And from the article: "Most of the calls were about three minutes long, but some were as long as 10 minutes."
As long as 10 minutes? Not only did FEMA have a badly configured phone system, they must have had some of the crappiest call plans I could possibly imagine. I mean, where were the calls terminating? The moon?
Get a grip. 99.999% (there's your five nines) of email is just not that critical.
It's amazing how many people will insist their email server is a mission critical system, and yet it goes down for a day or so and poof.... They *don't* go out of business! Fancy that.
Pick up a telephone or (heaven forbid) talk to someone in your office face to face. There's a really good chance you'll actually get more stuff done that day.
(Yes, I know Google Apps is more than email, but what I said about email probably applies to manyof them as well).
Go away and read "The Art of Getting Things Done" by David Allen. It would have been mentioned here earlier, but most of its proponents are likely off... getting things done.
Then Google for a presentation called "Inbox Zero" which takes the GTD ideas and applies them to email.
Now, watch this post get modded up by the cult of GTD.
The typo in my earlier post probably didn't help, but there is a debt once a person has won an auction, and in so doing, made a commitment to pay the seller.
According to the Slashdot post and TFA upon which it is based: "eBay is using Australia as a guinea pig to trial a new policy where all other modes of payment are barred except for PayPal."
However, according to eBay's own memo: "From 21 May 2008, all items listed on eBay.com.au must offer PayPal as one of the payment methods available to buyers."
So which is it?
On the one hand, there's nothing to see here. On the other hand, the response from eBay's Alistair McGibbon (source of possibly the lamest superhero quote of all time) doesn't seem to repudiate the reporter's understanding.
I understood that by law, merchants are required to accept legal tender to pay a debt. In other words, there's no way they can prohibit people paying cash once a debt exists (i.e. they have one the auction).
Admittedly the above is from my recall of High School business studies, and IANALADHAT (I am not a lawyer and damned happy about that).
Why was this marked as a troll? It's a perfectly valid point.
Most nightclub owners will tell law-enforcement or ARIA's solicitors, with a completely straight face, that there is no illegal activity inside their clubs.
Oooooh. With words like "apparatus of the state" and "ethnic hegemony" I'll bet all the "smash Bush" chicks just love you.
Why do I get the feeling, despite your political beliefs, you love your computer, love your iPod and wouldn't actually live in a Communist or Islamist state. Just a hunch.
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400 calls totalling $12,000.
That is, about $30 per call.
And from the article: "Most of the calls were about three minutes long, but some were as long as 10 minutes."
As long as 10 minutes? Not only did FEMA have a badly configured phone system, they must have had some of the crappiest call plans I could possibly imagine. I mean, where were the calls terminating? The moon?
Your tax dollars at work.
Get a grip. 99.999% (there's your five nines) of email is just not that critical.
It's amazing how many people will insist their email server is a mission critical system, and yet it goes down for a day or so and poof.... They *don't* go out of business! Fancy that.
Pick up a telephone or (heaven forbid) talk to someone in your office face to face. There's a really good chance you'll actually get more stuff done that day.
(Yes, I know Google Apps is more than email, but what I said about email probably applies to manyof them as well).
They both read Slashdot.
Are you sure the chair can carry the weight?
Are you sure about that?
The albatross is $1000 fully optioned.
COLLABORATE AND LISTEN.
Doctors used remote controls and an imaging screen, similar to a video game
Doctor: Dammnit nurse! Guide me over to the Health bonus
Nurse: There's no time Doctor! We're losing the patient.
Doctor: Okay. We have to cheat death. Press up-up-left-left-up-up-down-select.
Nurse: It's working! The patient has full health!
Doctor: Tumour P3wnd!
You forgot hot secretary.
Anyway, I look forward to picking all of that stuff up at auction when your imaginary company folds in the first six months.
Your theory is probably right, but I'd exclude daycare from the list. You'll find that's there to keep some employees at work at all.
remember Peter having to listen to "Welcome to Initech. Please Hold." over-and-over again all day?
No.
What I remember (and you don't) was "Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment." over-and-over.
You can discretely fuck the secretary in an open-plan office as well.
Just send her an email before Christmas, saying she's fired.
This shows how the population of the world has increased at an alarming rate in recent times.
People are having kids. Exactly why is this "alarming"?
Go away and read "The Art of Getting Things Done" by David Allen. It would have been mentioned here earlier, but most of its proponents are likely off... getting things done.
Then Google for a presentation called "Inbox Zero" which takes the GTD ideas and applies them to email.
Now, watch this post get modded up by the cult of GTD.
Step 1: Print cheque onto self-erasing paper.
Step 2: Buy expensive stuff with it.
Step 3: Profit!!!
Okay. Thanks.
...not impressive.
The typo in my earlier post probably didn't help, but there is a debt once a person has won an auction, and in so doing, made a commitment to pay the seller.
According to the Slashdot post and TFA upon which it is based:
"eBay is using Australia as a guinea pig to trial a new policy where all other modes of payment are barred except for PayPal."
However, according to eBay's own memo:
"From 21 May 2008, all items listed on eBay.com.au must offer PayPal as one of the payment methods available to buyers."
So which is it?
On the one hand, there's nothing to see here. On the other hand, the response from eBay's Alistair McGibbon (source of possibly the lamest superhero quote of all time) doesn't seem to repudiate the reporter's understanding.
Fairfax is significantly more evil than eBay.
I understood that by law, merchants are required to accept legal tender to pay a debt. In other words, there's no way they can prohibit people paying cash once a debt exists (i.e. they have one the auction).
Admittedly the above is from my recall of High School business studies, and IANALADHAT (I am not a lawyer and damned happy about that).
Hey, thanks for listening. We'll be back right after I reboot the band...
Why was this marked as a troll? It's a perfectly valid point.
Most nightclub owners will tell law-enforcement or ARIA's solicitors, with a completely straight face, that there is no illegal activity inside their clubs.
Or wearing.....A hat and sunglasses!
Oooooh. With words like "apparatus of the state" and "ethnic hegemony" I'll bet all the "smash Bush" chicks just love you.
Why do I get the feeling, despite your political beliefs, you love your computer, love your iPod and wouldn't actually live in a Communist or Islamist state. Just a hunch.