i used to work for roadrunner and ran into the same problem with customers as well. I also ran into just as many customers with valid gripes. So why not provide a speed test to your customers so they can compare to the others and this way you can control what "pipes" they use and what type of server they use for the speedtest and this way: they get accurate test, and you get valid gripes from customers who are really experiencing speed issues, and your stress level, which i would say by your post here is close to burn out, would dramatically reduce. so why not? or are you afraid that they are right and that you have been lying to them about their speeds? what have you go to lose?
a sound? no as a sound requires a ear. but it does make a noise as noise is physical effect of the vibration of the air. (or maybe my dyslexic brain may have the reversed, too lazy too look up definitions of sound and noise)
well first of all if you don't "Give a Shit" then why did you bother posting in the first place? Why waste the time, effort, energy, and money on something you don't care about?
Second, if the big circle represents the universe, the dot in the middle is not you.
Third, learn to see beyond what is in front of your face. If you are over 18 as you claim you should know well that laws rarely only apply to what they are written about And are used as precedents for other things. This law could turn out to be the very law that is use as the deathblow to free speech, and brings about regulations not only to video games, but all forms of communications including, but not limited to your "I don't give a shit" comments on SlashDot.
So the moral of this story is even things you do not think have any effect on you, may in fact do. S.E.Ps(please see you hopefully well read More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide for a definition of S.E.P.) are visible out of the corner of your eye, and certainly not observable enough for you to make a slashdot posting. So therefore you should care, and should greatly as this not Someone Else's Problem, but everyone problem, an last time i check you are part of the everyone (even though your dues are bit behind, we'll be sending Rock-o over to collect, I'd advise you to lock up the liquor as he's a mean drunk, but i digress)
I hope that makes everything clear as mud for ya.
a lot of the faulty display of flashes comes form the adblcok extension and if you go into the adblock options and tun off the adblock tag option flashes display nicely. Or at least this is what worked for me on FireFox 1.0.7 running on Mac Os X 10.4
the dust tends to deteriate the seals on the space suits (such as the gloves, air hose intakes, helmet, etc). This generaly falls on the list of "Things that are bad whilst on the surface of the moon" right next to "Oh my god, spacemonster!"
My main concern with AJAX is the back button, and browser history issues. Is there anything being done to address these, or do we try and re-train web surfers to stop using back buttons and web histories?
actually the trees used to make paper would be worthless to make houses out of. Also there are more trees in the US now than back in 1940. So that means paper companies are using regrown trees to make paper, and by the time they run out of those tress, the trees they planted to replaces the regrown ones will be grown up enough to use. In other words the paper companies have all the trees they need and therefor do not need to chop down any more "virgin" trees. but hey don't take my word for it, check out what Penn And Teller have had to say about it: http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=r
Brilliant! My lawyer, Steve Dallas, always says sue the people with money. Like the time he got punched by a down and out has-been actor for taking his picture. Did he sue the penniless actor? No, he went after the Camera Co.;)
yeah i'm kinda shocked about that as well... but then i remembered that this is slashdot where asking questions, especially rhetorical ones such as my original post, you are just asking to yelled at for not looking up the answer yourself. Because god forbid that one try and engage a community of experts in a an open and honest forum to further ones own personal knowledge that he/she may one day give back to said forum. Silly me to forget that Slashdot forums are for the statements of... well... what ever they are. It is this very reason why this community will never be taken seriously, and therefore never have the significant impact upon the world they so desperately desire. But than again, this is just my opinion, i could be wrong.
wow i asked a simple question, and i get such a hateful response. Mac users must be hateful. I don't want to be hateful so I'm never going to use a mac. I'll just tell grandma to keep sending me beer and refer.
So does this mean i can sue the manufacturer of the shovel that was used to kill my brother? I mean the tool was never designed to be used for murder, and I know the crazy guy the killed my brother misused the tool, but hey the entertainment industry was able to sue the manufacturer of a tool that harmed them, even though it was by the misuse of the tool by their users. So why doesn't this M.O. work for me?
