It's been said before, but the realm isn't producing anything.
Systems administrators are managers. They are purely overhead. Your boss is the same thing. This is what people managers don't understand. So we manage computer and systems the same as they manage people. Well not the same, because our systems aren't deciding to surf youtube instead of working. The point is, your boss needs to change his thinking. We manage resources. Even if there has to be something quantizable, it could be uptime. Uptime starting at 100% and working backwards. Mostly there is really nothing to produce. We are managers. We are overhead. This is why so many people managers have a hard time with us. They can't grasp the concept of managing a manager who doesn't produce results.
Actually the results are in an inverse vacuum. The results are good if nothing happens. The results are always negative if there are events. People managers can't understand this. Downtime is when the team is necessary to management. Monitoring of the system doesn't sound like work to a people manager. If nothing happens, they don't need you. Not realizing that everything works because of you not in spite of you.
These fucking greedy bastards. All users of Cowpie internet should drop them. I pay for internet access. I pay to transmit packets and receive packets. Their demands that I pay ransom to insure that all my packets don't end up missing or delayed is just plain illegal. That's like the phone company charging you more for calls you place to businesses.
The simple proof that this is extortion?
They have to implement the system which discriminates against packets. It's not built-in.
These mafia-like companies know they're not losing any money. Their networks have fixed costs. 1. the cost of the equipment 2. the cost of the cabling 3. the cost of electricity to run it. 4. the cost of humans to monitor and repair it. Those costs are fixed. The money they bring in from subscription fees covers this.
pay us this money or your itunes packets could end up sleeping with the fishes, capisce?
SciVee's creators hope that that the appeal of a video or audio explanation of paper will make it easier for others to more quickly grasp the concepts of a paper and make it more digestible both to colleagues and to the general public." Or, people might just stop reading papers because they're a total bore!
I have comcast. My connection lately has been passing the speakeasy speed test at 20Mbit down, 2Mbit up.
I use bit torrent to get game demos and betas, Linux distros, and to share music that I have composed and hold copyrights for.
I can seed just fine. You have to find that sweet spot. (the point at which your upstream starts to impact your downstream). for me, it's about 80KBps.
That being said, I am forced to use peer guardian 2 and alternative ports to see to it that my traffic gets to its intended location.
Comcast has noticed that bit torrent defeats its "Power Boost" technology which bursts full bandwidth for the first 20 or so MB.
With Bit Torrent, it's all the first 20 or so MB. so everyone that can seed that fast is allowed to.
Bit Torrent is a legitimate technology. I has legal uses. I use it legally. Comcast wants to throttle it because they're losing money on it.
It's also a damnation to the duller crayons in the box.
I qualify as gifted with an IQ above 140. I graduated high school with a 1.7 GPA.
WHY? I was forced to work at the extra slow pace of my classmates and teachers. I was told I wasn't gifted because I wouldn't do my homework.
I was told I wasn't gifted because I had problems getting along with my classmates. And of course, I was told I wasn't gifted because I have learning disabilities.
I love learning. I hate the public school system. It's a babysitting establishment. Teachers are paid about 40% less than what they're worth. That's why the career attracts so many mediocre teachers. They are regulated to treat everyone equal. Their budget is stifled and stemmed. Teachers have to purchase most of their own classroom supplies.
We as a nation don't value education.
We have Billy Bob Redneck and his nine children sitting in their trailer in Hayseed, Arkansas saying "I never got my high school diploma, it didn't hurt me none!"
Most of America doesn't see the value of education. They didn't have any, their kids don't need it either.
America says "I turned out just fine without a college degree!"
That leaves those of us who are just smarter than the rest to dig our way out of a pit full of idiots. The idiots just keep falling on us and impeding our ascent.
