Worked - past tense. 74% of my gross profit was (past tense) profit. We were required to reach 50%. And it was from new methods of doing things that *I* implemented - ones other tech shops started implementing in our district (also to increased success). Sadly, the rest of the company wasn't in quite as good shape. By the time I was fast tracked into management and started initiating changes, even with the increase in profits from the tech shops that jumped into it, it wasn't enough to save the rest of the company.
But, you of all people should know how that works... takes forever to convince upper management the right way of doing things from people who actually work in the field and... you know... do those things. That's what sank CompUSA to begin with. New management of bookkeepers and accountants who didnt know anything about computers, tech stuff, business sales, etc. 6 months before they decided to give up, they replaced those people, planned on implementing a bunch of our plans, but then realized they didnt even have a fraction of the money they needed to do so (over simplification: they were hoping Slim would give them another chance with the new management team - he didnt).
Funnily enough, most of my posts have been humor of late... like the one you first responded to above. So, what's the chip on your shoulder for?
Yeah loser... I was actually a tech manager, with a 74% profit margin in my shop (far higher than the 50% required). Keep hiding behind your AC badge... you really arent hiding very well. Expect nothing else from me... TB
LoL, thanks idiot. But I've done far more than that. And, I do what makes me happy. Next time you want to take a pot shot, dont hide behind AC status and log in. Or send me an email.
Yup, idiot with good copy/paste skills "telling" us nothing we don't already know.:-)
And here ya go! One more post to reply to with another wall-o-copy-paste-text! It's a shame you're so stupid you can't even post your own ideas. So, hope you enjoy this opportunity to yet again reply with a buncha magazine and website listings with little summaries attached to about stuff you dont understand.
You forget ADK, some of us know who you are. You like pretending to have functioning brain matter, but we know you really don't. It's a shame that since you got pushed off your favorite forum, you decided to come here to try to look smart. It's not working. Grow up already - or at least find someplace else to try.
Nah, you're just an idiot trying to look like you know something. Sadly, glomming together bits and pieces of things you've heard here and there into walls of text - the SAME walls of text you repeat verbatim every chance you get... does not make you look smart. It makes you look like a total moronic idiot. Just figured you should know that before you repeat this nonsense the next time DNS, security, malware or whatever else comes up and you get the idea to repost the same wall-o-text post as the last few times.
But at least you were smart enough to not log in so as not to damage your karma.
"Mozilla's motto for Firefox is to keep it being completely customizable..."
Ah yes. That's why I can turn the status bar back on in FF4, right?
Mod parent "-1 Doesn't understand what customizable means in this context".
Yes, that is why you can turn the status bar back on. And why you can show no ads, or have your bookmarks folder look how you want. Or have thirty gazillion toolbars. Or have a minimalist browser look and feel. Or re-theme with the click of a button or two.
You confuse the ability to customize with "Mozilla did all the work and considered every customization wanted and has settings for them all". They made it customizable... now all you have to do is download and install some customizations, or write your own.
Umm, no. When CorelTrace came out, it was often (and largely) low res sprites it was designed and used for. As a matter of fact, it had major issues with high res stuff when it first came out, as the vector art it would create would be insanely unwieldy. That has been fixed in the interim 15-20 years.
It always HAS been possible. CorelTrace did this so many ages ago it's not funny. The difference nowadays is that we've got fast enough computers with enough system resources (memory, video, etc) to do it on the fly, frame by frame, in real time.
Then again, we've had that for ages too. Similar technology has been used in real time for up-res'ing DVD images, for instance. It's nice to see someone putting that type of technology to use in this fashion though... not that I love playing video games or anything.
To be fair, most people who are sure that tomorrow ISN'T the rapture have exactly the same amount of evidence behind them as those who think it IS.
