If this happened to me and Apple/Amazon helped me recover my device I would be quite grateful. In the end I would be more loyal to them, purchase more of their products and be less critical of their failings in the future. It is quite expensive to get a new customer, and if you can retain a customer at low cost you have save that money replacing or regaining them.
I attended Beloit, I think before they came up with the mindset list. The computer was fed with punch cards to program in Fortran I think. It was located in the basement of 1890's former science building (now the student union). Any other alum's read slashdot?
With the economy going into the tank my company changed its vacation policy. We use to earn x weeks per year (earning a few days each month) and could keep a bank of 6 weeks (and then lost days if we had a full bank). Apparently this vacation time appears as a liability on the books so it saves the company money if we all take our vacation. So the new rule is you have to consume all your earned vacation plus your bank by the end of 2010. Starting in 2011 you will earn x weeks per year and must use it all up that year - you do get your full x weeks at the beginning of the year.
This has freed me to actually take vacation time. Before the culture was to not take much vacation - reasons listed by others here. But now the new rules allow me to take the time and screw the workload. I have to miss certain meetings - well so be it. I now take 1.5 days off each week religiously, and any other day I have the whim (I need to use 9.5 weeks of vacation in 2009 and 2010). Every excuse to take time off is taken advantage of. Probably the only lemonade I can think of from the lemons coming from the economy. Not sure what I am going to do in 2011 when I only get 6 weeks.
It cost about 2.3 Billion per launch in 1970 dollars for the Saturn V rocket . And I think you could only get two people down to the moon at a shot. So the land is not that cheap.
Which leads me to : My COBOL programming wife is still looking for a job. I sent her to the USPS web site to see if they still need programmers. We are not seeing many jobs otherwise, despite everyone saying "companies are hiring back their COBOL programmers". I think the jobs all went to India.
The rich ones thought they were getting what they thought they deserved - high returns from being in the club. Rich seem to have access to investments that the average person does not (IPOs schemes for example). There have been many scandals along these lines. Then the charities and pension funds were just looking for a good return and probably thought they had gotten lucky to get refered to Maddof by their rich contacts.
Its not that hard to believe that they did not suspect anything was wrong. He used great tactics (by referral only - an exclusive club).
I am glad you posted the victims list. I also see things like a city pension fund (Fairfield CT employees board and police and fire board, which cover 971 workers, had $41.9 million invested with Madoff) and Fire and Police Pension Association of Colorado. Investments of thousands of workers now gone or significantly down. There are many more little guys affected than these other posters are acknowledging. Plus the businesses or charities completely shut down as you mentioned, so their employees suffer. This kind of fraud does matter.
They also don't have a standing army. I lived there for months at a time as a kid. Have to get use to the Tico mentality, nothing is worth getting too excited about, so things happen slowly. I think it would be a great place to retire.
I have heard that NZ is not all that anxious to let foreigners immigrate (same as here in the US BTW). If you have enough money you can buy your way in, yet this is getting harder. And if you are a highly skilled migrant you can get in. But I suspect during a global recession the urgent need for migrant labor might be diminished.
My wife was in IT at a large company. For testing purposes they had a set of data for fake employees that contained enough data to provide good testing.
There is a reason the press is considered the fourth estate . They serve a role in our society that bloggers and news consolidators do not yet fulfill. Think of the various investigative reports and whistleblower services each good local paper provides. These checks on the system only work when the published report is widely read and available (to be picked up by TV and national media), which is not the case for electronic systems. I think no electronic location has mindshare enough, and generates enough cash to support the staff for this function. In my area all the best reporters have been laid off during the recession and are showing up on a good blog MinnPost. But they can't find a business model or audience (although you can donate to them to help as I have done). But very few of the readers of the papers know that MinnPost exists, it took me quite a bit of time myself. My plea is to consider what happens along these lines when the audience is fragmented to many many blogs with a niche perspective or audience. As an example, Michelle Bachman is my congresswoman and without the papers her silliness would go unnoticed - ironically I am going to link a blog so you can see what I mean, but these all came out in the papers for the entire district to see. The press may be the only think keeping her from the deep end.
BTW the largest electronic readership web site is that of the paper, but without the print edition I am not sure the online edition would survive long.
This whole thread is a deja-vu moment for my wife, a COBOL programmer. She went through being ripped off by Arthur Anderson (Accenture now) for the HR system at her company. They had to also go through more than one COTS + consultancy to finally end up on Peoplesoft. So these are her comments:
1. Find out what other Big Ten universities have implemented, pick the best and use that one.
2. Run away from Accenture. If they rip off everyone they work with, who do they use for references for the next job?
She is looking for a job, where are all the job postings for COBOL programmers? Seriously, there do not see to be any jobs. I think the consultants have feed the clients a line about there not being any programmers for the legacy system (to scare them into the new solutions). So everyone thinks these people don't exist, so no one posts for the jobs. She is only 50, plenty of years to work fixing these systems.
