I'm reading this story and I remember to turn my ICQ on. Oddly enough, it seems that ICQ is down right now. Their site is down as well as their connection servers.
Strangley this is also very close on the heels of the Ceo to CFO logs that have recently gone public, taken from ICQ logs. I would have to say they are having an all time bad day right now.
What measures are being made, if any, to correct any of the false recorded historical occurences? And what of newer developments that belong in the encyclopedia, but have not yet made it there? Are you Copying it as is, or are you giving yourself a certain amount of free reign with the knowledge?
I myself have been stuck in the Verizon loop of insanity. Long story, but to get to the point:
Cable modems are inherently insecure. You are sharing common bandwidth with others. That gives them level 2 access. Talk to RCN and see how well they handle Firewall Support. The reps at Time Warner pass you off from person to person and I have yet to get and answer.
Time Warner is the company I am going through until I can the proper DSL modem. They are very unclear on their policies. Having gone through both the Road runner site and the AOL-TimeWarner site, they do not specify very clearly what their terms of service are. I'm not too worried as I only plan to have them for a couple weeks. You, should check into it more though. A few companies out there... Sprint.... Have some very, evil policies. Like the right to go into your house because you are using thier service, right to dictate what sites you go to, regardless of legality, etc. So I would find all of that out before you consider either.
(In case you ever go through verizon, RA-14 crap out past 11,000 ft. from CO. Only the RA-12 Modems will work past that. Fujitsu has not ETA on when they will fix this issue.)
Ironically enough, the last company I worked for also felt that a cell phone passed from programmer to programmer was a good way to keep costs down.
Your job is simply to prove them wrong. 3-4 seconds on high in a microwave is enough to fry the LED without causing any obvious damage to the phone. Though it will be hot for a bit so you might want to stick it in the freezer for about ten minutes.
It takes a bit to get a replacement cell phone, and there is no way to easily prove what is happening. It's normal for cell phones that are passed from one person to the next to be damaged. The Cell phones are also under warranty so they would have no call to charge anyone for the fix. It costs them a lot of customer down time.
My boss knew I was doing something to the phones, but since he couldn't prove it, and because he got stuck with the phone on occation too, it eventually just dissapeared.
It's a wonderful luxury as a non-manager, for someone to be able to say what a company should and shouldn't do. Most of the people the write here, while very intelligent, are not managers.
Your employees will respect you because you treat them well, and you prove yourself through actions. Not because of some silly handbook. Most the time it doesn't get read anyway.
You have to cover yourself. If you write the hand book to be a nice guy, and someone violates a law where you have not covered the company, the company is the one that is liable for it. The person that wrote the handbook gets fired, the company gets sued, and the employee doesn't really get what he deserves for violating a law on company time.
Like I said before, it's not what's in the book that counts day to day, it's how you actually treat the people who work for you.
Isn't a vague approximation enough? Take a recent computer game as an example, say Tekken Tag Tournament or Soul Caliber on the PS2 and Dreamcast respectively. Both these games look damn good.
The look good by yesterday's standards, sure. Compare that to today's gaming standards, and they are good, but you know tomorrow will have something better. The standard changes daily, and approximations are only good enough if they meet those standards.
Most of the story lines, game plots, and genre's have been explored. The latest and greatest fall into technologies hands now, not story tellers. That means more time put into what we haven't virtually maxed out. Making your toys look better than everyone else's.
When did gaming take to being real? Its an escape isn't it?
It still is and always will be an escape. Games are an escape, not because they don't look like the real world, but because they don't act like it. They enhanced graphics don't make the game anymore "real" than they were in the 8 bit world. Whether you're fighting dragons, racing down the street running over pedestrians or just designing you're own city, you are still escaping. How many people do those things in real life? And can reset if they don't like the results? The fact that you can see the reflection of a light in a puddle of water, or the shadows of the folds of clothes, just makes the escape itself all the more realistic.
Two years ago, I could have fully believed that if the "technical elite" could plug themselves in, and have pretty colored Tron suits to flash their tech savvy, they'd give an arm for it. Literally.
Not today, though.
Their are still those that buy the gadgets because they are neat and still embody all that is wonderful and geeky, but the job market and the culture has started to have quite and infiltration of "normal" (I use this term incredibly loosely) people. With this taking place, I think it will be a while before we go Borg. At this rate we seem to be heading more Federation.
