However firing someone who did nothing wrong is a bigger PR nightmare than the gossip that got you there in the first place. You have now created a much larger PR nightmare, especially if the employee goes public, also depending on labor laws or possible unions you could have other issues as well. If you read TFA you would have seen that everything that was "questioned" was an actual support ticket, and that the people claiming against CCP had nothing to do with it. The company that the allegations were tied to were completely baffled by the allegations as they didn't feel they were spied on.
Its a case of he said she said, and many of my friends that play EVE were confused by the allegations as well.
Statements of integrity, that what they did. The showed the world exactly what HAPPENED and what they DID. There statements were so strong that the rest was pointless.
By your statement I could call you a murderer and you're automatically guilty and should be punished, or any of a hundred things. Yes this is a company, but you're still playing the guilty and cannot be proven innocent card. The people who originally leveled the claims, only had that claims. CCP fires back with proof of what happened and you say the handled it wrong. I don't think they could have handled it better.
There are those who believe its better to cower in the face of adversity, and there are those who feel its better to stand up and fight, no matter what. Personally I find fighting no matter what the best sign of integrity one could possibly show.
If you're just referring to the initial release, then yes you are correct. It should have been multi-threaded, and Service Pack 1 for FSX proves that by taking advantage of dual and quad core systems.
Please note FSX is now multi-threaded. From release to patch it was 6 months. That being said, that would have been six months without sales and income. If it can run on a single core, and a majority of the code is written to be parallel, modifying it after release could actually be more beneficial to a cost benefit point of view. It's the equivalent of adding a feature after release.
Any product being delayed out the door risks whats called "loosing the window." Where by after you miss that window, projected profits from the product start decreasing.
FSX certainly shows that some things may be shoved out the door before being multi-threaded, however thats no reason to flip out and say it was released too soon. The evidence that it was released too soon was the frame rate problems on even high end systems, and a memory problem.
Sorry, but I see why you posted as an AC. Check this out. You couldn't even Google "broadband technical definition" and then have the intelligence to read it. I would suggest you take some communications theory classes and some EE classes on communications and RF before you continue spouting crap.
Actually you will be happy to know even now in the "digital age" E.E.s are taught the exact same thing. I too cringe. Cable internet can be referred to as broadband because thats how they are transmitting it, it has NOTHING to do with speed. But this is from people who have no idea of what exactly it is they're talking about. For instance there's the barrel shroud fiasco or the wonderful Tubes incident and the fact that the nations media has twisted the pronunciation of the prefix Giga to the point where they changed it in the dictionary.
For those who are actually educated in the field of legislation we quickly realize how ignorant the people writing the laws actually are. You sir are not alone in cringing.
I've been using broadvoice and actually consider it better than Vonage. Buddy of mine tried vonage, broadvoice, and another company, broadvoice won the contest and actually support Asterisk use.:D
Freeworld dialup is another great service out there along the lines of skype,and will allow you to dial any other VoIP service.
Actually most schools actually ban firearms through their administrative code. I don't know about OSU, but here at WSU (Washington) firearms are not allowed on campus even with a permit. However I can tell you a lot of my friends carry anyway, and I know of 5 off hand that want it changed, and there's actually a student group moving for change now. Its not because we don't trust the other students, or we feel unsafe but we prefer to exercise our rights even if they deem it illegal. If you choose not to carry and you end up in a situation like that, you made the choice for yourself. However if someone else tells you, "NO YOU CANT CARRY" and then the shit hits the fan, its the person who banned the carry in the first place, because the outcome could have been different. Just because you're in a small town doesn't mean "It cant happen to you." Case in point recently there were a couple murders here in Pullman and Moscow.
I truthfully don't know how many would actually regularly carry, however most who go through the effort to get their CWP and the rest of it will carry just because.
People often ask me why I have a CWP and why I carry even in the middle of no where. This is my response:
"I would rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it."
