After searching there site for some numbers I found this:
" Feel free to contact WAVE America Public Relations at (800) 527-1428 or publicrelations@waveamerica.com."
Since they asked so nicely, I called immediately to tell them exactly how insane I think their program is. Unfortunately I got an answering machine, but I left a detail, rational message objecting, and left contact information. I think that all of you here who oppose this should call or write them.
I am WAN architect and engineer. Ususally I do contracting work because it gives me the opportunity to always design and build something new. Currently i am under contract for a large financial company based out of Manhattan, and I am running a worldwide network upgrade for them, so their is a fair amount of travel involved. I make 85$ an hour, with billable overtime limited due to contract restrictions. Alot of people think that this is alot. It certainly sounds like it is alot. But lets take a look at my hours, and my quality of life. When I am at the office, I stay here for at least 12 hrs, often 14 or 15, and then I take my work home. I sit at home and go over capacity planning and pipe sizing and SONET configs till my eyes bleed out of my skull. If you work out my acutal dollar to hours worked ratio, I would be about even with the gentleman who flips burgers in McDonalds' I have forgotten what the expression "Personal Life" means. I have a wife who hardly sees me, and when she does it is only to watch me work until 2 in the morning. I had to cancel a vacation I was planning to take next week with her, because of work. So shes going with one of our friends in my place. The day she gets back, I leave for business. Now don't get me wrong, I really *REALLY* love what i do, and wouldnt trade jobs for the world, but this business of 33hrs a week is a joke. My shortest weeks are about 60hrs, my longest over twice that. I am always on call, so you could say i am *always* working. It isn't that the company's i work for dont recognize the amount of time I put in, its that they don't care about it. They think "He is getting paid to do a job, whatever it takes, on schedule" And in today's market place if i wasnt willing to do this, someone else would, and then I really would be flipping burgers at McDonalds.
No one is willing to shell that much out for CDs, I think that is obvious. People *do* shell out that much money, but only because they have no choice. And as to the cost of the medium, CDs do indeed cost just about a dollar to produce, even after the record companies overhead (i.e. salaries, etc). Unlike most other products, CDs have not come down from there orignally expensive production prices, but gone up! That is ludicrous, witness video tapes, which were orignally priced around 99$ when they were released, and have now come down to a *much* more reasonable level. I am not an AC, and i highly advocate MP3s and as long as they are around people will not be forced to shell out a 1500%-1800% markup because of the greed of large companies. I have over 250 CDs and I have no problem paying for music. I would even pay for MP3s, as long as they were reasonable in price. Considering that the overhead on a digital file is virtually nil when compared to the cost of pressing physical medium, I think that 4$-5$ dollars wouldnt be unreasonable. But until that happens, CDs wont be getting another dime of my money.
>>And I'm sure that we all would be happy to see links from various pro-MS websites to your articles so they can see exactly how easy Linux is to purchase and use.
Im sorry...are you reading a different article than I am?? Because the one Jon Katz wrote certainly did nothing to create the image that linux is easy to purchase and use. As a matter of fact, it made it seem like the biggest clusterfuck imaginable...but hey it might just be...or maybe the crack, but in any case try reading the article again with your eyes open.
>>I've known a few people who, and I've been known to myself, go into CompUSA wearing a red shirt of roughly the same fabric and weight as their shirts, and spend a half-hour to an hour being genuinely helpful to customers. So far, I've never been escorted out of the building for this, but I have heard of it happening.
umm...look, i'm sure that your doing a nice charitable thing, but is anyone else thinking "WTF?? Do you smoke to much crack, or just have way too much free time??" *why* would you do such a thing?
>>How many of you out there would accept a new car with the engine disassembled and sitting in pieces in the trunk and think "I know a pretty shitty mechanic who has always fucked me over in the past. I should take this to him so he can fuck me again because I really don't want to wait for new car."
Wait...I would agree that a 386sx/16 wouldn't get anywhere near hot enough to ignite anything, however, your original post specified an ATX form factor. All 386 boards were AT...so I guess you got yourself a discrepancy on your hands huh?
You know, your right, he really would have a problem if the case he made was wooden, but for some reason I tend to think that cardboard burns at a lot lower temp. than 450F, but i could be wrong...
Um.....hate to point this out, but if you are running any kind of highend processor, or videocard, then that means alot of heat, which is probably not such a good idea next to cardboard.
Unless of course you like the idea of a spontaneously combusting case
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After searching there site for some numbers I found this:
" Feel free to contact WAVE America Public Relations at (800) 527-1428 or publicrelations@waveamerica.com."
