I was wondering who they hired. All the newspapers are scrambling as if his internet "thingy" sprung up overnight to do this. all the media groups are doing this right now in a desperate attempt to stay relevant.
Sadly it's too late. A lot of people getting their news online already found the news sources that get the scoop on the traditional news outlets hours and even days before. I get a kick watching a news item hit the net and then slowly spread across all the sites during the day. Or hearing fro a Co-worker that X just happened! and I reply, no it happened this morning, and I read about it while I was ditching the boss for the 8am meeting.
Hope you milk them for all you can Taco! Because you just joined a sinking ship as the head bucket manager of the bailing team.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ -- this is a documentary future that was found a few years ago that will show you where we as a race are headed...
Everyone else does in fact suck at driving compared to me.
I have a SCCA Competition License A NASA racing license, I hold a USA and German drivers license, and have taken several hundred hours in driving courses for defensive and offensive driving. I have logged over 65 hours driving above 142 mph. This is with traffic going the same speed and slower.
So yes, all of you DO suck. Except those of you that also have had real driving experience and training. And from observations on my daily commute, the general population does not suck, they barely can understand the operation of the vehicle they are in. You have to actually know how to drive a car to suck at it.
You know how easy it is to get someone to infiltrate the cleaning crew? IF you want in a company's secret systems, that is what you do. The morons on the executive wing and security office don't understand this. the only way to fix it is either pay the cleaning people handsomely, or clean up your own trash. Either one will never happen in a corporation.
In fact at comcast we used to call the cleaning crew to get into the areas we did not have access. Their keycards would let them in everywhere, including the CEO's office.
"Again though, if you have 25 studios all around the world, each one of which could be working on all or part of a track, it becomes very hard to manage thousands of separate pieces of data."
that never happens. they dont mix the beginning in hong kong and then have the ireland guys clean up the drums.
and even if you had to have such a wacked out unrealistic setup, you can easily have an isolated network that spans the globe, you just pay for a point to point connection. the size of sony, they could purchase fiber all over the globe. There is a ton of dark fiber for sale.
The same thing they do on Video editing systems at most places. cart the files on a drive. I did IT for a major Tv production house, none of the AVID's were on a private separated network. all projects and assets were carted around outside the AVID isolated network and media server.
IF IT whines, you smack them and tell them to STFU and RTFM as putting extra effort into protecting the machines that actually makes money is more important than upsetting a few wanna-be BOFH's.
Who are these ADHD people they did this scientific survey with? I find reading on a tablet IDENTICAL to reading the book, except I cant lose my place and can search easily.
Honestly, I find reading on my iPad or my KindleDX far more enjoyable than a tiny paperback, so much so that I read a lot more now.
I find traditional captchas to be worthless. in fact most people will avoid them and they are universally hated. I have several company forums that have no problems at all with spam. WE only care about US and Canada customers so we/dev/null everything outside it at the firewall and require a real login. works fantastic.
"The more gadgets we surround ourselves, the dumber we will become"
Only for lazy people. Those of us that are smart and non lazy they make us smarter. I know the phone numbers and addresses of my parents, siblings, and top tier of friends. Mostly because I am not lazy like the typical person. I use these "gadgets" as augmentation not a replacement.
I am certain that there are many others that also do what I do. Your statement might as well be the mantra of the Modern Amish movement.
"The magic number is 3GB, which conveniently happens to be the maximum amount of tiered bandwidth AT&T will sell you."
that's funny because I am paying for 5Gb from them. It's available on the website and at any location. Sounds like the article writer did not know anything about it's data plans.
Yes you can get a business 5GB data plan on your phones, and it had better be outside that 3Gb data cap or they are refunding a lot of money.
"All advanced (i.e. - "city-building") ancient civilizations were based on slavery "
So the united states is an ancient civilization now? Because we were certainly built upon slavery.
You need to do a correction. ALL civilizations are built with slavery. China is the most recent example and is just starting to come out of the slavery phase. Note: paying someone almost nothing = slavery. forcing them to live at the factory housing = slavery. making the buy from the company store = slavery.
The united states only just came out of slavery in the 20-30's and the republicans are hell bent on trying to bring it all back.
The path to the forests are smooth, even today they are smooth. It's called a "trail"
I am guessing you never hunted. you drive to where you hunt, walk around and kill things, drag them to your cart, load up the bodies and then drive home. UGH and ARRGH did the same thing.
