Recorded voice "Lower fares may be availiable on website"
Human being "Hello this is Ruby, Thank you for calling Southwest Airlines, how may I help you?"
Me,"Sorry, wrong number, thanks."
Up to the point where the recording said lower fares may be availiable on the website, I thought, what a stupid ass lawsuit, you mean to tell me these blind people don't have a phone?
But then listening to that, it made me draw 2 conclusions, either...
A. There really ARE lower fares on the SW website. or B. It's just a trick by marketing to whore your info from you over the web.
Either way, SW would be at fault in an accessability lawsuit unless they
A. Upgrade the workstations the phone people use so they can read websites to blind people.
SCSI only uses 1 IRQ for all the devices connected to the chain (on non APCI setups) Those stinkin IDE drives use 1 IRQ per device, which sucks if you're trying to make a semi decent system with old hardware.
Nvidia X drivers support 16 displays
on
Tackling AGP 8X
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· Score: 3, Informative
Somewhere on nvnews.net (the official, unofficial support site for nvidia X drivers) I read that the X drivers support 16 cards running at once.
I can think of several applications for this, starting with the 3dfx approach to boosting 3d performance by having each card take turns drawing a scanline (sli)
There is also a possibility 3D displays on the horizon will require more information to draw the screen (Twice as much because the scene has to be drawn once for each eye)
Another possibility is for game house use. Standard counterstrike gamehouses charge about $3@hr to rent a machine to play CS. If a player could rent a machine with a wider FOV from multiple monitors the operator could charge more to cover the costs of the extra graphics cards. I would gladly pay $20@hr to be able to play doom3 in a psuedo holodeck enviroment.
My grandparents had their kids at 16, my parents had me around 20-22, my wife and I are 29-27 respectively. We haven't had children yet because we want to wait for things to become financially stable (we want our kids to have a good home)
Out of all the factors in the article, it didn't seem to touch too much on the age factor. I read somewhere once that older parents can lead to all sorts of abnormalities with pregnancy. Could it be age is playing a role here?
There are a lot of similiar couples/singles my wife and I know, they're slowly approaching 30's, no children yet. Compared with our parents who all had thier kids in their 20's we're a bit behind:)
It seems that the older we have children, the more that can go wrong. Silicon valley is a tough place to live (financially) and the burden of buying a house here and paying the bills has made alot of my friend put off having children till their 30's. It's an enviromentally prompted response to make sure we give our successive generation a strong foothold in life.
I think the answer is as simple as, people in silicon valley have children at an older age, therefore more autistic children are born as a result.
After seeing what i've seen out there, I don't think it's fair that someone on an executive level can justify shutting down entire sattelite offices of their companies just so they can get a new house.
Fuck you, I hope you get herpes from the whores you bought with the company AMEX card for your "Business trip" We all know the house is because you're so dumb you let your wife see the AMEX reciepts and you had to appease her.Rot in hell bitch!
Yeah funny you should mention the robots of the 80's
Tomy had a line of robots called the omnibot line. Included in the lineup was a little guy called "vacbot" if I remember correctly. It's not nearly the vaccum the one in the article is (had less power than a dustbuster, would only work on flat surfaces,cliff avoidance was a simple switch that made the thing turn right)
I suppose that, if you were a corrupt server admin, you could make a handsome profit on the side by creating these auctions.... I smell scandle.
Funny that it happened before....
Back in the early days of UO there was a GM who would trade stuff in game for blowjobs in RL. The guy was caught when he gave a castle that belonged to someone else to one of these girls.
People are making me mad saying there wasn't any decent software on be, bullcrap.
All that killed Be was crappy hardware support.When Be came out, it supported about 5 or 6 network cards from 2 manufacturers (3com and intel) 1 scsi adapter from adaptec, and 3d support was mostly written for the 3dfx chipset. Why wouldn't they support a adaptec 29160??? Pretty standard stuff if you ask me.
Be 5 they added a little more hardware support, but again it was very limited.
Now back to my original bitch about people bitching there was no software.
