Companies will tell you its easier to get contract employment.
I've know companies who will hire someone on as a contract employee for six months and if they are any good then they will switch them to full time.
It's simply easier not to renew someones contract then fire them. If you fire them they will persue unemployment and that in itself can imvolve some time.
I'm not saying this is the case for this company... I've just seen this tactic more then once.
This just smells like some not so cleverly planted ad.
I'll respond none the less... So far, I've managed to keep a good portion of my important information (writings, documents, pictures) that I want to keep around for a very long time.
While most of our pictures are slowly degrading over time. Data I've had for the last 10 years is still pretty much the same.
If its important, store it in more then one place...
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That is an application level problem.
PS@ keyboards only allowed for 2 to 3 characters to be sent at the same time (if memory recalls).
However, if you have a modern USB keyboard, you can send tons of characters at the same time!
I actually had to switch to USB back in my counter-strike days *at least when I was any good*
Obviously the industries benefiting most from Bush's choices are going to vote for him. I do know one noteable exception.
I have a friend who does administration in the IT department for a natural fuels company. With the clean air act being reduced to a wad a paper that will shortly be thrown on the side of the streets... his industry is booming. More crap coal can now be of course distributed and that drives profits up. It is a very pro-bosh/republican office.
My friend was probably one of the very few who decided Kerry best fit his political direction.
Not many individuals are going to vote for a policy that works against their job.
I managed to find and download an mp3 in just seconds. Now, this was merely to prove a point and I will delete the song as soon as I'm sure its a legitimate piracy!
I don't think anyone is going to argue an electronic system is completely secure. When push comes to shove, I somehow doubt this would be used in a court of law.
However, I had a friend in college, one of his projects was to put an electronic lock on a fire arm.
So, he mounted an emebedded system into the stock and a simple motor controlled pin to disable the firing mechanism.
The control mechanism used a simple ibutton for identification and would have several options for how long it would stay unlocked.
So during the question/answer stage (performance and knowledge is part of the exam) I really grilled him on security.
Ultimately, he did the best job he could do to ensure security wouldn't be over written, but his final statement is one that is true for any piece of hardware. Once the weapon is in the hands of someone else... there is little anyone can do to stop those electronic measures from being over taken.
I was held up in a hotel. My room had an ethernet port, but the IP address I did get was 192.xxx
So of course I tried pinging the gateway and nothing. I called down stairs and talked to the lady at the desk. They said they were having problems and access wasn't available. At that point, I offered to come down stairs and fix their network (I was flown in to meet with some management peeps within our corporate structure...at the time I was with a major ISP not AOL).
The lady at the desk finally says, their leased line was down and had been down for a while... (apparently there was some reason their back bone had been pulled, but alas she would not tell me).
So, my dial-up account was still local from my old purchased company (integration had not happened yet). Far away from home and knowing the hassle it would cause to get online with my company... I decided to pay for access.
At the time, I had Windows 95 on my crap company laptop and there was a little AOL icon. So, I thought, what the heck I'll make it a learning experience and see what the competition is about.
I managed to sign up with a credit card, without talking to anyone through just the basic software on my box. (included in 95 or was it 98?)
I was a little annoyed that I had this AOL window running just to stay on, but damn I was worried after using it. It was just so easy (though later on it was required to have a call back to activate)
In any event, it took 3 hours to cancel my account after I was finished with it. Finally, when they did ask me why I was leaving, I told them I work for a competing provider and they didn't put up any fuss.
If you ever wonder why people do subscribe with aol... just remember that story.
I was talking to an engineer who retired from PAX, but now does solely contract work.
Anyhow, apparently there is a problem they found out with glycol. It coats the metal surface and of course transmitters produce lots of heat. So after a period of time this glycol coat solidifies. It becomes an insulator.
I guess not so long ago, they finally started diagnosing OLD dead transmitter tubes. It is expected to burn out at some point in its lifetime and normally a diagnostic hasn't been done.
Though there isn't a replacement yet for glycol as the tubes and compoenents were designed with its characteristics in mind.
Though given he is not going to be using this system for a decade... it's just an interesting point to note.
I drove to a mall with a Dell store. Unfortunately, Dell's description at the time gave me a false impression that I could truely purchase the computer there.
I just wanted a simple special that was advertised on the front page. I thought, ok... Dell store... they probably have this.
I was a bit disappointed that it was only a kiosk store. Great if you don't have a computer, but ultimately useless for anyone who knows what they are doing.
I routinely get an employee asking someone else at the store for help. Nearly every visit.
Then of course, they don't understand why I return a power supply that doesn't supply a true amp of power. I tried to explain it only outputs an amp at peak for a few miliseconds and then falls below the line.
