A good CEO will keep employees happy, because unhappy employees tend to be very expensive. Regardless of that fact, the primary responsibility of a CEO of a public company is increasing the value of the company for the investors. Sometimes they make unpopular decisions. It's really easy to look back and cast stones when all the facts are finally known. It's a lot harder to sit in front of a bunch of spreadsheets and try and decide which path (i.e. short term or long term) will actually work.
I remember being in a company that was in a death spiral because of the dot.bomb. I remember discussions from the CEO like this. "We let 40 people go today so that the remaining 60 can have jobs for at least the next year so we can try and stay in busines and find new customers.". Which would have been more fair, to have 100 people only have jobs for 6 months, or 60 people to have jobs for a year? I guess it depends on which group you were in, doesn't it. I don't recall any of the 60 volunteering to give up their paychecks. How about HP?? Did any of the ones who were not let go volunteer their jobs??
It's nice to talk about steady growth, but when Carly was brought on board HP was not a very vibrant company and may not have had the time for long-term strategies. She was probably tasked with getting the company as stable as quickly as possible. She was an outsider brought in to shake things up. Maybe even a hatchetman; I wasn't privy to the boardroom discussions at that time. I have been in a couple of companies that hired new CEOs/General Managers to bring them out of tough times, and both times it resulted in fewer employees. And both times I updated my resume and contacted my recruiter so I wouldn't be the last one out.
Employees get caught in the crossfire of bad decisions. That's what happens when you don't own your own business and get to make the tough decisions but have to live by them instead. I stand by my earlier post that anyone who doesn't prepare for the day their job may disappear (i.e. has multiple car payments, high house payments, no savings, etc), has no right to whine when it does. IT staff are not poorly paid and have less of a right to whine than most.
I sure as hell want the police officer in California to be aware of your many speeding tickets, DUI and reckless driving tickets from Jersey when he pulls you over on I-5, I-8, I-10, or any of the other highways I frequent when I visit. You are driving on a public road, and I want officer to know all of the facts before he lets you off with a warning.
Methinks thou doest protesth too much. What are you trying to hide?? Can I look in the trunk?? On the hood, dirtbag!!!!
I have news for you buddy, companies have been moving jobs around for hundreds of years. Why did India revolt in the 50s? Because Britan was outsourcing and exploiting the workforce. Suprise!!! America isn't doing anything new here. You can go all the way back to the American Revolution to see the same things. Make products cheap in the US, tax the hell out of them, ship the products to London and make a killing.
Please point out where I said no debt. I mentioned idiots who have two new car payments, a 97% home mortgage, and $5,000 credit cards up the wazoo, not to mention $130 cable bills, $45 telphone bills and all the rest.
Having a 80% (or less) mortage means you have EQUITY in your home that you can use, or even sell your home and still put money in your pocket. Having one car payment means you can stop paying all but the lowest car insurance on one car and put in the garage, since you won't be driving to work every day. Having no credit card payments means one less bill to pay. I have 50% of my take-home pay in my pocket at the end of every month, do you?? So don't tell me it can't be done. You just have to learn to leave a little lean when you are in your 20s and early 30s.
And yes, I have lost my job before. I immediatly began working at Lechmere at the mall ($7/hour was better than unemployment) and was able to make it through the time until I got a job BECAUSE I WAS LIVING IN A MOBILE HOME UNTIL WE COULD AFFORD AN 80% MORTAGE ON A HOUSE!!!! It wasn't hard to make $250/month house payments since my wife was an RN and we only had one car payment. In fact, we lived quite nicely because we didn't live the lie you want to live.
If you want to live on the edge where both parents have to work to pay the bills and send the kids to daycare/private school, etc., fine. Just don't come whining to me when you get laid off in today's economy and can't afford it. You made your choices, and I made mine. I don't care if I lose my job tomorrow, I can go 6-12 months easy without another one. Maybe I'll be eating a lot of beans and hot dogs, but I can do it.
If that's what comes from being responsible for your life instead of blaming everyone else on how bad it is, sounds like I made the right choice. At least I'm not angry at the world and really don't give a rats ass who the CEO of HP is or what she did.
