its actually pretty common for people who in a service role in a company to have some disdain for the people that they are paid to service.
most IT people think that they are constantly having to deal with the morons above them, getting this way just because the IT people have chosen to focus on computers as their specialty.
well, IT people arent special. they are what happens when you arent good enough to build a system... just maintain someone elses (for the most part). most of the resentment for upper management who cant configure outlook correctly probably comes from the narrow minded thinking that not knowing how to is stupid, and knowing how to makes them superior.
well, most of those upper management people are probably too busy with their lives, their jobs, etc to deal with things like that. thats why there are IT people... to service and support the people who make the money for the company!
so, go fix upper managements keyboard by plugging it back in... and remember he could learn how to troubleshoot a computer sys, but hes too busy being on the phone doing things that allow him to have a support staff to do them.
dave hackett, a friend and former colleague of mine, worked as a graphic design consultant for the web consulting firm i worked for as a graphic guy as well.
hes a really nice guy and has a great eye for design... and who would have thought he'd end up doing web sites after skating for so long.
(btw, dave is the guy who did the MTV logo, and most of the designs for the "jimmy Z" clothing line.
While all three box manufacturers are stuck at $199 USD (while Japan, the EU, and Canada sell them for less) - one wonders when the game price competition will start?
yes, sony is considering an price drop, while microsoft is relying on the strength of its game library to allow it to sell games at the current price.
From an msnbc report: While Sony Computer Entertainment of America President Kaz Hirai said his company would consider lowering prices on the games it publishes from $49.99, O'Rourke said Microsoft has no plans in that regard.
"Great games are what gamers want and they're willing to pay for those," he said.
its also worth noting that sony did drop their prices first, but only in response to information that microsoft would be announcing a price drop at E3 later this week.
microsoft dropped their price this week to match sony's pre-emptive drop, to minimize the advantage they would have through this press and buying cycle.
did anyone else read the topic, go to the article, expecting to see what clever, funny, insightful thing he had done, that escaped everyone for so long?
and when i found out, they treat it like its amazing this went undiscovered, as if cal trans is checking at all to make sure that every sign is exactly the ame every day.
wow, its like he snuck a car into a parking lot, and then im supposed to be amazed noone thought this was out of the ordinary.
now, if he had worked "laker fans ->" into the staples center sign, and noone caught it for a while, that would have been great. or maybe a political comment near the city hall offramp, a snide remark at hollywood in a applicable spot...but what he did is pretty unremarkable.
and seriously, maybe im not remembering the article correctly, but this took him 2 years to execute??
Smith graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he received the Class of 1901 Medal, the Dewitt Clinton Poole Memorial Prize, and the Harold Willis Dodds Achievement Award, the highest award given to a graduating senior at commencement. He was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at the Columbia University School of Law, where he received the David M. Berger Memorial Award. He also studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He has written numerous articles regarding international intellectual property and electronic commerce issues and has served as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law.
its not cool or legal, but if these companies somehow got versions of kazaa lite out there with trojans that did minorly scary things like change your background to a skull and crossbones with the moniker "shouldn't download random software from file sharing programs...buahahaha", i think the masses would start seeing the value in corporate distributed setup files, and not think the spyware was so bad.
on another note, i wonder what it will be like when all these services go to crap because noone will let them have a revenue stream.
although yes, getting to the airport would be crucial in my eyes, the way that this may service the sprawling urban areas is that most people will not enter the city, but in fact drive to the ned of the run, where they will leave their cars.
i did this recently to avoid the 405 here in california (a horrible freeway for traffic), by leaving my car at universal studios, catching the train, and getting to staples center in about 10 minutes.... normally a hour at least!
its going to be a goos start... but please oh please get it to the airport terminal!
this piece shows that robert is not only a great writer, but has a solid understanding of not only the mentality that goes into the recording industry, but of techno savvy music lovers themselves, who as a whole are much harder to get a feel for.
some have already commented that this wont make a difference.... but youd be wrong. taking a note from divx is something that might really wake up a company... past failures are always taken into consideration.
it amazes me to hear such a lack of any hope from a population that has the hope of unseating ms as an os some day.
(btw, i get 5 points for 4 2 letter words/abbrev. in a row.)
im no programmer...i stick to the presentation layer, so id love to hear from the community here about whether or not they could write a secretly installed program or virus that would take advantage of this little quirk and stream audio from someones computer.
now, get that program on a XP box in an embassy or something...or, even better, a girlfriends bedroom...
why is this on slashdot? i bet its more about the fact that people are paying to go into space that have traditionally not been able to go there that lance bass. that millionaire guy started the ball rolling on commercially bought space flights, and to hear now mainstream advertising is taking a interest and part in utilizing the space program for its needs is a new push in the mix of technology and advertising IS news. The fact the writer needs to attack Lance Bass as 'not his cup of tea' so that no masculinity points are lost is pretty OT.
