I hate monster. If a position we have opening shows up on there, that means instead of about 20-30 people interested in the job, I get info from everyone within 500 miles, or who wants to live in this part of the country who has seen a computer before and can spell one of the words in the posting.
Kinda a pain. I don't think any of our successful hires have been from monster.com applicants. Many times they don't make the initial screening and mostly the others fall out during a phone screening.
Nah...turns out they bought the remaining assets of some company from the 70s that made a pong console, therefore they have the sole rights to any console game or derivative.
After all, without Infinium knowhow, there is no way Sony or Nintendo could have succeeded with the PS2 or GameCube.
I'm waiting for Z as well, that way we'll be at the end and know that we have something we can count on being there until someone extends the alphabet.
I think last time I played is the mall's arcade (now closed) had a Rastan game stuck off in the corner.
I don't play anymore because everyplace wants a dollar to play and they all look the same. Hit anything that moves and see how fast you can hit button combinations. I think DDR is pretty dumb but at least it was original.
Just like hollywood, now games are trying to get by on flashy graphics more than content. I agree with what others have said - get something that'll play the old games and charge a quarter. At least then you have variety. Plus I'd feel better about having my 5 year old play some game where you have to shoot the alien space ship or inflate the monster than decapitate your opponent.
Do the senators that disney keeps buying to extend the copyright periods come with this deal or will Comcast have to purchase them seperatly?
How about Phil Collins and Elton John?
It's the people stupid
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Just like Kazaa, it's not the technology it's the people doing the bad things.
Everyone seems to think that the world is there for them and that is it. So what if they are at a theater blabbing on the phone, or if it's 2am and they decide they must drive through neighboorhoods with enough bass to break up a kidney stone.
There are simple solutions - get management that has balls. Don't want people blabbing in your resturaunt, eject them. Have ushers in the theaters eject people who are being obnoxious. When I say a broadway play, that happened...someone brought a baby who was crying and they were told they would have to go out to the lobby until the baby quieted down.
Of course then they'll be tons of lawsuits over how they were discriminated against, etc...
Sigh...sometimes I wish I lived for a shorter time before electronics. mmmm...that's good gruel!
Was escorted out of McDonalds
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I had taken my kids there to play since it was cold and raining out. I was going to do some work on my notebook while they navigated the maze of plastic.
I had just logged into my Linux notebook when I was approached by a SCO employee who escorted me out of the "resturaunt". He told me he was sorry, but those were the orders from above. He told me he didn't have enough stock to dump before he then went back to his fry station.
As we left, I swear the guy running the drive through was Darl McBride himself. He was claiming complete ownership of all the fries in the bag and bemoaning the fact that Burger King fries are stolen from McDonalds because there is no way that Burger King could figure out how to fry a potato on their own.
Amen. When I flew into there, I think the plane taxiing around the airport took almost as long as we were in the air!
Re:Not only cost, but what about security?
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Even if you only allowed 80/443, credit card fraud still can happen. That is where they sign up for a fradulent card, or use one. Everytime we have a fraud report that gets back to our campus, it always goes back to our public access library terminals that someone used to sign up for a card or ordered something from with a fraudulant number.
I know for fact that PIT is pretty wide open. I was able to sit there and ssh and VNC back to my machine at home...pretty cool.
The ones I really can't stand is when you have two upper level management, or some sales weasel and management together.
They always feel the need to keep the verbal farting going to explain how they have a keen grasp on the blindingly obvious, which is followed by the other trying to show just how much they understand the same thing.
VP: Of course one of the other reasons that we're interested in Voice-over-IP is the cost savings. We can't keep paying the phone company $30 per line. This will allow us to redirect those funds elsewhere.
Sales: Of course the savings are great. The phone company has been able to get away with charging what they want for a while as they are the only game in town, but now with Voice-over-IP you can save some of that cost for use for some other project since you no longer have to pay $30 per month per phone.
VP: This will allow us to then spend that money in some other areas where it is needed as we'll no longer need to pay out per line.
And it goes on and on. Makes me wanna kill myself. Of course anything you try and say to let them both know how foresightful they are and move along instead just makes them think that you don't fully understand the situation and they start to explain it to you again.
