In the last year or two, it became horrifically spammy and was often down, so I phased over to other email providers with better spam filters and more reliability.
... and didn't print off important e-mails, or forward them to the new provider. Poor customer service aside, they didn't exactly do themselves any favors here. If you're not going to use a service, then clean house and move on.
Those whippersnappers wouldn't know a GPS from the GPL. In my day when we wanted to code we had to walk uphill both ways through six feet of snow to get to the computer science building on campus. These damn kids. Get off my lawn!
I had the face plate stolen off of the radio in my car about a year and a half ago. There were obvious signs of distress in the console around where the radio was mounted indicating the kid who did it had tried to steal the whole thing, but in the end he gave up and just took off with the face plate. What really made things amusing was he took the stub from a ticket to a football game and left nearly ten dollars in change sitting in the ashtray. Talk about not making it worthwhile.
Why would you send your resume as a Word doc instead of a pdf?
Might be because that is what the job posting says to do. If I want to work for some company about the last thing I'd want to do is show them right up front that I can't follow simple instructions.
I agree with you on the BS part. It's one thing to sell a product with a bug in it, but to squelch any mention of it while saying "nope! nothing wrong here! lol @ microsoft!" is downright ridiculous. It's unfortunate that a company of Apple's stature would enforce such a policy.
It is there at the pleasure of the rest of the company that actually makes or sells products.
Janitors don't make a company any money either (unless your company is in the business of contracting out cleaning crews), but you don't see people going around saying they serve at the pleasure of the company.
IT doesn't just serve "at the pleasure of the rest of the company" if Joe Office Worker is losing e-mails vital to the company and needs somebody to spend an hour helping him retrieving it.
You must be new to the internet. This kind of behavior takes place everywhere, whether it's Fark or Yahoo Chat or a college football message board. Just because Slashdot happens to be frequented by a higher proportion of IT-types doesn't automatically mean people who work in IT are arrogant know-it-alls.
Within a week or two of those stories, our Manager Ken Kamins got a call from the co-president of New Line Cinema, Michael Lynne, who in essence told Ken that the way to settle the lawsuit was to get a commitment from us to make the Hobbit, because "that's how these things are done".
I totally agree about Bob Nardelli - what I've read about his resignation from Home Depot seems to indicate it came from the stock losing ground vs. a competitor over a six-year period, and you're right that most of us would simply be shown the door without a golden handshake for doing a poor job.
That said, this has absolutely nothing to do with Peter Jackson vs. New Line.
Signing a contract with somebody saying you're going to pay them a certain amount of money, then covering your tracks so you don't have to pay them as much - if this is indeed what occurred - deserves to be pursued just on principle, regardless of the amount of money involved. I don't care if we're talking $250 million for making a trilogy that grosses $3 billion dollars as the box office, or $25 for fixing a friend of a friend's computer. There's still something to be said these days about giving your word to somebody and then following through with it.
The douche on the phone -- whom we hope goes home tonight and is fucking beaten by Jason Kidd's wife -- said that he understood the situation and that it was "unfortunate" but that "we have our policies. If you contact us on April 13 [the 180 days date] we will be reminded to deposit the funds, because the suspension would be over." That's the word that dicknob used: "Suspension."
The "douche on the phone" doesn't make the rules. He's not deliberately trying to piss you off or screw you around with your money. He is the messenger. Calling some call center employee names or wishing physical harm on them won't help you get your money out of the account any faster than insulting the kid in the drive through window at McDonald's will help your hamburger taste better.
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Checking your dependencies and recompiling your kernel is just like emptying the deleted items folder in Outlook Express. Honest!
In the last year or two, it became horrifically spammy and was often down, so I phased over to other email providers with better spam filters and more reliability.
... and didn't print off important e-mails, or forward them to the new provider. Poor customer service aside, they didn't exactly do themselves any favors here. If you're not going to use a service, then clean house and move on.
You have. My brother just bought a new Dell with an Athlon 64 in it a couple of weeks ago, in fact.
My driver's license number. Every time I buy beer, or cash a check at the bank, somebody gets to see my ID anyway.
I'm not surprised, either. After all, measuring broadband penetration and calling it "intelligence" is most definitely not accurate.