My sister lost her sense of smell after a bad cold. She can't smell natural gas, so this can be a serious issue. Later I read the smell of fire or burning things is quite useful as well. She had to get special natural gas detectors for her house (like smoke detectors - a loud shrill when set off). She mentions that food has no taste either.
No sarcasm intended. The computer is worth the price in my opinion, so it has the value to me. I don't try to convert people, it is a personal decision. I have never had an issue with maintenance costs. At work my employer uses PC's bought at a lower price, but has the added cost of keeping the entire company virus free. We get weekly updates on some software with bug fixes, but my company has to push this onto our computers. We also have virus updates very often (separate from the software updates). Last month they were searching a campus of 10K units looking for one computer, not issued by IT that someone was bringing into our network randomly, but infecting the network each time they connected. My work computer takes 15 minutes to boot up and about 5 minutes to shut down - I understand from others this is not the XP standard times, but due to all the stuff to prevent virus infiltration. I don't have the time, skills nor desire to do this type of work at home so I use a Mac. I suspect there are some on slashdot using Linux for similar reasons.
I agree with this post. As a Mac owner I am glad, for whatever reason, viruses are of no concern to me. On my work computer my employer can spend whatever they want to support XP (and it is a great deal of money). But at home I get to relax, and ignore the issue completely.
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I really liked the link, it really helped me get an overview. These great links are a great benefit of following slashdot.
The plaintiffs are scientists, engineers and administrative workers at JPL, which is operated jointly by the California Institute of Technology and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Like the vast majority of JPL employees, they do not have or need security clearances, and have been identified by the government as holding âoenon-sensitiveâ positions.
I had to read further and deeper through the links to find this comment. So these people not needing security clearance were subjected to the expansive and open ended review permitted by the HSPD #12.
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If this happened to me and Apple/Amazon helped me recover my device I would be quite grateful. In the end I would be more loyal to them, purchase more of their products and be less critical of their failings in the future. It is quite expensive to get a new customer, and if you can retain a customer at low cost you have save that money replacing or regaining them.
Exactly. The "accuracy" problem of the iphone app is nonsense. The printed schedule is not accurate either.
I attended Beloit, I think before they came up with the mindset list. The computer was fed with punch cards to program in Fortran I think. It was located in the basement of 1890's former science building (now the student union). Any other alum's read slashdot?
With the economy going into the tank my company changed its vacation policy. We use to earn x weeks per year (earning a few days each month) and could keep a bank of 6 weeks (and then lost days if we had a full bank). Apparently this vacation time appears as a liability on the books so it saves the company money if we all take our vacation. So the new rule is you have to consume all your earned vacation plus your bank by the end of 2010. Starting in 2011 you will earn x weeks per year and must use it all up that year - you do get your full x weeks at the beginning of the year.
This has freed me to actually take vacation time. Before the culture was to not take much vacation - reasons listed by others here. But now the new rules allow me to take the time and screw the workload. I have to miss certain meetings - well so be it. I now take 1.5 days off each week religiously, and any other day I have the whim (I need to use 9.5 weeks of vacation in 2009 and 2010). Every excuse to take time off is taken advantage of. Probably the only lemonade I can think of from the lemons coming from the economy. Not sure what I am going to do in 2011 when I only get 6 weeks.
I pretty sure the actual contract contains both a clause about earning of vacation AND a clause about how much total vacation you can have in total.
So what they are doing is legal because it is in the contract.
Doh.....
How in the hell did he get that snowplow job! I applied for that job too, I was sure I had it.....
We have Landesk on our PC's at work. I never knew what it was for. You learn quite a bit from slashdot.
We lost the ability to make a Saturn V and have substituted the Ares V rocket, which is under development, so we still have those up-front costs.
It cost about 2.3 Billion per launch in 1970 dollars for the Saturn V rocket . And I think you could only get two people down to the moon at a shot. So the land is not that cheap.
Or you lost your job and a COBOL job opened up.
Which leads me to : My COBOL programming wife is still looking for a job. I sent her to the USPS web site to see if they still need programmers. We are not seeing many jobs otherwise, despite everyone saying "companies are hiring back their COBOL programmers". I think the jobs all went to India.
The rich ones thought they were getting what they thought they deserved - high returns from being in the club. Rich seem to have access to investments that the average person does not (IPOs schemes for example). There have been many scandals along these lines. Then the charities and pension funds were just looking for a good return and probably thought they had gotten lucky to get refered to Maddof by their rich contacts.
