"What's the difference other than everyone has to own the game?"
The big obvious one is that battlenet was slow, crashed a often and was flooded with other problems. Back when starcraft was out I had high speed internet, along with very few others, but we still had LAN parties because social interaction was (and may still be) fun, and there is just no way you're going to out perform my LAN, even with today's high speed Internet. There's probably a lot of people out there who would just rather play online, typing or talking through a cold microphone, i'm not one of em.
"We would not take out LAN if we did not feel we could offer players something better."
I highly doubt it.
Just one more reason I no longer support Bizzard. Just as soon as I begin to forget why I dislike them they give me more reasons.
This is in fact why NXDomain breaks things in the way the poster describes, however, unless you're the kind of employer who wants to see EVERYTHING your subordinates are doing it's not actually the best practice to filter everything through the VPN.
Filtering everything through their VPN increases overall costs in bandwidth and hardware as Intron indicated. These are very real, very costly expenses that many employers overlook when implementing broad policies... and it's a fantastic point you raised that all too many companies forget.
Why should my connection to slashdot.org, for example, be secure on the company VPN? My ssh and nfs connections have very real reasons to be secure however!! On the other hand you could fix this by filtering DNS traffic through the VPN, but not web traffic. The cost of DNS traffic is marginal comparatively to other services, but the benefit for companies facing these specific issues is obvious.
The amount of co2 released when making beer is very marginal. As another poster pointed out, brewers yeast is designed to create more alcohol byproduct than co2. True that co2 *does* gets released into the air when making beer, but the release of co2 happens for three - four days of the brewing process. During this time it may peak for about 24 hours releasing one nickle sized bubble of co2 every 2-3 seconds. After that you can expect activity to decline very rapidly that by the third or fourth day you'll see fewer than a dozen of those nickle sized bubbles.
With home brewing this is the point where you either bottle it up, or move it into "secondary" for further conditioning. I go for the later, where it sits in another "carboy" (5 gal glass jug) for as much as 4 months. During this time I'd be shocked if there is enough co2 released to fill a medium sized balloon. The reason is at this point the yeast has already consumed nearly all the fermentable sugars and has gone dormant. They lay dormant at the bottom of my carboy until one day when I am ready to keg, then the beer and yeast mixture is revived with a little "priming" sugar, which causes the yeast to go active. Except this time it's contained in a keg. With no where to go the co2 builds, creates pressure, and with the help of cold conditioning some of it dissolves into the liquid giving the beer that carbonated quality. What does not help with carbonation helps to push the beer out of the keg. On a few occasions I have had to use a co2 tank to help push it out. Though I suspect you may be misinformed about how much co2 is actually used to push liquid out of a keg. Generally 5-10lbs of co2 will do it. Any more and your beer will be uber foamy.
Ron Paul was on the Republican ticket, not the Libertarian one. It's true that, as a *real* fiscally conservative / minimal government republican, he gained the support of many libertarians, but we had our own nominee (Bob Barr) running to muck things up however. I could not bring myself to vote for Barr, his history has shown that he does not share our core belief of individual liberty IMO. I can't see how you can claim to support individual liberty while at the same time supporting bans on same sex marriage, drugs and certain religions.
"Is 'disgruntled libertarian' redundant?" - YES, more so now then ever. The past 8 years have been a big "Eff you" to all libertarians, and with the expected growth of this new government of "change" the next 8 don't look very good either.
The CEOP's CEO said that any ISP which can't afford to give the police such help 'simply can't afford to do business.'"
IT workers are generally compensated fairly well, and are usually short handed. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that most IT orgs can't afford to have their admins drudging through data by request without any compensation.
"I look forward to Obama getting the same punishment"
I look forward to the day when people stop bickering about petty crap and do something good for this nation. I did not care when Palin was accused of it and I am not going to care when Obama takes some heat (and he probably will) for using his BB.
It does not shock me. It's all in good fun... like the W keys being removed from all the keyboards when Clinton left office. We had to replace a few keyboards, so what? I ask fora new keyboard every time I take a new job anyway. Its the ones like these that kind of bug me "A few of the messages used profane or obscene language." and "graffiti derogatory to Mr. Bush on the wall of a stall in a men's room".... these are not in the spirit of good fun, but oh well what are you going to do? You can't keep an eye on everyone in your last week(s), and would you even want to? Personally I'd hold a few parties at the white house on my way out, get some kegs on tap, have some card tables going, a few strippers, you know go out with a bang! Hell I'd probably invite the president elect and his transition staff. That will ease up some tension between staff a bit.
