Hrm. I kind of wonder if Verizon has paid for articles such as this to be written... I've seen yet a 3rd article in another paper (forgot where) and thought that it was kind of interesting to suddenly have multiple articles about how Verizon is taking care of employees and trying to ensure quality service popped up at once.
Here is the story. Local TV station got one, tested it, found they're crap. Thousands of other unsuspecting idiots found out the hard way...they bought one.:P
Hereis their website. They're flying around a bunch of old Boeing 727s. Not nearly what they were many years ago, but they're still clinging on for dear life.;)
Sacramento clues in - suspends use of cameras
on
Traffic Cameras in D.C.
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· Score: 3, Informative
And here's the text... Red light camera tickets have temporarily been suspended throughout Sacramento county. On Tuesday, Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully announced the break, which will remain in place until the system can be reviewed.
The hiatus in the use of the devices was called because of a possible timing discrepancy in the cameras. Under current law, drivers are given 0.20 of a second after a traffic signal turns red before the camera takes a picture.
Some questions have arisen about whether or not the cameras are actually set correctly to provide the delay. The manual for the cameras specifies that delays of more than 0.15 of a second but less than 0.20 can be rounded to the higher number, meaning that some motorists may have been cited while still within the allowable limit.
The questions about the timing of when the photos will cause hundreds of red light violations to be dismissed. This is the second time there has been a mass dismissal of red light cases. In 1999, it was ruled that drivers were not properly notified of the existence of the cameras, forcing more than a thousand tickets to be thrown out.
AT&T Broadband? Long Distance? IP Services? Wireless?
Gotta tell us which one.:P
I've been working for AT&T Wireless for about 6 months and it's the first call center that I've worked in that did *not* bitch at us about call times. The goal is to get the problem resolved on the first call. It's refreshing to *not* have a manager over your shoulder saying "You've been on that call for over 9 minutes. What the hell is going on?" They also do try to keep us with up to date training, which is another thing that's cool for a call center to do. The only people that are a pain in the ass are the ones that worked for MCI.
Anybody that's ever worked for Worldcom/MCI is a total pain in the ass.:P
/. authors should know better than to never link to anything on Angelfire. 10 people hit the site and drove the poor guy over his daily bandwidth limit.
Oh.. and then my PC can tell my cell phone to remind me every 2 hours.. and my cell phone can tell the PDA.. which will print out "Hey idiot, get your oil change!" or more Jiffy Lube coupons.
I think that the previous version had Mac support.. what's the Mac support like with this thing? I looked at the site but didn't see anything about the Nomad 3 being supported under the MacOS.
I just love it when a company takes Apple technology (firewire) and then doesn't support the Mac.
Heh! that's interesting.. My credit union's (Golden 1) online banking ceased to function normally in Mac IE 5.1, but now works great in all versions of Netscape 6.1.
I wrote them an email thanking them for this positive change.:-)
Has precedence actually been set yet? I don't recall any cases where someone in CA used those spam laws and actually won. I hope MoFo wins, personally...
SuSE has their update stuff that acts like Software Update.. you can just run it whenever you see fit and update software that way. Time bomb software isn't a good idea. Besides, were it open source, we'd just remove the time bomb code anyway, right?:-)
California wasn't the only state that had rolling blackouts, by the way. There were also many portions of CA that never lost power at all. There's no "pro government regulation of utilities attitude in the air" that I can see at all. People realized that deregulation was a failure. Simple as that.
Also, so many people have been having issues with Pacific Bell screwing up DSL orders that they just got fed up with it and took it to the state government. Now the telco DSL providers might actually have to provide the services that people have been promised or are already paying for. I really don't see how that's a bad thing. "Scared Californians?" No. Not at all. "We're not going to put up with this crap anymore" is the attitude in the air.
If making DNA into music can become something you can copyright, what about making DeCSS into music? It's already been done.
Wouldn't playing the DNA music be decrypting it..illegal under the DMCA?
I dunno. It's early on Sunday morning and I haven't had any coffee yet. But I'd rather listen to someone rambling DNA sequences than Shakira. Hey, maybe Snoop Doggy Dogg will bust out some hard-core "keepin' it real" inner city DNA shiznat!:-)
So not only can the Sacramento Bee not manage to deliver a paper to my apartment in a timely manner, but now thanks to the/. effect I can't even get to their website in a timely manner.
I guess it's time to read the SF Examiner again.:P
...and this kind of proves it: "In other words, she is not a computer geek. I took her to the Apple Store in Tyson's Corner, Virginia, to see the new iMac. 5 minutes after using it she turned around and told me "I want one." This is the first time in 7 years of marriage that she has ever asked me for a computer, usually she inherits my old PCs"
It would be very nice if someone in your organization had the time to write up a nice website detaling the transition from a PC shop to a Mac shop. Photos of before & after would be cool. I think that sharing cool information like that would further prove that "Yes, it CAN be done" with a "Here's how we did it" approach.
Somehow I don't think that "I can't clickclickclick install Enlightenment!" was really the feedback that Apple was looking for.;) I suspect that the vast majority of people will just leave the GUI the way it is..
Slashdot Mirror
if DoubleClick/etc just stopped with all of the Flash ads, the rest of the existing internet might be that fast. :-)
Verizon dude: "We get signal!"
Customer: "What you say!!!"
Customer: "Main screen turn on!"
Sprint PCS guy "How are you gentlemen??"
eh, you know the story...
Hrm. I kind of wonder if Verizon has paid for articles such as this to be written... I've seen yet a 3rd article in another paper (forgot where) and thought that it was kind of interesting to suddenly have multiple articles about how Verizon is taking care of employees and trying to ensure quality service popped up at once.
