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Like pneumonia. Remember this was in the days for antibiotics. The mortality rate of the 1918 FLU was 5-10% maximum then, today it would be in the 1-3% range.
Is that terrible a wittle argument between MS and her Girlfriend Gartner. Usually they're joined at the pelvis have their tongues down each other's throat. I hope they don't break up.
I have a 6579-PDU which may have this problem. At least it's a mATX so I can get another MoBo from Tiger.
I also have a PC300PL which has started to show this problem. But since the 300's are those strange ILX form factors or whatever - with the daughter boards, it's not worth it, just chuck it out and scavenge what you can.
Basically this places 100% of the burden on the end user. It adds nothing is the way of punishing people who do the actual theft. So now if your identity is stolen, the county will say your failure to secure the perimeter was your tacit agreement to be robbed.
I will never use an electronic device that forces me to write on it in my own handwriting or any other PDAish grafitti like trash. Never. Maybe this is a niche machine for people who need to lug around electronic forms, blueprints, contracts and whatnot.
And please don't get me wrong I have a 12x12 Acecad digitizer tablet. I'm pretty familiar with using a stylus - - for things that it makes sense to use a stylus for. Like drawing.
And a 3 year service committment, penalties apply for early termination. Other services will be bundled on exclusive basis including phone, video which are charged on a per service subscription basis as well.
Remember, Americans; the FCC is designed to screw you.
I think that's the real truth. They've scrapped their Windows domain boxes and replaced them with openBSD machines that run like domain controllers. Probably run their SMB shares on Samba as well. I refuse to believe that a shop like that simply swaps out their desktops on whim.
I'm sitting here mid career waiting for them to tell me some bullshit and have a nice early retirement. In the last 9 years in this company the average tenure, that is, the average length of service has dropped from 12 years to 3. Basically they don't want anyone to stay more than 3 years and hopefully at the beginning of their careers so it doesn't cost them that much. Moreover if they treat everyone like shit for that time they never have to worry about giving them increases or bothering with retention since the plan is to get rid of them anyhow. All they have to do is keep recruiting. And since this is the outsourcing business a piece of the headcount comes from your own customers who shift their own employees off on to the outsourcer. They're already beaten down and demoralized so it's not hard to treat them like shit as well.
I'm in an exempt role as are all of my peers and we're expected to bill internally - to allocated buckets, 15% OT for which of course no one is paid. So the increases are zero, the work week stretches 15%.
Did I mention that training budget was eliminated years ago and if you want to come to the (almost) mandatory once a year all hands meeting you have to figure out how to pay for thatyourself?
4% would be considered a clear signal that not only you indepensible but you are probably being groomed for bigger and better things. My whole department, for the last 3 years has given out ZERO increases ZERO bonuses to all but the 'top' 15% of the staff based on ratings but more realistically, based on who actually works in physical proximity to the boss, given we're a spread out, 'virtual' organization.
And if the noises we hear about the strategizing the paradigm and upselling the modality to shape the customer solutionality are any indication our reviews for 2006 will come out the same.
And this is a MAJOR IT corporation you see commercials for, every day on television.
And this is in one of the areas commonly touted as a hot area; commercial security.
So in real terms as our compensation FALLS at least 3%/year for 3-4 years I have to say your complaints of only getting 2.8% - 4% fall on deaf ears.
Take a cheap Dell (or any) commonly available notebook machine. Break it open. Remove the keyboard, powersupply and battery. Remove the screen being careful to replace the ribbon cable or at least not break it. Take the now free main planar stick it in any random 1337 shell - toaster oven, fishtank, DVD player, retro 8-track, whatever you want. Stick the LCD display on that shell or something else. Attach a USB keyboard and mouse. Plug in.
That's pretty much it for a 1.0 version. Later revs can include a DVD drive or any other peripheral that was in the original notebook. If you don't like the LCD screen just go out and buy the big screen you want and plug it into the SVGA port you already have on your anchovy-can PC.
Remember all the ports and connectors are already there and if you want to move or hide them you can do that with some simple extention cables inside the case. Because once you remove the keyboard, the screen, the case, the battery and the powersupply your pc is not that much bigger than 10" x 4" x 0.7" including the hard drive.
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Like pneumonia. Remember this was in the days for antibiotics. The mortality rate of the 1918 FLU was 5-10% maximum then, today it would be in the 1-3% range.
Is that terrible a wittle argument between MS and her Girlfriend Gartner. Usually they're joined at the pelvis have their tongues down each other's throat. I hope they don't break up.
Yeah - I don't grok that. Don't even have the tools. But you're right.
to change a lightbulb?
AL Invade Poland.
I have a 6579-PDU which may have this problem. At least it's a mATX so I can get another MoBo from Tiger.