No! The President-elect and his/her staff do not get the same access to anything until said President-elect is sworn in per the US Constitution. Sorry, those are the rules.
I don't have a degree either, and yet I hold a pretty high paying IT job. I think the key is being able to supplement enough work experience that it does not matter to the person doing the hiring.
I had to start low, working tech support for a few years for an Internet company that allowed me to move up to system administration. This was easy for me to do because I was 18 at the time and everyone else I knew was working low end - low pay jobs too... it's a much harder thing for someone much older to do who has more financial obligations than I did at the time.
I do agree about the college clique that exists. Techies in IT tend to be pretty elitist, degrees mean something to a lot of people in this field. I see people come in often with very little or no work experience just on a degree alone. They usually end up make poor (read: newbe) decisions and screw something up before moving on to the next big thing. While the rest of us old folks (10+yrs in IT) say I told ya so.
If you have enough experience it's going to be of value to anyone hiring. You always need a few Senior level people around who have the experience that only comes with doing the job for many years. Lessons and knowledge a degree will never teach you. For many people working to that point might not be an option though. I'd recommend finding a job you can do with a company that does offer IT services. Network and work your way to that point where you know what the guy trying to get hired knows. Many companies (usually medium or smaller ones) still promote within over bringing fresh blood in from outside.
I'm surprised when these come around and people ask me where to watch debates online. CSPAN always covers these debates commercial free at http://www.c-span.org/, IT's the same broadcast you'd find on their Cable TV counterpart. You cal also watch live senate floor debates online. Additionally, local (so cal) radio station 640AM also plays these live commercial free over the air and online www.am640.com for those too bandwidth limited for video.
Maybe this just comes from me never having grandparents and not really understanding what senile is, but it seems if my 5 year old can use Linux, someone's grandfather should be able to as well. The key I think, as with any tech product, is not to just build it and dump it on them. Actually make it somewhat easy to use by removing most of the junk and placing some easy to read icons on the desktop to favorite applications. Then sit with them and go over each step to do something, such as opening and replying to an email. People with minimal computing experience seem to do things very mechanically, they click and icon, select a menu item, and so on. So long as they know the process to do the few things they want to do it really does not matter if they where using an old webtv (do they still exist), windows, linux or a toaster with an LCD for that matter.
To answer your main question "if there are any good ways to get employers to realize that my experience from tech support is actually a good thing and not a sign of incompetence." - Yes, absolutely there are many ways to get past this. Firstly, I'm going to hit you with the bad news no one at your university told you: Employers are looking for work experience to prove you are capable, not a degree. You'll be hard pressed to find a job that will jump you into a position you're not ready for even with a great degree. Your degree is just an entry hurdle showing you're motivated to do the work ahead of you. Let that settle for a moment. Now, back to answering your question... This is also going to be hard to swallow but you're going to need to stay in tech support for a little while longer. An employer wants to see growth, not just potential. Let me put it to you this way, your two years in tech support is great, but what have you done to demonstrate you're ready for new challenges? Some side projects are great, but those only complement actual experience. It's easy to discount you in an interview because you've stayed in tech support for so long without moving forward. My advice to you is to take a position at a smaller company whom may pay less but will promote future growth. Seek out a new position in tech support and go at the interview with the attitude that this is a two way interview. Part of an interview is to see if the company is a fit for you as well. Be so bold as to ask about promotions to sysadmin (or other career advancing) positions, explain to them your career goals and seek employment only with those companies that match your chosen career path. Take it from someone who worked in tech support, moved on to system administration, and now holds a real engineering position. You can do it if you're motivated, but you need to show that you can grow within a company and not just stay stagnant in your entry level position. If the company you're working for now won't promote that kind of growth after two years you either really are not ready or it's the wrong company to be working for.
This illustrates why online gambling is so @#$%ing stupid. How can you possibly be sure the game is honest?
By making it legal and regulating it the same way the Nevada Gaming Commission all the electronic gambling machines in Vegas. This whole thing happened partly because of no oversight, sense it's illegal and had no regulation.
