I had PRK done earlier this year. I had been wearing glasses since I was very young, like 5-6 years old. I was an athlete and contacts just didnt cut it in contact sports, and glasses were a nuisance but I lived with it all through my college sport years. Now I am without either and as much as RK surgery sucked (the bandages dried to my eyes 2 days after the surgery). I would not go back. I may have to wear glasses again when I am 45 but to have 20 years or so being able to see my wife in the morning, not having to worry about cuts in my contacts, or having my glasses break at inopportune times, is all very much worth the 3K to do it.
Dont you think that the ISPs will begin to specifically route around those backbones. Perhaps we will see a private internet pop up, and once that happens we will see the greedy telcos go down the tubes as we route all our communications over more reasonable lines. Re-Creating the internet essentially would be one hell of as Open Source project in this case.
After which the computers deduce they were actually not created but rather evolved from a lesser society of "users".
sorry had to make the joke, we all saw it coming:)
Maybe it all comes down to who you have developing your system. Well trained experts or a couple of people who just had a crash course in Notes development. I can speak from experience, rarely can you make up for a well trained developer with a boot camp.
As for the rest the problems I am aware of are just that problems, I can fix them just fine, the misterious unread documents are still that, a mistery as the users who are experiencing it do not use the web interfact let alone know what something like that would be, they are rather simple folk. Nah this is something completely separate, I have seen the web gui issue, this is different in that it is almost always 1 unread, misteriouly appearing during the working day, even had it happen a couple times for me.
As for the first user to be dev, you are spot on, the two devs we have were secretaries basically made dev due to a lack of options.
which is the goofy part, as Notes has been around for soooo long it still is as buggy as beta. I have been using and supporting notes for almost 4 years and there is no end to the crashes, bugs, missing dic files, random unread docs, replication conflicts, and dont get me started on trying to migrate from version 5-6, let alone from 6-7. Every day I fear turning on the sametime server or using the more advanced features, often waking up in a cold sweat seeing the Red Box of death from the old days.
I believe that notes is a prime example of what happens when you get a large corporation that gets fat and lazy in the dev of their products, bring on the competiton I say, maybe we will see some stablility rise from notes and some actual useful database structure.
I agree. I was a CS major, 90% drop out rate but I made it through, has some really rough nights, weeks, and months to do it. However I do not do dev. I am infrastructure support. But have been told on many occations by people without a technical degree (who are my bosses by the way) that it is your attitude that gets you somewhere. On that note I have been looking to an MBA because the hard reality is hitting. People dont care about your expertese "house" is not the real world, all that matters is a pretty smile and biding your time. Who needs professionalism anyway?
I graduated in 2002 just when there were no jobs left:) But I wonder if this drop is due to that fact. IT was hard going there for a bit and maybe this is just the aftermath hopefully it will pick up.
On the other hand maybe it is due to the large amount of tech colleges poping up like ITT and the guaranteed technical training schools. Why get a CS or engineering degree when you can do half the work at a vo-tech:)
I thought the Mayan calendar ended in 2033...maybe that is the maori, either case that is the day of the end of human history which the only thing to survive will be spambots.
Being a law enforcement IT employee we already do back up all e-mail and files. I just skimmed the article but is there any standard for the amount of time this has to be retained? Most of us can vouch that data retention is very very expensive. Not to mention tricky if you are looking at going longer than 7 years. magnetic data is good for about 30 years and high grade magneto optical is supposedly good for 100 years in ideal conditions. But data doesnt maintain it just gets bigger especially e-mail.
other question is when can I delete e-mail or files? if I have a draft and delete it before the backup am i in violation of this policy or what?
I think this is just a good case of lawmakers who have absolutely no clue on how to turn on their computer let alone regulate data retention or laws regarding any of this stuff.
Which is funny regarding how much these guys gouge you for a simple network cable. The suckers must be dipped in Gold. The whole Geek Squad Certified slaps 30% on any prodct $16.19 on sale for a 7 footer. Why would they need to skimp on anything when you rake in that kind of dough.
Who are these people that make more than 67K a year as an analyst. Given I live in a city in the Midwest I only rake in all of 38,000 a year plus decent benefits. I am in charge of all tech support, anti virus, and remote site security for a network of 750 nodes spanning 500 miles. There is one other tech that helps me and we have 7 developers and 1 network admin. I can tell you that non of us make more than 46K.
I am not bitching here but I would really like to know who these people are!
Oh I am aware of that, but I am thinking of my brother and grandparents. Along with several hundred other people I have set up with D-Link routers. Of course I can reconfigure them in the future but I would bet good money that the majority of people out there who own d-link products dont know what firmware is. Always remember, we are in a minority. I think he took the best action he could aside from changing his domain and IP. If there is no response to his open letter then he will be forced to do one or the other.
Interesting question that you bring up is whether or not the custom firmware for d-links is in question as well.