Your last comment is purely delusional. It would be just dandy if any company that is going down the tubes can just keep the same people around and pay them the same salary and things would just turn out fine. Reality is different and companies have fired/terminated/downsized for hundreds of years.
If YOU have not prepared yourself to be out of a job for 3-6 months at any point it time, have gotten yourself so far into debt with two car payments, credit card debt, 3% down mortgages, and whatever that you need 90% of your paycheck just to survive, YOU have no one to blame but yourself. If YOU work for a public company and don't know the impact of the stock market on your job, YOU have no one to blame but yourself. If YOU know your job is tenuous, but don't take the steps to either eliminate your debt, put money aside, or find another job, YOU have no one to blame but yourself.
Stop being irresponsible and take responsibility of YOUR decisions, or lack of knowledge.
I was just in India and paid Vonage 9.99 a month for 500 minutes. This gave me a US number that I could use from my PC in Chennai.
The hotel I was in charged $5US/minute, my cellphone charged $2US/minute. Vonage would only have charged $0.13US/minute after the first 500.
The best part was I could call any other Vonage phone (i.e. my home phone) for free and it would not impact my free minutes for either phone. So, for about $25US/month ($16US for the basic service, $9US for the PC phone), I can travel anywhere in the world with my laptop and call home as often as I want as long as I can get an Internet connection.
Ok...the internet connection was about $14US/day at the hotel. But I would have paid for that anyway. Still have to check my pr0n^H^H^H^H email everyday.
Of special interest was the number of results -- 1,809,945.
Maybe they aren't biased afterall....
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No single person or company gets ahead by having only successes, it's the failures and the mistakes that make us learn and improve. It's learning what not to do that makes us what we are. And the only way to do that is to understand failures, and what causes them. Sure, one can point and laugh at the misery of others. Or, one can understand the decision process that lead up to the failure and learn not to repeat them.
Or, to paraphrase, those that do not study the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them.
I have news for you dude, the US worker will soon be looking at the ass of India as it passes them by. As an American currently spending a month in India on business (my first visit), I have been struck by the work ethic, respect, and desire to get ahead these people have. None of that 'the government owes me' or 'the company owes me' BS that many US workers (especially union workers) espouse, but 'treat me right, or I'm outta here'. One of the largest problems companies have here is turnover rates, skilled and talented people move around like crazy if they aren't treated right.
Hell, waiters at 5-start restaurants have 4 year degrees. They know they have to start at the bottom and work their way up, none of this 'I paid $100,000 for college, I deserve a job' crap I read here all the time. I had a very nice talk with the gentleman who services my room (and he was a true gentleman, not like the pissy US hotel staff) about his family and how proud he was that he had worked there for 18 years, starting at a very low, menial job and worked his way up. Yep...his job changing bed sheets he considered a great job, he was proud of it, and attacked it with the kind of attitude Americans could learn from, always a smile and eager to make my stay very pleasant. Know why?? The hotel recognizes good work and rewards the workers. It is very important if you ever visit here to tip the employees well that do a good job (they deserve a few rupees and you can afford it) and to know their name, and use it. Take the time to talk with them, say 'I don't understand' when you don't understand, they have the patience and courtesy (that many Americans lack) to help you learn. When you leave, be sure to fill out the comment form and put their name on it, that is how they get ahead, by doing their job well. Imagine that...just one of the many things both US employees and employers can learn from India. (Truth be told, I think Europe and Japan better start paying attention also.)
Do I want to live here?? No, the infrastructure is not there and it is still a very volatile, sometimes dangerous country. But I plan on spending as much time here as possible, developing friendships and business relationships, and helping these people become an economic driving force in the world. They deserve it. And I plan to ride the wave and adapt instead of sitting back and whining.
I must disagree. I have read several books that attempt to show coorelation between primate behavior and many human behaviors. These studies are important in the nature/nurture arguments and important in learning how to treat social and mental disorders.
Besides, anything that strengthens the argument that watching p0rn is natural gets my vote for futher funding.
You had punched cards?? What a baby. Back when I started, all we had were zeroes, we didn't even have ones yet. 'Here's the bug. Three zeroes in a row are a branch. I meant to use two for a move'. Try debugging that!!!!
