Sorry dude I'm old school... that is why I am so cynical of the so called experience that head hunters say they require, and the experience that others say they have. I wonder why I hamstring myself by telling the truth... but I can't help it.
Fletcher: Nothing! Because if I take it to small claims court, it will just drain 8 hours out of my life and you probably won't show up and even if I got the judgment you'd just stiff me anyway; so what I am going to do is piss and moan like an impotent jerk, and then bend over and take it up the tailpipe!
These laws don't make sense unless the countries/regions also want to deal with how the data is disseminated.
I just got off the phone dealing with someone from my phone company's customer service centre... in India. He was very helpful, so don't get me wrong but... It was disconcerting to know he could check my credit card number. I am sure many/most offshore call centre's employees are honest, but I have to wonder about how this privacy crap matters when we allow corporations to send our private information to servers around the world.
For example there are many Canadians in British Columbia who bitch and moan and disparage the U.S. about homeland security and privacy issues (probably about as many as do the same in the U.S.:-) )... but at the same time don't complain when the British Columbia outsources their health care information billing system to a U.S. company who now have all their citizens financial and medical information. And which is subject to search etc. by the U.S. government now since the data is stored on American servers.
Another thought: What happens if we have a dispute with China and they have centres there with access to our personal and corporate information. They have leverage to influence in ways that might not be good... tell us to leave them alone or they destroy or corrupt the information on the servers under their control?
And some people in America wonder why so many people in other countries don't like America. Get a clue. You think treating people from other countries like shit doesn't affect Americans. There are many other countries as free as America... and now-a-days, certainly many are more free. So this B.S. that terrorists attack America because they don't like freedom is just that, bullshit. Why not practice some of that Christian philosophy that President Wanker professes to espouse: do onto other as you would have them do unto you. The practice of screw everyone for the money sure hasn't worked for your safety has it? And if you are going to say how safe the country has been with the new stasi... there were more Americans killed by American terrorists against Americans (Oklahoma City) than by foreign terrorists in the ten years before 9/11. Meanwhile there have been more than 3000 killed since. And those were killed by the actions of another American: the president. I happen to know that there are many Americans who don't share your view. It is why I think there is still hope for the country.
And actually... ATT still owns the copper to my place even though I am using another ISP... In Canada the other ISP owned the fibre. The funny thing is that the ISP I use in St. Louis told me that the city has fibre layed down through the whole downtown even out to where I am, but no-one has hooked it up. That is what they told me, so take it with a grain of salt.
I think they're trying to induce competition which much of the US lacks, leading to higher prices and lower bitrates.
I just moved back to the U.S. from Vancouver (excellent summers but couldn't take the 6 months of continuous rain every winter). In Vancouver when I called for DSL I had it in one or two days and the Speakeasy speed test said 8 Mb/sec down and 6 Mb/sec up (confirmed with other tests and randomly over a couple months). It was with a company called Novus who have fibre all over the downtown there. It went down a few too many times for my liking but in my opinion beat the local telco and cable service hands down (Telus and Shaw respectively). And for $CDN40/month. And no DSL modem... direct port. Like that for all the buildings in the downtown.
Got back to St. Louis. Took ATT a week and a half to get me hooked up and they sent me a DSL modem I didn't want. Then I find out they want me to install some crap software in order to 'activate' my account. Told them to blow and went with another (local) company. Similar price to what I was paying in Canada but 1.8 Mb/sec "best availability" down and 300 Kb/sec "best availability" up. But this is what I would have been getting with ATT anyway. Mind you I could pay double what I was in Canada for 'broadband' and get half of what I was getting.
So yes... I agree there is an issue with competition in the U.S. Credible competition anyway. Meanwhile I am still trying to get used to this shitty lag that I have now.
Agreed. While you are at school and see problems with this, it is nothing compared to when networks go out in a large company. In many companies, especially larger ones, if the network goes out for whatever reason, most if not all work stops if it relies on those network resources (it doesn't happen often and you can rail all you want about incompetent admins, but such is life, shit happens). Take large software projects where people can no longer check out code from centralized repositories, or accounting departments who cannot access spreadsheets on network drives.
