I used to carry a pager for almost 15 years when I was part of our state emergency service in NSW. The reason we still use them is because of coverage. Pagers rely on radio transmitters that cover massive areas. They are not subject to emergency mobile signal shutdown during emergencies or congestion periods. SMS (and email) is much more useful, and we use that as our primary mass communication tool to our members, however, for team leaders and officers we still use pagers as well. I have had situations where an emergency SMS was not delivered for over an hour due to the fire emergency we were in. This is not to say that pagers are perfect. I have had missed or garbled messages due to interference (I was working near a phone exchange at the time). I think pagers are still useful, the problem is the number of providers is shrinking rapidly and that will be the only reason they will disappear.
In Australia, voting is compulsory, so turnout is in excess of 80%.
There is no requirement for IDs when voting, just making sure your name is crossed off the list in the seat you're registered for. This obviously means that you can, illegally, vote twice at two different locations, but the system will pick it up (when they scan the registers) I'm not entirely sure, but I think the election officer can request some form of ID if they suspect foul play.
Anyway, it is possible to cheat, but the percentage of rejected votes is so small that there is no reason to change the system and increase the costs associated with it.
I guess, because the voting is compulsory hence a large turnout minimises the effects compared to a voluntary voting system where the turnout is low and the percentages become significant.
I don't understand the summary, and so I am scared to read the linked articles. Can someone please translate the summary so I can make an informed decision whether to read the articles or not.
Pretty sad to be honest. We take voting system for granted here (Australia), it is run pretty smoothly, and even though it is paper ballots still, the results are known within hours unless it is pretty close. I have never heard of vote disputes. Usually recounts when the result is too close but that's about it.
1986 I was still in highschool. Our school brought in a few Casio (I think) PCs with the monochrome monitors. We learned to program basic on them. It was great. Learned logic and helped with maths. I remember we had one of these PCs connected to a TV and a tape player where we would read programs from. This is where we did the colour graphics. I've loved working with computers and programming from that day on.
That was my introduction to computers. I only knew 3 people who had computers at that time. I did not get to use computers again until I went to university in 1991 where we used Apollo then DEC 320(?) which had Mosaic. In the university library they had Apple macintosh computers with Netscape Navigator. They were the easiest and best to use.
I started using Linux in the late 90s. It was the buzz back then and I needed a differentiator when going for IT positions. I did download a lot of distros at the time because I worked at a telco at the time, so had the speed. But most of my installs came from CDs with magazines or books. At one stage I even ordered CDs from both redhat and mandrake. I still have them as souvenirs. Anyway, my timeline looks like this (gets fuzzy the more I got into Linux): Redhat-> mandrake->Caldera-> suse-> lfs->slackware->debian->redhat. Stayed on redhat for quite a few years (with XFCE) then moved on to OSX. Later on I used Ubuntu but only sparingly. Haven't used Linux for a couple of years now!
I fall into this category, but I wouldn't call myself an adult when I was circumcised. I was somewhere between 11 and 13 years old. I am neither American, nor Muslim or Jew. My dad is not circumcised, but for some reason, which I no longer remember I was circumcised in a hospital. I didn't feel any pain as a result. I was sore for a week afterwards. That's all I can remember from that time.
I am now a happily married man, and we haven't had any problems with stimulation, sensation or anything. I don't know what I'd do if I have a son, but as it's not a tradition in our family, we'll talk it through. I think I'm in favour of it, but we'll know closer to the time.
I worked at HP quite a few years back. I loved the team I worked with for many years, but due to lost outsourcing opportunities and such, the team got split up, so I took the opportunity to move to another team and expand my experience. Ended up being a bad call on my part. But for a couple of years, I built-up good experience and managed good projects, then they noticed and put me in a team where I was responsible for stuff I didn't want to do on the proviso that it was temporary. Temporary stretched for months for a role that was pretty stressful, and my manager was so unsupportive and clueless. I begged him for months to move me somewhere else, I even contacted HR and said I wanted to move teams. Nothing came out of it, so I told my boss that if he gives me any more projects (of the stressful type I didn't want to do) I will resign. He did and so I resigned the following day to his utter surprise because he knew I didn't have another job to go to. I was one of six people from a team of 20 who resigned within a space of two weeks. I was not given an exit interview, but leaving that team was one of the best things I did.
