You can turn it off. The OS does not automatically run stuff on a usb drive unless you weren't paranoid enough to ramp up the security. If I saw one on the street, I'd say "woah, free usb drive!" and then reformat it. Maybe I'd stick it on Linux first or a vmware image though. But I wouldn't treat it like it was Kryptonite infused ebola.
A full year also means they company has a full year to realize that they can do very well even when you're not showing up for work and set yourself up to be redundant.
Of course there are also those times when you're made to work on the weekend because you're the one everyone knows has no social life. Everyone else says "I have to coach my kid's team this weekend" and the boss says "you're excused"; you say "I've got a LARP planning sessions" and you're told "that's not a real thing, I'll see you at 8am on saturday."
They should already be happy that single people are saving them boatloads on health insurance costs compared to families, so they should be happy to grant some extra time off in exchange.
So when the parents come back after 20 weeks they will also have 20 weeks of unread email to sort through, spend 20 weeks fixing everything that's gone wrong on their projects, then get yelled at for being late on their commitments.
I had a free-for-life email account which I used to forward mail to my current ISP. That lasted about a year then it became a yearly subscription. This change happened before the company failed or was bought out. It was a small subscription though, $24/year so I kept it to avoid changing my email every time I got a new ISP or having to get a really dumb email name like darinbob3312@cheapassnet.net. So it's worth it I guess, but I was really annoyed when the change happened. They probably knew their customers would find it more frustrating to leave than to stay. (I was in the minority though, most of the customers used it was web mail instead of just forwarding email)
After the US revolution we had a significant number of of citizens who did not really agree to the aims of the revolution, possibly a majority. There was intimidation to keep people in line during the revolution though (tar and feathering was not just a humorous joke). We were just a pawn in a global power struggle. And the US was very weak and pitiful for a very long time, only turning strong after WW1, and then into a strong dominating bully after WW2. So we're not that different from Canada except for the bullying part.
Well of course you first have to pull and stretch your religious beliefs. There are no major religions and disallow the exchanging of goods for money with certain people. Many religions will state that a certain thing is a sin, disallowed, an abomination, etc, but they do not forbid you from giving them a cupcake in exchange for a dollar. The bill is not a religious liberties law but instead a political protest. They were probably all perfectly happy selling cupcakes to gays until gay marriage was made legal and then suddenly they decide it's against their beliefs, and now there's going to be a questionnaire to be filled out first before you're allowed to do business.
So as long as the money keeps flowing you just hold your nose and go with it? At what point during the haggling do you determine that the corporation is a whore or not?
Satellite broadband providers are competing with the big boys. The best way to compete in an entrenched market is to do something different. Since the big boys are all evil, the best competition strategy is to not be evil. Thus, satellite broadband providers will be more likely to tell the truth.
AT&T for instance won't tell you details easily, first you have to log in, provide your contact details, and so forth. This is only partly because they may want to know if you can actually get the service. More important this lets them shove in more ads and upsell you, and because it allows them to hide information they don't want you to know (new customers are shown the lower prices they don't want existing customers to know of). They are also good at hiding in the fine print the fact that your good deal is only for the first year; but almost no company ever wants you to know the price you pay after the first year is up, almost no company wants you to know when the price has gone down, etc.
How can the browser refuse to run it if you haven't updated the browser? Having automatic updates is not a solution because automatic updates of extensions was what created the problem in the first place.
Can you give an example of an approved ad that has gotten past ad block? I've never seen this, so maybe I'm not visiting the right sites to ever see them.
Well, having your add-ons automatically update themselves without user interaction seems to be a big part of the problem. If only those who updated found the problem they could save headaches for the rest of the world that don't update immediately like robots. Sort of the problem with Windows 10 here where a bad update can brick everyone in unison. Choice is always a good option, including the choice to not update.
