At work they bought us each two of the HP LA2405x, which is 1920x1200. Looks like they're currently going for about $260 on Newegg. It's not bad, they get the job done and the resolution is definitely a plus. However, my fiance and I each bought ourselves an Asus PA248Q right after Christmas, and it is by far my favorite monitor. I think we paid just under $300, there was a good sale on them at Fry's. I really love the IPS even if it is just e-IPS, and the stand itself is very sturdy and easy to manipulate as well. I'll definitely be grabbing a second one when it's in the budget.
I second the nomination for Abstruse Goose, I'm surprised no one else has mentioned it yet. Another one of my regular favourites I haven't seen yet is Surviving the World.
This thread has been great for some new comics to read! As if I didn't have enough to keep me from doing actual work already.
Yeah, same with us... we're working on the Windows 7 rollout this month and next, but the real big push will be starting in February. I'd imagine someone somewhere is playing around with Windows 8, but given the current state of things I don't think we'd even have an image ready until the later part of this year at the earliest, let alone start rolling it out for anyone. We still have whole business units stuck on XP for old applications.
We have tons of these in my town as well, and it works fine for me because A - for roads with higher speed limits I can at least see one versus two digits left on the timer when I am far enough out for it to make a difference, and B - I'm extremely familiar with the intersections I drive on a daily basis and know the timing well. I've not noticed any issues at any of the intersections with people slowing down too early due to the timers. I'm sure there are plenty more people like me who know the roads well for whom the timers are a reasonable benefit, and I'm sure there are also plenty of people who don't pay attention to them in the slightest. Either way, the effect seems to be a net positive.
My polling place was packed when I passed by on the way to work with cars lined up in the street trying to get in around 8:20. Came back just after 3 this afternoon and it wasn't so bad - waited about 30-35 minutes in line. Two massage therapists in front of me were having an animated discussion about how the human body is not very well-adapted to walking upright on two legs.
Ballot itself was very short, much shorter than the off-cycle one earlier this year. Besides the presidential candidates, there were maybe 4-5 various local positions. I wrote in the names of my kitties for a couple where the jackasses were running uncontested.
The polling place itself was pretty calm - it's a city community center. There were no signs, ads, or propaganda outside the building. To get from work to my polling place, I actually passed a church that serves as another polling place, which was littered with campaign ads.
Overall a fairly uneventful experience, although I'd much prefer it that way. I was a little irked that Gary Johnson made the ballot but Jill Stein was just a write-in, but so it goes.
I'm sure I'm not the only Verizon user disappointed with the lack of a CDMA/4G LTE version. Especially if it was also offered at $300 unsubsidized, I'm sure there would be many people interested since it will allow users to retain any pre-existing unlimited data plans. Hopefully they have something in the works - I would really love for my next phone to be a Nexus device (especially given how much I'm enjoying my Nexus 7), but I'm not willing to change carriers and lose my current plan with discounts for it.
Interesting, I've been having the same problem with a Crucial M4 drive for a while now. To be honest I haven't even investigated since I stopped using it as my boot drive before the problem started happening, but I'll have to check and see if there is a firmware issue with it. I bought it when the drive was first released almost a year and a half ago, so I'm sure an update won't hurt.
On a side note - the Crucial was not replaced for any failures on its part, I definitely liked it a lot (especially the speed!). I just needed more space, and my fiance gave me a lovely Intel 510 for Christmas:)
I've reinstalled my OEM copy of Win7 Pro probably 4 times now, and one of those was after a motherboard upgrade (and 2 of the others were hard drive swap outs). Also I believe my fiance reinstalled with my copy on his machine after he lost his copy. They really don't care.
Heh, there was an article in our local paper yesterday about how our local police and fire departments do this and are proud of it. Well, they don't ask for the credentials, they have you log into your account in front of them and then hand the machine over so they can browse around to their liking. They called it an "in-depth background check" or something like that, and touted the usual "it's for the children!" BS. They have implemented this practice for all potential new hires, and have also said they will begin doing it for all current employees as well in the next month or so. Sigh.