God...sometimes I feel like I live in "Office Space".
I suppose you could argue that porn is a vice and that if they get a little for free then they'll get hooked and soon start paying for it.
Though they seem to be giving it away - tons of web sites bill free porn for me, I just need to give them my credit card number to verify my age....yeah...
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True...but isn't RPC number 2 on the SANS list and advised to be turned off asap unless one really needs it?
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Mabye it's not, but since I think Java sucks donkey ass I find it a slightly better solution.
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C# may not be that great compared to C++ or Java. But what.net provides is pretty nice.
My officemate wrote a function in vb.net on a Windows box, running via ASP.NET/IIS/Win2k. I wrote a small little C# program on my Linux box that calls the procedure on the windows box. It looks something like this:
result=addup(2,5); with 7 being put in result. Nice and simple. Could have easily been something to add a user to a box...or I could reimplement the same function on my Linux box to add a user there and he could call it from an vb script.
It does a great job of providing cross platform calls without adding tons of overhead or a lengthy API...the libraries do all the setup/teardown instead of the programmer, and it is a lot cleaner than parsing html output.
It may not be perfect, but I'm just sporting a woody because I finally somewhat understand what the hell the nebulous.net is partially supposed to be...all thanks to Mono.
Guess some people just don't get it. It would be painful...last time I ran Linux on a 386 was around 96 and kernel compilation was about a day I think!
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I hate monster. If a position we have opening shows up on there, that means instead of about 20-30 people interested in the job, I get info from everyone within 500 miles, or who wants to live in this part of the country who has seen a computer before and can spell one of the words in the posting.
Kinda a pain. I don't think any of our successful hires have been from monster.com applicants. Many times they don't make the initial screening and mostly the others fall out during a phone screening.
Nah...turns out they bought the remaining assets of some company from the 70s that made a pong console, therefore they have the sole rights to any console game or derivative.
After all, without Infinium knowhow, there is no way Sony or Nintendo could have succeeded with the PS2 or GameCube.
I'm waiting for Z as well, that way we'll be at the end and know that we have something we can count on being there until someone extends the alphabet.
Reading the article, the pictures they had of the prototype designs for the remote shape sent that same thought going through my head.
:)
Looks like we know where their team go their "inspiration" from.
"Hey John...what's this speed control button for?"
But the whole Paul Allen and Ticketmaster thing...instantly negates any good he may do elsewhere. :)
I think last time I played is the mall's arcade (now closed) had a Rastan game stuck off in the corner.
I don't play anymore because everyplace wants a dollar to play and they all look the same. Hit anything that moves and see how fast you can hit button combinations. I think DDR is pretty dumb but at least it was original.
Just like hollywood, now games are trying to get by on flashy graphics more than content. I agree with what others have said - get something that'll play the old games and charge a quarter. At least then you have variety. Plus I'd feel better about having my 5 year old play some game where you have to shoot the alien space ship or inflate the monster than decapitate your opponent.
Do the senators that disney keeps buying to extend the copyright periods come with this deal or will Comcast have to purchase them seperatly?
How about Phil Collins and Elton John?
Just like Kazaa, it's not the technology it's the people doing the bad things.
Everyone seems to think that the world is there for them and that is it. So what if they are at a theater blabbing on the phone, or if it's 2am and they decide they must drive through neighboorhoods with enough bass to break up a kidney stone.
There are simple solutions - get management that has balls. Don't want people blabbing in your resturaunt, eject them. Have ushers in the theaters eject people who are being obnoxious. When I say a broadway play, that happened...someone brought a baby who was crying and they were told they would have to go out to the lobby until the baby quieted down.
Of course then they'll be tons of lawsuits over how they were discriminated against, etc...
Sigh...sometimes I wish I lived for a shorter time before electronics. mmmm...that's good gruel!
I had taken my kids there to play since it was cold and raining out. I was going to do some work on my notebook while they navigated the maze of plastic.