I am sitting in a hotel room in Chennai, India talking to my girlfriend back in Phoenix.... for free (yes... I have a pretty girlfriend and I can type and talk at the same time.) We use the Vonage broadband phone at home, and I have installed the Vonage SoftPhone on my PC. All calls, anywhere in the world, to another Vonage phone from my PC are free and don't count against my minutes. I can call into conference calls for work for free because they are toll-free numbers, again from anywhere in the world with a decent Internet connection. Calls to non-Vonage phone are inexpensive if I go over my minutes, which I haven't done in 6 months.
Before I installed the SoftPhone, my mobile stopped working after a week and Cingular can't get it to work again. I called the office and talked from the hotel for 100 minutes. The cost ?? $500US.
VoIP is the way to go. The commercial offerings are cheaper than land lines and have more features, plus the portability and usability are awesome.
Anyone?? I buy a copy and install it on two machines in my home. Which one is the pirated one? Which one gets to be updated??
This will cause nothing but problems, it will impact many people who have legal copies, but whose children took them to their friends house and installed them.The next round of virus programs will strip whatever information is needed from PCs and overlay them with bad data, then sell the information.
Bring back Worf if you are going to bring back a character. Data/Soong is already there. Now if Troi's mother could just show up, we would have the three best of the lot. Ok, the red-head nurse was hot, so that would be nice eye-candy.
Writing web pages for specific browsers is asking for problems. Writing simple web pages, and being able to not have to use all the javascript/ active-X/ embedded objects/ flash the marketing department wanted meant the pages loaded fast and always worked. (by flash I don't mean Macromedia, I man snazzle, pop, eye-candy.)
Our site didn't have flashy menus that rolled down or snazzy Macromedia flash presentations, but they did what they were supposed to do cleanly, efficiently, and with far less user support and maintenance headaches than the fancy ones. All the glitz and glammer was limited to animated gifs and well selected colors schemes. I have seen web pages that were over 100K of text because of all the javascript and css included in them, pages that are more code than content.
Javascript can be a great tool to help a user (calendar pop-ups, form field validation, etc.), but does one really need all the overhead for roll-over buttons and menus when a well designed navigation scheme would eliminate it? It's one thing to add a few lines of code to a drop-down box to auto-load the next page, it's another to do it at the expense of taking off the submit button (my personal pet peeve).
My opinion is that using the fancy features is driven by lack of creativity or by marketing types that are focused on sales rather than usage. It's easy to use fancy menus to make navigation easy, it's a lot tougher to design a web site so that the fewest clicks get you to the most used pages. Flash on a movie trailer site?? Go ahead, you want gimmicks there. Flash on a data entry site, I don't think so.
All the fancy gimmicks and such are cool the first time, but for the users that actually use a web site and come back often, they fade into the background about the third time and they just want to get work done.
When using a manual typewriter, having the most often used keys under the left hand is more efficient. The right hand is used to do a carriage return and has to be lifted off the keyboard and back down. By having the common letters under the left hand, the typist can continue to type with the left while the right is reaching up to move the carriage back, and then returning to the keyboard. Those few extra letters per line add up over a page.
Of course, electric typewriters and keyboards don't have that issue.
You would be a hypocrite if you didn't go out and just kill yourself right now. Your very existence impacts this planet and those around you. Your clothes, food, bicycle, and electrical use are all contributors to the problem you claim and impact all of your neighbors.
Where is the line drawn? Only where it is convenient for you and not for me? Pure hypocrisy is all you and your kind spout, along with a holier-than-thou attitude. That is why most people ignore you and snicker behind your back.
Obviously you know nothing of the three laws of robotics. Robots, instead of commit war crimes, would refuse to harm a human if ordered to do so, possibly resulting in a positronic collaps. Eventually, upon realising what harm humans are doing to each other, would take control and force us to live lives under their control in a peaceful existance where no harm can become us.
I know what you mean, the Democrats have been so good at bringing everyone together, singing, and dancing and being support and all. It's a good thing they don't hate anyone, because that would be very decisive. Yep... only the Republicans have been decisive, I know exactly what you mean.
