For example, say I e-mail you with something important (to me). You decide, "I'll do that in two days" and I can't complete my project now because you decided to wait. That's not good. You can be sure I'll be showing up at your office/cubical/etc. Relatively unimportant items can be e-mailed, though. I agree with that.
That really comes down to poor teamwork, it is your responsibility to say "look I need this done by X time, so that it can be incorporated with Project X which is due." I'm sure you get the picture. But if you have done that and I delay your work then of course I would expect you to come and see me about it.
Email works well, but people still need to communicate correctly and I think thats where the problem exists. Communication is also about understanding the other person not just getting them to understand you, so if someone is not treating your email and your deadline appropriately after you have already told them, then they are not doing their job correctly.
Additionally, e-mailing someone does not count as contacting them. Until you hear their voice on the phone or see them face to face, you have not made contact with that person./rant//e-mail is pretty useless in many situations///give me the pony express
So stopping someone in the middle of something is the way to get work done?
I find nothing ruder than when someone interrupts me in the middle of a project by simply walking in, I then have to spend the next 10mins trying to get rid of them. Email exists for a reason, if Im busy then I'm not going to be able to do anything about it, so people should just learn to send an email and ill get around to it when I can.
There is nothing worse than when your trying to do work and someone keeps bugging you.
Email is IMHO the one of the worst way of getting things done. Some people use email as a way of escaping work, they will go to great lengths to make them selves unavailable by any other means than e-mail, never answere their phone, and lose no opportunity to point out that the only proper way to contact them is via e-mail and they can get really annoyed when you actually have the gall show up in person to re-iterate your request.
What is wrong with this guy when he sees email, the most easily ignored form of communication of those he listed, as more rude and invasive than tracking someone's travel?
Really?
After a phone call Im much more likely to be reached via email than any other method, unless I don't have my laptop in front of me in which case SMS moves from 3rd place upto second.
The only good way to reach me besides phone is by email, but I have always refused to take email on a handheld device so sometimes it takes a little longer than a phone call to respond.
but imagine all of the gasoline companies with half-decent quality gasoline, all making a cartel through which they collude to set prices at their whim? Price collusion is one of those practices which IS highly illegal when the consumer is offered little other choice.
It's not really bad press, if people run up a huge bill they are responsible for paying it, we have pre-paid here in Australia and you have to sign a contract to be on a billing system. Everything is written in front of the people signing the contract.
The phone companies should just say "look this deadbeat did not pay his bill" if the press get involved. People just don't read before they sign things.
I had to call my provider to have international roaming turned on, they do it so idiots don't run up huge bills then fail to pay and leave the carrier owing money to their roaming partners.
Here in Australia you have to go overseas to use international roaming so its not as important, but in Europe or the United States people should be allot more careful.
$2 for a TV show? I'd pay that if the quality is as good as you'd be able to download from TPB (ie. hidef - ~1GB for 45 minutes of video).
However, like most of these useful ideas, I can't get it in the UK. I can see no mention of this service on Amazon.co.uk. and the.com site blocks access outside of the 48 contiguous states.
Ah well, free wins!
I can't access it either, and setting up a United States endpoint just to watch TV seems silly.
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I remember when it used to take several minutes for an email to arrive in an inbox on the other side of the world.
Just respond when lotus tells you about the email.
It's not your fault the system is "Slow".
For example, say I e-mail you with something important (to me). You decide, "I'll do that in two days" and I can't complete my project now because you decided to wait. That's not good. You can be sure I'll be showing up at your office/cubical/etc. Relatively unimportant items can be e-mailed, though. I agree with that.
That really comes down to poor teamwork, it is your responsibility to say "look I need this done by X time, so that it can be incorporated with Project X which is due." I'm sure you get the picture. But if you have done that and I delay your work then of course I would expect you to come and see me about it.