I watch movies more than i listen to music, so paying a monthly fee for music seems a waste to me as there are days i do not listen to music and therefore would be a waste to pay monthly. But i watch TV and movies everyday, so paying a monthly fee for a service that would let me choose my viewing pleasure, and had a large enough selection to satisfy my daily viewing habits then that would be worth a monthly fee as long as the fee would not be more than what i pay for cable + movie tickets + rental fees.
can't be collectively stupid enough to think that a bill like that would pass
Oh yes they can. No one (at least no one in circle of friends and acquaintances) thought a bill like the patriot act would pass, but it did. (please encourage Russ Feingold{the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act} to run for president in the next election).
lobbying should not be illegal, for without it, it would take years for elected officials to hear the will of their constituents. Remember they work for you and if you do not like the job they do vote them out. It's time to start taking an active role in the on goings of our government.
as for the lobbying, i personally feel that lobbying has gotten far far far out of control, and too much by corporations. So i suggest that a law be passed that if any group or corporation lobbies congress then that group or corporation should loss any and all tax benefit is might have, or may have in the future. If you are going to use the government, then you are going to pay for it.
For hose of us that feel this is not the way our country should be, it is your responsibility to let our congressional representatives know. Write, fax, email, call your representatives in both houses a well informed statement showing how you feel about this new bill, and what you like to have done with it. And remember when your job is to deal with the masses you cannot afford the time to not judge a book by its cover, so you will be judged by how and what you write/say so please keep that in mind if you do contact your representatives.
Plain and simple; cold hard cash. I ain't gots it, and i needs it to use MS products (well at least i'm suposed too, but shhhhh), I don't needs it to use Linux. Therefore Linux wins.
A La Carte Channels is old hat, I want A La Carte Shows. Now that iTunes is offering TV shows, i think A La Carte shows are not to far away. Although i wouldn't want to pay 1.99 for each episode of the West Wing, Stargate SG1 & Atlantis, Firefly and Battlestar Galatica (which are the only show i watch with any regularity.....although now that i think about it, i wonder if it woudl be cheaper to pay 1.99 per episode, than pay for cable and the PVR system i built.....hmmm...let see...
average season is what ~20+/-(we'll use 20 just becasue i', lazy and it makes the math easier) shows? at 1.99 that woudl be $39.80 a season (About the price of a new release season DVD's; *interesting*) but when you calculate in that i watch 5 shows a season that becomes $199.00 i would pay to iTunes to view my shows A La Carte.
Where basic expanded cable from Charter runs me about 29.99 (plus tax and muni fees, but lest keep this simple and say 30.00/month) so for the 5.5 months that a season runs i pay out 165.00 dollars to watch these shows, AND all the incidentals i end up watching like stuff on TLC, Discovery, and Food networks. and for the rest of the 6.5 months of the year it's worth it to me to pay another 195.00 so my girlfriend can watch "bridezilla", and home and garden shows etc and be happy. As i have found a direct corellation between her happiness and my happiness. So while the A la Carte woudl cost me 199/season and cable cost me 360/year, the extra 161/year is worth it.
Now if any of you followed the math here, well then you are doing better than me !-)
YEAHESSSSSS! Thank you so very much, if i had points i'd give them all to you!
I would also like to add a request to help combat the rampant spread of the "Slashdot Fallacy." I would like to request that all posting that state whether they are opinion or fact, and if they are fact then it should be required to be backed up with two credible sources. But hey this is just my opinion, i could very well be wrong;)
I work as a sales rep for an insurance company, all of our information on the different insurance we sell is kept in a product binder in our cubes. All of the products require age, gender tobacco status and coverage amounts to generate a basic quote. A lot of our customer would get upset at the wait time it took for us to flip through the binder to get them the quotes on the policies that would be best for them. So i asked if i could create a tool that would take the basic information needed and quote all relevant policies. I got met with blank stares like i was crazy. So i built it, using FreeBSD (cuz' it's dying;) and Apache, MySQL, and PHP and i run it out of my home on a cheesy cable connection. It's not pretty but it's user friendly and works (as long as the power company isn't busy replacing the [power lines in my neighborhood {grumble grumble}). So i told a few co-workers about it to see if they like it, well they told a few more and they told a few more, next thing is everyone has quit using their binders and now only use my calculating tool. It is livid and has call for my firing on more than one occasion, Management is upset, but the improvement in our "numbers" has be so much so they are afraid if i go so will the new tool and so will the improved response rates we have been getting. So now they are beginning to talk to me to see what it would take to make a company "blessed" application, and unfortunately for them i refuse to learn asp,.net or any proprietary MS product, besides what i have now works and I'm not about to fix it if it ain't broke. IT is having kittens over this because they don't know or understand anything else but MS. My response has been "evolve or die, our financial dept. scream at people to diversify, why shouldn't IT" I have been waiting about a month now since that last comment. The best thing is the new CEO has been firing upper management for saying "We can't do it that way because we've never done like that before." So i think It is scared if they say to me we cannot use open sources because we never have or we do not know how, and they are trying to come up with arguments as to why MS would be better and i think they are failing to do so. Oh well time will tell. Moral is, i saw a clear path to improvement and when i tired the proper channels without using any geek speak i was still met with blank stares ( i think mostly due to the fact they figured if it could be done it would have been done already, and besides what does this sales guy know about computers ) and so i took a gamble and built it anyway just to prove a point, and now i am partially responsible for increased productivity across the department.
