At my last job (aged 19-21), I was handy because I knew a lot and I knew how to track information down. I was also very vocal, and took for granted to consideration that I was a peer to my 30-50 year old coworkers.
I was in a fairly small IT group at a University, about 80 employees. I worked six different assignments over two and a half years, for 6-7 dollars an hour, which was not bad considering the local economy.
The problem was, the respect of my peers was not reciprocated. My brashness, my no-nonsense, apolitical, vocal approach to things brought serious concerns about my maturity level from my peers and supervisors. It didn't matter worth a lick that I did the job, and I did it well. I wasn't playing the "game".
I learned a hard lesson when I checked my job references and found five of my six assignment supervisors gave me bad references, basically saying I was a smart-ass know-it-all who didn't know his place. I applied for three salaried jobs, and all turned me down, despite my resume qualifications. On a small campus, the references were easy to check. The problem was, they were right-- I was a smart-ass, and I really hadn't earned my place as their peer. It wasn't as easy as I had thought.
I salvaged my sixth supervisor as a good reference, got a few letters of rec. from co-workers, and moved out of state to my hometown. I put on a suit, practiced calming myself down a little bit, and did some interviews. I took a job that I've now had for three years, with a large corporation, for a very good salary considering my lack of a college degree. I work on a project of about 20 people, and am by far the youngest of the group. I enjoy what I do still, but not because of the technology; because of my rapport with my teammates and manager.
And I can honestly say that I think any one of them would give me a good reference if asked. They treat me (overtly and covertly, I find) with respect and with admiration-- again, not just because I do what I do and do it well, but because I present myself to them with a higher level of maturity than many "younger" employees.
What did it take to get that respect? Two years of making big mistakes; then having the humilty to accept the fact that I did *NOT* know everything, shut up, listen more, and be patient. Make "playing the game" of understanding office politics, and where you stand in other peoples' minds, a foreground process. The change I made in my presentation is what has given me a successful career thus far.
Hey buddy. I'm more than a little concerned about your state of mind.
I didn't vote for either Bush or Gore (or Nader or Buchanan, for that matter), but I don't see how either of those guys would have "destroyed the country as we know it."
If you honestly, legitimately believe that in the next four or eight years, the entire country is going to be turned on its head because we have a slightly right of center commander in chief, I think you need to go re-read your copy of the US Constitution and take some Lithium.
That goes for all you extremists, including the ones who would be spreading FUD about liberals if Gore had been elected. It's nothing but a bunch of sour grapes.
Stand up for what you believe in, but quit posting this crap about THE REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO END REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM! and THE LIBERALS ARE GOING TO LEAD US ALL TO HELL! bullshit comments that I seen on slashdot every day. With 280 million people, each with different views on how things should be, this country is in no danger of listing too far to either the left or the right.
Moderation is your friend.
Re:Inside information...
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OS X on x86?
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I'm surprised nobody spent mod points on this one. Since it's 0, few people will read it; and I found it interesting...
I hate to post anonymously, but I have to to protect an Apple employee.
He's a former coworker of mine who was a Mac Developer as a hobby, but a developer for x86-based middleware apps for a living for quite some time. When our place of work moved away from the projects he was working on, he would up with his "dream job" developing for Apple.
All he has been able to tell us is that is in pretty deep on a project within the OSX team.
Recently he came to visit for lunch, and when asked about OS X for x86, he said "You really want me to answer that? You KNOW I can't answer that. I can't believe you'd expect me to talk about that."
Bottom line, whether he was working on it or not, he (and assumably the entire OS X team) was very clearly told to keep their mouths shut about OS X on x86 and what its status is.
So the bottom line is, there is no bottom line. Maybe it's just a hobby of some rogue developers. Maybe it's an official R&D project. Maybe it's gonna be a "Big Surprise" from Steve that will "revolutionize the industry."
Who knows, my point is that any conclusions drawn here or on Mac sites is entirely speculation, cuz nobody at Apple, on the OS X development team, is talking.
