While the idiosyncrasies of the characters are grossly exaggerated, and while Sheldon's character is rife with contradictions, I still find the show enjoyable for exactly what it is -- simple comedy. 22 minutes a week, most weeks, where I get to have a laugh with some familiar faces who stumble through the same sort of tried-and-true TV comedy tropes of shows past -- except this time it happens in places and settings and over topics I'm intimately familiar with. I've sat in a game store and had conversations about girlfriends over comic books. I've seen friends that needed rescued from 96 straight hours of WoW. Putting your basic "Cheers" comedy in this setting makes it something I can relate to.
I can put aside Sheldon's conveniently-ignored-when-inconvenient logic as part of my suspension of disbelief.
The show used to be about the "triangle" between Sheldon and Leonard and Penny. The show has evolved to a compare-and-contrast of the relationships of Shedon/Amy, Leonard/Penny and Howard/Bernadette. Even now we explore the relationships of Raj and his new girlfriend, and minor character Stewart and Howard's mom. I've grown up in the nerd world. I'm watching my younger friends get married now. I see the same compare and contrast.
...and non geeks can relate to this. They can relate to normal human interaction told in a funny way but in a slightly nerdier setting that most of them come from. People could laugh at Wings, even though they'd never worked in a regional airport...taking a plane flight or two probably helped though. You didn't have to be an alcoholic to like Cheers, you didn't have to serve in Korea to like MASH, and you didn't have to share an apartment in Manhattan to like Friends. You can hate all of those shows, of course, but it's possible to enjoy these shows from the outside looking in too.
It's not perfect, but it's an enjoyable 22 minutes.
Aside: If you enjoy Chuck Lorre's comedies AT ALL, I suggest tuning into "Mom." It's surprisingly dark with a wonderful cast who deal with real problems -- teen sex and pregnancy, alcohol and drug dependency, infidelity, money....real problems. It's not intended to be literal-serious, of course, but it's a wonderfully refreshing twist on what Chuck gives us.
The most comparable processor is probably the AMD FX-8320, under-clocked. It'll cost you $150. The most comparable video card is probably the ADM 7770, also scaled back a touch, and it'll cost you $100. 8GB of DDR3 will cost you $75 The Blu-ray reader, another $40. 500GB hard drive is another $40.
That leaves you negative $5 for a motherboard, HTPC case, power supply and remote joypad.
I'm happy to suspend disbelief for a good show. Scorpion is not a good show. It's impossible to suspend that much disbelief for the junk they threw at us.
It's just my opinion, but I'm not sure that any of those exercises show that a chimp, elephant or dog can draw or paint, if you define paint as something more ephemeral.
I mean, they can be trained to put a brush in ink and put the inky brush on canvas - perhaps even amuse themselves with the process - but I'm not sure it qualifies as anything beyond repeating a mechanical process that obviously pleases the trainer and nets the animal bananas, peanuts, or kibble. Drawing or painting only transcends the mechanical when it's meant to convey something more than mechanical.
Chimps have been observed to, as I understand it, use sticks in sand to communicate actions to other chips, but I can't find a good source.
I suppose it's all semantics, since I don't deny that chips could have easily splattered a wall for amusement.
In an at-will employment agreement, you can fire anyone for any reason or no reason at all, unless you've fired them because of something covered by, say, the ADA or Title VII. [Also, probably a lot more little things, YMMV, not valid in all 50 states or in Canada, TINLA, IANYL. IANAL.]
If you're an old black female Eskimo in a wheelchair, and I fire you on a whim, that's fine. If you're an old black female Eskimo in a wheelchair, and I fire you for being old, black, female, Eskimo, and/or in a wheelchair, we've got a problem, because law.
Obviously in either case the elderly black disabled female Eskimo has a lot of cards to play in court should they decide to make a case for being (or alleging that they were) dismissed in violation of either the ADA or Title VII, but firing her on a whim isn't illegal.
The bank is disconnected from the ATM during this process. Money isn't being removed from an account. Bills are being removed from a mechanical hopper, because the software on the kiosk has a service mode, accessible outside of normal service because the real software on the ATM has been replaced by a modified version that allows it without the normal controls.
Some kiosk versions of XP are still getting patched.
