If there weren't so many retailers out there trying to make as much as possible with as little effort as possible (car sales), I wouldn't have any issue with paying a reasonable profit, but how can you trust anyone without doing the homework.
I bought a new minivan a few months ago, during our negotiations, the salesman had the nerve to say "trust me, I take home over $5000 a month negotiating these deals, I'm on your side". We were there till closing, I ate dinner at 5PM before heading over. I didn't plan on being there till 10PM, but I was ready just in case.
Like anything in life, certain people will just learn what standards computers and databases see are desirable in employees and will cater to only those criteria.
I graduated with many 4.0 students who got many fewer job offers, why? They weren't outgoing, were the wrong sex, etc... That was then, now a databse will look at GPA, years experience, etc.. But much of this data will be subjective and up to the person originating the data.
20 million from a school that provides him with the means to make 200 million each year and he likely charges 2 million each year for software licensing, not including the students/sheep that purchse MS products.
He'll get a break from me when he creates a quality product for a quality price.
Just keep this equipment in its own server room with an exhaust fan sucking more air than the dedicated A/C unit supplies. If you're worried about odors escaping, use one-way vents in the door to cut down on the whistling through the door jamb. If the dedicated A/C shuts down, the exhaust fan will keep sucking, if it goes out, get a crapload of stickups.
When I order a whopper, I get it with the things I want and without the things I don't. They've never tried to sneak in anything I don't want and they've always been open and honest about where things are.
Real on the other hand (this is still Real folks, call em whatever you want, but they're still bad) sneaks in spyware that you didn't ask for when you install their "free" version, if you can find it on their website. They may argue that this is all legal, sure it is, they've hidden all these underhanded activities within their lame-assed long-assed terms of service.
Anytime since they went south of Hades with their business practices (1998 ?) I've asked everyone I've met that distributed content via the real format to try and install a clean free version similar to what their visitors/customers might do.
I don't recall any of them that didn't have an alternate format available within a few months.
All this in mind, will you peckerheads still treat everyone else this same way?
Not that I'd trust real again ever, kinda reminds me of a gal I met with crabs, sure it was fun at the time, but I sure paid later eh?
As an ex-IRC addict, I learned the ping -t and other commands early on, and that a shell account could really whup up someone on a dialup, which was usually me. One time I did start pinging some dialup guy from a shell, when someone on the shell msg'd me asking what I was doing, I replied "none of your business" he replied "goodbye". Dialup and everything dropped as he was the admin. Oh the days of being young, dumb and full piss and vinegar, glad they're over.
And taxpayers have to foot the bill for all of this.
We really need to start making these folks pay for the damages they cause (if any, in this case none) and their punishment, in this case the monitoring for five years. Monitoring defined in this case is likely something similar to probation, but should include someone (a consultant) technically inclined.
With everything possible being patented, won't this all go down the tubes eventually where it'll take more in legal fees to determine if a patent exists for an idea that all original thoughts will be quashed or alternatively everyone will just start ignoring patents similar to mp3s and filesharing and people ignoring copyrights.
It's irritating in the pharmecutical industry that they spend billions marketing products that would cost a tenth of what they charge for the products. If the quality is the same, I'd go for the no-name brand and usually do. They (the Man) will never realize that people are tired of eating shitburgers (advertising) and will continually pump this stuff into our tv's. Even if I dump the dish, I'll still get commercials on local networks concerning my sexlife. Arrgghh I get pissed.
I've used toasters (fancy ones not in my house) that'll automatically start toastin when you insert stuff into em, this whole patenting stuff that's been happening for years thing is silly.
Even sticking my hoohoo nilly into my wifes cha cha causes a reaction. Two boys so far to prove it.
Before i degreed myself, I cleaned petrochem tanks. Who knows what I exposed myself to, but wading around in 3-4 feet of parafin enriched petro-sludge was good exercise, but I didn't see friends for weeks at a time because the only way to clean this stuff off was stripping down and soaking hand cleaner. That was one of the easier tanks, cleaning out tar tanks was worse, in the winter, they thought it was easier to knock out with a jackhammer, except the tar dust collected everywhere, ears, hair, etc... I had to get a haircut to get all that crap out.
The worst office job since being degreed? In the desk right outside the copy room where ammonia was used to make blueprints. Or possibly the job where my boss left a sticky note attached to a Y2K article saying "fix our system(s) so this won't affect us".
I work as a non-IT consultant for an engineering firm in Houston who has had the worst luck since they canned the outsourced IT group and starting hiring and firing IT managers to run the IT staff. A few months ago, the latest IT manager who is some kind of security guru left the guest account wide open. I started digging around on the network, and I had more access as a guest than I did as myself. Still have some folders to prove it. When I mentioned this to my client contact, he notified the IT manager and not the company president.
