One reason his boss is pretty cool is that he's letting a bunch of them go at the same time. My assumption is that these staff aren't customer facing, or at least that they have enough left to cover any demand. The whole half day off thing isn't that cool generally (Especially as it's being made up)... I've worked for a number of places that have pooled my unpaid overtime (Salaried, or at least I was then) and let me take it in extra holiday at some point or another throughout the year (Half day here, half day there if I wanted).
I have 220gb of apps, music and dvds all downloaded using eDonkey that would kind of indicate you were doing something wrong. I'll admit - it can be a bitch to get configured properly and there's no point in using it if you're impatient. But if you just leave it to its own devices you'll eventually get pretty much everything you asked for of it.
I regularly get full speed downloads (175k on my connection).
I've always got a job for security (Intrusion) experts that can tell me what's wrong with my systems / servers, prove it and then secure it. I use a couple of service companies to do this for me, but I somehow feel that they're a little too clean cut to get me the results that I really need.
I've always preferred making sure I have friendly players around the virtual table and sharing card information. Much, much easier to perform informed betting at that point.:) Plus, with that many cards on show you usually have a pretty good idea what the non-friendly players could have.
Not nice, but thankfully it's about as immoral as I get.
I've seen this regularly in society. Plenty of people moan because no-one does anything to improve society then sit on their asses doing nothing for society themselves.
People think I'm strange because whilst I'm particularly poor, I'm always the first person to dig into my pockets to give to worthwhile charities. Recently when I couldn't donate (was having trouble paying the bills) I did a few hours at a local charity shop to help out (It makes me feel better about myself, that's no crime).
Why? Because there are ALWAYS people worse off than yourself, no matter how hard you think you have it.
Excellent game. My better half still plays it on the old Windows 95 box I have set up for her. There's something truly enjoyable about being able to play the baddies for once. Some excellent little touches like getting to see your monsters dancing "disco inferno" too.:) Actually, I think I might go and have a game now...
Same here, I can't get the UK model any more (Please god someone tell me where I can get one from!), I can only get the new version with one less windows key (I'm used to using both at this point) and loads of useless shortcut keys over the top.
I have three of them here. What I do is switch between two of them every three months, keeping the final one in reserve. When I take one out of service, I take it apart, remove the electronics and give the outer housing a thorough cleaning (I actually stick it in a bath full of bleach). At the same time I use compressed air on the internals to make sure they are all up to scratch.
It's obsessive, but like I said - I can't find them anymore (Natural Keyboard Elite) so I'm doing everything I can to make sure they last forever. I've had them about 5 years now (Bought in 1999 / 2000, can't remember) and I really hope I can get them to last another 10.
Hello AC. At which point did I say those who liked the film were wrong? Never, I simply gave my opinion that I didn't like the film and can't understand how it is rated in the top 100. Didn't I say it was an unpopular viewpoint before I even started criticising?
But then again, I was expecting flames for daring to question the godlike 2001.
All down to personal preference really. My main problem with 2001 was the visuals (and the last half hour) above anything. It seemed to me (I haven't gone back and checked) that every single space shot was about 5 mins too long. Sure, show us that the ship is flying across space - but don't show us the same ship from different angles for 10 mins just because you can. Even worse with the "lets throw every colour we have at the screen" photosensitive epilepsy fest that came toward the end. Ok, I get it - He's travelling across space, time, x, now please, for the love of god get on with it. Maybe I'm impatient, I don't know - but on the second on third viewings I just had to reach for the fast forward button.
If I was to be completely honest I would say that I only pick CO and FMJ because they are the only other two Kubrick films I have seen. After watching 2001 I wont be wasting my time with any more. I stand by my opinion that they are better films.
I did enjoy CO because I thought it did the whole anarchy / insanity bit well. On FMJ, you're right... thinking about it I can't actually remember much about it at all right now. But I know I didn't hate it... unlike 2001.
Unpopular viewpoint, but I'd have to agree. I watched it once to see what the fuss was about. I watched it a second time to see what I had missed the first time. I watched it the third time because I couldn't believe that this horribly bad film was rated in the top 10 movies of all time.
Just another trip into Kubrick's mangled mind, but I think in this case you just needed a little too many drugs to appreciate it. Good for the swinging 60s I'm sure, but I'm just a little too sober for it these days.
