>>>Client/server is a communications model. Cloud computing is a business model
Whatever. It still reminds me of the hellish 1970s/80s VAX machines where you could only access your programs/data from a central source, and if that source or connection went down, you were out of luck. I was much happier when I got rid of that and exchanged it for a computer that ran its own software any time and any place I felt like it.
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"I made 975,000 dollars last year. How much did you make?"
Enough to fill my car with gas, drive to your funeral, and laugh as they lower your rotten corpse into the grave. Because you see, no matter how much money is made, eventually we all end up in the same place. You, me, everyone in this building.
We all end-up as worm food, even rich bastards such as yourself.
(smiles)
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You also can't be fired when you're trying to report a crime (theft of customer property). That's why I mentioned the whistle blower law that's supposed to protect employees when they report illegal acts performed by a company.
>>>A corporation is simply a group of people working together.
Yes and the human body is simply a group of cells working together, but the cells' voices do not matter since they are subsumed to the desires of the body. Likewise the people inside the corporation have no voice, and if they dared to raise their voice, then they'd be fired for stirring-up trouble. All that matters is to keep feeding the "organism" called the corporation with more and more dollars.
Given the planet is overpopulated with humans (we are polluting our own "nest" and running short of water and food and room), a ~5 billion decrease over the next hundred year may be an unpleasant but necessary thing for Mother Nature to do.
I'd take that job. I like helping people with tech questions, and as long as you're paying me $40/hour I don't care if I only work October, November, December. I can find another fulltime job come January.
That would even make a nice part-time evening job. "Hello. It's me. I'm ready for my 5 to 10 shift........ Yes ma'am. How can I help you? No you don't need the 2 terabyte drive just to read email. The 300 gigabyte drive will work just fine, and if you run out -which I doubt- you can always add a second external drive later."
When I see that crap, I don't just stand idly by. I go to the customer and say, "Excuse me... I'm an electrical engineer. Would it by okay if I gave you some advice?" If they say yes then I explain to them why they don't need all the crap the sales-shyster is trying to sell them. (1) The LCD already has a warranty. (2) It doesn't need a power strip. (3) You don't need to buy Comcast HD to enjoy your new LCD.
I'm still angry about the Kmart person who told my brother he needs to spend $400 for an "HD TV" when all he really needed was a $70 cathode-ray tube, since he just has regular analog cable.
You mean his lottery ticket. Unjustified dismissal is still a crime in most states, and he should file a lawsuit for lost wages, plus emotional distress, plus whistleblower protection, plus whatever else the Lawyer can squeeze out of Best Buy/Geek Squad. He should take as much money as he can from this soulless corporation.
If you buy a new car, I would be happy to do the same thing for you. We offer excellent "undercoatings" for just $100. We don't actually do anything, since the car already comes with an undercoat from the factory, but if you want to pay us to pretend to upgrade your car, we are happy to oblige.
You joke, but there IS such a thing as gold-plated optical cable. Supposedly the gold provides "maximum signal clarity and integrity" for your light-based communications.
Oh noes! Who let the best buy employee through the slashdot front door? Hmmm. Well I put Office 97 on my brothers Vista PC, and it worked just fine. No noticeable bugs.
>>>I think many "IT people" like it like that; it makes them feel superior, and gives them a weapon to "pwn newbs" or whatever.
Ditto lawyers.
That's why the law, which is supposed to serve the people, is incomprehensible and the People can not read it. The lawyers use jargon to obscure the meaning and protect their existence.
When you're dealing with a soulless entity called "the corporation" the language of morality has no place. There is no such thing as "lie" or "con" or "honesty" - all that matters is the dollar and getting as many as possible from each walking-wallet that passes by.
Government is basically the same, but with the additional ability of not having to ask for your wallet, but instead just reaching-in and taking what it wants..... or else tossing you into jail.
I'm surprised. At Sears they gave us training on dishwashers, refrigerators, and dryers, so we could explain basic things like "what's a vegetable drawer". I would expect a Circuit City to do the bare minimum for its staff too.
Sears also forced us to sell extended warranties (service agreements) which annoyed me to no end. I know that extended warranties benefit the customer about 0.1% of the time, and in the other 99.9% of the time is just wasting customer cash, but I HAD to sell them or else be drug off the floor.
They also encouraged us to sell the most or second-most expensive models, even though in most cases a customer only wants the base model. I typically sold whatever the customer asked for, since the customer saved about $1000.
It's pretty much the same in all stores. For example in my local Walmart the cellphone area is almost-all AT&T sales employees.
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>>>Somehow in the process of installing Windows--an arduous task that involves the opening of the DVD drive--they had managed to open the case, unscrew the hard drive from the case, and then bust it up enough that it took over 24 hours for Windows to finish installing. >>>
They probably got confused when they saw Linux.