OK, so my coworkers are addicted to nicotine and get to take 3-5 15 minute smoke breaks outside every day?
Well, I'm addicted to sex; I want to be able to cut out twice a day to screw my wife, girlfriend, hooker, etc. in the bushes next to the smoking area, Dammit!
:) This is America! I want my equal freedoms!
"Yes, the baby boomers; who have lived their entire lives based on one simple philosophy: GIVE ME THAT, IT's MINE!" -George Carlin
"Here at Harriston investments, we have a top-notch, high-end online investing system. Just visit us online at http://clownpenis.fart.
"Sure all the other 'good' domain names were already taken. But that doesn't mean we're not committed to having the best online investment site around. Clownpenis.fart."
(Or was I the only one who saw that episode of SNL?:)
Dynamiclly Linked Library. Though I have never programmed on the MacOS, I'm pretty sure you have something similar. Anyhow, I don't really see the point of your argument. If there is a problem with DLLs it is simply a bug in the program(or in some cases the dll), not in the concept of DLLs.
Actually, Mac's don't really use something similar to DLLs. There are a few shared libraries in a few programs (MS Office for Mac, for example) that get stuck in the system folder.
But by and large, that is one of the things that has made sure I always own at least one Mac... to escape from the tangled.DLL mess of my PC. Uninstallers for many programs are a joke, and often can't or won't delete DLLs that they should be removing.
Plus, all the code usually stored in those DLLs is right inside the app on the Mac, so no more "can't find the DLL so-an-so in any of your paths" errors.
Remember January 1-7, 2000 when all of a sudden the very same pundits who were predicting doom, gloom and armageddon decided that US "COMPUTER PEOPLE" had gotten them all excited over nothing.
That almost made me seek out someone selling nice armaments to "fix" some of the broadcasting towers for the big media outlets...
Hey there buddy-- wish I could email you directly about this, but what the heck. Here's my all-knowing opinion on what you should do with your career.
I was in a similar position about 15 months ago. Guy who mentored me my first two years with the company was downsized by upper management, and middle management was in a crunch. I knew enough to be dangerous, and the stuff I didn't know was fairly well documented on a big fat network drive somewhere.
I was skeptical that I was up to the challenge. I was happy being an "apprentice;" I didn't want to me the guy who was accountable to higher management. I didn't really think I could do everything. Fortunately, our immediate manager understood the situation and set my expectations pretty well-- he didn't expect the world right away; only that I give it a go and see how it went.
Well here I am, a big fat promotion later, and I'm much better off for it. I don't know the specifics of your situation, but this could be the so-called "blessing in disguise."
Maybe one man CAN make a difference-- in your case, do the job as best you can, and manipulate the system (bureaucracy sucks, I know; I work in a 30,000 employee company) locally as much as possible, while balancing what's best for your employees and best for the corporation in total.
See if you can do it, and if you cant... well, as many others have suggested, you'll probably have another job in no time.
And don't tell me this doesn't happen all the time, because I work in an office full of gamers most of whom have gone through the above...
Actually, it only happens all the time if you don't know what you're doing. As soon as you understand the finer points of partitioning with FAT/NTFS4/NTFS, MBRs, and installation order, it only needs done once.
I started with a 95/NT4 dual boot, then upgraded to Win98, the took NT4 to 2000, then wiped out 98 and put WinME on that partition. And I have a copper-heatsinked GeForce2, and play a mean Barbarian or Paladin in D2, so you can consider me a gamer; I support a corporation full of NT4-based domains for a living so I guess you can consider me an office guy.
It works fine.
And to stay on-topic, My Linux box is running a very nice VLB ATI card with 1meg of VRAM under RH7.0 to proxy my DSL to the iMac and the PC. Price? The cost of some dinner for the guy that gave me the PC and helped me set up the firewall.:)
I take all of the earlier comments to heart, becuase similar things have happened to me.
Even though I lived in a "progressive" (affluent, socially liberal) school district, at the school in question, I was the token geek, and save the librarian who ran the lab and the CS teacher, some of the teachers regarded me as "potentially dangerous." (Typical herd mentatilty; Fear That Which You Do Not Understand.)
