The article mentioned that they just deleted the shortcuts for the crapware installed, the apps were in fact still installed. Also - none of the machines had all their updates applied or were mid update in standby mode when the pc arrived.
Well, thanks Gizmodo, if I move to the coasts I'll know what service to get, but since there weren't any tests done even close to where I live the data is totally useless.
Live on the Oregon Coast - AT&T's coverage is complete ass.
There's a lot of people in America who buy into the Calvinist philosophy that if you are poor then its because of something horrible you did.
Likewise if you are rich - its because you are blessed by God to be rich and are righteous in anything you do. (this works on a personal or national level - whatever we are doing as a country abroad is good for that country right?).
While there's certainly examples of people who did bad things or made poor choices who are poor because of that, there are more examples of people who are poor because they have been taken advantage of (like many Pacific Island nations) or were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time (people who live in Afghanistan or Iraq as a good recent example).
In other words - just because they are poor doesn't mean we have to forget about them.
Oh please. I'm kinda glad I lost my job supporting Solaris apps. Our apps were relatively easy to get working, but the Solaris machines management dropped off at my desk (last one was a Blade 1500) were just stupid and showed a blantant lack of quality assurance, and nothing ever worked out of the box. You'd think by now you could buy a desktop machine from them and expect the backspace key to actually work as just one example - or to be able to log into the desktop without facing a dozen cryptic errors. No - expect to spend days or years applying patches, tweaking config files - and even then nothing will ever work as seemless as Windows or Mac (or even Linux these days). Oh sure on paper Solaris might be superior to anything out there, but as anyone who has worked in software knows - its the little problems that make a failed product.
Most every patch I got from Sun as well - never worked on the first go. I honestly think its a conspiracy - only system vendor I can think of btw that charges you for a) access to their KB and b) access to hotfixes - not even Microsoft is that evil. It wasn't uncommon for hotfixes/patches to break all kinds of crap too. I once wrote up a list of weird things I never was able to fix on the Sun boxes I and others had on their desks and it was easily pages long. Mind you - these were ALL minor issues, but annoying enough to make it unpleasant. At the job I have now - all the Solaris machines (servers mostly) have the same track record...
In terms of user friendlyness, ease of use, support - I'd take Vista any day of the week.
Thing is though - if someone asks you for a reference, if you feel like you can't give them a good reference (like your example) its probably better legally to say something like "well maybe I shouldn't, and here's why" - yeah feelings will be hurt, but I'd be afraid of the lawsuit for ripping an employee to a 3rd party for being honest.
Most companies I work for recently - if a 3rd party calls me and asks about what that person did here - the only thing I can say is "talk to HR here's their number" and from what I understand the only thing they can say is "yeah they worked here for xyz days, and this was their job".
Ahh - I've never used cold fusion really - I was thinking about their livecycle apps (which is what this ebook thing is all about) not quite 100% j2ee compatible.
Getting them running on jboss was a lesson in torture.
No-one will ever let them play in the same playground. Maybe it has something to do with their j2ee'esq server apps (anyone who has ever configured them knows what I'm talking about) or the fact that their server software is REALLY expensive compared to what Amazon already rolled.
I found a work-around to this - you can all just run into the instance manually (instead of being teleported there) and it seems still work - even with the debuff.
The end game gear grind, however, is not fun. Don't get me wrong -- I love to experience new content, I don't, however, like to keep re-experiencing it at the mercy of the RNG hoping I get the item(s) I need. Yes, badges mitigate this, slightly, but in the end you're still grinding the same one or two instances until a new one gets released.
What do you mean slightly? You can purchase tier 9 items for every slot of your character with badges.
I dunno - my power bill was over $90 a month (this is back in college around 2000) when I had my desktop PC working on seti@home most all day, when I stopped using it - it dropped to less than $25 a month. I think it ads up quite a bit if the machine is running full tilt 24x7 - never mind the maintainence costs of running desktop PC's like that all the time.
I think it drains more electricity than most people think.
Its not like no-one knew about Scientology work camps - some german documentary team went out to go visit it and got stopped by a bunch of armed men (this was in the early 90's) - wish I could remember the title.
