I get from your comment that a worker should just put up with whatever equipment the company gives them and learn to like it. Well, that doesn't really leave any room for what an employee likes or dislikes.
Err no. I'm saying that it's unacceptable to phone up in the morning claiming a sicky because your karma is not aligned or something.
The best coders are much more productive than the worst coders. If the best coders know they are the best then they will choose to work for the company that best satisfies their needs. Suddenly employee happiness is a major part of the productivity equation.
I work for a company that bills for a lot of porn and has a lot of fun. Work for us and we'll get you laid. Trouble is most people can't program with double Ds in their face, so it's not always the 'perks' which aid productivity.
To cut a sarcastic post short, equipment and surroundings should be at least acceptable in any job. After that the mental prepardness of the employee is their own responsibility.
I agree with what you're trying to say, but not your comparison.
The typical answer on how an author writes a book is that they sit down and start typing. They force themselves to do it every day in order to succeed. Discipline.
Sure it's nice, and often more productive if the secretary is giving you a foot massage and the lighting is perfect. However this just doesn't cut it very far in the corporate world. They're looking for good steady turnout, not perfect turnout when your karma feels like it.
Not aimed at you, I just remembered I'm agreeing with you:)
I went and listened to what Mastercard had to say on the subject at the ETA conference in Orlando last week.
There is a very blurry line here for what they call aggregators. On the one hand they do not consider Ticket Master and Amazon aggregators but they do consider us to be. When asked why, it was basically no comment. At some point they may have to choose.
What they did make very clear is that they want to retain competitiveness with Visa. The adult industry, between top players mentioned in a previous post, process in excess of $1.2b every year not including Paypal. That kind of money can produce a lot of pursuading I can assure you.
What I can also tell you is that Mastercard is being very cooperative in finding a solution with all these players and we are confident of finding a solution. Certainly nothing drastic is happening for quite a while.
Robert WebsiteBilling.com
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Seeing as this guy doesn't concern himself with 'engineering problems' all he needs to do is get something with lots of mass, say Jupiter, and harness it's gravity.
If you could sit in a vessel exposed, yet protected from those kinds of forces you'd be able to look out the window and see time flying very quickly forward. Even easier would be to actually fly to Jupiter and back. Easy being relative in this case (geddit?).
Going backwards in time is a lot messier and means messing with all kinds of negative gravity. The biggest forseen problem will always be that you can't go back before you invented the machine.
I take as proof that it will never be done because the bible doesn't have any mention of a pale scientist standing next to the cross with a video camera saying 'Can I have a quick interview, the guys back home will never believe this'.
I wish I knew more about this kind of biology. On one hand there's this stupid virus called HIV which is killing millions, has a few slightly varying strains and despite probably billions of dollars refuses to goddam die.
Then on the other hand somebody has managed to genetically engineer a retrovirus that is capable of DNA splicing in a fantastically accurate fashion and can cure many inherited diseases.
> Heh, sorry, My comp>properties doesn't paste as nicely as uname =]
That's kind of the point really, isn't it?
I'm sitting here typing this on an XP box, so I'm as two faced as most of the rest of the people around here. I just thought it was kinda funny in the context.
Just imagine, if you will, the ramifications of a major console with Linux at it's heart. Although it's not the default OS on any big console it's probably just a matter of time.
Instead of constantly trying to catch up with Windoze in supporting games, imagine if there was such a console producing masses of software which would be ready to spill out in quick porting efforts.
I have the sneaking feeling it's not too far off. Gotta give Mr. Gates credit, he's seen it coming (xbox).
The bit about potentially using it to reduce the mass of ships to make propulsion more efficient seems a bit dodgy to say the least.
Sure, you might one day find some amazing new principal that allows you to manipulate gravity, but the energy required to do it puts you right back at square one. You need to carry fuel to power the anti-grav unit so you need less fuel.
Going to get nasty on boxes that use a single IP address and virtual hosting. Especially with international traffic going around.
I can see freehosts getting badly burned. Suddenly ISPs have a court order blocking 1 cp site and 20,000 other sites, mostly innocent get taken down with it.
Why not aim the court order at the hosting ISP to take it down. Going to be tricky internationally but maybe a little tolerance to others laws and ages of consents is the price we pay for an open network?
ISPs can't block access to 'sites' without analysing the traffic going past, very tricky. Site != IP
People expect amazing availability on their cheap connections for free.
This is like beer. One extreme is piss water, in the middle are those that are okay most of the time, and some are reassuringly expensive (if you've seen the commercials).
