...your book freezes up and you have to reboot. ...your book gets wet and fries the reader ...they've got a version of War and Peace that's faster and better resolution than your current one. ...your electric bill goes up when you join a book club. ...you take your life (and your appliance's life) at risk if you want to read a book in the tub. ...you get so sick of looking at computers all day (and in every aspect of your life) that you get fed up and move to Tibet to be a yak farmer.
This was supposed to be a return of macho values and purity to the game of professional football, increasingly slowed down, corrupted and homogenized by TV, luxury boxes and the NFL money machine.
It's still as corporate as the NFL, but this time they just pay the players less money. I'm sure it's just as corrupt. Let's wait and see how long it takes for a steroid scandal to hit the XFL like it hit the other corporate venture, WWF.
I'm not sure how authentic these are, but you can still pick up the whistles. The ads in the back of 2600 magazine have an advert in just about every issue for a Cap'n Crunch whistle that sells for around $75.
I'm not sure I'd pay $75 for a piece of plastic unless, of course, it were a Star Wars figure.:-)
Wasn't that the point of child labor laws? Exploitation of Children was defined as using them for cheap labor, another means for turning a profit. So now, let's exploit children again -- this time, exploit the supposed innocence and purity -- and turn a quick million or two.
Good point. I wonder if that can fall under labor laws because they are profitting from the children's efforts by selling kid-clicks. If the children did not web-surf, they wouldn't have the info to sell.
...what sort of bozo is going to pay $10K for a bunch of logs showing where kids web-surf? If anyone's interested, I've got loads of useless web-logs that they can have for a bargain.
Cost of living in the UK is high. A direct exchange rate comparison will not work well. I am amazed at how many british people survive on a meagre income, it astounds
me - many british people and press wonder about "who is taking the cut in the middle", and it is something of a national economic mystery.
I worked in London for a year and you're right about it being an expensive place to live. My advice to *anyone* wanting to work overseas is to get the company to provide an apartment (err..flat) and a car. This is what the company that moved me over did. Looking at rent, bills, etc. in London, I'm glad that it happened and I don't think I'd take an overseas job without it.
Also, on the plus side, they have great public transportation in Europe, so getting to work is pretty easy. (Clapham Junction to S. Chesington in 20 minutes!)
The Linux distro area is getting kinda crowded, and (IMHO) I think it would be cool if Corel would concentrate more on porting apps like CorelDraw to Linux.
Re:If you *really* want to get at telemarketeers.
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"HELLO?"
"What-everrr..." CLICK
That's the key. To make the marketeer hang up.
When I SysAdminned at a call center, it was really quite amusing watching one of the telemarketeers get all cheesed off, then getting a good talking to from manglement^Wmanagement.
Not too long ago, I had the joy of really ticking off a marketeer. I did the usual, "hello?" thing. Got called back, and after a few "hello?"s, the marketeer started getting all ticked off and screamed, "Dammit! I know you can hear me!". I started laughing, but continued my "hello?" and enjoyed the satisfaction of knowing that there isn't a damn thing they can do about it.
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I check my caller ID and telemarketers usually have a blocked number. So, I pick up the phone and just go, "Hello?....helloooooo?...hello?" in a tone that says I'm obviously lying to them whilst the telemarketer babbles on. Then I keep on going "Hello?...Is anybody there?" until the telemarketer starts going into a tizzy and decides to hang up.
The telemarketer will, of course, call back thinking that it was just a bad connection. I treat them to more "Hello?...hello?" until they're completely fuming. The telemarketer will start yelling, cursing, and generally making a spectacle of themselves in the little telemarketeer farm. Their boss will notice this (or find out through the call logs) and the telemarketer will be in trouble. After this is done enough times, telemarketeers will fear calling you.:)
I adminned at a call center once(incoming calls only), but I'm sure any telemarketeer will get in some sort of trouble for this.
It's not that "the standards-compliant Web will die". It's that Microsoft are setting the standards.
My gripe with IE is that it's very forgiving of cruddy code & HTML. I have had to clean up far too many buggered up HTML pages that people said, "It was alright in IE" (Done in both Frontpage & Notepad:). For example, not closing table tags is the most common (don't get me started on how bad IE handles javascript going into directories). Call me fickle, but (IMHO) programming requires a sense of precision. Sooner or later the forgiving nature of IE will cause pages/web apps to end up with mondo security holes, screwy behavior, lost data, etc.
Whilst it is a bother, IMHO, you've got to design so your webpage can be reached by all. Otherwise they'll just go to a webpage that can be reached by their browser. A little bit of extra work might pay off on a good contract/sale,etc. instead of being lost because you can't be bothered.
People can say that 75-90% of the browser market is IE, but they should consider if that's the percentage of people who are going to purchase their product or service, or just a lot of homeusers.
I've seen a few Fortune 500 companies use Netscape for their browser, and you can count that as a loss if they can't view your page.
Dang silicon valley millionaires using up all the electricity for their fancy house gadgets.
Maybe after reading the article on/., every silly-con valley dot-comer decided it's time to keep up with the Ellisons and go on a mad buying spree to have multiple party mode buttons.
