I've had similar problems mostly due to people signing up for things using my email address. One was a guy signing up for Match and giving them my email address and another one was a guy signing up for a job site.
The one on the job site was a guy with my same name across the country that I'd never met so I called him up (I had his resume which had my email on it as well) and helped him fix his profile.
The Match one was a lot more irritating; those people are really spammy. I might have logged in and changed his response address to YouFail@DatingOnMatch.com since they sent me a password in the sign up e-mail. That individual has gotten a lot better about signing me up for things since.
For other e-mail that looked like they might be important to people I've tried to contact the sender. Everything else just gets deleted.
The thing is, currently news isn't from limitless sources, it is from limitless distribution channels.
There are only a few organizations doing actual journalism at the national and international level. If the NYT pairs this change with restrictions or increased cost for other papers picking up a Times story and republishing it on the web this could work out quite well for them.
We have reached the point where we really don't need every local newspaper pretending to be doing national and international news. If you go pick up a local newspaper in most cities it's pretty easy to see that most non-regional stories are actually just being redistributed from one of the major papers. For print that made sense. Once the information is online, simply pointing back to the original source seems a much better way.
Unless you are dealing with customers outside of your company's staff don't do it.
Problems with Mandatory Uniforms: 1. They make you look like an external vendor. You may soon be come one. 2. Unless other teams have some uniform requirement your staff will resent it. 3. Your team is already among the the lowest paid in the company. Don't make them feel like the janitors. 4. Mandatory is something that really rubs people the wrong way.
Presumably, you already have some sort of dress code. If IT looks like slobs enforce what you already have.
An alternate suggestion: If you already have a dress code of button-down shirts or ties, just give your help desk guys some company/IT logo shirts polo, button-down, t-shirt, or whatever and say these are also acceptable as part of the dress code. You'll see them fairly regularly if they aren't horrible without going the route of making them mandatory. Hell, going this route the team may see getting the shirts as a good thing.
The best solution is make/zone reach all instances of a zone - and I'm pretty sure that, or something like that, will be happening in the near future.
I can hardly wait to be in the zone chat with a couple thousand users all looking for groups on different server instances. I have very mixed feelings about this idea.
That said, I agree that asking for help in zone chat is the obvious, intuitive and easy option unless you fear chatting with people in the first place.
Cryptic bought the Champions PnP IP that the game is based on.
Systemically, it is not the same. However, they have left in a lot of flexibility in character generation and advancement. They have also exposed a lot of the numbers in the power descriptions. It is a long way from the HERO system although it is obvious they spent time trying to make it look and feel like Champions within the restraints of an MMO.
The difference between a free respec in WoW and a full Retcon in CO is that in WoW you're switching different abilities within the same class. After the respec your Rogue (or whatever) is still basically the same character it was before. In CO a full retcon allows you to change nearly everything about the character. The dual wielding sword fighter can suddenly morph into a ranged caster, a healer, a tank, or whatever.
Except that most players only have 8 character slots total. See whats wrong with this thinking.
Nothing really.
It is a classless system. A Full respec allows you to change every decision made about the character from the moment you created it. Changing your 10 previous choices is fairly reasonable in cost. If you haven't realized you screwed something up in 10 levels well that is a different issue altogether. I will admit, you can make a completely unplayable character with this system. However, if you've built that you probably didn't make it to 40 anyway and your respec fee will not be as bad as the worst case.
More than encouraging people create Alts I think the expensive Retcon system discourages people from chasing FOTM specs. That is not a bad thing at all.
That's interesting....
Most of the iPhone and other Apple users owners in know, although not all, are all about how cool they're phones are (and by extension themselves). They can't understand why someone wouldn't want to have an Apple and be just as cool as them.
They'll grumble about Apple screwing them over yet again. However, at the end of the day the Apple cultists will make excuses and get on with proclaiming the beauty of their newly hobbled toy.
