I think you're correct on most of your points. I would only disagree with Dropbox as it stores local copies on every computer connected to the application. In the even the service is down, all of your files are in tact.
Aside from that, you're spot on.
No, I don't think you're too old to "get" it at all. Your summation of how those services should be used is accurate. It's a paper trail without the paper.
I have heard of temp agencies where I'm from doing exactly this. Particularly the ones that deal with law offices, doctors offices or high-end manufacturing. And you're right -- it definitely weeds down the applicants.
Another company I used to work for would require you give them an email address so HR could send them an email and ask some questions that required longer answers to see how articulate they would be. Seemed to work well for their needs.
I agree with you. I work for a sub-contractor to a school district. They can't keep their own communication straight let alone with us. They hold us to contracts so tightly that when things are said it absolutely has to be documented. It can mean the difference of millions of dollars long-term if you get an unscrupulous administrator playing the He Said, She Said game. You'll never win without written backup.
We do have other clients that prefer other mediums but we always ask to record the conversation if in voice so we can archive it. When we get back to it later, someone will write-up a summary to keep things trackable.
There is some testament there to stability! That OS died in 1996 or so. I saw them in service through about 2001 or so but haven't seen one since. I think the last one I deployed was right around the end of life as a Warp 4...
I have a feeling I've shared the same diatribe myself. Good for you. I, like you, am one of those guys who have more work than I have time. I regularly turn down jobs and forward them on to reliable, and in many cases, like-minded techs in my area. The ones that need hand holding go to company A and the others go to techs that can get the job done like me. Sometimes those guys appreciate the referral and give me a kickback -- I don't ask for it but I would do the same for them. I also don't overstate my abilities and have no qualms telling people, "that's not really within my expertise but I know [this person/this company] that can do it for you more cost effectively." I don't advertise as word of mouth is really my only "advertising". My clients are basically "no bullshit" people who know that when they call me they can expect the job will get done quickly and on budget.
Someone attacked your work ethic but I disagree with their summation. Big universities teach people that IT is "all customer service" but that's not entirely true. Customer service is always important and hell, I'm a pretty nice guy but if I can't do the job being the ultra nice guy only gets the customer to yell at me a little less when I screw it up. I'd rather not screw it up. I worked the amusement park business for the better part of 15 years both in IT and out so I pretty well got the customer service part down. I've worked in big corporate and small guy shops and, in the companies that really matter, guys like us make the difference.
Well, technically, they can. They can build a profile using Third Party Cookies. There's a site I saw awhile back about how to block them in multiple browsers (http://www.bobulous.org.uk/misc/third-party-cookies.html) which handles most of your advertisers out there.
For the technically inclined, by loading the javascript through an iframe which runs it natively from the remote server, also borking any browser warnings you might get, you have the ability to set the cookie as itself and read it across multiple sites who share the same information. Facebook does it this way if I'm not mistaken.
You can set a P3P header with:
response.setHeader("P3P","CP='IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT'")
This is known as a "Compact Privacy Policy" and allows IE to handle the cookie which it would normally block. You can read about p3p policies here: http://www.p3ptoolbox.org/guide/
Once you do that, you can set the cookie using whatever language you want as normal. You can also read those cookies through the same method.
I think I just peed in my pants. My cubemates (who we lovingly refer to each other as cellmates) poked their heads around walls wondering what I thought was so funny. Bravo!
Thanks for the pictures. I had seen them on TV but every damn news agency has to put their scroller, logos and whatever other "Breaking News" horseshit they have so you get only a small piece of it on the screen at any one time.... And the slider is pretty nifty. I will admit to a little "Ooo, ahh" affect.
WWIVnet was similar to your one-to-many scenario. The protocol did have routing tables but were fairly fault tolerant as I remember them. If a node was down, it was still transmit to the other notes in a mesh type style.... unless of course, the node that was down was the hop that called several other systems to update the message queue. But, with enough nodes, and network correctly defined callouts, all sites would eventually get the update and the down node would be caught up to current. At least that's how I remember it. I haven't run a WWIVnet system since 1996 though...
Similar scenario for me. I was home sick from school with my mom and my dad was on deployment in the Mediterranean Sea. I remember there was a lot of talk at school about it since there was a teacher on board. I, too, was a shocked child that day and knew phrases like "SRB separation" and knew what "SRB" stood for.
It was a very sad day for us and the space program.
So be it. Give it to the greedy bastards. And the moment ICANN signs over the rights to the.music TLD to them, I want all, and I mean ALL, music groups and music related sites OFF of my ever valuable and largely becoming scarce.com TLDs.
They have no "rights" to them. You can't own the word "music". Period. I'm a musician and have been for the last 24 years. I own only what I create and that's all I've got. Nothing more, nothing less.
Many MMOs have been doing PvP for years in varying degrees of success. Hell, you thrive on the hope that the jackass you're about to stomp has a network burp and you get to pwn him with a +25 Strength Hammer.
