It's a history thing. At one time we didn't need IDs for anything and many of us are the untrusting sort who need real bonuses before pimping out even fake data. I think it was slashboxes that convinced me to sign up for an ID.
I think similiar statements have been around ever since the first man made object went boom. An old master steam fitter I know told me "If you see me run for the door, you should probably run for the door too."
I though it was very clever of him but he came clean and told me he heard it as during his apprenticeship just after The Great War (WWI)
Isn't the purpose of the lock to keep people out of the room?
Locks are to keep honest people honest. Criminals are barely slowed down by them. After all if the lock is to tough they'll just kick the door in or bust a window.
ZIP code 90210 Hey that where I live too!:) I wonder how many people live on this block? And when I signed up for a Hotmail account (back before they were absorbed by the evil empire - I've got a 4 character ID) I was a 13yr female making >100,000 a year as an executive born on Elvis's birthday:)
Why would anyone ever give these web companies correct information?!?
Microsoft's license gestappo may be able to intimidate small vendors with their "if it's not Windows, it's piracy" policy, but there's no way Microsoft (total assets $59 billion) can go up against Wal-Mart (more than 3x that in sales alone last year).
Now there's a cage match I'd pay to see:). Afterall MS has something like $40 BILLION dollars in cash equivelents just sitting around. And Wal-Mart would probably win and then we'd hear a lot less from the BSA I'd bet.
We have a word (two words actually) Copyright Infringement. We just can't get the media companies (who by coincedence have large amounts of IP) to use the term.
Anyhow, the average post quality was quite a bit better before the Karma system existed (and, for that matter, before user logins were used).
Probably due more to only having a few thousand users instead of a few hundred thousand users. I'd bet you remember when a hundred comment post was bug news.
Jack Valenti is speaking out his ass and using the same retoric that used to fly re duped VHS tapes. Giving him the benifit of the doubt maybe the copyright infringers weren't copying the liner notes/cover art. Wouldn't really impact my movie viewing experience but I guess that would make the copies "wholly inferior" in somebodies eyes.
All hail the buckling spring keyboard! The best keyboard ever made (and as an added bonus mine doesn't have a stupid windows key). Or were you talking about the "feature" that emmitted a clicking noise from a speaker on every key press. My 3270 keyboard has that available.
(More like spare parts becoming unavailable when GM goes out of business.)
IT's exactly that . Tried to buy a rear brake drum for a '66 Windsor 2DRHT lately? Not available new at any price unless you can luck on to a NOS part. (not idle speculation, it's a good thing I have a couple parts cars sitting around) I know 35 years seems like for ever but it's not, not even in computing. In some ways computing is worse. Even trying to find parts for 5 year old systems can be impossible. Nothing like having a $150,000 5 year old computer controlled router sitting lifeless because your vendor went chapter 11 and now they can't supply you with parts.
there are no good justifications for giving a home user crappy service or limited functionality just because their office is also their residence.
Actually there is, People who are willing to pay more get better service. Lots of outages result in a sort of triage. Take for example outages caused by lines being down becasue of weather. The telcos only have so many crews able to repair those lines and those crews might be working 20hrs a day after a severe storm. The customers who are paying more are going to get there lines hooked up before the customers who are paying less. Residential customers at the end of a service line often experience downtimes in excess of 10% (more than a month cumlative over a year) because they are the first to go down and the last to come back up. As well they are often are using the oldest and least reliable equipement. Anyone out there still on a party line? I was until a few years ago and I have a friend who still is even though it is a party line of one.
For phone service it's always been like that. Phone service in most places (in Canada/US anyways) is just too darn reliable nowadays. People expect it to always be there and have no idea what to do if service degrades. For example try give this senario to people:
You've just experienced an earth quake. You pick up the phone to call 911 (your 50" plasma display fell on you and you can't get up) and you get no dial tone. What should you do?
Most people will hang up and try imediately try again; repeatedly. Which is the totally wrong thing to do. You should check for an active line by blowing in the mic and listening for the blowing sounds in the speaker. If you can hear the blowing sounds just stay on the line, you've been queued, FIFO style, by the switch and will get a dial tone eventually. If you hang up and try again to the end of the queue you go. If you don't hear anything stop trying cause you've lost physical connection with the switch or the switch has crashed.
PS: the reason you're not getting a dial tone is two fold. 1) A large number of handsets have been shook off their cradles causing them to ask for a connection. 2) a bunch of idiots are trying to phone everyone they know to see if they made it through OK. The system isn't even close to having the trunk capacity to handle every local line trying to call at once. The off hook phones will eventually be deactivated by the switch at which point one is only competing with case two.
So you should increase your hourly rate by the difference in business/residential phone cost. Just for good measure I always include the cost of a totally seperate phone line. Not only does it not ty up my personal line, I can also elect to not answer the business number and there are minor tax advantages as well. Don't forget to add in a surcharge for the hassle of setting up the line and paying the bill every month. IE: if the line was costing me $50/month I'd probably up my hourly rate enough to cover $100/month. It almost never pays to under value your work.
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It's not Hayes ( do they even exist anymore?) It is a fault implementation by vendors would didn't want to pay licencing for the submarine patent.
Phone system problems aren't always as severe as no connection or no dial tone. And you don't have to use the problem phone to call 611.
