You mean CenturyLink now! As of Nov 1st they are officially merged. I'm sure they are freaking out right about now! 2 weeks in and your already dealing with a massive outage?
In healthcare industry and we have been using a couple of pair that were provided to us with the purchase of some medical equipment. Since its very frequent to call in to the company to troubleshoot issues with these instruments the company has this service plan where you can talk to a tech on the line and they will see what you see and they can tell them exactly what to do over the phone instead of describing things back and forth. It was a really clever idea and showed some reasons to actually use this device. We have had it for several years but I do not work in the department that manages them so I have no idea how well it actually worked out for them.
Personally I am not apart of the crowd that says don't carry money around. If I could I would try and keep about 100 dollars on me when going out fully realizing that cash doesn't return you anything in return but credit will due to rewards which is 1 reason people who are responsible with credit should use it. But 1 big reason I would be scared to carry around anything over say 1 thousand dollars is due to Civil forfeiture. If anything I would be more scared of being pulled over by a cop and somehow them finding out I had a large amount of cash on me then say being robbed. I have never been robbed or even near a situation where I could have been robbed yet (hopefully ever) in my life probably due to the area I live in. I have however dealt with cops from time to time throughout life so if anything bad was to ever happen I would put my money on Civil forfeiture to somehow lose my money to someone. Pretty sad when you are more scared of the people out there to protect you then the few that may be try to kill you. Again though this is even theoretical anyway since I would never really carry over 100 dollars at any given time outside maybe a vacation.
But he is right... That's basically what we do now, hell that's what I do now! I am working 12 hour days not 16 but I could be here longer and no I don't have the option like I have seen in the medical field or being a police officer where you work 12 hour day shifts but only work 3 days a week. This is the full 5 days with sometimes having to work 1 day on the weekend about once a month. So yeah he is not wrong at all by that description of what American companies are allowed to get away with these days. We beg all the time for more hired people, 10 years to be exact, but we only get 1 hired when things are absolutely out of control. Sure not all jobs are like this but a lot are and companies seem to have the upper hand since they know people just want a job so they know they can give the bare minimum and ask for everything and get away with it. Eventually when one person gets to that breaking point they just replace them. If you ask me the future is bleak for Americans and the jobs we provide our people with especially when we let companies walk all over us.
All my home PC's are encrypted with Bitlocker, main drives and additional. I backup all files between my PC and my Synology NAS which is also encrypted. This NAS is synced up 1 on site and 1 offsite. I am not concerned about auto-wipe since its encrypted anyway and I highly doubt anyone stealing my stuff would do anything outside formatting the stuff after not being able to get in. I am also not concerned about computer settings since most of that gets restored through my Microsoft account and anything else that doesn't is not to hard to setup. Insurance I never even thought of but I am very against "insurance" since I hate dealing with any service that takes your money and gives you a hard time when you need them. Ide rather throw a few bucks into an emergency fund every week and just take from that. All in all if you get your stuff taken from you there is no easy fast solution and sadly its just one of those things you have to deal with. Having encrypted devices to protect your data and at least 1 offsite backup of your stuff should really be all anyone needs to know your secure and safe.
But the thing is if people really wanted something like that there was another choice, Bernie Sanders was basically the equivalent of trump in the sense of turning everything upside down but without the 100 scandal stories that followed him or the money. I almost feel as if the majority of people in this nation really believe that if someone has money that means they were very successful and to be that successful they must be really really smart! The American people really make no sense to me and I am 1 of them who still to this day wonder how people in this nation pick the candidates they pick because if they actually took 15 minutes to look at his life, and career, OR even listening to any number of the campaign speeches he made over the year of campaigning they should have seen clear as day this guy is a fucking nightmare who has never and will never care for the people he claims to care for. And here we are...