It never fails to ammuse me how much people tend to attack nsync when these people are clearly not the intended audience.
if you like to talk about entertainment merit for their audience, you couldnt even start to muster up some sort of attack in the face of the overwhelming numbers supporting them. sales?...please! marketing prowess of their management?.... you are reading about them now.
and id be in a boy band in a second if i could go to space. oh, and the millions would be nice...and the groupies!....
i just tried making that that link
http://www.fent.net/graphics/cleavagesm.jpg
into:
http://www.fent.net/graphics/cleavagelg.jpg
following standard web designer naiming conventions ive used for years, but alas, it did not make the picture nor the cleavage bigger:(
too many zeros and ones.... they aint good for ya
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as i read this, it became increasingly obvious to me that this perspective of the web was one far different than mine... and then it dawned on me.
i use zeros and ones when it enhances my life. the author here uses zeros and ones for his life.
thats not a insult, (i do obviously choose to spend time with my computer as a hobby) but i wonder if people who dont spend so much time with the computer would have such a life altering view of the internet evolution as katz does here.
i know alot of people who dont know and dont care what the internet is, and are very happy, balanced, well adjusted, energetic people.
to then, all of the hoopla in the email is really over played.
someone wrote "Because if it fell down, it'd be about as destructive as a thermonuclear bomb (kinetic energy's a bitch). And NOBODY would want this in their back yard after 9/11.
On the moon, Mars, any other sparsely-populated/unpopulated body in the solar system? Sure. But not here."
I think the line for the elevator's going to start in afghanistan. noones going after it then...
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its actually pretty common for people who in a service role in a company to have some disdain for the people that they are paid to service.
most IT people think that they are constantly having to deal with the morons above them, getting this way just because the IT people have chosen to focus on computers as their specialty.
well, IT people arent special. they are what happens when you arent good enough to build a system... just maintain someone elses (for the most part). most of the resentment for upper management who cant configure outlook correctly probably comes from the narrow minded thinking that not knowing how to is stupid, and knowing how to makes them superior.
well, most of those upper management people are probably too busy with their lives, their jobs, etc to deal with things like that. thats why there are IT people... to service and support the people who make the money for the company!
so, go fix upper managements keyboard by plugging it back in... and remember he could learn how to troubleshoot a computer sys, but hes too busy being on the phone doing things that allow him to have a support staff to do them.
baz lehrmer? is that you? :)
dave hackett, a friend and former colleague of mine, worked as a graphic design consultant for the web consulting firm i worked for as a graphic guy as well.
hes a really nice guy and has a great eye for design... and who would have thought he'd end up doing web sites after skating for so long.
(btw, dave is the guy who did the MTV logo, and most of the designs for the "jimmy Z" clothing line.
While all three box manufacturers are stuck at $199 USD (while Japan, the EU, and Canada sell them for less) - one wonders when the game price competition will start?
yes, sony is considering an price drop, while microsoft is relying on the strength of its game library to allow it to sell games at the current price.
From an msnbc report:
While Sony Computer Entertainment of America President Kaz Hirai said his company would consider lowering prices on the games it publishes from $49.99, O'Rourke said Microsoft has no plans in that regard.
"Great games are what gamers want and they're willing to pay for those," he said.
at the initial retail price of $299, Microsoft has been losing anywhere between $76 and $105 on every Xbox sold.
thus, they are now loosing from $176 to $205 bucks each box!
at the initial retail price of $299, Microsoft has been losing anywhere between $76 and $105 on every Xbox sold.
thus, they are now loosing from $176 to $205 bucks each box!
its also worth noting that sony did drop their prices first, but only in response to information that microsoft would be announcing a price drop at E3 later this week.
microsoft dropped their price this week to match sony's pre-emptive drop, to minimize the advantage they would have through this press and buying cycle.
actually, nintendo does plan to cut its prices in response to this. all 3 manufacturers are at 199 (not 200.
nintendo feels pressure to drop their price so that they can retain hold of the childrens gaming market, which they revere so much.
did anyone else read the topic, go to the article, expecting to see what clever, funny, insightful thing he had done, that escaped everyone for so long?
and when i found out, they treat it like its amazing this went undiscovered, as if cal trans is checking at all to make sure that every sign is exactly the ame every day.
wow, its like he snuck a car into a parking lot, and then im supposed to be amazed noone thought this was out of the ordinary.
now, if he had worked "laker fans ->" into the staples center sign, and noone caught it for a while, that would have been great. or maybe a political comment near the city hall offramp, a snide remark at hollywood in a applicable spot...but what he did is pretty unremarkable.
and seriously, maybe im not remembering the article correctly, but this took him 2 years to execute??
"Look at the Brain on Brad!"