I don't think it's that much of a boondoggle as most think. I've seen several shows and been involved in many construction projects over $300M each and it's easy to go over budget especially on such a project as this. If anyone said it would cost over $10B when they started, they never would have started and people would be screaming about the traffic. I live outside of Houston and hear people constantly complain about the traffic, then turn around and complain when construction starts.
Looks to me like this sorta thing will crush small developers and move everyone to closed source outfits that'll never close their doors (M$ & the like). We're all sheep being herded by the mighty corporations.
Do you know of any numbers that aren't valid that I can call in the 713 area code? I don't want to harrass folks just to avoid the DMA harrassing me and I definately don't want to spend an hour explaining what I'm trying to do to the people on the other end.
Shouldn't there be a way to automate this somehow? I'd love to use one of the old P2's to call up a bank of 800 and local numbers that have dialed me electronically and "spammed" me.
But the amount of available credit will be much less. I have about $60k + a house on credit right now and I keep getting offers for $1500 limit credit cards because I'm maxed out.
So, in a sense I'd only be liable for $1500 if someone stole my identity, over that amount I'd say the store is responsible for giving credit.
My beef is that I'm already paying directv, why do I (a paying customer) have to see more of their commercials. Anyways, I'm waiting for the dad-in-law to cough up his tivo when he ups to the hdtivo. Tivo'd shows look like crap on his 65" hdtv.
Wait a second, can this be good? If this goes bad for DirecTV, I may be forced to watch more of their damned commercials! They already time them on all channels so you can't escape their commercials. On the good side, their menu system beats em all hands down.
This is probably just PR for the book. All the suspects are in NC.
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I can now RFID my keys, wallet sunglasses, ballpoint pens and every other damned thing I lose from now on out and I should always be able to recover them. What happens if you or your dog eats an RFID tag? Are they microwaveable? Microwaves kill about everything else, oughta kill RFID.
Will this raise the cost of switching to a new number? When I start getting too many ex girlfriends, telemarketers, bosses, etc.. calling my cell, it's time for a new one.
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My eyeglasses reflect light and are similarly shaped to a lens, at least my dig camera lens.
If there weren't so many retailers out there trying to make as much as possible with as little effort as possible (car sales), I wouldn't have any issue with paying a reasonable profit, but how can you trust anyone without doing the homework.
I bought a new minivan a few months ago, during our negotiations, the salesman had the nerve to say "trust me, I take home over $5000 a month negotiating these deals, I'm on your side". We were there till closing, I ate dinner at 5PM before heading over. I didn't plan on being there till 10PM, but I was ready just in case.
Like anything in life, certain people will just learn what standards computers and databases see are desirable in employees and will cater to only those criteria.
I graduated with many 4.0 students who got many fewer job offers, why? They weren't outgoing, were the wrong sex, etc... That was then, now a databse will look at GPA, years experience, etc.. But much of this data will be subjective and up to the person originating the data.
20 million from a school that provides him with the means to make 200 million each year and he likely charges 2 million each year for software licensing, not including the students/sheep that purchse MS products.
He'll get a break from me when he creates a quality product for a quality price.
Just keep this equipment in its own server room with an exhaust fan sucking more air than the dedicated A/C unit supplies. If you're worried about odors escaping, use one-way vents in the door to cut down on the whistling through the door jamb. If the dedicated A/C shuts down, the exhaust fan will keep sucking, if it goes out, get a crapload of stickups.
When I order a whopper, I get it with the things I want and without the things I don't. They've never tried to sneak in anything I don't want and they've always been open and honest about where things are.
Real on the other hand (this is still Real folks, call em whatever you want, but they're still bad) sneaks in spyware that you didn't ask for when you install their "free" version, if you can find it on their website. They may argue that this is all legal, sure it is, they've hidden all these underhanded activities within their lame-assed long-assed terms of service.
Anytime since they went south of Hades with their business practices (1998 ?) I've asked everyone I've met that distributed content via the real format to try and install a clean free version similar to what their visitors/customers might do.
I don't recall any of them that didn't have an alternate format available within a few months.
All this in mind, will you peckerheads still treat everyone else this same way?
Not that I'd trust real again ever, kinda reminds me of a gal I met with crabs, sure it was fun at the time, but I sure paid later eh?
As an ex-IRC addict, I learned the ping -t and other commands early on, and that a shell account could really whup up someone on a dialup, which was usually me. One time I did start pinging some dialup guy from a shell, when someone on the shell msg'd me asking what I was doing, I replied "none of your business" he replied "goodbye". Dialup and everything dropped as he was the admin. Oh the days of being young, dumb and full piss and vinegar, glad they're over.
