The military supports tech nerds as much as anyone else. You have to learn how to adapt yourself to what the military wants, rather than waiting for the military to adapt to you.
I've been actively practicing computer nerdity for a little over 15 years now, and what I've noticed in my last 7 years with the Army is that I can practice whatever I want during my free time, but applying my technical expertise during work hours was often ignored or even actively fought against until I started applying my skills directly to the job.
For example, I wanted to write code more, and maybe even design my own applications. I wanted to learn how to use microsoft tools with databases and whatnot. This never worked because it required too many changes to the system that was already in place, and it had a negligible gain to anyone besides myself. All I wanted was to learn. Eventually I ditched my idea and instead focused on learning VBA (visual basic for applications) to write macros that would drastically reduce redundancy in our office. For that I got some form of praise. Another example would be in Kuwait, where I used my photoshop skills to do graphics work for our unit. For this I got more recognition.
It's difficult to be selfish in the military. It's also difficult to work in a civilian job that has no overall purpose except to ship a couple more units of Product X.
Quake Live does a great thing by having you go up against a bot, and then determines your level of skill from that and then emphasizes those servers which are taylored to your skill level when you look through the server browser.
Of course you see people who play outside their skill level, but for the most part you are surrounded by people who play on your level.
Get a list of local ip ranges from local ISPs and whitelist them in your firewall. It'll take a lot of work, but that's what happens when you work against the openness of the internet.
As with all things, pride comes at a cost. If it's worth it to you to "finish" fewer projects at the expense of less $dollars, good for you. I'm with you on that one. But I totally respect anyone elses decision to go balls to the wall and ignore all proper coding technique so they can Get The Job Done and get paid. Especially with teh current economic climate.
if only the support channels weren't selective about their service and at least attempted to answer every question.
Or at least reasonable ones.
For example I have been attempting to address their pricing changes since late last year. Us AMERICAN soldiers stationed overseas are subjected to whatever pricing options they deem appropriate for our area, rather than change the prices for those of us coming from American-owned ips.
You see, us soldiers have internet through a specific company here in germany, and the state that the ip address is registered to is an American military address. Porn advertisers have figured this out, as I get ads displayed on screens for "my local area" of APO (American Post Office).
I spoke with Hulu.com about this, and they fixed it. Soldiers are now able to watch hulu videos because their service checks the ip addresses properly (or did, last I checked). Steam fails to do this.
So after not receiving a reply to my support message about this, I sent another email saying that they should at least allow us the opportunity to mail in tax relief forms. We soldiers are not subjected to the 19% Value Added Tax present on every purchase made here in Germany, yet Steam forces us to pay this.
And they didn't respond to that email either. So now I gotta pay long distance charges to attempt to call their offices during whatever their central time zone work hours are.
GG Steam.
yeah i think people are confusing being naked in your house with the windows open and not expecting peeping toms with being naked on an open road and expecting certain people with whom you would like to converse with to just look the other way.
Hooking more than 13 Playstation 4's together with the Cell revision 2 chip is recommended against, as 14+ Cell R2 chips clustered together will begin to morph into Tetsuo, eventually collapsing into itself and forming an entirely new universe.
which the games studio, now under administration, has lost the rights to develop
See what happens when you get management involved? They shut down your pet projects and tell you to do stuff that makes money! As if money were important! Pssshaw!
Probably not. I expect they'll continue with their bullshit in other states while lawyers who haven't done their homework will not be able to help their clients.
That's just what I expect, though, because I know that it's better to expect the worst and hope for the best.
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The military supports tech nerds as much as anyone else. You have to learn how to adapt yourself to what the military wants, rather than waiting for the military to adapt to you.
I've been actively practicing computer nerdity for a little over 15 years now, and what I've noticed in my last 7 years with the Army is that I can practice whatever I want during my free time, but applying my technical expertise during work hours was often ignored or even actively fought against until I started applying my skills directly to the job.
For example, I wanted to write code more, and maybe even design my own applications. I wanted to learn how to use microsoft tools with databases and whatnot. This never worked because it required too many changes to the system that was already in place, and it had a negligible gain to anyone besides myself. All I wanted was to learn. Eventually I ditched my idea and instead focused on learning VBA (visual basic for applications) to write macros that would drastically reduce redundancy in our office. For that I got some form of praise. Another example would be in Kuwait, where I used my photoshop skills to do graphics work for our unit. For this I got more recognition.