Watch clockwork orange or full metal jacket if you want to appreciate some of Kubrick's better work. (Concentrating more on the story than tedious and trippy visual sequences.)
Goddamn that was a hardcore post! Good on ya, I agree with most of your points - no matter how viciously they came across. We are creating a society where people wont take responsibility for their own actions and embrace their own stupidity.
Speaking out against this will not help - But I'm sure glad to know that I'm not the only person around with such strongly held views!:D
This is slashdot you fool! You've mentioned wife and kinky sex in the same post... good job you posted as AC or you'd be hunted by the green eyed monsters forever!:)
Ummm... having been to Germany in the last six months I can tell you that plenty of cars (BMW, Mercedes, Audi) come with cupholders, handsfree systems, sat nav, dvd players etc. Also, the Autobahn only has no speed limit on certain sections. On most parts it's just like the rest of Europe / The World.
I'm interested in where you go that information from.
That's just the main page, there are far better in there to use for inspiration OR intoxication (Whatever is you pleasure). Looks like you are using Opera 6.06 or similar, is that right? That's the only browser I can get to give me that error. I'm sure one of the better webdevs here could tell us where the page designers went wrong (I do databases /.NET - I'm only average at XHTML & CSS).
I just like to use zen as an example for people that don't realise just how powerful css layouts are (Many make the argument that you cannot attain the power of table based design with a pure XHTML / CSS layout, which quite frankly is utter crap).
Good old Peter Blum - quality validators. While on the subject of.net improvements, don't forget to update the machine.config file so that.net doesn't detect uplevel browsers as downlevel and start outputting HTML 3.2. You can find a fairly good browsercaps file here: http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/browsercaps.asp though there may be better resources around.
As a comparison... SAProxy (spamassassin) tells me that I have had 2000+ spams in the last month. That's on my lifetime email address (Had it 8 years now). Not good, and I'm pretty careful about which sites I put my email address in to.
I really don't know how people do without anti-spam software. I've only got 500 "real" emails in the last month and I would have lost hours trying to sort the good from the bad in just the last couple of months alone.
I would not be happy with sharing in this case (for free) simply because the BBC seems to value their income highly enough to feel the need to fine people living on the breadline into oblivion for nothing more than wanting to watch TV (Irrespective or not of if they want to make use of the BBC). This stands also for anyone who uses a TV for DVD / Console purposes. In the UK, we must register our address when we buy anything with a tuner in it - Then not long after we would generally get the nasty "BUY A TV LICENCE OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES" letter. These are the people that decide that the blind should still pay 50% of the normal cost for a licence! They also like to charge students in shared houses per lockable room (With TV) rather than one licence for the entire house. They are nice like that.
The only way around it (Unless you are over 75) is to take the tuner out of your TV!
I'm all for sharing as a rule, but in this case, they are giving away free what they would happily hunt down people who will not pay for it. My beef here is with the BBC and the way they aggressively pursue licensing fees only to waste them later on worthless projects.
I completely agree with you. The BBC has excellent news services. My rant mainly comes on that back of the BBC also announcing that they will soon be making their back catalog available online too.
The point is, yes - Once produced, there is no real cost in further broadcasting it (Short of the technology they are creating to do it), but it's like software - sure, it can be distributed for free... but someone has to pay (In terms of cash or time) for it to be made in the first place. I'm just not sure I like being forced into spending money on something that others will get for free. No, I don't like taxes much either.;)
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One reason his boss is pretty cool is that he's letting a bunch of them go at the same time. My assumption is that these staff aren't customer facing, or at least that they have enough left to cover any demand. The whole half day off thing isn't that cool generally (Especially as it's being made up)... I've worked for a number of places that have pooled my unpaid overtime (Salaried, or at least I was then) and let me take it in extra holiday at some point or another throughout the year (Half day here, half day there if I wanted).
Now that's cool.
I have 220gb of apps, music and dvds all downloaded using eDonkey that would kind of indicate you were doing something wrong. I'll admit - it can be a bitch to get configured properly and there's no point in using it if you're impatient. But if you just leave it to its own devices you'll eventually get pretty much everything you asked for of it.
I regularly get full speed downloads (175k on my connection).
Absolutely agreed.
