Which could lead one to argue that it's impossible to say that the availability of either sex or violence has a harmful impact on children, because both europe and america has it's fair share of well- balanced, and totally screwed up, inhabitants.
True, but what leads to what...
Did the fact that I got Larry laid in one night, when I was 15, lead to me being a father of 3 at 26?
Or was I predisposed at birth to be a sex-maniac? (Making me REALLY good at LSL?):)
We know that sometimes kids who are never exposed to alcohol until they are 19 or 21 can go way overboard the first time...
The FIRST time? I didn't go to college, but I live in Milwaukee, and I can tell you the people I see going overboard are obviously NOT first timers..
I have a hard time with this one.. Sure, when I was 15, my best friend (Hey Omni!) and I beat Leisure Suit Larry 1 in a single night (causing jaws to drop at Egghead when we returned the game). But that was on an Apple II - not exactly the best graphics in the world.
These days it's MUCH more realistic... I'm really on the fence.
We have a ban on kids watching sex, why not kids watching killing?
Is it really that you're losing somethnig you've always had (virtual killing -Ultima/Spy Hunter), or has something new come along that we maybe should restrict -REALISTIC virtual killing? What happens when VR is closer to the "Holodeck", and blood splatters you as you push your fingers through someone's eye sockets?
I think the problem is more so in your hiring process. With proper skill set screening they probably would never had made it to the second interview, MCSE or Not.
Oh sure, I believe that. Maybe I should have been more specific, these guys I ran into while consulting (on the side, I AM an 'IT Manager', but it's just me in a small company.). Not my choice, but I've said, "Hey, that's not my area of expertise, you should get someone else who's done that before."
And they were the result.
And they're cheaper.
It just turned into a rant because I don't want to be cleaning up after someone else, where I'm not the expert in the first place - therefore, it makes sense to me that salaries have gone down.:)
Ironically, I had the same experience when I used to IRC. Unfortunately, that was in #linux, and #freebsd. No one ever wanted to answer questions. It was just always RTFM. I think the is the standard, "I really have no clue, but I'll act like a god and tell you to find the answer yourself" answer. Oh well.
Well, it depends on the question, having been 'One of those guys' in #descent (it WAS hard getting Kali to run in DOS, if you didn't have a hint or two:), and on various mailing lists, I can vouch for those guys getting sick of the same basic questions over and over. "How come I can't execute this file" "You need Execute permissions, man chmod" and usually the guy will say, "what's chmod?". And it goes downhill from there.
IRC and mailing list guys are not there for handholding...
Agreed. Netware is MUCH easier to deal with, but your comment about Netware guys knowing more than MCSE's reminds me of IRC..
I tried asking Windows questions in #windows, and #windowsNT, but nobody would answer, or they'd have a clearly stupid answer. I learned early on, if you want to get a solution, ask in #linux or #OS/2.
IT salaries are down on average. It's about time the morons with the 2-week "Make $60,000 as an MCSE!" 'degree' were trimmed from the lineup.
I really wish I could run into a good NT guy, just to change my perception.
The last guy would reboot the NT server, because the mmc was crashing (He was installing a new Server App), and he didn't know how to kill it or something... "Umm that's the MMC crashing, why don't we just kill it instead of rebooting the server in the middle of the day?"
The 2nd to last guy I worked with spent who-knows-how-long screwing with 3Com diags on an NT box, before I plugged the network cable in for him.
Really fucking pitiful... And I don't even like NT. (I'm fucking cheap, but NT makes me want to run out and buy Netware)
My mom was an RPG programmer in the 80's on 390's and PICK OS...
HA! I'll see your RPG-programming mom and raise you an RPG programming mother-in-law - but she's still working at it today!
HA! I see your trend-setting mother-in-law and I raise you logging into PICK (on said mothers PC at home) to run fdisk to change the boot partition to DOS to play Jeopardy with the chick who babysat across the street!
He joined the staff in 1972. Therefore, his degrees are from the 60's.
My mom was an RPG programmer in the 80's on 390's and PICK OS...
I suppose if you didn't know her, you'd think she could comment on the current state of programming and operating systems. I'll give you a hint - She hasn't kept up.
