Oh well, it sucks. RoadRunner blocked their netblock. It takes about 3 seconds to set up another Outlook account to retrieve mail from the colo server, which is the way they should've been doing it in the first place. Forwarding email is great if you don't mind changing all 1 billion of your forwards (which is about how many I have) every time you switch "primary" email accounts.
A month and a week ago, I was laid off from here. I've been at my new job now for three weeks; I've had a little bit of time to get my bearings and I can already see striking differences.
At my old job, management (not my boss, but management) was abysmal. We were constantly being handed something that needed to be done yesterday, being told to get it done ASAP and drop everything else we were doing to come up with a solution given inadequate resources. We were always short on machines, manpower, time, budget, and respect. In the midst of the latest Hot Project, management would walk in and tell us there was something else we should be doing instead, and why the hell weren't we doing that?
At my new job, there are a few levels of management. I'm only really directly affected by the level directly above me. This is similar to my old job, but with one important difference: so far, my boss has sheltered us from most of the crap raining down from above (the raining of crap is to be expected anywhere, really.)
We actually have money to get our tasks done. We have the time to get them done in (more or less). We also aren't reassigned all over the fucking place because management fucked something up.
I like it so far. Plus I got free money from my old job, w00t!
The respondant didn't have a real argument to my post, so he nitpicks my choice of words.
Okay, cockass, here's the ``real argument'' you so desperately crave: what if I want to spend $144 so I can save the state of all my games on my PC, in case the batteries in my GBA ever die? Hm, looks like we've got a substantial, non-infringing use, doesn't it?
You also misused the word "myriad", following it with the word "of" and preceding it with the an "a", in this post.
Furthermore, you are a stupid dick and all your shitty posts are flamebait. Go smoke a bowl of hash and mellow out.
Finally, my slashdot UID is lower than yours, so I'm better than you are.
Though I've absolutely no intention of doing a thing about it, I'm going to sit here and complain and bitch because someone who is providing a free service to my lazy ass has the *balls* to try and make money off of it!!!
I thought slashdot collectively stopped caring about this kind of non-issue pap back in 1998.
Like the man said, NTP can sync to GPS. No need to go out on the Internet to do that. The internal network can then sync to the internal, GPS-connected NTP master.
Students must develop skills, you can't just magically show them a series of steps and expect them to comprehend and recreate them for their own work.
Yes, you can. It's called mathematics. Also phonics. Also diagramming sentences.
Learning how to use a word processor is absolutely no different. It isn't a creative task, like learning to make decisions or become curious about the world around them like some other subjects (such as arts and sciences courses) teach them.
Learning how to use the big beige box in the corner doesn't develop kids' brains.
Students are required to hand in essays with references from computer encyclopaedias and typed with specific formatting.
So, kids must learn computers because teachers now require research papers to be created on computers? I hope they teach them circular logic, too.
There are some pretty advanced computing concepts that come into play that must be taught.
Learning to use Word 2000 isn't exactly advanced. When I find a class full of 8-year-olds who can write me a nice stored procedure in Postgresql, I'll agree with you...
technology is real shit, kids have to learn it too.
Why? So they're ready to join the working world? It doesn't take 18 years to learn how to use a word processor and read email. My generation did fine without being taught.
They actually started teaching LOGO to kids in 3rd grade, when I was in the 6th or 7th grade, *well* after most of the other schools had thrown out their LOGO cartridges.
By the time we finally learned how to use a computer (in 7th and 8th grade, and we learned BASIC programming on TRS-80s), anything we'd learned was already obsolete. Those of us who already knew computers couldn't care less about what we were "learning" in class, and everyone else just saw no point to it. All it really did was take time away from actually learning real shit. Teaching kids how to use a word processor or "research" things on the Internet gives them no advantage at all over somebody who's spent most of their school life in more creative endeavors.
I'm glad I didn't bother learning how to use a PC until I felt like it.