I think I would file fraud charges against this company. If they are doing that to your grandma, just imagine who else they are screwing.
Ha. Maybe things have changed (I hear today's students can get free valet service for their laundry), but my university in the 90s certainly didn't give-away stuff for free. You got ~200 free pages per semester and that was it.
I forget the exact number, but I believe the first $20 or 200 pages was free-of-charge (per semester) and then each additional page was billed at 10 cents. Most students didn't come anywhere near exhausting their free paper allotment because back then (1990) we still did most of our work with pencil and paper.
>>>walking out of Staples with a box of printer paper that I didn't pay for.
"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to plead ignorance on this one, because if I had known that sort of thing was frowned upon..." - George Costanza.
What's it called when I BUY a box of paper that is advertised as $25 back via rebate, but I wait and wait and wait, but Staples never sends me the twenty five dollars. Is that also considered theft or is that merely "false advertising"? And does it really matter? The end result is still the same no matter what you call it.
(shrug) Still results in starving artists, due to people downloading the songs instead of paying. Maybe you think I'm not being fair, but you see it pisses me off when I hear someone say "C64love is a thief!" while you or your readers are running bit-torrent in the background.
Hello? McFly? Hello? Anybody home? (knock knock knock). I'm sure Sally the Singer whose song you're downloading doesn't see any distinction - she simply sees her labor being stolen.
No the club operated just like ACORN or SEIU - volunteers don't get reimbursed. You do it on your own. I quit the club after only three months because they demanded a lot from their volunteers, which I couldn't afford to give.
Yes well... I was 17 and stupid. I wasn't really thinking about the consequences of my actions - I just thought "free paper!" and went to work causing about two hundred in damages. I obviously wouldn't do the same thing today....
Unless it was Bank of America. I wouldn't have any qualms sticking-it to that corrupt organization, especially after they stole 20 billion in bailout money from taxpayer wallets*...... stupid thieves. Plus they charged me a $30 "underlimit fee" on my account that I had emptied last month and asked them to close that same day. Grrrr. If they had closed it when I asked them to close it, there wouldn't be a fine.
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>>>Client/server is a communications model. Cloud computing is a business model
Whatever. It still reminds me of the hellish 1970s/80s VAX machines where you could only access your programs/data from a central source, and if that source or connection went down, you were out of luck. I was much happier when I got rid of that and exchanged it for a computer that ran its own software any time and any place I felt like it.
"I made 975,000 dollars last year. How much did you make?"
Enough to fill my car with gas, drive to your funeral, and laugh as they lower your rotten corpse into the grave. Because you see, no matter how much money is made, eventually we all end up in the same place. You, me, everyone in this building.
We all end-up as worm food, even rich bastards such as yourself.
(smiles)
You also can't be fired when you're trying to report a crime (theft of customer property). That's why I mentioned the whistle blower law that's supposed to protect employees when they report illegal acts performed by a company.
>>>A corporation is simply a group of people working together.
Yes and the human body is simply a group of cells working together, but the cells' voices do not matter since they are subsumed to the desires of the body. Likewise the people inside the corporation have no voice, and if they dared to raise their voice, then they'd be fired for stirring-up trouble. All that matters is to keep feeding the "organism" called the corporation with more and more dollars.
Given the planet is overpopulated with humans (we are polluting our own "nest" and running short of water and food and room), a ~5 billion decrease over the next hundred year may be an unpleasant but necessary thing for Mother Nature to do.
I'd take that job. I like helping people with tech questions, and as long as you're paying me $40/hour I don't care if I only work October, November, December. I can find another fulltime job come January.
That would even make a nice part-time evening job. "Hello. It's me. I'm ready for my 5 to 10 shift........ Yes ma'am. How can I help you? No you don't need the 2 terabyte drive just to read email. The 300 gigabyte drive will work just fine, and if you run out -which I doubt- you can always add a second external drive later."
>>>I continued to play with it after getting all the needed data off by moving folders around and creating text files and such.
Was one of those folders named, "MyNudistVacation"? ;-)
When I see that crap, I don't just stand idly by. I go to the customer and say, "Excuse me... I'm an electrical engineer. Would it by okay if I gave you some advice?" If they say yes then I explain to them why they don't need all the crap the sales-shyster is trying to sell them. (1) The LCD already has a warranty. (2) It doesn't need a power strip. (3) You don't need to buy Comcast HD to enjoy your new LCD.
I'm still angry about the Kmart person who told my brother he needs to spend $400 for an "HD TV" when all he really needed was a $70 cathode-ray tube, since he just has regular analog cable.
