As a former tech support representative for a very large national phone company that does DSL I have to say it's basically all true.
Though my training was 2 weeks of genuine training. There were 4 trainers AFAIK, 3 of them were horrid, and the one I had actually new quite abit about why things actually failed and tried to make sure the class LEARNED something, I was happy about that. I ended up being the first person to ace the training test (?? that's just weird) and there was one person in my class who I counted as intelligent in addition to myself.
Once I got out on the floor taking calls, I realized that among the few hundred call takers and the supervisors who we were supposed to ask for help, there were 2 other people on the floor who i considered to have deeper knowledge than I, one was a tech agent, and another was a supervisor. It is a sad state of affairs when you have supervisors coming to you to ask for the answer to someone elses question.
The only redeeming part of that job was to hear the sigh of relief when your response to the fact that they're running linux or bsd was "oh, what kernel version?" instead of "is that windows or mac?"
If you saw the special they showed last christmas there was an outtake scene where the pretty blonde (don't know her name) says to him "CMON MCGUYVER YOU'VE GOT A STICK OF BUBBLEGUM AND A THIMBLE, YOU MUST FIX THE STARGATE"(or something to that effect), much laughter ensued, so his being forever tied to mcguyver is well known:)
6502 is a great processor to learn assembly for, it's simple enough not to be confusing, but still quite useful in learning the ins and outs of assembly. the fact that you can use that knowledge to makes NES tech demos doesn't hurt either, though it isn't exactly useful:)
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his BOSS gives him the choice of 20 years in prison, or a lifetime of corporate espionage.... for ordering CATERING?
that's the main problem with geek guys, they want a women who's basically a female version of themselves. it's not going to work, most women (and most men who aren't geeks) don't want to be with someone who's just like them. It's about variety:)
the link to 2xsai is here at http://elektron.its.tudelft.nl/~dalikifa/. the link provided in the article is to Scale2x. The page even says at the top "Instead, this effect is pretty different from the SuperEagle, 2xSaI, Super2xSaI effects "
The reason people might have called them "the scroll weapon" would be because they were actually called "Ninja Scrolls", which often got shortened to "scrolls".
next time, try reading the article before posting about it. HP had known about that bug for over a year before he released the exploit and had done nothing.
The torino scale is designed more for the general public. While the Palermo rating for this asteroid is now at -.14, which doesn't make it COMPLETELY unlikely, the Torino scale for NT7 is a 1 (maximum). Here is the definition of a 1 on the Torino Scale
Events Meriting Careful Monitoring (Green Zone)
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The chance of collision is extremely unlikely, about the same as a random object of the same size striking the Earth within the next few decades.
My friend, it's amazing how completely off target you are on your response. You addressed a statement that was never made. The post to which you responded never said that walmart didn't use a lot of technology, it said walmart was not a company who made all it's money selling PC's. You however decided to jump the gun and write a wonderful rant about walmarts internal IT structure, however that was nowhere near the discussion. The posters point was that walmart could afford to go out on a limb like this because they make a lot of money selling OTHER products.
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As a former tech support representative for a very large national phone company that does DSL I have to say it's basically all true.
Though my training was 2 weeks of genuine training. There were 4 trainers AFAIK, 3 of them were horrid, and the one I had actually new quite abit about why things actually failed and tried to make sure the class LEARNED something, I was happy about that. I ended up being the first person to ace the training test (?? that's just weird) and there was one person in my class who I counted as intelligent in addition to myself.
Once I got out on the floor taking calls, I realized that among the few hundred call takers and the supervisors who we were supposed to ask for help, there were 2 other people on the floor who i considered to have deeper knowledge than I, one was a tech agent, and another was a supervisor. It is a sad state of affairs when you have supervisors coming to you to ask for the answer to someone elses question.
The only redeeming part of that job was to hear the sigh of relief when your response to the fact that they're running linux or bsd was "oh, what kernel version?" instead of "is that windows or mac?"
If you saw the special they showed last christmas there was an outtake scene where the pretty blonde (don't know her name) says to him "CMON MCGUYVER YOU'VE GOT A STICK OF BUBBLEGUM AND A THIMBLE, YOU MUST FIX THE STARGATE"(or something to that effect), much laughter ensued, so his being forever tied to mcguyver is well known :)
what if your GIRLFRIEND is the geek?
6502 is a great processor to learn assembly for, it's simple enough not to be confusing, but still quite useful in learning the ins and outs of assembly. the fact that you can use that knowledge to makes NES tech demos doesn't hurt either, though it isn't exactly useful :)
his BOSS gives him the choice of 20 years in prison, or a lifetime of corporate espionage.... for ordering CATERING?
>The length of each day has typically been 2-3 milliseconds longer than the day before.
then by your logic in 5600 a day will be ~25 hours, which will leave us with 350 days a year, basically a bunch of februaries.
I generally prefer my women not to have launched a thousand ships with her face, but then again that's just me.
Slashdot, the one site you can go to if you want to hear the overweight, overworked, and malnourished shoot down any and all diets :)
that's the main problem with geek guys, they want a women who's basically a female version of themselves. it's not going to work, most women (and most men who aren't geeks) don't want to be with someone who's just like them. It's about variety :)
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or didn't get the sarcasm in HIS post.
as someone who's installed suse and winxp both in the last 2 weeks, i have to agree that suse is a LOT easier.
have you ever tried to write something in perl? :)
"Linux is too much like windows"
Someone needs to learn that KDE and Gnome are -NOT LINUX- and that there are quite a few people out there (myself included) who dont' use either.
Broadband adapters are out. I bought one yesterday at walmart, $35, pretty good deal I think.
.... I hear an echo..... really, this is getting guite old :)
the link to 2xsai is here at http://elektron.its.tudelft.nl/~dalikifa/. the link provided in the article is to Scale2x. The page even says at the top "Instead, this effect is pretty different from the SuperEagle, 2xSaI, Super2xSaI effects "
nowhere in the article does it say lindowsOS will ship with an AOL Client. once again we have poor "reporting" on slashdot.
The reason people might have called them "the scroll weapon" would be because they were actually called "Ninja Scrolls", which often got shortened to "scrolls".
for prime number N, factors are N and 1.
*note, this amazing technique works for all primes, no matter what the size.
next time, try reading the article before posting about it. HP had known about that bug for over a year before he released the exploit and had done nothing.
The torino scale is designed more for the general public. While the Palermo rating for this asteroid is now at -.14, which doesn't make it COMPLETELY unlikely, the Torino scale for NT7 is a 1 (maximum). Here is the definition of a 1 on the Torino Scale
Events Meriting Careful Monitoring
(Green Zone)
1
The chance of collision is extremely unlikely, about the same as a random object of the same size striking the Earth within the next few decades.
good luck finding a jury of mother nature's peers :)
so basically you want the mythical console that was missing between the genesis and the saturn eh? :)
Cyrix did that a long time before Intel did :p
My friend, it's amazing how completely off target you are on your response. You addressed a statement that was never made. The post to which you responded never said that walmart didn't use a lot of technology, it said walmart was not a company who made all it's money selling PC's. You however decided to jump the gun and write a wonderful rant about walmarts internal IT structure, however that was nowhere near the discussion. The posters point was that walmart could afford to go out on a limb like this because they make a lot of money selling OTHER products.