Be had word processors, (and excellent printer support, sort of a oxymoron compared to the rest of their hardware support) Be had (has) some of the best console and arcade emulation support EVER! Mame games that take a 700mhz cpu in dos can do just as good with a 350. Their sound editing tools were the best, Be's sound drivers concentrated on low latency which meant the real time effects processing on be kicked ass.
As far as M$ killing be, well M$ did tell OEMS you beos no windows. Lets not forget palm though, who bought it all out and has kept all the source for their palm os sort of like a junkyard parting out a car (sad to see it end like that) The palm thing is kinda sad because it forever dooms Be to run on slow hardware.
All in all though, be was excellent. My band uses it on a 200mhz pentium for recording jam sessions and it works great. Only 2 ppl in our band are computer savvy and Be is simple enough where the other guys can sit down and use it.
Well enough ranting about the whole be fiasco for today...it's sunday, time to pray to a dead god.
They don't even bother to mention the other waste by products that are created from the manufacture of PCB's.
Flux wash cycle comes to mind. Sometimes some really nasty chemicals are used after a PCB or a fully assembled board goes through.
THere's some companies like culligan that provide negatively ionicly charged microbead epoxy balls to clean the flux wash of the flux and any other impurities that come out. What happens to those?
Another item to consider is the ventalation stacks coming from these pcb wash machines, most of the time they are just there for "ventilation" and do not have filtering systems on them.
I know these things because I have worked around the Dixon Landing road exit off of the 880 in Fremont CA in a number of consulting positions to these companies. Whenever you're sitting at the desk of some salesguy trying to fix his "insert windows issue here" they cannot resist telling you in great detail about the process and how wonderfully enviromentally friendly their shop is.
This is how bad it is in USA, I don't even want to think about what my wife saw in Malasia and the phillipines where these things are probably manufactured(shudders)
I'm a geeky webmaster that plays quake and has a lot of accounts scatterered around the world. If you could tar.gz up that story and pics and shoot em back in a reply, I'd love to post em up as a mirror (because I am a shameless self promoting whore)
Fuck M$, after 7 years of supporting thier crappy O/S, fighting with the developers to use exchange instead of a popmail solution, after 7 years of fighting with the linux zealots on the merits of a M$ based system, i'm burnt out. This Sp1 stuff is complete crap.
There's a lot more of me's out there than you think microsoft.
From now on, instead of teaching people how to use outlook express i'll be teaching them how to use kmail, instead of IE i wil be showing them gecko, instead of teaching them how to use word i'll show them how to use open office.
It wont just stop there either, i'll load their pc's up with emulators and roms galore, show their kids how to play games on something other than windows. I'll install quake and UT2003 for those that buy it.
Microsft really fucked up by cutting out the people that for years was the undermining support for preaching their products. I no longer wish to be a microsoft whore. I remember several times having to frantically dig out NT40 CAL's just to be sure we had enough licenses so someone could save a file on a server. What utter nonsense and I was a nincompoop for doing it.
You pissed off one little jobless NT admin M$, and i'm sure there is many more. Granted this comment doesn't get modded into oblivion, perhaps the other/. readers will get the point and follow suit.
I've watched a lot of people get canned here in S.V. who were sysadmins, now scrambing to get jobs wherever they can. There are 3 trends I've seen companies follow when it came to cutting IT costs.
A. Eliminate all the IT personal with.com inflated salaries by making IT a part of developments job function. B. Outsource IT C. Replace IT with cheaper, less expirienced youngsters.
This is mainly a M$ oriented trend though (Yes I admit to being a MS admin) There are a few people I know that are unix oriented people who will never be without a job. Contrary to popular belief, these are not dirty hippies, but people with 4 year CS degree's. When I listen to them talk I feel a bit intimidated because I'm still having trouble grasping pipe/redirects >| in a shell.
Anyways, back on topic though, the article makes no mention of M$ anywhere.. It all mentions datacenters and how there is this huge need to get rid of the playstation junkies taking care of their servers. I think the author has me confused with real die hard sun unix lovers.
Bottom line is this "virtual serverization" (whatever the marketdroid buzzword is, save it) Sun seems out to get rid of all the Solaris admins out there. What surprises me is most solaris admins I know are a lot more compentant than myself, and go way beyond telling someone to reboot their machine.
