don't they know that releasing this type of info immediately would be good for the economy? Think how many "tech" jobs get created when there is a major cleanup action needed:-)
They are a business. If they have a problem with me then don't do business with me. Like I said in some of my replies in this thread: I offered to go away and not do business with rentacoder.com. In response I received the above email.
Btw, the disagreement that we had: I had a link to my home page in my profile.
I wasn't. The dispute was about a technicallity. No work has been performed and I suggested that if they have a problem with me that I will take my business elsewhere. That's when I got that email.
And btw, guess what: my CC company sided with me because I have not received any goods or services for my payment (rentacoder requires a payment before any work will commence)
Yes, I did use the service a while back. The dispute was about a technicallity: I sent a link to my page to the graphic artist, and btw. the work was done in Canada and I paid fair price for the service rendered.
Just in case all you unemployed geeks consider rentacoder for some work, here is a sample email from Ippolito that I have received a while back:
"... When you try to issue a charge back, here is what I will be doing:
1) I will be reporting you to the VISA (or Mastercard) Internet Fraud Division with your tracked email address and IP Address (both of which have been re-confirmed again by the headers in this email you just sent me!). Every time we've done this, people have lost their credit card accounts, and I look forward to making you lose yours.
2) I will be reporting "...." to the Better Busisiness Bureau in Aliso Viejo, California as the deadbeat business that it is. I look forward to having everyone in your local community know exactly what kind of business you are.
3) Site rules will force me to inform the coder that you are trying to stiff him, so we will notify him of this. It's probably one of the stupidest things in the world to try to stiff a coder as you usually end up email firebombed or worse. Exhedra does not condone such activity...but I've been around a long time to know how people react."
It's your call. Either act responsibly for your actions, or suffer the consequences.
Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that you CAN never find anything in the MSDN. Even the integrated MSDN that ships with VS is shit.
Best example: invoke help on the Format function in VB 6. Result: complete useless crap. To find the possible format expressions you have to look through 4 more pages that ere not even linked directly to the main page...
You bring up a good point. What happens to the money that is being "saved"? This borders on a question that I have been asking myself for a long time: what is an economy/how does it realy work?
Let's assume for a sec that the "saved" money does not leave the geographic region where it would have been spent by the now unemployeed consumers. Will this have a negative effect on the reginal economy? If it has an effect reginaly, how will it affect the nation? And so on and on on....
The company I worked for got their computers "taken". This happend in 97, the suit has been settled out of court in 99 and they still haven't received any equipment back. And at this point it would cost more in lawyer fees then it's worth it (including all their data)
One of the oldest credit scams is to max out your credit line and then go into bancruptcy protection. Did you know that in Vegas you can cash out all your Credit Cards as if your purchased something?
Me thinks, 419 is just a cover for the real scam. And he will be even able to deduct the losses from the taxes:-)
I know your post was meant as a joke, but the scary part is that you are not that far off. I am an atheist, but I had countless debates/discussions about this with my boss (he is a Mormon). Although I am very skeptical about their prophecies, a lot of the details coincide with the recent history.
To stay on subject, as far as I remember it, the next Reich will be lead by a German (or a descendant), educated in the US, democratically elected. The prophecy describes a few events (a war in the middle east, fall of the house of Windsor etc.) leading to the climax.
Anyhow, I would ask him for a few links to the related materials, but he is out for the day. Maybe somebody else can post some relevant info.
Tell me about it.....people could never understand why I or any other exchange student at the school I was in, would not 'pledge' at any public school gatherings (ball games etc). Of course the worst offenders were the 'religius nuts' and 'big patriots'. Ultimatly we ended up standing during the pledge so not to 'disrupt' the world view of few morons.
In light of the all the recent events, looking back at it now, it becomes painfully obvious how pathetic and single minded people are.
I worked at DA for over a year until they laid off 70% of developers;-)
Anyhow, as far as I can remember it was this japanese girl that did th site in-house (kiko,tiko or something like that)
Anyhow, I would't worry about digital angel. They have no capital, no employees, no customers, devices never worked, no marketing, and their 'international offices' are one-man sales shops. Oh and they have $90 mil credit with IBM Credit that they have to repay this year;-)
I was tempted to moderate you down but rather respond to your post:
I guess you might be correct by classifying most/. As '...scientists, engineers and people who like to solve problems...' But one thing you have to understand that it doesn't matter how technically good you are unless you know how to SELL yourself. This applies to almost all fields: graphic design, web design, programming etc.
