If it weren't for online retailers, Best Buy would be my only choice for computer hardware other than a few small vendors (which cost even more than Best Buy). Thank the silicon gods for NewEgg and Tiger Direct.
Poor people are probably less likely to keep an eye on their credit reports so they're actually better targets. Stealing identities to get 100 fraudulent cards with a $1000 limit each is much more useful than a single card with a $100,000 limit... especially since the person whose identity allowed you to get the $100,000 card is more likely to catch it and know how to deal with it before it's too late.
So we have nothing to learn from the past? It's those very past glories that give incentive to keep improving so we can have that better future. And I think it's pretty easy to compare the 70's to today. Let me give an example: 1970's had Led Zeppelin, 2010's has Justin Bieber. See, comparison is easy!
My guess is government subsidies ran out. Haven't done the math, but I'm betting the slight improvement in gas mileage takes too long to recoup the cost now before you have to pay to replace the batteries.
Same price? Honda's website advertises the Civic Sedan starting at $15,995 (39mpg) and the Civic Hybrid starting at $24,200 (44mpg). A hybrid costs 50% more for a 13% mpg increase. Even the most expensive non-hybrid Civic is less expensive than the Hybrid (excluding the natural gas model). And that assumes you take the time to drive the hybrid as a hybrid, which most people won't.
Unreasonable expectations are most likely based on the fact you can't drive a hybrid like a traditional car and still expect to get more than minor gas savings. Even then, I mostly see hybrids advertised as 35-45mpg... not a significant improvement over traditional cars of similar size.
Not around here. Gase averages around $3.90-$4.10/gal here and diesel is about $4.50-$4.60. When I was growing up, diesel was alwyas 10 cents/gal cheaper until around 2005.
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Nope, printer had been removed from her computer. She had been trained on the new printer. She didn't want to print to the new printer, she specifically wanted to print to the one that was gone. It wasn't an issue of misunderstanding, it was an issue of the user being a stereotypical blonde (this was far from the other Doh issue with her).
We did have another user with a case like you mentioned above - old printer was still on his computer. He accidentally selected it once and oddly enough, it printed to the new printer (same IP, completely different manufacturer). Some of the characters didn't print properly, but I was surprised it printed at all with a different manufacturer's drivers.
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A few apartments ago, Time Warner came to set up a modem for new Internet service. I was at work at the time, so my girlfriend (at the time) let him in and get to work. We had two laptops and a desktop connected to a Linksys wireless router, which was then connected to the modem. The LAN worked fine before TWC's tech came out there. I got home and it was slower than shit. Turns out he set the PCs to 10mbps/half-duplex and screwed up numerous other network (and even some non-network related) settings. The router, which was the only thing actually connected to the modem, was still set to auto-detect and reported a 100mbps/full duplex connection to the modem. Why the hell he changed my desktop settings I don't know. I changed it back to 100/full and it worked fine.
A USB cable won't work well in an Ethernet port (although USB-B does fit surprisingly well), so it should do a good job of preventing infections from over the network.
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What about the customers who insist a faulty cable is the reason their computer keeps getting infected and refuses to let you do anything but change the cable? Or the manager who asks why she can't print to the printer that was recycled years ago (and her specific words were "Why can't I print to the printer we got rid of?" - so she knew it was gone)? There's some customers that no amount of treating them right can help with. And both of the above happened to me within the past year.
As far as #2 goes, I've been partially deaf since my toddler years and it really does help a lot if women are able to lower their voices. Most people just try to talk louder, but if you have a higher pitch (like most women), then deepening your voice will be a much more significant improvement over talking louder.
Nah, we're on IE8/9 here and rapidly phasing out the XP/IE8 clients, and we used to support Firefox, Chrome and Opera on the machines but we ran into too many compatibility issues and user issues so we're continuing to phase all of the PCs to only have IE when we upgrade them from XP to Win7. So it's really a case of "we tried it, it worked really badly." Maybe in a few years we'll try something other than IE again, but right now it's the best game in town for our purposes.
My college psych professor mentioned that even though he had a doctorate in psychology, he isn't legally allowed to call himself Dr. in NY state, but he can in some other states. Of course, we all called him Dr. Bob anyway. Best part about his class was virtual lab rats - no PETA to worry about so you could shock the living hell out of them.
