This. Last place I worked, I gave about 3 weeks notice (I said "x day is my last day" essentially) and emphasized in my resignation letter my full intent to continue to be as effective/useful to the company as I could for the full duration of my notice.
A higher-up drove 45 minutes from the head office to greet me on the last day of my notice to thank me personally and shake my hand because HE HAD NEVER SEEN ANYONE ACTUALLY DO THIS BEFORE.
EVERY SINGLE one of my coworkers saw this, mind you. I guarantee it made an impression, because they all couldn't stop talking about it the rest of the day.
When an employee resigns on non-hostile terms, don't treat them badly, instead show them how much you value them. It sets a great example for the remaining employees, and boosts morale across the board.
Shame that job paid so badly, I really liked the people there...
They already have robots drive shelves of product to the pickers, so all they do is stand there and pluck things off shelves all day.
The problems at Amazon aren't the work, it's the artificial conditions imposed by management. ALl workers are treated like thieves, the facility is incredibly cold (like 60F in summer cold, when it's 90F outside) in places, way too hot in others (100F+), there are only cement floors with terrible rubber mats at standing locations, and workers are held WAY too closely to their time punches (i.e. it's a 5 minute walk from your station to the break room, your 15 minute break is now a 5 minute break, too bad, so sad).
It's also one of those workplaces that emphasizes "culture" heavily, aka does daily pep rallies and wastes a ton of time on false morale, instead of trying to have happier workers.
M.2 PCI-E SSDs are nothing new. The samsung drive referenced here is the successor to an "OEM Only" drive that has been readily available to consumers through various retailers for a year.
It's "proprietary" in the sense that right now, Samsung's product has far better performance than ANY competing product. The connector is 100% standard, and included in most high-end laptops nowadays and many desktop motherboards as well.
Every nerdy guy I know is jealous that I have a gamer woman. Every woman she meets judges her harshly, some openly, some only when she's out of earshot.
Non-nerdy guys literally do not see her, she might as well be invisible, because she's isn't anorexic with DD titties.
Many of us who are "stupid and clueless enough to voluntarily run Windows" simply don't have a choice, the software we want/need to use is locked to Windows.
In my case, Desktop = Windows because 3 of the 3 games I spend most of my PC time playing are Windows-exclusive, laptop (which is more general-computing) is running Linux.
Many games offer a 64-bit client, but they generally either default to the 32-bit client and you have to manually launch in 64-bit mode *or* they have a launcher that decides which client to launch for you.
World of Warcraft, for example, has a 64-bit client.
DSL, Satellite, and Cell options aren't broadband. NONE of them are reliably going to be 25mbps down.
Of course, most Comcast connections aren't either...
Too bad the Titan X the article is about has the same 1/32 FP64 as the GTX 980, and NOT the 1/3 FP64 of the previous Titan cards.
Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
GP is correct. This card is for suckers. People who want to play at 4k will be far better served by SLI/CF still, everyone else shouldn't be looking at either option, and instead getting the far-less-expensive-and-more-than-adequate-at-2560x1440 R9 290, R9 290x, GTX 970, or GTX980 single cards instead.
I love Zach, met him at a comic-con in Seattle a couple years ago, he signed his SMBC-Theater DVD for us and posed for "photo bomb" pictures. Awesome dude.
My question for Zach is, have you ever considered/pondered/done any longer-form comics, with a cohesive narrative? You have tons of goofy ideas, some quite entertaining, I'd love to see what you could do with a story-driven comic powered by your goofy ideas.
Also: your wife is wrong, single-use monocles are an awesome idea, even if just for gag-gift purposes:P
Or, hell, transfer over my wifi network.
Since my phone supports USB3 (Note 3) I actually use that, but my girlfriend's phone doesn't, and transferring over a low-interference 5ghz wireless N network seems roughly as fast as USB2, without having to mess with plugs that wear out.
years ago, I worked for a company called Mutual Consolidated Savings, which is one of the many front companies for these operations. I was a grunt, not really informed of anything that was going on, but it was pretty obvious what was happening, I was the IT Admin's personal assistant, and I also transcribed "sales calls" (such as they were) to fight credit card chargebacks.
They had a team of "financial specialists" which were people they pulled in off the street and gave jobs, and a team of "salespeople", which were the least-literate of the above group. And this was in a seedy part of Tacoma, WA, where those people are seriously bottom-rung people.
