Just do a search on Unemployement Insurance and you will see the mess of red tape. I mean, the mess does not allow me to find what i need. I ended up simply using explore's text find and eventually found what i was looking for.
I am a webmaster of commercial sites and a few government funded libraries. I think the best way to think of the site is, even an idiot has to be able to use it. That means a hella good search engine, a site that has quick actions (menu page), a good linked faq and text as well as graphical links.
The ignorant reporter sitting in his plush chair and breathing fresh air has no idea what cramped enviroment and low oxygen can do to a mans demenor. I mean, if it looked like i was going to suffocate in a sardine can with some russian fool telling me not to touch his equipment? I would be like shove it, im fixing the fuking thing wether you like it or not? Not to mention prolly only getting 4 hours of sleep a night.
Politeness doesn't come into it when the situation is desperate. But that does not mean the mission is doomed to failure.
>>Could it be that video games are turning our >>society, the global empire, into another >>society of spectators?
Hardly. Gamers are actively involved participants in a virtual reality. I believe that this virtual reality will some day (50+ years) mix with current reality. If you are talking about spectators, you missed it. It was the TV generation, not gamers.
Nekros
Marvin Minsky? Wasn't this the chap that set AI back ten years by shooting down a paper that was trying to validate AI? I dont know about quoting him as a knowledgable source. But then again, the finds diverted from AI went into the Internet anyway : )
Come on guys, video games will evolve into other media such as TV and radio broadcasts. We will have Video Game Olympics and huge 1,000,000+ multiplayer games with chunks of the world population playing at one time. You will see, it is not too far away...
I went to Fragapalooza and all i got was this lousy sig
Nekros
200 FPS? Of course you don't need that. 400 Horse power car? Of course you dont need that. 1 Ghz Computer? Of course you dont need that. So why do we still strive to get it? 2 words, Penis Size. It is a macho guy thing, i can tell you that if some guy got 200 FPS in Quake 3 i would envy him, plain and simple. He bought the hardware and along with it the bragging rights. He has a powerful machine that is in glorious excess. Hail gorious FPS excess!
BTW: I have a 900 Mhz Athlon, Geforce 2 GTS and I get 112 FPS in Quake III:P
I am in Canada, Alberta, Edmonton to be exact so you US boys may have some different results. Basically I had DSL and loved it, a deti 128 kbs and a peak DL speed of 178 KiloBytes/sec, what's not to love? But when i moved Telus told me I had to wait 1 month to relocate my modem and that i was on a waiting list : (
Needless to say, what geek can go a month without highspeed net? Not me, so I called up Videon and got asked them if they could hook me up, the chick on the phone was like " Sure we can, we'll just throw you on the node." Ummm, excuse me? THROW ME ON THE NODE? Prolly with the rest of the block sharing 1 connection...bad omen i though, but got it anyway cause it's got to be better than dialup.
So my cable was hooked up to my 900 Thunderbird Athlon running Win2K and I was happly DLing at 40 KBs, not too shabby, but then i thought of my DSL and my 128 KBs deti and thought this had to do something comparable. So i tested the speeds and during the night i downloaded a file off Videons server at 400 KBs, wow! almost half a meg a sec! Too bad most the time on the net i got 40 KBs most the time. Also cable has a proxy and i was unable to get my Hotmail cause the stupid thing. Also i had a 1 GIG upload a month and 10 Download, what a ripoff! That may be fine for blow joe occasionally surfing www.smalltities.com, but not for a hardcore geek with a webserver, FTP, intense gaming sessions that go over 6 hours a day in CounterStrike, after a week i had almost reached 1 GIG upload. I hated the idea of cooling my jets and watching excatly how much bandwidth i had left, hoping i dont have to pay a bunch extra that i got for FREE from Telus.
Well then my DSL came in, I had one P-III 500 hooked to Cable and my Athlon 900 to the DSL. Time for some testing! I went to Microsoft and did the connection test, the cable scored really well, scoring off the charts, the DSL simply got just under a T1, about half as fast...but that was just a synthetic test, how about DLing version 7 beta FULL of CounterStrike?
