Every web browser needs some kind of native grid/table spreadsheet style display box. Displaying rows of data gets ugly if the data gets wide. If a form could record the row/column selected it would very useful.
1) Their customer service is going to change.
- Not entirely true. I've worked at both EB and Gamestop, and EB has a strong and well-developed program in customer service and sales training while Gamestop has almost none (as of 2000). Once both companies sit down and analyze each other's practices it'd be logical to assume that EB's method of training will be incorporated. This is also backed by the fact that EB employees make more annually than Gamestop employees, and EB still turned a higher profit last year
I have been through three corporate mergers and I can say the rule of mergers is that the bought company always loses.
It doesn't matter if the bought company has better processes or better employees. Those processes and employees will be replaced by the buying company. Business politics is the number one factor in those decisions. I have witnessed better employees get replaced by people who weren't even technically trained for the job. They parent company employee got the job simply because they came from the buying company.
I don't mean to scare you but the complete moron at GameStop is in a better position than you.
BTW - The "everything is fine" speeches your manager are giving you is complete crap. At least the manager will be laid off before you.
Maybe there will be a "backward compatibility pack" for sale extra, which loads the emulators for the cpu and gfx code, thus taking care of any extra licensing costs owed to nvidia for emulating their hardware. I think this is a possibility.
Yeah, it suspiciously looks like the original Xbox.
I agree. I have to do this often for enterprise software with license agreements of over a million dollars. The support staff are always looking for ways to get you off the phone as soon as possible. Unsupported software that really has nothing to do with the problem is the first thing they use. Never mention you customized anything or have anything put what is listed in the system requirements. The second thing they try is some bogus solution that takes enough time to require a "call back." You and the agent both know that the solution won't fix the problem. They are hoping its enough of a hassle that you won't call back.
I hope Sybase makes a comeback. Microsoft bought the NT Sybase code base for early versions of SQL Server. I worked on a Sybase project for 2 years and it is a great reliable database. Sybase really has an edge in the replication technology over Oracle and Microsoft. I rather write Sybase/Microsoft Transact-SQL than Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures anytime. Sybase was distributing limited "free" versions of the Sybase database for Linux. Not sure if they still are.
Something I'd pointed out before when a case like this came up: In my state, there was a school shooting in 1980 or 81. It made Columbine look like Sesame Street On Ice. Something like 90 people were hospitalized, and it came down to a gunfight with the police. The shooters (there were six of them, all social outcasts as if I had to point that out) were more organized than any of the ones on the news here. They positioned themselves so that there was no line-of-sight from outside to them, and blockaded themselves into a hallway.
So they used blocks to bounce the bullets away? Hmmmmmm. I wondered where they learned that?? Could it be....Pong??
If I was a game publisher, I would take advantage of the fact the Xbox2 is coming out this year and sign an exclusive with Sony. The PS3 is coming out much later so you have a greater lifespan than the Xbox. Even if they did it for the XBox2 they would still lose because there isn't a large install base for the Xbox2 at launch. With the "exclusive" deal they can bring it out for the Xbox2 in 2006 and make even more money.
Are you talking about a BASIC program run with MS BASICA or something? That is a text file and a therefore a script.
Let's assume you are talking about Visual Basic. Yes, like Java, Visual Basic requires a runtime engine to execute. However, C++ and C require calls to the operating system. Try running a C++ program without an operating system and see how well it works. So in reality all progamming languages really require an "interperter" to execute. Maybe OS kernel code is the only real stand alone code.
No, it is not if produces a compiled program. Kinda like how Visual Basic Script is scripting and Visual Basic is not. Doesn't matter if Visual Basic uses runtime DLLs, it is still a compiled file. VBS uses another set of DLLs but runs from a text file.
I need to make a PDF so infrequently I can just use the online conversion tool. You get 5 free conversions. I only need it once in a blue moon so I have 2 free conversions left. Works great.
I am only familiar with VNC on Windows. In Windows VNC there is only one VNC user at a time and if someone else logs in the current session is dropped. So with Linux VNC you setup a process for each console port you want to use? Won't that limit you to a finite set of connections? Would you need to load a seperate X windows process for each? Not that Terminal Server doesn't have a finite number of connections, but I guess you would need to run a script starting all the VNC processes.