When they could not bring 40 slaves to carry all the dead animals, they needed a cart. plus you did not go on a 1 week hunting trip with just your pointy stick.
"A PowerPC iMac I have is more than adequate for light office use,"
Huh? you have a wierd idea of it's capabilities. I edit Full HD video on one weekly. a PPC machine has a lot of horsepower in it to do heavy lifting.
in fact, the PPC Quad core 2.5ghz box here is FASTER at rendering HD video than the new Quad Core i7 box they bought. I'd say old PPC machines still kick the arse of the new stuff.
Yet some major PHP pachages, like phpCommerce still uses register globals because the Devs are too damn lazy to spend time fixing it instead of adding features. Sadly some clients ask for steaming turds like phpCommerce in spite of warning from educated site admins.
90% of PHP security flaws are very poorly written scripts, NOT the language.
You dont have a family at home that streams HD to the TV. 4 TV's with apple TV's and streaming happening on all 4 (we do not pay for cable, it's a rip off) = I hit the 250gig cap in 20 days.
All I do is my monthly bitch out Comcast rep dance on the phone, and the cap is lifted, I will be getting a second modem and load balancing though just to shut them the hell up.
Online banking is JUST NOW getting decent. it took banks 30 years to get off their asses and change something. Back in the 80's they were still using hand crank calculators. You cant get banks to change anything.
Also the technology was there for the phone company to offer high speed data. T1 lines are NOT expensive, just very high profit. and your 1983 phone line to the house would support a T1 data speed just fine.
It's because in the 80's was a recession just like the one we are in now ( I was there kids! ) I dont see people rushing out to buy Fiber to the home today!
Um yeah. Worked as a grip, I know a LOT about film quality. I've handled it and dealt with it in the cutting room. I even shot my own feature back in college on 35mm.
I have several examples of 35mm film that is LESS than 1080p in resolution on my walls. Snagging cut scenes from the cutting room floor from things like "swamp thing" and others.
"TNG was shot on 35mm film which has higher resolution than a 4k TV 5380 x 3620."
That is a bad assumption. 35mm film that is 80-100 ISO and shot with a good camera and good lens? Yes, it has close to that resolution in theory. In reality it does not.
It depends on the film quality stock, the generation of the copy, the ISO of the film used, some lower budget films and TV shows did NOT pay for the metric buttload of lighting, so they bought 400 or even 800 speed film to handle lower light conditions. The resolution or "grain" on those films are significantly worse.
So you need to quantify your statement. What brand of film, quality and chemistry is the TNG film stock? as that is what it's resolution is not what someone guesses in theory is possible.
I'm sorry dave, but the CEO really wants another Yacht and we cant afford to keep you. Yes we know that you do 12 jobs and are critical to our operation, but we are going to hire some kid right out of college for $28,900 and save a shitload of money and abuse the snot nosed brat by making him work 120 hours a week with only 40 hours of pay. You are just too old for us to screw like that anymore.
"You won't be free from questions since you can 't cover everything in a one day training session. I'd make that two half days with a month or so in between."
Great idea, but I charge $90.00 an hour with a 1 hour minimum for EVERY call I get after my last day. Honestly, why would Anyone work for free?
This tactic stopped the calls, today I do this on my exit interview. I charge a per hour rate unless the company is willing to give me continued free stuff if they expect free stuff. For example I told Comcast that I'll answer question on the phone for free if they continue my free Ultimate cable TV with all pay channels and top tier internet. Otherwise I charge per phone call and per hour.
Most of my calls were answered with, "did you look in the lumpy operations manual I left on my desk the last day I was there? as the answers you need are in there. and Manager X has all the passwords. I cant give you any passwords over the phone."
I left a good detailed file, but some people are too lazy to read a document or ask the proper person for the login information. It's another reason why I charge. I get to tax laziness and stupidity.
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I was wondering who they hired. All the newspapers are scrambling as if his internet "thingy" sprung up overnight to do this. all the media groups are doing this right now in a desperate attempt to stay relevant.
Sadly it's too late. A lot of people getting their news online already found the news sources that get the scoop on the traditional news outlets hours and even days before. I get a kick watching a news item hit the net and then slowly spread across all the sites during the day. Or hearing fro a Co-worker that X just happened! and I reply, no it happened this morning, and I read about it while I was ditching the boss for the 8am meeting.
