Probably a welcome relief from the modern crap country they played the rest of the day?
I had a fondness for 1970's and 1980's country, as the radio for my father's truck only got two stations: country and talk.. Not too thrilled with either country or talk since then.
When I used to visit my parents in Sacramento in the late 1990's, a country radio station played 1940's and 1950's country music between midnight and 5AM. Guitar strumming and praising God. Very interesting.
I'm planning to turn my home office into a YouTube studio in the near future.
That's too much stuff for one kissless loser.
The home office is in support of my side business as a content creator. The only thing that is missing is a 30-gallon frag tank I'm planning to put in the corner.
Yeah, given that it probably takes up 1/4 of your 440 sq ft apartment, where do you keep the rest of your furniture?
It's 475-sqft. After my father passed away and 99% of his worldly possessions got tossed into the trash five years ago, I got rid of all the clutter in my life. I could probably move into a smaller apartment — or a trailer if I ditched the home office.
you & your extra tents - errr, clothes
I wear 2XL t-shirts. Those are not tents. It might help if you think football player instead of butter ball.
What you call a "home office", people with a normal brain call a "desk" [...]
Today it's two desks, a table, filing cabinet, storage cabinet, and several bookshelves. I'm trying to rearrange the space to do YouTube videos in the near future.
Well, after a normal life raising kids, sure.
Not sure what kids have to do with this. A 5,000-sqft house was too much space for two people. They only got it because they had five bedrooms of family heirlooms that they couldn't let go.
The closet in my home office is bigger than your entire studio!
My brother's in-laws had a five-bedroom $1M home that has a kitchen larger than my studio apartment. They sold that place because keeping it clean was a monumental task for a couple in their 50's. They're living in a converted barn in Pennsylvania to be near their grandchildren.
I previously told that help desk story on a half dozen occasions over the years. If someone is claiming that it's a new story, they must be new around here.
I was going to submit the WSJ/Fox News article under my alias when the Variety story popped up, which has more insight on what HBO is doing.
When the hackers came forward late last month, an HBO technology-department employee sent them a letter offering $250,000 to participate in the company's "bug bounty" program, in which technology professionals are compensated for finding vulnerabilities, according to a person familiar with the matter.
HBO was buying time with that response and isn't in negotiations with the hackers, the person said. The hacker has demanded a ransom of around $6 million.
The network has also been working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law-enforcement agencies and cybersecurity firms to address the matter, people familiar with the matter say.
If you think 50+ tabs in a web browser is bad, try 50+ windows in Windows XP. I used to make the engineers at Google cry when I was on the IT help desk (2007-08). Whenever they requested a software install that I have to remote into their system with my admin credentials, I told them to take another lunch break. Its going take 15 minutes to shut down their session, 15 minutes for me to remote in and install their software, and 15 minutes to open their session.
They could have relocated him to Silicon Valley, and then shitcanned him, leaving him stranded in a third world country, working for peanuts.
He was from Silicon Valley. He wanted to come back to Silicon Valley.
A short move to Austin gets him to a cool town in Texas, and the cost of living is quite reasonable.
Except he spent all his money to move out to Texas, find an apartment, and then only had a two-week paycheck when it came time to pay the rent. IIRC, We (the testers) took up a collection for him to pay his rent. This was in 2001. So no Go Fund Me site for donations.
The company can't just fire them on the spot and expect them to pay their own hotel bills and return airfare; by sending them on *company-approved* travel, the company is responsible for all their travel bills.
The video game company that I worked for prior to the dot com bust promoted a video game tester to assistant producer, sent him to the Texas studio to live and work, and then closed the studio two weeks later. When the guy requested money to move back to California, he was told to get lost. Last I heard he was still in Texas.
I just started reading "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network" by Katherine Losse. First chapter identified her as a woman, a woman who browse the Internet anonymously because of stalkers and trolls, and Facebook @ Johns Hopkins University was the first online service she ever put her real name to. She comes out to the West Coast, gets an advertising job in San Francisco, and then gets recruited by Facebook in 2005. Should be an interesting read.
And the fact that both of them cannot be true simultaneously means you are a joke, and full of shit.
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
That may be true for engineers and management. Everything else is outsourced. Outsourced contractors are more interested in finding warm bodies. I had a weekend job as PC disconnect/reconnect for a moving company in 2011, doing a half-dozen assignments at Facebook's Palo Alto locations. I was 42 at the time.
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Probably a welcome relief from the modern crap country they played the rest of the day?
I had a fondness for 1970's and 1980's country, as the radio for my father's truck only got two stations: country and talk.. Not too thrilled with either country or talk since then.
He needs some Spam-flavored Macadamia Nuts to go with his whine.
Not too sure how The Grove would feel about that aquarium.
Wrong floor plan. Pet policy only applies to cats and dogs.
Especially since you have to wait until a full moon to get decent coverage on Earth.
I was wondering what benchmark was coming off the board. Customer satisfaction? Driver satisfaction? How many days without a douchebag CEO?
When I used to visit my parents in Sacramento in the late 1990's, a country radio station played 1940's and 1950's country music between midnight and 5AM. Guitar strumming and praising God. Very interesting.
Not sure what youtube has to do with this.
I'm planning to turn my home office into a YouTube studio in the near future.
That's too much stuff for one kissless loser.
The home office is in support of my side business as a content creator. The only thing that is missing is a 30-gallon frag tank I'm planning to put in the corner.