And you were involved with legal on proceeding with this case? We're not talking about a simple "caught browsing porn - get fired issue" really - were talking about possible state and federal law violations here and prison time, and its very touchy ground for all involved - anything you say as an IT worker could be grounds for the defense to get the entire case dropped or worse (wrongful termination/harassment). I can see why they wanted you out of the case - IT workers have the ability to alter logs and any bias could be used by the defense to get this guy off the hook.
Its very possible they didn't want you to do anything else because you had done your job already. I've had cases in IT in union and non union shops where I was asked by legal to get logs and nothing else - it was up to the lawyers and management to figure out how to use that information in a court of law.
Well he's the one who runs the reports on filtered traffic and noticed a number of alarming sites being visited around midnight and started investigating. Its his job to maintain websense, and run reports - so I believe that he would have this information.
They handed the security footage and the log off to administration (because huh huh - that's his job...), identified the worker who was on that shift. Between the logs, videos and the shift information they used that to terminate the employee.
I'm pretty sure there was no action because this employee was gone in a week.
Also - there was a time I worked for them (layoffs are fun aren't they?) - and yeah I've seen people there fast-tracked to the unemployment line for abusing the net by looking at porn repeatedly.
tell me not to testify against another Union member who was accused of surfing child p0rn on an elementary school computer, oh it was grand.
I call BS (or at the very least - you didn't know the whole story) - I have an IT friend (who is union) at D9 who collected evidence (in the form of proxy logs and security footage) in Southern Oregon where they fired a union janitor for just browsing regular porn on a teacher workstation. It was against the rules, they had evidence and they got rid of him - simple as that.
The union did nothing to stop management from taking that action. Now if they wanted to fire him for that reason, but had no evidence - I can see the union stepping in because yes - that would be a management abuse.
How many non union shops have you worked for where when layoffs came the managers, managers buddies, managers college friends (who they hired to collect direct deposit paychecks and nothing else) all kept their jobs, but the technicians and IT people all got cut? I've seen that too many times to count. Not saying this wouldn't happen in a union shop, but really - who's inept here?
Petty crap during "bargaining" years - Teachers union are "bargaining" so they all park in front of school district office, where a number of members of another union work, vandalize cars during work hours. I worked in administration for years and they never did anything like that.
My father and mother were both teachers in Oregon for all their working lives and have never dealt with any of the things you describe above.
Unions after all are what you make them - it sounds like you belonged to a group of criminals instead of a group of educators wanting to collectively bargain for better employment conditions.
As someone who is in an IT union... (AFT/AFL-CIO) in the USA..
Suppress wages
I pay like 23$ a month in union dues and they negotiate our contract(when we are getting more money - assuming funding is going up) - I've never seen a case where they were actively negotiating a decrease in wages or benefits.
defend the inept
Its hard to defend this - after all whoever says this isn't inept right? Every company I've worked for - private with no union has loads of office deadweight, and worse they are always the last to be laid off when times get tough.
petty crap during "bargaining" years
Like management in non union shops don't engage in petty crap? Besides I've never run into this either.
strong arming members
Never happened - not once.
take money away for political purposes
I've never been asked to donate money for anything. Asides from union dues, nothing else has been asked of me. Yes - I have an AFL-CIO lobbyist in Salem Oregon and Washington DC, but from what I've seen - they have been fighting for things that I am interested in (single payer health care for instance). Who do you have fighting for your labor interests?
So say you get kicked off the net - how do they enforce this? Just off the top of my head I can think of a dozen ways to browse the net semi-anonymously (coffee shop, library, college, neighbors wi-fi etc etc). Not to mention having internet access at work - does that mean I'd be denied employment world-wide for messing around on the net?
One thing that is similar - some guilds (especially hard core ones) its not uncommon for members to have your contact info. Once in - its hard to step away without someone calling you and asking where you've been. You don't leave on vacation without telling them for instance.
So extracting the core of your argument from the long pointless rant that you've wrapped it in: It's wrong to trade with poor countries, because they derive more advantage from it, and become rich countries.
Err, how is this a bad thing? Using your example of Japan, what the value of bilateral trade between the US and Japan immediately after the second world war, and what has that value risen to after decades of investment in their economy.
