OEM copies of Windows can be purchased from just about every major online retailer and will install on any hardware. The only major difference between them and the boxed retail copies is that you can't get technical support from Microsoft. They are not to be confused with machine-specific restore disks the big vendors like to use.
"These guys have set them up with a fucking NT domain!"
"It's called "Active Directory" or "Windows Domain"."
Unless it really was an NT domain. My last job refused to pay for server upgrades, so the original NT servers and the NT domain are still in place. I'm assuming they'll be there until the drives burn out.
A company I used to work for near Seattle had a sister company in Vancouver, BC (150 miles north). Traffic from us to them went down the backbone to LA, Denver, Chicago, across the border to Toronto, Calgary, then into Vancouver. When they send something to us, it was only a single hop down I-5. Many times backhoe fade in the Midwest would take down our outgoing, but we could receive traffic just fine.
I used to work for a manufacturing company that promised profit sharing if profits were above a certain amount. For years, they never had to pay out, but it was always mentioned by management as an incentive. Then a really good year came along, and we crossed the profit sharing line with several months to go before the end of the year. Every month, the profits were tallied, and the profit sharing pool grew, and grew.
December hits, and our company buys another company for 8+ million dollars, in cash. Two weeks later, they pay off some big loans with cash, eating almost a million dollars in pre-payment penalties on top of the loan amounts. The profit sharing pool drops to zero on the last week of the month.
Christmas comes and they pass out $15 gift certificates for Safeway as appreciation for all of our hard work. Most of the certificates were collected and given to the local food bank as a mass protest. I haven't paid attention to bonus programs or incentive programs since.
And Bronfman would be the first person I would call in to give testimony in a jury trial. He had evidence that his kids were pirating music, yet he failed to have the RIAA take them trial. I'm sure the jury would love to hear why his kids went free over something he's suing other kids for.
"...because there's a wealth of options for character classes."
And in true Fox tradition, you start at level 20. When you make 25, you drop back to do levels 5 though 10, then 32 to 37, then back to 11 to pick up your first skill bonus. After playing levels 42-47, 13-18, and 26-31 you finish up with levels 48-59. When you qualify for 60, your character gets dropped back into the tutorial and you choose which class you want to be.
If you had properly identified labeled them as hexiform rotatable surface compression units, you wouldn't have to worry about which nuts were being ground off.
I've seen nurses come out into the waiting room at the local hospital, looking to see who was on their phone (and the waiting area was covered with the signs). They could care less about people being rude, but it was playing merry havoc on their diagnostic machines in the next room. The rest of the hospital allowed phones, just not within 30 feet of that room.
I was the sole IT person at my last place of work. The parent company decided they would provide all IT services remotely from the corporate offices, so I was given my pink slip and sent on my way. Monday morning, the servers stop. They call the corporate help desk and hear "We don't support those applications." The company grinds to a stop. A few months later, the newly promoted IT director leaves for a new company and takes all of his people with him, effectively ending the experiment. Two later, and they still don't have anyone to support the systems, but the local consulting firm is making a mint keeping their network afloat.
"Sure, it's feasible, but it's generally much easier to buy random drives on eBay, as you're almost guaranteed one that someone forgot to wipe before selling..."
Why bother with eBay? Just go to the local Fry's and buy a new one off the shelf and odds are in your favor that it's a customer-returned unit full of goodies. (We're 2 for 3 on getting "pre-loaded" drives. It's amazing what people will leave on their drives.)
"Try putting two sticks of butter in your laptop case and see if you get tired carrying that extra weight around all day.;)"
Wait until you get a manager that complains that their 4.03 pound HPs or their 3.1 pound Sonys were too heavy. They would have made me clean toilets for a year if I had replaced their laptops with new ones that were a half-pound heavier, no matter what other bells and doodads I put on it.
My last two jobs have been at Dell shops. The last job averaged a 31% first-week failure rate on new Dells (mostly Optiplexes). The new place is sitting at 20% failure rate with Dell Precisions, and 20% dead-on-delivery on 24" LCDs. With the amount of tech calls and parts replacements they've had to do, they can't be making much money off of us if this continues.
The HP weighs more, is half again as thick, and has a lower resolution screen. Trimming weight and thickness from laptops is expensive, and even minor gains carry expensive price tags. Find an HP that's lighter and thinner with a better screen than the Apple, and then see how they compare on cost.
Try commercial-free radio stations. I've got two on my dial - one's run out of a local high school (KNHC), the other is an independant that changes formats every couple of hours (KEXP). I haven't heard a radio commercial in months.
Several monthss after Apple discontinued their PowerMac 9600 models, a batch was discovered in a warehouse and the mail order companies sold them off for $1700. The 9600 was the last model with six PCI slots, and some of the film production hardware used all six slots. Within six months, used PowerMacs were selling on eBay for $3500-$4500 because the movie studios continued to accumulate them. (I purchased a truckload during the $1700 firesale, and the studios were nice enough to cough up the down payment for my house.)
I can already see a government report using the same term to describe the loss of containment in a fission reactor, too. "Just a bit of erosion; it's barely visble from orbit."
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OEM copies of Windows can be purchased from just about every major online retailer and will install on any hardware. The only major difference between them and the boxed retail copies is that you can't get technical support from Microsoft. They are not to be confused with machine-specific restore disks the big vendors like to use.
"These guys have set them up with a fucking NT domain!"
"It's called "Active Directory" or "Windows Domain"."
Unless it really was an NT domain. My last job refused to pay for server upgrades, so the original NT servers and the NT domain are still in place. I'm assuming they'll be there until the drives burn out.
