Spoken like a douche who doesnt live outside his own experience. People in the real world, who do real work with computer, they often use those funny strange keys you dont understand, along with features you dont get. caps lock, num lock, scroll lock, ins/delete/home/end... basic data entry. document and terminal functions used in the real world. I'm gonna bet you dont actually know any AOLers who type with the caps lock on.
Chances are if you are connecting to a 3270 using your pc/laptop you are doing so via Reflections or some other terminal software that will allow you to redefine a key, create a macro, or has a gui button.
I own a portable IBM 3270 terminal with an black on grey LCD. I never used it to connect to an 3270 (I actually used desktop terminal for that) but I did have it on my desk and would use it to interface with anything with a serial or craft port... Just to be geeky.
I cant recall the last time I saw an AOLer use caps locks.
People who use computers to do actual work often use the caps lock key. There are afew databases i access where it comes in handy. I just wish it was in anothe rlocation and something more commonly needed put in its place.
You might want to see the documentary "King of Corn". Think of it as a primer and then continue your research.
ITS IN EVERYTHING. You're wearing it now I bet.
No. I think today people understand that if you have been using an address for a long time you stick with it.
Only douche bags discriminate against people based on their email addresses. So, if you deal with a bunch of douche bags, you might want to change your email address. Or, you might want to just not care about the douche bags and what they have to say.
When my friends all started to migrate over to gmail mail people would encourage me to get a gmail address and account. My answer was; um, it doesnt offer me anything I want or need. I've had the same yahoo email address since 1998. I also have my own domain email... which I just forward to my yahoo account. I've known idiots who have had 50 email accounts spam everyone with their new account info... gay.
so, let me state this clearly; if you think that the host name of someones email address matters because its 'old' you are pretty much a dumb stupid douche bag whom i hope gets hit by a car.
The bigotry around AOL is so fucken stupid. I remember irc chans that would ban AOL addresses. Um, its the IRC, its already retarded, AOL isnt gonna make it worse. It's narrow minded asshatted bigotry. Anyone remember the hackers manifesto? we exist without skin color, nation of origin... Yet tech people freeluy discriminate against host names... Dont judge a person based on their content, what they have to offer, etc... but by their host names? I shake my head and thing... gezus... what bunch of dumb mother fuckers. May lead pipes meet the back of each of your skulls just so we have a little less bigotry and asshattery around.
I actually think that @aol.com addresses are sorta cool and retro. same with @excite or @hotmail. What it says to me is "man, that person has had that address for a long long time." It means they were around at about the time things were becoming main stream. In many cases it even says to me, gee, this person has been involved with computers or IT for a long long time.
I've never had AOL... but I've known some very high IQ people that have and who have been discriminated by clueless douche bags based soley on their host names.
I know that if i read other user comments on this subject that I will want to go smoke crack just so i can make myself retarded enuf to understand what the asshats are saying.
They are/were in violation. Until someone reports them again they will continue their practices. The company pulls a nice profit and has backers with deep pockets. It'll be in business for a long time.
The answer given when someone said "no" at this place was "No, this is yours. Be happy you have a job." They did this to one of the most skilled network engineers I have ever known... Then they were rude jerks to him when he announced was leaving the company.
Not to be a dick, but try living outside your own experiences tho. Some companies bully and shake down their employees. Ever try to deal with an irrational and unreasonable person? It's hard. They will often pull the 'like it or leave it' card, which leaves people in a lurch. Sure, you can leave, but that takes times.
Recently, one of the workers requested well in advance to use his entire 3 weeks of PTO... Management quickly responded no and then commenced threats of not having a job. This person seems pretty fed up and said he would be taking his vacation anyways. Management only relented because they would have been left in a very poor spot without this person.
While its true we all 'choose our own destinies' it is dishonest to not acknowledge the traps people fall into and how some companies will exploit workers who have fallen into those traps.
In the end I moved to a job where I've been told by management to "just say no" if I cant put in the OT, and where if I am on call or put in OT I am fairly compensated.
The place in question did not compensate for being on call, and also often had only one person as the on call (no rotation) for months, or in one case years, at a time. They were told to change some works from salary to hourly by the employment bureau , they did, and a year later turned them back into salary. This place treated its techs, the backbone of the entire product being sold, like shit.
