I can only assume the post is talking solely about stouts like Guinness Draught in a nitro-can that has a widget to release nitrogen. There is more to what that widget does than just give the beer a nice creamy head. It gives the entire beer a different mouthfeel, and that's because of the nitrogen, not carbon dioxide (though the beer does already contain carbon dioxide. So, if they want the same effect, you'll still need a widget (or in the case of the bottled Guinness Draught, the proper mix of the gases). However, nitrogen dulls the flavor of the beer. So the effect this story talks about would not leave the beer the same...
The bank has the information, but doesn't store it for you indefinitely like others said. If you need more than the last 3 months, they've got it, but they're likely gonna charge you to access it.
If you really care so much, you'd remember to download it more regularly than once every 3 months. If you can't remember to do it that often, you obviously don't care enough about it.
I would suggest finding a job in a college. It'd be a lateral move, but you would be in a MUCH different environment. I would suggest finding a small college, too. The benefits are great. The pay may not be the best, but most of them offer free tuition. The other benefit is that you usually get to do a whole lot more than just simple support, though support is your main task.
Many universities switching to one of these 3 services generally only move the student email accounts to that service, keeping employees on their own servers. The university is not generally liable for actions of the students (they generally do not act on behalf of the university), only the employees (who do act on behalf of the university).
I actually work tech support in a college (I'm full time). The only people in my department who actually call tech support are telecommunications, managers, and programmers. The worst people at support are the programmers and DBAs who aren't customer friendly (there are some standouts). I pride myself on good customer service (though I admit to having my bad days) and run the helpdesk (which is staffed mainly by non-technical students and myself). If the OP's tech support job was in a college while doing his studies, I can guarantee he didn't follow a script. It's nearly impossible to do with faculty, some of whom want nothing more than a tech at their door, others who want to be talked through everything (even if we have to replace their hardware). I've considered writing a script for my students, but it'd take me a year to do it. I don't have that kind of time and it would never be complete.
In fact, some of the people who work in tech support for us are programmers on their own accord (both full timers and students). I hate the stigma that working tech support brings, but if he worked tech support in a college, the first line is not your standard "hurdle" to get to the really knowledgeable techs.
Actually, you are correct, in a way. Other professionals are true professionals. They have state certification. IT certifications aren't professional certifications like teachers, lawyers, doctors, nurses, engineers, etc. The term "IT Professional" is made up by the industry. We aren't true professionals.
Funny. My car dealer charges less than the local garage to get my oil changed ($20 vs $30). I'm sure I could do it on my own, but I'm paying for convenience.
Apple charging what they do for ram (I got a Macbook Pro at work, we priced out upgrading the ram to 4 GB and they charged like $500-600 for the upgrade, but we got it from CDW for like $200) is gouging plain and simple. That's with any discounts they gave us.
My guess is that the 71.4% is in their homes. It's possible to use email without having internet access in your home. Many schools use in house email for their students and teachers to communicate. Many people have access in public libraries. And still others go to the homes of friends or family who have internet.
Also, without surveying every single person, you will never get an exact number. I doubt either of the stats (from your link, which doesn't include Mexico in North America, or from the article) are perfectly correct. Then there are the variables that I mentioned above. You need to define email. SMS can technically be considered email. Nothing in there says in general or just at home. Until those questions are answered, you won't have a better approximation. Usually, these types of stats refer to usage in home (at least in reference to having access to the internet).
I've been working in a Helpdesk environment now for about 4 and a half years, having moved my way up to manager. I work in a college. I have a staff of 2 part time employees and 1 full time employee who works at night. I have a staff of somewhere between 60 and 70 students depending on the year. Because I work in a smaller college with a small IT department, I have my hands in all sorts of various places. Perhaps it's because our department promotes learning (could be because it's a college), perhaps it's just the fact that my manager and department head recognize my strengths and want to put them to good use.
I don't see it as a dead end job. I see it as a path towards management or maybe even something else. In addition to managing the Helpdesk, I also maintain the IT department website and will be implementing some cool new tools for us to use for support.
How is publishing his own original research a breach of ethics? Professors everywhere already do just that. Most do it in journals related to their field, while some may also publish a book or something similar based on that research.
And since when are all college courses simply "standard knowledge in a field"? Clearly, you have not taken any higher level college courses beyond the requirements for a bachelors degree. Professors teaching a doctorate, or sometimes even masters, level course most definitely teach based on their own original research. I've even taken undergraduate courses with professors who taught based on their own research to a certain degree. In that case, it was only to enhance the "standard knowledge", but in many graduate level courses, it's the original research that is being taught.
