I've worked in places where I didn't get to vet the resumes or write the classified ad. The most HR would let me do was reject the subset of resumes they deemed worthy and ask them to set up interviews with those that remained. It's quite interesting when they post ads asking for experts in 'Windows 97' or 'Novel Netwear'.
Reminds me of the time we got the high speed paper shredder and put it in the copy room next to the high speed band printer. The other tech and I looked at each, grinned, and promptly fed the output from the continous feed printer into the input of the shredder. It was a close race, but the shredder won, proving conclusively that it is easier to destroy than create.
There were times in college where I might have found that useful. I paid my own way through school, so anything to keep expenses down. I was a PoliSci major (go ahead and laugh, I'll wait...) and probably 50% of my textbook costs were $20 paperbacks that were only used by one prof for one semester. There was zero market (buy or sell) for used versions of these books.
Some of my classes used 15 or 20 books over the course of the semester, so a 33% savings over retail would have made a big difference. If anything was so good I wanted a permanent copy, I could buy a paper copy (used if I could find it).
For one, The local telco only has the infrastructure because of a pre-existing monopoly. You're not supposed to be allowed to leverage a monopoly in one market to undercut or prevent competition in another. Second, in many areas, it is simply not possible to string new cable alongside the existing stuff, or to get permission to rip up the roads to lay new lines.
Not to mention the fact that there are a lot of places in Adams Morgan where you could sit at another establishment and still have access to their signal.
I was with you right up until the last one. Music is a luxury. It's not food, or shelter. You're not going to die if you don't get it. Not having the money to buy something is not an excuse to steal it.
I had this problem. Loud PC, small apartment. Made it hard to leave on all the time downloading, um, updates...yeah, downloading updates.
Anyway, before I decided to plunk down some serious $$$ on quiet power supply, case fans, new case etc., I figured I'd give quieting the thing down one more shot with just what I had on hand. Turns out, I could disable both of the loud as hell case fans. The overall case temp. went up several degrees, but the CPU and MB sensors only went up a couple. PC has been running 24/7 for almost 2 months that way now, during the hottest part of the year.
Because in nearly every situation, those wires are run through public spaces, and it is extraordinarily expensive, inconvenient, and difficult to rip up said public spaces for everyone that may want to run a wire through it. The last several years in Washington DC were hell because the damn streets were being ripped open and repaved continuously. At least now they nominally have restrictions on how often it can be done on any given thoroughfare. The RBOCs made disgusting profits from their monopoly for years; I see nothing wrong with making them open up the infrastructure paid for by the public. There should be a sunset provision (like copyrights or patents, only much, much shorter) that requires them to open things up after a certain number of years.
I've met a lot of talented IT folks that never went to college, and a lot of worthless ones who never went to college either. But the good ones still regret not going, because they understand that there are things you can miss when you learn in an unstructured environment, and you have opportunities to meet people and expand your skills in all sorts of areas. It's only the immature losers that bad-mouth the college education they never had. Adults who are worth working with would never be glad they missed the opportunities college offered.
Actually, that was the purpose of the experiment. The drug was a phobia-reducer, the side effects are lowered blood pressure. They just told you it was a blood pressure med so as not to skew the results.
One of the few times I used text messaging was to send a short message to all the people in my (small) company telling them that our ISP was having trouble, that email was down until they fixed the problem, and to stop bugging me. Since I could send the one message to everyone at once, it saved me 20 minutes of stupid phone calls explaining the same shit over and over again. So, once in 4 years it was useful.
It could easily be better than 'Jedi'. Star Wars will always be #1, because even if you wanted to, you can't shake the nostalgia value. 'Empire' would be #2. 'Attack of the Clones' could have been #3 if it weren't for the painfully awkward scenes between Amidala and Skywalker.
Don't forget, 'Jedi' gave us Boba Fett going down like a bitch and Ewoks.
Blockbuster doesn't understand where their competitive advantage lies (or, maybe they do, but can't use it for some reason). I got their little flyer in the mail the other day. Two options: Netflix-like rentals, or one at a time, unlimited, from the store. But I can't have both. I'm forced to choose between selection and convenience, and right now, Netflix has a better selection and better customer service. If I could combine the two Blockbuster offerings, I'd probably switch, because even though I usually get my Netflix stuff within 48 hours, I walk past a Blockbuster on my way home from work. I could pop in and pick something up on the spur of the moment.
It'll see it as an SMP box. XP Pro is SMP -enabled out of the box, so I suspect XP64 will be too. I think it's limited to two processors, but that shouldn't be a problem.
The problem is with your IT department, then, not with Trend Micro. The TM client software can be deployed in a number of ways that don't require client interaction, much less giving them the admin password.
I use TM's enterprise stuff at a number of clients, and I've found it to be far more reliable than anything else. Most of my clients were using other products before I moved them over to TM, and nearly all of them were having problems with client interaction, updates not working, etc. And despite updating regularly, I've never been hit by any of the bugs reported.
Best part of these is the morons at work that save their important data to them instead of to the network, and then lose them. It's always fun to be able to tell them they're screwed and not have to help them.
Anyone working on dual-core GPUs? I'd think with the graphics demand + the small amount of real estate on the card, it would be a worthwhile pursuit. Easier to implement than SLI, plus you could still SLI and get 4 GPUs.
No, a patent is in the right hands if it's controlled by someone whose going to use it to build a better product, or license it to those who will. It's in the wrong hands if its controlled by someone whose going to use it prevent competition.
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Not funny, too true.
I've worked in places where I didn't get to vet the resumes or write the classified ad. The most HR would let me do was reject the subset of resumes they deemed worthy and ask them to set up interviews with those that remained. It's quite interesting when they post ads asking for experts in 'Windows 97' or 'Novel Netwear'.
