No, and I ran a cable modem ISP for a while (Sold it to a megacorp a while back). No, we didn't get free bandwidth, but we also negotiated flat rates for our network connections. Hard drives are so cheap these days that it really didn't matter. With intelligent filtering, you don't need a lot of disk, you need lots of processing capacity.
What I ask you - name ONE ISP that has raised its rates in the last 10 years? I've never heard of one. They've slowly gotten cheaper as the backbone bandwidth gets more affordable. Your argument is false.
My thanks to you and anyone else who practices the same processes (Trimming the interview process down to something reasonable and respectful). Two interviews is quite enough. A third is fine IF there is an actual job offer made during the interview. Beyond that, the company is just wasting my time and letting me know that their internal processes are so bad that I don't want to work there anyway.
Just got hired about 6 weeks ago by a company that took 5 interviews to make up their minds. Now that I'm at the job, all I know is I should have held off, this company has the most ridiculous atmosphere I've ever been cursed to be a part of. Everything's word of mouth, nothing documented (Policies up to actual code documentation). So I'm back in the game already looking to jump ship ASAP)
My rule from now on: If there isn't a job offer on the table by (preferably the second) the third interview, tell the company to get over itself if they want a fourth.
Hmmm... Can someone over a certain height (Like 6' maybe) be classes as "Disabled" then, since we have such a hard time using all the ADA-compliant stuff? Self-checkouts, door handles, elevator buttons, etc.
Even if I'm not disabled now, I will be later from all the abuse my back has to take to use all the midget/ADA stuff.
I'd like to see two sets of controls on an elevator - one for wheelchair people, the other at a level where tall people can still use them.
Higher ISP bills? I've never had my ISP bill go up because of spam. In fact, over the years, my ISP bill has gone down.
Plus, spam-blocking technology has emerged, and gotten much better lately as well. Thunderbird and Evolution have great spam filtering built in.
The development of analysis algorythms for this filtering puts us one step closer to true artificial intelligence, and one step closer to the day when machines will do it all for us and we can enjoy a life of leisure. So I'd say all the spam is actually GOOD for society!
The dragons in adventure DO look like ducks. I've never seen (or heard of) Homestar Runner, and my first impression of the graphics were that they were ducks. What's the big deal? Just really shitty graphics. I guess it could be a seahorse, but a duck comes to mind first.
It did predict some sort of embedded identification system known as "The Number of the Beast" - it stated that without such number of the beast, you would be unable to have a job, sell/buy items, pay taxes (not such a bad thing!), etc.
It also said "Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast" - this apparently excludes you.
You can either look it up in the last book of the bible (Revelations), or on the Iron Maiden "Number of the Beast" album cover.
Another confirmation that all government activity is only for the rich. Sure, it's naive to think otherwise, but it would be nice if they told the truth about it rather than filling us with utopian bullshit about how it's for the "greater good of all".
I don't know who picked out the equipment for the self-checkouts at Walmart, but it's gotta be the worst available. Mis-scans constantly, thinks stuff is not in the bag when it is, made for midgets. (I'm 6'5" and it's a major pain after bending over the 50th time to put a single jar of babyfood in the bag that's only two feet off the floor.) And nothing like standing in line for 10 minutes just to watch the person in front of you have to get the attendant over three times in a row just to get one item scanned.
Between either waiting in line for a "real" (attended) checkout lane (Which there are less and less of since cheap walmart is pushing everyone to the self-checkouts) and waiting in line for the crappy self-checkout to work, I am seriously attempting to avoid Walmart whenever I can lately. It's too big of a pain in the ass. It takes 2 minutes to get into the store, pick up the few items I need (I'm talking about man-type shopping, not female shopping where they stare at everything and take hours to pick up a few items), then stand 10 to 15 minutes just to pay for it.
I think that if it takes longer to pay for it than to find the item and walk to the checkout, it should be free. I don't have time to stand around because Walmart is too damn cheap to make it convenient to do business with them.
Compare to the elf-checkout (er, that should be Self-checkout:) ) at Krogers/Bakers grocery stores. The Kroger scanners ROCK! They work pretty much flawlessly. The bagger is at a more realistic height (rather than assuming that EVERYONE is in a wheelchair), and you don't stand in line for 10 minutes just to watch the person in front of you have to get the attendant over three times in a row just to get one item scanned.
How about WILL... This was seen coming for the last 2000 years.
Read the bible, even if you don't believe the rest of it, it's pretty much dead-on about the implantation of RFID tags. "Mark of a beast in a forehead" is pretty much the only way to describe it to primitives 2000 years ago, but you can be sure that it will happen.