Yeah, given that it probably takes up 1/4 of your 440 sq ft apartment, where do you keep the rest of your furniture?
It's 475-sqft. After my father passed away and 99% of his worldly possessions got tossed into the trash five years ago, I got rid of all the clutter in my life. I could probably move into a smaller apartment — or a trailer if I ditched the home office.
you & your extra tents - errr, clothes
I wear 2XL t-shirts. Those are not tents. It might help if you think football player instead of butter ball.
What you call a "home office", people with a normal brain call a "desk" [...]
Today it's two desks, a table, filing cabinet, storage cabinet, and several bookshelves. I'm trying to rearrange the space to do YouTube videos in the near future.
Well, after a normal life raising kids, sure.
Not sure what kids have to do with this. A 5,000-sqft house was too much space for two people. They only got it because they had five bedrooms of family heirlooms that they couldn't let go.
Your home office!!!!!
This is what my home office looked like eight years ago.
https://blog.cdreimer.com/2009/03/06/dedicated-office-space/
The closet in my home office is bigger than your entire studio!
My brother's in-laws had a five-bedroom $1M home that has a kitchen larger than my studio apartment. They sold that place because keeping it clean was a monumental task for a couple in their 50's. They're living in a converted barn in Pennsylvania to be near their grandchildren.
Indeed, but at least he was not proudly satisfied with remaining a mediocre joke.
I don't mind being a running joke on Slashdot.
Keep on setting your sights low, creimer, you're a walking demotivational poster.
Which is why I have this demovivational poster in my home office:
"It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."
https://despair.com/collections/demotivators/products/mistakes
"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon should know. He lost the Battle of Waterloo, ending his rule as the French Emperor and dying in exile.
I guess you're happy staying in the "barely competent" demographic.
I'm quite satisfied with my career. Pissing on me isn't going to change that.
So your wages have remained more or less stagnant for the last 10 years.
Like all Americans for the last 40+ years. Thanks, Reagan!
https://www.usw.org/blog/2015/wages-have-been-stagnant-for-40-years-but-its-not-the-fault-of-american-workers
How was that a logical response, creimer?
I previously told that help desk story on a half dozen occasions over the years. If someone is claiming that it's a new story, they must be new around here.
Wow creimer has a new story today for a change [...]
You must be new around here.
[...] apparently he was underpaid at Google as well even.
Help desk techs got paid $20/hr.
I was going to submit the WSJ/Fox News article under my alias when the Variety story popped up, which has more insight on what HBO is doing.
When the hackers came forward late last month, an HBO technology-department employee sent them a letter offering $250,000 to participate in the company's "bug bounty" program, in which technology professionals are compensated for finding vulnerabilities, according to a person familiar with the matter.
HBO was buying time with that response and isn't in negotiations with the hackers, the person said. The hacker has demanded a ransom of around $6 million.
The network has also been working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law-enforcement agencies and cybersecurity firms to address the matter, people familiar with the matter say.
WSJ (paywalled): https://www.wsj.com/articles/hbos-hack-hollywood-is-under-siege-1502443802
Fox News: http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/08/11/hbos-hack-hollywood-is-under-siege.html
If you think 50+ tabs in a web browser is bad, try 50+ windows in Windows XP. I used to make the engineers at Google cry when I was on the IT help desk (2007-08). Whenever they requested a software install that I have to remote into their system with my admin credentials, I told them to take another lunch break. Its going take 15 minutes to shut down their session, 15 minutes for me to remote in and install their software, and 15 minutes to open their session.
Another mishipment by the ACME Corporation.
Could have been worse, he could have spent all his money on your eBooks!
Especially since I wouldn't have any ebooks for another ten years.
On that note, Casey Neistat did a video about "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline because Steven Spielberg is turning the book into a movie.
They could have relocated him to Silicon Valley, and then shitcanned him, leaving him stranded in a third world country, working for peanuts.
He was from Silicon Valley. He wanted to come back to Silicon Valley.
A short move to Austin gets him to a cool town in Texas, and the cost of living is quite reasonable.
Except he spent all his money to move out to Texas, find an apartment, and then only had a two-week paycheck when it came time to pay the rent. IIRC, We (the testers) took up a collection for him to pay his rent. This was in 2001. So no Go Fund Me site for donations.
The company can't just fire them on the spot and expect them to pay their own hotel bills and return airfare; by sending them on *company-approved* travel, the company is responsible for all their travel bills.
The video game company that I worked for prior to the dot com bust promoted a video game tester to assistant producer, sent him to the Texas studio to live and work, and then closed the studio two weeks later. When the guy requested money to move back to California, he was told to get lost. Last I heard he was still in Texas.
I just started reading "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network" by Katherine Losse. First chapter identified her as a woman, a woman who browse the Internet anonymously because of stalkers and trolls, and Facebook @ Johns Hopkins University was the first online service she ever put her real name to. She comes out to the West Coast, gets an advertising job in San Francisco, and then gets recruited by Facebook in 2005. Should be an interesting read.
And the fact that both of them cannot be true simultaneously means you are a joke, and full of shit.
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
That may be true for engineers and management. Everything else is outsourced. Outsourced contractors are more interested in finding warm bodies. I had a weekend job as PC disconnect/reconnect for a moving company in 2011, doing a half-dozen assignments at Facebook's Palo Alto locations. I was 42 at the time.