And I agree that it's a good thing we didn't vote for someone that couldn't run a campaign because god forbid he have to run a whole country, that's a lot harder and requires a lot more responsibility.
Screw that, move to Phoenix like I did. Being able to play golf 52 weeks a year caused me realize how miserable (and unnecessary) winter in Maine is and wonder why I put up with it for 20 years. It's easy to deal with 118F days in the summer, stay out of the sun in the middle of the day. Dealing with -15F is much more difficult, you still have to get up in the morning when it is damn cold and go to work and shovel the friggen' snow when you get home.
This was the greatest X Files movie ever made. There was great action, comedy, romance, alien menace. I'm glad they couldn't get Gillian Anderson to be in it, Julianne Moore was just freakin' HOT. I was a little confused at first why David was playing a teacher, but no more confused than normal episodes. They mentioned he was kicked out of a government program so I just assumed this was in some type of time-dimensional-portal-loop thingy that would be explained in the next movie.
I agree that the English subtitles will be required. I do think the $5 pricetag is pretty cheap for someone that takes a date to the movie. Two matinee tickets=US $13.50 (in Pheonix, AZ). Then there is the popcorn and soda. If you share it's still US $7. Oh wait... this is slashdot...we all download our porn^H^H^H^Hmovies for free and mast^H^H^H^watch them by ourselves.
What can $5 buy in India? Let me tell you, because I am in Chennai on business right now. For $6, three guys ate dinner at the Spensers Plaza mall in Chennai last night. We had 2 dosas at Rs.30 each and three parthas, one Rs 49, one Rs 69, and one Rs 90 (that was the one with prawns in it). Total bill with tax was Rs. 281.77. At the current exchange rate that's US $6.47 (one rupee=US$0.023). It was enough food that we took half of one of the parthas home and didn't eat part of one dosa.
Say what you will about outsourcing, but the food over here is the best!!!!
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A good CEO will keep employees happy, because unhappy employees tend to be very expensive. Regardless of that fact, the primary responsibility of a CEO of a public company is increasing the value of the company for the investors. Sometimes they make unpopular decisions. It's really easy to look back and cast stones when all the facts are finally known. It's a lot harder to sit in front of a bunch of spreadsheets and try and decide which path (i.e. short term or long term) will actually work.
I remember being in a company that was in a death spiral because of the dot.bomb. I remember discussions from the CEO like this. "We let 40 people go today so that the remaining 60 can have jobs for at least the next year so we can try and stay in busines and find new customers.". Which would have been more fair, to have 100 people only have jobs for 6 months, or 60 people to have jobs for a year? I guess it depends on which group you were in, doesn't it. I don't recall any of the 60 volunteering to give up their paychecks. How about HP?? Did any of the ones who were not let go volunteer their jobs??
It's nice to talk about steady growth, but when Carly was brought on board HP was not a very vibrant company and may not have had the time for long-term strategies. She was probably tasked with getting the company as stable as quickly as possible. She was an outsider brought in to shake things up. Maybe even a hatchetman; I wasn't privy to the boardroom discussions at that time. I have been in a couple of companies that hired new CEOs/General Managers to bring them out of tough times, and both times it resulted in fewer employees. And both times I updated my resume and contacted my recruiter so I wouldn't be the last one out.
Employees get caught in the crossfire of bad decisions. That's what happens when you don't own your own business and get to make the tough decisions but have to live by them instead. I stand by my earlier post that anyone who doesn't prepare for the day their job may disappear (i.e. has multiple car payments, high house payments, no savings, etc), has no right to whine when it does. IT staff are not poorly paid and have less of a right to whine than most.
I sure as hell want the police officer in California to be aware of your many speeding tickets, DUI and reckless driving tickets from Jersey when he pulls you over on I-5, I-8, I-10, or any of the other highways I frequent when I visit. You are driving on a public road, and I want officer to know all of the facts before he lets you off with a warning.
Methinks thou doest protesth too much. What are you trying to hide?? Can I look in the trunk?? On the hood, dirtbag!!!!
I have news for you buddy, companies have been moving jobs around for hundreds of years. Why did India revolt in the 50s? Because Britan was outsourcing and exploiting the workforce. Suprise!!! America isn't doing anything new here. You can go all the way back to the American Revolution to see the same things. Make products cheap in the US, tax the hell out of them, ship the products to London and make a killing.