The only online poker app I've used was pokerstars. They won't allow two computers with the same IP address to even log on, let alone play at the same table.
Sometimes I may feel like playing some cards, but don't feel like driving down to the local casino. Other times I want to play with some of the guys I used to play home poker games with whom no longer live in the same state as me. These are a few of the good reasons I play poker online. I would not play for any serious cash, because let's face it, it's an offshore illegal gambling site... they would be fools not to skew odds in their favor somehow. Something I feel I have not been a victim of, however, as I've been playing using the free $5 I was given four years ago when I signed up.
You may disagree with me, but in my opinion no legislation is often the best legislation. Why have the government mucking around in high tech/internet/ecomm that, with few minor exceptions, works just fine without them? Let the industry set their standards, and let us as consumers dictate what we want by who we give our business to.
Listen, I totally agree with you on one point, McCain knows f-hole about technology... but on the same point I'm sure you'd be hard pressed to find a politician who can hold their weight on tech issues. Only more of a reason not to have any of them writing legislation for it. A free market works when it's truly free, artificial limitations and caps imposed by the fed undermine the free market and actually stop it from working as it should.
The problem seems to be with cheap hardware, something you'd be hard pressed to avoid while trying to build what's basically a computer for under $300. I'd be skeptical of any claims that these issues are totally resolved without a price hike of $200+. However, Microsoft is offering extended 3 year warranties for hardware failures. I've owned an xbox for about two years and a Wii since launch day. I've had no problems with my xbox, but have returned my Wii to Nintendo for repair three times due to hardware failures. Each time Nintendo was very friendly and fixed my system in a couple hours (I live a few miles from the repair center). I would expect Microsoft to do the same if I ever have problems. Bleeding edge tech stuff breaks, I don't expect it to be perfect.
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What happened to all the wankers who hooted and hollered about boycotting them after that?
Still here... still boycotting... just not as vocally anymore...
"What's the difference other than everyone has to own the game?"
The big obvious one is that battlenet was slow, crashed a often and was flooded with other problems. Back when starcraft was out I had high speed internet, along with very few others, but we still had LAN parties because social interaction was (and may still be) fun, and there is just no way you're going to out perform my LAN, even with today's high speed Internet. There's probably a lot of people out there who would just rather play online, typing or talking through a cold microphone, i'm not one of em.
"We would not take out LAN if we did not feel we could offer players something better."
I highly doubt it.
Just one more reason I no longer support Bizzard. Just as soon as I begin to forget why I dislike them they give me more reasons.
This is in fact why NXDomain breaks things in the way the poster describes, however, unless you're the kind of employer who wants to see EVERYTHING your subordinates are doing it's not actually the best practice to filter everything through the VPN.
Filtering everything through their VPN increases overall costs in bandwidth and hardware as Intron indicated. These are very real, very costly expenses that many employers overlook when implementing broad policies... and it's a fantastic point you raised that all too many companies forget.
Why should my connection to slashdot.org, for example, be secure on the company VPN? My ssh and nfs connections have very real reasons to be secure however!! On the other hand you could fix this by filtering DNS traffic through the VPN, but not web traffic. The cost of DNS traffic is marginal comparatively to other services, but the benefit for companies facing these specific issues is obvious.
The amount of co2 released when making beer is very marginal. As another poster pointed out, brewers yeast is designed to create more alcohol byproduct than co2. True that co2 *does* gets released into the air when making beer, but the release of co2 happens for three - four days of the brewing process. During this time it may peak for about 24 hours releasing one nickle sized bubble of co2 every 2-3 seconds. After that you can expect activity to decline very rapidly that by the third or fourth day you'll see fewer than a dozen of those nickle sized bubbles.
With home brewing this is the point where you either bottle it up, or move it into "secondary" for further conditioning. I go for the later, where it sits in another "carboy" (5 gal glass jug) for as much as 4 months. During this time I'd be shocked if there is enough co2 released to fill a medium sized balloon. The reason is at this point the yeast has already consumed nearly all the fermentable sugars and has gone dormant. They lay dormant at the bottom of my carboy until one day when I am ready to keg, then the beer and yeast mixture is revived with a little "priming" sugar, which causes the yeast to go active. Except this time it's contained in a keg. With no where to go the co2 builds, creates pressure, and with the help of cold conditioning some of it dissolves into the liquid giving the beer that carbonated quality. What does not help with carbonation helps to push the beer out of the keg. On a few occasions I have had to use a co2 tank to help push it out. Though I suspect you may be misinformed about how much co2 is actually used to push liquid out of a keg. Generally 5-10lbs of co2 will do it. Any more and your beer will be uber foamy.
