Places with excruciatingly low per-capita incomes, for some reason don't want to spend the equivalent of a years salary for a substantially defective product.
As I provide the infrastructure required to work from home, I work from home when I want to. If I notice that there was a problem with an overnight task and I feel like I want to tackle it during my morning's surfing to make things smoother at work, I do. However, I'm under no obligation to do so. Similarly, I have a GPRS phone with the Putty SSH client -- if I get a call on the weekend and there's something wrong that I think I can fix, I can choose to say, I'll handle it on Monday or I'll have a go now, whichever is most convenient to me.
Now, if the company provided my mobile, my home PC and home internet connection I'd be expected to respond whenever the company wants me to, and I'd expect to be paid at least twice as much.
I bought an e-reader with the promise of cheap NES re-releases on cards. I'm a little annoyed that N has decided to release them in expensive carts instead. Perhaps now that the dot-code has been reverse engineered some 3rd-party NES IP owners could print their own cards...
There are so many places to store significant amounts of data these days that unless you're military contractor level paranoid, there's no point about being concerned about any particular technology above another. Case in point. I now have Bluetooth running on my work laptop, my home PC and my mobile phone with a 128MB MMC card. I don't even need to take my phone out of my pocket to copy something off the network and take it home. Now, did you spot the hidden message in there? I have a laptop for work! I can take home Gig upon Gig of stuff in the normal course of business. The company wants me to work from home on occasion -- fixing problems remotely and such like. Note the implications of that -- we have VPN access to our network! I could go on like this for ages. Ultimately there are two points. You're either trusted or you don't work here and our data, while valuable, is not enough to setup an entity that can successfully compete with us.
I agree with you both. My approach was to tell the staff to use Mozilla temporarily while this latest IE security problem was resolved. We have a big thing happening on our website at the moment (second semester enrollment) which everyone understands is important, so I basically said that they had to use Mozilla for surfing anything other than our own website until there was either a patch released or enrolment closed, whatever came first. I think most have them have moved back to IE now.
The next time there's an IE security hole with no patch I'll repeat the process. Of course I'll recommend IE over Mozilla in a similar way if there's ever some big unpatched Mozilla security hole. Since both browsers are now installed on all PCs, it's no big thing.
My iPod is officially part of my company's backup system. At the end of each day I copy a highly compressed copy of the previous night's main server backup onto it as the overnight off-site backup.
I guess that a company that didn't trust it's employees would be very concerned that basically everything can go home on an iPod. But I don't work in one of those places.
...and I don't think I like to be bundled in with people attempting fraud. I'm not high maintenance but I can spot a deal. Either you're selling something or your not. Don't start trying to second-guess what I might buy next. Maybe I'm taking advantage of a cheap offer to find out how good your service is...
I had run out of space on my compressed hard drive and I need a place to overflow onto. Returned it the next day, but not before it had eaten the only copy of the first few issues of an on-line magazine I'd been working on.
...I'm not currently intending to purchase any more games this year. I still play Diablo II about once a week and I'm very much enjoying Sacred with full knowledge that I've got plenty of class, skill and difficulty combinations to explore.
Christmas will most likely by DVD season, not games season. Newly released box sets of SciFi TV shows will feature highly as well as "classic" movies like Office Space.
I've got a second gen. iPod and I think I only get about an hour on the battery. A bit more since I installed the latest BIOS, but an hour playing in the evening will typically mean that it won't last 15 minutes in the morning. When I have to start using a cigarette-lighter adapter in the car it will somewhat negate the usefulness of my FM adapter. Don't know if I want to replace the battery or buy a new one at this stage.
And if the new Commodore really cared about the old fans, they'd include a big honkin' socket for a real SID on their portable music players. The High Voltage SID Collection is only 35.6MB (compressed) and it contains months and months of music.
And here's a picture. Actually, several. Down Under I prefer Australia Post for parcels, though not for receipted delivery of letters due to the complete incompetence of the local office that handles anything that isn't a parcel.
