The fact that you don't know how to spell irritate irates me.
That's fine with me. However, if you were to ever see my resume, get an email from me or read anything I write for work, you can be damned sure there won't be a misspelling (or grammatical error) on it.
On Slashdot, I don't really care enough to proof what I write. I don't care about spelling and grammar of other posters either. In fact, the only spelling and grammar that I do care about, is that of the "editors". I'd be seriously embarrassed if I were any one of them. At work I take people to task for such mistakes, I don't care who they are. I've sent email to my CEO deriding him for grammatical errors.
There's no place for shit when you are representing your business. On Slashdot, you represent nothing, especially when you have nicknames like "Anonymous Crowhead".
Well, let's just say it was the final straw for that particular resume. It came off as childish and pinball sealed the deal. The "deal" being its trip to the recycle bin.
I had visions of this person showing up on the first day with a box full of action figures to decorate their work space.
Illegal? I think not. I don't toss resumes if they have certs, but it is not illegal to judge and reject resumes on their face. If I get a resume that comes across as arogant, I toss it. Is that illegal? No. Hell, I tossed a resume because someone listed their hobby as pinball. It just irated me that they would put that on their resume.
Remember this isn't a datacenter - it's an operations center I'm speaking about.
How about upgrading the unix skills of the monkeys who go out to your cabinets for reboots? You know how hard it is trying to tell them to type '/usr/local/sbin' over a staticky cell phone when they don't have a clue what 'usr' is? I've been involved with four DCs in the last 5 years and it's all the same. I am sick of driving out to the data center at 3 am and seeing something like/sbin/fsck-y / on the console. "It says 'command not found'", they say. "Really???", I say. "This server must be fucked," I think to myself. Oh, wait, there is no command called fsck-y, it's fsck space dash y.
Oh, wait, nevermind. I'm already a customer. You don't have to impress me. Sorry for the rant and mod me down, but I just went through this shit with Internap (Fischer Plaza, the very data center with the big red button that was pushed) just a few weeks ago.
As a man of science I never close my mind to an idea or principle that cannot be proven false without doubt.
But you open your door when you leave your house because there is abundant evidence that you can't walk through it. Is it possible? Yes. Is it probable? No.
What they're doing is building custom DNA, then injecting it into a living cell.
And they are hardly the first to do such a thing. This is just a "hey here's an interesting company" article. They rarely write a "hey, here's an interesting rearch technique that thousands of labs are using" article.
Well, first of all, you're assuming that the "useless stuff" is useless. Believe it or not, many people use their phones as more than just phones.
No kidding. Just last week me and a few friends were hanging out at my house drinking a few beers in the backyard after dark. Someone dropped something - keys I think - and he whips out his cell phone, flips it open and uses it as a flash light. The display was blazing like the fucking sun. Found his keys no problem.
We got one around 1983. I looked at a print out with a maginifying glass and saw that the colors were genereated by closely placed but not blended dots of the primary colors. That and learning how to cheat at Wizardry.
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Jesus Christ how old are you? 5? Grow up. The world doesn't revolve around satisfying you.
The fact that you don't know how to spell irritate irates me.
That's fine with me. However, if you were to ever see my resume, get an email from me or read anything I write for work, you can be damned sure there won't be a misspelling (or grammatical error) on it.
On Slashdot, I don't really care enough to proof what I write. I don't care about spelling and grammar of other posters either. In fact, the only spelling and grammar that I do care about, is that of the "editors". I'd be seriously embarrassed if I were any one of them. At work I take people to task for such mistakes, I don't care who they are. I've sent email to my CEO deriding him for grammatical errors.
There's no place for shit when you are representing your business. On Slashdot, you represent nothing, especially when you have nicknames like "Anonymous Crowhead".
Well, let's just say it was the final straw for that particular resume. It came off as childish and pinball sealed the deal. The "deal" being its trip to the recycle bin.
I had visions of this person showing up on the first day with a box full of action figures to decorate their work space.
Let's forget for a a minute that that is illegal.
Illegal? I think not. I don't toss resumes if they have certs, but it is not illegal to judge and reject resumes on their face. If I get a resume that comes across as arogant, I toss it. Is that illegal? No. Hell, I tossed a resume because someone listed their hobby as pinball. It just irated me that they would put that on their resume.
What happens if I have to take my laptop to the bathroom with me? Will I stay connected?
It's because of people like you that I cannot touch our company's periodicals library. Damn you! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
Does HTTP, etc. offer anyway for a web page to check if sound is even on?
Probably in Windows. I mean, I assume there is some security hole somewhere that would allow it.
Maybe they could use those high speed connections to buy bikes on ebay?
Remember this isn't a datacenter - it's an operations center I'm speaking about.
/sbin/fsck-y / on the console. "It says 'command not found'", they say. "Really???", I say. "This server must be fucked," I think to myself. Oh, wait, there is no command called fsck-y, it's fsck space dash y.
How about upgrading the unix skills of the monkeys who go out to your cabinets for reboots? You know how hard it is trying to tell them to type '/usr/local/sbin' over a staticky cell phone when they don't have a clue what 'usr' is? I've been involved with four DCs in the last 5 years and it's all the same. I am sick of driving out to the data center at 3 am and seeing something like
Oh, wait, nevermind. I'm already a customer. You don't have to impress me. Sorry for the rant and mod me down, but I just went through this shit with Internap (Fischer Plaza, the very data center with the big red button that was pushed) just a few weeks ago.
what?
That is, if AOL employees are actually dumber than AOL customers.
As a man of science I never close my mind to an idea or principle that cannot be proven false without doubt.
But you open your door when you leave your house because there is abundant evidence that you can't walk through it. Is it possible? Yes. Is it probable? No.
What they're doing is building custom DNA, then injecting it into a living cell.
And they are hardly the first to do such a thing. This is just a "hey here's an interesting company" article. They rarely write a "hey, here's an interesting rearch technique that thousands of labs are using" article.
If you code like you respond to comments, I bet your code looks like crap in any language.
I work in an AOL call center and we run Windows 2000. We are taking almost no calls and almost all of our computers are down.
I'm glad you found one of the few that is working so you could post to Slashdot.
Well, first of all, you're assuming that the "useless stuff" is useless. Believe it or not, many people use their phones as more than just phones.
No kidding. Just last week me and a few friends were hanging out at my house drinking a few beers in the backyard after dark. Someone dropped something - keys I think - and he whips out his cell phone, flips it open and uses it as a flash light. The display was blazing like the fucking sun. Found his keys no problem.
Don't use IT.
after all, biology at it's most simple interpretation comes down to a positive or negative particle.
I know you're joking, but at this point you have devolved it to physics, not biology or even chemistry.
CRIPPLE FIGHT!!!!!
In my experience, everyone who can't write worth a damn thinks they can.
We got one around 1983. I looked at a print out with a maginifying glass and saw that the colors were genereated by closely placed but not blended dots of the primary colors. That and learning how to cheat at Wizardry.
My boss says I'm reading it wrong...and its just a friendly contract.
Friendly as in "sign it or your fired"? Doesn't sound like a friendly contract to me.
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LOL at your priorities.