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for life.
Man i am so sick of hearing this. Mainly because it's such crap. This saying does not take into consideration human nature, and reality. If you give a man a fish, he becomes dependant on you for fish and shows up the next day with more beggars all demanding that you treat everyone equally and give them all fish and soon you will be out of fish. And god forbid you close up the free fish giving shop or the gub'ment come down on your arse and force to treat everyone the same and continue to give away your fish.
So what's the alternative? Teach him to fish? well then you have just created a competitor to your fishing business and you run the risk of being forced out of business and ironically becomes the man begging for fish. And do you think your "friend" is going to run the risk of either of these two scenarios? I think not. The only thing you can do is say look man, life is tough, get up off your ass and do something about it rather than avoiding responsibility and whining about it until someone else does it for you.
Now before you get all uppity about me destroying your oh so cutesy saying, all of what you may have read here is just, despite my years of studying human nature, my personal opinion, i could very well be wrong;)
i don't know about anyone else, but my AIW card had VPU errors left and right, so i went to a ATI9700 and it ran rather nice for a while and then for no reason one day all 3D functionality became extremely crippled. i tried everything, re-seating the card, hell i even dumped the hard drive and reinstalled windows, i gave up and found a GeForce 6800 128MB card on newegg for 168.00 and the rive tuner can unlock the extra pipes and vertex shaders to make it run like the GT version which sells for 230.00 on new egg. ATI may have the fastest and greatest benchmarks, but i assume to achieve these you have to run on the exact same hardware that they use in their labs. but hey this is just my personal experience and opinion i am by no means an industry expert.
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i used to work for roadrunner and ran into the same problem with customers as well. I also ran into just as many customers with valid gripes. So why not provide a speed test to your customers so they can compare to the others and this way you can control what "pipes" they use and what type of server they use for the speedtest and this way: they get accurate test, and you get valid gripes from customers who are really experiencing speed issues, and your stress level, which i would say by your post here is close to burn out, would dramatically reduce. so why not? or are you afraid that they are right and that you have been lying to them about their speeds? what have you go to lose?
a sound? no as a sound requires a ear. but it does make a noise as noise is physical effect of the vibration of the air. (or maybe my dyslexic brain may have the reversed, too lazy too look up definitions of sound and noise)
I'd start working on developing some form of a interface between a human and a computer
;) sorry couldn't resist
you mean like keyboards and mice?
ok, I'll bite.
well first of all if you don't "Give a Shit" then why did you bother posting in the first place? Why waste the time, effort, energy, and money on something you don't care about?
Second, if the big circle represents the universe, the dot in the middle is not you.
Third, learn to see beyond what is in front of your face. If you are over 18 as you claim you should know well that laws rarely only apply to what they are written about And are used as precedents for other things. This law could turn out to be the very law that is use as the deathblow to free speech, and brings about regulations not only to video games, but all forms of communications including, but not limited to your "I don't give a shit" comments on SlashDot.
So the moral of this story is even things you do not think have any effect on you, may in fact do. S.E.Ps(please see you hopefully well read More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide for a definition of S.E.P.) are visible out of the corner of your eye, and certainly not observable enough for you to make a slashdot posting. So therefore you should care, and should greatly as this not Someone Else's Problem, but everyone problem, an last time i check you are part of the everyone (even though your dues are bit behind, we'll be sending Rock-o over to collect, I'd advise you to lock up the liquor as he's a mean drunk, but i digress)
I hope that makes everything clear as mud for ya.
as i mentioned in an earlier reply, turn off the adblock tag in the adblock option and flash will as the web developer intended.
a lot of the faulty display of flashes comes form the adblcok extension and if you go into the adblock options and tun off the adblock tag option flashes display nicely. Or at least this is what worked for me on FireFox 1.0.7 running on Mac Os X 10.4
the dust tends to deteriate the seals on the space suits (such as the gloves, air hose intakes, helmet, etc). This generaly falls on the list of "Things that are bad whilst on the surface of the moon" right next to "Oh my god, spacemonster!"