I don't want a standardised plug-in system, it's too easy to attack. I don't even have Flash installed at home. Anyway, apart from Flash and maybe Quicktime, plug-ins are never installed in a wide enough base to make it worth writing your web pages for them. And on that score, I just want proper PNG support with alpha channels in the leading browsers as standard.
This is more like telling your neighbours that you're going to have a party and to contact you first if it gets too loud, only to have them contact the police first instead.
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Sounds like the definition of being organised. I wonder if Amazon has patented it yet.
Could someone please provide a summary describing what the hell the story is about?
Now, if the company provided my mobile, my home PC and home internet connection I'd be expected to respond whenever the company wants me to, and I'd expect to be paid at least twice as much.
I bought an e-reader with the promise of cheap NES re-releases on cards. I'm a little annoyed that N has decided to release them in expensive carts instead. Perhaps now that the dot-code has been reverse engineered some 3rd-party NES IP owners could print their own cards...
There are so many places to store significant amounts of data these days that unless you're military contractor level paranoid, there's no point about being concerned about any particular technology above another. Case in point. I now have Bluetooth running on my work laptop, my home PC and my mobile phone with a 128MB MMC card. I don't even need to take my phone out of my pocket to copy something off the network and take it home. Now, did you spot the hidden message in there? I have a laptop for work! I can take home Gig upon Gig of stuff in the normal course of business. The company wants me to work from home on occasion -- fixing problems remotely and such like. Note the implications of that -- we have VPN access to our network! I could go on like this for ages. Ultimately there are two points. You're either trusted or you don't work here and our data, while valuable, is not enough to setup an entity that can successfully compete with us.
The next time there's an IE security hole with no patch I'll repeat the process. Of course I'll recommend IE over Mozilla in a similar way if there's ever some big unpatched Mozilla security hole. Since both browsers are now installed on all PCs, it's no big thing.
I guess that a company that didn't trust it's employees would be very concerned that basically everything can go home on an iPod. But I don't work in one of those places.
...and I don't think I like to be bundled in with people attempting fraud. I'm not high maintenance but I can spot a deal. Either you're selling something or your not. Don't start trying to second-guess what I might buy next. Maybe I'm taking advantage of a cheap offer to find out how good your service is...
It is a wonder that a link to that article got greenlighted. I miss the old Slashdot.
I had run out of space on my compressed hard drive and I need a place to overflow onto. Returned it the next day, but not before it had eaten the only copy of the first few issues of an on-line magazine I'd been working on.
Christmas will most likely by DVD season, not games season. Newly released box sets of SciFi TV shows will feature highly as well as "classic" movies like Office Space.
It would be if I had any mod points.
I've got a second gen. iPod and I think I only get about an hour on the battery. A bit more since I installed the latest BIOS, but an hour playing in the evening will typically mean that it won't last 15 minutes in the morning. When I have to start using a cigarette-lighter adapter in the car it will somewhat negate the usefulness of my FM adapter. Don't know if I want to replace the battery or buy a new one at this stage.
Uh, if they hide the camera isn't that 'bootleg over'?
And if the new Commodore really cared about the old fans, they'd include a big honkin' socket for a real SID on their portable music players. The High Voltage SID Collection is only 35.6MB (compressed) and it contains months and months of music.
And here's a picture. Actually, several. Down Under I prefer Australia Post for parcels, though not for receipted delivery of letters due to the complete incompetence of the local office that handles anything that isn't a parcel.
I don't want a standardised plug-in system, it's too easy to attack. I don't even have Flash installed at home. Anyway, apart from Flash and maybe Quicktime, plug-ins are never installed in a wide enough base to make it worth writing your web pages for them. And on that score, I just want proper PNG support with alpha channels in the leading browsers as standard.
But unreasonable if you'd never had a party before -- or no one had ever complained to you or the police before.
This is more like telling your neighbours that you're going to have a party and to contact you first if it gets too loud, only to have them contact the police first instead.
Wasn't that a light that affected WiFi?
Just because something's hard doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. Otherwise, why would you go to the moon or do those other things?
(Can I be modded redundant if I've made the same joke in different discussions?)