That is a pretty neat screen shot. As a non-pilot, I find flight fascinating and often wish I could see the view from the cockpit window while traveling.
I would bet that such a view is not for the faint-of-heart. I have been on a few planes which have the drop-down LCDs, even one which had the screens in the back of the headrests. I think it would be cool to select "Pilot's view" provided by a small camera in the cockpit.
As an extension, providing that with a recording system might also be helpful to NTSB investigations in the event of a mishap.
Which is why I use my Amiga for personal pursuits. Although, I am sure that once Obamamerica finds out that I have a non-approved device connected to the Internet, and I have thoughts of my own which are not directed by video streams of passing the buck and exceptional exceptions to hard and fast rules, and countless advertisements about non-consensual consensus, I will have to go into hiding.
And if you read here often enough you would know that you have now opened yourself up to an onslaught of jokes about passing or giving birth to that thing.
We had an old WD 30GB fail in a RAID-1 array. While awaiting approval to replace the drive, the IBM Deskstar 40GB mirror failed. (Yeah, old drives, right?)
As an act of desperation against reloading the server and paying a software vendor to reinstall their system (and, no, this server is not frequently backed up for reasons and discussion I wish to avoid,) I put the Deathstar in the freezer overnight. I figured, what the hell, the worst that could happen is I would still have a dead drive.
Sunnuvabitch, that actually worked! It groaned and protested wildly and loudly for the 35 minutes it took to Ghost the data to a good drive. The filesystem was mostly intact, only having corrupted the indexes of a few hundred temporary files. And I have a working server again.
That fact is a shame, since it is the most easily recorded process of interaction. In particular, I note the representative's lack of capitalization, punctuation, and other grammar issues.
Frankly, it puts a face of ignorance on Seagate. Support is, and I apologize for the cliche, "Director of First Impressions." For this reason I have little to do as possible with the likes of Dell and ComCast (though my experience with AT&T has been mixed.)
Seriously, you do not want to upset people who come to you for help. It is a great way to chase of customers and potential customers. Another cliche, "One happy customer tells a couple of friends, but one unhappy customers tells EVERYBODY."
You mean like his entire campaign, and probably the "first 100 days?"
I believe government should be more like technology: it does not have to look good to work and, dammit, we would really prefer it work right out of the box!
Oooooh, this one really hits home for me. I worked for a nation-wide shoe retailer for a few years, in a management position no less. I would like to think that I was a stand-out employee and an effective manager, despite my youth and lack of management experience -- though I had worked in a supervisory position for four years before this job. I worked for the company on-and-off for a couple of years after my original departure for higher education. I wound up failing the personality test required for employment, thankfully implemented well after my hire.
Of course, I feel this is because I am not doe-eyed, rose-colored about things. While I know that even model employees have thoughts about stealing, or some thoughts about crime, I also know that only dishonest employees will commit a crime against an employer. I also think too technically about the idea of theft and what it means to break the rules. I accept that I over-thought my answers, but I tend to think the issue is that of lack of naivete rather than being disloyal or dishonest.
Originally, you had to pass the test using some unknown criteria, for which the program would report "DO" or "DO NOT" call this person for an interview. Later iterations gave more detailed information, such as strengths and weaknesses in certain areas like loyalty, trustworthiness, etc., and recommended whether or not to call this person back for an interview.
The sad part was that many exemplary employees were labeled as problem candidates, and on more than one occasion someone who turned into a problem passed with flying colors.
Personally, I despise automated interview processes, especially on-line applications with so-called "qualifier questions" which are really "DISqualifiers." (State of Florida, I am looking SQUARELY at you!) While not perfect, nothing beats an old-fashioned face-to-face interview for getting a real feel of a candidate's potential.
hehehe, also interesting is the quote for this page load: "Captain Penny's Law: You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom."
I have to call shenanigans on the whole "negative energy" thing.
For one example, take a microwave oven. You put something in, turn it on, and the item cooks. That is an exhibit of POSITIVE energy flow. If you put a hippie in the microwave, the magnetron emissions does not suck the life energy out of the hippie, the hippie's life energy is released from its oppressive corporeal representation into the next higher plane. Ergo, another positive energy transfer! Come on, hippies... we are talking technology-assisted ascension!
And TVs, radios, etc. POSITIVE energy. In all cases we are using technology to enhance nature, similarly to the way hippies use crystals, precious metals, and *ahem* herbs to enhance nature.
Or at least that is how it works in my head. -- Free Waterfall, Jr.: "We taught a lion to eat tofu!" Lion, sickly and emaciated: *cough* *cough* -- Lur: "Ohhhh, there must've been something bad in the hippie I ate..." [/futurama]
If true, then this is exactly what Cingular did to the TDMA network (back when I had my GAIT phone, http://slashdot.org/~LoadWB/journal/123321 ) while transitioning to GSM/GPRS. Cingular quietly discontinued various network services to TDMA phones, then essentially told us "tough shit, get a GSM phone."
I have noticed that my EDGE speeds have not been quite up to their norm lately. I was hoping this was just an anomaly, but I guess you never really can tell.
