My youngest (4) has some speech issues. She has been making improvements and Alexa has been making improvements. She can now trigger the Amazon devices on demand which has made her happy. I change the trigger word for her lamp each week to one of the words she is working in her school program for her speech. My two kids call their cousins, my parents, and even my grandparents and that makes the extended family very happy. We get a ton of use out of the devices even with the privacy and data issues.
Accounting does NOT have an equivalent of attorney-client privilege. So yes, I would expect that PW would hand over everything with a proper documentation and then challenge it after the fact.
Excel is a powerful tool. It is not the right tool for all the things people try to use it for though. Small one-off projects turn into a decade old report that becomes critical to some groups. How I design an Excel file for a one-off versus something to be used long term are very different. The later requires a lot of thought on to ease of updating and keeping it current.
I am a CPA working in private industry (Fortune 500 company). Excel truly runs the world in most places. Our back end system is awful. We actually have three different systems that we have that really are designed to let us get data without having to use the back end system. All three of those make pulling data out of the back end system and into Excel fast and easy. I've always found it pitiful, but it was the same in the late 90's at other places I worked. It would be great if the native system or the things we connect to it could manipulate data the way you can in Excel. It cannot and therefor Excel will be around for a long time to come. The systems will get better but probably never to the point of fully eliminating Excel. I can simply do things in Excel easily and quickly for things that can't take hours/days/weeks/etc of trying to get some system report writer to work on.
Organically organize workers across 30 operating divisions in under 2 days without any planning, foreknowledge that it was coming, and the strong possibility of being fired for making the attempt? The concept is easy and no one is missing it. The balance of power is still screwed and unworkable.
I remember about a month after the case was decided that allowed it we were brought forms and told that if they weren't signed that week would be your last (2 days or so notice). Unlike many here, I do not work in tech. The balance of power between employee and employer is too far out of sync for any true meeting of the minds. It is a ton easier for the employer to make a change than the employee.
We also used to get our own food without grocery stores too. If you want to go be an Amish person then feel free. We used to get along without internet or phones too yet here we are. Using a device that compliments or makes my life easier is not something to feel bad about. I used to keep a written grocery list. It worked. Simply speaking a command to add it to a list is faster and easier than writing it down and I am unlikely to forget the list at home since my phone case also contains my wallet. I got along fine without it for years and could do without it. It is here and available though so no reason not to use it.
I have two young children (6 & 3). I love the simple timer setting that I can do anywhere from our first floor. We set timers to remind us on laundry flips/folds, play timers before chores/bed/etc (and other things). The girls love being able to "call" the grandparents and talk to them. They also play a variety of kids stations on Amazon and Pandora while they play/dance/etc. I absolutely love the shopping list feature. All the little things that where not worth stopping to add to an actual list are now added and remembered. I also set reminder alarms to remind me to bring things or of certain events (remember to bring personal laptop today so I can take it to non-work meeting). We also do all the silly things you'd expect as well, but timers, shopping list, and music are the big uses. Sure I could in theory hack/build something similar given time but time is at a premium at this stage in life. I'm sure the tracking/data mining sucks but with what Amazon/Google already has on me, this is a minor addition.
There are a ton of taxable services in Texas. I've had to pay tax on my WoW subscription for years. I deal with sales tax at work and there are tons of things I render to the state that vendors don't charge but it is still taxable. Texas is a ton more talk about small government and low taxes than they are at actually doing that.
In Texas I've been charged our normal sales tax on my Netflix subscription for ages (I'd say years but I don't recall exactly when it kicked in). It isn't any different from any other product or service.
If you are going to automate an entire factory then why would it matter where that factory is? If we are going to go down the fully automated track then the factories might as well get built locally.
FB messenger app on my brand new Nexus 5x destroyed my battery life during the day. Uninstalled it and I easily go all day. I rarely used the messenger app, but it still killed the battery. I simply do without the IM aspects until I'm at home.
I deal with sales tax in Texas for my work. What above lists is there. In addition, what districts an address is in shifts. What is in the county one month could be annexed into the city and have a tax rate change. What do you base location on? Zip code doesn't work since multiple jurisdictions/categories fall in the same zip. You can't go by city mailing address as even stuff in the county has a city listed. It is a pain to deal with and I'm only dealing with stuff in a 300 mile area (Waco to San New Braunfels) along the I-35 corridor. Stuff outside my immediate area of Austin is hugely time consuming. At least the tax rates don't seem to change more than annually.
I've enjoyed Google+ overall. I get a lot less noise in my feeds than on FB. FB is where I keep up with extended family. G+ is where I go to find interesting things. I've got several communities I've joined that are pretty active and lots of good stuff gets posted.
I miss iGoogle the most from that list. There are third party options that work (specifically I use igHome), but I liked iGoogle better.
