According to the material, the correct response to an employee who is downloading music is to shout 'That's stealing!'
WTF is this, Dora the Explorer? Swiper, no swipey! Nice job, lame ass contract media company who probably got paid $10 million to create the worst instructional videos ever.
In most areas of the country, it's not a question of if but when your house settles and puts some nice big cracks in your concrete. Whether or not it would be a enough to damage the pipe is another question, but if you're relying on it to cool a semi-expensive piece of hardware, I might be a little nervous about it.
Also, seems like this will severely limit your options for where to put your computer physically.
Are fans really that horrible? They make them fairly quiet now. Is that extra.4 Ghz really worth all that kind of effort?
Because jackasses can't stop making edits about Obama being the antichrist, bears and elephants fighting with robots in the year 2525, or Metamucil and Clorox mixed together being better than cocaine. This is why we can't have nice things on the internet.
I took this job on a crab boat, I was on there for like 2 months, there wasn't any internet, I forgot to pack any Playboys, I finally found an old SI Swimsuit issue in the galley....I didn't know there would much!
Here is the funny part, there are already numbered tags on the animals which can be used to track them. There is no need for this program. The monitoring in the healthy period regulation can show when sick animals arrive. If that isn't working, then a RFID tag isn't going to fix it. This is nothing more then wanting to know exactly where the animals go so they can tax potential revenue sources even when the revenue is a bale of hay.
That, and, I promise you this, some congressmen on an agricultural subcommittee has a brother in law (or he himself) with a sizeable investment in an RFID company. A company who, suprisingly, will be the front runner for providing the RFID tags should this ever come to fruition.
...when the robots eventually take over and kill all humans, do you think this day will be remembered as sort of a Robot Memorial Day? Will it be marked like we mark 9/11 or 12/7?
If you, however, stole several thousand CD's from Wal Mart, that could potentially become a felony (depending on the total dollar value of the theft), and would carry with it much more serious punishment (including a substantial fine most likely) then the theft of one CD.
You arent going to build a device that has features your biggest customer frowns upon/outright bans.
Yet this is exactly what carriers do with phones, especially smartphones. Verizon, for example, disables built-in GPS on almost all the handsets they offer, to force you to pay for their custom GPS app. And plenty of carriers have/continue to disable stuff like Bluetooth tethering.
Since when does Verizon or any other carrier have anything to do with the development of a phone? They just take whatever you can get from HTC/Motorola/Samsung, throw a logo on it, change the name to something stupid, and pick 5 random features to cripple for no apparent reason. As for promotion, while I guess that charging customers 200% more for the phone than it's actually worth unless they sign a 2 year contract (if you let them but it unlocked at all) is technically "promotion", I don't think that is really in the spirit of the true definition.
We, as "hardcore" gamers, are trying so hard to wrap our heads around what Nintendo is doing with the Wii. We don't get it. All the time it's "Why don't they have better games for it", "They're toys, people don't play them after a couple months", "Would the experience be watered down" or "What happens when casual games catch up on the 360/PS3". We're trying to fit the round Wii into our traditional square "Gamers" hole and it just doesn't fit.
The truth of the matter is that Nintendo doesn't care about us anymore. Now, that's a little bit of hyperbole of course, but the truth of the matter is that Nintendo figured out that the so called "casual gamers" were ready, willing, and able to spend just as much on their hobby as the hardcore. In other words, they were ready to move past Minesweeper and freebie Popcap games, and try games that offered considerably better gameplay, yet didn't necessarily require you to memorize complex combos or secret techniques to be successful. Hence, the Wii and it's motion controls, and the type of games it specializes in.
Is the Wii underpowered compared to the 360 or PS3? Probably. Does the motion control present a challenge to companies who are so used to d-pads and analog sticks and such? It seems like it. But if you're Nintendo, who cares? They sold 50 million of them. It's already sold better than the original XBox, 360, PS3, GameCube, SNES, 2600, and anything Sega has ever put out.
