It's mostly handled through channel partners and representatives, not the web page. Also direct marketing.... lots of direct marketing. My last office had the full blown "HP Partnership" doo dah going on, which gave them a small discount on servers and a big discount on toner. HP's servers were slightly less of a headache than the equivalent Dell, and because they kept stuff standardized within generations, we could pull off miracles with 5 year old servers that would have been impossible otherwise. (Motherboard died on one G3 server? Easy swap with the other G3 we pulled out of service last month - it'll last until we can get them a new one ordered.)
That's a good point. HP has a huge printing infrastructure and the manufacturing facilities in place to crank out 3D printing machines at a much lower cost than you can get today. They totally dropped the ball by not jumping on that. I don't think having their work from home employees come in to work will fix that.
While I agree that going after pot and shroom users is stupid, heroine is illegal for a very real and compelling reason: it kills. Quite a few others as well. I think the users need rehab and not jail time, but the dealers who enable people to destroy themselves for profit need to be shut down.
I personally hijacked my own addiction center in the brain with Skinner boxes, so I have no room for drugs on top of my MMOs.
It's deprecated now. It ran on Android 2.2 and in August I got a notice from my carrier that they were no longer supporting my phone since it could not have the OS upgraded. At the time, it was a little under two years old, so I bought a Samsung Galaxy Exhibit to replace it, which has some nice slick Ice Cream Sandwich action going on instead.
Unless the Indulge was significantly altered from the time I bought mine, Samsung loses nothing by that one being blocked.
Actually, I felt Obama finally earned that prize when we ended up not going to war in Syria. Had we been embroiled in another pointless war, I had hoped someone would take it away from him.
They have the most efficient laser system in the world there - I was able to tour a few years back. The initial power input is a giant flash of light. My understanding of the issue is that the lasers are not the problem - it's the fact that the fuel has a tendency to bulge and distort when it's hit by them, so they're tweaking the lasers by nano meters trying to prevent the distortion.
I suppose since the Higgs boson has been more or less validated at this point (at least as close as we can with our feeble technology), the Nobel committee decided it was time to recognize them.
I bet if we went back to 1964 and told the folks designing the Shikansen that they'd get double the Olympics out of them, they would dance with glee. I have to say the two hour train ride between Tokyo and Kyoto was clean, comfortable, and kicked the butt of any equivalent plane ride.
As someone who did telemarketing for a few months in college (before merrily transferring over to an inbound call center until I graduated), I can assure you the majority of them are uneducated beyond high school or a GED and literally cannot get any other job that pays as much. (Also, indoor work with no heavy lifting.) Their one saving grace tends to be good articulation and speech, although even that falls by the wayside at the scuzzier companies.
It also depends on the area. Reliable transportation is a requirement, not a luxury, but that requirement can be fulfilled by things other than good used cars. Someone in a metro area with a good mass transit system can fulfill the requirement of "reliable transportation" without every owning a vehicle. Someone on a farm can have reliable transportation in the form of a horse, as has been done for the last two thousand years. Someone in a good mixed use area can get away with the reliable transportation of their feet. A disabled person in a wheelchair needs reliable transportation such as a medical van. For all these things, that transportation also requires the means to pay for it (except the person in the mixed use neighborhood that can walk to work then walk to the grocery store in under an hour.)
That's the same reason they closed all the memorials in DC. Not for a political stunt, but because they can't pay anyone to clean it up if it gets vandalized.
I agree to some extent. But certain substances are so terrible that they need to stay banned - the news about krokodil hitting the US is terrifying because that drug is so horrible. Meth, too, does terrible things to its addicts. Heroin and cocaine kill. On the other hand, milder drugs such as pot and shrooms are relatively harmless and need to be regulated by the FDA or Firearms/Tobacco rather than treated as illegal. I also firmly thing that instead of tossing non-violent addicts in jail, they need to go to rehab clinics instead. (Hey, they can even be private rehab clinics, as long as they actually work.)
My understanding is that undercover agents have a bit of leeway, if not outright immunity, of being associated with charges when they're part of a team trying to take down a specific target. Of course they knew he was fully capable of having other people murdered, which is why they were doing their best to build a solid case and cause for arrest against him in real life.