Windows XP Professional for Embedded Systems. This product is identical to Windows XP, and Extended Support will end on April 8, 2014. Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 3 (SP3). This is the original toolkit and componentized version of Windows XP. It was originally released in 2002, and Extended Support will end on Jan. 12, 2016. Windows Embedded for Point of Service SP3. This product is for use in Point of Sale devices. It’s built from Windows XP Embedded. It was originally released in 2005, and Extended Support will end on April 12, 2016. Windows Embedded Standard 2009. This product is an updated release of the toolkit and componentized version of Windows XP. It was originally released in 2008; and Extended Support will end on Jan. 8, 2019. Windows Embedded POSReady 2009. This product for point-of-sale devices reflects the updates available in Windows Embedded Standard 2009. It was originally released in 2009, and extended support will end on April 9, 2019.
These ATMs are probably the kind you find in smaller stores - about the size of a internet kiosk at a hotel - they're not made to be all-weather unsupervised secure, just "secure inside a store with an employee around."
Who's sending these emails? Is this some narrative you've created?
You can fire an at-will employ for no reason. If you have a reason, it can be nearly anything that isn't on a short federally prohibited list....which is why creating a fake narrative to disguise an illegal firing is a terrible idea -- compounding the already terrible idea of firing someone based on federally protected discrimination grounds.
Otherwise, it can be seen as tantamount to a bait-and-switch fraud, as the notion of "if I do a good job for you and the company can afford it, you'll continue to pay me" is arguably implicit in the acceptance of the hiring arrangement.
...which is why nearly every employment agreement where at-will is the law says, in clear as crystal language exactly what at-will is, and explains how both parties may remedy themselves should they no longer want to work with each other.
Of course....which is why "fabricating a reason" is still moronic.
Even if you were straight up firing an old guy for being old, a woman for being female, the handicapped for being disabled, or a minority for not being in the majority, and your working agreement were at-will, you'd just let them go without providing any reason whatsoever.
Fabricating a reason only gives the lawsuit a place to start.
...which still wouldn't have necessarily covered his "escalated" calls.
When he skipped the normal chain of customer service escalation and started calling higher-ups at Comcast, there's no such notice. The Consumerist article isn't clear on which state the fired guy is from, or in what state the Comcast controller was in. He could have probably recorded the calls without issue -- heck, I record everything on my mobile phone -- but there was almost assuredly no recording notice when he tried to throw his weight around their corporate office.
Unlikely there are recordings of his calls to the higher-ups. Only his calls to CSRs will have been recorded unless he himself made them, which he didn't, or we'd have them already.
Comcast maintained that Conal used the name of his employer in an attempt to get leverage. Conal insists that he never mentioned his employer by name, but believes that someone in the Comcast Controller’s office looked him up online and figured out where he worked.
But he might have, and it's he-said, she-said.
He went outside of Comcast customer service and started throwing names and threats around, and it got back to his boss.
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I enjoy BBT.
While the idiosyncrasies of the characters are grossly exaggerated, and while Sheldon's character is rife with contradictions, I still find the show enjoyable for exactly what it is -- simple comedy. 22 minutes a week, most weeks, where I get to have a laugh with some familiar faces who stumble through the same sort of tried-and-true TV comedy tropes of shows past -- except this time it happens in places and settings and over topics I'm intimately familiar with. I've sat in a game store and had conversations about girlfriends over comic books. I've seen friends that needed rescued from 96 straight hours of WoW. Putting your basic "Cheers" comedy in this setting makes it something I can relate to.
I can put aside Sheldon's conveniently-ignored-when-inconvenient logic as part of my suspension of disbelief.
The show used to be about the "triangle" between Sheldon and Leonard and Penny. The show has evolved to a compare-and-contrast of the relationships of Shedon/Amy, Leonard/Penny and Howard/Bernadette. Even now we explore the relationships of Raj and his new girlfriend, and minor character Stewart and Howard's mom. I've grown up in the nerd world. I'm watching my younger friends get married now. I see the same compare and contrast.
It's not perfect, but it's an enjoyable 22 minutes.
Aside: If you enjoy Chuck Lorre's comedies AT ALL, I suggest tuning into "Mom." It's surprisingly dark with a wonderful cast who deal with real problems -- teen sex and pregnancy, alcohol and drug dependency, infidelity, money....real problems. It's not intended to be literal-serious, of course, but it's a wonderfully refreshing twist on what Chuck gives us.
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For the Xbox One...
The most comparable processor is probably the AMD FX-8320, under-clocked. It'll cost you $150.
The most comparable video card is probably the ADM 7770, also scaled back a touch, and it'll cost you $100.
8GB of DDR3 will cost you $75
The Blu-ray reader, another $40.
500GB hard drive is another $40.
That leaves you negative $5 for a motherboard, HTPC case, power supply and remote joypad.
I'm happy to suspend disbelief for a good show. Scorpion is not a good show. It's impossible to suspend that much disbelief for the junk they threw at us.
Friends with internet.
