I wasn't commenting on the particular case as much as I was shit that happens where I work:) A cust might not have service for a week, weak signal or something, but they never bother to call our 24hour tech support (real support too, not just an answering service) then finally after 2 months, they call and expect a full credit for the time without service, these get denied simply because we can't fix it, if we don't know its broke.:)
Are explicitly covered in most ISP ToS, when houston is flooded, and our upstream provider (WorldCom) loses something like 1000 DS-3's, a few of which happen to be ours, and all of our customers running out of Bryan/College Station are without service, yea, it sucks, but its not our fault, and there isn't much we can do about, I'm still fairly sure that Customer Service went back across the board and credited all the accounts in the area, even though our ToS didn't call for it. What I hate are the people who bitch me out on the phone when I explain the situation, people DIED during that flood, and all some jack-off's down there cared about was the fact that they couldn't get on Pogo!
To see who is growing Marijuana, or other such illegal substances? And if so, is all they need a "picture" from this thing to get a search warrant? Shouldn't they need a search warrant to use this thing on your farm specifically?
Take the video out from your LD player, and plug it in to the best Capture card you can buy, or heck, even one of those Sony DV-cams with RCA input, those really capture at great quality, I mean considering their size, 200 megs a minute, it better look damn good. Then take this and use some sort of lossless compression, to back up the avi file to a DVD-R, if it will fit, you might have to span. Then, for everyday viewing, compress it down to Mpeg-2 using a really good software compressor, this could take a LONG time, even on the fastest of systems. Then master than mpeg-2 stream onto a dvd-r, and bam, you got DVDs of the Star Wars trilogy. Sure there is a lot more technical details, but this is a slashdot post, not a HOW-to.;)
I was fully scholarshipped when i went to college, so does that mean I sort of "worked" for the school? And the programs I wrote were the property of my "employer"because I wrote them at their request and under their supervision? Not that I wrote anything groundbreaking mind you, but I'm sure lots of useful important things DO get written in post-graduate work, and it would be beneficial to know who exactly "owns" this work.
They are just like everybody else, only older. I find just as many 20-40 year olds who are totally internet clueless (can't find the address bar, can't find the send/recv button in OE) as the older generation. In fact, generally the only complaint I have about our older customers is the occasional one that just can't hear you:) I talk with about 60-70 customers a day, and I'd say that the elderly demographic is at least as educated as the generation just below them. Don't automatically label someone as inept just because they are old, as you will be old someday, and everything will be new, and you will probably have trouble checking your email.
But I doubt it shipped that way, in fact, it didn't "ship" at all, we built it. These statistics are screwy simply because a LOT of linux servers are going to be home brewed/or maybe even shipped with Windows, and are NOW running Linux...
I think its the fact that crack rocks arrive in your mailbox usually on the same day as your slashdot account gets mod points, I think CmdrTaco plans it this way...
An emulator? Haven't we been able to do this for a while, albeit with a great loss in speed. I really don't see anything super revolutionary here, just evolutionary.
Ive got shell access, and 100 megs of storage, and 10 gigs of transfer, on a linux box. And its not named based hosting, I've got an IP, its not that bad, when it works:)
You can order an ethernet adapter that replaces the 56k modem it comes with. I have one, i set it to DHCP, stuck it behind my router, and don't have to tie up my phone line anymore to play PSO. Its very cool. Apparently Sega.com quit selling them though, so ebay is your only option... although lik-sang.com surely has them.
The chinese, what a bunch off characters! Always trying to undermine US security.... If they had gone unnoticed for a bit longer, and somehow shutdown a portion of the grid, would we of etalliated?
Heh, Job, riiiight, As if 22 hours a semester wasn't killing me already.... Sure I could of had one of those cushy work-study jobs, oh wait, I had three. Scratch that.
They did? wow, and I spent all that time scrounging for money for NOTHING then. Geez, I wish I had known they were paying for everything! I had tuition covered, from scholarships, but as far as money to LIVE on, I had jack shit, and had to basically forage.
Than what happened to me. I got expelled from school for publishing a web-site that ran the administration the wrong way, but I never went to jail. The real kicker was when we got a version printed and blanketed campus with them, specifically the president of the university's car. It was beautiful, once he found out about them, he sent his goons all over campus to collect any they could find. Then there was the time we broke into the school's post office and put one in everyones mail-box. The only problem with that was, when a prof checked their mail, noticed it, and immediately had all the mail-boxes searched/relieved of our foul propaganda. The lengths we went to to try and keep the student body informed.
Maybe from now on video game and software credits will read "Anonymous programmer #7" instead of John Smith. Really, if you think about it from an employees point of view, if they are scared to let the competitors even LOOK at your FACE, chances are you are being under-compensated. And its not always about the $$$. If a company is fun to work for, and gives their great employees a lot of freedom, they might turn down better paying positions at other companies, because they feel a sense of loyalty. It really makes me wonder what the working conditions must be like at this company for them to fear losing their employees THAT much.
I read about this a LONG time ago. Still, interesting story, and well worth another read to get the details back in my head. Hmmm, I wonder if this could be turned into some sort of homebrew infertility method, just irradiate your nuts, and you don't have to worry about your lil swimmers!
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Right now I'm taking time off. Working, saving money, getting out of debt. whoever thought the ProtractorX would of caused me this much trouble ?