I have always maintained that religion is nothing more than a means of mass control of vast numbers of people. All the holy wars, from an agnostic and atheistic perspective (I know the difference, but in this case both qualify) is who has a better imaginary friend or a group of imaginary friends.
I never knew that religious programming is that prevalent on non-cable networks that I never watch, however.
There are T, M, AO categories There is PG-13, R, NC-17 movie categories (skipping the earlier categories) Then you have TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV-PG, TV-14 (not 13), TV-MA with [DLSV] suffix modifiers.
Is GTA:SA an X-rated game? No.
Definition for T-rating: Titles rated T (Teen) have content that may be suitable for ages 13 and older. Titles in this category may contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, minimal blood and/or infrequent use of strong language.
Definition for M-rating: Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content, and/or strong language.
Definition for AO-rating: Titles rated AO (Adults Only) have content that should only be played by persons 18 years and older. Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity.
Now let's compare with TV and movie ratings:
On TV, this would probably fall under TV-MA, which is a catchall from R to NC-17 and up to premium channels such as TEN late night content.
TV-14: Parents Strongly Cautioned This program contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age. Parents are strongly urged to exercise greater care in monitoring this program and are cautioned against letting children under the age of 14 watch unattended. This program contains one or more of the following: intense violence (V), intense sexual situations (S), strong coarse language (L), or intensely suggestive dialogue (D).
TV-MA: This program is specifically designed to be viewed by adults and therefore may be unsuitable for children under 17. This program contains one or more of the following: graphic violence (V), explicit sexual activity (S), or crude indecent language (L).
R: R:"Restricted, Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent Or Adult Guardian."
In the opinion of the Rating Board, this film definitely contains some adult material. Parents are strongly urged to find out more about this film before they allow their children to accompany them.
An R-rated film may include hard language, or tough violence, or nudity within sensual scenes, or drug abuse or other elements, or a combination of some of the above, so that parents are counseled, in advance, to take this advisory rating very seriously. Parents must find out more about an R-rated movie before they allow their teenagers to view it.
NC-17:"No One 17 And Under Admitted."
This rating declares that the Rating Board believes that this is a film that most parents will consider patently too adult for their youngsters under 17. No children will be admitted. NC-17 does not necessarily mean "obscene or pornographic" in the oft-accepted or legal meaning of those words. The Board does not and cannot mark films with those words. These are legal terms and for courts to decide. The reasons for the application of an NC-17 rating can be violence or sex or aberrational behavior or drug abuse or any other elements which, when present, most parents would consider too strong and therefore off-limits for viewing by their children.
===
Sources: ESRB, TVguidelines.org, MPAA
Now, let's analyse this -
Can this game be legally considered obscene? No. That means it can fall under the NC-17-like rating. I am curious about the reasoning behind such an emphasis on one lousy year (need a parent if you are 17 or older and really can't see the content otherwise below 17, don't need one if you are 18). Why are the 17-year olds so punished? TV-14 rating gets it right - 14 or older, cool with us. Most R-rated movies are actually branded with TV-14 on TV. That means that they could be rated PG-13, for crying out loud. In fact, some earlier R-rated movies do in fact qualify for PG-13 rating under current guidelines.
In the case of AO and M - again we have 18 and 17. Again we have a difference
Thor's beam won't save us this time, they are already here and are replicating through mental manipulation of the scientists' brains to convince them as if they are their own creation!
You know...I've never had problems getting "intimate" prints developed, honestly. So I call BS on that. We don't have a problem with others seeing those pictures. Since, guess what, if I find them on the Internet, I can prove our copyright rather quickly. Not posted anonymously.
I spent an awful lot through that site. They fax your order to the restaurant. Every time my explicit instructions on how I like my food made were followed precisely. Try doing that over the phone or with an overworked waiter.;-)
Paraphrasing "The first thing we realized is that turning on firewall in SP1 broke many things". Also "All users at Microsoft have admin priveleges on their desktops".
If I could get rid of Intuit's nonsensical requirement for Power User and above permissions, I'd be much happier.
Supporting non-standard hardware is a pain. Pay the premium for being able to get exact parts that will be guaranteed to work without requiring further testing.
Desktop support eats resources so quick that it's just sad. My solution to a user with a problem, any problem. "There is a corporate-wide zero tolerance policy for storing any data on C: drive in effect. If you have any doubt that you have stored any data locally, please allow us to upload your system image first. Power off the system, hit F12, login with your username/password. Select "Upload System". Take a break for 40 minutes while we bring your system to an approved consistent state."