It looks like they go with pretty standard stuff on the current site. Personally, I'd be kind of amazed if they tried to make this work with something very far outside the norm to start out. They want to be sure of some reasonable chance of success.
In any other thread someone making "The Cake is a Lie!" statements is probably OT/Trolling. Here it is part of the atmosphere of the game.
Portal was really short but it was definitely one of the highlights of video gaming this year for me. The gameplay was fun and the dark humor of the whole setting was great. It really was a triumph. Truly, it was a Huge Success! Its hard to overstate my satisfaction with this game.
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to future adventures in Aperture Science environments.
If you want to tinker with the OS a bit I'd suggest Slackware. http://www.slackware.com/ It isn't as easy to set up or maintain. However, you will have more of an opportunity to actually learn what is going on with they system.
It is really frustrating, however, the reality is that in many organizations it doesn't matter to management how much you or your people actually work. If you cannot quantify everything you do in easily digestible bits of information you aren't really doing it as far as upper management is going to be concerned. You're already at a disadvantage being in operations as everything you do costs money and it is unlikely that you bring in revenue to the company.
If your people are in fact "too busy" to log the work you it becomes even more important for them to actually log everything. You need to explain to them that logging is important not because you are a jerk but because it justifies their continued employment and future headcount increases. On the other side of things you need to support them taking the time to log all of the incidents and projects they work on even though they will probably get less actual work done each day because of it.
Companies don't keep unnecessary people on the payroll make sure you can show why your team is needed.
Meh. Microsoft is always targeting articles on Linux and Free/Open Source stuff for advertising. They really have an impressive marketing machine. Hmm... I think I might have just said something positive about Microsoft on a GPL thread.
In some ways it is unfortunate that this was settled so quickly. I'm sure it is best for the students themselves but it would have been nice to see something like this go thru the legal system. It might have cleared up some of the questions about what the RIAA & MPAA can really get away with.
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I've had similar problems mostly due to people signing up for things using my email address. One was a guy signing up for Match and giving them my email address and another one was a guy signing up for a job site.
The one on the job site was a guy with my same name across the country that I'd never met so I called him up (I had his resume which had my email on it as well) and helped him fix his profile.
The Match one was a lot more irritating; those people are really spammy. I might have logged in and changed his response address to YouFail@DatingOnMatch.com since they sent me a password in the sign up e-mail. That individual has gotten a lot better about signing me up for things since.
For other e-mail that looked like they might be important to people I've tried to contact the sender. Everything else just gets deleted.
I suspect that is what this bit in the the summary was implying (The whole thing was just over 2 lines):
"But traditionalists shouldn't panic yet — paperbacks are still the king."
The thing is, currently news isn't from limitless sources, it is from limitless distribution channels.
There are only a few organizations doing actual journalism at the national and international level. If the NYT pairs this change with restrictions or increased cost for other papers picking up a Times story and republishing it on the web this could work out quite well for them.
We have reached the point where we really don't need every local newspaper pretending to be doing national and international news. If you go pick up a local newspaper in most cities it's pretty easy to see that most non-regional stories are actually just being redistributed from one of the major papers. For print that made sense. Once the information is online, simply pointing back to the original source seems a much better way.
Unless you are dealing with customers outside of your company's staff don't do it.
Problems with Mandatory Uniforms:
1. They make you look like an external vendor. You may soon be come one.
2. Unless other teams have some uniform requirement your staff will resent it.
3. Your team is already among the the lowest paid in the company. Don't make them feel like the janitors.
4. Mandatory is something that really rubs people the wrong way.
Presumably, you already have some sort of dress code. If IT looks like slobs enforce what you already have.
An alternate suggestion: If you already have a dress code of button-down shirts or ties, just give your help desk guys some company/IT logo shirts polo, button-down, t-shirt, or whatever and say these are also acceptable as part of the dress code. You'll see them fairly regularly if they aren't horrible without going the route of making them mandatory. Hell, going this route the team may see getting the shirts as a good thing.
