I transferred a domain to them and they let it expire, charged my account anyway, and re-registerred it to themselves.
You didn't choose to auto-renew, and you forgot to do it manually, ergo, it must be someone else's fault. OK. You did notice that portion of the terms of use that stated that X days after the registration has expired, anyone can register the domain, didn't you?
Secondly, this company is local to me, and they interviewed me for a job but then lied to me after the fact about the reason why I wasn't selected. They did this to many of my highly qualified associates as well. Their excuse: I supposedly didn't pass their super-cheezy "IQ" test...which was significantly easier than Mensa's test which I did pass.
Would you rather be told that you are too arrogant and don't take responsibility for your own actions (or lack thereof)? Just a question.
Why does a legitimate business who is ALREADY getting my money need to also assault me with a barrage of advertising?
How do you think they're able to offer such rock-bottom prices? Frankly I've been much more impressed with godaddy.com than with some other registrars who, despite charging 3-4-5x as much, subject you to similarly annoying advertising.
Someone at a company we partner with wrote a web service, part of which made 400+ RMI calls to validate the input on a single (enumerated) field. Yeah, he probably was a former vb guy,and certainly had no clue, but this was in the "Real World", and it made it all the way to release before they noticed it (the staging tiers we all on the same server, the prod tiers were not...)
I'm running a 266Mhz G3 imac with 576 MB RAM, and it works like a charm with 10.2.x. It was [not surprisingly] unusable with the stock 64 megs, but the ram upgrade made everything happy. Even GUI performance isn't bad (with the notable exception of the "genie" effect) with this smokin' RAGE 8MB onboard video:)
Of course, now I can't find it. But it was USB2.0/Fwire interface, dual HDs with hotswap carriers, and built in hardware RAID 0/1. $600 for one with 2x120GB, which makes it a MUCH better deal than this one IMHO.
'Course, it ain't a "fileserver", and, I can't find the damn thing anymore! It was on backorder anyway. I'll post back if I can dig it up.
Sr VP Michael Wilson just made about 120k exercising sub-$1 options and selling for $10+.
How the hell can he do that?
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accept the Kyoto treaty
I was under the impression that such treaties needed to be ratified by the Congress (specifically the Senate, I think?), rather than the president.
For that matter, every other item you mention above is under direct control of the congress. Sure, it sounds good, but that doesn't mean any of it is likely to happen under any circumstances.
Open source is not free (as in beer), particularly on this scale
Sure it is -- you're not paying anything for the software. The costs for investigation, support, training, etc are there no matter what solution you choose.
Software licenses are obviously not typically the largest portion of the cost pie, but I think it is an important distinction to make vs. closed software. Particularly considering the move to subscription based licensing that so many large companies seem to be moving toward these days.
Pressure to report quarterly is spreading rapidly the world over...
On the one hand, quarterly reporting is a bad thing since it encourages short term thinking. Although I think this is less the [original] fault of the companies, and more the fault of the investment community in general. The ole dot-com bubble certainly did not help in that regard.
On the other hand, I think there are enough total dirtbags running publicly traded companies that a year is way too long to go without getting some numbers, even if they have been cooked.
Some of us just live here because that's where we found gainful employment!
And, if I may say so, worse than a tech support person getting a call from a masshole, is me calling tech support and hearing a masshole on the other end of the line.
"Let me pull up your recahd from the daterbase..."
My boss just got one. In a lot of ways I think it is overkill on a 15-ish inch screen, since you can't readily alter the size of things like menus, buttons, etc, but text does look damn sharp.
I only wish someone would bring a 1900x1200 external LCD flat panel to market, for less than the cost of the Dell...although honestly, if it was only a 15" I probably wouldn't buy it. I have no idea how much harder it is to make a [physically] larger screen with the same resolution, so I'll stop short of idle speculation...
they announced that all Linux 2.4 users are in violation of their Unix copyrights
And in other news, the Boston police department just announced that every resident is in violation of a citywide law. They won't, however, tell us which law that might be.
VW *used* to provide a 1/8" input jack
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This would have been back around the '94 model year or so (on a friend's car, not mine). As I remember, the sound was not great, but certainly better than any of the tape adaptors available at the time. No idea why they ditched it...probably so they could sell you their $349 single-CD player, or $699 changer...