But this is generally cheaper grunt labor. Low level workers to do simple tech jobs. The problem is that we're graduating a lot of people who mostly only know how to do the simpler tech jobs. We're migrating away from being a country that's a technology leader (which is not the same as being a "tech" leader), and trying to rebrand us as a services country. So sure, if the corporate help desk is being outsourced that's one thing, but when they outsource the high end design then something's screwed up. Maybe contracting is a good career choice because that's often where the outsourcing goes if they want to keep it local.
It should not matter if the employee is adaptable. Schools aren't teaching that anymore though. Corporations have been putting pressure on schools to graduate entry-level ready candidates instead of wasting the corporations time with graduates who know theory and a broad cross section of knowledge and skills.
Lots of things out there screwing up software. New college graduates just don't have the necessary software skills, they're being trained for entry level jobs without the theoretical basis to get beyond that. It's not all software anyway, you can't do software without the hardware. And you can't do hardware without the lower level software either. But there's a mob of programmers who never think beyond the "app" and think that the hardware and lower level software are not things for mere mortals to comprehend. Even in embedded systems I run across people who don't seem to understand systems, either software people who don't understand hardware, or EE people who don't understand software.
Many are spoiled by the PC. Fast computer, abundant memory, a super computer on the desk, no one ever bothers with efficiency on that platform anymore. Then they get a job on a platform where efficiency matters and they're out of their depth. Their quick and dirty mockup is fast enough so ship it anyway, if customers complain about memory usage then just wait a year and they'll get new computers. It does change a bit on smartphone because that's slow enough that they at least have to worry about multitasking and synchronization (or change jobs until you get one where you're working with a foundation library to hide all the complex details), if their app is more than just an XML wrapper around some URLs.
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You can turn it off. The OS does not automatically run stuff on a usb drive unless you weren't paranoid enough to ramp up the security. If I saw one on the street, I'd say "woah, free usb drive!" and then reformat it. Maybe I'd stick it on Linux first or a vmware image though. But I wouldn't treat it like it was Kryptonite infused ebola.
A full year also means they company has a full year to realize that they can do very well even when you're not showing up for work and set yourself up to be redundant.
Of course there are also those times when you're made to work on the weekend because you're the one everyone knows has no social life. Everyone else says "I have to coach my kid's team this weekend" and the boss says "you're excused"; you say "I've got a LARP planning sessions" and you're told "that's not a real thing, I'll see you at 8am on saturday."
They should already be happy that single people are saving them boatloads on health insurance costs compared to families, so they should be happy to grant some extra time off in exchange.
So when the parents come back after 20 weeks they will also have 20 weeks of unread email to sort through, spend 20 weeks fixing everything that's gone wrong on their projects, then get yelled at for being late on their commitments.
I had a free-for-life email account which I used to forward mail to my current ISP. That lasted about a year then it became a yearly subscription. This change happened before the company failed or was bought out. It was a small subscription though, $24/year so I kept it to avoid changing my email every time I got a new ISP or having to get a really dumb email name like darinbob3312@cheapassnet.net. So it's worth it I guess, but I was really annoyed when the change happened. They probably knew their customers would find it more frustrating to leave than to stay. (I was in the minority though, most of the customers used it was web mail instead of just forwarding email)
After the US revolution we had a significant number of of citizens who did not really agree to the aims of the revolution, possibly a majority. There was intimidation to keep people in line during the revolution though (tar and feathering was not just a humorous joke). We were just a pawn in a global power struggle. And the US was very weak and pitiful for a very long time, only turning strong after WW1, and then into a strong dominating bully after WW2.
So we're not that different from Canada except for the bullying part.
It's the water.
AUS/NZ have some pretty messed up governments in many ways though compared to Canada.
I thought their new slogan was "We Don't Even Know What Evil Is!"
