The funny part is that Camp Williams is located in the foothills of a small mountain range, which are conveniently near the last "Hillbilly" towns in the Salt Lake Valley. But not to fear, as soon as the housing market comes back, they'll be consumed by the great stucco sprawl-monster.
Agreed. Get a desk that can raise the keyboard shelf and ditch your chair. Get a wireless headset and wander the building when on conference calls (maybe stay within eyesight of your monitor to watch running pings). Take the stairs. If you're not already, take the bus/train and walk/bike to and from stops. Get a full 8 hours sleep, eat breakfast and take your lunch. Keep a pedometer with you and keep trying to beat yesterday's record. No more soda. Not even Diet.
And speaking from experience, be glad you're not one of the on-calls. Sleeping during the day is a hell of a lot better than not sleeping at all.
I think that's the best part. Everybody running A/V, Firewall, Access Control, Blacklists, Whitelists and everything in between? You are? And you still get viruses? Someday it's going to come out that all this "security" is snake oil. Use a firewall, educate your users, and update your systems. Let your CPU cycles get something useful done.
I agree, updates when your bill doubles last months total would be nice, but the real problem would be with cust. service reps who say one thing when it's actually another. Some might see an all too convenient oversight that benefits giant megacorp, I just see a bored 20 something single mother working the callcenter grind who couldn't define the word kilobyte with a gun to her head. She just reads the stuff shes supposed to read, and what does it matter when she says kilobit or kilobyte? Same thing right? One's just the british spelling...
Now if AT&T invested in it's employees and ensured they were trained, this kind of stuff wouldn't happen so much. But since outsourcing is the answer to everything (except management of course) it'll always be a battle of carrier said, outsourced call center said, customer said.
And of course they should stop with the per-anything billing. Limit the data speed enough so I can still browse, but torrenting an.iso is out of the question. Charge a flat rate, and don't nickel and dime.
Looks good, but my min complaint against flash is still present. Absurd CPU usage. Maybe offload some work to open GL and the 3d accelerator and it'll be more attractive.
Geez, you'd think the PM could get a better deal than $200/mo. for satellite... Not saying he should get special privileges, but dammit man, shop around!
If someone threw billions of ad dollars at it and sold it as the "real OS for real people" or some such nonsense, it would be. Capitalism has beaten the "you get what you pay for" mantra into too many heads. Unfortunately it'll never turn into "you get what was advertised" and as along as MS projects the image of the "only choice for grown ups who want to collaborate and get stuff done" it'll dominate and companies will continue the same path on the upgrade treadmill. Of course they'll have to lay off 20% of their IT staff to raise the cash for the next upgrade; but hey, thats why outsourcing and offshoring were invented, right?
The short call times issue is really about money. The company you actually worked for had a contract with gateway/emachines that specified a certain $ amount per minute. Call times outside a limit (most likely 7-11 minutes in your case) the $/min. rate drops dramatically and the call center actually starts losing money on the call. The client (gateway) cares about problem resolution, the call center cares about answering the most calls. The lower limit makes it harder for the call center to fudge the numbers by giving "reboot and call back in 24hrs" answers. And the upper limit ensures the most calls answered.
Call centers care about answering calls, not fixing problems. It's very sad that I see even internal help desks follow the call center mantra, all the while preaching to high heaven about ITIL and the like. I definitely identify with the submitter. Of course I take it further by speculating that the real reason for the focus on nonsense metrics is to have a case for outsourcing. But I'm paranoid like that...
While the world is a wonderful thing; I can't help but wonder where did all of the douchebags come from. Every liar, cheat, grifter is taking their shot at fucking up the sandbox we all play in.
I recently bought a new ps2 almost solely to play dvd's (and to avoid starting my FFXII game over). Sure my ps3 is backwards compatible and does play dvd's, but even with upscaling and all that turned off, I get to listen to wwhhhiiiiirrRRRRRR!!!! during 480p playback. And the ps2 works with my universal remote. It's going to be interesting when the ps3 dies, not too sure I'll be replacing it unless there's a redesign that cools effectively and doesn't require me to "pair" a bluetooth device using a usb cable.
Weird, that's the exact opposite of my experience. Ubuntu has been the only distro I have used that actually did updates and upgrades with zero breakage. It's what makes me stick with it, everything just works. But as always, YMMV...
Don't forget the coffee can exhaust for the cpu fan. And some cheap plastic skirting around the bezel that looks like it'll fall off at the first sneeze.
Not only in terms of knowledge, but in terms of company practices, market practices (many) and so on. Think of it as continued education. You went to junior, high school, college and now you are getting educated on the corporate environment.
All you really need to know about the corporate environment is this:
Cover Your Ass, and be prepared to endure the most mind numbing, idiotic bullshit spewing from others who are only doing the same. Remember, the object isn't to make any kind of actual progress, just make it look like you are. And don't question anything. ANYTHING. Doing so marks you as "unwilling to accept change". And Change for Change's sake is Law. If you're not in line with Change, you're failing. Just keep your mouth shut and go along with whatever you're told. You don't want to be out of a job "In this economy"...
Although to be fair, a lot of those athletes actually went to college. I'm fully in favor of the NBA and the NFL requiring 4 years and some sort of degree from all players. And if we want inspiration for academic achievement, lets have a few players sign up for summer semesters at their local community college. Imagine, some youngster could come home and tell his parents that he "Schooled LeBron" (in a spelling bee) that day.
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The funny part is that Camp Williams is located in the foothills of a small mountain range, which are conveniently near the last "Hillbilly" towns in the Salt Lake Valley. But not to fear, as soon as the housing market comes back, they'll be consumed by the great stucco sprawl-monster.