My only problem with DHL is the fact that they left $3000 worth of LCDs on my door step with no signature. Please note if i wasn't so honest I would have gotten another matching set at DHL's or Dells expense claiming I never took delivery. But seriously, I have had to deal with both UPS and FedEx on insurance claims. FedEx has always given me problems and delayed shipments. UPS has always been on time, I know my UPS driver pretty well and he met the plane when it landed an hour drive away for some stuff I had shipped next day. My insurance experiences have taught me its not worth it on small items. The key is having proof of condition when shipped and value. Cameras work great and hold on to receipts. If you don't have receipts, make a manifest of what it would cost if you had to replace it. Make sure that the insurance will cover that price. Read the form you fill out for shipping too to make sure it is the values you declared. The key is to do your homework and not be complacent. An extra 15 minutes of extra work pays off when a $600 package is damaged and you're not stuck with the bill.
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Needs a to run a lottery, so some lottery balls can clean out those stacked poker chips clogging the pipes.
When I first started working with linux back in 1998 I was setting up a machine with a old ATI card. No matter what I did I couldn't even get the system to display properly. When I eventually bought another ATI card for use in my desktop (A Rage II) it worked ok in Windows, but when I started to dual boot my box for Linux, again the card wouldn't work right. Right now that box is my linux firewall, and I have standard VGA console issues with the display, and sometimes X.org flips. It is just a standard install of FC4 thats been tweaked to be a firewall. When I built a box to replace my desktop, I used nvidia, all I have to say, is every computer I've bought since is Nvidia due to the ease of installation and use. A friend of mine was thinking about an ATI card for whatever reason, and in researching he found that people were having nothing but trouble with getting it to run in Linux.
Overall IMHO if you want your box to run Linux, and have performance go Nvidia, ATI I dont know why but it seems like the Linux market is not a big deal to them.
And a humanoid robot chasing your mother-in-law is a nightmare how?
Now the father-in-law, that I can see as possibly a nightmare, but the mother-in-law is usually the pain the ass, I'd call it a blessing, especially if she never came back to give us a "suprise" visit.
Actually leaving your computer 24/7 is considerably less stressful on the hardware. The shock of turning the system on and off tends to wear out electrolytic caps at a much higher rate. None of my friends turn off our computers for that reason unless we're not going to be infront of them for a week or more or there is a severe storm and brown outs and fluctuations would screw the system up, but thats a not that often.
In corporate enviroments you have hundreds if not thousands of machines, with that your statistical probability of a failure begins going up, coupled with the extra stress of constantly turning them off at night and back on in the morning, you'd probably eventually loose on average 3 -4 machines a week due to dead caps, and thats a very low estimate. Couple that with the fact that most administrative tasks such as updates and installing new software are done remotely at night while the user is away from work. The energy costs are minor compared to wasting employees time, as well as burning up hardware.
Where I see this technology really being used though is in embedded systems. Often all you have is EEPROM or Flash for storing information, reading is slow, writing is even slower, and a lot of work. EEPROM you have to rewrite the whole chip, Flash whole blocks. However you could use this new ram to store critical information so if a power failure occurs the system would recover much quicker, as well as the fact that system status and configuration informat would be preserved through the power failure.
Suprisingly everyone seems focused on boot time, the access times are considerably lower, so making an OS call would be quicker without having to cache as much of the OS in RAM.
Or really cool April Fools jokes. It made my mom happy, she was beginning to think that the holiday was dead, she never really saw or heard of any joke. She'd see the stuff me and my friends would do, but thats just peanuts. Google redoing Area 51, now thats awesome!
spelling oops, but thats cause there's a can I hit the preview button but still missed it. Guess I'm too drunk to type. Nothing like a beer for breakfast.
Mountain Dew... but thats cause theirs a can sitting infront of me, that I grabbed from my fridge before coming to work this morning, before seeing this post. I've been drinking this wonderful swill since I was a kid. Now another example is the Miller Man Law commericals, those are freaking hilarious, however there is only one way I end up drinking Miller, if I'm at a party and someone else has bought it and thats all they have.
I usually drink beers you don't see commericals for, Grolsch, Alaskan Amber, St. Paulies Girl(if they have a commerical I haven't seen them). The first is by far my favorite. You mention beer to me, its not Budwiser, Bush, or Miller, but Grolsch.
