It is no big surprise that big exec types hold their "personal relationships" very dearly. That being said, I'm sure this old Time Warner guy is making all sorts of deals with the current Time Warner people already... he'll be getting fat off payoffs in one form or another if he has say so over what the president votes for.
People interested in science are obviously being given the shaft at the workplace too often... so that people don't want to go in those fields.
Less stress, better working conditions, and less hours... and more pay wouldn't hurt either. It's the same old thing... business exec types love taking advantage of people, and a lot of techies don't enjoy fighting against the business exec's sneaky ways.
But as for the likes of MMOs that eat away tons and tons of time, I think Blizzard would be morally correct to actually provide an "ending" in whatever form it would be to get high level players off this game.
Really, it has been a small factor in destroying more than one person's life that I know. Not to say it's Blizzard's fault, but it is something they should consider.
I think the point of the machines not using smarter energy abilties was partly b/c they simply hated humans and would rather screw them over and control the humans like humans used to control all machines... and partly it was of course a way to further the plot... and partly it might have been representative of some human actions today. Why use solar when your rich oil company friends can make a killing?
It would be ridiculous to screw over the people searching by limiting them to only that one brand. Too bad for you if your trademark is so huge that it is what everybody uses as the name of a general product.
You have to love simple solutions to big problems. I have a question for any expert- is the same phenomenon the reason people with blurry vision squint? I noticed at my last eye exam... my left eye is weak, and besides memorizing the test a little by going right eye first, I passed the left eye test by lining up the letters very close to the edge of the device I was looking through to make them less blurry. It appeared to be refraction, but could it also just be something related to decreasing the amount of light (is that related to astigmatism)? I don't wear glasses (and don't want to), so I apologize for any lack of common knowledge.
In some version of D&D, orcs and such can be of low intelligence, but still be "crafty" and seemingly smart at certain things. Maybe Bush runs things like this. Dumb when it comes to hard thinking, smart when it comes to cheating.
but after their evil attitude, I decided I won't ever buy another Metallica album if I can help it. They were just too ass/money hungry/fuck the people all at the same time.
Doom2 is why I bought a computer. Get some of those old games... you can play co-op or deathmatch or whatever.
Other than that... buy old NES and SNES cartridges on Ebay for legal reasons, then download the ROMS and play the ROMS on emulators.
Before you go out of town, forward all emails you want to check to one email account... say your work account. Now, reset your work password (i'd say one not too hard to remember since it'll be temporary).
Then limit your email checking to once or twice a day and call your friend back home and have him/her reset your password to a new one after each time you expose your current password. That way if you got keylogged, the password they have will be useless.
Would work great for my limited travel needs. If you travel a lot, time to get that PDA or laptop maybe.
I wish somebody working at the ISPs should frequently accidentally leak IP and other info on the jerks requesting these laws out to the public. Give them a taste of their own damn medicine. Controlling soul sucking crap that they must be.
How exactly are they aiming this at pilots? It sounds like someone using something fairly sophisticated to have that accurate of an attack, unless they are right next to an airport or something. I mean, first, the pilots have a very minimal frontal view of the ground when they are way up in the air at cruising speeds, yes? Second, is it more a problem in Australia b/c there are less clouds (as in the problem people wouldn't be able to shoot it at jets hidden in clouds for various reasons).
But if people are really doing this, I'd like them stopped in their tracks. Idea. Maybe they could equip laser guided missles to find the jerkies shooting the laser up.;)
does this just mean that temporarily comcast is doing the right thing? and they allow themselves to go back to blocking or monitoring whatever they want later?
personally i don't think slowing down p2p sharing is a bad thing if it allows better pings for such things that pings are a do or die factor (such as most online games).
I don't know any blind people personally, but my deaf brother has benefited hugely by the mass appeal of the web, text messaging, and hand held devices. I would love to see the web be easier to navigate for the blind, as I imagine being blind has got to suck a lot more than being deaf, but I think the medium at the moment is very much situated against them. Text and graphics are what the web are based on.
Now if you look back, regular phones and cellphones (without text) were great for the blind, but pretty much sucked for the deaf. So where am I going with this?
Maybe in the next few years the web will make a transition to technology that is based around more video with audio (seems to be happening already with youtube, etc.), and this shift will help the blind. For instance, how many presidential speeches are in video form as well as written form lately?
