and there are pictures of the secret room at AT&T here [wired.com]
Hmm, interesting. Two pictures of random signs that could be anywhere, and two pictures of the front of the building. None of which show anything remotely interesting. Incriminating stuff, that:)
Not that I don't think they do this, just that the pictures are....underwhelming...
The company I work for has Corp site license for Windows products (most of the big ones). So all the servers that I buy (HP in my case) are OS-less. When they arrive, I put our 'corporatized' version of Server 2003 or whatever other OS i need on the box. So stats from the server makers can be misleading.
...what gives them the right to use my bandwidth to advertise to me?
I whitelist sites that I visit often, and find useful - they deserve my revenue. the others? I surely don't care.
I feel the exact same way. MP3's (at 128) are fine by me, and I can't notice a difference at 192, so why bother?
It doesn't help that i listen to most of my music on my commute, in stop and go traffic in a convertible, though:)
...or, I can rent an HD DVR from my cable company for the same price Tivo charges per month, with no huge outlay of cash in the beginning. Sure, the experience isn't quite as good, but its more than adequate. And if it dies, I get a replacement, no questions asked.
While true, but thinking from a corporate standpoint, I want as few points of contact as possible. With OS support from one place, and hardware support from another, it would be entirely too easy (and immensely frustrating) to have Canonical say 'its a hardware issue' and Dell to say 'sorry, software problem', and you left holding the bag.
Nonetheless, I predict some other corporation gives him a fat deal now.
They always do. Good ol' boys club, you know. He probably sits on 10 other companies boards, and those board members sit on 10 other companies boards, ad infinium. So one of those Good ol' Boys will come through for one of theirs in a 'time of need', and place him at some other hapless company. I've seen it happen so often, it's sickening.
Amen to this. For a while, our group let us use pretty much any splatbook you wanted. Now, we restrict mostly to the core books, and one or two chosen splatbooks.
Most of the splatbooks are poorly written, unbalanced pieces of drivel. If you allow them in your game, the new rules/feats/etc. in the books are either way better, or way worse, than that in the core books, and you can get some seriously unbalanced characters.
Our group is going to end its current campaign sometime over the next year, after which we'll reset and start another one. We're already talking about limiting the source material and splatbooks allowed. That way, you don't carry a library around with you, the ruleset is simpler and easier, and we believe it will lead to more fun.
Remember, PnP is what you make of it - that is what makes it so great. Unlike an MMORPG, where you are completely restrained by rules and mechanics - in a PnP game, if you don't like something, or if some mechanic is not fun, then simply change it! *That's* the true allure of tabletop PnP, along with the actual social interaction.
And to touch upon your point of PnP games dying - my GM and I have this discussion all the time. I don't think it's dying at all, but MMORPGs are definitely hurting the PnP industry. Both in terms of less players, and much less QUALITY players. We've tried to recruit several new people to our group over the last few years. Our core group is all mid to late 30-somethings, and most players we find to recruit are mid 20-somethings. Almost every one of them wants to treat PnP as they do an MMORPG - moving as quickly as they can from one encounter to the next, vying for more XP and loot, min/maxing characters. Almost ZERO roleplaying. I blame this trend on MMORPGs and their game mechanics. We've ejected all those players, and now have a decent core group, that likes the PnP experience (as much a game as a social night out with friends).
...that content creators make is EASIER for me to watch the content that they create. This can only mean more viewers, watching more of the content they create, which is a good thing all around.
Unlike MLB, which wants you to only watch their content on their terms. Screw that!
Interesting take, and one a number of the people here in my office use. However, it can be taken too far. I work in IT, and there are times (probably once a week) that I need to notify people of process changes, impending outages, etc. - so I send an email to everyone.
Inevitably a handful of people always complain that 'I didn't notify them', mostly because they couldn't be bothered to read the email. I also post the info in a wiki, but they can't be bothered to read that either.
I can't be expected to individually notify everyone in person of these issue, so email is my only communication method - and one ideally suited for this I think.
This is spot on. I am that sysadmin you talk about. i work for a large software company - however, I was hired specifically to support one smaller office, as the IT group couldn't (or wouldn't) provide adequate support. Things were great for a while - I learned the quirks of this particular office, setup new systems and generally made the work environment better for those that work out of this office.
Thats when a new manager, and IT overlords stepped in. Now I have to do everything 'by the book', even when 'the book' doesn't mesh with what we are doing here at this satellites office. My life is now a hell of process, procedure, and meetings - and very little actual work is getting done.
What does this lead to? Developers going 'out of band' to get stuff done - purchasing hardware on credit cards, not using authorized apps, copying large files around the WAN when stuff should be local, etc. All because they can't get a slice of my time to help them with a correct solution.
Everyone here is frustrated - myself the most. I *want* to provide the best support I can, but I'm now hamstrung by process and management, whereas before (when the developers/local managers were happy) I wasn't.