Given the amount of business they probably get from people who don't know an unformatted disk from a slipped disk, I'd say it's a good idea.
No, they're from Nebraska.
Why would you want to run an operating system that Steve Jobs calls a copycat of Mac OS X?
Whether or not I run Vista won't hinge on what Steve Jobs thinks of it.
Those whippersnappers wouldn't know a GPS from the GPL. In my day when we wanted to code we had to walk uphill both ways through six feet of snow to get to the computer science building on campus. These damn kids. Get off my lawn!
I had the face plate stolen off of the radio in my car about a year and a half ago. There were obvious signs of distress in the console around where the radio was mounted indicating the kid who did it had tried to steal the whole thing, but in the end he gave up and just took off with the face plate. What really made things amusing was he took the stub from a ticket to a football game and left nearly ten dollars in change sitting in the ashtray. Talk about not making it worthwhile.
By the way, what's the strongest, the elephant or the hippopotamus ?
Jack Bauer.
Why would you send your resume as a Word doc instead of a pdf?
Might be because that is what the job posting says to do. If I want to work for some company about the last thing I'd want to do is show them right up front that I can't follow simple instructions.
For serious. I've seen more credible conjecture come from 13 year olds arguing over who would win in a streetfight between Batman and Wolverine.
I agree with you on the BS part. It's one thing to sell a product with a bug in it, but to squelch any mention of it while saying "nope! nothing wrong here! lol @ microsoft!" is downright ridiculous. It's unfortunate that a company of Apple's stature would enforce such a policy.
It is there at the pleasure of the rest of the company that actually makes or sells products.
Janitors don't make a company any money either (unless your company is in the business of contracting out cleaning crews), but you don't see people going around saying they serve at the pleasure of the company.
IT doesn't just serve "at the pleasure of the rest of the company" if Joe Office Worker is losing e-mails vital to the company and needs somebody to spend an hour helping him retrieving it.
You must be new to the internet. This kind of behavior takes place everywhere, whether it's Fark or Yahoo Chat or a college football message board. Just because Slashdot happens to be frequented by a higher proportion of IT-types doesn't automatically mean people who work in IT are arrogant know-it-alls.
Within a week or two of those stories, our Manager Ken Kamins got a call from the co-president of New Line Cinema, Michael Lynne, who in essence told Ken that the way to settle the lawsuit was to get a commitment from us to make the Hobbit, because "that's how these things are done".
That almost sounds like blackmail.
I totally agree about Bob Nardelli - what I've read about his resignation from Home Depot seems to indicate it came from the stock losing ground vs. a competitor over a six-year period, and you're right that most of us would simply be shown the door without a golden handshake for doing a poor job.
That said, this has absolutely nothing to do with Peter Jackson vs. New Line.
Signing a contract with somebody saying you're going to pay them a certain amount of money, then covering your tracks so you don't have to pay them as much - if this is indeed what occurred - deserves to be pursued just on principle, regardless of the amount of money involved. I don't care if we're talking $250 million for making a trilogy that grosses $3 billion dollars as the box office, or $25 for fixing a friend of a friend's computer. There's still something to be said these days about giving your word to somebody and then following through with it.
It was successful in attracting a lawsuit from Cisco, and as we all know bad publicity is better than no publicity.
The douche on the phone -- whom we hope goes home tonight and is fucking beaten by Jason Kidd's wife -- said that he understood the situation and that it was "unfortunate" but that "we have our policies. If you contact us on April 13 [the 180 days date] we will be reminded to deposit the funds, because the suspension would be over." That's the word that dicknob used: "Suspension."
The "douche on the phone" doesn't make the rules. He's not deliberately trying to piss you off or screw you around with your money. He is the messenger. Calling some call center employee names or wishing physical harm on them won't help you get your money out of the account any faster than insulting the kid in the drive through window at McDonald's will help your hamburger taste better.
That article had a bunch of links - the date of the story was Feb. 27, the release date was supposed to be spring 2006.
Technological Jesus extracts confessions from Jack Bauer.
It's innovative if you're looking for new and exciting ways to make money. Maybe that's what the article was getting at?
Why does Steve Jobs need an army of lawyers if he didn't do anything wrong?
Because the right to legal counsel applies to CEOs too?
If waiting three business days for an automated response is more desirable to you, then go for it.