A couple of times, the neo-fascist Principal of the school (under the guise of "keeping things safe and in order") called me on the carpet to chew my ass out-- er, "correct me" about ideas I had that weren't approved by The Administration. Nothing extreme, I was just trying to stimulate conversation by responding to school newspaper columns with editorials on why they were full of horse puckey. Being a generally reserved individual, I accepted the reprimands, modifyed my behavior at school, and went home and bitched about it on the local BBS (Cleveland FreeNet).
I don't know if this exactly counts as karma, and I certainly didn't wish the grossly misguided man any personal bad fortune, but about 24 months after my graduation, the principal passed on. Seems he had multiple, inoperable brain tumors.
The guy who took his place, according to younger folks who attend the school, seems a bit more relaxed about what kinds of things are allowed to happen between one's ears while on school property. So does the end result justify the means in someone's passing away? I don't know, but 400 students a year are probably better off for it.
Telling AOL users "if you don't like it, quit the service" is like some advanced utopian alien civilization saying, "if you don't like that hell-hole of a planet [earth], come to our planet 100 light years away." a) we dont' know how the hell we can do that and more importantly b) We dont' know we live in a hell-hole, because earth is the only planet we have experience with.
I'm not sure why the moderators scored you redundant, but I thought your comment was nice.
It is ironic that your sig mentions freedom. Yet in your several posts you seem to want to deny others the basic freedom to injest things of their choice.
Ahh, but here's the sticky wicket. I hate government intervention on principle as much as anyone out there. The problem is TMF-- that is, The Moron Factor.
There has to be a government to legislate stuff like drug use (including alcohol and tobacco) becuase a good number of people are 1) too stupid to know any better in the first place, 2) too stupid to "only hurt themselves" when they engage in stupid behavior... killing others while driving drunk, not locking up guns so kids kill their friends, etc. And we can't even count on Darwin to kill these Bozos off anymore, either. What, with medical technology and the availability of rehab being what they are today? Please, idiots have to try REALLY hard to invoke Darwin as of late.
I think the government's motto should be, "I'll try being smaller, if you try being smarter." If everyone was raised around guns and learned gun safety and knew what guns were for, and oh by the way weren't prone to fits of emotional outbursts and weren't dumb as a board (i.e. everyone had an IQ over 120), we wouldn't have to legislate so damned much.
It's a delicate balance; all you and I can do as rational intellectuals is work within the law with the acknowledgement that the minority of morons wandering around next to us are responsible for the limitations on our freedoms. With the hope, of course, that some day, the morons will die out...
Oh wait... "As soon as you make something idiot proof, nature makes a bigger idiot."
Who else thinks this is the first step towards the societal "genetic discrimination" concept put forth in Gattica? (Gattica was a not very popular, but extremely interesting, SciFi movie that came out a few years ago.)
It's coming--
Job interviews consisting of nothing but a blood and urine sample analysis to determine genetic aptitude and/or purity...
Screening for predetermination for mental illness so you can pre-emptively commit someone to an institution...
Interesting that so many of you are having problems.
The first thing I want to say is that Verio can rot in hell. I had dialup access with them (which I cancelled when I got DSL) and spent 8 months fighting bogus charges and inept billing and customer service reps, before I finally threatened legal action and got somebody to return my emails.
In any event, I received an ad for GTE DSL right around Christmas of last year, called, and had everything set up within 2 weeks, right after Y2K. No problems, zero downtime for almost 10 months now, fast as sin (half a T1 down) and only $5 more expensive than my second line and double-56k dialup. GTE (local telco) provides the aDSL link, bright.net provides the connection and mailboxes. Free installation, free equipment with 1-year agreement.
My boss recently got hooked up with a startup called BigNet, which provide service on Covad DSL. They worked everything out, including problems with the wiring between the local telco (Ameritech) station and his house, and he was up in 3 weeks.
