Yeah, the chain is great for the common and newish books. The times they run into problems is when their distributors dont carry the books..
That's when I go to our local bookstore.. Viewpoint Books (Columbus, Indiana). They've actually ordered us 10 year old, out of print books from small-time distributors. Amazing business;-) I even got permission from the walden manager to send our customers over there IF we didnt have the requested books in the system.
The only day I can think I didnt want to work there is "The Day After". It still gives me the chills (day after turkey day). It's a fucking mad house!
Microsoft Visual C++ studio, where C is for crack.
Remember kids, the first hits always free.
Read the Oldnews in VirtualDub's site.. Go down to the Compairson between VC++6, ++Net2003, and what he wants.
--SNIP--
This, historically, is why I have not bothered to use MMX/SSE/SSE2 compiler intrinsics in VirtualDub -- the code generation sucks. The VC6 processor pack was quite bad and tended to generate about two move instructions for every ALU op; this was improved in VS.NET 2003, but it still isn't able to resolve binary ops of the form A+A correctly, which I use a lot. But there is an even worse problem -- note that the compiler moved MMX ops below the emms instruction. The generated code is wrong!
Its hardly intiuitive to tell if electricity is running through a circuit, or if the circuits faulty. And testing electricity is dangerous too.
Testing if water is running is hardly a dangerous matter. Go turn off the water, or shut down the waterpump (circuit breaker). Then test an outside water faucet. If it runs, and then quits, the water system is down.
To test a water circuit, turn the water on slightly, and observe drops of water around area.
And finally, AC, floods and water damage are usually from "torrential downpours", building in a floodplane, malfunctioning pipes, or.. from the stopping of fires.
Actually, I believe a system that utilizes H1-B, heavy outsourcing (laying off 50+% of a department and hiring out-of-country labor) and other nasties can be dealt with easily.
Make all government approved tax abatements paid in full, to current date.... Wow, you had an abatement 3 years ago and hired in 4 H1-B's? PAY UP!
I do not advocate fines, fees, or tarriffs. I encourage that if a company wishes to stay here in the US, they either hire US citizens or have no abatements.
---Further, Intel has a brutal job evaluation policy: strict bell curve. If an employee falls in the bottom 25% more than once, then the manager shows her the door. Exceptions are made when there is a labor shortage, but officially, the 25% rule is strictly enforced.
Leave out the emotional buzz words. If you have a bell curve associated with employee efficency (Assuming efficency is mapped), there will always be datapoints mapped in all regions.
This system seems to be the same way nasty ISP's get rid of heavy downloaders: Ax the top 2% of custemers that over-utilize the network connection. Point: There will always be 2%, it'll just shift.
If I'm correct, that refferendum had to do with a person who had to "sign" and couldnt write or read. For people such as those, a notary and a person just marking the signature box is enough.
In your case, there is a clear and unmistakable mark that there's no agreement, and they accepted it by hiring you.
WHy is the state fucking around in "licensing" of plumbers?
Electricity, I can understand, as you can easily catch certain buildings on fire by hacking around with that.. But why does the state care if someone is adept at fixing clogs and replacing pipes?
Come on. It's not that hard to traverse firewalls..
Just set up a "slave" system at home. Set as a tunnel server. Tunnel from 80/tcp.
If you have to, it would be wise to hack SSH that includes peppering ssh encrypted code with a bunch of and other trash;) Auto-traversal of those stupid layer7 filter devices.
I'm here in Indiana myself, and I charge 50$ an hour. If you need me to come in at 1 AM to fix a server issue, Ill be in. Saturday for 1.5 hours? No problem.
Fair price, and flexible hours. My future schedule (actually, concert dates and such, I play principal clarinet for a symphony) is posted on my personal website. Since those are usually Sunday concerts, I have no problems.
Oh well, You are right about many places using ol 'Slowaris.. just I know of 2 banks here (locally, mind you) that both use AIX. Both have ungodly uptimes too..
And they use OS/2 for the interfaces to the ATM's connected to the banks.
Old, stable, and good. Something you can say about IBM technology.
---6) One time we had a system that we didn't have access to, and it got a virus. I would have loved to take responsibility for it, but I couldn't because I can't do much to prevent that if I don't even have Admin access to the box. And also, it came from one of their internal servers - well what do you want me to do about that? Most of the time, I find that we need more protection from a customers internal network - then they need from us.
Please...
If there's a computer on my network I dont have admin of, I go back to 2 simple steps:
1: The box is local. Dremel any such locks (if possible), and root it with a bootdisk.
2: There's a network wire leading out. Cut it, and put a firewalling bridge in there. Firewall off any/all offending crap.