Ummm, no. We actually have more... like the lack of environmental precursors to massive earthquakes and other natural disasters that are predicted. Like the fact that "peace in the Middle East" is probably millenia away (if that soon) - and is also a necessary precursor to the rapture. I could go on and on, but the simple fact is, we've got a lot of evidence (if one is to believe the Bible's requirements for this event to happen) that the rapture is not today. OTOH, these "rapturists" have a book that claims such an event will happen, but NO ONE will know when - meaning their beliefs have evidence AGAINST them in their very own belief structure.
That's a wonderful apologist reinterpretation. It's supposed to be 6 months in happening - not an individual thing. Face it, believing in myths is stupid.
(in non-Judge speak)
Fuck you Righthaven, I'm not playing this silly game allowing you to game the system as a means to make money for stuff you don't even own. As soon as I am done writing my ruling and opinion on the matter, I'm tossing all your garbage.
Now, with luck, his opinion and ruling will be written in a fashion allowing those being sued to call upon another (yet lesser known) part of the DMCA allowing them to recoup damages (and legal fees) for Righthaven using the DMCA to knowingly bring frivolous lawsuits against them.
We haven't had a terrorist attack in this country since the law came into effect. I'm not saying correlation is causation, but I think claims that the law hasn't prevented at least one American death pretty dubious.
One could rephrase that argument a bit and say, "we haven't had a single terrorist attack since Apple released the iPhone
Does this mean people have to stop bashing Apple and the iPhone? Also, does that protection need to be extended to the iPad?
Irony is cruel, isn't it? The only amazing thing is that our government has remained so oblivious to it.
Along with cutting taxes on the wealthy in wartime, it plays well with the GOP's ongoing "Starve the Beast" strategy...
I prefer calling it karma... but your way works as well.;-)
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The Bush Administration really wanted to have enemies so they could have wars.
Um, you may have missed it, but Bush isn't President anymore. It's Obama now - the guy who you rubes thought would end all these wars and such.
Ah yes... dunno why he hasn't. I've seen all the magical and seemingly impossible things that "The Easy Button" can do while watching all those Staples commercials.
That's fine, because I did RTFA to find out, except no where in the article did they say what it was for. All we know is that they dug a very big hole, and they used a load of cheesy metrics to compare.
And now you understand why most of us don't waste our time RTFA!
That is awesome to hear. I think much of the problems with selling nuclear power to the general public in those times stemmed from that previous attitude. Glad to hear things have improved.
Shoreham was decommisioned WAY back in 1989, the plant was shut down and hasn't operated since. Not sure how much more you want done with a site that doesnt have a working reactor or fuel.
Yes, yes it was - but NOT because of the NRC. NUMEROUS complaints were filed, and they were ignored.
- No safe evacuation plan? No worries... we'll let LILCO make something up, that everyone in their right mind knows is impossible
- State and local officials look at the impossibility of an evacuation plan and decide they will not participate in such a farce? Who cares? Let's just assume they'll participate in an emergency, using LILCO's farcical "evacuation" plan.
- Right next to a military munitions storage base? Yup! But let's ignore those complaints
- Various failed subsystems? Who cares? We'll (the NRC) just ignore those - and grant both the test license and full power license. This includes one failed backup generator (and we know how important those are now, dont we?), followed by inspections that showed NONE of them were suitable to the task due to manufacture/design defects. That was summer 1983 through mid-late 1985... now, look at these dates... the 5% power testing was ALSO granted in 1985, at the conclusion of the safety/equipment study (hence no time to swap out the equipment before approval to test was granted - huh?!?!?!). You'd think the smart thing would be to wait until repairs were completed and the backup gennies were fully retested (another two year process). Guess not.
- Reports from actual workers about horrendous work ethics, untrained employees, control system problems? Sure were, but NRC didnt care either.
- The vast majority of Long Islanders (and the NYS govt) against it EVER being turned on? (and with valid concerns, I might add) They didn't care in the least bit
- Numerous petitions to the NRC to never grant ANY kind of license to LILCO for Shoreham? So what? Why would the NRC actually have to do anything based on the complaints and petitions?
