Enough with the analogies already!
Why does this discussion always go this way? It's not 'like' anything. It is 'like' accessing an open wireless AP, and nothing else.
In a local band near where I live the daughter of the deceased chief and her husband live in a wonderfully beautiful log cabin style home with a two car garage which is easily about 3k sq ft. This home is surrounded by tiny trailers in which everyone else in the reserve lives. This family also has a house and vehicle in Mexico where they stay for a few weeks every summer.
All this when everyone else around them is pretty much broke.
Escalate through the proper channels the need to do this. If there is a business case for it then IT should be told to supply something to meet your needs. You're not helping anything buy using gmail.
Also, I am a totalitarian admin. Why? Because I have to stop users like you from doing anything that could potentially damage the company or my paycheck like sending corporate data through a public service like gmail. We do it because there is a right way to do things and if the company doesn't want to spend the money or resources then it is not our problem. Remember, it's not our fault you don't have a decent safe way to send this data, go complain to manglement.
most class-breaking bugs are fixed pretty regularly
Here is where I have to disagree with you. It is their method of patching (mostly taking away bugs that help a class right away, and leaving bugs, some class-breaking, in for a longer period of time) that pisses me off. At any time you can peruse a class forum, any class besides the OP rogues;), you will find lots of bugs that have been in the game for a heck of a long time.
For instance, in 2.0 they changed the warlock DOTs to actually take into consideration the locks spell damage coefficients properly. Upto that point my dots were not using my 550 +DMG bonus from my gear. Sure, when they made the change the coefficients turned out to be too high and imbalanced so they had to be scaled back, but it took the whole lifetime of WoW to fix a bug, and one patch to tune it way back when Blizz didn't like it.
Again with the warlock class they finally in 2.0 had the warlock pets scaling by increasing their attributes like stam and int and damage output based on the attributes of the warlock which are based on his gear. That way when you are max level, but are getting better gear your pets will scale and become better. Then they had discovered sometime in 2.something that the locks pet called the imp was inheriting more of the locks +DMG bonus than it was supposed to. So, they hotpatched the servers and made it so that *all* lock pets inherited 0% of the locks +DMG bonus until they could fix it properly. Thereby breaking the damage and survivability of pets relied upon for a pet class.
In the years WoW has really pissed off a decent segment of it's userbase, one by one, class by class. GG Blizz.
Sure enough, when I tried hitting a baseball in another game, it was another exercise in round pegs versus round holes.
Wouldn't a round peg and a round hole fit just fine?
This guy is an idiot. Sure the Wii has its problems, and I am not a fanboy (at least of Nintendo, I am an xbox fanboy if anything) but this guy just doesn't get it. First off the remote is not a light gun, and you shouldn't be holding it to sight down it at all. Next of course you don't have to swing the remote like you really would a bat or bowling ball or your fist. To force people to do that would be stupid. But you sure can jump around with the remote and look like an idiot if you want. I do when I play the golf or bowling for example. I think that it is fun and that is the appeal of this system: Fun.
Podcasts, videocasts, updates for WoW, linux distros, other free CC content like videos and music, etc. etc.
There are lots of people using BT to distribute their content in order to stave off some of the bandwidth costs.
The fact that my ISP will throttle my BT downloads (They do... I use Shaw) makes me pissed off.
Unfortunately I do not have any choice in the matter since I am too far away to get ADSL from the only other provider I can choose who isnt any different either.
But, if you had carried on playing you would see that it actually gets worse.
For instance, you join a Guild so you can run MC more often, with better players, so you can run it in under 3hrs. This guild requires a certain level of attendance and probably uses DKP or another awarding/attendance system to assign loot to the raid attendees... so you have to play often or you will never get your gear.
This guild also requires a certain base level of fire resistance gear for fights like Rag as well as bosses in BWL. So you now have to spend other, non-raid, days to farm for Librams, quest items, materials for enchants, and money for gear. So now you are spending even more time.
You guild is also requiring other enchants on the gear that they have given you, like +dmg or +agility or +stamina(health). You also need Fire Resist potions, nature resist potions, +dmg or +stamina potions, etc. which all cost money and therefore require you to put more hours in farming for items to sell for money to purchase these items.
It eventually turns into one giant perpetual grind and an incredible time sink. Before you hit 60 you can play as long as you want, or as little as you want and turn it off for dinner or whatever. After 60 you need to put all this time in, unless you just want to do ZG PUGs all the time. This is why I just lvl alt characters and try to keep my spot in my guild by raiding my main the bare minimum amount.
