I don't see any Kansans on that list, and we've had a lot more than 500 telemarketing jobs right here in Doodah. Know what, though? There's a pretty high burnout rate for telemarketers, so companies are getting smart, and opening call centers here. *Incoming* call centers. So all those burned-out or laid-off telemarketers don't necessarily go on welfare.
only to get up and over to the section in the main library where the segment would be in order, to find a sign saying that those books were in the other building
There's something like that going on in the public libraries here... they use Dewey(tm) but they've chopped up the sequences. I think the theory is that they're collecting things that "go together" even though they're in different parts. There's an Arts & Music section on one floor, with the relevant section(s) of the Dewey system, plus all the rental videos, music, and art. There's a "business" section on another floor, which has a rather more choppy bits of Dewey(tm), all the references, magazines, etc. It's nice for browsing, but not quite as convenient for finding stuff you've looked up in the catalog (which at least notes which "special collection" books are in, in addition to the Dewey(tm) number).
What I really wish, though, is that *bookstores* would use one system or the other.
Pretty much everyone has their own area of expertise, but elitists in any field should not be tolerated...
I'm not sure it *is* necessarily elitism. I think it's more that when you're experienced with something, you forget that what seems unbelievably simple and obvious to you isn't, necessarily. So when you're working in your field of expertise, be it computers, plumbing, or car repair, sometimes you're going to run into things that seem trivial to you, that you think even a neophyte should understand them, that are only trivial *because* you've got such a grounding in the subject.
In other words, the thinking isn't "These people are so stupid because they're not computer experts like me," it's "These people are so stupid because this is so obvious even non-experts should get it."
When is the last time your car mechanic told you that you couldn't drive your vehicle because you are an idiot? Does your plumber forbid you from using your faucets?
I can't speak to the plumber situation, but if you've ever listened to mechanics behind the scenes, they sound *exactly* like computer techs. Sometimes they really *do* wish they could tell people they shouldn't drive a vehicle because they're idiots. (I'm betting body shop folks do even more of that sort of griping...)
My wackyparsing of it was, as I hinted at, the opposite of everyone else's. My reaction to "'i' always comes before 'e' in 'ie' pairs" was "Yeah, but that's not limited to English. And 'x' always comes before 'q' in 'xq' pairs, but how's that gonna help you?"
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Let's be honest here. Who here hasn't been called into a decision-maker's office because somebody sent them a link to a video (or Flash game, or whatever) and they want to be able to see it on their computer?
It's silly, it's not "work-related," but it's going to affect the perceptions at the top levels.
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/me looks fondly at the dead-plain, black, monolithic PC case under his desk, adorned with nothing but a small case badge that bears a photo of an F-117.
I'll see you and raise you... well, lower you a boring beige mini-tower with two missing 5 1/4" drive-bay covers (I should replace those and vacuum out the cat hair), a non-seated floppy drive (the missing drive-bay covers mean I can hold onto the drive when I'm putting a disk in, which is never) and a missing reset button (actually, the turbo button is missing, but I moved the reset button over there because it kept getting bumped). At least the LEDs work: one green for power, one red for drive activity. It looks every bit the P-166 it is.
(Not that I'm looking for pity or anything; it's just a glorified terminal, quite adequate for what I use it for (reading Slashdot, obviously). There's a nice X-term sitting in the living room waiting to replace it. Beige pizza-box, but at least it's all in one piece, and has a 20" screen attached. But if I can't connect my ten-year-old extra-clicky IBM keyboard to it, I'll be very sad.)
I'm not the original poster, but I'm kind of amused, because you've pretty much described me, except that the other "professional field" I jumped into for five years (three, so far) is stay-at-home motherhood. That cut the household income in half.
I expect to jump back in at the point where I left off, partly because I'm spending these five years working on free/open source projects and other stuff like that (okay, and reading Slashdot, too... I keep up on the industry).
