Actually, that's the CyberAthlete Amateur League, the open affiliate to the CyberAthlete Professional League at www.thecpl.com. Whilst the CPL involves gaming on LANs for large quantities of prize money accessible to only the most well-known teams who often have corporate sponsorship of some kind the CAL involves online competition between clans for standings and recognition that just about anyone can get involved in. I'd liken it to a CPL farm system, of sorts.
Notice how he said "for a client." Clients, in the hosting business especially, tend to ask for things you know it isn't in anyone's best interest to provide. Unfortunately, sometimes keeping their business means going against your better judgement.
That said, the company I work for has a product that does something along the same lines, with FreeBSD instead of Linux. Everyone agrees it is much nicer than the normal shared environments we've dealt with.
I agree with the parent. As easy as it is to portray the people making these decisions as being greed incarnate using the terrorist activities as of late to make a little more money, I think it's more prudent to look at it from the same angle I'm sure they've had to: It's true, you can't guarantee absolute security, but do you really want to be the person that has to answer for why something bad happened with something along the lines of "well, we figured it'd be too inconvenient to ask the attendees to do X"? Living with one's self would be fairly difficult, even without taking into account the opinions and anger of others.
In the same vein, since social skills can be one of the lacking traits in a group of geeks, having them (or acting like you do;p) can be a godsend when trying to get a geek-type job. This is doubly true since you're often forced to deal with non-geek HR types for a large portion of the hiring process.
With me this would just make them seem like a sleazeball. I'd rather them send email or call with something along the lines of "I really want this job" than to have them "thank" me for letting them interview. If you don't get the job, interviewing is just a waste of an afternoon (and usually longer), and nobody is thankful for that.
Of course since I'm not in a position to hire anyone maybe it's just the fact that management is dumb (:P) that would allow this tactic to work.
YMMV, but I find that establishing a somewhat friendly (not just civil) relationship with one person involved in the hiring process can get your name mentioned a lot more in the discussions over who to hire. Of course, the more they look at you and/or consider your name, with a field of 200 especially, the better.
This is the best question to ask. I just got off SprintPCS and on to a new AT&T plan. My roommate is also on SprintPCS. I used to get no service at home, and he still doesn't, but my AT&T phone gets perfectly clear reception and the hideously inaccurate "3 bars out of 4".
I live in downtown Atlanta, so it seems odd that I couldn't get any reception, then again calls dropped like crazy even when I could get reception, so I guess I shouldn't be at all surprised.
I went with Sprint because it's comparatively cheaper for the nationwide service. I found out you get what you pay for.
Yeah, we went for years with horrible cell phone reception in our old home town (which happened to be an island). Popular opinion was in favor of a tower and a site was all picked out, but the minority of retirees who were deathly afraid of anything new just had too much collective time on their hands to lobby against it.
The service plan is something that's essentially pure profit for the retail chains. As you've read, the support they actually provide isn't at all worth it. Contrast this with the miniscule profit margins for the computer itself. The management of these stores would rather have the inventory on hand in case the next guy is a sucker than sell it to you without the service plan.
I spent three months working at Best Buy and this was essentially drilled into my brain. I can't tell you how many times a manager took me into a back room because I didn't push their silly service plan when I had to watch people get screwed over said plan at the customer support desk 5 minutes beforehand. I've also seen a laptop (one of the items they don't stock very much of) suddenly become "out of stock" when it became clear that the customer wasn't buying the service plan.
You're pretty much doing them a favor by walking out without buying the plan.
... lowering the costs necessary for running the site and solving the problem. Hooray.
I'm not going to get too pissed off about ads. I can pretty much just tune them out. It's not like everything else isn't covered with ads anyway (watched professional sports lately?).
That said, I'd donate to/. in a second if that's what it takes to keep it afloat. I don't regularly donate to any other sites (though I read plenty that take donations), so I guess that says something.
So yes, EFnet may not be the largest network anymore, and its population may be going down, but the level of clue hasn't gone down and seems to be rising for the most part.
Yeah, I've actually noticed this. As it becomes harder for people to get on EFnet the amount of annoying "a/s/l"-type kids has really declined.
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I don't know, spam is pretty annoying.
Actually, that's the CyberAthlete Amateur League, the open affiliate to the CyberAthlete Professional League at www.thecpl.com. Whilst the CPL involves gaming on LANs for large quantities of prize money accessible to only the most well-known teams who often have corporate sponsorship of some kind the CAL involves online competition between clans for standings and recognition that just about anyone can get involved in. I'd liken it to a CPL farm system, of sorts.
No. AFAIK DirecTV's DSL service is *normal* over-your-phone-lines DSL.
Bitching about your own karma anonymously? -2, Pathetic
"Oracle is not even the same platform to be compared to Linux."
At least you're right about one thing. Oracle is a RDBMS, Linux is an OS.
