I think it's Cisco Call Manager. Other than this one thing, I don't have any problems with it. It does redial calls as they're identified by caller ID, couldn't tell you why it doesn't automatically edit the outside calls to include the 8.
I don't think anything else has much sympathy for me. Also, it's a tech support number and they don't change those lightly, because they've got to retrain all the customers.
I live in southwestern Colorado and have an internal extension at my company of 5058. Just across the border from us in New Mexico is the 505 area code, and we do some business down there. On average once a day one of my co-workers tries to dial New Mexico without punching 8 to get an outside line, and dials me instead. This is made worse by a phone system that doesn't insert the code if you try to call back the number on caller ID unless you punch some extra buttons.
I say average 1/day, but in reality it's more like once a week some goofball tries and fails five times in a row to dial out, and repeatedly hangs up on me before I can get them to listen long enough to learn how to use the phone. Especially bad are the ones who insist "I got a call from this number" and won't believe me as I try to explain they're stuck inside the company still.
Don't most of the RIAA logs provide "clear proof" by trying to assume IP address is uniquely tied to the defendant? The log may be perfectly accurate, but their extrapolations from that log don't get the same credibility.
Yeah. I'm reminded of a time my company's web host shut off all of our web sites. We called in and the tech on the phone said it had been suspended for nonpayment. My co-worker dug around on our bank website and could see where the hosting company had been paid, but the tech insisted that couldn't be possible. The conversation ended up with him shouting, "The computer doesn't lie, sir!" over and over at us. When we called back half an hour later the next tech we got said the account was in good standing, didn't see any reason for the hold, and turned the sites back on. I still don't know what happened, but if computers can lie so can logs.
Obligatory warning: Aplus is the worst hosting company in the world. If your value your business, your time, or your sanity, you will run screaming in the other direction if you are ever tempted to do business with them.
I saw a Mac OS 8 startup screen do something similar. It wasn't listed in percentages, but the startup screen had the empty box that the bar filled as it went. Then the filling color shot past the end of the bar and made it nearly to the edge of the screen before the whole box crashed.
Heh, funny, when I read the grandparent's line, that's the first thing I thought, too. And that's a perfectly obvious question, and given the scenario as laid out it's an important one to understand. Shame you got punished for asking the question. Very glad my school wasn't that crazy.
Don't forget the new Blackberry platform that just launched. Their lorng- or medium-term survival may be in doubt, but there may be some obvious gaps to fill in the short term.
I think it's important to distinguish between something that's worth doing because it pays a little additional cash wile being fun, versus doing something to make you rich. You seem to be focused on the latter, while the original question seems to be focused on the former.
Discussions about online learning tend to remind me of the book "Jude the Obscure," by Thomas Hardy. It's been a couple of decades, but from what I remember it's the tragic story of a poor working man who dreams of pursuing education/knowledge but who can only barely scrape by with the essentials and can rarely afford even the occasional book. Do institutions like Khan Academy mostly or completely erase that scenario in the modern day? Would a modern Jude have been able to educate and better himself? Are there other obstacles that replace the cost as a barrier to taking this free learning and finding advancement or satisfaction?
Ask yourself, when is the last time you heard someone refer to mebibytes and gibibytes. Everyone uses metric prefixes.
That would be here, the last time this tired topic came up. I'd say roughly annually, for as long as I've been on Slashdot. I've never heard the term anywhere else.
Man, this is one subject I wish I'd gotten introduced to in a formal setting where I could ask questions. I've tried repeatedly to work this stuff out via tutorials. Half the time it takes me an hour to get what I want, the other half of the time I give up in frustration.
One of the more useful for programming classes I took in college was a Symbolic Logic class offered by the philosophy department. Helped me become a master of complicated, nested if statements and other conditionals.
I agree, doing the work is key, especially if you can't get it from classes. I'd place a high emphasis on paid freelance work if you can get it, unpaid interning next, and personal projects at the end, though all are good experience.
That said, some kind of degree is still handy, because a lot of places require a Bachelor's to get past the HR application screening. You may want to consider some options:
* see if you can fine-tune your degree to focus on the things you like, such as programming and web development. Some schools are more open to this than others, but if they're amenable to the idea you might be able to get credit hours for self-study, internship, or personal project work. (I'm not kidding here: a classmate of mine basically invented his own major, "visual arts in computing" by cherry picking the classes he liked best from art and computer science, in order to go on and be a video graphics expert).