You mean, since the dawn of science. I don't think the folks prior to the Greeks had any idea of logic or objectivity just yet. At least not formal ones.
The rabid left wing tends to hang out with the Greens, because they're annoyed with the corporate nature of mainstream Dems. Since they got their own party, they generally don't act as a foil on local elections (or in more liberal bastions, do actually get elected.) The Greens wised up after the Bush/Gore fiasco and try not to be too much of a spoiler on anything but a city level these days.
And I live in Georgia and suffer under the representation of Dr. Paul Broun, whom I regret having voted for exactly once in a primary (because his opponent was Jim Whitehead of Augusta, who thought it would be funny to joke about blowing up the University of Georgia.) I'd love to have a genuine fiscal conservative or libertarian leaning representative. Instead, we have Dr. Broun, who believes evolution was a lie sent straight from the pits of hell and who also, in all probability, would love to blow up the liberal university in the heart of the district he represents. Our district is also gerrymandered into an odd stretched out line that winds its way down to Augusta, because without the Republican base in that town, our city would overwhelm the surrounding less densely populated rural counties.
For similar reasons our state representation has our city split in two - because while our solid blue dot has enough people in it to qualify for our own state representative, by splitting us in two and sticking us with the red counties on either side, we're lost in the minority.
I'm truly sorry that you're in such a shitty district. I'd support a constitutional amendment requiring that districts be contiguous and connected via city and county lines whenever possible.
No, the current proposal from the GOP is to strip out funding for the ACA and replace it with "..." - they don't have alternate suggestions. That's the problem. Also, the Senate has been asking the House to have a joint budget conference since last May, but the House only thought that was a good idea on September 30th.
And if you don't have insurance and can afford it, you're part of the freeloaders in America that are causing this mess in the first place. If you have insurance already, the ACA only affects you in positive ways.
I just wish AT&T would offer me something higher than 6 mbps down and.5 mbps up where I am. I don't even need speeds fifty to a hundred times faster. I'd settle for ten times faster and I'd pay twice as much as I am now happily.
Please, any paid AT&T folks in PR who are reading this, pass this along. Don't just pamper the Austinites. Give us some love everywhere else too!
All these initiatives to give kids tablets tends to be in poor, underperforming school systems. So I can completely believe that some of the kids had never used a tablet before.
I'm also inclined to believe that the software was probably poorly designed. Educational companies are some of the worst offenders about not wanting to pay programmers and designers attractive enough wages to get the best and brightest.
It's not so much a matter of "is your finger on the right key?" but a matter of "are you looking at your monitor, your keyboard, or copying the text of something when you are typing?"
At minimum, a touch typist needs to be looking at the monitor when they type, and not the keyboard. Someone who is doing data entry will do best when they can look away from the keyboard and type directly from a sheet of paper off to the side, but not everyone is going to be doing data entry so that's not a required skill. By looking at the monitor, however, you're able to catch and correct typos on the fly as well as read through what you've written and adjust before you reach the end of your train of thought.
For the record, I learned to type fast and furious in Compuserv chat rooms in the 90s, while my high school was still teaching us to type on typewriters. Practice makes perfect.
- whose school district had gotten all the kids iPads. She was complaining that the new toys, in conjunction with all the stupid assessments she had to do, had put her weeks behind the curriculum because she had to spend all her time helping her third graders learn to use the tablets. So I'm sure the teachers in CA who got stuck with this are frustrated about this and probably the ones who are now on delay are greatly relieved.
Personally, I think that money could better be spent on good old fashioned computer labs. A good student PC is a heck of a lot cheaper, and these kids need to learn to type on a real keyboard or else they're going to be at a huge disadvantage compared to their peers who do.
He's entitled to his personal opinion. But a CEO is a very public position, and they're being paid to represent not just themselves, but also their company. For as much money as those guys make, you'd think they'd learn to separate their private opinions from their public company representation. The correct way to position this would have been: "I don't like gay people. Marketing hasn't come up with a good commercial to feature gay people, and maybe they never will. But they can still eat our pasta if they want."
Shucks, if someone wanted to pay me five million dollars a year, I'd learn to keep my mouth shut.
