I worked at Sun back in the "good old days" (ok.. not so long ago.. around 1997) when the call center were actually people with a clue. Sure, we had a database of problems (sunsolve internal) which solved around half the problems. The rest went to various front-end engineers.. some who new Veritas Volume Manger, some who knew solstice backup. Stuff we couldn't get our heads around went up to second level.
It was a good training ground. Plenty of people who started there are now doing second or third level support, or even pre-sales stuff.
We had a manager who had just done a "call center management" course, and either decided through incompetance or management degree to turn our front end engineers into call centre employees. More than half the good people left in the first month. (I was gone maybe two months later to another position within the company).
Last I heard was that the call center had become a bunch of call-logging script readers. I don't know what happened to the team leader... hopefully they made her a manager somewhere, but given that she was acutally very very good at her job and often stood up for her people, I somehow doubt it.
> I would if she wrote it down and faxed it to every other store that paid her a buck for the info.
I wouldn't if that got me a buck off my next drink...
To have one affair may be regarded as a misfortune ? to have two seems like carelessness.
Three strikes, you're out.
Mate, I understand that you are hurting. 12 years is a long time to be with somebody before this sort of thing goes down... but, man, we aren't talking about a little mistake here. We are talking about throwing away a relationship.
As far as being 45 and balding. So what? There are plenty of women in their 30s and 40s who are looking for relationships, and not just to have children before the biological clock stops ticking.
Sure.. I'm only 30, but I only found my fiance a year and a half ago. She's 32. Between us we have over three decades of sexual experience before we found each other.
Oh.. and number of partners is not htat important. I'm only a couple over the bakers' dozen and am very happy. I know people who have clocked up hundreds and now find it incredibly difficult to be satisfied.
You still love her.. and you always will. Nothing wrong with that. I love my exGF still, and some of the shit she's done (though not while we were together) still makes my skin crawl.
Kiss her goodbye, and get on with life. It will hurt like hell for a couple of years, but shit.. you still got another good 30-50 years to live. Why live them in misery?
I read once that the equivalent to 35mm film is 50MegaPixel in 24 bit. Of course most people don't have 35mm cameras that justify this.. but when you are dealing with somebody with a top of the line Canon or Nikon body and a few tens-of-thousands of dollars worth of glass, you will see the difference.
Digital is excellent for sticking photos on the web. Still not good enough to blow up past A4.. but then when was the last time you blew up a photo past A4?
> you could just follow the options like your
> suppose to.
One level of menus, no problem.
Two levels of menus... I can live with.
Its when you hit the pricks who have 5 or 7 levels of voice menus and minutes of recorded messages that you can't escape from that wastes 20 minutes of your time that shit me to tears. No, I don't buy from companies who do this (I changed my house and car insurance for exactly this reason), but government departments love it.. and they usually have a monopoly.
And this doesn't even begin to address the bandwidth issues for the many, many people who are still on dialup
Don't you get it? Once you install this software, you don't need dialup. You use your computer to make phone calls so you don't need your phone line any more.
Didn't you learn ANYTHING watching the A-Team? I recall almost every third episode they hacked a landline with a phone tap:)
No. I learnt everything from McGuyver. I recall that in almost every third episode he escaped from an otherwise impossible position usinging a bathroom tap.*
*along with two rubber bands, half a dozen paddle pop sticks and a pair of old bedsheets that suprisingly were never furnished with interesting stains.
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches."
> every politician does that or is prepared by
> advisors before plunging into any meeting.
Except for Bush of course.
He has to have an advisor read it to him... and paraphrase all the big words.
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I worked at Sun back in the "good old days" (ok.. not so long ago.. around 1997) when the call center were actually people with a clue. Sure, we had a database of problems (sunsolve internal) which solved around half the problems. The rest went to various front-end engineers.. some who new Veritas Volume Manger, some who knew solstice backup. Stuff we couldn't get our heads around went up to second level. It was a good training ground. Plenty of people who started there are now doing second or third level support, or even pre-sales stuff. We had a manager who had just done a "call center management" course, and either decided through incompetance or management degree to turn our front end engineers into call centre employees. More than half the good people left in the first month. (I was gone maybe two months later to another position within the company). Last I heard was that the call center had become a bunch of call-logging script readers. I don't know what happened to the team leader... hopefully they made her a manager somewhere, but given that she was acutally very very good at her job and often stood up for her people, I somehow doubt it.