I will say that I do agree that this whole copyrighting of lecture notes is a bit crazy, but only when you consider that some entrepreneurial student might try to sell their lecture notes from this class, which I consider to be legally questionable in the first place, regardless of whether or not a professor is doing it himself.
the back exit is almost always behind the wings. the jetway never goes beyond the wings, and i imagine with security being what it is, they wouldn't want average people on the ground outside the airport.
southwest claims that their seating method is the fastest in the business. generally, the A group passengers get seats rather quickly (no one cares about the row or seat number). the C group is the slowest because they have to find and fill in the empty seats.
i always wondered why other airlines usually board front to back. i HATE that first class boards first. not only do you have people who think they're important sitting already, but the flight attendants are also usually helping them with stuff and getting their food and drink orders while the other passengers are boarding, getting in the way of the other passengers. planes should always be boarded back to front, including first class.
as for getting you out faster, it does. at most airports, you're not in the take off queue until your plane is fully boarded and ready to go. at those airports that have delays, if the planes were boarded more quickly, you're more likely to take off sooner if you get boarded sooner.
yeah, i had that problem. i would get calls at like 8:30 at night or on sundays (times when i thought they weren't allowed to call) and the bitch on the phone smuggly said that she was allowed to call even after i mentioned i was on the do not call list. i told her to fuck off. the calls i hate the most are from joey zamboni from the fraternal order of police (i live in a very italian area) telling me about how they can't afford things like allowing their kids to play little league. i have just taken to hanging up on those guys now. i also get a lot of calls that are obviously dialed by a machine and the person who is supposed to be there takes 3 seconds to say something. instead of staying on the line, if i don't get an immediate response after i answer, i just hang up. my fiancee thinks i'm crazy, but if they really cared about talking to me, they'd dial the number themselves.
seriously though, i don't think it's a free speech issue if the do not call list prevents charities, surveys, and political calls. perhaps the do not call list should give you a list of types of calls that you can opt out of.
By reading an email you don't necessarily have to read the whole thing. He can claim he stopped before the footer/sig. Also, he can claim he never agreed to any confidentiality agreements since they should have come before reading any confidential information. Finally, he could have just thought the sender was a whistleblower. However, I am not a lawyer, so I could be way off on this.
that's exactly correct. generally, people getting paid hourly have their timesheets scrutinized to make sure that they're not adding extra hours in there or working extra just to get some overtime. in fact, there might not be a whole lot of overtime and it may not be approved (generally working more than the standard work week for someone paid hourly must be approved by a supervisor).
i'd say what IBM did is pretty standard. they budgeted for a certain amount of pay, knowing their employees do work more than 40 hours a week at times. however, i'd be willing to bet that they work less overtime than would equate to the 15% pay cut. IBM had to do it for budgeting purposes, and i'd side with IBM on this one.
i was actually lucky. i was switched from salary to hourly because of the overtime laws and they kept my pay the same. i ended up actually making more money that year (just a year because then i got a promotion to an exempt position) than i did the previous year.
the second i read that i knew what it meant (considering it was called "project spotlight"). if a university president can't understand that it means take a picture with a camera, then he probably doesn't deserve his position to begin with.
the president wanted to shut this kid up. gave the false notion that he would go to therapy and when approved be allowed back in. when the kid went through therapy with flying colors and didn't shut up about the parking garages, the president did a 180 and wouldn't allow the student back.
what the kid should really be looking into is the school's counselor who violated their professional obligation to not share information about their clients except in extenuating circumstances (such as the client admitting to murder). however, fearing for his/her job when the president met with him/her, i'm sure he/she just crumbled under pressure and said whatever the president wanted to hear.
exactly. his views are not libertarian other than he thinks the states should decide everything. true libertarians believe in personal responsibility and ron paul would want the states to ban abortion even if the federal gov't doesn't have a say in it. true libertarians would be pro-choice, leaving the decision to the parents (i'm pro-choice, only in that i don't think the law should say anything about abortion, though i am anti-abortion and don't think people should use it as contraceptive, you screw around and get pregnant, suck it up and face the consequences).
the threat of veto is actually quite powerful. look at it now with a democratic congress that has too few votes to override the veto. the only case where a president has no power is when congress is so overpowering that even a veto doesn't work.
the president also has a lot of influence over what happens in congress. look at the war spending bills that never made it. because of the veto, bush got everything he wanted. i don't see congress going so far to the democrats that they can get anything they want signed into law.
i think a vote for hillary is stupid. she's got about as much charisma as gore (who still lacks it even though he's become some sort of superhero for people). she's a politician and doesn't really care about much other than her political career. the same can be said about obama, but he seems to be a bit more genuine.
ron paul, while he claims to be a libertarian is so far against actual rights and progress that i don't consider him to be a good candidate. sure, he might want the states to decide everything, but he also has the power to put a hardcore right winger in the supreme court (another power of the president that's pretty important).
i'm still all about dennis kucinich, who has no chance at winning, so my vote may end up going towards obama (the guy kucinich said to vote for). though i wouldn't mind seeing john edwards win either. i think the dream team would be obama/edwards.