Come on people no where does it say/guarenteed/ 640x640... does it? I know i've never seen that. And even if I had I would never admit to it.
Reading your subject just makes me think of how SysAdminning & Tech-support are very much like the movie "Clerks". Sometimes a good "Randall" attitude is needed. Maybe Kevin Smith should ponder a film about tech-support.
Just because they support you doesn't mean they like you.
If that isn't enough than think about this, some of us get to... ahem get to take tech support calls at home too... It's a good thing we are salaried emplyees eh?
SysAdmining to pure Bob-dom? Yikes!
I feel your pain with tech support calls at home. I do SysAdmin & support. I am now required to carry a cell-phone & pager and am expected to support users anywhere I go. But it is a dual edged sword when I'm called with a tech question whilst intoxicated on the weekends.:)
When the crew thins out, a new crop of agents is recruited and given two weeks basic training (Monday-Windows, Tuesday-Mac, Thursday-NT) and off they go.
No wonder there's no such thing as clued DSL support.:) Bob-ism has really gone down-hill.
It's going to be a security option. Something that can be toggled on and off.
If this little option gets put into Windows, it's pretty certain that I'm gonna have people complaining about software I wrote years ago saying "It doesn't work. Fix it!". You just know that the un-clued masses who are still wondering where the "any" button is are not gonna know how (or even try) to shut off any option that's default.
Just what I need. More voodoo. As if dealing with registry problems when programming for Windows wasn't bad enough. Then everyone will have to do a re-make of programs that worked fine until now. Arrrgghhh!!!
Maybe it's an evil way for M$ to up it's tech-support calls for Visual Studio.
What bottom-line advantages are the pro-Exchange groups advocating?
Oh, $DEITY! I have been in this movie enough times to know what's happening. This is when a bunch of managers meet for lunch with their palm pilots, laptops, etc. and start talking cluelessly about technology. One manager will spout off about mSexchange (or some other buzzword the manager knows nothing about), and the "wonders" it does for them. Then all of the managers go back to their company, agree this toy they learned about over lunch must be used, drag the computer people into a meeting, then say things like "Why aren't we using this yet?", etc. ad.nauseum...
And the only way that the managers will be held at bay is with a time consuming damning report chock full of expense, downtime, etc.
There's a manager! Quick, PFY, get me my chainsaw!
"We are very up-front about what we do and how we do it," said Cajunnet general manager Eugene Wanless. "I think a lot of people consider it spam.
WTF is it if it's not spam!?! After getting kicked off of a few ISPs, WANless seems to be a perfect name for that bozo.
We'll send
out between 5 (million) and 20 million emails at a time and take a lot of heat from people whining and complaining. Eventually our ISPs wind up turning us off."
It's asswipes like this that waste bandwidth, take up disk space (which I have to clean up, or set up more on deny files before it gets to my users who will leave them on disk or will "remove me from list" which just gets them more spam), and waste admin time. And they wonder why they get shut off. I should charge them for the the disk space they take up.
Since these spam-meisters are in South Louisiana, I invite all spam haters in that area to egg Cajunnet's building, so we can bother them in the same manner that they bother us. Anyone have an address?:)
Rubbish. Our last seven presidents have been Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush the Elder, and Clinton. Of those only Bush came from a
family of any power or wealth.
There's a joke around Arkansas that when Clinton was talking about having an outdoor toilet, he *really* meant that he was peeing in the pool.
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...your book freezes up and you have to reboot.
...your book gets wet and fries the reader
...they've got a version of War and Peace that's faster and better resolution than your current one.
...your electric bill goes up when you join a book club.
...you take your life (and your appliance's life) at risk if you want to read a book in the tub.
...you get so sick of looking at computers all day (and in every aspect of your life) that you get fed up and move to Tibet to be a yak farmer.
It's still as corporate as the NFL, but this time they just pay the players less money. I'm sure it's just as corrupt. Let's wait and see how long it takes for a steroid scandal to hit the XFL like it hit the other corporate venture, WWF.
I'm not saying /. is perfect or anything, but I'm not gonna whine about something that I can't/won't do something about.
Sheeesh! Your little manifesto is wordier and more annoying than JonKatz. Hey, are you trying to con Taco-boy into getting you on the payroll?
I'm not sure I'd pay $75 for a piece of plastic unless, of course, it were a Star Wars figure. :-)
Good point. I wonder if that can fall under labor laws because they are profitting from the children's efforts by selling kid-clicks. If the children did not web-surf, they wouldn't have the info to sell.
That's gotta fall under child labor.
I worked in London for a year and you're right about it being an expensive place to live. My advice to *anyone* wanting to work overseas is to get the company to provide an apartment (err..flat) and a car. This is what the company that moved me over did. Looking at rent, bills, etc. in London, I'm glad that it happened and I don't think I'd take an overseas job without it.
Also, on the plus side, they have great public transportation in Europe, so getting to work is pretty easy. (Clapham Junction to S. Chesington in 20 minutes!)
"What-everrr..." CLICK
That's the key. To make the marketeer hang up.