Networks and/or the internet are not always up. However, a company has greater control of their own network than any part of the internet backbone that they may need to run across. If their own network or server(s) goes down they can fix them directly. It would be insane however to have critical applications hosted on remote machines that you don't have control over, accessed over a network that you don't have control over. The people who maintain them have different priorities than you most likely.
The only way I see centralized application servers being useful in an enterprise is if they are hosted internally to the enterprise. Otherwise this only makes sense for use by people who cannot afford to run the apps on their own machines, don't have the technical expertise to install/run the apps, or don't own a machine and access them from internet cafes (for example).
Technically, I think they would have a strong case if they charged them with impaired driving. It was impaired by their texting. Alcohol doesn't have to be involved to be impaired.
Is that the one where one of the company president's memo to the company got leaked to the media several years ago? The one where he said he expected the parking lot to be full from 7 to 7 and meetings should only be held before 8 a.m. and after 5 p.m. so they didn't interrupt work? Their name wouldn't be something like C*rn*r by any chance? I walked away from them too. They use Disney management techniques. Very goofy (pun intended). Dress code was business formal or "C*rn*r casual"... you had to buy their jeans and shirts from the company store with their logo on it. You were indoctrinated the first week by "trainers" who smiled like a bunch of Moonie recruiters who went over the company's 'values' and threw you a small Disney figurine when you got a verbal question right (sit boy sit... good dog). They are however, one of the biggest health care IT companies around and their software is used all over the place. I still wouldn't want to work for them though.
Agreed. In the case of the British Columbia ferries it is about a 1.5 hour ferry ride at a cost for one car and driver of about $50.00 CDN. From that link I provided, they estimate that the toll in order to pay for a tunnel could run as high as $800.00 CDN. People either could not afford to go there or would not want to pay for a $1,600 CDN round trip to the island.
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this could be huge... but I won't hold my breath... likely to die first.
no... but it comes with a root kit pre-installed from sony
Anything is possible given enough time, enough money, and someone else to do it for you.
go phone from att
Sorry dude I'm old school... that is why I am so cynical of the so called experience that head hunters say they require, and the experience that others say they have. I wonder why I hamstring myself by telling the truth... but I can't help it.
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They lie through their teeth.
next question.
... and are a good indicator at what a bunch of pussies the so called democratic leaders of America are.
ya... and we wouldn't have had the mouse without apple
:-p
what... the mouse was invented BEFORE apple???? gasp
and the U.S. government isn't interested in hacking into people's computers? give me a break. isn't that what that who at&t privacy case was about?
My parents made three of them. They just didn't need "high technology" or scientists to do it.
Fletcher: Nothing! Because if I take it to small claims court, it will just drain 8 hours out of my life and you probably won't show up and even if I got the judgment you'd just stiff me anyway; so what I am going to do is piss and moan like an impotent jerk, and then bend over and take it up the tailpipe!
From the film Liar Liar
These laws don't make sense unless the countries/regions also want to deal with how the data is disseminated.
I just got off the phone dealing with someone from my phone company's customer service centre... in India. He was very helpful, so don't get me wrong but... It was disconcerting to know he could check my credit card number. I am sure many/most offshore call centre's employees are honest, but I have to wonder about how this privacy crap matters when we allow corporations to send our private information to servers around the world.
For example there are many Canadians in British Columbia who bitch and moan and disparage the U.S. about homeland security and privacy issues (probably about as many as do the same in the U.S. :-) )... but at the same time don't complain when the British Columbia outsources their health care information billing system to a U.S. company who now have all their citizens financial and medical information. And which is subject to search etc. by the U.S. government now since the data is stored on American servers.
Another thought: What happens if we have a dispute with China and they have centres there with access to our personal and corporate information. They have leverage to influence in ways that might not be good... tell us to leave them alone or they destroy or corrupt the information on the servers under their control?