The best solution is make /zone reach all instances of a zone - and I'm pretty sure that, or something like that, will be happening in the near future.
I can hardly wait to be in the zone chat with a couple thousand users all looking for groups on different server instances. I have very mixed feelings about this idea.
That said, I agree that asking for help in zone chat is the obvious, intuitive and easy option unless you fear chatting with people in the first place.
Cryptic bought the Champions PnP IP that the game is based on.
Systemically, it is not the same. However, they have left in a lot of flexibility in character generation and advancement. They have also exposed a lot of the numbers in the power descriptions. It is a long way from the HERO system although it is obvious they spent time trying to make it look and feel like Champions within the restraints of an MMO.
The difference between a free respec in WoW and a full Retcon in CO is that in WoW you're switching different abilities within the same class. After the respec your Rogue (or whatever) is still basically the same character it was before. In CO a full retcon allows you to change nearly everything about the character. The dual wielding sword fighter can suddenly morph into a ranged caster, a healer, a tank, or whatever.
Except that most players only have 8 character slots total. See whats wrong with this thinking.
Nothing really.
It is a classless system. A Full respec allows you to change every decision made about the character from the moment you created it. Changing your 10 previous choices is fairly reasonable in cost. If you haven't realized you screwed something up in 10 levels well that is a different issue altogether. I will admit, you can make a completely unplayable character with this system. However, if you've built that you probably didn't make it to 40 anyway and your respec fee will not be as bad as the worst case.
More than encouraging people create Alts I think the expensive Retcon system discourages people from chasing FOTM specs. That is not a bad thing at all.
That's interesting.... Most of the iPhone and other Apple users owners in know, although not all, are all about how cool they're phones are (and by extension themselves). They can't understand why someone wouldn't want to have an Apple and be just as cool as them.
They'll grumble about Apple screwing them over yet again. However, at the end of the day the Apple cultists will make excuses and get on with proclaiming the beauty of their newly hobbled toy.
It looks like they go with pretty standard stuff on the current site. Personally, I'd be kind of amazed if they tried to make this work with something very far outside the norm to start out. They want to be sure of some reasonable chance of success.
So how exactly did this get modded a troll?
In any other thread someone making "The Cake is a Lie!" statements is probably OT/Trolling. Here it is part of the atmosphere of the game.
Portal was really short but it was definitely one of the highlights of video gaming this year for me. The gameplay was fun and the dark humor of the whole setting was great. It really was a triumph. Truly, it was a Huge Success! Its hard to overstate my satisfaction with this game.
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to future adventures in Aperture Science environments.
If you want an easy, out of the box solution go with Ubuntu or one of it's variants. http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://www.kubuntu.org/ http://www.xubuntu.org/
If you want to tinker with the OS a bit I'd suggest Slackware. http://www.slackware.com/ It isn't as easy to set up or maintain. However, you will have more of an opportunity to actually learn what is going on with they system.
It is really frustrating, however, the reality is that in many organizations it doesn't matter to management how much you or your people actually work. If you cannot quantify everything you do in easily digestible bits of information you aren't really doing it as far as upper management is going to be concerned. You're already at a disadvantage being in operations as everything you do costs money and it is unlikely that you bring in revenue to the company. If your people are in fact "too busy" to log the work you it becomes even more important for them to actually log everything. You need to explain to them that logging is important not because you are a jerk but because it justifies their continued employment and future headcount increases. On the other side of things you need to support them taking the time to log all of the incidents and projects they work on even though they will probably get less actual work done each day because of it. Companies don't keep unnecessary people on the payroll make sure you can show why your team is needed.
Meh. Microsoft is always targeting articles on Linux and Free/Open Source stuff for advertising. They really have an impressive marketing machine. Hmm... I think I might have just said something positive about Microsoft on a GPL thread.
In some ways it is unfortunate that this was settled so quickly. I'm sure it is best for the students themselves but it would have been nice to see something like this go thru the legal system. It might have cleared up some of the questions about what the RIAA & MPAA can really get away with.