I have a similar situation, only from AT&T. Not quite as straight forward to remove. The real pain there is that a couple of those are not just on the phone, they're running in the background taking resources I could use for something useful to me. AT&T Universe & AccuWeather for instance. AT&T Universe service is not available in my area and AccuWeather doesn't live up to it's name. They're both running on my phone and can't be removed Not without rooting, which has it's own security implications.
The last Dell laptop I got, by the time I removed all the crapware, it wouldn't boot. Kept complaining about "no operating system found" or some-such. I installed Linux, and all was well:)
The school itself could have a page and set up associated Group pages for the different classes (and Chess Club, etc) and have the appropriate teacher be the administrator of the individual group pages.
I don't know that IBM/CISCO supplied it, but even we have a scaled down version of this in Anchorage, Alaska.
Anchorage, shortly after 9/11, desided it needed something along these lines. We are only about 300,000 people. If we have it, I would be suprised to find that anyplace larger than us does not.
I did visit ours a few years back, shortly after it was implemented. It's not in the scale or Rio's, but we don't have 6 million-plus people either. I don't recall seeing any IBM logos, but when you're the size of Rio, it's going to take a larger company to do this sort of thing, What are the options?
I care. I have a couple of 16:9 screens now because I have a hard time finding 4:3.
To me, the wide format screens are mostly for viewing entertainment and are a pain for doing actual work. I have bills to pay and want something for work.
Unfortunately for those of us trying to get some work done, the gamers are happy to outspend us and want wide $creen$ for their game$.
I cut off TV & cable 2 years ago, then about a year later subscribed to HULU. It had little to do with cost and much to do with the garbage cable & TV are putting out.
I could not justify paying for 200 channels of the drivel that is on now days. Any more, I watch movies I choose to rent or purchase or old re-runs on HULU. I grew up, largely, in Alaska and a lot of the old shows were never carried on our local stations. Many of the old re-runs are new to me.
Even HULU can be annoying as they seem to think I want to watch the latest network trash and as soon as what I chose is over, they attempt to feed me some recent garbage.
This is actually why I am afraid to try the pattern lock. I need a 'practice phone' to get my pattern learned on before doing it on a phone I use every day;-)
I was at a remote worksite camp working in the oil industry back in the 70's. People would leave books around in the rec room when they were through with them. Once I ran out of what I brought, I would read damn near anything.
There were 2 books in particular that caught my attention that I looked all over for my own copies. Couldn't find them and have long since forgotten their names, but not the basic story lines. I have spent hours recently looking for them to no avail, still.
One of them in particular I remember was copyrighted in the early to mid 1930's. I remember because as I read the book, I hit a section that made me go look for the copyright. The author was doing a real good description of some futeristic planes found in a cave/caveren that was set up as a hanger. Guy is describing these things, then I hit the terms 'wood frame skeleton' & 'bi-plane'. Threw me for a loop. Great read.
It seems to me that some medical person once explained to me something similar in the way the HIV virus works. Pierces some sort of cell and injects it's DNA, causes the injected cell to create more HIV, and so on.... It's been years since I heard this explanation, so maybe I have it wrong. Then again, maybe there's some sort of tie-in?
If nothing else, it appears the Iron Age began on Earth earlier than we were taught in history class... Just not by humans.
i haven't really been a Microsoft consumer in a couple of years as I've gotten more into Linux. Does MS let people go onto their sites and post derogatory stuff about them and their products in this fashion?
I ask this because I have been to some sites where if you start posting stuff of this nature on their forums, about either the Company or it's products, your posts quickly disappear.
I personally hope Google leaves the stuff MS is posting alone. Not because MS is correct, but because I think it shows a little class on Google's part that they can take this type of criticism and allow it's posting on their servers.
Loopholes are only theoretical, even when vetted by an attorney or suggested by Slashdot readers;).
Falsifying your projects to keep your employer from finding out is rarely worth the risk. Once the employer does find out, you're liable to find that you've left yourself open to charges of fraud. You won't even be able to claim the fraud was innocent as you were working under an alias or behind a "straw man" just to keep your employer from finding out. You could find yourself owing your employer money for damages and the state some time in the Graybar Motel.
Either renegotiate or find another job or... Have confidence in yourself and go out on your own.
The first 2 times I ran into this, at about the same time, was for FAA & FCC (Federal Aviation Admin., Fed. Comm. Comm.).
You used to have to have at minimum a 2nd Class Radio Telephone license from the FCC to be a broadcaster in radio. You could actually have a 3rd class only to talk if the station had someone else on duty with a 2nd class to actually run the equipment. The stations often didn't want to pay for a 2nd person with the higher level license, so...
For FCC testing back in the 60s & 70s, there used to be outfits that came to cities periodically that would guarantee passage after a weekend course (12 hrs per day) during which you would be taught the answers to the test questions. The way they got the answers is what is talked about here. It had likely been going on for some time already when I found out about, but the 70s is when I was working on my FAA & FCC licensing, so that when I knew about it.
There was the same thing for FAA written tests and I seem to remember hearing that the FAA stuff came first. This may be the actual reason for calling them "Airplane Tests".