Well of course you first have to pull and stretch your religious beliefs. There are no major religions and disallow the exchanging of goods for money with certain people. Many religions will state that a certain thing is a sin, disallowed, an abomination, etc, but they do not forbid you from giving them a cupcake in exchange for a dollar. The bill is not a religious liberties law but instead a political protest. They were probably all perfectly happy selling cupcakes to gays until gay marriage was made legal and then suddenly they decide it's against their beliefs, and now there's going to be a questionnaire to be filled out first before you're allowed to do business.
So as long as the money keeps flowing you just hold your nose and go with it? At what point during the haggling do you determine that the corporation is a whore or not?
If it starts to smell after a few weeks without refrigeration, then your broadband was probably organic.
"Typical speeds are over 50Mbps. Unfortunately very few of our customers are typical."
Satellite broadband providers are competing with the big boys. The best way to compete in an entrenched market is to do something different. Since the big boys are all evil, the best competition strategy is to not be evil. Thus, satellite broadband providers will be more likely to tell the truth.
AT&T for instance won't tell you details easily, first you have to log in, provide your contact details, and so forth. This is only partly because they may want to know if you can actually get the service. More important this lets them shove in more ads and upsell you, and because it allows them to hide information they don't want you to know (new customers are shown the lower prices they don't want existing customers to know of). They are also good at hiding in the fine print the fact that your good deal is only for the first year; but almost no company ever wants you to know the price you pay after the first year is up, almost no company wants you to know when the price has gone down, etc.
How can the browser refuse to run it if you haven't updated the browser? Having automatic updates is not a solution because automatic updates of extensions was what created the problem in the first place.
Can you give an example of an approved ad that has gotten past ad block? I've never seen this, so maybe I'm not visiting the right sites to ever see them.
Well, having your add-ons automatically update themselves without user interaction seems to be a big part of the problem. If only those who updated found the problem they could save headaches for the rest of the world that don't update immediately like robots. Sort of the problem with Windows 10 here where a bad update can brick everyone in unison. Choice is always a good option, including the choice to not update.
They possibly used the rand() function in their billing department.
Yes, coming down to California to try and recruit for cold weather is tricky. They may get more luck in Minnesota.
But this is generally cheaper grunt labor. Low level workers to do simple tech jobs. The problem is that we're graduating a lot of people who mostly only know how to do the simpler tech jobs. We're migrating away from being a country that's a technology leader (which is not the same as being a "tech" leader), and trying to rebrand us as a services country. So sure, if the corporate help desk is being outsourced that's one thing, but when they outsource the high end design then something's screwed up. Maybe contracting is a good career choice because that's often where the outsourcing goes if they want to keep it local.
It should not matter if the employee is adaptable. Schools aren't teaching that anymore though. Corporations have been putting pressure on schools to graduate entry-level ready candidates instead of wasting the corporations time with graduates who know theory and a broad cross section of knowledge and skills.
Lots of things out there screwing up software. New college graduates just don't have the necessary software skills, they're being trained for entry level jobs without the theoretical basis to get beyond that. It's not all software anyway, you can't do software without the hardware. And you can't do hardware without the lower level software either. But there's a mob of programmers who never think beyond the "app" and think that the hardware and lower level software are not things for mere mortals to comprehend. Even in embedded systems I run across people who don't seem to understand systems, either software people who don't understand hardware, or EE people who don't understand software.
Many are spoiled by the PC. Fast computer, abundant memory, a super computer on the desk, no one ever bothers with efficiency on that platform anymore. Then they get a job on a platform where efficiency matters and they're out of their depth. Their quick and dirty mockup is fast enough so ship it anyway, if customers complain about memory usage then just wait a year and they'll get new computers. It does change a bit on smartphone because that's slow enough that they at least have to worry about multitasking and synchronization (or change jobs until you get one where you're working with a foundation library to hide all the complex details), if their app is more than just an XML wrapper around some URLs.
Editors no longer need hardware in their heads, they rely on software instead.
It's a well known story. Maybe not MKULTRA but it's definitely something that would screw up an underage student's head.