Please point out where I said no debt. I mentioned idiots who have two new car payments, a 97% home mortgage, and $5,000 credit cards up the wazoo, not to mention $130 cable bills, $45 telphone bills and all the rest.
Having a 80% (or less) mortage means you have EQUITY in your home that you can use, or even sell your home and still put money in your pocket. Having one car payment means you can stop paying all but the lowest car insurance on one car and put in the garage, since you won't be driving to work every day. Having no credit card payments means one less bill to pay. I have 50% of my take-home pay in my pocket at the end of every month, do you?? So don't tell me it can't be done. You just have to learn to leave a little lean when you are in your 20s and early 30s.
And yes, I have lost my job before. I immediatly began working at Lechmere at the mall ($7/hour was better than unemployment) and was able to make it through the time until I got a job BECAUSE I WAS LIVING IN A MOBILE HOME UNTIL WE COULD AFFORD AN 80% MORTAGE ON A HOUSE!!!! It wasn't hard to make $250/month house payments since my wife was an RN and we only had one car payment. In fact, we lived quite nicely because we didn't live the lie you want to live.
If you want to live on the edge where both parents have to work to pay the bills and send the kids to daycare/private school, etc., fine. Just don't come whining to me when you get laid off in today's economy and can't afford it. You made your choices, and I made mine. I don't care if I lose my job tomorrow, I can go 6-12 months easy without another one. Maybe I'll be eating a lot of beans and hot dogs, but I can do it.
If that's what comes from being responsible for your life instead of blaming everyone else on how bad it is, sounds like I made the right choice. At least I'm not angry at the world and really don't give a rats ass who the CEO of HP is or what she did.
Your last comment is purely delusional. It would be just dandy if any company that is going down the tubes can just keep the same people around and pay them the same salary and things would just turn out fine. Reality is different and companies have fired/terminated/downsized for hundreds of years.
If YOU have not prepared yourself to be out of a job for 3-6 months at any point it time, have gotten yourself so far into debt with two car payments, credit card debt, 3% down mortgages, and whatever that you need 90% of your paycheck just to survive, YOU have no one to blame but yourself. If YOU work for a public company and don't know the impact of the stock market on your job, YOU have no one to blame but yourself. If YOU know your job is tenuous, but don't take the steps to either eliminate your debt, put money aside, or find another job, YOU have no one to blame but yourself.
Stop being irresponsible and take responsibility of YOUR decisions, or lack of knowledge.
Oh ... so you think that the release notes written by development teams and software vendors are accurate.
Poor, naive admin. You have much to learn. Fuser is your friend.
I was just in India and paid Vonage 9.99 a month for 500 minutes. This gave me a US number that I could use from my PC in Chennai.
The hotel I was in charged $5US/minute, my cellphone charged $2US/minute. Vonage would only have charged $0.13US/minute after the first 500.
The best part was I could call any other Vonage phone (i.e. my home phone) for free and it would not impact my free minutes for either phone. So, for about $25US/month ($16US for the basic service, $9US for the PC phone), I can travel anywhere in the world with my laptop and call home as often as I want as long as I can get an Internet connection.
Ok...the internet connection was about $14US/day at the hotel. But I would have paid for that anyway. Still have to check my pr0n^H^H^H^H email everyday.
I prefer this link .... http://beta.search.msn.co.in/results.aspx?q=micros oft+sucks&FORM=QBRE
Of special interest was the number of results -- 1,809,945.
Maybe they aren't biased afterall....
No single person or company gets ahead by having only successes, it's the failures and the mistakes that make us learn and improve. It's learning what not to do that makes us what we are. And the only way to do that is to understand failures, and what causes them. Sure, one can point and laugh at the misery of others. Or, one can understand the decision process that lead up to the failure and learn not to repeat them.
Or, to paraphrase, those that do not study the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them.
I have news for you dude, the US worker will soon be looking at the ass of India as it passes them by. As an American currently spending a month in India on business (my first visit), I have been struck by the work ethic, respect, and desire to get ahead these people have. None of that 'the government owes me' or 'the company owes me' BS that many US workers (especially union workers) espouse, but 'treat me right, or I'm outta here'. One of the largest problems companies have here is turnover rates, skilled and talented people move around like crazy if they aren't treated right.