It just depends on how bad you need one, and how good you want it to be. Same thing applies to most popular male activity while I think about it.....
Get it installed as a business. You get what you pay for and typically it's good value. Especially when you're screaming at the wall because your residential DSL line just went down and you've got 2 minutes left to make a wire transfer.
High availability always costs a lot more cash. The closer to 100% you want to get, it takes exponentially more cash and resources. The phone companies understand this, which is why they rightly have no sympathy for you trying to skim a few bucks every month.
Do you even know the bank rules for online merchants?
If you want to accept credit cards over the Internet it's tricky to get a merchant account. When you do get one you have to have a reserve in your account at all times which card issuing banks can help themselves to if their cardholders dispute a transaction. In addition to that your bank will typically assess a $15 chargeback fee which just magically disappears. Should your ratio of sales/chargebacks for any month exceed 2.5% or 1% US customer disputes Visa will fine you $100 per chargeback on top of that. Don't keep up your reserve and your bank will hold ALL your money for at least 6 months.
Starting to see PayPal's problems yet? I can tell you they're not alone in feeling it's unjustified, but they have to pass this on.
Even if the issue was interception, which it's not, it's like shouting across a room. The Internet is not a private communication medium and I believe the courts time would be better used establishing this fact legally. If you want privacy use encryption, it's easy fast and as far as we know reliable. It certainly requires effort to decipher which has larger meaning to the word 'intercept'. You can hardly stumble upon an encrypted email.
They don't need to, their own incompetence gives away your email address for free.
I used to be a media1 (now ATT I believe) customer and logged into one of their big sun boxes for my free 5MB website via ftp.
cd../..
ls -l
50,000 directory listings later I'm almost in tears. Simply add @mediaone.net to them and you've got a really saleable list. Tech support couldn't even understand what I was saying and I didn't want to push it, you never know what these stupid companies will accuse you of.
This really has nothing to do with 9/11, current wars, the state of Northern Ireland etc. It's a movie, it's fiction. Treat it as such. There are so many references to blowing things up in movies I just don't see why people always have to join the dots. There has to be some separation.
Mild spoilage:
Anyway to the movie itself. Arnold is his usual corny self and his supporting cast do a pretty good job of the acting. The action scenes are plentiful but that's not why this movies sucks.
It sucks because of the awful script. Not awful because it has corny lines and such, awful because Arnold spends half the movie getting beaten up and he doesn't once pick up a gun. His entire arsenal is a black river pass, a grenade, and exploding lightbulb and an axe. Boring. There's lots of running around in confusion getting nowhere, boring. What people wanted to see in this movie was a f&%%in huge Austrian bloke land in Columbia in army camo and with the biggest gun you could rip off a helicopter. He should have then proceeded to march up the river machine-gunning everything in sight taking out trees and jeeps that got in the way (popcorn gobbling stuff). Instead he hides in a truck all the way and gets his ass kicked when he's finally discovered. Boring boring boring.
What would the g-forces be like on the end of this thing going around so fast at that distance? Wouldn't it be like one of those machines they stress test pilots on?
The document describes it like swinging a ball around your head, but that means you've got an oscillating force. Would it be enough to make the Earth wobble a bit? Would that be comfy? Would we need two elevators, one in each hemisphere?
It's not that they were 'getting around to it'. That's just plain sour grapes and company bashing.
It's that they had a timed agreement with Rambus to be exclusive. They thought they were doing the right thing to boost performance and it didn't work out in all areas of the business model. At least they stick to their agreements.
Which is why all the dodgy stuff it strips out gets sent to a quarantine account where somebody sensible can take a look at it, attempt disinfection, and/or pass it on.
We run Sophos antivirus on the mail gateway. Sure it doesn't stop them all, but most anything that is a single click fatality is screened out. It happily killed all 120+ attempts of the Goner-A worm to arrive on one of my customer service rep's desktops.
I really have little sympathy for IT admins who get killed by this stuff, there are a million tools out there to stop this stuff from doing damage way before idiot humans get their hands on it.
I personally would like to see more ISPs use this stuff, after all they're not obliged to carry any traffic they deem high risk to their users. They already block dodgy ports so windows shares aren't wide open, why not a complimentary virus scan on mail?
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Whatever it is, I hope it can hold it's breath for a very long time.
I get from your comment that a worker should just put up with whatever equipment the company gives them and learn to like it. Well, that doesn't really leave any room for what an employee likes or dislikes.
Err no. I'm saying that it's unacceptable to phone up in the morning claiming a sicky because your karma is not aligned or something.