There is a perceived mindset that those boxes won't run current applications. That, as you all know, is a myth. I can demo a P3-class system running XP/2003 era apps, and I believe I could convince a needy-but-brainwashed organization that they are fine for their needs.
Pre-configured virtual machines, stored CD images, lots of high-res graphics files (different content than what you think), quite a few installed games, development environments, service packs, multiple releases of development environment images.
This is a server, of course. It runs my home stuff quite nicely. It needs a bit more RAM though, only 1GB at the moment, and that's simply not enough.
You know, for a while I actually didn't have cell service. I had a bunch of deactivated handsets, however. Yet, I did dial 911 on many occasions to report road hazards, first-sight accidents, fires, and things of that nature.
Those inactive phones probably prevented lots of accidents as I did a lot of driving in areas where patrols were limited.
The real question is whether the contracting agency could be considered as a tax evasion tactic on the part of HP.
My understanding of this mess is as follows.
Only in that case would a 1099 contractor become a statutory employee to HP. Otherwise, a 1099 contractor to the contracting company gets reclassified as an employee of the contracting company and then HP is off the hook.
Ask them how many are sick and tired of their applications crashing?
Bring along some cool source that produces beautiful output and add 5 or 6 bugs in it that prevent it from doing what it's supposed to. Also bring along a colorful UML diagram printed on 11x17".
If you deal with UI at all, have some commented out code that adds interactivity (change some specific attribute before showing graphical output, change same attribute at run-time and redraw etc).
Don't forget to use breakpoints to illustrate how to stop the computer before it crashes.
That should generate some nice response, in particular if you take something like Quake and modify it on the fly.
It's trivially easy to add ACLs to connections from higher security interfaces to lower security interfaces in PIX.
That said, there is a significant amount of work left on PIX usability. It is not an easy box to configure it, and given the price point of 501E and 506E boxes we've seen customers buy them without realizing what they are getting themselves into as far as configuring the box to do something as simple as what a typical Linksys firewall does out of the box.
For example, PAT is supported, but not when configured through GUI. The PDM will scream obscenities, or make the customer do that to itself, but it won't accept perfectly valid configurations.
My experience is with the PixOS 6.3 whatever the current release is and PDM 3.0.
I am supporting an ebay store stores.ebay.com/daretowear
I also have prior experience at handling collections. When a customer initiates a fraudulent transaction or refuses to pay, I go after them. I've found that using the SquareTrade service is not too difficult. While it does have its faults, is a reasonable way to get fraudulent negative feedback removed, provided that you are a reputable party to the transaction.
I personally can't wait until SquareTrade implements binding arbitration. Binding arbitration takes ST from being a virtual counseling session to a virtual courtroom with legally binding decisions.
Never rescind fraud accusations, and pursue the sellers. Small claims court is probably your best bet. I haven't had to resort to that measure yet, since we are pretty effective at getting paid, but that's always an option in the event of such abuse. Mentioning to the seller that they could be suspected as guilty of interstate mail and/or wire fraud, which is a very serious federal offense, may also enable you to get the matters resolved. After all, eBay will retract unjust feedback if told to do so by law enforcement.
The public school is a government institution. Government institutions are generally disinguished by several traits, such as inefficiency, extremely long and convoluted HR process that no sane people would want to go through, and very very low wages with extremely long and mostly unpaid hours spent every day. Their budgets are miniscule, so you won't see too many good experiments. You are very unlikely to have more than 10% of your teachers to actually be good ones. The best teacher is one who made the money in the private sector and teaches just for the fun and other altruistic in nature reasons. Those who depend on this income for a living are in fact living at a poverty level.
How do you know a good teacher? They make anything interesting because they are experts in that field. You will find them mostly at the college level. I know several instructors who are exceptional, but they are not attracted to HS hell.:-)
Therefore, most of your teachers are not to be trusted. They may love their subject, but you don't have to give a damn about it. Take the intro course to it, and if it's unappealing to you, look into other sources of information on the subject. If you still hate it, ignore it until it peaks your interest or perpetually. If you like the subject matter and hate your teacher, request to be reassigned to a different teacher. The school is a very badly flawed institution, college is slightly better.
Feel free to ignore the stuff that does not interest you. Do only the homework for the courses that you do not ignore. Identify early on what you like most and pursue that. Ignore the financial perspectives of a chosen field, as you can make excellent income in any field with sufficient level of expertise.
