Shoot, in the 90's we were taught in Enginurrin skewl that there isn't technically any such thing as "centrifugal force" let alone "centripetal force".
so he constantly is seeing people that aren't there, but are part of his memory. He claims there is a seamless interaction between these memory people, and the empirical environment... they are not ghosts, so he has to watch closely in crowds to see the reactions of people, and that's how he tells them apart... the memory people only react to movement, avoiding the real people and solid objects, but real people react to what is happening, what is being said, what they are watching.
Stem cell research appears to hold a lot of promise for brain trauma patients such as the man I met.
That would totally stink to be him, but nonetheless that is absolutely fascinating.
One of them gave me a stack of post-dated checks on which I highlighted the date to avoid confusion and even went so far as to confirm the teller knew they were post-dated
I would love to hear your thoughts on how this could have been prevented from our end.
"Technical Support: Your ignorance is my job security"
I wonder if this is the employee uniform at Capita?
Sometimes I get concerned that if too many people switched to linux or used sandboxed web browsers or began to use noscript or actually used antivirus or updated their windows that I'd lose revenue in the computer support field.
Then I meet some users that are so stunningly ignorant I'm not sure how they operate doorknobs. Then, my faith is restored that I will become increasingly relied upon to help the helpless with technology for years to come.
There is a technological divide out there, the geeks who take tech in stride, and the people who get a glazed look when they hear words like "megabytes" or "Ethernet". And I think it's getting worse.
But with MS Word if you actually try to LAY OUT something with embedded images, columns, etc, it will drive you nuts. How many times have you added one word to a paragraph on a page with a picture or tried to nudge a picture down a bit and everything just snaps and you suddenly find said picture 3 pages down?
Word is TEXT ONLY, for desktop publishing or layouts you need something like scribus or the closed source equivalent. Of course, for text it's the defacto standard, I feel sorry for Word Perfect and Quattro Pro, I was actually TRAINED on WP and Quattro in college (engineering school), and I think they are (or were at the time) superior.
The word processing zealots (English teachers in high school) were adamant we learned Word Perfect for dos, and all of the keyboard shortcuts. Is WP still being developed?
Flash is better at all of those things than tape except electrical shock, and you can isolate the module with optical signals and power via induction (with its own fairly complex power supply in there on the other end, thus handling surges) or via optical power, which is horribly inefficient but who cares? It doesn't take much power to write flash, and turbines can be designed to produce basically any amount of electrical power you like.
X2 on flash. Shoot, the black boxes could be made to do all of those things you mentioned to isolate it, and then the flash itself could be ruggedized in some fashion and have multiple redundant copies.
They could log every piece of information to recreate every aspect of the flight right down to every word spoken and button pushed, let alone flight path.
I think it comes down to the fact that they (pilots) don't want that level of scrutiny. Why not? Well, would you want it in your car?
I guess it's tough to get a "job" after having been a business owner. I've met someone in that boat as well. Perhaps if a person is good at running a business and they need to (or have to) dissolve the business, the best option would be to start another one.
Not that it would be easy, but the decision to be entrepreneurial is often a one way street from what I've seen and heard. Perhaps the mindset requirement is to be open to starting up more than once.
The guy I met who was in that boat ended up finding good work but he had to network with other small business owners to find a position worth having. Traditional means (headhunter, etc) was just a no-go.
The other issue is, I imagine, that a business owner would be reluctant to hire an entrepreneur because the person obviously has that mindset and they could be seen as a threat to the business.
Breaking and Entering Law & modern technology isnt working with my chosen profession of burglar.
I could try going to individual houses asking them not to lock doors but ultimately I think the
law needs changing so I get special treatment so I can continue to screw people.
You need more lobbyists. Try that and get back with us, let us know how it's working for you then.
Is the recycling tub itself made of recyclable material? Perhaps you should use a band saw to slice it up into pieces of a size that will fit in the trash container.
That's a pretty good idea, however the tub is handy for yard work and whatnot. We routinely put yard waste into the recycling tub (spring cleaning, etc) and then dump it into the trash can.
Now, I've heard that yard waste isn't an approved thing to put into the trash can, however they've never slapped a "rejected" sticker onto the side of my trash can due to the sticks and branches poking out the top.
