I tried to hit the cap on purpose once, too. I didn't think of the idea until the 2nd week of the month, so I only got to about 220. I was leaving torrents running day and night on top of streaming video. At that rate, a full month of that would just about be hitting 300. Weird how my max possible usage lines up with their current and proposed caps.
If you can keep people within your grasp so you can yell into their faces, maybe it could work. If it's a distance- how often do these things work? How many stories have we read about all the problems of outsourcing distantly.
Though it sounds like you have some more underlying issues here that may need to be examined, also. And don't forget that unless you're reviewing every line of code, you're placing a LOT of trust into these "code monkeys" who will have no loyalty to you.
Saying your dong was 23" long as "truth" may be 'stretching' it. And the Reddit people redefining the "truth" because the ruler said differently is not really a lynching. When you don't actually meet the criteria for the "foot long plus" club, of course you're going to get kicked out. Though the "4 to 6" club would probably take your admission request.
This is why we had at least one ethics class for each of my degrees. If the perceived gains outweigh the perceived risks, people will do this all day long. Sad that college & grad level people need this drummed into their heads. Ethics should be introduced into high school curricula.
I am just wondering what types of articles does Mr. AC mess with? Messing with equations on math articles? Changing stuff on engineering or science? If I forget what Fermat's Last Theorem is (what, like I use it at work every day?), it would be nice to know that it wasn't changed to a^n + b^n = c^2n. (I'm going to have to check that article in about a week, aren't I? lol ) Now if we're talking about pop culture and similar topical topics, meh. Still not correct nor nice, but I don't care if [female celebrity]'s bra size is 34c or 38d.
And if I ever stated something like "trusted sources" in reference to Wikipedia or Reddit, I would have failed whatever paper or project I was working on. But then, I was got my BS in engineering and MS in science.
This reminds me, don't self-defense classes teach women not to yell "help," or "rape," but something kind of odd instead? Like "I'm on fire," or "I lost my dog"? Something that would provoke a response to helping a single person, rather than get entangled into some sort of conflict? Wish I could remember what it was (I can't find any definitive answers), because I'd like to look it up to see if there were any stats on its effectiveness.
As for your de-sensitization towards others, yeah, sadly it seems that way. In Philadelphia, the law on the street is "snitches get stiches." Someone opened fire on a playground full of kids, hitting I think 2 men. No one came forward. Same thing at a street basketball tournament. In the past year, 2 people were killed for just being witnesses to a crime, and last week someone who testified was killed a few days later. Why would anyone want to get involved in anything where you can get targeted? Me, I've been mostly dead once already, so I don't care if I get involved in stuff. My wife, I'd scream at her to run.
At some point, you're going to have to trust someone, unless you want to spend years researching all the chemical properties of molybdenum yourself. So we set up tiers of trust, which generally is determined by the amount of review, the expertise of the review, and how many times that review(s) have been wrong before. Of course, once you get into the social sciences, then you have to deal with the biases (as you said), plus competing models of thought (psychology), vague facts (history), processes (politics), etc. So I'm still going to go with book/magazine/journal over the internet, since at least there is some oversight. Ooh, just thought of a car analogy! Internet- car manufacturers touting their models. One step up- Consumer Reports review said models.
They are a pain trying to synchronize, since the judges and humans both try to trick each other, so they are not much more coherent than the bot convos. But the bots just eventually end up flailing about. They weren't kidding about "I am a cat" answer. I think the question was "What is your name?" I had to stop reading after the first 2 because people started looking at me funny wondering why I was laughing so much.
A small group of friends from FB decided to try G+, and the consensus was "why change?" It was an awesomely large sample of 10 people, so no big deal, but none of us do anything but chat to each other. No FB games are any of that other frivolous stuff; half don't even put up status posts. And if we want to voice chat we just hit Skype. There was no incentive to switch our SOP to something that didn't offer anything special.
There are some good shows, but I can live without them. My weakness is sports. I could do the internet packages for them, but that adds up, to. Spot on about Netflix- my wife devours entire shows' series, and I have a good 80-some films in my queue. And we just have the $8 streaming only service.
The NFL is getting out of control. Touchdown, commercial. Kickoff, commercial. Timeout- commercial. Built-in TV timeouts. But what has me really ticked off recently is that when they go to the post-TD commercial, sometimes they don't come back in time to see the kickoff! Even the built-in TV ad breaks can do this; how can you screw up a commercial break when you know exactly how long it is supposed to last? Then the NFL (and college football, too) complains about the length of games. Maybe if you cut out 15 minutes of commercials it wouldn't be such a problem, though CFB isn't quite as bad. I can read a substantial portion of a book/magazine during all those commercials.
What exactly did service agreement say? As others have said, words like "average" and "up to" are different from "guaranteed". You can call them and see what's up (probably under provisioning) at night (everyone gets home from work). Try to be nice and see if something can be done at their end (their DSLAM might not be 100% utilized).
Actually, the dog. I kept waving a dog bone in front of the monitor trying to get him to chase it, but all he did was ask "It seems that you are an idiot, would you like help with that." I loved the doggy.
There are so many opinions, "facts", arguments, outright wrong statements, and general lol humor he would never need to write another line again. A couple of high school kids think they can save the world (wow, that's new), and/. goes bananas. I LOVE IT!
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Kind of takes the phrase "fire crotch" to a whole new level.
I tried to hit the cap on purpose once, too. I didn't think of the idea until the 2nd week of the month, so I only got to about 220. I was leaving torrents running day and night on top of streaming video. At that rate, a full month of that would just about be hitting 300. Weird how my max possible usage lines up with their current and proposed caps.