Well because it does so at the expense of our own economy. Most of this money coming back to the US isn't going to the working and lower classes - its going to the upper class (the owners) who own more wealth than anyone at any time in history - again at the expense of our economy.
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The article mentioned that they just deleted the shortcuts for the crapware installed, the apps were in fact still installed. Also - none of the machines had all their updates applied or were mid update in standby mode when the pc arrived.
I think they are getting lazier.
I'm not even talking about custom hotfixes which is what your talking about.
Well hotfixes and patches are free assuming you have a legal copy of windows - from what I've seen at least.
Live on the Oregon Coast - AT&T's coverage is complete ass.
There's a lot of people in America who buy into the Calvinist philosophy that if you are poor then its because of something horrible you did.
Likewise if you are rich - its because you are blessed by God to be rich and are righteous in anything you do. (this works on a personal or national level - whatever we are doing as a country abroad is good for that country right?).
While there's certainly examples of people who did bad things or made poor choices who are poor because of that, there are more examples of people who are poor because they have been taken advantage of (like many Pacific Island nations) or were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time (people who live in Afghanistan or Iraq as a good recent example).
In other words - just because they are poor doesn't mean we have to forget about them.
Oh please. I'm kinda glad I lost my job supporting Solaris apps. Our apps were relatively easy to get working, but the Solaris machines management dropped off at my desk (last one was a Blade 1500) were just stupid and showed a blantant lack of quality assurance, and nothing ever worked out of the box. You'd think by now you could buy a desktop machine from them and expect the backspace key to actually work as just one example - or to be able to log into the desktop without facing a dozen cryptic errors. No - expect to spend days or years applying patches, tweaking config files - and even then nothing will ever work as seemless as Windows or Mac (or even Linux these days). Oh sure on paper Solaris might be superior to anything out there, but as anyone who has worked in software knows - its the little problems that make a failed product.
Most every patch I got from Sun as well - never worked on the first go. I honestly think its a conspiracy - only system vendor I can think of btw that charges you for a) access to their KB and b) access to hotfixes - not even Microsoft is that evil. It wasn't uncommon for hotfixes/patches to break all kinds of crap too. I once wrote up a list of weird things I never was able to fix on the Sun boxes I and others had on their desks and it was easily pages long. Mind you - these were ALL minor issues, but annoying enough to make it unpleasant. At the job I have now - all the Solaris machines (servers mostly) have the same track record...
In terms of user friendlyness, ease of use, support - I'd take Vista any day of the week.
I love nerd rage in the afternoon ;).
I don't think you can use this feature without internet access to start with.
Thing is though - if someone asks you for a reference, if you feel like you can't give them a good reference (like your example) its probably better legally to say something like "well maybe I shouldn't, and here's why" - yeah feelings will be hurt, but I'd be afraid of the lawsuit for ripping an employee to a 3rd party for being honest.
Most companies I work for recently - if a 3rd party calls me and asks about what that person did here - the only thing I can say is "talk to HR here's their number" and from what I understand the only thing they can say is "yeah they worked here for xyz days, and this was their job".
Ahh - I've never used cold fusion really - I was thinking about their livecycle apps (which is what this ebook thing is all about) not quite 100% j2ee compatible.
Getting them running on jboss was a lesson in torture.
Actually it felt like they pulled Carrie out of rehab for the episode. There's several scenes where she staggers onto the set.
No-one will ever let them play in the same playground. Maybe it has something to do with their j2ee'esq server apps (anyone who has ever configured them knows what I'm talking about) or the fact that their server software is REALLY expensive compared to what Amazon already rolled.
I found a work-around to this - you can all just run into the instance manually (instead of being teleported there) and it seems still work - even with the debuff.
What do you mean slightly? You can purchase tier 9 items for every slot of your character with badges.
I dunno - my power bill was over $90 a month (this is back in college around 2000) when I had my desktop PC working on seti@home most all day, when I stopped using it - it dropped to less than $25 a month. I think it ads up quite a bit if the machine is running full tilt 24x7 - never mind the maintainence costs of running desktop PC's like that all the time.