It's difficult to be selfish in the military. It's also difficult to work in a civilian job that has no overall purpose except to ship a couple more units of Product X.
Quake Live does a great thing by having you go up against a bot, and then determines your level of skill from that and then emphasizes those servers which are taylored to your skill level when you look through the server browser.
Of course you see people who play outside their skill level, but for the most part you are surrounded by people who play on your level.
Get a list of local ip ranges from local ISPs and whitelist them in your firewall. It'll take a lot of work, but that's what happens when you work against the openness of the internet.
As with all things, pride comes at a cost. If it's worth it to you to "finish" fewer projects at the expense of less $dollars, good for you. I'm with you on that one. But I totally respect anyone elses decision to go balls to the wall and ignore all proper coding technique so they can Get The Job Done and get paid. Especially with teh current economic climate.
if only the support channels weren't selective about their service and at least attempted to answer every question. Or at least reasonable ones. For example I have been attempting to address their pricing changes since late last year. Us AMERICAN soldiers stationed overseas are subjected to whatever pricing options they deem appropriate for our area, rather than change the prices for those of us coming from American-owned ips. You see, us soldiers have internet through a specific company here in germany, and the state that the ip address is registered to is an American military address. Porn advertisers have figured this out, as I get ads displayed on screens for "my local area" of APO (American Post Office). I spoke with Hulu.com about this, and they fixed it. Soldiers are now able to watch hulu videos because their service checks the ip addresses properly (or did, last I checked). Steam fails to do this. So after not receiving a reply to my support message about this, I sent another email saying that they should at least allow us the opportunity to mail in tax relief forms. We soldiers are not subjected to the 19% Value Added Tax present on every purchase made here in Germany, yet Steam forces us to pay this. And they didn't respond to that email either. So now I gotta pay long distance charges to attempt to call their offices during whatever their central time zone work hours are. GG Steam.
if encrypted hard drives become the norm, will authorities be more apt to treat it as a protected right rather than as a method of hiding shit?
Welcome to Colorado, 49th in funding for schools.
Moreover, the numbers show that's clearly not the case.
Um, Bob from CO, it's 6th from the top because the list is in alphabetical order. ;)
You think DeutscheBahn knows how to be on time? They started issueing partial refunds due to the extreme delays on many of the ICE trains.
And I watch trains leaving Mainz Hauptbahnhof a few minutes late on a daily basis.
yeah i think people are confusing being naked in your house with the windows open and not expecting peeping toms with being naked on an open road and expecting certain people with whom you would like to converse with to just look the other way.
It's just a shell for the classic controller. This is no different than the "steering wheel" shell for the wiimote.
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Windows 7. I'm sure it would rate the performance of your EEE PC in the 3.5 range.
Then you can claim that either Schroedinger accepted the agreement, or the software company killed your cat.
I like windows 7. Not a single problem with it in the world.
It just means now I gotta run all my warez in a virtual machine. No skin off my back.
I thought PS3 was supposed to be a "10 year" console...
I really hope they aren't already working on the PS4, wasting money in this economic client on R&D of this nature almost seems brutally wasteful.
meh, we still use PS/2 mice and keyboards in my office because the NSA-approved KVM switches we have don't take USB.
orson scott card's a visionary. See?
Hooking more than 13 Playstation 4's together with the Cell revision 2 chip is recommended against, as 14+ Cell R2 chips clustered together will begin to morph into Tetsuo, eventually collapsing into itself and forming an entirely new universe.
... to 8 years ago when everything was free and there was no oversight on anything. Please? Pretty please?
Well I don't know about you, but I, personally, ANAL.
which the games studio, now under administration, has lost the rights to develop
See what happens when you get management involved? They shut down your pet projects and tell you to do stuff that makes money! As if money were important! Pssshaw!
Probably not. I expect they'll continue with their bullshit in other states while lawyers who haven't done their homework will not be able to help their clients.
That's just what I expect, though, because I know that it's better to expect the worst and hope for the best.
Dear Ma'am Goddess bluephone, master of creation, Lady of the Azure Calling:
May I have an invite, you sexy babe of a woman?
yours sincerely,
cheschire?NOSPAM?@gmail?NOSPAM?com
-ps I figure it's a 50/50 shot, right?
fucking finally
Or buy IKEA shares
I read this originally as "IKEA chairs" and apparently still didn't miss the joke.