Why Ask Slashdot? Because lawyers are just as dumb as the rest of us. It pays to have some alternative opinions, no matter how unqualified they are. Besides, there are actually non-lawyers that are qualified to answer legal questions because we've been through something similar.
It's exactly this retarded logic that works so well with most Americans. I actually sat in a United Way campaign meeting last month and listened to how wonderful it is that if I just donate a dollar, often an agency can get matching federal funds, sometimes up to 13:1 matching. I was the only one going "wait a second. Those $13 matching dollars are mine!"
I wish I could run my business by taking 40% of people's incomes, wasting 75% of that, and "giving" the rest back to them in crap they don't really need.
I mean why would they voluntarily add this feature?
Because they're trying to find new ways to piss off their customers and wreck their business. Between things like this and product activation and their recent layoffs, Adobe is a great stock to short.
I use a Hauppauge WinTV-USB and am pretty happy with it. If it drops frames, I don't notice. It's not like I'm doing video editing with it (that's what my Firewire ports are for). The newer ones do audio over the USB cable so you don't even need to feed a line-in port on your soundcard. Though, again, the audio quality over USB is supposedly worse than the analog line-in port (which you can still use), but I can't tell the difference. What do you want? It's NTSC composite video with crappy analog sound. Watch a DVD if you really want to memorize Natalie Portman's every feature.
This year, our families (except the little kids) are getting small token gifts. We gave the hundreds we might have otherwise spent on them (and then some) as gifts to our unemployed friends.
I can assure you someone that's been out of work for 9 months appreciated a couple hundred dollars a lot more than my in-laws will appreciate their usual shot-in-the-dark gifts.
I think this is how NTFSDOS does it. Before you use it, you install their product on a working Windows machine (with NTFS) and generate boot floppies or CDs that then include the Microsoft-owned NTFS code.
I'd regularly take a shower and be ready to go meet office-bound friends for lunch almost every workday. We'd get to hook up 1-3 times a week.
I'd usually work all morning and in the evening so I could take the afternoon to go do something, like a park, zoo, shop, etc., while the masses were at work.
I'd often pack up my laptop and go work at the library, church, or the mall food court.
Help your neighbors install wireless. When my connection goes down due to ISP dumbness, I can often just connect to a neighbor's WAP. Sure beats dialup.
Write down some phone numbers. I throw out my phone books, so I need to keep some important numbers handy, like the ISP, pizza places, etc.
Find a modem. Half the time my connection dies, by the time I've dug out a 56k modem and got it working, the connection is back.
Avoid gifts. Let people pick their own. Don't waste the money on a lavish party. Some people will love it but many will hate it. I think $500 is a nice round figure. It's enough to get that new digital camera / flat-screen or fund a weekend getaway (or at least make a huge dent in the cost). I'd also just go with the same bonus for everyone and let people know it's the same. It'll avoid all that petty rumor crap. And if you really want to go back and give more to a star employee, do it privately.
As a software enginer, I have no idea why anyone would trust software-generated maps. Us programmers, we can't even make coffee or fill out our timesheets. You expect us to generate good directions? We're the same guys that try to get visitors to do laps around the cube farm looking for the bathroom.
Well, for the last two years I've had to make a trip to the same location. Last year I used Yahoo maps. This year I used Mapquest. Mapquest definately won the shootout. Yahoo's directions took me through all the wonderful backwater scenic areas of podunkville just to chase a diagonal line that some joker labelled as a state road. The federal prison looks lovely late at night, by the way. Mapquest's kept me on the interstate for 20 more miles and I had to curl back slightly to get to the right place. By their estimates, Yahoo should have saved me 5 minutes on a 2 hour trip. Instead it took me 45 minutes longer with Yahoo.
Here's what we do. We're on like year 3 of a 10 year contract with Exodus to host datacenters for us, but we don't use them anymore. We just pay them 6 figures a year for nothing. Or duck their bills.
How about our fancy machine room with the nice raised floor, plenty of power, genset, cooling, and all that jazz? It's on the half of the floor we had to sublet to a real company with 100 times our revenue.
