Hah. When I hear people say "moderate", all I can think is that they don't want to make the effort to determine the better policy, and just default to splitting the difference.
Clearly, you don't understand what a moderate is. A moderate agrees, more-or-less, with conservatives on some issues and more-or-less with liberals on others, instead of walking in lock-step with one or the other side. Moderates tend to think for themselves instead of buying into the group think of either side and rarely vote a straight party ticket come Election Day.
That Imperial Star destroyer coming in over the camera in the opening shot literally drew gasps from the audience.
That was good, but it wasn't my "gosh! wow!" moment. For me, it came a little later when I saw Luke looking across the desert with the two suns in the sky. I'd read many books by then with scenes on planets of double stars, but that's the first time I ever saw it done in a movie. For me, that's the best memory of the original Star Wars.
We didn't set the modems to 2400 baud because it wasn't always needed. If you connected when it wasn't busy, no problem. If you tried when the server was fairly busy, you'd need to slow your modem down. Most of the time, it was just fine; we only needed to intervene during peak periods, and that wasn't even every day.
During the early years of that ISP, outgoing and incoming mail often had the mail server's name visible. As our naming scheme was to use the names of countries, we had such things as france.isp.com, italy.isp.com and so on. We often had to explain to confused callers that just because the server's name was france didn't mean that it was located there.
Some of our oldest servers had astronomical names. I always wished they'd used andromeda.isp.com as a mail server, so I could explain that the reason mail was delayed was the 4 million year ping times.
No. There was a big, black plug that went into the COM port with cords connected to it. Each of them had (I presume) a DB9 connector that you could hook whatever you wanted to. In our case, it was incoming data from security cameras, not modems.
That was true for "real" modems. For WinModems or, Ghod forbid, HSP (SPIT!) "thinks it's a modems," there really are driver programs. Winmodems take some of the processing out of the hardware and do it in software. They're a little more sensitive to line issues, but they can be upgraded with a simple driver update. The (UGH! YUCK!) HSP was simply a lobotomized soundcard that did *everything* except generate the sounds/bytes in software. Worst excuse for a modem I ever saw!
I've seen a special octopus connector that allows you to have eight devices hooked to one COM port. I suppose this was just a bigger version of the same.
I remember when (at the ISP I did tech suppport for) a traceroute from our office in Pasadena to Caltech would take 11 hops, 4 of them in the midwest because our backbone supplier routed everything through their main datacenter. It didn't take long for us to find a different backbone suppliier!
About ten years ago, I was working for what was then a small, startup ISP doing tech support. For about the first two years I was there, we often had to talk new customers through locking down their modems to 2400 baud in the registration/installation program, because that server often worked best at low speeds. (We also showed them how to reset it to the proper speed afterwards because our POPs were just fine.) I later found out that this was because whoever set up our one and only (at that time) registration server had multiplexed 42 modems through one COM port.
I realize this is a large project, expensive in itself... hey, SO IS MIGRATING TO VISTA...
Except for training, migrating to Linux is much less expensive than migrating to Vista. Unlike Vista, Linux will work just fine on your existing hardware. And the training isn't as expensive as most people assume because for the average office worker, all they need to learn is OpenOffice, which is very similar to the MSOffice they're familiar with and Firefox, which (surprise surprise) has a look-and-feel almost the same as IE. That, plus Thunderbird or something similar is all they need.
Douglas Adams carefully ignored the fact that infinity doesn't work like that. Even if 99% of an infinite number of planets are uninhabited, that still leaves an infinite number of planets inhabited. It sounds weird, I know, but there's lots about infinity that's counterintuitive.
There are motion control machines still running DOS.
A friend of mine is into packet radio and much of their software is still on CP/M. It works, the hardware doesn't wear out(except for disk drives) and there's no reason to port it to anything more recent.
My idea was that as the manager of the helpdesk you'd be doing the evaluations. If so, you can not only adjust for changes to the call volume, you can improve the rating of whoever came up with a way to lower it.
You're always going to get the "I can either fix it or log it. Choose." kind of attitude. The answer is "You're going to do both."
That works for some people. If you get the arrogant type that just doesn't want to do things your way the reply becomes, "Either find time to do both or I'll find somebody who can." If you say that, be ready to follow through because there's always one twit who won't believe you'd fire them for disobeying direct orders.
Tell them that from now on, their annual performance review will include the average number of calls per shift and the average amount of time spent per call. If the call isn't logged, it didn't happen. You'll be amazed how fast the percentage of calls logged rises, especially if you let each of them know, privately, how their performance would be graded based on their current lack of logging.
That's right, Dragnet. Not the movie, the original TV show in the '50s. They had an episode once where they had to check through a company's personell records and the company used a computer to do it. There were tapes rolling, blinky-lights flashing and the result came out as a small deck of punched cards. From what I gather, they'd gone to some company that was computerized and borrowed their equipment to make sure everything was right.
As far as I can tell, not one of them takes into account what kind of shape you're in. A 6 foot tall body builder is going to weigh much more than a 6 foot tall couch potato, but which one is overweight? One size never fits all, in clothing or in weight charts.
Yes, proper exercise and getting down to the right weight is part of controlling Type II, but neither of them will cure it because it's a change in your body chemistry that causes it, not a lifestyle choice.
2. Stop developing drugs for stupid shit. Yes, lots of people have Type2 diabetes. We already have a cure for that; a treadmill. Stop wasting money to develop a drug *just* to make money off a stupid disease.
Oh, how I wish I could get rid of my Type II diabetes just by getting more exercise. I love to walk and often walk several miles a day, but I still have to take my pill morning and night. Part of Type II diabetes is resistance to insulin, so that even if you have what would normally be enough, you still have blood sugar trouble. I hope that someday, preferably soon, you can learn from personal experience that a treadmill isn't a cure for diabetes.
