It's a good point, actually. What you then would need to do is attach some form of "importance rating" to a rush job, where the importance drops drastically relative to the number of rush jobs already requested over a certain time frame. Thus, if $salesrep has requested 5 rush jobs over the last month, his rating drops drastically. You have to explain it to them and let them see it, of course. That way it will force them to plan ahead and save their rushies for actual cases they can't help. (Of course, if you have an internal billing system, or you're a one-man PC Repair guy, this is even easier: triple rates for rush jobs, as mentioned elsewhere under here.) It's an old story: you have to keep a reward vs effort system in there somehow.
For the rest, I think honesty is the only way to go. Tell them when you think they're saying something that's not nice. Explain to them that IT is a difficult job and you're doing the best you can, and that they live in a world of entropy where all systems slowly break down and that IT's not your fault, and that you would appreciate a thank-you once in a while. Let the screaming people run to the boss; as long as you've covered your bases with him before that, there's nothing they can do but whine. You might even set up an internal website with a list of how-and-why's, which explains basic concepts like security, website blocking etcetera, why you do it, and what the consequences would be if you didn't. That way, they'll at least understand it, even if they don't like it.
If they still disagree or whine after that, they're self-centered emotists who should probably be fired anyway since all they care about is their own agenda's, probably far above that of the company. You know them: the women (or bitchy men) who talk trash behind your back, the drama queen, and other unenlightened humans who have yet to rise over their emotions. You can as a last resort explain the consequences of having such high maintenance fools in your company, and tell him he'd best lay them off. That will benefit you, your colleagues, and the company culture the most in the long run, and it will force the emo's to a track where they have to grow up. (Just be sure to explain the reasons to them, so they also learn where their behavior is causing such a problem, and get them to go do yoga or something.)
Despite the somewhat amateurish interface, I've gotten better and faster results with GDB than any other out there. I've done PC repairs for small companies and private persons for over 7 years and I've tried them all, and nothing else gets the job done this efficiently.
If you're in the same business as me, it's great to introduce victims of data loss to an online backup solution where you get a commission, there's plenty of 'em out there.
People need to stop laying claims to ideas. It's ridiculous. And while I recognise the necessity of allowing for a company which invests millions into R&D to gain some returns on their investment, I think this is a business model problem and shouldn't be protected by something as limiting as copyright. Over time it has shown the fractures in its shell too often. There are alternatives. For example:
- bands could say "fill up this bank account to $100k and we'll release our new album"
- companies could form investment groups (they already do), ask the people or government for funding (they already do) and then make an open tally of the costs, say "we want 250% profit on that" and release the drug/idea/whatever to the public once the gains have been made, like the former example
The release of a new idea can ONLY be controlled - and that, only if the people in question agree to it, else even this is difficult - before launch. We are in a phase where ideas are increasingly technical in nature. Hence the chance of someone else coming up with the same idea is less likely. But once the cat is out of the bag, it's subject to reverse engineering, speculation, dismantling etcetera, and eventually the concept will be copied. It's built into nature: cells copy each other, protons / neutrons appear identical and particles change into and from each other at random, kids copy parents' behaviors. Trying to block these natural processes take vast amounts of energy and are ultimately ineffective. Moreover, I think every kid should have the right to download any NGC documentary they want. It's better than watching Spongebob reruns for the 6th time.
Remember that the concept of "making it rich" or "gaining millions" is a very unnatural state. If you want $10m, you have to talk a million people out of ten bucks PROFIT. I don't think somebody should be able to sit on their ass for more than a year or so just for coming up with a great idea or writing a few great songs, much less their whole family (like Beatles copyright shelf life going up 20 years), nor for coming up with a scheme where they can essentially rip people off. It's all because people are naturally lazy and will protect any advantage they have in being able to be so. No problem there, it's just human nature, but spare me the pretentious crap of it being "unethical". There's no such thing and you've been brainwashed.