* If you want to do the above and your school won't let you, possibly consider transferring? I know that's not something to do lightly, but if you're going to put the time and money in, you should get what you want out of it.
* Embrace the CS program as providing a richer, deeper experience that may give you more flexibility later, in case changing personal preferences or market demands cause you to shift fields. (I'm a physics major turned HTML coder turned copy editor turned tech support turned programmer turned network administrator, so again I'm not joking.)
* Dump CS and pick whatever degree has the minimal requirements or seems easiest just to finish with the piece of paper, and overload your free time with actual work. This only applies if there really is something else that's easy, something you can stomach, and is light on requirements or allows flexibility to pick interesting electives.
Besides formal schooling, you may also want to split the difference and look into some of the free online courses available at places like Udacity or Coursera. I know that's tough to work in on top of a regular class load, but they provide a semi-structured environment and in my experience have been generally well done. Normally they don't provide college credit, but if you're really persuasive maybe you could find ways to get some self-study/research credit at your school for taking these things.
I won't mod you down, but I will say it's not necessarily safe to generalize. It depends a LOT on the school. Mine had no generic required classes, and I actually could have taken a programming class first semester.
Coursera, too ( at coursera.org ). I know they have several programming classes in rotation. Not sure which ones will be available during the summer window, but it would be pretty easy to find out or keep an eye on as they open up. I dabbled with a class that involved Python programming to create computer games, and it was both well presented and slightly more fun than the average non-games-programming class. (Proper link: https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython - currently TBA.)
Depending on timing, there may also be related topics (databases, math, logic, mobile devices, etc.) if he wants to take a couple of classes at once. I'm currently taking a databases class from Stanford (previously also released once via Coursera) that's proving educational and quite challenging.
+1 precisely right on. Exactly what I would have said. I do wish I could resell steam games in theory, but in practice of the 6 I've bought I'm only really done playing one.
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I think it's Cisco Call Manager. Other than this one thing, I don't have any problems with it. It does redial calls as they're identified by caller ID, couldn't tell you why it doesn't automatically edit the outside calls to include the 8.
I don't think anything else has much sympathy for me. Also, it's a tech support number and they don't change those lightly, because they've got to retrain all the customers.
I live in southwestern Colorado and have an internal extension at my company of 5058. Just across the border from us in New Mexico is the 505 area code, and we do some business down there. On average once a day one of my co-workers tries to dial New Mexico without punching 8 to get an outside line, and dials me instead. This is made worse by a phone system that doesn't insert the code if you try to call back the number on caller ID unless you punch some extra buttons.
I say average 1/day, but in reality it's more like once a week some goofball tries and fails five times in a row to dial out, and repeatedly hangs up on me before I can get them to listen long enough to learn how to use the phone. Especially bad are the ones who insist "I got a call from this number" and won't believe me as I try to explain they're stuck inside the company still.
Call yourself Lemon. Surely nobody would take poorly to that?
Don't most of the RIAA logs provide "clear proof" by trying to assume IP address is uniquely tied to the defendant? The log may be perfectly accurate, but their extrapolations from that log don't get the same credibility.
Yeah. I'm reminded of a time my company's web host shut off all of our web sites. We called in and the tech on the phone said it had been suspended for nonpayment. My co-worker dug around on our bank website and could see where the hosting company had been paid, but the tech insisted that couldn't be possible. The conversation ended up with him shouting, "The computer doesn't lie, sir!" over and over at us. When we called back half an hour later the next tech we got said the account was in good standing, didn't see any reason for the hold, and turned the sites back on. I still don't know what happened, but if computers can lie so can logs.
Obligatory warning: Aplus is the worst hosting company in the world. If your value your business, your time, or your sanity, you will run screaming in the other direction if you are ever tempted to do business with them.
I saw a Mac OS 8 startup screen do something similar. It wasn't listed in percentages, but the startup screen had the empty box that the bar filled as it went. Then the filling color shot past the end of the bar and made it nearly to the edge of the screen before the whole box crashed.
Heh, funny, when I read the grandparent's line, that's the first thing I thought, too. And that's a perfectly obvious question, and given the scenario as laid out it's an important one to understand. Shame you got punished for asking the question. Very glad my school wasn't that crazy.
Just read 'The Blind Watchmaker' already and put an end to this silly objection.
Don't forget the new Blackberry platform that just launched. Their lorng- or medium-term survival may be in doubt, but there may be some obvious gaps to fill in the short term.
