At one time, some well known thinker or another postulated that a city could only grow to a certain size because after a while it would be impossible to remove all of the horse dung.
You should be careful - you may be responding to a former Marine who keeps himself in shape and has a brown belt.
In fact - you are responding to such a person.
Fleet and Luzerne in Baltimore, Maryland. Post when you want to meet. I'll bring the plaster for the casts... but I don't think it is me that will be needing it.
I'll use my X10 cam to record your trouncing for all to enjoy.
...20 years ago they weren't making decisions about typewriters and typing.
An IT manager who knows next to nothing about IT, but is making all of the decisions for the department... I can see why they would want to hide their ignorance.
Trying to explain 10th grade algebra to a worm might be somewhat pointless. But.... we CAN indeed communicate with them at the level in which **they communicate amongst themselves.**
We can trick them into thinking it is time to reproduce (thru pheramones), lead them to food by leaving a chemical trail, ect. This is the level of communication that they are capable of. We understand it, we can replicate it (maybe not perfectly because we lack precise feedback). They respond to it.
To us, we are spraying a chemical on them to get them to screw (do worms screw?). To them, we are playing the equvalent if Luther Vandross over the stereo and pouring a glass of chianti.
My analogies are somewhat suspect, but you see my point I think.
On morning in May 1999, I am called into my bosses office. Laid off.
Got two weeks severance, quarterly performance bonus, quarterly sales bonus, and my last two weeks paycheck (all told came to about 9 weeks pay).
Since I was fresh off the job hunt, I called the job that I really wanted but turned down (because it was 25 miles away as opposed to right across the street) and asked them if the position was open.
Yes it was. I cruised down, signed on the line, got a 2K a year raise, and went back to collect my stuff (since I had walked to work I asked for permission to go get my car.)
25% of the core product developers and most of the parser group went down that day.
It was quite humane: my only regret is that there was a chick working there that I was so close to bedding (I had already taken her home for "lunch"). Oh well.
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Actually... if the guy has a family and is an independent techie, then he could have 8 machines easily.
Flipping burgers at McD's?
100 years ago that would be considered pretty damn cool.
At one time, some well known thinker or another postulated that a city could only grow to a certain size because after a while it would be impossible to remove all of the horse dung.
Well, there you go.
I haven't bought a new CD in years.
I hit the local used CD store now and again, but for the post part I am ripping and burning.
Of course, I am just one person.... and it is amazing how my toilet generates millions of gallons of sewage.
>> he doesn't seem to grasp the concepts of 'self control' and moderation.
Neither does 95% of the worlds population.
Here little Spam-bot!
Heeere little Spam-bot!
(...holding out a piece of roast beef and wiggling it...)
You should be careful - you may be responding to a former Marine who keeps himself in shape and has a brown belt.
In fact - you are responding to such a person.
Fleet and Luzerne in Baltimore, Maryland. Post when you want to meet. I'll bring the plaster for the casts... but I don't think it is me that will be needing it.
I'll use my X10 cam to record your trouncing for all to enjoy.
For $79 I got:
4 wireless motion sensors (one for outdoors)
a wireless cam
a little reciever that I could hook up to a capture card or my vcr
some little control box that remotely controls my vcr either manually or with the motion sensors
A capture card
software
All in all it was a great deal!
No hot chick however - but I already have one of those.
...and actually got a good deal. Lot's of stuff, neat, for a fair price.
It is my secret shame - responding to a pop under (it was a popup at the time I seem to remember).
> I still wonder what can make a $15,000
> car cost more than $200,000.
The fact that it is custom built by hand perhaps?
...terrorists don't blow up, and even if we did we are hell bent on keeping them IN XRay.
Well... more accurately Americans got their *first generation* engine tech from German engineers.
However, so did the Soviets - a little factiod most overlook.
Note that these first generation American engines tended to explode.
Another fact that most ignore is that the German engineers practically worshipped Robert Goddard: whom they considered the father of modern rocketry.
Goddard was American, BTW.
don't know why no orbital launches from there.
...20 years ago they weren't making decisions about typewriters and typing.
An IT manager who knows next to nothing about IT, but is making all of the decisions for the department... I can see why they would want to hide their ignorance.
Sorry SunnComm.
Try again.
...perhaps because worms can't talk.
Atleast not on our level.
Trying to explain 10th grade algebra to a worm might be somewhat pointless. But.... we CAN indeed communicate with them at the level in which **they communicate amongst themselves.**
We can trick them into thinking it is time to reproduce (thru pheramones), lead them to food by leaving a chemical trail, ect. This is the level of communication that they are capable of. We understand it, we can replicate it (maybe not perfectly because we lack precise feedback). They respond to it.
To us, we are spraying a chemical on them to get them to screw (do worms screw?). To them, we are playing the equvalent if Luther Vandross over the stereo and pouring a glass of chianti.
My analogies are somewhat suspect, but you see my point I think.
And pray tell - if you were in the managers boat what would you do, exactly?
Get canned too?
Unfortunately, the guy was only doing his job. He didn't make the decision to lay those workers off - he was just paid to tell them.
...I'd take the job!
I think the point is that YOU were smug in your reply b/c had PHB had asked you... ..el pinko sliperooni!
Sticking NFILES=x in your config.sys might have done something - but it certainly wouldn't have told DOS that it could maintain x file handles.
I sort of miss DOS - www.freedos.org is a cool site. Oh well I still putter with my timex-sinclair, so that just goes to show.
Yes - I have an instant solution: You know the 286 you purchased for $20 or so to cannibalize for the drive?
Don't cannibalize it. Use it to read the data - and save to a 3 1/2 floppy. Since it is comma delimited text any spreadsheet will imprt the data.
But then again - importing the data is not your problem: you simply need to hand the disk to law enforcement.
Illegal contracts are not contracts at all.
You are lying. Or leaving so much out that you may as well be lying.
Starteds working there in March 1999.
On morning in May 1999, I am called into my bosses office. Laid off.
Got two weeks severance, quarterly performance bonus, quarterly sales bonus, and my last two weeks paycheck (all told came to about 9 weeks pay).
Since I was fresh off the job hunt, I called the job that I really wanted but turned down (because it was 25 miles away as opposed to right across the street) and asked them if the position was open.
Yes it was. I cruised down, signed on the line, got a 2K a year raise, and went back to collect my stuff (since I had walked to work I asked for permission to go get my car.)
25% of the core product developers and most of the parser group went down that day.
It was quite humane: my only regret is that there was a chick working there that I was so close to bedding (I had already taken her home for "lunch"). Oh well.
FILES=[value] (usually this was 8, I think)
Boss: gatkinso, state you most embarassing moment.
gatkinso: when your wife discovered I have herpes.
Go to the local Goodwill store or flea market and buy the first 286 you see that has a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive (this might cost you all of $20).
Remove the drive from the 286 and install the drive in your current PC.
Insert the floppy.
Open Microsoft Access.
File | Open (Files of type dBase 5, dBase IV, or dBase III)
Attack.
Perhaps you might think about saving the table in a more universal format, and saving it to your HDD.
5+ years, and this never occurred to you? I smell a big pile of bull droppings.