Why do you have to ask the producer how they want the attribution to be recorded? Simply putting a note under it saying "image by John Doe" or "original by John Doe" if you have made alterations is attribution. The license does not say you must record it in the manner in which the producer wishes, that defeats the purpose.
So while it's generally better to ask permission regardless of the license (it not only verifies you have permission, but gives you a written record of the permission to help if they decide to try to screw you with the previously mentioned scam), it's not necessary.
Apple will be moving forward when they drop DRM from all the media sold through iTunes. Until then, there isn't a whole ton of innovation coming from Apple. What was new and innovative about Leopard? Oh right... the desktop background (I use Leopard everyday on a Macbook Pro, for the record). Leopard doesn't do anything for me that Vista couldn't.
I left out the Wii because it's a different product. Most people I know are not buying Wii's instead of XBox 360's, but rather in addition to them. In fact, I know some people with both of those and a PS3 (they've got a lot of disposable income). Those I know with both the XBox and the Wii play the XBox more often and use the Wii either for kids or for parties and use the XBox for the more hardcore gaming (the crowd which prefers it to the Wii).
As for MS losing money on the XBox, the success is in the marketshare. They're selling them at a loss to get them out there while Apple is laughing at people buying iPods and iPhones at a HUGE markup. That's why Apple products always turn a profit, they're marked up more than comparable products (yes, the Apple computer price premium is real, and the hardware is nothing special).
I'm one of those people who uses Word as mostly an "electronic typewriter". I have found the new version easier to find stuff than previous versions. On that rare occasion that you need a special function, it's easier to find than digging through the menus of the previous versions.
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That's my view. But Guinness Draught is quite popular.
I can only assume the post is talking solely about stouts like Guinness Draught in a nitro-can that has a widget to release nitrogen. There is more to what that widget does than just give the beer a nice creamy head. It gives the entire beer a different mouthfeel, and that's because of the nitrogen, not carbon dioxide (though the beer does already contain carbon dioxide. So, if they want the same effect, you'll still need a widget (or in the case of the bottled Guinness Draught, the proper mix of the gases). However, nitrogen dulls the flavor of the beer. So the effect this story talks about would not leave the beer the same...
The bank has the information, but doesn't store it for you indefinitely like others said. If you need more than the last 3 months, they've got it, but they're likely gonna charge you to access it.
If you really care so much, you'd remember to download it more regularly than once every 3 months. If you can't remember to do it that often, you obviously don't care enough about it.
I would suggest finding a job in a college. It'd be a lateral move, but you would be in a MUCH different environment. I would suggest finding a small college, too. The benefits are great. The pay may not be the best, but most of them offer free tuition. The other benefit is that you usually get to do a whole lot more than just simple support, though support is your main task.
Many universities switching to one of these 3 services generally only move the student email accounts to that service, keeping employees on their own servers. The university is not generally liable for actions of the students (they generally do not act on behalf of the university), only the employees (who do act on behalf of the university).
I actually work tech support in a college (I'm full time). The only people in my department who actually call tech support are telecommunications, managers, and programmers. The worst people at support are the programmers and DBAs who aren't customer friendly (there are some standouts). I pride myself on good customer service (though I admit to having my bad days) and run the helpdesk (which is staffed mainly by non-technical students and myself). If the OP's tech support job was in a college while doing his studies, I can guarantee he didn't follow a script. It's nearly impossible to do with faculty, some of whom want nothing more than a tech at their door, others who want to be talked through everything (even if we have to replace their hardware). I've considered writing a script for my students, but it'd take me a year to do it. I don't have that kind of time and it would never be complete.
In fact, some of the people who work in tech support for us are programmers on their own accord (both full timers and students). I hate the stigma that working tech support brings, but if he worked tech support in a college, the first line is not your standard "hurdle" to get to the really knowledgeable techs.
Actually, you are correct, in a way. Other professionals are true professionals. They have state certification. IT certifications aren't professional certifications like teachers, lawyers, doctors, nurses, engineers, etc. The term "IT Professional" is made up by the industry. We aren't true professionals.