Even if only 1% of Counter-strike gamers are girls, it doesn't mean that they are the worst 1% of players.
No, I'm in the worst 1% of players, and I'm a bloke.
After all, these nothing that these guys could come up with that ROT13 doesn't already do!
Yes, its true.
:)
Morse is dying!
> my first job listed on my resume is "President
I didn't know George W. read slashdot!
The new Chilean 100 peso coin is exactly the same size, shape, colours and weifght of the 1 Euro coin. They work well in vending machines.
1 Euro is around 800 Chilean pesos, so you get an 8 for 1 deal on your Euro.
I believe that Chile is actually under pressure from europe to change the coin.
> Mandrake 10.0 beta 2 is out also! Why no posting
:)
> about that, hrmmm?
Because Mandrake, like BSD and Apple, is dying, and will continue to do so for the next 20 years.
> I would if she wrote it down and faxed it to every other store that paid her a buck for the info. I wouldn't if that got me a buck off my next drink...
With apologies to Oscar Wild:
To have one affair may be regarded as a misfortune ? to have two seems like carelessness.
Three strikes, you're out.
Mate, I understand that you are hurting. 12 years is a long time to be with somebody before this sort of thing goes down... but, man, we aren't talking about a little mistake here. We are talking about throwing away a relationship.
As far as being 45 and balding. So what? There are plenty of women in their 30s and 40s who are looking for relationships, and not just to have children before the biological clock stops ticking.
Sure.. I'm only 30, but I only found my fiance a year and a half ago. She's 32. Between us we have over three decades of sexual experience before we found each other.
Oh.. and number of partners is not htat important. I'm only a couple over the bakers' dozen and am very happy. I know people who have clocked up hundreds and now find it incredibly difficult to be satisfied.
You still love her.. and you always will. Nothing wrong with that. I love my exGF still, and some of the shit she's done (though not while we were together) still makes my skin crawl.
Kiss her goodbye, and get on with life. It will hurt like hell for a couple of years, but shit.. you still got another good 30-50 years to live. Why live them in misery?
Soviet Russia jokes being marked "Offtopic"?
This really is the end of slashdot. :)
... Duracell Batteries measure you!
Dude.... she so seriouly needs to eat something.
and Pampita!!!
I read once that the equivalent to 35mm film is 50MegaPixel in 24 bit. Of course most people don't have 35mm cameras that justify this.. but when you are dealing with somebody with a top of the line Canon or Nikon body and a few tens-of-thousands of dollars worth of glass, you will see the difference.
Digital is excellent for sticking photos on the web. Still not good enough to blow up past A4.. but then when was the last time you blew up a photo past A4?
> you could just follow the options like your > suppose to.
One level of menus, no problem.
Two levels of menus... I can live with.
Its when you hit the pricks who have 5 or 7 levels of voice menus and minutes of recorded messages that you can't escape from that wastes 20 minutes of your time that shit me to tears. No, I don't buy from companies who do this (I changed my house and car insurance for exactly this reason), but government departments love it.. and they usually have a monopoly.
And this doesn't even begin to address the bandwidth issues for the many, many people who are still on dialup
Don't you get it? Once you install this software, you don't need dialup. You use your computer to make phone calls so you don't need your phone line any more.
Oh.. wait...
Didn't you learn ANYTHING watching the A-Team? I recall almost every third episode they hacked a landline with a phone tap :)
No. I learnt everything from McGuyver. I recall that in almost every third episode he escaped from an otherwise impossible position usinging a bathroom tap.*
*along with two rubber bands, half a dozen paddle pop sticks and a pair of old bedsheets that suprisingly were never furnished with interesting stains.
I should get my wife cubic zirconium because it looks the same as a diamond but is much cheaper because it was made with "technology".
A cubic zirconium no, because you can tell the difference. So maybe you should buy her one of these.
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches."
Tivo Tracks Titillating Timberlake Tit Touching!
> "Encyclopedia Salesperson".
"Mostly Harmless"?
This explains why every time I put a link to Natalie Portman from the grits page, somebody deletes it, even tho there is a link to Naked and Petrified.
With so much activity in the last year, BSD is obviously heading for a stress induced heart-attack.
Maybe it should slow down a little and put its feet up.
> every politician does that or is prepared by > advisors before plunging into any meeting. Except for Bush of course. He has to have an advisor read it to him... and paraphrase all the big words.
I honestly do not understand why some people have to revere Tolkien's works as being sacred.
Because they can't get girlfriends. :)