All those people who make you upset can be dealt with extremely easily with some help from our attorney to the bully's parents. I guarantee you that they will not dare to approach you if that approach is used.
It is not cool to not associate with the opposite sex, so the sooner you learn to do it, the better. Anything that has to do with religion is nonsense and is nothing other than a form of mass manipulation.
All of these people whom you don't like, don't worry, they are least likely to succeed and their attitudes will change drastically once they are out of the sandbox that is the education system.
Your grades do not really matter, except maybe as college entrance indicators. What matters is your real-life experience and development in your chosen field. Don't waste time working in fast food joints, and instead aggressively seek out an internship in the related field. We, as your parents, will happily compensate you for your time spent at an unpaid position at a reasonable rate that's higher than those joints.
Your goal is to have a resume that reflects 2 years of focused interest in your chosen field along with leadership and team management skills by the time you graduate. That will allow you to skip several levels once you are out of the system.
Do pay attention in the sciences, as that is what builds your ability to be anylitical, and do strive to obtain expert command of the English language, as that is crucial.
There are many other things I'll say, of course, but this is a start. I started work in computers since the age of 15 and never worked in a position that wasted my time. I made less money initially, but broke through the 100K glass ceiling first later on.
When reconfiguring automatic updates for my clients:
Is this system turned off every night?
If yes: set autoinstall/reboot at 12:10pm every weekday.
Else
set autoinstall/reboot at 3:23am every day
"When you are out to lunch, the system will update itself and may reboot. Please save all your work before leaving to lunch. This measure will further help reduce your support calls to us."
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I have always maintained that religion is nothing more than a means of mass control of vast numbers of people. All the holy wars, from an agnostic and atheistic perspective (I know the difference, but in this case both qualify) is who has a better imaginary friend or a group of imaginary friends.
I never knew that religious programming is that prevalent on non-cable networks that I never watch, however.
There are T, M, AO categories
There is PG-13, R, NC-17 movie categories (skipping the earlier categories)
Then you have TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV-PG, TV-14 (not 13), TV-MA with [DLSV] suffix modifiers.
Is GTA:SA an X-rated game? No.
Definition for T-rating:
Titles rated T (Teen) have content that may be suitable for ages 13 and older. Titles in this category may contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, minimal blood and/or infrequent use of strong language.
Definition for M-rating:
Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content, and/or strong language.
Definition for AO-rating:
Titles rated AO (Adults Only) have content that should only be played by persons 18 years and older. Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity.
Now let's compare with TV and movie ratings:
On TV, this would probably fall under TV-MA, which is a catchall from R to NC-17 and up to premium channels such as TEN late night content.
TV-14:
Parents Strongly Cautioned
This program contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age. Parents are strongly urged to exercise greater care in monitoring this program and are cautioned against letting children under the age of 14 watch unattended. This program contains one or more of the following: intense violence (V), intense sexual situations (S), strong coarse language (L), or intensely suggestive dialogue (D).
TV-MA:
This program is specifically designed to be viewed by adults and therefore may be unsuitable for children under 17. This program contains one or more of the following: graphic violence (V), explicit sexual activity (S), or crude indecent language (L).
R:
R:"Restricted, Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent Or Adult Guardian."
In the opinion of the Rating Board, this film definitely contains some adult material. Parents are strongly urged to find out more about this film before they allow their children to accompany them.
An R-rated film may include hard language, or tough violence, or nudity within sensual scenes, or drug abuse or other elements, or a combination of some of the above, so that parents are counseled, in advance, to take this advisory rating very seriously. Parents must find out more about an R-rated movie before they allow their teenagers to view it.
NC-17:"No One 17 And Under Admitted."
This rating declares that the Rating Board believes that this is a film that most parents will consider patently too adult for their youngsters under 17. No children will be admitted. NC-17 does not necessarily mean "obscene or pornographic" in the oft-accepted or legal meaning of those words. The Board does not and cannot mark films with those words. These are legal terms and for courts to decide. The reasons for the application of an NC-17 rating can be violence or sex or aberrational behavior or drug abuse or any other elements which, when present, most parents would consider too strong and therefore off-limits for viewing by their children.
===
Sources: ESRB, TVguidelines.org, MPAA
Now, let's analyse this -
Can this game be legally considered obscene? No. That means it can fall under the NC-17-like rating. I am curious about the reasoning behind such an emphasis on one lousy year (need a parent if you are 17 or older and really can't see the content otherwise below 17, don't need one if you are 18). Why are the 17-year olds so punished? TV-14 rating gets it right - 14 or older, cool with us. Most R-rated movies are actually branded with TV-14 on TV. That means that they could be rated PG-13, for crying out loud. In fact, some earlier R-rated movies do in fact qualify for PG-13 rating under current guidelines.