Hell, waiters at 5-start restaurants have 4 year degrees. They know they have to start at the bottom and work their way up, none of this 'I paid $100,000 for college, I deserve a job' crap I read here all the time. I had a very nice talk with the gentleman who services my room (and he was a true gentleman, not like the pissy US hotel staff) about his family and how proud he was that he had worked there for 18 years, starting at a very low, menial job and worked his way up. Yep...his job changing bed sheets he considered a great job, he was proud of it, and attacked it with the kind of attitude Americans could learn from, always a smile and eager to make my stay very pleasant. Know why?? The hotel recognizes good work and rewards the workers. It is very important if you ever visit here to tip the employees well that do a good job (they deserve a few rupees and you can afford it) and to know their name, and use it. Take the time to talk with them, say 'I don't understand' when you don't understand, they have the patience and courtesy (that many Americans lack) to help you learn. When you leave, be sure to fill out the comment form and put their name on it, that is how they get ahead, by doing their job well. Imagine that...just one of the many things both US employees and employers can learn from India. (Truth be told, I think Europe and Japan better start paying attention also.)
Do I want to live here?? No, the infrastructure is not there and it is still a very volatile, sometimes dangerous country. But I plan on spending as much time here as possible, developing friendships and business relationships, and helping these people become an economic driving force in the world. They deserve it. And I plan to ride the wave and adapt instead of sitting back and whining.
I must disagree. I have read several books that attempt to show coorelation between primate behavior and many human behaviors. These studies are important in the nature/nurture arguments and important in learning how to treat social and mental disorders.
Besides, anything that strengthens the argument that watching p0rn is natural gets my vote for futher funding.
You had punched cards?? What a baby. Back when I started, all we had were zeroes, we didn't even have ones yet. 'Here's the bug. Three zeroes in a row are a branch. I meant to use two for a move'. Try debugging that!!!!
I am sitting in a hotel room in Chennai, India talking to my girlfriend back in Phoenix .... for free (yes ... I have a pretty girlfriend and I can type and talk at the same time.) We use the Vonage broadband phone at home, and I have installed the Vonage SoftPhone on my PC. All calls, anywhere in the world, to another Vonage phone from my PC are free and don't count against my minutes. I can call into conference calls for work for free because they are toll-free numbers, again from anywhere in the world with a decent Internet connection. Calls to non-Vonage phone are inexpensive if I go over my minutes, which I haven't done in 6 months.
Before I installed the SoftPhone, my mobile stopped working after a week and Cingular can't get it to work again. I called the office and talked from the hotel for 100 minutes. The cost ?? $500US.
VoIP is the way to go. The commercial offerings are cheaper than land lines and have more features, plus the portability and usability are awesome.
Anyone?? I buy a copy and install it on two machines in my home. Which one is the pirated one? Which one gets to be updated??
This will cause nothing but problems, it will impact many people who have legal copies, but whose children took them to their friends house and installed them.The next round of virus programs will strip whatever information is needed from PCs and overlay them with bad data, then sell the information.
Better start coding.....
Bring back Worf if you are going to bring back a character. Data/Soong is already there. Now if Troi's mother could just show up, we would have the three best of the lot. Ok, the red-head nurse was hot, so that would be nice eye-candy.
Writing web pages for specific browsers is asking for problems. Writing simple web pages, and being able to not have to use all the javascript/ active-X/ embedded objects/ flash the marketing department wanted meant the pages loaded fast and always worked. (by flash I don't mean Macromedia, I man snazzle, pop, eye-candy.)
Our site didn't have flashy menus that rolled down or snazzy Macromedia flash presentations, but they did what they were supposed to do cleanly, efficiently, and with far less user support and maintenance headaches than the fancy ones. All the glitz and glammer was limited to animated gifs and well selected colors schemes. I have seen web pages that were over 100K of text because of all the javascript and css included in them, pages that are more code than content.