My main concern with AJAX is the back button, and browser history issues. Is there anything being done to address these, or do we try and re-train web surfers to stop using back buttons and web histories?
actually the trees used to make paper would be worthless to make houses out of. Also there are more trees in the US now than back in 1940. So that means paper companies are using regrown trees to make paper, and by the time they run out of those tress, the trees they planted to replaces the regrown ones will be grown up enough to use. In other words the paper companies have all the trees they need and therefor do not need to chop down any more "virgin" trees. but hey don't take my word for it, check out what Penn And Teller have had to say about it: http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=r
that, or get all the robots to vent their exhausts upwards at the same time all from same place. ;)
Brilliant! My lawyer, Steve Dallas, always says sue the people with money. Like the time he got punched by a down and out has-been actor for taking his picture. Did he sue the penniless actor? No, he went after the Camera Co. ;)
yes but what about us clueless Mac, not necessarily Zealots, more like interested party, types?
yeah i'm kinda shocked about that as well... but then i remembered that this is slashdot where asking questions, especially rhetorical ones such as my original post, you are just asking to yelled at for not looking up the answer yourself. Because god forbid that one try and engage a community of experts in a an open and honest forum to further ones own personal knowledge that he/she may one day give back to said forum. Silly me to forget that Slashdot forums are for the statements of ... well ... what ever they are. It is this very reason why this community will never be taken seriously, and therefore never have the significant impact upon the world they so desperately desire. But than again, this is just my opinion, i could be wrong.
wow i asked a simple question, and i get such a hateful response. Mac users must be hateful. I don't want to be hateful so I'm never going to use a mac. I'll just tell grandma to keep sending me beer and refer.
ummm... isn't mac 0S X BSD with a pretty interface?
So does this mean i can sue the manufacturer of the shovel that was used to kill my brother? I mean the tool was never designed to be used for murder, and I know the crazy guy the killed my brother misused the tool, but hey the entertainment industry was able to sue the manufacturer of a tool that harmed them, even though it was by the misuse of the tool by their users. So why doesn't this M.O. work for me?
I watch movies more than i listen to music, so paying a monthly fee for music seems a waste to me as there are days i do not listen to music and therefore would be a waste to pay monthly. But i watch TV and movies everyday, so paying a monthly fee for a service that would let me choose my viewing pleasure, and had a large enough selection to satisfy my daily viewing habits then that would be worth a monthly fee as long as the fee would not be more than what i pay for cable + movie tickets + rental fees.
can't be collectively stupid enough to think that a bill like that would pass
Oh yes they can. No one (at least no one in circle of friends and acquaintances) thought a bill like the patriot act would pass, but it did. (please encourage Russ Feingold{the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act} to run for president in the next election).
lobbying should not be illegal, for without it, it would take years for elected officials to hear the will of their constituents. Remember they work for you and if you do not like the job they do vote them out. It's time to start taking an active role in the on goings of our government.
as for the lobbying, i personally feel that lobbying has gotten far far far out of control, and too much by corporations. So i suggest that a law be passed that if any group or corporation lobbies congress then that group or corporation should loss any and all tax benefit is might have, or may have in the future. If you are going to use the government, then you are going to pay for it.
For hose of us that feel this is not the way our country should be, it is your responsibility to let our congressional representatives know. Write, fax, email, call your representatives in both houses a well informed statement showing how you feel about this new bill, and what you like to have done with it. And remember when your job is to deal with the masses you cannot afford the time to not judge a book by its cover, so you will be judged by how and what you write/say so please keep that in mind if you do contact your representatives.
Plain and simple; cold hard cash. I ain't gots it, and i needs it to use MS products (well at least i'm suposed too, but shhhhh), I don't needs it to use Linux. Therefore Linux wins.
A La Carte Channels is old hat, I want A La Carte Shows. Now that iTunes is offering TV shows, i think A La Carte shows are not to far away. Although i wouldn't want to pay 1.99 for each episode of the West Wing, Stargate SG1 & Atlantis, Firefly and Battlestar Galatica (which are the only show i watch with any regularity.....although now that i think about it, i wonder if it woudl be cheaper to pay 1.99 per episode, than pay for cable and the PVR system i built.....hmmm...let see...
average season is what ~20+/-(we'll use 20 just becasue i', lazy and it makes the math easier) shows? at 1.99 that woudl be $39.80 a season (About the price of a new release season DVD's; *interesting*) but when you calculate in that i watch 5 shows a season that becomes $199.00 i would pay to iTunes to view my shows A La Carte.
