That was a great movie. I find it amazing that these guys came up with the same idea as you and put it in a movie. The same exact scheme! Thats really cool!
Groan.
Sorry, but this list can't be just cold calling telemarketers, they must be help desk types, right? So, if thats the case, why does the ATA lead me to believe that these non-nagging telephone jobs have anything to do with the do-not-call list? I think they are lumping the two in the same boat to make up that "2 million jobs".
This takes hard work and some motivation, but I found a way. I started at 250lbs and looked like a mess. I have a lot of work to do, but I'm going strong and I feel a lot better.
First part: Stop eating junk.
Make a grocery list and read the labels. Buy a fitness magazine or a good book on nutrition. Not dieting, not "the zone" type fads, just good nutrition basics for athletes. Make time to go buy good food and prepare it.
Under no circumstance allow yourself to be in a situation where you "need" to eat McDonalds or any such establishment. This means prepare your meals at home and bring them to work.
Smoothies. Find smoothie recipes, make them in the morning or the night before, bring them to work. Freeze your own bananas, strawberries, etc. cheaper than Jamba Juice and whatnot.
Drink Water. Lots of it.
Limit beers to 2 a night. Max. If you stop drinking, you will lose the first 10lbs in a flash.
Second part: join a Gym and plunk the $ for a trainer.
Its worth it. I arranged to work from 7am to 4pm, so I can duck out early and hit the gym every day before the 5pm crowd gets there. I don't miss and I work my ass off. Chewing gum and taking the stairs instead of the elevator won't cut it, you need to workout. In a gym.
That's just what I've been doing for the last 4 months. I realize I am no authority, but this has worked out for me.
This isn't black magic, there are no tricks, no expensive home-gym solutions. Just hard work.
-broodje
Hrm.
Our company uses OO.org, redhat 9.0 and nasty lookin fluxbox desktops (I think theyre great) on 80% of our computers. We have a Msoft machine running Quickbooks, and another running an arcane 80's simulation program that wont work on Wine. When we interview people, I write something good on the clipboard if I hear of non-MS software experience. Hell, if I can download the source or binaries for the program mentioned, I can see the interviewee use it in the same interview!
Summary: We are a small company that uses open/free software, and in this economy, if we are hiring, we DO count, thank you very much:)
Remember, the best revenge is to live well. I heard that somewhere today. Don't worry about it, get mad at things that matter and argue with people that have names.
-broodje
Just to save a quick dictionary look-up, This is what 'rue' means.. I thought it was a typo.
SCO wants to use the courts to attack us and claim control of the Linux code; let's make them rue the day they thought this was a good idea, by proving that they have no trade secrets.
clicky
Main Entry: 2rue
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): rued; ruing
Date: 12th century
transitive senses : to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for
intransitive senses : to feel sorrow, remorse, or regret
Sorry to disturb y'all, I just love new words:)
-broodje
You should check out what SWG is planning as far as perma-death. At least they plan on including _some_ form of death: If your character gets far enough in the game, you can become a Jedi, but if you die, you revert back to a plain old plebian with no powers. They are making it very hard to become a Jedi. I realize this is not what you are talking about, but I felt I had to point this out. Otherwise, I salute ya: A correct implementation of perma-death in an MMORPG would be a breath of fresh air in game design!
Why not just keep the question simple and wrap it up into a PGP'd vessel. I know it forces people to use encryption (and generate public/private keys, oh the humanity), but while we are discussing "uncomfortable" things to do for grandma, lets through in some good technology while we're at it, and not hide behind obscurity;)
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P.S. Iowa, in late July? How about we put the next one in scenic Barrow, AK in December?
Count me in! My life-goal is to make it to Barrow AK! Whacky!
I don't play it anymore, but I distinctly remember the day my friend convinced me to buy the game a few weeks after it first came out. I was convinced the game was for girls and I would have no fun.
I haven't played the game for a while now, but I still have yet to find a game that feels like running the long way through the Karanas on a rainy evening.
I have to agree - I have pacbell for our business DSL, and in the last 2 years I can't remember any problems. Before that, there was some glitch and it was resolved the same day.