Get one.
Test your upload. It will have the simultaneous benefit of testing their download speeds.
It's just my opinion, but I'm not sure that any of those exercises show that a chimp, elephant or dog can draw or paint, if you define paint as something more ephemeral.
I mean, they can be trained to put a brush in ink and put the inky brush on canvas - perhaps even amuse themselves with the process - but I'm not sure it qualifies as anything beyond repeating a mechanical process that obviously pleases the trainer and nets the animal bananas, peanuts, or kibble. Drawing or painting only transcends the mechanical when it's meant to convey something more than mechanical.
Chimps have been observed to, as I understand it, use sticks in sand to communicate actions to other chips, but I can't find a good source.
I suppose it's all semantics, since I don't deny that chips could have easily splattered a wall for amusement.
Well, I've got a bible right here, so there's all the proof a lot of people need...
Are we going in circles now? It seems so.
In an at-will employment agreement, you can fire anyone for any reason or no reason at all, unless you've fired them because of something covered by, say, the ADA or Title VII. [Also, probably a lot more little things, YMMV, not valid in all 50 states or in Canada, TINLA, IANYL. IANAL.]
If you're an old black female Eskimo in a wheelchair, and I fire you on a whim, that's fine.
If you're an old black female Eskimo in a wheelchair, and I fire you for being old, black, female, Eskimo, and/or in a wheelchair, we've got a problem, because law.
Obviously in either case the elderly black disabled female Eskimo has a lot of cards to play in court should they decide to make a case for being (or alleging that they were) dismissed in violation of either the ADA or Title VII, but firing her on a whim isn't illegal.
Probably covered by ATM fees. :(
The bank is disconnected from the ATM during this process. Money isn't being removed from an account. Bills are being removed from a mechanical hopper, because the software on the kiosk has a service mode, accessible outside of normal service because the real software on the ATM has been replaced by a modified version that allows it without the normal controls.
Cost, ease of deployment, maintenance and updates.
Many, yes.
Some kiosk versions of XP are still getting patched.
These ATMs are probably the kind you find in smaller stores - about the size of a internet kiosk at a hotel - they're not made to be all-weather unsupervised secure, just "secure inside a store with an employee around."
This is true for all people who understand the code of OpenWRT in its entirety.
Else it's simply a choice of picking who to trust.
Who's sending these emails? Is this some narrative you've created?
You can fire an at-will employ for no reason. If you have a reason, it can be nearly anything that isn't on a short federally prohibited list. ...which is why creating a fake narrative to disguise an illegal firing is a terrible idea -- compounding the already terrible idea of firing someone based on federally protected discrimination grounds.
Otherwise, it can be seen as tantamount to a bait-and-switch fraud, as the notion of "if I do a good job for you and the company can afford it, you'll continue to pay me" is arguably implicit in the acceptance of the hiring arrangement.
...which is why nearly every employment agreement where at-will is the law says, in clear as crystal language exactly what at-will is, and explains how both parties may remedy themselves should they no longer want to work with each other.
Of course. ...which is why "fabricating a reason" is still moronic.
Even if you were straight up firing an old guy for being old, a woman for being female, the handicapped for being disabled, or a minority for not being in the majority, and your working agreement were at-will, you'd just let them go without providing any reason whatsoever.
Fabricating a reason only gives the lawsuit a place to start.
As long as the recording only allege to support his story, it's he-said, she-said.
...which still wouldn't have necessarily covered his "escalated" calls.
When he skipped the normal chain of customer service escalation and started calling higher-ups at Comcast, there's no such notice. The Consumerist article isn't clear on which state the fired guy is from, or in what state the Comcast controller was in. He could have probably recorded the calls without issue -- heck, I record everything on my mobile phone -- but there was almost assuredly no recording notice when he tried to throw his weight around their corporate office.
More importantly you do not need to "have a speck of dust on your shoe."
No cause needed.
There's no reason to "fabricate a reason" to fire someone working at will. Simply decide you no longer wish to employ them.
Of course there's the alternative, where you can't fire anyone, and you keep incompetent employees forever.
Unlikely there are recordings of his calls to the higher-ups. Only his calls to CSRs will have been recorded unless he himself made them, which he didn't, or we'd have them already.
Probably doesn't exist.
He went outside of support, called "higher ups" at Comcast, despite never mentioning he was anyone but a dissatisfied customer. :/
Bingo. /. was displaying 0 posts for me for a while, but I mostly posted the same thing -- if it didn't go to the abyss.
But he might have, and it's he-said, she-said.
He went outside of Comcast customer service and started throwing names and threats around, and it got back to his boss.