Radio Shack was my second job. I worked for them for about a year and a half starting around 2000/2001.I guess it's fair to say they were already heading down the path, Len Roberts was the CEO (is he still?) and the focus on cell phones was already big. However, over half the floor space was still DIY parts. Caps, resistors, diodes, pots, switches, etc. My first day in the store the store manager tested me by asking me to get him a specific component (I forget what it was now). He seemed relieved that I was able to actually get him that part. I didn't understand this until much later. (Fwiw, I was ~21, he was in his 40's).
As it was, I watched Len slowly sell Radio Shack like a cheap whore. Ever expanding cell phone space. The RCA wall. MSN dial up, and DirecTV systems. Shitty overpriced "gold" series cabling. Then they got rid of the Tandy name, and became Radio Shack Corp. To me that was the final death knell. The only thing that could possibly make anyone feel even the slightest twinge of guilt for the whoring was gone.
As I worked I understood more why people who knew better spoke of Radio Shack with derision, and mocked the slogan saying "You've got questions, we've got blank stares." It was all too true. Radio Shack was hiring young people who only knew how to sell things that made them money. If you came in needing batteries or a part, they could maybe walk you to the general vicinity if you were lucky, and then do their best to ignore you in hopes of the next mark to walk through the door and look at cell phones or DirecTV systems. Relations between stores was poor too in most cases. Employees from other stores would lie about product availability if the stock was limited, dicking you and the company out of a sale because they wanted the sale credit. Plenty of times I found some old item on deep discount and I'd begin the hunt for it across stores, and get so many replies of "nope, couldn't find it" only to later have a customer walk in wanting the last one we had to go with the one they just bought from $store (usually things like speaker pairs, and "$store" would almost always be one of the ones that claimed not to have said product in stick when queried).
All I can say is getting fired from that place was probably the best thing that could have happened to me. I have many fond memories, and I made a lot of friends (mostly amongst the older crowd), but it was a shit job going down the drain, specifically after my original boss got fired.
...full fledged sociopathy/psychopathy? I mean, he already doesn't give a fuck about people. Now he's just flagrantly showing he doesn't give a fuck about animals, so much so that he can do the killing himself.
*yawn* wake me when there's news that he finally came to his senses/grew a conscience. Then I'll care.
Yeah, it's the same for the poor folks of West Virginia stuck with Frontier. Verizon owned a low of it and did a shitty job, and left the mess in Frontier's lap when they bought the copper. U get calls from customers all the time with problems like packet loss, slow speeds, lines with all kinds of godawful noise, etc. Phone lines are shit, and need to die.
Since all the exclusion did was hurt nVidia in sales for people who stay loyal to AMD and refuse to go intel just for SLi. Allowing SLi on AMD boards will boost nVidias sales a bit.
Except for the fact that by the time I had seen this (slightly before I posted my comment), A quick Google search yielded much more informative results than a shitty twitter feed that merely stated there'd been and earthquake and a tsunami warning had been issued.
Twitter might be great at getting a quick notice of something out. But this was sorely lacking in information. I come to/. for that actual information, not for re-posts of brief tweets that have no other information. That hardly makes me a "Luddite."
This reply goes for all the rest of the knee-jerkers rushing to protect their precious little twitter as well.
I applaud this. Working naked would be so much more comfortable in general. As to those who would think about butt sweat and germs, well, each person can just bring their own towel to sit on, or better yet, bring your own chair. Then sitter beware.;)
Lol, why is this at -1? It's informative if nothing else. Sad fact is, DSL is quite capable of very high speeds. The other side of it is that you have to live fairly close (cable-wise) to the office to get that speed.
but this is ridiculous. I honestly don't think that cases of this nature should be allowed to come before, or be judged by someone who has spent so much time fighting on one side of a cause like that.
