The "light" shoe is great for other sports but once you start running (and especially train) long distances their shoes break down a lot faster than Asics and New Balance. I got a pair of Kayanus (sp?) from Asics and I swear they look like I haven't put on half the miles I have. Plus it seems that Nike's running shoes are designed for someone with a perfect foot unlike half the population who pronates or supinates.
What I really hate are these companies like Foot Locker and Champs whose employees have no clue about the sport they support. With running shoes look should be the last thing you are looking for. It should all be comfort. The fact that some company designed a shoe for some athlete does not mean that I have the exact same foot as this athlete.
I have found that The Running Room (which is a chain in Canada) seem to have the most knowledgable staff. Course this may be because they specialize but at least their main criteria for a good shoe is not how pretty it is.
I love people who don't read the bottom and modded my comment as a flame:
Moderators this is not a flame but a semi humorus but sad view on the situation.
I guess I should explain what I meant then. You know they don't like linux because a lot of the controversial software that means freedom and choice for end users for them means potential lost revenue (i.e Bnetd, DeCSS, etc.) and more importantly loss of control. I guess I should have used Sarcastic tags around the last line but I figured it was obvious.
What's even funnier is there is a coop student at work and she was learning Mandrake. Once she played with it for a couple of days I told her to try out debian and she said it was easier than Mandrake. She found it more straightforward to set up and run.
Course then she tried FreeBSD and that wasn't pretty.
Unfortunately their response would be that because of all these projected (yes projected) lost sales this is why Overpeer is doing it. They don't care because there is still a lot of people who don't have the bandwidth or the burners to make downloading mp3s worth it. They are only doing this to irritate you. Their real push (not like it is going to work) is to brainw... I mean educate the unclean masses that they are the good guys and the pasty faced geeks running that commie Operating system are the evil ones.
Moderators this is not a flame but a semi humorus but sad view on the situation.
Why don't they put a way of doing crc checks into their software? This way if someone downloads a file and it happens to be one of these files then the user can flag it using something similar in function to RIP (the routing protocol) a list of all the user's flagged files could be transmitted to anyone he downloads or uploads from at the same time and added to his list.
Course then at that point Overpeer could do the same with legit files but then there could be moderating set up.
Ok this may not be a great idea but hell it is an idea (maybe I should patent it)
I used to watch it when it was originally on in the mid 90's on Much Music in Canada. I thought it was funny then and was quite excited to watch it again when one of the channels here (YTV I think) decided to start showing it again.
The first one they showed was Son of Stimpy which I remember enjoying. I guess my tastes have changed because it was exactly how I remembered but it wasn't funny anymore. I could almost hear the crickets chirping.
Get Goldwave (www.goldwave.com) I have the latest and it will convert (even batch converting is supported) from wma to wav and if you download the plugins you can convert to mp3 and ogg
You make excellent points regarding jobs and discrimination and they are all valid. But the point I was trying to put across was that it isn't blatant preferential treatment because of how they dressed but more of a subconscious choosing because the way you dressed was more acceptable. For example the instructor from Africa would be fine even though he isn't wearing Gap (the khakis and golf shirt is more a level of dressiness) because I would assume that it would be neat and clean without some obscenity across the back. Blue jeans would be considered pushing the minimum but notice you said black?
But all this needs to be summed up with how you put it. It all depends on with who you interact with. If it is the public (i.e you are in sales) a definite tie although African guy could probably still wear his attire.
It seems to me that if you're being asked to admin Unix and Windows, you're in too small a company.
This is true but you don't necessarily want to limit yourself to working in large companies. Especially it it is limiting from startups. The thing with the "network god" attitude is it also seems that it can affect them in other areas of their job i.e. interpersonal skills. I am not saying everyone but time and time again I have seen those who think they are above it and it reeks off of them as superiority.
Couple of things you should learn now rather than figuring it out as you go: 1. Keep your nose clean. The larger the organization the more important this is especially as you move up the ladder. Some people will use anything they can to screw you over for the next promotion, your job, etc.
2. If you do not know the policy on something (internet usage, mp3s, running linux servers rather than MS just to make your life easier cause MS is unreliable, etc.) ASK! It is always good to cover your ass. You assume if they have problems with something they will tell you. Not necessarily. See #1
3. You are replaceable. The days of the network gods are over. I once interviewed for a place a year ago. They wanted someone to admin their UNIX(Sun, HP) and Windows boxes. I asked them what happened to the person who was there before. Ends up this guy is a real *NIX zealot who absolutely refused to touch a windows box as if it would give him leprosy or something and told them to get someone else to do them. Well they were taking his advice but rather than hiring a person to take care of the Windows box they were looking for a replacement for him. I didn't get it but last I heard the guy was working in a small computer store putting Windows ME on computers (talk about tragic irony!)
4. Smart companies don't have a dress code but smart employees dress well. Ideal minimum is Gap khakis and golf shirts. Looks are everything. One company I worked at didn't have a dress code and there was one guy who would always show up wearing sweat pants or a metallica tshirt. He couldn't figure out how come people were always being promoted around him. It's like black plates; food doesn't look appetizing. It also gives you an edge over anyone else, including at raise time.