Encryption has some nasty surprises: you can easily maintain an I-didn't-do-it or I-didn't-know-it level of innocence. This is going to give P2P encryption techniques as well as anonymisation networks a HUGE boost. A LOT of french programmers are going to be quite pissed off, and rightly so.
Oh man, do I want to do a rant against the French right now. But it'll be allright, just another felix culpa. Die gedänken sind frei, plagiarism is built into nature and the French politicians are swimming upstream; they'll tire sooner or later. Unfortunately this will mean that some families will start using iTunes stores and such, and no doubt the Big Four will take and twist those statistics into an I-Told-You-So.
Yep. This is only going to stimulate:
- a rapid development of secure p2p protocols.
- a rapid adoption of encryption.
- a lot of annoyance and public backlash.
On the side, Ireland has one of the highest budget deficits in the EU. That means they're in a lot of financial trouble already, and lots of people are going to be out of jobs. But they aren't going to let "them" deny them access to their movies, songs and audiobooks; moreover, things like The Teaching Company (TTC) and BBC documentaries provide an extremely rich source of self-enrichment. People are going to be teaching themselves all matter of upgrades in their newfound free time.
Anyway, all you Irish people can do now is roll out the Guiness and write your local political factions that this just isn't a good idea.
They're protecting their interests, of course. And like most firms guided by anal retentive lawyers, they don't know how to react decently, only "legally". But I think the concept of login / auth is fine. One might expound upon the idea by combining it with a shell of some sort - say, a VM - which contains only the game you want to play, and whatever security software it needs, and nothing else. That would prevent (or at least slow) hackers from cracking it up again.
But the root of all greevil is of course, humanity: hacking is too easy to learn, and the kids have the IQ far before they have the sense of responsibility. Try souping up education for a change. It's something that has to be relearned by EACH fewkin' generation! Our teachers should be well-paid and well-respected, instead they're downtrodden. And we think it's strange so many kids are so mentally fucked up? Unlimited corporate economics is at fault here, simple as that.
In TrekSpeak, Pesticide sounds strangely Ferengi. But I also have to admit reading the two compounds and thinking: "Holy smyte, where can I get tickets to that!" Maybe the arsenic was a giveaway.
Hey, with the prices of repeaters these days, that doesn't actually sound too bad.. or.. waitaminit, these are those complicated fiber optic multiplex thingamajiggers, no? Ah, well. Plenty of IT companies going bust to buy them off of, too:P
I agree. Another point which is of paramount importance: who's in control? Why not take the camera's and make them viewable by all, with a backlog of several days? Let people use them as well. Increase social control. Or would this cause some kind of backlash? One could imagine, for instance, dominant insecure alpha men continually tracking their wives as they go shopping and whatnot, while the wives are oblivious. And everyone tells little white lies about where they've been (some not so white, of course). But would that lead to an increase in domestic violence? Or would it mean more crimes would be solved, since more eyes are tracking the streets? Should you take a halfway stance, that only registered users - and ones with a clean police bill - are allowed to use them?
My $ 0.02
Exactly so. I also don't want to be disturbed with whatever I'm doing by an updater happily sloshing in data in the background. I love Google Earth, but it's been uninstalled now; I might try killing the updater later with the command line, but can't be bothered right now.
Seems to be, the best thing we can do is bombard Google. Send them emails with complaints. They'll get the picture, and I think they'll adjust the code - at least enough to only run when you want it to, or on selected components. Now, this might be part of a bigger plan of theirs (world domination, anyone?), likely to force updates of Chrome and other software, but they usually do listen to public opinion. We just have to make it public, and this/. articls is a good start.
The topography of the world's Zits. I wonder whether we will ever find a magma variant for Clearasil? Or is the Yellowstone Caldera still doomed to become one of those huge monstrous red scars no matter how much we scrub?
From a temporal perspective, there is no law because such people ignore them, cover them up or dance around them. Hence, one could argue that because Bush COULD, somewhere in the future, declare all past laws void all the way back through time, deftly saving his own ass and setting himself up as eternal tyrant. Fortunately, I'm the only person capable of coming up with such bullshit.
