Yeah, but that's so suggestive it's not even funny. Stuff I think is just bottom of the barrel basics probably aren't going to be for a non-tech. Granted, not knowing where the start button..there's no excuse for that.
The thing that gets me are the people that take NO iniative when it comes to computing. They somehow have convinced themselves anything they do will destroy the machine.
Always remember the immortal rule of tech support: You couldn't do their job, don't expect them to do yours.
I remember when I was working as a summer intern doing desktop support for a rather large construction & engineering company. I was tagging along with a full-timer, and we walked into a rather large office where the guy I was with remarked "Heh-heh, you're gonna love this guy..stupid fool needed help defragging his HD".
Then I noticed on the wall he had a PHD in physics. Kind of humbled me right there and I realized he could probably learn my job in a month, where as I probably couldn't do his in a million years.
Everquest has got that shit down to a science. It took them 3-4 years, but they've done. Here's how:
*Get 30 bullet-proof servers to run the games on. *Make leveling such a baffling hard ordeal that it will take even the most dedicated player(barring PLing) years to get to the max level. *Release expansions that take uber guilds a year to beat.
In other words, you make the end game so difficult to reach that that portion of content will always be just beyond your grasp. With that, people will pay and play forever.
Sony has LONG since tackled the issue of harrasing customer phone calls with their customer service program, "Operation: Go Fuck Yourself". Sony believed that if you truly just stopped giving a shit, eventually your customers would pick up on this and quit asking for help. It's a beautiful, horrifying behemoth of a program that paid off big time in their favor. Grats to them.
I think it would be pretty damn funny to do that at work. Co-worker comes into the bathroom, hears "LABEN! BLAM BLAM BLAM" from inside a stall, turns around and leaves.
You're SO uber 1337 that I'm actually scared right now. I mean, my god, slamming windows on/. that shit was just straight out of left field. I bet you've got an AWESOME name on IIRC don't you!? Like Zero Cool or something. I mean, all my friends use linux but they're not cool like you. For them it's just a method of running applications and games, for you it's a political soapbox. Onward techie soldier! You are truly the hero of this millenium.
Fucking beautiful. Honestly. I've been humbled. I pride myself on being the king of analogies but that was some hands down awesome shit. You're absolutely right.
I'm not being sarcastic/patronizing either. Really awesome shit.
But this is different. It's a given/. is going to/.-effect all but the most well-supported pages. Change my example to read "You bomb a mall at 5PM on xmas eve..the bomb levels 3 city blocks"
Can you really claim that you lacked malicious intent when you KNEW full well that people would die?/. knows full well when they're linking to a site will bring it down..and they still do it..that's malicious enough for me.
Like I mentioned above, malicousness wouldn't play a roll. Doing something deliberatley that you know FULL WELL will probably fuck something up is just as bad. I can't toss hand grenades out of skyscraper and claim "well I wasn't actually trying to hit anyone" when someone goes boom 30 stories down.
Um..not true. If I stand on my roof and spray an ak-47 around my head a few times, and shoot a kid 3 blocks down, I'm going to prison, even though I had no malicious intent to shoot said kid. Same thing with the/. effect.
Of course I'm referring to people using their 1.5 cable modems. Let's try to stay in perspective here and not include the users that need oc12..which is NO ONE. No one company/institution on this planet could justify a dedicated oc12.
I'm with Cox, and while I've heard they have a 6gb down limit, I question whether not it's enforced. I pulled half-a-dozen ISO's in a single weekend once, like 12-15gb, and I never heard a peep from them about it.
I've always wondered about that. If you had your business on the net, and/. linked to it, causing it to go down, would/. be liabel? Assume the following before replying:
*/. did NOT warn the page *The page in question NEVER receives the amount of traffic necessary to bring it down. *Let's assume it happened on a Saturday, when they had minimal support *The company can PROVE they lost revenue./. can't really play dumb, they HAVE TO know the/. effect is going to be too much for a page. It can almost be called a DoS attack at this point.
Slashdot Mirror
This wouldn't work. The majority of /. readers, myself included, upon running would either have a heart attack, puke, or just get bored and go home.
sit at home twiddling your knob all day bored out of your skull
Maybe you're doing it wrong, because personally I'm NEVER bored twiddling my knob.
No, Tellme about it.
The punishment for "Real Genius" remarks under topics about lasers is, always has been, and always will be a slow painful death.
You can't moderate a post in a thread in which you've made a comment, jackass. RTFM.
That's why I play. Took Fennin down last night, actually. Got my first Kerasyn bracer..FT4 on that bitch, NON-LORE.