Email works well, but people still need to communicate correctly and I think thats where the problem exists. Communication is also about understanding the other person not just getting them to understand you, so if someone is not treating your email and your deadline appropriately after you have already told them, then they are not doing their job correctly.
But then everyone will make phone calls for every little thing.
Additionally, e-mailing someone does not count as contacting them. Until you hear their voice on the phone or see them face to face, you have not made contact with that person. /rant //e-mail is pretty useless in many situations ///give me the pony express
So stopping someone in the middle of something is the way to get work done?
I find nothing ruder than when someone interrupts me in the middle of a project by simply walking in, I then have to spend the next 10mins trying to get rid of them. Email exists for a reason, if Im busy then I'm not going to be able to do anything about it, so people should just learn to send an email and ill get around to it when I can.
There is nothing worse than when your trying to do work and someone keeps bugging you.
Email is IMHO the one of the worst way of getting things done. Some people use email as a way of escaping work, they will go to great lengths to make them selves unavailable by any other means than e-mail, never answere their phone, and lose no opportunity to point out that the only proper way to contact them is via e-mail and they can get really annoyed when you actually have the gall show up in person to re-iterate your request.
You just described me, in that work environment.
What is wrong with this guy when he sees email, the most easily ignored form of communication of those he listed, as more rude and invasive than tracking someone's travel?
Really?
After a phone call Im much more likely to be reached via email than any other method, unless I don't have my laptop in front of me in which case SMS moves from 3rd place upto second.
The only good way to reach me besides phone is by email, but I have always refused to take email on a handheld device so sometimes it takes a little longer than a phone call to respond.
but imagine all of the gasoline companies with half-decent quality gasoline, all making a cartel through which they collude to set prices at their whim? Price collusion is one of those practices which IS highly illegal when the consumer is offered little other choice.
It's only illegal IF you can be punished for it.
depends on your definition.
I assume you mean more than a single server, then no. I do keep server logs but can't recall the last time I ever looked at them.
The same way /. Anonymizes email addresses.
216.34.REVOME.THIS.181.45
7 days is good enough, why keep logs anyway? it just opens the system to exploitation.
I wish a building full of journalists would just collapse.
They should be clever enough to understand that the criticism is against the DRM, not the game itself.
They where not clever enough to realise that people expect to get the product they pay for!
Why should a pay and only get to install the product 3 times, when I can download it and get unlimited installs?
Yet another case where piracy is just better.
Who the hell reads snail mail these days?
Plus these people are COMPLETELY WRONG! After you burn the 3 installs you have to contact EA.
What happens when EA is not around?
Xenu brought us to Earth you arrogant fool!
Then dropped atomic bombs on us.
You have a shitty provider.
not if your on Comcast
It's not really bad press, if people run up a huge bill they are responsible for paying it, we have pre-paid here in Australia and you have to sign a contract to be on a billing system. Everything is written in front of the people signing the contract.
The phone companies should just say "look this deadbeat did not pay his bill" if the press get involved. People just don't read before they sign things.
Correct,
that's where Ninjas, trained in the art of Google-Fu jump in.
What happens if it sinks?
Thats one expensive chunk of ice.
I had to call my provider to have international roaming turned on, they do it so idiots don't run up huge bills then fail to pay and leave the carrier owing money to their roaming partners.
Here in Australia you have to go overseas to use international roaming so its not as important, but in Europe or the United States people should be allot more careful.
It is normally allot cheaper than prepaid.
$2 for a TV show? I'd pay that if the quality is as good as you'd be able to download from TPB (ie. hidef - ~1GB for 45 minutes of video).
However, like most of these useful ideas, I can't get it in the UK. I can see no mention of this service on Amazon.co.uk. and the .com site blocks access outside of the 48 contiguous states.
Ah well, free wins!
I can't access it either, and setting up a United States endpoint just to watch TV seems silly.
Looks like ThePirateBay wins again.
there are a few things they do right.
Same security isn't one of them.