Sjuh... there's only one option: contain it at the source(s). Very strict contol of enrichment. That's about all one can do, and unfortunately doesn't control already distributed materials nor as yet untouched ore sources - which may become in trek if the world does get strict on ores. But methinks the only real solution is nuclear fusion. Make sure there's enough power for everyone's needs, and then some; that way we can try to kick the planet into a Golden Age and maybe the shortsighted suicidal monkeys will give it a rest and get back to masturbation instead of terrorism. God knows I'd sponsor 'em with a blowup doll or something.
There goes the neighborhood. What say we spam McGreevy with groovy alternate ideas and lots of reasons why his idea is, shall we say, decrepit and ignorant? Politely, of course. We're decent people.
What the Big Four SHOULD do is use a business model where people deposit money on an escrow account or something, and once the account reaches a certain amount, put the album/movie they're paying for online, in high quality, for free. For example, let's say they want $10,000,000 for a new Pearl Jam album. People who want a byte of that fork over a few bucks, plus a few bucks extra if they want a CD with a pretty inlay and a PJ mug and T-shirt. Moichandizing, moichandizing! I like having band gimmicks and pens, gimmeh!
Seriously though, I think it would work. Copyright just doesn't, in its current form; it's swimming against the stream. Plagiarism is built into nature. Molecules are identical, so are their composite particles (i.e. they're clones); DNA does self-replication; creatures learn through imitation, else why would there be schools? That's the base line why copyright is just not so right. The only edge you have is to keep an idea, song, movie or program (update?) for yourself and release it under certain terms. Once it's in the wild, good luck trying to control it. (Right, RIAA?). I'd set up a company to do it myself, but I'm already running four and I'm a bit tired, so I'll let one of you scoop it up and get rich. I'll happily help pay for the next Mighty Mighty Bosstones album.
I disagree. There is actually a webbased, cross-platform, open source CRM/CMS system called Covide which integrates tightly with Asterisk VoIP server. We installed both at our office, and although we're still getting the hang of it, hitherto its functionality has been outstanding. For more info:
not entirely. The doubling of pitch is the difference in an octave; the complementary pitches in the octave (in other words, the sounds that sound happy, so no minors or sharps) are directly related (e.g. half of the doubling, 1/4, etc).
And on the side, I think anybody who has a mom with a voice as loud as my mom's learns absolute pitch as a natural defense mechanism.
There were rumors (facts? can't remember) about M$ and SCO being in bed with one another, one way or another. M$ has already proven their marketing division pretty much supercedes everything in their thought processes. So, one wonders: SCO has locked several companies (and their judicial advisors) in a long load of crap for quite some time. Who stands to gain from this? What other resources did their actions lock down? Could M$ be looking to pull a quickie somehow - for example, keep IBM or Novell busy while they quietly slip through a patent, product theft, social engineering sollicitation? I'm just brainstorming here, but these are the backlines that company deals operate on. It's also likely that there will be multiple plans within plans influencing each other so as to maximise effect irrespective of any outcome, short or long, right or wrong. Too bad for them that such plans tend to leave obvious logical trails. Brainstormers, unite! Let's uncover the truth!
Yeah, me too. Truth is utterly subjective and, indeed, fat chance. But it's fun to rant once in a while;)
Let Microsoft know we're here! Drop them a line and protest it. Think it through, add all arguments against closing it down, order them and send them through. If you're short on time, at least send a mail saying you disagree. It takes 20 seconds and may help, you never know. Microsoft has billions, more products and lawyers than the Senate, a five foot effigy of Kaiser Sosa and some far too intelligent buggers running sales, but we are the Slashdot Effect.