I think it drains more electricity than most people think.
Its not like no-one knew about Scientology work camps - some german documentary team went out to go visit it and got stopped by a bunch of armed men (this was in the early 90's) - wish I could remember the title.
And you were involved with legal on proceeding with this case? We're not talking about a simple "caught browsing porn - get fired issue" really - were talking about possible state and federal law violations here and prison time, and its very touchy ground for all involved - anything you say as an IT worker could be grounds for the defense to get the entire case dropped or worse (wrongful termination/harassment). I can see why they wanted you out of the case - IT workers have the ability to alter logs and any bias could be used by the defense to get this guy off the hook.
Its very possible they didn't want you to do anything else because you had done your job already. I've had cases in IT in union and non union shops where I was asked by legal to get logs and nothing else - it was up to the lawyers and management to figure out how to use that information in a court of law.
So yeah - you didn't know the whole story.
Well he's the one who runs the reports on filtered traffic and noticed a number of alarming sites being visited around midnight and started investigating. Its his job to maintain websense, and run reports - so I believe that he would have this information.
They handed the security footage and the log off to administration (because huh huh - that's his job...), identified the worker who was on that shift. Between the logs, videos and the shift information they used that to terminate the employee.
I'm pretty sure there was no action because this employee was gone in a week.
Also - there was a time I worked for them (layoffs are fun aren't they?) - and yeah I've seen people there fast-tracked to the unemployment line for abusing the net by looking at porn repeatedly.
So give me another question?
I call BS (or at the very least - you didn't know the whole story) - I have an IT friend (who is union) at D9 who collected evidence (in the form of proxy logs and security footage) in Southern Oregon where they fired a union janitor for just browsing regular porn on a teacher workstation. It was against the rules, they had evidence and they got rid of him - simple as that.
The union did nothing to stop management from taking that action. Now if they wanted to fire him for that reason, but had no evidence - I can see the union stepping in because yes - that would be a management abuse.
How many non union shops have you worked for where when layoffs came the managers, managers buddies, managers college friends (who they hired to collect direct deposit paychecks and nothing else) all kept their jobs, but the technicians and IT people all got cut? I've seen that too many times to count. Not saying this wouldn't happen in a union shop, but really - who's inept here?
My father and mother were both teachers in Oregon for all their working lives and have never dealt with any of the things you describe above.
Unions after all are what you make them - it sounds like you belonged to a group of criminals instead of a group of educators wanting to collectively bargain for better employment conditions.
As someone who is in an IT union... (AFT/AFL-CIO) in the USA..
I pay like 23$ a month in union dues and they negotiate our contract(when we are getting more money - assuming funding is going up) - I've never seen a case where they were actively negotiating a decrease in wages or benefits.
Its hard to defend this - after all whoever says this isn't inept right? Every company I've worked for - private with no union has loads of office deadweight, and worse they are always the last to be laid off when times get tough.
Like management in non union shops don't engage in petty crap? Besides I've never run into this either.
Never happened - not once.
I've never been asked to donate money for anything. Asides from union dues, nothing else has been asked of me. Yes - I have an AFL-CIO lobbyist in Salem Oregon and Washington DC, but from what I've seen - they have been fighting for things that I am interested in (single payer health care for instance). Who do you have fighting for your labor interests?
So say you get kicked off the net - how do they enforce this? Just off the top of my head I can think of a dozen ways to browse the net semi-anonymously (coffee shop, library, college, neighbors wi-fi etc etc). Not to mention having internet access at work - does that mean I'd be denied employment world-wide for messing around on the net?
One thing that is similar - some guilds (especially hard core ones) its not uncommon for members to have your contact info. Once in - its hard to step away without someone calling you and asking where you've been. You don't leave on vacation without telling them for instance.
Well how can one be part of a nation of consumers when no-one is making any money manufacturing stuff here?
Well because it does so at the expense of our own economy. Most of this money coming back to the US isn't going to the working and lower classes - its going to the upper class (the owners) who own more wealth than anyone at any time in history - again at the expense of our economy.
Are you really comparing Michael Moore to Nazi propagandist?
Its still true btw - that cobb county gets more federal welfare than any other county combined.