Our servers? Piled in a reclaimed conference room with big box fans on the floor blowing into the room. And if you think that's the dumbest thing we could do, guess again. It's not even in the top ten.
After one accidental rm -rf * I asked my sysadmin why my restore request was taking so long. He said, "Well, the good news is that we're getting a new backup system." The bad news was that thanks to me he discovered that for months we'd been backing up 3 gigs of data onto 2 gig tapes and not noticing the errors.
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I did that... then we had 2 kids. I was set until the second kid came up male. Can't have him share a room with his sister... Ugh.
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Didn't everyone have a copy of De Re Atari?
Why Ask Slashdot? Because lawyers are just as dumb as the rest of us. It pays to have some alternative opinions, no matter how unqualified they are. Besides, there are actually non-lawyers that are qualified to answer legal questions because we've been through something similar.
I wish I could run my business by taking 40% of people's incomes, wasting 75% of that, and "giving" the rest back to them in crap they don't really need.
Because they're trying to find new ways to piss off their customers and wreck their business. Between things like this and product activation and their recent layoffs, Adobe is a great stock to short.
I use a Hauppauge WinTV-USB and am pretty happy with it. If it drops frames, I don't notice. It's not like I'm doing video editing with it (that's what my Firewire ports are for). The newer ones do audio over the USB cable so you don't even need to feed a line-in port on your soundcard. Though, again, the audio quality over USB is supposedly worse than the analog line-in port (which you can still use), but I can't tell the difference. What do you want? It's NTSC composite video with crappy analog sound. Watch a DVD if you really want to memorize Natalie Portman's every feature.
Neither. Try giving out that as a phone number at Radio Shack or any retailer that wants your personal info.
This year, our families (except the little kids) are getting small token gifts. We gave the hundreds we might have otherwise spent on them (and then some) as gifts to our unemployed friends.
I can assure you someone that's been out of work for 9 months appreciated a couple hundred dollars a lot more than my in-laws will appreciate their usual shot-in-the-dark gifts.
I think this is how NTFSDOS does it. Before you use it, you install their product on a working Windows machine (with NTFS) and generate boot floppies or CDs that then include the Microsoft-owned NTFS code.
Learn binary math. I can do 10-bit and sometimes 20-bit math (or even 21-bit if it's not too cold).
Heh heh. He said "caca".
I'd usually work all morning and in the evening so I could take the afternoon to go do something, like a park, zoo, shop, etc., while the masses were at work.
I'd often pack up my laptop and go work at the library, church, or the mall food court.
Porn, porn and porn.
Avoid gifts. Let people pick their own. Don't waste the money on a lavish party. Some people will love it but many will hate it. I think $500 is a nice round figure. It's enough to get that new digital camera / flat-screen or fund a weekend getaway (or at least make a huge dent in the cost). I'd also just go with the same bonus for everyone and let people know it's the same. It'll avoid all that petty rumor crap. And if you really want to go back and give more to a star employee, do it privately.
As a software enginer, I have no idea why anyone would trust software-generated maps. Us programmers, we can't even make coffee or fill out our timesheets. You expect us to generate good directions? We're the same guys that try to get visitors to do laps around the cube farm looking for the bathroom.
How about our fancy machine room with the nice raised floor, plenty of power, genset, cooling, and all that jazz? It's on the half of the floor we had to sublet to a real company with 100 times our revenue.
Our servers? Piled in a reclaimed conference room with big box fans on the floor blowing into the room. And if you think that's the dumbest thing we could do, guess again. It's not even in the top ten.
This sounds like a job for these guys
After one accidental rm -rf * I asked my sysadmin why my restore request was taking so long. He said, "Well, the good news is that we're getting a new backup system." The bad news was that thanks to me he discovered that for months we'd been backing up 3 gigs of data onto 2 gig tapes and not noticing the errors.
This story's been out for what, a week, and I still don't know who Anthony Hamilton is. Did he lose out on both sales of his CD because of this?
Get a couple of these.
I swear the whole thing is scam just to collect valid telephone numbers for telemarketers. Wait until the list leaks to the internet.
I know it's not an IT product, but we buy a lot of water at like 5,000,000% markup.