I don't know how I'd function from day to day if I were that paranoid.
That is why security people are there to be paranoid for you. They may be a PITA sometimes, but they keep people who are either lazy, uninformed, or truly untrustworthy from doing harm to a company.
Gross incompetence Lack of work There is no number three.
Which world is better? I'm undecided.
Outside of all those things I want to be able to *trust* the people who work for me. If you are coming to work and then spreading around things on the internet that may or may not have any business being there then that means I cannot trust you.
These pictures may be innocent on their face, but no telling how they could be used later on by other companies competing with MS. If someone doesn't like MS as a company then don't work for them. Don't take a job there and start snapping pics and posting them on the inet and expect to stay employed.
Thanks for the additional info. I don't do too much freshwater fishing anymore. I wish I lived closer to some decent ponds(or streams for that matter), because I really enjoyed largemouth fishing when I was kid. Now, I mainly go offshore fishing and while I enjoy the excitement of big fish and big strikes I wish there was a small quiet pond nearby where I could go work the artficial worm again and feel the ever so slight bump when a bass would pick it up...
I used to think this, until I went fly fishing with some guide. I caught a few trout on flies, but they weren't really biting. The guide then let me in on a secret(if it actually is, who knows), just use a spinning rod/real and a regular old bass bait(beetle spin, rooster tail, etc...). The trout then acted just like all the largemouth bass I have ever caught. They just couldn't resist the flashing from the spinner.
Fly fishing is fun, but if you are out to really catch the most fish it is probably not the most efficient.
That sounds like a problem with your lecturer. Blaming the technology is just being sensational and dumb.
I agree. In my current graduate classes all my profs use powerpoint slides. It keeps them from having to spend time writing base points on the board and allows them to spend their time lecturing and expanding on their intial talking points/pictures.
It is also nice to be able to have a printout of the lecture outline before class. It allows you to spend some pre-class time preparing some questions which will help you get more out of a particular lecture.
As pointed out by others the guy is refering to a IBM server, most like with SCSI. Outside of that point, a service pack should *NEVER* overwrite 3rd party drivers without at least warning you. 3rd party drivers were installed for a reason...*hint* b/c the drivers that are in windows were either not available or not working.
LOL, I was forced to drive in NJ once. Some sort of Dell training session or something, but I digress. WTF is up with the whole turn right to go left thing. Jughandles have to be one of the wackiest ideas for traffic flow that I have ever seen. Do they really help the traffic at all?
So MS, Sony et al will always make a loss on the console.
Didn't Nintendo come out not to long ago and say that they have never taken a loss on what they sold the consoles for? I'm sure they make a majority of the money on licensing et al. The Xbox is a diffent beast though, since MS has been selling it at a loss when Nvidia wouldn't help cover some of the costs.
By this point though the PS2 has many older top 5 games. These can be found used and in rerelease for $20-$30. Personally, I always wait for games to at least drop to $40 before buying them anyway, but lately have been happy buying them used.
Look, dropping the PS2 to $99 would probably cause Sony to make almost nothing on the hardware, if they aren't losing money at that point.
Do you have a link which shows detail on Sonys cost of goods sold? By this point I bet that Sonys cost to make a single PS2 is much lower than people think.
1. Even if they give them away for free, I don't think I'll play on a console : I'm used to playing with a mouse + used to switch between work & play for 5 minutes of fun between hours of stress. So I'll play on my PC for quite some time to come.
Each type of system(console/PC) is strong at different types of games. RPGs and FPSs are usually best in the realm of the PC. Sports games on the other hand, I always find to be much more playable on a console. Different strokes for different folks and all that.
2. Folks who bought a PS2 at $499 must really feel screwed now. And they say Apple has large profit margins !
Not really. I got my PS2 the day they dropped to $199. I think I have had it for nearly 1.5 - 2 years now and have definitely gotten my $100 price premium out of it. On a side note, any techie who feels screwed b/c of technology price drops must never sleep a wink. Prices continually drop on computer equipment, so as long as you feel that you/b> got a good deal that is all that matters.
Everyone I know who occassionally downloads songs admits that they find themselves buying fewer CDs in recent years. Of course, they say it's because the "music is getting worse,"
The good thing now is that technology allows us to evaluate alblums before we buy them. Music may be getting worse or it could have always been this bad, but since people can listen before they buy they do a much better job at avoiding crap now.
Reminds me of some movie exec on TV blaming the low turnout for Gigli on text messaging and cell phones. He was ticked because customers could use technology to effectively and quickly tell all thier friends the movie sucked. I about fell over I was laughing so hard because no one had the balls to mention that it wouldn't have been a problem if the movie didn't suck.