Though my favorite was...
"I need to find a null modem adapter."
Then the radioshack emplyee, completely dumb founded, says "Lets try and match a brand name with a product... what does it do?"
My reply, "It's a null modem adapter, I don't care about the brand. If you would stop moving things around I would know where it is."
They do have one rep who knows what stuff is and I usually end up having someone talk to him.
They must have a store policy that states specifically they have to aggravate me.
They wanted to do that at work. I simply refused to publicly display any of our email addresses. The last account/address they had was a spam fest because of this.
So, I coded a simple web form for placing comments. The webform message allows someone to supply a reply to address and then its sent off to everyone who needs to respond to it.
What's really funny... one day.. someone actually cut and pasted their spam into the webform. (I went to the persons website... they were not remotely technically inclined)
It's very easy to get in touch with us via email and this technique really impairs harvesting.
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Companies will tell you its easier to get contract employment.
I've know companies who will hire someone on as a contract employee for six months and if they are any good then they will switch them to full time.
It's simply easier not to renew someones contract then fire them. If you fire them they will persue unemployment and that in itself can imvolve some time.
I'm not saying this is the case for this company... I've just seen this tactic more then once.
Sweet...
Now I just have to buy a printer at a yard sale and commit some heinous crime with it.
Later on...
"Yep, looks like he was murdered with this printer, but don't worry we will track it right back to the owner."
I don't regret this!
It's running fine on my home system (appropriately named "junk")
Load times could be faster and the stuter issue is quite annoying (verified its an autosave issue).
Still, for what I have here its running quite well.
I'm fairly happy with it... being my investment in the home box is 0$ (spare office parts!)
They had a section of the flash memory go bad... so they patched a work around for those sectors if I remember correctly.
It's the MPAA...
What if they put it in some software dvd player that came with a movie DVD.
Most people have autorun set...
Remember, the RIAA has put software on CDs which installed an audio intermediary driver that garbled the tracks if you tried to rip it.
For joe average, this would be the perfect way to nix their "downloaded" movies.
Yeah, I kept waiting from SG-1 to rescue him!
Oh that's crazy talk.
Ya know, for what it's worth I have never lost a message while using yahoo or gmail. I can't say that for some other providers.
Sometimes, people don't want to use their regular/profesional/work email address.
E-mail is e-mail is e-mail no matter how you fold it.
Wasn't there some contention between Valve and Vivendi over distribution?
Seems to me this is a perfect way to push some extra copies without having to compete with their Steam model of distribution.
It's a simple matter of being lax with the sell date with your retailers.
Sure, you screw your customers, but wasn't that the name of the game from the begining?
I'm suing myself over infrigement against one of my "patents" with windows.
Microsoft will now have defend me from myself and be cause I have information on the inside they will quickly settle out the case.
It's a beautiful plan...
quick... someone slap me.
This just smells like some not so cleverly planted ad.
I'll respond none the less... So far, I've managed to keep a good portion of my important information (writings, documents, pictures) that I want to keep around for a very long time.
While most of our pictures are slowly degrading over time. Data I've had for the last 10 years is still pretty much the same.
If its important, store it in more then one place...
That is an application level problem.
PS@ keyboards only allowed for 2 to 3 characters to be sent at the same time (if memory recalls).
However, if you have a modern USB keyboard, you can send tons of characters at the same time!
I actually had to switch to USB back in my counter-strike days *at least when I was any good*
I can second that...
Even factoring in waiting. Sometimes I do just want to buy it and have it to toy around with. My price concscience just can't let me do it.
I seem to recall a good deal on a wireless router some time ago, but still looking online was horribly more inexpensive.
If they could just be more reasonable I would surely visit them more often, but as it stands our Best Buy's parking lot is generally devoid.
Well...
Obviously the industries benefiting most from Bush's choices are going to vote for him. I do know one noteable exception.
I have a friend who does administration in the IT department for a natural fuels company. With the clean air act being reduced to a wad a paper that will shortly be thrown on the side of the streets... his industry is booming. More crap coal can now be of course distributed and that drives profits up. It is a very pro-bosh/republican office.
My friend was probably one of the very few who decided Kerry best fit his political direction.
Not many individuals are going to vote for a policy that works against their job.
Um,
You are quite wrong...
I managed to find and download an mp3 in just seconds. Now, this was merely to prove a point and I will delete the song as soon as I'm sure its a legitimate piracy!
I don't think anyone is going to argue an electronic system is completely secure. When push comes to shove, I somehow doubt this would be used in a court of law.
However, I had a friend in college, one of his projects was to put an electronic lock on a fire arm.
