I feel that people are confusing "evil" with profit.
Google went public. Google is a business. Google now aims (moreso at least) to generate profit for its owners.
But doing something that makes money for a company does not make it evil?
Who does this hurt?
If Nintendo said they were going to call the Wii say the Nintendo GameCube 2, would they have gotten near as much PR for the name?
Lots of people know they name of nintendos new console, and Nintendo did little more than release a press release, it wasn't a multi million dollar ad campaign.
genious!
Well its a slow day... so here is my input.
I do tech support Lvl 1 for Apple.
High turnover rate... poor service. Most people dont care about this job, so it results in shitty service. There are basically no insentives to do a great job and help the customer. The insentives are for selling. I dont want to sell, i rather technical help people. I find it rewarding to get someones, say a student with a paper to write, computer orking so it can serve its purpose.
I treat people according to how they treat me. If your an ass, condecending, or scream at me, expect to wait abit while I read/. before i fix your problem, because I am researching the issue for you. Also if your pleasant and understanding, I will go out of my way to be helpful.
If you dont hear anything for a while after you ask, "I want to speak to the president of the company, I want there phone number", it is because I am laughing at you and your muted.
If I dont help you because you using a product I dont support, I dont care if you have used macs since 1984, own apple stock or own every apple ever made and worship your newton.... opps got a call... gotta go.
Mac users often rename their home folder, and then wonder why things get messed up. They also never admit to changing the home folder until you have tried everything else.
I am at work now doing tech support for Apple.
11/H Canadian is not bad, to tell people how connect to wireless networks with 3000 dollar computers and surf/.
Naw. Put him in a room filled with robots armed with Ak-47s and DEalge's, which are remote controled via a hacked together fiberoptic cables into a linux box system manned with some geekey slashdotters, who are geniuenly pissed about spam.
In highschool I have yet to meet a computer teacher that is a trained programmer, other than self taught. Most are business/science teachers that get the job to try to teach kids to program while most kids goof off.
The best teachers within highschools are senior students. I was a peer tutor in a grade 10 coding class (while I was taking grade 12 programming[java]) that was learning Turing. The teacher the first day gave me a week to learn the years cirriclum including learning Turing which I had never touched before.
I marked papers, and helped the students find there mistakes in there code.
I hope they learned as much from me, as I did from them.
They are no different in there purpose than movies, tv, visualizations, or fingers... they are cool and fun... when using recreational pharmacuticles or intoxicating beverages.
I am always impressed at how good the names of these Bills are (although deceptice), its almost as if they are engineered to get people to back it (ok they probably are).
Its an advertizers dream. You get a system that narrows down a specific group of interested gamers, and it tracks what games people are playing, so you know what games people play, how much the play, and once you data mine that, you can target ads, based on what other gamers who are playing the same games.
i would say for an established user base, and a decent technology, and a fat cheque for Thresh thats a good deal imo.
Curtain -> Locks the client and hides from view the client's screen while you control the client computer.
Widget -> using Mac OS X Tiger's Dashboard, to provide an easy way to observe the screens of client computers. You dont have to have ARD3 open to use the widget.
The Application Usage -> reports that have been in use (any user account on the client) and chronology of when applications were active.
Apple doesn't make hardware.
They make software, and design computers and hardware, and outsource the manufacturing.
An Intel Mac is no less and Apple than a PPC Mac.
Clarification for the moderators out that that dont understand modern ebonics.
I was refering to this guy as a friggin' genious. I know enough to know that this guy has some sweet skills, and surely deserves some credit.
A true hacker guru.
I buy parts based on bang-for-the-buck factor. Price to preformance is what matters to me. Then I overclock it.
I also dont buy "cheap" parts in order to save money. Because replacement costs, downtime, ect, means "cheap" parts aren't cheap.
My previous comments on this game...
Oblivion is the first time I have played a TES game. Being someone who loves FPS (hardcore UT and Battlefield player), it takes some thing special for me to play something that doesn't have quad damage and a rocket launcher. I can count the number for non FPSers I own in two hands. A need for speed game that I bought when I got my first car (which I played breifly and haven't touched since) and Oblivion. Having put 30 hours into one character, mostly in 6 hour spurts after work, I am hooked. Who would have though bows and arrows were as cool as rocket launchers?
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I feel that people are confusing "evil" with profit. Google went public. Google is a business. Google now aims (moreso at least) to generate profit for its owners. But doing something that makes money for a company does not make it evil? Who does this hurt?
If Nintendo said they were going to call the Wii say the Nintendo GameCube 2, would they have gotten near as much PR for the name? Lots of people know they name of nintendos new console, and Nintendo did little more than release a press release, it wasn't a multi million dollar ad campaign. genious!