Smith graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he received the Class of 1901 Medal, the Dewitt Clinton Poole Memorial Prize, and the Harold Willis Dodds Achievement Award, the highest award given to a graduating senior at commencement. He was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at the Columbia University School of Law, where he received the David M. Berger Memorial Award. He also studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He has written numerous articles regarding international intellectual property and electronic commerce issues and has served as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law.
its not cool or legal, but if these companies somehow got versions of kazaa lite out there with trojans that did minorly scary things like change your background to a skull and crossbones with the moniker "shouldn't download random software from file sharing programs...buahahaha", i think the masses would start seeing the value in corporate distributed setup files, and not think the spyware was so bad.
on another note, i wonder what it will be like when all these services go to crap because noone will let them have a revenue stream.
although yes, getting to the airport would be crucial in my eyes, the way that this may service the sprawling urban areas is that most people will not enter the city, but in fact drive to the ned of the run, where they will leave their cars.
i did this recently to avoid the 405 here in california (a horrible freeway for traffic), by leaving my car at universal studios, catching the train, and getting to staples center in about 10 minutes.... normally a hour at least!
its going to be a goos start... but please oh please get it to the airport terminal!
if you go through all that work, certainly dont hook it up to the car battery... let it have its own!
i believe they would have been wearing some sort of goggles to protect themselves from the full force of the blast flash.
ummm, i didnt know that free access to my website would be "forcing" it upon you taco.
:)
i apoligize for the intrusion... unless this is another april fools joke. how on earth can you say that more options is an intrusion!?
even though theres a new naughty of the month? ahh, a few bikinis, now its not so forceful is it?...
more content is not an intrusion unless its blocking or taking other channels... and i doubt it.
this piece shows that robert is not only a great writer, but has a solid understanding of not only the mentality that goes into the recording industry, but of techno savvy music lovers themselves, who as a whole are much harder to get a feel for.
some have already commented that this wont make a difference.... but youd be wrong. taking a note from divx is something that might really wake up a company... past failures are always taken into consideration.
it amazes me to hear such a lack of any hope from a population that has the hope of unseating ms as an os some day.
(btw, i get 5 points for 4 2 letter words/abbrev. in a row.)
you wouldnt.
i made the assertion that you could tap the computer serrupticiously to get this listening to pass what it hears on.
he said someone once tapped a computer for a stream, which is along the same lines.
he never said you need voice rec to get audio...
yep, that sounds definitely along the lines of this. very interesting... and funny.
if it was a comp sci class, he should get a better grade for ingenuity...
im no programmer...i stick to the presentation layer, so id love to hear from the community here about whether or not they could write a secretly installed program or virus that would take advantage of this little quirk and stream audio from someones computer.
now, get that program on a XP box in an embassy or something...or, even better, a girlfriends bedroom...
why is this on slashdot? i bet its more about the fact that people are paying to go into space that have traditionally not been able to go there that lance bass. that millionaire guy started the ball rolling on commercially bought space flights, and to hear now mainstream advertising is taking a interest and part in utilizing the space program for its needs is a new push in the mix of technology and advertising IS news. The fact the writer needs to attack Lance Bass as 'not his cup of tea' so that no masculinity points are lost is pretty OT.
It never fails to ammuse me how much people tend to attack nsync when these people are clearly not the intended audience.
if you like to talk about entertainment merit for their audience, you couldnt even start to muster up some sort of attack in the face of the overwhelming numbers supporting them. sales?...please! marketing prowess of their management?.... you are reading about them now.
and id be in a boy band in a second if i could go to space. oh, and the millions would be nice...and the groupies!....
im forming a boy band, who wants to come?
i just tried making that that link http://www.fent.net/graphics/cleavagesm.jpg into: http://www.fent.net/graphics/cleavagelg.jpg following standard web designer naiming conventions ive used for years, but alas, it did not make the picture nor the cleavage bigger :(
as i read this, it became increasingly obvious to me that this perspective of the web was one far different than mine... and then it dawned on me.
i use zeros and ones when it enhances my life. the author here uses zeros and ones for his life.
thats not a insult, (i do obviously choose to spend time with my computer as a hobby) but i wonder if people who dont spend so much time with the computer would have such a life altering view of the internet evolution as katz does here.
i know alot of people who dont know and dont care what the internet is, and are very happy, balanced, well adjusted, energetic people.
to then, all of the hoopla in the email is really over played.
someone wrote "Because if it fell down, it'd be about as destructive as a thermonuclear bomb (kinetic energy's a bitch). And NOBODY would want this in their back yard after 9/11.
On the moon, Mars, any other sparsely-populated/unpopulated body in the solar system? Sure. But not here."
I think the line for the elevator's going to start in afghanistan. noones going after it then...
i dont know how the mass public can get confused by such a simple unit.
if youd like to read more, learn more, or pass this to a tech-crippled relative, check out tivoguide.com.
it basically explained what hed be getting from his tivo and how it was going to work for him.
"I need to order new Rubber for my Jack Bot sometime"
the blackhawk down post mentioned the "combat jack"....i hope there is no correlation.