The highest technology I know of in the recycling biz is eddy current sorting for aluminum. Otherwise it's pretty much barely over the level of stone knives and bear skins. Manual sorting FTW. (not)
Metal recycling is real though, there is a (as far as I know) profitable steel mill here that uses recycled steel. Side note - the first time you see it melted down is WILD!
I tried recycling. Our city has the giant city provided trash cans that are compatible with the automatic pickup arms, and we're also provided with a recycling tub.
It seemed as though my trash wasn't compatible with some mysterious set of recycling rules.
Week after week the trash truck would take my trash but the recycling tub would sit, a violation sticker stuck to the side, a different reason each week why they couldn't take my recyclables.
Now it all goes in the regular can. No rejection tags now!
Recycling is big money though. The companies that get the contracts to sort the trash are, apparently, gold mines.
I think it's ethical to go after customers of a former employer if that former employer fires you - and you didn't sign a non-compete.
Business is war. You worked with those customers, you have their contact information in your possession, right? Sounds like a no brainer. Call them up. Especially if the former employer is no longer able to meet their needs - you'd be happy to help them out! Quitting and taking customers with you? Well... Not ethical for sure but right or wrong you're not going to give yourself a good name. Maybe in certain industries it's that cutthroat. But in those industries there would likely be non-competes in place to stop that from happening.
Stealing office supplies? Not cool. Scrapped equipment thats being thrown away but you have a use for it? Two thumbs up.
"or: You are in IT right ? can you fix my computer for me please ?"
As with anything, it depends. Helping someone with a computer problem, when you "know what you are doing" and do it every day (such as, for money), can bring pain.
Yes, it is always nice to help people. Certainly. It is better to give than receive.
That said, there are some people that you just should NOT help. There are people that are annoying to you regardless, or people that are simply needy. These people will absolutely suck the life out of you, and if you help them with their computer then you become the source of every answer to every question, and if anything looks, sounds, smells, or feels "strange" then you get called at all hours of the day and night, and emails regarding the strange appearance, sound, smell or feel. And, when you mentally refuse to answer said email or phone message for any amount of time, as a method of sanity retention, then the emails and phone calls become blatantly passive-aggressive, containing such off-handed comments as "I know you're really busy and your time is valuable, but I was wondering if you might know why my computer takes so long to reboot on tuesdays when it's raining, but not on wednesdays, and not when it's sunny, but especially that one day when I was standing on one foot and my cat was outside looking in the side window it just took forever. Any ideas?"
Or, "I know you told me to use XYZ antivirus and even though I haven't had any problems I see a review on some obscure website about abc antivirus which comes with total-uber-super-fixit-suite and I want to put it on, and my mouse is hovering over the download button right now and I need you to tell me if this program is good, and I have lots to do but my life can't continue unless you answer my question right now because I need to know whether to download this program. I've emailed ten other people the same question but none of them will answer me anymore so I know your time is valuable, can you answer my question? Please?"
The problem is, you don't necessarily know whether the person will end up being a valuable client, or will be a nightmare. I've had people ask me if they can "watch" me fix their computer, and I've begun telling them that it will cost more because it will take longer. That said, I value my clients and I am definitely patient even with annoying customers. You know why? Because deep down they know they are annoying and if you are patient with them, they will know they can trust you and you will, eventually, usually, develop a good customer that appreciates your patience with them.
Just what would a resume of a "cyberwarrior" look like? Do you need to have RFID implants, be able to code in 15 different languages at once, blindfolded, and hack an alien space ship with a mac?
Or, do you need to be able to whistle into a phone and blow up a nuclear reactor like Kevin Mitnick could do?
Just wondering, because I was thinking about submitting my resume.
Here's my take. Gaming is not the question here. Gaming is, has, and will be about clock speed and graphics card.
No computer should be built today with less than 2 cores, that much is a given. Anyone who is at all a "power user" should consider a 3 core. AMD's triple cores are really stinkin snappy. Quad core systems? Of course they will become the norm, after a while. Intel and AMD have basically said that since they can't go up in speed they're going to go sideways with cores.
As screens get bigger they will fill up with this feed, that feed, weather, streaming video, multiple website tabs, flash games, a few trojans, printer drivers, chat clients, etc. Lots and lots of things going on at the same time, more cores will make future computing a much more enjoyable experience.
Hey, Intel - shrink the atom core, clock it at 2.5 to 3 ghz, give us 50 atoms on one chip and save yourself some hassles with this iWhatever confusion. Make the model number the number of atom cores.
