I understand a few purists out there getting upset, but why all the hubbub? I play WOW - a lot - and while I see farmers and get some in game spam, it doesn't bother me any more than any other innane crap that goes on (Barrens chat anyone?)
If a guy wants to buy 100G rather than farm for his mount, or decides to power level tailoring/enchanting and needs 500G to do it - who cares? To bad they didn't do it 'the hard way', but why is it your right to tell that person hes a cheater?
Its a game and grinding and farming are boring - and if I want to drop 100.00 to avoid that BS and get to the part I enjoy I should have the right.
that a cell phone could cause a crash, they would confiscate them at the gate. Its a BS proposition.
That said, I am a person who travels by air frequently, and the last thing I want is some person sitting next to me screaming into his cell phone. The once in a blue moon someone uses that 27.00/minute phone in the seat back is enough. Some self important guy uses his cell to call home and bitch at his employee/vendor/wife/kid/dog, and I'd punch him in the nose.
With the grappler for printing those cool asci images. Also had two floppy drives, so I could play Ultima without that annoying "Insert Data Disk" message.
Re:Enron didn't hurt him- Insightful???
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Being Enron's SysAdmin
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This was modded insightful? Bah. You statement shows a complete lack of understanding of the impact of the Enron collapse on many of its employees. The fact that he got another job is a simplistic, and quite frankly juvenile view of a major financial event in many peoples lives. Almost everyone who worked for Enron got another job. The Houston job market is pretty good, and particularly good for people with solid IT credentials. There was very little stigma associated with having Enron on your resume unless you were in the inner circle of Lay/Skilling/Fastauw.
The real impact was that many people at Enron had the vast majority of their personal savings in Enron stock or other Enron securities. The company management strongly pushed employees to do that, and there was significant corporate cultural pressure to invest ALL of your 401K in Enron stock. When the company tanked, people who had worked for years for Enron or one of the companies Enron had acquired suddenly went from having accumulated enough wealth to be close to retirement to having to start over. Plenty of stories of folks who at age 50 suddenly found themselves going from being worth millions on paper to having no life savings and no fiscal security. This happened to folks in a matter of weeks, and while it was happening compnay management was encouraging those employees to stay the course - hold the stock - as it would come back. It changed the lives of tens of thousands of people. I have one acquaintance who went from having 85,000 in a 401K, who got a settlement check for 43.00 from the bankruptcy court. Fourtunately he had other monies and the Enron investments really didn't change much for him long term, but I mention it to give you a sense of the scale of the collapse for folks.
The 'he got a job' comment may resonate with you folks who are young, have no long term obligations like a family, and are living paycheck to paycheck with no view of your future beyond how fast can I save up for a new Athlon dual core, but for those of us whose lives are a bit more established, it stinks.
Disclaimer - don't work for Enron, never did, no one in my family or close circle of friends did/does. But I do live in Houston and have seen what its done to good, honest people who did nothing wrong but believe the propaganda delivered by the people for which they worked.
Well - I'm not sure if I agree with 'misleading' but the real issue is that Novell Technical Support will not support SUSE Pro, only SLES. SUSE is community support (forums) only. If I am putting a distro in production in any kind of real application, I want a supported version.
I also think Novell has a program where if you are paying maintenance on Netware you get some amount of SLES for free, so cost should not be an issue.
My RSS feed truncated the title as "Morfik and Rapid Development of Modern We". Somehow my brain assumed "We" was going to be "weapons" - Morfik just seemed like a Defense Department kind of name for a top secret weapons project.
I was really hoping for some kind of macho article about "this new technology can kill effortlessly 10,000 civilians using a rechargable solar battery as a power source, making it a exceptional weapon and environmentally conscious as well"
Life is full of these little disappointments....
Re:beware of the "understanding friend" method.
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Best Way to Manage Geeks?
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"I want explicit instructions for what you want me to do. If I didn't do something it's because you didn't ask me to."
