person is willing to "work" Corporate America for an acceptable return.

5) When your boss is ripping you a new one remember, He's probably ALREADY GOT one more new one than you do.

6) Workspaces are sized in inverse proportion to the amount of work that gets done in them.

7) When design is organized, development isn't. When development is organized, testing isn't. When testing is organized, design isn't.

Especially when you work for the government.

You're only young once, but immature behavior can last a lifetime.

Nothing is _ever_ quick or easy.

Pick two.

1st Law: If you have to advertise how baaad you are, you aren't.

2nd Law: The more eager you are to show how smart you are, the more likely it is that someone nearby really knows the subject.

3rd Law: The only relationship stronger than True Love is Compatible Neuroses.

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Originally posted by Snaggy:
We all know and love Moore's Law. Now, what is your Law?

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Kerfoot's Law of Computing

All possible precautions are not half enough.

Roughton's Corollary

"Thou Shalt Not Believe Thine Own Hype."

Case in point: John Carmake & Daikatana, Red Hat & Linux, Microsoft & ________(fill in the blank).

BeauSabre

Case in point: John Carmake & Daikatana,

Arrrrrgh, take me away from him before I kill him.

John Carmack has NOTHING to do with Daikatana beside haveing sold their maker the quake engine. It is John Romero that left Id, because he didn't agree with carmack, and was behind Daikatana.

Let me repeat this:

Carmack => Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3 == GO(O)D
Romero => Quake, ... vaporware ..., Daikatana == BAD (although I hope he will make a come back, he used to do great stuff).

Red Hat & Linux

Hype? I thought hype was when you touted something to do X or Y before it does it. Linux may not do everything (yet ) but it was working and widely used when the "hype" began (as opposed to Java or TPM).

Note, if you wan tto respond to this you should be better to begin another thread in the rant section (maybe I should).

Microsoft & ________(fill in the blank).

No comment.

1st Law: The need to Pass will only occur in an elevator or room when there is only you and one(1) other.

2nd Law: Video & Bookstores will accelerate the need to Pass.

3rd Law: The flatulence will not have any noticeable or unpleasant odor, unless around another.

4th Law: The more you try to squelch the noise, the louder it is.

5th Law: Even in a room of Three(3) or more, the occupants will always discover the true originator.

6th Law: Attempting to Pass in a secluded location when around others will not work, The odor will always follow.

7th Law: The one who smelt it, ALWAYS dealt it.

8th Law: The more you are trying to make an impression is inversely proportionate to how offensive the odor is.

9th Law: Flatulence are like finger prints, although they may instill similarities, no two(2) flatulent are the same.

10th Law: the smaller it is, the hotter it is, the more concentrated the odor.

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Originally posted by Sri Lumpa:

Well, it's not related to technology but...

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" - Tacitus

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The corralry of which is "Absolute power corrupts absolutly." So what does this say of the companies that are gaining power over the populace through information compilation? Because after all "Knowledge is power."

It reminds me of something that happened to the sister of one of my friends.

-AJ

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I don't want you to like me! Because liking leads to loving, and loving leads to reproducing, and no one reproduces with me!

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Originally posted by BeauSabre:
The 1st Law of Advertising:

"Thou Shalt Not Believe Thine Own Hype."

Case in point: John Carmake & Daikatana,

Arrrrrgh, take me away from him before I kill him.

John Carmack has NOTHING to do with Daikatana beside haveing sold their maker the quake engine. It is John Romero that left Id, because he didn't agree with carmack, and was behind Daikatana.

Let me repeat this:

Carmack => Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3 == GO(O)D
Romero => Quake, ... vaporware ..., Daikatana == BAD (although I hope he will make a come back, he used to do great stuff).

Whatever. I was typing from memory, from an article about how this game had been hyped. One of the earlier adverts, as I remember, went something like: "John Carmack will make you his bitch."

If that's not hype, it don't exist.

All I do know is that Daikatana is the ONLY game that had a petition AGAINST bringing it to the Mac.....

Red Hat & Linux

Hype? I thought hype was when you touted something to do X or Y before it does it. Linux may not do everything (yet ) but it was working and widely used when the "hype" began (as opposed to Java or TPM).

Heh. Ask the investors about that. Red Hat, and Corel (tho Corel has plenty of other problems) both bet heavily on Linux taking off commercially near term, and it ain't come soon enough for the "dot-com" investment crowd. So count them as victims of hype, rather than instigators.

Note, if you wan tto respond to this you should be better to begin another thread in the rant section (maybe I should).

Well, I'm done.

Microsoft & ________(fill in the blank).

No comment.

Too right.

Bill Gates Law: When in doubt, FUD.

BeauSabre

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"Violence is the last resort of the incompetent." - Asimov
"Damn straight. The competent don't wait that long." -Pournelle

Finagle's First Law: "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum."

Brooks' addendum to Murhpy's: "things will fail at the worst possible time."

Third (see Finagle's first with respect to the count): "For an intermittant failure, the probability of the symptoms appearing are inversely proportional to the availability of the person capable of repairing it." AKA Greshem's Law "When the TV repairman is present, the TV works".

No one can ever know anything certainly. The observer is either too close to be impartial, or to distanced to know what the hell is going on.

Schumacher's Theory of Group Stupidity

The overall intelligence of a group is equal to that of its most intelligent member. The stupidity of a group is equal to the sum of the stupidity of all its members. Ergo, the larger the group, the dumber it gets. This explains beaurocracies and sporting events.

- Adam