I haven't heard of ANY DSL problem amongst my friends, relatives and peers here in Cleveland. The cable modem people who got RoadRunner 2 years ago at 10 megabits, and are now paying the same monthly fee for 200 kilobits-- they, on the other hand, are really torqued.;)
What in the world makes you think that CD-ROMs exposed to space for fifty thousand years would be readable by our current equipment, let alone technology from the future?
And why would they care?
I suppose it would be akin to asking me if I really want to know the daily habits of one "Oog the Caveman" who lived 50,000BC.
1) Post rampant speculation as fact in public forum, decrying someone else's (factual) rumors as speculation 2) Shoot self in foot 3) Insert foot in mouth 4) Throw eggs in own face 5)...?... apologize for being fooled so easily?
Felinoid, don't run for office... someone will use this against you.;)
I'm going to save this article, look up this guy's lineage (on the net:) in 60 years, and have my grandkids zip over and laugh at his great-grandkids.
Why should I sit (in isolation) and read chemical ink stamped onto chipped, bleached tree guts when I can buy a thin LCD eBook reader once, and beam infinite amounts of data to it over my lifetime, whenever I want to read something?
I understand the tangibility of books means a lot to us (myself included), but 100 years from now digital media will be so liquid and user-friendly that there will be no reason to drag a knapsack full of wood pulp around to crack open and fill our brains. That should be readily apparent to anyone over the age of 20, who has seen the evolution between a TRS-80 and a wireless-networked 500Mhz laptop.
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Quitcherbitchin.
:)
At least give the guy a chance to surpise you ONCE.
After all, you gave BillyBob chances to "do the right thing."
And look! He and the family STILL aren't up to the task!
Or how about the fact that three of you just consecutively mispelled "grammar?"
;) Oh! Shood I have sed "mispelt?"
At my last job (aged 19-21), I was handy because I knew a lot and I knew how to track information down. I was also very vocal, and took for granted to consideration that I was a peer to my 30-50 year old coworkers.
:)
I was in a fairly small IT group at a University, about 80 employees. I worked six different assignments over two and a half years, for 6-7 dollars an hour, which was not bad considering the local economy.
The problem was, the respect of my peers was not reciprocated. My brashness, my no-nonsense, apolitical, vocal approach to things brought serious concerns about my maturity level from my peers and supervisors. It didn't matter worth a lick that I did the job, and I did it well. I wasn't playing the "game".
I learned a hard lesson when I checked my job references and found five of my six assignment supervisors gave me bad references, basically saying I was a smart-ass know-it-all who didn't know his place. I applied for three salaried jobs, and all turned me down, despite my resume qualifications. On a small campus, the references were easy to check. The problem was, they were right-- I was a smart-ass, and I really hadn't earned my place as their peer. It wasn't as easy as I had thought.
I salvaged my sixth supervisor as a good reference, got a few letters of rec. from co-workers, and moved out of state to my hometown. I put on a suit, practiced calming myself down a little bit, and did some interviews. I took a job that I've now had for three years, with a large corporation, for a very good salary considering my lack of a college degree. I work on a project of about 20 people, and am by far the youngest of the group. I enjoy what I do still, but not because of the technology; because of my rapport with my teammates and manager.
And I can honestly say that I think any one of them would give me a good reference if asked. They treat me (overtly and covertly, I find) with respect and with admiration-- again, not just because I do what I do and do it well, but because I present myself to them with a higher level of maturity than many "younger" employees.
What did it take to get that respect? Two years of making big mistakes; then having the humilty to accept the fact that I did *NOT* know everything, shut up, listen more, and be patient. Make "playing the game" of understanding office politics, and where you stand in other peoples' minds, a foreground process. The change I made in my presentation is what has given me a successful career thus far.
Maybe it will work for others too. YMMV.
Hey buddy. I'm more than a little concerned about your state of mind.
I didn't vote for either Bush or Gore (or Nader or Buchanan, for that matter), but I don't see how either of those guys would have "destroyed the country as we know it."