I think one thing that is missing is that companies abuse their IT workers. They often pay them salary and them make them work 24-7, and if one complains they retort "be glad you have a job". Some of them are in clear violation of employment laws yet employees feel trapped. So they remain oncall 24-7; even when they are on vacation in states far away. It's hard to give a shit, and fo the extra effort when your employer is basically an abusive slave driver. With most jobs, when you go home, its done, and jobs that require you to be always on compensate you fairly.
The place I used to work for... I loved the technology. I cared about its quality.Loved my co-workers. In return? Low wages, zero freetime, a douche bag who I'd have to clean up after, broken promises of change/tools/company car... My eye would twitch with the stress... While the sales people would gloat about the new house or car they just bought with the convoluted deal they sold and said 'make this work, and you have 2 days.'... (the new digs are the complete opposite experience.)
No dude, OO is just slow to load. I disabled MS Office from preloading anything... still faster than OO... Has more features, doesnt look like it was written in 1992, etc... OO isnt a threat... Switching over to it on large scale just seems retarded since it lacks the power and features... and ppl notice this right off the rip.
I'm using open office on my core machine now... and so far it basically sucks donkey balls. I'm going to give it another 2-3 weeks... but so far it is complete crap.
This is the kinda douche bag move companies do that piss of their underpaid employees. Want them to dress nicer? Pay them more. Want them to do a good job? Implement training. Want them to 'wear a uniform'? Just pass out free shirts with the logo. Polo, t shits, and button downs. And dont be afraid of the colour black. Dont make i mandatory to wear them... but they were free... Chances are they will wear them without feeling shit upon.
Happy employees go above and beyond... Force uniforms on underpaid people and they will stop caring. I suspect these people arent paid all that great and arent offered any training that amounts to much.
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Spoken like a douche who doesnt live outside his own experience. People in the real world, who do real work with computer, they often use those funny strange keys you dont understand, along with features you dont get. caps lock, num lock, scroll lock, ins/delete/home/end... basic data entry. document and terminal functions used in the real world. I'm gonna bet you dont actually know any AOLers who type with the caps lock on.
Chances are if you are connecting to a 3270 using your pc/laptop you are doing so via Reflections or some other terminal software that will allow you to redefine a key, create a macro, or has a gui button.
I own a portable IBM 3270 terminal with an black on grey LCD. I never used it to connect to an 3270 (I actually used desktop terminal for that) but I did have it on my desk and would use it to interface with anything with a serial or craft port... Just to be geeky.
I cant recall the last time I saw an AOLer use caps locks.
People who use computers to do actual work often use the caps lock key. There are afew databases i access where it comes in handy. I just wish it was in anothe rlocation and something more commonly needed put in its place.
You might want to see the documentary "King of Corn". Think of it as a primer and then continue your research. ITS IN EVERYTHING. You're wearing it now I bet.
Can we cue the morons not running windows 7 who have lots to say about it also?
I consider myself a power user... And so far I've had zero problems. Windows 7 just seems to work.
Corn is in every-fucken-thing. You cant avoid it.
yeah, because you are a stupid douche bag.
No. I think today people understand that if you have been using an address for a long time you stick with it.
Only douche bags discriminate against people based on their email addresses. So, if you deal with a bunch of douche bags, you might want to change your email address. Or, you might want to just not care about the douche bags and what they have to say.
When my friends all started to migrate over to gmail mail people would encourage me to get a gmail address and account. My answer was; um, it doesnt offer me anything I want or need. I've had the same yahoo email address since 1998. I also have my own domain email... which I just forward to my yahoo account. I've known idiots who have had 50 email accounts spam everyone with their new account info... gay.
so, let me state this clearly; if you think that the host name of someones email address matters because its 'old' you are pretty much a dumb stupid douche bag whom i hope gets hit by a car.
The bigotry around AOL is so fucken stupid. I remember irc chans that would ban AOL addresses. Um, its the IRC, its already retarded, AOL isnt gonna make it worse. It's narrow minded asshatted bigotry. Anyone remember the hackers manifesto? we exist without skin color, nation of origin... Yet tech people freeluy discriminate against host names... Dont judge a person based on their content, what they have to offer, etc... but by their host names? I shake my head and thing... gezus... what bunch of dumb mother fuckers. May lead pipes meet the back of each of your skulls just so we have a little less bigotry and asshattery around.
