They only have so much bandwidth, so in order to cram all the worthless weather channels, college sport channels, and the emergency channels, in the same alloted bandwidth, they had to sacrifice quality on several other channels.
I keep my office in the 75-76 range and people often say "your office is always warm!" So now I welcome people to "my tropical office."
I'm not sure if my productivity is any higher, but I do know that when it's cold, I don't seem to work as well. I rather be cozy while I work, I just seem to do better. My fingers don't hurt while I type like when it's considerably cooler in my office.
At my workplace, it is widely accepted to use a day of sick leave and call it a "mental health" day.
We all need to step away from the everyday crap and let our brain rest. Sometimes you need it and you usually come back to work energized and ready to finish the rest of the week.
Disneyland has been playing with something that sounds similar to this.
If you go here and scroll down halfway to "Sleeping Beauty Castle gets a new look", you can see a couple tests that Disneyland did to "paint" the castle. One painting it gold with a ribbon around it, and another one turning it into a US flag.
For a few days I consulted at an office that had soda fountains in a couple rooms. The normal range (like 5 or 6 choices) that you'd find at any fast food restaurant. Pepsi would come every so often to bring the new syrup and other stuff necessary.
in the long run it's cheaper than free soda cans, no much waste and it's something different.
First of all, the lowest package is $30/month, that's very expensive for a personal site. Second, like you said, even if you cancel, they keep 10% of the fee you paid.
I see it more as a toy than anything else. For any more serious stats, you would use a log analyzer. A $30/month toy is out of my reach.
I have hundreds of word documents, PDF files, text files, e-mails in two different systems, etc.
I purchased Find from <a href="http://www.enfish.com">Enfish</a> and it saves me several minutes everyday. They have fancier products, but $50 for the Find application is all that I needed.
I love Gmail and I use it daily, unfortunately it cannot do partial word searches.
I don't know about you, but I'm not the world's best speller and I can't always remember the correct spelling of a location or someone's last name, but I do know the first few words so in my e-mail client I can do a search for those first few letters and find the message I am trying to locate.
Unfortunately it is not the case with Google Mail. I contacted support and they confirmed the fact for me. "Thank you for your message. Gmail does not currently offer partial word search." They did say that they'd forward it to the appropriate team, but as of this writing, it has not been implemented.
Actually if you look at the screenshot in the article, it looks like it's simply a new browser window that is sent to the top of the screen while slightly reducing your main browser window. In other words, I believe that this will work with many browsers (but maybe not all).
Like when on a Mac, if you hold the one mouse buttom for a longer amount of time, you get a menu? Or when I press and hold a button on my radio to set the memory?
They got rid of their regular digital cable line up and split it in "themes" and they call it "a la carte" and it sounds good at first. You choose the themes or packages that you want and only pay for those. In theory it could be cheaper, but if you want to get the channels you like, you'll end up paying more.
For example, I wanted "TechTV" but it was only in one of the "Entertainment" packages. It was all sports channels (every ESPN channel you can think of) and then TechTV. I don't watch sports, yet they wanted me to pay for all of those. The same thing with A&E, it was bundled with other horrible channels.
It made no sense. I would have had to end up paying more than I was originally paying. I canceled my digital cable subscription and went back to good old analog.
For some odd reason, which (although completely illogical to you) shouldn't matter if you truly believe in freedom (it's not freedom if everyone else has to approve of your motivations), my neighbor's grandma would like to see that movie, sans boobies.
And then this grandma who wants the "power to choose" goes ahead and takes Stern and The Regular Guys off the air because she things that they are immoral.
Power to choose should go both ways, too bad the people who will buy this machine do not see it that way.
It's not just that they priced them way too high, but the movies they chose were neither good nor new. Let me get a decent new release for $5 and I may be interested in your "rental" system.
When I was a college student taking programming classes, I often woke up in the middle of the night with the solution to a programming problem. I'd then get up, write that piece of code and go back to sleep. I remember that one morning, I looked at the code I had written in the middle of the night and it made no sense. I knew it worked, but it made no sense.
I often delay tough problems at least a day to let my brain work on them, and it works a lot of the time. Just yesterday I was trying to fix a bug with some code and gave up. Sure enough, this morning I had a fairly good idea on how to address the issue.
Bullshit! IT IS JUST A WHEEL! The way it scrolls through long lists quickly, it's no different than any other application where a wheel is used to translate rotational motion into linear input.
Have you USED it? It's not the same as a mouse wheel or other wheels. You can move the wheel the same distance and it goes through the list at different speeds depending on how quickly, or how slowly, you move. You can move the wheel 2 inches and go through either 5 songs, or 100, depending on the speed.
It's not just the fact that it's a wheel, it's how it interacts with the interface.
What's good about iTunes is how easy it makes it to share the songs. Launch iTunes and there they all, all the songs from my other computer, all within the iTunes interface (the search is great.)
iTunes for Mac used to let you share songs over the Internet. You could open your iTunes at work and listen to your songs stored at home. People too advantage of that as well, and Apple disabled it.
It's always the same, a few abuse something cool and the rest get punished for it.
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As a long time subscriber, I've noticed this too.
They only have so much bandwidth, so in order to cram all the worthless weather channels, college sport channels, and the emergency channels, in the same alloted bandwidth, they had to sacrifice quality on several other channels.
