7 in the evening is the normal time when work stops in almost entire private sector
Where do you work (location, industry)?
I've been in the electronics industry for almost 15 years in the Midwest and have rarely seen engineers work until 7 PM, nor 12 hour days, except in rare bursts.
(I've long suspected that many workers overestimate the amount of time they spend at the office . . . or at least engaged in productive work.)
I'll admit it: I didn't read the terms as closely as I should have. (Not to mention that they've changed since I signed up.)
The more I learn, the less I like it.
I'm especially bothered by this:
For content that is covered by intellectual property rights...you specifically give us...[a] license...
This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
So if I've somehow shared a video with one of my friends on Facebook and subsequently delete my account, Facebook still has a transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to my video?
It's when portions of the employees are working regular weeks and some are on 9/80 that things tend to fall apart.
This is the problem I see at my employer. My site is on a regular 5-day schedule, but another site, with which we interact daily, is on 9/80. Add to that a time-zone difference, and it can be tough to get time with them.
"Katz was the clear winner. favourite food/animal did not deliver, as did most of Munroe's others. The only lame one of Katz was the 1999 BC. Somewhat off topic, though it gets points for originality."
2) Businessess are ALWAYS slow to upgrade. I have friends who work at fortune 500 companies who were JUST allowed to install Windows XP from Windows 2000.
Yes . ..when I joined IBM in 1997, there were still people using OS/2!:-)
The basic finding is that we are conscious of the products of thought, not the processes.
I agree completely. I was thinking about it like a computer and monitor. A computer will function without a monitor. You use the monitor to see what it's doing--and there's a delay between a result being computed and it showing up on the monitor.
Microsoft selling their products as $3 a pop isn't competition though, unless you think $3 is cost price or greater.
Au contraire...$3 is quite likely greater than their marginal cost, which is "competitive" (at least in the classic economic sense). If a software company is profitable selling n copies of their product, selling copy n+1 should cost them next to nothing (at least neglecting support--and how much support is Microsoft really going to provide for these $3 packages?).
As Robert Reich discusses in his book, The Work of Nations, this is "vestigal thinking." Manufacturing ("making stuff") is not the only way to earn a profit. (Think consulting, for example.)
As another poster noted, the future of the U.S. economy is in areas such as intellectual property and services (specifically those that need not be performed in person). Reich calls this "symbolic analysis."
I've had Sprint for years, in both Rochester, MN and Cedar Rapids, IA.
I don't really recall ever having calls dropped.
The only coverage problems I have are inside Target and in certain parts of the facility where I work (a 1.3M sq ft complex).
I don't enjoy talking to their customer service reps, but the only time I've done so is when renewing my contract or changing phone numbers.
I suspect cell service is a lot like cars. Ask a million people, get a million answers. You'll find people with Japanese-made lemons and Fords that went 500,000 miles without so much as an oil change.
his spamming robbed humanity of lifetimes worth of time that could have been spent doing something else
So, are you saying that, if people didn't have to spend so much time dealing with spam, they would have been doing something that created additional lives?
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I'm not sure how unusual it was, but my 7th grade science teacher was doing a BASIC unit using TRS-80s in 1987, too--in a town of 12k.
During Halloween you still see kids copying the first three movies. The 1977-1983 movies.
Great point. My son born in 2005 chose, on his own, to be Han in Carbonite for Halloween this year.
7 in the evening is the normal time when work stops in almost entire private sector
Where do you work (location, industry)?
I've been in the electronics industry for almost 15 years in the Midwest and have rarely seen engineers work until 7 PM, nor 12 hour days, except in rare bursts.
(I've long suspected that many workers overestimate the amount of time they spend at the office . . . or at least engaged in productive work.)
> We all are individuals.
I'm not!
I'll admit it: I didn't read the terms as closely as I should have. (Not to mention that they've changed since I signed up.)
The more I learn, the less I like it.
I'm especially bothered by this:
For content that is covered by intellectual property rights...you specifically give us...[a] license... This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
So if I've somehow shared a video with one of my friends on Facebook and subsequently delete my account, Facebook still has a transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to my video?
Wouldn't it be interesting if everyone did this? Then, without warning, someone who didn't even show up in the polls would win.
Like Jesse Ventura.
You'd hope sales would be up since 1020.
Actually, the Geats were big fans of Angelina Jolie's performance as Grendel's mother and snapped up Beowulf by the case.
"The Bible--that's the real good news!"
6. Getting to work while it's dark & leaving when it's dark is depressing.
In the upper Midwest, this seems to be par for the course during the winter.
the countries that have higher productivity per worker than the US.
According to a U.N. report released in 2007, only Norway had higher productivity per hour worked than the U.S.
It's when portions of the employees are working regular weeks and some are on 9/80 that things tend to fall apart.
This is the problem I see at my employer. My site is on a regular 5-day schedule, but another site, with which we interact daily, is on 9/80. Add to that a time-zone difference, and it can be tough to get time with them.
"Katz was the clear winner. favourite food/animal did not deliver, as did most of Munroe's others. The only lame one of Katz was the 1999 BC. Somewhat off topic, though it gets points for originality."
I agree completely!
("Postin' 'me too' like some brain-dead AOLer")
Now if he'd said he was only going to release his next album on vinyl then THAT would have been genuinely weird.
That would be sweet!
I own every "Weird Al" album on vinyl up through (and including) the UHF soundtrack.
Yes . . .when I joined IBM in 1997, there were still people using OS/2! :-)
I agree completely. I was thinking about it like a computer and monitor. A computer will function without a monitor. You use the monitor to see what it's doing--and there's a delay between a result being computed and it showing up on the monitor.
It's just so much easier to tell people I'm 2/7ths Swedish than to explain I'm really 299593/1048576ths.
Au contraire...$3 is quite likely greater than their marginal cost, which is "competitive" (at least in the classic economic sense). If a software company is profitable selling n copies of their product, selling copy n+1 should cost them next to nothing (at least neglecting support--and how much support is Microsoft really going to provide for these $3 packages?).
As Robert Reich discusses in his book, The Work of Nations, this is "vestigal thinking." Manufacturing ("making stuff") is not the only way to earn a profit. (Think consulting, for example.)
As another poster noted, the future of the U.S. economy is in areas such as intellectual property and services (specifically those that need not be performed in person). Reich calls this "symbolic analysis."
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/atomo.html
I've had Sprint for years, in both Rochester, MN and Cedar Rapids, IA.
I don't really recall ever having calls dropped.
The only coverage problems I have are inside Target and in certain parts of the facility where I work (a 1.3M sq ft complex).
I don't enjoy talking to their customer service reps, but the only time I've done so is when renewing my contract or changing phone numbers.
I suspect cell service is a lot like cars. Ask a million people, get a million answers. You'll find people with Japanese-made lemons and Fords that went 500,000 miles without so much as an oil change.
YMMV.
So, are you saying that, if people didn't have to spend so much time dealing with spam, they would have been doing something that created additional lives?
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thu September 29, 12:12
when it's released next month.
Episode III comes out on DVD November 1st
Of course, laying off staff won't actually increase sales. Decrease costs? Yes.
which is bound to make them a large amount of revenueRevenue and profit are very different beasts, too.
Believe me...I know these things. After all, I used to work for JDS Uniphase.
Do I? Many a quarter wasted...(or was it two by then?)...
For its time, I found Dragon's Lair much cooler, though. I think it was the first arcade game I ever saw that cost 50 cents (early '80s in CA).
I think the word you're looking for is "helicopter."