When I see an ad even in fast forward that catches my attention I usually rewind and watch it. Maybe I'm just weird, but I dont enjoy watching crap commercials for tampons etc., its not as if I use them! However good beer commericals on the other hand...
More of the same ol' same ol' of screwing the consumer.
Yeah and you posted as a coward surprise, surprise eh? Dictionaries do exist and they don't always work. Reason being English is highly mobile and constantly changing, slang usage along with interpretation constantly change definitions. On top of that the media also twists and mispronounces and uses words. If you don't believe me, look at the prefix for Giga.
I made a slight mistake in wording it should have been Technically racism in any form is bias.
Bias is a preference to one side of an argument or person over another. Racism is the execution of that bias towards race, religion as well due to ethnic connections. Such as being racist towards Jews. Maybe you should also read the whole thread and actually understand what's being discussed and what's going on before attacking someone.
Also I would be rude if I called you a Mick by profiling your language usage which would be racist by profiling your ethnicity. This falls along the same lines as profiling by name.
Not that often, but since he usually drives it in rush hour traffic in Seattle, he doesn't care if someone just taps him, or for parking lot accidents. He started after he had a couple in his back yard and someone backed into his truck. It mangled the bumper and he needed a quick replacement. He's never looked back. I have to admit at times I'd like to put on railroad ties for when I'm up in the mountains. Its cheaper than getting a new steel bumper.
Used as a disparaging term for a member of the white rural laboring class, especially in the southern United States.In the past couple years it has become synonymous with hick which refers to small towns and rural areas. As I'm from a small town and in the middle of freaking nowhere, people call me a redneck when I visit family on the other side of the state. Do I mind because they're using it to refer to the fact I live in a small rural town. Might I remind you that this is the english language and is full of jargon and slang, much of which isn't documented.
I was the first one to reply to the guy calling the administration a redneck one. I posted a reply, that was fitting, I didn't really take offense, it was more of just to point out that he's casting down people that he probably didn't mean to.
Then if you continue down you notice some very rude and insolent comments, to which I replied, and then someone else posted looking down on me. This thread is from that first serious bashing of rednecks. If you goto any rural area you find people that are "rednecks" and many will refer to themselves as such, espeically if they farm. It is the highly urban areas which have taken the term and twisted it. A good example is the difference between a "hacker" and a "cracker". Most here know the difference, however the media uses "hacker" often where they should really be using "cracker".
I thank you for at least staying in the middle ground instead of just jumping towards being negative like a lot of people so far, as well as being open enough to see at least where I'm coming from and see another side.
Umm, this thread started by someone talking about the current political administration and being negative towards "rednecks." We never said anything about everyone being the same race. Technically bias in any form is racisim, as Mohammed is usually found in Islamic families and that is a religion and where by you can be racist towards a religion. Not only that its discrimination which again is racisim. I sincierly suggesst that you heed what Lincoln once said, "It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool then to open it and remove all doubt." I am NOT trying to offend you or look down my nose at you, however I and the poster of the comment are both confused by your statement, doubly so as it is off topic in the thread which you posted your reply. If you think we're condoing this BS please get real.
I was quickly running out the door from home. But yes, that is usually what I equate to rednecks, every small town I've gone through is full of them and everyone of them I've met are in my book of nicest people to meet and work with. When I was a kid I loved getting dirty, as I started college for some reason that changed, but thank god I'm back to normal and love getting covered in grease. Most people would call them blue collar, but the truth is deep down their one in the same.
I wrote that long spiel and the best thing I could think of was just the line from Foxworthy. Thank you though, I think it worked better that it came from someone else instead of me.
The town I grew up in grew as well, and its now part of the greater Seattle area. When I moved to Pullman it was like moving back into my early child hood. Small, quiet, at least when WSU is out, and really friendly. Some don't like it, but I love it, I'm a hick, redneck, whatever you want to call it, I don't think of it as being negative, I just look at is as my upbringing and outlook on life as being different from the "norm".