Javascript can be a great tool to help a user (calendar pop-ups, form field validation, etc.), but does one really need all the overhead for roll-over buttons and menus when a well designed navigation scheme would eliminate it? It's one thing to add a few lines of code to a drop-down box to auto-load the next page, it's another to do it at the expense of taking off the submit button (my personal pet peeve).
My opinion is that using the fancy features is driven by lack of creativity or by marketing types that are focused on sales rather than usage. It's easy to use fancy menus to make navigation easy, it's a lot tougher to design a web site so that the fewest clicks get you to the most used pages. Flash on a movie trailer site?? Go ahead, you want gimmicks there. Flash on a data entry site, I don't think so.
All the fancy gimmicks and such are cool the first time, but for the users that actually use a web site and come back often, they fade into the background about the third time and they just want to get work done.
Opps...never mind....i guess when one hasn't used one for 20 or so years it's easy to get confused. Either that or the mind just goes ....
When using a manual typewriter, having the most often used keys under the left hand is more efficient. The right hand is used to do a carriage return and has to be lifted off the keyboard and back down. By having the common letters under the left hand, the typist can continue to type with the left while the right is reaching up to move the carriage back, and then returning to the keyboard. Those few extra letters per line add up over a page.
Of course, electric typewriters and keyboards don't have that issue.
You would be a hypocrite if you didn't go out and just kill yourself right now. Your very existence impacts this planet and those around you. Your clothes, food, bicycle, and electrical use are all contributors to the problem you claim and impact all of your neighbors.
Where is the line drawn? Only where it is convenient for you and not for me? Pure hypocrisy is all you and your kind spout, along with a holier-than-thou attitude. That is why most people ignore you and snicker behind your back.
Obviously you know nothing of the three laws of robotics. Robots, instead of commit war crimes, would refuse to harm a human if ordered to do so, possibly resulting in a positronic collaps. Eventually, upon realising what harm humans are doing to each other, would take control and force us to live lives under their control in a peaceful existance where no harm can become us.
Sheesh...what a redneck...
I know what you mean, the Democrats have been so good at bringing everyone together, singing, and dancing and being support and all. It's a good thing they don't hate anyone, because that would be very decisive. Yep ... only the Republicans have been decisive, I know exactly what you mean.
And I agree that it's a good thing we didn't vote for someone that couldn't run a campaign because god forbid he have to run a whole country, that's a lot harder and requires a lot more responsibility.
Screw that, move to Phoenix like I did. Being able to play golf 52 weeks a year caused me realize how miserable (and unnecessary) winter in Maine is and wonder why I put up with it for 20 years. It's easy to deal with 118F days in the summer, stay out of the sun in the middle of the day. Dealing with -15F is much more difficult, you still have to get up in the morning when it is damn cold and go to work and shovel the friggen' snow when you get home.
Don'cha know....
So good in fact that the Kerry looked bad to the majority of voters.
.... his face always looked that way ...
Oh, I'm sorry
This was the greatest X Files movie ever made. There was great action, comedy, romance, alien menace. I'm glad they couldn't get Gillian Anderson to be in it, Julianne Moore was just freakin' HOT. I was a little confused at first why David was playing a teacher, but no more confused than normal episodes. They mentioned he was kicked out of a government program so I just assumed this was in some type of time-dimensional-portal-loop thingy that would be explained in the next movie.
I agree that the English subtitles will be required. I do think the $5 pricetag is pretty cheap for someone that takes a date to the movie. Two matinee tickets=US $13.50 (in Pheonix, AZ). Then there is the popcorn and soda. If you share it's still US $7. Oh wait ... this is slashdot...we all download our porn^H^H^H^Hmovies for free and mast^H^H^H^watch them by ourselves.
What can $5 buy in India? Let me tell you, because I am in Chennai on business right now. For $6, three guys ate dinner at the Spensers Plaza mall in Chennai last night. We had 2 dosas at Rs.30 each and three parthas, one Rs 49, one Rs 69, and one Rs 90 (that was the one with prawns in it). Total bill with tax was Rs. 281.77. At the current exchange rate that's US $6.47 (one rupee=US$0.023). It was enough food that we took half of one of the parthas home and didn't eat part of one dosa.
Say what you will about outsourcing, but the food over here is the best!!!!