I never got around to submitting my Terminal Server bug...
Log in on Terminal Server, and let the 'quickstart' come up (the butterfly by the clock).
Log in ANOTHER Session (with the first one still up), and you will not be able to start OpenOffice in that session. Every OO componant you start will appear in the first session. Not being very useful if you left a session open at work, and are logging in at home.
But hey, it's free, and it works!!
So I'll just kill the first session, because I'm administrator.:) (but that should be verified because end-users wouldn't be able to do anything about it.)
Does anyone know of one that scans outgoing mail only. All I need to do is remove the extra e-mail it sends and I can stop having to use webmail.
AFAIK, nothing works that way..
If you use qmail to relay, that email will be scanned (anything received via SMTP is scanned), and the whole email is dumped. I don't know of ANYTHING at this point that will remove a virus from an email, and piece the original back together.. You've got MIME garbage in there, and who knows what else to try and account for..
Use someone elses PC, and make a clean bootdisk with a virus scanner, and remove Hybris.. Have you checked Symantec, and others for possible removal tools, and detailed info on what gets infected by Hybris?
It was going fine until some numb-skull decided to download an attachment from his Hotmail account. Once opened inside the network, it did its dirty work.
Use Opera, it doesn't work with Hotmail's download script.
What a pleasant side-effect. I removed IE to stop Viruses from auto-executing, and also happend to stop another potential source of viruses.:) And of course, desktop scanners are a must.
The moon doesn't emit light, but we can see it because it reflects the light from the sun. Same with pluto.
I realize that we see "light". I only mention it because the article mentioned some filters that were not necessarily visible light.. Therefore I wonder what spectrums of light are actually reflected, and if Hubble is "looking" at some spectrum that doesn't get reflected well, if at all. If so, my question of looking at planets (which reflect light) is moot.
"The Advanced Camera for Surveys has twice the resolution, or sharpness, of the WFPC-2 and five times the sensitivity. It is built around an ultra-sensitive 16-million-pixel detector array that dwarfs the chips found in consumer digital cameras."
(I like if's.) If galaxies are now able to be seen by us because of such higer resolution, what would happen if we point the Hubble at something closer? Could we see the surface of Pluto? Would we just not be able to focus? Or can we only see things that emit light?
"We're not profitable now, and we don't anticipate our income to increase (BY NOVEMBER!?!), so we must cut expenses."
Um. The company wants to become profiable by November, so they have 6 months, and they think cutting 1 months worth of IT salary is going to do it? 60/12=5 So Instead of paying out 5k per IT staff, they'll cut that to 2500. If they have 100 people, that's 250k. Anything less than that, I wouldn't consider worth the risk..
Besides, why would they need 100 IT people at over 60k? Doesn't sound healthy to me..
People who are in this career for the money or the prestige may not like it after a while, but the people who are in this for something else will tolerate quite a bit before deciding to opt out.
And is exactly why Loki lasted as long as it did..
Wouldn't it make more sense to track your eye movements, if I could *look* at the link on a page (lets say hold it in focus for one second) and follow the link life would be great.
And how do you FOLLOW that link?
Left Click = left blink
Rt Click = rt blick
So next time you're sitting in class trying to double click that icon, be sure your teacher is a least a LITTLE hot..
Please. Do you really think if YOU stopped paying taxes the country would fall apart? Say you make $75 a year. You'll probably going to pay around $10k in taxes. But let's say $20k, because most of you live with your parents.:)
What would stop functioning for $20k? What would benefit from an additional $20k, and what REALLY needs that $20k?
There are thousands of programs that our tax dollars fund. When you pay your taxes, it all goes into one big slush fund before it's distributed. If you don't like a particular program, which probably has plenty of it's own supporters, just figure your WHOLE tax 'donation' is going to the program of your choice.
Maybe I'm too laid back, but it seems to me that if we all had our way (drop program X, fund program Y), and we could send dollars directly to the programs we want to fund, it would really end up the same as it is now.