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It's mostly handled through channel partners and representatives, not the web page. Also direct marketing.... lots of direct marketing. My last office had the full blown "HP Partnership" doo dah going on, which gave them a small discount on servers and a big discount on toner. HP's servers were slightly less of a headache than the equivalent Dell, and because they kept stuff standardized within generations, we could pull off miracles with 5 year old servers that would have been impossible otherwise. (Motherboard died on one G3 server? Easy swap with the other G3 we pulled out of service last month - it'll last until we can get them a new one ordered.)
That's a good point. HP has a huge printing infrastructure and the manufacturing facilities in place to crank out 3D printing machines at a much lower cost than you can get today. They totally dropped the ball by not jumping on that. I don't think having their work from home employees come in to work will fix that.
While I agree that going after pot and shroom users is stupid, heroine is illegal for a very real and compelling reason: it kills. Quite a few others as well. I think the users need rehab and not jail time, but the dealers who enable people to destroy themselves for profit need to be shut down.
I personally hijacked my own addiction center in the brain with Skinner boxes, so I have no room for drugs on top of my MMOs.
It's deprecated now. It ran on Android 2.2 and in August I got a notice from my carrier that they were no longer supporting my phone since it could not have the OS upgraded. At the time, it was a little under two years old, so I bought a Samsung Galaxy Exhibit to replace it, which has some nice slick Ice Cream Sandwich action going on instead.
Unless the Indulge was significantly altered from the time I bought mine, Samsung loses nothing by that one being blocked.
Actually, I felt Obama finally earned that prize when we ended up not going to war in Syria. Had we been embroiled in another pointless war, I had hoped someone would take it away from him.
They have the most efficient laser system in the world there - I was able to tour a few years back. The initial power input is a giant flash of light. My understanding of the issue is that the lasers are not the problem - it's the fact that the fuel has a tendency to bulge and distort when it's hit by them, so they're tweaking the lasers by nano meters trying to prevent the distortion.
I suppose since the Higgs boson has been more or less validated at this point (at least as close as we can with our feeble technology), the Nobel committee decided it was time to recognize them.
I bet if we went back to 1964 and told the folks designing the Shikansen that they'd get double the Olympics out of them, they would dance with glee. I have to say the two hour train ride between Tokyo and Kyoto was clean, comfortable, and kicked the butt of any equivalent plane ride.
Capitalists equate money with work so by their logic it makes sense.
As someone who did telemarketing for a few months in college (before merrily transferring over to an inbound call center until I graduated), I can assure you the majority of them are uneducated beyond high school or a GED and literally cannot get any other job that pays as much. (Also, indoor work with no heavy lifting.) Their one saving grace tends to be good articulation and speech, although even that falls by the wayside at the scuzzier companies.
It also depends on the area. Reliable transportation is a requirement, not a luxury, but that requirement can be fulfilled by things other than good used cars. Someone in a metro area with a good mass transit system can fulfill the requirement of "reliable transportation" without every owning a vehicle. Someone on a farm can have reliable transportation in the form of a horse, as has been done for the last two thousand years. Someone in a good mixed use area can get away with the reliable transportation of their feet. A disabled person in a wheelchair needs reliable transportation such as a medical van. For all these things, that transportation also requires the means to pay for it (except the person in the mixed use neighborhood that can walk to work then walk to the grocery store in under an hour.)
That's the same reason they closed all the memorials in DC. Not for a political stunt, but because they can't pay anyone to clean it up if it gets vandalized.
I agree to some extent. But certain substances are so terrible that they need to stay banned - the news about krokodil hitting the US is terrifying because that drug is so horrible. Meth, too, does terrible things to its addicts. Heroin and cocaine kill. On the other hand, milder drugs such as pot and shrooms are relatively harmless and need to be regulated by the FDA or Firearms/Tobacco rather than treated as illegal. I also firmly thing that instead of tossing non-violent addicts in jail, they need to go to rehab clinics instead. (Hey, they can even be private rehab clinics, as long as they actually work.)
My understanding is that undercover agents have a bit of leeway, if not outright immunity, of being associated with charges when they're part of a team trying to take down a specific target. Of course they knew he was fully capable of having other people murdered, which is why they were doing their best to build a solid case and cause for arrest against him in real life.