Then you must have one of the easy IT jobs. The job I work for does not do a great job at managing its limited resources very well so basically we are always really stressed out either by the long hours we work, the amount of never ending work and projects we are tasked with where every one of them is "priority #1" and then since this place is 24/7 they live with the rule that nothing can ever go down at any time and when something does you are basically being called every 5 minutes with status updates on why its still down which I never understand because just LET US DO OUR JOB instead of fielding calls to talk to you and it may be done faster! On top of that patching systems and praying they don't break and maintaining backups and hoping none EVER fail and if they do your basically out of a job for something that may or may not have ever been your fault to begin with. Basically IT is the job where everyone hates you for that 1 thing that goes wrong and get no credit for the million things you did right cause normally the higher ups have no clue what your actually doing. I don't know what field of IT you deal with but for us system administrators and networking guys I really do believe there is a lot of stress that is put upon us to have things work 100% of the time all the time which any normal person knows is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE.
I thought the same thing when I saw the article. Inflation or not there are much better things 18-24 year olds can find value in rather than going to the movies. On top of that is media really something youth values these days? I don't know about you but I can't keep up with any of it anymore, theres so much of it I could care less if I see the movie in theater and would rather just wait till later to catch it. I am in my 30's and I would say I used to go to the movies roughly 6 times a year 10 years ago, these days its more like 1-2 a year and that's only if its something incredible comes out. I have plenty at home to watch or catch up on so to me its definitely due to the market being oversaturated as well as ticket price. Supply and demand.
I agree, my first phone to have fingerprint was the Note 7 and although I absolutely loved everything about the phone after trading it in for the Pixel (which I absolutely hated) I must say the fingerprint in the back was 1 of the very few things I found worked better over the Note 7. You always have a finger in the back of the phone so you don't have to move a finger at all to unlock the phone and although it seemed like a small thing it really did help tremendously. Again I hated the Pixel, but I couldn't agree more with the sensor placement.
Also I don't know about anyone else but after trying out 2 Samsung phones with fingerprint I have to say it has a serious issue with sensitivity as well which results in a lot more misses when trying to unlock than the Pixel. Hopefully they worked on fixing that at least with the S8...?
So I built my first PC since 2006 this year using the new RX480 in my new build. I work in IT and we use generic AMD cards in Dell computers at work all the time and don't really see any issues with blue screens but I am assuming they are more stable than the new cutting edge cards are. After reading through these comments I can now understand why my computer has blue screened twice since its build back in September. The error points at the video card so I didn't doubt it was the problem but seeing how common it is is also kind of scary... These 2 blue screens are literally the only times I have ever seen a Windows 8 or 10 device blue screen so it was a shock to see. I guess ill have to get this update later tonight but seeing all these comments I guess I shouldn't hold my breath for a permanent solution to the cards stability. Guess next time I should save my money for the more pricier Nvidea card like I did in 2006 if I want to enjoy stability.
Just use Yatse. It is updated frequently and worked fine throughout the entire RC releases. It offers a lot more functionality over the official app to. The user interface is also amazing and they are continuing to add big changes and try new things out which the others don't seem to bother with. You can even start xbmc using the remote as well instead of having to have a second app to do that for you. It has a lot more options as well that the official doesn't offer like having a subtitle button or a shuffle and repeat button and others that the official remote does not have. Seriously everyone should try out Yatse and give it a shot.
This article made it seem a lot worse than it really is. I have been using Digsby for about a year now, think its great and was almost about to uninstall it after reading this article until I saw Digsby's post on the options added. It can be read here http://blog.digsby.com/archives/693 #2 article even tells you that you can disable the software from from allowing this option from happening. As long as they are honest about it and I can actually turn this function off I am fine with what they have done. I just wish they would have told you more about it upon installing it instead of finding out about it this way.
I havent tried any of these but after looking by most of them it didnt seem like there were to many differences between these applications and Windows System Management Server. I understand that these allow for cross platform compatability but aside from that are there a lot of differences?