I don't mean to get OT here, but i've seen a few post here and there about the profit margins pepsi and coke enjoy, so the question bears to mind, what is their profit margin?
Considering soda is nothing more than water with carbonation, sugar, caffiene, and caramel coloring, and the fact that these companies buy the ingredients in commodity sized lots, the profit margin must be tremendous.
Funny how coke can sell Aquafina (water) for the same price as coke. Must be a cash cow for them.
Here in San Jose CA the price for a 20oz bottle of coke is around $1.20 at most 7-11's, gas stations ect.
When I go snowboarding? Does it have something to do with the cold?
A few years back me and my buddy were tryin tape some gnarly moves up at squaw. I KNOW the battery was fully charged on the camcorder, and was working fine in the cabin.
The moment we hit the slopes it started to act real funny, suddenly turn off for no reason. It wasn't just limited to the camcorder either, my diskman was having difficulties too.
When we returned to the cabin, all our electronic equipment was fine, absolutely no sign of damage or that they had ever been malfunctioning.
If you got the oppertunity to go back, take it. What is the nature of your business, do you have any staff you can trust to run things?
See, right now, me and all my chums are out of work, and it's been that way for a while (and not looking much better) I was a sysadmin for 7 years and was making 86k at my last sysadmin job without a degree. It was dot com times man!
The one universal thread between me and my other jobless cohorts is the lack of education. Your situation might have been different, but I chose the career path over school, as did many of my friends, but now we're beggin our families to help us out.. It's not industrious self reliance.
And damn those people with degree's that got the burger flipping jobs over us here in silicon valley. I'd take ANY job right now, I applied to the orchard supplies and the Mc Donalds, my wife doubled up, filled out applications, and applied again and STILL NO response.
It's hard as hell out there, i'm in a position where if I just had a burger flipping job, I could go back to school. Dammit.
BEOS was a great product, but it was not good enough to switch to. The drawbacks were more then the advantages.
You are forgetting that MS told it's OEM's "If you even *think* about selling Be we won't be selling you windows"
That's not fair play at all.
more people then ever have jobs in the IT industry.
Hmm let's see, I was a M$ desktop monkey for 7 years, got laid off, went back to school, got my MSCE and I STILL CAN'T GET A JOB!! You're greatly overstating the job market in IT believe me. I live in san jose, there are NO JOBS at all.
Even my wife with a BA in CS had a hard time finding a new job after getting laid off from nortel.
The current trend is to maximize the value of your employee. I've been hearing countless horror stories from coders about how their companies laid off the entire IT staff and now relies on the coders to do the desktop support. This undermines their ability to produce quality code now because every 10 seconds someone is knocking on their cubicle, "Hey bob I just got a quick question!" Which is never JUST A QUICK QUESTION. It leads into a series of questions that build upon the previous questions, a line of questioning to which a criminal would not be subjected to in a police interrogation.
So no and no, there is no future with learnin M$ products. Laid off and starving to make house payments I know first hand what being a M$ desktop monkey is all about...
Companies that are looking for IT staff are more concerned with IT people that can do desktop, light DBA work, and reducing the TCO with open source. It's my current focus of study, hopefully i'll be employed within a few months.
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously....
Calling: 1-800-IFLYSWA
Recorded voice "Lower fares may be availiable on website"
Human being "Hello this is Ruby, Thank you for calling Southwest Airlines, how may I help you?"
Me,"Sorry, wrong number, thanks."
Up to the point where the recording said lower fares may be availiable on the website, I thought, what a stupid ass lawsuit, you mean to tell me these blind people don't have a phone?
But then listening to that, it made me draw 2 conclusions, either...
A. There really ARE lower fares on the SW website.
or
B. It's just a trick by marketing to whore your info from you over the web.
Either way, SW would be at fault in an accessability lawsuit unless they
A. Upgrade the workstations the phone people use so they can read websites to blind people.
B. Add "alt" tags.
Maybe the judge should consider that.
SCSI only uses 1 IRQ for all the devices connected to the chain (on non APCI setups) Those stinkin IDE drives use 1 IRQ per device, which sucks if you're trying to make a semi decent system with old hardware.