If you look at it right, it's really not that much different from quitting an unethical company, other than that I'm *guaranteed* to be staying out of the IT field, where the hypothetical ex-SCO employee isn't.
SCO has already givin up their right to be treated as professionals.
That's as may be, but they haven't taken away my right to behave professionally, if you see the distinction. (I reserve the right to waive that right at any time, though...)
My point was that just because someone (and it wasn't me, originally) suggested treating McBride professionally didn't mean they thought he deserved being treated professionally. Moral high ground, and all.
I personally can't stand web forums and that ubiquitous UBB
m3 t00. What *is* it with them? As near as I can figure, whoever wrote the first one had no experience with decent email or news readers, and just grew it out of a guest book or something. And then everybody cloned it, without really thinking about it.
I'm in the process of writing a web forum program myself, partially because a lot of people don't like or understand mailing lists. But I'm trying to do it *right*. It's going to resemble something between XNews, Google Groups, Outlook (so as to make the nontechnical sorts aren't scared by it), and Pegasus Mail. Or so I hope.
And, most importantly, it's not replacing the majordomo-esque mailing lists... it's just another interface to them.
Darnitall, I can't remember where I saw the article (hope it wasn't here... my memory insists it was a deadtree magazine) that pointed out that it hasn't been the office that's become paperless, but the warehouse. The days of multiple-carbon picklists and that sort of thing are fading, replaced by barcode readers and wireless. Kind of an interesting point.
Generally the challenge responds to the Sender address, which is also where bounces go. Generally, the daemon that listens to bounces interprets it as a rejection message, concludes that the email address is no longer valid, and unsubscribes them without any intervention on my part.
The otherwise awful movie "All's Fair" (http://www.imdb.com/Title?0096789) is unintentionally amusing because the guns sound like real guns. That's amusing because the guns are paintball guns ("markers," these days, but Back In The Day we called 'em guns). And not paintball guns^Wmarkers standing in for real guns, neither... the movie's an amazingly awful one about corporate-execs playing paintball.
Excuse me? The toilets wouldn't flush? My toilets have always worked just fine during power outages.
If you're in an area that's served by a water tower, you're fine. If you're in an area that relies on pumps, and pump power goes blooey, you don't have water.
The core part of Wichita is that way; there are water towers out in the suburbs. The pumps do have auxiliary power, though, so I've never experienced a power-related water outage.
Because Windows bugs you to turn on Automatic Updates.
A lot of people shut that off after a patch awhile back that smoked JavaScript. (And guess what? It requires JavaScript to perform Automatic Updates, so they couldn't download the patch that fixed the patch.) I mean, when the first "visible" thing the Update does brings your system to its knees, and requires you to pay a tech to fix it, Joe Average User is going to be a little confused about exactly how it's supposed to *protect* you from a virus that brings your system to its knees, and requires you to pay a tech to fix it...
Nonono, when someone says they're a SINGLE female geek here, *that's* when you want to be skeptical. If they add "young" and/or "good-looking," moderate 'em -1 Troll.
Us married-with-child female geeks old enough to know RPG and COBOL? We're plausible.
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I don't see any Kansans on that list, and we've had a lot more than 500 telemarketing jobs right here in Doodah. Know what, though? There's a pretty high burnout rate for telemarketers, so companies are getting smart, and opening call centers here. *Incoming* call centers. So all those burned-out or laid-off telemarketers don't necessarily go on welfare.
but I don't buy from companies who market unethically.
If you haven't got the guts to admit you're connected to a project you're pimping, you've lost any respect I might have had for the project.
only to get up and over to the section in the main library where the segment would be in order, to find a sign saying that those books were in the other building
There's something like that going on in the public libraries here... they use Dewey(tm) but they've chopped up the sequences. I think the theory is that they're collecting things that "go together" even though they're in different parts. There's an Arts & Music section on one floor, with the relevant section(s) of the Dewey system, plus all the rental videos, music, and art. There's a "business" section on another floor, which has a rather more choppy bits of Dewey(tm), all the references, magazines, etc. It's nice for browsing, but not quite as convenient for finding stuff you've looked up in the catalog (which at least notes which "special collection" books are in, in addition to the Dewey(tm) number).