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Funny. My car dealer charges less than the local garage to get my oil changed ($20 vs $30). I'm sure I could do it on my own, but I'm paying for convenience.
Apple charging what they do for ram (I got a Macbook Pro at work, we priced out upgrading the ram to 4 GB and they charged like $500-600 for the upgrade, but we got it from CDW for like $200) is gouging plain and simple. That's with any discounts they gave us.
My guess is that the 71.4% is in their homes. It's possible to use email without having internet access in your home. Many schools use in house email for their students and teachers to communicate. Many people have access in public libraries. And still others go to the homes of friends or family who have internet.
Also, without surveying every single person, you will never get an exact number. I doubt either of the stats (from your link, which doesn't include Mexico in North America, or from the article) are perfectly correct. Then there are the variables that I mentioned above. You need to define email. SMS can technically be considered email. Nothing in there says in general or just at home. Until those questions are answered, you won't have a better approximation. Usually, these types of stats refer to usage in home (at least in reference to having access to the internet).
I've been working in a Helpdesk environment now for about 4 and a half years, having moved my way up to manager. I work in a college. I have a staff of 2 part time employees and 1 full time employee who works at night. I have a staff of somewhere between 60 and 70 students depending on the year. Because I work in a smaller college with a small IT department, I have my hands in all sorts of various places. Perhaps it's because our department promotes learning (could be because it's a college), perhaps it's just the fact that my manager and department head recognize my strengths and want to put them to good use.
I don't see it as a dead end job. I see it as a path towards management or maybe even something else. In addition to managing the Helpdesk, I also maintain the IT department website and will be implementing some cool new tools for us to use for support.
Dell may not have them, but HP does.
How is publishing his own original research a breach of ethics? Professors everywhere already do just that. Most do it in journals related to their field, while some may also publish a book or something similar based on that research.
And since when are all college courses simply "standard knowledge in a field"? Clearly, you have not taken any higher level college courses beyond the requirements for a bachelors degree. Professors teaching a doctorate, or sometimes even masters, level course most definitely teach based on their own original research. I've even taken undergraduate courses with professors who taught based on their own research to a certain degree. In that case, it was only to enhance the "standard knowledge", but in many graduate level courses, it's the original research that is being taught.
I will say that I do agree that this whole copyrighting of lecture notes is a bit crazy, but only when you consider that some entrepreneurial student might try to sell their lecture notes from this class, which I consider to be legally questionable in the first place, regardless of whether or not a professor is doing it himself.
the back exit is almost always behind the wings. the jetway never goes beyond the wings, and i imagine with security being what it is, they wouldn't want average people on the ground outside the airport.
southwest claims that their seating method is the fastest in the business. generally, the A group passengers get seats rather quickly (no one cares about the row or seat number). the C group is the slowest because they have to find and fill in the empty seats.
i always wondered why other airlines usually board front to back. i HATE that first class boards first. not only do you have people who think they're important sitting already, but the flight attendants are also usually helping them with stuff and getting their food and drink orders while the other passengers are boarding, getting in the way of the other passengers. planes should always be boarded back to front, including first class.
as for getting you out faster, it does. at most airports, you're not in the take off queue until your plane is fully boarded and ready to go. at those airports that have delays, if the planes were boarded more quickly, you're more likely to take off sooner if you get boarded sooner.
yeah, i had that problem. i would get calls at like 8:30 at night or on sundays (times when i thought they weren't allowed to call) and the bitch on the phone smuggly said that she was allowed to call even after i mentioned i was on the do not call list. i told her to fuck off. the calls i hate the most are from joey zamboni from the fraternal order of police (i live in a very italian area) telling me about how they can't afford things like allowing their kids to play little league. i have just taken to hanging up on those guys now. i also get a lot of calls that are obviously dialed by a machine and the person who is supposed to be there takes 3 seconds to say something. instead of staying on the line, if i don't get an immediate response after i answer, i just hang up. my fiancee thinks i'm crazy, but if they really cared about talking to me, they'd dial the number themselves.
seriously though, i don't think it's a free speech issue if the do not call list prevents charities, surveys, and political calls. perhaps the do not call list should give you a list of types of calls that you can opt out of.
By reading an email you don't necessarily have to read the whole thing. He can claim he stopped before the footer/sig. Also, he can claim he never agreed to any confidentiality agreements since they should have come before reading any confidential information. Finally, he could have just thought the sender was a whistleblower. However, I am not a lawyer, so I could be way off on this.
That's exactly how I would vote. I'm actually hoping that if it's McCain and Clinton that Bloomberg runs. I'd vote for him.
