I'm a member of LASFS, this world's oldest SF club. We also have one of the three biggest publically available SF and Fantasy libraries on the West Coast. Our librarian has been looking for better software to help keep track of our collection, and I've just emailed him the link. Thanks, Slashdot for the info!
Back in the mid '50s the San Diego Zoo had a two-headed snake. I remember seeing it there at different visits over a several-year period. I don't know when it died, or how long it lived, but it did live for several years that I can remember. How long it would have lived in the wild is another question, and one I can't answer.
Same here. Ever since they closed the Pasadena Call Center and dumped about 2/3 of their most experienced employees the quality of service has been dropping. It used to be that you had to understand what was going on in order to work there. Now, all you need is the ability to read scripts. You don't even need to be able to tell when the scripts don't apply, or when to ask somebody that knows what they're doing for help. Just read the script and don't care if it works or not.
I must say that this is just typical of the new EarthLink mis-management. Do anything that increases the short-term bottom line and to hell with the long-term effects. EarthLink has fallen into the hands of the MBAs and doesn't have long to last.
TracFone has good rates, and allows you to roll over your minutes from one card to the next. Unlike some other carriers, a $20 card gives you 60 minutes and 60 days of service; if you've not used all the minutes by that time and buy more activation, the minutes roll over with no trouble. BTW, I am not associated with them in any way except as a customer.
I did some contract programming once for a rather enlightened company. Our QA guy had a less powerful machine than the rest of us. It had what we considered the minimum requirements for the package, established before programming started. Unless your code ran on his machine, it wasn't accepted. It was your job to make it fit, including re-working it to use overlays to fit into the expected memory.
There is no earthly reason an OS should bloat so massively in versions that are only a few years apart.
It wasn't that many years ago people were saying the same thing about XP as compared to Win98. Every new version of Windows is considered bloated compared to the previous one.
You must have worked for a very strange company. From what I can see, the developers normally get big muscular machines (by then current standards) so they can do their work faster. Then, they design programs and systems that only work acceptably on their machines, not on those the target audience is expected to have.
Right now, I'm looking for work in tech support. I get postings from various job boards with what they think is appropriate, including regular postings for "help desk analyst." Of course, it has nothing to do with what I'm interested in. I think it would be better if the job title were "trouble ticket analyst," because it would describe what the job actually does.
I work in Tech Support, and I've been in the job market for a while now. (Outsourcing; go fig!) I've been seeing ads for "Help Desk Analyst" for the past few months. Checking, they have nothing to do with tech support or work on any help desk. Instead, a help desk analyst goes over support tickets to see what the average call time is, how many calls it takes to close it and so on. It's nothing more or less than a bean counter second-guessing the techs and trying to squeeze as many calls into each poor sod's work day as possible.
You're right, I don't as a general rule. I do, of course, when I'm moderating, because sometimes a post will be modded down as Troll or Flamebait only because whoever moderated it doesn't agree with it. I always mod those posts up (or metamod them as Unfair) because those mods aren't intended to stifle dissent. To be fair, most of the posts that get modded down to -1 deserve it.
If a building isn't ADA compliant, it's neither easy nor inexpensive to fix and most owners won't go to the expense unless forced. Thus, ADA violations in buildings lead to lawsuits. Correcting ADA issues on a website is much less expensive and, often, fairly easy. A sensible, reasonable company should at least try to fix problems like that when they're pointed out without having their arms twisted by a court. ADA lawsuits over web design should and (I hope) will be the exception, not the norm.
Please note that TFA starts off by saying that Target declined to make its website accessible to the blind and is now being sued. The National Federation of the Blind started out by asking them to re-work their site and only resorted to a lawsuit when Target decided not to comply with their request.
I think I have a way to deal with clueless lusers that make it impossible to skip flash introductions that the Mikado would be proud of:
Put them in solitary confinement until they can fill out a 500 page webform explaining why they should be released. Every page has a non-skippable flash intro, the answers on the form are maintained by session cookies and the form is only accessible by a very noisy 14.4 dialup connection that can't be re-established without closing their browser.
It's not life imprisonment, officially, but it might as well be.
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I'm a member of LASFS, this world's oldest SF club. We also have one of the three biggest publically available SF and Fantasy libraries on the West Coast. Our librarian has been looking for better software to help keep track of our collection, and I've just emailed him the link. Thanks, Slashdot for the info!