Yeah, because we totally understand cancer... and the problems leading up the getting cancer are Obviously fine. Hell, you actually get stronger the closer you are to dying from cancer, or even better... right up until the point were it is detected. As a matter of fact, if you just avoid getting cancer detected at your doctor, your tumor will turn your liver/prostate/breast into the incredible hulk's version of it! Yeahhhhh! That's how cancer and cancer causing agents work... perfectly safe till 30 years later!
Selfish? That's funny. I've yet to meet a millionaire who wasn't extremely selfish and willing to screw over his workers to a fair degree to reap benefits. I mean really, just how many tenfold or hundredfold times over his employees should the CEO or owner of a company be making? I mean, give me a friggin break.
Just like visiting friends killed libraries in the 1800s. No way in hell are searches going down the drain! Every time somebody sends me something, then I do more searching to find out more about it.
Yeah, why is this modded so high? There is a HUGE difference between using drugs and walking on a treadmill or having sex. HUGE. Just because some of the chemical reactions in the brain are "related" doesn't mean it's the same thing. Don't be a twat.
The trinitrons certainly do. My evil cat taught me that... it was so cute when he was chasing the cursor with his paw... until I realized 1/5 of my screen was scratched to all hell!
Another true story: had a guy install Office 2007 (he just graduated and had a "free student copy" or similar) on his and a couple of coworker PCs. Before we knew it, several excel files had been converted and "broken" for the hundreds of other users because of that one jackass.
We had to restore from tape (eww), and due to lack of cooperation/communication somebody or three lost a few days worth of data. Anyway, if we hadn't caught the problem soon enough, it would have been a much much bigger headache with tons of files being converted and likely tons of data lost.
Last true story: One guy installed Vista on his PC! It was a "field PC" so it wasn't on the windows domain... anyway, that was another interesting development.
All these anti-IT dept posts are by users that apparently work in software development companies or something, because at regular companies the non-IT people are clueless on their computers. Not to say we restrict the hell out of them (even though it's tempting sometimes), but basically most people are not into computers as a hobby so they just want to surf, email, or do their job.
Did you reverse that on purpose? Because as I see it, IT always figures out the hard part of the users' jobs for them... and makes me wonder why we don't just have one big IT dept instead of all the other depts that have trouble thinking in an even slightly logical way.
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It is no big surprise that big exec types hold their "personal relationships" very dearly. That being said, I'm sure this old Time Warner guy is making all sorts of deals with the current Time Warner people already... he'll be getting fat off payoffs in one form or another if he has say so over what the president votes for.
People interested in science are obviously being given the shaft at the workplace too often... so that people don't want to go in those fields. Less stress, better working conditions, and less hours... and more pay wouldn't hurt either. It's the same old thing... business exec types love taking advantage of people, and a lot of techies don't enjoy fighting against the business exec's sneaky ways.
But as for the likes of MMOs that eat away tons and tons of time, I think Blizzard would be morally correct to actually provide an "ending" in whatever form it would be to get high level players off this game. Really, it has been a small factor in destroying more than one person's life that I know. Not to say it's Blizzard's fault, but it is something they should consider.
Get Anderson- he's the man!
I think the point of the machines not using smarter energy abilties was partly b/c they simply hated humans and would rather screw them over and control the humans like humans used to control all machines... and partly it was of course a way to further the plot... and partly it might have been representative of some human actions today. Why use solar when your rich oil company friends can make a killing?
It would be ridiculous to screw over the people searching by limiting them to only that one brand. Too bad for you if your trademark is so huge that it is what everybody uses as the name of a general product.
You have to love simple solutions to big problems. I have a question for any expert- is the same phenomenon the reason people with blurry vision squint? I noticed at my last eye exam... my left eye is weak, and besides memorizing the test a little by going right eye first, I passed the left eye test by lining up the letters very close to the edge of the device I was looking through to make them less blurry. It appeared to be refraction, but could it also just be something related to decreasing the amount of light (is that related to astigmatism)? I don't wear glasses (and don't want to), so I apologize for any lack of common knowledge.
In some version of D&D, orcs and such can be of low intelligence, but still be "crafty" and seemingly smart at certain things. Maybe Bush runs things like this. Dumb when it comes to hard thinking, smart when it comes to cheating.
but after their evil attitude, I decided I won't ever buy another Metallica album if I can help it. They were just too ass/money hungry/fuck the people all at the same time.
We've told Dell we want XP longer... and I'm glad they are doing this. We'll skip Vista and wait for the next Windows... hopefully it will not suck.
Doom2 is why I bought a computer. Get some of those old games... you can play co-op or deathmatch or whatever. Other than that... buy old NES and SNES cartridges on Ebay for legal reasons, then download the ROMS and play the ROMS on emulators.