Since they asked so nicely, I called immediately to tell them exactly how insane I think their program is. Unfortunately I got an answering machine, but I left a detail, rational message objecting, and left contact information. I think that all of you here who oppose this should call or write them.
I believe the movie answered that question with Alia saying "Why?.....because he *IS* the Kwitazs Haderch (sp?)
that being said, the complete removal of the goal of terraforming Arrakis from the movie destroys the plot in my mind.
I am WAN architect and engineer. Ususally I do contracting work because it gives me the opportunity to always design and build something new.
Currently i am under contract for a large financial company based out of Manhattan, and I am running a worldwide network upgrade for them, so their is a fair amount of travel involved. I make 85$ an hour, with billable overtime limited due to contract restrictions. Alot of people think that this is alot. It certainly sounds like it is alot. But lets take a look at my hours, and my quality of life.
When I am at the office, I stay here for at least 12 hrs, often 14 or 15, and then I take my work home. I sit at home and go over capacity planning and pipe sizing and SONET configs till my eyes bleed out of my skull. If you work out my acutal dollar to hours worked ratio, I would be about even with the gentleman who flips burgers in McDonalds'
I have forgotten what the expression "Personal Life" means. I have a wife who hardly sees me, and when she does it is only to watch me work until 2 in the morning. I had to cancel a vacation I was planning to take next week with her, because of work. So shes going with one of our friends in my place. The day she gets back, I leave for business.
Now don't get me wrong, I really *REALLY* love what i do, and wouldnt trade jobs for the world, but this business of 33hrs a week is a joke. My shortest weeks are about 60hrs, my longest over twice that. I am always on call, so you could say i am *always* working.
It isn't that the company's i work for dont recognize the amount of time I put in, its that they don't care about it. They think "He is getting paid to do a job, whatever it takes, on schedule" And in today's market place if i wasnt willing to do this, someone else would, and then I really would be flipping burgers at McDonalds.
or "How we learned to stop doing constructive work and sue everyone we can"
Ya think IDG will go for this as their next big title?
Server is toast, anyone have a mirror?
No one is willing to shell that much out for CDs, I think that is obvious. People *do* shell out that much money, but only because they have no choice. And as to the cost of the medium, CDs do indeed cost just about a dollar to produce, even after the record companies overhead (i.e. salaries, etc). Unlike most other products, CDs have not come down from there orignally expensive production prices, but gone up! That is ludicrous, witness video tapes, which were orignally priced around 99$ when they were released, and have now come down to a *much* more reasonable level. I am not an AC, and i highly advocate MP3s and as long as they are around people will not be forced to shell out a 1500%-1800% markup because of the greed of large companies. I have over 250 CDs and I have no problem paying for music. I would even pay for MP3s, as long as they were reasonable in price. Considering that the overhead on a digital file is virtually nil when compared to the cost of pressing physical medium, I think that 4$-5$ dollars wouldnt be unreasonable. But until that happens, CDs wont be getting another dime of my money.
>>And I'm sure that we all would be happy to see links from various pro-MS websites to your articles so they can see exactly how easy Linux is to purchase and use.
Im sorry...are you reading a different article than I am?? Because the one Jon Katz wrote certainly did nothing to create the image that linux is easy to purchase and use. As a matter of fact, it made it seem like the biggest clusterfuck imaginable...but hey it might just be...or maybe the crack, but in any case try reading the article again with your eyes open.
>>I've known a few people who, and I've been known to myself, go into CompUSA wearing a red shirt of roughly the same fabric and weight as their shirts, and spend a half-hour to an hour being genuinely helpful to customers. So far, I've never been escorted out of the building for this, but I have heard of it happening.
umm...look, i'm sure that your doing a nice charitable thing, but is anyone else thinking "WTF?? Do you smoke to much crack, or just have way too much free time??" *why* would you do such a thing?
ok...back to the crackpipe
>>How many of you out there would accept a new car with the engine disassembled and sitting in pieces in the trunk and think "I know a pretty shitty mechanic who has always fucked me over in the past. I should take this to him so he can fuck me again because I really don't want to wait for new car."
Amen....I havent laughed that hard in a while...
Wait...I would agree that a 386sx/16 wouldn't get anywhere near hot enough to ignite anything, however, your original post specified an ATX form factor. All 386 boards were AT...so I guess you got yourself a discrepancy on your hands huh?
Not to be petty or anything.
You know, your right, he really would have a
problem if the case he made was wooden, but for some reason I tend to think that cardboard burns at a lot lower temp. than 450F, but i could be wrong...
Um.....hate to point this out, but if you are running any kind of highend processor, or videocard, then that means alot of heat, which is probably not such a good idea next to cardboard.
Unless of course you like the idea of a spontaneously combusting case