Seriously, wouldn't it be cool if everyone went and bought something (anything!) at their local autozone as a show of support? Fuzzy dice or a pine tree air freshener.
I worked on a debit based financial system a couple of years ago, we did the front end and the back end (core banking stuff) was handed off to a company that offshored the development to India. The client found their backend (custom written, "proprietary") software for sale within a year and sued the offshoring company, who folded up and disappeared. Luckily they got a copy of the source in the deal.
I think it would be fun if some of these outsourcing centers got their own salespeople in the US and starting cutting out the US companies all together.
Once all the actual work is done elsewhere, why keep the margin-sopping executives on board?
You are moving jobs to countries with no minimum wage. Whenever someone talks about outsourcing, the meme should be "with no minimum wage". The goal being to leave an appropriately bad taste in your mouth, and the listeners ear.
Health and safety, standard of living, 40 hour workweek, these are things people have fought and died for. They are not inconvieniences to be skirted by shifting your work to the poorest countries in the world.
My Inspiron 8200 came with a "call home" app from dell that kept trying to get through the proxy, I would get a password dialog twice a day or so. No uninstaller, no informative dialog. I had to find the app and rip it out manually.
The email was a reminder to change your preferences if you don't want to be marketed to. When they changed them to yes (a year ago?) they didn't actually act on the change. Now that people have had a year to reset their preferences, they are going to start marketing.
Not that it doesn't suck, but the article header is wrong. They changed your preferences once, a long time ago.
As part of their court-ordered settlement, what if Microsoft comes out with a browser upgrade that breaks your Flash plugin. Maybe that levels the playing field. Suddenly no one has either plugin.
It seems like the tendancy of people rolling out web-enabled non-pc devices is to use mozilla based, out of necessity. All it's going to take is for one of those products to catch on with the masses. Say, a robust web appliance that doesnt get all screwed up when your kids get a free game in their breakfast cereal, and costs a couple hundred bucks.
Wait until everyone has HD tv's (but don't hold your breath) and see how much better web boxes will look.
Maybe of the 133000 results for candle truck, only a handful have some minimum Page Rank value? Google may have a threshold below which it doesn't return the page at all.
Maybe the rest of the results are machine generated crap; google could be filtering out some of those nasty page webs you get with certain searches (try searching for "equifax coupon"). Funny that they would still report it in the result count though.
If you search around you can find a GM prototype fuelcell car platform that looks like a skateboard with wheels. the body snaps on top, and it is drive by wire/steer by wire. no mechanical linkages whatsoever.
GM was just quoted saying drive by wire is the future of vehicles. Running out of Hydrogen for your fuel cell while on the freeway could be Very Exciting.
per New Scientist (a few months ago); rather than using a retrovirus to insert the telomerase gene (so it would stay switched on as it is in 90% of cancer cells), they are looking at using an adenovirus to deliver the sequence temporarily. Specifically for tissue grafts that are cultered in the lab. When they culture skin grafts in vitro the cells wind up with telomere lengths typical of an 80 year old, not cool if the graft is for a child.
By delivering the sequence with an adenovirus it doesn't stay switched on, you get a "reset" effect on the telomere lengths.
It takes time for your address to really get into the spam-swap lists. Do a domain registry with your address, post to some web-archived mailing lists. When you get spam, make sure you read it spam with HTML images enabled so they will know it's a "live" address.
When you get the spam offering to sell you millions of email adresses on CD, you'll know you've arrived.
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Seriously, wouldn't it be cool if everyone went and bought something (anything!) at their local autozone as a show of support? Fuzzy dice or a pine tree air freshener.
We'll be asking a car salesman if classfied ads are your best bet for buying a car.
Something about a barber and a haircut
Let's see, he's:
Prosecuted Microsoft (Antitrust)
Defended Napster
Represented Gore in 2000
Now his name is hung on the SCO case, and I have to wonder - is he famous for losing? The only thing missing is prosecuting O.J.
The popup window is too small and not resizable for me, I updated recently to moz 1.5.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
not trolling, just having a problem.
The popup window is too small and not resizable for me, I updated recently to moz 1.5
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
not trolling, just having a problem.