I asked a MS SQL Server DBA about real-time replication across multiple servers and his remark was "it doesn't work, don't use it."
I don't know about bi-directional replication, but I can tell you that having one "master" server to which all writes go, and replicating out to many read-only databases works VERY well with SQL2000. My company solved some serious performance and locking issues by cleaning up our data flows and implementing replication.
This is obviously not appropriate for everyone, but in my experience, most web apps tend to involve substantially more reading than writing. Without more details on your situation, I don't know if it would be a help -- but it seems like its targeted a bit more toward the "high end".
With regards to reliability, it is possible to cluster SQL servers -- we have also had mostly good experiences with this. We had major problems when we first tried, but several SPs/patches later things are working very well.
The networks in most geeks' college apartments are a thousand times more secure than real, critical networks
Most geeks' college apartment networks are a thousand times less complex than a real, critical network. I do agree that you have a valid point, but I don't think it's a fair comparison.
Strangely, "optimal" is not always optimal. Different goals result in different strategies -- the most simple solution does is not always the best. If I need to get something out the door yesterday, and the quirky section of code tested out perfectly, why should I change it? If I'm not likely to have to deal with it in the future (extend, modify, etc), isn't that even more reason to leave it alone?
I consider myself a quite competent programmer, but I know from [sometimes painful] experience that simple changes are often not as simple as they first seemed.
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I transferred a domain to them and they let it expire, charged my account anyway, and re-registerred it to themselves.
You didn't choose to auto-renew, and you forgot to do it manually, ergo, it must be someone else's fault. OK. You did notice that portion of the terms of use that stated that X days after the registration has expired, anyone can register the domain, didn't you?
Secondly, this company is local to me, and they interviewed me for a job but then lied to me after the fact about the reason why I wasn't selected. They did this to many of my highly qualified associates as well. Their excuse: I supposedly didn't pass their super-cheezy "IQ" test...which was significantly easier than Mensa's test which I did pass.
Would you rather be told that you are too arrogant and don't take responsibility for your own actions (or lack thereof)? Just a question.
Why does a legitimate business who is ALREADY getting my money need to also assault me with a barrage of advertising?
How do you think they're able to offer such rock-bottom prices? Frankly I've been much more impressed with godaddy.com than with some other registrars who, despite charging 3-4-5x as much, subject you to similarly annoying advertising.
when do you guys ever stop voting for weasels and start voting for presidents?
That'll be the day there is someone other than a weasel running for president.
Someone at a company we partner with wrote a web service, part of which made 400+ RMI calls to validate the input on a single (enumerated) field. Yeah, he probably was a former vb guy,and certainly had no clue, but this was in the "Real World", and it made it all the way to release before they noticed it (the staging tiers we all on the same server, the prod tiers were not...)
I'm running a 266Mhz G3 imac with 576 MB RAM, and it works like a charm with 10.2.x. It was [not surprisingly] unusable with the stock 64 megs, but the ram upgrade made everything happy. Even GUI performance isn't bad (with the notable exception of the "genie" effect) with this smokin' RAGE 8MB onboard video :)
Not the one I was thinking of, but good enough by means of comparison:
http://www.miglia.com/store/index.html
Check out the "MediaBank". 629 euros for one with 2x120GB IBM (*cough* *wheeze* *die laughing* HDs), or 449 euro without.
Of course, now I can't find it. But it was USB2.0/Fwire interface, dual HDs with hotswap carriers, and built in hardware RAID 0/1. $600 for one with 2x120GB, which makes it a MUCH better deal than this one IMHO.
'Course, it ain't a "fileserver", and, I can't find the damn thing anymore! It was on backorder anyway. I'll post back if I can dig it up.
I was just about to sport wood until I remembered our office is still on Win2k for at least the next year or two... :(
So then the unpaid interns are then given the power to pick and choose what the rep reads? No thanks
You think that representatives are themselves actually picking and choosing which letters to read currently? Right...
No DRM == no iTunes, period.