That's like asking an ice cream man to preside over a case or cases where someone is suing an ice cream company for them being fat or something (probably not the best analogy, but as close as i could think of). In short, this is retarded, and that judge shouldn't have been allowed to have anything to do with this stuff.
instead of adding yet more ways to reach into our pockets, all the political fat cats cut back their pay to something more reasonable, and stop allocating ridiculous amounts to all kinds of political bumfuckery, so that there is actually cash left to go where it was intended instead of various peoples pockets.
Nah, that'll never happen, we're all just too fucking stupid to actually unify and push the issue. Too busy trying to force everyone to believe in our version of god, or our version of the perfect family, or any other numerous selfish ignorant narrow-minded drivel. Because that's what's important right?
Greed. Pure and simple. Why let you use wifi and get data/Inet for free when they can contractually force you to use their egregiously overpriced data plan?
"Every time you have a computer science/engineering major take a mandatory art/etc. class, you harm them. They could have used that time to graduate earlier and be less in debt. They could have used that time to take another class in their field. There's supposedly been an outcry of "Engineering students can't write!", or "We need more well-rounded graduates!". I say "supposedly" because I've only ever heard academia refer to it, never an employer,"
I couldn't agree more. I have been saying for ages (since high school really) that all of these required electives and such are a waste of time. More so in college. If I have to pay for it, then I only want to learn what is directly beneficial to my desired major. The rest is a waste of my time and money. Sure, you can test out of a lot of the courses early on, the community college stuff, but you still have to pay for it. really makes no sense to me at all.
I learned the hard way that Certification Mills are not worth a damn. I made the choice to go to CEI years ago. They got me Pell, and Stafford Sub/Unsub loans, and I had to round out with a nice 19% interest Sallie Mae loan. In all about $15K just to get an A+, MCP, Network+ and some other cabling cert that I'd never heard of and have never heard about since. About 3 weeks into the first class, I decided I'd made a mistake, and decided to drop out so as not to incur major debt. they tried to talk me into staying, but relented. They returned the Pell Grant, and all of the Stafford loans, leaving me with about $3K in 19% interest Sallie Mae as a thanks.
Had I had my druthers, I would've just spent the money on a few books and study guides to brush up on what I didn't know, and taken the A+ and MCP tests on my own for a grand total of maybe $1K and avoided the debt altogether. Hindsight and all..
I call bullshit. I'm not Mac zealot by any means, but I recently had to open a unibody Macbook Pro to get an errantly inserted SD card out of my roommates optical drive. 8 or 9 screws, the bottom comes off, and you have access to every stupid component you need access to. No separate panels, no 50 billions screws, none of that. No excuse why the PC laptop makers can't take a fucking hint and make them as simple to deal with as well.
Also, that video about clean the fan is cute and all, but really, and fairly new can of air with that narrow tube blown full force into the air inlet/outlet grills will dislodge the majority of dust. No need to go taking the whole damn thing apart for that.
I will admit I haven't spent a lot of time with it, but then I figure if I can't get things working in a fashion I want in a few minutes with little to no hunting, then it isn't for me anyway. I already hate that by default I cannot find the fucking bookmarks on Chrome. Sorry, but I like how it's set up in Firefox, which is how it was on Mozilla, which is how it was on Netscape. I'm used to it, and I *like* it that way. Stop trying to force me to use some other retarded way (/me looks at MSO "Ribbon").
Now I can see the usefulness of the new URL bar on tabs, mainly because wider screens don't really help for websites and the like, but I can still see that being a nuisance for some/many. Firefox gets as minimal as I need it to. Small icons with no text, URL bar to the tight of those icons, and the row of tabs. I don't need it any leaner. If I need more, I hit the magic F11 key a voila! I have yet more screen space.
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Why is this scored as 0? It checks out. If anything it should be modded up as Informative.
Radio Shack was my second job. I worked for them for about a year and a half starting around 2000/2001.I guess it's fair to say they were already heading down the path, Len Roberts was the CEO (is he still?) and the focus on cell phones was already big. However, over half the floor space was still DIY parts. Caps, resistors, diodes, pots, switches, etc. My first day in the store the store manager tested me by asking me to get him a specific component (I forget what it was now). He seemed relieved that I was able to actually get him that part. I didn't understand this until much later. (Fwiw, I was ~21, he was in his 40's).
