The problem is that *real* spamlords sell/rent/MLM convenient little subscription kits, services, tools and utilities that enable mindless drooling head-bobbers like this to join the ranks of spammers. No way of telling now, whether it was just another spammerzombie, or one of the real kingpins. Shoot 'em all, I say.
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It would be nice to see this idea expanded on a slightly grander scale. Sort of a grass-roots co-op, if you will. Thing is, there may be some good bands that can scrape together the requisite technological know how and hutzpah to burn their own CD's - but how much cooler would it be if there were some professional resources they could utilize? Sort of an anti-RIAA, if you will.
I'd like to see some sort of collaborative effort providing at-or-near cost, high quality CD production & distribution. Something that would appeal to the artists from both a cost savings and ideology/public opinion perspective. Probably just a pipe dream, but it would sure beat the hell out of just crossing our fingers and hoping enough indies 'get it' on their own...
I'd guess that clearing out the learned habits of any given user, say for example when roles or responsibilities change, would be a rather routine and trivial administration task? Not unlike resetting a password or adding someone to a print queue that's not so far down the hall...
I've been in this situation several times, and at the end of the day I stick with the "never accept a counter" advice. My main argument is that if I am NOW worth $X amount more, why wasn't I getting that amount before?
I would also feel very uncomfortable staying at a position where I had basically strong-armed them into a pay increase. The whole management relationship changes after something like that, there's a loss of trust there that you can't really ever get back.
Go with your gut, but I've always responded to counter offers with, "Sorry, but I've already accepted the other position."
I don't know about in schools, but I used to manage a fairly large (60+ employees) IT Department for a bank, and we used to have "UT Fridays." Basically, interested parties would use their lunch hour to play UT instead, as an endorsed activity (i.e., several people even higher in the food chain than myself were aware, and did not object.) Generally at least 4-8 people would jump in, sometimes including visitors from international offices - and a lot of people who didn't/wouldn't play would move to a location that they could watch the fun over someone else's shoulder.
Since we limited the festivities to about 30-45 minutes or so, it wasn't very adaptable for longer playing games like AOE or what have you, but it was a nice break.
Anyone who considers doing this (and can I stress enough how important it is to get management buy-in before attempting!!!) - should perform some network monitoring beforehand, you don't want to get canned for halting trading or the like. UT had a pretty tiny network footprint, dunno about other multiplayer games.
I'm not one to preach about the amazing benefits (or perils, for that matter) - of FPS games, but there's no arguing that we enjoyed a little enhanced teamwork & cohesion as a direct result. And there are few things as amusing as a dozen frantic people on speakerphone, trying to shout out battle commands (in team play) or howling in agony after a frag...
Apparently the names are being etched onto aluminum foil, but I can't find any more detail than that. I'm wondering, are we talking about reynolds wrap and an impact "etching" device (ie your garden variety typewriter / dot matrix printer)...?
I'd love to get my hands on better details about the actual engraving. Although it seems like plain ol' aluminum foil is probably the most economical choice, I've gotta wonder how long you'd be able to read the fine print. Never mind just the asteroid's own collection of dust and debris to sand away yer loved one's moniker - there's also those pesky micrometeorite impacts to consider...
Okay, I know it's a little off-topic, but there's an excellent story on scifiction ( http://www.scifi.com/scifiction ) with a clever twist on space exploration funding... I enjoyed it, anyway. Check out "The Children's Crusade" at http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/
... an intriguing idea from "Goedell, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid."
The idea (which I will no doubt crudely butcher) was that of a "meta" consciousness existing in the system which individual ants operated as members of, much as individual brain cells.
Makes me wonder - if such "ant colony" sentience could exist, might this not be one heck of a complex (and as a result possibly more intelligent) example of one?
Then again, it/they still don't seem to be making any overtures toward chatting with the primates, heh... Perhaps just still preparing for the surprise attack...:)
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It would be nice to see this idea expanded on a slightly grander scale. Sort of a grass-roots co-op, if you will. Thing is, there may be some good bands that can scrape together the requisite technological know how and hutzpah to burn their own CD's - but how much cooler would it be if there were some professional resources they could utilize? Sort of an anti-RIAA, if you will.
I'd like to see some sort of collaborative effort providing at-or-near cost, high quality CD production & distribution. Something that would appeal to the artists from both a cost savings and ideology/public opinion perspective. Probably just a pipe dream, but it would sure beat the hell out of just crossing our fingers and hoping enough indies 'get it' on their own...
I'd guess that clearing out the learned habits of any given user, say for example when roles or responsibilities change, would be a rather routine and trivial administration task? Not unlike resetting a password or adding someone to a print queue that's not so far down the hall...
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I've been in this situation several times, and at the end of the day I stick with the "never accept a counter" advice. My main argument is that if I am NOW worth $X amount more, why wasn't I getting that amount before?
I would also feel very uncomfortable staying at a position where I had basically strong-armed them into a pay increase. The whole management relationship changes after something like that, there's a loss of trust there that you can't really ever get back.
Go with your gut, but I've always responded to counter offers with, "Sorry, but I've already accepted the other position."
- my $0.02
I don't know about in schools, but I used to manage a fairly large (60+ employees) IT Department for a bank, and we used to have "UT Fridays." Basically, interested parties would use their lunch hour to play UT instead, as an endorsed activity (i.e., several people even higher in the food chain than myself were aware, and did not object.) Generally at least 4-8 people would jump in, sometimes including visitors from international offices - and a lot of people who didn't/wouldn't play would move to a location that they could watch the fun over someone else's shoulder.
Since we limited the festivities to about 30-45 minutes or so, it wasn't very adaptable for longer playing games like AOE or what have you, but it was a nice break.
Anyone who considers doing this (and can I stress enough how important it is to get management buy-in before attempting!!!) - should perform some network monitoring beforehand, you don't want to get canned for halting trading or the like. UT had a pretty tiny network footprint, dunno about other multiplayer games.
I'm not one to preach about the amazing benefits (or perils, for that matter) - of FPS games, but there's no arguing that we enjoyed a little enhanced teamwork & cohesion as a direct result. And there are few things as amusing as a dozen frantic people on speakerphone, trying to shout out battle commands (in team play) or howling in agony after a frag...
Apparently the names are being etched onto aluminum foil, but I can't find any more detail than that. I'm wondering, are we talking about reynolds wrap and an impact "etching" device (ie your garden variety typewriter / dot matrix printer) ...?
I'd love to get my hands on better details about the actual engraving. Although it seems like plain ol' aluminum foil is probably the most economical choice, I've gotta wonder how long you'd be able to read the fine print. Never mind just the asteroid's own collection of dust and debris to sand away yer loved one's moniker - there's also those pesky micrometeorite impacts to consider...
Okay, I know it's a little off-topic, but there's an excellent story on scifiction ( http://www.scifi.com/scifiction ) with a clever twist on space exploration funding... I enjoyed it, anyway. Check out "The Children's Crusade" at http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/
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The idea (which I will no doubt crudely butcher) was that of a "meta" consciousness existing in the system which individual ants operated as members of, much as individual brain cells.
Makes me wonder - if such "ant colony" sentience could exist, might this not be one heck of a complex (and as a result possibly more intelligent) example of one?
Then again, it/they still don't seem to be making any overtures toward chatting with the primates, heh... Perhaps just still preparing for the surprise attack...