Just get one of these keyboards: Logitech G15
And create a macro that repeats that keeps your toon from going AFK. Then login as soon as you get home, head to instance gateway and activaet the macro. You will be ready for when you are done dinner/etc.
The only reason that ringtones sell for more than music downloads is because there is no other convievable way for the majority of non-techy people out there to get the tones onto their phone.
Personally I bought a datacable and use bitpim to transfer midi's to my LG phone, but that is well beyond most people.
If there were an easy free alternative to paying for the tones to get sent to your phone people would be doing it.
The $1 per song on ITMS is just enough to make it cheaper than the time it may take me to find a decent copy of a song on P2P. Any more than that and I would never do it.
I found this out really quick after the SO moved in. Right after she went to check the website of her university which starts with a 'C' and the first link that pops into the autocomplete bar is Cumfiesta.
I had an xbox that was post warranty and had dirty disc errors constantly. I tried all the rememdies that I could find online and I wasn't going to buy a new one and junk this one. I also wasn't going to pay to get MS to fix it, nor was I going to buy a replacement drive.
I bought a new one at walmart, pulled my 120GB HDD and modchip and modified case lid off of my borked xbox and put them in the new one, boxed up the broken one and returned it, broken seals and all.
I don't think walmart is going to go bankrupt because I did that. And besides, MS should have fixed their damn product or sent me a replacement dvd drive. I wouldn't do this to earn money, nor to dupe the store, I did it to replace my shitty xbox.
It is indeed a shame if we are losing informed, educated females in any workforce, especially one as male-dominated as IT.
But to the uneducated (IT-wise anyway) annoying and mind-numbingly stupid women that I have come across who got hired only due to quota fulfilling manglement assclowns... Good Riddance.
/Yes... I am bitter. *You* try dealing with those people.
1.) Create service pack with bundled fixes for vulnerabilities you already know about
2.) Release fixes for those know vulns for lower service packs afterwords. Make sure to mention new service pack is not affected.
3.) SP2 r0x0rz!!! MS Rul3z!! Trusted Computing fo life!!
I was a tech support rep for a large canadian ISP. Although we actually worked for the ISP (not outsourced) the atmosphere was about the same. The only difference was that they not only liked those that got off the phone fast, they liked the polite, happy, more customer service types the best. In fact, as I was leaving they lowered the pay rate of the techies and hired some of the customer service reps to work in the tech department. They would much rather like the customer to hang up happy (and fast) than have a tech that actually knew what he/she was doing. And you wonder why everyone bitches about techies?
Another thing that really hit home with me was the second tier support positions. These people are supposed to be knowledgeable beyond that of the average tier 1 techie... but they are not.
I hate inexperienced techs... I hate damn script readers... but companies love them because polite people who can read a script are cheaper by a large margin than actually tech-enabled geeks.
In regards to the dell comments... I have usually been able to bear with the accent problems and that, that is until my last dealings with them. I had a workstation with something wrong with the video card. The machine had hung, the user reset the tower and after that there was lines all over the screen during post and when hitting F8 to select safe mode (the only way windows would start) the text would all be wrong... like the wrong letters here and there. Since this was happening BEFORE windows loaded it was IMPOSSIBLE that this had ANYTHING to do with video drivers. Try explaining THAT to a script reading idiot across a language barrier!! Two calls and two hours later I finally got them to get me a new damn video card.
Come on... you think he didnt have Microsoft's name in mind when he named his site? There is no 'soft' involved in his business. Web design is not 'software'!! Ok.. maybe thats argueable... but COME ON!!! You *really* think that if MS didnt exist he would have picked that name? He did this on purpose to get attention and money, and it looks like he got both.
I dont think that he should have gotten anything for being a sneaky, coniving fu%*tard. In fact, being such a natural asshat he should have got payed training to be a fricking lawyer not an MCSE.
Oh well... i guess we'll all get our last laugh when he actually tries to get a job with his MCSE.
To all that say that there are less phone customers per tower/area/provider than in the US and that is why we pay more I want to see some proof.
Not that I think you are wrong, you could be very right, but I want to see it. I like tangible results from surveys and corp data that I can see and touch. Otherwise, the arguement makes no sense.
I think that we have more purple monsters with green striped hair in Canada than in the US. And I know that these monsters directly influence wireless purchase pricing, well cause I said so.