As it was, I watched Len slowly sell Radio Shack like a cheap whore. Ever expanding cell phone space. The RCA wall. MSN dial up, and DirecTV systems. Shitty overpriced "gold" series cabling. Then they got rid of the Tandy name, and became Radio Shack Corp. To me that was the final death knell. The only thing that could possibly make anyone feel even the slightest twinge of guilt for the whoring was gone.
As I worked I understood more why people who knew better spoke of Radio Shack with derision, and mocked the slogan saying "You've got questions, we've got blank stares." It was all too true. Radio Shack was hiring young people who only knew how to sell things that made them money. If you came in needing batteries or a part, they could maybe walk you to the general vicinity if you were lucky, and then do their best to ignore you in hopes of the next mark to walk through the door and look at cell phones or DirecTV systems. Relations between stores was poor too in most cases. Employees from other stores would lie about product availability if the stock was limited, dicking you and the company out of a sale because they wanted the sale credit. Plenty of times I found some old item on deep discount and I'd begin the hunt for it across stores, and get so many replies of "nope, couldn't find it" only to later have a customer walk in wanting the last one we had to go with the one they just bought from $store (usually things like speaker pairs, and "$store" would almost always be one of the ones that claimed not to have said product in stick when queried).
All I can say is getting fired from that place was probably the best thing that could have happened to me. I have many fond memories, and I made a lot of friends (mostly amongst the older crowd), but it was a shit job going down the drain, specifically after my original boss got fired.
...full fledged sociopathy/psychopathy? I mean, he already doesn't give a fuck about people. Now he's just flagrantly showing he doesn't give a fuck about animals, so much so that he can do the killing himself.
*yawn* wake me when there's news that he finally came to his senses/grew a conscience. Then I'll care.
Yeah, it's the same for the poor folks of West Virginia stuck with Frontier. Verizon owned a low of it and did a shitty job, and left the mess in Frontier's lap when they bought the copper. U get calls from customers all the time with problems like packet loss, slow speeds, lines with all kinds of godawful noise, etc. Phone lines are shit, and need to die.
...was a place like Florida picked anyway? Why not use someplace a bit more weather neutral?
Since all the exclusion did was hurt nVidia in sales for people who stay loyal to AMD and refuse to go intel just for SLi. Allowing SLi on AMD boards will boost nVidias sales a bit.
Except for the fact that by the time I had seen this (slightly before I posted my comment), A quick Google search yielded much more informative results than a shitty twitter feed that merely stated there'd been and earthquake and a tsunami warning had been issued.
Twitter might be great at getting a quick notice of something out. But this was sorely lacking in information. I come to /. for that actual information, not for re-posts of brief tweets that have no other information. That hardly makes me a "Luddite."
This reply goes for all the rest of the knee-jerkers rushing to protect their precious little twitter as well.
Seriously? Twitter is not news. Link an actual new site ffs. Thanks.
Nah, just roll your damn chair in there. Or bring a towel to sit on.
I applaud this. Working naked would be so much more comfortable in general. As to those who would think about butt sweat and germs, well, each person can just bring their own towel to sit on, or better yet, bring your own chair. Then sitter beware. ;)
Then you're a fool. :p
Lol, why is this at -1? It's informative if nothing else. Sad fact is, DSL is quite capable of very high speeds. The other side of it is that you have to live fairly close (cable-wise) to the office to get that speed.
but this is ridiculous. I honestly don't think that cases of this nature should be allowed to come before, or be judged by someone who has spent so much time fighting on one side of a cause like that.
That's like asking an ice cream man to preside over a case or cases where someone is suing an ice cream company for them being fat or something (probably not the best analogy, but as close as i could think of). In short, this is retarded, and that judge shouldn't have been allowed to have anything to do with this stuff.
instead of adding yet more ways to reach into our pockets, all the political fat cats cut back their pay to something more reasonable, and stop allocating ridiculous amounts to all kinds of political bumfuckery, so that there is actually cash left to go where it was intended instead of various peoples pockets.