Just wait........
embrace and extend
I keep my office in the 75-76 range and people often say "your office is always warm!" So now I welcome people to "my tropical office."
I'm not sure if my productivity is any higher, but I do know that when it's cold, I don't seem to work as well. I rather be cozy while I work, I just seem to do better. My fingers don't hurt while I type like when it's considerably cooler in my office.
International students are not eligible for financial aid (at least at the University where I work, but I assume it's the same all over the country.)
My mistake. Thanks for clearning that up.
When I called to cancel one of my units about two weeks ago, my hold time was approximately 4 minutes. That is not unreasonable.
As a Mac user, I would love to be able to use this service, but for some reason Real insists that I use Windows.
You would think that a company trying to spread good-will, and trying to make a buck, would attempt to keep everyone happy (and paying.)
At my workplace, it is widely accepted to use a day of sick leave and call it a "mental health" day.
We all need to step away from the everyday crap and let our brain rest. Sometimes you need it and you usually come back to work energized and ready to finish the rest of the week.
If you go here and scroll down halfway to "Sleeping Beauty Castle gets a new look", you can see a couple tests that Disneyland did to "paint" the castle. One painting it gold with a ribbon around it, and another one turning it into a US flag.
For a few days I consulted at an office that had soda fountains in a couple rooms. The normal range (like 5 or 6 choices) that you'd find at any fast food restaurant. Pepsi would come every so often to bring the new syrup and other stuff necessary.
in the long run it's cheaper than free soda cans, no much waste and it's something different.
Everyone who worked there loved it, and so did I.
I was going to check it out. Then I stopped.
First of all, the lowest package is $30/month, that's very expensive for a personal site. Second, like you said, even if you cancel, they keep 10% of the fee you paid.
I see it more as a toy than anything else. For any more serious stats, you would use a log analyzer. A $30/month toy is out of my reach.
I have hundreds of word documents, PDF files, text files, e-mails in two different systems, etc.
I purchased Find from <a href="http://www.enfish.com">Enfish</a> and it saves me several minutes everyday. They have fancier products, but $50 for the Find application is all that I needed.
Go to the trash folder, select the messages that you want to delete and then select "Delete Forever" from the pull-down menu.
I love Gmail and I use it daily, unfortunately it cannot do partial word searches.
I don't know about you, but I'm not the world's best speller and I can't always remember the correct spelling of a location or someone's last name, but I do know the first few words so in my e-mail client I can do a search for those first few letters and find the message I am trying to locate.
Unfortunately it is not the case with Google Mail. I contacted support and they confirmed the fact for me. "Thank you for your message. Gmail does not currently offer partial word search." They did say that they'd forward it to the appropriate team, but as of this writing, it has not been implemented.
Actually if you look at the screenshot in the article, it looks like it's simply a new browser window that is sent to the top of the screen while slightly reducing your main browser window. In other words, I believe that this will work with many browsers (but maybe not all).
I guess I was referring to Macs released back in the 80s.
Like when on a Mac, if you hold the one mouse buttom for a longer amount of time, you get a menu? Or when I press and hold a button on my radio to set the memory?
You probably pay for cable TV or satellite instead of getting whatever you can, if anything, over the air. And you still get commercials.
They got rid of their regular digital cable line up and split it in "themes" and they call it "a la carte" and it sounds good at first. You choose the themes or packages that you want and only pay for those. In theory it could be cheaper, but if you want to get the channels you like, you'll end up paying more.
For example, I wanted "TechTV" but it was only in one of the "Entertainment" packages. It was all sports channels (every ESPN channel you can think of) and then TechTV. I don't watch sports, yet they wanted me to pay for all of those. The same thing with A&E, it was bundled with other horrible channels.
It made no sense. I would have had to end up paying more than I was originally paying. I canceled my digital cable subscription and went back to good old analog.
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And then this grandma who wants the "power to choose" goes ahead and takes Stern and The Regular Guys off the air because she things that they are immoral.
Power to choose should go both ways, too bad the people who will buy this machine do not see it that way.
It's not just that they priced them way too high, but the movies they chose were neither good nor new. Let me get a decent new release for $5 and I may be interested in your "rental" system.
When I was a college student taking programming classes, I often woke up in the middle of the night with the solution to a programming problem. I'd then get up, write that piece of code and go back to sleep. I remember that one morning, I looked at the code I had written in the middle of the night and it made no sense. I knew it worked, but it made no sense.
I often delay tough problems at least a day to let my brain work on them, and it works a lot of the time. Just yesterday I was trying to fix a bug with some code and gave up. Sure enough, this morning I had a fairly good idea on how to address the issue.
Have you USED it? It's not the same as a mouse wheel or other wheels. You can move the wheel the same distance and it goes through the list at different speeds depending on how quickly, or how slowly, you move. You can move the wheel 2 inches and go through either 5 songs, or 100, depending on the speed.
It's not just the fact that it's a wheel, it's how it interacts with the interface.
What's good about iTunes is how easy it makes it to share the songs. Launch iTunes and there they all, all the songs from my other computer, all within the iTunes interface (the search is great.)
iTunes for Mac used to let you share songs over the Internet. You could open your iTunes at work and listen to your songs stored at home. People too advantage of that as well, and Apple disabled it.
It's always the same, a few abuse something cool and the rest get punished for it.