Our company uses a Linux server for the setup of about 30 VM's all for tellecomuters that need to work at home. With this and the use of a website to connect everyone to there virtual terminals this was absolutely the best idea. Now instead of using individual laptops or setup of someone's home computer we can just hand out a VM and be done with them. There are hardly any problems that I have seen as long as your not running a lot of programs. The only thing we have them use is openvms software and that is all. Great solution and they are very easily setup.
"It's standard nowadays to pay $70 per game."
What games are you playing!? Wow I still pay the normal 50 for games and even 40 for some which I never would find games at years ago. If you ask me games went down in price as the years have passed. I remember paying 70 dollars for SNES games a few times but have never once found a game come out now and cost more then 60. And even 60 is rare although it will probably be the standard for next gen games in about a year. And look what you get for your money now compared to some of the games I cant even believe I spent money on back then! They want to get rid of games now a days since theres such a huge saturation of games nobody is buying them so of course the price is driven down or at least maintaning the same price throughout the years.
They have that already, at least ive seen it in NY. Its a spray can that will put a clear layer over your licence plate that when a camera takes a shot at your car it will become overexposed and all they see is a white blur. Its not illegal... yet, but the cities are hard at work at making it so! But for the time being it is against the law to cover your plate with anything so if you do put it on you can be fined if spotted by cops of course. I say though unless they are really looking you cannot see a difference, it only looks shiny. Hope you try it out hehe.
After going to school for only 1 year without obtaining any certs I was extremely worried about ever finding a job. But believe it or not certs actually put more pressure on obtaining a job since they will expect a lot more out of you. Although the plus side is you will be making more money faster but hey for me right now just breaking into the field I can say that with only a degree backing me you can definetly make it in the world of IT with very little experience. And trust me I will definetly go and get my certs at a later time but right now it just feels good to have a job. Another thing to add is that the other 3 in my department that have this job also have no certs, but they are regretting not having any since now they really do want a better job after being here for almost 10 years now.
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You mean CenturyLink now! As of Nov 1st they are officially merged. I'm sure they are freaking out right about now! 2 weeks in and your already dealing with a massive outage?
In healthcare industry and we have been using a couple of pair that were provided to us with the purchase of some medical equipment. Since its very frequent to call in to the company to troubleshoot issues with these instruments the company has this service plan where you can talk to a tech on the line and they will see what you see and they can tell them exactly what to do over the phone instead of describing things back and forth. It was a really clever idea and showed some reasons to actually use this device. We have had it for several years but I do not work in the department that manages them so I have no idea how well it actually worked out for them.
Personally I am not apart of the crowd that says don't carry money around. If I could I would try and keep about 100 dollars on me when going out fully realizing that cash doesn't return you anything in return but credit will due to rewards which is 1 reason people who are responsible with credit should use it. But 1 big reason I would be scared to carry around anything over say 1 thousand dollars is due to Civil forfeiture. If anything I would be more scared of being pulled over by a cop and somehow them finding out I had a large amount of cash on me then say being robbed. I have never been robbed or even near a situation where I could have been robbed yet (hopefully ever) in my life probably due to the area I live in. I have however dealt with cops from time to time throughout life so if anything bad was to ever happen I would put my money on Civil forfeiture to somehow lose my money to someone. Pretty sad when you are more scared of the people out there to protect you then the few that may be try to kill you. Again though this is even theoretical anyway since I would never really carry over 100 dollars at any given time outside maybe a vacation.
But he is right... That's basically what we do now, hell that's what I do now! I am working 12 hour days not 16 but I could be here longer and no I don't have the option like I have seen in the medical field or being a police officer where you work 12 hour day shifts but only work 3 days a week. This is the full 5 days with sometimes having to work 1 day on the weekend about once a month. So yeah he is not wrong at all by that description of what American companies are allowed to get away with these days. We beg all the time for more hired people, 10 years to be exact, but we only get 1 hired when things are absolutely out of control. Sure not all jobs are like this but a lot are and companies seem to have the upper hand since they know people just want a job so they know they can give the bare minimum and ask for everything and get away with it. Eventually when one person gets to that breaking point they just replace them. If you ask me the future is bleak for Americans and the jobs we provide our people with especially when we let companies walk all over us.