Somewhere on nvnews.net (the official, unofficial support site for nvidia X drivers) I read that the X drivers support 16 cards running at once.
I can think of several applications for this, starting with the 3dfx approach to boosting 3d performance by having each card take turns drawing a scanline (sli)
There is also a possibility 3D displays on the horizon will require more information to draw the screen (Twice as much because the scene has to be drawn once for each eye)
Another possibility is for game house use. Standard counterstrike gamehouses charge about $3@hr to rent a machine to play CS. If a player could rent a machine with a wider FOV from multiple monitors the operator could charge more to cover the costs of the extra graphics cards. I would gladly pay $20@hr to be able to play doom3 in a psuedo holodeck enviroment.
Well thats my 2cents into the fray.
My grandparents had their kids at 16, my parents had me around 20-22, my wife and I are 29-27 respectively. We haven't had children yet because we want to wait for things to become financially stable (we want our kids to have a good home)
:)
Out of all the factors in the article, it didn't seem to touch too much on the age factor. I read somewhere once that older parents can lead to all sorts of abnormalities with pregnancy. Could it be age is playing a role here?
There are a lot of similiar couples/singles my wife and I know, they're slowly approaching 30's, no children yet. Compared with our parents who all had thier kids in their 20's we're a bit behind
It seems that the older we have children, the more that can go wrong. Silicon valley is a tough place to live (financially) and the burden of buying a house here and paying the bills has made alot of my friend put off having children till their 30's. It's an enviromentally prompted response to make sure we give our successive generation a strong foothold in life.
I think the answer is as simple as, people in silicon valley have children at an older age, therefore more autistic children are born as a result.
After seeing what i've seen out there, I don't think it's fair that someone on an executive level can justify shutting down entire sattelite offices of their companies just so they can get a new house.
Fuck you, I hope you get herpes from the whores you bought with the company AMEX card for your "Business trip" We all know the house is because you're so dumb you let your wife see the AMEX reciepts and you had to appease her.Rot in hell bitch!
--toq
I swear I think all this extra radiation is adversly affecting my health. (places tinfoil hat on head)
I think this would rock for building a CPU heat exchanger. With hundreds of small tiny water filled holes it would wisk the heat away nicely.
Yeah funny you should mention the robots of the 80's
Tomy had a line of robots called the omnibot line. Included in the lineup was a little guy called "vacbot" if I remember correctly. It's not nearly the vaccum the one in the article is (had less power than a dustbuster, would only work on flat surfaces,cliff avoidance was a simple switch that made the thing turn right)
Just wanted to have a short flashback.
I suppose that, if you were a corrupt server admin, you could make a handsome profit on the side by creating these auctions.... I smell scandle.
Funny that it happened before....
Back in the early days of UO there was a GM who would trade stuff in game for blowjobs in RL. The guy was caught when he gave a castle that belonged to someone else to one of these girls.
People are making me mad saying there wasn't any decent software on be, bullcrap.
All that killed Be was crappy hardware support.When Be came out, it supported about 5 or 6 network cards from 2 manufacturers (3com and intel) 1 scsi adapter from adaptec, and 3d support was mostly written for the 3dfx chipset. Why wouldn't they support a adaptec 29160??? Pretty standard stuff if you ask me.
Be 5 they added a little more hardware support, but again it was very limited.
Now back to my original bitch about people bitching there was no software.
Be had word processors, (and excellent printer support, sort of a oxymoron compared to the rest of their hardware support)
Be had (has) some of the best console and arcade emulation support EVER! Mame games that take a 700mhz cpu in dos can do just as good with a 350.
Their sound editing tools were the best, Be's sound drivers concentrated on low latency which meant the real time effects processing on be kicked ass.
As far as M$ killing be, well M$ did tell OEMS you beos no windows. Lets not forget palm though, who bought it all out and has kept all the source for their palm os sort of like a junkyard parting out a car (sad to see it end like that) The palm thing is kinda sad because it forever dooms Be to run on slow hardware.
