I know (at least in California) that they can't dock exempt employees for pay if you don't work 40 hours, as long as you at least show up for some part of the day. (They may be able to dock you vacation hours, I'm not clear on that).
Of course most companies will tell you otherwise, including mine.
The batteries are included in the 8 year/100,000 mile warranty (Unless you are in a state that uses California's stricter emission laws, then it is 10 year/150,000 miles)
The batteries are also made of individual replaceable cells, so in theory if a cell goes bad they can replace only that cell.
I'm not sure why I don't see this mentioned yet, but this wikipedia article has a great grid that compares major database systems.
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what the hell would a "dependent disk" be other then one thats already in a RAID???
A dependent disk would be one that can not be swaped out of the configuration. With independent disks you can remove one and replace it with a different one and go on about your way.
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With RAID, you still have a single point of failure. Instead of it being your hard drive, it is now your RAID controller. So what is the advantage?
For a home RAID system, the advantage is you can replace the RAID controller and still have all of your data. Unless of course the RAID controller corrupts all the data, but I'm not sure I've ever seen that happen.
It's also worth noting that R134a is used in a LOT of different products that simply expel it because it compresses well and therefore is a great propellant.
R134a is also known as Tetrofluoroethane, take a look at that can of compresses air we all have on or around our desk and you'll see that's pretty much all that's in there.
But most of the damanged caused by DU is not due to the fact that it's radioactive at all. It's due to the fact that it's a heavy metal (like lead as the GP pointed out.)
I'd still hold out unless you really need the device. They work pretty well, but they're still somewhat of a pain. Most of the quirks stem from wifi use, but most of the blame can be put on the PocketPC OS. LOTS of things where you just shake or head and wonder why they did it that way, or why there's not more advanced settings.
I haven't heard much about the new version coming out (PocketPC 2005 or perhaps they gave it a new name, there was an article here a while back about the announcement), but I would hope it will be a major improvement. Although the PocketPC OS still has many quirks, and just feels like it hasn't really be flushed out yet, it's still probably the best mobile OS out there for getting practical stuff done, in my opinion at least.
Digital television will likely become much more affordable. Although HDTV is digital, not all digital televisions are HDTV. HDTV's will likely still be only for enthusisits.
Because they said the files were stored on servers while the Google Desktop tool only searches the local computer (You probably wouldn't want 100 computers indexing your network drive anyway).
That being said, I remember a post by somebody who installed the Google Desktop tool on a single machine, and then hacked it up to index the network drives, and did some more tweaking to allow searches from other computers. Esentially creating his own Google Mini (although I wouldn't be suprised if this were against something in the EULA)
Remember also that working with new stem cell lines is NOT illegal in the US, it's just that the federal government won't fund your work if you do.
So the research is still open in the private sector.
It is also open to State funding, like here in California where we are paying for $3 Billion in funding for stem cell research. (Hopefully that turns out well)
So while the federal government is certainly not helping the situation, not everybody's hands are tied yet.
Nintendo obviously only has copyright for 1st party games from previous systems. Which probably means that either the selection will be limited, or it will be a pay service.
I think it will still be a pretty cool feature (very fortunate for Nintendo that their games maxed out at about 20megs before the GC) and will probably turn a lot of heads.
It's worth noting that all 3 criteria must be met for WIPO to grant a transfer: trademark, lack of legitimate interest in domain name, and bad faith registration.
Had the site owner not offered to sell the domain, only the first one would have been satisfied, but I'd say he still has a claim on the domain based on the second criteria, which is probably why they took him to court rather than attempt WIPO arbitration.
A grant is simply a sum of money that has to be used for a specific purpose; and in this case, I would say almost certainly, wasn't from the government.
That would just be the wording somebody threw in to cover their ass in case the power goes out.
In reality most areas have laws that require an EPO (Emergency Power Off) switch to protect people. This is so that when somebody is getting electrocuted, you can cut the power, obviously a UPS that does not get shut off by the EPO switch would be in violation. Any larger UPS system will have EPO contacts, although I doubt many data centers are going to run the EPO switch to your personal UPS.
I think the main difference between bronze, silver, and gold support is simply the response time on hardware replacements (and onsite support if you need it). Gold is something like 4 hour onsite 24/7, Silver is 4 hour 12/5 and bronze is next business day. All phone support is based in America for all business support plans.
It's the consumer level support where they screw you.
I like how Visa's instructions for what to do when there is no signature, instructs the cashier to make the person sign the card, then check to make sure the signature matches that from the receipt they just signed...
I would have to guess that the billion dollars isn't spent on people sitting around counting money, but on people out doing charitable work.
charitynavigator lists Program Expenses at 91.1% of their budget, this amount includes both material costs of doing their work, as well as labor. Administration Expenses is 5.2%, which isn't great considering their budget, it's probably justified.
What you have found is merely sensational journalism (probably not even journalism) that is expressing the statistics in a way they need to make their story.
The Red Cross isn't made up of volunteers, so they do in fact need to pay the people doing the work.
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I know (at least in California) that they can't dock exempt employees for pay if you don't work 40 hours, as long as you at least show up for some part of the day. (They may be able to dock you vacation hours, I'm not clear on that).
Of course most companies will tell you otherwise, including mine.