...has a history of murdering its good shows (Family Guy, Futurama, Get a Life) while letting once-good shows languish (X-Files, the Simpsons, Ally McFucking Beal).
People wonder why they're still the number 4 network; I don't.
It's a fucking reverse proxy server. I see absolutely no proof on the site whatsoever that this guy's personal info is being stored or aggregated or anything. Where's his proof that Comcast has purchased the "specific equipment" that is used for data aggregation, and where's his proof that they're using it for that purpose?
This is just a stupid fucking email message that, once again, when placed under the magic Slashdot Out-Of-Proportiometer, has ballooned to mega-lotta-banner-ad size.
I'm getting really sick of the notion on slashdot that everything can be both cheap and perform spectacularly.
Here's a template for all you ask-slashdotters out there:
A Clueless Slashdroid asks: "I've recently become interested in performing Action X. So far, the best way I've found to do this is to purchase Product Y. I know Product Y costs $Z, but I'd like to know if there is some other product W out there that performs Action X as well as (or better than!) Product Y for cost $Z/3 or less. Is there a cheaper, do-it-yourself Method M that will perform just as well as either of these products? Can I do any of this with duct tape, bailing wire, and Open-Source Software ?
Any help would be appreciated, as I am too lame to do my own research!
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Does he go into how to sue people who clone your game servers? Cause that's an important area of Blizzard's business right now too.
- A.P.
just doing my part to disable modbombing
disabling modbombing rocks.
Have any of you people ever owned a jacket that doesn't say "Members Only" on it?
- A.P.
Oh well, it sucks. RoadRunner blocked their netblock. It takes about 3 seconds to set up another Outlook account to retrieve mail from the colo server, which is the way they should've been doing it in the first place. Forwarding email is great if you don't mind changing all 1 billion of your forwards (which is about how many I have) every time you switch "primary" email accounts.
- A.P.
A month and a week ago, I was laid off from here. I've been at my new job now for three weeks; I've had a little bit of time to get my bearings and I can already see striking differences.
At my old job, management (not my boss, but management) was abysmal. We were constantly being handed something that needed to be done yesterday, being told to get it done ASAP and drop everything else we were doing to come up with a solution given inadequate resources. We were always short on machines, manpower, time, budget, and respect. In the midst of the latest Hot Project, management would walk in and tell us there was something else we should be doing instead, and why the hell weren't we doing that?
At my new job, there are a few levels of management. I'm only really directly affected by the level directly above me. This is similar to my old job, but with one important difference: so far, my boss has sheltered us from most of the crap raining down from above (the raining of crap is to be expected anywhere, really.)
We actually have money to get our tasks done. We have the time to get them done in (more or less). We also aren't reassigned all over the fucking place because management fucked something up.
I like it so far. Plus I got free money from my old job, w00t!
- A.P.
The respondant didn't have a real argument to my post, so he nitpicks my choice of words.
Okay, cockass, here's the ``real argument'' you so desperately crave: what if I want to spend $144 so I can save the state of all my games on my PC, in case the batteries in my GBA ever die? Hm, looks like we've got a substantial, non-infringing use, doesn't it?
You also misused the word "myriad", following it with the word "of" and preceding it with the an "a", in this post.
Furthermore, you are a stupid dick and all your shitty posts are flamebait. Go smoke a bowl of hash and mellow out.
Finally, my slashdot UID is lower than yours, so I'm better than you are.
In conclusion, eat a dick.
- A.P.
...i pre-emptively laugh.
What's so rude about it? Can you enlighten the rest of us?
- A.P.
Though I've absolutely no intention of doing a thing about it, I'm going to sit here and complain and bitch because someone who is providing a free service to my lazy ass has the *balls* to try and make money off of it!!!
I thought slashdot collectively stopped caring about this kind of non-issue pap back in 1998.
- A.P.
Like you could with the Pentium Pro?
Stupid fucking retard.
- A.P.