Damn you, Mr. QuickFingers!
If you can keep people within your grasp so you can yell into their faces, maybe it could work.
If it's a distance- how often do these things work? How many stories have we read about all the problems of outsourcing distantly.
Though it sounds like you have some more underlying issues here that may need to be examined, also. And don't forget that unless you're reviewing every line of code, you're placing a LOT of trust into these "code monkeys" who will have no loyalty to you.
Only if you don't get caught. Ponder that conundrum.
I resemble #3. Except the title included 5 more current buzzwords.
Saying your dong was 23" long as "truth" may be 'stretching' it. And the Reddit people redefining the "truth" because the ruler said differently is not really a lynching. When you don't actually meet the criteria for the "foot long plus" club, of course you're going to get kicked out. Though the "4 to 6" club would probably take your admission request.
This is why we had at least one ethics class for each of my degrees. If the perceived gains outweigh the perceived risks, people will do this all day long. Sad that college & grad level people need this drummed into their heads. Ethics should be introduced into high school curricula.
Jesus was a Pastafarian. Look it up in about an hour on Wikipedia, you'll see it's true! :D
I am just wondering what types of articles does Mr. AC mess with? Messing with equations on math articles? Changing stuff on engineering or science? If I forget what Fermat's Last Theorem is (what, like I use it at work every day?), it would be nice to know that it wasn't changed to a^n + b^n = c^2n. (I'm going to have to check that article in about a week, aren't I? lol )
Now if we're talking about pop culture and similar topical topics, meh. Still not correct nor nice, but I don't care if [female celebrity]'s bra size is 34c or 38d.
And if I ever stated something like "trusted sources" in reference to Wikipedia or Reddit, I would have failed whatever paper or project I was working on. But then, I was got my BS in engineering and MS in science.
This is true- Hope and Change.
We had hope, it just went away.
We had change, it just sucked really badly.
This reminds me, don't self-defense classes teach women not to yell "help," or "rape," but something kind of odd instead? Like "I'm on fire," or "I lost my dog"? Something that would provoke a response to helping a single person, rather than get entangled into some sort of conflict? Wish I could remember what it was (I can't find any definitive answers), because I'd like to look it up to see if there were any stats on its effectiveness.
As for your de-sensitization towards others, yeah, sadly it seems that way. In Philadelphia, the law on the street is "snitches get stiches." Someone opened fire on a playground full of kids, hitting I think 2 men. No one came forward. Same thing at a street basketball tournament. In the past year, 2 people were killed for just being witnesses to a crime, and last week someone who testified was killed a few days later. Why would anyone want to get involved in anything where you can get targeted? Me, I've been mostly dead once already, so I don't care if I get involved in stuff. My wife, I'd scream at her to run.
At some point, you're going to have to trust someone, unless you want to spend years researching all the chemical properties of molybdenum yourself. So we set up tiers of trust, which generally is determined by the amount of review, the expertise of the review, and how many times that review(s) have been wrong before. Of course, once you get into the social sciences, then you have to deal with the biases (as you said), plus competing models of thought (psychology), vague facts (history), processes (politics), etc.
So I'm still going to go with book/magazine/journal over the internet, since at least there is some oversight.
Ooh, just thought of a car analogy! Internet- car manufacturers touting their models. One step up- Consumer Reports review said models.
They are a pain trying to synchronize, since the judges and humans both try to trick each other, so they are not much more coherent than the bot convos. But the bots just eventually end up flailing about. They weren't kidding about "I am a cat" answer. I think the question was "What is your name?" I had to stop reading after the first 2 because people started looking at me funny wondering why I was laughing so much.
A small group of friends from FB decided to try G+, and the consensus was "why change?" It was an awesomely large sample of 10 people, so no big deal, but none of us do anything but chat to each other. No FB games are any of that other frivolous stuff; half don't even put up status posts. And if we want to voice chat we just hit Skype. There was no incentive to switch our SOP to something that didn't offer anything special.
There are some good shows, but I can live without them. My weakness is sports. I could do the internet packages for them, but that adds up, to. Spot on about Netflix- my wife devours entire shows' series, and I have a good 80-some films in my queue. And we just have the $8 streaming only service.
The NFL is getting out of control. Touchdown, commercial. Kickoff, commercial. Timeout- commercial. Built-in TV timeouts. But what has me really ticked off recently is that when they go to the post-TD commercial, sometimes they don't come back in time to see the kickoff! Even the built-in TV ad breaks can do this; how can you screw up a commercial break when you know exactly how long it is supposed to last? Then the NFL (and college football, too) complains about the length of games. Maybe if you cut out 15 minutes of commercials it wouldn't be such a problem, though CFB isn't quite as bad.
I can read a substantial portion of a book/magazine during all those commercials.
I wonder if someone can pin down at what point, say within 1 year, that the products and customers switched sides?
If you stand with the pirates you are a Pastafarian. All hail his Noodley Appendage.
It's just like everything else in life- when you run into something weird, don't poke it with a stick!
What exactly did service agreement say? As others have said, words like "average" and "up to" are different from "guaranteed". You can call them and see what's up (probably under provisioning) at night (everyone gets home from work). Try to be nice and see if something can be done at their end (their DSLAM might not be 100% utilized).
Someone gimme some of that sweet, sweet grant money.
Actually, the dog. I kept waving a dog bone in front of the monitor trying to get him to chase it, but all he did was ask "It seems that you are an idiot, would you like help with that." I loved the doggy.
There are so many opinions, "facts", arguments, outright wrong statements, and general lol humor he would never need to write another line again. /. goes bananas. I LOVE IT!
A couple of high school kids think they can save the world (wow, that's new), and