I've always got a job for security (Intrusion) experts that can tell me what's wrong with my systems / servers, prove it and then secure it. I use a couple of service companies to do this for me, but I somehow feel that they're a little too clean cut to get me the results that I really need.
Excellent... server seems to be slowly cooking already. :)
That was superb, so glad to have them back. :)
Shall certainly try that. Have never thought of using any software other than instant messaging before now.
I've always preferred making sure I have friendly players around the virtual table and sharing card information. Much, much easier to perform informed betting at that point. :) Plus, with that many cards on show you usually have a pretty good idea what the non-friendly players could have.
Not nice, but thankfully it's about as immoral as I get.
Absolutely superb! That one has to be one of the best posts of 2004 for me.
Tell me where I can download this "Pen" porn of which you speak! I've seen pretty much all the other types and that sounds like it might be good...
;)
On a more serious note, if you're using pens for sex, you might not be doing it right.
Mod parent up.
.
I've seen this regularly in society. Plenty of people moan because no-one does anything to improve society then sit on their asses doing nothing for society themselves.
People think I'm strange because whilst I'm particularly poor, I'm always the first person to dig into my pockets to give to worthwhile charities. Recently when I couldn't donate (was having trouble paying the bills) I did a few hours at a local charity shop to help out (It makes me feel better about myself, that's no crime)
Why? Because there are ALWAYS people worse off than yourself, no matter how hard you think you have it.
That's pretty frightening, I think I probably would have fallen for that.
Excellent game. My better half still plays it on the old Windows 95 box I have set up for her. There's something truly enjoyable about being able to play the baddies for once. Some excellent little touches like getting to see your monsters dancing "disco inferno" too. :) Actually, I think I might go and have a game now...
Same here, I can't get the UK model any more (Please god someone tell me where I can get one from!), I can only get the new version with one less windows key (I'm used to using both at this point) and loads of useless shortcut keys over the top.
I have three of them here. What I do is switch between two of them every three months, keeping the final one in reserve. When I take one out of service, I take it apart, remove the electronics and give the outer housing a thorough cleaning (I actually stick it in a bath full of bleach). At the same time I use compressed air on the internals to make sure they are all up to scratch.
It's obsessive, but like I said - I can't find them anymore (Natural Keyboard Elite) so I'm doing everything I can to make sure they last forever. I've had them about 5 years now (Bought in 1999 / 2000, can't remember) and I really hope I can get them to last another 10.
Hello AC. At which point did I say those who liked the film were wrong? Never, I simply gave my opinion that I didn't like the film and can't understand how it is rated in the top 100. Didn't I say it was an unpopular viewpoint before I even started criticising?
But then again, I was expecting flames for daring to question the godlike 2001.
All down to personal preference really. My main problem with 2001 was the visuals (and the last half hour) above anything. It seemed to me (I haven't gone back and checked) that every single space shot was about 5 mins too long. Sure, show us that the ship is flying across space - but don't show us the same ship from different angles for 10 mins just because you can. Even worse with the "lets throw every colour we have at the screen" photosensitive epilepsy fest that came toward the end. Ok, I get it - He's travelling across space, time, x, now please, for the love of god get on with it. Maybe I'm impatient, I don't know - but on the second on third viewings I just had to reach for the fast forward button.
If I was to be completely honest I would say that I only pick CO and FMJ because they are the only other two Kubrick films I have seen. After watching 2001 I wont be wasting my time with any more. I stand by my opinion that they are better films.
I did enjoy CO because I thought it did the whole anarchy / insanity bit well. On FMJ, you're right... thinking about it I can't actually remember much about it at all right now. But I know I didn't hate it... unlike 2001.
Unpopular viewpoint, but I'd have to agree. I watched it once to see what the fuss was about. I watched it a second time to see what I had missed the first time. I watched it the third time because I couldn't believe that this horribly bad film was rated in the top 10 movies of all time.
Just another trip into Kubrick's mangled mind, but I think in this case you just needed a little too many drugs to appreciate it. Good for the swinging 60s I'm sure, but I'm just a little too sober for it these days.
Watch clockwork orange or full metal jacket if you want to appreciate some of Kubrick's better work. (Concentrating more on the story than tedious and trippy visual sequences.)