Most of the proposition and the comments that follow come from US readers who's university eduction is exorbitently priced. But they tend to live in such a cocoon of their own making that if it's state subsidised then it is a communist socialist tool and should be resisted at all costs. Look at what they did with their health care! Everyone in the rest of the western nations just shook their heads at the kind of language that came out in the debate. It's the same kind of language or at least sentiment shown regarding higher ed here.
interesting. All throughout Arabia, Shiite Muslims kill Sunni Muslims, nobody cares. Sunni Muslims kill Shiite Muslims, nobody cars. But if an Israeli kills a Palestinian - Apartheid, apartheid, apartheid.
Border disputes are border disputes all across the world. But if one party of a border dispute is Israel, it's occupation, settlement, apartheid racist.
So, Mr Coward, help me understand what you're trying to say: Are you saying that since Sunnis and Shia kill each other it is OK for Israeli Jews to kill Palestinians? Or Are you saying that we shouldn't care when Israeli Jews kill Palestinians?
By the way, border disputes are basically between two countries that recognise each other (generally) but have never formalised the drawing of their borders. Israeli settlements are built on land beyond the recognised borders, so it's apartheid, it's occupation.
I agree with Dan541. I regularly use these digital "encrypted" radios in NSW (not sure about other states), and these are used by all emergency services in the state (not just the police). Each group has its own "talk groups". What I want to add to this conversation, is that the Pasadena police will most likely be using the Motorola radios sicne these are the most widely used digital radios. These kinds of digital radios also have a central control opcen. Basically, if a radio is stolen, it can be locked out, basically like a stolen mobile phone can be locked out using IMEI.
As another outsider, I don't think Americans are capable of changing their own system not for lack of a desire to do so, but because they seem to have no appreciation for viable, working alternatives. Americans tend to distrust anything that wasn't invented there, hence all the attacks on European styles of government (and even attacks on candidates who speaks another language!) take their health budget. They spend nearly double the percentrage of the GDP on health as that of the biggest European countries (UK, Germany, France) and yet, they still can't give universal health coverage to all their citizens! Any new government styles, ideas that are better than what they currently have is more likely to resemble a "foreign" style and will be rejected outright.
I am still an outsider, so take what I just said with a healthy dose of salt.
I'm not sure it's the two-party system that's failing. It's more the division of power that is failing you. Most Westminster-system governments are more-or-less two-party systems, but there are many 3rd and 4th parties that "keep the bastards honest" like we say in Australia. A Westminster system of govenment means that the executive is accountable to the Parliament and is an elected member. Which means they can be replaced at any time and must answer questions in Parliament. Judging your politics as an outsider, one can't tell who is governing, the President or the Congress. Besides, your parties hardly ever seem (again to an outsider) to vote as parties. Your members of congress seem to be proud of their records of voting against party lines. It's all very confusing.
Just a bit of clarifiction so you don't end up shooting the messenger and the source of the message:
The Interpol is not a "political" body. It is an international liaison body for participating countries police departments.
Essentially, they liaise with each other. If one country issues a warrant and then asks Interpol to distribute it, this is what they do. Nothing to do with politics. That happens in the country issuing the warrant or the country where the warrantee is present!
Actually, this is true for most companies. At our company, I do not offer the employees iPhones, but if they bring their own, and want to use the company mobile number (instead of carrying two phones) then I let them.
They can do whatever they want on the iPhone, but expect me to protect the company info if need be.
I Stay clear of these things, even if I have to wait an extra 5 minutes in line at a manned checkout. I do this simply out of principle. I prefer my shopping contribute to a person's pay not just super company's profits. I do this even when I have only one or two items. It's worth the effort to help one extra teenager keep or get a job.
s seems typical with this government they don't think through the consequences of their laws (or proposed laws). A good law should: 1) Feel guilty if I break. (not applicable in this case cause it is a proscriptive law)
It's a good point, but not universal. I don't always feel guilty when break the speeding law!
2) Solve a problem.. In this case it will just lead to more off shore services, encryption and obfuscation in existing communications. This will just lift the bar so that a warranted tap will no longer be likely to provide anything useful.
Not all laws are for problem solving, there are regulations, preventions and assigning rights and obligations. I'm not sure where this one would fall though.
3) Hurt the bad guys more than the good guys. This just lifts the cost for everybody and depending on what the ISPs need to do to collect this data then it may effect performance.
Laws are not about "hurting" anyone, or shouldn't be anyway. They are or should spell out consequences of actions.
4) Be technically possible.