They offer online backup services in many parts of europe for reasonable prices, and you can go 30 days back (up to 180, if you pay more.) My company uses it (6 people) and we sleep quite soundly : )
While I think there are quite a few screwballs who should stop whining and get their ass into gear (notably emotional types who have never worked a hard day in their life and don't understand what pleasure it can bring... get off your ass, kick that poodle into the pond with your pills, and get a fewkin' life! You sit at home all day, no wonder you feel like crap, that's not a human's normal operational state! Goes for all you depressed stoners, too. Trust me, I've been there as well.), there are also genuine cases; and if you've never had a depression or burn-out, drop to your knees and thank whoever you appreciate that you haven't, cuz it's Shit City. You remember you once felt good, but can't picture or experience it, and the slightest task takes enormous effort. I'd rather chop off your leg and mine both than wish somebody what I went through (although as stated in the article, it might do some good to experience the sheer horror of it. Does wonders for your empathy towards your fellow man.) And I'm lucky, because my father had it too and is fairly well-informed, which meant we worked out the cause and solution fairly quickly.
There's millions who feel like shit every day and don't have a clue why. Each person and situation is as unique as the next one and I think the articles the original/. post linked to contained some excellent examples and conjecture, especially because it supports that the problem is more in the lifestyle and actually there being a "tough shit, it's like that" problem. At least a few people will have read it and thought "Thank God, there's hope!". And praises to them for taking matters into their own hand. I also think it's an evolutionary fuckup which is becoming problematic because of the incredible momentum our society now has. Life is very intense and requires a lot of CPU power, and our brains are on the limit, just like our computers.
Three years ago, I was an extremely happy tween who had just started up his own company. Business prospered, a friend jumped on the wagon to help, and all was well; I enjoyed the contacts with people, the challenges in the field, learning management. I slept 3 hours a day, worked 12-16, and spent the rest in a combination of surfing, having fun with friends, sports and whatnot. I was having the time of my life and I thought many times "I wanna keep this up indefinitely!". And I certainly tried.
More customers came, more thinking had to be done, I even built my own house. I was working 20/7. And bit by bit, it became less rozy, and brain processes slowed, until three months later my colleague had to tell me how to write somebody's name down with a pen. Diagnosis: severe burn-out, go sit at home for a year. Couldn't do that, though... I didn't have any insurance for that type of thing and the money had to come in; moreover I didn't yet realise I was up way past my bedtime. I had invested a lot of money, time and effort and wasn't about to quit, COULDN'T quit.
So we worked on, and it got worse; until finally we bit the bullet and expanded. New office, extra people to help with the work. Slowly, my little brain recovered. But it's still not back up to par and it had shifted into a clinical depression, something which runs in my family and I had problems with through pretty much my entire youth until medication kicked it out the window. I reacted well to MAO inhibitors, and I still have them on the shelf when I need them.
My advice to others who are down: GET HELP. There's excellent brainlords out there who have a pretty darn good idea of what's going on, and they're like you and me: doing their best each day, every day. You'll know you've got a good one when you run into him or her; most importantly what they say should MAKE SENSE, not some dreamy "you should get in contact with your emotions, just FEEL the pain" nor "You're suffering because your energies aren't in line". They'd better have darn good explanations for their statements; if they can't, give 'em the boot and try the n
Hot sauces seem to be absolutely vicious to metal components, especially when there's a DC flowing through them. Saw it on Mythbusters, so it MUST be true;)
One of the most annoying things I find about surfing are those bloody animated advertisements based on Flash and such. Maybe the popup blocker could be taught to automatically put an empty box of the color of your choice over anything that's animated? That would quiet down your field of vision considerably. Also a few buttons so you can quickly (de)activate the resident plug-ins (from java to flash) might help.
Jynx
Why, a quake goes off, of course.
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There's a trigger there, see. Their server si co-linked to several underground sets of renewable explosives and a gargantuan rocket turbine buried in the moon, the combination of which allows Quake Control to within a few square miles.
Oh, come ON. NONE of you have ever wondered why the moon only shows us one face? What're the odds?