All my home PC's are encrypted with Bitlocker, main drives and additional. I backup all files between my PC and my Synology NAS which is also encrypted. This NAS is synced up 1 on site and 1 offsite. I am not concerned about auto-wipe since its encrypted anyway and I highly doubt anyone stealing my stuff would do anything outside formatting the stuff after not being able to get in. I am also not concerned about computer settings since most of that gets restored through my Microsoft account and anything else that doesn't is not to hard to setup. Insurance I never even thought of but I am very against "insurance" since I hate dealing with any service that takes your money and gives you a hard time when you need them. Ide rather throw a few bucks into an emergency fund every week and just take from that. All in all if you get your stuff taken from you there is no easy fast solution and sadly its just one of those things you have to deal with. Having encrypted devices to protect your data and at least 1 offsite backup of your stuff should really be all anyone needs to know your secure and safe.
But the thing is if people really wanted something like that there was another choice, Bernie Sanders was basically the equivalent of trump in the sense of turning everything upside down but without the 100 scandal stories that followed him or the money. I almost feel as if the majority of people in this nation really believe that if someone has money that means they were very successful and to be that successful they must be really really smart! The American people really make no sense to me and I am 1 of them who still to this day wonder how people in this nation pick the candidates they pick because if they actually took 15 minutes to look at his life, and career, OR even listening to any number of the campaign speeches he made over the year of campaigning they should have seen clear as day this guy is a fucking nightmare who has never and will never care for the people he claims to care for. And here we are...
Then you must have one of the easy IT jobs. The job I work for does not do a great job at managing its limited resources very well so basically we are always really stressed out either by the long hours we work, the amount of never ending work and projects we are tasked with where every one of them is "priority #1" and then since this place is 24/7 they live with the rule that nothing can ever go down at any time and when something does you are basically being called every 5 minutes with status updates on why its still down which I never understand because just LET US DO OUR JOB instead of fielding calls to talk to you and it may be done faster! On top of that patching systems and praying they don't break and maintaining backups and hoping none EVER fail and if they do your basically out of a job for something that may or may not have ever been your fault to begin with. Basically IT is the job where everyone hates you for that 1 thing that goes wrong and get no credit for the million things you did right cause normally the higher ups have no clue what your actually doing. I don't know what field of IT you deal with but for us system administrators and networking guys I really do believe there is a lot of stress that is put upon us to have things work 100% of the time all the time which any normal person knows is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE.
I thought the same thing when I saw the article. Inflation or not there are much better things 18-24 year olds can find value in rather than going to the movies. On top of that is media really something youth values these days? I don't know about you but I can't keep up with any of it anymore, theres so much of it I could care less if I see the movie in theater and would rather just wait till later to catch it. I am in my 30's and I would say I used to go to the movies roughly 6 times a year 10 years ago, these days its more like 1-2 a year and that's only if its something incredible comes out. I have plenty at home to watch or catch up on so to me its definitely due to the market being oversaturated as well as ticket price. Supply and demand.
I agree, my first phone to have fingerprint was the Note 7 and although I absolutely loved everything about the phone after trading it in for the Pixel (which I absolutely hated) I must say the fingerprint in the back was 1 of the very few things I found worked better over the Note 7. You always have a finger in the back of the phone so you don't have to move a finger at all to unlock the phone and although it seemed like a small thing it really did help tremendously. Again I hated the Pixel, but I couldn't agree more with the sensor placement. Also I don't know about anyone else but after trying out 2 Samsung phones with fingerprint I have to say it has a serious issue with sensitivity as well which results in a lot more misses when trying to unlock than the Pixel. Hopefully they worked on fixing that at least with the S8...?