- False and conflicting statements from LILCO about Shoreham? Yet the NRC sided with them each time, regardless of both experts and inspectors siding against them (LILCO) who proved they were untrustworthy and incompetent. Here's ONE of numerous reports about problems with the plant: Diesel Generator Stress Evaluating Failures
I could go on all day...
I guess I should not make a blanket assumption about the NRC now - and the NRC of back then.
I will tell you that I do not work for the nuclear power industry, I work for the regulator and my job is to find things wrong with plants and to assume that bad things will happen. So I'm hardly a fan boy for nuclear.
But hey, the process is public and open and you can file a claim on any plant you want in the US with NRC, and they take those claims very seriously. So I just don't see how we can make the system more transparent, but if you have a beef the process is open, so please speak up.
The NRC does? Really? What the hell planet do YOU live on? Explain Shoreham. Mistake after mistake, and they STILL let that thing power up. Failed backup equipment. Improper installation of equipment. Stupid test run at uber-low power levels and they lost control of it, and they STILL approved an operating license for it. It took the combined might of the state and people to force LILCO to sell it and shut it down. And worst is, unless one digs up actual newspapers and news clips from that time, it's near impossible to find the facts on the true fiascos that went on with it.
I don't care what your specialty or training is. I was oh just a few miles away through all of this. If Shoreham (and the lack of information easily accessible) is any indication - and if the NRC's coddling of LILCO through all of it is any indication, there's no reason to trust ANYTHING you say on this subject.
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Worked - past tense. 74% of my gross profit was (past tense) profit. We were required to reach 50%. And it was from new methods of doing things that *I* implemented - ones other tech shops started implementing in our district (also to increased success). Sadly, the rest of the company wasn't in quite as good shape. By the time I was fast tracked into management and started initiating changes, even with the increase in profits from the tech shops that jumped into it, it wasn't enough to save the rest of the company.
But, you of all people should know how that works... takes forever to convince upper management the right way of doing things from people who actually work in the field and... you know... do those things. That's what sank CompUSA to begin with. New management of bookkeepers and accountants who didnt know anything about computers, tech stuff, business sales, etc. 6 months before they decided to give up, they replaced those people, planned on implementing a bunch of our plans, but then realized they didnt even have a fraction of the money they needed to do so (over simplification: they were hoping Slim would give them another chance with the new management team - he didnt).
Funnily enough, most of my posts have been humor of late... like the one you first responded to above. So, what's the chip on your shoulder for?
LoL, grow up. Then again, I guess you always were an idiot.
You forgot Hannah Montana.
I know I had until you brought her up. Thanks a lot!!!
Yeah loser... I was actually a tech manager, with a 74% profit margin in my shop (far higher than the 50% required). Keep hiding behind your AC badge... you really arent hiding very well. Expect nothing else from me... TB
LoL, thanks idiot. But I've done far more than that. And, I do what makes me happy. Next time you want to take a pot shot, dont hide behind AC status and log in. Or send me an email.
Yup, idiot with good copy/paste skills "telling" us nothing we don't already know. :-)
And here ya go! One more post to reply to with another wall-o-copy-paste-text! It's a shame you're so stupid you can't even post your own ideas. So, hope you enjoy this opportunity to yet again reply with a buncha magazine and website listings with little summaries attached to about stuff you dont understand.
You forget ADK, some of us know who you are. You like pretending to have functioning brain matter, but we know you really don't. It's a shame that since you got pushed off your favorite forum, you decided to come here to try to look smart. It's not working. Grow up already - or at least find someplace else to try.
Nah, you're just an idiot trying to look like you know something. Sadly, glomming together bits and pieces of things you've heard here and there into walls of text - the SAME walls of text you repeat verbatim every chance you get... does not make you look smart. It makes you look like a total moronic idiot. Just figured you should know that before you repeat this nonsense the next time DNS, security, malware or whatever else comes up and you get the idea to repost the same wall-o-text post as the last few times.