So your saying it would be more efficient for him to show the.5% of D-Link users out there who know how to grep through the firmware to fix their problems rather than spend time asking D-Link to release an updated firmware? Because hey I am sure that will reduce the traffic....
But what is with government officials running technology that know nothing about it? Can a policy paper pusher possibly understand the direction that technology is going?
I work in the government and this is a serious problem for me. It is just too hard to get things done when your project manager is using words like doohicky and thingamagig. When they do try to BS their way through a presentation with fellow policymakers and managers, it is all you can do to keep from crying at the blatant misunderstanding of technology.
Seriously, I second your motion here. This price is a friggin joke, even with a warranty. You know what I want to see? a return to the dumb terminals. Give me a box with citrix and about 50 cable modem sized boxes for $75 each and a yearly renewable contract. That will be something. This box is overkill.
I think the dilbert for today says it all when it comes to the job market right now. People are now looking for qualified engineers and Tech staff because the dot-com boom left us with a bunch of underqualified tech staff members.
www.dilbert.com
Let the slashdot uber-paranoid X-File freaks come out. Stories like this are always available for them to feed on, no matter how many times they are served.
I am sure that every time you do a google search there is a script running using a rootkit to hide itself looking for all your personal information.
They also have all your phones tapped and are watching your internet lines constantly with their behind the scenes big brother contract with quest and Time Warner.
Eh but it is fun to watch all of you out there with your ethereal running all the time on your home network running through 3 VPNs and sweating bullets when you are chatting with your online girlfriend from russia.
I was just referring to a plain ol Gen 1 X-Box. To play Halo 2 on Vista you are going to need one hell of a setup. Check out the min specs for vista, set halo on top of that and you are looking at $1200 at least (if you build your own)
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yes I agree it is not the same style as the Halo franchise. Whereas Battlefield received some ideas from Halo, but those steps were inevitable hardly copywriteable:) battlefield is a far more complex game, as one poster put it in the singleplayer mode I thought the AI characters were fuzzy little guys that were on my side:) But the singleplayer mode wasnt what made Halo great it was the multiplayer fun and glory! Halo 2 built on this but lacked in the gameplay that HL2 and Battlefield 2 brought to the screen (postdating Halo 2 of course)
Howerver, But I can't remember a time when I've used a vehicle, a melee attack and a grenade in one fight in Battlefield. I apologize for jumping the gun all the same. This is not a gameplay problem but a lack of time on the servers. You haven't played much if you never sat in an APC/tank/jeep and got rushed by an Engineer or Special Forces. Or halo jumped out of a helicopter to take out a jeep lighting up your pilot. I enjoy both games, although I am not much for the controls on console. Too limited, don't know why. I also find that online play with halo was not very squad/team orientated like battlefield 2. That is just me, I like that there is a variety of games out there for different styles of playing. I like teamplay and strategy (BF2). Sometimes I like to go rouge and kick the crap out of people, or just get smacked around by players better than me (Halo):) Two different styles of games.
I think you hit the nail on the head there. I am in the same boat as you age-wise. But the difference is, when we were playing Wolfenstein it was something no-one had ever seen before, completely unique and the evolution was awesome, great time to be a gamer.
But the claim here is that redefined first-person combat and multiplayer action but to be fair the sentence did finish with for millions of gamers worldwide. So yes it did bring a lot of people to the light and showed them what was out there. But gaming industry wise, the game really brought nothing to the set. People like us were already playing Half Life, and Battlefield. Gameplay far superior, multiplayer sessions far more complex. Not to mention graphics way above where Halo was.
But Halo does not compare to PC FPS in my opinion and this whole idea that it is going to "explode" onto the PC is ridiculous to me. But that is a conversation for the PC vs Console enthusiasts.
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I had PRK done earlier this year. I had been wearing glasses since I was very young, like 5-6 years old. I was an athlete and contacts just didnt cut it in contact sports, and glasses were a nuisance but I lived with it all through my college sport years. Now I am without either and as much as RK surgery sucked (the bandages dried to my eyes 2 days after the surgery). I would not go back. I may have to wear glasses again when I am 45 but to have 20 years or so being able to see my wife in the morning, not having to worry about cuts in my contacts, or having my glasses break at inopportune times, is all very much worth the 3K to do it.
My wife, the biologist professor of Genetics, would agree with you whole heartedly there.
Dont you think that the ISPs will begin to specifically route around those backbones. Perhaps we will see a private internet pop up, and once that happens we will see the greedy telcos go down the tubes as we route all our communications over more reasonable lines. Re-Creating the internet essentially would be one hell of as Open Source project in this case.
After which the computers deduce they were actually not created but rather evolved from a lesser society of "users". sorry had to make the joke, we all saw it coming :)
Maybe it all comes down to who you have developing your system. Well trained experts or a couple of people who just had a crash course in Notes development. I can speak from experience, rarely can you make up for a well trained developer with a boot camp.