In real Unix talk, they call it chroots. BSD also has jails.
The standard chroot call just changes where / (root dir) is. Easily broke out of by mounting memory over and rewriting over offending portions of/proc/kcore. Similar attacks can be done like that.
Jail is nasty. Gives a very limited kernel call set, many many many settings locked.
Though.... the best is UML. The actual host FS can create firewall rules to stop the virtuals from talking on "bad" ports.
The best (Of all worlds) is a UML-based NSA secure host Liunx system, root enabled only on keyfob, and the host system treated as a bridge. Local root only. Set it and forget it (heh, hardly).
That's just tro scare the small-time criminals who dont know or actually think this crap can happen.
Hell, after knowing what I know about fingerprints, I doubt they're really that effective. A smear with 12 points of identification can say it's you, even when it could be someone else entirely.
Or how they can take DNA samples from any surface, no matter how long ago it WAS there. 1 year, no-problemo.
The show is glorified "|-| A > 0 R" (haxxor) logic.
So, are you saying the government should force us to have a retirement account when the current schema (Social Security) doesnt even half-assed work?
Also, Health insurance costs, and costs a lot. I recently did a speech about this very topic. According to EU's data, they, on average, spend 25% of their GDP on health care alone. What weird thing I did notice about them is their infant mortality rates are lower than the US, but the elderlies die at a faster rate than we do.
Do I want the government mandating or garnishing money for "Our Best Interest"? Nuh huh, dont think so, sorry buster.
I'll take up the old art of "saving". Thankyouverymuch.
Ouch! You just dont tell that to customers, in any sort of manner.
If there's a problem with your hardware/software that a user perceives, you have them "work for you", by either having them innundate you with useless information, or send them on 'idiot quests'. Give them something to do, even if it is worthless for them to. It'll make them feel important.
You never, EVER tell them to stop acting like "engineers". You'll end up with no contract when the year turns around.
---Random side point: is that the correct use of fiduciary obligation? I thought that only refered to the obligation of a broker, agent or accountant to their client.
I believe so.. but I'm not a lawyer.
---None the less, I get what you mean, and you're right.
What I think we've lost sight of in recent years, and Microsoft is guilty of having lost sight of it too, is that that is not the only responsibility that they have. They have a responsibility to their employees (in fact many responsibilities, some of which are enforced by law, and some of which are just part of our culture).
They do, but some of those are social mores and expected in current culture. Better businesses usually keep more of these in lieu of making more profits. That tatic usally keeps better employees and maintains better customer relations.
---They also have a responsibility to the law, including anti-trust laws.
And there's cases where the law may not be right. As of around 2000, Microsoft, in my opinion, has lost its monopoly status to Linux. How do you fight against a group making software, when they do not receive money for use, free to modify and redistribute, and not even an identity (another corporation)?
---Another important point: where do you draw the line? Do they have a responsibility to increase their stock value forever?
No, they do not have a responsibility to increase it, they have a responsibility to attempt to increase it. The difference is just like the way the Constitution is made: right to life, liberty, and the PURSUIT of happieness. They have a responsibility to try their best effort, but sometimes, they cannot.
---There's an expectation that they do, but in reality a company that simply maintains their market and produces dividends SHOULD (and used to) be considered to have met their obligation. Remember that stock is not an interest-bearing instrument.
---We've become a culture obsessed with the idea that companies grow without bounds, and we punish harshly any company that fails to do so.
Well, thats growth. What would you expect if you invested in a company, and then they turned around and said "We're done innovating. We have all the money we're happy with", what would you say or respond? I'd sue them for misleading the prublic.
---The result is that companies have to either lie (Enron, MCI) or cheat (Microsoft, Walmart) in order to match our unrealistic expectations. Companies that play by the old rules are simply crushed.
There were never really any old rules. Making money is still priority #1 and will be. Any action that a company does is to lead to that principle.
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Yeah, the chain is great for the common and newish books. The times they run into problems is when their distributors dont carry the books..
;-) I even got permission from the walden manager to send our customers over there IF we didnt have the requested books in the system.
That's when I go to our local bookstore.. Viewpoint Books (Columbus, Indiana). They've actually ordered us 10 year old, out of print books from small-time distributors. Amazing business
The only day I can think I didnt want to work there is "The Day After". It still gives me the chills (day after turkey day). It's a fucking mad house!
Microsoft Visual C++ studio, where C is for crack.
Remember kids, the first hits always free.
Read the Oldnews in VirtualDub's site.. Go down to the Compairson between VC++6, ++Net2003, and what he wants.
