Man, that's something. When I renew my drivers license (or license plates) I have never had to wait more than I'd say one minute at the most. There has never been more than one person in front of me and if that one person is there, then another clerk comes out from the back to help me.
Of course, I live in a small town in Canada so maybe we're just more efficient around here or something.
Craig's List, or The Want Advertiser, are for personal advertising while the other type of site is for commercial advertising. There are plenty of "business-to-business" portals out there as well, where various commmercial businesses advertise their services to other commercial businesses. For example, if I needed to contract a municipal sewer service outfit, I would likely hit one of those sites to find out who's providing that service in my district. Most people won't care and would find a site like that completely irrelevant if they were just doing a Google search for someone to clean their septic tank. But the Village of Lower Bottomly would be the target market for that website. One offers a useful service, while the other is a scam. Something in our mind allows us to easily discern the two types of sites from eachother.
Something like defining obscenity, then? I can't define it but I know it when I see it? Tough to put into a regulation, as I said.
What we need is for ICANN to creates rules which state a domain name can't point to a place with more than 50% of the page devoted to adverts.
Pretty tough to define. What about a web page run by a "free classified ad paper" of the type that you pick up in gas stations. All they have is classified ads and some paid display ads. That's their product. What if they put up a web page with the content of the paper on it as well?
Here is a perfectly legitimate website of that nature, and it is at least 95% ads of one kind or another.
typing is really a skill that no longer matters. It certainly helps in day-to-day computer tasks, but it's no longer a make or break skill for IT and office people.
That depends entirely on the job. A friend of mine has several people typing classified ads all day, and typing is pretty much all that they do. Listen to the answering machine messages, type the ads as the callers dictate them. Enter the caller's phone number, move to the next ad.
I'm sure there are many other data entry type jobs that are similar to the jobs that he has too.
I just set up a new server for a client a couple of weeks ago. It has such a brilliant red light for the hard drive busy light that his secretaries started complaining about the distracting flashing light in the corner. He put a piece of electrical tape over it.
I've never seen such a bright LED on anything before. You could use it for a very good flashlight; I'm sure it would illuminate the whole room if the lights were off.
Why do we need such a brilliant light for a hard drive busy light?
My cellphone has a button on the outside that turns the volume of the ringer down. And even at its loudest setting, I can barely hear it ringing, especially if it's under my jacket. (I usually clip the thing on my belt.) Oddly enough, there doesn't appear to be a button on the outside to turn the ringer up, just down. So turning it up involves going through three levels of menus to get to the Ringer Volume thingy, and then hitting the up-arrow until it goes back to the top.
I suspect you can enter cents because you can also make payments through that ATM. At the Credit Union that I deal with, you can pay your electric, natural gas and phone bill through the ATM. Just hit the "Make payment" menu option, enter the payment amount and which account to take it out of (saving or chequing) and put the payment stub portion of the bill in one of the supplied envelopes and put it in the slot.
And which of those 994,000 links would you recommend? Useful and accurate information ~= lots of links on Google, especially for what is apparently a niche subject like COBOL.
I submitted this as an "ask Slashdot" a while back but it was rejected:
How would one go about learning COBOL today? After reading about it off and on for years, I have become interested in learning some basic COBOL. What books or resources would you recommend, and what compilers are available for Linux that generate good COBOL?
There do indeed seem to be less and less people who know anything about COBOL, but there also seems to be a dwindling supply of COBOL materials to work with and learn from.
I'm pretty sure I saw something on just exactly this point not too long ago regarding electric drills. Makita, perhaps? A pretty good brand of tool, anyway. The Walmart version looked identical to the hardware store version in every way, but it had plastic gears instead of the metal gears in the hardware store version.
When I tune my radio to any station I am not charged.
Obviously you are not a subscriber to Sirius and the like. And you don't listen to any of the radio stations that come with your cable tv connection...
Eh? I pay for very nearly everything "significant" by cheque, and in at least 50% of those cases, I mail that cheque. Power, natural gas, phone bill, all of that -- I get a bill in the mail, I put a cheque in the mail.
you'll need that $39.95 AV renewal collection trade line on your credit report cleared up before you buy your next car or refinance your home.
Why?
At risk of sounding trollish (which I am not, really) why not buy what you can afford, when you can afford to buy it, pay for it and take it home?