Regarding TFA? The marketing guy must have been laid off, this numbering system is stupid (intel and amd!). I3 = dual core, I5 is both 2core and 4core, I7 is 4 core, but is now 6 cores. Yeah, that makes sense. Uh huh.
Yep I think so. As an engineer who has worked on product design (not cell phones) I can see how this got through, however I do see articles now that the antenna engineer raised a flag on this very issue, as well as did some carriers. Yikes.
Depending on how this plays out I can easily forsee a massively huge "oops" on par with Intel's little rounding error.
Of course, FSJ doesn't seem to worried about it, he has the utmost confidence in his coolaid.
"Windows 7 is a response to the Vista name being mud. It's an improvement, but it's really the same core."
Then why is vista a slow turd on most hardware, even modestly up-to-date hardware, yet win7 runs well enough on even a 6 or 7 y/o 1.6ghz P4 with 1GB of ddr333 ram(I've done it)?
Why are OEM's putting 7 on netbooks but no-one dreamed of doing it with vista?
Same core? Really? Maybe it's the same in some ways but it sure seems different to me.
I'm just wondering whether or not they tested the stinkin thing.
Seriously, how much testing could they have done to not notice this problem? Even if they are too comfortable and don't care, even the crappiest of the crappy give-away for free shrinkwrapped at wal-mart brick sized tinker-toy phones don't have a problem with reception based on HOW YOU HOLD IT.
How about make a few and have people USE THEM for a bit.Try them out. Use them in real-world situations.
Oh, wait, they did and then the phones got left in bars. That's it, all the testers were DRUNK so they never figured out the problem was the antenna... Makes perfect sense now!
He's spent so much time with the RIAA folks they put this idea in his head. For them, having a "big name" star dis the internet might help them prove their point.
So, anyone got a link to the torrent for his latest album, just to prove a point?
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But is it known for sure that the same group did the bomb threat as did the DDOS?
Shoot, in the 90's we were taught in Enginurrin skewl that there isn't technically any such thing as "centrifugal force" let alone "centripetal force".
so he constantly is seeing people that aren't there, but are part of his memory. He claims there is a seamless interaction between these memory people, and the empirical environment... they are not ghosts, so he has to watch closely in crowds to see the reactions of people, and that's how he tells them apart... the memory people only react to movement, avoiding the real people and solid objects, but real people react to what is happening, what is being said, what they are watching.
Stem cell research appears to hold a lot of promise for brain trauma patients such as the man I met.
That would totally stink to be him, but nonetheless that is absolutely fascinating.
One of them gave me a stack of post-dated checks on which I highlighted the date to avoid confusion and even went so far as to confirm the teller knew they were post-dated
I would love to hear your thoughts on how this could have been prevented from our end.
Not giving post dated checks to the bank?
I have a T-shirt from think geek that sums it up:
"Technical Support: Your ignorance is my job security"
I wonder if this is the employee uniform at Capita?
Sometimes I get concerned that if too many people switched to linux or used sandboxed web browsers or began to use noscript or actually used antivirus or updated their windows that I'd lose revenue in the computer support field.
Then I meet some users that are so stunningly ignorant I'm not sure how they operate doorknobs. Then, my faith is restored that I will become increasingly relied upon to help the helpless with technology for years to come.
There is a technological divide out there, the geeks who take tech in stride, and the people who get a glazed look when they hear words like "megabytes" or "Ethernet". And I think it's getting worse.
But with MS Word if you actually try to LAY OUT something with embedded images, columns, etc, it will drive you nuts. How many times have you added one word to a paragraph on a page with a picture or tried to nudge a picture down a bit and everything just snaps and you suddenly find said picture 3 pages down?
Word is TEXT ONLY, for desktop publishing or layouts you need something like scribus or the closed source equivalent. Of course, for text it's the defacto standard, I feel sorry for Word Perfect and Quattro Pro, I was actually TRAINED on WP and Quattro in college (engineering school), and I think they are (or were at the time) superior.
The word processing zealots (English teachers in high school) were adamant we learned Word Perfect for dos, and all of the keyboard shortcuts. Is WP still being developed?
you can use imap to upload existing emails from a local email client such as outlook or thunderbird.
You can xfer most other webmail emails to gmail, they have a method for it.
Then, after that, gmail has functionality for imap or pop to get emails back off if you wish (either a copy or permanent).
I've transitioned more than one small business to gmail.