All in all though, be was excellent. My band uses it on a 200mhz pentium for recording jam sessions and it works great. Only 2 ppl in our band are computer savvy and Be is simple enough where the other guys can sit down and use it.
Well enough ranting about the whole be fiasco for today...it's sunday, time to pray to a dead god.
Guy has a $26 million dollar price tag on his head DOA and we still can't catch him.
.gov only catches those they REALLY want to catch.
Goes to show the
Mod me down all you want, somebody had to say it. (Caresses his lik-sang GBA flash cart)
They don't even bother to mention the other waste by products that are created from the manufacture of PCB's.
Flux wash cycle comes to mind. Sometimes some really nasty chemicals are used after a PCB or a fully assembled board goes through.
THere's some companies like culligan that provide negatively ionicly charged microbead epoxy balls to clean the flux wash of the flux and any other impurities that come out. What happens to those?
Another item to consider is the ventalation stacks coming from these pcb wash machines, most of the time they are just there for "ventilation" and do not have filtering systems on them.
I know these things because I have worked around the Dixon Landing road exit off of the 880 in Fremont CA in a number of consulting positions to these companies. Whenever you're sitting at the desk of some salesguy trying to fix his "insert windows issue here" they cannot resist telling you in great detail about the process and how wonderfully enviromentally friendly their shop is.
This is how bad it is in USA, I don't even want to think about what my wife saw in Malasia and the phillipines where these things are probably manufactured(shudders)
What did the farmer think when the ice landed in his lettuce field?
Iceberg lettuce.
From - Mon Sep 30 16:45:19 2002
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From: toqer
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Yo!
I'm a geeky webmaster that plays quake and has a lot of accounts
scatterered around the world. If you could tar.gz up that story and pics
and shoot em back in a reply, I'd love to post em up as a mirror
(because I am a shameless self promoting whore)
Regards and bonghits.
--toqer
Why do I picture a roomfull of monkeys remotely wired up to some ICBM's deep underground in norad?
"Sir monkey 211 has located osama bin laden and is going in for the kill!"
"Give him a bannana!"
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these !
All us jobless M$ admins out in silicon valley?
/. readers will get the point and follow suit.
Fuck M$, after 7 years of supporting thier crappy O/S, fighting with the developers to use exchange instead of a popmail solution, after 7 years of fighting with the linux zealots on the merits of a M$ based system, i'm burnt out. This Sp1 stuff is complete crap.
There's a lot more of me's out there than you think microsoft.
From now on, instead of teaching people how to use outlook express i'll be teaching them how to use kmail, instead of IE i wil be showing them gecko, instead of teaching them how to use word i'll show them how to use open office.
It wont just stop there either, i'll load their pc's up with emulators and roms galore, show their kids how to play games on something other than windows. I'll install quake and UT2003 for those that buy it.
Microsft really fucked up by cutting out the people that for years was the undermining support for preaching their products. I no longer wish to be a microsoft whore. I remember several times having to frantically dig out NT40 CAL's just to be sure we had enough licenses so someone could save a file on a server. What utter nonsense and I was a nincompoop for doing it.
You pissed off one little jobless NT admin M$, and i'm sure there is many more. Granted this comment doesn't get modded into oblivion, perhaps the other
Your days are numbered bill.
Someone else...
.com inflated salaries by making IT a part of developments job function.
I've watched a lot of people get canned here in S.V. who were sysadmins, now scrambing to get jobs wherever they can. There are 3 trends I've seen companies follow when it came to cutting IT costs.
A. Eliminate all the IT personal with
B. Outsource IT
C. Replace IT with cheaper, less expirienced youngsters.
This is mainly a M$ oriented trend though (Yes I admit to being a MS admin) There are a few people I know that are unix oriented people who will never be without a job. Contrary to popular belief, these are not dirty hippies, but people with 4 year CS degree's. When I listen to them talk I feel a bit intimidated because I'm still having trouble grasping pipe/redirects >| in a shell.
Anyways, back on topic though, the article makes no mention of M$ anywhere.. It all mentions datacenters and how there is this huge need to get rid of the playstation junkies taking care of their servers. I think the author has me confused with real die hard sun unix lovers.