But at least you were smart enough to not log in so as not to damage your karma.
because i made sure my profile was complete with my address and everything since everyone on the internets is friends and cool
LoL, you just described the Facebook Friendlist phenomena.
"Mozilla's motto for Firefox is to keep it being completely customizable..."
Ah yes. That's why I can turn the status bar back on in FF4, right?
Mod parent "-1 Doesn't understand what customizable means in this context".
Yes, that is why you can turn the status bar back on. And why you can show no ads, or have your bookmarks folder look how you want. Or have thirty gazillion toolbars. Or have a minimalist browser look and feel. Or re-theme with the click of a button or two.
You confuse the ability to customize with "Mozilla did all the work and considered every customization wanted and has settings for them all". They made it customizable... now all you have to do is download and install some customizations, or write your own.
I use my browser for much more than just surfing the net for pr0n...
I wasn't aware there were other reasons... could you enlighten us?
Umm, no. When CorelTrace came out, it was often (and largely) low res sprites it was designed and used for. As a matter of fact, it had major issues with high res stuff when it first came out, as the vector art it would create would be insanely unwieldy. That has been fixed in the interim 15-20 years.
It always HAS been possible. CorelTrace did this so many ages ago it's not funny. The difference nowadays is that we've got fast enough computers with enough system resources (memory, video, etc) to do it on the fly, frame by frame, in real time.
Then again, we've had that for ages too. Similar technology has been used in real time for up-res'ing DVD images, for instance. It's nice to see someone putting that type of technology to use in this fashion though... not that I love playing video games or anything.
People need to mod this up and keep trying to mod it up until /. crashes. This is probably one of the most intelligent posts on /. in a long time.
To be fair, most people who are sure that tomorrow ISN'T the rapture have exactly the same amount of evidence behind them as those who think it IS.
Ummm, no. We actually have more... like the lack of environmental precursors to massive earthquakes and other natural disasters that are predicted. Like the fact that "peace in the Middle East" is probably millenia away (if that soon) - and is also a necessary precursor to the rapture. I could go on and on, but the simple fact is, we've got a lot of evidence (if one is to believe the Bible's requirements for this event to happen) that the rapture is not today. OTOH, these "rapturists" have a book that claims such an event will happen, but NO ONE will know when - meaning their beliefs have evidence AGAINST them in their very own belief structure.
That's a wonderful apologist reinterpretation. It's supposed to be 6 months in happening - not an individual thing. Face it, believing in myths is stupid.
(in non-Judge speak)
Fuck you Righthaven, I'm not playing this silly game allowing you to game the system as a means to make money for stuff you don't even own. As soon as I am done writing my ruling and opinion on the matter, I'm tossing all your garbage.
Now, with luck, his opinion and ruling will be written in a fashion allowing those being sued to call upon another (yet lesser known) part of the DMCA allowing them to recoup damages (and legal fees) for Righthaven using the DMCA to knowingly bring frivolous lawsuits against them.
One could rephrase that argument a bit and say, "we haven't had a single terrorist attack since Apple released the iPhone
Does this mean people have to stop bashing Apple and the iPhone? Also, does that protection need to be extended to the iPad?
If Apple products help prevent terrorism, it means that if you bought an Android or WinMob 7 phone, you're a terrorist sympathiser!
Yes, yes I am!!!! An Android user, that is... ;-)
We haven't had a terrorist attack in this country since the law came into effect. I'm not saying correlation is causation, but I think claims that the law hasn't prevented at least one American death pretty dubious.
One could rephrase that argument a bit and say, "we haven't had a single terrorist attack since Apple released the iPhone
Does this mean people have to stop bashing Apple and the iPhone? Also, does that protection need to be extended to the iPad?
Irony is cruel, isn't it? The only amazing thing is that our government has remained so oblivious to it.
Along with cutting taxes on the wealthy in wartime, it plays well with the GOP's ongoing "Starve the Beast" strategy...
I prefer calling it karma... but your way works as well. ;-)
The Bush Administration really wanted to have enemies so they could have wars.