I also miss the old version of Google Voice. At least it is still functional as part of Hangouts, but I like the simplicity of the Google Voice layout more than with Hangouts.
I'm guessing someone at Dell wined and dined someone high up in the IT decision making chain. You know, the people that don't actually have to deal with the decisions they make.
We use the Venue at work for our field construction people (since they have 3G sim cards). They are complete crap. At my local division we had a 22% fail rate during the initial rollout. Of the replacements we received two of those had to go back as well. The cases that are supposed to protect these can't be used along with the stand alone keyboard. Dell also had to send a full set of replacement keyboards since half the ones we received were broken out of the box. The driver for the 3G stuff was equally problematic. We finally got everything up and working after several weeks of back and forth. Operationally they are ok; not great, but ok.
We have a system running Win98 at the office. It is not on the network. The only thing it does is controls the door system. To get the updated software supported by a more current OS would cost $5k. It just isn't worth the headache right now. I did talk them into running on a current machine and we just use a virtual Win98 environment to do the software bits. Overall it is still pointless since the machine isn't on any network. Eventually we'll upgrade the whole door lock system but until then that virtual Win98 environment will get the job done.
As long as dial-up, expensive satellite with limited data transfers, and shit DSL connections count as "competition" they won't have basis for "abuse of market power" in any investigation. Comcast specifically called out Google Fiber as proof of competition. What percentage of people in Kansas City could actually hook up to Google Fiber if they wanted to? I'm in Austin area and have no prayer of seeing Google Fiber in the next 5-7 years. So is Google Fiber really "competition" to Comcast?
The simple answer is to allow traffic shaping but be source neutral. If you throttle streaming video services then you throttle ALL streaming video services (including your own). I have no issues with VOIP traffic having a higher priority over torrent traffic or web browsing. I have issues when Netflix gets throttled but the ISP's on demand stuff is not or some video site pays the ISP for faster than another video streaming site. It is of no benefit to the consumer and creates additional barriers to entry to the market and other competition-limiting factors.
Good grief that thing looked hideous. Sidebar information should never take up that much screen real estate. Then again, maybe they think the discussion is the sidebar.....
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My youngest (4) has some speech issues. She has been making improvements and Alexa has been making improvements. She can now trigger the Amazon devices on demand which has made her happy. I change the trigger word for her lamp each week to one of the words she is working in her school program for her speech. My two kids call their cousins, my parents, and even my grandparents and that makes the extended family very happy. We get a ton of use out of the devices even with the privacy and data issues.
and yet we can't challenge the program since no one can seem to prove standing
I have the same issue with my Nexus 5X. It doesn't happen consistently and if you can't reliably duplicate it then it is hard to try and fix it.
Accounting does NOT have an equivalent of attorney-client privilege. So yes, I would expect that PW would hand over everything with a proper documentation and then challenge it after the fact.
I was not on the list but my mother was. Name, address, the works. She doesn't even know what NN is.
Excel is a powerful tool. It is not the right tool for all the things people try to use it for though. Small one-off projects turn into a decade old report that becomes critical to some groups. How I design an Excel file for a one-off versus something to be used long term are very different. The later requires a lot of thought on to ease of updating and keeping it current. I am a CPA working in private industry (Fortune 500 company). Excel truly runs the world in most places. Our back end system is awful. We actually have three different systems that we have that really are designed to let us get data without having to use the back end system. All three of those make pulling data out of the back end system and into Excel fast and easy. I've always found it pitiful, but it was the same in the late 90's at other places I worked. It would be great if the native system or the things we connect to it could manipulate data the way you can in Excel. It cannot and therefor Excel will be around for a long time to come. The systems will get better but probably never to the point of fully eliminating Excel. I can simply do things in Excel easily and quickly for things that can't take hours/days/weeks/etc of trying to get some system report writer to work on.
Organically organize workers across 30 operating divisions in under 2 days without any planning, foreknowledge that it was coming, and the strong possibility of being fired for making the attempt? The concept is easy and no one is missing it. The balance of power is still screwed and unworkable.
I remember about a month after the case was decided that allowed it we were brought forms and told that if they weren't signed that week would be your last (2 days or so notice). Unlike many here, I do not work in tech. The balance of power between employee and employer is too far out of sync for any true meeting of the minds. It is a ton easier for the employer to make a change than the employee.
We also used to get our own food without grocery stores too. If you want to go be an Amish person then feel free. We used to get along without internet or phones too yet here we are. Using a device that compliments or makes my life easier is not something to feel bad about. I used to keep a written grocery list. It worked. Simply speaking a command to add it to a list is faster and easier than writing it down and I am unlikely to forget the list at home since my phone case also contains my wallet. I got along fine without it for years and could do without it. It is here and available though so no reason not to use it.