If the dog hadn't stopped to have a crap, he would have caught the rabbit.
Some pig farmers use pig feed with too high a chemical and drug content in them. I guess they can't be certified 'organic' then.
And some people in America wonder why so many people in other countries don't like America. Get a clue. You think treating people from other countries like shit doesn't affect Americans. There are many other countries as free as America... and now-a-days, certainly many are more free. So this B.S. that terrorists attack America because they don't like freedom is just that, bullshit. Why not practice some of that Christian philosophy that President Wanker professes to espouse: do onto other as you would have them do unto you. The practice of screw everyone for the money sure hasn't worked for your safety has it? And if you are going to say how safe the country has been with the new stasi... there were more Americans killed by American terrorists against Americans (Oklahoma City) than by foreign terrorists in the ten years before 9/11. Meanwhile there have been more than 3000 killed since. And those were killed by the actions of another American: the president. I happen to know that there are many Americans who don't share your view. It is why I think there is still hope for the country.
And actually... ATT still owns the copper to my place even though I am using another ISP... In Canada the other ISP owned the fibre. The funny thing is that the ISP I use in St. Louis told me that the city has fibre layed down through the whole downtown even out to where I am, but no-one has hooked it up. That is what they told me, so take it with a grain of salt.
I just moved back to the U.S. from Vancouver (excellent summers but couldn't take the 6 months of continuous rain every winter). In Vancouver when I called for DSL I had it in one or two days and the Speakeasy speed test said 8 Mb/sec down and 6 Mb/sec up (confirmed with other tests and randomly over a couple months). It was with a company called Novus who have fibre all over the downtown there. It went down a few too many times for my liking but in my opinion beat the local telco and cable service hands down (Telus and Shaw respectively). And for $CDN40/month. And no DSL modem... direct port. Like that for all the buildings in the downtown.
Got back to St. Louis. Took ATT a week and a half to get me hooked up and they sent me a DSL modem I didn't want. Then I find out they want me to install some crap software in order to 'activate' my account. Told them to blow and went with another (local) company. Similar price to what I was paying in Canada but 1.8 Mb/sec "best availability" down and 300 Kb/sec "best availability" up. But this is what I would have been getting with ATT anyway. Mind you I could pay double what I was in Canada for 'broadband' and get half of what I was getting.
So yes... I agree there is an issue with competition in the U.S. Credible competition anyway. Meanwhile I am still trying to get used to this shitty lag that I have now.
It depends on what you mean.
Agreed. While you are at school and see problems with this, it is nothing compared to when networks go out in a large company. In many companies, especially larger ones, if the network goes out for whatever reason, most if not all work stops if it relies on those network resources (it doesn't happen often and you can rail all you want about incompetent admins, but such is life, shit happens). Take large software projects where people can no longer check out code from centralized repositories, or accounting departments who cannot access spreadsheets on network drives.
Networks and/or the internet are not always up. However, a company has greater control of their own network than any part of the internet backbone that they may need to run across. If their own network or server(s) goes down they can fix them directly. It would be insane however to have critical applications hosted on remote machines that you don't have control over, accessed over a network that you don't have control over. The people who maintain them have different priorities than you most likely.
The only way I see centralized application servers being useful in an enterprise is if they are hosted internally to the enterprise. Otherwise this only makes sense for use by people who cannot afford to run the apps on their own machines, don't have the technical expertise to install/run the apps, or don't own a machine and access them from internet cafes (for example).
I usually find the opposite. Most home users use their ISP's pop3/imap/smtp and the tech crowd use gmail, hotmail, or yahoo.
Agreed. In the case of the British Columbia ferries it is about a 1.5 hour ferry ride at a cost for one car and driver of about $50.00 CDN. From that link I provided, they estimate that the toll in order to pay for a tunnel could run as high as $800.00 CDN. People either could not afford to go there or would not want to pay for a $1,600 CDN round trip to the island.