Your story seems a little more representative of call center operations - where the bottom line is the number of calls answered per hour. Especially in a helpdesk/support environment, the more calls you can answer per hour, the lower your wait times will be - and it will look like your call center is performing fantastically. Most of these types of jobs would be more accurately classified as Customer Service, I guess.
xtramsn.co.nz doesn't have any of xtra's ISP specific stuff on it (like xtramail link vs hotmail link), and anyway, I thought Xtra's relationship with MSN extended to the web portal only.
I don't think the act of civil disobedience requires you to advertise that you are doing it:
civil disobedience n.
Refusal to obey civil laws in an effort to induce change in governmental policy or legislation, characterized by the use of passive resistance or other nonviolent means.
What happens if you become so familiar with ROT13 that you can read it like English (or another language)? Does that make your brain a circumvention device?
If your chance of getting an orange is 0, you will get an infinite number of apples and 0 oranges. But if it's anything greater than 0 -- anything at all -- you will end up with an infinite number of apples and an infinite number of oranges. By definition.
an infinite number of apples and oranges... you know, when you've finished collecting them... at the end.
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how does that quote go?
When you kill 6 people in Unreal Tournament it's "Monster Kill", In Quake3 it's "Excellent", in Counter-Strike it's "Kicked by console"...
I hear he's fatally allergic to those lead pills... you know, the ones that come in 7.62mm pacets?
Your story seems a little more representative of call center operations - where the bottom line is the number of calls answered per hour. Especially in a helpdesk/support environment, the more calls you can answer per hour, the lower your wait times will be - and it will look like your call center is performing fantastically. Most of these types of jobs would be more accurately classified as Customer Service, I guess.
xtramsn.co.nz doesn't have any of xtra's ISP specific stuff on it (like xtramail link vs hotmail link), and anyway, I thought Xtra's relationship with MSN extended to the web portal only.
Huh?
Xtra part owned by Microsoft?
Where'd you get this info from?
civil disobedience
n.
(from dictionary.com)
"internet users" or "broadband users"?
What happens if you become so familiar with ROT13 that you can read it like English (or another language)? Does that make your brain a circumvention device?
let's just paint it onto this bullet...
did anyone else read the title as "User Interface Design for Dummies"?
The Interview is from NYT Magazine, not Linus Torvalds.
maybe he was trying to go on a diet.
even DVDs?
Dear Lord, Please Smite down NCR with thy Might Hand.
Amen
"University of New Zealand"? Maybe you mean the University of Canterbury.
it's ok if you just copy the money though...
how are they ripping people off?
do you have some inside knowledge?
won't that make them a bit more... err... expensive?
yeah, but what if the numbers on the lottery ticket you bought match last week's numbers, but not this week's numbers??
to give us someone to look down on
If your chance of getting an orange is 0, you will get an infinite number of apples and 0 oranges. But if it's anything greater than 0 -- anything at all -- you will end up with an infinite number of apples and an infinite number of oranges. By definition.
an infinite number of apples and oranges...
you know, when you've finished collecting them... at the end.
I didn't know Steve...
EH! STEVE!
you should've invested the $5 instead - by the time the game comes out, you'll earned enough interest to buy the game.
made by a friend of mine ;)
1.337 billion eh... leet.