There has to be a better, faster interface for finding in-store prices than an exact mock-up of the bestbuy.com website. Not to mention that an intranet site could have more useful info like items in stock, when more are expected in that store, what section/aisle of the store it's located in (or whatever).
There is. Well, there used to be. I worked at BB when they rolled out ReTek and Tivoli, which are now the back end for all store inventory and.com control. Before then though, there were the "green screens", or a bunch of old IBM terminals that got into the main database at corporate and found qty, location, price, etc. To fudge the numbers there, would've been an Enron fiasco since that's what the accountants worked off of.
People complain about large companies buisness practices, when we ourselves are always looking to cheat them in some form. (IE. incorrect pricing on website, peeling price stickers, etc)
I run a few radio stations using the "google" automation system. Here's how it worked out... Scott Studios was purchased by dMarc broadcasting a few years back, which was an Up-and-coming conglomerate. They had quite the national ad base. Then google purchased dMarc, and thus the RevenueSuite system was born. Stations pay for the computers by playing ads from google on the air. After the computers are paid off (about 24 months later) the station can opt to keep in the RevenueSuite system and just get cash for unsold commercial inventory. It's rather cool actually, and may keep terrestrial radio alive, for a few more years anyways.
Learn to speak management. You'd be supprized how far 5 dollar management words will get you in an interview. Or go the self-employment route. (I did) But don't fool yourself. Take business classes along side your CSCI courses. It's not often you can sit on both sides of the desk... Management likes that. You can think like a businessman AND a computer geek?! Don't worry about the outsourcing, plenty of large american companies still hire local. (3M for instance, MS, plenty of IT jobs in manufacturing)
As for the dude who posted that he has a Ph.D., stop being lazy, call google, they like your kind.:)
I've seen one sparc workstation (an old-as-dirt sparc5 *not ultra*) stay alive for over 1000 days... the only reason it got rebooted was for building renovation. Wish i would've kept that screenshot. We actually built around it until it hit over 1000 days... 1002 days though, it got turned off... i don't think it ever turned back on though:)
I built a "box" under the bench specially for the PC, then stuck a furnace filter on the front and back "door". I used a rubber gromet from any automotive store that "self heals" meaning it closes back in on itself so it stays sealed. Works supprizingly well. Furnace filters (cheap ones) are only a few bucks each, and change them at the end of each summer. The monitor i did a similar thing to with plexiglass, and a filter lid on top. Power is always on, and a power strip is the control. Very simple, costed about $30 to make and is durable. The PC came from compgeeks.com for about $130 (p3-600 crashpaq), same with the monitor. Optical cheap labtec mouse, equally cheap keyboard. It's not hard to do... Just use your imagination. (and mine's in a machine shop for autobody work, so you can imagine how dirty my stuff gets:) )
Um, i seem to work for a few 100kW @ 1500ft radio stations. The absolute local stations in BFE are maybe 10-20kW, but i guarentee there's stations out there who can be heard in places they really shouldn't be. (WLS-FM for instance is 175kW blasting the entire midwest) Believe me, height matters greatly.
MN Has had holograms on their DL's for many years, but they're just that, pretty pictures. Based on what i've heard from various sources, the hologram is actually a data watermark. The scanner can read the info embedded into the hologram. They've also had mag strips for years too, but how easy is it to scratch that up and cause problems for people? I don't think there's RFID in there, but if there is, just fold it in half... I guess the common sense bunny hasn't visited many people today.
The problem with most EULA's is that they're so bloody long that they don't fit on the box. They just mention "this product bound by the containing EULA..." or some crap. It's catch 22. You have to open the software to read the EULA, but if you disagree with the EULA, you cannot return this software since it's now opened. I haven't seen an EULA actually on paper other than MS products. Have you?
Has anyone ever told this company (or the upstream for that matter) that when you get to a certian, justifiable size, you should be turning enough $$ to go get your own delegation from ARIN? I know when i worked in the ISP industry, if a customer could justify more than 4/24's we'd help them apply to ARIN for their own PORTABLE delegation of IP's....