Why don't you buy a copy and find out?
Back in the mid '50s the San Diego Zoo had a two-headed snake. I remember seeing it there at different visits over a several-year period. I don't know when it died, or how long it lived, but it did live for several years that I can remember. How long it would have lived in the wild is another question, and one I can't answer.
That's taken care of by the in-person interview. If you can't understand them, neither will your customers.
Right-click on My Computer and select Properties. It says right there what version.
Nice! Now, all they need to do is add the line "MCSE holders need not apply" and they're all set.
Eliminate all except for the one that says, "Uninstall Vista and revert to previous version of Windows."
Yeah; my "four digit employee number" only had three digits, which just might tell you who I am. Check my website if you're not sure.
Same here. Ever since they closed the Pasadena Call Center and dumped about 2/3 of their most experienced employees the quality of service has been dropping. It used to be that you had to understand what was going on in order to work there. Now, all you need is the ability to read scripts. You don't even need to be able to tell when the scripts don't apply, or when to ask somebody that knows what they're doing for help. Just read the script and don't care if it works or not.
I must say that this is just typical of the new EarthLink mis-management. Do anything that increases the short-term bottom line and to hell with the long-term effects. EarthLink has fallen into the hands of the MBAs and doesn't have long to last.
Maybe that's why they're selling Motorolas now instead of Nokias.
TracFone has good rates, and allows you to roll over your minutes from one card to the next. Unlike some other carriers, a $20 card gives you 60 minutes and 60 days of service; if you've not used all the minutes by that time and buy more activation, the minutes roll over with no trouble. BTW, I am not associated with them in any way except as a customer.
I did some contract programming once for a rather enlightened company. Our QA guy had a less powerful machine than the rest of us. It had what we considered the minimum requirements for the package, established before programming started. Unless your code ran on his machine, it wasn't accepted. It was your job to make it fit, including re-working it to use overlays to fit into the expected memory.
It wasn't that many years ago people were saying the same thing about XP as compared to Win98. Every new version of Windows is considered bloated compared to the previous one.
I would hope so. That would be 400/1000 bits of traffic per second. ITYM Megabits.
You must have worked for a very strange company. From what I can see, the developers normally get big muscular machines (by then current standards) so they can do their work faster. Then, they design programs and systems that only work acceptably on their machines, not on those the target audience is expected to have.
I take it, then, you'd like to live in the Kingdom of Id and live under their version of the Golden Rule; "He who has the gold makes the rules."
So...what you mean is...run this on a 386?
Right now, I'm looking for work in tech support. I get postings from various job boards with what they think is appropriate, including regular postings for "help desk analyst." Of course, it has nothing to do with what I'm interested in. I think it would be better if the job title were "trouble ticket analyst," because it would describe what the job actually does.
Nice. I'd love cards reading Basic Operations and Facilities Helper, but I guess that's a bit too much to ask for.
I work in Tech Support, and I've been in the job market for a while now. (Outsourcing; go fig!) I've been seeing ads for "Help Desk Analyst" for the past few months. Checking, they have nothing to do with tech support or work on any help desk. Instead, a help desk analyst goes over support tickets to see what the average call time is, how many calls it takes to close it and so on. It's nothing more or less than a bean counter second-guessing the techs and trying to squeeze as many calls into each poor sod's work day as possible.
Or, if you like your boss, "If no, maybe we should kick this upstairs to somebody with enough authority to make the decision."
You're right, I don't as a general rule. I do, of course, when I'm moderating, because sometimes a post will be modded down as Troll or Flamebait only because whoever moderated it doesn't agree with it. I always mod those posts up (or metamod them as Unfair) because those mods aren't intended to stifle dissent. To be fair, most of the posts that get modded down to -1 deserve it.
Please note that TFA starts off by saying that Target declined to make its website accessible to the blind and is now being sued. The National Federation of the Blind started out by asking them to re-work their site and only resorted to a lawsuit when Target decided not to comply with their request.
Yes we do, but please stop calling me Shirley.
Put them in solitary confinement until they can fill out a 500 page webform explaining why they should be released. Every page has a non-skippable flash intro, the answers on the form are maintained by session cookies and the form is only accessible by a very noisy 14.4 dialup connection that can't be re-established without closing their browser.
It's not life imprisonment, officially, but it might as well be.