Have you seen one of those tampon shredders at Office Max? Or should we all incinerate our trash now too... Going through trash without a warrant in my opinion is a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America. I am not a lawyer, but I am an American citizen and that is my interpretation.
This is true. However, AMD is second to Intel in both flash and processors, and has been bleeding money for at least four quarters. Intel ships more flash, has been quicker to market with their new StrataFlash (vs. AMDs MirrorBit), and has better manufacturing capabilities. This allows Intel to set the stage on pricing and AMD to *hope* Intel doesn't drop prices too much because AMD has to go lower and watch profits piss away. In addition, Celeron continues to pressure the Athlon processors because the Duron was dropped. In addition, the new P4 "Banias" processors will leave AMD out because they won't even come close with a mobile processor for a while. Now, if Athlon64 dominates, and I hope it does, things will all change... AMD did well when the Athlon first came out and had several consecutive good quarters. Lets cross our fingers.
Sweet man! I have had this problem several times where I check my voicemail on a landline while my phone is off. This leaves the voicemail indicator on my Sprint Phone off. However, after reading your post and poking around on my phone there is indeed a softare choice for resetting my phone. I used to have a Samsung SCH-3500 and don't remember seeing that option. However, on my Samsung SPH-A460 you can get to the reset by doing the following:
When I see people in technology working 80 and 90 hour weeks for $50k/yr
As soon as the economy turns around jump ship. There is no reason anyone should be working this amount of hours on a consistent basis. Maybe every once in a while, like perhaps once or twice a year, but beyond that is just abuse of employees. Unfortunately, the way the Fair Labor Standards Act is written alot of the technology and engineering workers are exempt from overtime pay. So the solution is not to unionize, but make sure the law gets changed to allow proper compensation of all workers. If you think about it when you work 80 - 90 hours all the time you aren't getting jack for per hour of pay. A normal work year is 2,080 hours (52-weeks x 40 hours per week), but at say 80-hours a week one is only making $12 an hour... pretty pathetic and downright abuse for an engineering or technical job.
However, I still do not feel the answer is unionization. I agree with others and believe that unionization promotes mediocrity in our field and we cannot have that. It also protects the jobs of the incompetent and that is an extreme disservice to our industry. Instead work hard, be the best engineer (in my case) you can be and learn to excel beyond your peers. Then when the economy shifts jump to a better job and leave your old employer crying for their abuses. If they treated enought people this way hopefully all of their good employees will leave and they will fold. A tech company is nothing without its good talent.
I remember when I was a little kid and bought Alien Syndrome at Babbages. Brought it home looked on the back cover and got all amped about the graphics. Long story short is it didn't work. I called tech support and they didn't support the SX-64, only the C-64. Man was I disappointed. But Mail Order Monsters sure did rule!
Thats funny, because when I am doing video capture with codecs like DivX my processor just can't keep up. I guess the 100% CPU on my Athlon 1.4GHz is just a figment of my imagination.
Good. We need the mundane plebian computer / electronic engineers. That way the rest of us alpha geeks can go on and learn new things while they are re-treading on the same old boring stuff. Then in a few years, we will go on and make more money and get cooler jobs. Their lack of creativity and knowledge will show a few years after they get into the job market. This is an extremely fast paced field where continuing self-improvement of skills will get you a long way.
I should have been more clear. I meant I have had no technical problems with WinMX. I will agree with you that I can usually find more data on Gnutella, but for certain types of data WinMX still works better for me.
I have the same issue when I use BearShare (a Gnutella client). I am thinking it is the noisy protocol eating up resources somewhere. No problems with WinMX....
Or he could be trying to access from a cell phone or PDA. Most likely cell phone. There are AIM clients for Sprint Wireless Web, but no telnet or ssh client.
Really makes you wonder if the editors read slashdot... hehe
I can understand double posting something with a few weeks or a few months span apart. There is the off chance someone could forget about a story, but even a double story with a few days apart is hard to explain away with drugs.
Its not about English class, we don't need a MLA style credit here. A simple URL with a couple of quotes will do. Its not cool to copy-n-paste and not give credit and its straight up misrepresentation to do so. Misrepresentation should not be encouraged or tolerated on this forum or any other.
Also, I agree how its rather funny we got modded down. Do your worst moderators, my Karma is still excellent and these small posts won't hurt it!!
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Have you seen one of those tampon shredders at Office Max? Or should we all incinerate our trash now too... Going through trash without a warrant in my opinion is a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America. I am not a lawyer, but I am an American citizen and that is my interpretation.
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This is true. However, AMD is second to Intel in both flash and processors, and has been bleeding money for at least four quarters. Intel ships more flash, has been quicker to market with their new StrataFlash (vs. AMDs MirrorBit), and has better manufacturing capabilities. This allows Intel to set the stage on pricing and AMD to *hope* Intel doesn't drop prices too much because AMD has to go lower and watch profits piss away. In addition, Celeron continues to pressure the Athlon processors because the Duron was dropped. In addition, the new P4 "Banias" processors will leave AMD out because they won't even come close with a mobile processor for a while. Now, if Athlon64 dominates, and I hope it does, things will all change... AMD did well when the Athlon first came out and had several consecutive good quarters. Lets cross our fingers.
