TNT does this with "law and order", especially when they're showing one right after the other (when *aren't* they doing that though). they split the screen about 80/20 or so. start the next one in the 80 window and roll the credits on the 20 window.
got out before they could lay me off
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How Were You Fired?
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i was working at a dotcom as a sysadmin. they only had 7 people, but they wanted someone to keep their network running, so that justified a full time person.
about two months before i left i'm checking the printer for some reports and see the minutes of the last meeting. i look and see it says the company has only enough funds to operate for another month.
yeah, but look at the result: just because you have a car and a license doesn't mean you're a good driver.
i can see how confusing it can be for people who really can't comprehend certain computer related activities, just as i can see why my grandmother gets so rattled driving more than a block.
and how, in this country most people unfortunately are willing to sue over anything.
i've seen it before though, when someone fixes something and someone else breaks it and blames it on the tech who fixed it. "it broke after the techie was messing with it". and i wouldn't put it past most people to not try and get something for nothing.
In five years working in this field I have never seen a complaint of this type from a customer.
are you perfect? does nothing bad ever happen to you? do you think the customer will only complain about something breaking that you're actually responsible for? i've never had a car accident, and only liability is required in my state, but i still have full coverage, not because i think i'll make a mistake, but because there's lots of idiots out there who will.
what i find works is to get someone to repeat with you (to them) "can we have a [insert item here]?" over and over and over and over till they give in.
1a. be sure to order the equipment/supplies you need before you remove your teeth. talking is hard without teeth and putting the teeth back in with glue (step 4) will only make it harder to pull them back out.
you know you might want to ask the local telcos about bandwith. i think they may offer discounts for education uses. if you can show the school is paying for it, they might drop the price for you.
i think (and i could be full of sh!t) that they don't apply if you hire them as contractors (or something like that). if you give them a specific task to be completed in a specific time, you could pay them less. i think...
i remember in the bbs days my only limits to the time i spent dialing in was in how many accounts*minutes i was allowed on. and even then, i would spend the rest of the time looking for new boards to join.
i still watch some TV, but with radio, i only listen to the talk radio station long enough to hear the traffic report, then its back to whatever i have in the car CD changer
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Making Change
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The logic for determining change is really easy for a cashier
have you ever worked at a place like walmart or target? i have. the average cashier has problems figuring out how to *scan* an item properly. what makes you think they can see.36 and figure out to give two 18cent coins? they can barely figure out the change on their own with the coins we have now. i can't tell you how many people i worked with who would round up rather than figure out how many pennies they needed to give.
no, the matrix was written in COBOL, but the machines neglected to keep any COBOL programmers around. (when they first gave humans a "paradise" matrix, the COBOL programmers agreed to redo it the way it is now, in exchange for which they would lose memory of their life coding for the machines, and also their COBOL experiences.)
when my car got broken into the insurance only covered equipment that was mounted to the car "securely". in this case, the subs i had in the trunk we ok because i had them bolted in. if they'd been just laying in there or tied down or something though, it wouldn't have been covered.
my 92 mazda's factory stereo has an aux input. whenever i tried the cassette adapters, they would work for awhile, then crap out on me after about a month. but the aux in works fine, and allowed me to easily unplug the mp3 cd player and throw it in my dash to hide it.
i usually have a windows box around that i can throw on the outside of my firewall when there are difficulties connecting. that way i can 1) see if the problem is the firewall (it never is), and 2) truthfully tell the "tech support" person that i've rebooted, yes, i'm running windows, no the connection still isn't up. then they tell me they'll start a ticket, and i get my connection back eventually.
1) make sure you have life insurance, especially if your wife is planning on staying home instead of having a job.
2) make sure you have life insurance for your wife too.
3) get FULL physical checkups for yourself, not just your wife when you find out she's pregnant. your health and your attitude towards your health is an important part of your childs upbringing. i never saw my dad go to the doctor for anything, and it gave me a sense of my own invincibility, right up until he died before 45. i now see the doctor every six months and have a COMPLETE checkup every year.
4) whatever diet you're going to be on when you're raising the child, get used to it now. having your kid see you grimace at the thought of soysauge instead of real meat doesn't help him.