These are some things I have picked up and I am sure there are a lot of others who can agree with this. It may suck for some of them, but it is common sense.
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Half right. They were designed to withstand a 747 flying at a slow speed (they never figured someone would fly a plane into them on purpose) but there was no way to account for burning jetfuel.
It's hard to explain why it is easier to have colours (whoops showed my nationality). I have lived in both the US and in Canada. I spent 5 years in the states during my teens and go accustomed to working with single colour bills and at that time agreed that I couldn't see why but then when I moved back North I finally realized. It is almost like recognizing shapes takes more brain power than colours (yes I know that I may have opened myself up there for a flame) I think this is also why they have different colours for traffic lights.
Plus the fact if you threw all your money in a pocket or into your wallet haphazardly and it got bunched up, the moment you saw the colour of the bill you would know what you had without unfolding enough to get a number.
US: www.dealsdirect.com Canada: www.dealsdirect.ca I live in Ottawa and they have a store plus also an online website. In the Ottawa Canada region you usually can't do better for prices and quality components. I used to buy from Tolga but have found that their components are more generic stuff but when you want uber-fans etc, Deals Direct is good.
Ah but wouldn't it be great if the high bandwidth server you could potentially be downloading from could be some guy a subnet over?
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What you need to do to make VOD work is implememnt it with a network ala Freenet (the P2P Freenet not the other one) this way no one knows exactly what is on their share. Give incentives to people that the more space they give the lower the cost will be for them.
I find it funny that RedHat errata can come down the pipe and it never gets a main page posting. I mean sometimes I wonder if Microsoft is being isolated as a target for ridicule Granted Microsoft has not always been forthcoming with security alerts but hell even since 98 with WindowsUpdate you can more or less stay on top of these.
There is some truth to they don't build them like they used to. From what I have heard the F-101 was a more ruggedly built machine than the F-18. (This is from a Canadian Pilot who flew both)
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The "light" shoe is great for other sports but once you start running (and especially train) long distances their shoes break down a lot faster than Asics and New Balance. I got a pair of Kayanus (sp?) from Asics and I swear they look like I haven't put on half the miles I have. Plus it seems that Nike's running shoes are designed for someone with a perfect foot unlike half the population who pronates or supinates.
What I really hate are these companies like Foot Locker and Champs whose employees have no clue about the sport they support. With running shoes look should be the last thing you are looking for. It should all be comfort. The fact that some company designed a shoe for some athlete does not mean that I have the exact same foot as this athlete.
I have found that The Running Room (which is a chain in Canada) seem to have the most knowledgable staff. Course this may be because they specialize but at least their main criteria for a good shoe is not how pretty it is.
I have also had some computers I would loved to gice a good beating.
Me too but mostly it was what was between the keyboard and chair that needed a beating to solve most problems.
Not really since they are for profit.
I love people who don't read the bottom and modded my comment as a flame:
Moderators this is not a flame but a semi humorus but sad view on the situation.
I guess I should explain what I meant then. You know they don't like linux because a lot of the controversial software that means freedom and choice for end users for them means potential lost revenue (i.e Bnetd, DeCSS, etc.) and more importantly loss of control. I guess I should have used Sarcastic tags around the last line but I figured it was obvious.
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What's even funnier is there is a coop student at work and she was learning Mandrake. Once she played with it for a couple of days I told her to try out debian and she said it was easier than Mandrake. She found it more straightforward to set up and run.
Course then she tried FreeBSD and that wasn't pretty.
Unfortunately their response would be that because of all these projected (yes projected) lost sales this is why Overpeer is doing it. They don't care because there is still a lot of people who don't have the bandwidth or the burners to make downloading mp3s worth it. They are only doing this to irritate you. Their real push (not like it is going to work) is to brainw... I mean educate the unclean masses that they are the good guys and the pasty faced geeks running that commie Operating system are the evil ones.
Moderators this is not a flame but a semi humorus but sad view on the situation.
Why don't they put a way of doing crc checks into their software? This way if someone downloads a file and it happens to be one of these files then the user can flag it using something similar in function to RIP (the routing protocol) a list of all the user's flagged files could be transmitted to anyone he downloads or uploads from at the same time and added to his list.
Course then at that point Overpeer could do the same with legit files but then there could be moderating set up.
Ok this may not be a great idea but hell it is an idea (maybe I should patent it)
I used to watch it when it was originally on in the mid 90's on Much Music in Canada. I thought it was funny then and was quite excited to watch it again when one of the channels here (YTV I think) decided to start showing it again.
The first one they showed was Son of Stimpy which I remember enjoying. I guess my tastes have changed because it was exactly how I remembered but it wasn't funny anymore. I could almost hear the crickets chirping.
