Cause the writer of the article has stock in (company) and wants to make a quick buck...
I know I've seen this same headline with Nintendo there, and I can't help but think there've been others. I just don't care enough to search. If Apple wanted to buy something, they'd buy it. I think Apple's pretty happy where they are though.
Course, then there's the opposite extreme where the policy is 'just give them admin if they have a small issue.'
Then there's no issue...but then they start breaking things and downloading fun toys and as a consultant I have no authority over making policy (only suggesting and implementing) and they don't care enough to put in their own and I have to deal with retards whining about "WHY IS MY COMPUTER SLOW?" and have to spend 5 hours cleaning up MyWebSearchToolbar, New.Net and fuck all else...
There's a stigmata though when actually attaching a number to a review. One point I really liked about the article was pointing out movie reviewers have gone to star ratings which, mathematically, are no different from say X/5 (or X/10 since some give out half stars) but what a '4.5' star rating says is different than a printed '9/10'
On a personal level, I'd have no qualms with someone giving, say, Casablanca or Raiders of the Lost Ark '5 of 5 stars,' (like a movie review column) because they're both epitomes of the artwork in their genre. BUT if they're rated, say, '10/10' (like a Gamespot review) I'm not sure I could agree with that because that implies perfection rather than a best in show type situation.
It's completely arbitrary, illogical and ripe grounds for psychological abuse, but that's how people are. Well, me at least.
1. What is the time the GPS device averages over? On the devices I've seen it updates about every second. Unless you have a REALLY nice car you're not going to go from 65 to 90 and back down for long enough to average 65 over that kind of time.
Minor point, but you'd have to go from 40 to 90 in one second then back to 40 the next second to average 65, so you'd need an even nicer car.
Then you run into a day where the retarded admins tie up both RDC consoles with disconnected sessions and your remote desktop console program broke and you're trying to get a remote admin tool working to kick out those sessions because the server's in a cage 40 miles away and telnet's disabled by default.
Yea, RDC's nice. Until someone decides to leave their session without logging out...
Hit them in their pocketbook? You know who that *really* hits, right? Customers.
Hit them where it REALLY hurts. Pull away their sole right to the lines and put it in a government owned utility company whose sole purpose is to upgrade and maintain the lines. Slap em with common carrier status. Stick em in the Tower of London and make them part of the tour.
We can do a lot better than just 'pocketbook' here.
What I particularly liked about that AT&T remark is how can there be so much overlap between the Sprint, Verizon and AT&T patents without SOME of them being kicked out for prior art?
Heh, forgot about the HOA. Probably would've gotten one of those. Plus side, I did get myself a (much needed) tool kit while planning to do my own mainenance before the logistics of the situation hit home.
Could also just get some jacks and just raise the car. SUVs would be easy to work on... But also in the small space category, there's zero space between the grill and the engine to navigate to unscrew the oil filter. (Geo Prism. It's not mounted underneath but in the front)
Yeah, it's kind of like how in scifi stories you get some hyper-advanced alien or a human from the future stuck in our low-tech world and the assumption is "Wow, you can show us all your future tech!" And the reality is more like "Um, no. I can use the technology of my society but don't ask me to try to recreate it from scratch. Hell, I couldn't even maintain it myself."
Well, in some of today's modern autos, it really is too complex to get in there sometimes. (Oil change be damned).
Personally, I *could* do a lot of work on my car - oil and filter change, spark plugs, belts, brake pads, and other things that would fall under basic maintenance - but on the other hand, I'm lazy and it's a pain in the ass working in that small space. Jiffy Lube's got the room under the car and are just a boatload quicker (plus after buying the oil and filter, I'd only save like 15 bucks doing it myself)
Anyone is, of course, a generalization...but allow me to be a jerk and wrench up your statement:
Having listened to pop (as in popular, not 'pop') going back to the 1950s, I have yet to find anything to match Air on the G String, Canon in D, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Fur Elise, Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Peer Gynt Suite, I could go on but I probably sound pompous enough as it is.
There is some modern stuff, (Gershwin, Joplin (Scott)) that can filter in, but the above's my cup of tea.
...They might be lucky if they can get out of this with just a class action lawsuit.
While I wish I could share your optimism that a Big Bad will get hit hard, given the track record of class actions against similar Tech Big Bads seem to have no negative effect on the company. (Sony, Microsoft.)
What would be great is if the threat of charter removal loomed over their head, but IF Comcast got dissolved, how would that affect their monopoly situation? There's no *real* fear. Comcast will still be around.
It's akin to rooting for the Cubs to get in the Series. You know it won't happen, but you just can't stop trying.
Call me old fashioned, but I always figure a good customer service experience beats out a crappy one. And really, while not knowing pricing on Akamai, I doubt even a week would break the bank.
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If you didn't do it, someone else easily would have... Including myself.
Cause the writer of the article has stock in (company) and wants to make a quick buck...
I know I've seen this same headline with Nintendo there, and I can't help but think there've been others. I just don't care enough to search. If Apple wanted to buy something, they'd buy it. I think Apple's pretty happy where they are though.
Man, the irony is that so many people would've voted for him.
I'm not sure if that's ironic or just pathetic...
I'm outsourced. I'm very limited in my abilities to be a BOFH. And by very limited, I mean castrated.
Course, then there's the opposite extreme where the policy is 'just give them admin if they have a small issue.'
Then there's no issue...but then they start breaking things and downloading fun toys and as a consultant I have no authority over making policy (only suggesting and implementing) and they don't care enough to put in their own and I have to deal with retards whining about "WHY IS MY COMPUTER SLOW?" and have to spend 5 hours cleaning up MyWebSearchToolbar, New.Net and fuck all else...