What's this rush for everyone to buy on credit and make payments forever and ever afterward? Some people are still paying for their dishwasher (or whatever) long after that appliance has died and been replaced with yet another buy-on-credit machine.
Your parents and grandparents didn't sign up for "easy credit" all over town. Why are you in such a rush to do so, and mortgage your future earnings in that way?
I'm sure you've seen every other freaking movie and tvshow and song that the rest of us have. Hippocrite.
I don't know about him, but I don't even own a TV. I haven't watched broadcast (or cable) television since about 1985.
As for movies, I own a movie theatre. I watch pretty much all of the trailers, but as for watching a whole movie, I watch maybe three per year at the most.
(I just finished playing -and watching - Grindhouse, which is truly excellent and I recommend it highly if you haven't seen it yet.)
I do some as-needed field tech work for an ISP around here. They will tell me the password for a customer's account when I call in and ask for it (on a "special techs only" phone number), but they won't tell YOU the password.
Back in the mid-80's I was working on a truly fascinating program (a survey instrument data massaging thing). I started working on it on Friday evening. After working on it for a while, I realized that I felt sick. I wondered why; what's wrong with me... I ultimately realized that it was late Sunday evening and I had worked on this for the whole weekend, never leaving my basement and not eating or sleeping (or anything) for the whole time. I went out to the restaurant down the street and had something to eat and immediately felt much better.
I don't think anyone at Google really "decided" anything. It's my understanding that upon receipt of a DMCA notice they are required to remove the material indicated by the notice. Period. If the other party posts a counter-notice the material can be put back up, but between the receipt of the original notice and the receipt of the counter-notice, they have no choice or discretion -- the material must be removed.
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Man, that's something. When I renew my drivers license (or license plates) I have never had to wait more than I'd say one minute at the most. There has never been more than one person in front of me and if that one person is there, then another clerk comes out from the back to help me.
Of course, I live in a small town in Canada so maybe we're just more efficient around here or something.
Craig's List, or The Want Advertiser, are for personal advertising while the other type of site is for commercial advertising.
There are plenty of "business-to-business" portals out there as well, where various commmercial businesses advertise their services to other commercial businesses. For example, if I needed to contract a municipal sewer service outfit, I would likely hit one of those sites to find out who's providing that service in my district. Most people won't care and would find a site like that completely irrelevant if they were just doing a Google search for someone to clean their septic tank. But the Village of Lower Bottomly would be the target market for that website.
One offers a useful service, while the other is a scam. Something in our mind allows us to easily discern the two types of sites from eachother.
Something like defining obscenity, then? I can't define it but I know it when I see it? Tough to put into a regulation, as I said.
What we need is for ICANN to creates rules which state a domain name can't point to a place with more than 50% of the page devoted to adverts.
Pretty tough to define. What about a web page run by a "free classified ad paper" of the type that you pick up in gas stations. All they have is classified ads and some paid display ads. That's their product. What if they put up a web page with the content of the paper on it as well?
Here is a perfectly legitimate website of that nature, and it is at least 95% ads of one kind or another.
You could get it "free" if you wish.
I thought Lucas's special effects company was called Industrial Light and Magic.
But the light isn't bothering me! *tee hee*
typing is really a skill that no longer matters. It certainly helps in day-to-day computer tasks, but it's no longer a make or break skill for IT and office people.
That depends entirely on the job. A friend of mine has several people typing classified ads all day, and typing is pretty much all that they do. Listen to the answering machine messages, type the ads as the callers dictate them. Enter the caller's phone number, move to the next ad.
I'm sure there are many other data entry type jobs that are similar to the jobs that he has too.
I just set up a new server for a client a couple of weeks ago. It has such a brilliant red light for the hard drive busy light that his secretaries started complaining about the distracting flashing light in the corner. He put a piece of electrical tape over it.
I've never seen such a bright LED on anything before. You could use it for a very good flashlight; I'm sure it would illuminate the whole room if the lights were off.
Why do we need such a brilliant light for a hard drive busy light?
My cellphone has a button on the outside that turns the volume of the ringer down. And even at its loudest setting, I can barely hear it ringing, especially if it's under my jacket. (I usually clip the thing on my belt.) Oddly enough, there doesn't appear to be a button on the outside to turn the ringer up, just down. So turning it up involves going through three levels of menus to get to the Ringer Volume thingy, and then hitting the up-arrow until it goes back to the top.