I spent about 8 hours of my 10 hour day browsing webcomics, reading slashdot, and whatever else struck my fancy, 1 hour "transcribing" (which was literally copying and pasting the same conversation, doing a find-and-replace on the names as appropriate, and listening to the call once to confirm nothing weird went on. Only about 1/10 of the calls required any actual transcribing, and my transcripts WERE accurate, so I never got caught), and 1 hour in misc meetings/etc.
IT was a joke, there was no security on the computers. They fired someone weekly for browsing porn at work. I installed a multiple-desktop application for Windows so I could keep my webcomics/etc invisible from a cursory overview.
One day, we came into work, and the boss wasn't there. Nobody really thought much of it, figured he was sick or at a meeting somewhere. About 2 hours into the shift, the city police, state troopers, and FBI came into the building, shut everything down, and told us all to go file for unemployment.
No joke: http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0823216/index.shtm
Paul Morris Thompson is a sleazeball the kind of which you'd expect to sell used cars, and his wife was a Notary Public who kept everything looking legit.
I miss that job, I made $10/hour to do nothing, now I make $10/hour talking to cell phone customers V_V
Glad to hear the FTC is still after them, although I doubt it'll do any good.
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This. Last place I worked, I gave about 3 weeks notice (I said "x day is my last day" essentially) and emphasized in my resignation letter my full intent to continue to be as effective/useful to the company as I could for the full duration of my notice.
A higher-up drove 45 minutes from the head office to greet me on the last day of my notice to thank me personally and shake my hand because HE HAD NEVER SEEN ANYONE ACTUALLY DO THIS BEFORE.
EVERY SINGLE one of my coworkers saw this, mind you. I guarantee it made an impression, because they all couldn't stop talking about it the rest of the day.
When an employee resigns on non-hostile terms, don't treat them badly, instead show them how much you value them. It sets a great example for the remaining employees, and boosts morale across the board.
Shame that job paid so badly, I really liked the people there...
The funniest part of this reply is that he thinks 5000dpi and 13 buttons are big numbers nowadays...
I've worked in an Amazon warehouse.
They already have robots drive shelves of product to the pickers, so all they do is stand there and pluck things off shelves all day.
The problems at Amazon aren't the work, it's the artificial conditions imposed by management. ALl workers are treated like thieves, the facility is incredibly cold (like 60F in summer cold, when it's 90F outside) in places, way too hot in others (100F+), there are only cement floors with terrible rubber mats at standing locations, and workers are held WAY too closely to their time punches (i.e. it's a 5 minute walk from your station to the break room, your 15 minute break is now a 5 minute break, too bad, so sad).
It's also one of those workplaces that emphasizes "culture" heavily, aka does daily pep rallies and wastes a ton of time on false morale, instead of trying to have happier workers.
I don't know why this post is AC, it's 100% spot-on, wish I had modpoints for you.
M.2 PCI-E SSDs are nothing new. The samsung drive referenced here is the successor to an "OEM Only" drive that has been readily available to consumers through various retailers for a year.
It's "proprietary" in the sense that right now, Samsung's product has far better performance than ANY competing product. The connector is 100% standard, and included in most high-end laptops nowadays and many desktop motherboards as well.
Wish I had modpoints for this.
Every nerdy guy I know is jealous that I have a gamer woman. Every woman she meets judges her harshly, some openly, some only when she's out of earshot.
Non-nerdy guys literally do not see her, she might as well be invisible, because she's isn't anorexic with DD titties.
Being good friends with a couple guys from Costa Rica... they're some of the happiest people I know online.
And they're developed *enough*... They have nice computers and phones, they eat well, they make enough money to get by.
Happiness really is everything.
If car manufacturers did sensible things we wouldn't have had to bail them out a few years ago.
They love vendor lock-in and planned obsolescence as much as gadget manufacturers do.
Most *people* aren't driving new cars, let alone most kids.
Today's brand new 2016 car is next decade's shitbox old 2016 car.
Unfortunately most of my friends demand laptops.
I build desktops for the few family members who see the value in them.
Nah, couldn't be.
I don't buy prebuilts but any manufacturer that locks secureboot will no longer be recommended to any of my non-tech-savvy friends.
On the other hand... what content had to be cut from competing software to "only" get an M rating, while GTA gets away with it?