Is P2P the tech that finally allows people to avoid crap alblums?
Maybe it just so happens that "liberals" are a lot more fit to teach at a liberal arts college than "conservatives"?
I think that subject matter plays a big part. I went to a liberal arts school that, surprisingly, has a pretty good comp sci and business programs. Anytime a world event happened that got talked about in multiple classes it was fun to get all the differing viewpoints of the teachers. The business teachers(econ/acct/finance) were all very capitalistic conservative, where the liberal art teachers were *gasp* liberal.
The most interesting thing I noticed was that the comp sci teachers beliefs seemed to be based around their history. Comp sci teachers who had gone out and worked for awhile then came back to teach were usually pretty conservative whereas the ones who stayed in the ivory tower were usually idealistic liberals.
The problem with removing the tilde key(or any key that represents a typable character) is that there will be a time when it needs to be typed. I know many people who use the tilde key somewhere in their passwords. It would suck to sit down at a machine and not be able to log in because of missing keys.
Now I don't have any experience with adding procs to a board as I have never run a dual+ configuration.
Just FYI. NT 4 required you to either a) install the dual proc OS with a special flag so you could add the second proc later or b) re-install the OS when you add the second proc or c) IIRC there was a way to hack in the right.dlls to make it work:)
Win2k+ has a selection somewhere(cannot remember off the top of my head) where you can just select it to install the multi proc dlls and your set.
The above example could easily be argued to be a survey about who owns vacuums. How many questions need to be asked for it constitute a survey? Are survey takers not allowed to attempt to sell something?
How about a survey taker who takes a survey then asks if they can contact you again, but unknown to you it will be their sales division to contact you next?
There are so many holes in the current bill, it is clear that it was drawn up too hastily. I say they go back to the drawing board and allow me to stop ALL unsolicited calls or don't bother with it.
The US government is passing a law which amounts to a list of people saying "do not call me"
If they are making a list, lets make it complete though. Non-profits can still call you, as can political organizations, and survey takers. I wonder how long it will be until every telemarketer starts off like this:
You: "Hello" TM: "Do you own a vacuum?" You: "Yes" TM: "Well I have something to sell you."
Most telemarketers use predictive dialing, which means the company dials up your number, because it is predicted that a representative will be available soon.
Every predictive dialer I have seen does not hang up on people they get on the phone. The point of predictive dialing is to weed out the answering machines/bad numbers/no one home thing. I have only dealt with dialers in industries other than telemarketing though. I would think that even if a dialer does hang up on a contact that the telemarketing company still pays some sort of fee for the call. This is why I have a hard time believing that they knowingly hang up on contacts. If I was running a telemarketing firm and knew the people running my dialers where hanging up on live contacts I would have a shit:p
It infringes on my right to privacy in the same manner my sitting outside your home with a bullhorn announcing the benefits of a product X, Y or Z would infringe on your privacy.
I find it funny no one thinks about the ripple out of possible job losses from one bill. Lets say telemarketers close up shop. That would mean a fairly big revenue hit to the telecoms. Less telecom money means less buying of infrastructure and software. Now your tech companies are getting hit directly.
Just for the record, I hate getting telemarket calls just like everyone else, but is this something that we need yet another law for?
And although Corps are run by individuals, they don't have the right to force us to listen or even to waste our resources in their pursuit of free speech.
I dislike telemarketer calls as much as the next guy, but is this something the govt. should really step into?/. is the place that seems to be a champion for freedoms except when it is one you don't like. I don't think this is a 1st amendment issue, but nonetheless it is limiting communication.
Again, something about the govt. telling others who can and cannot call my phone doesn't sit well with me. I would feel more comfortable if the bill was more all or nothing. As it stands the govt. is setting up a few groups for special treatment as they are still allowed to call even if you are on the list.
BTW, no one is forcing you to listen to a telemarket call. At any time you can hang up, or not even answer your phone to begin with. Also, while resources are being they are not being wasted. The telemarketing company is paying someone to make that call to your phone number.
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I don't know how I'd function from day to day if I were that paranoid.
That is why security people are there to be paranoid for you. They may be a PITA sometimes, but they keep people who are either lazy, uninformed, or truly untrustworthy from doing harm to a company.
In my world, an employee can be fired for
Gross incompetence
Lack of work
There is no number three.
Which world is better? I'm undecided.