This is a matter of the audiophile vs. the kid with the walkman. I completely agree that mp3 format is very lossy. When you hook it up to your expensive sound system with full dynamic range covered, it sounds like turds on a blackboard. That's what these producers are bitching about. I agree with their valid argument. That is not the point though. The people who download mp3 files are not audiophiles. They want to hear the songs, not the music. I have a very large collection of jazz records. Real vinyl. I also have a very large collection of jazz mp3s on my ipod. Sometimes you just want to hear the songs. I have the headphones to be able to tell the difference between 16/44 and 24/96. I have the sound card that supports it. I listen to flac files a lot. but, sometimes you just want to hear the songs.
sometimes you just want to hear the songs. Music is not dead, dying, or even sick.
and from what I understand, mastering engineers have been destroying music for 20 years.
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a drop in network performance to play an MP3?
My XP system doesn't do that.
I could setup a win98 system that wouldn't do that.
I could even setup a win2k system that wouldn't do that.
Why should I upgrade to an OS which has worse performance?
It's DRM. The performance drops are because of DRM. It's built into Vista.
It's been said before, but the realm isn't producing anything.
Systems administrators are managers. They are purely overhead.
Your boss is the same thing. This is what people managers don't understand.
So we manage computer and systems the same as they manage people. Well not the same, because our systems aren't deciding to surf youtube instead of working.
The point is, your boss needs to change his thinking. We manage resources.
Even if there has to be something quantizable, it could be uptime. Uptime starting at 100% and working backwards.
Mostly there is really nothing to produce. We are managers. We are overhead. This is why so many people managers have a hard time with us. They can't grasp the concept of managing a manager who doesn't produce results.
Actually the results are in an inverse vacuum. The results are good if nothing happens. The results are always negative if there are events. People managers can't understand this.
Downtime is when the team is necessary to management.
Monitoring of the system doesn't sound like work to a people manager.
If nothing happens, they don't need you.
Not realizing that everything works because of you not in spite of you.
2KGames: Under no circumstances do you ever need to include securom with a demo. That's violation of the computer fraud and abuse act.
I spend almost a thousand dollars a year on games. Don't piss off your customers.
They can't take the computers if they're a source of revenue.
US v. Indymedia.
Free as in freedom.
I think forcing him to use windows could actually be illegal.
a few weeks ago, we saw an article about an award winning producer who claims that the mp3 is killing music.
I replied that mastering engineers had been killing music for years.
He stated that an mp3 contains less than 10% of the original music. (an exaggeration)
I claim that the CD itself contains less than 10% of the music.
Shrinking the dynamic range is tremendously bad. Loudness is tremendously bad.
I'm a musician and producer. My music contains portions which are loud and portions which are soft.
If we as a culture lose the loudness war, then we allow the industry to kill music.
The opposite of dynamic is static, which is what most of today's music sounds like. (not making a comment on electronic, just music as a whole).
nuff said.
I'm a compsci major, give me free tuition.
as far as any other majors are concerned, they're not as important as science, math or engineering.
These three fields are what keeps the population safe and alive.
These fucking greedy bastards.
All users of Cowpie internet should drop them.
I pay for internet access.
I pay to transmit packets and receive packets.
Their demands that I pay ransom to insure that all my packets don't end up missing or delayed is just plain illegal.
That's like the phone company charging you more for calls you place to businesses.
The simple proof that this is extortion?
They have to implement the system which discriminates against packets. It's not built-in.
These mafia-like companies know they're not losing any money.
Their networks have fixed costs.
1. the cost of the equipment
2. the cost of the cabling
3. the cost of electricity to run it.
4. the cost of humans to monitor and repair it.
Those costs are fixed.
The money they bring in from subscription fees covers this.
pay us this money or your itunes packets could end up sleeping with the fishes, capisce?
That's just damn bizarre! Nein! I don't want to touch your monkey!
agreed. With their 90nM process, I can replace my gas furnace with this thing and save money!
It's nothing but a heatbox.
now that the congresswhores and the FTC (federal trade commission) or (Fuck the country) have approved the Bellsouth/AT&T merger, it will not happen.
