Yeah, but it won't increase their profitability, because high value business travelers speed and will take their business elsewhere. Does speeding cause their insurance losses? Doubt it - I suspect it's mostly low-speed collisions and thefts. Just like the majority of insurance losses among people who own cars.
There is no way the major rental agencies would EVER implement this. Can you imagine the line of irate, high-value, frequent business travelers who would never patronize an agency again once they got one fine like this? Particularly given how travelers rush to return their cars when late for a plane?
Rental agencies may be bastards (consider the CDW for example) but they're not that stupid!
Seriously. I'm thinking something from Peter Bagge or Ambrose Beers. Unfortunately Suck.com isn't responding right now (hopefully not dead already?!) but I hope to post some linx later.
This is a good point. A professional association (of "nerds that matter" ?) could set standards of quality work that members would uphold and be a mark of quality - and could also include standards on working conditions that would be useful for tech workers who feel exploited by those who, for example, demand excessive overtime.
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Yeah, and you really think a union could correct your superiors' design decisions?! What are you smoking? A union would bring you a seniority-based promotion structure, perhaps better wages but also required dues, strike threats over issues that may not affect you, and endless politics that would get in the way of doing good work. Precisely the opposite of the "merely competent" workers' paradise you describe!
Your other suggestion, setting up shop on your own, makes more sense. If (as I suspect) there are smart people willing to buy your services, you'll do much better!
Could be if the SETI@Home guys turned out to be blackhat terrorists who, discovering it's TVA, DDoS them and take out power to the South... hey, you know, you can never be too careful when you're in the security business!
DeBeers has been artificially controlling the diamond market for years to prevent exactly this sort of thing. They have huge stockpiles of
diamonds from south africa and russia, but only release them in small quantities to keep the prices up. Apparently if they released them all then
diamonds would be worth about as much as - I don't know really, but not worth much anyway.
And engaged men the world around would jump for joy! Two months' salary, indeed.
This is serious. 110 is the equivalent of 911 in Japan.
On that note, there was a "911 Virus" that spread via open Windows shares and randomly called 911 last year. This didn't spread far because it was so malicious (it erased users' hard drives) but it is an example of this sort of thing happening. The Houston, TX police department got a large number of false calls.
Find some predictions Gartner issued a few years back and compare them with the state of the world today. I suspect their accuracy will be demonstrably poor.
Amen! I bet some investors in a wide range of dot-coms and "enterprise B2B exchange portal" thingies would love to find the guy who wrote that these would be multi-billion dollar markets by now...
Desktop search/update utilities have been around for a while. My work desktop had one that kept going online to update things like IE (ostensibly for Y2K compliance) - it was slowing me down, so I found and deleted it. Case closed.
We absolutely need that kind too. Sometimes there is a fire, and you need to warn people! By comparison, Freenet needs to support a very broad range of speech, even stuff that the powers that be (e.g. political speech in China) find "patently offensive."
Yes. I personally know someone who has severe RSI, and I don't think she's bullshitting, as she has told me repeatedly of the pain she experiences. I too have experienced some pain from using crappy keyboards, which I have abandoned in favor of my laptops which are actually easier to use.
Definitely some people claim RSI to make their jobs easier unfairly, but I can assure you that this shit is real.
So: Don't overwork your hands, you won't get any new ones!
Well, we would expect a company part owned by the French government to look to regulation first to try to get its stuff adopted. I agree with the others here who say that this has no (0) chance of success.
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Yeah, but it won't increase their profitability, because high value business travelers speed and will take their business elsewhere. Does speeding cause their insurance losses? Doubt it - I suspect it's mostly low-speed collisions and thefts. Just like the majority of insurance losses among people who own cars.
Rental agencies may be bastards (consider the CDW for example) but they're not that stupid!
Why is American beer like sex in a canoe? They're both fucking close to water.
This one made a big difference and should definitely get a prize.
Jeez, can't Slashdot get the categories right? Clearly this should be in the Sun category.
Seriously. I'm thinking something from Peter Bagge or Ambrose Beers. Unfortunately Suck.com isn't responding right now (hopefully not dead already?!) but I hope to post some linx later.
This is a good point. A professional association (of "nerds that matter" ?) could set standards of quality work that members would uphold and be a mark of quality - and could also include standards on working conditions that would be useful for tech workers who feel exploited by those who, for example, demand excessive overtime.
Your other suggestion, setting up shop on your own, makes more sense. If (as I suspect) there are smart people willing to buy your services, you'll do much better!
Could be if the SETI@Home guys turned out to be blackhat terrorists who, discovering it's TVA, DDoS them and take out power to the South ... hey, you know, you can never be too careful when you're in the security business!
And engaged men the world around would jump for joy! Two months' salary, indeed.
is the most appropriate one, since it also neatly summarizes the availability for most users.
the correct way would be "1r11t0"
On that note, there was a "911 Virus" that spread via open Windows shares and randomly called 911 last year. This didn't spread far because it was so malicious (it erased users' hard drives) but it is an example of this sort of thing happening. The Houston, TX police department got a large number of false calls.
this is some other service, not TiVo. There will still be room for both in the marketplace .. and home-built PVR type devices as well!
Amen! I bet some investors in a wide range of dot-coms and "enterprise B2B exchange portal" thingies would love to find the guy who wrote that these would be multi-billion dollar markets by now...
Which is precisely why I don't subscribe. Crappy research ("Paper airplane portals will be a $2B market by 2004.") Waste of money!
Desktop search/update utilities have been around for a while. My work desktop had one that kept going online to update things like IE (ostensibly for Y2K compliance) - it was slowing me down, so I found and deleted it. Case closed.
We absolutely need that kind too. Sometimes there is a fire, and you need to warn people! By comparison, Freenet needs to support a very broad range of speech, even stuff that the powers that be (e.g. political speech in China) find "patently offensive."
We really need a [+1 Flamebait].
Definitely some people claim RSI to make their jobs easier unfairly, but I can assure you that this shit is real.
So: Don't overwork your hands, you won't get any new ones!
Now that would give you RSI!
Last time I checked, contracts in restraint of trade were forbidden by the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Well, we would expect a company part owned by the French government to look to regulation first to try to get its stuff adopted. I agree with the others here who say that this has no (0) chance of success.
Now this, unlike the previous TiVo story, should have been put in the Upgrades category!