Spreadsheets aren't tables. If only the people who insist on using a freakin' spreadsheet to write a document because they want to communicate some information that benefits from a tabular format would realize how much of a pain in the ass it is for their readers to read much less make contributions to it.
"The ribbon reduces the effort required to find the function you want."
Uh..... no it doesn't. Sure, it could be merely my experience but I've spent more time searching for things on the ribbon that used to be easily found in the multi-level menu. I'm not a full-time Office user, though. Maybe it's file processing nirvana for someone who uses it all day long but, as someone who only uses it when occasionally when required at work, I feel like I'm having to re-learn the darned user interface whenever I come back to it.
What is corrupt about not posting links to certain kinds of "news"?
Does anyone really go to Facebook as their source for news? If I wanted to raise a ruckus over this, I'd be asking FB why they're injecting news into their social media web site? I doubt that anyone beyond a tiny minority actually reads theses news links anyway. I recall being rather ticked off when they first started injecting them into the pages. Now I've pretty much trained my eyes to avoid looking at that side of the web page anyway.
Ever since the Reagan administration stopped enforcing it the idea of equal time for opposing viewpoints has been a joke. Watch the Sunday morning talking head shows; it's one Republican ideologue after another. The only alternative is a whole panel full of right-wing nut jobs shouting down the lone centrist or liberal panelist. Read the OpEd page of pretty much every newspaper in the U.S. It's the same diet of right-wing talking points. Now that the Republicans find themselves on the other side of that situation, it becomes something that requires Congressional hearings. Facebook needs to loudly and publicly remind them of this thing called the First Amendment and tell them to get stuffed.
``In April, the Windows 10 upgrade screen interrupted a meteorologist's live forecast.''
I hope the person in charge of the seven-second delay/bleep was on the ball. If I'd been that meteorologist, I'm certain there'd have been something to bleep.
... by pointing to research showing that 50 percent of 18 to 49-year-olds turn to mobile as their first option for consuming video -- and keep in mind a ton of that is music.''
Real smart. Turn the mobile music listening experience into what broadcast radio has become today: the majority of the air time is now advertisements... with a little music thrown in to keep most people from becoming so annoyed that they turn it off. Pass.
In a hospital. And I've been in a couple of other hospitals where management thought these were a good idea. So now you'll know how germs spread so fast and are so difficult to eradicate in some healthcare facilities.
Will it have "BRME" (BRanch if Maybe Equal), "MOVMO" (MOVe Most Of), "ADDFS" (ADD Forgetting Sign), or other interesting instructions?
Personally, I've always wished there was an "if almost equal" statement available instead if having to code "if ( abs(actual - desired) eh_close_enough )" but to have the hardware do something like for me? Sweet!
Someone else already commented on the number of the "unemployed" being artificially lower due to the number of unemployed no longer being eligible for unemployment compensation. Another reason just could be a large number of Boomers who just decided to retire rather than face the uncertainty of ever finding another job due to ageism, ludicrous skill set "requirements", etc. I have several good friends who loved their work and wanted to keep working but, after being laid off and looking for work for a year or more, just threw up their hands and declared "Screw this... I'll just retire".
... Diane Feinstein was one of the Senators sponsoring this bill. I hope the pro-privacy groups are taking note of this and will be reminding the voters when she's up for re-election just how much she thinks of her constituents' privacy.
I was a contractor at Abbott back in the early '90s and they were heavily staffed by contractors even back then. Abbott does this (I suspected) to easily shed staff to save a buck in a hurry when something occurs that impacted the company financially. It was initially quite surprising the first time I noticed that a whole room-full of contractors gone one day. They were there in the morning busily working when I went to lunch and gone when I came back; all because (it was rumored) of an FDA fine the company had been slapped with. I've watched company with some interest for years as they're one of, if not the, employers in the county I live in.
One thing that I've been seeing a lot in recent years is the same IT job adverts for positions at Abbott showing up every few months and keep showing in cycles, generally every 6-months. (And by "same" I mean identical wording not just some generic sysadmin or developer spot.) I've always attributed it to either a.) awful management that is unable to hire properly and is constantly bringing incompetent people -- but in the salary or hourly rate range that Aboott is willing to pay -- into the IT organization who are let go after 6 months ("We're not extending your contract."), or b.) awful management driving away good people by making the place a hellhole to work in and people bail as soon as they find something better ("Good God, get me the helloutta here!"). Once word gets around, maybe they turned to Wipro as the only place they're able to find anyone willing to work there.
Saying "no" just lands you in jail for contempt of court. Sending an 11 page document in Flyspeck 3 typeface allows you to comply with the court order with a smirk on your face while saying "here's your effin' keys" and remain a free man.
Part of that just could be that the Chinese govt. has been doing everything they can to get other countiries to move all their jobs into China. Their monetary manipulation makes China's economy look like an desirable place to invest. Don't like those pesky environmental regulations? Hey we've got none of those. They've been allowing their manufacturing sector to pollute the country to the point that some areas should be considered toxic waste disposal sites. But it's all good: Chinese workers are employed. They're not paid enough to really make a decent living so they're often forced to live in company-owned dormitories and the factories have to have nets installed to prevent workers from hurling themselves from the roofs but, hey, they're employed and that's all that counts. Corporations aren't allowed to get away with that in most other countries -- not for long, anyway.