--SNIP--
This, historically, is why I have not bothered to use MMX/SSE/SSE2 compiler intrinsics in VirtualDub -- the code generation sucks. The VC6 processor pack was quite bad and tended to generate about two move instructions for every ALU op; this was improved in VS.NET 2003, but it still isn't able to resolve binary ops of the form A+A correctly, which I use a lot. But there is an even worse problem -- note that the compiler moved MMX ops below the emms instruction. The generated code is wrong!
---end snip---
Still, explain why the government should deal with licensing of a non-life threatening business?
If somebody does a shit job, they can be sued. And that doesnt matter what carrear they have.
Its hardly intiuitive to tell if electricity is running through a circuit, or if the circuits faulty. And testing electricity is dangerous too.
Testing if water is running is hardly a dangerous matter. Go turn off the water, or shut down the waterpump (circuit breaker). Then test an outside water faucet. If it runs, and then quits, the water system is down.
To test a water circuit, turn the water on slightly, and observe drops of water around area.
And finally, AC, floods and water damage are usually from "torrential downpours", building in a floodplane, malfunctioning pipes, or.. from the stopping of fires.
Actually, I believe a system that utilizes H1-B, heavy outsourcing (laying off 50+% of a department and hiring out-of-country labor) and other nasties can be dealt with easily.
Make all government approved tax abatements paid in full, to current date.... Wow, you had an abatement 3 years ago and hired in 4 H1-B's? PAY UP!
I do not advocate fines, fees, or tarriffs. I encourage that if a company wishes to stay here in the US, they either hire US citizens or have no abatements.
---Further, Intel has a brutal job evaluation policy: strict bell curve. If an employee falls in the bottom 25% more than once, then the manager shows her the door. Exceptions are made when there is a labor shortage, but officially, the 25% rule is strictly enforced.
Leave out the emotional buzz words. If you have a bell curve associated with employee efficency (Assuming efficency is mapped), there will always be datapoints mapped in all regions.
This system seems to be the same way nasty ISP's get rid of heavy downloaders: Ax the top 2% of custemers that over-utilize the network connection. Point: There will always be 2%, it'll just shift.
Heh, same here. Once I tested an older chip (350MHz K2) by.... putting my finger on the metal top of the die, and powered it up.
I had a blister for 3 days.
If I'm correct, that refferendum had to do with a person who had to "sign" and couldnt write or read. For people such as those, a notary and a person just marking the signature box is enough.
In your case, there is a clear and unmistakable mark that there's no agreement, and they accepted it by hiring you.
WHy is the state fucking around in "licensing" of plumbers?
Electricity, I can understand, as you can easily catch certain buildings on fire by hacking around with that.. But why does the state care if someone is adept at fixing clogs and replacing pipes?
Come on. It's not that hard to traverse firewalls..
;) Auto-traversal of those stupid layer7 filter devices.
Just set up a "slave" system at home. Set as a tunnel server. Tunnel from 80/tcp.
If you have to, it would be wise to hack SSH that includes peppering ssh encrypted code with a bunch of and other trash
You work at Borders/Waldenbooks.
;) Employee day (sometime between september and January), they give you 50% discount..
I worked there 2 years ago and I loved the perks
I spent 250$ that day alone.
I'm here in Indiana myself, and I charge 50$ an hour. If you need me to come in at 1 AM to fix a server issue, Ill be in. Saturday for 1.5 hours? No problem.
Fair price, and flexible hours. My future schedule (actually, concert dates and such, I play principal clarinet for a symphony) is posted on my personal website. Since those are usually Sunday concerts, I have no problems.
Oh well, You are right about many places using ol 'Slowaris.. just I know of 2 banks here (locally, mind you) that both use AIX. Both have ungodly uptimes too..
And they use OS/2 for the interfaces to the ATM's connected to the banks.
Old, stable, and good. Something you can say about IBM technology.
A picture just popped in my mind..... ...A "Sys-admin" trying to figure why the AIX mainframe for the city bank isnt processing transactions...
How much per hour do you think they lose when that "big daddy" mainframe goes down?
---6) One time we had a system that we didn't have access to, and it got a virus. I would have loved to take responsibility for it, but I couldn't because I can't do much to prevent that if I don't even have Admin access to the box. And also, it came from one of their internal servers - well what do you want me to do about that? Most of the time, I find that we need more protection from a customers internal network - then they need from us.
Please...
If there's a computer on my network I dont have admin of, I go back to 2 simple steps:
1: The box is local. Dremel any such locks (if possible), and root it with a bootdisk.
2: There's a network wire leading out. Cut it, and put a firewalling bridge in there. Firewall off any/all offending crap.