Now pacbell residential is a complete mess. I tried to do the DSL thing and after about 3 "free" modems (which they never wanted back), I switched to Covad. Covad got everything right. They gave a crap about little old me, in my little crappy house. Hell they even helped my girlfriend reboot my linux FW/NAT box while I was on business in europe. Now that's customer service.
Moral of the story: Covad good. Pacbell bad. Pacbell Business DSL good. Girlfriend that knows a little more UNIX, priceless:)
We had a working Telex machine in our basement. My dad helped me build a kit ZX81. It had 1k of memory. It didn't have a cassette to store things so we played "Hunt the Wombat" for a week before turning the computer off. Then we would spend evenings entering in code for "Eliza". On a speak-and-math keyboard. Good times:)
-broodje
I was just at a Dave & Busters in San Jose, CA.
From the top of my head (~6:30pm Sat)
1:20hrs wait for a table.
$16 for 3 beers (Sam Adams).
$24 for 4 "arcade cards": each had $5 (21 credits) on them + $1 per card.
drank beer, used up card in 3-4 games (damn!).
dinner=$120+ for 5 people (ok we had dessert, but its soo good!).
I'm not saying we didn't have fun, but this isn't exactly affordable hehe. I'm all for blood and gore (read: Quake etc) but here are some games that stunned me a little (especially popular at that):
"commercial airplane pilot" I don't know the real name, but you fly a plane through cities and land it. Fun. PC? not really;) I care? No.
"sniper..." I saw like 2-3 kinds of sniper games with mass gore. PC? not at all!
Not a biggie, but lastly something I realized is that "Dave and Busters" is a meat market, tons of dudes and chicks trying to get lucky, ridiculous prices, and KIDS RUNNING ALL OVER THE PLACE! The only reason I care if a game is "PC" is because of the kids swarming this place. Its like a casino with 12yr olds all over!
I think I'm too old for this, or I haven't been out for a long long time.
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This looks like every other "respectable" online bookstore/merchant fine print I've seen: "We will not share your personal info with anyone unless we feel like it and you forgot to opted-out with our list." Am I reading this wrong? I think fine-print loopholes like this will at least have to change their wording. Good:)
How do you know the calls came from India? I have no way of knowing if the call is from Texas, or India. Besides, wouldn't long distance calls suck from india just to try and mebbe sell you a rinky-dinky-$20 knick knack? I wanna know how you know the calls are from India:)
I don't know where you guys live but, this isn't exactly a employee's market lately. I don't like the invasion of privacy either, but I'm looking around me, at the empty buildings all around the bay area, empty parking lots, for-rent signs everywhere.. It sucks, but the landlord doesn't give a poop about why you don't have that rent-money. Sometimes, I think, you can't just say fuck it.
I just went through applying for a SBIR project, and while I anticipated the government to make a big meal about the submission, the format was in PDF, and I did all the work using OpenOffice. I realize this might not be the norm, but I successfully submitted a proposal to the US government using only OpenOffice and GIMP. I haven't been rejected yet, either;)
There are a lot of submission guidelines you have to follow, but using a microsoft product was never one of them along the way.
I hear what you're saying, but I just went throught this, and its for almost a million bucks. Thats enough money to be "real" in my book!
Businesses exchange documents in Word format. They exchange presentations in PowerPoint. Formatting matters. Features matter. Being able to hire secretaries that know the software matters. No matter how much you like Linux or FreeBSD, you won't find a talented pool of officeworkers that know how to use it.
I have _insisted_ that customers/suppliers/consultants speak to me in non-proprietary formats for about a year now, and I have never bumped into someone that didn't know how to send that DXF or DOC file as a PDF to me.. I think if you ask the question correctly and have some insight as to what tools they are using, you can meet them halfway. Don't put down secretaries too fast, sometimes they are the most willing (and able) people in the whole transaction.
In our office, we have two PCs running windows only because there is no equivalent to Quicken/Quickbooks on Linux..
A little patience and respect goes a LONG way in the business world, even if there are a lot of assholes out there. I tried bitter and ruthless, and it didn't work out for me.
I bought 2 copies without waiting for reviews (I always do that, this time I didn't and I lost). That $49.99 x 2, one for me, one for the girlfriend. She bought the book too. It was fun for the first few hours, then you feel an empty lump in your stomach.. that one you feel when they messed up your order in the drive-thru, but you're too far to go back..