I think what you really want is "Give me accurate guidance on the purpose of this project, what the business expects, and the benefits you hope to accrue. Then I can use my tools and skills to develop something thats truly valuable to the organization. If you (or the business) can't articulate what the business requires from my project, its unreasonable to expect me to deliver it"
and its absolutely fantastic. I haven't owned a lot of notebook mice, so can't make comparisons to the oft mentioned Kensington or others, but its accurate, comfortable, battery life has been great (still on first set), small enough to put in a pocket (not that I do, just making a point), and looks very cool to boot. And it runs out of the box with SuSE 9.3, so yes it does Linux too.
Apologies extended to all on my misuse of of 'an'. The subject was originally "Buy Yourself an HDTV", but I edited it and added the word 'projection' prior to posting because I wanted to avoid some smartass telling me a kid couldn't fit into a plasma HDTV box, or a Sharp Aquos LCD box. Figured a projection box would imply appropriate size. I failed to edit 'an' to 'a'.
BTW - allow me to be the spelling nazi and point out the correct spelling of the word you were attmpting to use is 'grammar'
The spec for a full HDTV signal with DD 5.1 audio is an uncompressed 18 megabit/sec stream vs like 1 for a regular channel. No way is the cable company going to allow an HD channel to consume 18X the bandwidth than a regular channel, so they trhottle the heck of of them. Leads to poor picture, artifacts, slow tuning, all the things the article referes to. Right now (SW Houston) the OTA HD signal from my local affiliates is FAR superior to anyhting the TWC puts out.
Problem is most folks either a) are not sophisticated enough consumers to know the difference or b) are so happy to get any HD content after buying a 5K TV set they accept sub-par signals as the best they can get.
Gonna be a while before this resolves itself, till then go buy a yagi antenna from Radio Shack and enjoy real HDTV (assuming you have an OTA set top box.....)
or is the RIAA just using mass-mugging tactics? Seems the ACLU or EFF or someone would want to make a big public test case out of some individuals lawsuit defense.
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For my new lead lined briefcase. Who cares if it weighs 125 pounds.
I understand a few purists out there getting upset, but why all the hubbub? I play WOW - a lot - and while I see farmers and get some in game spam, it doesn't bother me any more than any other innane crap that goes on (Barrens chat anyone?)
If a guy wants to buy 100G rather than farm for his mount, or decides to power level tailoring/enchanting and needs 500G to do it - who cares? To bad they didn't do it 'the hard way', but why is it your right to tell that person hes a cheater?
Its a game and grinding and farming are boring - and if I want to drop 100.00 to avoid that BS and get to the part I enjoy I should have the right.
Flame away.
that a cell phone could cause a crash, they would confiscate them at the gate. Its a BS proposition.
That said, I am a person who travels by air frequently, and the last thing I want is some person sitting next to me screaming into his cell phone. The once in a blue moon someone uses that 27.00/minute phone in the seat back is enough. Some self important guy uses his cell to call home and bitch at his employee/vendor/wife/kid/dog, and I'd punch him in the nose.
With the grappler for printing those cool asci images. Also had two floppy drives, so I could play Ultima without that annoying "Insert Data Disk" message.
This was modded insightful? Bah. You statement shows a complete lack of understanding of the impact of the Enron collapse on many of its employees. The fact that he got another job is a simplistic, and quite frankly juvenile view of a major financial event in many peoples lives. Almost everyone who worked for Enron got another job. The Houston job market is pretty good, and particularly good for people with solid IT credentials. There was very little stigma associated with having Enron on your resume unless you were in the inner circle of Lay/Skilling/Fastauw.
The real impact was that many people at Enron had the vast majority of their personal savings in Enron stock or other Enron securities. The company management strongly pushed employees to do that, and there was significant corporate cultural pressure to invest ALL of your 401K in Enron stock. When the company tanked, people who had worked for years for Enron or one of the companies Enron had acquired suddenly went from having accumulated enough wealth to be close to retirement to having to start over. Plenty of stories of folks who at age 50 suddenly found themselves going from being worth millions on paper to having no life savings and no fiscal security. This happened to folks in a matter of weeks, and while it was happening compnay management was encouraging those employees to stay the course - hold the stock - as it would come back. It changed the lives of tens of thousands of people. I have one acquaintance who went from having 85,000 in a 401K, who got a settlement check for 43.00 from the bankruptcy court. Fourtunately he had other monies and the Enron investments really didn't change much for him long term, but I mention it to give you a sense of the scale of the collapse for folks.