Well its a slow day... so here is my input. I do tech support Lvl 1 for Apple. High turnover rate... poor service. Most people dont care about this job, so it results in shitty service. There are basically no insentives to do a great job and help the customer. The insentives are for selling. I dont want to sell, i rather technical help people. I find it rewarding to get someones, say a student with a paper to write, computer orking so it can serve its purpose. I treat people according to how they treat me. If your an ass, condecending, or scream at me, expect to wait abit while I read /. before i fix your problem, because I am researching the issue for you. Also if your pleasant and understanding, I will go out of my way to be helpful.
If you dont hear anything for a while after you ask, "I want to speak to the president of the company, I want there phone number", it is because I am laughing at you and your muted.
If I dont help you because you using a product I dont support, I dont care if you have used macs since 1984, own apple stock or own every apple ever made and worship your newton. ... opps got a call... gotta go.
Mac users often rename their home folder, and then wonder why things get messed up. They also never admit to changing the home folder until you have tried everything else.
I am at work now doing tech support for Apple. 11/H Canadian is not bad, to tell people how connect to wireless networks with 3000 dollar computers and surf /.
Naw. Put him in a room filled with robots armed with Ak-47s and DEalge's, which are remote controled via a hacked together fiberoptic cables into a linux box system manned with some geekey slashdotters, who are geniuenly pissed about spam.
In highschool I have yet to meet a computer teacher that is a trained programmer, other than self taught. Most are business/science teachers that get the job to try to teach kids to program while most kids goof off.
The best teachers within highschools are senior students. I was a peer tutor in a grade 10 coding class (while I was taking grade 12 programming[java]) that was learning Turing. The teacher the first day gave me a week to learn the years cirriclum including learning Turing which I had never touched before.
I marked papers, and helped the students find there mistakes in there code.
I hope they learned as much from me, as I did from them.
I got a Dell. Took it out of the box, popped in my copy of windows. Booted to the disk, formated, installed Windows and linux, and was done.
They are no different in there purpose than movies, tv, visualizations, or fingers... they are cool and fun... when using recreational pharmacuticles or intoxicating beverages.
I am always impressed at how good the names of these Bills are (although deceptice), its almost as if they are engineered to get people to back it (ok they probably are).
Its an advertizers dream. You get a system that narrows down a specific group of interested gamers, and it tracks what games people are playing, so you know what games people play, how much the play, and once you data mine that, you can target ads, based on what other gamers who are playing the same games.
i would say for an established user base, and a decent technology, and a fat cheque for Thresh thats a good deal imo.
Please dont obey this law, unprotected wifi makes me using it easier.
That could be benificial.
Just patent the lazy style of undocumented code, and then sue the bastards that dont provide documentation.
They are just waiting to bundle it with Duke Nukem Forever...
Great, and while you have Mr Smith, I will have Mrs. Smith.
Freakin' Franklin Gonzo George Holy Holistics Invisible Irwin Joyful Juliet Kingsized Kings Laughable Lables Micky Mouse Nourished Nigerians Outstanding Opensource Pornographic Phonographs Quenched Quickens Real Reasons Super Skidmarks Triumphant Tubas Upsidedown Umbrellas Victorious Villans Wicked Wakasachi Xtreme Xenocide Yelling Yams Zaney Zoolander (its linux, fuck copyright)
Curtain -> Locks the client and hides from view the client's screen while you control the client computer. Widget -> using Mac OS X Tiger's Dashboard, to provide an easy way to observe the screens of client computers. You dont have to have ARD3 open to use the widget. The Application Usage -> reports that have been in use (any user account on the client) and chronology of when applications were active.
Stonemasons are holding that back.
Windows: Erase and install Mac: Archive and install
Apple doesn't make hardware. They make software, and design computers and hardware, and outsource the manufacturing. An Intel Mac is no less and Apple than a PPC Mac.
Clarification for the moderators out that that dont understand modern ebonics. I was refering to this guy as a friggin' genious. I know enough to know that this guy has some sweet skills, and surely deserves some credit. A true hacker guru.
Mad skillz yo.
I buy parts based on bang-for-the-buck factor. Price to preformance is what matters to me. Then I overclock it. I also dont buy "cheap" parts in order to save money. Because replacement costs, downtime, ect, means "cheap" parts aren't cheap.
Ok. Sure. I wish I got paid to promote stuff. Google my name. I am not some advertizer. I just like this game.
My previous comments on this game... Oblivion is the first time I have played a TES game. Being someone who loves FPS (hardcore UT and Battlefield player), it takes some thing special for me to play something that doesn't have quad damage and a rocket launcher. I can count the number for non FPSers I own in two hands. A need for speed game that I bought when I got my first car (which I played breifly and haven't touched since) and Oblivion. Having put 30 hours into one character, mostly in 6 hour spurts after work, I am hooked. Who would have though bows and arrows were as cool as rocket launchers?