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However firing someone who did nothing wrong is a bigger PR nightmare than the gossip that got you there in the first place. You have now created a much larger PR nightmare, especially if the employee goes public, also depending on labor laws or possible unions you could have other issues as well. If you read TFA you would have seen that everything that was "questioned" was an actual support ticket, and that the people claiming against CCP had nothing to do with it. The company that the allegations were tied to were completely baffled by the allegations as they didn't feel they were spied on.
Its a case of he said she said, and many of my friends that play EVE were confused by the allegations as well.
Statements of integrity, that what they did. The showed the world exactly what HAPPENED and what they DID. There statements were so strong that the rest was pointless.
By your statement I could call you a murderer and you're automatically guilty and should be punished, or any of a hundred things. Yes this is a company, but you're still playing the guilty and cannot be proven innocent card. The people who originally leveled the claims, only had that claims. CCP fires back with proof of what happened and you say the handled it wrong. I don't think they could have handled it better.
There are those who believe its better to cower in the face of adversity, and there are those who feel its better to stand up and fight, no matter what. Personally I find fighting no matter what the best sign of integrity one could possibly show.
If you're just referring to the initial release, then yes you are correct. It should have been multi-threaded, and Service Pack 1 for FSX proves that by taking advantage of dual and quad core systems.
Please note FSX is now multi-threaded. From release to patch it was 6 months. That being said, that would have been six months without sales and income. If it can run on a single core, and a majority of the code is written to be parallel, modifying it after release could actually be more beneficial to a cost benefit point of view. It's the equivalent of adding a feature after release.
Any product being delayed out the door risks whats called "loosing the window." Where by after you miss that window, projected profits from the product start decreasing.
FSX certainly shows that some things may be shoved out the door before being multi-threaded, however thats no reason to flip out and say it was released too soon. The evidence that it was released too soon was the frame rate problems on even high end systems, and a memory problem.
Just my two cents.
Sorry, but I see why you posted as an AC. Check this out.
You couldn't even Google "broadband technical definition" and then have the intelligence to read it. I would suggest you take some communications theory classes and some EE classes on communications and RF before you continue spouting crap.
Actually you will be happy to know even now in the "digital age" E.E.s are taught the exact same thing. I too cringe. Cable internet can be referred to as broadband because thats how they are transmitting it, it has NOTHING to do with speed. But this is from people who have no idea of what exactly it is they're talking about. For instance there's the barrel shroud fiasco or the wonderful Tubes incident and the fact that the nations media has twisted the pronunciation of the prefix Giga to the point where they changed it in the dictionary.
For those who are actually educated in the field of legislation we quickly realize how ignorant the people writing the laws actually are. You sir are not alone in cringing.
I've been using broadvoice and actually consider it better than Vonage. Buddy of mine tried vonage, broadvoice, and another company, broadvoice won the contest and actually support Asterisk use. :D
Freeworld dialup is another great service out there along the lines of skype,and will allow you to dial any other VoIP service.
Actually most schools actually ban firearms through their administrative code. I don't know about OSU, but here at WSU (Washington) firearms are not allowed on campus even with a permit. However I can tell you a lot of my friends carry anyway, and I know of 5 off hand that want it changed, and there's actually a student group moving for change now. Its not because we don't trust the other students, or we feel unsafe but we prefer to exercise our rights even if they deem it illegal. If you choose not to carry and you end up in a situation like that, you made the choice for yourself. However if someone else tells you, "NO YOU CANT CARRY" and then the shit hits the fan, its the person who banned the carry in the first place, because the outcome could have been different. Just because you're in a small town doesn't mean "It cant happen to you." Case in point recently there were a couple murders here in Pullman and Moscow.
I truthfully don't know how many would actually regularly carry, however most who go through the effort to get their CWP and the rest of it will carry just because.
People often ask me why I have a CWP and why I carry even in the middle of no where. This is my response:
"I would rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it."