I suspect you can enter cents because you can also make payments through that ATM. At the Credit Union that I deal with, you can pay your electric, natural gas and phone bill through the ATM. Just hit the "Make payment" menu option, enter the payment amount and which account to take it out of (saving or chequing) and put the payment stub portion of the bill in one of the supplied envelopes and put it in the slot.
And which of those 994,000 links would you recommend? Useful and accurate information ~= lots of links on Google, especially for what is apparently a niche subject like COBOL.
Thank you very much for your reply.
However, I live in a rather isolated location and self-study would be the only practical approach for me.
I'll guarantee that no COBOL courses are taught within 500 miles of where I live, and probably a lot further than that.
I submitted this as an "ask Slashdot" a while back but it was rejected:
How would one go about learning COBOL today? After reading about it off and on for years, I have become interested in learning some basic COBOL. What books or resources would you recommend, and what compilers are available for Linux that generate good COBOL?
There do indeed seem to be less and less people who know anything about COBOL, but there also seems to be a dwindling supply of COBOL materials to work with and learn from.
I'm pretty sure I saw something on just exactly this point not too long ago regarding electric drills. Makita, perhaps? A pretty good brand of tool, anyway. The Walmart version looked identical to the hardware store version in every way, but it had plastic gears instead of the metal gears in the hardware store version.
Memo to self: Never buy tools at Walmart.
When I tune my radio to any station I am not charged.
Obviously you are not a subscriber to Sirius and the like. And you don't listen to any of the radio stations that come with your cable tv connection...
Get up and pour a cup yourself if they don't notice you.
Eh? I pay for very nearly everything "significant" by cheque, and in at least 50% of those cases, I mail that cheque. Power, natural gas, phone bill, all of that -- I get a bill in the mail, I put a cheque in the mail.
Am I really a dinosaur?
you'll need that $39.95 AV renewal collection trade line on your credit report cleared up before you buy your next car or refinance your home.
Why?
At risk of sounding trollish (which I am not, really) why not buy what you can afford, when you can afford to buy it, pay for it and take it home?
What's this rush for everyone to buy on credit and make payments forever and ever afterward? Some people are still paying for their dishwasher (or whatever) long after that appliance has died and been replaced with yet another buy-on-credit machine.
Your parents and grandparents didn't sign up for "easy credit" all over town. Why are you in such a rush to do so, and mortgage your future earnings in that way?
I'm sure you've seen every other freaking movie and tvshow and song that the rest of us have. Hippocrite.
I don't know about him, but I don't even own a TV. I haven't watched broadcast (or cable) television since about 1985.
As for movies, I own a movie theatre. I watch pretty much all of the trailers, but as for watching a whole movie, I watch maybe three per year at the most.
(I just finished playing -and watching - Grindhouse, which is truly excellent and I recommend it highly if you haven't seen it yet.)
I do some as-needed field tech work for an ISP around here. They will tell me the password for a customer's account when I call in and ask for it (on a "special techs only" phone number), but they won't tell YOU the password.
the collapse of the tech industry from all the businesses going under
My goodness, how apocalyptic.
Take a look around -- there is a whole big world out there beyond the borders of the USA, and a healthy technical industry as well.
If the US decides to blow their own industry away, that's more for everyone else.
Back in the mid-80's I was working on a truly fascinating program (a survey instrument data massaging thing). I started working on it on Friday evening. After working on it for a while, I realized that I felt sick. I wondered why; what's wrong with me... I ultimately realized that it was late Sunday evening and I had worked on this for the whole weekend, never leaving my basement and not eating or sleeping (or anything) for the whole time. I went out to the restaurant down the street and had something to eat and immediately felt much better.
I don't think anyone at Google really "decided" anything. It's my understanding that upon receipt of a DMCA notice they are required to remove the material indicated by the notice. Period. If the other party posts a counter-notice the material can be put back up, but between the receipt of the original notice and the receipt of the counter-notice, they have no choice or discretion -- the material must be removed.
Low-risk business opportunity: Folks buy a computer based on your recommendation and you install and set up Linux on it for a fee.
Many consultants (including me) do variations of this.
Farmers do that every day of the week.