> A goofy naming scheme is a bad idea when you're running over 100 servers in a dynamic environment.
Especially if you got to it first. true story, an old job they had a formal process for naming servers and our department had all the servers named after Godzilla creatures. We had another senior department head go above everyones head so he could name his two machines Godzilla/Mothra. Started with us, said we had registered it. Spoke to the IT department who said it was already set, then went to their boss then the senior boss.
He was finally told to cop on. No idea what the new names were.
It is funny you say that. Because currently there are laws in Ireland that mean as long as the ISP is not analyzing the data passing through the system then they could not be held liable for it. It was a big hullabaloo around the time of alt.sex.binaries with IOL it got mentioned.
Once they start searching data they will become liable for anything that goes through their system.
Eircom might also be one of the biggest but they are not the best ISP. They also do packet shaping so that if you try to watch a youtube video your speed drops to 5k a second.
The only real reason they got hit is because the Eircom execs sent emails calling the music execs junkies and what-not.
> I didn't need to take a class on how to be > social - I just went and did it.
Yes that is you. Not everyone is capable of doing that. Actually even those who were social depending on the social circles would never be impacted by day to day issues.
>Some people already have the skills, and they are better honed.
Some people can play the piano naturally. That doesn't mean people don't need to learn how to play the piano.
> It's called "parties" and "extracurricular activities" and "sports"
You may as well say being dumped in a room with computers qualifies you as a software architect.
Where I work they actually give you two weeks training on dealing with other people when you start. It is quite evident between someone who doesn't have the training/skills and who does. I am not talking about being able to just talk to people. Your trained in dealing with hostile people, picking up on non-verbal cues, personality styles, etc.
A lot of developers are pre-madonnas. I once watched a developer invited into a sales presentation scream at a customer that they are not allowed to talk to them. They felt that they should not of had to attend the sales meeting. That's the sort of mentality that people have to be trained out of.
> I'm sure that the supervisor appreciated some random asshole > telling him how to do his job and manage his staff.
I am sure if I had to say the same operating system to the same person over 5 times then they shouldn't be in that job.
I've had similar idiots in Dell when a machine wouldn't switch on the guy told to reboot the machine. Then told me to switch on the machine holding keys down so he could get an error code from the screen. When I explained the machine didn't even switch on it was like I was talking to wall.
> Customer support is expensive, and usually carried out by a third party
Dell doesn't have customer support. They have a call center. There is a world of difference. Call centers have people in them incapable of doing any real technical diagnosis. They follow scripts. Customer support is different. You have someone who is technically strong and is normally charged with acting as a diplomat for you inside the company.
Yes, Customer support is expensive. Dell doesn't do this.
Lastly bad customer support can do more damage to a companies sales then a competitor offering a cheaper product.
For those not in the US, what worked for me was threatening with small claims court. After three months messing around with dell trying to get a brand new working machine (machine was bought broken). Over the three months they just kept replacing parts of the machine which never worked. When I mentioned that they just sent me a brand new top of the line machine instead.
I am not sure why you got modded up as interesting as your wrong.
I recommend you read up on the case as it wasn't cut and dried as it is made out to be. Basically they were serving coffee well beyond the heat that a normal human could safely consume it at. The coffee in question did in fact give 3rd degree burns. McDonalds at the time even had over 100's of similar reported cases.
From the case: "Plaintiffs' expert, a scholar in thermodynamics applied to human skin burns, testified that liquids, at 180 degrees, will cause a full thickness burn to human skin in two to seven seconds."
I've only been playing WoW for a couple of days from WOTLK version. To me it feels a lot like what Asheron Call 2 felt like. Except the travel is done a lot better and there are more players on the server.
AC2 had professions not unlike WoW has. As for achievements you have them in other games as well. City of Heroes has a "Badge" system which does the same thing. You do certain things, you get a badge (achievement) and some give you bonus or special items/powers.
To be honest, so far the game is no different then many of the MMOs out there. Reminds me a lot of AC/AC2 though for scale of map size and grind required after a point.