In real Unix talk, they call it chroots. BSD also has jails.
/proc/kcore. Similar attacks can be done like that.
The standard chroot call just changes where / (root dir) is. Easily broke out of by mounting memory over and rewriting over offending portions of
Jail is nasty. Gives a very limited kernel call set, many many many settings locked.
Though.... the best is UML. The actual host FS can create firewall rules to stop the virtuals from talking on "bad" ports.
The best (Of all worlds) is a UML-based NSA secure host Liunx system, root enabled only on keyfob, and the host system treated as a bridge. Local root only. Set it and forget it (heh, hardly).
That's just tro scare the small-time criminals who dont know or actually think this crap can happen.
Hell, after knowing what I know about fingerprints, I doubt they're really that effective. A smear with 12 points of identification can say it's you, even when it could be someone else entirely.
Or how they can take DNA samples from any surface, no matter how long ago it WAS there. 1 year, no-problemo.
The show is glorified "|-| A > 0 R" (haxxor) logic.
So, are you saying the government should force us to have a retirement account when the current schema (Social Security) doesnt even half-assed work?
Also, Health insurance costs, and costs a lot. I recently did a speech about this very topic. According to EU's data, they, on average, spend 25% of their GDP on health care alone. What weird thing I did notice about them is their infant mortality rates are lower than the US, but the elderlies die at a faster rate than we do.
Do I want the government mandating or garnishing money for "Our Best Interest"? Nuh huh, dont think so, sorry buster.
I'll take up the old art of "saving". Thankyouverymuch.
Thank you, Mr AC.
Wonder what that parent thought what the MS tax was? Government payola?
They get past the Microsoft Tax? Do they declare them as "mainframes" and not pay the WIndows fee associated?
If not, I'll take a copy of Windows if i MUST pay for it.
capability to store large amounts of power? Batteries stink in terms of reuse, and most other things cannot be renewed.
EVen a intermediary step, like electrolysis of water to H2 and O2 would be better than most.. But that's too many steps to loose efficency...
Eww..
www.partsexpress can be read as either:
"parts express" or "part sex press".
After knowing of other domain-crashing pr0n sites.. I hate to know what it is.
Speeders future punishments...
1 KPH over, 1KV BZZZZTTT!
Ouch! You just dont tell that to customers, in any sort of manner.
If there's a problem with your hardware/software that a user perceives, you have them "work for you", by either having them innundate you with useless information, or send them on 'idiot quests'. Give them something to do, even if it is worthless for them to. It'll make them feel important.
You never, EVER tell them to stop acting like "engineers". You'll end up with no contract when the year turns around.
---Random side point: is that the correct use of fiduciary obligation? I thought that only refered to the obligation of a broker, agent or accountant to their client.
I believe so.. but I'm not a lawyer.
---None the less, I get what you mean, and you're right.
What I think we've lost sight of in recent years, and Microsoft is guilty of having lost sight of it too, is that that is not the only responsibility that they have. They have a responsibility to their employees (in fact many responsibilities, some of which are enforced by law, and some of which are just part of our culture).
They do, but some of those are social mores and expected in current culture. Better businesses usually keep more of these in lieu of making more profits. That tatic usally keeps better employees and maintains better customer relations.
---They also have a responsibility to the law, including anti-trust laws.
And there's cases where the law may not be right. As of around 2000, Microsoft, in my opinion, has lost its monopoly status to Linux. How do you fight against a group making software, when they do not receive money for use, free to modify and redistribute, and not even an identity (another corporation)?
---Another important point: where do you draw the line? Do they have a responsibility to increase their stock value forever?
No, they do not have a responsibility to increase it, they have a responsibility to attempt to increase it. The difference is just like the way the Constitution is made: right to life, liberty, and the PURSUIT of happieness. They have a responsibility to try their best effort, but sometimes, they cannot.
---There's an expectation that they do, but in reality a company that simply maintains their market and produces dividends SHOULD (and used to) be considered to have met their obligation. Remember that stock is not an interest-bearing instrument.
---We've become a culture obsessed with the idea that companies grow without bounds, and we punish harshly any company that fails to do so.
Well, thats growth. What would you expect if you invested in a company, and then they turned around and said "We're done innovating. We have all the money we're happy with", what would you say or respond? I'd sue them for misleading the prublic.
---The result is that companies have to either lie (Enron, MCI) or cheat (Microsoft, Walmart) in order to match our unrealistic expectations. Companies that play by the old rules are simply crushed.
There were never really any old rules. Making money is still priority #1 and will be. Any action that a company does is to lead to that principle.