Man, even with airbags I still managed to tick off all the injuries on your list. Snapped my left forearm clear through both bones, head hit and cracked the windshield, 3 broken ribs, my femur punched through my pelvis from my knee hitting the dash, and plenty of skin scraped off my arms from the airbag deploying - it wasn't pretty. I took a sharp curve a little too fast in the rain and hydroplaned off the road into some trees. To be fair, the only thing I know the airbag was directly responsible for were the scrapes (which I still have the scars from 5 years later), but the doctor said it's likely that it played a role in my broken arm as well.
Original Doctor Who is the best, I actually enjoy it more than the new take (and I am indeed a woman). Of course, my parents were big enough fans that they named me after one of the female companions, so I may have grown up with a bit of a bias.
We recently discovered that unauthorized intruders gained access to a Trion Worlds account database. The database in question contained information including user names, encrypted passwords, dates of birth, email addresses, billing addresses, and the first and last four digits and expiration dates of customer credit cards.
There is no evidence, and we have no reason to believe, that full credit card information was accessed or compromised in any way. We have already taken further action to strengthen our systems, even as we, with external security experts, continue to research the extent of the unauthorized access.
You will notice on your next log in to our website that you will be required to change your password, and existing Mobile Authenticator users will also need to reconnect their Authenticator. When you log in, you will be prompted to provide a new password, security questions and answers, and be given the option to connect your account to our Mobile Authenticator to enhance your account’s security.
If you have used your username and password for other accounts, especially financial accounts or accounts with personal information, we suggest you change your passwords on those accounts as well. We recommend that you carefully review your statements, account activity, and credit reports to help protect the security of those accounts. If you need information on how to obtain your credit report or believe any such accounts have been breached, please visit www.trionworlds.com/AccountNotification for more information.
You should have continued, uninterrupted access to RIFT, and we do not anticipate any disruptions to your playing time.
Nevertheless, if you own the RIFT game, you will be granted three (3) days of complimentary RIFT game time once you update your password and security questions.
Additionally, once you update your account and set a new password, your account will be granted a Moneybags’ Purse, which increases your looted coin by 10%, even if you have not yet purchased RIFT.
Please log in to https://rift.trionworlds.com/ (and we recommend that you copy and paste this link into your browser to access the site) to update your password, security questions and Authenticator.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. If you have further questions, please visit our website, www.trionworlds.com/AccountNotificationFAQ.
– The Trion Worlds Team
Trion's been pretty good about security from what I've seen, and I definitely appreciate them being upfront about the breach. Giving people a few days of game play and shinies will probably generate some good will as well.
I've been a Verizon customer for about 8 years now and have never had to wait longer than 5 minutes at their absolute busiest to speak with customer support. Usually it's more like 30 seconds if there's a wait at all. I know there are cheaper ways to get cell service, but honestly I've never had anything but great service and support from Verizon.
Yeah, it wasn't bugging me too much until I realised that three stories have timestamps later than this one, yet this is still number two in my feed. Came here to see if anyone else was experiencing the same thing. Do not want:(
Where I work, they actually switched the whole department (about 600 people) back to non-exempt/hourly about a year ago. Something about labour laws, I'm not sure. At any rate, this would affect quite a few people for us if passes. What a load of nonsense.
Just a guess, and perhaps an incorrect one, but it'll probably play nicely with existing BES setups. Our large (>35k people) company is still probably 90% BB, and upper management has been very reluctant to move away. We do currently use the McAfee EMM product (shoot me, I know) to sync iPhones with our Exchange servers, but there seems to be an extremely strong anti-Android movement upstairs so no love for us yet. Even though this is a RIM product, I'm all for adopting it here if it will streamline the administering of mobile devices on our network and allow us to use Android devices.
The whole "chain of authority" thing is a huge problem in our group. Our manager and two team leads are all vets, so this is very much the way things are expected to run. You don't dare ask why you're being told to suddenly drop all current projects and work on mindless data collection for a week. And if you have a problem which our manager doesn't deem important enough to actually address, there will be hell to pay for going above his head to the director. Stopping now before this turns into a full-out I-hate-my-management rant, but yeah, I know alllll about working with vets in an IT environment. I'd rather not, thanks.
I have a Linksys WRT310n at home running DDWRT serving as a bridge for my desktop. Setup was fine, no issues for me at least.