Do not clean up these boxes. Disconnect them from net and tell the relative in question to either PAY for the cleanup, get someone else to clean it, or get a Mac.
Dude you want me to charge my Mom? Should I tell my 60 year old mom "PAY UP WITH THAT SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK MONEY BITCH"? Sorry I am not a heartless bastard.
It seems most parents don't understand the current system. One parent thought the "M" stood for "Mild". I think you are right to give parents more specific information on the content of the games but it seems a bar chart would confuse the clueless parents more.
Heh, SQL Server (I use 2000 here) isn't all that great.
I hate the interface, for instance. Whoever made the Enterprise Manager UI should be shot.
Obviously never worked with Oracle eh? I wish there was a tool like Enterprise Manager that shipped with Oracle.
Wahh. You can't resize the modal window?? Try figuring out the Oracle command in the console and you won't care if SQL server creates a window twice your screen size.
It is sad that you are a fellow American. I am glad short sighted thinking like yours didn't prevent the Marshall Plan after WWII. Studies have proven that America's investment in rebuilding Europe after the war has paid dividends back to America 5000 times. If you really need a self centered reason for helping other nations think about the world's stability. America is part of the world community and an unstable neighbor is more likely to harbor terrorists and plot against the US. Maybe helping out the Afghan will make him less likely to grow wheat instead of poppy. I know if America ever falls from being a superpower and we need help, I hope other countries will help us out again like many did during the September 11th tragedies.
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Every web browser needs some kind of native grid/table spreadsheet style display box. Displaying rows of data gets ugly if the data gets wide. If a form could record the row/column selected it would very useful.
1) Their customer service is going to change. - Not entirely true. I've worked at both EB and Gamestop, and EB has a strong and well-developed program in customer service and sales training while Gamestop has almost none (as of 2000). Once both companies sit down and analyze each other's practices it'd be logical to assume that EB's method of training will be incorporated. This is also backed by the fact that EB employees make more annually than Gamestop employees, and EB still turned a higher profit last year
I have been through three corporate mergers and I can say the rule of mergers is that the bought company always loses.
It doesn't matter if the bought company has better processes or better employees. Those processes and employees will be replaced by the buying company. Business politics is the number one factor in those decisions. I have witnessed better employees get replaced by people who weren't even technically trained for the job. They parent company employee got the job simply because they came from the buying company.
I don't mean to scare you but the complete moron at GameStop is in a better position than you.
BTW - The "everything is fine" speeches your manager are giving you is complete crap. At least the manager will be laid off before you.
Maybe there will be a "backward compatibility pack" for sale extra, which loads the emulators for the cpu and gfx code, thus taking care of any extra licensing costs owed to nvidia for emulating their hardware. I think this is a possibility.
Yeah, it suspiciously looks like the original Xbox.
I agree. I have to do this often for enterprise software with license agreements of over a million dollars. The support staff are always looking for ways to get you off the phone as soon as possible. Unsupported software that really has nothing to do with the problem is the first thing they use. Never mention you customized anything or have anything put what is listed in the system requirements. The second thing they try is some bogus solution that takes enough time to require a "call back." You and the agent both know that the solution won't fix the problem. They are hoping its enough of a hassle that you won't call back.
Oh, and don't forget: the World Bank is for us, too (speaking as a Westerner).
Dude, the World Bank isn't like a bank that nations use to keep a checking account and get free pens.
The World Bank is for fighting poverty in third world nations.
Paul Wolfowitz, the guy who messed up Iraq, becoming the head of the World Bank? Good thing this is a April Fools joke.
....Oh crap...
10 PRINT "I am awesome"
20 GOTO 10
Yeah you are right about it lacking some of the more useful MS SQL Server functions. Especially the string and date functions.
Sybase supported the "*=" and "=*" on the version I worked on. What version are you on?
I hope Sybase makes a comeback. Microsoft bought the NT Sybase code base for early versions of SQL Server. I worked on a Sybase project for 2 years and it is a great reliable database. Sybase really has an edge in the replication technology over Oracle and Microsoft. I rather write Sybase/Microsoft Transact-SQL than Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures anytime. Sybase was distributing limited "free" versions of the Sybase database for Linux. Not sure if they still are.