If you honestly, legitimately believe that in the next four or eight years, the entire country is going to be turned on its head because we have a slightly right of center commander in chief, I think you need to go re-read your copy of the US Constitution and take some Lithium.
That goes for all you extremists, including the ones who would be spreading FUD about liberals if Gore had been elected. It's nothing but a bunch of sour grapes.
Stand up for what you believe in, but quit posting this crap about THE REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO END REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM! and THE LIBERALS ARE GOING TO LEAD US ALL TO HELL! bullshit comments that I seen on slashdot every day. With 280 million people, each with different views on how things should be, this country is in no danger of listing too far to either the left or the right.
Moderation is your friend.
I'm surprised nobody spent mod points on this one. Since it's 0, few people will read it; and I found it interesting...
I hate to post anonymously, but I have to to protect an Apple employee.
He's a former coworker of mine who was a Mac Developer as a hobby, but a developer for x86-based middleware apps for a living for quite some time. When our place of work moved away from the projects he was working on, he would up with his "dream job" developing for Apple.
All he has been able to tell us is that is in pretty deep on a project within the OSX team.
Recently he came to visit for lunch, and when asked about OS X for x86, he said "You really want me to answer that? You KNOW I can't answer that. I can't believe you'd expect me to talk about that."
Bottom line, whether he was working on it or not, he (and assumably the entire OS X team) was very clearly told to keep their mouths shut about OS X on x86 and what its status is.
So the bottom line is, there is no bottom line. Maybe it's just a hobby of some rogue developers. Maybe it's an official R&D project. Maybe it's gonna be a "Big Surprise" from Steve that will "revolutionize the industry."
Who knows, my point is that any conclusions drawn here or on Mac sites is entirely speculation, cuz nobody at Apple, on the OS X development team, is talking.
OK, so my coworkers are addicted to nicotine and get to take 3-5 15 minute smoke breaks outside every day?
Well, I'm addicted to sex; I want to be able to cut out twice a day to screw my wife, girlfriend, hooker, etc. in the bushes next to the smoking area, Dammit!
:) This is America! I want my equal freedoms!
"Yes, the baby boomers; who have lived their entire lives based on one simple philosophy: GIVE ME THAT, IT's MINE!" -George Carlin
>Good grief. How about shooting for a sixth grade literacy level?
:)
In fairness to taco, I "was taught" the explicit grammatical differences between 'there' and 'their' (and they're) in 7th Grade "Advanced English."
I actually learned the differences myself in about 3rd grade.
I haven't seen the movie, but:
You recognize that your parents' point of view is ridiculous, and that they are Luddites with no understanding of physics or technology...
And you go on to discount everyone else in the world who doesn't believe in the same God you do.
Fascinating; I'll respect your opinion if you'll respect mine, which is:
"We are all free to do whatever we want to do."
(from Illusions, by Richard Bach)
If people want to go see this movie, let them. If you think that they're going to hell for enjoying it, go right ahead.
Is it considered a glitch in the Matrix if my WinAmp playlist (2700 entries) shuffled to this song while I was reading your comment?
Seriously, it just happened.
"Here at Harriston investments, we have a top-notch, high-end online investing system. Just visit us online at http://clownpenis.fart.
:)
"Sure all the other 'good' domain names were already taken. But that doesn't mean we're not committed to having the best online investment site around. Clownpenis.fart."
(Or was I the only one who saw that episode of SNL?
Dynamiclly Linked Library. Though I have never programmed on the MacOS, I'm pretty sure you have something similar. Anyhow, I don't really see the point of your argument. If there is a problem with DLLs it is simply a bug in the program(or in some cases the dll), not in the concept of DLLs.
Actually, Mac's don't really use something similar to DLLs. There are a few shared libraries in a few programs (MS Office for Mac, for example) that get stuck in the system folder.
But by and large, that is one of the things that has made sure I always own at least one Mac... to escape from the tangled .DLL mess of my PC. Uninstallers for many programs are a joke, and often can't or won't delete DLLs that they should be removing.