On a related note, the reason I ended up setting it up as a bridge for my desktop is that the Linksys AE1000 USB wireless n adapter I bought is an absolute piece of junk. Almost every time I would reboot my computer or come back from sleep mode, the connection speed would drop to a crawl - usually around 30 kbps. It was easily fixed by unplugging the adapter and plugging it back in, but that got old really quickly. My boyfriend has the same adapter and never has any issues with his, but a quick jaunt over to google revealed that I'm far from being the only one with this problem. I'd recommend steering clear of that particular adapter.
Agreed 100%! When I was in elementary school, some of my favourite computer games were the Magic School Bus series. I learned about geology, space, the human body, and all kinds of stuff all while having a blast. By no means should things like this be used to replace teachers and classrooms, but even with a good teacher, these can be great supplements to vary the types of experiences kids have in school.
Hmm, do you work where I work? As part of an IT department in an international corporation, this is something we've had to tell users. IE8 doesn't work for a lot of the things our sales department uses, and when asked about it, we have been instructed by corporate to encourage everyone to use IE6 only as that is the native environment still for most web-based apps we use. Oh, the joys of having detached corporate leadership... It gets better, too. We've also been encouraged to start rolling out Windows 7 for the users who are willing, but they haven't even bothered yet to upgrade major systems past IE6 compatibility. I don't know what they think we do down here.
Because, until the massive influx of ILLEGAL immigrants in the U.S., toilets everywhere went unscrubbed, burgers went unflipped, no construction happened, lawns went unmowed, assembly-lines were silent...
I don't believe the GP was stating that these jobs didn't exist before illegal immigration became so prevalent. Even though many people like to whine about jobs getting stolen, they would pass over these sorts of jobs now simply because we've grown used to not having to do them ourselves. I'm not saying it's right, and I'm not trying to make apologies for anyone, but illegal immigration has changed the societal norm. It's irrelevant who did the jobs twenty years ago, things have changed and most middle class white Americans would indeed consider those sorts of jobs beneath them now.
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At work they bought us each two of the HP LA2405x, which is 1920x1200. Looks like they're currently going for about $260 on Newegg. It's not bad, they get the job done and the resolution is definitely a plus. However, my fiance and I each bought ourselves an Asus PA248Q right after Christmas, and it is by far my favorite monitor. I think we paid just under $300, there was a good sale on them at Fry's. I really love the IPS even if it is just e-IPS, and the stand itself is very sturdy and easy to manipulate as well. I'll definitely be grabbing a second one when it's in the budget.
I second the nomination for Abstruse Goose, I'm surprised no one else has mentioned it yet. Another one of my regular favourites I haven't seen yet is Surviving the World.
This thread has been great for some new comics to read! As if I didn't have enough to keep me from doing actual work already.
Yeah, same with us... we're working on the Windows 7 rollout this month and next, but the real big push will be starting in February. I'd imagine someone somewhere is playing around with Windows 8, but given the current state of things I don't think we'd even have an image ready until the later part of this year at the earliest, let alone start rolling it out for anyone. We still have whole business units stuck on XP for old applications.
We have tons of these in my town as well, and it works fine for me because A - for roads with higher speed limits I can at least see one versus two digits left on the timer when I am far enough out for it to make a difference, and B - I'm extremely familiar with the intersections I drive on a daily basis and know the timing well. I've not noticed any issues at any of the intersections with people slowing down too early due to the timers. I'm sure there are plenty more people like me who know the roads well for whom the timers are a reasonable benefit, and I'm sure there are also plenty of people who don't pay attention to them in the slightest. Either way, the effect seems to be a net positive.
My polling place was packed when I passed by on the way to work with cars lined up in the street trying to get in around 8:20. Came back just after 3 this afternoon and it wasn't so bad - waited about 30-35 minutes in line. Two massage therapists in front of me were having an animated discussion about how the human body is not very well-adapted to walking upright on two legs.
Ballot itself was very short, much shorter than the off-cycle one earlier this year. Besides the presidential candidates, there were maybe 4-5 various local positions. I wrote in the names of my kitties for a couple where the jackasses were running uncontested.
The polling place itself was pretty calm - it's a city community center. There were no signs, ads, or propaganda outside the building. To get from work to my polling place, I actually passed a church that serves as another polling place, which was littered with campaign ads.