Outside of all those things I want to be able to *trust* the people who work for me. If you are coming to work and then spreading around things on the internet that may or may not have any business being there then that means I cannot trust you.
These pictures may be innocent on their face, but no telling how they could be used later on by other companies competing with MS. If someone doesn't like MS as a company then don't work for them. Don't take a job there and start snapping pics and posting them on the inet and expect to stay employed.
Thanks for the additional info. I don't do too much freshwater fishing anymore. I wish I lived closer to some decent ponds(or streams for that matter), because I really enjoyed largemouth fishing when I was kid. Now, I mainly go offshore fishing and while I enjoy the excitement of big fish and big strikes I wish there was a small quiet pond nearby where I could go work the artficial worm again and feel the ever so slight bump when a bass would pick it up...
Bass are relatively easy to catch. Trout hard.
I used to think this, until I went fly fishing with some guide. I caught a few trout on flies, but they weren't really biting. The guide then let me in on a secret(if it actually is, who knows), just use a spinning rod/real and a regular old bass bait(beetle spin, rooster tail, etc...). The trout then acted just like all the largemouth bass I have ever caught. They just couldn't resist the flashing from the spinner.
Fly fishing is fun, but if you are out to really catch the most fish it is probably not the most efficient.
However, research with no hope of productive outcome is a waste and nothing more.
:p
I agree. Just check my sig
That sounds like a problem with your lecturer. Blaming the technology is just being sensational and dumb.
I agree. In my current graduate classes all my profs use powerpoint slides. It keeps them from having to spend time writing base points on the board and allows them to spend their time lecturing and expanding on their intial talking points/pictures.
It is also nice to be able to have a printout of the lecture outline before class. It allows you to spend some pre-class time preparing some questions which will help you get more out of a particular lecture.
As pointed out by others the guy is refering to a IBM server, most like with SCSI. Outside of that point, a service pack should *NEVER* overwrite 3rd party drivers without at least warning you. 3rd party drivers were installed for a reason...*hint* b/c the drivers that are in windows were either not available or not working.
You obviously haven't driven in New Jersey.
LOL, I was forced to drive in NJ once. Some sort of Dell training session or something, but I digress. WTF is up with the whole turn right to go left thing. Jughandles have to be one of the wackiest ideas for traffic flow that I have ever seen. Do they really help the traffic at all?
In short - tape backup is an ugly, ugly, can of worms.
I agree with you there. Tapes are a PITA to configure, but once you get everything up and running they tend to work pretty well.
But isn't lack of religion definable as "a religion"?
:p
Good point. So by removing the phrase "under God" we are actually supporting the atheist view of religion. Hmm...
If issues like this are the biggest ones facing our country then we are far better off than I thought
So MS, Sony et al will always make a loss on the console.
Didn't Nintendo come out not to long ago and say that they have never taken a loss on what they sold the consoles for? I'm sure they make a majority of the money on licensing et al. The Xbox is a diffent beast though, since MS has been selling it at a loss when Nvidia wouldn't help cover some of the costs.
By this point though the PS2 has many older top 5 games. These can be found used and in rerelease for $20-$30. Personally, I always wait for games to at least drop to $40 before buying them anyway, but lately have been happy buying them used.
Look, dropping the PS2 to $99 would probably cause Sony to make almost nothing on the hardware, if they aren't losing money at that point.
Do you have a link which shows detail on Sonys cost of goods sold? By this point I bet that Sonys cost to make a single PS2 is much lower than people think.
1. Even if they give them away for free, I don't think I'll play on a console : I'm used to playing with a mouse + used to switch between work & play for 5 minutes of fun between hours of stress. So I'll play on my PC for quite some time to come.
Each type of system(console/PC) is strong at different types of games. RPGs and FPSs are usually best in the realm of the PC. Sports games on the other hand, I always find to be much more playable on a console. Different strokes for different folks and all that.
2. Folks who bought a PS2 at $499 must really feel screwed now. And they say Apple has large profit margins !
Not really. I got my PS2 the day they dropped to $199. I think I have had it for nearly 1.5 - 2 years now and have definitely gotten my $100 price premium out of it. On a side note, any techie who feels screwed b/c of technology price drops must never sleep a wink. Prices continually drop on computer equipment, so as long as you feel that you/b> got a good deal that is all that matters.
Everyone I know who occassionally downloads songs admits that they find themselves buying fewer CDs in recent years. Of course, they say it's because the "music is getting worse,"
The good thing now is that technology allows us to evaluate alblums before we buy them. Music may be getting worse or it could have always been this bad, but since people can listen before they buy they do a much better job at avoiding crap now.