Not to mention FPS games and their deathmatch systems. They're essentially PvP in its purest form.
I think it would translate well to the console; at least from the gameplay perspective. How many of you liked/loved/time-sunk the Baldur's Gate 1/2 and Champions of Norrath on Playstation? Very similar perspective (3rd person overhead) with a ramp into the real RPG world with depth to the weapons and armor system that is lost in most console hack 'n' slash. I could see Diablo 3 being brought to the console in a similar fashion as well as bring in the opportunity for a solid multiplayer, non-split screen (1 player controls the camera as they did in BG/CoN) multiplayer action that would work on local console or across the Internet.
Yeah I know, it's not like the United States ever takes whole carrier groups and parks them off of impoverished third world nations that have just endured a hurricane or an earthquake. Doctors from all branches certainly haven't slaved over nearly innumerable numbers of battered and wounded refugees supported by an immense web of logistics paid for by the American taxpayer with no questions asked. Supplies are never airlifted nor delivered by sea to airfields and ports secured by US servicemen. Yeah, what fucking irony, you ignorant and blind ideologue shitheads.
(Here the epithet "shitheads" is applied as much or more to the replies of this thread than the parent.)
You don't need a heavily armed, aggressive military to do humanitarian and rescue work, you ignorant and blind ideologue shithead.
Well, not so fast. Have you been in one of those areas thrust into chaos after catastrophic natural disasters or hundreds of years of warlords destroying a country and stealing food from the common folk? You need the tanks, choppers and guns to keep the people doing the humanitarian work alive to do it. And as far as rescue work, there aren't that many non-military vehicles (ground and air) in service in any part of the world that can move mountains of rubble, lift amazingly large pallets of supplies and get equipment into regions that may be inaccessible by vehicles in the area.
Maybe 4chan can wield their social sword for good and teach execs that we don't need 10 minutes of show and 22 minutes of laugh track in every episode.
Oh, wow, well the math is a little off. You forgot the best part! Commercials!
More like this:
8 minutes of commercials
5 minutes of show
17 minutes of laughtrax
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I think you're correct on most of your points. I would only disagree with Dropbox as it stores local copies on every computer connected to the application. In the even the service is down, all of your files are in tact. Aside from that, you're spot on.
No, I don't think you're too old to "get" it at all. Your summation of how those services should be used is accurate. It's a paper trail without the paper.
I have heard of temp agencies where I'm from doing exactly this. Particularly the ones that deal with law offices, doctors offices or high-end manufacturing. And you're right -- it definitely weeds down the applicants.
Another company I used to work for would require you give them an email address so HR could send them an email and ask some questions that required longer answers to see how articulate they would be. Seemed to work well for their needs.
I agree with you. I work for a sub-contractor to a school district. They can't keep their own communication straight let alone with us. They hold us to contracts so tightly that when things are said it absolutely has to be documented. It can mean the difference of millions of dollars long-term if you get an unscrupulous administrator playing the He Said, She Said game. You'll never win without written backup.
We do have other clients that prefer other mediums but we always ask to record the conversation if in voice so we can archive it. When we get back to it later, someone will write-up a summary to keep things trackable.
Xserv
There is some testament there to stability! That OS died in 1996 or so. I saw them in service through about 2001 or so but haven't seen one since. I think the last one I deployed was right around the end of life as a Warp 4...
I have a feeling I've shared the same diatribe myself. Good for you. I, like you, am one of those guys who have more work than I have time. I regularly turn down jobs and forward them on to reliable, and in many cases, like-minded techs in my area. The ones that need hand holding go to company A and the others go to techs that can get the job done like me. Sometimes those guys appreciate the referral and give me a kickback -- I don't ask for it but I would do the same for them. I also don't overstate my abilities and have no qualms telling people, "that's not really within my expertise but I know [this person/this company] that can do it for you more cost effectively." I don't advertise as word of mouth is really my only "advertising". My clients are basically "no bullshit" people who know that when they call me they can expect the job will get done quickly and on budget.
Someone attacked your work ethic but I disagree with their summation. Big universities teach people that IT is "all customer service" but that's not entirely true. Customer service is always important and hell, I'm a pretty nice guy but if I can't do the job being the ultra nice guy only gets the customer to yell at me a little less when I screw it up. I'd rather not screw it up. I worked the amusement park business for the better part of 15 years both in IT and out so I pretty well got the customer service part down. I've worked in big corporate and small guy shops and, in the companies that really matter, guys like us make the difference.
*awaiting flamers*
xserv
Well, technically, they can. They can build a profile using Third Party Cookies. There's a site I saw awhile back about how to block them in multiple browsers (http://www.bobulous.org.uk/misc/third-party-cookies.html) which handles most of your advertisers out there.
For the technically inclined, by loading the javascript through an iframe which runs it natively from the remote server, also borking any browser warnings you might get, you have the ability to set the cookie as itself and read it across multiple sites who share the same information. Facebook does it this way if I'm not mistaken.