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It's a good point, actually. What you then would need to do is attach some form of "importance rating" to a rush job, where the importance drops drastically relative to the number of rush jobs already requested over a certain time frame. Thus, if $salesrep has requested 5 rush jobs over the last month, his rating drops drastically. You have to explain it to them and let them see it, of course. That way it will force them to plan ahead and save their rushies for actual cases they can't help. (Of course, if you have an internal billing system, or you're a one-man PC Repair guy, this is even easier: triple rates for rush jobs, as mentioned elsewhere under here.) It's an old story: you have to keep a reward vs effort system in there somehow.
For the rest, I think honesty is the only way to go. Tell them when you think they're saying something that's not nice. Explain to them that IT is a difficult job and you're doing the best you can, and that they live in a world of entropy where all systems slowly break down and that IT's not your fault, and that you would appreciate a thank-you once in a while. Let the screaming people run to the boss; as long as you've covered your bases with him before that, there's nothing they can do but whine. You might even set up an internal website with a list of how-and-why's, which explains basic concepts like security, website blocking etcetera, why you do it, and what the consequences would be if you didn't. That way, they'll at least understand it, even if they don't like it.
If they still disagree or whine after that, they're self-centered emotists who should probably be fired anyway since all they care about is their own agenda's, probably far above that of the company. You know them: the women (or bitchy men) who talk trash behind your back, the drama queen, and other unenlightened humans who have yet to rise over their emotions. You can as a last resort explain the consequences of having such high maintenance fools in your company, and tell him he'd best lay them off. That will benefit you, your colleagues, and the company culture the most in the long run, and it will force the emo's to a track where they have to grow up. (Just be sure to explain the reasons to them, so they also learn where their behavior is causing such a problem, and get them to go do yoga or something.)
Despite the somewhat amateurish interface, I've gotten better and faster results with GDB than any other out there. I've done PC repairs for small companies and private persons for over 7 years and I've tried them all, and nothing else gets the job done this efficiently.
If you're in the same business as me, it's great to introduce victims of data loss to an online backup solution where you get a commission, there's plenty of 'em out there.
People need to stop laying claims to ideas. It's ridiculous. And while I recognise the necessity of allowing for a company which invests millions into R&D to gain some returns on their investment, I think this is a business model problem and shouldn't be protected by something as limiting as copyright. Over time it has shown the fractures in its shell too often. There are alternatives. For example:
- bands could say "fill up this bank account to $100k and we'll release our new album"
- companies could form investment groups (they already do), ask the people or government for funding (they already do) and then make an open tally of the costs, say "we want 250% profit on that" and release the drug/idea/whatever to the public once the gains have been made, like the former example
The release of a new idea can ONLY be controlled - and that, only if the people in question agree to it, else even this is difficult - before launch. We are in a phase where ideas are increasingly technical in nature. Hence the chance of someone else coming up with the same idea is less likely. But once the cat is out of the bag, it's subject to reverse engineering, speculation, dismantling etcetera, and eventually the concept will be copied. It's built into nature: cells copy each other, protons / neutrons appear identical and particles change into and from each other at random, kids copy parents' behaviors. Trying to block these natural processes take vast amounts of energy and are ultimately ineffective. Moreover, I think every kid should have the right to download any NGC documentary they want. It's better than watching Spongebob reruns for the 6th time.
Remember that the concept of "making it rich" or "gaining millions" is a very unnatural state. If you want $10m, you have to talk a million people out of ten bucks PROFIT. I don't think somebody should be able to sit on their ass for more than a year or so just for coming up with a great idea or writing a few great songs, much less their whole family (like Beatles copyright shelf life going up 20 years), nor for coming up with a scheme where they can essentially rip people off. It's all because people are naturally lazy and will protect any advantage they have in being able to be so. No problem there, it's just human nature, but spare me the pretentious crap of it being "unethical". There's no such thing and you've been brainwashed.
Encryption has some nasty surprises: you can easily maintain an I-didn't-do-it or I-didn't-know-it level of innocence. This is going to give P2P encryption techniques as well as anonymisation networks a HUGE boost. A LOT of french programmers are going to be quite pissed off, and rightly so.
