I've been a Yahoo customer for 5 years, and if they start charging for their service, fuck them, I'm gone. I'll start using the accounts pacbell gives me with my DSL service.
Well, my friends dad *supposidly* had a T1 line going into his apartment and was running spam operations from that. I told my friend that's bullshit, Ma bell don't run T1's to anything but businesses, i've ordered enough of them to know.
I was buying the whole thing til ya stated the above....So what you are saying is that I can't order a T1 even if I have the money? Bullshit.
This is new? Hell my old company was very restrictive in the net use. Absolutely nothing non-work related. Since we were a healthcare software shop we could only visit HCFA and federal sites realted to HCFA. I once was told taht I was in major trouble for visiting cnn.com during lunch.
Well, they've got a policy that says that their software goes open source when they go out of business, so they obviously do care that their customers don't get screwed... And I don't understand why you've put the word "customers" in single quotes.
The *point* is that if you've implemented a policy like this that there needs to be a provision for if you go out of business... And apparently there is.
Well I am sure Arthur Anderson had a policy to not cheat and lie but we know how well that went. I placed customers in quotes because once you get to the point of going under....you really don't have customers but creditors.
I would expect Ambrosia to put out a fix for this when they went under. It would be the right thing to do... If they truly valued the customers that kept them going for all those years. The point is that by doing this they hopefully won't go out of business.
You've got to be kidding? They're going out of business. Bills are not getting paid and they have a shit load of other problems to deal with and then you want them to have someone sit down and make sure the 'customers' don't get screwed?
That's not a problem with designing the code modularly, that's a problem (and a major one) with the company. Besides, with CVS and other similar systems, it isn't even really possible to take out a lock on a file. If your company was too stupid or too lazy to make branches and tags of the code and to learn how to do merges, then any other problems are completely secondary. You will find they all but go away when you learn how to manage the code properly and communicate between departments.
Yes, I agree with this one: the best solution is to design your project so that you don't need to have two people working on the same piece of code at once (and if my some chance you do, then one should wait for the other to finish before starting).
You have GOT to be kidding??? My last job was one that had me and 4 others on the 'bug fixes' team. Any issue taht camefrom the field was handled by us. The other team was the new development team. Now you'd think that new dev and existing dev were two different environments but not with us. We had to go to the object guy and have him manually check us out a kbase. He then 'locked' it so he wouldn't check it out to anyone else. If you wanted code that was locked. Too bad. Sure we could fix it locally and we did many a time but to get into the mainstream was impossible unless you gave those changes to the locker and hoped he used them or you waited til it was unlocked.
Being we were the 'on call' team having something locked was near death as your numbers went up and up and no one cared that you had nothing to do with it.
Ye gods, don't give them any ideas! Next thing you know they will want an ISP tax!
Pennsylvania used to have a sales tax on Internet Service. Or to be exact they applied the sales tax to the service. 6%. It sucked. Then Republians were elected and it was eliminated.
Note to Newbie Slashdot submitters witha bandwidth cap. Submit a story near the end of the month. Now he has to wait 2 weeks to allow someone to see his site.
Having these two channels has successfully preserved me from signing up for HBO, Showtime, or any other channel that forcefeeds you nightly showings of Bruce Willis end-of-the-world movies.
Argh my system includes Sundance as a Showtime Movie package member!!!
Well, I could be wrong, but a co-worker at a previous job told me that the tax break for R&D was eliminated back in the early seventies. He had both an MSEE and MBA, so I tend to believe him.
Well he was wrong. Back in 99 we were asked to lis any and all R&D stuff we did so we could send it down to corp. to add it into the 'break'
So, you don't believe in charitable causes. You must really hate Habitat for Humanity. I mean, my God, they build people houses FOR FREE. This is sooooo wrong.
Actually the people who get the house put sweat equity into building it and after it is done they do have a mortgage to pay.
Sheesh, they may be suckers...
but...I DO feel bad that they got taken to the cleaners.
Are you really that heartless?
Well if he had been duped out of 10k and the comment was made sure we'd be heartless, but we're talking about an awful lot of money and an awful lot of trust. Think about it. If Loki pulled out of the tailspin, they'd have to had sold a lot of games to make up that difference.
Grumble, grumble - To Michael Sims: I know it's an interesting article, and it's not censorship that all my recent anticensorware reports [sethf.com], as well as Jonathan Wallace's research [spectacle.org] have been rejected, maybe because of What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org) [sethf.com]
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Well as I post his you're comment was rated a '1'.
And lay off Tom Ridge, he's gonna be our next President.
or....you could just get a Finnish girlfriend
Getting ready to write my letter and fax AND snail mail it off.
Uhhhh.....customers pay....
I was buying the whole thing til ya stated the above....So what you are saying is that I can't order a T1 even if I have the money? Bullshit.
Yep.....* 2001-03-15 03:31:37 Control of the Linux kernel (askslashdot,linux) (rejected)
Basically I asked what happens if Linux dies....
nope
This is new? Hell my old company was very restrictive in the net use. Absolutely nothing non-work related. Since we were a healthcare software shop we could only visit HCFA and federal sites realted to HCFA. I once was told taht I was in major trouble for visiting cnn.com during lunch.
Well I am sure Arthur Anderson had a policy to not cheat and lie but we know how well that went. I placed customers in quotes because once you get to the point of going under....you really don't have customers but creditors.
You've got to be kidding? They're going out of business. Bills are not getting paid and they have a shit load of other problems to deal with and then you want them to have someone sit down and make sure the 'customers' don't get screwed?
Preaching to the choir there dude....
You have GOT to be kidding??? My last job was one that had me and 4 others on the 'bug fixes' team. Any issue taht camefrom the field was handled by us. The other team was the new development team. Now you'd think that new dev and existing dev were two different environments but not with us. We had to go to the object guy and have him manually check us out a kbase. He then 'locked' it so he wouldn't check it out to anyone else. If you wanted code that was locked. Too bad. Sure we could fix it locally and we did many a time but to get into the mainstream was impossible unless you gave those changes to the locker and hoped he used them or you waited til it was unlocked.
Being we were the 'on call' team having something locked was near death as your numbers went up and up and no one cared that you had nothing to do with it.
Pennsylvania used to have a sales tax on Internet Service. Or to be exact they applied the sales tax to the service. 6%. It sucked. Then Republians were elected and it was eliminated.
Note to Newbie Slashdot submitters witha bandwidth cap. Submit a story near the end of the month. Now he has to wait 2 weeks to allow someone to see his site.
Argh my system includes Sundance as a Showtime Movie package member!!!
Damn...my system IFC is shared with Bravo and Sundance is a Showtime Movie Package
Well he was wrong. Back in 99 we were asked to lis any and all R&D stuff we did so we could send it down to corp. to add it into the 'break'
Actually the people who get the house put sweat equity into building it and after it is done they do have a mortgage to pay.
Well if he had been duped out of 10k and the comment was made sure we'd be heartless, but we're talking about an awful lot of money and an awful lot of trust. Think about it. If Loki pulled out of the tailspin, they'd have to had sold a lot of games to make up that difference.
Okay but you gotta guard carrotTop and Mr. T as well...
So what did happen to the Censorware project?????
Are we for or against Sony this week?
okay....I just finished. And damn is it fast.
well who's providing the connection then?????