Googling various questions regarding this will reveal several good walkthroughs....
It's obvious, upload them to gmail!
(only half kidding)
Flash is better at all of those things than tape except electrical shock, and you can isolate the module with optical signals and power via induction (with its own fairly complex power supply in there on the other end, thus handling surges) or via optical power, which is horribly inefficient but who cares? It doesn't take much power to write flash, and turbines can be designed to produce basically any amount of electrical power you like.
X2 on flash. Shoot, the black boxes could be made to do all of those things you mentioned to isolate it, and then the flash itself could be ruggedized in some fashion and have multiple redundant copies.
They could log every piece of information to recreate every aspect of the flight right down to every word spoken and button pushed, let alone flight path.
I think it comes down to the fact that they (pilots) don't want that level of scrutiny. Why not? Well, would you want it in your car?
I guess it's tough to get a "job" after having been a business owner. I've met someone in that boat as well. Perhaps if a person is good at running a business and they need to (or have to) dissolve the business, the best option would be to start another one.
Not that it would be easy, but the decision to be entrepreneurial is often a one way street from what I've seen and heard. Perhaps the mindset requirement is to be open to starting up more than once.
The guy I met who was in that boat ended up finding good work but he had to network with other small business owners to find a position worth having. Traditional means (headhunter, etc) was just a no-go.
The other issue is, I imagine, that a business owner would be reluctant to hire an entrepreneur because the person obviously has that mindset and they could be seen as a threat to the business.
No amount of malware can ever drain as much performance as Norton Antivirus.
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Breaking and Entering Law & modern technology isnt working with my chosen profession of burglar. I could try going to individual houses asking them not to lock doors but ultimately I think the law needs changing so I get special treatment so I can continue to screw people.
You need more lobbyists. Try that and get back with us, let us know how it's working for you then.
Is the recycling tub itself made of recyclable material? Perhaps you should use a band saw to slice it up into pieces of a size that will fit in the trash container.
That's a pretty good idea, however the tub is handy for yard work and whatnot. We routinely put yard waste into the recycling tub (spring cleaning, etc) and then dump it into the trash can.
Now, I've heard that yard waste isn't an approved thing to put into the trash can, however they've never slapped a "rejected" sticker onto the side of my trash can due to the sticks and branches poking out the top.
The highest technology I know of in the recycling biz is eddy current sorting for aluminum. Otherwise it's pretty much barely over the level of stone knives and bear skins. Manual sorting FTW. (not)
Metal recycling is real though, there is a (as far as I know) profitable steel mill here that uses recycled steel. Side note - the first time you see it melted down is WILD!
I tried recycling. Our city has the giant city provided trash cans that are compatible with the automatic pickup arms, and we're also provided with a recycling tub.
It seemed as though my trash wasn't compatible with some mysterious set of recycling rules.
Week after week the trash truck would take my trash but the recycling tub would sit, a violation sticker stuck to the side, a different reason each week why they couldn't take my recyclables.
Now it all goes in the regular can. No rejection tags now!
Recycling is big money though. The companies that get the contracts to sort the trash are, apparently, gold mines.
I think it's ethical to go after customers of a former employer if that former employer fires you - and you didn't sign a non-compete.
Business is war. You worked with those customers, you have their contact information in your possession, right? Sounds like a no brainer. Call them up. Especially if the former employer is no longer able to meet their needs - you'd be happy to help them out! Quitting and taking customers with you? Well... Not ethical for sure but right or wrong you're not going to give yourself a good name. Maybe in certain industries it's that cutthroat. But in those industries there would likely be non-competes in place to stop that from happening.
Stealing office supplies? Not cool. Scrapped equipment thats being thrown away but you have a use for it? Two thumbs up.
Report just in: It wants and does not want a cheeseburger.
geek post of the year.
"or: You are in IT right ? can you fix my computer for me please ?"
As with anything, it depends. Helping someone with a computer problem, when you "know what you are doing" and do it every day (such as, for money), can bring pain.
Yes, it is always nice to help people. Certainly. It is better to give than receive.