I see it every day. Sometimes I wonder if some of these people have autistic tendencies;-)
Anyhow, here is good tutorial on how to get started selling yourself: Freelance Workshops. This guy is a graphic artist, but most concepts can be adapted to any field.
Experiences vary..., but what I consider an 'OS' is basically the OS + Software that needs to be on that computer to make it useful. My Linux workstation has/had Gentoo/Redhat 8, X, KDE, IceWM, Firebird (the db:-)) and bunch of little thingies like Mozilla, Mplayer etc. Anyhow, you are right, the OS itself never crashes, but X dumped on me a few time and so did Mozilla, but on the other hand I have never got a BSOD on my Win2k pro either.
So, let me rephrase my comment, my overall system experience with Win2K vs Redhat/Gentoo tips in favor of Win2K. Of course I still keep my Linux system because if fulfills it's tasks and it's fun to tinker with.
Whenever I close my VB 6 IDE it crashes on my WinXP system, followed by this annoying Bug Report dialog. So, yes, this might have skewed the numbers a bit, but then again it's a MS product:-)
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oops, replying to myself....
just bill MS for the cleanup and you have created a Perpetuum Mobile for the economy (Infinite source of bugs/Infinite source of money)
don't they know that releasing this type of info immediately would be good for the economy? Think how many "tech" jobs get created when there is a major cleanup action needed :-)
Yes.
They are a business. If they have a problem with me then don't do business with me. Like I said in some of my replies in this thread: I offered to go away and not do business with rentacoder.com. In response I received the above email.
Btw, the disagreement that we had: I had a link to my home page in my profile.
The job that they lost: 25 icons for $300.00
Nope, you have to pay them prior to receiving any deliveribles (code/service). No work has been performed at the time.
I wasn't. The dispute was about a technicallity. No work has been performed and I suggested that if they have a problem with me that I will take my business elsewhere. That's when I got that email.
And btw, guess what: my CC company sided with me because I have not received any goods or services for my payment (rentacoder requires a payment before any work will commence)
Yes, I did use the service a while back. The dispute was about a technicallity: I sent a link to my page to the graphic artist, and btw. the work was done in Canada and I paid fair price for the service rendered.
Just in case all you unemployed geeks consider rentacoder for some work, here is a sample email from Ippolito that I have received a while back:
"... When you try to issue a charge back, here is what I will be doing:
1) I will be reporting you to the VISA (or Mastercard) Internet Fraud
Division with your tracked email address and IP Address (both of which
have been re-confirmed again by the headers in this email you just sent
me!). Every time we've done this, people have lost their credit card
accounts, and I look forward to making you lose yours.
2) I will be reporting "...." to the Better Busisiness Bureau in
Aliso Viejo, California as the deadbeat business that it is. I look
forward to having everyone in your local community know exactly what
kind of business you are.
3) Site rules will force me to inform the coder that you are trying to
stiff him, so we will notify him of this. It's probably one of the
stupidest things in the world to try to stiff a coder as you usually end
up email firebombed or worse. Exhedra does not condone such
activity...but I've been around a long time to know how people react."
It's your call. Either act responsibly for your actions, or suffer
the consequences.
Sincerely,
Ian Ippolito
...."DirecTV receiver goes on the blink,"....
yeah right, you probably meant when there is an ECM or they shutoff the HU stream
Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that you CAN never find anything in the MSDN. Even the integrated MSDN that ships with VS is shit.
Best example: invoke help on the Format function in VB 6. Result: complete useless crap. To find the possible format expressions you have to look through 4 more pages that ere not even linked directly to the main page...
Actualy I was thinking he was talking about East and West Coast....
You bring up a good point. What happens to the money that is being "saved"? This borders on a question that I have been asking myself for a long time: what is an economy/how does it realy work?