What I really wish, though, is that *bookstores* would use one system or the other.
Pretty much everyone has their own area of expertise, but elitists in any field should not be tolerated...
I'm not sure it *is* necessarily elitism. I think it's more that when you're experienced with something, you forget that what seems unbelievably simple and obvious to you isn't, necessarily. So when you're working in your field of expertise, be it computers, plumbing, or car repair, sometimes you're going to run into things that seem trivial to you, that you think even a neophyte should understand them, that are only trivial *because* you've got such a grounding in the subject.
In other words, the thinking isn't "These people are so stupid because they're not computer experts like me," it's "These people are so stupid because this is so obvious even non-experts should get it."
On the bright side, deliveries of unrelated spam seem to have fallen due to the worm's load on the internet :-)
I thought maybe that was my imagination... I polled my spambox and only had three or four pieces of non-Swen mail in it over a six-hour period.
Interesting.
When is the last time your car mechanic told you that you couldn't drive your vehicle because you are an idiot? Does your plumber forbid you from using your faucets?
I can't speak to the plumber situation, but if you've ever listened to mechanics behind the scenes, they sound *exactly* like computer techs. Sometimes they really *do* wish they could tell people they shouldn't drive a vehicle because they're idiots. (I'm betting body shop folks do even more of that sort of griping...)
I'm guessing he just left out "almost."
My wackyparsing of it was, as I hinted at, the opposite of everyone else's. My reaction to "'i' always comes before 'e' in 'ie' pairs" was "Yeah, but that's not limited to English. And 'x' always comes before 'q' in 'xq' pairs, but how's that gonna help you?"
SOMETIMES E COMES BEFORE I!
Yes, but those are "ei" pairs.
The user might need to look at
Let's be honest here. Who here hasn't been called into a decision-maker's office because somebody sent them a link to a video (or Flash game, or whatever) and they want to be able to see it on their computer?
It's silly, it's not "work-related," but it's going to affect the perceptions at the top levels.
/me looks fondly at the dead-plain, black, monolithic PC case under his desk, adorned with nothing but a small case badge that bears a photo of an F-117.
I'll see you and raise you... well, lower you a boring beige mini-tower with two missing 5 1/4" drive-bay covers (I should replace those and vacuum out the cat hair), a non-seated floppy drive (the missing drive-bay covers mean I can hold onto the drive when I'm putting a disk in, which is never) and a missing reset button (actually, the turbo button is missing, but I moved the reset button over there because it kept getting bumped). At least the LEDs work: one green for power, one red for drive activity. It looks every bit the P-166 it is.
(Not that I'm looking for pity or anything; it's just a glorified terminal, quite adequate for what I use it for (reading Slashdot, obviously). There's a nice X-term sitting in the living room waiting to replace it. Beige pizza-box, but at least it's all in one piece, and has a 20" screen attached. But if I can't connect my ten-year-old extra-clicky IBM keyboard to it, I'll be very sad.)
You'd have a much tougher time at an interview if you said "Well you see my last employer was acting unethicaly and so I left."
Happens I've done that, too. Didn't just quit, but blew a whistle. Had another job within two weeks.
Of course, I have a pretty diverse skill set, and make a point of keeping it that way.
You're retarded. Do you even have a job?
I'm not the original poster, but I'm kind of amused, because you've pretty much described me, except that the other "professional field" I jumped into for five years (three, so far) is stay-at-home motherhood. That cut the household income in half.
I expect to jump back in at the point where I left off, partly because I'm spending these five years working on free/open source projects and other stuff like that (okay, and reading Slashdot, too... I keep up on the industry).
If you look at it right, it's really not that much different from quitting an unethical company, other than that I'm *guaranteed* to be staying out of the IT field, where the hypothetical ex-SCO employee isn't.