And taxpayers have to foot the bill for all of this.
We really need to start making these folks pay for the damages they cause (if any, in this case none) and their punishment, in this case the monitoring for five years. Monitoring defined in this case is likely something similar to probation, but should include someone (a consultant) technically inclined.
With everything possible being patented, won't this all go down the tubes eventually where it'll take more in legal fees to determine if a patent exists for an idea that all original thoughts will be quashed or alternatively everyone will just start ignoring patents similar to mp3s and filesharing and people ignoring copyrights.
It's irritating in the pharmecutical industry that they spend billions marketing products that would cost a tenth of what they charge for the products. If the quality is the same, I'd go for the no-name brand and usually do. They (the Man) will never realize that people are tired of eating shitburgers (advertising) and will continually pump this stuff into our tv's. Even if I dump the dish, I'll still get commercials on local networks concerning my sexlife. Arrgghh I get pissed.
I have two PCS phones and told them I won't move these numbers, so take the fee off and they have.
I've used toasters (fancy ones not in my house) that'll automatically start toastin when you insert stuff into em, this whole patenting stuff that's been happening for years thing is silly.
Even sticking my hoohoo nilly into my wifes cha cha causes a reaction. Two boys so far to prove it.
Before i degreed myself, I cleaned petrochem tanks. Who knows what I exposed myself to, but wading around in 3-4 feet of parafin enriched petro-sludge was good exercise, but I didn't see friends for weeks at a time because the only way to clean this stuff off was stripping down and soaking hand cleaner. That was one of the easier tanks, cleaning out tar tanks was worse, in the winter, they thought it was easier to knock out with a jackhammer, except the tar dust collected everywhere, ears, hair, etc... I had to get a haircut to get all that crap out.
The worst office job since being degreed? In the desk right outside the copy room where ammonia was used to make blueprints. Or possibly the job where my boss left a sticky note attached to a Y2K article saying "fix our system(s) so this won't affect us".
I work as a non-IT consultant for an engineering firm in Houston who has had the worst luck since they canned the outsourced IT group and starting hiring and firing IT managers to run the IT staff. A few months ago, the latest IT manager who is some kind of security guru left the guest account wide open. I started digging around on the network, and I had more access as a guest than I did as myself. Still have some folders to prove it. When I mentioned this to my client contact, he notified the IT manager and not the company president.
I've been fishing for a new gig since.
I don't think it's that much of a boondoggle as most think. I've seen several shows and been involved in many construction projects over $300M each and it's easy to go over budget especially on such a project as this. If anyone said it would cost over $10B when they started, they never would have started and people would be screaming about the traffic. I live outside of Houston and hear people constantly complain about the traffic, then turn around and complain when construction starts.
Looks to me like this sorta thing will crush small developers and move everyone to closed source outfits that'll never close their doors (M$ & the like). We're all sheep being herded by the mighty corporations.
With tablet PC's and the like, doctors down here in Houston (at least at my wife's 20 doctor clinic) are starting to enter their own records.
This sort of problem only happens at the huge hospital systems, not your regional health system.
internet connection.
Do you know of any numbers that aren't valid that I can call in the 713 area code? I don't want to harrass folks just to avoid the DMA harrassing me and I definately don't want to spend an hour explaining what I'm trying to do to the people on the other end.
Shouldn't there be a way to automate this somehow? I'd love to use one of the old P2's to call up a bank of 800 and local numbers that have dialed me electronically and "spammed" me.
Is this possible and is it legal?
But the amount of available credit will be much less. I have about $60k + a house on credit right now and I keep getting offers for $1500 limit credit cards because I'm maxed out.
So, in a sense I'd only be liable for $1500 if someone stole my identity, over that amount I'd say the store is responsible for giving credit.
My beef is that I'm already paying directv, why do I (a paying customer) have to see more of their commercials. Anyways, I'm waiting for the dad-in-law to cough up his tivo when he ups to the hdtivo. Tivo'd shows look like crap on his 65" hdtv.
Wait a second, can this be good? If this goes bad for DirecTV, I may be forced to watch more of their damned commercials! They already time them on all channels so you can't escape their commercials. On the good side, their menu system beats em all hands down.
This is probably just PR for the book. All the suspects are in NC.
I can now RFID my keys, wallet sunglasses, ballpoint pens and every other damned thing I lose from now on out and I should always be able to recover them. What happens if you or your dog eats an RFID tag? Are they microwaveable? Microwaves kill about everything else, oughta kill RFID.
Will this raise the cost of switching to a new number? When I start getting too many ex girlfriends, telemarketers, bosses, etc.. calling my cell, it's time for a new one.