Oh man, do I want to do a rant against the French right now. But it'll be allright, just another felix culpa. Die gedänken sind frei, plagiarism is built into nature and the French politicians are swimming upstream; they'll tire sooner or later. Unfortunately this will mean that some families will start using iTunes stores and such, and no doubt the Big Four will take and twist those statistics into an I-Told-You-So.
Yep. This is only going to stimulate: - a rapid development of secure p2p protocols. - a rapid adoption of encryption. - a lot of annoyance and public backlash. On the side, Ireland has one of the highest budget deficits in the EU. That means they're in a lot of financial trouble already, and lots of people are going to be out of jobs. But they aren't going to let "them" deny them access to their movies, songs and audiobooks; moreover, things like The Teaching Company (TTC) and BBC documentaries provide an extremely rich source of self-enrichment. People are going to be teaching themselves all matter of upgrades in their newfound free time. Anyway, all you Irish people can do now is roll out the Guiness and write your local political factions that this just isn't a good idea.
They're protecting their interests, of course. And like most firms guided by anal retentive lawyers, they don't know how to react decently, only "legally". But I think the concept of login / auth is fine. One might expound upon the idea by combining it with a shell of some sort - say, a VM - which contains only the game you want to play, and whatever security software it needs, and nothing else. That would prevent (or at least slow) hackers from cracking it up again.
But the root of all greevil is of course, humanity: hacking is too easy to learn, and the kids have the IQ far before they have the sense of responsibility. Try souping up education for a change. It's something that has to be relearned by EACH fewkin' generation! Our teachers should be well-paid and well-respected, instead they're downtrodden. And we think it's strange so many kids are so mentally fucked up? Unlimited corporate economics is at fault here, simple as that.
In TrekSpeak, Pesticide sounds strangely Ferengi. But I also have to admit reading the two compounds and thinking: "Holy smyte, where can I get tickets to that!" Maybe the arsenic was a giveaway.
Hey, with the prices of repeaters these days, that doesn't actually sound too bad.. or.. waitaminit, these are those complicated fiber optic multiplex thingamajiggers, no? Ah, well. Plenty of IT companies going bust to buy them off of, too :P
I agree. Another point which is of paramount importance: who's in control? Why not take the camera's and make them viewable by all, with a backlog of several days? Let people use them as well. Increase social control. Or would this cause some kind of backlash? One could imagine, for instance, dominant insecure alpha men continually tracking their wives as they go shopping and whatnot, while the wives are oblivious. And everyone tells little white lies about where they've been (some not so white, of course). But would that lead to an increase in domestic violence? Or would it mean more crimes would be solved, since more eyes are tracking the streets? Should you take a halfway stance, that only registered users - and ones with a clean police bill - are allowed to use them? My $ 0.02
Exactly so. I also don't want to be disturbed with whatever I'm doing by an updater happily sloshing in data in the background. I love Google Earth, but it's been uninstalled now; I might try killing the updater later with the command line, but can't be bothered right now. Seems to be, the best thing we can do is bombard Google. Send them emails with complaints. They'll get the picture, and I think they'll adjust the code - at least enough to only run when you want it to, or on selected components. Now, this might be part of a bigger plan of theirs (world domination, anyone?), likely to force updates of Chrome and other software, but they usually do listen to public opinion. We just have to make it public, and this /. articls is a good start.
The topography of the world's Zits. I wonder whether we will ever find a magma variant for Clearasil? Or is the Yellowstone Caldera still doomed to become one of those huge monstrous red scars no matter how much we scrub?
From a temporal perspective, there is no law because such people ignore them, cover them up or dance around them. Hence, one could argue that because Bush COULD, somewhere in the future, declare all past laws void all the way back through time, deftly saving his own ass and setting himself up as eternal tyrant. Fortunately, I'm the only person capable of coming up with such bullshit.
