The Banter Thread / Banter Topic / Sean Bean

[112]

Damn............ they wont let me ship to the UK. No ifs or buts............ that sucks anus hole............

Sigh.......... I wonder if they will ship to canada................ hmmm

112

[C']

Good luck. Talk slowly, clealry and try and bullsh*t your way through.

Ah well, stuffed it up

Presentation part was fine but totally blanked when it came to the actual interview questions part.

Another few months in my current crappy job then...

[VR46]

Bad luck, put it down to experience I suppose and you'll hopefull breeze through the next one, could be worse, you could have my job \o/

[ChrisF]

*geek warning*

Anyone else going to the launch of Visual Studio 2008 / SQL Server 2008 / Windows Server 2008, at the Birmingham NIA in March?

[Nijo]

You can get all of them already can't you? I think they're on the MSDN disks anyway.

[Ian(not Ian)]

You can download the 'express' versions from Microsoft, I have downloaded VB and Webapp. Heavy stuff for fluffy brains like mine, but the tutorials are top stuff.

[ChrisF]

Yes, Visual Studio 2008 is on MSDN. Not sure about SQL, and Windows Server is still just RC. Launch day is more of a jolly, plus I think you do get boxed sets of the full things as well. At least, you did at the last VS launch day.

edit: Here's a link to the event if anyone's interested: https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/E...tid=1032366501

It's on 19th March.

edit2: more information: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/heroesha...e/default.mspx

[kernow]

*goes with custard pies*

[ChrisF]

Don't think Bill Gates will be there.

[Dirty Sanchez]

*geek warning*

Anyone else going to the launch of Visual Studio 2008 / SQL Server 2008 / Windows Server 2008, at the Birmingham NIA in March?

Checks Diary------No.

I'm far too old school for all this new fangled stuff.

[ChrisF]

The Tree Little Pigs is apparently racist and discriminates against the building trade:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7204635.stm

Good....... grief.......beggers..... belief..... world.....gone......mad.

[Nijo]

Heh, they'd renamed it "Three Little Cowboy Builders".

Nice.

[EJG1980]

The Tree Little Pigs is apparently racist and discriminates against the building trade:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7204635.stm

Good....... grief.......beggers..... belief..... world.....gone......mad.

Yeah, a book where the characters just happen to be pigs will offend Muslims. It'll cause huge riots, just like the way us killing thousands of pigs and selling the meat in every supermarket and butchers shop has

Once again, I'm sure no Muslim will have been involved or consulted on this, just middle class whites deciding what will offend them or not. I bet if you stopped every Muslim your saw on the street all day and asked them if they were offended by the story of the three little pigs, you'd struggle to find any that were.

And why does this book stereotype EVERY builder as a cowboy builder? That's like saying that if you write a book where a character is a... Colombian, and is also a Nazi, you're saying that every single Colombian is a Nazi!

Not wanting to offend and upset people with different beliefs: a good thing, it shows that as a society we actually give a **** about other people. The way nearly every official body goes about implementing this: usually not good at all.

[Ian(not Ian)]

'spose there's no point me submitting my 'Three Little Frogs' version then.

[VR46]

Rogue trader to cost SocGen $7bn

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7206270.stm

now that's some losses, makes Nick Leeson look like a n00b