bottom, and you can’t scroll to them without using multiple “focus on this

product” widgets. Otherwise, interesting。http://www.rmvb-converter.com

Jade Hansen
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Ross said, “And for gods sake if I ran a respectable firm then there are some occasions where I *would* expect you to wear a suit, simply for the fact that there are days where, in almost any job, you need to look respectable.”

Well there you have it. Some people like wearing a suit because they suffer from the misbegotten notion that you have to wear a suit to look respectable.

That bit made me wonder if I had left the “A lot of people think of Sunday church as “social”, , but what it boils down to…” bit off my post. I hadn’t.

There aren’t many situations where “you” are actually expected to interact with people. There are situations where people are anticipated to interact with each other, but time and time again, not very much interaction occurs except possibly in established cliques, the attempt to interact with members of said cliques by “outsiders” is met by hostile behavior. Wearing headphones is really quite tame compared to the things that could be considered rude that goes on as a matter of course in such situations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#Population_distribution
Asia accounts for over 60% of the world population with almost 3.8 billion people.

Lets ask them how they feel.

Lissy, the site is called Forever Geek. If it was called Forever People, your comment would hold more water. You can’t reasonably get worked up because a post reinforces the site name.

The actual list is kinda silly, it’s just talking around the main problem… anyone who needs to work with complicated concepts that require keeping mental track of multiple unrelated and changing things at once (like coding), needs several hours of totally uninterrupted time to effectively do so (15+ minutes to get into ‘the zone’ and 5 seconds to get out of it because your coworker’s celphone goes off at 800 decibels behind you and you didn’t have your earphones in.)

I think these posts all cover it more effectively
http://www.microisv.com.ph/blog/interruption-is-your-enemy.html
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000068.html
http://w-uh.com/articles/030308-tyranny_of_email.html

I know personally I’m in coming up on the end of a very large project and I nearly throttled my normally wonderful boss the other day for interrupting me about 15 times to ask about unimportant crap when I was having one of the most productive sessions of coding I’ve had in months and ultimately completely broke my concentration to the point where I said “screw it” and started playing with the google maps API instead.

and I said why I don’t like it, the list shouldn’t only be applied to geeks. I think most people feel that way. And saying that this is how geeks should be treated makes it seem like geeks think they’re better than everyone else. If it said, “Things People Need To Work Happily” I’d be OK with it.

Playing against geek fears that they are perceived as having a superiority complex, whiners, undeserving of respect, and are whiners is hostile and insincere behavior.

Make a real case and don’t just get your digs in.

I think it’s rude that you are just lashing out and not coming forward with your real concerns, but then that’s just me.

10. A good way to get a geek interested in company recreational activities is to start off with activities that are comfortable to them, and work your way towards the standard activities. Your company computer network should be more than adequate for playing multiplayer video games, and most first-person-shooters have a team-based “Capture The Flag” mode which would be a good outlet for inter-departmental venting. It’s like paintball, but with less bruises. Another tactic you can try is table-top role playing games (Dungeons and Dragons being the most popular), which are excellent for building teamwork and creative thinking skills. I’m sure your geeks can come up with more examples, and you should encourage this newfound interest in socializing. Once your geeks are used to interacting with non-geeks in a recreational manner, they will be more likely to show up at the company barbecue (and they’ll be more sociable there, actually knowing some people to talk to).

Give total control of the A/C Temp to the geek, it will be cold.

Don’t anger the Geek, you will lose your network rights.

Don’t ask the geek questions about your “Home” PC, it will anger them, see above.

Email or IM the geek, do not stand behind them at their desk tapping your foot, a geek can sit in the same spot for days without moving.

If you must communicate with the geek do not ask them about the best MP3 Player for your family members, this will cause you PC to stop functioning.

And lastly never ask a geek why they need to upgrade, if we don’t upgrade the universe will implode.

l8tr,
Calmstorm