Not always. I have a 1kw AM tower that used to be hot. Now it's a "folded dipole" style. AM towers all rely on ground conductivity and ground system around the tower. Again all math. 1450khz requires 422 feet for 5/8th's wave. 169 feet for 1/4 wave. All it is is 3 wires run up the side of the tower, and is connected or "skirted" at the bottom. The TX is connected to a matching/tuning network before t hits a tower.
Linux has one downfall, and that is that it is getting too big for itself. People bitch about 5 CD's but they don't stop to think that that includes a full office suite, all the mp3 programs you could possibly want, more productivity wasting solitare games than your boss would allow, etc. HOWEVER, the thing i don't like, is that you want to use this nice new shiney video card, and well... unless you know how to write drivers for it, you're fucked. And that's not it either, i remember when you could run linux on a 386... COMFORTABLY! Granted it was caldera 1.0 beta, but still... This is why i still use FreeBSD, same shit, no bloat. Hell, linux is almost helpless now without a GUI because most the config programs have been developed that way.
This dude showed up one day here in St. Cloud (as i live here, and happen to work for radio stations with towers) asking me how tall my towers were, how much per ft, etc. This dude wanted the top of my 1000' tower in the middle of nowhere so he could hop from a water tower in blaine minnesota, to avon where the tower lives, then hop to my other 500ft tower in st cloud.... Well, do the math and a simple topo map will tell you this dude has NO clue. hopping 5.8Ghz over 90 miles is just... well dumb, and won't work. Wonder if he's just gonna get a satellite data connection at the tower sites. St. Cloud is not exactly an Internet connection point for anything.
Umm, those things that bigger vehicles always hit in construction zones? or line the streets of las vegas? Wow, thought the dot-com bubble had burst, but aparently some VC's are late to the party.
This is sheer stupidity. the UHF bands were supposed to be "vacant" by 2000 originally, welcome to america, DTV recievers aparently made of platinum. Besides that, hams will have a field day with this, quite literally. Remember how much stuff "fits" between TV allocations. (The entire FM spectrum is between channel 6 and 7) Think about the size of the TX required, and how much the FCC will have to limit/license this to hell and back? Channel 29 requires 5 megawatts of power just to cover a metro area. (minneapolis minnesota usa for those who know the area) I sure as hell wouldn't want that power bill.
Something to think about.
You zealot. Research before speaking. At 1450kHz, the antenna at 5/8th's wave is 422(!!) feet tall... Good luck with the wardriving... (1/4th wave is 168ft) And that's about as small as it gets.... Remember the lower the frequency, the bigger the antenna. Those listening to SW know.:)
Real hacks involve power tools, large ammounts of power, and sometimes highly explosive/corrosive chemicals.
Ever seen what a deep cycle battery and a pair of jumper cables can do to a wire hutch at the end of the block? Don't need to know squat about sed and awk for that ammount of fun:)
>That should be "Grand Theft Popemobile: >Vatican" -- > >* You evade the Swiss Guards >* Instead of beating up hookers, you burn >heretics >* You get healing points for touching relics >* True 'Easter egg' - 'Mad Max' Level >* Subtitled in Latin and Italian
Wasn't there a game similar to that? Oh yea, Hexen...:P
When i worked for a large ISP in MN, we were providing DSL from Qworst and Northpoint. The biggest battle back then was that you could NOT get a line without voice services for DSL. Who pushed that? QWEST. Now they're going to do it? Go figure. On the upside, if they wanted, they could use the entire copper spectrum for the DSL instead of everything below 25khz, thus opening up the floodgates, as it were. But i think that's the part they don't want you to know... (Think northpoint, who just rented copper from the CLEC/ILEC and ran a virtual T1 over the pair)
The other big players were wholly against this as well, since it'd cut into the cashflow... Then again, this was in the era of one-way cable modems, and DSL was the best bang for the buck...
Just a thought...