Even more amusingly, I have heard the exact opposite from diehard Democrats that if it comes down McCain or Clinton, they'd go for McCain.
that's exactly correct. generally, people getting paid hourly have their timesheets scrutinized to make sure that they're not adding extra hours in there or working extra just to get some overtime. in fact, there might not be a whole lot of overtime and it may not be approved (generally working more than the standard work week for someone paid hourly must be approved by a supervisor).
i'd say what IBM did is pretty standard. they budgeted for a certain amount of pay, knowing their employees do work more than 40 hours a week at times. however, i'd be willing to bet that they work less overtime than would equate to the 15% pay cut. IBM had to do it for budgeting purposes, and i'd side with IBM on this one.
i was actually lucky. i was switched from salary to hourly because of the overtime laws and they kept my pay the same. i ended up actually making more money that year (just a year because then i got a promotion to an exempt position) than i did the previous year.
they're stretching... that's why.
the second i read that i knew what it meant (considering it was called "project spotlight"). if a university president can't understand that it means take a picture with a camera, then he probably doesn't deserve his position to begin with.
the president wanted to shut this kid up. gave the false notion that he would go to therapy and when approved be allowed back in. when the kid went through therapy with flying colors and didn't shut up about the parking garages, the president did a 180 and wouldn't allow the student back.
what the kid should really be looking into is the school's counselor who violated their professional obligation to not share information about their clients except in extenuating circumstances (such as the client admitting to murder). however, fearing for his/her job when the president met with him/her, i'm sure he/she just crumbled under pressure and said whatever the president wanted to hear.
exactly. his views are not libertarian other than he thinks the states should decide everything. true libertarians believe in personal responsibility and ron paul would want the states to ban abortion even if the federal gov't doesn't have a say in it. true libertarians would be pro-choice, leaving the decision to the parents (i'm pro-choice, only in that i don't think the law should say anything about abortion, though i am anti-abortion and don't think people should use it as contraceptive, you screw around and get pregnant, suck it up and face the consequences).
the threat of veto is actually quite powerful. look at it now with a democratic congress that has too few votes to override the veto. the only case where a president has no power is when congress is so overpowering that even a veto doesn't work.
the president also has a lot of influence over what happens in congress. look at the war spending bills that never made it. because of the veto, bush got everything he wanted. i don't see congress going so far to the democrats that they can get anything they want signed into law.
i think a vote for hillary is stupid. she's got about as much charisma as gore (who still lacks it even though he's become some sort of superhero for people). she's a politician and doesn't really care about much other than her political career. the same can be said about obama, but he seems to be a bit more genuine.
ron paul, while he claims to be a libertarian is so far against actual rights and progress that i don't consider him to be a good candidate. sure, he might want the states to decide everything, but he also has the power to put a hardcore right winger in the supreme court (another power of the president that's pretty important).
i'm still all about dennis kucinich, who has no chance at winning, so my vote may end up going towards obama (the guy kucinich said to vote for). though i wouldn't mind seeing john edwards win either. i think the dream team would be obama/edwards.
Why do you have to ask the producer how they want the attribution to be recorded? Simply putting a note under it saying "image by John Doe" or "original by John Doe" if you have made alterations is attribution. The license does not say you must record it in the manner in which the producer wishes, that defeats the purpose.
So while it's generally better to ask permission regardless of the license (it not only verifies you have permission, but gives you a written record of the permission to help if they decide to try to screw you with the previously mentioned scam), it's not necessary.
Apple will be moving forward when they drop DRM from all the media sold through iTunes. Until then, there isn't a whole ton of innovation coming from Apple. What was new and innovative about Leopard? Oh right... the desktop background (I use Leopard everyday on a Macbook Pro, for the record). Leopard doesn't do anything for me that Vista couldn't.
I left out the Wii because it's a different product. Most people I know are not buying Wii's instead of XBox 360's, but rather in addition to them. In fact, I know some people with both of those and a PS3 (they've got a lot of disposable income). Those I know with both the XBox and the Wii play the XBox more often and use the Wii either for kids or for parties and use the XBox for the more hardcore gaming (the crowd which prefers it to the Wii).
As for MS losing money on the XBox, the success is in the marketshare. They're selling them at a loss to get them out there while Apple is laughing at people buying iPods and iPhones at a HUGE markup. That's why Apple products always turn a profit, they're marked up more than comparable products (yes, the Apple computer price premium is real, and the hardware is nothing special).
I'm one of those people who uses Word as mostly an "electronic typewriter". I have found the new version easier to find stuff than previous versions. On that rare occasion that you need a special function, it's easier to find than digging through the menus of the previous versions.