I also have a PC300PL which has started to show this problem. But since the 300's are those strange ILX form factors or whatever - with the daughter boards, it's not worth it, just chuck it out and scavenge what you can.
Clearly it will be converted to DoD R+D work, aka 'black' projects. The administration has never made a secret of their desire to militarize space.
kiss my ass.
Basically this places 100% of the burden on the end user. It adds nothing is the way of punishing people who do the actual theft. So now if your identity is stolen, the county will say your failure to secure the perimeter was your tacit agreement to be robbed.
We really need to stop paying these people. We really need to stop going to movies, buying CDs, ringtones and whatnot. We really need to boycott them.
First rule of Oracle: Larry Ellison is God. You are not God. Disagreements with God will be answered by plagues.
And guess who wants to control them? Imagine a great big SQLserver in the sky managing your Federally mandated MS Passports.
What could possibly go wrong??
I will never use an electronic device that forces me to write on it in my own handwriting or any other PDAish grafitti like trash. Never. Maybe this is a niche machine for people who need to lug around electronic forms, blueprints, contracts and whatnot.
And please don't get me wrong I have a 12x12 Acecad digitizer tablet. I'm pretty familiar with using a stylus - - for things that it makes sense to use a stylus for. Like drawing.
And a 3 year service committment, penalties apply for early termination. Other services will be bundled on exclusive basis including phone, video which are charged on a per service subscription basis as well.
Remember, Americans; the FCC is designed to screw you.
Just look at Wiki and call up 500 of your closest friends. You can turn day into night.
You go to war with the Clones you have, not with the Clones you wish you had.
I think that's the real truth. They've scrapped their Windows domain boxes and replaced them with openBSD machines that run like domain controllers. Probably run their SMB shares on Samba as well. I refuse to believe that a shop like that simply swaps out their desktops on whim.
Oh wait those dudes came from India. Bummer.
I'm sitting here mid career waiting for them to tell me some bullshit and have a nice early retirement. In the last 9 years in this company the average tenure, that is, the average length of service has dropped from 12 years to 3. Basically they don't want anyone to stay more than 3 years and hopefully at the beginning of their careers so it doesn't cost them that much. Moreover if they treat everyone like shit for that time they never have to worry about giving them increases or bothering with retention since the plan is to get rid of them anyhow. All they have to do is keep recruiting. And since this is the outsourcing business a piece of the headcount comes from your own customers who shift their own employees off on to the outsourcer. They're already beaten down and demoralized so it's not hard to treat them like shit as well.
I'm in an exempt role as are all of my peers and we're expected to bill internally - to allocated buckets, 15% OT for which of course no one is paid. So the increases are zero, the work week stretches 15%.
Did I mention that training budget was eliminated years ago and if you want to come to the (almost) mandatory once a year all hands meeting you have to figure out how to pay for thatyourself?
4% would be considered a clear signal that not only you indepensible but you are probably being groomed for bigger and better things. My whole department, for the last 3 years has given out ZERO increases ZERO bonuses to all but the 'top' 15% of the staff based on ratings but more realistically, based on who actually works in physical proximity to the boss, given we're a spread out, 'virtual' organization.
And if the noises we hear about the strategizing the paradigm and upselling the modality to shape the customer solutionality are any indication our reviews for 2006 will come out the same.
And this is a MAJOR IT corporation you see commercials for, every day on television.
And this is in one of the areas commonly touted as a hot area; commercial security.
So in real terms as our compensation FALLS at least 3%/year for 3-4 years I have to say your complaints of only getting 2.8% - 4% fall on deaf ears.
You might have a serviceable machine with a broken case or a burned out battery or a damaged keyboard also.
Take a cheap Dell (or any) commonly available notebook machine. Break it open. Remove the keyboard, powersupply and battery. Remove the screen being careful to replace the ribbon cable or at least not break it. Take the now free main planar stick it in any random 1337 shell - toaster oven, fishtank, DVD player, retro 8-track, whatever you want. Stick the LCD display on that shell or something else. Attach a USB keyboard and mouse. Plug in.
That's pretty much it for a 1.0 version. Later revs can include a DVD drive or any other peripheral that was in the original notebook. If you don't like the LCD screen just go out and buy the big screen you want and plug it into the SVGA port you already have on your anchovy-can PC.
Remember all the ports and connectors are already there and if you want to move or hide them you can do that with some simple extention cables inside the case. Because once you remove the keyboard, the screen, the case, the battery and the powersupply your pc is not that much bigger than 10" x 4" x 0.7" including the hard drive.
And we can euthanize the lame, the blind, and anyone else who stands in the way of our bright shining eugenic wonderland then.
/. is about age 14.
You are basically a fucking retard and living proof that the standard maturity for
Seriously, are you?
A few hundred years at least. Plus that whole Japanese engineered genocide in the 1930's didn't help too much either.