I think it's important to distinguish between something that's worth doing because it pays a little additional cash wile being fun, versus doing something to make you rich. You seem to be focused on the latter, while the original question seems to be focused on the former.
That doesn't make much sense. Why wouldn't a test message just say "this is a test message" like all the other emergency alert test messages do?
Discussions about online learning tend to remind me of the book "Jude the Obscure," by Thomas Hardy. It's been a couple of decades, but from what I remember it's the tragic story of a poor working man who dreams of pursuing education/knowledge but who can only barely scrape by with the essentials and can rarely afford even the occasional book. Do institutions like Khan Academy mostly or completely erase that scenario in the modern day? Would a modern Jude have been able to educate and better himself? Are there other obstacles that replace the cost as a barrier to taking this free learning and finding advancement or satisfaction?
Ask yourself, when is the last time you heard someone refer to mebibytes and gibibytes. Everyone uses metric prefixes.
That would be here, the last time this tired topic came up. I'd say roughly annually, for as long as I've been on Slashdot. I've never heard the term anywhere else.
- learn regular expressions
Man, this is one subject I wish I'd gotten introduced to in a formal setting where I could ask questions. I've tried repeatedly to work this stuff out via tutorials. Half the time it takes me an hour to get what I want, the other half of the time I give up in frustration.
One of the more useful for programming classes I took in college was a Symbolic Logic class offered by the philosophy department. Helped me become a master of complicated, nested if statements and other conditionals.
I agree, doing the work is key, especially if you can't get it from classes. I'd place a high emphasis on paid freelance work if you can get it, unpaid interning next, and personal projects at the end, though all are good experience.
That said, some kind of degree is still handy, because a lot of places require a Bachelor's to get past the HR application screening. You may want to consider some options:
* see if you can fine-tune your degree to focus on the things you like, such as programming and web development. Some schools are more open to this than others, but if they're amenable to the idea you might be able to get credit hours for self-study, internship, or personal project work. (I'm not kidding here: a classmate of mine basically invented his own major, "visual arts in computing" by cherry picking the classes he liked best from art and computer science, in order to go on and be a video graphics expert).
* If you want to do the above and your school won't let you, possibly consider transferring? I know that's not something to do lightly, but if you're going to put the time and money in, you should get what you want out of it.
* Embrace the CS program as providing a richer, deeper experience that may give you more flexibility later, in case changing personal preferences or market demands cause you to shift fields. (I'm a physics major turned HTML coder turned copy editor turned tech support turned programmer turned network administrator, so again I'm not joking.)
* Dump CS and pick whatever degree has the minimal requirements or seems easiest just to finish with the piece of paper, and overload your free time with actual work. This only applies if there really is something else that's easy, something you can stomach, and is light on requirements or allows flexibility to pick interesting electives.
Besides formal schooling, you may also want to split the difference and look into some of the free online courses available at places like Udacity or Coursera. I know that's tough to work in on top of a regular class load, but they provide a semi-structured environment and in my experience have been generally well done. Normally they don't provide college credit, but if you're really persuasive maybe you could find ways to get some self-study/research credit at your school for taking these things.
I won't mod you down, but I will say it's not necessarily safe to generalize. It depends a LOT on the school. Mine had no generic required classes, and I actually could have taken a programming class first semester.
Coursera, too ( at coursera.org ). I know they have several programming classes in rotation. Not sure which ones will be available during the summer window, but it would be pretty easy to find out or keep an eye on as they open up. I dabbled with a class that involved Python programming to create computer games, and it was both well presented and slightly more fun than the average non-games-programming class. (Proper link: https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython - currently TBA.)
Depending on timing, there may also be related topics (databases, math, logic, mobile devices, etc.) if he wants to take a couple of classes at once. I'm currently taking a databases class from Stanford (previously also released once via Coursera) that's proving educational and quite challenging.
+1 precisely right on. Exactly what I would have said. I do wish I could resell steam games in theory, but in practice of the 6 I've bought I'm only really done playing one.
I didn't. The first person you replied to was Gription, not me.
And in the time you replied, it would have been reverted by whoever considers himself the owner of that section of Wikipedia.
Could this also be a case of anti-DMCA activism, where someone is fabricating this scenario just to demonstrate how abusable the system is?
Of course if it's not, I'm sure this will give some people that kind of idea.
One of these days I'd be very tempted to special order a custom chess set this way.
I think he meant Ray-gun?