The 'he got a job' comment may resonate with you folks who are young, have no long term obligations like a family, and are living paycheck to paycheck with no view of your future beyond how fast can I save up for a new Athlon dual core, but for those of us whose lives are a bit more established, it stinks.
Disclaimer - don't work for Enron, never did, no one in my family or close circle of friends did/does. But I do live in Houston and have seen what its done to good, honest people who did nothing wrong but believe the propaganda delivered by the people for which they worked.
Well - I'm not sure if I agree with 'misleading' but the real issue is that Novell Technical Support will not support SUSE Pro, only SLES. SUSE is community support (forums) only. If I am putting a distro in production in any kind of real application, I want a supported version. I also think Novell has a program where if you are paying maintenance on Netware you get some amount of SLES for free, so cost should not be an issue.
Its a pretty easy hack to modify a biometric authentication device to measure assprints.
My RSS feed truncated the title as "Morfik and Rapid Development of Modern We". Somehow my brain assumed "We" was going to be "weapons" - Morfik just seemed like a Defense Department kind of name for a top secret weapons project.
I was really hoping for some kind of macho article about "this new technology can kill effortlessly 10,000 civilians using a rechargable solar battery as a power source, making it a exceptional weapon and environmentally conscious as well"
Life is full of these little disappointments....
"I want explicit instructions for what you want me to do. If I didn't do something it's because you didn't ask me to."
I think what you really want is "Give me accurate guidance on the purpose of this project, what the business expects, and the benefits you hope to accrue. Then I can use my tools and skills to develop something thats truly valuable to the organization. If you (or the business) can't articulate what the business requires from my project, its unreasonable to expect me to deliver it"
I believe the OP said "major distros". The fact that its the one you use doesn't make it a major one.
Or Polyserve Matrix Server, which unlike GFS actually works...?
Turned it off? Why would one do that?
and its absolutely fantastic. I haven't owned a lot of notebook mice, so can't make comparisons to the oft mentioned Kensington or others, but its accurate, comfortable, battery life has been great (still on first set), small enough to put in a pocket (not that I do, just making a point), and looks very cool to boot. And it runs out of the box with SuSE 9.3, so yes it does Linux too.
FireFox - Adblock nuff said
My next movie project "I Was A Cleric For The FBI"
Apologies extended to all on my misuse of of 'an'. The subject was originally "Buy Yourself an HDTV", but I edited it and added the word 'projection' prior to posting because I wanted to avoid some smartass telling me a kid couldn't fit into a plasma HDTV box, or a Sharp Aquos LCD box. Figured a projection box would imply appropriate size. I failed to edit 'an' to 'a'. BTW - allow me to be the spelling nazi and point out the correct spelling of the word you were attmpting to use is 'grammar'
Give the kid the box. He'll make a fort and have hours of fun, and you get yours too.
http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/
The spec for a full HDTV signal with DD 5.1 audio is an uncompressed 18 megabit/sec stream vs like 1 for a regular channel. No way is the cable company going to allow an HD channel to consume 18X the bandwidth than a regular channel, so they trhottle the heck of of them. Leads to poor picture, artifacts, slow tuning, all the things the article referes to. Right now (SW Houston) the OTA HD signal from my local affiliates is FAR superior to anyhting the TWC puts out. Problem is most folks either a) are not sophisticated enough consumers to know the difference or b) are so happy to get any HD content after buying a 5K TV set they accept sub-par signals as the best they can get. Gonna be a while before this resolves itself, till then go buy a yagi antenna from Radio Shack and enjoy real HDTV (assuming you have an OTA set top box.....)
or is the RIAA just using mass-mugging tactics? Seems the ACLU or EFF or someone would want to make a big public test case out of some individuals lawsuit defense.
http://technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?bnum=80
Prior to the instant server death? Or know the product name since its not referenced in the summary, so I can look for something on it?
KB00001 - Windows security is a contradiction in terms. FIX - [Insert favorite distro here]