Where basic expanded cable from Charter runs me about 29.99 (plus tax and muni fees, but lest keep this simple and say 30.00/month) so for the 5.5 months that a season runs i pay out 165.00 dollars to watch these shows, AND all the incidentals i end up watching like stuff on TLC, Discovery, and Food networks. and for the rest of the 6.5 months of the year it's worth it to me to pay another 195.00 so my girlfriend can watch "bridezilla", and home and garden shows etc and be happy. As i have found a direct corellation between her happiness and my happiness. So while the A la Carte woudl cost me 199/season and cable cost me 360/year, the extra 161/year is worth it.
Now if any of you followed the math here, well then you are doing better than me !-)
YEAHESSSSSS! Thank you so very much, if i had points i'd give them all to you!
;)
I would also like to add a request to help combat the rampant spread of the "Slashdot Fallacy." I would like to request that all posting that state whether they are opinion or fact, and if they are fact then it should be required to be backed up with two credible sources. But hey this is just my opinion, i could very well be wrong
I work as a sales rep for an insurance company, all of our information on the different insurance we sell is kept in a product binder in our cubes. All of the products require age, gender tobacco status and coverage amounts to generate a basic quote. A lot of our customer would get upset at the wait time it took for us to flip through the binder to get them the quotes on the policies that would be best for them. So i asked if i could create a tool that would take the basic information needed and quote all relevant policies. I got met with blank stares like i was crazy. So i built it, using FreeBSD (cuz' it's dying;) and Apache, MySQL, and PHP and i run it out of my home on a cheesy cable connection. It's not pretty but it's user friendly and works (as long as the power company isn't busy replacing the [power lines in my neighborhood {grumble grumble}). So i told a few co-workers about it to see if they like it, well they told a few more and they told a few more, next thing is everyone has quit using their binders and now only use my calculating tool. It is livid and has call for my firing on more than one occasion, Management is upset, but the improvement in our "numbers" has be so much so they are afraid if i go so will the new tool and so will the improved response rates we have been getting. So now they are beginning to talk to me to see what it would take to make a company "blessed" application, and unfortunately for them i refuse to learn asp, .net or any proprietary MS product, besides what i have now works and I'm not about to fix it if it ain't broke. IT is having kittens over this because they don't know or understand anything else but MS. My response has been "evolve or die, our financial dept. scream at people to diversify, why shouldn't IT" I have been waiting about a month now since that last comment. The best thing is the new CEO has been firing upper management for saying "We can't do it that way because we've never done like that before." So i think It is scared if they say to me we cannot use open sources because we never have or we do not know how, and they are trying to come up with arguments as to why MS would be better and i think they are failing to do so. Oh well time will tell. Moral is, i saw a clear path to improvement and when i tired the proper channels without using any geek speak i was still met with blank stares ( i think mostly due to the fact they figured if it could be done it would have been done already, and besides what does this sales guy know about computers ) and so i took a gamble and built it anyway just to prove a point, and now i am partially responsible for increased productivity across the department.
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day.
;)
Teach a man to fish, he eats for life.
Man i am so sick of hearing this. Mainly because it's such crap. This saying does not take into consideration human nature, and reality. If you give a man a fish, he becomes dependant on you for fish and shows up the next day with more beggars all demanding that you treat everyone equally and give them all fish and soon you will be out of fish. And god forbid you close up the free fish giving shop or the gub'ment come down on your arse and force to treat everyone the same and continue to give away your fish.
So what's the alternative? Teach him to fish? well then you have just created a competitor to your fishing business and you run the risk of being forced out of business and ironically becomes the man begging for fish. And do you think your "friend" is going to run the risk of either of these two scenarios? I think not. The only thing you can do is say look man, life is tough, get up off your ass and do something about it rather than avoiding responsibility and whining about it until someone else does it for you.
Now before you get all uppity about me destroying your oh so cutesy saying, all of what you may have read here is just, despite my years of studying human nature, my personal opinion, i could very well be wrong
i don't know about anyone else, but my AIW card had VPU errors left and right, so i went to a ATI9700 and it ran rather nice for a while and then for no reason one day all 3D functionality became extremely crippled. i tried everything, re-seating the card, hell i even dumped the hard drive and reinstalled windows, i gave up and found a GeForce 6800 128MB card on newegg for 168.00 and the rive tuner can unlock the extra pipes and vertex shaders to make it run like the GT version which sells for 230.00 on new egg. ATI may have the fastest and greatest benchmarks, but i assume to achieve these you have to run on the exact same hardware that they use in their labs. but hey this is just my personal experience and opinion i am by no means an industry expert.