I had just logged into my Linux notebook when I was approached by a SCO employee who escorted me out of the "resturaunt". He told me he was sorry, but those were the orders from above. He told me he didn't have enough stock to dump before he then went back to his fry station.
As we left, I swear the guy running the drive through was Darl McBride himself. He was claiming complete ownership of all the fries in the bag and bemoaning the fact that Burger King fries are stolen from McDonalds because there is no way that Burger King could figure out how to fry a potato on their own.
Apple could provide the wireless AP's for some publicity...using the Apple Airport at the Airport or something like that.
No....you still go to Hawaii, you just make the flight by transferring through Idaho, Pittsburgh, Richmond, and everywhere else that has access.
Sorry honey...it was cheaper this way, plus after every hop you get an hour to check e-mail.
Amen. When I flew into there, I think the plane taxiing around the airport took almost as long as we were in the air!
Even if you only allowed 80/443, credit card fraud still can happen. That is where they sign up for a fradulent card, or use one. Everytime we have a fraud report that gets back to our campus, it always goes back to our public access library terminals that someone used to sign up for a card or ordered something from with a fraudulant number.
I know for fact that PIT is pretty wide open. I was able to sit there and ssh and VNC back to my machine at home...pretty cool.
No...the browser is working fine, you just have to think in Russian to use it.
I really need to read Firefox Down...I loved Firefox.
The ones I really can't stand is when you have two upper level management, or some sales weasel and management together.
They always feel the need to keep the verbal farting going to explain how they have a keen grasp on the blindingly obvious, which is followed by the other trying to show just how much they understand the same thing.
VP: Of course one of the other reasons that we're interested in Voice-over-IP is the cost savings. We can't keep paying the phone company $30 per line. This will allow us to redirect those funds elsewhere.
Sales: Of course the savings are great. The phone company has been able to get away with charging what they want for a while as they are the only game in town, but now with Voice-over-IP you can save some of that cost for use for some other project since you no longer have to pay $30 per month per phone.
VP: This will allow us to then spend that money in some other areas where it is needed as we'll no longer need to pay out per line.
And it goes on and on. Makes me wanna kill myself. Of course anything you try and say to let them both know how foresightful they are and move along instead just makes them think that you don't fully understand the situation and they start to explain it to you again.
God...sometimes I feel like I live in "Office Space".
Isn't an umbrella bad for the enviornment because it keeps the water from getting to where it would have fallen? Nah...
:)
Just think of this as a big umbrella!
Hence the ...yeah. I believe those about as much as I do "click here to be removed from this list".
I suppose you could argue that porn is a vice and that if they get a little for free then they'll get hooked and soon start paying for it.
Though they seem to be giving it away - tons of web sites bill free porn for me, I just need to give them my credit card number to verify my age....yeah...
True...but isn't RPC number 2 on the SANS list and advised to be turned off asap unless one really needs it?
Mabye it's not, but since I think Java sucks donkey ass I find it a slightly better solution.
C# may not be that great compared to C++ or Java. But what .net provides is pretty nice.
.net is partially supposed to be...all thanks to Mono.
My officemate wrote a function in vb.net on a Windows box, running via ASP.NET/IIS/Win2k. I wrote a small little C# program on my Linux box that calls the procedure on the windows box. It looks something like this:
result=addup(2,5);
with 7 being put in result. Nice and simple. Could have easily been something to add a user to a box...or I could reimplement the same function on my Linux box to add a user there and he could call it from an vb script.
It does a great job of providing cross platform calls without adding tons of overhead or a lengthy API...the libraries do all the setup/teardown instead of the programmer, and it is a lot cleaner than parsing html output.
It may not be perfect, but I'm just sporting a woody because I finally somewhat understand what the hell the nebulous
The things you see when you don't have mod points. An excellant point and good use of the buttered toast and cat power device.
So because there wasn't a flood of reviews on Linux web sites of Debian that users are switching like mad???
You have some points, but logic like that is not doing much for your arguments.
Brings a whole new meaning to an erector eyepiece.
thanks for the support.
Guess some people just don't get it. It would be painful...last time I ran Linux on a 386 was around 96 and kernel compilation was about a day I think!