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People complain about large companies buisness practices, when we ourselves are always looking to cheat them in some form. (IE. incorrect pricing on website, peeling price stickers, etc)
I run a few radio stations using the "google" automation system. Here's how it worked out... Scott Studios was purchased by dMarc broadcasting a few years back, which was an Up-and-coming conglomerate. They had quite the national ad base. Then google purchased dMarc, and thus the RevenueSuite system was born. Stations pay for the computers by playing ads from google on the air. After the computers are paid off (about 24 months later) the station can opt to keep in the RevenueSuite system and just get cash for unsold commercial inventory. It's rather cool actually, and may keep terrestrial radio alive, for a few more years anyways.
Learn to speak management. You'd be supprized how far 5 dollar management words will get you in an interview. Or go the self-employment route. (I did) But don't fool yourself. Take business classes along side your CSCI courses. It's not often you can sit on both sides of the desk... Management likes that. You can think like a businessman AND a computer geek?! Don't worry about the outsourcing, plenty of large american companies still hire local. (3M for instance, MS, plenty of IT jobs in manufacturing)
:)
As for the dude who posted that he has a Ph.D., stop being lazy, call google, they like your kind.
2 words, Internet and Porn. The US will continue to be an obese, sex crazed nation, thanks to fiber optics, and the advent of the "G" drive. :)
:)
Now if only the tripple boobed woman from Total Recall could happen, i'd have a thriving business
I've seen one sparc workstation (an old-as-dirt sparc5 *not ultra*) stay alive for over 1000 days... the only reason it got rebooted was for building renovation. Wish i would've kept that screenshot. We actually built around it until it hit over 1000 days... 1002 days though, it got turned off... i don't think it ever turned back on though :)
I built a "box" under the bench specially for the PC, then stuck a furnace filter on the front and back "door". I used a rubber gromet from any automotive store that "self heals" meaning it closes back in on itself so it stays sealed. Works supprizingly well. Furnace filters (cheap ones) are only a few bucks each, and change them at the end of each summer. The monitor i did a similar thing to with plexiglass, and a filter lid on top. Power is always on, and a power strip is the control. Very simple, costed about $30 to make and is durable. The PC came from compgeeks.com for about $130 (p3-600 crashpaq), same with the monitor. Optical cheap labtec mouse, equally cheap keyboard. It's not hard to do... Just use your imagination. (and mine's in a machine shop for autobody work, so you can imagine how dirty my stuff gets :) )
...Now if only i could figure out the printer...
Um, i seem to work for a few 100kW @ 1500ft radio stations. The absolute local stations in BFE are maybe 10-20kW, but i guarentee there's stations out there who can be heard in places they really shouldn't be. (WLS-FM for instance is 175kW blasting the entire midwest) Believe me, height matters greatly.
MN Has had holograms on their DL's for many years, but they're just that, pretty pictures. Based on what i've heard from various sources, the hologram is actually a data watermark. The scanner can read the info embedded into the hologram. They've also had mag strips for years too, but how easy is it to scratch that up and cause problems for people? I don't think there's RFID in there, but if there is, just fold it in half... I guess the common sense bunny hasn't visited many people today.
In the first 10 posts, the poor SNES/Spdif page is slashdotted... Maybe hosting on his dreamcast might've been a better idea?
The problem with most EULA's is that they're so bloody long that they don't fit on the box. They just mention "this product bound by the containing EULA..." or some crap. It's catch 22. You have to open the software to read the EULA, but if you disagree with the EULA, you cannot return this software since it's now opened. I haven't seen an EULA actually on paper other than MS products. Have you?
At least kerry didn't drag the democrats through the mud with legal battles, and recounts... best part, no hanging chads this year!
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=IBMNF1 000-1B&cat=SYS
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compgeeks is amazing sometimes p3-600, 128mb, 10gb, cdrom
It's even got a black case! Too bad it's got "IBM" on it too.
evian water is from the new jersey water treatment center. They ship it overseas so they can say "Bottled in the swiss alps".
Stupid eh?
Has anyone ever told this company (or the upstream for that matter) that when you get to a certian, justifiable size, you should be turning enough $$ to go get your own delegation from ARIN? I know when i worked in the ISP industry, if a customer could justify more than 4 /24's we'd help them apply to ARIN for their own PORTABLE delegation of IP's....