As for the first user to be dev, you are spot on, the two devs we have were secretaries basically made dev due to a lack of options.
which is the goofy part, as Notes has been around for soooo long it still is as buggy as beta. I have been using and supporting notes for almost 4 years and there is no end to the crashes, bugs, missing dic files, random unread docs, replication conflicts, and dont get me started on trying to migrate from version 5-6, let alone from 6-7. Every day I fear turning on the sametime server or using the more advanced features, often waking up in a cold sweat seeing the Red Box of death from the old days.
I believe that notes is a prime example of what happens when you get a large corporation that gets fat and lazy in the dev of their products, bring on the competiton I say, maybe we will see some stablility rise from notes and some actual useful database structure.
(end rant)
I agree. I was a CS major, 90% drop out rate but I made it through, has some really rough nights, weeks, and months to do it. However I do not do dev. I am infrastructure support. But have been told on many occations by people without a technical degree (who are my bosses by the way) that it is your attitude that gets you somewhere. On that note I have been looking to an MBA because the hard reality is hitting. People dont care about your expertese "house" is not the real world, all that matters is a pretty smile and biding your time. Who needs professionalism anyway?
On the other hand maybe it is due to the large amount of tech colleges poping up like ITT and the guaranteed technical training schools. Why get a CS or engineering degree when you can do half the work at a vo-tech :)
I thought the Mayan calendar ended in 2033...maybe that is the maori, either case that is the day of the end of human history which the only thing to survive will be spambots.
other question is when can I delete e-mail or files? if I have a draft and delete it before the backup am i in violation of this policy or what?
I think this is just a good case of lawmakers who have absolutely no clue on how to turn on their computer let alone regulate data retention or laws regarding any of this stuff.
Which is funny regarding how much these guys gouge you for a simple network cable. The suckers must be dipped in Gold. The whole Geek Squad Certified slaps 30% on any prodct $16.19 on sale for a 7 footer. Why would they need to skimp on anything when you rake in that kind of dough.
I am not bitching here but I would really like to know who these people are!
Interesting question that you bring up is whether or not the custom firmware for d-links is in question as well.
So your saying it would be more efficient for him to show the .5% of D-Link users out there who know how to grep through the firmware to fix their problems rather than spend time asking D-Link to release an updated firmware? Because hey I am sure that will reduce the traffic....
Just every time I post to slashdot....builds character though right?
I work in the government and this is a serious problem for me. It is just too hard to get things done when your project manager is using words like doohicky and thingamagig. When they do try to BS their way through a presentation with fellow policymakers and managers, it is all you can do to keep from crying at the blatant misunderstanding of technology.
Ultramobile my ass.
Seriously, I second your motion here. This price is a friggin joke, even with a warranty. You know what I want to see? a return to the dumb terminals. Give me a box with citrix and about 50 cable modem sized boxes for $75 each and a yearly renewable contract. That will be something. This box is overkill.
I think the dilbert for today says it all when it comes to the job market right now. People are now looking for qualified engineers and Tech staff because the dot-com boom left us with a bunch of underqualified tech staff members. www.dilbert.com
Am I the only one who noticed that his Username test4allah408754873 is a possible Social Security Number> 408-75-4873?
I am sure that every time you do a google search there is a script running using a rootkit to hide itself looking for all your personal information.
They also have all your phones tapped and are watching your internet lines constantly with their behind the scenes big brother contract with quest and Time Warner.
Eh but it is fun to watch all of you out there with your ethereal running all the time on your home network running through 3 VPNs and sweating bullets when you are chatting with your online girlfriend from russia.
I was just referring to a plain ol Gen 1 X-Box. To play Halo 2 on Vista you are going to need one hell of a setup. Check out the min specs for vista, set halo on top of that and you are looking at $1200 at least (if you build your own)
Howerver, But I can't remember a time when I've used a vehicle, a melee attack and a grenade in one fight in Battlefield. I apologize for jumping the gun all the same. This is not a gameplay problem but a lack of time on the servers. You haven't played much if you never sat in an APC/tank/jeep and got rushed by an Engineer or Special Forces. Or halo jumped out of a helicopter to take out a jeep lighting up your pilot. I enjoy both games, although I am not much for the controls on console. Too limited, don't know why. I also find that online play with halo was not very squad/team orientated like battlefield 2. That is just me, I like that there is a variety of games out there for different styles of playing. I like teamplay and strategy (BF2). Sometimes I like to go rouge and kick the crap out of people, or just get smacked around by players better than me (Halo) :) Two different styles of games.
But the claim here is that redefined first-person combat and multiplayer action but to be fair the sentence did finish with for millions of gamers worldwide. So yes it did bring a lot of people to the light and showed them what was out there. But gaming industry wise, the game really brought nothing to the set. People like us were already playing Half Life, and Battlefield. Gameplay far superior, multiplayer sessions far more complex. Not to mention graphics way above where Halo was.
But Halo does not compare to PC FPS in my opinion and this whole idea that it is going to "explode" onto the PC is ridiculous to me. But that is a conversation for the PC vs Console enthusiasts.