They state up front that they NEVER delete a report from their database once it's been entered. They do have a fairly prominent link for updating &/or rebutting. I guess that'll have to do...
The Mint developers have removed the engines from their cars and attached teams of mules. The next release to be known as Borax.
...but seriously, while the Gnome developers could have done more on getting the configuration tools out there for the desktop, once you begin getting a handle on the configuration, it's not bad. Just different.
Ubuntu's Unity is the one I have a problem with. It feels like I'm running a netbook even though I don't own one.
I thought it was interesting this topic came up now here as it also just came up on my Linux Users Group mailing list last week.
A local friend and I tried it a couple of years ago when a pgp/gpg plugin came available for Thunderbird. We both had it set up and it seemed to work OK, but to what end? As near as we could tell, it was him and I, and no one else. 'kinda pointless.
I do think we should be using it. I think businesses transmit entirely to much confidential client information around the country. I believe we all, myself included, need to be more security conscious.
I have no real problem w/ it either. I use it for my work (I sell Real Estate) desktop and laptop running recent versions of Fedora.
I will admit to a couple of initial issues with it as on the default install of Fedora, it was configured to be an extreemly clean desktop. Nearly naked. Once I got the hang of configuring to my tastes, I have no real issues with it. Isn't this on of the reasons we use Linux? I want it my way...
How about Warner, and others, being required to put up a $1,000 per take-down notice bond. If the take-down is upheld, they get it back. Otherwise, they forfeit it. They can then let their wallet's determine how much due diligence they want to do before issuing.
We seem to say we want improvments, then we proceed to complain it's not like the old.
I am running Fedora 15 w/ Gnome 3. It took me a couple of days to settle into it. The developers wanted too clean a desktop for my taste:-) Then I figured out how to customize it for my tastes, and now I'm OK w/ it (got most of my clutter back). Isn't that why many of us use Linux? To have it our way?
I've noticed immigrants to this country do this as well. Move here from wherever, then proceed to complain that it's not like where they left. Well duh!!
I suppose it's just human nature. Unless we're the ones designing the changes (mine are always best!!), we always find something we don't like.
Interesting map. I guess Alaska isn't part of the US. Neither is Hawaii. Interesting considering Alaska probably has more geothermal potential than the rest of the US put together. Hawaii may be right up there as well as long as Alaska isn't counted, and Google apparently doesn't.
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I have a similar situation, only from AT&T. Not quite as straight forward to remove. The real pain there is that a couple of those are not just on the phone, they're running in the background taking resources I could use for something useful to me. AT&T Universe & AccuWeather for instance. AT&T Universe service is not available in my area and AccuWeather doesn't live up to it's name. They're both running on my phone and can't be removed Not without rooting, which has it's own security implications.
The last Dell laptop I got, by the time I removed all the crapware, it wouldn't boot. Kept complaining about "no operating system found" or some-such. I installed Linux, and all was well :)
Some years back a drilling company drilled some dry holes in the Lake Champlain Valley ...
The school itself could have a page and set up associated Group pages for the different classes (and Chess Club, etc) and have the appropriate teacher be the administrator of the individual group pages.
I don't know that IBM/CISCO supplied it, but even we have a scaled down version of this in Anchorage, Alaska.
Anchorage, shortly after 9/11, desided it needed something along these lines. We are only about 300,000 people. If we have it, I would be suprised to find that anyplace larger than us does not.
I did visit ours a few years back, shortly after it was implemented. It's not in the scale or Rio's, but we don't have 6 million-plus people either. I don't recall seeing any IBM logos, but when you're the size of Rio, it's going to take a larger company to do this sort of thing, What are the options?
Hadn't thought of it from a programmers point of view. I hadn't done any of that to speak of since the early 90's.
Working in a Real Estate office now. Forms and more forms. 4:3 works much better. 2 - 4:3s side x side is even better. 768 high is too short.
I care. I have a couple of 16:9 screens now because I have a hard time finding 4:3.
To me, the wide format screens are mostly for viewing entertainment and are a pain for doing actual work. I have bills to pay and want something for work.
Unfortunately for those of us trying to get some work done, the gamers are happy to outspend us and want wide $creen$ for their game$.
I with you. I the sucker wants Metro, he should trade down for a Windows Phone!!
I could not justify paying for 200 channels of the drivel that is on now days. Any more, I watch movies I choose to rent or purchase or old re-runs on HULU. I grew up, largely, in Alaska and a lot of the old shows were never carried on our local stations. Many of the old re-runs are new to me.
Even HULU can be annoying as they seem to think I want to watch the latest network trash and as soon as what I chose is over, they attempt to feed me some recent garbage.
This is actually why I am afraid to try the pattern lock. I need a 'practice phone' to get my pattern learned on before doing it on a phone I use every day ;-)
On those occasions where I drive with both hands on the wheel, I go a high/low approach. Generally about 4:30 & 10:30.
I was at a remote worksite camp working in the oil industry back in the 70's. People would leave books around in the rec room when they were through with them. Once I ran out of what I brought, I would read damn near anything.