Corporations used to have to serve the public good as part of their having been granted their charter -- it wasn't just about shareholder profits ($DIETY, even Chainsaw Al eventually came around to view that idea as crazy and if you've lost Al...). Maybe it's time that requirement was brought back. Nowadays, whenever the goin' gets tough for a corporation, they just pull up stakes, and move to someplace that'll promise them the moon -- or at least no taxes for N years. Then when the goin' gets tough again -- usually in N-1 years -- they start complaining about the hostile business environment and threaten to shut down and move (to take advantage of the next bunch of suckers). Modern international corporations do this on a country level.
... that hasn't figured out that people without a job don't buy things beyond the essentials. Nor do people who are paid so little that they have to sign up for food stamps and other welfare programs. Neither group has much in the way disposable income to be buying fast food. Not even the stuff Puzder dreams of selling from automated kiosks.
Batteries not required. These are a solution in search of a problem. Maybe Nike ought to try and help figure out why so many runners get injured when wearing modern running shoes instead of wasting R&D money automating something that the vast, vast majority of people master before kindergarden.
``The larger and more resources a web page contains, the better the algorithm's efficiency gets -- which should be useful on today's JavaScript-heavy sites.''
Browsers don't have enough trouble properly dealing with all the JavaScript that web sites shove down out Internet connection now. How nice that you've found a way for web sites lard up their pages with even more of the stuff.
"I think cell-tower positioning would generally be good enough. If you have thousands of users then the positioning errors will tend to cancel each other out. You probably don't need to update the position very often either, since most people spend most of their time not moving very fast or very far."
Seems like the place to put the accelerometer is on the cell tower. Power wouldn't be a problem on the tower. Plus, wouldn't putting it in my cellphone generate a slew of false alarms whenever I jog up the stairs to my office, run across the street, or any number of everyday activities that would cause my cellphone to get jostled?
You can't play in our garden if you allow some Archibald Tuttle-like character mess around with the inside of our products. Even if he does fix for less what we will fix for much more.
I am so sick and tired of this "no user serviceable parts inside" attitude of companies nowadays. Especially when they take it to the "no technically-capable person serviceable parts inside" level and deliberately break something which, once you've paid for it, is not theirs to be breaking.
I am a little concerned about the takeover of Radionomy. That's my main source of music on the intertubes and I'm hoping Vivendi doesn't decide that changes need to be made and eff that up.
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Spreadsheets aren't tables. If only the people who insist on using a freakin' spreadsheet to write a document because they want to communicate some information that benefits from a tabular format would realize how much of a pain in the ass it is for their readers to read much less make contributions to it.
Uh..... no it doesn't. Sure, it could be merely my experience but I've spent more time searching for things on the ribbon that used to be easily found in the multi-level menu. I'm not a full-time Office user, though. Maybe it's file processing nirvana for someone who uses it all day long but, as someone who only uses it when occasionally when required at work, I feel like I'm having to re-learn the darned user interface whenever I come back to it.
What is corrupt about not posting links to certain kinds of "news"?
Does anyone really go to Facebook as their source for news? If I wanted to raise a ruckus over this, I'd be asking FB why they're injecting news into their social media web site? I doubt that anyone beyond a tiny minority actually reads theses news links anyway. I recall being rather ticked off when they first started injecting them into the pages. Now I've pretty much trained my eyes to avoid looking at that side of the web page anyway.
... The Fairness Doctrine.
Ever since the Reagan administration stopped enforcing it the idea of equal time for opposing viewpoints has been a joke. Watch the Sunday morning talking head shows; it's one Republican ideologue after another. The only alternative is a whole panel full of right-wing nut jobs shouting down the lone centrist or liberal panelist. Read the OpEd page of pretty much every newspaper in the U.S. It's the same diet of right-wing talking points. Now that the Republicans find themselves on the other side of that situation, it becomes something that requires Congressional hearings. Facebook needs to loudly and publicly remind them of this thing called the First Amendment and tell them to get stuffed.
I hope the person in charge of the seven-second delay/bleep was on the ball. If I'd been that meteorologist, I'm certain there'd have been something to bleep.
Neat. If only I'd wait a little bit longer to register.
Real smart. Turn the mobile music listening experience into what broadcast radio has become today: the majority of the air time is now advertisements... with a little music thrown in to keep most people from becoming so annoyed that they turn it off. Pass.
First place I encountered these?
In a hospital. And I've been in a couple of other hospitals where management thought these were a good idea. So now you'll know how germs spread so fast and are so difficult to eradicate in some healthcare facilities.
Will it have "BRME" (BRanch if Maybe Equal), "MOVMO" (MOVe Most Of), "ADDFS" (ADD Forgetting Sign), or other interesting instructions?
Personally, I've always wished there was an "if almost equal" statement available instead if having to code "if ( abs(actual - desired) eh_close_enough )" but to have the hardware do something like for me? Sweet!
