See, now i'm unsure whether the proper usage is that *we've* been lone-gunmen-are-deaded or whether the *post* itself was lone-gunmen-are-deaded, insomuch that we can use the past tense in our verbed nouns. Taco was a little unclear when he was making up his crazyass grammar this week.
Massive companies are not beyond the law. Enron is a familiar name because they're busted, not because they're getting away with anything anymore.
No, nobody's in jail yet, but they lost the name of their stadium and everybody in the country thinks they're crooks. Heck a couple folks turned up dead, so they end up paying, just like everybody else.
It takes a long time because the *only* entity big enough to go after them in the first place is the federal government, which isn't the swiftest predator. But Enron is pretty logy prey too. To us it looks like two dinosaurs lumbering after one another, with big business throwing money at the feds to slow it down until it finally catches up.
So they're not *above* the law, but they do have to commit some atrocious crimes to get called on the carpet.
What's the weirdest problem you've ever come across on a network?
It was a good indication of what they considered "weird" and what their approach to problems was. One of the candidates answered that he couldn't figure out how to move his bookmarks from one version of IE to another. So he was right out. He also said he'd was somewhat bothered by users and would tell them anything to "get them off his back". In the interview this is. My boss never stopped kicking me under the table.
The guy we hired answered the question somewhat more eloquently, and talked about tracking down a registry problem (we're all NT here, so we like to hear that sort of thing) by rebuilding it in halves until he narrowed down the problem, rather than just reinstalling everything, which is so popular.
The fact that he worked on a Quake mod and gave us his resume on hemp didn't hurt work against him either.
Many articles combine a large body of original content with the comments posted by everyone, to create a totally new way of processing ideas.
True, I read stories I'm only vaguely interested in, if the posters are lively that day. But we still need the original content to spark the discussion. That's the shame of Suck going under.
However, I also agree that the user provided content is often more entertaining. But if everything turns into interlinking weblogs, doesn't everything end up under "meta"?
Exactly. The fun part of your day (strangely enough) is tracking down the IP addresses of your printers after your fileserver takes the DHCP database with it.
You feel like you won your scavenger hunt and want to come back here.
But the JOB requires you to visit 30 users, reconfigure Jet-Direct and add ports to the recently discovered printers.
And that takes all day and turns into a big thing.
So you get some of both. Some days I read about videogames all day and others I have to visit with everybody while I unfuck their machines.
1. Human race destroyed by aliens in unflattering Rob Zombie makeup.
2. Said aliens' home planet destroyed by a squatting lacky with a nuclear device clutched to his chest.
So I believe if you want to go by body count, Battlefield Earth is in the same league as Star Wars.You heard (read) me. Battlefield Earth is in the same league as Star Wars.
We've done it too. I used to work at a law firm that was concurrently running an old Foxpro database, and a fairly recent version of Mas 90 (financial software) and my boss wanted to compare information in the two.
It was easier to use Access as a front end, because it can read from a bunch of weird, disparate apps (our invoicing system was entirely in VBS on Excel 95)and give you an easy way to centralize that data and report on it.
Part of the appeal is that it is as simple as it looks. When some middle management goon wants some statistic in five minutes you can get to it quickly and easily, and if you're lucky enough to work in an environment where your co-workers are intelligent and inquisitive, it's easier to teach them how to build queries in Access (and keep them off your back) than it is to explain how SQL works and where all the individual tables live on the network.
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First I couldn't kill someone. Then I *really* couldn't kill that gay jewish chick. And now I can't do it from the comfort of my command line.
That's not America. That's not even Mexico.
he'll smack your punkazz down with poor grammer and bad spelling faster then you can haXor his Kr4Xor bitchcode.
best. game. ever.
No, nobody's in jail yet, but they lost the name of their stadium and everybody in the country thinks they're crooks. Heck a couple folks turned up dead, so they end up paying, just like everybody else.
It takes a long time because the *only* entity big enough to go after them in the first place is the federal government, which isn't the swiftest predator. But Enron is pretty logy prey too. To us it looks like two dinosaurs lumbering after one another, with big business throwing money at the feds to slow it down until it finally catches up.
So they're not *above* the law, but they do have to commit some atrocious crimes to get called on the carpet.
is still the first motherfuckin' post
What's the weirdest problem you've ever come across on a network?
It was a good indication of what they considered "weird" and what their approach to problems was. One of the candidates answered that he couldn't figure out how to move his bookmarks from one version of IE to another. So he was right out. He also said he'd was somewhat bothered by users and would tell them anything to "get them off his back". In the interview this is. My boss never stopped kicking me under the table.
The guy we hired answered the question somewhat more eloquently, and talked about tracking down a registry problem (we're all NT here, so we like to hear that sort of thing) by rebuilding it in halves until he narrowed down the problem, rather than just reinstalling everything, which is so popular.
The fact that he worked on a Quake mod and gave us his resume on hemp didn't hurt work against him either.
You could watch 3/4 of Timecode
Jeez, when I read the headline I thought "Oh my god, they released Robotech: Crystal Dreams for the N64, those lunatics".
I'm a little slow, eh
True, I read stories I'm only vaguely interested in, if the posters are lively that day. But we still need the original content to spark the discussion. That's the shame of Suck going under.
However, I also agree that the user provided content is often more entertaining. But if everything turns into interlinking weblogs, doesn't everything end up under "meta"?
I hope that sites that are a mix of the two can bridge the gap.
I think there is a place for proffessional writers online. I think we'll see more collaborative journalism and even fiction down the road.
You feel like you won your scavenger hunt and want to come back here.
But the JOB requires you to visit 30 users, reconfigure Jet-Direct and add ports to the recently discovered printers.
And that takes all day and turns into a big thing.
So you get some of both. Some days I read about videogames all day and others I have to visit with everybody while I unfuck their machines.
1. Human race destroyed by aliens in unflattering Rob Zombie makeup.
2. Said aliens' home planet destroyed by a squatting lacky with a nuclear device clutched to his chest.
So I believe if you want to go by body count, Battlefield Earth is in the same league as Star Wars.You heard (read) me. Battlefield Earth is in the same league as Star Wars.
They accept them even more readily if you slip a few Benjamin Franklins into their pocket.
It was easier to use Access as a front end, because it can read from a bunch of weird, disparate apps (our invoicing system was entirely in VBS on Excel 95)and give you an easy way to centralize that data and report on it.
Part of the appeal is that it is as simple as it looks. When some middle management goon wants some statistic in five minutes you can get to it quickly and easily, and if you're lucky enough to work in an environment where your co-workers are intelligent and inquisitive, it's easier to teach them how to build queries in Access (and keep them off your back) than it is to explain how SQL works and where all the individual tables live on the network.
I'm too lazy (read: drunk) to look this up, but there was a lawsuit and undisclosed settlement related to Apple Records and Apple Computers.