I used to do that too, but then I realized those telemarketers are often people struggling in dead-end jobs for lousy pay, and yelling at them makes their already dismal days that much worse.
I thank you for understanding, and may your deity of choice shield you from working in a call center for your kindness.
I used to work at a call center (just doing surveys, not selling stuff, thank god) and I just couldn't handle it. I quit after five shifts, even thought I needed the money to pay for upcoming fall classes. It's a horrible job.
Why does this industry even exist? Does anyone actually buy from telemarketers? Why do companies spend so much money?
Now there's a business idea. Hire yourself out to the RIAA as a mercenary-style "Copyright Enforcer". In the process of making lots of money, you get the extreme pleasure of wiping out N'sync and Britney Spears and Limp Bizkit mp3s.
As for more talented artists, hey, anyone can make mistakes and accidentally miss a few songs, right? Nudge nudge wink wink.
A little community college I went to used the Exchange webmail system. It was actually a pretty good setup. No students bothered to use Lookout, they just fired up IE (or Opera for the smart and discerning), and that probably cut down on the amount of viruses spread around. In addition, half of the students were computer illiterate graphic artists. The administration had learned from experience that's it's a whole lot easier to give each student a URL, a login, and a password then to expect them to configure a pop3 client.
After all, I bet 99.9% of you who are already running 2.4.11 thought it was great till you read/. this morning:)
Offtopic, but I had some problems getting crypto kernel modules going with 2.4.11, and all those USB timeouts were being a pain, so I was back to 2.4.10 before 2.4.12 even came out.
Calvin: Why do you suppose we're here?
Hobbes: Because we walked here.
Calvin: No, no, I mean here on Earth.
Hobbes: Because Earth can support life.
Calvin: No, I mean why are we anywhere? Why do we exist?
Hobbes: Because we were born.
Calvin (angry): Forget it.
Hobbes (angry): I will, thank you.
Windowmaker is pretty much in the "add little features, fix little bugs" category from what I've seen in the changelogs. 0.70 was just released a few days ago, and (just speaking anecdotally) it works flawlessly. I never even have to touch the config files by hand anymore, the WPrefs tool works fine. And coming from a die-hard Slackware control-freak like me, that's saying something.
I think the development team should just declare it to be version 1.0. Windowmaker is stable and full-featured enough for it.:)
What I really like about Lexx is how each episode starts off dull, but gradually gets weirder and weirder until you're asking "What the FUCK were the writers smoking?!"
Oh, and the sex is good. Yes, I'm shallow, but dammit, I like it, so bug off.
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Because when Opera crashes, it doesn't take down the whole fucking OS with it. Good enough answer?
This worked for me on Linux:
dd if=(name of infected file) of=(name of cleaned file you want) bs=1 skip=137216
This is handy for viewing obscure file formats on *nixes, too:
strings (name of cleaned file) > (name of plain text file you want)
I got my first Sircam email today.
I don't know whether to be happy that I've been spared thus far, or sad that I don't seem to be worth the bother of putting in an address book.
It was just some German person's Werewolf campaign character sheet, too. How dull. I was hoping for government secrets.
Don't forget the eJuries and eJudges.
From what I've seen in the news, all Economics is BS.
I used to do that too, but then I realized those telemarketers are often people struggling in dead-end jobs for lousy pay, and yelling at them makes their already dismal days that much worse.
I thank you for understanding, and may your deity of choice shield you from working in a call center for your kindness.
I used to work at a call center (just doing surveys, not selling stuff, thank god) and I just couldn't handle it. I quit after five shifts, even thought I needed the money to pay for upcoming fall classes. It's a horrible job.
Why does this industry even exist? Does anyone actually buy from telemarketers? Why do companies spend so much money?
What's so bad about socialism?
Now there's a business idea. Hire yourself out to the RIAA as a mercenary-style "Copyright Enforcer". In the process of making lots of money, you get the extreme pleasure of wiping out N'sync and Britney Spears and Limp Bizkit mp3s.
As for more talented artists, hey, anyone can make mistakes and accidentally miss a few songs, right? Nudge nudge wink wink.
The Constitution is NOT a suicide pact.
And quotes from Tom Clancy books are hardly divine wisdom.
A little community college I went to used the Exchange webmail system. It was actually a pretty good setup. No students bothered to use Lookout, they just fired up IE (or Opera for the smart and discerning), and that probably cut down on the amount of viruses spread around. In addition, half of the students were computer illiterate graphic artists. The administration had learned from experience that's it's a whole lot easier to give each student a URL, a login, and a password then to expect them to configure a pop3 client.
Absolutely right. There's something about the concept of moving an apartment's worth of furniture in a Volkswagen Golf that's just too cool to fathom.
*Sigh* But I have to have lame wooden stuff... oh well.
After all, I bet 99.9% of you who are already running 2.4.11 thought it was great till you read /. this morning :)
Offtopic, but I had some problems getting crypto kernel modules going with 2.4.11, and all those USB timeouts were being a pain, so I was back to 2.4.10 before 2.4.12 even came out.
You know, this might surprise you, but (GASP!) some people here might not follow fuckedcompany on a regular basis!
Lighten up.
>Congress is shirking its duties big-time.
Nothing new. Congress passes politically convenient yet unconstitutional bills all the time.
Tunisia was the Tatooine setting.
Calvin: Why do you suppose we're here?
Hobbes: Because we walked here.
Calvin: No, no, I mean here on Earth.
Hobbes: Because Earth can support life.
Calvin: No, I mean why are we anywhere? Why do we exist?
Hobbes: Because we were born.
Calvin (angry): Forget it.
Hobbes (angry): I will, thank you.
But what happens the first time someone mistypes "/dev/nil" as their stdout sink?
You just know that some psychopath is going to go and create an X window manager that will do this.
Windowmaker is pretty much in the "add little features, fix little bugs" category from what I've seen in the changelogs. 0.70 was just released a few days ago, and (just speaking anecdotally) it works flawlessly. I never even have to touch the config files by hand anymore, the WPrefs tool works fine. And coming from a die-hard Slackware control-freak like me, that's saying something.
:)
I think the development team should just declare it to be version 1.0. Windowmaker is stable and full-featured enough for it.
This is not America, this is the Internet. Learn the fucking difference, you drooling mouthbreather.
Perhaps your name should be Agent Carl instead.
Straight from Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie.
I wouldn't be surprised if Yahoo! seized royalties from this guy's sales of previous and future work.
Too easy. Way too easy.
We've got our McCarthy. His name is John Ashcroft.
What I really like about Lexx is how each episode starts off dull, but gradually gets weirder and weirder until you're asking "What the FUCK were the writers smoking?!"
Oh, and the sex is good. Yes, I'm shallow, but dammit, I like it, so bug off.
*sniff* Makes me proud to be a Maritimer.