Kinda like getting screwed by Best Buy, if you put too much energy into it, you'll miss the opportunity where that money will come back to you. (Say, you lose $1 in a Coke machine, but a couple weeks later the checker at Cub Foods only rings up 3 gallons of milk instead of 5 - Hey, I have 3 kids:)
My advice: Chill. It all works out in the end.
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Add another 5% because not every portion of the surface is suitable for placing panels.
And WHY isn't every portion of the surface suitable for placing panels? Because it's pummeled by meteorites!
Seems to me like MS is taking it's revenge for the anti-trust suite by trying to audit every government institution. I don't know the details but that's what it looks like to me. But you know what? I don't feel sorry for any of them.
It's too bad the school system can't file for Chapter (11?) bankruptcy, to clear themselves of all that debt, and just 'restructure'.
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True, but what leads to what...
Did the fact that I got Larry laid in one night, when I was 15, lead to me being a father of 3 at 26?
Or was I predisposed at birth to be a sex-maniac? (Making me REALLY good at LSL?) :)
The FIRST time? I didn't go to college, but I live in Milwaukee, and I can tell you the people I see going overboard are obviously NOT first timers..
I have a hard time with this one.. Sure, when I was 15, my best friend (Hey Omni!) and I beat Leisure Suit Larry 1 in a single night (causing jaws to drop at Egghead when we returned the game). But that was on an Apple II - not exactly the best graphics in the world.
These days it's MUCH more realistic... I'm really on the fence.
We have a ban on kids watching sex, why not kids watching killing?
Is it really that you're losing somethnig you've always had (virtual killing -Ultima/Spy Hunter), or has something new come along that we maybe should restrict -REALISTIC virtual killing? What happens when VR is closer to the "Holodeck", and blood splatters you as you push your fingers through someone's eye sockets?
Oh sure, I believe it. I would just like to run in to one of them once in a while. :P)
(Or maybe I'm really just that good
Oh sure, I believe that. Maybe I should have been more specific, these guys I ran into while consulting (on the side, I AM an 'IT Manager', but it's just me in a small company.). Not my choice, but I've said, "Hey, that's not my area of expertise, you should get someone else who's done that before."
And they were the result.
And they're cheaper.
It just turned into a rant because I don't want to be cleaning up after someone else, where I'm not the expert in the first place - therefore, it makes sense to me that salaries have gone down. :)
Well, it depends on the question, having been 'One of those guys' in #descent (it WAS hard getting Kali to run in DOS, if you didn't have a hint or two :), and on various mailing lists, I can vouch for those guys getting sick of the same basic questions over and over. "How come I can't execute this file" "You need Execute permissions, man chmod" and usually the guy will say, "what's chmod?". And it goes downhill from there.
IRC and mailing list guys are not there for handholding...
I tried asking Windows questions in #windows, and #windowsNT, but nobody would answer, or they'd have a clearly stupid answer. I learned early on, if you want to get a solution, ask in #linux or #OS/2.
I really wish I could run into a good NT guy, just to change my perception.
The last guy would reboot the NT server, because the mmc was crashing (He was installing a new Server App), and he didn't know how to kill it or something... "Umm that's the MMC crashing, why don't we just kill it instead of rebooting the server in the middle of the day?"
The 2nd to last guy I worked with spent who-knows-how-long screwing with 3Com diags on an NT box, before I plugged the network cable in for him.
Really fucking pitiful... And I don't even like NT. (I'm fucking cheap, but NT makes me want to run out and buy Netware)
HA! I'll see your RPG-programming mom and raise you an RPG programming mother-in-law - but she's still working at it today!
HA! I see your trend-setting mother-in-law and I raise you logging into PICK (on said mothers PC at home) to run fdisk to change the boot partition to DOS to play Jeopardy with the chick who babysat across the street!
Who says computers aren't chick magnets?
My mom was an RPG programmer in the 80's on 390's and PICK OS...
I suppose if you didn't know her, you'd think she could comment on the current state of programming and operating systems. I'll give you a hint - She hasn't kept up.
Someone like that would make a good college professor..
Oh.
Bummer. At least the bug has been reported.
Basically all thin-client companies are out, why have two different word processors?