Hope you milk them for all you can Taco! Because you just joined a sinking ship as the head bucket manager of the bailing team.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ -- this is a documentary future that was found a few years ago that will show you where we as a race are headed...
You should study it
Everyone else does in fact suck at driving compared to me.
I have a SCCA Competition License A NASA racing license, I hold a USA and German drivers license, and have taken several hundred hours in driving courses for defensive and offensive driving. I have logged over 65 hours driving above 142 mph. This is with traffic going the same speed and slower.
So yes, all of you DO suck. Except those of you that also have had real driving experience and training. And from observations on my daily commute, the general population does not suck, they barely can understand the operation of the vehicle they are in. You have to actually know how to drive a car to suck at it.
You know how easy it is to get someone to infiltrate the cleaning crew? IF you want in a company's secret systems, that is what you do. The morons on the executive wing and security office don't understand this. the only way to fix it is either pay the cleaning people handsomely, or clean up your own trash. Either one will never happen in a corporation.
In fact at comcast we used to call the cleaning crew to get into the areas we did not have access. Their keycards would let them in everywhere, including the CEO's office.
"Again though, if you have 25 studios all around the world, each one of which could be working on all or part of a track, it becomes very hard to manage thousands of separate pieces of data."
that never happens. they dont mix the beginning in hong kong and then have the ireland guys clean up the drums.
and even if you had to have such a wacked out unrealistic setup, you can easily have an isolated network that spans the globe, you just pay for a point to point connection. the size of sony, they could purchase fiber all over the globe. There is a ton of dark fiber for sale.
The same thing they do on Video editing systems at most places. cart the files on a drive. I did IT for a major Tv production house, none of the AVID's were on a private separated network. all projects and assets were carted around outside the AVID isolated network and media server.
IF IT whines, you smack them and tell them to STFU and RTFM as putting extra effort into protecting the machines that actually makes money is more important than upsetting a few wanna-be BOFH's.
Who are these ADHD people they did this scientific survey with? I find reading on a tablet IDENTICAL to reading the book, except I cant lose my place and can search easily.
Honestly, I find reading on my iPad or my KindleDX far more enjoyable than a tiny paperback, so much so that I read a lot more now.
I find traditional captchas to be worthless. in fact most people will avoid them and they are universally hated. /dev/null everything outside it at the firewall and require a real login. works fantastic.
I have several company forums that have no problems at all with spam. WE only care about US and Canada customers so we
"The more gadgets we surround ourselves, the dumber we will become"
Only for lazy people. Those of us that are smart and non lazy they make us smarter. I know the phone numbers and addresses of my parents, siblings, and top tier of friends. Mostly because I am not lazy like the typical person. I use these "gadgets" as augmentation not a replacement.
I am certain that there are many others that also do what I do. Your statement might as well be the mantra of the Modern Amish movement.
"The magic number is 3GB, which conveniently happens to be the maximum amount of tiered bandwidth AT&T will sell you."
that's funny because I am paying for 5Gb from them. It's available on the website and at any location. Sounds like the article writer did not know anything about it's data plans.
Yes you can get a business 5GB data plan on your phones, and it had better be outside that 3Gb data cap or they are refunding a lot of money.
Stop being a cheap or lazy bastard and buy yourself a personal laptop.
What is it with you guys? it is not worth it in any way to use the company laptop for personal use.
Final cut pro on MAC. Avid on PC. and yes Avid was written by "monkeys". but then it's better and faster than anything else sold for the PC platform.
"All advanced (i.e. - "city-building") ancient civilizations were based on slavery "
So the united states is an ancient civilization now? Because we were certainly built upon slavery.
You need to do a correction. ALL civilizations are built with slavery. China is the most recent example and is just starting to come out of the slavery phase.
Note: paying someone almost nothing = slavery. forcing them to live at the factory housing = slavery. making the buy from the company store = slavery.
The united states only just came out of slavery in the 20-30's and the republicans are hell bent on trying to bring it all back.
The path to the forests are smooth, even today they are smooth. It's called a "trail"
I am guessing you never hunted. you drive to where you hunt, walk around and kill things, drag them to your cart, load up the bodies and then drive home. UGH and ARRGH did the same thing.
