Why would you turn it off if you're the one that turned it on in the first place specifically to use it? This is, after all, an opt-in experimental feature that you have to deliberately enable.
I may be feeding the troll here, but cold booting a computer can, for some machines, use more power than leaving it in a power-saving sleep mode that wakes up when you shake the mouse. So... in that case, leaving the computer on is going green:P
You mean you've never clicked send, only to realize a tenth of a second later that you forgot to attach that file you're supposed to send, the same file that's the entire purpose of the e-mail?
Microsoft may have made it easy with Office 2007. Tell people "You can spend $200 and five hours per person learning Office 2007, or you can spend just the time learning OpenOffice."
There is often another issue in smaller businesses. Even if the higher ups are ok with you fixing things, IT may not have a [large enough] budget with which to fix the problem.
In my current position, I'm the IT department. I literally have no budget. The three development teams each pay for new machines and software and whatnot out of their own budgets. I have to ask the secretary for new network switches and cables occasionally - I have no idea where she gets the money.
My job would be so much easier if I had an IT budget.
(I'd make an issue out of it with my boss - he likes me - but I'm quitting in the next few weeks to go work for someone else, so I don't care anymore.)
Agreed. What I did here was set up Linux on a spare machine and show that it worked as well as or better than Windows Server for simple file sharing, for source control, for an internal web server, etc etc, and mentioned some of the other benefits (improved security, etc).
Now we run four or five Linux servers for various tasks.
It is likely that had Bill Gates not sold BASIC to MITS in the beginning, he wouldn't have been able to succeed at the other stuff he did. Remember, he wrote the Altair's BASIC demonstration by hand on punch tape without being able to verify it - and it worked. (At least, that's what Pirates of Silicon Valley would have us believe.)
That is something that takes skill, and I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the role of his 10,000 hours in developing that skill.
Totally true. I work for a company that works directly with ESRI... both of us are quite dependent on Microsoft.
What's really sad is that our software went from "Unix-only" to "cross-platform" to "Windows-only with custom GUI code" to "Windows-only based on MFC" over the space of twenty years or so. I'm scared what the next step will be... At least we use OpenGL for data visualization instead of Direct3D.
I do the same thing - but even when I have to do it manually (if it doesn't work or I have no internet), I choose the automated phone system, and it's done in ~5 minutes.
Why he has to talk to someone in person, I have no idea. The only time I had to do that was when the automated phone system was offline.
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Interestingly (or maybe not), Google doesn't gzip their analytics javascript file...
This very type of analysis is what YSlow is for :)
Why would you turn it off if you're the one that turned it on in the first place specifically to use it? This is, after all, an opt-in experimental feature that you have to deliberately enable.
IMAP works just fine on Gmail - at least, it does if you're on 15Mbps fiber like I am ;)
Proofreading the recipient list would help with that ;)
I've made a special effort to not learn the hotkeys for 'send' and 'submit' in e-mail programs and forums. Saves a lot of trouble.
Happens to me all the time. Usually just after I've hit 'submit' on the preview.
For some reason I find myself entirely incapable of spotting typos in previews of my comments.
Are you sure it was cat poop?
I know of one particular three-year-old who decided to use the heating duct in the floor as a toilet (after taking off the vent cover)...
I may be feeding the troll here, but cold booting a computer can, for some machines, use more power than leaving it in a power-saving sleep mode that wakes up when you shake the mouse. So... in that case, leaving the computer on is going green :P
I like my solution better - I don't drink alcohol at all.
You mean you've never clicked send, only to realize a tenth of a second later that you forgot to attach that file you're supposed to send, the same file that's the entire purpose of the e-mail?
Lucky.
Even if the ISOs were the original form in which the software was provided to you by Microsoft? I doubt they'd win that argument.
Anyone with an MSDN subscription has a right to have those ISOs lying around.
If I may ask, why'd she try to get you fired? I start there myself in May, I'd like to know how to avoid getting on a VP's bad side ;)
Microsoft may have made it easy with Office 2007. Tell people "You can spend $200 and five hours per person learning Office 2007, or you can spend just the time learning OpenOffice."
Has anyone tried this, and was it successful?
There is often another issue in smaller businesses. Even if the higher ups are ok with you fixing things, IT may not have a [large enough] budget with which to fix the problem.
In my current position, I'm the IT department. I literally have no budget. The three development teams each pay for new machines and software and whatnot out of their own budgets. I have to ask the secretary for new network switches and cables occasionally - I have no idea where she gets the money.
My job would be so much easier if I had an IT budget.
(I'd make an issue out of it with my boss - he likes me - but I'm quitting in the next few weeks to go work for someone else, so I don't care anymore.)
Agreed. What I did here was set up Linux on a spare machine and show that it worked as well as or better than Windows Server for simple file sharing, for source control, for an internal web server, etc etc, and mentioned some of the other benefits (improved security, etc).
Now we run four or five Linux servers for various tasks.
But in that case the install is legal (since it's OEM) and there's no reason to change the key to the volume key.
Moving it to a virtual server, though, is another issue entirely.
Well that's true regardless of whether television programming is on-demand or not... so it sort of misses my point :P
I still say the same thing about Best Buy. What was your point again? ;P
You think making television programming completely on-demand rather than programmed on a schedule will make kids spend more time outdoors?
Obviously, you've never seen a kid who just got satellite. Or one who just found out about Youtube.
If you're concerned about it, insist on striking the clause from the contract. If the doctor says no, go somewhere else.
That's how I read it, too. If that is in fact the proper interpretation, I've written code from scratch half a dozen times that violates this patent.
It is likely that had Bill Gates not sold BASIC to MITS in the beginning, he wouldn't have been able to succeed at the other stuff he did. Remember, he wrote the Altair's BASIC demonstration by hand on punch tape without being able to verify it - and it worked. (At least, that's what Pirates of Silicon Valley would have us believe.)
That is something that takes skill, and I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the role of his 10,000 hours in developing that skill.
Totally true. I work for a company that works directly with ESRI... both of us are quite dependent on Microsoft.
What's really sad is that our software went from "Unix-only" to "cross-platform" to "Windows-only with custom GUI code" to "Windows-only based on MFC" over the space of twenty years or so. I'm scared what the next step will be... At least we use OpenGL for data visualization instead of Direct3D.
I do the same thing - but even when I have to do it manually (if it doesn't work or I have no internet), I choose the automated phone system, and it's done in ~5 minutes.
Why he has to talk to someone in person, I have no idea. The only time I had to do that was when the automated phone system was offline.