However, they said they would only use his name if:
1) he could demonstrate he was fluent in Hungarian, and
2) he was dead.
So... if I update wikipedia that Colbert spoke fluent Hungarian before his death, will that suffice?
D. Piracy is theft, but sense Lars has deep ties to the recording companies they may turn a blind eye.
Wow, fantastic link to the freestateproject, I had never heard of it before. Being in top income and sales tax state this info is very interesting.
Ron Paul was on the Republican ticket, not the Libertarian one. It's true that, as a *real* fiscally conservative / minimal government republican, he gained the support of many libertarians, but we had our own nominee (Bob Barr) running to muck things up however. I could not bring myself to vote for Barr, his history has shown that he does not share our core belief of individual liberty IMO. I can't see how you can claim to support individual liberty while at the same time supporting bans on same sex marriage, drugs and certain religions.
"Is 'disgruntled libertarian' redundant?" - YES, more so now then ever. The past 8 years have been a big "Eff you" to all libertarians, and with the expected growth of this new government of "change" the next 8 don't look very good either.
The CEOP's CEO said that any ISP which can't afford to give the police such help 'simply can't afford to do business.'"
IT workers are generally compensated fairly well, and are usually short handed. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that most IT orgs can't afford to have their admins drudging through data by request without any compensation.
"I look forward to Obama getting the same punishment"
I look forward to the day when people stop bickering about petty crap and do something good for this nation. I did not care when Palin was accused of it and I am not going to care when Obama takes some heat (and he probably will) for using his BB.
I don't think that PDC's are designed to be effectively wiped at the "flip of a switch".
;)
I've got a degausser that begs to differ
It does not shock me. It's all in good fun... like the W keys being removed from all the keyboards when Clinton left office. We had to replace a few keyboards, so what? I ask fora new keyboard every time I take a new job anyway. Its the ones like these that kind of bug me "A few of the messages used profane or obscene language." and "graffiti derogatory to Mr. Bush on the wall of a stall in a men's room".... these are not in the spirit of good fun, but oh well what are you going to do? You can't keep an eye on everyone in your last week(s), and would you even want to? Personally I'd hold a few parties at the white house on my way out, get some kegs on tap, have some card tables going, a few strippers, you know go out with a bang! Hell I'd probably invite the president elect and his transition staff. That will ease up some tension between staff a bit.
No! The President-elect and his/her staff do not get the same access to anything until said President-elect is sworn in per the US Constitution. Sorry, those are the rules.
The demo still works fine on the 360.
I don't have a degree either, and yet I hold a pretty high paying IT job. I think the key is being able to supplement enough work experience that it does not matter to the person doing the hiring.
I had to start low, working tech support for a few years for an Internet company that allowed me to move up to system administration. This was easy for me to do because I was 18 at the time and everyone else I knew was working low end - low pay jobs too... it's a much harder thing for someone much older to do who has more financial obligations than I did at the time.
I do agree about the college clique that exists. Techies in IT tend to be pretty elitist, degrees mean something to a lot of people in this field. I see people come in often with very little or no work experience just on a degree alone. They usually end up make poor (read: newbe) decisions and screw something up before moving on to the next big thing. While the rest of us old folks (10+yrs in IT) say I told ya so.
If you have enough experience it's going to be of value to anyone hiring. You always need a few Senior level people around who have the experience that only comes with doing the job for many years. Lessons and knowledge a degree will never teach you. For many people working to that point might not be an option though. I'd recommend finding a job you can do with a company that does offer IT services. Network and work your way to that point where you know what the guy trying to get hired knows. Many companies (usually medium or smaller ones) still promote within over bringing fresh blood in from outside.
"Too soon?"
Right on time! Good show!
I'm surprised when these come around and people ask me where to watch debates online. CSPAN always covers these debates commercial free at http://www.c-span.org/, IT's the same broadcast you'd find on their Cable TV counterpart. You cal also watch live senate floor debates online. Additionally, local (so cal) radio station 640AM also plays these live commercial free over the air and online www.am640.com for those too bandwidth limited for video.