The batteries are included in the 8 year/100,000 mile warranty (Unless you are in a state that uses California's stricter emission laws, then it is 10 year/150,000 miles)
The batteries are also made of individual replaceable cells, so in theory if a cell goes bad they can replace only that cell.
I'm not sure why I don't see this mentioned yet, but this wikipedia article has a great grid that compares major database systems.
what the hell would a "dependent disk" be other then one thats already in a RAID???
A dependent disk would be one that can not be swaped out of the configuration. With independent disks you can remove one and replace it with a different one and go on about your way.
With RAID, you still have a single point of failure. Instead of it being your hard drive, it is now your RAID controller. So what is the advantage?
For a home RAID system, the advantage is you can replace the RAID controller and still have all of your data. Unless of course the RAID controller corrupts all the data, but I'm not sure I've ever seen that happen.
A source of information with far better content, that isn't simply an excuse to sell ads.
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It's also worth noting that R134a is used in a LOT of different products that simply expel it because it compresses well and therefore is a great propellant.
R134a is also known as Tetrofluoroethane, take a look at that can of compresses air we all have on or around our desk and you'll see that's pretty much all that's in there.
But most of the damanged caused by DU is not due to the fact that it's radioactive at all. It's due to the fact that it's a heavy metal (like lead as the GP pointed out.)
I'd still hold out unless you really need the device. They work pretty well, but they're still somewhat of a pain. Most of the quirks stem from wifi use, but most of the blame can be put on the PocketPC OS. LOTS of things where you just shake or head and wonder why they did it that way, or why there's not more advanced settings.
I haven't heard much about the new version coming out (PocketPC 2005 or perhaps they gave it a new name, there was an article here a while back about the announcement), but I would hope it will be a major improvement. Although the PocketPC OS still has many quirks, and just feels like it hasn't really be flushed out yet, it's still probably the best mobile OS out there for getting practical stuff done, in my opinion at least.
Digital television will likely become much more affordable. Although HDTV is digital, not all digital televisions are HDTV. HDTV's will likely still be only for enthusisits.
The 'x' button is on the x-axis the 'y' button is on the y-axis.
Once you look at it that way it's a lot easier. I'm not saying those two buttons a good idea, just that it's a lot easier if you keep that in mind.
They are not breaking the law if they are given permission by the copyright holder.
Because they said the files were stored on servers while the Google Desktop tool only searches the local computer (You probably wouldn't want 100 computers indexing your network drive anyway).
That being said, I remember a post by somebody who installed the Google Desktop tool on a single machine, and then hacked it up to index the network drives, and did some more tweaking to allow searches from other computers. Esentially creating his own Google Mini (although I wouldn't be suprised if this were against something in the EULA)
Remember also that working with new stem cell lines is NOT illegal in the US, it's just that the federal government won't fund your work if you do.
So the research is still open in the private sector.
It is also open to State funding, like here in California where we are paying for $3 Billion in funding for stem cell research. (Hopefully that turns out well)
So while the federal government is certainly not helping the situation, not everybody's hands are tied yet.
Nintendo obviously only has copyright for 1st party games from previous systems. Which probably means that either the selection will be limited, or it will be a pay service.
I think it will still be a pretty cool feature (very fortunate for Nintendo that their games maxed out at about 20megs before the GC) and will probably turn a lot of heads.
It's worth noting that all 3 criteria must be met for WIPO to grant a transfer: trademark, lack of legitimate interest in domain name, and bad faith registration.
Had the site owner not offered to sell the domain, only the first one would have been satisfied, but I'd say he still has a claim on the domain based on the second criteria, which is probably why they took him to court rather than attempt WIPO arbitration.
Grants are not always from the government...
A grant is simply a sum of money that has to be used for a specific purpose; and in this case, I would say almost certainly, wasn't from the government.
That would just be the wording somebody threw in to cover their ass in case the power goes out.
In reality most areas have laws that require an EPO (Emergency Power Off) switch to protect people. This is so that when somebody is getting electrocuted, you can cut the power, obviously a UPS that does not get shut off by the EPO switch would be in violation. Any larger UPS system will have EPO contacts, although I doubt many data centers are going to run the EPO switch to your personal UPS.
Some part of the executable (the part that does the decryption) could not be encrypted, virus scanners could just look for that part.
I think the main difference between bronze, silver, and gold support is simply the response time on hardware replacements (and onsite support if you need it). Gold is something like 4 hour onsite 24/7, Silver is 4 hour 12/5 and bronze is next business day. All phone support is based in America for all business support plans.
It's the consumer level support where they screw you.
All business support plans are based in America, there was a slashdot article about how they moved them back a year ago.
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Dell Small Business gets free 3-5 day shipping...
It would appear that I do...
I like how Visa's instructions for what to do when there is no signature, instructs the cashier to make the person sign the card, then check to make sure the signature matches that from the receipt they just signed...
I would have to guess that the billion dollars isn't spent on people sitting around counting money, but on people out doing charitable work.
charitynavigator lists Program Expenses at 91.1% of their budget, this amount includes both material costs of doing their work, as well as labor. Administration Expenses is 5.2%, which isn't great considering their budget, it's probably justified.
What you have found is merely sensational journalism (probably not even journalism) that is expressing the statistics in a way they need to make their story.
The Red Cross isn't made up of volunteers, so they do in fact need to pay the people doing the work.