Anyhow, look at the trailers, the box, and look at the game content. Not the same, not even close. Some things will never make it in the game (like walking from house to house seamlessly) and some (like casino objects) have been promised for months and months..
The game is obviously not finished, has "LOADING PLEASE WAIT" all over it, and thats for 16-18 stick figure people, unforgivable considering EQ/DAoC, while choppy, handles hundreds of people before it getting choppy.
I cut my "free month" short by 10 days, and unsubscribed before they dinged my credit card automatically. Its too bad, because the game looks really fun, it should be a blast. They just released a game that should still be in Beta, and that is unforgivable. I hope it succeeds, but I won't pay to test their game anymore.
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That was a great movie. I find it amazing that these guys came up with the same idea as you and put it in a movie. The same exact scheme! Thats really cool! Groan.
Sorry, but this list can't be just cold calling telemarketers, they must be help desk types, right? So, if thats the case, why does the ATA lead me to believe that these non-nagging telephone jobs have anything to do with the do-not-call list? I think they are lumping the two in the same boat to make up that "2 million jobs".
Second part: join a Gym and plunk the $ for a trainer.
Its worth it. I arranged to work from 7am to 4pm, so I can duck out early and hit the gym every day before the 5pm crowd gets there. I don't miss and I work my ass off. Chewing gum and taking the stairs instead of the elevator won't cut it, you need to workout. In a gym.
That's just what I've been doing for the last 4 months. I realize I am no authority, but this has worked out for me.
This isn't black magic, there are no tricks, no expensive home-gym solutions. Just hard work. -broodje
Hrm. Our company uses OO.org, redhat 9.0 and nasty lookin fluxbox desktops (I think theyre great) on 80% of our computers. We have a Msoft machine running Quickbooks, and another running an arcane 80's simulation program that wont work on Wine. When we interview people, I write something good on the clipboard if I hear of non-MS software experience. Hell, if I can download the source or binaries for the program mentioned, I can see the interviewee use it in the same interview!
:)
Summary: We are a small company that uses open/free software, and in this economy, if we are hiring, we DO count, thank you very much
-broodje
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- Don't feed the trolls.
Remember, the best revenge is to live well. I heard that somewhere today. Don't worry about it, get mad at things that matter and argue with people that have names.-broodje
SCO wants to use the courts to attack us and claim control of the Linux code; let's make them rue the day they thought this was a good idea, by proving that they have no trade secrets.
clickyMain Entry: 2rue Function: verb Inflected Form(s): rued; ruing Date: 12th century transitive senses : to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for intransitive senses : to feel sorrow, remorse, or regret
Sorry to disturb y'all, I just love new words
You should check out what SWG is planning as far as perma-death. At least they plan on including _some_ form of death: If your character gets far enough in the game, you can become a Jedi, but if you die, you revert back to a plain old plebian with no powers. They are making it very hard to become a Jedi. I realize this is not what you are talking about, but I felt I had to point this out. Otherwise, I salute ya: A correct implementation of perma-death in an MMORPG would be a breath of fresh air in game design!
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Why not just keep the question simple and wrap it up into a PGP'd vessel. I know it forces people to use encryption (and generate public/private keys, oh the humanity), but while we are discussing "uncomfortable" things to do for grandma, lets through in some good technology while we're at it, and not hide behind obscurity ;)
P.S. Iowa, in late July? How about we put the next one in scenic Barrow, AK in December?
Count me in! My life-goal is to make it to Barrow AK! Whacky!
I don't play it anymore, but I distinctly remember the day my friend convinced me to buy the game a few weeks after it first came out. I was convinced the game was for girls and I would have no fun.
I haven't played the game for a while now, but I still have yet to find a game that feels like running the long way through the Karanas on a rainy evening.
I have to agree - I have pacbell for our business DSL, and in the last 2 years I can't remember any problems. Before that, there was some glitch and it was resolved the same day.