So I built my first PC since 2006 this year using the new RX480 in my new build. I work in IT and we use generic AMD cards in Dell computers at work all the time and don't really see any issues with blue screens but I am assuming they are more stable than the new cutting edge cards are. After reading through these comments I can now understand why my computer has blue screened twice since its build back in September. The error points at the video card so I didn't doubt it was the problem but seeing how common it is is also kind of scary... These 2 blue screens are literally the only times I have ever seen a Windows 8 or 10 device blue screen so it was a shock to see. I guess ill have to get this update later tonight but seeing all these comments I guess I shouldn't hold my breath for a permanent solution to the cards stability. Guess next time I should save my money for the more pricier Nvidea card like I did in 2006 if I want to enjoy stability.
Just use Yatse. It is updated frequently and worked fine throughout the entire RC releases. It offers a lot more functionality over the official app to. The user interface is also amazing and they are continuing to add big changes and try new things out which the others don't seem to bother with. You can even start xbmc using the remote as well instead of having to have a second app to do that for you. It has a lot more options as well that the official doesn't offer like having a subtitle button or a shuffle and repeat button and others that the official remote does not have. Seriously everyone should try out Yatse and give it a shot.
This article made it seem a lot worse than it really is. I have been using Digsby for about a year now, think its great and was almost about to uninstall it after reading this article until I saw Digsby's post on the options added. It can be read here http://blog.digsby.com/archives/693 #2 article even tells you that you can disable the software from from allowing this option from happening. As long as they are honest about it and I can actually turn this function off I am fine with what they have done. I just wish they would have told you more about it upon installing it instead of finding out about it this way.
I havent tried any of these but after looking by most of them it didnt seem like there were to many differences between these applications and Windows System Management Server. I understand that these allow for cross platform compatability but aside from that are there a lot of differences?
Our company uses a Linux server for the setup of about 30 VM's all for tellecomuters that need to work at home. With this and the use of a website to connect everyone to there virtual terminals this was absolutely the best idea. Now instead of using individual laptops or setup of someone's home computer we can just hand out a VM and be done with them. There are hardly any problems that I have seen as long as your not running a lot of programs. The only thing we have them use is openvms software and that is all. Great solution and they are very easily setup.
"It's standard nowadays to pay $70 per game." What games are you playing!? Wow I still pay the normal 50 for games and even 40 for some which I never would find games at years ago. If you ask me games went down in price as the years have passed. I remember paying 70 dollars for SNES games a few times but have never once found a game come out now and cost more then 60. And even 60 is rare although it will probably be the standard for next gen games in about a year. And look what you get for your money now compared to some of the games I cant even believe I spent money on back then! They want to get rid of games now a days since theres such a huge saturation of games nobody is buying them so of course the price is driven down or at least maintaning the same price throughout the years.
They have that already, at least ive seen it in NY. Its a spray can that will put a clear layer over your licence plate that when a camera takes a shot at your car it will become overexposed and all they see is a white blur. Its not illegal... yet, but the cities are hard at work at making it so! But for the time being it is against the law to cover your plate with anything so if you do put it on you can be fined if spotted by cops of course. I say though unless they are really looking you cannot see a difference, it only looks shiny. Hope you try it out hehe.
It was already stated that the Wii will be $250 breaking the pattern, but is still a great price after seeing all that you get for the price.
After going to school for only 1 year without obtaining any certs I was extremely worried about ever finding a job. But believe it or not certs actually put more pressure on obtaining a job since they will expect a lot more out of you. Although the plus side is you will be making more money faster but hey for me right now just breaking into the field I can say that with only a degree backing me you can definetly make it in the world of IT with very little experience. And trust me I will definetly go and get my certs at a later time but right now it just feels good to have a job. Another thing to add is that the other 3 in my department that have this job also have no certs, but they are regretting not having any since now they really do want a better job after being here for almost 10 years now.