Goddamn that was a hardcore post! Good on ya, I agree with most of your points - no matter how viciously they came across. We are creating a society where people wont take responsibility for their own actions and embrace their own stupidity.
:D
Speaking out against this will not help - But I'm sure glad to know that I'm not the only person around with such strongly held views!
This is slashdot you fool! You've mentioned wife and kinky sex in the same post... good job you posted as AC or you'd be hunted by the green eyed monsters forever! :)
Ummm... having been to Germany in the last six months I can tell you that plenty of cars (BMW, Mercedes, Audi) come with cupholders, handsfree systems, sat nav, dvd players etc. Also, the Autobahn only has no speed limit on certain sections. On most parts it's just like the rest of Europe / The World.
I'm interested in where you go that information from.
That's just the main page, there are far better in there to use for inspiration OR intoxication (Whatever is you pleasure). Looks like you are using Opera 6.06 or similar, is that right? That's the only browser I can get to give me that error. I'm sure one of the better webdevs here could tell us where the page designers went wrong (I do databases / .NET - I'm only average at XHTML & CSS).
& page=0 & page=1 & page=1
s s & page=1 & page=1
I like these (Mainly because they are pretty, but some have elastic layouts). If you are using Opera 6.06, these first pages wont work properly for you. (They're done for graphical style, not compatibility.)
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/063/063.css
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/090/090.css
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/089/089.css
These pages work in Opera:
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=109%2F109.cs
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=108%2F108.cs
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/095/095.css
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/094/094.css
I just like to use zen as an example for people that don't realise just how powerful css layouts are (Many make the argument that you cannot attain the power of table based design with a pure XHTML / CSS layout, which quite frankly is utter crap).
Knew I would forget something. The article linked below has detail on modifying .net to output valid xhtml: http://www.liquid-internet.co.uk/content/dynamic/p ages/series1article1.aspx
.net v2.
Hopefully MS will learn for
Good old Peter Blum - quality validators. While on the subject of .net improvements, don't forget to update the machine.config file so that .net doesn't detect uplevel browsers as downlevel and start outputting HTML 3.2. You can find a fairly good browsercaps file here: http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/browsercaps.asp though there may be better resources around.
For CSS - I can recommend (In no particular order):
http://thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/css/
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/
http://www.positioniseverything.net/
http://www.s7u.co.uk/
http://alistapart.com/topics/css/
For CSS inspiration, go here: http://www.csszengarden.com/
But I would go for a book:
Designing with Web Standards, Jeffrey Zeldman (ISBN: 0735712018). Possibly also the Eric Meyer on CSS books too.
Enjoy.
As a comparison... SAProxy (spamassassin) tells me that I have had 2000+ spams in the last month. That's on my lifetime email address (Had it 8 years now). Not good, and I'm pretty careful about which sites I put my email address in to.
I really don't know how people do without anti-spam software. I've only got 500 "real" emails in the last month and I would have lost hours trying to sort the good from the bad in just the last couple of months alone.
I would not be happy with sharing in this case (for free) simply because the BBC seems to value their income highly enough to feel the need to fine people living on the breadline into oblivion for nothing more than wanting to watch TV (Irrespective or not of if they want to make use of the BBC). This stands also for anyone who uses a TV for DVD / Console purposes. In the UK, we must register our address when we buy anything with a tuner in it - Then not long after we would generally get the nasty "BUY A TV LICENCE OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES" letter. These are the people that decide that the blind should still pay 50% of the normal cost for a licence! They also like to charge students in shared houses per lockable room (With TV) rather than one licence for the entire house. They are nice like that.
The only way around it (Unless you are over 75) is to take the tuner out of your TV!
I'm all for sharing as a rule, but in this case, they are giving away free what they would happily hunt down people who will not pay for it. My beef here is with the BBC and the way they aggressively pursue licensing fees only to waste them later on worthless projects.
I completely agree with you. The BBC has excellent news services. My rant mainly comes on that back of the BBC also announcing that they will soon be making their back catalog available online too.
;)
The point is, yes - Once produced, there is no real cost in further broadcasting it (Short of the technology they are creating to do it), but it's like software - sure, it can be distributed for free... but someone has to pay (In terms of cash or time) for it to be made in the first place. I'm just not sure I like being forced into spending money on something that others will get for free. No, I don't like taxes much either.