I think most sysadmin jobs are going this route now, excepting the startups (and they will, as they grow). Sysadmins are a commodity now, they aren't viewed as adding value.
One of my beefs with NWN2 is that I thought the campaign was...well, kinda crap. I keep hoping the community will take over and give me some replayability, but I have little desire to replay the builtin campaign again...
This whole thing sounds like crap from Intel. "Whoops, your honour, we, a giant, multibillion dollar organization, staffed with the brightest engineering and IT minds that money can buy,
I work for a giant, multibillion dollar organization (no, not Intel). And let me tell you, the IT department here most certainly is NOT staffed with the brightest engineering and IT minds that money can buy. Quite the opposite. It seems that they hire under-qualified people here, who get up to speed, then leave for a real job - the company won't pay a real competitive rate, and the management is **horrendous**.
So, assuming Intel has a 'qualified' and competent IT department may be a stretch. Though, like you, I think they deleted them on purpose, too.
I'm not going back to a landline, and don't own a cellphone. Any thoughts on where I can turn for phone service? Obviously, Verizon is not an option, and my cable provider is stupidly expensive...
Unfortunately, Entoruage doesn't work with plugins like Meetingplace, which kills it at my large software organization. Also the fact that it is a PowerPC binary, and runs like molasses on my Macbook Pros. Don't get me wrong, we have some people here that are using it, and getting by. But Execs won't go for it for a multitude of already documented reasons.
You'd be able to pitch this to the high-end customer (upper execs, etc), but you'll lose them when the find out that the Mac won't work with Exchange (no, Office for Mac doesn't count, they need full-blown Outlook). Along with the other Exchange-centric plugins, suchs as Meestingplace, Blackberries, etc.
MS it way too entrenched on the back end, so making the choice of MS for the desktop is a no brainer.
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I HATE when they do this. Or, at the very least, link to blender.org in the summary! Jesus, is this difficult?
I don't buy their music. I don't download their music. I hope to educate my daughter to do the same (I know what a challenge that will be, with her friends pushing the 'drug' the RIAA creates, peer pressure, etc.).
Bottom line, I am not a consumer of RIAA music, so I don't care. Eventually they will die off, and we'll all relegate this to a footnote in history.
Yeah, after digging through some links (a decent linked article would have been nice, that one at the inquirer was useless) would have spotted that.
Nvidia will come out with drivers for Vista - it would be death not to. And they promised 'works with vista', they just didnt say when...:)
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and there are pictures of the secret room at AT&T here [wired.com] Hmm, interesting. Two pictures of random signs that could be anywhere, and two pictures of the front of the building. None of which show anything remotely interesting. Incriminating stuff, that :)
Not that I don't think they do this, just that the pictures are....underwhelming...
The company I work for has Corp site license for Windows products (most of the big ones). So all the servers that I buy (HP in my case) are OS-less. When they arrive, I put our 'corporatized' version of Server 2003 or whatever other OS i need on the box. So stats from the server makers can be misleading.
are you saying you **weren't** putting firewalls in front of your application servers, or did I misread you?
...what gives them the right to use my bandwidth to advertise to me? I whitelist sites that I visit often, and find useful - they deserve my revenue. the others? I surely don't care.
I feel the exact same way. MP3's (at 128) are fine by me, and I can't notice a difference at 192, so why bother? It doesn't help that i listen to most of my music on my commute, in stop and go traffic in a convertible, though :)
...or, I can rent an HD DVR from my cable company for the same price Tivo charges per month, with no huge outlay of cash in the beginning. Sure, the experience isn't quite as good, but its more than adequate. And if it dies, I get a replacement, no questions asked.
While true, but thinking from a corporate standpoint, I want as few points of contact as possible. With OS support from one place, and hardware support from another, it would be entirely too easy (and immensely frustrating) to have Canonical say 'its a hardware issue' and Dell to say 'sorry, software problem', and you left holding the bag.
what if you want to buy it with Ubuntu pre-loaded, so you can get support?
They always do. Good ol' boys club, you know. He probably sits on 10 other companies boards, and those board members sit on 10 other companies boards, ad infinium. So one of those Good ol' Boys will come through for one of theirs in a 'time of need', and place him at some other hapless company. I've seen it happen so often, it's sickening.
Amen to this. For a while, our group let us use pretty much any splatbook you wanted. Now, we restrict mostly to the core books, and one or two chosen splatbooks.
Most of the splatbooks are poorly written, unbalanced pieces of drivel. If you allow them in your game, the new rules/feats/etc. in the books are either way better, or way worse, than that in the core books, and you can get some seriously unbalanced characters.
Our group is going to end its current campaign sometime over the next year, after which we'll reset and start another one. We're already talking about limiting the source material and splatbooks allowed. That way, you don't carry a library around with you, the ruleset is simpler and easier, and we believe it will lead to more fun.
Remember, PnP is what you make of it - that is what makes it so great. Unlike an MMORPG, where you are completely restrained by rules and mechanics - in a PnP game, if you don't like something, or if some mechanic is not fun, then simply change it! *That's* the true allure of tabletop PnP, along with the actual social interaction.