The site does not play well with your favorite browser
try ie to get correctly-sized popup windows for the screenshots, there is a hidden "next" button
Sorry chief, find a coupon code, not the equifax site.
Equifax has a service where you can get a copy of your credit report. This service accepts a "coupon" string if you have one.
Challenge: Create a google search phrase that returns a valid result in the first (non-sponsored) 100 results.
I worked on a debit based financial system a couple of years ago, we did the front end and the back end (core banking stuff) was handed off to a company that offshored the development to India. The client found their backend (custom written, "proprietary") software for sale within a year and sued the offshoring company, who folded up and disappeared. Luckily they got a copy of the source in the deal.
I think it would be fun if some of these outsourcing centers got their own salespeople in the US and starting cutting out the US companies all together.
Once all the actual work is done elsewhere, why keep the margin-sopping executives on board?
You are moving jobs to countries with no minimum wage. Whenever someone talks about outsourcing, the meme should be "with no minimum wage". The goal being to leave an appropriately bad taste in your mouth, and the listeners ear.
Health and safety, standard of living, 40 hour workweek, these are things people have fought and died for. They are not inconvieniences to be skirted by shifting your work to the poorest countries in the world.
What does it use for the IR transmitter, did your PVR card come with one or did you buy a seperate one? Is it USB to the PC?
My Inspiron 8200 came with a "call home" app from dell that kept trying to get through the proxy, I would get a password dialog twice a day or so. No uninstaller, no informative dialog. I had to find the app and rip it out manually.
The email was a reminder to change your preferences if you don't want to be marketed to. When they changed them to yes (a year ago?) they didn't actually act on the change. Now that people have had a year to reset their preferences, they are going to start marketing.
Not that it doesn't suck, but the article header is wrong. They changed your preferences once, a long time ago.
As part of their court-ordered settlement, what if Microsoft comes out with a browser upgrade that breaks your Flash plugin. Maybe that levels the playing field. Suddenly no one has either plugin.
It seems like the tendancy of people rolling out web-enabled non-pc devices is to use mozilla based, out of necessity. All it's going to take is for one of those products to catch on with the masses. Say, a robust web appliance that doesnt get all screwed up when your kids get a free game in their breakfast cereal, and costs a couple hundred bucks.
Wait until everyone has HD tv's (but don't hold your breath) and see how much better web boxes will look.
Maybe of the 133000 results for candle truck, only a handful have some minimum Page Rank value? Google may have a threshold below which it doesn't return the page at all.
Maybe the rest of the results are machine generated crap; google could be filtering out some of those nasty page webs you get with certain searches (try searching for "equifax coupon"). Funny that they would still report it in the result count though.
If you search around you can find a GM prototype fuelcell car platform that looks like a skateboard with wheels. the body snaps on top, and it is drive by wire/steer by wire. no mechanical linkages whatsoever.
GM was just quoted saying drive by wire is the future of vehicles. Running out of Hydrogen for your fuel cell while on the freeway could be Very Exciting.
What with no brakes or steering.
per New Scientist (a few months ago); rather than using a retrovirus to insert the telomerase gene (so it would stay switched on as it is in 90% of cancer cells), they are looking at using an adenovirus to deliver the sequence temporarily. Specifically for tissue grafts that are cultered in the lab. When they culture skin grafts in vitro the cells wind up with telomere lengths typical of an 80 year old, not cool if the graft is for a child.
By delivering the sequence with an adenovirus it doesn't stay switched on, you get a "reset" effect on the telomere lengths.
It takes time for your address to really get into the spam-swap lists. Do a domain registry with your address, post to some web-archived mailing lists. When you get spam, make sure you read it spam with HTML images enabled so they will know it's a "live" address.
When you get the spam offering to sell you millions of email adresses on CD, you'll know you've arrived.
Reminds me of when the 386 came out and everyone said protected mode would be useless "until all of the apps were recompiled".
But wouldn't tens of thousands of small claims court cases be so much more fun?
I keep hearing Norm McDonald's voice saying something like:
"You know whats funny, how sometimes when you do stuff, and then, then you say other people are doing that same stuff to you. Now thats funny."
Sure, it's a function, yes, it's not standard.
But the statement that executing SELECT never has any side effects is just wrong.