My first online experience dates back to using a brand new 300 baud modem for our Commodore 64 to connect to a BBS that I had sent away for information about called LoadStar. After a few months of playing around, my parents realized just how much their phone bill was getting hit for, and my few long distance calls to BBSs in California didn't help either ($2.99/minute long distance or something like that). I was grounded and the modem was put away for years. By the time we got a blazingly fast 486sx 33Mhz computer I was again allowed online, but only to call up nearby friends from high school for some games. then came Rise of the Triad and going to college and getting my first email address (still works too, 17 years later)!
Wow, I've been online longer than most college freshmen have been alive.
When our founders created our country, only 1/3 of the federal body politic was directly elected. We had the lowest taxes, fewest regulations, our federal civil service was actually serving, rather than ruling, the people and federal police powers were few and far between. Today, well, speaks for itself.
Sure, and if you weren't white you were only 3/5th of a human being and women had no rights to participate in civil society and to vote you had to own land. <sarcasm> Gee, that sounds great. </sarcasm>
There may be problems with our current bureaucracy, but I'd take it over the 1790s any day.
Are you trying to troll? If so, fine, I'll bite. Remedy doesn't have to be expensive. They have solutions for small businesses, it's not necessarily a $15,000/year. And really, their small business solution costs (IIRC) about $800, which may seem like a lot but when meausred against the cost of lost productivity (like a lost post-it note, losing track of what computer needed the RAM upgrade, etc) it really balances out.
Still, RT looks very good, as do some of the other options. I'm just used to dealing with bosses that are very Open Source averse (I have no idea why). So an out-of-box solution may be more useful.
Right, I really just ignored the last sentence of the original post. I mean, as another poster said,
Unless your boss is a complete idiot, you should be able to buy what is a basic necessity for carrying out your job repsonsibilities.
Remedy is a pricey solution, and from what I've read some of the other options I've seen posted might be a better fit, but still. Not being allowed to buy an essential tool for good help desk operation is a prescription for a bad help desk.
Is Remedy. It allows call tracking, call histroy (on a per system, per user, and per location basis), classification of calls, etc. It takes a bit of work to optimize the setup, but once it's up it's great. I've dealt with bad setups and good, and when done correctly, it's great. When done poorly, it's a bit painful to enter calls, but a good form layout will really fix that.
You had a bucket?! Spoiled brat... back in my day, we didn't even have that. We had to spend days stalking elusive bits on the savannah and when we finally did catch one we had to carry each one back to the cave individually before some freeloading camper came along and took are hard-earned bits.
Did you look in your box? It came with the DS. Any there will be more games, Nintendo's always been a little slow at ramping up new titles for a launch.
It's not as if Google didn't document this. If you're installing this on a public system without any real form of user access control, then you're asking for trouble. Google desktop doesn't do anything that an end-user wouldn't be able to do with a little cache snooping and looking in temp files. Really, Google Desktop doesn't belong on this open of a type of system, and in addition one really shouldn't be using such an insecure system for anything very sensitive.
Maybe Google just needs to make the warning a bit more obvious, like a hug "WARNING: Google desktop allows you to search all files on this computer" or something.
Seriously! This is far beyond the realm of an "Ask Slashdot"! I can see wanting to get a feeling for the experiences of others, but how many times did you ask "is it legal"? Laws may vary from region to region, but I cannot imagine in an area that is about to become a disater area that your employer would be allowed to do this.
That being said, TALK TO A LAWYER ABOUT THIS. You should be able to get at least a reasonably cheap 15-30 minute consult to get the answer you need. Also, talk to the appropriate parts of your state's government, ie THESE GUYS.
What you're thinking of is trademark, not copyright. Since the mid-1970s (in the US) copyright has existed for a creative work from the moment of its creation. No assertation is necessary nor is any registration (although registration may help in any legal conflicts).
So no, copyrights do not need to be asserted for infringement to occur.
-jason
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$20 / month? On what planet? It's only $12 or so, not $20. Besides, I got a lifetime subscription a year and a half ago, so a few more months and it will have reached the break-even point. After that, it's effectively free. Sure you can build your own, but not all of us have the time or energy. Five years ago I did, but now that I've got a disposable income, I'd much rather buy a better engineered product that just plain works.