5) baby proofing your house is important before the kid arrives. you will NOT have time to do it once s/he arrives.
6) the hospital we chose gave classes in childbirth which were actually meant for anyone caring for an infant. included were instructions on how to give the baby a bath, when to worry and call the doctor, how to baby-proof your house, etc. lots of little things you don't think about until someone asks you. the best thing, and one you hope to never use is the baby CPR class. take it.
a few things you'll notice now that you're a dad:
1) 87% of public restrooms are filthy
2) of the 13% that aren't filthy, you can't afford to be members at that particular establishment.
3) most places weren't designed with the dad changing the diapers in mind. learn ahead of time which of your favorite restaurants/stores/etc. have changing stations in the mens room.
4) if you get a baby monitor, we found it helps to have a small clock (that ticks and/or tocks) next to it in the kids room. that way we can tell if the monitor is working just by listening for the clock sounds. also helps fine tune it for whatever volume you'll need to be able to sleep and still hear the kid when they wake up.
most of all, take time for your kid. there's no point in working 80 hour days to support your family if you never see them. i took two weeks off when my son was born to help my wife get used to everything, and despite the lack of sleep, i'd never give that experience up.
oh, and sleep now. you really will never sleep again..
not just a huge workload, but wouldn't that also leave them open to some liability?
what if a MS patch fails on someones machine, they are unable to get it to boot, and their term paper is on it?
chances are if they're unsavvy enough to know how to run a patch on their own machine, they probably won't know how to pop out the drive and throw it in another box, are the network admins gonna do that for them?
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um..is it that hard to say "it's me [$yourname], its [not] important, call me back."?
TNT does this with "law and order", especially when they're showing one right after the other (when *aren't* they doing that though). they split the screen about 80/20 or so. start the next one in the 80 window and roll the credits on the 20 window.
i was working at a dotcom as a sysadmin. they only had 7 people, but they wanted someone to keep their network running, so that justified a full time person.
about two months before i left i'm checking the printer for some reports and see the minutes of the last meeting. i look and see it says the company has only enough funds to operate for another month.
i started looking almost immediately.
You can't drive without a license
yeah, but look at the result: just because you have a car and a license doesn't mean you're a good driver.
i can see how confusing it can be for people who really can't comprehend certain computer related activities, just as i can see why my grandmother gets so rattled driving more than a block.
better yet, get a dot matrix printer and have it continuously print out log files for review.
make sure you take off that noise dampener, it only heats it up and slows it down.
and how, in this country most people unfortunately are willing to sue over anything.
i've seen it before though, when someone fixes something and someone else breaks it and blames it on the tech who fixed it. "it broke after the techie was messing with it". and i wouldn't put it past most people to not try and get something for nothing.
In five years working in this field I have never seen a complaint of this type from a customer.
are you perfect? does nothing bad ever happen to you? do you think the customer will only complain about something breaking that you're actually responsible for? i've never had a car accident, and only liability is required in my state, but i still have full coverage, not because i think i'll make a mistake, but because there's lots of idiots out there who will.
and because its too freakin' hot here in texas, no one spends time digging basements before throwing up a house here.
actually, i think its the "soil", which most people call rock.
what i find works is to get someone to repeat with you (to them) "can we have a [insert item here]?" over and over and over and over till they give in.
ask bart...
1a. be sure to order the equipment/supplies you need before you remove your teeth. talking is hard without teeth and putting the teeth back in with glue (step 4) will only make it harder to pull them back out.
you know you might want to ask the local telcos about bandwith. i think they may offer discounts for education uses. if you can show the school is paying for it, they might drop the price for you.
i think (and i could be full of sh!t) that they don't apply if you hire them as contractors (or something like that). if you give them a specific task to be completed in a specific time, you could pay them less. i think...
yeah, but at the same time, after those two years about half of you would've been laid off anyway.
not necessarily true, all the laptops i know of will kill the battery if its kept in there all the time. maybe if you rotate batteries or something..
i remember in the bbs days my only limits to the time i spent dialing in was in how many accounts*minutes i was allowed on. and even then, i would spend the rest of the time looking for new boards to join.
