Re:Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.
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Yeah, you posted a link where it's spelled with an "O" in the user comments, and that person isn't even sure "...inotech, or something ending in 'tech'"
It's Initech. Sorry.
Chris
Re:Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.
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Imagine that. I'm not in IT (customer service actually, until my wife finishes school and I can go back), but allow me to give my POV as I am out-of-work right now. Now, I'm only looking in the midwest, Iowa in particular, but I would guess that the findings are similar in other locations.
I've found Monster and Career Builder to be the best ones. But even those are a lot like wading through your hotmail account after not accessing it for a week...half "spam". Way too many of the same "Be your own boss! Make $100,000 a year!" jobs for selling life insurance, or licking envelopes, or selling something. A lot of the jobs that appear interesting seem to have trumped-up requirements, at least to me. For instance, I saw an entry-level financial job with a large company that has fallen from grace that touted 28-30k a year, but requires a bachelor's and two years experience!
I don't know, maybe I'm just out-of-touch, as I have never had to "look" for a job anywhere since my first job in 1998...every other place I have known someone, applied, and gotten it. I imagine my search results would be better if I was looking for a specific job at any location, rather than any job at a specific location, but relocation outside of Iowa is not an option right now. I did notice seemingly a lot of jobs in the area for Unix admins/programmers with a lot of experience, a lot of high-level heavy equipment jobs. One claimed I could make $50,000 a year detailing cars!
Anyway, that's what I've seen in the two weeks I've been searching for a job, take it for what it's worth.
Not true, because all the versions of Windows were made by one company, and none of those versions of were made concurrently to compete against another version of Windows...sure, one could argue that anything new is still competing with Windows 98 on the desktop, but that's not the point.
I do agree that we need different, non-Unix OS's to be available, but your comparison isn't valid.
That is NOT an accurate analogy, not in a democratic republic. Replace "Hubble Telescope" with "Interstate 90" in your essay above, and you'll see how ridiculous that is.
"You are paying taxes for an interstate. The government periodically gives you new pavement, signs, and rest stops (which you at least partially fund, you're paying the taxes). But the truth is, if the government decides they don't want to be in the road-making business anymore, he can tear down the road and block your access to it. You have no say in the matter unless you can shell out the $$--which we'll assume you don't have if you're living there--to buy the entire road."
Dude, NS4 is a hog. I have a much faster computer now than I did when using that machine, but I've used even regular Mozilla on similar machines and it is faster and about the same file size.
The only ones I can think of are Konqueror and Galeon (Linux) and K-Melon (Windows), I do not know if they will work on Solaris however.
Can't you build a 1ghz system for $100 and not worry about it?
Is it possible/plausible to get one? Being a network/system admin is intriguing to me, but not in an all-Windows environment.
I'm currently considerng all my school/training options as I will be going back in a couple of years, once my wife finishes her master's. I dropped out 2x majoring in business both times, heh.
Only bad memories of Chemistry class remained. I took my first year in my sophomore year of high school, and had the good grace to be under the tutelage of one of the best teachers I've had in my 13 years of education. I moved to a new town and high school after that year, but undaunted, I signed up for honors chemistry year 2, which much to my horror was taught by the assistant high school football coach, whose lectures gave Ben Stein a run for his money. On top of that, and the fact that he hated me because I didn't play sports (anymore, anyway), the class was the most brutal, agonizing, ridiculously hard class I have ever had in my life, INCLUDING college. My best friend (who had the class during a different period) and my COMBINED scores on the final still didn't even come CLOSE to passing.
So yeah, that's my story about high school chemistry.
I'm in the USA, and at the time I posted, I was getting 4.5kb/sec TOPS from the main site. When I switched over to a semi-local mirror, however, I got it a lot faster.
I don't know, I don't use any of the for pay sites (and I haven't downloaded anything illegally in over a year), but the success of Apple's for-pay system seems to disagree with your assertions.
But let's get real here. Napster in its peak was the best that music filesharing is ever going to be. No pay system will ever be able to top that.
The point is, it's been around longer than he has been on the internet, and the scam has been around longer than he has in faxes and mail, but you conveniently neglected to respond to that point.
You don't need to be aware of the scam itself to have not fallen for this, either. Most people will receive some type of consultation from a trusted person before dumping tens of thousands of dollars into an "investment" like this. Then there are idiots, like this guy, who happens to be old.
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Yeah, you posted a link where it's spelled with an "O" in the user comments, and that person isn't even sure "...inotech, or something ending in 'tech'"
It's Initech. Sorry.
Chris
I beg to differ, pal.
Go watch your DVD again.
Chris
Imagine that. I'm not in IT (customer service actually, until my wife finishes school and I can go back), but allow me to give my POV as I am out-of-work right now. Now, I'm only looking in the midwest, Iowa in particular, but I would guess that the findings are similar in other locations.
I've found Monster and Career Builder to be the best ones. But even those are a lot like wading through your hotmail account after not accessing it for a week...half "spam". Way too many of the same "Be your own boss! Make $100,000 a year!" jobs for selling life insurance, or licking envelopes, or selling something. A lot of the jobs that appear interesting seem to have trumped-up requirements, at least to me. For instance, I saw an entry-level financial job with a large company that has fallen from grace that touted 28-30k a year, but requires a bachelor's and two years experience!
