Help-desk staff were named as the worst offenders... many of whom had continued to wear T-shirts to work as a consequence of the casual web culture of the '90s.
I make a point of wearinging plain, colored pocket tshirts, almost always avoiding any that have distracting text/graphics. My jeans are not heavily frayed or bleached, super-baggy or anything like that. I feel I have been fairly good about making my dress style "work friendly" compared to some of the people in the more [ahem]... colorful departments. I wear tshirts to work because my workplace is too warm usually. Collared shirts make me get overheated. In the summer I attributed this to management being stingy with the A/C, but now it's going into winter and it's still too hot. It only effects this region of the building, too. If you walk back into the rear or towards the other side it cools off. So there is some sort of thermostat issue.
Furthermore, I see no reason to wear anything else. I work on the phone. I perform the same whether I wear a collared shirt and tie or tshirt and jeans. Actully, I perform better if I can dress down this way as I am:
More comfortable, and therefore can focus on my job more.
More relaxed, and can deal with stressful work situations better.
I work as an outsourcer, so I also make less money than most people in my field. I don't walk around the streets dressed up the same way I do at work, so the type of clothing management may want me to wear would get very little use outside my job. Why should I have to pay for a separate wardrobe to wear for a job where nobody sees me? Plus, there's the extra laundry from wearing two sets of clothes every day.
I say, get off the high horse and quit trying to make all your employees look like little versions of you when there is no reason to. It seems more like an exercise in "how much can I run these people's lives".
Why? because he doesn't want to be a lab rat? Because he doesn't want some drug company patenting his genes? Because he doesn't want anybody turning a profit on his immune system?
He should turn the tables on them. Agree to work with them on finding the reason he is cured now but get a contract requiring a share of any profits from drugs made based on the research, or requiring that the results of the companies research be released to other drug comapanies and the public.
Content costs money to create, particularly movies/TV. If you've never been involved in TV (let alone Movie) quality production, you might be surprise at how hard it can be. Despite the hype, you can't make a decent show with a DV Cam and a Powerbook.
Of course, these are Classic TV shows, I think it's safe to say at this point the studios have made back their production budget.
Want it without ads? Buy it.
I agree with the sentiment, but I wonder how many of these classic shows they are about to distribute are actually shows you could buy right now if you wanted to. That's probably part of the reason this service is being launched. Old shows people want to see again but that don't justify the cost of a packaging design, DVD pressing, store shelf space, marketing, ect.
This also makes a convientent testbad to gauge customer reaction to content they don't own outright and can't skip the commercials in. Coming to an EULA near YOU!
Now there's no chance of anything but lousy generic sounding pop music being played on the radio becuase they'll be able to pre-test it and not even bother trying to promote anything but the most money generating tunes.
Thank you Consumer America, for ruining Rock'n'Roll.
I wonder if Sony including DRM for the Mac has anything to do with the fact they make Windows PC clones, since most record companies are ignoring platforms smaller than 90% of the marketplace. I suppose the last thing they want to hear is "Ditch you Vaio and get a Powerbook, it will let you use copy the Sony CD's".
Uh, when did I ever state I agreed with this idea? Am I automatically "on their side" simply because I see some validity in their reasoning? And actually, my logic is not flawed.
The suspect's house has been raided, he is aware you are investigating him now.
You have his computer, which he knows contains evidence that can be used against him.
He knows he will be put in jail for a very long time or to death when convicted (depending on where this is happening).
He knows he has some time before you have access to the evidence you need to actually charge him with a crime and arrest him for a longer term.
He has contacts who can get him money, forged identification, transportation (assuming terrorist here).
You think he's going to stick around and wait patiently for his hard drive to be decrypted and its secrets revealed if he is the one they're looking for?
I bet there are people who would run even if they were innocent if a situation like this came up. You hear every once in awhile about crime investigation becoming political hot potatoes and innocent people getting convicted so the police can say "yeah we caught the guy" even when they didn't really. With the people in powering hunting everything "threatening Americans and their way of life" I'm sure there are people who would take proactive steps for themselves like a bunch of Hippies with draft cards did when they suddenly took extended vacations in the great northwest.