Nah, that'll never happen, we're all just too fucking stupid to actually unify and push the issue. Too busy trying to force everyone to believe in our version of god, or our version of the perfect family, or any other numerous selfish ignorant narrow-minded drivel. Because that's what's important right?
...that movies like Blazing Saddles need to become mandatory viewing. People as a collective need to lighten the fuck up, and learn to laugh a bit.
Greed. Pure and simple. Why let you use wifi and get data/Inet for free when they can contractually force you to use their egregiously overpriced data plan?
No idiot, you'd be guilty of assault and battery. Christ some people couldn't think their way out of a cul-de-sac.
You saw a yellow rectangle? Thanks to RequestPolicy I didn't even see *that*. :P
"Every time you have a computer science/engineering major take a mandatory art/etc. class, you harm them. They could have used that time to graduate earlier and be less in debt. They could have used that time to take another class in their field. There's supposedly been an outcry of "Engineering students can't write!", or "We need more well-rounded graduates!". I say "supposedly" because I've only ever heard academia refer to it, never an employer,"
I couldn't agree more. I have been saying for ages (since high school really) that all of these required electives and such are a waste of time. More so in college. If I have to pay for it, then I only want to learn what is directly beneficial to my desired major. The rest is a waste of my time and money. Sure, you can test out of a lot of the courses early on, the community college stuff, but you still have to pay for it. really makes no sense to me at all.
I learned the hard way that Certification Mills are not worth a damn. I made the choice to go to CEI years ago. They got me Pell, and Stafford Sub/Unsub loans, and I had to round out with a nice 19% interest Sallie Mae loan. In all about $15K just to get an A+, MCP, Network+ and some other cabling cert that I'd never heard of and have never heard about since. About 3 weeks into the first class, I decided I'd made a mistake, and decided to drop out so as not to incur major debt. they tried to talk me into staying, but relented. They returned the Pell Grant, and all of the Stafford loans, leaving me with about $3K in 19% interest Sallie Mae as a thanks.
Had I had my druthers, I would've just spent the money on a few books and study guides to brush up on what I didn't know, and taken the A+ and MCP tests on my own for a grand total of maybe $1K and avoided the debt altogether. Hindsight and all..
It's sad such a bill even needs to be presented. Nothing a public servant does while on duty is private, period.
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I call bullshit. I'm not Mac zealot by any means, but I recently had to open a unibody Macbook Pro to get an errantly inserted SD card out of my roommates optical drive. 8 or 9 screws, the bottom comes off, and you have access to every stupid component you need access to. No separate panels, no 50 billions screws, none of that. No excuse why the PC laptop makers can't take a fucking hint and make them as simple to deal with as well.
Also, that video about clean the fan is cute and all, but really, and fairly new can of air with that narrow tube blown full force into the air inlet/outlet grills will dislodge the majority of dust. No need to go taking the whole damn thing apart for that.
I will admit I haven't spent a lot of time with it, but then I figure if I can't get things working in a fashion I want in a few minutes with little to no hunting, then it isn't for me anyway. I already hate that by default I cannot find the fucking bookmarks on Chrome. Sorry, but I like how it's set up in Firefox, which is how it was on Mozilla, which is how it was on Netscape. I'm used to it, and I *like* it that way. Stop trying to force me to use some other retarded way (/me looks at MSO "Ribbon").
Now I can see the usefulness of the new URL bar on tabs, mainly because wider screens don't really help for websites and the like, but I can still see that being a nuisance for some/many. Firefox gets as minimal as I need it to. Small icons with no text, URL bar to the tight of those icons, and the row of tabs. I don't need it any leaner. If I need more, I hit the magic F11 key a voila! I have yet more screen space.
No need to be sorry, you didn't break anything. :)
Parochial schools are not solely Catholic. Parochial schools are schools that teach religion alongside the standard curriculum. They can be christian as well as catholic.