Overall a fairly uneventful experience, although I'd much prefer it that way. I was a little irked that Gary Johnson made the ballot but Jill Stein was just a write-in, but so it goes.
I'm sure I'm not the only Verizon user disappointed with the lack of a CDMA/4G LTE version. Especially if it was also offered at $300 unsubsidized, I'm sure there would be many people interested since it will allow users to retain any pre-existing unlimited data plans. Hopefully they have something in the works - I would really love for my next phone to be a Nexus device (especially given how much I'm enjoying my Nexus 7), but I'm not willing to change carriers and lose my current plan with discounts for it.
Interesting, I've been having the same problem with a Crucial M4 drive for a while now. To be honest I haven't even investigated since I stopped using it as my boot drive before the problem started happening, but I'll have to check and see if there is a firmware issue with it. I bought it when the drive was first released almost a year and a half ago, so I'm sure an update won't hurt. On a side note - the Crucial was not replaced for any failures on its part, I definitely liked it a lot (especially the speed!). I just needed more space, and my fiance gave me a lovely Intel 510 for Christmas :)
I've reinstalled my OEM copy of Win7 Pro probably 4 times now, and one of those was after a motherboard upgrade (and 2 of the others were hard drive swap outs). Also I believe my fiance reinstalled with my copy on his machine after he lost his copy. They really don't care.
Heh, there was an article in our local paper yesterday about how our local police and fire departments do this and are proud of it. Well, they don't ask for the credentials, they have you log into your account in front of them and then hand the machine over so they can browse around to their liking. They called it an "in-depth background check" or something like that, and touted the usual "it's for the children!" BS. They have implemented this practice for all potential new hires, and have also said they will begin doing it for all current employees as well in the next month or so. Sigh.
Man, even with airbags I still managed to tick off all the injuries on your list. Snapped my left forearm clear through both bones, head hit and cracked the windshield, 3 broken ribs, my femur punched through my pelvis from my knee hitting the dash, and plenty of skin scraped off my arms from the airbag deploying - it wasn't pretty. I took a sharp curve a little too fast in the rain and hydroplaned off the road into some trees. To be fair, the only thing I know the airbag was directly responsible for were the scrapes (which I still have the scars from 5 years later), but the doctor said it's likely that it played a role in my broken arm as well.
My kingdom for mod points!! I agree wholeheartedly :)
Original Doctor Who is the best, I actually enjoy it more than the new take (and I am indeed a woman). Of course, my parents were big enough fans that they named me after one of the female companions, so I may have grown up with a bit of a bias.
Wow, thanks very much for sharing that. I suppose I shouldn't be, but I'm really surprised that hasn't been more widely reported. What dirtbags.
We recently discovered that unauthorized intruders gained access to a Trion Worlds account database. The database in question contained information including user names, encrypted passwords, dates of birth, email addresses, billing addresses, and the first and last four digits and expiration dates of customer credit cards.
There is no evidence, and we have no reason to believe, that full credit card information was accessed or compromised in any way. We have already taken further action to strengthen our systems, even as we, with external security experts, continue to research the extent of the unauthorized access.
You will notice on your next log in to our website that you will be required to change your password, and existing Mobile Authenticator users will also need to reconnect their Authenticator. When you log in, you will be prompted to provide a new password, security questions and answers, and be given the option to connect your account to our Mobile Authenticator to enhance your account’s security.
If you have used your username and password for other accounts, especially financial accounts or accounts with personal information, we suggest you change your passwords on those accounts as well. We recommend that you carefully review your statements, account activity, and credit reports to help protect the security of those accounts. If you need information on how to obtain your credit report or believe any such accounts have been breached, please visit www.trionworlds.com/AccountNotification for more information.
You should have continued, uninterrupted access to RIFT, and we do not anticipate any disruptions to your playing time.
Nevertheless, if you own the RIFT game, you will be granted three (3) days of complimentary RIFT game time once you update your password and security questions.
Additionally, once you update your account and set a new password, your account will be granted a Moneybags’ Purse, which increases your looted coin by 10%, even if you have not yet purchased RIFT.