Plus, all the code usually stored in those DLLs is right inside the app on the Mac, so no more "can't find the DLL so-an-so in any of your paths" errors.
Whatever. Just thought you should know. :)
Remember January 1-7, 2000 when all of a sudden the very same pundits who were predicting doom, gloom and armageddon decided that US "COMPUTER PEOPLE" had gotten them all excited over nothing.
That almost made me seek out someone selling nice armaments to "fix" some of the broadcasting towers for the big media outlets...
While I agree with the sentiment, because he clearly had a LOT to contribute to this world...
I have to mention only 3 letters: B H A .
(Apple people know what I'm talking about ;)
Hey there buddy-- wish I could email you directly about this, but what the heck. Here's my all-knowing opinion on what you should do with your career.
I was in a similar position about 15 months ago. Guy who mentored me my first two years with the company was downsized by upper management, and middle management was in a crunch. I knew enough to be dangerous, and the stuff I didn't know was fairly well documented on a big fat network drive somewhere.
I was skeptical that I was up to the challenge. I was happy being an "apprentice;" I didn't want to me the guy who was accountable to higher management. I didn't really think I could do everything. Fortunately, our immediate manager understood the situation and set my expectations pretty well-- he didn't expect the world right away; only that I give it a go and see how it went.
Well here I am, a big fat promotion later, and I'm much better off for it. I don't know the specifics of your situation, but this could be the so-called "blessing in disguise."
Maybe one man CAN make a difference-- in your case, do the job as best you can, and manipulate the system (bureaucracy sucks, I know; I work in a 30,000 employee company) locally as much as possible, while balancing what's best for your employees and best for the corporation in total.
See if you can do it, and if you cant... well, as many others have suggested, you'll probably have another job in no time.
Best of luck!
Actually, it only happens all the time if you don't know what you're doing. As soon as you understand the finer points of partitioning with FAT/NTFS4/NTFS, MBRs, and installation order, it only needs done once.
I started with a 95/NT4 dual boot, then upgraded to Win98, the took NT4 to 2000, then wiped out 98 and put WinME on that partition. And I have a copper-heatsinked GeForce2, and play a mean Barbarian or Paladin in D2, so you can consider me a gamer; I support a corporation full of NT4-based domains for a living so I guess you can consider me an office guy.
It works fine.
And to stay on-topic, My Linux box is running a very nice VLB ATI card with 1meg of VRAM under RH7.0 to proxy my DSL to the iMac and the PC. Price? The cost of some dinner for the guy that gave me the PC and helped me set up the firewall. :)
I take all of the earlier comments to heart, becuase similar things have happened to me.
Even though I lived in a "progressive" (affluent, socially liberal) school district, at the school in question, I was the token geek, and save the librarian who ran the lab and the CS teacher, some of the teachers regarded me as "potentially dangerous." (Typical herd mentatilty; Fear That Which You Do Not Understand.)
A couple of times, the neo-fascist Principal of the school (under the guise of "keeping things safe and in order") called me on the carpet to chew my ass out-- er, "correct me" about ideas I had that weren't approved by The Administration. Nothing extreme, I was just trying to stimulate conversation by responding to school newspaper columns with editorials on why they were full of horse puckey. Being a generally reserved individual, I accepted the reprimands, modifyed my behavior at school, and went home and bitched about it on the local BBS (Cleveland FreeNet).
I don't know if this exactly counts as karma, and I certainly didn't wish the grossly misguided man any personal bad fortune, but about 24 months after my graduation, the principal passed on. Seems he had multiple, inoperable brain tumors.
The guy who took his place, according to younger folks who attend the school, seems a bit more relaxed about what kinds of things are allowed to happen between one's ears while on school property. So does the end result justify the means in someone's passing away? I don't know, but 400 students a year are probably better off for it.
Just my rambling opinions, as always.
I'm not sure why the moderators scored you redundant, but I thought your comment was nice.
Not that my opinion means much. :)
Ahh, but here's the sticky wicket. I hate government intervention on principle as much as anyone out there. The problem is TMF-- that is, The Moron Factor.