Join the army they said... See the world they said... I'd rather be sailing....... Will you stop touching me? Don't you hav a kingdom to run?
Man that game was (still is if I'm bored) fun. I remmeber a friend of mine was a beta tester, and his copy had other great effect like, "A good review for Warcraft 2".
If you're out there Kevin, thanks for helping me make it through that programming class. 1st Rotvig was awesome.
Opera does this, and has done it for quite some time. It's simply a matter of changing one setting in your preferences. It's even a drop down menu, so nothing scary for an end user. It would be better still, however, if MS instead would realize the web is supposed to be platform independant. Not too likely though.
I know you probably meant the post just to point out how dominated the market is, but I'm an Opera user (6.0), and yes, I even paid for it.
What? Pay for a web browser? And it's closed source too? *gasp!* Sorry, but for me, it was a matter of "one part ethics + one part right-tool-for-the-job = Pay for Opera". Opera has been my only browser on both the Win2000 machine in my office and the one Win2000 system I have at home (the Linux box uses Konquerer). Sure, MSIE is still installed, no real way to get it out of there, but it doesn't appear on my desktop, and most people when they use my system are a bit confused at first, but are quickly up to speed.
Opera has been the best tool for the job for me for almost 2 years now, and I don't see myself switching any time soon (except to Safari on my iBook).
I'm at a major university in New England, doing IT support for the athletics department and here's our breakdown:
420 Users of which... 250 are full time staff that we support.
And doing the support? Me. That's it. 1:250. And I not only do desktop support, but I also aid in account creation, manage the IT systems budget and 4 year hardware replacement plan, handle telephone technical support and trouble shooting and deal with anything else that pops up.
And yet my direct supervisor doesn't see a problem with this ratio. It's a wonder I haven't been killed by my users yet...
It's the case of the an army of the elite Vs the large army of gorillas.
Now that's a site I'd like to see. An army of pissed off, computer programming apes with a few silverback sysadmins fighting the RIAA.;)
I think the term you meant was guerrilla (a person who engages in war as an independant unit). Sorry to nitpick, but it's a confusion I see way too often.
-jason
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I guess that puts a new twist on overclucking...
Ok, that joke was just a bit too fowl for me. It was just egging me on to reply.
Um, by coordinating the positional information with a database of the roads in the United States? You see, we have these neat little gizmos -- I don't think the name will catch on, but some people call them "computers" -- that are just insanely great at correlating different bits of information, both from real-time sensors and from premapped databases...
The problem the original poster was pointing out is that there are a lot of places, particularly in the Northeastern US where a local road (with a speed limit of 40MPH) runs parallel to an interstate highway (with a speed limit of 65MPH). They often run parallel for several miles, and sometime are even within 50~60 feet of each other for long stretches. With the known innacuracies of GPS, you could be travelling at 55MPH in the right lane of the interstate and register to the insurance company as going 15MPH above the speed limit on the road that's running parallel.
Or are movies going from the big screen to DVD faster and faster?
No, it's not just you. Actually, this is a big part of why DVDs have region encoding (as much as I hate the very idea). The idea goes something like this. Having region encoding on DVDs allows you to release the DVD in a region (say Region 1; North America) shortly after it leaves theaters so you can capitalize on the popularity of the film. At the same time the Region 1 DVD is released, the movie may still be in the midst of its European or Asian release (regions 2 and 6, I believe). Since the DVD is region encoded, this theoretically prevents a release from cutting into its own box office revenues. From a business perspective, it's a nice model (although that didn't stop me from buying a multiregion, marcrovision disabled DVD player).
The reason it used to take longer for a release (aside from a lot of those mentioned above) is that VHS has no such region encoding. So it would be very easy to get your hands on a legit VHS tape of a movie that's still in theaters if the studios did not delay the release of the video cassette until after the film had left box offices globally (hence the delay in release to video cassette).
at least have the good sense to do something other than just copy and paste the exact same letter that's offered on Digital Consumer. I mean really, at least try to be original or creative. Personally, I deleted the entire body and wrote in my own letter (Senators and Reps know when thy're getting spam faxes, and while it may have some sway on their impression of public opinion, nothing packs the punch of an original letter).
Then again, the moderators bought your blatent copy and paste job as +4 Insightful, so what do I know, huh?