Someone else already commented on the number of the "unemployed" being artificially lower due to the number of unemployed no longer being eligible for unemployment compensation. Another reason just could be a large number of Boomers who just decided to retire rather than face the uncertainty of ever finding another job due to ageism, ludicrous skill set "requirements", etc. I have several good friends who loved their work and wanted to keep working but, after being laid off and looking for work for a year or more, just threw up their hands and declared "Screw this... I'll just retire".
... Diane Feinstein was one of the Senators sponsoring this bill. I hope the pro-privacy groups are taking note of this and will be reminding the voters when she's up for re-election just how much she thinks of her constituents' privacy.
I was a contractor at Abbott back in the early '90s and they were heavily staffed by contractors even back then. Abbott does this (I suspected) to easily shed staff to save a buck in a hurry when something occurs that impacted the company financially. It was initially quite surprising the first time I noticed that a whole room-full of contractors gone one day. They were there in the morning busily working when I went to lunch and gone when I came back; all because (it was rumored) of an FDA fine the company had been slapped with. I've watched company with some interest for years as they're one of, if not the, employers in the county I live in.
One thing that I've been seeing a lot in recent years is the same IT job adverts for positions at Abbott showing up every few months and keep showing in cycles, generally every 6-months. (And by "same" I mean identical wording not just some generic sysadmin or developer spot.) I've always attributed it to either a.) awful management that is unable to hire properly and is constantly bringing incompetent people -- but in the salary or hourly rate range that Aboott is willing to pay -- into the IT organization who are let go after 6 months ("We're not extending your contract."), or b.) awful management driving away good people by making the place a hellhole to work in and people bail as soon as they find something better ("Good God, get me the helloutta here!"). Once word gets around, maybe they turned to Wipro as the only place they're able to find anyone willing to work there.
Saying "no" just lands you in jail for contempt of court. Sending an 11 page document in Flyspeck 3 typeface allows you to comply with the court order with a smirk on your face while saying "here's your effin' keys" and remain a free man.
Part of that just could be that the Chinese govt. has been doing everything they can to get other countiries to move all their jobs into China. Their monetary manipulation makes China's economy look like an desirable place to invest. Don't like those pesky environmental regulations? Hey we've got none of those. They've been allowing their manufacturing sector to pollute the country to the point that some areas should be considered toxic waste disposal sites. But it's all good: Chinese workers are employed. They're not paid enough to really make a decent living so they're often forced to live in company-owned dormitories and the factories have to have nets installed to prevent workers from hurling themselves from the roofs but, hey, they're employed and that's all that counts. Corporations aren't allowed to get away with that in most other countries -- not for long, anyway.
Corporations used to have to serve the public good as part of their having been granted their charter -- it wasn't just about shareholder profits ($DIETY, even Chainsaw Al eventually came around to view that idea as crazy and if you've lost Al...). Maybe it's time that requirement was brought back. Nowadays, whenever the goin' gets tough for a corporation, they just pull up stakes, and move to someplace that'll promise them the moon -- or at least no taxes for N years. Then when the goin' gets tough again -- usually in N-1 years -- they start complaining about the hostile business environment and threaten to shut down and move (to take advantage of the next bunch of suckers). Modern international corporations do this on a country level.
... that hasn't figured out that people without a job don't buy things beyond the essentials. Nor do people who are paid so little that they have to sign up for food stamps and other welfare programs. Neither group has much in the way disposable income to be buying fast food. Not even the stuff Puzder dreams of selling from automated kiosks.
... back in the very early '70s.
Batteries not required. These are a solution in search of a problem. Maybe Nike ought to try and help figure out why so many runners get injured when wearing modern running shoes instead of wasting R&D money automating something that the vast, vast majority of people master before kindergarden.
Bosses of the world: Please prepare for the "Sorry I'm late. GM decided to roll out critical updates during my commute."
Browsers don't have enough trouble properly dealing with all the JavaScript that web sites shove down out Internet connection now. How nice that you've found a way for web sites lard up their pages with even more of the stuff.
Seems like the place to put the accelerometer is on the cell tower. Power wouldn't be a problem on the tower. Plus, wouldn't putting it in my cellphone generate a slew of false alarms whenever I jog up the stairs to my office, run across the street, or any number of everyday activities that would cause my cellphone to get jostled?
... Comey was trying to convince everyone that he wasn't obsessing over encryption and not being able to read everyone's private information?
It's a photo of the world's smallest violin playing a plaintive melody to go along with your constant whining about having to follow the law:
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You can't play in our garden if you allow some Archibald Tuttle-like character mess around with the inside of our products. Even if he does fix for less what we will fix for much more.
I am so sick and tired of this "no user serviceable parts inside" attitude of companies nowadays. Especially when they take it to the "no technically-capable person serviceable parts inside" level and deliberately break something which, once you've paid for it, is not theirs to be breaking.
You mean it hiccuped more than once this week? Yikes!
...but sometimes those labor- and time-saving ideas turn around a bite ya.
I am a little concerned about the takeover of Radionomy. That's my main source of music on the intertubes and I'm hoping Vivendi doesn't decide that changes need to be made and eff that up.