That said, there are some people that you just should NOT help. There are people that are annoying to you regardless, or people that are simply needy. These people will absolutely suck the life out of you, and if you help them with their computer then you become the source of every answer to every question, and if anything looks, sounds, smells, or feels "strange" then you get called at all hours of the day and night, and emails regarding the strange appearance, sound, smell or feel. And, when you mentally refuse to answer said email or phone message for any amount of time, as a method of sanity retention, then the emails and phone calls become blatantly passive-aggressive, containing such off-handed comments as "I know you're really busy and your time is valuable, but I was wondering if you might know why my computer takes so long to reboot on tuesdays when it's raining, but not on wednesdays, and not when it's sunny, but especially that one day when I was standing on one foot and my cat was outside looking in the side window it just took forever. Any ideas?"
Or, "I know you told me to use XYZ antivirus and even though I haven't had any problems I see a review on some obscure website about abc antivirus which comes with total-uber-super-fixit-suite and I want to put it on, and my mouse is hovering over the download button right now and I need you to tell me if this program is good, and I have lots to do but my life can't continue unless you answer my question right now because I need to know whether to download this program. I've emailed ten other people the same question but none of them will answer me anymore so I know your time is valuable, can you answer my question? Please?"
The problem is, you don't necessarily know whether the person will end up being a valuable client, or will be a nightmare. I've had people ask me if they can "watch" me fix their computer, and I've begun telling them that it will cost more because it will take longer. That said, I value my clients and I am definitely patient even with annoying customers. You know why? Because deep down they know they are annoying and if you are patient with them, they will know they can trust you and you will, eventually, usually, develop a good customer that appreciates your patience with them.
Just what would a resume of a "cyberwarrior" look like? Do you need to have RFID implants, be able to code in 15 different languages at once, blindfolded, and hack an alien space ship with a mac?
Or, do you need to be able to whistle into a phone and blow up a nuclear reactor like Kevin Mitnick could do?
Just wondering, because I was thinking about submitting my resume.
yeah, but not everyone will go mobile and/or use something like the iPad. I just think some people don't "work that way."
Here's my take. Gaming is not the question here. Gaming is, has, and will be about clock speed and graphics card.
No computer should be built today with less than 2 cores, that much is a given. Anyone who is at all a "power user" should consider a 3 core. AMD's triple cores are really stinkin snappy. Quad core systems? Of course they will become the norm, after a while. Intel and AMD have basically said that since they can't go up in speed they're going to go sideways with cores.
As screens get bigger they will fill up with this feed, that feed, weather, streaming video, multiple website tabs, flash games, a few trojans, printer drivers, chat clients, etc. Lots and lots of things going on at the same time, more cores will make future computing a much more enjoyable experience.
Hey, Intel - shrink the atom core, clock it at 2.5 to 3 ghz, give us 50 atoms on one chip and save yourself some hassles with this iWhatever confusion. Make the model number the number of atom cores.
Regarding TFA? The marketing guy must have been laid off, this numbering system is stupid (intel and amd!). I3 = dual core, I5 is both 2core and 4core, I7 is 4 core, but is now 6 cores. Yeah, that makes sense. Uh huh.
Yep I think so. As an engineer who has worked on product design (not cell phones) I can see how this got through, however I do see articles now that the antenna engineer raised a flag on this very issue, as well as did some carriers. Yikes.
Depending on how this plays out I can easily forsee a massively huge "oops" on par with Intel's little rounding error.
Of course, FSJ doesn't seem to worried about it, he has the utmost confidence in his coolaid.
"Windows 7 is a response to the Vista name being mud. It's an improvement, but it's really the same core."
Then why is vista a slow turd on most hardware, even modestly up-to-date hardware, yet win7 runs well enough on even a 6 or 7 y/o 1.6ghz P4 with 1GB of ddr333 ram(I've done it)?
Why are OEM's putting 7 on netbooks but no-one dreamed of doing it with vista?
Same core? Really? Maybe it's the same in some ways but it sure seems different to me.
I'm just wondering whether or not they tested the stinkin thing.
Seriously, how much testing could they have done to not notice this problem? Even if they are too comfortable and don't care, even the crappiest of the crappy give-away for free shrinkwrapped at wal-mart brick sized tinker-toy phones don't have a problem with reception based on HOW YOU HOLD IT.
How about make a few and have people USE THEM for a bit.Try them out. Use them in real-world situations.
Oh, wait, they did and then the phones got left in bars. That's it, all the testers were DRUNK so they never figured out the problem was the antenna... Makes perfect sense now!
He's spent so much time with the RIAA folks they put this idea in his head. For them, having a "big name" star dis the internet might help them prove their point.
So, anyone got a link to the torrent for his latest album, just to prove a point?