Let the games begin! So I started the download at about 6 p.m., the started slow at 30 KBs and maxed out at 80 KBs with an average of 50 KBs, not too bad. The DSL started at 170 KBs and then dropped to it's deticated bandwith of 156 KBs STEADY AS A ROCK, never dropping below 150 KBs the whole time. Needless to say the cable company can shove there proxy, DL/UL limits, extra charges, and lag-ass connection. I took it back a week later and kept the DSL. Not only that but the cable modem would sometimes just "Die" for like 5 min, then suddenly come back on. Sux 2 B U if U are in the middle of a 150 MEG DL like I waz...
CONCLUSION: DSL has no DL/UL limits, deti 128 KBs and usually more than that, no proxy, no monitoring and one fixed price of 40 a month. Cable has all the monitoring, proxy, monitoring, UL/DL limits and extra charges for 40 a month.
DSL is simply superior.
Ashley Fulks
Network Admin
Simply Boss inc.
College teaches you to work for others, not for yourself. I have school and real world experience and i learnt some important skills to be successful:
1) WORK ETHIC - Get the job done, and done on time.
2) COMMUNICATION - Talk to your boss and your co-workers, inform them of what is going on in a language they understand.
3) LEARN FAST - College does not teach you how to do something IRL, it teaches you the theory behind something and leaves the rest for you to figure out.
4) BE FLEXIBLE - Don't pout when asked to do something that was not in your job description. Do it and show that you can handle those situations. It will pay off when promotion time comes.
5) DON'T ASSUME - My dad always said if you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME.
6) PLAY FOR THE LONG HAUL - Quick advancement in a small new firm with a low starting wage beats a high starting wage in a job with no advancement opportunities, unless that job is all you want to do ever...
7) OPPORTUNITES - Recognize new opportunites and exploit them. (i.e.) the boss says this propriotary software sux, suggest that you build some custom software...then market it to similar companies and make sure you get a piece of the pie! (worked for me:)
All in all, one teaspoon of these essential skills will work better for you than one cup of education. School teaches you to think in a particular way, work teaches you to act in a particular way. What ever you do, always keep your mind open and adapt to new situations.
Ashley Fulks
Network Administrator
Software Engineer
Simply Boss inc.
ADT Security
If you are looking for a business application that uses a database, interfaces with the web, accepts SQL statements and ODBC connectivity, has a userfriendly interface and allows excel-like calculations, look no further than FileMaker Pro. I am sure it was made after 1990-1. I used it for sicktime sheets, aquisitions database, ADT security database and even as a webserver cause it has it built in! Mind you i think that it only comes in Mac and PC format. Check out http://www.filemaker.com for more info
Good Luck!
Ashley Fulks
Network Adminisrator
Simply Boss Security
I think you are dreaming a little too much in Apple heaven. Like Bill or his followers would decide to port to a main threat. Just cause they broke up doesn't mean they are stupid or sloppy. Bill and his lackies will not threaten their marketplace like that. Nekros
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I am a webmaster of commercial sites and a few government funded libraries. I think the best way to think of the site is, even an idiot has to be able to use it. That means a hella good search engine, a site that has quick actions (menu page), a good linked faq and text as well as graphical links.
Nekros
Politeness doesn't come into it when the situation is desperate. But that does not mean the mission is doomed to failure.
Nekros
>>society, the global empire, into another
>>society of spectators?
Hardly. Gamers are actively involved participants in a virtual reality. I believe that this virtual reality will some day (50+ years) mix with current reality. If you are talking about spectators, you missed it. It was the TV generation, not gamers. Nekros
Marvin Minsky? Wasn't this the chap that set AI back ten years by shooting down a paper that was trying to validate AI? I dont know about quoting him as a knowledgable source. But then again, the finds diverted from AI went into the Internet anyway : ) Come on guys, video games will evolve into other media such as TV and radio broadcasts. We will have Video Game Olympics and huge 1,000,000+ multiplayer games with chunks of the world population playing at one time. You will see, it is not too far away... I went to Fragapalooza and all i got was this lousy sig Nekros
BTW: I have a 900 Mhz Athlon, Geforce 2 GTS and I get 112 FPS in Quake III :P
Nekros.2y.net
I am in Canada, Alberta, Edmonton to be exact so you US boys may have some different results. Basically I had DSL and loved it, a deti 128 kbs and a peak DL speed of 178 KiloBytes/sec, what's not to love? But when i moved Telus told me I had to wait 1 month to relocate my modem and that i was on a waiting list : (
Needless to say, what geek can go a month without highspeed net? Not me, so I called up Videon and got asked them if they could hook me up, the chick on the phone was like " Sure we can, we'll just throw you on the node." Ummm, excuse me? THROW ME ON THE NODE? Prolly with the rest of the block sharing 1 connection...bad omen i though, but got it anyway cause it's got to be better than dialup.