You mean, since the dawn of science. I don't think the folks prior to the Greeks had any idea of logic or objectivity just yet. At least not formal ones.
The rabid left wing tends to hang out with the Greens, because they're annoyed with the corporate nature of mainstream Dems. Since they got their own party, they generally don't act as a foil on local elections (or in more liberal bastions, do actually get elected.) The Greens wised up after the Bush/Gore fiasco and try not to be too much of a spoiler on anything but a city level these days.
And I live in Georgia and suffer under the representation of Dr. Paul Broun, whom I regret having voted for exactly once in a primary (because his opponent was Jim Whitehead of Augusta, who thought it would be funny to joke about blowing up the University of Georgia.) I'd love to have a genuine fiscal conservative or libertarian leaning representative. Instead, we have Dr. Broun, who believes evolution was a lie sent straight from the pits of hell and who also, in all probability, would love to blow up the liberal university in the heart of the district he represents. Our district is also gerrymandered into an odd stretched out line that winds its way down to Augusta, because without the Republican base in that town, our city would overwhelm the surrounding less densely populated rural counties.
For similar reasons our state representation has our city split in two - because while our solid blue dot has enough people in it to qualify for our own state representative, by splitting us in two and sticking us with the red counties on either side, we're lost in the minority.
I'm truly sorry that you're in such a shitty district. I'd support a constitutional amendment requiring that districts be contiguous and connected via city and county lines whenever possible.
No, the current proposal from the GOP is to strip out funding for the ACA and replace it with "..." - they don't have alternate suggestions. That's the problem. Also, the Senate has been asking the House to have a joint budget conference since last May, but the House only thought that was a good idea on September 30th.
And if you don't have insurance and can afford it, you're part of the freeloaders in America that are causing this mess in the first place. If you have insurance already, the ACA only affects you in positive ways.
If they're contracted out and they can't pay the contractors, then it's not a stunt.
I just wish AT&T would offer me something higher than 6 mbps down and .5 mbps up where I am. I don't even need speeds fifty to a hundred times faster. I'd settle for ten times faster and I'd pay twice as much as I am now happily.
Please, any paid AT&T folks in PR who are reading this, pass this along. Don't just pamper the Austinites. Give us some love everywhere else too!
All these initiatives to give kids tablets tends to be in poor, underperforming school systems. So I can completely believe that some of the kids had never used a tablet before.
I'm also inclined to believe that the software was probably poorly designed. Educational companies are some of the worst offenders about not wanting to pay programmers and designers attractive enough wages to get the best and brightest.
It's not so much a matter of "is your finger on the right key?" but a matter of "are you looking at your monitor, your keyboard, or copying the text of something when you are typing?"
At minimum, a touch typist needs to be looking at the monitor when they type, and not the keyboard. Someone who is doing data entry will do best when they can look away from the keyboard and type directly from a sheet of paper off to the side, but not everyone is going to be doing data entry so that's not a required skill. By looking at the monitor, however, you're able to catch and correct typos on the fly as well as read through what you've written and adjust before you reach the end of your train of thought.
For the record, I learned to type fast and furious in Compuserv chat rooms in the 90s, while my high school was still teaching us to type on typewriters. Practice makes perfect.
- whose school district had gotten all the kids iPads. She was complaining that the new toys, in conjunction with all the stupid assessments she had to do, had put her weeks behind the curriculum because she had to spend all her time helping her third graders learn to use the tablets. So I'm sure the teachers in CA who got stuck with this are frustrated about this and probably the ones who are now on delay are greatly relieved.
Personally, I think that money could better be spent on good old fashioned computer labs. A good student PC is a heck of a lot cheaper, and these kids need to learn to type on a real keyboard or else they're going to be at a huge disadvantage compared to their peers who do.
He's entitled to his personal opinion. But a CEO is a very public position, and they're being paid to represent not just themselves, but also their company. For as much money as those guys make, you'd think they'd learn to separate their private opinions from their public company representation. The correct way to position this would have been: "I don't like gay people. Marketing hasn't come up with a good commercial to feature gay people, and maybe they never will. But they can still eat our pasta if they want."
Shucks, if someone wanted to pay me five million dollars a year, I'd learn to keep my mouth shut.