Beautifully illustrated and well written children's books.
Under a different name? Or are they just hard to find?
SCO has already givin up their right to be treated as professionals.
That's as may be, but they haven't taken away my right to behave professionally, if you see the distinction. (I reserve the right to waive that right at any time, though...)
My point was that just because someone (and it wasn't me, originally) suggested treating McBride professionally didn't mean they thought he deserved being treated professionally. Moral high ground, and all.
So what you're saying is that you don't think McBride is an asshat?
I think the point is that despite what you *think* about someone, if you want to "be professional" about it, you watch what you *say* about someone.
I personally can't stand web forums and that ubiquitous UBB
m3 t00. What *is* it with them? As near as I can figure, whoever wrote the first one had no experience with decent email or news readers, and just grew it out of a guest book or something. And then everybody cloned it, without really thinking about it.
I'm in the process of writing a web forum program myself, partially because a lot of people don't like or understand mailing lists. But I'm trying to do it *right*. It's going to resemble something between XNews, Google Groups, Outlook (so as to make the nontechnical sorts aren't scared by it), and Pegasus Mail. Or so I hope.
And, most importantly, it's not replacing the majordomo-esque mailing lists... it's just another interface to them.
We're headed towards the "Paperless Office".
Darnitall, I can't remember where I saw the article (hope it wasn't here... my memory insists it was a deadtree magazine) that pointed out that it hasn't been the office that's become paperless, but the warehouse. The days of multiple-carbon picklists and that sort of thing are fading, replaced by barcode readers and wireless. Kind of an interesting point.
m3 t00.
Generally the challenge responds to the Sender address, which is also where bounces go. Generally, the daemon that listens to bounces interprets it as a rejection message, concludes that the email address is no longer valid, and unsubscribes them without any intervention on my part.
I consider it a feature rather than a bug.
IANAAccountant, but I seem to recall that "goodwill" *does* affect the bottom line.
The otherwise awful movie "All's Fair" (http://www.imdb.com/Title?0096789) is unintentionally amusing because the guns sound like real guns. That's amusing because the guns are paintball guns ("markers," these days, but Back In The Day we called 'em guns). And not paintball guns^Wmarkers standing in for real guns, neither... the movie's an amazingly awful one about corporate-execs playing paintball.
Some government is behind this
Worse than that. It's a spammer's private distributed network. SPAM@HOME... just like SETI, only without the nifty screensaver.
http://www.lurhq.com/sobig-e.html
Considering Baghdad had backup generators for their water plants, I'd be surprised if anywhere in the West didn't.
I sort of suspect a lot of New Yorkers would guess Wichita rates slightly lower than Baghdad on the "likely to have civilized utilities" scale.
Excuse me? The toilets wouldn't flush? My toilets have always worked just fine during power outages.
If you're in an area that's served by a water tower, you're fine. If you're in an area that relies on pumps, and pump power goes blooey, you don't have water.
The core part of Wichita is that way; there are water towers out in the suburbs. The pumps do have auxiliary power, though, so I've never experienced a power-related water outage.
Because Windows bugs you to turn on Automatic Updates.
A lot of people shut that off after a patch awhile back that smoked JavaScript. (And guess what? It requires JavaScript to perform Automatic Updates, so they couldn't download the patch that fixed the patch.) I mean, when the first "visible" thing the Update does brings your system to its knees, and requires you to pay a tech to fix it, Joe Average User is going to be a little confused about exactly how it's supposed to *protect* you from a virus that brings your system to its knees, and requires you to pay a tech to fix it...
LIES!
Nonono, when someone says they're a SINGLE female geek here, *that's* when you want to be skeptical. If they add "young" and/or "good-looking," moderate 'em -1 Troll.
Us married-with-child female geeks old enough to know RPG and COBOL? We're plausible.
(*Barely* old enough, thankyouverymuch.)