A company I used to work for near Seattle had a sister company in Vancouver, BC (150 miles north). Traffic from us to them went down the backbone to LA, Denver, Chicago, across the border to Toronto, Calgary, then into Vancouver. When they send something to us, it was only a single hop down I-5. Many times backhoe fade in the Midwest would take down our outgoing, but we could receive traffic just fine.
I used to work for a manufacturing company that promised profit sharing if profits were above a certain amount. For years, they never had to pay out, but it was always mentioned by management as an incentive. Then a really good year came along, and we crossed the profit sharing line with several months to go before the end of the year. Every month, the profits were tallied, and the profit sharing pool grew, and grew.
December hits, and our company buys another company for 8+ million dollars, in cash. Two weeks later, they pay off some big loans with cash, eating almost a million dollars in pre-payment penalties on top of the loan amounts. The profit sharing pool drops to zero on the last week of the month.
Christmas comes and they pass out $15 gift certificates for Safeway as appreciation for all of our hard work. Most of the certificates were collected and given to the local food bank as a mass protest. I haven't paid attention to bonus programs or incentive programs since.
And Bronfman would be the first person I would call in to give testimony in a jury trial. He had evidence that his kids were pirating music, yet he failed to have the RIAA take them trial. I'm sure the jury would love to hear why his kids went free over something he's suing other kids for.
"...because there's a wealth of options for character classes."
And in true Fox tradition, you start at level 20. When you make 25, you drop back to do levels 5 though 10, then 32 to 37, then back to 11 to pick up your first skill bonus. After playing levels 42-47, 13-18, and 26-31 you finish up with levels 48-59. When you qualify for 60, your character gets dropped back into the tutorial and you choose which class you want to be.
Femur marrow should not be eaten with the fingers.
The fingers should be eaten separately.
Horseradish is also called "Western wasabi". To a marketing drone, that's close enough.
Try keeping a straight face during a DCMAO conference. More than one person has stumbled over "dick-mayo".
If you had properly identified labeled them as hexiform rotatable surface compression units, you wouldn't have to worry about which nuts were being ground off.
or C) Turn microwave up to 11.
I've seen nurses come out into the waiting room at the local hospital, looking to see who was on their phone (and the waiting area was covered with the signs). They could care less about people being rude, but it was playing merry havoc on their diagnostic machines in the next room. The rest of the hospital allowed phones, just not within 30 feet of that room.
I was the sole IT person at my last place of work. The parent company decided they would provide all IT services remotely from the corporate offices, so I was given my pink slip and sent on my way. Monday morning, the servers stop. They call the corporate help desk and hear "We don't support those applications." The company grinds to a stop. A few months later, the newly promoted IT director leaves for a new company and takes all of his people with him, effectively ending the experiment. Two later, and they still don't have anyone to support the systems, but the local consulting firm is making a mint keeping their network afloat.
"...have to help in the offshoring of their own jobs - I had to do that, and though I did my best it was an absolute disaster."
If it ended in absolute disaster, then your part was done properly.
"Sure, it's feasible, but it's generally much easier to buy random drives on eBay, as you're almost guaranteed one that someone forgot to wipe before selling..."
Why bother with eBay? Just go to the local Fry's and buy a new one off the shelf and odds are in your favor that it's a customer-returned unit full of goodies. (We're 2 for 3 on getting "pre-loaded" drives. It's amazing what people will leave on their drives.)
"Try putting two sticks of butter in your laptop case and see if you get tired carrying that extra weight around all day. ;)"
Wait until you get a manager that complains that their 4.03 pound HPs or their 3.1 pound Sonys were too heavy. They would have made me clean toilets for a year if I had replaced their laptops with new ones that were a half-pound heavier, no matter what other bells and doodads I put on it.
My last two jobs have been at Dell shops. The last job averaged a 31% first-week failure rate on new Dells (mostly Optiplexes). The new place is sitting at 20% failure rate with Dell Precisions, and 20% dead-on-delivery on 24" LCDs. With the amount of tech calls and parts replacements they've had to do, they can't be making much money off of us if this continues.
The HP weighs more, is half again as thick, and has a lower resolution screen. Trimming weight and thickness from laptops is expensive, and even minor gains carry expensive price tags. Find an HP that's lighter and thinner with a better screen than the Apple, and then see how they compare on cost.
Try commercial-free radio stations. I've got two on my dial - one's run out of a local high school (KNHC), the other is an independant that changes formats every couple of hours (KEXP). I haven't heard a radio commercial in months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shall_and_Will
In traditional usage, one normally uses will and shall as follows:
* I shall
* we shall
* you will
* he/she/it will
* they will
(At least that's the way my English teacher beat it into us, but I date myself...)
Shouldn't that be "I shall"?
How does an existing computer's value skyrocket?
Several monthss after Apple discontinued their PowerMac 9600 models, a batch was discovered in a warehouse and the mail order companies sold them off for $1700. The 9600 was the last model with six PCI slots, and some of the film production hardware used all six slots. Within six months, used PowerMacs were selling on eBay for $3500-$4500 because the movie studios continued to accumulate them. (I purchased a truckload during the $1700 firesale, and the studios were nice enough to cough up the down payment for my house.)
"...just a bit of erosion..."
I can already see a government report using the same term to describe the loss of containment in a fission reactor, too. "Just a bit of erosion; it's barely visble from orbit."
With the bomb squad, you can usually stop running after the first couple of blocks. If it involves the physics department, keep going.
"They were supported by US Navy aircraft which dropped 40,000 pounds of explosives and napalm, a US officer told the Herald."
40,000 pounds means two planes, maybe three. Throw weight adds up fast with modern aircraft.