Before you go out of town, forward all emails you want to check to one email account... say your work account. Now, reset your work password (i'd say one not too hard to remember since it'll be temporary). Then limit your email checking to once or twice a day and call your friend back home and have him/her reset your password to a new one after each time you expose your current password. That way if you got keylogged, the password they have will be useless. Would work great for my limited travel needs. If you travel a lot, time to get that PDA or laptop maybe.
I wish somebody working at the ISPs should frequently accidentally leak IP and other info on the jerks requesting these laws out to the public. Give them a taste of their own damn medicine. Controlling soul sucking crap that they must be.
How exactly are they aiming this at pilots? It sounds like someone using something fairly sophisticated to have that accurate of an attack, unless they are right next to an airport or something. I mean, first, the pilots have a very minimal frontal view of the ground when they are way up in the air at cruising speeds, yes? Second, is it more a problem in Australia b/c there are less clouds (as in the problem people wouldn't be able to shoot it at jets hidden in clouds for various reasons). But if people are really doing this, I'd like them stopped in their tracks. Idea. Maybe they could equip laser guided missles to find the jerkies shooting the laser up. ;)
does this just mean that temporarily comcast is doing the right thing? and they allow themselves to go back to blocking or monitoring whatever they want later? personally i don't think slowing down p2p sharing is a bad thing if it allows better pings for such things that pings are a do or die factor (such as most online games).
I don't know any blind people personally, but my deaf brother has benefited hugely by the mass appeal of the web, text messaging, and hand held devices. I would love to see the web be easier to navigate for the blind, as I imagine being blind has got to suck a lot more than being deaf, but I think the medium at the moment is very much situated against them. Text and graphics are what the web are based on. Now if you look back, regular phones and cellphones (without text) were great for the blind, but pretty much sucked for the deaf. So where am I going with this? Maybe in the next few years the web will make a transition to technology that is based around more video with audio (seems to be happening already with youtube, etc.), and this shift will help the blind. For instance, how many presidential speeches are in video form as well as written form lately?
Yeah, because we totally understand cancer... and the problems leading up the getting cancer are Obviously fine. Hell, you actually get stronger the closer you are to dying from cancer, or even better... right up until the point were it is detected. As a matter of fact, if you just avoid getting cancer detected at your doctor, your tumor will turn your liver/prostate/breast into the incredible hulk's version of it! Yeahhhhh! That's how cancer and cancer causing agents work... perfectly safe till 30 years later!
Selfish? That's funny. I've yet to meet a millionaire who wasn't extremely selfish and willing to screw over his workers to a fair degree to reap benefits. I mean really, just how many tenfold or hundredfold times over his employees should the CEO or owner of a company be making? I mean, give me a friggin break.
I've got a question... if you go here: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?site=ctc&state=la and your congress rep is vacant "Representative Vacant (- - 01)" what is the best course of action?
Just like visiting friends killed libraries in the 1800s. No way in hell are searches going down the drain! Every time somebody sends me something, then I do more searching to find out more about it.
Yeah, why is this modded so high? There is a HUGE difference between using drugs and walking on a treadmill or having sex. HUGE. Just because some of the chemical reactions in the brain are "related" doesn't mean it's the same thing. Don't be a twat.
The trinitrons certainly do. My evil cat taught me that... it was so cute when he was chasing the cursor with his paw... until I realized 1/5 of my screen was scratched to all hell!
Another true story: had a guy install Office 2007 (he just graduated and had a "free student copy" or similar) on his and a couple of coworker PCs. Before we knew it, several excel files had been converted and "broken" for the hundreds of other users because of that one jackass. We had to restore from tape (eww), and due to lack of cooperation/communication somebody or three lost a few days worth of data. Anyway, if we hadn't caught the problem soon enough, it would have been a much much bigger headache with tons of files being converted and likely tons of data lost. Last true story: One guy installed Vista on his PC! It was a "field PC" so it wasn't on the windows domain... anyway, that was another interesting development.
All these anti-IT dept posts are by users that apparently work in software development companies or something, because at regular companies the non-IT people are clueless on their computers. Not to say we restrict the hell out of them (even though it's tempting sometimes), but basically most people are not into computers as a hobby so they just want to surf, email, or do their job.
Did you reverse that on purpose? Because as I see it, IT always figures out the hard part of the users' jobs for them... and makes me wonder why we don't just have one big IT dept instead of all the other depts that have trouble thinking in an even slightly logical way.