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My first online experience dates back to using a brand new 300 baud modem for our Commodore 64 to connect to a BBS that I had sent away for information about called LoadStar. After a few months of playing around, my parents realized just how much their phone bill was getting hit for, and my few long distance calls to BBSs in California didn't help either ($2.99/minute long distance or something like that). I was grounded and the modem was put away for years. By the time we got a blazingly fast 486sx 33Mhz computer I was again allowed online, but only to call up nearby friends from high school for some games. then came Rise of the Triad and going to college and getting my first email address (still works too, 17 years later)!
Wow, I've been online longer than most college freshmen have been alive.
Sure, and if you weren't white you were only 3/5th of a human being and women had no rights to participate in civil society and to vote you had to own land. <sarcasm> Gee, that sounds great. </sarcasm>
There may be problems with our current bureaucracy, but I'd take it over the 1790s any day.
I think you're thinking of magnesium, like the NeXT cube, not titanium. Titanium doesn't appear to ignite under standard pressures, even in excess of 4000C.
Are you trying to troll? If so, fine, I'll bite. Remedy doesn't have to be expensive. They have solutions for small businesses, it's not necessarily a $15,000/year. And really, their small business solution costs (IIRC) about $800, which may seem like a lot but when meausred against the cost of lost productivity (like a lost post-it note, losing track of what computer needed the RAM upgrade, etc) it really balances out.
Still, RT looks very good, as do some of the other options. I'm just used to dealing with bosses that are very Open Source averse (I have no idea why). So an out-of-box solution may be more useful.
Remedy is a pricey solution, and from what I've read some of the other options I've seen posted might be a better fit, but still. Not being allowed to buy an essential tool for good help desk operation is a prescription for a bad help desk.
Is Remedy. It allows call tracking, call histroy (on a per system, per user, and per location basis), classification of calls, etc. It takes a bit of work to optimize the setup, but once it's up it's great. I've dealt with bad setups and good, and when done correctly, it's great. When done poorly, it's a bit painful to enter calls, but a good form layout will really fix that.
You had a bucket?! Spoiled brat... back in my day, we didn't even have that. We had to spend days stalking elusive bits on the savannah and when we finally did catch one we had to carry each one back to the cave individually before some freeloading camper came along and took are hard-earned bits.
The hit-the-target promotion from Taco Bell began with the deorbiting of MIR in 2001. Here's an article from Salon about it.
Did you look in your box? It came with the DS. Any there will be more games, Nintendo's always been a little slow at ramping up new titles for a launch.
It's not as if Google didn't document this. If you're installing this on a public system without any real form of user access control, then you're asking for trouble. Google desktop doesn't do anything that an end-user wouldn't be able to do with a little cache snooping and looking in temp files. Really, Google Desktop doesn't belong on this open of a type of system, and in addition one really shouldn't be using such an insecure system for anything very sensitive.
Maybe Google just needs to make the warning a bit more obvious, like a hug "WARNING: Google desktop allows you to search all files on this computer" or something.
-jason
Seriously! This is far beyond the realm of an "Ask Slashdot"! I can see wanting to get a feeling for the experiences of others, but how many times did you ask "is it legal"? Laws may vary from region to region, but I cannot imagine in an area that is about to become a disater area that your employer would be allowed to do this.
That being said, TALK TO A LAWYER ABOUT THIS. You should be able to get at least a reasonably cheap 15-30 minute consult to get the answer you need. Also, talk to the appropriate parts of your state's government, ie THESE GUYS.
Hope that helps.
-jason
Let's not forget the existing (but not compatible) 802.11a, so we've already got the option for 802.11b/a/n/g.
The standard guaranteed to wake you up!
And once again, it's the US leading the way with the latest in cutting edge mil-spec U.ni.vers1ty Di.plomas!! This was posted to slashdot a while ago.
The 25,000 ton amphibious transport and spam relay
Just a misconfigured shore-side workstation, but it goes to show that any system can misconfigured.
-jason
-jason
What you're thinking of is trademark, not copyright. Since the mid-1970s (in the US) copyright has existed for a creative work from the moment of its creation. No assertation is necessary nor is any registration (although registration may help in any legal conflicts).
So no, copyrights do not need to be asserted for infringement to occur.