You can set a P3P header with:
response.setHeader("P3P","CP='IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT'")
This is known as a "Compact Privacy Policy" and allows IE to handle the cookie which it would normally block. You can read about p3p policies here: http://www.p3ptoolbox.org/guide/
Once you do that, you can set the cookie using whatever language you want as normal. You can also read those cookies through the same method.
Good point.
But what do you want really? They were planning ahead by putting "Forever" in the name. The general public just didn't get the memo.
I think I just peed in my pants. My cubemates (who we lovingly refer to each other as cellmates) poked their heads around walls wondering what I thought was so funny. Bravo!
Thanks for the pictures. I had seen them on TV but every damn news agency has to put their scroller, logos and whatever other "Breaking News" horseshit they have so you get only a small piece of it on the screen at any one time.... And the slider is pretty nifty. I will admit to a little "Ooo, ahh" affect.
Xserv
This reeks of Jay-Z's H to the Izzo! Fo' shizzle my nizzle used to steal code from tha' Son-ay...
...Ok, so it was a stretch....
Angry Birds? What?
Good try... I'm rather partial to: "In Soviet Russia, the meat grows you."
WWIVnet was similar to your one-to-many scenario. The protocol did have routing tables but were fairly fault tolerant as I remember them. If a node was down, it was still transmit to the other notes in a mesh type style. ... unless of course, the node that was down was the hop that called several other systems to update the message queue. But, with enough nodes, and network correctly defined callouts, all sites would eventually get the update and the down node would be caught up to current. At least that's how I remember it. I haven't run a WWIVnet system since 1996 though...
Similar scenario for me. I was home sick from school with my mom and my dad was on deployment in the Mediterranean Sea. I remember there was a lot of talk at school about it since there was a teacher on board. I, too, was a shocked child that day and knew phrases like "SRB separation" and knew what "SRB" stood for.
It was a very sad day for us and the space program.
I'm running 1920x1080 on a 23in monitor and default seems fine in Chrome. Hmm.
I'm using Chrome and it works perfectly.
So be it. Give it to the greedy bastards. And the moment ICANN signs over the rights to the .music TLD to them, I want all, and I mean ALL, music groups and music related sites OFF of my ever valuable and largely becoming scarce .com TLDs.
They have no "rights" to them. You can't own the word "music". Period. I'm a musician and have been for the last 24 years. I own only what I create and that's all I've got. Nothing more, nothing less.
F 'em.
Is it wrong, out of habit, I just added this to my del.icio.us account?
#FAIL
Xserv
For $75 I will undelete the originals!
Capitalism FTW!
They are pretty damn amazing, aren't they?
Many MMOs have been doing PvP for years in varying degrees of success. Hell, you thrive on the hope that the jackass you're about to stomp has a network burp and you get to pwn him with a +25 Strength Hammer.
Not to mention FPS games and their deathmatch systems. They're essentially PvP in its purest form.
Xserv
I think it would translate well to the console; at least from the gameplay perspective. How many of you liked/loved/time-sunk the Baldur's Gate 1/2 and Champions of Norrath on Playstation? Very similar perspective (3rd person overhead) with a ramp into the real RPG world with depth to the weapons and armor system that is lost in most console hack 'n' slash. I could see Diablo 3 being brought to the console in a similar fashion as well as bring in the opportunity for a solid multiplayer, non-split screen (1 player controls the camera as they did in BG/CoN) multiplayer action that would work on local console or across the Internet.
I dig it.
Xserv
Yeah I know, it's not like the United States ever takes whole carrier groups and parks them off of impoverished third world nations that have just endured a hurricane or an earthquake. Doctors from all branches certainly haven't slaved over nearly innumerable numbers of battered and wounded refugees supported by an immense web of logistics paid for by the American taxpayer with no questions asked. Supplies are never airlifted nor delivered by sea to airfields and ports secured by US servicemen. Yeah, what fucking irony, you ignorant and blind ideologue shitheads. (Here the epithet "shitheads" is applied as much or more to the replies of this thread than the parent.)
You don't need a heavily armed, aggressive military to do humanitarian and rescue work, you ignorant and blind ideologue shithead.
Well, not so fast. Have you been in one of those areas thrust into chaos after catastrophic natural disasters or hundreds of years of warlords destroying a country and stealing food from the common folk? You need the tanks, choppers and guns to keep the people doing the humanitarian work alive to do it. And as far as rescue work, there aren't that many non-military vehicles (ground and air) in service in any part of the world that can move mountains of rubble, lift amazingly large pallets of supplies and get equipment into regions that may be inaccessible by vehicles in the area.
Xserv
Maybe 4chan can wield their social sword for good and teach execs that we don't need 10 minutes of show and 22 minutes of laugh track in every episode.
Oh, wow, well the math is a little off. You forgot the best part! Commercials!
More like this:
8 minutes of commercials
5 minutes of show
17 minutes of laughtrax
Awww yea. That's how we roll.
Xserv