I strongly recommend watching "This Film is Not Yet Rated"... it applies just as well to the ESRB as it does to the MPAA.
Probably for the same reason the people in charge of the MPAA, who rate movies, all work for the big companies in the movie industry?
"age-restricting" content ratings always have existed to selectively restrict competitors or undesired content. MPAA, ESRB, same thing.
Many of us who are "stupid and clueless enough to voluntarily run Windows" simply don't have a choice, the software we want/need to use is locked to Windows.
In my case, Desktop = Windows because 3 of the 3 games I spend most of my PC time playing are Windows-exclusive, laptop (which is more general-computing) is running Linux.
This whole situation reeks of left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing...
Oh well, I got my legit win7 licenses through A) student deals and B) family packs, so *if* I choose to upgrade, I'll be "genuine".
TBH I just hope the games I play get proper Linux ports so I can finally dump windows entirely.
I just used WoW as an example because it's one I know off the top of my head.
I don't play a large variety of games, and two of the three games I play don't support 64-bit at all >_>
Depends on your definition of "pure 64-bit"...
Many games offer a 64-bit client, but they generally either default to the 32-bit client and you have to manually launch in 64-bit mode *or* they have a launcher that decides which client to launch for you.
World of Warcraft, for example, has a 64-bit client.
DSL, Satellite, and Cell options aren't broadband. NONE of them are reliably going to be 25mbps down. Of course, most Comcast connections aren't either...
Too bad the Titan X the article is about has the same 1/32 FP64 as the GTX 980, and NOT the 1/3 FP64 of the previous Titan cards. Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/... GP is correct. This card is for suckers. People who want to play at 4k will be far better served by SLI/CF still, everyone else shouldn't be looking at either option, and instead getting the far-less-expensive-and-more-than-adequate-at-2560x1440 R9 290, R9 290x, GTX 970, or GTX980 single cards instead.
I love Zach, met him at a comic-con in Seattle a couple years ago, he signed his SMBC-Theater DVD for us and posed for "photo bomb" pictures. Awesome dude. My question for Zach is, have you ever considered/pondered/done any longer-form comics, with a cohesive narrative? You have tons of goofy ideas, some quite entertaining, I'd love to see what you could do with a story-driven comic powered by your goofy ideas. Also: your wife is wrong, single-use monocles are an awesome idea, even if just for gag-gift purposes :P
Or, hell, transfer over my wifi network. Since my phone supports USB3 (Note 3) I actually use that, but my girlfriend's phone doesn't, and transferring over a low-interference 5ghz wireless N network seems roughly as fast as USB2, without having to mess with plugs that wear out.
I just forgot to log in at work
years ago, I worked for a company called Mutual Consolidated Savings, which is one of the many front companies for these operations. I was a grunt, not really informed of anything that was going on, but it was pretty obvious what was happening, I was the IT Admin's personal assistant, and I also transcribed "sales calls" (such as they were) to fight credit card chargebacks. They had a team of "financial specialists" which were people they pulled in off the street and gave jobs, and a team of "salespeople", which were the least-literate of the above group. And this was in a seedy part of Tacoma, WA, where those people are seriously bottom-rung people. I spent about 8 hours of my 10 hour day browsing webcomics, reading slashdot, and whatever else struck my fancy, 1 hour "transcribing" (which was literally copying and pasting the same conversation, doing a find-and-replace on the names as appropriate, and listening to the call once to confirm nothing weird went on. Only about 1/10 of the calls required any actual transcribing, and my transcripts WERE accurate, so I never got caught), and 1 hour in misc meetings/etc. IT was a joke, there was no security on the computers. They fired someone weekly for browsing porn at work. I installed a multiple-desktop application for Windows so I could keep my webcomics/etc invisible from a cursory overview. One day, we came into work, and the boss wasn't there. Nobody really thought much of it, figured he was sick or at a meeting somewhere. About 2 hours into the shift, the city police, state troopers, and FBI came into the building, shut everything down, and told us all to go file for unemployment. No joke: http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0823216/index.shtm Paul Morris Thompson is a sleazeball the kind of which you'd expect to sell used cars, and his wife was a Notary Public who kept everything looking legit. I miss that job, I made $10/hour to do nothing, now I make $10/hour talking to cell phone customers V_V Glad to hear the FTC is still after them, although I doubt it'll do any good.
not sure what The Who has to do with this. TFA is talking about a civil suit.