My only problem with DHL is the fact that they left $3000 worth of LCDs on my door step with no signature. Please note if i wasn't so honest I would have gotten another matching set at DHL's or Dells expense claiming I never took delivery. But seriously, I have had to deal with both UPS and FedEx on insurance claims. FedEx has always given me problems and delayed shipments. UPS has always been on time, I know my UPS driver pretty well and he met the plane when it landed an hour drive away for some stuff I had shipped next day. My insurance experiences have taught me its not worth it on small items. The key is having proof of condition when shipped and value. Cameras work great and hold on to receipts. If you don't have receipts, make a manifest of what it would cost if you had to replace it. Make sure that the insurance will cover that price. Read the form you fill out for shipping too to make sure it is the values you declared. The key is to do your homework and not be complacent. An extra 15 minutes of extra work pays off when a $600 package is damaged and you're not stuck with the bill.
Needs a to run a lottery, so some lottery balls can clean out those stacked poker chips clogging the pipes.
In the words of Mark Twain, "There's Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics."
When I first started working with linux back in 1998 I was setting up a machine with a old ATI card. No matter what I did I couldn't even get the system to display properly. When I eventually bought another ATI card for use in my desktop (A Rage II) it worked ok in Windows, but when I started to dual boot my box for Linux, again the card wouldn't work right. Right now that box is my linux firewall, and I have standard VGA console issues with the display, and sometimes X.org flips. It is just a standard install of FC4 thats been tweaked to be a firewall. When I built a box to replace my desktop, I used nvidia, all I have to say, is every computer I've bought since is Nvidia due to the ease of installation and use. A friend of mine was thinking about an ATI card for whatever reason, and in researching he found that people were having nothing but trouble with getting it to run in Linux.
Overall IMHO if you want your box to run Linux, and have performance go Nvidia, ATI I dont know why but it seems like the Linux market is not a big deal to them.
And a humanoid robot chasing your mother-in-law is a nightmare how?
Now the father-in-law, that I can see as possibly a nightmare, but the mother-in-law is usually the pain the ass, I'd call it a blessing, especially if she never came back to give us a "suprise" visit.
Actually leaving your computer 24/7 is considerably less stressful on the hardware. The shock of turning the system on and off tends to wear out electrolytic caps at a much higher rate. None of my friends turn off our computers for that reason unless we're not going to be infront of them for a week or more or there is a severe storm and brown outs and fluctuations would screw the system up, but thats a not that often.
In corporate enviroments you have hundreds if not thousands of machines, with that your statistical probability of a failure begins going up, coupled with the extra stress of constantly turning them off at night and back on in the morning, you'd probably eventually loose on average 3 -4 machines a week due to dead caps, and thats a very low estimate. Couple that with the fact that most administrative tasks such as updates and installing new software are done remotely at night while the user is away from work. The energy costs are minor compared to wasting employees time, as well as burning up hardware.
Where I see this technology really being used though is in embedded systems. Often all you have is EEPROM or Flash for storing information, reading is slow, writing is even slower, and a lot of work. EEPROM you have to rewrite the whole chip, Flash whole blocks. However you could use this new ram to store critical information so if a power failure occurs the system would recover much quicker, as well as the fact that system status and configuration informat would be preserved through the power failure.
Suprisingly everyone seems focused on boot time, the access times are considerably lower, so making an OS call would be quicker without having to cache as much of the OS in RAM.
Or really cool April Fools jokes.
It made my mom happy, she was beginning to think that the holiday was dead, she never really saw or heard of any joke. She'd see the stuff me and my friends would do, but thats just peanuts. Google redoing Area 51, now thats awesome!
What bid do I have for this? Its a very nice piece of Grade A consumer ass.
*insert telcos throwing money and screaming*
Then why are you posting?
spelling oops, but thats cause there's a can I hit the preview button but still missed it. Guess I'm too drunk to type. Nothing like a beer for breakfast.
Mountain Dew... but thats cause theirs a can sitting infront of me, that I grabbed from my fridge before coming to work this morning, before seeing this post. I've been drinking this wonderful swill since I was a kid. Now another example is the Miller Man Law commericals, those are freaking hilarious, however there is only one way I end up drinking Miller, if I'm at a party and someone else has bought it and thats all they have.
I usually drink beers you don't see commericals for, Grolsch, Alaskan Amber, St. Paulies Girl(if they have a commerical I haven't seen them). The first is by far my favorite. You mention beer to me, its not Budwiser, Bush, or Miller, but Grolsch.