This is a quite technically possible solution: Recording source and destination requests into a massive database. Now, wether this is useful info or not, remains to be seen. I just want to highlight something about legislation creation in Australia (I'm assuming federally is the same as state) but most laws are requested by departments and make their way up to minister then parliament (the exceptions are big ticket items like the new mining tax etc) The departments would have a need for something, an example, for the police to be able to do some sort of monitoring but current legislations does not support it, go through their head of department (or commissioner) to the minister with a proposal and then the minister will put it before cabinet and then parliament. I have not had dealings with police, or other legislations, but in the emergency service I'm involved in, I've had input into proposed laws that were then sent to our relevant minister, which after about a year became law. These were initiated by us, and not by the minister. The intro to this article came from the "industry reps" who were in on the meetings. This means that the relevant department is still in the consultation process. This is quite routine. It may or may not turn political. This remains to be seen.
This is equivalent to http://mcit.gov.eg/ except it directs you to the English webpages instead of the Arabic webpages. Notice teh directory structure after the last slash. one thing to notice in the TLD above, which is in Arabic, is that the TLD happens to be 3 letters the arabic equivalent of MSR (which is egypt)
The other TLDs mentioned in the ICANN blog are much longer: Egypt: (Egypt) Saudi Arabia: (AlSaudiah) United Arab Emirates: (Emarat)
I was wondering why they arrived at this decision and then I read this document: http://arabic-domains.org/docs/NIC-docs/SupportingArabicDomainNmaes.pdf which seems to explain the logic behind the choice. It is still a lot to type though, so if i have the choice, I'll use latin domain names.
I run XP SP3 in my corporate environment, and also run McAfee. We were not affected! It must be a special set of circumstances that caused the agent to go beserk. I haven't heard from our international offices if anyone's been affected.
You get a choice of Nokia E series or Windows Mobile phones (usually HTC). The reason being they both support MS Exchange email. The company pays for the plan, and the phone can be used for personal calls becuase we're on a hight corporate plan, and unless you're a heavy user (we have people racking thousands $ in monthly bills because of roaming) then your bill will be reasonable.
This is the reason why when I joined the company, I signed over my phone number to the company so I don't have to carry two phones. The company has no qualms about signing over the number again if you decide to leave (seen that with other employees who have left)
I'll start with a disclaimer: I am not a Muslim, but I will correct some of your and the parent's perceptions. Religion has in the past played a role in discrediting science. This is a true statement. Religion has in the past played a role in fostering science. This is a true statement.
The fact that at one time Religion (either christian, or muslim or any other in the past) played a role to discredit or foster science is completely lost on some people. Most slashdotters seem to focus on what religion did to destroy science forgetting that they also fostered it as well.
Islam: Once they had settled their empire expansion, in about the 7th or 8th cebntury AD, they went on to start the most advanced research endowment ever and both gathered and generated science all the way from India to Andalusia. (heard of algebra) They seem to have lost the plot when the empire started crumbling. They haven't recovered because their cultures are still not in a stable state. Give them time.
Christianity: throughout the centuries, Christians, both ordained (priests, monks whatever) and lay were instrumental in many fields of science (heard of Euler, Descartes, Pascal?) The sciences were both attacked and fostered as the status of Empire changes in Europe opver the centuries with the dark ages as the best example of "darkness" but even then the Church was quite involved in on of the main sciences: medicine
Both Christian churches and Muslim mosques were centres of education, and many current famous universities were established by religious orders: Cambridge, Al Azhar etc
It is not religion that is discrediting science but rather the focus of the people in power, whatever religion (or non-religion) they hail from.
I agree. I think uniforms (or rather badged shirts) make my life much easier. At my place of work (an engineering company) I am the only IT guy, and I don't interact with customers, so I rarely wear a dress shirt to work. The other staff can wear anything as long as it is "professional", and at times they do wear the company badged shirts.
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I used to carry a pager for almost 15 years when I was part of our state emergency service in NSW.
The reason we still use them is because of coverage.
Pagers rely on radio transmitters that cover massive areas. They are not subject to emergency mobile signal shutdown during emergencies or congestion periods.
SMS (and email) is much more useful, and we use that as our primary mass communication tool to our members, however, for team leaders and officers we still use pagers as well.
I have had situations where an emergency SMS was not delivered for over an hour due to the fire emergency we were in.
This is not to say that pagers are perfect. I have had missed or garbled messages due to interference (I was working near a phone exchange at the time).
I think pagers are still useful, the problem is the number of providers is shrinking rapidly and that will be the only reason they will disappear.