What you're doing is assuming he is guilty before proving otherwise. He, as an innocent person, has the right to freedom until someone can find something in that disc that justifies taking it from him, not the other way around.
People being held without bail between their arraignment and their trial will be happy to hear this.
So someone's rights are violated because it's more convinient to the police?
No, for the safety of the public. To make sure the suspect doesn't get away and come back with a box of powdered anthrax.
Don't they have electronic bracelets?
Shhhhhh. You're coming up with better alternative ideas now. That would still allow him to run off if he wants, but he wouldn't get such a huge head start before the Keystone Cops figure it out.
And even if he escapes, so what?
(See 'Box of Anthrax')
You cooperate with international police to get him back. You don't just deny someone's rights because it's more convinient to do so then to be competent at your work.
Right. Because every nation is part of Interpol! There is no place on Earth a criminal can hide when the boys in blue are on the job!
If you need time to crack the hard drive YOU FUCKING TAKE THE HARD DRIVE!. Why do you need to hold the person for 90 days when you can simply take his hard drive and hold it for as long as you want.
Because if he knows you'll find something on his hard drive once you decrypt it, he may decide to disappear during the 90 days it takes you to find it, whereas if you can keep in custody until you finish he wont have that opportunity?
...the "Pentium Pro". 'Pentium' derives from 'penta'-- i.e. FIVE, as in "five-eighty-six", as in 80586-- the successor to the four-eighty-six. That made sense. Kinda.
Intel also held a contest in the company to name the 80586 chip, so someone outside the usual marketting droids came up with "Pentium". Perhaps when the 80686 came out Intel had invested so much money in getting the Pentium name known they didn't want to have to start over again on the brand recognition with the new processer and the marketers couldn't come up with anything more clever than the Pentium/5 connection.
"Should the United Nations control the Internet? That's the subject of a heated debate slated to take place at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis later this month."
So I guess they will get the chance to know what the others are thinking and talk about what's on their minds?:-)
Only use plain text email and turn off all image loading in Internet Explorer!
Not only will this stop the spread of viruses, it will drive hundreds of thousands of noobs off the internet. Usenet will be stored to it's former glory and AOL will go out of business. Marketshare of Linux and MacOSX will skyrocket and peace and balance will be restored to the Force!
I work for Comcast out of the New England region. None of our services require a phone line. All of our stuff(Digital cable, VoD, internet, VoIP) use cable lines.
Being in New England, you also get the newest equipment rolled out to your regions first (highest population density = quickest return on network investment). The parent might be in a less populous region where the nodes are one-way only still or the headend is not set up to take incoming signals from boxes.
But then, I'd think VOD would require addressable nodes to function so they should be two way (unless this discussion is really about Pay-per-view, not full blown video-on-demand timeshifting and such).
Why pay to watch it once when you can just TiVO it and be done? Maybe this is what the broadcast flag thing is all about. All TV will become pay-per-view.
If all TV is going to become pay-per-view and have commercials, then I expect my monthly cable bill will to be $0 if I haven't watched any TV that month.
Seriously though, what would they do if someone did try to settle on the moon? The moon does not in fact belong to any country to the best of my knowledge. With private industry getting more and more interested in developing space capable craft, what's to keep someone from going to the moon and trying to set up a base/colony on their own. Would the U.S., ect try to go to the moon and forcefully remove them? What right would they have to do that?
Yeah, I'm just calling in to say I wont be in today. I just don't feel very cheerful, and since being chipper is a contractual obligation, I'm not fit for work right now. Besides, I wouldn't want to bring everyone else at the office down, moods are contagious.
So I'll see you tomorrow then, bye. [click]
Since it's sunny and 82 degrees out, after a day at the beach I should be feeling a lot more cheerful so I'll be in great shape for work tomorrow!
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I make a point of wearinging plain, colored pocket tshirts, almost always avoiding any that have distracting text/graphics. My jeans are not heavily frayed or bleached, super-baggy or anything like that. I feel I have been fairly good about making my dress style "work friendly" compared to some of the people in the more [ahem]... colorful departments. I wear tshirts to work because my workplace is too warm usually. Collared shirts make me get overheated. In the summer I attributed this to management being stingy with the A/C, but now it's going into winter and it's still too hot. It only effects this region of the building, too. If you walk back into the rear or towards the other side it cools off. So there is some sort of thermostat issue.