And in Apple's defense, at least this was very clearly spelled out in the terms -- in the first paragraph, no less.
http://biz.yahoo.com/t/s/scox.html
Sr VP Michael Wilson just made about 120k exercising sub-$1 options and selling for $10+.
accept the Kyoto treaty
I was under the impression that such treaties needed to be ratified by the Congress (specifically the Senate, I think?), rather than the president.
For that matter, every other item you mention above is under direct control of the congress. Sure, it sounds good, but that doesn't mean any of it is likely to happen under any circumstances.
Take Planetside, for example -- 512MB and a GF2 will make you wish you'd never bought the game...
Open source is not free (as in beer), particularly on this scale
Sure it is -- you're not paying anything for the software. The costs for investigation, support, training, etc are there no matter what solution you choose.
Software licenses are obviously not typically the largest portion of the cost pie, but I think it is an important distinction to make vs. closed software. Particularly considering the move to subscription based licensing that so many large companies seem to be moving toward these days.
Pressure to report quarterly is spreading rapidly the world over...
On the one hand, quarterly reporting is a bad thing since it encourages short term thinking. Although I think this is less the [original] fault of the companies, and more the fault of the investment community in general. The ole dot-com bubble certainly did not help in that regard.
On the other hand, I think there are enough total dirtbags running publicly traded companies that a year is way too long to go without getting some numbers, even if they have been cooked.
Some of us just live here because that's where we found gainful employment!
And, if I may say so, worse than a tech support person getting a call from a masshole, is me calling tech support and hearing a masshole on the other end of the line.
"Let me pull up your recahd from the daterbase..."
My boss just got one. In a lot of ways I think it is overkill on a 15-ish inch screen, since you can't readily alter the size of things like menus, buttons, etc, but text does look damn sharp.
I only wish someone would bring a 1900x1200 external LCD flat panel to market, for less than the cost of the Dell...although honestly, if it was only a 15" I probably wouldn't buy it. I have no idea how much harder it is to make a [physically] larger screen with the same resolution, so I'll stop short of idle speculation...
We've got a LONG way to go in terms of ease of computer assembly before I'll agree that swapping out motherboards is a "good idea".
http://www.dumblaws.com/states/states.php?State=Ma ssachusetts
Some other great ones in there too (including the 'no one may bathe without physicians' authorization, mentioned by another poster in this thread)
they announced that all Linux 2.4 users are in violation of their Unix copyrights
And in other news, the Boston police department just announced that every resident is in violation of a citywide law. They won't, however, tell us which law that might be.
This would have been back around the '94 model year or so (on a friend's car, not mine). As I remember, the sound was not great, but certainly better than any of the tape adaptors available at the time. No idea why they ditched it...probably so they could sell you their $349 single-CD player, or $699 changer...
I asked a MS SQL Server DBA about real-time replication across multiple servers and his remark was "it doesn't work, don't use it."
I don't know about bi-directional replication, but I can tell you that having one "master" server to which all writes go, and replicating out to many read-only databases works VERY well with SQL2000. My company solved some serious performance and locking issues by cleaning up our data flows and implementing replication.
This is obviously not appropriate for everyone, but in my experience, most web apps tend to involve substantially more reading than writing. Without more details on your situation, I don't know if it would be a help -- but it seems like its targeted a bit more toward the "high end".
With regards to reliability, it is possible to cluster SQL servers -- we have also had mostly good experiences with this. We had major problems when we first tried, but several SPs/patches later things are working very well.
Thanks for the link - I had no idea this type of law had been around for such a long time.
The networks in most geeks' college apartments are a thousand times more secure than real, critical networks
Most geeks' college apartment networks are a thousand times less complex than a real, critical network. I do agree that you have a valid point, but I don't think it's a fair comparison.
Strangely, "optimal" is not always optimal. Different goals result in different strategies -- the most simple solution does is not always the best. If I need to get something out the door yesterday, and the quirky section of code tested out perfectly, why should I change it? If I'm not likely to have to deal with it in the future (extend, modify, etc), isn't that even more reason to leave it alone?
I consider myself a quite competent programmer, but I know from [sometimes painful] experience that simple changes are often not as simple as they first seemed.