Because I had dealt with him before and if you attempted any sort of conversation with him and he wasn't interested in talking with you he would just ignore you.
Except his name was Robert, and he was best bud's with the company owner as they had gone to school together.
One experience I had with him was that Robert (working remotely) broke the system one day which affected my work and when I mentioned this to the owner, rather than him speaking to Robert, the owner went and quietly fixed the issue himself.
It was things like that that pissed me off and eventually led to me quitting.
This is a letter in the Richmond Times Dispatch today giving a Circuit City workers perspective on the closure and the almost lynch mob attitude of people after bargains once the closure was announced. (Richmond is/was the headquarters of the company). The letter starts off as
"I am writing this message in representation of the employees of Circuit City here in Richmond who are having to deal with inexcusable conditions being brought on by customers with retribution. Walk into any Circuit City store on any given day and you will find a handful of employees and a sea of customers. The fact that people have flocked to our stores en masse on a daily basis, creating Black-Friday style crowds, has been insulting to our employees and our business alike.
Where was this support when we needed it? Liquidation, for us, has brought great havoc on a series of levels. I've been working for the company for almost two years, and I have never seen anything worse than I have seen over the past month. Customers have gotten enraged over the fact that our discounts aren't good enough for them."
While I only shopped there if I wanted something *now*, I did go in once the closures were announced and you could see people loading up on stuff just because it was some % off. I never saw anything that I couldn't get a similar deal online at the time (and also came with warranty) so I couldn't understand the why people descended on the store en masse. The only explanation I can think of is a feeding frenzy brought on by greed. So from that perspective I can understand where the letters author was coming from
I know it was the '90s, I was just trying for the double joke of it being an advanced concept/vapourware for the '80s. Won't try that one again.
But the argument against javascript is one that is countered by your own comment: "the fact that people really didn't know how to design for this new medium".
Javascript is a tool just like another on the Internet. It can be used for good or evil depending on who writes the program. And as you mentioned, retreating from javascript means going back to a purely (dumb) client / (smart) server technology with every state change within the same page ina browser meaning a round trip to the server and back again.
Sir,
I have the '80s on hold on the phone at the moment. They want to know if you want to by some stuff called.. umm.. hang on.. yes here it is.. "static HTML pages"..
So the thought of cinemas going 3d does not really fill me with the warm and fuzzies.
But if they do all go 3d, maybe I can sue under some sort of disabilities act and get a gazillion dollars !!?!?!?! (or one free hotdog from the concession stand - its all about the same)
I think that authorities are looking in the wrong direction with putting a jamming system as there will always be collateral damage of legitimate phones being blocked.
I think it would be better to circle a prison with micro-cells and intercept all cell phone transmissions, and only allow through nominated numbers. This could also have the effect of being able to triangulate the position of illegitimate phones when they are used.
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Plot convenience??
The whole Brain Pal thing was a huge plot convenience. I'd love to know what sort of transmission medium he envisaged for the damn things. All that transmitting about of high bandwidth data should have attracted a lot of enemy attention.
But don't think I am dissing the story line. I absolutely loved Old Mans War and The Ghost Brigades. But to me a lot of The Lost Colony seemed to be more setup for the ending.
On another note the first two books had some similarities with the military aspects of David Weber's In Fury Born (although with his own twist)
When will this thing finally die? Every man and his dog acknowledges that it is a steaming pile of political rhetoric, yet it still goes on and on and on.
From the article I linked to:
Australia's largest ISP, Telstra, and Internode have said they will not participate in the trials. The second largest ISP, Optus, will run only a scaled- back trial of just the first tier while iiNet, the third biggest provider, has said it will participate simply to show the Government that its scheme will not work.
"Holly Doel-Mackaway, adviser with Save the Children, the largest independent children's rights agency in the world, said educating kids and parents was the way to empower young people to be safe internet users.
She said the filter scheme was "fundamentally flawed" because it failed to tackle the problem at the source and would inadvertently block legitimate resources."
In Business/Industry, if it does the job, then why change it? Especially when changing it will cost money. Thats why I still see windows 98 based machines running VB6 Apps.
So once your list of bugs has dropped below a tolerable level there is no need to go looking for support.
However businesses (who have the money to pay for support) like to have stable software, and are less likely to be continually upgrading just for the sake of it. If they can get away with it they are more likely to avoid paying money if they can route around a problem.
In industry I have seen lots of machines who are not connected to the internet and have not been updated for a very long time. As long as they do their job then there is no need to update them.
And every bug fixed means one less support call in the future.
So in the process of supplying a support service to your customers you are actually doing yourself out of business.
I have always wondered where we got our 5-fold symmetry from. Our core body sprouts 5 elements (head, 2 arms and 2 legs), and the arms and legs at least sprout 5 fingers and toes.