The best coders are much more productive than the worst coders. If the best coders know they are the best then they will choose to work for the company that best satisfies their needs. Suddenly employee happiness is a major part of the productivity equation.
I work for a company that bills for a lot of porn and has a lot of fun. Work for us and we'll get you laid. Trouble is most people can't program with double Ds in their face, so it's not always the 'perks' which aid productivity.
To cut a sarcastic post short, equipment and surroundings should be at least acceptable in any job. After that the mental prepardness of the employee is their own responsibility.
I agree with what you're trying to say, but not your comparison.
:)
The typical answer on how an author writes a book is that they sit down and start typing. They force themselves to do it every day in order to succeed. Discipline.
Sure it's nice, and often more productive if the secretary is giving you a foot massage and the lighting is perfect. However this just doesn't cut it very far in the corporate world. They're looking for good steady turnout, not perfect turnout when your karma feels like it.
Not aimed at you, I just remembered I'm agreeing with you
I went and listened to what Mastercard had to say on the subject at the ETA conference in Orlando last week.
There is a very blurry line here for what they call aggregators. On the one hand they do not consider Ticket Master and Amazon aggregators but they do consider us to be. When asked why, it was basically no comment. At some point they may have to choose.
What they did make very clear is that they want to retain competitiveness with Visa. The adult industry, between top players mentioned in a previous post, process in excess of $1.2b every year not including Paypal. That kind of money can produce a lot of pursuading I can assure you.
What I can also tell you is that Mastercard is being very cooperative in finding a solution with all these players and we are confident of finding a solution. Certainly nothing drastic is happening for quite a while.
Robert
WebsiteBilling.com
Seeing as this guy doesn't concern himself with 'engineering problems' all he needs to do is get something with lots of mass, say Jupiter, and harness it's gravity.
If you could sit in a vessel exposed, yet protected from those kinds of forces you'd be able to look out the window and see time flying very quickly forward. Even easier would be to actually fly to Jupiter and back. Easy being relative in this case (geddit?).
Going backwards in time is a lot messier and means messing with all kinds of negative gravity. The biggest forseen problem will always be that you can't go back before you invented the machine.
I take as proof that it will never be done because the bible doesn't have any mention of a pale scientist standing next to the cross with a video camera saying 'Can I have a quick interview, the guys back home will never believe this'.
So do we understand the retro-virus or not?
I wish I knew more about this kind of biology. On one hand there's this stupid virus called HIV which is killing millions, has a few slightly varying strains and despite probably billions of dollars refuses to goddam die.
Then on the other hand somebody has managed to genetically engineer a retrovirus that is capable of DNA splicing in a fantastically accurate fashion and can cure many inherited diseases.
So, for the bio peeps out there, how?, why?
> Heh, sorry, My comp>properties doesn't paste as nicely as uname =]
That's kind of the point really, isn't it?
I'm sitting here typing this on an XP box, so I'm as two faced as most of the rest of the people around here. I just thought it was kinda funny in the context.
Ahh yes, putting that GUI to good use I see.
What's the matter, couldn't find the button?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Just imagine, if you will, the ramifications of a major console with Linux at it's heart. Although it's not the default OS on any big console it's probably just a matter of time.
Instead of constantly trying to catch up with Windoze in supporting games, imagine if there was such a console producing masses of software which would be ready to spill out in quick porting efforts.
I have the sneaking feeling it's not too far off. Gotta give Mr. Gates credit, he's seen it coming (xbox).
The bit about potentially using it to reduce the mass of ships to make propulsion more efficient seems a bit dodgy to say the least.
Sure, you might one day find some amazing new principal that allows you to manipulate gravity, but the energy required to do it puts you right back at square one. You need to carry fuel to power the anti-grav unit so you need less fuel.
Hmmmm.
Didn't say you couldn't. I was just saying your model sucked. They all do for different tasks.
Double and even triple clicking is a convenience measure like any other. Why propose not to use it?
Because it's going to get really boring right clicking and deleting 500 files one at a time.
Time and a place...
Going to get nasty on boxes that use a single IP address and virtual hosting. Especially with international traffic going around.
I can see freehosts getting badly burned. Suddenly ISPs have a court order blocking 1 cp site and 20,000 other sites, mostly innocent get taken down with it.
Why not aim the court order at the hosting ISP to take it down. Going to be tricky internationally but maybe a little tolerance to others laws and ages of consents is the price we pay for an open network?
ISPs can't block access to 'sites' without analysing the traffic going past, very tricky.
Site != IP
People expect amazing availability on their cheap connections for free.
.....
This is like beer. One extreme is piss water, in the middle are those that are okay most of the time, and some are reassuringly expensive (if you've seen the commercials).