Yeah, but that's so suggestive it's not even funny. Stuff I think is just bottom of the barrel basics probably aren't going to be for a non-tech. Granted, not knowing where the start button..there's no excuse for that.
The thing that gets me are the people that take NO iniative when it comes to computing. They somehow have convinced themselves anything they do will destroy the machine.
Always remember the immortal rule of tech support: You couldn't do their job, don't expect them to do yours.
I remember when I was working as a summer intern doing desktop support for a rather large construction & engineering company. I was tagging along with a full-timer, and we walked into a rather large office where the guy I was with remarked "Heh-heh, you're gonna love this guy..stupid fool needed help defragging his HD".
Then I noticed on the wall he had a PHD in physics. Kind of humbled me right there and I realized he could probably learn my job in a month, where as I probably couldn't do his in a million years.
SHIT!! I still walk down to the river to get my wash on.
I'm just happy no one parachuted on to the page while I was reading it.
Everquest has got that shit down to a science. It took them 3-4 years, but they've done. Here's how:
*Get 30 bullet-proof servers to run the games on.
*Make leveling such a baffling hard ordeal that it will take even the most dedicated player(barring PLing) years to get to the max level.
*Release expansions that take uber guilds a year to beat.
In other words, you make the end game so difficult to reach that that portion of content will always be just beyond your grasp. With that, people will pay and play forever.
I REALLY hope that was a threat of violence, because I'm starting to think that maybe you're into the rear-entry kinky shit.
Sony has LONG since tackled the issue of harrasing customer phone calls with their customer service program, "Operation: Go Fuck Yourself". Sony believed that if you truly just stopped giving a shit, eventually your customers would pick up on this and quit asking for help. It's a beautiful, horrifying behemoth of a program that paid off big time in their favor. Grats to them.
That's all you got? A typo correction? That was easy. The guys in your family apparently go down as easily as the women.
I think it would be pretty damn funny to do that at work. Co-worker comes into the bathroom, hears "LABEN! BLAM BLAM BLAM" from inside a stall, turns around and leaves.
You're SO uber 1337 that I'm actually scared right now. I mean, my god, slamming windows on /. that shit was just straight out of left field. I bet you've got an AWESOME name on IIRC don't you!? Like Zero Cool or something. I mean, all my friends use linux but they're not cool like you. For them it's just a method of running applications and games, for you it's a political soapbox. Onward techie soldier! You are truly the hero of this millenium.
Goosebumps..honestly man..goosebumps.
On the "Itchy & Scratchy" CD-ROM, is there a way to get out of the dungeon without using the wizard key?
Fucking beautiful. Honestly. I've been humbled. I pride myself on being the king of analogies but that was some hands down awesome shit. You're absolutely right.
I'm not being sarcastic/patronizing either. Really awesome shit.
But this is different. It's a given /. is going to /.-effect all but the most well-supported pages. Change my example to read "You bomb a mall at 5PM on xmas eve..the bomb levels 3 city blocks"
/. knows full well when they're linking to a site will bring it down..and they still do it..that's malicious enough for me.
Can you really claim that you lacked malicious intent when you KNEW full well that people would die?
Like I mentioned above, malicousness wouldn't play a roll. Doing something deliberatley that you know FULL WELL will probably fuck something up is just as bad. I can't toss hand grenades out of skyscraper and claim "well I wasn't actually trying to hit anyone" when someone goes boom 30 stories down.
Um..not true. If I stand on my roof and spray an ak-47 around my head a few times, and shoot a kid 3 blocks down, I'm going to prison, even though I had no malicious intent to shoot said kid. Same thing with the /. effect.
Of course I'm referring to people using their 1.5 cable modems. Let's try to stay in perspective here and not include the users that need oc12..which is NO ONE. No one company/institution on this planet could justify a dedicated oc12.
This isn't gasoline. There's only so much gasoline on the planet. This is bandwith. It's intangible. It can't run out.
Pay-per-use ISP's are for Grandma's that exchange recipes through email.
I'm with Cox, and while I've heard they have a 6gb down limit, I question whether not it's enforced. I pulled half-a-dozen ISO's in a single weekend once, like 12-15gb, and I never heard a peep from them about it.
I've always wondered about that. If you had your business on the net, and /. linked to it, causing it to go down, would /. be liabel? Assume the following before replying:
/. can't really play dumb, they HAVE TO know the /. effect is going to be too much for a page. It can almost be called a DoS attack at this point.
*/. did NOT warn the page
*The page in question NEVER receives the amount of traffic necessary to bring it down.
*Let's assume it happened on a Saturday, when they had minimal support
*The company can PROVE they lost revenue.