Reminds me of some movie exec on TV blaming the low turnout for Gigli on text messaging and cell phones. He was ticked because customers could use technology to effectively and quickly tell all thier friends the movie sucked. I about fell over I was laughing so hard because no one had the balls to mention that it wouldn't have been a problem if the movie didn't suck.
Is P2P the tech that finally allows people to avoid crap alblums?
Maybe it just so happens that "liberals" are a lot more fit to teach at a liberal arts college than "conservatives"?
I think that subject matter plays a big part. I went to a liberal arts school that, surprisingly, has a pretty good comp sci and business programs. Anytime a world event happened that got talked about in multiple classes it was fun to get all the differing viewpoints of the teachers. The business teachers(econ/acct/finance) were all very capitalistic conservative, where the liberal art teachers were *gasp* liberal.
The most interesting thing I noticed was that the comp sci teachers beliefs seemed to be based around their history. Comp sci teachers who had gone out and worked for awhile then came back to teach were usually pretty conservative whereas the ones who stayed in the ivory tower were usually idealistic liberals.
Correlation? Causation?
The problem with removing the tilde key(or any key that represents a typable character) is that there will be a time when it needs to be typed. I know many people who use the tilde key somewhere in their passwords. It would suck to sit down at a machine and not be able to log in because of missing keys.
Now I don't have any experience with adding procs to a board as I have never run a dual+ configuration.
.dlls to make it work :)
Just FYI. NT 4 required you to either a) install the dual proc OS with a special flag so you could add the second proc later or b) re-install the OS when you add the second proc or c) IIRC there was a way to hack in the right
Win2k+ has a selection somewhere(cannot remember off the top of my head) where you can just select it to install the multi proc dlls and your set.
The above example could easily be argued to be a survey about who owns vacuums. How many questions need to be asked for it constitute a survey? Are survey takers not allowed to attempt to sell something?
How about a survey taker who takes a survey then asks if they can contact you again, but unknown to you it will be their sales division to contact you next?
There are so many holes in the current bill, it is clear that it was drawn up too hastily. I say they go back to the drawing board and allow me to stop ALL unsolicited calls or don't bother with it.
The US government is passing a law which amounts to a list of people saying "do not call me"
If they are making a list, lets make it complete though. Non-profits can still call you, as can political organizations, and survey takers. I wonder how long it will be until every telemarketer starts off like this:
You: "Hello"
TM: "Do you own a vacuum?"
You: "Yes"
TM: "Well I have something to sell you."
Most telemarketers use predictive dialing, which means the company dials up your number, because it is predicted that a representative will be available soon.
:p
Every predictive dialer I have seen does not hang up on people they get on the phone. The point of predictive dialing is to weed out the answering machines/bad numbers/no one home thing. I have only dealt with dialers in industries other than telemarketing though. I would think that even if a dialer does hang up on a contact that the telemarketing company still pays some sort of fee for the call. This is why I have a hard time believing that they knowingly hang up on contacts. If I was running a telemarketing firm and knew the people running my dialers where hanging up on live contacts I would have a shit
It infringes on my right to privacy in the same manner my sitting outside your home with a bullhorn announcing the benefits of a product X, Y or Z would infringe on your privacy.
So what's next? Outlaw the icecream man?
Since you are worried about employment,
I find it funny no one thinks about the ripple out of possible job losses from one bill. Lets say telemarketers close up shop. That would mean a fairly big revenue hit to the telecoms. Less telecom money means less buying of infrastructure and software. Now your tech companies are getting hit directly.
Just for the record, I hate getting telemarket calls just like everyone else, but is this something that we need yet another law for?
And although Corps are run by individuals, they don't have the right to force us to listen or even to waste our resources in their pursuit of free speech.
/. is the place that seems to be a champion for freedoms except when it is one you don't like. I don't think this is a 1st amendment issue, but nonetheless it is limiting communication.
I dislike telemarketer calls as much as the next guy, but is this something the govt. should really step into?
Again, something about the govt. telling others who can and cannot call my phone doesn't sit well with me. I would feel more comfortable if the bill was more all or nothing. As it stands the govt. is setting up a few groups for special treatment as they are still allowed to call even if you are on the list.
BTW, no one is forcing you to listen to a telemarket call. At any time you can hang up, or not even answer your phone to begin with. Also, while resources are being they are not being wasted. The telemarketing company is paying someone to make that call to your phone number.
Except when the buffer overflow is a "feature" and it must be duplicated in order to work with properly with the windows version of the SMB protocol :)