-jason
$20 / month? On what planet? It's only $12 or so, not $20. Besides, I got a lifetime subscription a year and a half ago, so a few more months and it will have reached the break-even point. After that, it's effectively free. Sure you can build your own, but not all of us have the time or energy. Five years ago I did, but now that I've got a disposable income, I'd much rather buy a better engineered product that just plain works.
Next time, check your facts before posting.
-jason
Join the army they said... ... ...
See the world they said...
I'd rather be sailing.
Will you stop touching me?
Don't you hav a kingdom to run?
Man that game was (still is if I'm bored) fun. I remmeber a friend of mine was a beta tester, and his copy had other great effect like, "A good review for Warcraft 2".
If you're out there Kevin, thanks for helping me make it through that programming class. 1st Rotvig was awesome.
Opera does this, and has done it for quite some time. It's simply a matter of changing one setting in your preferences. It's even a drop down menu, so nothing scary for an end user. It would be better still, however, if MS instead would realize the web is supposed to be platform independant. Not too likely though.
-jason
I know you probably meant the post just to point out how dominated the market is, but I'm an Opera user (6.0), and yes, I even paid for it.
What? Pay for a web browser? And it's closed source too? *gasp!* Sorry, but for me, it was a matter of "one part ethics + one part right-tool-for-the-job = Pay for Opera". Opera has been my only browser on both the Win2000 machine in my office and the one Win2000 system I have at home (the Linux box uses Konquerer). Sure, MSIE is still installed, no real way to get it out of there, but it doesn't appear on my desktop, and most people when they use my system are a bit confused at first, but are quickly up to speed.
Opera has been the best tool for the job for me for almost 2 years now, and I don't see myself switching any time soon (except to Safari on my iBook).
-jason
I'm at a major university in New England, doing IT support for the athletics department and here's our breakdown:
420 Users of which...
250 are full time staff that we support.
And doing the support? Me. That's it. 1:250. And I not only do desktop support, but I also aid in account creation, manage the IT systems budget and 4 year hardware replacement plan, handle telephone technical support and trouble shooting and deal with anything else that pops up.
And yet my direct supervisor doesn't see a problem with this ratio. It's a wonder I haven't been killed by my users yet...
*sigh*
Now that's a site I'd like to see. An army of pissed off, computer programming apes with a few silverback sysadmins fighting the RIAA.
I think the term you meant was guerrilla (a person who engages in war as an independant unit). Sorry to nitpick, but it's a confusion I see way too often.
-jason
Ok, that joke was just a bit too fowl for me. It was just egging me on to reply.
I've added a mirror to it to my site as well. You can grab it from my site.
:)
Here's to the first real test of my site!
-Jason
The problem the original poster was pointing out is that there are a lot of places, particularly in the Northeastern US where a local road (with a speed limit of 40MPH) runs parallel to an interstate highway (with a speed limit of 65MPH). They often run parallel for several miles, and sometime are even within 50~60 feet of each other for long stretches. With the known innacuracies of GPS, you could be travelling at 55MPH in the right lane of the interstate and register to the insurance company as going 15MPH above the speed limit on the road that's running parallel.
-Jason
No, it's not just you. Actually, this is a big part of why DVDs have region encoding (as much as I hate the very idea). The idea goes something like this. Having region encoding on DVDs allows you to release the DVD in a region (say Region 1; North America) shortly after it leaves theaters so you can capitalize on the popularity of the film. At the same time the Region 1 DVD is released, the movie may still be in the midst of its European or Asian release (regions 2 and 6, I believe). Since the DVD is region encoded, this theoretically prevents a release from cutting into its own box office revenues. From a business perspective, it's a nice model (although that didn't stop me from buying a multiregion, marcrovision disabled DVD player).
The reason it used to take longer for a release (aside from a lot of those mentioned above) is that VHS has no such region encoding. So it would be very easy to get your hands on a legit VHS tape of a movie that's still in theaters if the studios did not delay the release of the video cassette until after the film had left box offices globally (hence the delay in release to video cassette).
Make any sense?
at least have the good sense to do something other than just copy and paste the exact same letter that's offered on Digital Consumer. I mean really, at least try to be original or creative. Personally, I deleted the entire body and wrote in my own letter (Senators and Reps know when thy're getting spam faxes, and while it may have some sway on their impression of public opinion, nothing packs the punch of an original letter).
Then again, the moderators bought your blatent copy and paste job as +4 Insightful, so what do I know, huh?