But I'm a casual gamer/explorer so should keep me interested for a while.
You see you are reading the wrong media. If I go look at Conservapedia on Barack "Hussein" Obama (their quote not mine) I can find such gems like.
- First Muslim president to be signed in probably on a Koran. - Having ties to a known terrorist to gain control over America's nuclear weapons. - Is a Kenyan citizen.
Funny enough on the last one "Philips Berg" who makes the claim is the same guy who claims Bush/Cheney orchestrated 9/11. But I can't seem to find that on that website.
I love the evolution page with the picture of Hitler at the top.
Conservatives wonder why they aren't taken seriously?
I agree with others here. I would be pissed if my country just handed me over to some foreign country with no evidence that I committed the crime. I can't see why any other country would be different.
Also if OBL is responsible for 9/11 attacks when then doesn't the FBI mention it in their wanted poster?
"The Taliban would never have agreed to hand him over to any foreign court, no matter how neutral (not even ICC)."
Actually the Taliban did in fact agree to hand him over to another country where they believed he would get a fair trial.
They wouldn't hand over to the ICC because the ICC didn't exist around the time of 9/11. Not that it would of helped because America just ignores the ICC anyway.
"Why should someone pay for your child's taxi. Why not be responsible and move closer to the school or move to a different area or homeschool your child? Or pay for the taxis yourself?"
You make a good point but it is flawed. I pay social welfare since I started working many many years ago, so money I have put in has come back to me. Just because someone else got help before me doesn't take away from the fact that I get the help now.
Home school, was an option we were looking into if we didn't get the school placement and get this, the government would of paid for that as well.
Btw, taxi to/from the school would be 60 euros a day. I could change my job or move house to do it but I would lose money and I have already paid into the social welfare which is designed to take care of ALL the citizen's (working or not). I certainly wouldn't deny it to other children who were in the same/worse position. So I see the social welfare as a good thing.
This American concept of "Them or us" fascinates me. You shouldn't be voting on that. You should be picking who is the best to run the country.
Even if 46% didn't want him to win, you should be voting for the president who is just as likely to look after that 46% as they are for 54%.
I recall the last election on fox news someone said did Bush have the ability to bring the two parties together. The response was "Why should he? He won".
I see the same with "social welfare". People seem to be more focused on someone else getting a hand out then what they get out of it. For example I pay social welfare contributions in my pay check. In the short term yes you can say some of that money goes to people who don't deserve it. But a lot of them do. Also it means I can get more from the government as well. For example my son school is 12 miles away and off the bus route so the government pays for a taxi for him to go to/from school because there is no where else closer he can go to.
People need to stop being selfish and work for the community as a whole.
"yet, within 3 months, the iPhone and its App store beat them all and left them bloody by the roadside."
I am not sure how you base that? There are mobile phone stores for non-iphone stuff that do great business and have done for years. Handango for example.
Apple Store only beats other stores trying to sell iPhone applications. The apple store tie in will win out in the end because it is basically a monopoly.
You want to know one of the reasons how 95 became so popular so fast? MS went to all the ISPs in each country and said they would put them branded on the internet connection settings. I can see Google doing something similar with Android to sell it. Mobile phone companies are far from altruistic in that regards (anyone tried to write early J2ME apps will understand the pain).
Nope I am not. For me it takes approx 7 seconds from when I double click. I am sure if you have a slower machine then it will take longer. But it is no where near the time it takes for 8.0.1 to load up.
> I mean Notes looks like what > most UI's looked like in the 90's.
R7 maybe if you were using legacy templates. R8 doesn't.
> I have 7.0.3 and there is no default
As I said I checked R8.5. R8 also has it. It uses the Eclipse default drop down button. But if you were that upset about it you can just recode the button in question to suit YOUR needs. Or you can leave it as is and give yourself an excuse of something to whine about.
>It sure does eat up space on my hard drive in my replicated database >you know, the replicated database I need to read email offline?