When I see an ad even in fast forward that catches my attention I usually rewind and watch it. Maybe I'm just weird, but I dont enjoy watching crap commercials for tampons etc., its not as if I use them! However good beer commericals on the other hand...
More of the same ol' same ol' of screwing the consumer.
Yeah and you posted as a coward surprise, surprise eh? Dictionaries do exist and they don't always work. Reason being English is highly mobile and constantly changing, slang usage along with interpretation constantly change definitions. On top of that the media also twists and mispronounces and uses words. If you don't believe me, look at the prefix for Giga.
I made a slight mistake in wording it should have been Technically racism in any form is bias.
Bias is a preference to one side of an argument or person over another. Racism is the execution of that bias towards race, religion as well due to ethnic connections. Such as being racist towards Jews. Maybe you should also read the whole thread and actually understand what's being discussed and what's going on before attacking someone.
Also I would be rude if I called you a Mick by profiling your language usage which would be racist by profiling your ethnicity. This falls along the same lines as profiling by name.
Not that often, but since he usually drives it in rush hour traffic in Seattle, he doesn't care if someone just taps him, or for parking lot accidents. He started after he had a couple in his back yard and someone backed into his truck. It mangled the bumper and he needed a quick replacement. He's never looked back. I have to admit at times I'd like to put on railroad ties for when I'm up in the mountains. Its cheaper than getting a new steel bumper.
Actually they're two formal definitions for redneck.
Used as a disparaging term for a member of the white rural laboring class, especially in the southern United States.In the past couple years it has become synonymous with hick which refers to small towns and rural areas. As I'm from a small town and in the middle of freaking nowhere, people call me a redneck when I visit family on the other side of the state. Do I mind because they're using it to refer to the fact I live in a small rural town. Might I remind you that this is the english language and is full of jargon and slang, much of which isn't documented.
I was the first one to reply to the guy calling the administration a redneck one. I posted a reply, that was fitting, I didn't really take offense, it was more of just to point out that he's casting down people that he probably didn't mean to.
Then if you continue down you notice some very rude and insolent comments, to which I replied, and then someone else posted looking down on me. This thread is from that first serious bashing of rednecks. If you goto any rural area you find people that are "rednecks" and many will refer to themselves as such, espeically if they farm. It is the highly urban areas which have taken the term and twisted it. A good example is the difference between a "hacker" and a "cracker". Most here know the difference, however the media uses "hacker" often where they should really be using "cracker".
I thank you for at least staying in the middle ground instead of just jumping towards being negative like a lot of people so far, as well as being open enough to see at least where I'm coming from and see another side.
Umm, this thread started by someone talking about the current political administration and being negative towards "rednecks." We never said anything about everyone being the same race. Technically bias in any form is racisim, as Mohammed is usually found in Islamic families and that is a religion and where by you can be racist towards a religion. Not only that its discrimination which again is racisim. I sincierly suggesst that you heed what Lincoln once said, "It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool then to open it and remove all doubt." I am NOT trying to offend you or look down my nose at you, however I and the poster of the comment are both confused by your statement, doubly so as it is off topic in the thread which you posted your reply. If you think we're condoing this BS please get real.
I was quickly running out the door from home. But yes, that is usually what I equate to rednecks, every small town I've gone through is full of them and everyone of them I've met are in my book of nicest people to meet and work with. When I was a kid I loved getting dirty, as I started college for some reason that changed, but thank god I'm back to normal and love getting covered in grease. Most people would call them blue collar, but the truth is deep down their one in the same.
I wrote that long spiel and the best thing I could think of was just the line from Foxworthy. Thank you though, I think it worked better that it came from someone else instead of me.
The town I grew up in grew as well, and its now part of the greater Seattle area. When I moved to Pullman it was like moving back into my early child hood. Small, quiet, at least when WSU is out, and really friendly. Some don't like it, but I love it, I'm a hick, redneck, whatever you want to call it, I don't think of it as being negative, I just look at is as my upbringing and outlook on life as being different from the "norm".
THANK GOD!!! I'm NOT alone!!!!