It's works just fine, just treat it like the workstation it is.
Actually I have one at a customers site that's also a PDC. And after working with NT, I'll gladly pay for Netware.
Log in on Terminal Server, and let the 'quickstart' come up (the butterfly by the clock).
Log in ANOTHER Session (with the first one still up), and you will not be able to start OpenOffice in that session. Every OO componant you start will appear in the first session. Not being very useful if you left a session open at work, and are logging in at home.
But hey, it's free, and it works!! So I'll just kill the first session, because I'm administrator. :) (but that should be verified because end-users wouldn't be able to do anything about it.)
AFAIK, nothing works that way..
If you use qmail to relay, that email will be scanned (anything received via SMTP is scanned), and the whole email is dumped. I don't know of ANYTHING at this point that will remove a virus from an email, and piece the original back together.. You've got MIME garbage in there, and who knows what else to try and account for..
Use someone elses PC, and make a clean bootdisk with a virus scanner, and remove Hybris.. Have you checked Symantec, and others for possible removal tools, and detailed info on what gets infected by Hybris?
Use Opera, it doesn't work with Hotmail's download script.
What a pleasant side-effect. I removed IE to stop Viruses from auto-executing, and also happend to stop another potential source of viruses. :) And of course, desktop scanners are a must.
Works wonders
I realize that we see "light". I only mention it because the article mentioned some filters that were not necessarily visible light.. Therefore I wonder what spectrums of light are actually reflected, and if Hubble is "looking" at some spectrum that doesn't get reflected well, if at all. If so, my question of looking at planets (which reflect light) is moot.
"The Advanced Camera for Surveys has twice the resolution, or sharpness, of the WFPC-2 and five times the sensitivity. It is built around an ultra-sensitive 16-million-pixel detector array that dwarfs the chips found in consumer digital cameras."
(I like if's.) If galaxies are now able to be seen by us because of such higer resolution, what would happen if we point the Hubble at something closer? Could we see the surface of Pluto? Would we just not be able to focus? Or can we only see things that emit light?
Um. The company wants to become profiable by November, so they have 6 months, and they think cutting 1 months worth of IT salary is going to do it? 60/12=5 So Instead of paying out 5k per IT staff, they'll cut that to 2500. If they have 100 people, that's 250k. Anything less than that, I wouldn't consider worth the risk..
Besides, why would they need 100 IT people at over 60k?
Doesn't sound healthy to me..
My suggestion: GET OUT NOW
And is exactly why Loki lasted as long as it did..
And how do you FOLLOW that link?
Left Click = left blink Rt Click = rt blick
So next time you're sitting in class trying to double click that icon, be sure your teacher is a least a LITTLE hot..
Please. Do you really think if YOU stopped paying taxes the country would fall apart? Say you make $75 a year. You'll probably going to pay around $10k in taxes. But let's say $20k, because most of you live with your parents. :)
What would stop functioning for $20k? What would benefit from an additional $20k, and what REALLY needs that $20k?
There are thousands of programs that our tax dollars fund. When you pay your taxes, it all goes into one big slush fund before it's distributed. If you don't like a particular program, which probably has plenty of it's own supporters, just figure your WHOLE tax 'donation' is going to the program of your choice.
Maybe I'm too laid back, but it seems to me that if we all had our way (drop program X, fund program Y), and we could send dollars directly to the programs we want to fund, it would really end up the same as it is now.
Kinda like getting screwed by Best Buy, if you put too much energy into it, you'll miss the opportunity where that money will come back to you. (Say, you lose $1 in a Coke machine, but a couple weeks later the checker at Cub Foods only rings up 3 gallons of milk instead of 5 - Hey, I have 3 kids :)
My advice: Chill. It all works out in the end.
And WHY isn't every portion of the surface suitable for placing panels? Because it's pummeled by meteorites!
It's too bad the school system can't file for Chapter (11?) bankruptcy, to clear themselves of all that debt, and just 'restructure'.
Take That Evil Bill! :)
After the scientists have finished studying the recovered mummies and artifacts, they will be returned to the Puruchuco area for display in a museum.
There really is an afterlife!!