Well I haven't played with it on a local replica but would be interesting to see if they do that. If not as you are probably aware if your machine is not able to manage it you can just replicate with options not to pull attachments over or limit what you want.
> if that is still the case in version 8, then it still sucks.
I am not sure how you misunderstanding what a View is vs a Folder is means the product sucks.
Yes you still have views in version 8. I mean if you *want* what you expected that is certainly possible.
Just create a FOLDER called "SENT EMAIL" then save and file your mail into that folder, or you want to get fancy just recode the save button to automatically do it for you. Completely pointless IMHO but yes it can be configured to the way you want it.
yea 6.5 is 5 years old (latest 6 version is 3 years old).
As for the sent folder. It isn't a folder, it is a view. A view is a list of documents on a predefined formula. Folders are for storing documents on no criteria.
So you can drag mails from your sent view to a folder and they will go to the folder but they will always show up in the sent view because it checks all documents you sent in your mail file.
> It still has a cluncky UI from the early 90's. And a bad one at that.
The UI looks nothing like the 90's version.
> It's not just the UI that sucks either. > "Reply with attachment" -- why would anyone ever do that?
If they planned to reply to more people then initially were in the list of the original email? Also at least for Version 8.5 (as I just checked) the default is to reply without attachments to save space.
But it is a moot point if you are an 8.5 server because it only ever stores one copy of attachment ever on the server. So you can respond 50 times to the same person if the attachment is the same only one is stored on the server for all users.
Like I said you haven't used the latest version. Load time for me on 8.5 is 7 seconds and I haven't seen it become unresponsive yet. Version 6 client, now that is a different story.
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I just bought a Mac. So clearly the features are useful to someone.
> A goofy naming scheme is a bad idea when you're running over 100 servers in a dynamic environment.
Especially if you got to it first. true story, an old job they had a formal process for naming servers and our department had all the servers named after Godzilla creatures. We had another senior department head go above everyones head so he could name his two machines Godzilla/Mothra. Started with us, said we had registered it. Spoke to the IT department who said it was already set, then went to their boss then the senior boss.
He was finally told to cop on. No idea what the new names were.
It is funny you say that. Because currently there are laws in Ireland that mean as long as the ISP is not analyzing the data passing through the system then they could not be held liable for it. It was a big hullabaloo around the time of alt.sex.binaries with IOL it got mentioned.
Once they start searching data they will become liable for anything that goes through their system.
Eircom might also be one of the biggest but they are not the best ISP. They also do packet shaping so that if you try to watch a youtube video your speed drops to 5k a second.
The only real reason they got hit is because the Eircom execs sent emails calling the music execs junkies and what-not.
> I didn't need to take a class on how to be
> social - I just went and did it.
Yes that is you. Not everyone is capable of doing that. Actually even those who were social depending on the social circles would never be impacted by day to day issues.
>Some people already have the skills, and they are better honed.
Some people can play the piano naturally. That doesn't mean people don't need to learn how to play the piano.
Actually furries even a self-esteem ladder that goes lower. For example baby-furs. If you don't know what they are I recommend you do not google it.
> It's called "parties" and "extracurricular activities" and "sports"
You may as well say being dumped in a room with computers qualifies you as a software architect.
Where I work they actually give you two weeks training on dealing with other people when you start. It is quite evident between someone who doesn't have the training/skills and who does. I am not talking about being able to just talk to people. Your trained in dealing with hostile people, picking up on non-verbal cues, personality styles, etc.
A lot of developers are pre-madonnas. I once watched a developer invited into a sales presentation scream at a customer that they are not allowed to talk to them. They felt that they should not of had to attend the sales meeting. That's the sort of mentality that people have to be trained out of.
> I'm sure that the supervisor appreciated some random asshole
> telling him how to do his job and manage his staff.
I am sure if I had to say the same operating system to the same person over 5 times then they shouldn't be in that job.
I've had similar idiots in Dell when a machine wouldn't switch on the guy told to reboot the machine. Then told me to switch on the machine holding keys down so he could get an error code from the screen. When I explained the machine didn't even switch on it was like I was talking to wall.