i still watch some TV, but with radio, i only listen to the talk radio station long enough to hear the traffic report, then its back to whatever i have in the car CD changer
The logic for determining change is really easy for a cashier
.36 and figure out to give two 18cent coins? they can barely figure out the change on their own with the coins we have now. i can't tell you how many people i worked with who would round up rather than figure out how many pennies they needed to give.
have you ever worked at a place like walmart or target? i have. the average cashier has problems figuring out how to *scan* an item properly. what makes you think they can see
note, that's only the average ones...
no, the matrix was written in COBOL, but the machines neglected to keep any COBOL programmers around. (when they first gave humans a "paradise" matrix, the COBOL programmers agreed to redo it the way it is now, in exchange for which they would lose memory of their life coding for the machines, and also their COBOL experiences.)
when my car got broken into the insurance only covered equipment that was mounted to the car "securely". in this case, the subs i had in the trunk we ok because i had them bolted in. if they'd been just laying in there or tied down or something though, it wouldn't have been covered.
my 92 mazda's factory stereo has an aux input. whenever i tried the cassette adapters, they would work for awhile, then crap out on me after about a month. but the aux in works fine, and allowed me to easily unplug the mp3 cd player and throw it in my dash to hide it.
i usually have a windows box around that i can throw on the outside of my firewall when there are difficulties connecting. that way i can 1) see if the problem is the firewall (it never is), and 2) truthfully tell the "tech support" person that i've rebooted, yes, i'm running windows, no the connection still isn't up. then they tell me they'll start a ticket, and i get my connection back eventually.
I'll change my password tonight at 8pm CST, you have until then.
;-)
too late, i already changed it
now i'm gonna change your stupid sig...
1) make sure you have life insurance, especially if your wife is planning on staying home instead of having a job.
2) make sure you have life insurance for your wife too.
3) get FULL physical checkups for yourself, not just your wife when you find out she's pregnant. your health and your attitude towards your health is an important part of your childs upbringing. i never saw my dad go to the doctor for anything, and it gave me a sense of my own invincibility, right up until he died before 45. i now see the doctor every six months and have a COMPLETE checkup every year.
4) whatever diet you're going to be on when you're raising the child, get used to it now. having your kid see you grimace at the thought of soysauge instead of real meat doesn't help him.
5) baby proofing your house is important before the kid arrives. you will NOT have time to do it once s/he arrives.
6) the hospital we chose gave classes in childbirth which were actually meant for anyone caring for an infant. included were instructions on how to give the baby a bath, when to worry and call the doctor, how to baby-proof your house, etc. lots of little things you don't think about until someone asks you. the best thing, and one you hope to never use is the baby CPR class. take it.
a few things you'll notice now that you're a dad:
1) 87% of public restrooms are filthy
2) of the 13% that aren't filthy, you can't afford to be members at that particular establishment.
3) most places weren't designed with the dad changing the diapers in mind. learn ahead of time which of your favorite restaurants/stores/etc. have changing stations in the mens room.
4) if you get a baby monitor, we found it helps to have a small clock (that ticks and/or tocks) next to it in the kids room. that way we can tell if the monitor is working just by listening for the clock sounds. also helps fine tune it for whatever volume you'll need to be able to sleep and still hear the kid when they wake up.
most of all, take time for your kid. there's no point in working 80 hour days to support your family if you never see them. i took two weeks off when my son was born to help my wife get used to everything, and despite the lack of sleep, i'd never give that experience up.
oh, and sleep now. you really will never sleep again..
nd when the job is done you can admire the finished product with a nice check in your hand.
:-)
every time i tried to enjoy my handiwork, they'd ask me what i was doing in their house at 3am again.
i got as far as "i'm just enjoying my hand-" when they called the police...
not just a huge workload, but wouldn't that also leave them open to some liability?
what if a MS patch fails on someones machine, they are unable to get it to boot, and their term paper is on it?
chances are if they're unsavvy enough to know how to run a patch on their own machine, they probably won't know how to pop out the drive and throw it in another box, are the network admins gonna do that for them?