Sjuh... there's only one option: contain it at the source(s). Very strict contol of enrichment. That's about all one can do, and unfortunately doesn't control already distributed materials nor as yet untouched ore sources - which may become in trek if the world does get strict on ores. But methinks the only real solution is nuclear fusion. Make sure there's enough power for everyone's needs, and then some; that way we can try to kick the planet into a Golden Age and maybe the shortsighted suicidal monkeys will give it a rest and get back to masturbation instead of terrorism. God knows I'd sponsor 'em with a blowup doll or something.
They've been on Usenet for ages. That's why Verizon is cutting off access to the binaries.
There goes the neighborhood. What say we spam McGreevy with groovy alternate ideas and lots of reasons why his idea is, shall we say, decrepit and ignorant? Politely, of course. We're decent people.
What the Big Four SHOULD do is use a business model where people deposit money on an escrow account or something, and once the account reaches a certain amount, put the album/movie they're paying for online, in high quality, for free. For example, let's say they want $10,000,000 for a new Pearl Jam album. People who want a byte of that fork over a few bucks, plus a few bucks extra if they want a CD with a pretty inlay and a PJ mug and T-shirt. Moichandizing, moichandizing! I like having band gimmicks and pens, gimmeh!
Seriously though, I think it would work. Copyright just doesn't, in its current form; it's swimming against the stream. Plagiarism is built into nature. Molecules are identical, so are their composite particles (i.e. they're clones); DNA does self-replication; creatures learn through imitation, else why would there be schools? That's the base line why copyright is just not so right. The only edge you have is to keep an idea, song, movie or program (update?) for yourself and release it under certain terms. Once it's in the wild, good luck trying to control it. (Right, RIAA?). I'd set up a company to do it myself, but I'm already running four and I'm a bit tired, so I'll let one of you scoop it up and get rich. I'll happily help pay for the next Mighty Mighty Bosstones album.
- Jynx
I disagree. There is actually a webbased, cross-platform, open source CRM/CMS system called Covide which integrates tightly with Asterisk VoIP server. We installed both at our office, and although we're still getting the hang of it, hitherto its functionality has been outstanding. For more info:
http://www.covide.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/covide/
http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net/
http://www.asterisk.org/
Strange... I posted this yesterday, but it seems to have disappeared into Limbo. Computers are weird, and the programmers are even scarier.
not entirely. The doubling of pitch is the difference in an octave; the complementary pitches in the octave (in other words, the sounds that sound happy, so no minors or sharps) are directly related (e.g. half of the doubling, 1/4, etc).
And on the side, I think anybody who has a mom with a voice as loud as my mom's learns absolute pitch as a natural defense mechanism.
There were rumors (facts? can't remember) about M$ and SCO being in bed with one another, one way or another. M$ has already proven their marketing division pretty much supercedes everything in their thought processes. So, one wonders: SCO has locked several companies (and their judicial advisors) in a long load of crap for quite some time. Who stands to gain from this? What other resources did their actions lock down? Could M$ be looking to pull a quickie somehow - for example, keep IBM or Novell busy while they quietly slip through a patent, product theft, social engineering sollicitation? I'm just brainstorming here, but these are the backlines that company deals operate on. It's also likely that there will be multiple plans within plans influencing each other so as to maximise effect irrespective of any outcome, short or long, right or wrong. Too bad for them that such plans tend to leave obvious logical trails. Brainstormers, unite! Let's uncover the truth!
;)
Yeah, me too. Truth is utterly subjective and, indeed, fat chance. But it's fun to rant once in a while
- Jynx
Let Microsoft know we're here! Drop them a line and protest it. Think it through, add all arguments against closing it down, order them and send them through. If you're short on time, at least send a mail saying you disagree. It takes 20 seconds and may help, you never know. Microsoft has billions, more products and lawyers than the Senate, a five foot effigy of Kaiser Sosa and some far too intelligent buggers running sales, but we are the Slashdot Effect.
- Jynx
Now crossing over a deep sinkhole... *bzzz*
:P
-Error 404, Connection timed out-
AAAARGH!!