When they could not bring 40 slaves to carry all the dead animals, they needed a cart. plus you did not go on a 1 week hunting trip with just your pointy stick.
"A PowerPC iMac I have is more than adequate for light office use,"
Huh? you have a wierd idea of it's capabilities. I edit Full HD video on one weekly. a PPC machine has a lot of horsepower in it to do heavy lifting.
in fact, the PPC Quad core 2.5ghz box here is FASTER at rendering HD video than the new Quad Core i7 box they bought. I'd say old PPC machines still kick the arse of the new stuff.
Yet some major PHP pachages, like phpCommerce still uses register globals because the Devs are too damn lazy to spend time fixing it instead of adding features. Sadly some clients ask for steaming turds like phpCommerce in spite of warning from educated site admins.
90% of PHP security flaws are very poorly written scripts, NOT the language.
You dont have a family at home that streams HD to the TV. 4 TV's with apple TV's and streaming happening on all 4 (we do not pay for cable, it's a rip off) = I hit the 250gig cap in 20 days.
All I do is my monthly bitch out Comcast rep dance on the phone, and the cap is lifted, I will be getting a second modem and load balancing though just to shut them the hell up.
it most certainly did exist and was going strong...
it was called compuserve.
Compuserve was already 10X that number and going strong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe
Online banking is JUST NOW getting decent. it took banks 30 years to get off their asses and change something. Back in the 80's they were still using hand crank calculators. You cant get banks to change anything.
Also the technology was there for the phone company to offer high speed data. T1 lines are NOT expensive, just very high profit. and your 1983 phone line to the house would support a T1 data speed just fine.
It's because in the 80's was a recession just like the one we are in now ( I was there kids! ) I dont see people rushing out to buy Fiber to the home today!
Um yeah. Worked as a grip, I know a LOT about film quality. I've handled it and dealt with it in the cutting room. I even shot my own feature back in college on 35mm.
I have several examples of 35mm film that is LESS than 1080p in resolution on my walls. Snagging cut scenes from the cutting room floor from things like "swamp thing" and others.
"TNG was shot on 35mm film which has higher resolution than a 4k TV 5380 x 3620."
That is a bad assumption. 35mm film that is 80-100 ISO and shot with a good camera and good lens? Yes, it has close to that resolution in theory. In reality it does not.
It depends on the film quality stock, the generation of the copy, the ISO of the film used, some lower budget films and TV shows did NOT pay for the metric buttload of lighting, so they bought 400 or even 800 speed film to handle lower light conditions. The resolution or "grain" on those films are significantly worse.
So you need to quantify your statement. What brand of film, quality and chemistry is the TNG film stock? as that is what it's resolution is not what someone guesses in theory is possible.
I'm sorry dave, but the CEO really wants another Yacht and we cant afford to keep you. Yes we know that you do 12 jobs and are critical to our operation, but we are going to hire some kid right out of college for $28,900 and save a shitload of money and abuse the snot nosed brat by making him work 120 hours a week with only 40 hours of pay. You are just too old for us to screw like that anymore.
Sounds great, most managers refuse to allot time for IT to do this. do you give them 4-8 hours a week to get documentation proper?
"You won't be free from questions since you can 't cover everything in a one day training session. I'd make that two half days with a month or so in between."
Great idea, but I charge $90.00 an hour with a 1 hour minimum for EVERY call I get after my last day. Honestly, why would Anyone work for free?
This tactic stopped the calls, today I do this on my exit interview. I charge a per hour rate unless the company is willing to give me continued free stuff if they expect free stuff. For example I told Comcast that I'll answer question on the phone for free if they continue my free Ultimate cable TV with all pay channels and top tier internet. Otherwise I charge per phone call and per hour.
Most of my calls were answered with, "did you look in the lumpy operations manual I left on my desk the last day I was there? as the answers you need are in there. and Manager X has all the passwords. I cant give you any passwords over the phone."
I left a good detailed file, but some people are too lazy to read a document or ask the proper person for the login information. It's another reason why I charge. I get to tax laziness and stupidity.
Yeah. Dont get a 5D. If you must have a "pro" camera get a 7D and spend the cash on L series glass.
Honestly, put the cash in the glass. the 5D does not take any better photos than the rebel line. the Glass on the other hand makes all the difference.
My 50mm prime 1.2 L lens is magical. utterly magical.