Dont laugh, your arguement, without proof, is no better. Slashdotters really need a logic lesson. Just cause it makes sense and more people agree with you than with others, doesn't mean that you are right.
The large corporations in the United States are controlling your government, your laws, your freedoms and your culture??!?!!
Makes me sure glad I am a Canadian. Swearing on regular cable, no RIAA, no MPAA, no lawsuits for customers, and corporate 'contributions' to political parties limited to a thousand bucks.
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Enough with the analogies already! Why does this discussion always go this way? It's not 'like' anything. It is 'like' accessing an open wireless AP, and nothing else.
That is the problem with a 'jury of your peers'... most people are complete fucking idiots.
All this when everyone else around them is pretty much broke.
Escalate through the proper channels the need to do this. If there is a business case for it then IT should be told to supply something to meet your needs. You're not helping anything buy using gmail. Also, I am a totalitarian admin. Why? Because I have to stop users like you from doing anything that could potentially damage the company or my paycheck like sending corporate data through a public service like gmail. We do it because there is a right way to do things and if the company doesn't want to spend the money or resources then it is not our problem. Remember, it's not our fault you don't have a decent safe way to send this data, go complain to manglement.
Here is where I have to disagree with you. It is their method of patching (mostly taking away bugs that help a class right away, and leaving bugs, some class-breaking, in for a longer period of time) that pisses me off. At any time you can peruse a class forum, any class besides the OP rogues ;), you will find lots of bugs that have been in the game for a heck of a long time.
For instance, in 2.0 they changed the warlock DOTs to actually take into consideration the locks spell damage coefficients properly. Upto that point my dots were not using my 550 +DMG bonus from my gear. Sure, when they made the change the coefficients turned out to be too high and imbalanced so they had to be scaled back, but it took the whole lifetime of WoW to fix a bug, and one patch to tune it way back when Blizz didn't like it.
Again with the warlock class they finally in 2.0 had the warlock pets scaling by increasing their attributes like stam and int and damage output based on the attributes of the warlock which are based on his gear. That way when you are max level, but are getting better gear your pets will scale and become better. Then they had discovered sometime in 2.something that the locks pet called the imp was inheriting more of the locks +DMG bonus than it was supposed to. So, they hotpatched the servers and made it so that *all* lock pets inherited 0% of the locks +DMG bonus until they could fix it properly. Thereby breaking the damage and survivability of pets relied upon for a pet class.
In the years WoW has really pissed off a decent segment of it's userbase, one by one, class by class. GG Blizz.
Oh, and nerf Druids xxthxbye.
Touche. But next time have the balls to not post AC.
Wouldn't a round peg and a round hole fit just fine?
This guy is an idiot. Sure the Wii has its problems, and I am not a fanboy (at least of Nintendo, I am an xbox fanboy if anything) but this guy just doesn't get it. First off the remote is not a light gun, and you shouldn't be holding it to sight down it at all. Next of course you don't have to swing the remote like you really would a bat or bowling ball or your fist. To force people to do that would be stupid. But you sure can jump around with the remote and look like an idiot if you want. I do when I play the golf or bowling for example. I think that it is fun and that is the appeal of this system: Fun.
No... seriously.
Podcasts, videocasts, updates for WoW, linux distros, other free CC content like videos and music, etc. etc.
There are lots of people using BT to distribute their content in order to stave off some of the bandwidth costs.
The fact that my ISP will throttle my BT downloads (They do... I use Shaw) makes me pissed off.
Unfortunately I do not have any choice in the matter since I am too far away to get ADSL from the only other provider I can choose who isnt any different either.
But, if you had carried on playing you would see that it actually gets worse.
For instance, you join a Guild so you can run MC more often, with better players, so you can run it in under 3hrs. This guild requires a certain level of attendance and probably uses DKP or another awarding/attendance system to assign loot to the raid attendees... so you have to play often or you will never get your gear.
This guild also requires a certain base level of fire resistance gear for fights like Rag as well as bosses in BWL. So you now have to spend other, non-raid, days to farm for Librams, quest items, materials for enchants, and money for gear. So now you are spending even more time.
You guild is also requiring other enchants on the gear that they have given you, like +dmg or +agility or +stamina(health). You also need Fire Resist potions, nature resist potions, +dmg or +stamina potions, etc. which all cost money and therefore require you to put more hours in farming for items to sell for money to purchase these items.