So, he mounted an emebedded system into the stock and a simple motor controlled pin to disable the firing mechanism.
The control mechanism used a simple ibutton for identification and would have several options for how long it would stay unlocked.
So during the question/answer stage (performance and knowledge is part of the exam) I really grilled him on security.
Ultimately, he did the best job he could do to ensure security wouldn't be over written, but his final statement is one that is true for any piece of hardware. Once the weapon is in the hands of someone else... there is little anyone can do to stop those electronic measures from being over taken.
It's actually on a lot of places.
t ar wars/videovault.adp
A quick google reveals some good spots, but I found the aol one particularly useful as the plugin installs easily within firefox.
http://channelevents.aol.com/movies/broadband/s
I never thought of that...
I was held up in a hotel. My room had an ethernet port, but the IP address I did get was 192.xxx
So of course I tried pinging the gateway and nothing. I called down stairs and talked to the lady at the desk. They said they were having problems and access wasn't available. At that point, I offered to come down stairs and fix their network (I was flown in to meet with some management peeps within our corporate structure...at the time I was with a major ISP not AOL).
The lady at the desk finally says, their leased line was down and had been down for a while... (apparently there was some reason their back bone had been pulled, but alas she would not tell me).
So, my dial-up account was still local from my old purchased company (integration had not happened yet). Far away from home and knowing the hassle it would cause to get online with my company... I decided to pay for access.
At the time, I had Windows 95 on my crap company laptop and there was a little AOL icon. So, I thought, what the heck I'll make it a learning experience and see what the competition is about.
I managed to sign up with a credit card, without talking to anyone through just the basic software on my box. (included in 95 or was it 98?)
I was a little annoyed that I had this AOL window running just to stay on, but damn I was worried after using it. It was just so easy (though later on it was required to have a call back to activate)
In any event, it took 3 hours to cancel my account after I was finished with it. Finally, when they did ask me why I was leaving, I told them I work for a competing provider and they didn't put up any fuss.
If you ever wonder why people do subscribe with aol... just remember that story.
Glycol is neat, but it isn't without problems.
I was talking to an engineer who retired from PAX, but now does solely contract work.
Anyhow, apparently there is a problem they found out with glycol. It coats the metal surface and of course transmitters produce lots of heat. So after a period of time this glycol coat solidifies. It becomes an insulator.
I guess not so long ago, they finally started diagnosing OLD dead transmitter tubes. It is expected to burn out at some point in its lifetime and normally a diagnostic hasn't been done.
Though there isn't a replacement yet for glycol as the tubes and compoenents were designed with its characteristics in mind.
Though given he is not going to be using this system for a decade... it's just an interesting point to note.
Indeed,
I recently replaced one of these drives myself.
I guess no one wants the flakey thompson drive, because I was able to find one for 17$.
Oh well... I just wanted to patch the system up and get it working again.
Close but no cigar...
I for one welcome our new genetically engineered feline overlords!
There go people ranting again about things they know nothing about...
My toaster makes great steaks!
I drove to a mall with a Dell store. Unfortunately, Dell's description at the time gave me a false impression that I could truely purchase the computer there.
I just wanted a simple special that was advertised on the front page. I thought, ok... Dell store... they probably have this.
I was a bit disappointed that it was only a kiosk store. Great if you don't have a computer, but ultimately useless for anyone who knows what they are doing.
Oh yeah,
I routinely get an employee asking someone else at the store for help. Nearly every visit.
Then of course, they don't understand why I return a power supply that doesn't supply a true amp of power. I tried to explain it only outputs an amp at peak for a few miliseconds and then falls below the line.
Though my favorite was...
"I need to find a null modem adapter."
Then the radioshack emplyee, completely dumb founded, says "Lets try and match a brand name with a product... what does it do?"
My reply, "It's a null modem adapter, I don't care about the brand. If you would stop moving things around I would know where it is."
They do have one rep who knows what stuff is and I usually end up having someone talk to him.
They must have a store policy that states specifically they have to aggravate me.
Yeah,
They wanted to do that at work. I simply refused to publicly display any of our email addresses. The last account/address they had was a spam fest because of this.
So, I coded a simple web form for placing comments. The webform message allows someone to supply a reply to address and then its sent off to everyone who needs to respond to it.
What's really funny... one day.. someone actually cut and pasted their spam into the webform. (I went to the persons website... they were not remotely technically inclined)
It's very easy to get in touch with us via email and this technique really impairs harvesting.
Don't forget netbios look ups in the 1.3.
Its very handy thing to have.
I no longer have to ping netbios names on the dhcp network to get their ip.