Its not that hard to believe that they did not suspect anything was wrong. He used great tactics (by referral only - an exclusive club).
I am glad you posted the victims list. I also see things like a city pension fund (Fairfield CT employees board and police and fire board, which cover 971 workers, had $41.9 million invested with Madoff) and Fire and Police Pension Association of Colorado. Investments of thousands of workers now gone or significantly down. There are many more little guys affected than these other posters are acknowledging. Plus the businesses or charities completely shut down as you mentioned, so their employees suffer. This kind of fraud does matter.
They also don't have a standing army. I lived there for months at a time as a kid. Have to get use to the Tico mentality, nothing is worth getting too excited about, so things happen slowly. I think it would be a great place to retire.
I have heard that NZ is not all that anxious to let foreigners immigrate (same as here in the US BTW). If you have enough money you can buy your way in, yet this is getting harder. And if you are a highly skilled migrant you can get in. But I suspect during a global recession the urgent need for migrant labor might be diminished.
My wife was in IT at a large company. For testing purposes they had a set of data for fake employees that contained enough data to provide good testing.
In a twist there is a great restaurant in Boston where they purposely insult you.
There is a reason the press is considered the fourth estate . They serve a role in our society that bloggers and news consolidators do not yet fulfill. Think of the various investigative reports and whistleblower services each good local paper provides. These checks on the system only work when the published report is widely read and available (to be picked up by TV and national media), which is not the case for electronic systems. I think no electronic location has mindshare enough, and generates enough cash to support the staff for this function. In my area all the best reporters have been laid off during the recession and are showing up on a good blog MinnPost. But they can't find a business model or audience (although you can donate to them to help as I have done). But very few of the readers of the papers know that MinnPost exists, it took me quite a bit of time myself. My plea is to consider what happens along these lines when the audience is fragmented to many many blogs with a niche perspective or audience. As an example, Michelle Bachman is my congresswoman and without the papers her silliness would go unnoticed - ironically I am going to link a blog so you can see what I mean, but these all came out in the papers for the entire district to see. The press may be the only think keeping her from the deep end.
BTW the largest electronic readership web site is that of the paper, but without the print edition I am not sure the online edition would survive long.
Thanks, I sent along your note.
This whole thread is a deja-vu moment for my wife, a COBOL programmer. She went through being ripped off by Arthur Anderson (Accenture now) for the HR system at her company. They had to also go through more than one COTS + consultancy to finally end up on Peoplesoft. So these are her comments:
1. Find out what other Big Ten universities have implemented, pick the best and use that one.
2. Run away from Accenture. If they rip off everyone they work with, who do they use for references for the next job?
She is looking for a job, where are all the job postings for COBOL programmers? Seriously, there do not see to be any jobs. I think the consultants have feed the clients a line about there not being any programmers for the legacy system (to scare them into the new solutions). So everyone thinks these people don't exist, so no one posts for the jobs. She is only 50, plenty of years to work fixing these systems.
My sister lost her sense of smell after a bad cold. She can't smell natural gas, so this can be a serious issue. Later I read the smell of fire or burning things is quite useful as well. She had to get special natural gas detectors for her house (like smoke detectors - a loud shrill when set off). She mentions that food has no taste either.
No sarcasm intended. The computer is worth the price in my opinion, so it has the value to me. I don't try to convert people, it is a personal decision. I have never had an issue with maintenance costs. At work my employer uses PC's bought at a lower price, but has the added cost of keeping the entire company virus free. We get weekly updates on some software with bug fixes, but my company has to push this onto our computers. We also have virus updates very often (separate from the software updates). Last month they were searching a campus of 10K units looking for one computer, not issued by IT that someone was bringing into our network randomly, but infecting the network each time they connected. My work computer takes 15 minutes to boot up and about 5 minutes to shut down - I understand from others this is not the XP standard times, but due to all the stuff to prevent virus infiltration. I don't have the time, skills nor desire to do this type of work at home so I use a Mac. I suspect there are some on slashdot using Linux for similar reasons.
I agree with this post. As a Mac owner I am glad, for whatever reason, viruses are of no concern to me. On my work computer my employer can spend whatever they want to support XP (and it is a great deal of money). But at home I get to relax, and ignore the issue completely.
I really liked the link, it really helped me get an overview. These great links are a great benefit of following slashdot.
The plaintiffs are scientists, engineers and administrative workers at JPL, which is operated jointly by the California Institute of Technology and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Like the vast majority of JPL employees, they do not have or need security clearances, and have been identified by the government as holding âoenon-sensitiveâ positions.
I had to read further and deeper through the links to find this comment. So these people not needing security clearance were subjected to the expansive and open ended review permitted by the HSPD #12.