I wonder how friendly T-Mobile is to unlocked phones. I really have a hard time abandoning my Sony Ericssons...
When I worked ISP tech support, I used to get calls from customers asking me to give them their passwords. After several minutes of confusion, I would discover the customer meant his Yahoo! (or Hotmail, or whatever) password. I would explain that we do not have that information as he is using a third-party system. To which the reply would come, "well, you're my Internet provider, aren't you?"
FairPoint... all I can say is you better have plenty of aspirin and therapy coverage for your employees.
I was hit by the irony of the company name. Anyway, if I understand this correctly, this is a win-win situation for Verizon.
FairPoint forces all web mail systems to funnel through its own portal, thus generating ad-generated and direct-marketing revenue streams. With this they can quickly eliminate any remaining debt. (And, of course, there are surely technological means around this -- tunneling, and so forth.)
Or they piss off customers and those who can switch to another provider, will. The company becomes insolvent or sells to someone else.
Either way, the debt is already the problem of someone other than Verizon.
Although, I think the bigger question is what happens to, and who safeguards, all of the data and personal information which will easily be harvested using a web mail proxy-portal?
Perfectly clean systems. AVG v8 also has much better scanning engines, and I have used v8 solely to clean systems on which other software packages, including Avast, could not clean, let alone even start running.
Although, WinAntiVirus XP 2009 64 keeps telling me that these systems have over 20,000 infections.
Damn. This is what I was hoping would never happen to AVG. After reading all the times that McAfee, Norton, and others had removed Office documents, Windows DLLs, and Office DLLs, I always had a smug chuckle available.
But now. Ah, well. Four years, 300 workstations, a dozen or more managed installations and still not a single infection or major problem for me using AVG.
Ball Blazer is an AWESOME game. I have seen it on the Commodore 64, Atari 800, and Atari 5200 (the later mostly the same, for obvious reasons.) I think I missed more modern version, though (Playstation had one, right?)
I object! "Streetfighter" was a fun movie, and "Mortal Kombat" was fairly good as well. In the end, they *were* movies based on video games, after all -- campy and, well, video-gamey.
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I have heard that your asshole is quite well documented on the Internet.
Couldn't resist.
That is a pretty neat screen shot. As a non-pilot, I find flight fascinating and often wish I could see the view from the cockpit window while traveling.
I would bet that such a view is not for the faint-of-heart. I have been on a few planes which have the drop-down LCDs, even one which had the screens in the back of the headrests. I think it would be cool to select "Pilot's view" provided by a small camera in the cockpit.
As an extension, providing that with a recording system might also be helpful to NTSB investigations in the event of a mishap.
Which is why I use my Amiga for personal pursuits. Although, I am sure that once Obamamerica finds out that I have a non-approved device connected to the Internet, and I have thoughts of my own which are not directed by video streams of passing the buck and exceptional exceptions to hard and fast rules, and countless advertisements about non-consensual consensus, I will have to go into hiding.
And if you read here often enough you would know that you have now opened yourself up to an onslaught of jokes about passing or giving birth to that thing.
Nerd. heheheh
You think so? Wait until us Amiga users start littering this place!
No, I really did not overlook it, I just both rue and lament it.
Man, I wish it was that easy.
We had an old WD 30GB fail in a RAID-1 array. While awaiting approval to replace the drive, the IBM Deskstar 40GB mirror failed. (Yeah, old drives, right?)
As an act of desperation against reloading the server and paying a software vendor to reinstall their system (and, no, this server is not frequently backed up for reasons and discussion I wish to avoid,) I put the Deathstar in the freezer overnight. I figured, what the hell, the worst that could happen is I would still have a dead drive.
Sunnuvabitch, that actually worked! It groaned and protested wildly and loudly for the 35 minutes it took to Ghost the data to a good drive. The filesystem was mostly intact, only having corrupted the indexes of a few hundred temporary files. And I have a working server again.
That fact is a shame, since it is the most easily recorded process of interaction. In particular, I note the representative's lack of capitalization, punctuation, and other grammar issues.
Frankly, it puts a face of ignorance on Seagate. Support is, and I apologize for the cliche, "Director of First Impressions." For this reason I have little to do as possible with the likes of Dell and ComCast (though my experience with AT&T has been mixed.)
Seriously, you do not want to upset people who come to you for help. It is a great way to chase of customers and potential customers. Another cliche, "One happy customer tells a couple of friends, but one unhappy customers tells EVERYBODY."
You mean like his entire campaign, and probably the "first 100 days?"
I believe government should be more like technology: it does not have to look good to work and, dammit, we would really prefer it work right out of the box!
Hulu is advertising the inauguration live. Will they be using Silverlight for this, too, or will they use the traditional Flash player??
Lemme guess: Circuit City?
Oooooh, this one really hits home for me. I worked for a nation-wide shoe retailer for a few years, in a management position no less. I would like to think that I was a stand-out employee and an effective manager, despite my youth and lack of management experience -- though I had worked in a supervisory position for four years before this job. I worked for the company on-and-off for a couple of years after my original departure for higher education. I wound up failing the personality test required for employment, thankfully implemented well after my hire.