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I'm reading this story and I remember to turn my ICQ on. Oddly enough, it seems that ICQ is down right now. Their site is down as well as their connection servers.
Strangley this is also very close on the heels of the Ceo to CFO logs that have recently gone public, taken from ICQ logs. I would have to say they are having an all time bad day right now.
What measures are being made, if any, to correct any of the false recorded historical occurences? And what of newer developments that belong in the encyclopedia, but have not yet made it there? Are you Copying it as is, or are you giving yourself a certain amount of free reign with the knowledge?
I myself have been stuck in the Verizon loop of insanity. Long story, but to get to the point:
Cable modems are inherently insecure. You are sharing common bandwidth with others. That gives them level 2 access. Talk to RCN and see how well they handle Firewall Support. The reps at Time Warner pass you off from person to person and I have yet to get and answer.
Time Warner is the company I am going through until I can the proper DSL modem. They are very unclear on their policies. Having gone through both the Road runner site and the AOL-TimeWarner site, they do not specify very clearly what their terms of service are. I'm not too worried as I only plan to have them for a couple weeks. You, should check into it more though. A few companies out there... Sprint.... Have some very, evil policies. Like the right to go into your house because you are using thier service, right to dictate what sites you go to, regardless of legality, etc. So I would find all of that out before you consider either.
(In case you ever go through verizon, RA-14 crap out past 11,000 ft. from CO. Only the RA-12 Modems will work past that. Fujitsu has not ETA on when they will fix this issue.)
Ironically enough, the last company I worked for also felt that a cell phone passed from programmer to programmer was a good way to keep costs down.
Your job is simply to prove them wrong. 3-4 seconds on high in a microwave is enough to fry the LED without causing any obvious damage to the phone. Though it will be hot for a bit so you might want to stick it in the freezer for about ten minutes.
It takes a bit to get a replacement cell phone, and there is no way to easily prove what is happening. It's normal for cell phones that are passed from one person to the next to be damaged. The Cell phones are also under warranty so they would have no call to charge anyone for the fix. It costs them a lot of customer down time.
My boss knew I was doing something to the phones, but since he couldn't prove it, and because he got stuck with the phone on occation too, it eventually just dissapeared.
It's a wonderful luxury as a non-manager, for someone to be able to say what a company should and shouldn't do. Most of the people the write here, while very intelligent, are not managers.
Your employees will respect you because you treat them well, and you prove yourself through actions. Not because of some silly handbook. Most the time it doesn't get read anyway.
You have to cover yourself. If you write the hand book to be a nice guy, and someone violates a law where you have not covered the company, the company is the one that is liable for it. The person that wrote the handbook gets fired, the company gets sued, and the employee doesn't really get what he deserves for violating a law on company time.
Like I said before, it's not what's in the book that counts day to day, it's how you actually treat the people who work for you.
Isn't a vague approximation enough? Take a recent computer game as an example, say Tekken Tag Tournament or Soul Caliber on the PS2 and Dreamcast respectively. Both these games look damn good.
The look good by yesterday's standards, sure. Compare that to today's gaming standards, and they are good, but you know tomorrow will have something better. The standard changes daily, and approximations are only good enough if they meet those standards.
Most of the story lines, game plots, and genre's have been explored. The latest and greatest fall into technologies hands now, not story tellers. That means more time put into what we haven't virtually maxed out. Making your toys look better than everyone else's.
When did gaming take to being real? Its an escape isn't it?
It still is and always will be an escape. Games are an escape, not because they don't look like the real world, but because they don't act like it. They enhanced graphics don't make the game anymore "real" than they were in the 8 bit world. Whether you're fighting dragons, racing down the street running over pedestrians or just designing you're own city, you are still escaping. How many people do those things in real life? And can reset if they don't like the results? The fact that you can see the reflection of a light in a puddle of water, or the shadows of the folds of clothes, just makes the escape itself all the more realistic.
Two years ago, I could have fully believed that if the "technical elite" could plug themselves in, and have pretty colored Tron suits to flash their tech savvy, they'd give an arm for it. Literally. Not today, though. Their are still those that buy the gadgets because they are neat and still embody all that is wonderful and geeky, but the job market and the culture has started to have quite and infiltration of "normal" (I use this term incredibly loosely) people. With this taking place, I think it will be a while before we go Borg. At this rate we seem to be heading more Federation.