In the case of AO and M - again we have 18 and 17. Again we have a difference
...The replicators!
Thor's beam won't save us this time, they are already here and are replicating through mental manipulation of the scientists' brains to convince them as if they are their own creation!
Yep. Go ahead and misuse your competition's trademarks without a standard disclaimer who those marks belong to. :-)
You know...I've never had problems getting "intimate" prints developed, honestly. So I call BS on that. We don't have a problem with others seeing those pictures. Since, guess what, if I find them on the Internet, I can prove our copyright rather quickly. Not posted anonymously.
Love waiter.com
;-)
I spent an awful lot through that site. They fax your order to the restaurant. Every time my explicit instructions on how I like my food made were followed precisely. Try doing that over the phone or with an overworked waiter.
I used this extensively in college.
Endless battery life. Easy syncing.
Should not cost much these days.
Tell that to Intuit.
Quickbooks + normal user rights == "You need to have power user rights". What the heck for? To run an accounting application?!
Read the history of SP2.
Paraphrasing "The first thing we realized is that turning on firewall in SP1 broke many things". Also "All users at Microsoft have admin priveleges on their desktops".
If I could get rid of Intuit's nonsensical requirement for Power User and above permissions, I'd be much happier.
It takes an awfully long time to add a new entry to MAPS.
I know, I nominated quite a few spammers and it took a long time to finally get them in there.
Not just no...
Hell no on "upgrading parts"!
Supporting non-standard hardware is a pain. Pay the premium for being able to get exact parts that will be guaranteed to work without requiring further testing.
Desktop support eats resources so quick that it's just sad. My solution to a user with a problem, any problem. "There is a corporate-wide zero tolerance policy for storing any data on C: drive in effect. If you have any doubt that you have stored any data locally, please allow us to upload your system image first. Power off the system, hit F12, login with your username/password. Select "Upload System". Take a break for 40 minutes while we bring your system to an approved consistent state."
If still fails, replace box, done.
Troubleshooting is too expensive.
There is a perceived mindset that those boxes won't run current applications. That, as you all know, is a myth. I can demo a P3-class system running XP/2003 era apps, and I believe I could convince a needy-but-brainwashed organization that they are fine for their needs.
I have about 36GB remaining on a 160GB SATA HDD.
Pre-configured virtual machines, stored CD images, lots of high-res graphics files (different content than what you think), quite a few installed games, development environments, service packs, multiple releases of development environment images.
This is a server, of course. It runs my home stuff quite nicely. It needs a bit more RAM though, only 1GB at the moment, and that's simply not enough.
You know, for a while I actually didn't have cell service. I had a bunch of deactivated handsets, however. Yet, I did dial 911 on many occasions to report road hazards, first-sight accidents, fires, and things of that nature.
Those inactive phones probably prevented lots of accidents as I did a lot of driving in areas where patrols were limited.
That said, I don't see Vonage at fault.
The real question is whether the contracting agency could be considered as a tax evasion tactic on the part of HP.
My understanding of this mess is as follows.
Only in that case would a 1099 contractor become a statutory employee to HP. Otherwise, a 1099 contractor to the contracting company gets reclassified as an employee of the contracting company and then HP is off the hook.
Ask them how many are sick and tired of their applications crashing?
Bring along some cool source that produces beautiful output and add 5 or 6 bugs in it that prevent it from doing what it's supposed to. Also bring along a colorful UML diagram printed on 11x17".
If you deal with UI at all, have some commented out code that adds interactivity (change some specific attribute before showing graphical output, change same attribute at run-time and redraw etc).
Don't forget to use breakpoints to illustrate how to stop the computer before it crashes.
That should generate some nice response, in particular if you take something like Quake and modify it on the fly.
It is in fact bundled with XP and 2003 Server. :-)
Nice system, but using Nvidia FX5200 Mobile for its real-time 3d graphics support is a little weird in this day.
It's trivially easy to add ACLs to connections from higher security interfaces to lower security interfaces in PIX.
That said, there is a significant amount of work left on PIX usability. It is not an easy box to configure it, and given the price point of 501E and 506E boxes we've seen customers buy them without realizing what they are getting themselves into as far as configuring the box to do something as simple as what a typical Linksys firewall does out of the box.