When I SysAdminned at a call center, it was really quite amusing watching one of the telemarketeers get all cheesed off, then getting a good talking to from manglement^Wmanagement.
Not too long ago, I had the joy of really ticking off a marketeer. I did the usual, "hello?" thing. Got called back, and after a few "hello?"s, the marketeer started getting all ticked off and screamed, "Dammit! I know you can hear me!". I started laughing, but continued my "hello?" and enjoyed the satisfaction of knowing that there isn't a damn thing they can do about it.
The telemarketer will, of course, call back thinking that it was just a bad connection. I treat them to more "Hello?...hello?" until they're completely fuming. The telemarketer will start yelling, cursing, and generally making a spectacle of themselves in the little telemarketeer farm. Their boss will notice this (or find out through the call logs) and the telemarketer will be in trouble. After this is done enough times, telemarketeers will fear calling you.:)
I adminned at a call center once(incoming calls only), but I'm sure any telemarketeer will get in some sort of trouble for this.
My gripe with IE is that it's very forgiving of cruddy code & HTML. I have had to clean up far too many buggered up HTML pages that people said, "It was alright in IE" (Done in both Frontpage & Notepad:). For example, not closing table tags is the most common (don't get me started on how bad IE handles javascript going into directories). Call me fickle, but (IMHO) programming requires a sense of precision. Sooner or later the forgiving nature of IE will cause pages/web apps to end up with mondo security holes, screwy behavior, lost data, etc.
Whilst it is a bother, IMHO, you've got to design so your webpage can be reached by all. Otherwise they'll just go to a webpage that can be reached by their browser. A little bit of extra work might pay off on a good contract/sale,etc. instead of being lost because you can't be bothered.
People can say that 75-90% of the browser market is IE, but they should consider if that's the percentage of people who are going to purchase their product or service, or just a lot of homeusers.
I've seen a few Fortune 500 companies use Netscape for their browser, and you can count that as a loss if they can't view your page.
but...mobiles are still kinda annoying, so I hope these guys start becoming international. :)
Dang silicon valley millionaires using up all the electricity for their fancy house gadgets.
Maybe after reading the article on /., every silly-con valley dot-comer decided it's time to keep up with the Ellisons and go on a mad buying spree to have multiple party mode buttons.
Luser: Cute monitor toy. What's it called?
Me: Annoying user.
I'm tempted to find a Clerks script and do a whole re-write. You wouldn't happen to know where one could be found?
Reading your subject just makes me think of how SysAdminning & Tech-support are very much like the movie "Clerks". Sometimes a good "Randall" attitude is needed. Maybe Kevin Smith should ponder a film about tech-support.
Just because they support you doesn't mean they like you.
SysAdmining to pure Bob-dom? Yikes!
I feel your pain with tech support calls at home. I do SysAdmin & support. I am now required to carry a cell-phone & pager and am expected to support users anywhere I go. But it is a dual edged sword when I'm called with a tech question whilst intoxicated on the weekends. :)
No wonder there's no such thing as clued DSL support. :) Bob-ism has really gone down-hill.
M$ has all of this money generated from software, but how do we know it's not laundered drug money? :)
If this little option gets put into Windows, it's pretty certain that I'm gonna have people complaining about software I wrote years ago saying "It doesn't work. Fix it!". You just know that the un-clued masses who are still wondering where the "any" button is are not gonna know how (or even try) to shut off any option that's default.
Maybe it's an evil way for M$ to up it's tech-support calls for Visual Studio.
Oh, $DEITY! I have been in this movie enough times to know what's happening. This is when a bunch of managers meet for lunch with their palm pilots, laptops, etc. and start talking cluelessly about technology. One manager will spout off about mSexchange (or some other buzzword the manager knows nothing about), and the "wonders" it does for them. Then all of the managers go back to their company, agree this toy they learned about over lunch must be used, drag the computer people into a meeting, then say things like "Why aren't we using this yet?", etc. ad.nauseum...
And the only way that the managers will be held at bay is with a time consuming damning report chock full of expense, downtime, etc.
There's a manager! Quick, PFY, get me my chainsaw!
"We are very up-front about what we do and how we do it," said Cajunnet general manager Eugene Wanless. "I think a lot of people consider it spam.
WTF is it if it's not spam!?! After getting kicked off of a few ISPs, WANless seems to be a perfect name for that bozo.
We'll send out between 5 (million) and 20 million emails at a time and take a lot of heat from people whining and complaining. Eventually our ISPs wind up turning us off."
It's asswipes like this that waste bandwidth, take up disk space (which I have to clean up, or set up more on deny files before it gets to my users who will leave them on disk or will "remove me from list" which just gets them more spam), and waste admin time. And they wonder why they get shut off. I should charge them for the the disk space they take up.
Since these spam-meisters are in South Louisiana, I invite all spam haters in that area to egg Cajunnet's building, so we can bother them in the same manner that they bother us. Anyone have an address? :)
There's a joke around Arkansas that when Clinton was talking about having an outdoor toilet, he *really* meant that he was peeing in the pool.