Get Goldwave (www.goldwave.com) I have the latest and it will convert (even batch converting is supported) from wma to wav and if you download the plugins you can convert to mp3 and ogg
You make excellent points regarding jobs and discrimination and they are all valid. But the point I was trying to put across was that it isn't blatant preferential treatment because of how they dressed but more of a subconscious choosing because the way you dressed was more acceptable. For example the instructor from Africa would be fine even though he isn't wearing Gap (the khakis and golf shirt is more a level of dressiness) because I would assume that it would be neat and clean without some obscenity across the back. Blue jeans would be considered pushing the minimum but notice you said black?
But all this needs to be summed up with how you put it. It all depends on with who you interact with. If it is the public (i.e you are in sales) a definite tie although African guy could probably still wear his attire.
Definitely an interesting point to ponder.
It seems to me that if you're being asked to admin Unix and Windows, you're in too small a company.
This is true but you don't necessarily want to limit yourself to working in large companies. Especially it it is limiting from startups. The thing with the "network god" attitude is it also seems that it can affect them in other areas of their job i.e. interpersonal skills. I am not saying everyone but time and time again I have seen those who think they are above it and it reeks off of them as superiority.
Couple of things you should learn now rather than figuring it out as you go:
1. Keep your nose clean. The larger the organization the more important this is especially as you move up the ladder. Some people will use anything they can to screw you over for the next promotion, your job, etc.
2. If you do not know the policy on something (internet usage, mp3s, running linux servers rather than MS just to make your life easier cause MS is unreliable, etc.) ASK! It is always good to cover your ass. You assume if they have problems with something they will tell you. Not necessarily. See #1
3. You are replaceable. The days of the network gods are over. I once interviewed for a place a year ago. They wanted someone to admin their UNIX(Sun, HP) and Windows boxes. I asked them what happened to the person who was there before. Ends up this guy is a real *NIX zealot who absolutely refused to touch a windows box as if it would give him leprosy or something and told them to get someone else to do them. Well they were taking his advice but rather than hiring a person to take care of the Windows box they were looking for a replacement for him. I didn't get it but last I heard the guy was working in a small computer store putting Windows ME on computers (talk about tragic irony!)
4. Smart companies don't have a dress code but smart employees dress well. Ideal minimum is Gap khakis and golf shirts. Looks are everything. One company I worked at didn't have a dress code and there was one guy who would always show up wearing sweat pants or a metallica tshirt. He couldn't figure out how come people were always being promoted around him. It's like black plates; food doesn't look appetizing. It also gives you an edge over anyone else, including at raise time.
These are some things I have picked up and I am sure there are a lot of others who can agree with this. It may suck for some of them, but it is common sense.
The Pledge of Allegiance: ... one Nation, and a dog, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all
Note to Moderators: please moderate with a sense of humour as this is not meant to offend anyone.
Half right. They were designed to withstand a 747 flying at a slow speed (they never figured someone would fly a plane into them on purpose) but there was no way to account for burning jetfuel.
and for Americans. What happens if this goes through in the US and they hit a person outside? Could the person sue the instigator for damages?
It's hard to explain why it is easier to have colours (whoops showed my nationality). I have lived in both the US and in Canada. I spent 5 years in the states during my teens and go accustomed to working with single colour bills and at that time agreed that I couldn't see why but then when I moved back North I finally realized. It is almost like recognizing shapes takes more brain power than colours (yes I know that I may have opened myself up there for a flame) I think this is also why they have different colours for traffic lights.
Plus the fact if you threw all your money in a pocket or into your wallet haphazardly and it got bunched up, the moment you saw the colour of the bill you would know what you had without unfolding enough to get a number.
It'd have to be a hell of a wind to get a Canadian Dollar to fly through the air (the Canadian Dollar is a coin for those who don't get the joke).
US: www.dealsdirect.com
Canada: www.dealsdirect.ca
I live in Ottawa and they have a store plus also an online website. In the Ottawa Canada region you usually can't do better for prices and quality components. I used to buy from Tolga but have found that their components are more generic stuff but when you want uber-fans etc, Deals Direct is good.
Yes and remember the greatest Nobel winning scientist of all time is from Australia...
Yahoo Serious!!
Moderators please note this was a joke and not a flame!
Ah but wouldn't it be great if the high bandwidth server you could potentially be downloading from could be some guy a subnet over?
What you need to do to make VOD work is implememnt it with a network ala Freenet (the P2P Freenet not the other one) this way no one knows exactly what is on their share. Give incentives to people that the more space they give the lower the cost will be for them.
Hmmm maybe I should patent this idea...
I find it funny that RedHat errata can come down the pipe and it never gets a main page posting. I mean sometimes I wonder if Microsoft is being isolated as a target for ridicule
Granted Microsoft has not always been forthcoming with security alerts but hell even since 98 with WindowsUpdate you can more or less stay on top of these.
Trying not to get this modded as flamebait
I've always said there are only two real parties in Canada. The Bloq and everyone else.
There is some truth to they don't build them like they used to. From what I have heard the F-101 was a more ruggedly built machine than the F-18. (This is from a Canadian Pilot who flew both)
Moderators please note this was a joke..