Agreed. Get a desk that can raise the keyboard shelf and ditch your chair. Get a wireless headset and wander the building when on conference calls (maybe stay within eyesight of your monitor to watch running pings). Take the stairs. If you're not already, take the bus/train and walk/bike to and from stops. Get a full 8 hours sleep, eat breakfast and take your lunch. Keep a pedometer with you and keep trying to beat yesterday's record. No more soda. Not even Diet.
And speaking from experience, be glad you're not one of the on-calls. Sleeping during the day is a hell of a lot better than not sleeping at all.
I think that's the best part. Everybody running A/V, Firewall, Access Control, Blacklists, Whitelists and everything in between? You are? And you still get viruses? Someday it's going to come out that all this "security" is snake oil. Use a firewall, educate your users, and update your systems. Let your CPU cycles get something useful done.
Thanks, I now have a vision of a construction-paper Ballmer running about Redmond wielding a chainsaw wildly stuck in my head.
I agree, updates when your bill doubles last months total would be nice, but the real problem would be with cust. service reps who say one thing when it's actually another. Some might see an all too convenient oversight that benefits giant megacorp, I just see a bored 20 something single mother working the callcenter grind who couldn't define the word kilobyte with a gun to her head. She just reads the stuff shes supposed to read, and what does it matter when she says kilobit or kilobyte? Same thing right? One's just the british spelling...
.iso is out of the question. Charge a flat rate, and don't nickel and dime.
Now if AT&T invested in it's employees and ensured they were trained, this kind of stuff wouldn't happen so much. But since outsourcing is the answer to everything (except management of course) it'll always be a battle of carrier said, outsourced call center said, customer said.
And of course they should stop with the per-anything billing. Limit the data speed enough so I can still browse, but torrenting an
Looks good, but my min complaint against flash is still present. Absurd CPU usage. Maybe offload some work to open GL and the 3d accelerator and it'll be more attractive.
And of course they have them connected to their HDTV's with composite or s-video cables and are watching in 480i, stretched to fit...
Geez, you'd think the PM could get a better deal than $200/mo. for satellite... Not saying he should get special privileges, but dammit man, shop around!
If someone threw billions of ad dollars at it and sold it as the "real OS for real people" or some such nonsense, it would be. Capitalism has beaten the "you get what you pay for" mantra into too many heads. Unfortunately it'll never turn into "you get what was advertised" and as along as MS projects the image of the "only choice for grown ups who want to collaborate and get stuff done" it'll dominate and companies will continue the same path on the upgrade treadmill. Of course they'll have to lay off 20% of their IT staff to raise the cash for the next upgrade; but hey, thats why outsourcing and offshoring were invented, right?
The short call times issue is really about money. The company you actually worked for had a contract with gateway/emachines that specified a certain $ amount per minute. Call times outside a limit (most likely 7-11 minutes in your case) the $/min. rate drops dramatically and the call center actually starts losing money on the call. The client (gateway) cares about problem resolution, the call center cares about answering the most calls. The lower limit makes it harder for the call center to fudge the numbers by giving "reboot and call back in 24hrs" answers. And the upper limit ensures the most calls answered.
Call centers care about answering calls, not fixing problems. It's very sad that I see even internal help desks follow the call center mantra, all the while preaching to high heaven about ITIL and the like. I definitely identify with the submitter. Of course I take it further by speculating that the real reason for the focus on nonsense metrics is to have a case for outsourcing. But I'm paranoid like that...
While the world is a wonderful thing; I can't help but wonder where did all of the douchebags come from. Every liar, cheat, grifter is taking their shot at fucking up the sandbox we all play in.
Fixed that for you.
Great three toed sloth of the ice planet Hoth!
If enough people buy these, a massive Smug cloud mean the end of the world (of WarCraft)...
The magical-ness of the device points more towards Torchwood...
I recently bought a new ps2 almost solely to play dvd's (and to avoid starting my FFXII game over). Sure my ps3 is backwards compatible and does play dvd's, but even with upscaling and all that turned off, I get to listen to wwhhhiiiiirrRRRRRR!!!! during 480p playback. And the ps2 works with my universal remote. It's going to be interesting when the ps3 dies, not too sure I'll be replacing it unless there's a redesign that cools effectively and doesn't require me to "pair" a bluetooth device using a usb cable.
"Well we gotta clean something out..."
There's a city in the desert and several Native American establishments that would beg to differ.
Or you can use Gnash, which works fine with youtube.
Also, why not send a check directly to the artists? Include a note explaining why you've cut out the middle man, and ask why they haven't yet.
Weird, that's the exact opposite of my experience. Ubuntu has been the only distro I have used that actually did updates and upgrades with zero breakage. It's what makes me stick with it, everything just works. But as always, YMMV...
Don't forget the coffee can exhaust for the cpu fan. And some cheap plastic skirting around the bezel that looks like it'll fall off at the first sneeze.
All you really need to know about the corporate environment is this:
Cover Your Ass, and be prepared to endure the most mind numbing, idiotic bullshit spewing from others who are only doing the same. Remember, the object isn't to make any kind of actual progress, just make it look like you are. And don't question anything. ANYTHING. Doing so marks you as "unwilling to accept change". And Change for Change's sake is Law. If you're not in line with Change, you're failing. Just keep your mouth shut and go along with whatever you're told. You don't want to be out of a job "In this economy"...
Although to be fair, a lot of those athletes actually went to college. I'm fully in favor of the NBA and the NFL requiring 4 years and some sort of degree from all players. And if we want inspiration for academic achievement, lets have a few players sign up for summer semesters at their local community college. Imagine, some youngster could come home and tell his parents that he "Schooled LeBron" (in a spelling bee) that day.
So basically, Star Trek's post-it went to Mason, and he fucked up as usual.
And nobody uses macs for photo editing, video production or animation rendering...