Something I'd pointed out before when a case like this came up: In my state, there was a school shooting in 1980 or 81. It made Columbine look like Sesame Street On Ice. Something like 90 people were hospitalized, and it came down to a gunfight with the police. The shooters (there were six of them, all social outcasts as if I had to point that out) were more organized than any of the ones on the news here. They positioned themselves so that there was no line-of-sight from outside to them, and blockaded themselves into a hallway.
So they used blocks to bounce the bullets away? Hmmmmmm. I wondered where they learned that?? Could it be....Pong??
Most people wouldn't consider BASIC a scripting language.
I would have to disagree. Most people would consider the old DOS BASIC scripting.
If I was a game publisher, I would take advantage of the fact the Xbox2 is coming out this year and sign an exclusive with Sony. The PS3 is coming out much later so you have a greater lifespan than the Xbox. Even if they did it for the XBox2 they would still lose because there isn't a large install base for the Xbox2 at launch. With the "exclusive" deal they can bring it out for the Xbox2 in 2006 and make even more money.
Are you talking about a BASIC program run with MS BASICA or something? That is a text file and a therefore a script.
Let's assume you are talking about Visual Basic. Yes, like Java, Visual Basic requires a runtime engine to execute. However, C++ and C require calls to the operating system. Try running a C++ program without an operating system and see how well it works. So in reality all progamming languages really require an "interperter" to execute. Maybe OS kernel code is the only real stand alone code.
No, it is not if produces a compiled program. Kinda like how Visual Basic Script is scripting and Visual Basic is not. Doesn't matter if Visual Basic uses runtime DLLs, it is still a compiled file. VBS uses another set of DLLs but runs from a text file.
If you say "perl mycode.pl", mycode.pl is still a text file.
If you have file with "#!/bin/perl" at the top it is still a text file if you run it directly.
Doesn't matter how you call it, it is still a text file.
Yes, PERL is a scripting language.
I would consider any programming language directly run from a text file a scripting language.
I need to make a PDF so infrequently I can just use the online conversion tool. You get 5 free conversions. I only need it once in a blue moon so I have 2 free conversions left. Works great.
I am only familiar with VNC on Windows. In Windows VNC there is only one VNC user at a time and if someone else logs in the current session is dropped. So with Linux VNC you setup a process for each console port you want to use? Won't that limit you to a finite set of connections? Would you need to load a seperate X windows process for each? Not that Terminal Server doesn't have a finite number of connections, but I guess you would need to run a script starting all the VNC processes.
Actually my parents are in Texas.
Do not clean up these boxes. Disconnect them from net and tell the relative in question to either PAY for the cleanup, get someone else to clean it, or get a Mac.
Dude you want me to charge my Mom? Should I tell my 60 year old mom "PAY UP WITH THAT SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK MONEY BITCH"? Sorry I am not a heartless bastard.
Actually they do. My parents computer got disconnected from Roadrunner for being a spam bot. Spending next weekend cleaning it up. Argh.
It seems most parents don't understand the current system. One parent thought the "M" stood for "Mild". I think you are right to give parents more specific information on the content of the games but it seems a bar chart would confuse the clueless parents more.
Heh, SQL Server (I use 2000 here) isn't all that great. I hate the interface, for instance. Whoever made the Enterprise Manager UI should be shot.
Obviously never worked with Oracle eh? I wish there was a tool like Enterprise Manager that shipped with Oracle.
Wahh. You can't resize the modal window?? Try figuring out the Oracle command in the console and you won't care if SQL server creates a window twice your screen size.
It is sad that you are a fellow American. I am glad short sighted thinking like yours didn't prevent the Marshall Plan after WWII. Studies have proven that America's investment in rebuilding Europe after the war has paid dividends back to America 5000 times. If you really need a self centered reason for helping other nations think about the world's stability. America is part of the world community and an unstable neighbor is more likely to harbor terrorists and plot against the US. Maybe helping out the Afghan will make him less likely to grow wheat instead of poppy. I know if America ever falls from being a superpower and we need help, I hope other countries will help us out again like many did during the September 11th tragedies.