Let's assume for a sec that the "saved" money does not leave the geographic region where it would have been spent by the now unemployeed consumers. Will this have a negative effect on the reginal economy? If it has an effect reginaly, how will it affect the nation? And so on and on on....
So, where does money in an economy come from?
Mod parent up. Cool little utility....
The company I worked for got their computers "taken". This happend in 97, the suit has been settled out of court in 99 and they still haven't received any equipment back. And at this point it would cost more in lawyer fees then it's worth it (including all their data)
Sure they can....
But it would be easier to get the REAL thing with a forged Birth Certificate...
"could not diplomatically get away with insulting these exempt countries"
You are funny. Is that why the USVISIT law requires from those 28 countries to embed biometric data into all passports by the end of 2004?
Very interesting indeed.
:-)
One of the oldest credit scams is to max out your credit line and then go into bancruptcy protection. Did you know that in Vegas you can cash out all your Credit Cards as if your purchased something?
Me thinks, 419 is just a cover for the real scam. And he will be even able to deduct the losses from the taxes
I know your post was meant as a joke, but the scary part is that you are not that far off. I am an atheist, but I had countless debates/discussions about this with my boss (he is a Mormon). Although I am very skeptical about their prophecies, a lot of the details coincide with the recent history.
:-)
To stay on subject, as far as I remember it, the next Reich will be lead by a German (or a descendant), educated in the US, democratically elected. The prophecy describes a few events (a war in the middle east, fall of the house of Windsor etc.) leading to the climax.
Anyhow, I would ask him for a few links to the related materials, but he is out for the day. Maybe somebody else can post some relevant info.
Btw, overall, I think we are still on target
Tell me about it.....people could never understand why I or any other exchange student at the school I was in, would not 'pledge' at any public school gatherings (ball games etc). Of course the worst offenders were the 'religius nuts' and 'big patriots'. Ultimatly we ended up standing during the pledge so not to 'disrupt' the world view of few morons.
In light of the all the recent events, looking back at it now, it becomes painfully obvious how pathetic and single minded people are.
Steal an identity. Use it every day. If somebody steals your stolen identity then no big loss....
I worked at DA for over a year until they laid off 70% of developers ;-)
;-)
Anyhow, as far as I can remember it was this japanese girl that did th site in-house (kiko,tiko or something like that)
Anyhow, I would't worry about digital angel. They have no capital, no employees, no customers, devices never worked, no marketing, and their 'international offices' are one-man sales shops. Oh and they have $90 mil credit with IBM Credit that they have to repay this year
For instance:
;-) card arrived in an open letter at the mailbox....Post office says it's not their fault / can't do anything about....
1. My son's SS
2. My wife's DL renewal form NEVER arrived (DMV says they sent it)
Things like that are totally out of your hand....
I guess you might be correct by classifying most /. As '...scientists, engineers and people who like to solve problems...' But one thing you have to understand that it doesn't matter how technically good you are unless you know how to SELL yourself. This applies to almost all fields: graphic design, web design, programming etc.
I see it every day. Sometimes I wonder if some of these people have autistic tendencies ;-)
Anyhow, here is good tutorial on how to get started selling yourself: Freelance Workshops. This guy is a graphic artist, but most concepts can be adapted to any field.
tried that already. But, it might have something to do with the VB 6 version (Professional) and that the project has a resource file. Don't know.
Experiences vary..., but what I consider an 'OS' is basically the OS + Software that needs to be on that computer to make it useful. My Linux workstation has/had Gentoo/Redhat 8, X, KDE, IceWM, Firebird (the db :-)) and bunch of little thingies like Mozilla, Mplayer etc. Anyhow, you are right, the OS itself never crashes, but X dumped on me a few time and so did Mozilla, but on the other hand I have never got a BSOD on my Win2k pro either.
So, let me rephrase my comment, my overall system experience with Win2K vs Redhat/Gentoo tips in favor of Win2K. Of course I still keep my Linux system because if fulfills it's tasks and it's fun to tinker with.
Whenever I close my VB 6 IDE it crashes on my WinXP system, followed by this annoying Bug Report dialog. So, yes, this might have skewed the numbers a bit, but then again it's a MS product :-)
P.S This never happens on my Win2K workstation.