There were 2 books in particular that caught my attention that I looked all over for my own copies. Couldn't find them and have long since forgotten their names, but not the basic story lines. I have spent hours recently looking for them to no avail, still.
One of them in particular I remember was copyrighted in the early to mid 1930's. I remember because as I read the book, I hit a section that made me go look for the copyright. The author was doing a real good description of some futeristic planes found in a cave/caveren that was set up as a hanger. Guy is describing these things, then I hit the terms 'wood frame skeleton' & 'bi-plane'. Threw me for a loop. Great read.
It seems to me that some medical person once explained to me something similar in the way the HIV virus works. Pierces some sort of cell and injects it's DNA, causes the injected cell to create more HIV, and so on.... It's been years since I heard this explanation, so maybe I have it wrong. Then again, maybe there's some sort of tie-in?
If nothing else, it appears the Iron Age began on Earth earlier than we were taught in history class... Just not by humans.
i haven't really been a Microsoft consumer in a couple of years as I've gotten more into Linux. Does MS let people go onto their sites and post derogatory stuff about them and their products in this fashion?
I ask this because I have been to some sites where if you start posting stuff of this nature on their forums, about either the Company or it's products, your posts quickly disappear.
I personally hope Google leaves the stuff MS is posting alone. Not because MS is correct, but because I think it shows a little class on Google's part that they can take this type of criticism and allow it's posting on their servers.
Loopholes are only theoretical, even when vetted by an attorney or suggested by Slashdot readers ;).
Falsifying your projects to keep your employer from finding out is rarely worth the risk. Once the employer does find out, you're liable to find that you've left yourself open to charges of fraud. You won't even be able to claim the fraud was innocent as you were working under an alias or behind a "straw man" just to keep your employer from finding out. You could find yourself owing your employer money for damages and the state some time in the Graybar Motel.
Either renegotiate or find another job or ... Have confidence in yourself and go out on your own.
The first 2 times I ran into this, at about the same time, was for FAA & FCC (Federal Aviation Admin., Fed. Comm. Comm.).
You used to have to have at minimum a 2nd Class Radio Telephone license from the FCC to be a broadcaster in radio. You could actually have a 3rd class only to talk if the station had someone else on duty with a 2nd class to actually run the equipment. The stations often didn't want to pay for a 2nd person with the higher level license, so...
For FCC testing back in the 60s & 70s, there used to be outfits that came to cities periodically that would guarantee passage after a weekend course (12 hrs per day) during which you would be taught the answers to the test questions. The way they got the answers is what is talked about here. It had likely been going on for some time already when I found out about, but the 70s is when I was working on my FAA & FCC licensing, so that when I knew about it.
There was the same thing for FAA written tests and I seem to remember hearing that the FAA stuff came first. This may be the actual reason for calling them "Airplane Tests".
I suppose this means that now I will need FDA approval before inserting sperm into a womans body?
They state up front that they NEVER delete a report from their database once it's been entered. They do have a fairly prominent link for updating &/or rebutting. I guess that'll have to do ...
...but seriously, while the Gnome developers could have done more on getting the configuration tools out there for the desktop, once you begin getting a handle on the configuration, it's not bad. Just different.
Ubuntu's Unity is the one I have a problem with. It feels like I'm running a netbook even though I don't own one.
I thought it was interesting this topic came up now here as it also just came up on my Linux Users Group mailing list last week. A local friend and I tried it a couple of years ago when a pgp/gpg plugin came available for Thunderbird. We both had it set up and it seemed to work OK, but to what end? As near as we could tell, it was him and I, and no one else. 'kinda pointless. I do think we should be using it. I think businesses transmit entirely to much confidential client information around the country. I believe we all, myself included, need to be more security conscious.
I have no real problem w/ it either. I use it for my work (I sell Real Estate) desktop and laptop running recent versions of Fedora.
I will admit to a couple of initial issues with it as on the default install of Fedora, it was configured to be an extreemly clean desktop. Nearly naked. Once I got the hang of configuring to my tastes, I have no real issues with it. Isn't this on of the reasons we use Linux? I want it my way...
A clean desk(top) is the sign of an empty mind ;-)
How about Warner, and others, being required to put up a $1,000 per take-down notice bond. If the take-down is upheld, they get it back. Otherwise, they forfeit it. They can then let their wallet's determine how much due diligence they want to do before issuing.
We seem to say we want improvments, then we proceed to complain it's not like the old.
I am running Fedora 15 w/ Gnome 3. It took me a couple of days to settle into it. The developers wanted too clean a desktop for my taste :-) Then I figured out how to customize it for my tastes, and now I'm OK w/ it (got most of my clutter back). Isn't that why many of us use Linux? To have it our way?
I've noticed immigrants to this country do this as well. Move here from wherever, then proceed to complain that it's not like where they left. Well duh!!
I suppose it's just human nature. Unless we're the ones designing the changes (mine are always best!!), we always find something we don't like.
That Apple has this copyrighted?
Interesting map. I guess Alaska isn't part of the US. Neither is Hawaii. Interesting considering Alaska probably has more geothermal potential than the rest of the US put together. Hawaii may be right up there as well as long as Alaska isn't counted, and Google apparently doesn't.