Its not their beliefs that worry me when it comes to scientology. Its their brainwashing methods, money extraction techniques and the way they control people's lives that worries me.
I don't know anything about the Raelians, but they could be just as bad in that respect.
What that means os if all your devices are causing interference to me - a licensed amateur radio operators I can request that the FCC send you a letter telling you that you need to do something about the interference.
And since Amateur radio operators are primary users on 2.4 ghz doubly so.
Ever read the Part 15 notification on the back of your Part 15 wireless device (don't worry if its not there - it is covered under it - as is most electrical devices including computers)
Probably says something like,
This device complies with the Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference recieved, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
I used to be a content grader at rulespace.com and for a while (until they layed most everyone off) it was my job to browse and audit porn sites.
Think about it - no matter how right wing a content filter company someone actually had to look at all those blocked sites - just to make sure they were worth blocking.
No thats really not true - at least I don't think it is - I mean its realtively big call center, but I think I would have noticed 500 people missing one day.
On Beaverton's call center. I dunno - I noticed they were giving a tour to a very prospective client the other day.
I'm a former sys-admin who is working at Stream right now. Its not very high paying, but sometimes helping people out is pretty rewarding. There is a career path - its comforting to know that all my supervisors, site director and service delivery manager all started out on the phones just like me.
Plus its amazing how much you learn - I know more about the product (desktop publishing/graphics software) I support then probably most anyone on here.
Also I'm learning a lot about how to deal with diffucult people - a must in almost any job. I've literally made people who were screaming at me apologize for being so rude.
After all this I still want out because it is a very hard job for the pay. In the end though if I was in charge of hiring someone on a help desk I would look for call center (tech support) experience. Especially when you consider the success rate of most support techs here. Personally I can take a cold call - not know anything about the customers system, its quirks etc (I support mac, windows and sometimes unix products) and well over 90% solve there sometimes complex problem.
no in fact adobe *makes* ocr software - its called Acrobat Capture.
Also ebooks are on a right enabled basis. For instance you can select the option on weather your ebook is printable or not, wether content can be extracted etc etc.
Another point - most ocr software demands a dpi greater then 75 - oddly enough thats what your monitor is so no screen captures won't work to well with ocr software. Thats probably not a coincidence.
I dunno - you consider how few actual mips based SGI machines can run linux (like the indy and indigo only pretty much - which these days are pretty old) you have to figure they are using Linux on Intel most likely.
Sounds funny - but get a job doing tech support and work with someone who doesn't have a common grasp of how directories and files work - yes the pc is a scary monster (especially to the guy doing the support).
It's the famous winner takes it all, and if AMD lives today is because Intel is better of having them around than not.
Thats the thing about Intel - speaking as someone who has worked there (as a contractor) and interviewed their more then once - I always got the impression from Intel's employees and managers that if there was a button that could or would eradicate AMD once and for all that no-one would hesitate to push it.
When you transfer make sure to tell them it is in direct response to their decision to attempt to market personal information without regard to my desires.
Except the guy/girl transfering you is probably someone making 7$/hr in some call center who couldn't give a rip about your problems or what the company is doing (or even knows).
Only reason I know this is because I work in one...
I noticed about a year ago these guys just got done testing a 100 km link in israel, but it wasn't mentioned in any computer magazine. http://www.iarc.org/~ronen/wlan.html - this was in 1999.
Become a ham - its really quite fun:). Plus this university seismic research project is really what amateur radio should be about.
"news Pronunciation Key (nz, nyz) pl.n. (used with a sing. verb)
Information about recent events or happenings, especially as reported by newspapers, periodicals, radio, or television. A presentation of such information, as in a newspaper or on a newscast. New information of any kind: The requirement was news to him. Newsworthy material: "a public figure on a scale unimaginable in America; whatever he did was news" (James Atlas)."
The event was - someone bought a neat game that only runs on Japanese consoles. This is news on several levels.
A) He bought a game and a console - thats known as a event. B) Because of strict content control systems on game consoles even though this is a neat game we'll probably never see it in the states - thats newsworthy information.
I've never seen or heard of this issue before. Do you have a root account set up? Are you set up as an administrator? Maybe something is misconfigured somewhere, try the Apple Discussion boards [apple.com] to see if anyone else has had the same problem.
Say I'm your typical mac user - the kind of person who is afraid of complex computers...
Anyhoo - on the proxy setup, yes I've re-produced that "bug" on at least 4 10.1.x machines (even the latest version of 10.1.8 didn't fix this). I haven't tested it on 10.2. Out of the box I should be able to click on the proxy port on any of the protocol without having hit lock/unlock for every option.