AT&T won't put any money into infrastructure.
They're still offering dial-up service. They won't put money into infrastructure until they can no longer make money using the current infrastructure.
it's called a browser cache. Your browser knows it's downloaded that video already and uses the cached version!
DUH!
I have comcast. My connection lately has been passing the speakeasy speed test at 20Mbit down, 2Mbit up.
I use bit torrent to get game demos and betas, Linux distros, and to share music that I have composed and hold copyrights for.
I can seed just fine. You have to find that sweet spot. (the point at which your upstream starts to impact your downstream). for me, it's about 80KBps.
That being said, I am forced to use peer guardian 2 and alternative ports to see to it that my traffic gets to its intended location.
Comcast has noticed that bit torrent defeats its "Power Boost" technology which bursts full bandwidth for the first 20 or so MB.
With Bit Torrent, it's all the first 20 or so MB. so everyone that can seed that fast is allowed to.
Bit Torrent is a legitimate technology. I has legal uses. I use it legally. Comcast wants to throttle it because they're losing money on it.
If you RTFA, you'd know that the benefits of a formal education are primarily social. That's where most of us have been left behind.
that's the popular notion, but if you RTFA, you'd know this simply isn't true.
It's also a damnation to the duller crayons in the box.
I qualify as gifted with an IQ above 140. I graduated high school with a 1.7 GPA.
WHY? I was forced to work at the extra slow pace of my classmates and teachers. I was told I wasn't gifted because I wouldn't do my homework.
I was told I wasn't gifted because I had problems getting along with my classmates. And of course, I was told I wasn't gifted because I have learning disabilities.
I love learning. I hate the public school system. It's a babysitting establishment. Teachers are paid about 40% less than what they're worth. That's why the career attracts so many mediocre teachers. They are regulated to treat everyone equal. Their budget is stifled and stemmed. Teachers have to purchase most of their own classroom supplies.
We as a nation don't value education.
We have Billy Bob Redneck and his nine children sitting in their trailer in Hayseed, Arkansas saying "I never got my high school diploma, it didn't hurt me none!"
Most of America doesn't see the value of education. They didn't have any, their kids don't need it either.
America says "I turned out just fine without a college degree!"
That leaves those of us who are just smarter than the rest to dig our way out of a pit full of idiots. The idiots just keep falling on us and impeding our ascent.
this month, IE users were 58%, firefox was 35% and safari and opera barely registered.
a sp
How is 35% small? It seems pretty big to me.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.
don't like it, just don't visit that site.
no one is forcing you to view a site with forced adverts.
They fucking ruined TV AND Music AND Movies.
Now they want to ruin games.
Someone should stop these shit peddlers soon.
The NSA already installed such a system in their "does not exist" fibre patching room inside the AT&T fibre facility.
I just need an offline wikipedia now.
This is a matter of the audiophile vs. the kid with the walkman.
I completely agree that mp3 format is very lossy. When you hook it up to your expensive sound system with full dynamic range covered, it sounds like turds on a blackboard.
That's what these producers are bitching about. I agree with their valid argument.
That is not the point though. The people who download mp3 files are not audiophiles. They want to hear the songs, not the music.
I have a very large collection of jazz records. Real vinyl. I also have a very large collection of jazz mp3s on my ipod. Sometimes you just want to hear the songs.
I have the headphones to be able to tell the difference between 16/44 and 24/96. I have the sound card that supports it. I listen to flac files a lot. but, sometimes you just want to hear the songs.
sometimes you just want to hear the songs. Music is not dead, dying, or even sick.
and from what I understand, mastering engineers have been destroying music for 20 years.
However, captain nacho and his crew don't seem to listen.
HDCP is required to play HD content. Regular content such as DVDs won't even play over the component or S-Video outputs on video cards.
This is a huge crippling "feature" that MS has thrown in just to appease big media.