In that case, I want to be Paper Delivery Guy Clerk's Assistant Dishwasher Warehouse Delivery Guy Resident Assistant Network Intern Network Consultant Steve!
I think I earned it. I was a damned good dishwasher.
That's the policy we had at my last job. When it comes to non-technical users, that's a great recipe for spending your time removing malware and reinstalling Windows.
If I had the extra time to write up my findings and create an unneeded procedure then I would. If we had doc guys, then they would. Unfortunately, there's these things called budgets that require us to try to get the most done in the least time with the fewest people.
If management wants to up my salary to account for an extra 10 hours a week fielding calls about non-supported software, then by all means let them install it. But until then, I'm controlling the environment so I only have to work 9 hours most days. Face it, 95% of end users fuck up installing and supporting their own software, which costs the company and the employees a lot of lost time. Next time I have to reinstall Windows because a user decided to install software that happened to have a rootkit or two, I'll bill you for the time.
Switching them back to IE is still a waste of time for an IT staff that's already overburdened. It's much easier just to now allow it anyway. We haven't actually restricted it technologically, so users that can support it themselves slip by under the radar and we don't say anything if we notice it. However, anyone that calls for support for any non-approved software has it removed and is warned not to reinstall it.
I work at one of those places and I'm one of those IT control freaks. There's a good reason for it - we don't have the time or the people to troubleshoot five different browsers. Just because a user prefers Chrome over IE doesn't mean they know how to use it. Even the simple stuff, like displaying a PDF in a browser. I wasted a half hour trying to teach a user how to print a PDF from Chrome because the buttons were slightly different than they were in IE (which she was already familiar with). It'd be great to standardize on Chrome or Opera, but then there would be more retraining involved and IE has a lot of (admittedly artificial) advantages, such as vendor support, AD control, etc. Then there's the fact that even if we did standardize on Chrome, some people would want Firefox. If we did Firefox, some people would want Safari. So in the end, IE is by far the easiest, cheapest and least time consuming option whether or not it's your favorite browser.
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If it weren't for online retailers, Best Buy would be my only choice for computer hardware other than a few small vendors (which cost even more than Best Buy). Thank the silicon gods for NewEgg and Tiger Direct.
Poor people are probably less likely to keep an eye on their credit reports so they're actually better targets. Stealing identities to get 100 fraudulent cards with a $1000 limit each is much more useful than a single card with a $100,000 limit... especially since the person whose identity allowed you to get the $100,000 card is more likely to catch it and know how to deal with it before it's too late.
So we have nothing to learn from the past? It's those very past glories that give incentive to keep improving so we can have that better future.
And I think it's pretty easy to compare the 70's to today. Let me give an example: 1970's had Led Zeppelin, 2010's has Justin Bieber. See, comparison is easy!
From the headline, I thought the shuttle would be gliding over DC on its own, not strapped to the carrier. Still pretty cool.
My guess is government subsidies ran out. Haven't done the math, but I'm betting the slight improvement in gas mileage takes too long to recoup the cost now before you have to pay to replace the batteries.
I think you should read my post, which uses the figures on Honda's website. 39mpg for the basic model and 44mpg for the hybrid.
Same price? Honda's website advertises the Civic Sedan starting at $15,995 (39mpg) and the Civic Hybrid starting at $24,200 (44mpg). A hybrid costs 50% more for a 13% mpg increase. Even the most expensive non-hybrid Civic is less expensive than the Hybrid (excluding the natural gas model). And that assumes you take the time to drive the hybrid as a hybrid, which most people won't.
Unreasonable expectations are most likely based on the fact you can't drive a hybrid like a traditional car and still expect to get more than minor gas savings. Even then, I mostly see hybrids advertised as 35-45mpg... not a significant improvement over traditional cars of similar size.
Not around here. Gase averages around $3.90-$4.10/gal here and diesel is about $4.50-$4.60. When I was growing up, diesel was alwyas 10 cents/gal cheaper until around 2005.
Nope, printer had been removed from her computer. She had been trained on the new printer. She didn't want to print to the new printer, she specifically wanted to print to the one that was gone. It wasn't an issue of misunderstanding, it was an issue of the user being a stereotypical blonde (this was far from the other Doh issue with her).
We did have another user with a case like you mentioned above - old printer was still on his computer. He accidentally selected it once and oddly enough, it printed to the new printer (same IP, completely different manufacturer). Some of the characters didn't print properly, but I was surprised it printed at all with a different manufacturer's drivers.