I dunno - I do tech support for imaging products on mac (and PC) the worst call I ever got was some lady who had 4 rows of extensions - the system really took 24 minutes to reboot.
However she was perfectly happy with the machine. Almost like a cult member.
Apple is having trouble getting better and faster chips from Moto (hence the IBM PPC rumors recently).
I don't understand this, because last time I pulled the heatsinks off the two G3 systems I have the chip was made by IBM (I mean it said IBM on the chip). One of them is a modded 6100/66 and the other is a b&w G3/300. Doesn't IBM make the actual G4 cpu's too?
I actually do mac/pc support for a company who makes lots of graphics software (I can't say who).
But I have on my desk a Mac G4/733 and next to it a Dell with a P3-933 in it. Dell has a Matrox G400 and the Mac has a Geforce 2 MX in it. Both have 40 gig hdd's and both have 256 megs of ram. Mac is running OS9 and 10.1.5, and the PC is running Windows 2000.
I can honestly say that the PC in equivelent applications (like Photoshop 7 on Mac or Photoshop 7 on PC, or Acrobat 5.0.5 on PC or Acrobat 5.0.5 on Mac) that my Dell is easily 25-40% quicker on most complex operations in OS 9 or OS X.
Not that the mac is any slouch - its still very fast, but I've found my cheaper PC is still quicker. A lot of people I talk to use Mac's (OS9 mainly), not because its faster but because it has more apps to do things like colour proofing and other pre-flight tests printers use to offset printing.
I won't argue which UI looks prettier, probably Mac OS X by far, but its not perfect - its got a lot of annoying issues. Like go into proxy config and enter a address and a port - whoa - notice something - in 10.1.x it won't let you type in the port until you hit lock type in the password, hit unlock type in the password again - then you can type in a port... Or type "man tar" from the command line - how the heck do you navigate around the man page?
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ever wonder why your tv tube is coated in lead? If you increase the cathode voltage enough the TV-set will emit xray's :).
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Its not their beliefs that worry me when it comes to scientology. Its their brainwashing methods, money extraction techniques and the way they control people's lives that worries me.
I don't know anything about the Raelians, but they could be just as bad in that respect.
What that means os if all your devices are causing interference to me - a licensed amateur radio operators I can request that the FCC send you a letter telling you that you need to do something about the interference.
And since Amateur radio operators are primary users on 2.4 ghz doubly so.
Ever read the Part 15 notification on the back of your Part 15 wireless device (don't worry if its not there - it is covered under it - as is most electrical devices including computers)
Probably says something like,
This device complies with the Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference recieved, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
I used to be a content grader at rulespace.com and for a while (until they layed most everyone off) it was my job to browse and audit porn sites.
Think about it - no matter how right wing a content filter company someone actually had to look at all those blocked sites - just to make sure they were worth blocking.
No thats really not true - at least I don't think it is - I mean its realtively big call center, but I think I would have noticed 500 people missing one day.
On Beaverton's call center. I dunno - I noticed they were giving a tour to a very prospective client the other day.
I'm a former sys-admin who is working at Stream right now. Its not very high paying, but sometimes helping people out is pretty rewarding. There is a career path - its comforting to know that all my supervisors, site director and service delivery manager all started out on the phones just like me.
Plus its amazing how much you learn - I know more about the product (desktop publishing/graphics software) I support then probably most anyone on here.
Also I'm learning a lot about how to deal with diffucult people - a must in almost any job. I've literally made people who were screaming at me apologize for being so rude.
After all this I still want out because it is a very hard job for the pay. In the end though if I was in charge of hiring someone on a help desk I would look for call center (tech support) experience. Especially when you consider the success rate of most support techs here. Personally I can take a cold call - not know anything about the customers system, its quirks etc (I support mac, windows and sometimes unix products) and well over 90% solve there sometimes complex problem.
There are portions of the 2.4 ghz band that are licesed - to amateur radio operators where they are primary users.
And us hams do get to use 100 watts ss on most any frequency authorized for spread spectrum use (in general 70cm and above)
no in fact adobe *makes* ocr software - its called Acrobat Capture.
Also ebooks are on a right enabled basis. For instance you can select the option on weather your ebook is printable or not, wether content can be extracted etc etc.
Another point - most ocr software demands a dpi greater then 75 - oddly enough thats what your monitor is so no screen captures won't work to well with ocr software. Thats probably not a coincidence.
I dunno - you consider how few actual mips based SGI machines can run linux (like the indy and indigo only pretty much - which these days are pretty old) you have to figure they are using Linux on Intel most likely.
Sounds funny - but get a job doing tech support and work with someone who doesn't have a common grasp of how directories and files work - yes the pc is a scary monster (especially to the guy doing the support).