It will just take a few more years of social engineering before it is accepted as a "really good idea".
Strange. I had no problems installing Mandrake 9.x or 10.x on my Dell laptop. (I did have a problem with a really old Dell laptop - a 233 Mhz - could not detect video or sound, but ran fine in text mode).
I dunno, I've never been a big fan of anything from Compaq - especially their rack-mounting equipment, yuck. I'll gladly use the much maligned Gateway machines before Compaq, but that's just me.
I agree, it doesn't seem very pragmatic, but I was just stating that if it ever became that important to someone (doubtful), they do have the OptioN to move to a different power district. Sure you would have to give up other important things like you said, but at least it's an option. Just an option.
I hadn't realized it until you said that. Day was seeming dark, just like the rest lately, but instead, I realize two major victories for the common people - plus the shortest day of the year was yesterday, so it's a few minutes more sunlight everyday for the next six months!
Yay yay yay! It's a good good day!:) I will take a day off from my normal paranoia!:)
Nothing more fun than playing "Bumper Karts" at Walmart:)
Walk through the store, do your shopping as normal...
10 PTs: If walking down the aisle and someone comes the opposite way down the aisle and does not attempt to give you room, do not move your cart either, shove firmly just before impact. BAM!! Say "Oops, sorry" and move on....
If some fat lady is standing there with her cart in the middle of the aisle, staring at some product like a dead fish, cough quietly. If the stupid bag doesn't move her cart, gently push it out of the way with your cart. (20 PTs) If the lady totally lacks any acknowldgement, then SLAM your cart into hers. (50 PTs)
Some dummy coming towards you on the wrong side of the lane, doesn't get out of the way, BAM! Slam the cart! Woohoo! Fuckin dumbass! (100 PTs)
Extra 200 PTs if you scream "You fucking idiot!!" at the top of your lungs in any of the above situations.
Walmart really needs one way signs on some of their aisles. And their self-checkout equipment is the worst crap I've ever had to use. Fucks up randomly and constantly. Bakers/Krogers grocery stores have the best self-checkout equipment I've ever used.
A local monopoly (power company) is not the same thing as a nationwide or worldwide monopoly. If you don't like your local power company, you do have the option to move elsewhere. However, how could you get away from Microsoft, no matter where you went?
I know it's widely used, but it's a pretty bullshit little language anyway. Kind of the beginner language for web coding.
Make a list sometimes. Of websites that go down completely (return some kind of an error) instead of just slowing down during a slashdotting, most of them are PHP issues. Almost every site dead from load is one spouting some "PHP process..." message.
The question is: Why doesn't your BROWSER have a spell checker? That's the proper place for a spell checker.
Expecting a web site to have a spell checker instead of your browser is like expecting a printer to have a spell checker instead of your word processor.
Can you imagine how badly/. would bog down if it had to spell check the (hundreds of thousands?) of posts each day?
As Doc Brown would say: "You're just not thinking fourth dimensionally...". Yesterday's zeitgeist was two tier client/server computing. Today's mindset is n-Tier distributed computing. The spell checker should be as close to the bad speller as possible. My experience on slashdot (as a relatively good speller - although you just know there's probably a word spelled incorrectly in this post since I'm slamming on other people's spelling. Internet karma:) ) should not be impacted by a bunch of small-brainers who can't spell.
However, the only browser I know of that automatically (with red underlines) spellchecks text boxes is the newest versions of KDE's Konqueror. I don't even know if you can get Firefox to do it. (Maybe). I'm sure that an out-of-the-box version of IE won't do it.
Is there some kind of an add-on for Firefox or IE?
At risk of getting burnt to a crisp - what do you mean by "stupid microsoft dev tools"?
I'd say that's one thing MS has done right. I haven't seen anything for Linux that approaches the level of usage of Visual Studio.NET 2003.
KDevelop is frustrating, since you have to hop back and forth between it and QT Designer just to build an interface and wire it up.
As far as anything else along a Linux IDE, I haven't seen anything impressive. Maybe Eclipse, but I haven't tried it out since it was first released (And it stunk bad then).
What's out there for good GUI-based development for Linux?
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No, and I ran a cable modem ISP for a while (Sold it to a megacorp a while back). No, we didn't get free bandwidth, but we also negotiated flat rates for our network connections. Hard drives are so cheap these days that it really didn't matter. With intelligent filtering, you don't need a lot of disk, you need lots of processing capacity.
What I ask you - name ONE ISP that has raised its rates in the last 10 years? I've never heard of one. They've slowly gotten cheaper as the backbone bandwidth gets more affordable. Your argument is false.