Furthermore, I see no reason to wear anything else. I work on the phone. I perform the same whether I wear a collared shirt and tie or tshirt and jeans. Actully, I perform better if I can dress down this way as I am:
I work as an outsourcer, so I also make less money than most people in my field. I don't walk around the streets dressed up the same way I do at work, so the type of clothing management may want me to wear would get very little use outside my job. Why should I have to pay for a separate wardrobe to wear for a job where nobody sees me? Plus, there's the extra laundry from wearing two sets of clothes every day.
I say, get off the high horse and quit trying to make all your employees look like little versions of you when there is no reason to. It seems more like an exercise in "how much can I run these people's lives".
I really could care less if prices are no longer uniform. If I don't think the song is worth it, I just wont pay for it (if you get my drift).
All I want is for the DRM rights to be uniform song to song. I don't want to have to guess how many burns a song gets.
I for one welcome our new all-seeing traffic overlords.
Why? because he doesn't want to be a lab rat? Because he doesn't want some drug company patenting his genes? Because he doesn't want anybody turning a profit on his immune system?
He should turn the tables on them. Agree to work with them on finding the reason he is cured now but get a contract requiring a share of any profits from drugs made based on the research, or requiring that the results of the companies research be released to other drug comapanies and the public.
Content costs money to create, particularly movies/TV. If you've never been involved in TV (let alone Movie) quality production, you might be surprise at how hard it can be. Despite the hype, you can't make a decent show with a DV Cam and a Powerbook.
Of course, these are Classic TV shows, I think it's safe to say at this point the studios have made back their production budget.
Want it without ads? Buy it.
I agree with the sentiment, but I wonder how many of these classic shows they are about to distribute are actually shows you could buy right now if you wanted to. That's probably part of the reason this service is being launched. Old shows people want to see again but that don't justify the cost of a packaging design, DVD pressing, store shelf space, marketing, ect.
This also makes a convientent testbad to gauge customer reaction to content they don't own outright and can't skip the commercials in. Coming to an EULA near YOU!
Now there's no chance of anything but lousy generic sounding pop music being played on the radio becuase they'll be able to pre-test it and not even bother trying to promote anything but the most money generating tunes.
Thank you Consumer America, for ruining Rock'n'Roll.
I was visualizing a myspace.com type site targetted at White Supremacists.
Some employers already Google potential employees. Information available on you, through searches, is public information. Anyone can get it.
Yeah, but who's to say the infomation Google turns up has any truth in it. It's just whatever's on the web after all.
How many NES consoles did they sell? How much money could Nintendo possibly lose from clone NES systems?
If anything, the title familiarity may help them in selling similar titles/lines for Gamecube and Revolution.
Isn't the Revolution supposed to be backward compatable with all the previous consoles?
I wonder if Sony including DRM for the Mac has anything to do with the fact they make Windows PC clones, since most record companies are ignoring platforms smaller than 90% of the marketplace. I suppose the last thing they want to hear is "Ditch you Vaio and get a Powerbook, it will let you use copy the Sony CD's".
Uh, when did I ever state I agreed with this idea? Am I automatically "on their side" simply because I see some validity in their reasoning? And actually, my logic is not flawed.
You think he's going to stick around and wait patiently for his hard drive to be decrypted and its secrets revealed if he is the one they're looking for?
I bet there are people who would run even if they were innocent if a situation like this came up. You hear every once in awhile about crime investigation becoming political hot potatoes and innocent people getting convicted so the police can say "yeah we caught the guy" even when they didn't really. With the people in powering hunting everything "threatening Americans and their way of life" I'm sure there are people who would take proactive steps for themselves like a bunch of Hippies with draft cards did when they suddenly took extended vacations in the great northwest.
What you're doing is assuming he is guilty before proving otherwise. He, as an innocent person, has the right to freedom until someone can find something in that disc that justifies taking it from him, not the other way around.
People being held without bail between their arraignment and their trial will be happy to hear this.
So someone's rights are violated because it's more convinient to the police?