> Customer support is expensive, and usually carried out by a third party
Dell doesn't have customer support. They have a call center. There is a world of difference. Call centers have people in them incapable of doing any real technical diagnosis. They follow scripts. Customer support is different. You have someone who is technically strong and is normally charged with acting as a diplomat for you inside the company.
Yes, Customer support is expensive. Dell doesn't do this.
Lastly bad customer support can do more damage to a companies sales then a competitor offering a cheaper product.
For those not in the US, what worked for me was threatening with small claims court. After three months messing around with dell trying to get a brand new working machine (machine was bought broken). Over the three months they just kept replacing parts of the machine which never worked. When I mentioned that they just sent me a brand new top of the line machine instead.
I am not sure why you got modded up as interesting as your wrong.
I recommend you read up on the case as it wasn't cut and dried as it is made out to be. Basically they were serving coffee well beyond the heat that a normal human could safely consume it at. The coffee in question did in fact give 3rd degree burns. McDonalds at the time even had over 100's of similar reported cases.
From the case: "Plaintiffs' expert, a scholar in thermodynamics applied to human skin burns, testified that liquids, at 180 degrees, will cause a full thickness burn to human skin in two to seven seconds."
There is a good breakdown of the case here.
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
I've only been playing WoW for a couple of days from WOTLK version. To me it feels a lot like what Asheron Call 2 felt like. Except the travel is done a lot better and there are more players on the server.
AC2 had professions not unlike WoW has. As for achievements you have them in other games as well. City of Heroes has a "Badge" system which does the same thing. You do certain things, you get a badge (achievement) and some give you bonus or special items/powers.
To be honest, so far the game is no different then many of the MMOs out there. Reminds me a lot of AC/AC2 though for scale of map size and grind required after a point.
But I'm a casual gamer/explorer so should keep me interested for a while.
congrats on being the only search result for NO_MORE_KITTEN. :)
> "Reality has a strong liberal bias."
You see you are reading the wrong media. If I go look at Conservapedia on Barack "Hussein" Obama (their quote not mine) I can find such gems like.
- First Muslim president to be signed in probably on a Koran.
- Having ties to a known terrorist to gain control over America's nuclear weapons.
- Is a Kenyan citizen.
Funny enough on the last one "Philips Berg" who makes the claim is the same guy who claims Bush/Cheney orchestrated 9/11. But I can't seem to find that on that website.
I love the evolution page with the picture of Hitler at the top.
Conservatives wonder why they aren't taken seriously?
> Right?
I see Iraq government have demanded the US leave without any pre-conditions by 2011.
Balls in your court, lets see the next strawman.
"Please tell me that you are not that naïve."
I agree with others here. I would be pissed if my country just handed me over to some foreign country with no evidence that I committed the crime. I can't see why any other country would be different.
Also if OBL is responsible for 9/11 attacks when then doesn't the FBI mention it in their wanted poster?
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm
"The Taliban would never have agreed to hand him over to any foreign court, no matter how neutral (not even ICC)."
Actually the Taliban did in fact agree to hand him over to another country where they believed he would get a fair trial.
They wouldn't hand over to the ICC because the ICC didn't exist around the time of 9/11. Not that it would of helped because America just ignores the ICC anyway.
"Why should someone pay for your child's taxi. Why not be responsible and move closer to the school or move to a different area or homeschool your child? Or pay for the taxis yourself?"
You make a good point but it is flawed. I pay social welfare since I started working many many years ago, so money I have put in has come back to me. Just because someone else got help before me doesn't take away from the fact that I get the help now.
Home school, was an option we were looking into if we didn't get the school placement and get this, the government would of paid for that as well.
Btw, taxi to/from the school would be 60 euros a day. I could change my job or move house to do it but I would lose money and I have already paid into the social welfare which is designed to take care of ALL the citizen's (working or not). I certainly wouldn't deny it to other children who were in the same/worse position. So I see the social welfare as a good thing.