There has to be a government to legislate stuff like drug use (including alcohol and tobacco) becuase a good number of people are 1) too stupid to know any better in the first place, 2) too stupid to "only hurt themselves" when they engage in stupid behavior... killing others while driving drunk, not locking up guns so kids kill their friends, etc. And we can't even count on Darwin to kill these Bozos off anymore, either. What, with medical technology and the availability of rehab being what they are today? Please, idiots have to try REALLY hard to invoke Darwin as of late.
I think the government's motto should be, "I'll try being smaller, if you try being smarter." If everyone was raised around guns and learned gun safety and knew what guns were for, and oh by the way weren't prone to fits of emotional outbursts and weren't dumb as a board (i.e. everyone had an IQ over 120), we wouldn't have to legislate so damned much.
It's a delicate balance; all you and I can do as rational intellectuals is work within the law with the acknowledgement that the minority of morons wandering around next to us are responsible for the limitations on our freedoms. With the hope, of course, that some day, the morons will die out...
Oh wait... "As soon as you make something idiot proof, nature makes a bigger idiot."
Looks like we're SOL. Best of luck to you all.
Who else thinks this is the first step towards the societal "genetic discrimination" concept put forth in Gattica? (Gattica was a not very popular, but extremely interesting, SciFi movie that came out a few years ago.)
It's coming--
Job interviews consisting of nothing but a blood and urine sample analysis to determine genetic aptitude and/or purity...
Screening for predetermination for mental illness so you can pre-emptively commit someone to an institution...
Interesting that so many of you are having problems.
;)
The first thing I want to say is that Verio can rot in hell. I had dialup access with them (which I cancelled when I got DSL) and spent 8 months fighting bogus charges and inept billing and customer service reps, before I finally threatened legal action and got somebody to return my emails.
In any event, I received an ad for GTE DSL right around Christmas of last year, called, and had everything set up within 2 weeks, right after Y2K. No problems, zero downtime for almost 10 months now, fast as sin (half a T1 down) and only $5 more expensive than my second line and double-56k dialup. GTE (local telco) provides the aDSL link, bright.net provides the connection and mailboxes. Free installation, free equipment with 1-year agreement.
My boss recently got hooked up with a startup called BigNet, which provide service on Covad DSL. They worked everything out, including problems with the wiring between the local telco (Ameritech) station and his house, and he was up in 3 weeks.
I haven't heard of ANY DSL problem amongst my friends, relatives and peers here in Cleveland. The cable modem people who got RoadRunner 2 years ago at 10 megabits, and are now paying the same monthly fee for 200 kilobits-- they, on the other hand, are really torqued.
What in the world makes you think that CD-ROMs exposed to space for fifty thousand years would be readable by our current equipment, let alone technology from the future?
And why would they care?
I suppose it would be akin to asking me if I really want to know the daily habits of one "Oog the Caveman" who lived 50,000BC.
Bah weep grah nah weep ninee bahn!
(The Universal Greeting)
1) Post rampant speculation as fact in public forum, decrying someone else's (factual) rumors as speculation ...?... apologize for being fooled so easily?
;)
2) Shoot self in foot
3) Insert foot in mouth
4) Throw eggs in own face
5)
Felinoid, don't run for office... someone will use this against you.
I'm going to save this article, look up this guy's lineage (on the net :) in 60 years, and have my grandkids zip over and laugh at his great-grandkids.
Why should I sit (in isolation) and read chemical ink stamped onto chipped, bleached tree guts when I can buy a thin LCD eBook reader once, and beam infinite amounts of data to it over my lifetime, whenever I want to read something?
I understand the tangibility of books means a lot to us (myself included), but 100 years from now digital media will be so liquid and user-friendly that there will be no reason to drag a knapsack full of wood pulp around to crack open and fill our brains. That should be readily apparent to anyone over the age of 20, who has seen the evolution between a TRS-80 and a wireless-networked 500Mhz laptop.
What a nimrod!
The future is now...
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