So my cable was hooked up to my 900 Thunderbird Athlon running Win2K and I was happly DLing at 40 KBs, not too shabby, but then i thought of my DSL and my 128 KBs deti and thought this had to do something comparable. So i tested the speeds and during the night i downloaded a file off Videons server at 400 KBs, wow! almost half a meg a sec! Too bad most the time on the net i got 40 KBs most the time. Also cable has a proxy and i was unable to get my Hotmail cause the stupid thing. Also i had a 1 GIG upload a month and 10 Download, what a ripoff! That may be fine for blow joe occasionally surfing www.smalltities.com, but not for a hardcore geek with a webserver, FTP, intense gaming sessions that go over 6 hours a day in CounterStrike, after a week i had almost reached 1 GIG upload. I hated the idea of cooling my jets and watching excatly how much bandwidth i had left, hoping i dont have to pay a bunch extra that i got for FREE from Telus.
Well then my DSL came in, I had one P-III 500 hooked to Cable and my Athlon 900 to the DSL. Time for some testing! I went to Microsoft and did the connection test, the cable scored really well, scoring off the charts, the DSL simply got just under a T1, about half as fast...but that was just a synthetic test, how about DLing version 7 beta FULL of CounterStrike?
Let the games begin! So I started the download at about 6 p.m., the started slow at 30 KBs and maxed out at 80 KBs with an average of 50 KBs, not too bad. The DSL started at 170 KBs and then dropped to it's deticated bandwith of 156 KBs STEADY AS A ROCK, never dropping below 150 KBs the whole time. Needless to say the cable company can shove there proxy, DL/UL limits, extra charges, and lag-ass connection. I took it back a week later and kept the DSL. Not only that but the cable modem would sometimes just "Die" for like 5 min, then suddenly come back on. Sux 2 B U if U are in the middle of a 150 MEG DL like I waz...
CONCLUSION: DSL has no DL/UL limits, deti 128 KBs and usually more than that, no proxy, no monitoring and one fixed price of 40 a month. Cable has all the monitoring, proxy, monitoring, UL/DL limits and extra charges for 40 a month.
DSL is simply superior. Ashley Fulks Network Admin Simply Boss inc.
College teaches you to work for others, not for yourself. I have school and real world experience and i learnt some important skills to be successful: 1) WORK ETHIC - Get the job done, and done on time. 2) COMMUNICATION - Talk to your boss and your co-workers, inform them of what is going on in a language they understand. 3) LEARN FAST - College does not teach you how to do something IRL, it teaches you the theory behind something and leaves the rest for you to figure out. 4) BE FLEXIBLE - Don't pout when asked to do something that was not in your job description. Do it and show that you can handle those situations. It will pay off when promotion time comes. 5) DON'T ASSUME - My dad always said if you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME. 6) PLAY FOR THE LONG HAUL - Quick advancement in a small new firm with a low starting wage beats a high starting wage in a job with no advancement opportunities, unless that job is all you want to do ever... 7) OPPORTUNITES - Recognize new opportunites and exploit them. (i.e.) the boss says this propriotary software sux, suggest that you build some custom software...then market it to similar companies and make sure you get a piece of the pie! (worked for me :)
All in all, one teaspoon of these essential skills will work better for you than one cup of education. School teaches you to think in a particular way, work teaches you to act in a particular way. What ever you do, always keep your mind open and adapt to new situations.
Ashley Fulks
Network Administrator
Software Engineer
Simply Boss inc.
ADT Security
If you are looking for a business application that uses a database, interfaces with the web, accepts SQL statements and ODBC connectivity, has a userfriendly interface and allows excel-like calculations, look no further than FileMaker Pro. I am sure it was made after 1990-1. I used it for sicktime sheets, aquisitions database, ADT security database and even as a webserver cause it has it built in! Mind you i think that it only comes in Mac and PC format. Check out http://www.filemaker.com for more info Good Luck! Ashley Fulks Network Adminisrator Simply Boss Security
I think you are dreaming a little too much in Apple heaven. Like Bill or his followers would decide to port to a main threat. Just cause they broke up doesn't mean they are stupid or sloppy. Bill and his lackies will not threaten their marketplace like that. Nekros