AIUI, the one part of the malware that can't morph is the part that does the morphing, and that's the part they anti-spyware can hunt for. It's a clever-sounding idea, but won't work for long in practice.
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Clearly, you don't understand what a moderate is. A moderate agrees, more-or-less, with conservatives on some issues and more-or-less with liberals on others, instead of walking in lock-step with one or the other side. Moderates tend to think for themselves instead of buying into the group think of either side and rarely vote a straight party ticket come Election Day.
That was good, but it wasn't my "gosh! wow!" moment. For me, it came a little later when I saw Luke looking across the desert with the two suns in the sky. I'd read many books by then with scenes on planets of double stars, but that's the first time I ever saw it done in a movie. For me, that's the best memory of the original Star Wars.
I have a stick-shift, and it doesn't have "Park," you insensitive clod!
We didn't set the modems to 2400 baud because it wasn't always needed. If you connected when it wasn't busy, no problem. If you tried when the server was fairly busy, you'd need to slow your modem down. Most of the time, it was just fine; we only needed to intervene during peak periods, and that wasn't even every day.
Some of our oldest servers had astronomical names. I always wished they'd used andromeda.isp.com as a mail server, so I could explain that the reason mail was delayed was the 4 million year ping times.
I checked tzedit, but, alas, it's for NT and up only. Not applicable to Win98. Thanx anyway.
No. There was a big, black plug that went into the COM port with cords connected to it. Each of them had (I presume) a DB9 connector that you could hook whatever you wanted to. In our case, it was incoming data from security cameras, not modems.
That was true for "real" modems. For WinModems or, Ghod forbid, HSP (SPIT!) "thinks it's a modems," there really are driver programs. Winmodems take some of the processing out of the hardware and do it in software. They're a little more sensitive to line issues, but they can be upgraded with a simple driver update. The (UGH! YUCK!) HSP was simply a lobotomized soundcard that did *everything* except generate the sounds/bytes in software. Worst excuse for a modem I ever saw!
I've seen a special octopus connector that allows you to have eight devices hooked to one COM port. I suppose this was just a bigger version of the same.
I remember when (at the ISP I did tech suppport for) a traceroute from our office in Pasadena to Caltech would take 11 hops, 4 of them in the midwest because our backbone supplier routed everything through their main datacenter. It didn't take long for us to find a different backbone suppliier!
About ten years ago, I was working for what was then a small, startup ISP doing tech support. For about the first two years I was there, we often had to talk new customers through locking down their modems to 2400 baud in the registration/installation program, because that server often worked best at low speeds. (We also showed them how to reset it to the proper speed afterwards because our POPs were just fine.) I later found out that this was because whoever set up our one and only (at that time) registration server had multiplexed 42 modems through one COM port.
Except for training, migrating to Linux is much less expensive than migrating to Vista. Unlike Vista, Linux will work just fine on your existing hardware. And the training isn't as expensive as most people assume because for the average office worker, all they need to learn is OpenOffice, which is very similar to the MSOffice they're familiar with and Firefox, which (surprise surprise) has a look-and-feel almost the same as IE. That, plus Thunderbird or something similar is all they need.
Douglas Adams carefully ignored the fact that infinity doesn't work like that. Even if 99% of an infinite number of planets are uninhabited, that still leaves an infinite number of planets inhabited. It sounds weird, I know, but there's lots about infinity that's counterintuitive.
A friend of mine is into packet radio and much of their software is still on CP/M. It works, the hardware doesn't wear out(except for disk drives) and there's no reason to port it to anything more recent.
My idea was that as the manager of the helpdesk you'd be doing the evaluations. If so, you can not only adjust for changes to the call volume, you can improve the rating of whoever came up with a way to lower it.
As Professor Harold Hill once said, "Now think, boys, think!"
That works for some people. If you get the arrogant type that just doesn't want to do things your way the reply becomes, "Either find time to do both or I'll find somebody who can." If you say that, be ready to follow through because there's always one twit who won't believe you'd fire them for disobeying direct orders.
Tell them that from now on, their annual performance review will include the average number of calls per shift and the average amount of time spent per call. If the call isn't logged, it didn't happen. You'll be amazed how fast the percentage of calls logged rises, especially if you let each of them know, privately, how their performance would be graded based on their current lack of logging.
That's right, Dragnet. Not the movie, the original TV show in the '50s. They had an episode once where they had to check through a company's personell records and the company used a computer to do it. There were tapes rolling, blinky-lights flashing and the result came out as a small deck of punched cards. From what I gather, they'd gone to some company that was computerized and borrowed their equipment to make sure everything was right.
That I can agree with. It might also help to avoid Agent Orange, as I may have been exposed to back in '72.
As far as I can tell, not one of them takes into account what kind of shape you're in. A 6 foot tall body builder is going to weigh much more than a 6 foot tall couch potato, but which one is overweight? One size never fits all, in clothing or in weight charts.
Yes, proper exercise and getting down to the right weight is part of controlling Type II, but neither of them will cure it because it's a change in your body chemistry that causes it, not a lifestyle choice.
Oh, how I wish I could get rid of my Type II diabetes just by getting more exercise. I love to walk and often walk several miles a day, but I still have to take my pill morning and night. Part of Type II diabetes is resistance to insulin, so that even if you have what would normally be enough, you still have blood sugar trouble. I hope that someday, preferably soon, you can learn from personal experience that a treadmill isn't a cure for diabetes.
There's a lot of people out there in the Intarweb that don't have the slightest idea that you can change your startpage and most of them are using IE.
AIUI, the one part of the malware that can't morph is the part that does the morphing, and that's the part they anti-spyware can hunt for. It's a clever-sounding idea, but won't work for long in practice.