Please log in to https://rift.trionworlds.com/ (and we recommend that you copy and paste this link into your browser to access the site) to update your password, security questions and Authenticator.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. If you have further questions, please visit our website, www.trionworlds.com/AccountNotificationFAQ.
– The Trion Worlds Team
Trion's been pretty good about security from what I've seen, and I definitely appreciate them being upfront about the breach. Giving people a few days of game play and shinies will probably generate some good will as well.
Thanks very much for sharing! My domains are now successfully transferred.
I've been a Verizon customer for about 8 years now and have never had to wait longer than 5 minutes at their absolute busiest to speak with customer support. Usually it's more like 30 seconds if there's a wait at all. I know there are cheaper ways to get cell service, but honestly I've never had anything but great service and support from Verizon.
Yeah, it wasn't bugging me too much until I realised that three stories have timestamps later than this one, yet this is still number two in my feed. Came here to see if anyone else was experiencing the same thing. Do not want :(
Where I work, they actually switched the whole department (about 600 people) back to non-exempt/hourly about a year ago. Something about labour laws, I'm not sure. At any rate, this would affect quite a few people for us if passes. What a load of nonsense.
Just a guess, and perhaps an incorrect one, but it'll probably play nicely with existing BES setups. Our large (>35k people) company is still probably 90% BB, and upper management has been very reluctant to move away. We do currently use the McAfee EMM product (shoot me, I know) to sync iPhones with our Exchange servers, but there seems to be an extremely strong anti-Android movement upstairs so no love for us yet. Even though this is a RIM product, I'm all for adopting it here if it will streamline the administering of mobile devices on our network and allow us to use Android devices.
The whole "chain of authority" thing is a huge problem in our group. Our manager and two team leads are all vets, so this is very much the way things are expected to run. You don't dare ask why you're being told to suddenly drop all current projects and work on mindless data collection for a week. And if you have a problem which our manager doesn't deem important enough to actually address, there will be hell to pay for going above his head to the director. Stopping now before this turns into a full-out I-hate-my-management rant, but yeah, I know alllll about working with vets in an IT environment. I'd rather not, thanks.
I have a Linksys WRT310n at home running DDWRT serving as a bridge for my desktop. Setup was fine, no issues for me at least.
On a related note, the reason I ended up setting it up as a bridge for my desktop is that the Linksys AE1000 USB wireless n adapter I bought is an absolute piece of junk. Almost every time I would reboot my computer or come back from sleep mode, the connection speed would drop to a crawl - usually around 30 kbps. It was easily fixed by unplugging the adapter and plugging it back in, but that got old really quickly. My boyfriend has the same adapter and never has any issues with his, but a quick jaunt over to google revealed that I'm far from being the only one with this problem. I'd recommend steering clear of that particular adapter.
Agreed 100%! When I was in elementary school, some of my favourite computer games were the Magic School Bus series. I learned about geology, space, the human body, and all kinds of stuff all while having a blast. By no means should things like this be used to replace teachers and classrooms, but even with a good teacher, these can be great supplements to vary the types of experiences kids have in school.
Hmm, do you work where I work? As part of an IT department in an international corporation, this is something we've had to tell users. IE8 doesn't work for a lot of the things our sales department uses, and when asked about it, we have been instructed by corporate to encourage everyone to use IE6 only as that is the native environment still for most web-based apps we use. Oh, the joys of having detached corporate leadership... It gets better, too. We've also been encouraged to start rolling out Windows 7 for the users who are willing, but they haven't even bothered yet to upgrade major systems past IE6 compatibility. I don't know what they think we do down here.
Because, until the massive influx of ILLEGAL immigrants in the U.S., toilets everywhere went unscrubbed, burgers went unflipped, no construction happened, lawns went unmowed, assembly-lines were silent...
I don't believe the GP was stating that these jobs didn't exist before illegal immigration became so prevalent. Even though many people like to whine about jobs getting stolen, they would pass over these sorts of jobs now simply because we've grown used to not having to do them ourselves. I'm not saying it's right, and I'm not trying to make apologies for anyone, but illegal immigration has changed the societal norm. It's irrelevant who did the jobs twenty years ago, things have changed and most middle class white Americans would indeed consider those sorts of jobs beneath them now.
Does it run Windows 7? http://xkcd.com/528/