Nintendo doesn't care if hardcore's don't like the Wii. It's the 9th or 10th best selling console of all time regardless. The Wii isn't coming to us; it's up to us to decide if we want to come to the Wii (pun intended). There are still plenty of fun, unique, challenging games available for the Wii (even though they might not resemble the games you're used to playing), with surely many more to come. Whether you choose to embrace this or not is of course your choice, but it's time to stop wishing/hoping/demanding that the Wii is going to fit into your hole (again with the puns).
...seems like a natural solution for your connectivity issues, or perhaps whatever the open source variety of Sharepoint is. You really do need to tackle the naming convention question though. You can have all the file indexing you want, but sometimes a nice, logical, clean file name will get you what you're after much faster than any kind of searching.
It's going to be horrible, painful, thankless work that will put you on the shit list of just about every department manager and administrative assistant ("You want me to rename how many files?"), but it has to be done.
The birds have been flying for longer than humans have been on this Earth, and they're better at it than we'll ever be. You might just as well start work on the matter transporters.
I am reticent to buy a new gaming computer simply for what amounts to a passing phase.
It works like this: She gets your current gaming computer, you then reluctantly get to go out and buy a quad core with 8 gig of RAM and a gig video card. This is the way of the geek relationship.
Does anyone currently have the job of following Biden around at all times with a tape player handy, ready to play the "Whaaah whaaah whhhaaaaaaahhhhh" sound whenever it's needed? Because that sounds like it would be a sweet gig.
I'm guessing that Microsoft has about 4 dozen guys that know so much about finance, they would literally make you slit your wrists should you ever be matched up against them in a test of financial knowledge. Maybe, just maybe, they know what they're doing more than some random dude Slashdotting from work.
But in the most incompetent way possible. Letting the ISP's store the data? So you're telling me that tracking the communications of the worlds most dangerous terrorists is so incredibly important that it can potentially be left in the hands of a 20 year old intern charged with swapping the backups tapes? Hyperbole of course, but come on, if you (the UK gov) aren't storing the data, do you really know it will be available when you need it?
Yeah it's a promotional tool for your friend to pirate it too. Doesn't exactly help the developer does it? Oh but you got something for nothing so it's all OK isn't it?
This is one of those things where you're going to find rough going regardless of which way you go. It really depends on the people above you. If the problem is as bad as you suspect, your higher-ups are going to have a cow when you tell them how much it's going to cost to fix the problem, but after that they're either going to understand that this is necessary and look for a solution, or they're going to turn into Slimy McShysterpants and look for a way out. Which will involve telling you to ignore the problem to some extent, and selling you out if and when the time comes.
The critical thing here is that you can't waiver on this one. You can get all the CYA's in the world but if you continue to let this go on, even through inaction, it will have consequences down the road if the situation ever blows up.
"So Mr. Jones, I see you worked at Company X for 5 years until they...went out of business after being sued by the BSA?" "Yeah they were using all kinds of illegal software, I told them it was wrong when I hired in but they didn't want to spend the money to fix it, so I just ignored the problem for the next 4 years 364 days." "OK, well thanks for coming in, we'll let you know when we make our decision."
People need to stop using the pirated software, or they need to get licensed as soon as humanly possible. Likely you can't solve this problem overnight but make it clear to management that this is job #1 until the problem is solved. No "OK we'll only use it until the next fiscal year when we can afford X" or "We'll ignore the OS pirates since we'll eventually replace the computers anyway"; if you're complicit in this in any way, you're risking yourself.
Yeah people are going to get mad, quite possibly management themselves, but remind them that you're not responsible for this time bomb. No one likes to be "that guy" but now is not the time to play office politics; blame your predecessor (for what he actually did, don't make up stuff of course), and don't hold any punches. They can either choose to address the problem, or choose to find themselves another IT guy. It sucks to have to put your job on the line, especially in this economy, and the fact that in reality the company could roll like this for another 20 years without anyone the wiser, but if something like this comes back to bite you, it's going to bite hard.
Well "harbinger" doesn't necessarily mean "actions", it can just mean a "sign", but even so, it was through Kara that the fleet found Earth, which is what really was the beginning of the end.
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The cloud. Just cloud it, baby. Nothing bad ever happens in the cloud; they're so white and fluffy after all.
According to the material, the correct response to an employee who is downloading music is to shout 'That's stealing!'
