The better one was the Mouseman Marble trackball. Which they don't make anymore. And its successor, which I believe is wireless. And they don't make that one anymore, either. I think it had 6 buttons, too. Fully programmable. Bastards.
You had to have a cartridge for BASIC? If you didn't hit a special button on the 800XL, you defaulted to basic. Sucked if you programmed anything, as you couldn't write to a floppy if you didn't boot from it.
I had an Atari 800XL back in the day. With a 300 Baud modem, two floppy drives, and a color monitor! I miss that machine. Had way too many pirated games for it.
I don't know why don't they use body fat percentage. May be because they don't want to invest in modern measuring technology.
They use BMI because it's simple. It takes effort to get a body fat percentage, either through calipers, electrical impetus, or submersion. My body fat percentage is at 19%, which at 41 is healthy, but I have a BMI of 30.1, so I'm obese. ???
DC was on the list of Best Places, as there are a LOT of IT jobs in the area. I'd personally love to move to Alaska, but not until after my daughter graduates from college and/or I get married again.
I saw the issue the OP stated in all of the K-12 schools I went to. As my father was in the military, I got to go to 3 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 2 high schools. Some teachers were able to handle students at different reading/math levels in elementary school, but once I hit middle/high school, everything except math was lowest common denominator. In Seventh grade, the English class was using the reader I used in Fifth grade. And people in the class were having a hard time with it! The only way I could get away from the morons was to get into an AP class. Of course, I couldn't get into the AP English classes as my grades were too low in Eighth grade (should have actually done my homework.) Math was something I was good at. I had excellent Math teachers in HS. Sadly, I went to college. By my second quarter, I had enough of the stupid rote memorization of proofs that had to be regurgitated on exams to just stop attending classes. Feh.
in the U.S. we're supposed to have a free press, not government owned. Unfortunately, consolidation of ownership of media outlets have reduced the "free press" to mouth pieces of the agendas they're trying to push. Blogs like Nightjack's are the last true free press now.
Are we talking general IT support or just Help Desk?
Personally, I work server administration. If my servers are offline without notification, that should be a ping. If I can keep my servers going without any outages that users can see, I'm doing my job.
Unfortunately, I've had managers who've only worked with regular office workers or with programmers. They don't quite "get" what I do, so they start demanding metrics. They're uncomfortable with just leaving me/us alone and doing our jobs.
Sure, let's go ahead and create ANOTHER agency. People like Lee need to realize money doesn't grow on trees. Who else can we get to do this? The whole point is to find the next group that will try to pull something here in the US. DHS, BATFE, and FBI, all have the capability, although DHS would probably the best pick of the bunch.
I've left my job with one company by leaving all of my stuff in the server closet, a piece of paper with the passwords, and a note saying "Good Bye!" They bounced several pay checks, and delayed disbursing paychecks for several months beforehand.
The second time, I dumped my laptop and gear at the data center, and sent an email to the HR drone saying "I can't take this anymore. I'm gone effective now." This one, we had 3 Canadian contractors who made my life hell, by making it impossible for me to do my work. not giving me access, and fucking with my passwords. They kept their shitty jobs, I got a new one.
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The better one was the Mouseman Marble trackball. Which they don't make anymore. And its successor, which I believe is wireless. And they don't make that one anymore, either. I think it had 6 buttons, too. Fully programmable. Bastards.
You had to have a cartridge for BASIC? If you didn't hit a special button on the 800XL, you defaulted to basic. Sucked if you programmed anything, as you couldn't write to a floppy if you didn't boot from it.
I had an Atari 800XL back in the day. With a 300 Baud modem, two floppy drives, and a color monitor! I miss that machine. Had way too many pirated games for it.
I don't know why don't they use body fat percentage. May be because they don't want to invest in modern measuring technology.
They use BMI because it's simple. It takes effort to get a body fat percentage, either through calipers, electrical impetus, or submersion. My body fat percentage is at 19%, which at 41 is healthy, but I have a BMI of 30.1, so I'm obese. ???
Pittsburgh and Dallas.
As a Boston resident who is only a hockey fan (I worked security for the Red Sox in college) you will not find anyone more serious than their sports.
You haven't met any Pittsburgh fans, have you?
DC was on the list of Best Places, as there are a LOT of IT jobs in the area. I'd personally love to move to Alaska, but not until after my daughter graduates from college and/or I get married again.
I find it funny that Boston is on both the best and worst list.
no wedding pictures
Seeing how I'm getting divorced...
You've obviously never been to an anime/scifi/anything Con, have you?
Or they don't shave their pits/legs. Nothing like seeing a muskrat under her arm and realizing it's her own hair!
I saw the issue the OP stated in all of the K-12 schools I went to. As my father was in the military, I got to go to 3 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 2 high schools. Some teachers were able to handle students at different reading/math levels in elementary school, but once I hit middle/high school, everything except math was lowest common denominator. In Seventh grade, the English class was using the reader I used in Fifth grade. And people in the class were having a hard time with it! The only way I could get away from the morons was to get into an AP class. Of course, I couldn't get into the AP English classes as my grades were too low in Eighth grade (should have actually done my homework.) Math was something I was good at. I had excellent Math teachers in HS. Sadly, I went to college. By my second quarter, I had enough of the stupid rote memorization of proofs that had to be regurgitated on exams to just stop attending classes. Feh.
Why don't they use something to up the alkalinity of the ocean, like, crushed coral? Oh, wait...
in the U.S. we're supposed to have a free press, not government owned. Unfortunately, consolidation of ownership of media outlets have reduced the "free press" to mouth pieces of the agendas they're trying to push. Blogs like Nightjack's are the last true free press now.
You're not a British citizen, you're a British SUBJECT.
It's not that hard, I just did it a month ago. Install Service Pack 3 and go from there.
Are we talking general IT support or just Help Desk?
Personally, I work server administration. If my servers are offline without notification, that should be a ping. If I can keep my servers going without any outages that users can see, I'm doing my job.
Unfortunately, I've had managers who've only worked with regular office workers or with programmers. They don't quite "get" what I do, so they start demanding metrics. They're uncomfortable with just leaving me/us alone and doing our jobs.
No, it's DS9.
Sure, let's go ahead and create ANOTHER agency. People like Lee need to realize money doesn't grow on trees. Who else can we get to do this? The whole point is to find the next group that will try to pull something here in the US. DHS, BATFE, and FBI, all have the capability, although DHS would probably the best pick of the bunch.
Amateur. I spent 10 glorious years in 3 different schools, changed my major 5 times, and still haven't graduated!
Maybe YOUR civilization did, but look at China, which is NOT a warm place. They've had a continuous civilization for several thousand years.
Wait, which Ghostbusters animated series are you talking about? There were two. "The Real Ghostbusterss" and "The Ghostbusters."
Actually, unbaptized babies go to Limbo. Read something besides Pagan FUD please. Thank you.
No, it was called "Pac Man thumb"
I've left my job with one company by leaving all of my stuff in the server closet, a piece of paper with the passwords, and a note saying "Good Bye!" They bounced several pay checks, and delayed disbursing paychecks for several months beforehand.
The second time, I dumped my laptop and gear at the data center, and sent an email to the HR drone saying "I can't take this anymore. I'm gone effective now."
This one, we had 3 Canadian contractors who made my life hell, by making it impossible for me to do my work. not giving me access, and fucking with my passwords. They kept their shitty jobs, I got a new one.