Civil Engineers do make patches for bridges. Many bridges for instance were not built to certian modern specifications and have to be updated. This happened to the Ross Island bridge in Portland. Also bridges are under constant maintainence.
I've been ham for 15 years now and I have an Extra class license - and its fun as long as you have friends who are into it. Far too often it seems like there are operators who have an elitest attitude that makes it hard to get involved locally.
For example - there are extra class hams who don't like other extra class hams because of the 5 wpm requirement. There are still hams who don't like or will not talk to no-code techs. What drives me nuts is these guys seem to be the most active so your more likely to run into these people online.
So for that I really haven't done much with it in a while.
So what you see on TV is 25 megabits per second - yeah that would put a crimp on things since most ISP's in the US suck - but its really not that much bandwidth.
The sad reality of customer service (and yes sales people do provide customer service) is that bad customer service experiences over the phone or email can spread to several other people. So yes one bad apple can damage the reputation of a company. In this case - now that hundreds of thousands of people have read this - I'm sure they will form their own opinion of Microsoft in the same manner.
There are some smart people working at Level 1 - around 2000-2001 we had former intel engineers, former fujitsu engineers and even some software engineers from both companies - these guys just hit hard times and needed some money to pay the bills. Frankly if any of these companies gave any (and I do mean any) effort into training and paying these people better they wouldn't have the 200% attrition rate that they do.
It is an entry level job to a certian extent (what I mean by that is these outsourcers will hire anyone - not that they even have the skills to do this job), but I think its sad that the Costco down the street from the call center I used to work at paid more starting. Plus some of these guys have to support some rather advanced workflows and applications. Frankly now that I am a level 3 - it suprises me that some of these Level 3 techs aren't as good as the Level 1's I worked with a while back.
Plus these call centers don't even give these guys a chance to grow, become better or to make more money. I worked for one of these call centers for two years at one point (I'd like to think I'm well qualified, but it was at the height of the economic depression at the time). I started at 10.00 per hour and left making 10.30 cents per hour and they were upset that I was leaving them for a better paying job.
Level 1 techs don't get nearly the respect they deserve... Especially when you consider they are the front line of communication for all things your company makes. Every time without fail when I tell engineers the kinds of calls our level 1 techs get they are just blown away. These is such a disconnect about this who industry that I think this article is worthwhile.
I would add as well - when I started out I had a hard time finding a job because of lack of experience. After about 8-10 years with lots of skills I have people calling me occasionally to offer me work. I've also found employers in the IT industry are looking for people with good experience over what college you got a degree in.
It wasn't always like that though - I even spent 2 years working at Stream International doing tech support on the phones for 9.50 an hour. But even that turned out okay - I made a ton of good contacts, learned a lot of things in the process.
Releasing patches on a monthly basis involves a massive QA effort - no matter what size company you are. And to be honest I've only ever had problems with one patch they've sent out. I was not affected by the issue mentioned in this article (even though I have an nvidia 7800 video card).
Most people here should be aware that applying a Microsoft patch is likely to screw something up -- something Microsoft has become renowned for.
I should mention that in my experience I've only ever got screwed by a patch from Microsoft once. The patch was for a login delay on metaframe, and it screwed up Acrobat 5 dialogues (you could no longer type into them). I honestly believe with most well behaved applications this sort of thing is pretty rare - especially with the sort of testing that microsoft does before hand.
Linux however - I've had patches break applications all the time - especially binary only programs.
I hate Carly as much as the next person, but I have an IPAQ HX4700 thats a post Carla device and it reminds me of my 36xx - and while it doesn't have pcmcia - I do have a 4 gig cf card for it (not 5 gigs I know, but still thats a shitload of ram for a small little device). It has 480x640 graphics, 64 megs of ram - and there's a certian company that will hack it to 128 - but I've never seen the need.
Reality reality check - only people who build their own pc's have to pirate windows xp or buy it (and if you build it yourself you get a big discount on the oem version - which is a lot less than 150$). Most all pc's come with windows preinstalled - except for Apple PC's.
Actually Flash is just a wrapper. With Sorenson or On2 codecs flv files look just as good as dvd's - however most people don't encode at that quality because of bandwidth issues.
Actually its not - your assuming incorrectly that most PC users buy windows XP and install it themselves - when in reality most people don't do that anymore. They buy a PC from dell, ibm or gateway (apple?) which has everything pre-installed.
If apple did release OSX to run on PC's all they have to do is give it to OEM's - like Dell (and others) who build the machine around the OS - and (this is the key) support it too.
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You must have really liked Windows 1.0.
Civil Engineers do make patches for bridges. Many bridges for instance were not built to certian modern specifications and have to be updated. This happened to the Ross Island bridge in Portland. Also bridges are under constant maintainence.
heh heh - I wouldn't worry about that to much - believe it or not Acrobat 7 managed to export all the "redacted" text perfectly fine too.
I've been ham for 15 years now and I have an Extra class license - and its fun as long as you have friends who are into it. Far too often it seems like there are operators who have an elitest attitude that makes it hard to get involved locally.