This American concept of "Them or us" fascinates me. You shouldn't be voting on that. You should be picking who is the best to run the country.
Even if 46% didn't want him to win, you should be voting for the president who is just as likely to look after that 46% as they are for 54%.
I recall the last election on fox news someone said did Bush have the ability to bring the two parties together. The response was "Why should he? He won".
I see the same with "social welfare". People seem to be more focused on someone else getting a hand out then what they get out of it. For example I pay social welfare contributions in my pay check. In the short term yes you can say some of that money goes to people who don't deserve it. But a lot of them do. Also it means I can get more from the government as well. For example my son school is 12 miles away and off the bus route so the government pays for a taxi for him to go to/from school because there is no where else closer he can go to.
People need to stop being selfish and work for the community as a whole.
"yet, within 3 months, the iPhone and its App store beat them all and left them bloody by the roadside."
I am not sure how you base that? There are mobile phone stores for non-iphone stuff that do great business and have done for years. Handango for example.
Apple Store only beats other stores trying to sell iPhone applications. The apple store tie in will win out in the end because it is basically a monopoly.
You want to know one of the reasons how 95 became so popular so fast? MS went to all the ISPs in each country and said they would put them branded on the internet connection settings. I can see Google doing something similar with Android to sell it. Mobile phone companies are far from altruistic in that regards (anyone tried to write early J2ME apps will understand the pain).
Nope I am not. For me it takes approx 7 seconds from when I double click. I am sure if you have a slower machine then it will take longer. But it is no where near the time it takes for 8.0.1 to load up.
Dug out the speed specs for you.
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd85forum.nsf/7756aedc25e6d81285256324005ac76c/052c096c9efbf8a8852574aa006bbca3?OpenDocument
> Remember they are travelling at the almost speed of light so the collision won't take very long.
Or it could take forever. Depends on where you are standing.
> I mean Notes looks like what
> most UI's looked like in the 90's.
R7 maybe if you were using legacy templates. R8 doesn't.
> I have 7.0.3 and there is no default
As I said I checked R8.5. R8 also has it. It uses the Eclipse default drop down button. But if you were that upset about it you can just recode the button in question to suit YOUR needs. Or you can leave it as is and give yourself an excuse of something to whine about.
>It sure does eat up space on my hard drive in my replicated database
>you know, the replicated database I need to read email offline?
Well I haven't played with it on a local replica but would be interesting to see if they do that. If not as you are probably aware if your machine is not able to manage it you can just replicate with options not to pull attachments over or limit what you want.
> if that is still the case in version 8, then it still sucks.
I am not sure how you misunderstanding what a View is vs a Folder is means the product sucks.
Yes you still have views in version 8. I mean if you *want* what you expected that is certainly possible.
Just create a FOLDER called "SENT EMAIL" then save and file your mail into that folder, or you want to get fancy just recode the save button to automatically do it for you. Completely pointless IMHO but yes it can be configured to the way you want it.
yea 6.5 is 5 years old (latest 6 version is 3 years old).
As for the sent folder. It isn't a folder, it is a view. A view is a list of documents on a predefined formula. Folders are for storing documents on no criteria.
So you can drag mails from your sent view to a folder and they will go to the folder but they will always show up in the sent view because it checks all documents you sent in your mail file.
> It still has a cluncky UI from the early 90's. And a bad one at that.
The UI looks nothing like the 90's version.
> It's not just the UI that sucks either.
> "Reply with attachment" -- why would anyone ever do that?
If they planned to reply to more people then initially were in the list of the original email? Also at least for Version 8.5 (as I just checked) the default is to reply without attachments to save space.
But it is a moot point if you are an 8.5 server because it only ever stores one copy of attachment ever on the server. So you can respond 50 times to the same person if the attachment is the same only one is stored on the server for all users.
Like I said you haven't used the latest version. Load time for me on 8.5 is 7 seconds and I haven't seen it become unresponsive yet. Version 6 client, now that is a different story.