My thanks to you and anyone else who practices the same processes (Trimming the interview process down to something reasonable and respectful). Two interviews is quite enough. A third is fine IF there is an actual job offer made during the interview. Beyond that, the company is just wasting my time and letting me know that their internal processes are so bad that I don't want to work there anyway.
Just got hired about 6 weeks ago by a company that took 5 interviews to make up their minds. Now that I'm at the job, all I know is I should have held off, this company has the most ridiculous atmosphere I've ever been cursed to be a part of. Everything's word of mouth, nothing documented (Policies up to actual code documentation). So I'm back in the game already looking to jump ship ASAP)
My rule from now on: If there isn't a job offer on the table by (preferably the second) the third interview, tell the company to get over itself if they want a fourth.
What if I just believe in Iron Maiden Airways :)
Hmmm... Can someone over a certain height (Like 6' maybe) be classes as "Disabled" then, since we have such a hard time using all the ADA-compliant stuff? Self-checkouts, door handles, elevator buttons, etc.
Even if I'm not disabled now, I will be later from all the abuse my back has to take to use all the midget/ADA stuff.
I'd like to see two sets of controls on an elevator - one for wheelchair people, the other at a level where tall people can still use them.
It could happen, couldn't it?
I totally agree, I've been noticing a "sea change" in moderation results as well. Not sure what the deal is, but it's weird.
Higher ISP bills? I've never had my ISP bill go up because of spam. In fact, over the years, my ISP bill has gone down.
Plus, spam-blocking technology has emerged, and gotten much better lately as well. Thunderbird and Evolution have great spam filtering built in.
The development of analysis algorythms for this filtering puts us one step closer to true artificial intelligence, and one step closer to the day when machines will do it all for us and we can enjoy a life of leisure. So I'd say all the spam is actually GOOD for society!
The dragons in adventure DO look like ducks. I've never seen (or heard of) Homestar Runner, and my first impression of the graphics were that they were ducks. What's the big deal? Just really shitty graphics. I guess it could be a seahorse, but a duck comes to mind first.
Shit, I WAS a stoner in the 80s, and I've still never seen that movie! Always sounded like it would have to suck badly.
That's very true. But it also confirms my point - protecting the rich from the poor, rather than the other way around, as it should be.
OK, I guess I was thinking along the lines of my laptop - only one power cord. And the guts of this picture frame seemed to be out of a laptop.
It did predict some sort of embedded identification system known as "The Number of the Beast" - it stated that without such number of the beast, you would be unable to have a job, sell/buy items, pay taxes (not such a bad thing!), etc.
It also said "Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast" - this apparently excludes you.
You can either look it up in the last book of the bible (Revelations), or on the Iron Maiden "Number of the Beast" album cover.
Another confirmation that all government activity is only for the rich. Sure, it's naive to think otherwise, but it would be nice if they told the truth about it rather than filling us with utopian bullshit about how it's for the "greater good of all".
I don't know who picked out the equipment for the self-checkouts at Walmart, but it's gotta be the worst available. Mis-scans constantly, thinks stuff is not in the bag when it is, made for midgets. (I'm 6'5" and it's a major pain after bending over the 50th time to put a single jar of babyfood in the bag that's only two feet off the floor.) And nothing like standing in line for 10 minutes just to watch the person in front of you have to get the attendant over three times in a row just to get one item scanned.
:) ) at Krogers/Bakers grocery stores. The Kroger scanners ROCK! They work pretty much flawlessly. The bagger is at a more realistic height (rather than assuming that EVERYONE is in a wheelchair), and you don't stand in line for 10 minutes just to watch the person in front of you have to get the attendant over three times in a row just to get one item scanned.
Between either waiting in line for a "real" (attended) checkout lane (Which there are less and less of since cheap walmart is pushing everyone to the self-checkouts) and waiting in line for the crappy self-checkout to work, I am seriously attempting to avoid Walmart whenever I can lately. It's too big of a pain in the ass. It takes 2 minutes to get into the store, pick up the few items I need (I'm talking about man-type shopping, not female shopping where they stare at everything and take hours to pick up a few items), then stand 10 to 15 minutes just to pay for it.
I think that if it takes longer to pay for it than to find the item and walk to the checkout, it should be free. I don't have time to stand around because Walmart is too damn cheap to make it convenient to do business with them.
Compare to the elf-checkout (er, that should be Self-checkout
Governments "would be" tempted, Employers "MAY" implant tags?
How about WILL... This was seen coming for the last 2000 years.