Is that what happened to the first mars probe?
http://www.backup-connect.nl/?pid=6
They offer online backup services in many parts of europe for reasonable prices, and you can go 30 days back (up to 180, if you pay more.) My company uses it (6 people) and we sleep quite soundly : )
- Jynx
While I think there are quite a few screwballs who should stop whining and get their ass into gear (notably emotional types who have never worked a hard day in their life and don't understand what pleasure it can bring... get off your ass, kick that poodle into the pond with your pills, and get a fewkin' life! You sit at home all day, no wonder you feel like crap, that's not a human's normal operational state! Goes for all you depressed stoners, too. Trust me, I've been there as well.), there are also genuine cases; and if you've never had a depression or burn-out, drop to your knees and thank whoever you appreciate that you haven't, cuz it's Shit City. You remember you once felt good, but can't picture or experience it, and the slightest task takes enormous effort. I'd rather chop off your leg and mine both than wish somebody what I went through (although as stated in the article, it might do some good to experience the sheer horror of it. Does wonders for your empathy towards your fellow man.) And I'm lucky, because my father had it too and is fairly well-informed, which meant we worked out the cause and solution fairly quickly.
/. post linked to contained some excellent examples and conjecture, especially because it supports that the problem is more in the lifestyle and actually there being a "tough shit, it's like that" problem. At least a few people will have read it and thought "Thank God, there's hope!". And praises to them for taking matters into their own hand. I also think it's an evolutionary fuckup which is becoming problematic because of the incredible momentum our society now has. Life is very intense and requires a lot of CPU power, and our brains are on the limit, just like our computers.
There's millions who feel like shit every day and don't have a clue why. Each person and situation is as unique as the next one and I think the articles the original
Three years ago, I was an extremely happy tween who had just started up his own company. Business prospered, a friend jumped on the wagon to help, and all was well; I enjoyed the contacts with people, the challenges in the field, learning management. I slept 3 hours a day, worked 12-16, and spent the rest in a combination of surfing, having fun with friends, sports and whatnot. I was having the time of my life and I thought many times "I wanna keep this up indefinitely!". And I certainly tried.
More customers came, more thinking had to be done, I even built my own house. I was working 20/7. And bit by bit, it became less rozy, and brain processes slowed, until three months later my colleague had to tell me how to write somebody's name down with a pen. Diagnosis: severe burn-out, go sit at home for a year. Couldn't do that, though... I didn't have any insurance for that type of thing and the money had to come in; moreover I didn't yet realise I was up way past my bedtime. I had invested a lot of money, time and effort and wasn't about to quit, COULDN'T quit.
So we worked on, and it got worse; until finally we bit the bullet and expanded. New office, extra people to help with the work. Slowly, my little brain recovered. But it's still not back up to par and it had shifted into a clinical depression, something which runs in my family and I had problems with through pretty much my entire youth until medication kicked it out the window. I reacted well to MAO inhibitors, and I still have them on the shelf when I need them.
My advice to others who are down: GET HELP. There's excellent brainlords out there who have a pretty darn good idea of what's going on, and they're like you and me: doing their best each day, every day. You'll know you've got a good one when you run into him or her; most importantly what they say should MAKE SENSE, not some dreamy "you should get in contact with your emotions, just FEEL the pain" nor "You're suffering because your energies aren't in line". They'd better have darn good explanations for their statements; if they can't, give 'em the boot and try the n
Hot sauces seem to be absolutely vicious to metal components, especially when there's a DC flowing through them. Saw it on Mythbusters, so it MUST be true ;)
One of the most annoying things I find about surfing are those bloody animated advertisements based on Flash and such. Maybe the popup blocker could be taught to automatically put an empty box of the color of your choice over anything that's animated? That would quiet down your field of vision considerably. Also a few buttons so you can quickly (de)activate the resident plug-ins (from java to flash) might help.
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There's a trigger there, see. Their server si co-linked to several underground sets of renewable explosives and a gargantuan rocket turbine buried in the moon, the combination of which allows Quake Control to within a few square miles.
Oh, come ON. NONE of you have ever wondered why the moon only shows us one face? What're the odds?
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