>>> According to his departure paper,
You mean his lottery ticket. Unjustified dismissal is still a crime in most states, and he should file a lawsuit for lost wages, plus emotional distress, plus whistleblower protection, plus whatever else the Lawyer can squeeze out of Best Buy/Geek Squad. He should take as much money as he can from this soulless corporation.
Good grief. Didn't anyone ever tell him about using his Windows CD to do a clean install???
>>>they did that modification right in the store.
If you buy a new car, I would be happy to do the same thing for you. We offer excellent "undercoatings" for just $100. We don't actually do anything, since the car already comes with an undercoat from the factory, but if you want to pay us to pretend to upgrade your car, we are happy to oblige.
You joke, but there IS such a thing as gold-plated optical cable. Supposedly the gold provides "maximum signal clarity and integrity" for your light-based communications.
>>>Although a few quick hacks will get it to work
Oh noes! Who let the best buy employee through the slashdot front door? Hmmm. Well I put Office 97 on my brothers Vista PC, and it worked just fine. No noticeable bugs.
>>>I think many "IT people" like it like that; it makes them feel superior, and gives them a weapon to "pwn newbs" or whatever.
Ditto lawyers.
That's why the law, which is supposed to serve the people, is incomprehensible and the People can not read it. The lawyers use jargon to obscure the meaning and protect their existence.
Or..... you could spend your Saturday night out on a date instead of reinstalling your OS.
When you're dealing with a soulless entity called "the corporation" the language of morality has no place. There is no such thing as "lie" or "con" or "honesty" - all that matters is the dollar and getting as many as possible from each walking-wallet that passes by.
Government is basically the same, but with the additional ability of not having to ask for your wallet, but instead just reaching-in and taking what it wants..... or else tossing you into jail.
I'm surprised. At Sears they gave us training on dishwashers, refrigerators, and dryers, so we could explain basic things like "what's a vegetable drawer". I would expect a Circuit City to do the bare minimum for its staff too.
Sears also forced us to sell extended warranties (service agreements) which annoyed me to no end. I know that extended warranties benefit the customer about 0.1% of the time, and in the other 99.9% of the time is just wasting customer cash, but I HAD to sell them or else be drug off the floor.
They also encouraged us to sell the most or second-most expensive models, even though in most cases a customer only wants the base model. I typically sold whatever the customer asked for, since the customer saved about $1000.
It's pretty much the same in all stores. For example in my local Walmart the cellphone area is almost-all AT&T sales employees.
>>>Somehow in the process of installing Windows--an arduous task that involves the opening of the DVD drive--they had managed to open the case, unscrew the hard drive from the case, and then bust it up enough that it took over 24 hours for Windows to finish installing.
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They probably got confused when they saw Linux.
I think I would file fraud charges against this company. If they are doing that to your grandma, just imagine who else they are screwing.
Ha. Maybe things have changed (I hear today's students can get free valet service for their laundry), but my university in the 90s certainly didn't give-away stuff for free. You got ~200 free pages per semester and that was it.
I forget the exact number, but I believe the first $20 or 200 pages was free-of-charge (per semester) and then each additional page was billed at 10 cents. Most students didn't come anywhere near exhausting their free paper allotment because back then (1990) we still did most of our work with pencil and paper.
>>>walking out of Staples with a box of printer paper that I didn't pay for.
"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to plead ignorance on this one, because if I had known that sort of thing was frowned upon..." - George Costanza.
What's it called when I BUY a box of paper that is advertised as $25 back via rebate, but I wait and wait and wait, but Staples never sends me the twenty five dollars. Is that also considered theft or is that merely "false advertising"? And does it really matter? The end result is still the same no matter what you call it.
(shrug) Still results in starving artists, due to people downloading the songs instead of paying. Maybe you think I'm not being fair, but you see it pisses me off when I hear someone say "C64love is a thief!" while you or your readers are running bit-torrent in the background.
Hello? McFly? Hello? Anybody home? (knock knock knock). I'm sure Sally the Singer whose song you're downloading doesn't see any distinction - she simply sees her labor being stolen.
No the club operated just like ACORN or SEIU - volunteers don't get reimbursed. You do it on your own. I quit the club after only three months because they demanded a lot from their volunteers, which I couldn't afford to give.
Yes well... I was 17 and stupid. I wasn't really thinking about the consequences of my actions - I just thought "free paper!" and went to work causing about two hundred in damages. I obviously wouldn't do the same thing today. ...
Unless it was Bank of America. I wouldn't have any qualms sticking-it to that corrupt organization, especially after they stole 20 billion in bailout money from taxpayer wallets*...... stupid thieves. Plus they charged me a $30 "underlimit fee" on my account that I had emptied last month and asked them to close that same day. Grrrr. If they had closed it when I asked them to close it, there wouldn't be a fine.
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* legalized theft is still theft