Read the bible, even if you don't believe the rest of it, it's pretty much dead-on about the implantation of RFID tags. "Mark of a beast in a forehead" is pretty much the only way to describe it to primitives 2000 years ago, but you can be sure that it will happen.
It will just take a few more years of social engineering before it is accepted as a "really good idea".
Forgive me for being stupid, but why would you need two power cords?
Strange. I had no problems installing Mandrake 9.x or 10.x on my Dell laptop. (I did have a problem with a really old Dell laptop - a 233 Mhz - could not detect video or sound, but ran fine in text mode).
I dunno, I've never been a big fan of anything from Compaq - especially their rack-mounting equipment, yuck. I'll gladly use the much maligned Gateway machines before Compaq, but that's just me.
I agree, it doesn't seem very pragmatic, but I was just stating that if it ever became that important to someone (doubtful), they do have the OptioN to move to a different power district. Sure you would have to give up other important things like you said, but at least it's an option. Just an option.
I hadn't realized it until you said that. Day was seeming dark, just like the rest lately, but instead, I realize two major victories for the common people - plus the shortest day of the year was yesterday, so it's a few minutes more sunlight everyday for the next six months!
:) I will take a day off from my normal paranoia! :)
Yay yay yay! It's a good good day!
Nothing more fun than playing "Bumper Karts" at Walmart :)
Walk through the store, do your shopping as normal...
10 PTs: If walking down the aisle and someone comes the opposite way down the aisle and does not attempt to give you room, do not move your cart either, shove firmly just before impact. BAM!! Say "Oops, sorry" and move on....
If some fat lady is standing there with her cart in the middle of the aisle, staring at some product like a dead fish, cough quietly. If the stupid bag doesn't move her cart, gently push it out of the way with your cart. (20 PTs) If the lady totally lacks any acknowldgement, then SLAM your cart into hers. (50 PTs)
Some dummy coming towards you on the wrong side of the lane, doesn't get out of the way, BAM! Slam the cart! Woohoo! Fuckin dumbass! (100 PTs)
Extra 200 PTs if you scream "You fucking idiot!!" at the top of your lungs in any of the above situations.
Walmart really needs one way signs on some of their aisles. And their self-checkout equipment is the worst crap I've ever had to use. Fucks up randomly and constantly. Bakers/Krogers grocery stores have the best self-checkout equipment I've ever used.
A local monopoly (power company) is not the same thing as a nationwide or worldwide monopoly. If you don't like your local power company, you do have the option to move elsewhere. However, how could you get away from Microsoft, no matter where you went?
I know it's widely used, but it's a pretty bullshit little language anyway. Kind of the beginner language for web coding.
Make a list sometimes. Of websites that go down completely (return some kind of an error) instead of just slowing down during a slashdotting, most of them are PHP issues. Almost every site dead from load is one spouting some "PHP process..." message.
>> Why doesn't slashdot have a spell checker?
/. would bog down if it had to spell check the (hundreds of thousands?) of posts each day?
:) ) should not be impacted by a bunch of small-brainers who can't spell.
The question is: Why doesn't your BROWSER have a spell checker? That's the proper place for a spell checker.
Expecting a web site to have a spell checker instead of your browser is like expecting a printer to have a spell checker instead of your word processor.
Can you imagine how badly
As Doc Brown would say: "You're just not thinking fourth dimensionally...". Yesterday's zeitgeist was two tier client/server computing. Today's mindset is n-Tier distributed computing. The spell checker should be as close to the bad speller as possible. My experience on slashdot (as a relatively good speller - although you just know there's probably a word spelled incorrectly in this post since I'm slamming on other people's spelling. Internet karma
However, the only browser I know of that automatically (with red underlines) spellchecks text boxes is the newest versions of KDE's Konqueror. I don't even know if you can get Firefox to do it. (Maybe). I'm sure that an out-of-the-box version of IE won't do it.
Is there some kind of an add-on for Firefox or IE?
At risk of getting burnt to a crisp - what do you mean by "stupid microsoft dev tools"?
.NET 2003.
I'd say that's one thing MS has done right. I haven't seen anything for Linux that approaches the level of usage of Visual Studio
KDevelop is frustrating, since you have to hop back and forth between it and QT Designer just to build an interface and wire it up.
As far as anything else along a Linux IDE, I haven't seen anything impressive. Maybe Eclipse, but I haven't tried it out since it was first released (And it stunk bad then).
What's out there for good GUI-based development for Linux?
Wow, how many years has it been since hearing a Natalie Portman/hot grits post that's actually funny?
:)
Good job!
So does he get a paycheck for 4 cents every two weeks (So like 2 cents after taxes?) or how's that work?