Why yes, yes it does (not WotC, but 93 Games Studio is):
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And to touch upon your point of PnP games dying - my GM and I have this discussion all the time. I don't think it's dying at all, but MMORPGs are definitely hurting the PnP industry. Both in terms of less players, and much less QUALITY players. We've tried to recruit several new people to our group over the last few years. Our core group is all mid to late 30-somethings, and most players we find to recruit are mid 20-somethings. Almost every one of them wants to treat PnP as they do an MMORPG - moving as quickly as they can from one encounter to the next, vying for more XP and loot, min/maxing characters. Almost ZERO roleplaying. I blame this trend on MMORPGs and their game mechanics. We've ejected all those players, and now have a decent core group, that likes the PnP experience (as much a game as a social night out with friends).
...that content creators make is EASIER for me to watch the content that they create. This can only mean more viewers, watching more of the content they create, which is a good thing all around.
Unlike MLB, which wants you to only watch their content on their terms. Screw that!
interesting idea, I kinda like it. +1 for innovation :)
Interesting take, and one a number of the people here in my office use. However, it can be taken too far. I work in IT, and there are times (probably once a week) that I need to notify people of process changes, impending outages, etc. - so I send an email to everyone.
Inevitably a handful of people always complain that 'I didn't notify them', mostly because they couldn't be bothered to read the email. I also post the info in a wiki, but they can't be bothered to read that either.
I can't be expected to individually notify everyone in person of these issue, so email is my only communication method - and one ideally suited for this I think.
This is spot on. I am that sysadmin you talk about. i work for a large software company - however, I was hired specifically to support one smaller office, as the IT group couldn't (or wouldn't) provide adequate support. Things were great for a while - I learned the quirks of this particular office, setup new systems and generally made the work environment better for those that work out of this office.
Thats when a new manager, and IT overlords stepped in. Now I have to do everything 'by the book', even when 'the book' doesn't mesh with what we are doing here at this satellites office. My life is now a hell of process, procedure, and meetings - and very little actual work is getting done.
What does this lead to? Developers going 'out of band' to get stuff done - purchasing hardware on credit cards, not using authorized apps, copying large files around the WAN when stuff should be local, etc. All because they can't get a slice of my time to help them with a correct solution.
Everyone here is frustrated - myself the most. I *want* to provide the best support I can, but I'm now hamstrung by process and management, whereas before (when the developers/local managers were happy) I wasn't.
I think most sysadmin jobs are going this route now, excepting the startups (and they will, as they grow). Sysadmins are a commodity now, they aren't viewed as adding value.
Thanks for the link, checking it out now.
One of my beefs with NWN2 is that I thought the campaign was...well, kinda crap. I keep hoping the community will take over and give me some replayability, but I have little desire to replay the builtin campaign again...
I work for a giant, multibillion dollar organization (no, not Intel). And let me tell you, the IT department here most certainly is NOT staffed with the brightest engineering and IT minds that money can buy. Quite the opposite. It seems that they hire under-qualified people here, who get up to speed, then leave for a real job - the company won't pay a real competitive rate, and the management is **horrendous**.
So, assuming Intel has a 'qualified' and competent IT department may be a stretch. Though, like you, I think they deleted them on purpose, too.
I'm not going back to a landline, and don't own a cellphone. Any thoughts on where I can turn for phone service? Obviously, Verizon is not an option, and my cable provider is stupidly expensive...
Unfortunately, Entoruage doesn't work with plugins like Meetingplace, which kills it at my large software organization. Also the fact that it is a PowerPC binary, and runs like molasses on my Macbook Pros. Don't get me wrong, we have some people here that are using it, and getting by. But Execs won't go for it for a multitude of already documented reasons.
You'd be able to pitch this to the high-end customer (upper execs, etc), but you'll lose them when the find out that the Mac won't work with Exchange (no, Office for Mac doesn't count, they need full-blown Outlook). Along with the other Exchange-centric plugins, suchs as Meestingplace, Blackberries, etc. MS it way too entrenched on the back end, so making the choice of MS for the desktop is a no brainer.
I HATE when they do this. Or, at the very least, link to blender.org in the summary! Jesus, is this difficult?
Welcome to big corporate America, where it's not what you know, but who.
I don't buy their music. I don't download their music. I hope to educate my daughter to do the same (I know what a challenge that will be, with her friends pushing the 'drug' the RIAA creates, peer pressure, etc.).
Bottom line, I am not a consumer of RIAA music, so I don't care. Eventually they will die off, and we'll all relegate this to a footnote in history.
So, if your CS degree isn't preparing you for the real world, what value is it, unless you are going on to an advanced degree?
Yeah, after digging through some links (a decent linked article would have been nice, that one at the inquirer was useless) would have spotted that. Nvidia will come out with drivers for Vista - it would be death not to. And they promised 'works with vista', they just didnt say when... :)