We use two mice for some stereo mapping/GIS applications like DVP The second mouse controls your Z axis (height above ground)
It's a history thing. At one time we didn't need IDs for anything and many of us are the untrusting sort who need real bonuses before pimping out even fake data. I think it was slashboxes that convinced me to sign up for an ID.
I think similiar statements have been around ever since the first man made object went boom. An old master steam fitter I know told me "If you see me run for the door, you should probably run for the door too."
I though it was very clever of him but he came clean and told me he heard it as during his apprenticeship just after The Great War (WWI)
On top of that they have the HoloDeck. What more could you possibly need?
I think he was infering to use something like this USB to Serial Adapter
Locks are to keep honest people honest. Criminals are barely slowed down by them. After all if the lock is to tough they'll just kick the door in or bust a window.
What kind of slide card? If it's one that uses a magnetic strip they are rediculously easy to copy.
ZIP code 90210 :) I wonder how many people live on this block? And when I signed up for a Hotmail account (back before they were absorbed by the evil empire - I've got a 4 character ID) I was a 13yr female making >100,000 a year as an executive born on Elvis's birthday :)
Hey that where I live too!
Why would anyone ever give these web companies correct information?!?
Microsoft's license gestappo may be able to intimidate small vendors with their "if it's not Windows, it's piracy" policy, but there's no way Microsoft (total assets $59 billion) can go up against Wal-Mart (more than 3x that in sales alone last year).
:). Afterall MS has something like $40 BILLION dollars in cash equivelents just sitting around. And Wal-Mart would probably win and then we'd hear a lot less from the BSA I'd bet.
Now there's a cage match I'd pay to see
SOME of us stuck to our guns a bit longer ;)
Yah, once they brought out slashboxes I couldn't hold out anymore.
We have a word (two words actually) Copyright Infringement. We just can't get the media companies (who by coincedence have large amounts of IP) to use the term.
However PT are an ongoing mostly continuos process. The magnetic field has collapsed completely for centeries at a time.
Probably due more to only having a few thousand users instead of a few hundred thousand users. I'd bet you remember when a hundred comment post was bug news.
Jack Valenti is speaking out his ass and using the same retoric that used to fly re duped VHS tapes. Giving him the benifit of the doubt maybe the copyright infringers weren't copying the liner notes/cover art. Wouldn't really impact my movie viewing experience but I guess that would make the copies "wholly inferior" in somebodies eyes.
All hail the buckling spring keyboard! The best keyboard ever made (and as an added bonus mine doesn't have a stupid windows key). Or were you talking about the "feature" that emmitted a clicking noise from a speaker on every key press. My 3270 keyboard has that available.
Read to the end of the one paragraph article and you'll see that it is.
(More like spare parts becoming unavailable when GM goes out of business.)
IT's exactly that . Tried to buy a rear brake drum for a '66 Windsor 2DRHT lately? Not available new at any price unless you can luck on to a NOS part. (not idle speculation, it's a good thing I have a couple parts cars sitting around) I know 35 years seems like for ever but it's not, not even in computing. In some ways computing is worse. Even trying to find parts for 5 year old systems can be impossible. Nothing like having a $150,000 5 year old computer controlled router sitting lifeless because your vendor went chapter 11 and now they can't supply you with parts.
Yah, I had Wyse terminals for my Wang. Where did all the good names go :)
It must, the cpu is solder on the motherboard.
Or as I'm fond of saying:
Anyone who isn't confused here doesn't really know what's going on.
Actually there is, People who are willing to pay more get better service. Lots of outages result in a sort of triage. Take for example outages caused by lines being down becasue of weather. The telcos only have so many crews able to repair those lines and those crews might be working 20hrs a day after a severe storm. The customers who are paying more are going to get there lines hooked up before the customers who are paying less. Residential customers at the end of a service line often experience downtimes in excess of 10% (more than a month cumlative over a year) because they are the first to go down and the last to come back up. As well they are often are using the oldest and least reliable equipement. Anyone out there still on a party line? I was until a few years ago and I have a friend who still is even though it is a party line of one.
You've just experienced an earth quake. You pick up the phone to call 911 (your 50" plasma display fell on you and you can't get up) and you get no dial tone. What should you do?
Most people will hang up and try imediately try again; repeatedly. Which is the totally wrong thing to do. You should check for an active line by blowing in the mic and listening for the blowing sounds in the speaker. If you can hear the blowing sounds just stay on the line, you've been queued, FIFO style, by the switch and will get a dial tone eventually. If you hang up and try again to the end of the queue you go. If you don't hear anything stop trying cause you've lost physical connection with the switch or the switch has crashed.
PS: the reason you're not getting a dial tone is two fold. 1) A large number of handsets have been shook off their cradles causing them to ask for a connection. 2) a bunch of idiots are trying to phone everyone they know to see if they made it through OK. The system isn't even close to having the trunk capacity to handle every local line trying to call at once. The off hook phones will eventually be deactivated by the switch at which point one is only competing with case two.
So you should increase your hourly rate by the difference in business/residential phone cost. Just for good measure I always include the cost of a totally seperate phone line. Not only does it not ty up my personal line, I can also elect to not answer the business number and there are minor tax advantages as well. Don't forget to add in a surcharge for the hassle of setting up the line and paying the bill every month. IE: if the line was costing me $50/month I'd probably up my hourly rate enough to cover $100/month. It almost never pays to under value your work.