Reminds me of the time we got the high speed paper shredder and put it in the copy room next to the high speed band printer. The other tech and I looked at each, grinned, and promptly fed the output from the continous feed printer into the input of the shredder. It was a close race, but the shredder won, proving conclusively that it is easier to destroy than create.
There were times in college where I might have found that useful. I paid my own way through school, so anything to keep expenses down. I was a PoliSci major (go ahead and laugh, I'll wait...) and probably 50% of my textbook costs were $20 paperbacks that were only used by one prof for one semester. There was zero market (buy or sell) for used versions of these books.
Some of my classes used 15 or 20 books over the course of the semester, so a 33% savings over retail would have made a big difference. If anything was so good I wanted a permanent copy, I could buy a paper copy (used if I could find it).
For one, The local telco only has the infrastructure because of a pre-existing monopoly. You're not supposed to be allowed to leverage a monopoly in one market to undercut or prevent competition in another. Second, in many areas, it is simply not possible to string new cable alongside the existing stuff, or to get permission to rip up the roads to lay new lines.
If he's impotent, I don't think you have to worry about *anything* resulting from their union.
Not to mention the fact that there are a lot of places in Adams Morgan where you could sit at another establishment and still have access to their signal.
I, for one, welcome our new 2003-EL61ian overlords.
Sorry...I've never gotten to do one of those before.
I was with you right up until the last one. Music is a luxury. It's not food, or shelter. You're not going to die if you don't get it. Not having the money to buy something is not an excuse to steal it.
Here's hoping those in the gaming community more skilled than myself will be releasing patches for these games to remove the ads.
I had this problem. Loud PC, small apartment. Made it hard to leave on all the time downloading, um, updates...yeah, downloading updates.
Anyway, before I decided to plunk down some serious $$$ on quiet power supply, case fans, new case etc., I figured I'd give quieting the thing down one more shot with just what I had on hand. Turns out, I could disable both of the loud as hell case fans. The overall case temp. went up several degrees, but the CPU and MB sensors only went up a couple. PC has been running 24/7 for almost 2 months that way now, during the hottest part of the year.
Because in nearly every situation, those wires are run through public spaces, and it is extraordinarily expensive, inconvenient, and difficult to rip up said public spaces for everyone that may want to run a wire through it. The last several years in Washington DC were hell because the damn streets were being ripped open and repaved continuously. At least now they nominally have restrictions on how often it can be done on any given thoroughfare. The RBOCs made disgusting profits from their monopoly for years; I see nothing wrong with making them open up the infrastructure paid for by the public. There should be a sunset provision (like copyrights or patents, only much, much shorter) that requires them to open things up after a certain number of years.
I've met a lot of talented IT folks that never went to college, and a lot of worthless ones who never went to college either. But the good ones still regret not going, because they understand that there are things you can miss when you learn in an unstructured environment, and you have opportunities to meet people and expand your skills in all sorts of areas. It's only the immature losers that bad-mouth the college education they never had. Adults who are worth working with would never be glad they missed the opportunities college offered.
He probably just waved his hand and said 'I'm not the third-party you're looking for.'
Actually, that was the purpose of the experiment. The drug was a phobia-reducer, the side effects are lowered blood pressure. They just told you it was a blood pressure med so as not to skew the results.
One of the few times I used text messaging was to send a short message to all the people in my (small) company telling them that our ISP was having trouble, that email was down until they fixed the problem, and to stop bugging me. Since I could send the one message to everyone at once, it saved me 20 minutes of stupid phone calls explaining the same shit over and over again. So, once in 4 years it was useful.
It could easily be better than 'Jedi'. Star Wars will always be #1, because even if you wanted to, you can't shake the nostalgia value. 'Empire' would be #2. 'Attack of the Clones' could have been #3 if it weren't for the painfully awkward scenes between Amidala and Skywalker.
Don't forget, 'Jedi' gave us Boba Fett going down like a bitch and Ewoks.
Blockbuster doesn't understand where their competitive advantage lies (or, maybe they do, but can't use it for some reason). I got their little flyer in the mail the other day. Two options: Netflix-like rentals, or one at a time, unlimited, from the store. But I can't have both. I'm forced to choose between selection and convenience, and right now, Netflix has a better selection and better customer service. If I could combine the two Blockbuster offerings, I'd probably switch, because even though I usually get my Netflix stuff within 48 hours, I walk past a Blockbuster on my way home from work. I could pop in and pick something up on the spur of the moment.
Please tell me you told the users they had to remove their fingers to use the scanner?
It'll see it as an SMP box. XP Pro is SMP -enabled out of the box, so I suspect XP64 will be too. I think it's limited to two processors, but that shouldn't be a problem.
The problem is with your IT department, then, not with Trend Micro. The TM client software can be deployed in a number of ways that don't require client interaction, much less giving them the admin password.
I use TM's enterprise stuff at a number of clients, and I've found it to be far more reliable than anything else. Most of my clients were using other products before I moved them over to TM, and nearly all of them were having problems with client interaction, updates not working, etc. And despite updating regularly, I've never been hit by any of the bugs reported.
Best part of these is the morons at work that save their important data to them instead of to the network, and then lose them. It's always fun to be able to tell them they're screwed and not have to help them.
there'll be a Starbucks there within a week.
Anyone working on dual-core GPUs? I'd think with the graphics demand + the small amount of real estate on the card, it would be a worthwhile pursuit. Easier to implement than SLI, plus you could still SLI and get 4 GPUs.
Now on with the complacency of the next five years!
That sounds too much like work. I think I'll just keep the old complacency.
No, a patent is in the right hands if it's controlled by someone whose going to use it to build a better product, or license it to those who will. It's in the wrong hands if its controlled by someone whose going to use it prevent competition.