No, for the safety of the public. To make sure the suspect doesn't get away and come back with a box of powdered anthrax.
Don't they have electronic bracelets?
Shhhhhh. You're coming up with better alternative ideas now. That would still allow him to run off if he wants, but he wouldn't get such a huge head start before the Keystone Cops figure it out.
And even if he escapes, so what?
(See 'Box of Anthrax')
You cooperate with international police to get him back. You don't just deny someone's rights because it's more convinient to do so then to be competent at your work.
Right. Because every nation is part of Interpol! There is no place on Earth a criminal can hide when the boys in blue are on the job!
A man is (supposed to be) innocent until proven guilty.
[blank stares from the CIA, FBI, RIAA, MPAA, White House...]
Absolutly nothing. Microsoft doesn't care much about the lost revenue on the sale. They're looking at the big picture:
If you need time to crack the hard drive YOU FUCKING TAKE THE HARD DRIVE!. Why do you need to hold the person for 90 days when you can simply take his hard drive and hold it for as long as you want.
Because if he knows you'll find something on his hard drive once you decrypt it, he may decide to disappear during the 90 days it takes you to find it, whereas if you can keep in custody until you finish he wont have that opportunity?
'Pentium' derives from 'penta'-- i.e. FIVE, as in "five-eighty-six", as in 80586-- the successor to the four-eighty-six.
That made sense. Kinda.
Intel also held a contest in the company to name the 80586 chip, so someone outside the usual marketting droids came up with "Pentium". Perhaps when the 80686 came out Intel had invested so much money in getting the Pentium name known they didn't want to have to start over again on the brand recognition with the new processer and the marketers couldn't come up with anything more clever than the Pentium/5 connection.
It's not the enginners fault. It's the ones that decided to put it out.
You honestly think any of the brass are going to take the fall for this?
And then when you leave the office you just throw your encryption key floppy into your attache case with it's three digit combination...
Good point.
So I guess the only use for a maiming laser device would be for maiming fellow Americans...
"Should the United Nations control the Internet? That's the subject of a heated debate slated to take place at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis later this month."
:-)
So I guess they will get the chance to know what the others are thinking and talk about what's on their minds?
Only use plain text email and turn off all image loading in Internet Explorer!
Not only will this stop the spread of viruses, it will drive hundreds of thousands of noobs off the internet. Usenet will be stored to it's former glory and AOL will go out of business. Marketshare of Linux and MacOSX will skyrocket and peace and balance will be restored to the Force!
"Microsoft Discusses Anti-Spyware Plans"
Of corse, those plans don't include making Windows less prone to spyware to start with.
I work for Comcast out of the New England region. None of our services require a phone line. All of our stuff(Digital cable, VoD, internet, VoIP) use cable lines.
Being in New England, you also get the newest equipment rolled out to your regions first (highest population density = quickest return on network investment). The parent might be in a less populous region where the nodes are one-way only still or the headend is not set up to take incoming signals from boxes.
But then, I'd think VOD would require addressable nodes to function so they should be two way (unless this discussion is really about Pay-per-view, not full blown video-on-demand timeshifting and such).
Why pay to watch it once when you can just TiVO it and be done? Maybe this is what the broadcast flag thing is all about. All TV will become pay-per-view.
If all TV is going to become pay-per-view and have commercials, then I expect my monthly cable bill will to be $0 if I haven't watched any TV that month.
they must be looney to believe this guy.
Yeah yeah. Go ahead and mod this redundant.
Seriously though, what would they do if someone did try to settle on the moon? The moon does not in fact belong to any country to the best of my knowledge. With private industry getting more and more interested in developing space capable craft, what's to keep someone from going to the moon and trying to set up a base/colony on their own. Would the U.S., ect try to go to the moon and forcefully remove them? What right would they have to do that?
Hello Boss?
Yeah, I'm just calling in to say I wont be in today.
I just don't feel very cheerful, and since being chipper is a contractual obligation, I'm not fit for work right now. Besides, I wouldn't want to bring everyone else at the office down, moods are contagious.
So I'll see you tomorrow then, bye.
[click]
Since it's sunny and 82 degrees out, after a day at the beach I should be feeling a lot more cheerful so I'll be in great shape for work tomorrow!