It eventually turns into one giant perpetual grind and an incredible time sink. Before you hit 60 you can play as long as you want, or as little as you want and turn it off for dinner or whatever. After 60 you need to put all this time in, unless you just want to do ZG PUGs all the time. This is why I just lvl alt characters and try to keep my spot in my guild by raiding my main the bare minimum amount.
Anyone want a 60 lock on Hellscream??
Just get one of these keyboards: Logitech G15
And create a macro that repeats that keeps your toon from going AFK. Then login as soon as you get home, head to instance gateway and activaet the macro. You will be ready for when you are done dinner/etc.
Personally I bought a datacable and use bitpim to transfer midi's to my LG phone, but that is well beyond most people.
If there were an easy free alternative to paying for the tones to get sent to your phone people would be doing it.
The $1 per song on ITMS is just enough to make it cheaper than the time it may take me to find a decent copy of a song on P2P. Any more than that and I would never do it.
I found this out really quick after the SO moved in. Right after she went to check the website of her university which starts with a 'C' and the first link that pops into the autocomplete bar is Cumfiesta.
I just bought her a computer of her own.
I bought a new one at walmart, pulled my 120GB HDD and modchip and modified case lid off of my borked xbox and put them in the new one, boxed up the broken one and returned it, broken seals and all.
I don't think walmart is going to go bankrupt because I did that. And besides, MS should have fixed their damn product or sent me a replacement dvd drive. I wouldn't do this to earn money, nor to dupe the store, I did it to replace my shitty xbox.
*This* is 'Trustworthy computing?'
But to the uneducated (IT-wise anyway) annoying and mind-numbingly stupid women that I have come across who got hired only due to quota fulfilling manglement assclowns... Good Riddance.
Yes... if your link says: KIDDIE Pr0n H3r3!!! =========> http://blahblahblah
I recently gave INSERT a try. It does everything I need, fits on a credit card CD, based on Knoppix, includes an AV scanner and Captive NTFS.
1.) Create service pack with bundled fixes for vulnerabilities you already know about
2.) Release fixes for those know vulns for lower service packs afterwords. Make sure to mention new service pack is not affected.
3.) SP2 r0x0rz!!! MS Rul3z!! Trusted Computing fo life!!
Try slipstreaming the latest service pack into the install. This really lowers the patching time.
The company I work for recently purchased a bunch of windows boxen. On the tape closing each box was a bright red sticker that reads:
IMPORTANT! ENABLE YOUR FIREWALL BEFORE CONNECTING TO THE INTERNET.
And these are pre-configured with a custom image with all recent patches installed. Looks like some of the hardware vendors are getting the hint.
I must be the only geek without a gmail account. Hook me up? stryc9_AT_shaw.ca
Another thing that really hit home with me was the second tier support positions. These people are supposed to be knowledgeable beyond that of the average tier 1 techie... but they are not.
I hate inexperienced techs... I hate damn script readers... but companies love them because polite people who can read a script are cheaper by a large margin than actually tech-enabled geeks.
In regards to the dell comments... I have usually been able to bear with the accent problems and that, that is until my last dealings with them. I had a workstation with something wrong with the video card. The machine had hung, the user reset the tower and after that there was lines all over the screen during post and when hitting F8 to select safe mode (the only way windows would start) the text would all be wrong... like the wrong letters here and there. Since this was happening BEFORE windows loaded it was IMPOSSIBLE that this had ANYTHING to do with video drivers. Try explaining THAT to a script reading idiot across a language barrier!! Two calls and two hours later I finally got them to get me a new damn video card.
I dont think that he should have gotten anything for being a sneaky, coniving fu%*tard. In fact, being such a natural asshat he should have got payed training to be a fricking lawyer not an MCSE.
Oh well... i guess we'll all get our last laugh when he actually tries to get a job with his MCSE.
Not that I think you are wrong, you could be very right, but I want to see it. I like tangible results from surveys and corp data that I can see and touch. Otherwise, the arguement makes no sense.
I think that we have more purple monsters with green striped hair in Canada than in the US. And I know that these monsters directly influence wireless purchase pricing, well cause I said so.
Dont laugh, your arguement, without proof, is no better. Slashdotters really need a logic lesson. Just cause it makes sense and more people agree with you than with others, doesn't mean that you are right.
The large corporations in the United States are controlling your government, your laws, your freedoms and your culture??!?!!
Makes me sure glad I am a Canadian. Swearing on regular cable, no RIAA, no MPAA, no lawsuits for customers, and corporate 'contributions' to political parties limited to a thousand bucks.
Land of the free my ass!!