I have two young children (6 & 3). I love the simple timer setting that I can do anywhere from our first floor. We set timers to remind us on laundry flips/folds, play timers before chores/bed/etc (and other things). The girls love being able to "call" the grandparents and talk to them. They also play a variety of kids stations on Amazon and Pandora while they play/dance/etc. I absolutely love the shopping list feature. All the little things that where not worth stopping to add to an actual list are now added and remembered. I also set reminder alarms to remind me to bring things or of certain events (remember to bring personal laptop today so I can take it to non-work meeting). We also do all the silly things you'd expect as well, but timers, shopping list, and music are the big uses. Sure I could in theory hack/build something similar given time but time is at a premium at this stage in life. I'm sure the tracking/data mining sucks but with what Amazon/Google already has on me, this is a minor addition.
There are a ton of taxable services in Texas. I've had to pay tax on my WoW subscription for years. I deal with sales tax at work and there are tons of things I render to the state that vendors don't charge but it is still taxable. Texas is a ton more talk about small government and low taxes than they are at actually doing that.
In Texas I've been charged our normal sales tax on my Netflix subscription for ages (I'd say years but I don't recall exactly when it kicked in). It isn't any different from any other product or service.
If you are going to automate an entire factory then why would it matter where that factory is? If we are going to go down the fully automated track then the factories might as well get built locally.
FB messenger app on my brand new Nexus 5x destroyed my battery life during the day. Uninstalled it and I easily go all day. I rarely used the messenger app, but it still killed the battery. I simply do without the IM aspects until I'm at home.
I deal with sales tax in Texas for my work. What above lists is there. In addition, what districts an address is in shifts. What is in the county one month could be annexed into the city and have a tax rate change. What do you base location on? Zip code doesn't work since multiple jurisdictions/categories fall in the same zip. You can't go by city mailing address as even stuff in the county has a city listed. It is a pain to deal with and I'm only dealing with stuff in a 300 mile area (Waco to San New Braunfels) along the I-35 corridor. Stuff outside my immediate area of Austin is hugely time consuming. At least the tax rates don't seem to change more than annually.
I've enjoyed Google+ overall. I get a lot less noise in my feeds than on FB. FB is where I keep up with extended family. G+ is where I go to find interesting things. I've got several communities I've joined that are pretty active and lots of good stuff gets posted.
Ditto for me. The fact that shaving cream and security are even in the same sentence is a testament to how pitiful we have become as a country.
I miss iGoogle the most from that list. There are third party options that work (specifically I use igHome), but I liked iGoogle better.
I also miss the old version of Google Voice. At least it is still functional as part of Hangouts, but I like the simplicity of the Google Voice layout more than with Hangouts.
I'm guessing someone at Dell wined and dined someone high up in the IT decision making chain. You know, the people that don't actually have to deal with the decisions they make.
We use the Venue at work for our field construction people (since they have 3G sim cards). They are complete crap. At my local division we had a 22% fail rate during the initial rollout. Of the replacements we received two of those had to go back as well. The cases that are supposed to protect these can't be used along with the stand alone keyboard. Dell also had to send a full set of replacement keyboards since half the ones we received were broken out of the box. The driver for the 3G stuff was equally problematic. We finally got everything up and working after several weeks of back and forth. Operationally they are ok; not great, but ok.
Note they didn't say they'd update their ToS removing their right to do it. Are we supposed to rely on their good will and pinky promise not to do so?
We have a system running Win98 at the office. It is not on the network. The only thing it does is controls the door system. To get the updated software supported by a more current OS would cost $5k. It just isn't worth the headache right now. I did talk them into running on a current machine and we just use a virtual Win98 environment to do the software bits. Overall it is still pointless since the machine isn't on any network. Eventually we'll upgrade the whole door lock system but until then that virtual Win98 environment will get the job done.
As long as dial-up, expensive satellite with limited data transfers, and shit DSL connections count as "competition" they won't have basis for "abuse of market power" in any investigation. Comcast specifically called out Google Fiber as proof of competition. What percentage of people in Kansas City could actually hook up to Google Fiber if they wanted to? I'm in Austin area and have no prayer of seeing Google Fiber in the next 5-7 years. So is Google Fiber really "competition" to Comcast?
The simple answer is to allow traffic shaping but be source neutral. If you throttle streaming video services then you throttle ALL streaming video services (including your own). I have no issues with VOIP traffic having a higher priority over torrent traffic or web browsing. I have issues when Netflix gets throttled but the ISP's on demand stuff is not or some video site pays the ISP for faster than another video streaming site. It is of no benefit to the consumer and creates additional barriers to entry to the market and other competition-limiting factors.
Good grief that thing looked hideous. Sidebar information should never take up that much screen real estate. Then again, maybe they think the discussion is the sidebar.....