Bottom line is this "virtual serverization" (whatever the marketdroid buzzword is, save it) Sun seems out to get rid of all the Solaris admins out there. What surprises me is most solaris admins I know are a lot more compentant than myself, and go way beyond telling someone to reboot their machine.
I doubt it will work.
Well let me think about which one i'd rather have an accident in...
(pictures skin melting off from the lead acid)
Nah -100 degree compressed air sound alot better.
I don't mean to get OT here, but i've seen a few post here and there about the profit margins pepsi and coke enjoy, so the question bears to mind, what is their profit margin?
Considering soda is nothing more than water with carbonation, sugar, caffiene, and caramel coloring, and the fact that these companies buy the ingredients in commodity sized lots, the profit margin must be tremendous.
Funny how coke can sell Aquafina (water) for the same price as coke. Must be a cash cow for them.
Here in San Jose CA the price for a 20oz bottle of coke is around $1.20 at most 7-11's, gas stations ect.
I'd rather have a date with Britney Spears than a ride on some russian space jelopy. Could you reconsider Pepsi?
When I go snowboarding? Does it have something to do with the cold?
A few years back me and my buddy were tryin tape some gnarly moves up at squaw. I KNOW the battery was fully charged on the camcorder, and was working fine in the cabin.
The moment we hit the slopes it started to act real funny, suddenly turn off for no reason. It wasn't just limited to the camcorder either, my diskman was having difficulties too.
When we returned to the cabin, all our electronic equipment was fine, absolutely no sign of damage or that they had ever been malfunctioning.
Does it have something to do with the cold?
Seriously, AC is right. Do what you have to and get out of there, it's too expensive.
Several reasons....
My family has been here for over 100 years, very affluent in San Jose.
My wife want's to live close to her mother.
My house is the first real anchor I have towards stability, go look at my journal to see what i'm talking about, I'm reserved about giving that up.
So basically, selling out and moving is not an option, hmm, what's below a burger flipper? Gardener?
--toq
Seriously man,
If you got the oppertunity to go back, take it. What is the nature of your business, do you have any staff you can trust to run things?
See, right now, me and all my chums are out of work, and it's been that way for a while (and not looking much better) I was a sysadmin for 7 years and was making 86k at my last sysadmin job without a degree. It was dot com times man!
The one universal thread between me and my other jobless cohorts is the lack of education. Your situation might have been different, but I chose the career path over school, as did many of my friends, but now we're beggin our families to help us out.. It's not industrious self reliance.
And damn those people with degree's that got the burger flipping jobs over us here in silicon valley. I'd take ANY job right now, I applied to the orchard supplies and the Mc Donalds, my wife doubled up, filled out applications, and applied again and STILL NO response.
It's hard as hell out there, i'm in a position where if I just had a burger flipping job, I could go back to school. Dammit.
--toq
BEOS was a great product, but it was not good enough to switch to. The drawbacks were more then the advantages.
You are forgetting that MS told it's OEM's "If you even *think* about selling Be we won't be selling you windows"
That's not fair play at all.
more people then ever have jobs in the IT industry.
Hmm let's see, I was a M$ desktop monkey for 7 years, got laid off, went back to school, got my MSCE and I STILL CAN'T GET A JOB!!
You're greatly overstating the job market in IT believe me. I live in san jose, there are NO JOBS at all.
Even my wife with a BA in CS had a hard time finding a new job after getting laid off from nortel.
The current trend is to maximize the value of your employee. I've been hearing countless horror stories from coders about how their companies laid off the entire IT staff and now relies on the coders to do the desktop support. This undermines their ability to produce quality code now because every 10 seconds someone is knocking on their cubicle, "Hey bob I just got a quick question!" Which is never JUST A QUICK QUESTION. It leads into a series of questions that build upon the previous questions, a line of questioning to which a criminal would not be subjected to in a police interrogation.
So no and no, there is no future with learnin M$ products. Laid off and starving to make house payments I know first hand what being a M$ desktop monkey is all about...
Companies that are looking for IT staff are more concerned with IT people that can do desktop, light DBA work, and reducing the TCO with open source. It's my current focus of study, hopefully i'll be employed within a few months.
--toq