Maybe this just comes from me never having grandparents and not really understanding what senile is, but it seems if my 5 year old can use Linux, someone's grandfather should be able to as well. The key I think, as with any tech product, is not to just build it and dump it on them. Actually make it somewhat easy to use by removing most of the junk and placing some easy to read icons on the desktop to favorite applications. Then sit with them and go over each step to do something, such as opening and replying to an email. People with minimal computing experience seem to do things very mechanically, they click and icon, select a menu item, and so on. So long as they know the process to do the few things they want to do it really does not matter if they where using an old webtv (do they still exist), windows, linux or a toaster with an LCD for that matter.
"And what if one or more of the actors gets sick? "
That really hits on some more specific targeted markets, I think a bonus features section is in order.
To answer your main question "if there are any good ways to get employers to realize that my experience from tech support is actually a good thing and not a sign of incompetence." - Yes, absolutely there are many ways to get past this. Firstly, I'm going to hit you with the bad news no one at your university told you: Employers are looking for work experience to prove you are capable, not a degree. You'll be hard pressed to find a job that will jump you into a position you're not ready for even with a great degree. Your degree is just an entry hurdle showing you're motivated to do the work ahead of you. Let that settle for a moment. Now, back to answering your question... This is also going to be hard to swallow but you're going to need to stay in tech support for a little while longer. An employer wants to see growth, not just potential. Let me put it to you this way, your two years in tech support is great, but what have you done to demonstrate you're ready for new challenges? Some side projects are great, but those only complement actual experience. It's easy to discount you in an interview because you've stayed in tech support for so long without moving forward. My advice to you is to take a position at a smaller company whom may pay less but will promote future growth. Seek out a new position in tech support and go at the interview with the attitude that this is a two way interview. Part of an interview is to see if the company is a fit for you as well. Be so bold as to ask about promotions to sysadmin (or other career advancing) positions, explain to them your career goals and seek employment only with those companies that match your chosen career path. Take it from someone who worked in tech support, moved on to system administration, and now holds a real engineering position. You can do it if you're motivated, but you need to show that you can grow within a company and not just stay stagnant in your entry level position. If the company you're working for now won't promote that kind of growth after two years you either really are not ready or it's the wrong company to be working for.
This illustrates why online gambling is so @#$%ing stupid. How can you possibly be sure the game is honest?
By making it legal and regulating it the same way the Nevada Gaming Commission all the electronic gambling machines in Vegas. This whole thing happened partly because of no oversight, sense it's illegal and had no regulation.
The only online poker app I've used was pokerstars. They won't allow two computers with the same IP address to even log on, let alone play at the same table.
Sometimes I may feel like playing some cards, but don't feel like driving down to the local casino. Other times I want to play with some of the guys I used to play home poker games with whom no longer live in the same state as me. These are a few of the good reasons I play poker online. I would not play for any serious cash, because let's face it, it's an offshore illegal gambling site... they would be fools not to skew odds in their favor somehow. Something I feel I have not been a victim of, however, as I've been playing using the free $5 I was given four years ago when I signed up.
You may disagree with me, but in my opinion no legislation is often the best legislation. Why have the government mucking around in high tech/internet/ecomm that, with few minor exceptions, works just fine without them? Let the industry set their standards, and let us as consumers dictate what we want by who we give our business to.
Listen, I totally agree with you on one point, McCain knows f-hole about technology... but on the same point I'm sure you'd be hard pressed to find a politician who can hold their weight on tech issues. Only more of a reason not to have any of them writing legislation for it. A free market works when it's truly free, artificial limitations and caps imposed by the fed undermine the free market and actually stop it from working as it should.
The problem seems to be with cheap hardware, something you'd be hard pressed to avoid while trying to build what's basically a computer for under $300. I'd be skeptical of any claims that these issues are totally resolved without a price hike of $200+. However, Microsoft is offering extended 3 year warranties for hardware failures. I've owned an xbox for about two years and a Wii since launch day. I've had no problems with my xbox, but have returned my Wii to Nintendo for repair three times due to hardware failures. Each time Nintendo was very friendly and fixed my system in a couple hours (I live a few miles from the repair center). I would expect Microsoft to do the same if I ever have problems. Bleeding edge tech stuff breaks, I don't expect it to be perfect.