A few apartments ago, Time Warner came to set up a modem for new Internet service. I was at work at the time, so my girlfriend (at the time) let him in and get to work. We had two laptops and a desktop connected to a Linksys wireless router, which was then connected to the modem. The LAN worked fine before TWC's tech came out there. I got home and it was slower than shit. Turns out he set the PCs to 10mbps/half-duplex and screwed up numerous other network (and even some non-network related) settings. The router, which was the only thing actually connected to the modem, was still set to auto-detect and reported a 100mbps/full duplex connection to the modem. Why the hell he changed my desktop settings I don't know. I changed it back to 100/full and it worked fine.
A USB cable won't work well in an Ethernet port (although USB-B does fit surprisingly well), so it should do a good job of preventing infections from over the network.
What about the customers who insist a faulty cable is the reason their computer keeps getting infected and refuses to let you do anything but change the cable? Or the manager who asks why she can't print to the printer that was recycled years ago (and her specific words were "Why can't I print to the printer we got rid of?" - so she knew it was gone)? There's some customers that no amount of treating them right can help with. And both of the above happened to me within the past year.
As far as #2 goes, I've been partially deaf since my toddler years and it really does help a lot if women are able to lower their voices. Most people just try to talk louder, but if you have a higher pitch (like most women), then deepening your voice will be a much more significant improvement over talking louder.
An analysis of facts and figures can also be copyrighted, and many textbooks (particularly liberal arts) contain as much analysis as anything else.
Don't worry, he'll be removed shortly.
Nah, we're on IE8/9 here and rapidly phasing out the XP/IE8 clients, and we used to support Firefox, Chrome and Opera on the machines but we ran into too many compatibility issues and user issues so we're continuing to phase all of the PCs to only have IE when we upgrade them from XP to Win7. So it's really a case of "we tried it, it worked really badly." Maybe in a few years we'll try something other than IE again, but right now it's the best game in town for our purposes.
My college psych professor mentioned that even though he had a doctorate in psychology, he isn't legally allowed to call himself Dr. in NY state, but he can in some other states. Of course, we all called him Dr. Bob anyway. Best part about his class was virtual lab rats - no PETA to worry about so you could shock the living hell out of them.
In that case, I want to be Paper Delivery Guy Clerk's Assistant Dishwasher Warehouse Delivery Guy Resident Assistant Network Intern Network Consultant Steve!
I think I earned it. I was a damned good dishwasher.
Misread the name of his opponent as Jeff Dahmer at first. That would have been an interesting race.
That's the policy we had at my last job. When it comes to non-technical users, that's a great recipe for spending your time removing malware and reinstalling Windows.
If I had the extra time to write up my findings and create an unneeded procedure then I would.
If we had doc guys, then they would.
Unfortunately, there's these things called budgets that require us to try to get the most done in the least time with the fewest people.
Unless you're willing to pay for it?
If management wants to up my salary to account for an extra 10 hours a week fielding calls about non-supported software, then by all means let them install it. But until then, I'm controlling the environment so I only have to work 9 hours most days. Face it, 95% of end users fuck up installing and supporting their own software, which costs the company and the employees a lot of lost time. Next time I have to reinstall Windows because a user decided to install software that happened to have a rootkit or two, I'll bill you for the time.
Switching them back to IE is still a waste of time for an IT staff that's already overburdened. It's much easier just to now allow it anyway. We haven't actually restricted it technologically, so users that can support it themselves slip by under the radar and we don't say anything if we notice it. However, anyone that calls for support for any non-approved software has it removed and is warned not to reinstall it.
I work at one of those places and I'm one of those IT control freaks. There's a good reason for it - we don't have the time or the people to troubleshoot five different browsers. Just because a user prefers Chrome over IE doesn't mean they know how to use it. Even the simple stuff, like displaying a PDF in a browser. I wasted a half hour trying to teach a user how to print a PDF from Chrome because the buttons were slightly different than they were in IE (which she was already familiar with). It'd be great to standardize on Chrome or Opera, but then there would be more retraining involved and IE has a lot of (admittedly artificial) advantages, such as vendor support, AD control, etc. Then there's the fact that even if we did standardize on Chrome, some people would want Firefox. If we did Firefox, some people would want Safari. So in the end, IE is by far the easiest, cheapest and least time consuming option whether or not it's your favorite browser.