WTF is this, Dora the Explorer? Swiper, no swipey! Nice job, lame ass contract media company who probably got paid $10 million to create the worst instructional videos ever.
In most areas of the country, it's not a question of if but when your house settles and puts some nice big cracks in your concrete. Whether or not it would be a enough to damage the pipe is another question, but if you're relying on it to cool a semi-expensive piece of hardware, I might be a little nervous about it.
Also, seems like this will severely limit your options for where to put your computer physically.
Are fans really that horrible? They make them fairly quiet now. Is that extra .4 Ghz really worth all that kind of effort?
Because jackasses can't stop making edits about Obama being the antichrist, bears and elephants fighting with robots in the year 2525, or Metamucil and Clorox mixed together being better than cocaine. This is why we can't have nice things on the internet.
I took this job on a crab boat, I was on there for like 2 months, there wasn't any internet, I forgot to pack any Playboys, I finally found an old SI Swimsuit issue in the galley....I didn't know there would much!
- Randy Marsh
Here is the funny part, there are already numbered tags on the animals which can be used to track them. There is no need for this program. The monitoring in the healthy period regulation can show when sick animals arrive. If that isn't working, then a RFID tag isn't going to fix it. This is nothing more then wanting to know exactly where the animals go so they can tax potential revenue sources even when the revenue is a bale of hay.
That, and, I promise you this, some congressmen on an agricultural subcommittee has a brother in law (or he himself) with a sizeable investment in an RFID company. A company who, suprisingly, will be the front runner for providing the RFID tags should this ever come to fruition.
Well, they were drilling, and then there was an earthquake. So obviously the drilling caused the quake, right?
...when the robots eventually take over and kill all humans, do you think this day will be remembered as sort of a Robot Memorial Day? Will it be marked like we mark 9/11 or 12/7?
If you, however, stole several thousand CD's from Wal Mart, that could potentially become a felony (depending on the total dollar value of the theft), and would carry with it much more serious punishment (including a substantial fine most likely) then the theft of one CD.
You arent going to build a device that has features your biggest customer frowns upon/outright bans.
Yet this is exactly what carriers do with phones, especially smartphones. Verizon, for example, disables built-in GPS on almost all the handsets they offer, to force you to pay for their custom GPS app. And plenty of carriers have/continue to disable stuff like Bluetooth tethering.
Since when does Verizon or any other carrier have anything to do with the development of a phone? They just take whatever you can get from HTC/Motorola/Samsung, throw a logo on it, change the name to something stupid, and pick 5 random features to cripple for no apparent reason. As for promotion, while I guess that charging customers 200% more for the phone than it's actually worth unless they sign a 2 year contract (if you let them but it unlocked at all) is technically "promotion", I don't think that is really in the spirit of the true definition.
What a bunch of tools.
We, as "hardcore" gamers, are trying so hard to wrap our heads around what Nintendo is doing with the Wii. We don't get it. All the time it's "Why don't they have better games for it", "They're toys, people don't play them after a couple months", "Would the experience be watered down" or "What happens when casual games catch up on the 360/PS3". We're trying to fit the round Wii into our traditional square "Gamers" hole and it just doesn't fit.
The truth of the matter is that Nintendo doesn't care about us anymore. Now, that's a little bit of hyperbole of course, but the truth of the matter is that Nintendo figured out that the so called "casual gamers" were ready, willing, and able to spend just as much on their hobby as the hardcore. In other words, they were ready to move past Minesweeper and freebie Popcap games, and try games that offered considerably better gameplay, yet didn't necessarily require you to memorize complex combos or secret techniques to be successful. Hence, the Wii and it's motion controls, and the type of games it specializes in.
Is the Wii underpowered compared to the 360 or PS3? Probably. Does the motion control present a challenge to companies who are so used to d-pads and analog sticks and such? It seems like it. But if you're Nintendo, who cares? They sold 50 million of them. It's already sold better than the original XBox, 360, PS3, GameCube, SNES, 2600, and anything Sega has ever put out.