;)
Sounds like you have a cool part time job.
Maybe they'll just take over the whole country and then we can get that annoying guy off those Verizon ads because they won't need him anymore. :P
Here is the story. Local TV station got one, tested it, found they're crap. Thousands of other unsuspecting idiots found out the hard way...they bought one. :P
Hereis their website. They're flying around a bunch of old Boeing 727s. Not nearly what they were many years ago, but they're still clinging on for dear life. ;)
Link is here....
And here's the text...
Red light camera tickets have temporarily been suspended throughout Sacramento county. On Tuesday, Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully announced the break, which will remain in place until the system can be reviewed.
The hiatus in the use of the devices was called because of a possible timing discrepancy in the cameras. Under current law, drivers are given 0.20 of a second after a traffic signal turns red before the camera takes a picture.
Some questions have arisen about whether or not the cameras are actually set correctly to provide the delay. The manual for the cameras specifies that delays of more than 0.15 of a second but less than 0.20 can be rounded to the higher number, meaning that some motorists may have been cited while still within the allowable limit.
The questions about the timing of when the photos will cause hundreds of red light violations to be dismissed. This is the second time there has been a mass dismissal of red light cases. In 1999, it was ruled that drivers were not properly notified of the existence of the cameras, forcing more than a thousand tickets to be thrown out.
AT&T Broadband? Long Distance? IP Services? Wireless?
:P
:P
Gotta tell us which one.
I've been working for AT&T Wireless for about 6 months and it's the first call center that I've worked in that did *not* bitch at us about call times. The goal is to get the problem resolved on the first call. It's refreshing to *not* have a manager over your shoulder saying "You've been on that call for over 9 minutes. What the hell is going on?" They also do try to keep us with up to date training, which is another thing that's cool for a call center to do.
The only people that are a pain in the ass are the ones that worked for MCI.
Anybody that's ever worked for Worldcom/MCI is a total pain in the ass.
/. authors should know better than to never link to anything on Angelfire. 10 people hit the site and drove the poor guy over his daily bandwidth limit.
It's a useless mirror now...
Oh.. and then my PC can tell my cell phone to remind me every 2 hours.. and my cell phone can tell the PDA.. which will print out "Hey idiot, get your oil change!" or more Jiffy Lube coupons.
My toys are ganging up on me! Auuugh!
I think that the previous version had Mac support.. what's the Mac support like with this thing? I looked at the site but didn't see anything about the Nomad 3 being supported under the MacOS.
I just love it when a company takes Apple technology (firewire) and then doesn't support the Mac.
Heh! that's interesting..
:-)
My credit union's (Golden 1) online banking ceased to function normally in Mac IE 5.1, but now works great in all versions of Netscape 6.1.
I wrote them an email thanking them for this positive change.
One of our local TV stations did a feature on it. They determined that it doesn't work very well at all.
Article is here
Has precedence actually been set yet? I don't recall any cases where someone in CA used those spam laws and actually won. I hope MoFo wins, personally...
SuSE has their update stuff that acts like Software Update.. you can just run it whenever you see fit and update software that way. Time bomb software isn't a good idea. Besides, were it open source, we'd just remove the time bomb code anyway, right? :-)
California wasn't the only state that had rolling blackouts, by the way. There were also many portions of CA that never lost power at all. There's no "pro government regulation of utilities attitude in the air" that I can see at all. People realized that deregulation was a failure. Simple as that.
Also, so many people have been having issues with Pacific Bell screwing up DSL orders that they just got fed up with it and took it to the state government. Now the telco DSL providers might actually have to provide the services that people have been promised or are already paying for. I really don't see how that's a bad thing. "Scared Californians?" No. Not at all. "We're not going to put up with this crap anymore" is the attitude in the air.
If making DNA into music can become something you can copyright, what about making DeCSS into music? It's already been done.
:-)
Wouldn't playing the DNA music be decrypting it..illegal under the DMCA?
I dunno. It's early on Sunday morning and I haven't had any coffee yet. But I'd rather listen to someone rambling DNA sequences than Shakira. Hey, maybe Snoop Doggy Dogg will bust out some hard-core "keepin' it real" inner city DNA shiznat!
The "Sign up as a provider" page has this option:
;)
"Do you want to be a wireless User as well? (A credit card is required.)"
Cool! I can pay my ISP and then pay these people to use the bandwidth that I'm selling to them!
So not only can the Sacramento Bee not manage to deliver a paper to my apartment in a timely manner, but now thanks to the /. effect I can't even get to their website in a timely manner.
:P
I guess it's time to read the SF Examiner again.
I'll sell you mine. Really cheap. Not too obnoxious, and he doesn't eat too much. :)
...and this kind of proves it:
:-)
"In other words, she is not a computer geek. I
took her to the Apple Store in Tyson's Corner, Virginia, to see the new
iMac. 5 minutes after using it she turned around and told me "I want one."
This is the first time in 7 years of marriage that she has ever asked me for
a computer, usually she inherits my old PCs"
Mac users get way more p00ntang.
It would be very nice if someone in your organization had the time to write up a nice website detaling the transition from a PC shop to a Mac shop. Photos of before & after would be cool.
I think that sharing cool information like that would further prove that "Yes, it CAN be done" with a "Here's how we did it" approach.
Somehow I don't think that "I can't clickclickclick install Enlightenment!" was really the feedback that Apple was looking for. ;) I suspect that the vast majority of people will just leave the GUI the way it is..
fink might get you closer, tho...
Why would Apple release the Sorensen codec? Shouldn't Sorenson Media release it?
http://fab-corp.com/ :-)
Only $169, too!