I actually think that @aol.com addresses are sorta cool and retro. same with @excite or @hotmail. What it says to me is "man, that person has had that address for a long long time." It means they were around at about the time things were becoming main stream. In many cases it even says to me, gee, this person has been involved with computers or IT for a long long time.
I've never had AOL... but I've known some very high IQ people that have and who have been discriminated by clueless douche bags based soley on their host names.
I know that if i read other user comments on this subject that I will want to go smoke crack just so i can make myself retarded enuf to understand what the asshats are saying.
They are/were in violation. Until someone reports them again they will continue their practices. The company pulls a nice profit and has backers with deep pockets. It'll be in business for a long time.
Um, no dude. They were investigated, forced to switch from salary to hourly and then a year later illegally switched back.
The answer given when someone said "no" at this place was "No, this is yours. Be happy you have a job." They did this to one of the most skilled network engineers I have ever known... Then they were rude jerks to him when he announced was leaving the company.
Not to be a dick, but try living outside your own experiences tho. Some companies bully and shake down their employees. Ever try to deal with an irrational and unreasonable person? It's hard. They will often pull the 'like it or leave it' card, which leaves people in a lurch. Sure, you can leave, but that takes times.
Recently, one of the workers requested well in advance to use his entire 3 weeks of PTO... Management quickly responded no and then commenced threats of not having a job. This person seems pretty fed up and said he would be taking his vacation anyways. Management only relented because they would have been left in a very poor spot without this person.
While its true we all 'choose our own destinies' it is dishonest to not acknowledge the traps people fall into and how some companies will exploit workers who have fallen into those traps.
In the end I moved to a job where I've been told by management to "just say no" if I cant put in the OT, and where if I am on call or put in OT I am fairly compensated.
The place in question did not compensate for being on call, and also often had only one person as the on call (no rotation) for months, or in one case years, at a time. They were told to change some works from salary to hourly by the employment bureau , they did, and a year later turned them back into salary. This place treated its techs, the backbone of the entire product being sold, like shit.
I think one thing that is missing is that companies abuse their IT workers. They often pay them salary and them make them work 24-7, and if one complains they retort "be glad you have a job". Some of them are in clear violation of employment laws yet employees feel trapped. So they remain oncall 24-7; even when they are on vacation in states far away. It's hard to give a shit, and fo the extra effort when your employer is basically an abusive slave driver. With most jobs, when you go home, its done, and jobs that require you to be always on compensate you fairly.
The place I used to work for... I loved the technology. I cared about its quality.Loved my co-workers. In return? Low wages, zero freetime, a douche bag who I'd have to clean up after, broken promises of change/tools/company car... My eye would twitch with the stress... While the sales people would gloat about the new house or car they just bought with the convoluted deal they sold and said 'make this work, and you have 2 days.'... (the new digs are the complete opposite experience.)
Lots of IT shops are glorified sweatshops.
I stand corrected.
Blizzard should have taken no action without a court order. It's called due process. Fuck blizzard.
humor fail. http://sadtrombone.com/
No dude, OO is just slow to load. I disabled MS Office from preloading anything... still faster than OO... Has more features, doesnt look like it was written in 1992, etc... OO isnt a threat... Switching over to it on large scale just seems retarded since it lacks the power and features... and ppl notice this right off the rip.
I'm using open office on my core machine now... and so far it basically sucks donkey balls. I'm going to give it another 2-3 weeks... but so far it is complete crap.
This is the kinda douche bag move companies do that piss of their underpaid employees. Want them to dress nicer? Pay them more. Want them to do a good job? Implement training. Want them to 'wear a uniform'? Just pass out free shirts with the logo. Polo, t shits, and button downs. And dont be afraid of the colour black. Dont make i mandatory to wear them... but they were free... Chances are they will wear them without feeling shit upon.
Happy employees go above and beyond... Force uniforms on underpaid people and they will stop caring. I suspect these people arent paid all that great and arent offered any training that amounts to much.
I've seen my share of stupid users in a colo...
google kid basic. its neat.
I have this same neurotic response with people who us the word acronym when they should be using initialism.
Enjoying florida?
Seriously, this is a dumb question and reeks of someone trolling for a reply.