Um, you may have missed it, but Bush isn't President anymore. It's Obama now - the guy who you rubes thought would end all these wars and such.
Ah yes... dunno why he hasn't. I've seen all the magical and seemingly impossible things that "The Easy Button" can do while watching all those Staples commercials.
That's fine, because I did RTFA to find out, except no where in the article did they say what it was for. All we know is that they dug a very big hole, and they used a load of cheesy metrics to compare.
And now you understand why most of us don't waste our time RTFA!
Anyway, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
That is awesome to hear. I think much of the problems with selling nuclear power to the general public in those times stemmed from that previous attitude. Glad to hear things have improved.
Best, Rob
Shoreham was decommisioned WAY back in 1989, the plant was shut down and hasn't operated since. Not sure how much more you want done with a site that doesnt have a working reactor or fuel.
Yes, yes it was - but NOT because of the NRC. NUMEROUS complaints were filed, and they were ignored.
- No safe evacuation plan?
No worries... we'll let LILCO make something up, that everyone in their right mind knows is impossible
- State and local officials look at the impossibility of an evacuation plan and decide they will not participate in such a farce?
Who cares? Let's just assume they'll participate in an emergency, using LILCO's farcical "evacuation" plan.
- Right next to a military munitions storage base?
Yup! But let's ignore those complaints
- Various failed subsystems?
Who cares? We'll (the NRC) just ignore those - and grant both the test license and full power license. This includes one failed backup generator (and we know how important those are now, dont we?), followed by inspections that showed NONE of them were suitable to the task due to manufacture/design defects. That was summer 1983 through mid-late 1985... now, look at these dates... the 5% power testing was ALSO granted in 1985, at the conclusion of the safety/equipment study (hence no time to swap out the equipment before approval to test was granted - huh?!?!?!). You'd think the smart thing would be to wait until repairs were completed and the backup gennies were fully retested (another two year process). Guess not.
- Reports from actual workers about horrendous work ethics, untrained employees, control system problems?
Sure were, but NRC didnt care either.
- The vast majority of Long Islanders (and the NYS govt) against it EVER being turned on? (and with valid concerns, I might add)
They didn't care in the least bit
- Numerous petitions to the NRC to never grant ANY kind of license to LILCO for Shoreham?
So what? Why would the NRC actually have to do anything based on the complaints and petitions?
- False and conflicting statements from LILCO about Shoreham?
Yet the NRC sided with them each time, regardless of both experts and inspectors siding against them (LILCO) who proved they were untrustworthy and incompetent. Here's ONE of numerous reports about problems with the plant: Diesel Generator Stress Evaluating Failures
I could go on all day...
I guess I should not make a blanket assumption about the NRC now - and the NRC of back then.
So, that begs the question, has anything changed?
I didn't suggest that you should.
I will tell you that I do not work for the nuclear power industry, I work for the regulator and my job is to find things wrong with plants and to assume that bad things will happen. So I'm hardly a fan boy for nuclear.
But hey, the process is public and open and you can file a claim on any plant you want in the US with NRC, and they take those claims very seriously. So I just don't see how we can make the system more transparent, but if you have a beef the process is open, so please speak up.
The NRC does? Really? What the hell planet do YOU live on? Explain Shoreham. Mistake after mistake, and they STILL let that thing power up. Failed backup equipment. Improper installation of equipment. Stupid test run at uber-low power levels and they lost control of it, and they STILL approved an operating license for it. It took the combined might of the state and people to force LILCO to sell it and shut it down. And worst is, unless one digs up actual newspapers and news clips from that time, it's near impossible to find the facts on the true fiascos that went on with it.
I don't care what your specialty or training is. I was oh just a few miles away through all of this. If Shoreham (and the lack of information easily accessible) is any indication - and if the NRC's coddling of LILCO through all of it is any indication, there's no reason to trust ANYTHING you say on this subject.
Whoosh!!!
And the correct answer is...