For example - there are extra class hams who don't like other extra class hams because of the 5 wpm requirement. There are still hams who don't like or will not talk to no-code techs. What drives me nuts is these guys seem to be the most active so your more likely to run into these people online.
So for that I really haven't done much with it in a while.
Its like Unix in 1989 :)
So what you see on TV is 25 megabits per second - yeah that would put a crimp on things since most ISP's in the US suck - but its really not that much bandwidth.
The sad reality of customer service (and yes sales people do provide customer service) is that bad customer service experiences over the phone or email can spread to several other people. So yes one bad apple can damage the reputation of a company. In this case - now that hundreds of thousands of people have read this - I'm sure they will form their own opinion of Microsoft in the same manner.
The irony here is that Best software owns Timberline too.
Not to mention he didn't say he was scanning passwords - he was scanning machines for blank and default passwords - which is far quicker.
What about wing commander? It was a good movie!
I want a GPPU. A card to enhance the game play of vids. Screw graphics and physics. I want a card that makes games more fun.
:).
Assuming its technically possible to improve the gameplay of "vids" (videos?) I'm all with you
There are some smart people working at Level 1 - around 2000-2001 we had former intel engineers, former fujitsu engineers and even some software engineers from both companies - these guys just hit hard times and needed some money to pay the bills. Frankly if any of these companies gave any (and I do mean any) effort into training and paying these people better they wouldn't have the 200% attrition rate that they do.
It is an entry level job to a certian extent (what I mean by that is these outsourcers will hire anyone - not that they even have the skills to do this job), but I think its sad that the Costco down the street from the call center I used to work at paid more starting. Plus some of these guys have to support some rather advanced workflows and applications. Frankly now that I am a level 3 - it suprises me that some of these Level 3 techs aren't as good as the Level 1's I worked with a while back.
Plus these call centers don't even give these guys a chance to grow, become better or to make more money. I worked for one of these call centers for two years at one point (I'd like to think I'm well qualified, but it was at the height of the economic depression at the time). I started at 10.00 per hour and left making 10.30 cents per hour and they were upset that I was leaving them for a better paying job.
Level 1 techs don't get nearly the respect they deserve... Especially when you consider they are the front line of communication for all things your company makes. Every time without fail when I tell engineers the kinds of calls our level 1 techs get they are just blown away. These is such a disconnect about this who industry that I think this article is worthwhile.
I think you're confused about what Bitlocker is.
More likely this guy has a bad case of bullshit-itus.
I would add as well - when I started out I had a hard time finding a job because of lack of experience. After about 8-10 years with lots of skills I have people calling me occasionally to offer me work. I've also found employers in the IT industry are looking for people with good experience over what college you got a degree in.
It wasn't always like that though - I even spent 2 years working at Stream International doing tech support on the phones for 9.50 an hour. But even that turned out okay - I made a ton of good contacts, learned a lot of things in the process.
Releasing patches on a monthly basis involves a massive QA effort - no matter what size company you are. And to be honest I've only ever had problems with one patch they've sent out. I was not affected by the issue mentioned in this article (even though I have an nvidia 7800 video card).
Most people here should be aware that applying a Microsoft patch is likely to screw something up -- something Microsoft has become renowned for.
I should mention that in my experience I've only ever got screwed by a patch from Microsoft once. The patch was for a login delay on metaframe, and it screwed up Acrobat 5 dialogues (you could no longer type into them). I honestly believe with most well behaved applications this sort of thing is pretty rare - especially with the sort of testing that microsoft does before hand.
Linux however - I've had patches break applications all the time - especially binary only programs.
Happy days are here again! The skies above are clear again! So let's sing a song of cheer again! Happy days are here again!
Some states (like Washington) you pay taxes on licenses though.
Oddly enough none of these issues are problems with Windows mobile 2003, and WM5...
Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer - its true! People still haven't forgiven him for telling us that we are decadent, and wasteful however.
Luckily jasetheace - who made that comment posts frequently on tons of boards. According to this page this page he works for HSBC - a bank...
I hate Carly as much as the next person, but I have an IPAQ HX4700 thats a post Carla device and it reminds me of my 36xx - and while it doesn't have pcmcia - I do have a 4 gig cf card for it (not 5 gigs I know, but still thats a shitload of ram for a small little device). It has 480x640 graphics, 64 megs of ram - and there's a certian company that will hack it to 128 - but I've never seen the need.
Reality reality check - only people who build their own pc's have to pirate windows xp or buy it (and if you build it yourself you get a big discount on the oem version - which is a lot less than 150$). Most all pc's come with windows preinstalled - except for Apple PC's.
Actually Flash is just a wrapper. With Sorenson or On2 codecs flv files look just as good as dvd's - however most people don't encode at that quality because of bandwidth issues.
Actually its not - your assuming incorrectly that most PC users buy windows XP and install it themselves - when in reality most people don't do that anymore. They buy a PC from dell, ibm or gateway (apple?) which has everything pre-installed.
If apple did release OSX to run on PC's all they have to do is give it to OEM's - like Dell (and others) who build the machine around the OS - and (this is the key) support it too.