Notice how he said "for a client." Clients, in the hosting business especially, tend to ask for things you know it isn't in anyone's best interest to provide. Unfortunately, sometimes keeping their business means going against your better judgement.
That said, the company I work for has a product that does something along the same lines, with FreeBSD instead of Linux. Everyone agrees it is much nicer than the normal shared environments we've dealt with.
If I were just worried about being safe from lawyers I'd be a lawyer. I, fortunately, have a conscience :).
I agree with the parent. As easy as it is to portray the people making these decisions as being greed incarnate using the terrorist activities as of late to make a little more money, I think it's more prudent to look at it from the same angle I'm sure they've had to: It's true, you can't guarantee absolute security, but do you really want to be the person that has to answer for why something bad happened with something along the lines of "well, we figured it'd be too inconvenient to ask the attendees to do X"? Living with one's self would be fairly difficult, even without taking into account the opinions and anger of others.
In the same vein, since social skills can be one of the lacking traits in a group of geeks, having them (or acting like you do ;p) can be a godsend when trying to get a geek-type job. This is doubly true since you're often forced to deal with non-geek HR types for a large portion of the hiring process.
With me this would just make them seem like a sleazeball. I'd rather them send email or call with something along the lines of "I really want this job" than to have them "thank" me for letting them interview. If you don't get the job, interviewing is just a waste of an afternoon (and usually longer), and nobody is thankful for that.
Of course since I'm not in a position to hire anyone maybe it's just the fact that management is dumb (:P) that would allow this tactic to work.
YMMV, but I find that establishing a somewhat friendly (not just civil) relationship with one person involved in the hiring process can get your name mentioned a lot more in the discussions over who to hire. Of course, the more they look at you and/or consider your name, with a field of 200 especially, the better.
What's wrong with having nine toes?
This is the best question to ask. I just got off SprintPCS and on to a new AT&T plan. My roommate is also on SprintPCS. I used to get no service at home, and he still doesn't, but my AT&T phone gets perfectly clear reception and the hideously inaccurate "3 bars out of 4".
I live in downtown Atlanta, so it seems odd that I couldn't get any reception, then again calls dropped like crazy even when I could get reception, so I guess I shouldn't be at all surprised.
I went with Sprint because it's comparatively cheaper for the nationwide service. I found out you get what you pay for.
Yeah, we went for years with horrible cell phone reception in our old home town (which happened to be an island). Popular opinion was in favor of a tower and a site was all picked out, but the minority of retirees who were deathly afraid of anything new just had too much collective time on their hands to lobby against it.
The service plan is something that's essentially pure profit for the retail chains. As you've read, the support they actually provide isn't at all worth it. Contrast this with the miniscule profit margins for the computer itself. The management of these stores would rather have the inventory on hand in case the next guy is a sucker than sell it to you without the service plan.
I spent three months working at Best Buy and this was essentially drilled into my brain. I can't tell you how many times a manager took me into a back room because I didn't push their silly service plan when I had to watch people get screwed over said plan at the customer support desk 5 minutes beforehand. I've also seen a laptop (one of the items they don't stock very much of) suddenly become "out of stock" when it became clear that the customer wasn't buying the service plan.
You're pretty much doing them a favor by walking out without buying the plan.
Some people have found this system already. It is called pron. For some reason geeks can reach their wallets more easily when their other hand is ...
And I imagine it's for people like yourself that they are providing that option. Yay, comrade.
... lowering the costs necessary for running the site and solving the problem. Hooray.
/. in a second if that's what it takes to keep it afloat. I don't regularly donate to any other sites (though I read plenty that take donations), so I guess that says something.
I'm not going to get too pissed off about ads. I can pretty much just tune them out. It's not like everything else isn't covered with ads anyway (watched professional sports lately?).
That said, I'd donate to
That's what he's saying, the other guy is paying more money for those extra features.
Of course, I'm not even going to tell you what my SDSL bill is. I'm too embarassed.
I'm getting a T3 and a warehouse and starting a homeless shelter-style facility for displaced geeks.
That's where the money is.
So this is the first crash not involving Windows in quite a while. What a weird day all around.
PS- I'm not feeling too happy about being right next to CNN Center posting this.
Wow, that John Romero chick is on the list. She's hot.
No, only XP has the built-in firewall. Yes, it's fairly easy to turn off (I did it in about 30 seconds).
If installing IE6 broke anything... you didn't do it right. I've been using it with Windows 2000 for quite some time now.
So yes, EFnet may not be the largest network anymore, and its population may be going down, but the level of clue hasn't gone down and seems to be rising for the most part.
Yeah, I've actually noticed this. As it becomes harder for people to get on EFnet the amount of annoying "a/s/l"-type kids has really declined.
When I say it, "kids" just refers to their immature behavior. I know a bunch of young adults (early to mid 20's) who engage in the same activities.
No, if you were evil, you'd just completely drain the account and not say a word :P.
You're just mischievous.