Read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Almost everything applies to persons, not citizens
In general I agree with what you are saying, but try explaining that to some people at the holiday camp down in Cuba. Now that is probably the most extreme possible example, but to me it does counter your argument.
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Robert was a one of the smartest people I knew in terms of programming. But it was all about him
Because I had dealt with him before and if you attempted any sort of conversation with him and he wasn't interested in talking with you he would just ignore you.
One experience I had with him was that Robert (working remotely) broke the system one day which affected my work and when I mentioned this to the owner, rather than him speaking to Robert, the owner went and quietly fixed the issue himself.
It was things like that that pissed me off and eventually led to me quitting.
Since when does having a FB account of a given name prove that that individual owns that account?
"I am writing this message in representation of the employees of Circuit City here in Richmond who are having to deal with inexcusable conditions being brought on by customers with retribution. Walk into any Circuit City store on any given day and you will find a handful of employees and a sea of customers. The fact that people have flocked to our stores en masse on a daily basis, creating Black-Friday style crowds, has been insulting to our employees and our business alike.
Where was this support when we needed it? Liquidation, for us, has brought great havoc on a series of levels. I've been working for the company for almost two years, and I have never seen anything worse than I have seen over the past month. Customers have gotten enraged over the fact that our discounts aren't good enough for them."
While I only shopped there if I wanted something *now*, I did go in once the closures were announced and you could see people loading up on stuff just because it was some % off. I never saw anything that I couldn't get a similar deal online at the time (and also came with warranty) so I couldn't understand the why people descended on the store en masse. The only explanation I can think of is a feeding frenzy brought on by greed. So from that perspective I can understand where the letters author was coming from
But the argument against javascript is one that is countered by your own comment: "the fact that people really didn't know how to design for this new medium".
Javascript is a tool just like another on the Internet. It can be used for good or evil depending on who writes the program. And as you mentioned, retreating from javascript means going back to a purely (dumb) client / (smart) server technology with every state change within the same page ina browser meaning a round trip to the server and back again.
Sir, I have the '80s on hold on the phone at the moment. They want to know if you want to by some stuff called .. umm .. hang on .. yes here it is .. "static HTML pages" ..
All I can say is "whooosh"
But if they do all go 3d, maybe I can sue under some sort of disabilities act and get a gazillion dollars !!?!?!?! (or one free hotdog from the concession stand - its all about the same)
I think it would be better to circle a prison with micro-cells and intercept all cell phone transmissions, and only allow through nominated numbers. This could also have the effect of being able to triangulate the position of illegitimate phones when they are used.
The whole Brain Pal thing was a huge plot convenience. I'd love to know what sort of transmission medium he envisaged for the damn things. All that transmitting about of high bandwidth data should have attracted a lot of enemy attention.
But don't think I am dissing the story line. I absolutely loved Old Mans War and The Ghost Brigades. But to me a lot of The Lost Colony seemed to be more setup for the ending.
On another note the first two books had some similarities with the military aspects of David Weber's In Fury Born (although with his own twist)
When will this thing finally die? Every man and his dog acknowledges that it is a steaming pile of political rhetoric, yet it still goes on and on and on.
From the article I linked to:
Australia's largest ISP, Telstra, and Internode have said they will not participate in the trials. The second largest ISP, Optus, will run only a scaled- back trial of just the first tier while iiNet, the third biggest provider, has said it will participate simply to show the Government that its scheme will not work.
So what does that mean to costs like .. umm .. I don't know ... "salary"???
And they had to have a competition to get someone else to write for them ;-)
*ducks
"Holly Doel-Mackaway, adviser with Save the Children, the largest independent children's rights agency in the world, said educating kids and parents was the way to empower young people to be safe internet users.
She said the filter scheme was "fundamentally flawed" because it failed to tackle the problem at the source and would inadvertently block legitimate resources."
So once your list of bugs has dropped below a tolerable level there is no need to go looking for support.
In industry I have seen lots of machines who are not connected to the internet and have not been updated for a very long time. As long as they do their job then there is no need to update them.
And every bug fixed means one less support call in the future. So in the process of supplying a support service to your customers you are actually doing yourself out of business.
Gigapixels is that???
I have always wondered where we got our 5-fold symmetry from. Our core body sprouts 5 elements (head, 2 arms and 2 legs), and the arms and legs at least sprout 5 fingers and toes.
The passing of our 8 legged, sea dwelling, Gondwanalandish ancestral overlords
Makes you wonder who edits this stuff. Oops .. I forgot .. this is /.
But the NINJAs didn't fuck the world .. the people running the financial markets did
And why is /. talking about finances??
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Read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Almost everything applies to persons, not citizens
In general I agree with what you are saying, but try explaining that to some people at the holiday camp down in Cuba. Now that is probably the most extreme possible example, but to me it does counter your argument.