Not always. I have a 1kw AM tower that used to be hot. Now it's a "folded dipole" style. AM towers all rely on ground conductivity and ground system around the tower. Again all math. 1450khz requires 422 feet for 5/8th's wave. 169 feet for 1/4 wave. All it is is 3 wires run up the side of the tower, and is connected or "skirted" at the bottom. The TX is connected to a matching/tuning network before t hits a tower.
Linux has one downfall, and that is that it is getting too big for itself. People bitch about 5 CD's but they don't stop to think that that includes a full office suite, all the mp3 programs you could possibly want, more productivity wasting solitare games than your boss would allow, etc. HOWEVER, the thing i don't like, is that you want to use this nice new shiney video card, and well... unless you know how to write drivers for it, you're fucked. And that's not it either, i remember when you could run linux on a 386... COMFORTABLY! Granted it was caldera 1.0 beta, but still... This is why i still use FreeBSD, same shit, no bloat. Hell, linux is almost helpless now without a GUI because most the config programs have been developed that way.
This dude showed up one day here in St. Cloud (as i live here, and happen to work for radio stations with towers) asking me how tall my towers were, how much per ft, etc. This dude wanted the top of my 1000' tower in the middle of nowhere so he could hop from a water tower in blaine minnesota, to avon where the tower lives, then hop to my other 500ft tower in st cloud.... Well, do the math and a simple topo map will tell you this dude has NO clue. hopping 5.8Ghz over 90 miles is just... well dumb, and won't work. Wonder if he's just gonna get a satellite data connection at the tower sites. St. Cloud is not exactly an Internet connection point for anything.
Umm, those things that bigger vehicles always hit in construction zones? or line the streets of las vegas? Wow, thought the dot-com bubble had burst, but aparently some VC's are late to the party.
This is sheer stupidity. the UHF bands were supposed to be "vacant" by 2000 originally, welcome to america, DTV recievers aparently made of platinum. Besides that, hams will have a field day with this, quite literally. Remember how much stuff "fits" between TV allocations. (The entire FM spectrum is between channel 6 and 7) Think about the size of the TX required, and how much the FCC will have to limit/license this to hell and back? Channel 29 requires 5 megawatts of power just to cover a metro area. (minneapolis minnesota usa for those who know the area) I sure as hell wouldn't want that power bill. Something to think about.
You zealot. Research before speaking. At 1450kHz, the antenna at 5/8th's wave is 422(!!) feet tall... Good luck with the wardriving... (1/4th wave is 168ft) And that's about as small as it gets.... Remember the lower the frequency, the bigger the antenna. Those listening to SW know. :)
Real hacks involve power tools, large ammounts of power, and sometimes highly explosive/corrosive chemicals.
:)
Ever seen what a deep cycle battery and a pair of jumper cables can do to a wire hutch at the end of the block? Don't need to know squat about sed and awk for that ammount of fun
All i can think of is fear and loathing...
"Of all the drugs we had, i feared the ether the most. I knew we'd be into that evil stuff soon..."
>That should be "Grand Theft Popemobile: >Vatican" --
:P
>
>* You evade the Swiss Guards
>* Instead of beating up hookers, you burn >heretics
>* You get healing points for touching relics
>* True 'Easter egg' - 'Mad Max' Level
>* Subtitled in Latin and Italian
Wasn't there a game similar to that? Oh yea, Hexen...
When i worked for a large ISP in MN, we were providing DSL from Qworst and Northpoint. The biggest battle back then was that you could NOT get a line without voice services for DSL. Who pushed that? QWEST. Now they're going to do it? Go figure. On the upside, if they wanted, they could use the entire copper spectrum for the DSL instead of everything below 25khz, thus opening up the floodgates, as it were. But i think that's the part they don't want you to know... (Think northpoint, who just rented copper from the CLEC/ILEC and ran a virtual T1 over the pair) The other big players were wholly against this as well, since it'd cut into the cashflow... Then again, this was in the era of one-way cable modems, and DSL was the best bang for the buck... Just a thought...