For example, PAT is supported, but not when configured through GUI. The PDM will scream obscenities, or make the customer do that to itself, but it won't accept perfectly valid configurations.
My experience is with the PixOS 6.3 whatever the current release is and PDM 3.0.
Since when can't you order more than 5 at a time?!
The rebates are limited to 5 per company per purchase, but you can certainly buy more than 5 at a time.
I bought 72 desktops last month from Dell SB.
And that vendor being Wang, Unisys, or IBM Global Services?
:-)
Yep, that's whom you get dressed in vendor's uniform during on-site visits.
I am supporting an ebay store stores.ebay.com/daretowear
I also have prior experience at handling collections. When a customer initiates a fraudulent transaction or refuses to pay, I go after them. I've found that using the SquareTrade service is not too difficult. While it does have its faults, is a reasonable way to get fraudulent negative feedback removed, provided that you are a reputable party to the transaction.
I personally can't wait until SquareTrade implements binding arbitration. Binding arbitration takes ST from being a virtual counseling session to a virtual courtroom with legally binding decisions.
Never rescind fraud accusations, and pursue the sellers. Small claims court is probably your best bet. I haven't had to resort to that measure yet, since we are pretty effective at getting paid, but that's always an option in the event of such abuse. Mentioning to the seller that they could be suspected as guilty of interstate mail and/or wire fraud, which is a very serious federal offense, may also enable you to get the matters resolved. After all, eBay will retract unjust feedback if told to do so by law enforcement.
Good luck!
Here is what I will say:
:-)
The public school is a government institution. Government institutions are generally disinguished by several traits, such as inefficiency, extremely long and convoluted HR process that no sane people would want to go through, and very very low wages with extremely long and mostly unpaid hours spent every day. Their budgets are miniscule, so you won't see too many good experiments. You are very unlikely to have more than 10% of your teachers to actually be good ones. The best teacher is one who made the money in the private sector and teaches just for the fun and other altruistic in nature reasons. Those who depend on this income for a living are in fact living at a poverty level.
How do you know a good teacher? They make anything interesting because they are experts in that field. You will find them mostly at the college level. I know several instructors who are exceptional, but they are not attracted to HS hell.
Therefore, most of your teachers are not to be trusted. They may love their subject, but you don't have to give a damn about it. Take the intro course to it, and if it's unappealing to you, look into other sources of information on the subject. If you still hate it, ignore it until it peaks your interest or perpetually. If you like the subject matter and hate your teacher, request to be reassigned to a different teacher. The school is a very badly flawed institution, college is slightly better.
Feel free to ignore the stuff that does not interest you. Do only the homework for the courses that you do not ignore. Identify early on what you like most and pursue that. Ignore the financial perspectives of a chosen field, as you can make excellent income in any field with sufficient level of expertise.
All those people who make you upset can be dealt with extremely easily with some help from our attorney to the bully's parents. I guarantee you that they will not dare to approach you if that approach is used.
It is not cool to not associate with the opposite sex, so the sooner you learn to do it, the better. Anything that has to do with religion is nonsense and is nothing other than a form of mass manipulation.
All of these people whom you don't like, don't worry, they are least likely to succeed and their attitudes will change drastically once they are out of the sandbox that is the education system.
Your grades do not really matter, except maybe as college entrance indicators. What matters is your real-life experience and development in your chosen field. Don't waste time working in fast food joints, and instead aggressively seek out an internship in the related field. We, as your parents, will happily compensate you for your time spent at an unpaid position at a reasonable rate that's higher than those joints.
Your goal is to have a resume that reflects 2 years of focused interest in your chosen field along with leadership and team management skills by the time you graduate. That will allow you to skip several levels once you are out of the system.
Do pay attention in the sciences, as that is what builds your ability to be anylitical, and do strive to obtain expert command of the English language, as that is crucial.
There are many other things I'll say, of course, but this is a start. I started work in computers since the age of 15 and never worked in a position that wasted my time. I made less money initially, but broke through the 100K glass ceiling first later on.
Ask for a 5% commission.
Simple remedy if you really impact the bottom line that much. Better yet, seek a full time position in software sales.
When reconfiguring automatic updates for my clients:
:-)
Is this system turned off every night?
If yes: set autoinstall/reboot at 12:10pm every weekday.
Else
set autoinstall/reboot at 3:23am every day
"When you are out to lunch, the system will update itself and may reboot. Please save all your work before leaving to lunch. This measure will further help reduce your support calls to us."
Enjoy