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P.S. Yep... I shoulda used preview...
This is true. However, AMD is second to Intel in both flash and processors, and has been bleeding money for at least four quarters. Intel ships more flash, has been quicker to market with their new (vs. AMDs MirrorBit), and has better manufacturing capabilities. This allows Intel to set the stage on pricing and AMD to *hope* Intel doesn't drop prices too much because AMD has to go lower and watch profits piss away. In addition, Celeron continues to pressure the Athlon processors because the Duron was dropped. In addition, the new P4 "Banias" processors will leave AMD out because they won't even come close with a mobile processor for a while. Now, if Athlon64 dominates, and I hope it does, things will all change... AMD did well when the Athlon first came out and had several consecutive good quarters. Lets cross our fingers.
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ROFL!
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Yep, I couldn't see a single instance of this being backed up by data. Its basically just a subjective article. What a bunch of trite!
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haha.. well said comic book man!
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Fine... I'll bite.. I think my 700MHz is too slow and I like my 2GHz at work.. so nanny, nanny, boo, boo..
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beowulf cluster... seti... underwear trolls (gnomes.. whatever)... smells like a troll.
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Oh ok, I thought modular was diametrically opposed to monolithic. Thanks for the info.
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And.. what my friend would you call modules in Linux... monowha?... thought so...
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doh...
This leaves the voicemail indicator on my Sprint Phone off.
should have said...
"This leaves the voicemail indicator on my Sprint Phone ON."
Sorry about that..
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Thanks for the prodding...
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When I see people in technology working 80 and 90 hour weeks for $50k/yr
As soon as the economy turns around jump ship. There is no reason anyone should be working this amount of hours on a consistent basis. Maybe every once in a while, like perhaps once or twice a year, but beyond that is just abuse of employees. Unfortunately, the way the Fair Labor Standards Act is written alot of the technology and engineering workers are exempt from overtime pay. So the solution is not to unionize, but make sure the law gets changed to allow proper compensation of all workers. If you think about it when you work 80 - 90 hours all the time you aren't getting jack for per hour of pay. A normal work year is 2,080 hours (52-weeks x 40 hours per week), but at say 80-hours a week one is only making $12 an hour... pretty pathetic and downright abuse for an engineering or technical job.
However, I still do not feel the answer is unionization. I agree with others and believe that unionization promotes mediocrity in our field and we cannot have that. It also protects the jobs of the incompetent and that is an extreme disservice to our industry. Instead work hard, be the best engineer (in my case) you can be and learn to excel beyond your peers. Then when the economy shifts jump to a better job and leave your old employer crying for their abuses. If they treated enought people this way hopefully all of their good employees will leave and they will fold. A tech company is nothing without its good talent.
JOhn
I remember when I was a little kid and bought Alien Syndrome at Babbages. Brought it home looked on the back cover and got all amped about the graphics. Long story short is it didn't work. I called tech support and they didn't support the SX-64, only the C-64. Man was I disappointed. But Mail Order Monsters sure did rule!
JOhn
Thats funny, because when I am doing video capture with codecs like DivX my processor just can't keep up. I guess the 100% CPU on my Athlon 1.4GHz is just a figment of my imagination.
JOhn
Good. We need the mundane plebian computer / electronic engineers. That way the rest of us alpha geeks can go on and learn new things while they are re-treading on the same old boring stuff. Then in a few years, we will go on and make more money and get cooler jobs. Their lack of creativity and knowledge will show a few years after they get into the job market. This is an extremely fast paced field where continuing self-improvement of skills will get you a long way.
JOhn
I should have been more clear. I meant I have had no technical problems with WinMX. I will agree with you that I can usually find more data on Gnutella, but for certain types of data WinMX still works better for me.
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I have the same issue when I use BearShare (a Gnutella client). I am thinking it is the noisy protocol eating up resources somewhere. No problems with WinMX....
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I dunno, but this is the only Portia I want for Xmas... hehe
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Or he could be trying to access from a cell phone or PDA. Most likely cell phone. There are AIM clients for Sprint Wireless Web, but no telnet or ssh client.
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I thought the parent was referring to the mars lander that went thud a few years back. Can anyone confirm?
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Really makes you wonder if the editors read slashdot... hehe
I can understand double posting something with a few weeks or a few months span apart. There is the off chance someone could forget about a story, but even a double story with a few days apart is hard to explain away with drugs.
JOhn
Its not about English class, we don't need a MLA style credit here. A simple URL with a couple of quotes will do. Its not cool to copy-n-paste and not give credit and its straight up misrepresentation to do so. Misrepresentation should not be encouraged or tolerated on this forum or any other.
Also, I agree how its rather funny we got modded down. Do your worst moderators, my Karma is still excellent and these small posts won't hurt it!!
JOhn
Because posting without giving credit to original author is wrong.
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mistake by the *poster*... doh... preview, JOhn, preview..
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