:)
Now pacbell residential is a complete mess. I tried to do the DSL thing and after about 3 "free" modems (which they never wanted back), I switched to Covad. Covad got everything right. They gave a crap about little old me, in my little crappy house. Hell they even helped my girlfriend reboot my linux FW/NAT box while I was on business in europe. Now that's customer service.
Moral of the story: Covad good. Pacbell bad. Pacbell Business DSL good. Girlfriend that knows a little more UNIX, priceless
What's a popup ad? ;)
- racism
- disinformation
- piracy
- free alternatives
Same old stuff, wait 30mins, set filter to 1, mine the gems yourselfHunt the Wumpus. Damn I shoulda previewed.
We had a working Telex machine in our basement. My dad helped me build a kit ZX81. It had 1k of memory. It didn't have a cassette to store things so we played "Hunt the Wombat" for a week before turning the computer off. Then we would spend evenings entering in code for "Eliza". On a speak-and-math keyboard. Good times :)
-broodje
- 1:20hrs wait for a table.
- $16 for 3 beers (Sam Adams).
- $24 for 4 "arcade cards": each had $5 (21 credits) on them + $1 per card.
- drank beer, used up card in 3-4 games (damn!).
- dinner=$120+ for 5 people (ok we had dessert, but its soo good!).
I'm not saying we didn't have fun, but this isn't exactly affordable hehe. I'm all for blood and gore (read: Quake etc) but here are some games that stunned me a little (especially popular at that):- "commercial airplane pilot" I don't know the real name, but you fly a plane through cities and land it. Fun. PC? not really
;) I care? No.
- "sniper
..." I saw like 2-3 kinds of sniper games with mass gore. PC? not at all!
Not a biggie, but lastly something I realized is that "Dave and Busters" is a meat market, tons of dudes and chicks trying to get lucky, ridiculous prices, and KIDS RUNNING ALL OVER THE PLACE! The only reason I care if a game is "PC" is because of the kids swarming this place. Its like a casino with 12yr olds all over!I think I'm too old for this, or I haven't been out for a long long time.
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This looks like every other "respectable" online bookstore/merchant fine print I've seen: "We will not share your personal info with anyone unless we feel like it and you forgot to opted-out with our list." Am I reading this wrong? I think fine-print loopholes like this will at least have to change their wording. Good
How do you know the calls came from India? I have no way of knowing if the call is from Texas, or India. Besides, wouldn't long distance calls suck from india just to try and mebbe sell you a rinky-dinky-$20 knick knack? I wanna know how you know the calls are from India :)
I don't know where you guys live but, this isn't exactly a employee's market lately. I don't like the invasion of privacy either, but I'm looking around me, at the empty buildings all around the bay area, empty parking lots, for-rent signs everywhere.. It sucks, but the landlord doesn't give a poop about why you don't have that rent-money. Sometimes, I think, you can't just say fuck it.
I just went through applying for a SBIR project, and while I anticipated the government to make a big meal about the submission, the format was in PDF, and I did all the work using OpenOffice. I realize this might not be the norm, but I successfully submitted a proposal to the US government using only OpenOffice and GIMP. I haven't been rejected yet, either ;)
There are a lot of submission guidelines you have to follow, but using a microsoft product was never one of them along the way.
I hear what you're saying, but I just went throught this, and its for almost a million bucks. Thats enough money to be "real" in my book!
I bought 2 copies without waiting for reviews (I always do that, this time I didn't and I lost). That $49.99 x 2, one for me, one for the girlfriend. She bought the book too. It was fun for the first few hours, then you feel an empty lump in your stomach.. that one you feel when they messed up your order in the drive-thru, but you're too far to go back.. Anyhow, look at the trailers, the box, and look at the game content. Not the same, not even close. Some things will never make it in the game (like walking from house to house seamlessly) and some (like casino objects) have been promised for months and months.. The game is obviously not finished, has "LOADING PLEASE WAIT" all over it, and thats for 16-18 stick figure people, unforgivable considering EQ/DAoC, while choppy, handles hundreds of people before it getting choppy. I cut my "free month" short by 10 days, and unsubscribed before they dinged my credit card automatically. Its too bad, because the game looks really fun, it should be a blast. They just released a game that should still be in Beta, and that is unforgivable. I hope it succeeds, but I won't pay to test their game anymore.