It just depends on how bad you need one, and how good you want it to be. Same thing applies to most popular male activity while I think about it
Get it installed as a business. You get what you pay for and typically it's good value. Especially when you're screaming at the wall because your residential DSL line just went down and you've got 2 minutes left to make a wire transfer.
High availability always costs a lot more cash. The closer to 100% you want to get, it takes exponentially more cash and resources. The phone companies understand this, which is why they rightly have no sympathy for you trying to skim a few bucks every month.
A lot obviously because I trust IE with my data. It just lost my last post.
F#*k
Do you even know the bank rules for online merchants?
If you want to accept credit cards over the Internet it's tricky to get a merchant account.
When you do get one you have to have a reserve in your account at all times which card issuing banks can help themselves to if their cardholders dispute a transaction. In addition to that your bank will typically assess a $15 chargeback fee which just magically disappears.
Should your ratio of sales/chargebacks for any month exceed 2.5% or 1% US customer disputes Visa will fine you $100 per chargeback on top of that. Don't keep up your reserve and your bank will hold ALL your money for at least 6 months.
Starting to see PayPal's problems yet?
I can tell you they're not alone in feeling it's unjustified, but they have to pass this on.
http://www.websitebilling.com/pressrelease.html
Even if the issue was interception, which it's not, it's like shouting across a room. The Internet is not a private communication medium and I believe the courts time would be better used establishing this fact legally.
If you want privacy use encryption, it's easy fast and as far as we know reliable. It certainly requires effort to decipher which has larger meaning to the word 'intercept'. You can hardly stumble upon an encrypted email.
This gets very confusing because the older you get the less sleep you typically require.
Major backpeddling is a genetic feature I guess.
They don't need to, their own incompetence gives away your email address for free.
../..
I used to be a media1 (now ATT I believe) customer and logged into one of their big sun boxes for my free 5MB website via ftp.
cd
ls -l
50,000 directory listings later I'm almost in tears. Simply add @mediaone.net to them and you've got a really saleable list. Tech support couldn't even understand what I was saying and I didn't want to push it, you never know what these stupid companies will accuse you of.
This really has nothing to do with 9/11, current wars, the state of Northern Ireland etc. It's a movie, it's fiction. Treat it as such. There are so many references to blowing things up in movies I just don't see why people always have to join the dots. There has to be some separation.
Mild spoilage:
Anyway to the movie itself. Arnold is his usual corny self and his supporting cast do a pretty good job of the acting. The action scenes are plentiful but that's not why this movies sucks.
It sucks because of the awful script. Not awful because it has corny lines and such, awful because Arnold spends half the movie getting beaten up and he doesn't once pick up a gun. His entire arsenal is a black river pass, a grenade, and exploding lightbulb and an axe. Boring. There's lots of running around in confusion getting nowhere, boring. What people wanted to see in this movie was a f&%%in huge Austrian bloke land in Columbia in army camo and with the biggest gun you could rip off a helicopter. He should have then proceeded to march up the river machine-gunning everything in sight taking out trees and jeeps that got in the way (popcorn gobbling stuff). Instead he hides in a truck all the way and gets his ass kicked when he's finally discovered. Boring boring boring.
Questions for the astro peeps here...
What would the g-forces be like on the end of this thing going around so fast at that distance? Wouldn't it be like one of those machines they stress test pilots on?
The document describes it like swinging a ball around your head, but that means you've got an oscillating force. Would it be enough to make the Earth wobble a bit? Would that be comfy? Would we need two elevators, one in each hemisphere?
It's not that they were 'getting around to it'. That's just plain sour grapes and company bashing.
It's that they had a timed agreement with Rambus to be exclusive. They thought they were doing the right thing to boost performance and it didn't work out in all areas of the business model. At least they stick to their agreements.
Which is why all the dodgy stuff it strips out gets sent to a quarantine account where somebody sensible can take a look at it, attempt disinfection, and/or pass it on.
It's quite cool stuff.
We run Sophos antivirus on the mail gateway. Sure it doesn't stop them all, but most anything that is a single click fatality is screened out. It happily killed all 120+ attempts of the Goner-A worm to arrive on one of my customer service rep's desktops.
I really have little sympathy for IT admins who get killed by this stuff, there are a million tools out there to stop this stuff from doing damage way before idiot humans get their hands on it.
I personally would like to see more ISPs use this stuff, after all they're not obliged to carry any traffic they deem high risk to their users. They already block dodgy ports so windows shares aren't wide open, why not a complimentary virus scan on mail?