It's the famous winner takes it all, and if AMD lives today is because Intel is better of having them around than not.
Thats the thing about Intel - speaking as someone who has worked there (as a contractor) and interviewed their more then once - I always got the impression from Intel's employees and managers that if there was a button that could or would eradicate AMD once and for all that no-one would hesitate to push it.
When you transfer make sure to tell them it is in direct response to their decision to attempt to market personal information without regard to my desires.
Except the guy/girl transfering you is probably someone making 7$/hr in some call center who couldn't give a rip about your problems or what the company is doing (or even knows).
Only reason I know this is because I work in one...
I'm curious where or what text this quote appears?
I don't know - there's something about talking to stations all over the world instantly from almost anywhere (like my car or apartment).
I noticed about a year ago these guys just got done testing a 100 km link in israel, but it wasn't mentioned in any computer magazine. http://www.iarc.org/~ronen/wlan.html - this was in 1999.
:). Plus this university seismic research project is really what amateur radio should be about.
Become a ham - its really quite fun
You know at first I saw lsb -> lower sideband. I didn't know there were any compliance agencies for a mode of modulation - but I have no idea.
You know there is a cooking competition game already out there for the playstation - called Ore no Ryouri (my cooking?). Its pretty hard.
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here's some reviews - http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/psx/review/24584.
From Dictionary.com,
"news Pronunciation Key (nz, nyz)
pl.n. (used with a sing. verb)
Information about recent events or happenings, especially as reported by newspapers, periodicals, radio, or television.
A presentation of such information, as in a newspaper or on a newscast.
New information of any kind: The requirement was news to him.
Newsworthy material: "a public figure on a scale unimaginable in America; whatever he did was news" (James Atlas)."
The event was - someone bought a neat game that only runs on Japanese consoles. This is news on several levels.
A) He bought a game and a console - thats known as a event.
B) Because of strict content control systems on game consoles even though this is a neat game we'll probably never see it in the states - thats newsworthy information.
Some of us assume that the only thing that should be on slashdot are they things we are insterested in.
I for one found this tidbit of news interesting - keep up the good work slashdot.
As for the parent poster - he should start his own website where only real news will be reported.
But you cared enough to reply which means someone cares.
:)
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Touche
I've never seen or heard of this issue before. Do you have a root account set up? Are you set up as an administrator? Maybe something is misconfigured somewhere, try the Apple Discussion boards [apple.com] to see if anyone else has had the same problem.
Say I'm your typical mac user - the kind of person who is afraid of complex computers...
Anyhoo - on the proxy setup, yes I've re-produced that "bug" on at least 4 10.1.x machines (even the latest version of 10.1.8 didn't fix this). I haven't tested it on 10.2. Out of the box I should be able to click on the proxy port on any of the protocol without having hit lock/unlock for every option.
I dunno - I do tech support for imaging products on mac (and PC) the worst call I ever got was some lady who had 4 rows of extensions - the system really took 24 minutes to reboot.
However she was perfectly happy with the machine. Almost like a cult member.
Apple is having trouble getting better and faster chips from Moto (hence the IBM PPC rumors recently).
I don't understand this, because last time I pulled the heatsinks off the two G3 systems I have the chip was made by IBM (I mean it said IBM on the chip). One of them is a modded 6100/66 and the other is a b&w G3/300. Doesn't IBM make the actual G4 cpu's too?
I actually do mac/pc support for a company who makes lots of graphics software (I can't say who).
But I have on my desk a Mac G4/733 and next to it a Dell with a P3-933 in it. Dell has a Matrox G400 and the Mac has a Geforce 2 MX in it. Both have 40 gig hdd's and both have 256 megs of ram. Mac is running OS9 and 10.1.5, and the PC is running Windows 2000.
I can honestly say that the PC in equivelent applications (like Photoshop 7 on Mac or Photoshop 7 on PC, or Acrobat 5.0.5 on PC or Acrobat 5.0.5 on Mac) that my Dell is easily 25-40% quicker on most complex operations in OS 9 or OS X.
Not that the mac is any slouch - its still very fast, but I've found my cheaper PC is still quicker. A lot of people I talk to use Mac's (OS9 mainly), not because its faster but because it has more apps to do things like colour proofing and other pre-flight tests printers use to offset printing.
I won't argue which UI looks prettier, probably Mac OS X by far, but its not perfect - its got a lot of annoying issues. Like go into proxy config and enter a address and a port - whoa - notice something - in 10.1.x it won't let you type in the port until you hit lock type in the password, hit unlock type in the password again - then you can type in a port... Or type "man tar" from the command line - how the heck do you navigate around the man page?