Nintendo doesn't care if hardcore's don't like the Wii. It's the 9th or 10th best selling console of all time regardless. The Wii isn't coming to us; it's up to us to decide if we want to come to the Wii (pun intended). There are still plenty of fun, unique, challenging games available for the Wii (even though they might not resemble the games you're used to playing), with surely many more to come. Whether you choose to embrace this or not is of course your choice, but it's time to stop wishing/hoping/demanding that the Wii is going to fit into your hole (again with the puns).
...seems like a natural solution for your connectivity issues, or perhaps whatever the open source variety of Sharepoint is. You really do need to tackle the naming convention question though. You can have all the file indexing you want, but sometimes a nice, logical, clean file name will get you what you're after much faster than any kind of searching.
It's going to be horrible, painful, thankless work that will put you on the shit list of just about every department manager and administrative assistant ("You want me to rename how many files?"), but it has to be done.
The birds have been flying for longer than humans have been on this Earth, and they're better at it than we'll ever be. You might just as well start work on the matter transporters.
Look at where you're going. With your iEyes.
I am reticent to buy a new gaming computer simply for what amounts to a passing phase.
It works like this: She gets your current gaming computer, you then reluctantly get to go out and buy a quad core with 8 gig of RAM and a gig video card. This is the way of the geek relationship.
Does anyone currently have the job of following Biden around at all times with a tape player handy, ready to play the "Whaaah whaaah whhhaaaaaaahhhhh" sound whenever it's needed? Because that sounds like it would be a sweet gig.
Don't you talk about Cowboy Neal that way!
I'm guessing that Microsoft has about 4 dozen guys that know so much about finance, they would literally make you slit your wrists should you ever be matched up against them in a test of financial knowledge. Maybe, just maybe, they know what they're doing more than some random dude Slashdotting from work.
Singularly.
But in the most incompetent way possible. Letting the ISP's store the data? So you're telling me that tracking the communications of the worlds most dangerous terrorists is so incredibly important that it can potentially be left in the hands of a 20 year old intern charged with swapping the backups tapes? Hyperbole of course, but come on, if you (the UK gov) aren't storing the data, do you really know it will be available when you need it?
Yeah it's a promotional tool for your friend to pirate it too. Doesn't exactly help the developer does it? Oh but you got something for nothing so it's all OK isn't it?
This is one of those things where you're going to find rough going regardless of which way you go. It really depends on the people above you. If the problem is as bad as you suspect, your higher-ups are going to have a cow when you tell them how much it's going to cost to fix the problem, but after that they're either going to understand that this is necessary and look for a solution, or they're going to turn into Slimy McShysterpants and look for a way out. Which will involve telling you to ignore the problem to some extent, and selling you out if and when the time comes.
The critical thing here is that you can't waiver on this one. You can get all the CYA's in the world but if you continue to let this go on, even through inaction, it will have consequences down the road if the situation ever blows up.
"So Mr. Jones, I see you worked at Company X for 5 years until they...went out of business after being sued by the BSA?"
"Yeah they were using all kinds of illegal software, I told them it was wrong when I hired in but they didn't want to spend the money to fix it, so I just ignored the problem for the next 4 years 364 days."
"OK, well thanks for coming in, we'll let you know when we make our decision."
People need to stop using the pirated software, or they need to get licensed as soon as humanly possible. Likely you can't solve this problem overnight but make it clear to management that this is job #1 until the problem is solved. No "OK we'll only use it until the next fiscal year when we can afford X" or "We'll ignore the OS pirates since we'll eventually replace the computers anyway"; if you're complicit in this in any way, you're risking yourself.
Yeah people are going to get mad, quite possibly management themselves, but remind them that you're not responsible for this time bomb. No one likes to be "that guy" but now is not the time to play office politics; blame your predecessor (for what he actually did, don't make up stuff of course), and don't hold any punches. They can either choose to address the problem, or choose to find themselves another IT guy. It sucks to have to put your job on the line, especially in this economy, and the fact that in reality the company could roll like this for another 20 years without anyone the wiser, but if something like this comes back to bite you, it's going to bite hard.
Well "harbinger" doesn't necessarily mean "actions", it can just mean a "sign", but even so, it was through Kara that the fleet found Earth, which is what really was the beginning of the end.
Harbinger of death to the Cylons. Remember it was always the hybrids that called her that.