Of course, I feel this is because I am not doe-eyed, rose-colored about things. While I know that even model employees have thoughts about stealing, or some thoughts about crime, I also know that only dishonest employees will commit a crime against an employer. I also think too technically about the idea of theft and what it means to break the rules. I accept that I over-thought my answers, but I tend to think the issue is that of lack of naivete rather than being disloyal or dishonest.
Originally, you had to pass the test using some unknown criteria, for which the program would report "DO" or "DO NOT" call this person for an interview. Later iterations gave more detailed information, such as strengths and weaknesses in certain areas like loyalty, trustworthiness, etc., and recommended whether or not to call this person back for an interview.
The sad part was that many exemplary employees were labeled as problem candidates, and on more than one occasion someone who turned into a problem passed with flying colors.
Personally, I despise automated interview processes, especially on-line applications with so-called "qualifier questions" which are really "DISqualifiers." (State of Florida, I am looking SQUARELY at you!) While not perfect, nothing beats an old-fashioned face-to-face interview for getting a real feel of a candidate's potential.
hehehe, also interesting is the quote for this page load: "Captain Penny's Law: You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom."
*whimper* *whine* *whine* *whimper*
Please skip directly to "Profit!"
I have to call shenanigans on the whole "negative energy" thing.
For one example, take a microwave oven. You put something in, turn it on, and the item cooks. That is an exhibit of POSITIVE energy flow. If you put a hippie in the microwave, the magnetron emissions does not suck the life energy out of the hippie, the hippie's life energy is released from its oppressive corporeal representation into the next higher plane. Ergo, another positive energy transfer! Come on, hippies... we are talking technology-assisted ascension!
And TVs, radios, etc. POSITIVE energy. In all cases we are using technology to enhance nature, similarly to the way hippies use crystals, precious metals, and *ahem* herbs to enhance nature.
Or at least that is how it works in my head.
--
Free Waterfall, Jr.: "We taught a lion to eat tofu!"
Lion, sickly and emaciated: *cough* *cough*
--
Lur: "Ohhhh, there must've been something bad in the hippie I ate..." [/futurama]
True. I have known a lot of hippies who love TV, radio, and even cell phones. So what is so oppressive about WiFi versus the rest of this?
If true, then this is exactly what Cingular did to the TDMA network (back when I had my GAIT phone, http://slashdot.org/~LoadWB/journal/123321 ) while transitioning to GSM/GPRS. Cingular quietly discontinued various network services to TDMA phones, then essentially told us "tough shit, get a GSM phone."
I have noticed that my EDGE speeds have not been quite up to their norm lately. I was hoping this was just an anomaly, but I guess you never really can tell.
I wonder how friendly T-Mobile is to unlocked phones. I really have a hard time abandoning my Sony Ericssons...
Or, as part of the community which builds Wikipedia, YOU could fix it.
Ah, thank you for the clarification.
When I worked ISP tech support, I used to get calls from customers asking me to give them their passwords. After several minutes of confusion, I would discover the customer meant his Yahoo! (or Hotmail, or whatever) password. I would explain that we do not have that information as he is using a third-party system. To which the reply would come, "well, you're my Internet provider, aren't you?"
FairPoint... all I can say is you better have plenty of aspirin and therapy coverage for your employees.
I was hit by the irony of the company name. Anyway, if I understand this correctly, this is a win-win situation for Verizon.
FairPoint forces all web mail systems to funnel through its own portal, thus generating ad-generated and direct-marketing revenue streams. With this they can quickly eliminate any remaining debt. (And, of course, there are surely technological means around this -- tunneling, and so forth.)
Or they piss off customers and those who can switch to another provider, will. The company becomes insolvent or sells to someone else.
Either way, the debt is already the problem of someone other than Verizon.
Although, I think the bigger question is what happens to, and who safeguards, all of the data and personal information which will easily be harvested using a web mail proxy-portal?
Perfectly clean systems. AVG v8 also has much better scanning engines, and I have used v8 solely to clean systems on which other software packages, including Avast, could not clean, let alone even start running.
Although, WinAntiVirus XP 2009 64 keeps telling me that these systems have over 20,000 infections.
Damn. This is what I was hoping would never happen to AVG. After reading all the times that McAfee, Norton, and others had removed Office documents, Windows DLLs, and Office DLLs, I always had a smug chuckle available.
But now. Ah, well. Four years, 300 workstations, a dozen or more managed installations and still not a single infection or major problem for me using AVG.
Ball Blazer is an AWESOME game. I have seen it on the Commodore 64, Atari 800, and Atari 5200 (the later mostly the same, for obvious reasons.) I think I missed more modern version, though (Playstation had one, right?)
I object! "Streetfighter" was a fun movie, and "Mortal Kombat" was fairly good as well. In the end, they *were* movies based on video games, after all -- campy and, well, video-gamey.