"Hey, what time is it? I know! I'll just look at this HUGE FUCKING BRICK ON MY ARM!" *chix0r swoons at ultra-phat geekiness of Brickwatch-Man*
Seriously, that watch is way too damned big.
- A.P.
So he obviously knows more than you.
Now sit down and let Research Boy do the talking, because everything he said was right!
- A.P.
As what, a janitor?
My question to them, and to the assembled masses here at Slashdot is what happens next when Itanium is real?
It's been out for almost a year now, Super-Sleuth.
- A.P.
Like the man said, NTP can sync to GPS. No need to go out on the Internet to do that. The internal network can then sync to the internal, GPS-connected NTP master.
- A.P.
Students must develop skills, you can't just magically show them a series of steps and expect them to comprehend and recreate them for their own work.
Yes, you can. It's called mathematics. Also phonics. Also diagramming sentences.
Learning how to use a word processor is absolutely no different. It isn't a creative task, like learning to make decisions or become curious about the world around them like some other subjects (such as arts and sciences courses) teach them.
Learning how to use the big beige box in the corner doesn't develop kids' brains.
- A.P.
Students are required to hand in essays with references from computer encyclopaedias and typed with specific formatting.
So, kids must learn computers because teachers now require research papers to be created on computers? I hope they teach them circular logic, too.
There are some pretty advanced computing concepts that come into play that must be taught.
Learning to use Word 2000 isn't exactly advanced. When I find a class full of 8-year-olds who can write me a nice stored procedure in Postgresql, I'll agree with you...
technology is real shit, kids have to learn it too.
Why? So they're ready to join the working world? It doesn't take 18 years to learn how to use a word processor and read email. My generation did fine without being taught.
- A.P.
Oh, and who could forget LOGO?
They actually started teaching LOGO to kids in 3rd grade, when I was in the 6th or 7th grade, *well* after most of the other schools had thrown out their LOGO cartridges.
Man, what the hell good was LOGO???
- A.P.
By the time we finally learned how to use a computer (in 7th and 8th grade, and we learned BASIC programming on TRS-80s), anything we'd learned was already obsolete. Those of us who already knew computers couldn't care less about what we were "learning" in class, and everyone else just saw no point to it. All it really did was take time away from actually learning real shit. Teaching kids how to use a word processor or "research" things on the Internet gives them no advantage at all over somebody who's spent most of their school life in more creative endeavors.
I'm glad I didn't bother learning how to use a PC until I felt like it.
- A.P.
...has a history of murdering its good shows (Family Guy, Futurama, Get a Life) while letting once-good shows languish (X-Files, the Simpsons, Ally McFucking Beal).
People wonder why they're still the number 4 network; I don't.
- A.P.
It's a fucking reverse proxy server. I see absolutely no proof on the site whatsoever that this guy's personal info is being stored or aggregated or anything. Where's his proof that Comcast has purchased the "specific equipment" that is used for data aggregation, and where's his proof that they're using it for that purpose?
This is just a stupid fucking email message that, once again, when placed under the magic Slashdot Out-Of-Proportiometer, has ballooned to mega-lotta-banner-ad size.
- A.P.
Now, links such as this can be constructed.
Truly a day to celebrate.
- A.P.
I'm getting really sick of the notion on slashdot that everything can be both cheap and perform spectacularly.
Here's a template for all you ask-slashdotters out there:
A Clueless Slashdroid asks: "I've recently become interested in performing Action X. So far, the best way I've found to do this is to purchase Product Y. I know Product Y costs $Z, but I'd like to know if there is some other product W out there that performs Action X as well as (or better than!) Product Y for cost $Z/3 or less. Is there a cheaper, do-it-yourself Method M that will perform just as well as either of these products? Can I do any of this with duct tape, bailing wire, and Open-Source Software ?
Any help would be appreciated, as I am too lame to do my own research!
- A.P.
You are the worst troll ever.
They extrude a new one every few days - what great big new feature does 2.5.4 provide that we should all care about?
Or is slashdot just desperate for news on Monday morning?
- A.P.