Least it's job security to some extent.
There's a stigmata though when actually attaching a number to a review. One point I really liked about the article was pointing out movie reviewers have gone to star ratings which, mathematically, are no different from say X/5 (or X/10 since some give out half stars) but what a '4.5' star rating says is different than a printed '9/10'
On a personal level, I'd have no qualms with someone giving, say, Casablanca or Raiders of the Lost Ark '5 of 5 stars,' (like a movie review column) because they're both epitomes of the artwork in their genre. BUT if they're rated, say, '10/10' (like a Gamespot review) I'm not sure I could agree with that because that implies perfection rather than a best in show type situation.
It's completely arbitrary, illogical and ripe grounds for psychological abuse, but that's how people are. Well, me at least.
Interesting: Garden Russian Roulette.
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So you've never broken the law? Ever?
Never went a few miles over the posted speed limit?
Never jaywalked?
It's akin to what IBM said to Sun, "There's lots of laws in this country. Are you sure we couldn't find one that you've broken?"
1. What is the time the GPS device averages over? On the devices I've seen it updates about every second. Unless you have a REALLY nice car you're not going to go from 65 to 90 and back down for long enough to average 65 over that kind of time.
Minor point, but you'd have to go from 40 to 90 in one second then back to 40 the next second to average 65, so you'd need an even nicer car.
How do you murder a corporation?
Dissolve the charter.
Now we are faced with poor choices in both parties, and Congress is at an 11% approval rating and dropping.
Congress may be at 11%, but each individual rep isn't lower than 40% in their own district, and some are as high as 60%.
Throwing around the entire approval rating just shows how much people are pissed at partisan politics, not the members themselves.
That I know, but the trick was getting into the system's task manager to do that.
Sweet. Minor quirk, it has to be at least /con ...well, for me at least, i tried /c and /co and those didn't work, but /con and /console worked nicely.
Then you run into a day where the retarded admins tie up both RDC consoles with disconnected sessions and your remote desktop console program broke and you're trying to get a remote admin tool working to kick out those sessions because the server's in a cage 40 miles away and telnet's disabled by default.
Yea, RDC's nice. Until someone decides to leave their session without logging out...
Hit them in their pocketbook? You know who that *really* hits, right? Customers.
Hit them where it REALLY hurts. Pull away their sole right to the lines and put it in a government owned utility company whose sole purpose is to upgrade and maintain the lines. Slap em with common carrier status. Stick em in the Tower of London and make them part of the tour.
We can do a lot better than just 'pocketbook' here.
What I particularly liked about that AT&T remark is how can there be so much overlap between the Sprint, Verizon and AT&T patents without SOME of them being kicked out for prior art?
Heh, forgot about the HOA. Probably would've gotten one of those. Plus side, I did get myself a (much needed) tool kit while planning to do my own mainenance before the logistics of the situation hit home.
Could also just get some jacks and just raise the car. SUVs would be easy to work on...
But also in the small space category, there's zero space between the grill and the engine to navigate to unscrew the oil filter. (Geo Prism. It's not mounted underneath but in the front)
on the other hand, I can't understand the compulsion 'them darned kids' have for constantly text messaging each other.
I think the difference would be, you *could* text message with the best of them if you were so inclined.
So I sent 'em the Perl, just to watch 'em squirm.
That's not really fair, though. I work with Perl daily and I still squirm while looking at it.
Yeah, it's kind of like how in scifi stories you get some hyper-advanced alien or a human from the future stuck in our low-tech world and the assumption is "Wow, you can show us all your future tech!" And the reality is more like "Um, no. I can use the technology of my society but don't ask me to try to recreate it from scratch. Hell, I couldn't even maintain it myself."
I would SO buy that book.
Well, in some of today's modern autos, it really is too complex to get in there sometimes. (Oil change be damned).
Personally, I *could* do a lot of work on my car - oil and filter change, spark plugs, belts, brake pads, and other things that would fall under basic maintenance - but on the other hand, I'm lazy and it's a pain in the ass working in that small space. Jiffy Lube's got the room under the car and are just a boatload quicker (plus after buying the oil and filter, I'd only save like 15 bucks doing it myself)
Anyone is, of course, a generalization...but allow me to be a jerk and wrench up your statement:
Having listened to pop (as in popular, not 'pop') going back to the 1950s, I have yet to find anything to match Air on the G String, Canon in D, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Fur Elise, Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Peer Gynt Suite, I could go on but I probably sound pompous enough as it is.
There is some modern stuff, (Gershwin, Joplin (Scott)) that can filter in, but the above's my cup of tea.
...They might be lucky if they can get out of this with just a class action lawsuit.
While I wish I could share your optimism that a Big Bad will get hit hard, given the track record of class actions against similar Tech Big Bads seem to have no negative effect on the company. (Sony, Microsoft.)
What would be great is if the threat of charter removal loomed over their head, but IF Comcast got dissolved, how would that affect their monopoly situation? There's no *real* fear. Comcast will still be around.
It's akin to rooting for the Cubs to get in the Series. You know it won't happen, but you just can't stop trying.
You can't make money giving away music
Accurate if your entire business model consists of selling tracks of your music on a tangible media.
Inaccurate if you include live shows, merchandise, et cetera.
Call me old fashioned, but I always figure a good customer service experience beats out a crappy one. And really, while not knowing pricing on Akamai, I doubt even a week would break the bank.