I don't know, maybe I'm just out-of-touch, as I have never had to "look" for a job anywhere since my first job in 1998...every other place I have known someone, applied, and gotten it. I imagine my search results would be better if I was looking for a specific job at any location, rather than any job at a specific location, but relocation outside of Iowa is not an option right now. I did notice seemingly a lot of jobs in the area for Unix admins/programmers with a lot of experience, a lot of high-level heavy equipment jobs. One claimed I could make $50,000 a year detailing cars!
Anyway, that's what I've seen in the two weeks I've been searching for a job, take it for what it's worth.
Chris
Or "Dild OS".
A software product by Dild Software, whose CEO is, uhhh, Bob Dild?
Chris
Nothing wrong with the spelling, everything wrong with the terminology use.
Chris
Not true, because all the versions of Windows were made by one company, and none of those versions of were made concurrently to compete against another version of Windows...sure, one could argue that anything new is still competing with Windows 98 on the desktop, but that's not the point.
I do agree that we need different, non-Unix OS's to be available, but your comparison isn't valid.
Chris
Why would the FBI care unless the source code had all the secret gov't backdoors plainly visible? :)
Chris
I'd sure like to find out!
Chris
Yeah but this "point" is a totally falsified marketing ploy that is already devoid of meaning.
Chris
That's a pretty elitest way of thinking.
Chris
That is NOT an accurate analogy, not in a democratic republic. Replace "Hubble Telescope" with "Interstate 90" in your essay above, and you'll see how ridiculous that is.
"You are paying taxes for an interstate. The government periodically gives you new pavement, signs, and rest stops (which you at least partially fund, you're paying the taxes). But the truth is, if the government decides they don't want to be in the road-making business anymore, he can tear down the road and block your access to it. You have no say in the matter unless you can shell out the $$--which we'll assume you don't have if you're living there--to buy the entire road."
Chris
"There's yet to be a press release..."
So unofficially, it's official?
Chris
1.5?
Dude, NS4 is a hog. I have a much faster computer now than I did when using that machine, but I've used even regular Mozilla on similar machines and it is faster and about the same file size.
The only ones I can think of are Konqueror and Galeon (Linux) and K-Melon (Windows), I do not know if they will work on Solaris however.
Can't you build a 1ghz system for $100 and not worry about it?
Chris
Haven't heard of this one. Is this basically the Australian branch of the RIAA, a little-known arm of the Illuminati, both, neither?
I thought I was up on all the oppressive quasi-government enforcement agencies!
Chris
Is it possible/plausible to get one? Being a network/system admin is intriguing to me, but not in an all-Windows environment.
I'm currently considerng all my school/training options as I will be going back in a couple of years, once my wife finishes her master's. I dropped out 2x majoring in business both times, heh.
Chris
*shudder*
Only bad memories of Chemistry class remained. I took my first year in my sophomore year of high school, and had the good grace to be under the tutelage of one of the best teachers I've had in my 13 years of education. I moved to a new town and high school after that year, but undaunted, I signed up for honors chemistry year 2, which much to my horror was taught by the assistant high school football coach, whose lectures gave Ben Stein a run for his money. On top of that, and the fact that he hated me because I didn't play sports (anymore, anyway), the class was the most brutal, agonizing, ridiculously hard class I have ever had in my life, INCLUDING college. My best friend (who had the class during a different period) and my COMBINED scores on the final still didn't even come CLOSE to passing.
So yeah, that's my story about high school chemistry.
Chris
If you know these people are doing it, turn them in. How would this hurt you? Reducing your chances to score with some sorority bimbo? :)
Chris
I'm in the USA, and at the time I posted, I was getting 4.5kb/sec TOPS from the main site. When I switched over to a semi-local mirror, however, I got it a lot faster.
Chris
Check the website - www.mozilla.org. They have paid support now.
There was an article about it here, as I recall.
Chris
It's also slow, due to the slashdot effect ;)
Chris
You don't have to worry about printing screw-ups with slide film, just operator error, and digital has the same problem.
Chris
Of course you can make prints that look as good. It's not hard to get 3 x 5 prints to look as good as 35mm, or 4 x 6.
But how much can you blow it up? I like this formula: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm
Look at the part under "print sizes" for the formula.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/filmdig.htm is also good and http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/digicam.htm as well. Actually, Ken's whole site is great.
Chris
I don't know, I don't use any of the for pay sites (and I haven't downloaded anything illegally in over a year), but the success of Apple's for-pay system seems to disagree with your assertions.
But let's get real here. Napster in its peak was the best that music filesharing is ever going to be. No pay system will ever be able to top that.
Chris
The point is, it's been around longer than he has been on the internet, and the scam has been around longer than he has in faxes and mail, but you conveniently neglected to respond to that point.
You don't need to be aware of the scam itself to have not fallen for this, either. Most people will receive some type of consultation from a trusted person before dumping tens of thousands of dollars into an "investment" like this. Then there are idiots, like this guy, who happens to be old.
Fuck him, I say.
Chris