In Australia, voting is compulsory, so turnout is in excess of 80%.
There is no requirement for IDs when voting, just making sure your name is crossed off the list in the seat you're registered for. This obviously means that you can, illegally, vote twice at two different locations, but the system will pick it up (when they scan the registers)
I'm not entirely sure, but I think the election officer can request some form of ID if they suspect foul play.
Anyway, it is possible to cheat, but the percentage of rejected votes is so small that there is no reason to change the system and increase the costs associated with it.
I guess, because the voting is compulsory hence a large turnout minimises the effects compared to a voluntary voting system where the turnout is low and the percentages become significant.
I don't understand the summary, and so I am scared to read the linked articles.
Can someone please translate the summary so I can make an informed decision whether to read the articles or not.
There was an article on CNN about the US voting system. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/05/opinion/frum-election-chaos/index.html
Pretty sad to be honest. We take voting system for granted here (Australia), it is run pretty smoothly, and even though it is paper ballots still, the results are known within hours unless it is pretty close. I have never heard of vote disputes. Usually recounts when the result is too close but that's about it.
1986 I was still in highschool. Our school brought in a few Casio (I think) PCs with the monochrome monitors.
We learned to program basic on them. It was great. Learned logic and helped with maths.
I remember we had one of these PCs connected to a TV and a tape player where we would read programs from. This is where we did the colour graphics.
I've loved working with computers and programming from that day on.
That was my introduction to computers. I only knew 3 people who had computers at that time.
I did not get to use computers again until I went to university in 1991 where we used Apollo then DEC 320(?) which had Mosaic.
In the university library they had Apple macintosh computers with Netscape Navigator. They were the easiest and best to use.
I started using Linux in the late 90s. It was the buzz back then and I needed a differentiator when going for IT positions. I did download a lot of distros at the time because I worked at a telco at the time, so had the speed. But most of my installs came from CDs with magazines or books. At one stage I even ordered CDs from both redhat and mandrake. I still have them as souvenirs.
Anyway, my timeline looks like this (gets fuzzy the more I got into Linux):
Redhat-> mandrake->Caldera-> suse-> lfs->slackware->debian->redhat. Stayed on redhat for quite a few years (with XFCE) then moved on to OSX. Later on I used Ubuntu but only sparingly. Haven't used Linux for a couple of years now!
I fall into this category, but I wouldn't call myself an adult when I was circumcised. I was somewhere between 11 and 13 years old. I am neither American, nor Muslim or Jew.
My dad is not circumcised, but for some reason, which I no longer remember I was circumcised in a hospital. I didn't feel any pain as a result. I was sore for a week afterwards. That's all I can remember from that time.
I am now a happily married man, and we haven't had any problems with stimulation, sensation or anything.
I don't know what I'd do if I have a son, but as it's not a tradition in our family, we'll talk it through. I think I'm in favour of it, but we'll know closer to the time.
I worked at HP quite a few years back. I loved the team I worked with for many years, but due to lost outsourcing opportunities and such, the team got split up, so I took the opportunity to move to another team and expand my experience. Ended up being a bad call on my part.
But for a couple of years, I built-up good experience and managed good projects, then they noticed and put me in a team where I was responsible for stuff I didn't want to do on the proviso that it was temporary. Temporary stretched for months for a role that was pretty stressful, and my manager was so unsupportive and clueless. I begged him for months to move me somewhere else, I even contacted HR and said I wanted to move teams. Nothing came out of it, so I told my boss that if he gives me any more projects (of the stressful type I didn't want to do) I will resign. He did and so I resigned the following day to his utter surprise because he knew I didn't have another job to go to. I was one of six people from a team of 20 who resigned within a space of two weeks.
I was not given an exit interview, but leaving that team was one of the best things I did.
Most of the proposition and the comments that follow come from US readers who's university eduction is exorbitently priced.
But they tend to live in such a cocoon of their own making that if it's state subsidised then it is a communist socialist tool and should be resisted at all costs. Look at what they did with their health care! Everyone in the rest of the western nations just shook their heads at the kind of language that came out in the debate.
It's the same kind of language or at least sentiment shown regarding higher ed here.
So, Mr Coward, help me understand what you're trying to say:
Are you saying that since Sunnis and Shia kill each other it is OK for Israeli Jews to kill Palestinians?
Or
Are you saying that we shouldn't care when Israeli Jews kill Palestinians?
By the way, border disputes are basically between two countries that recognise each other (generally) but have never formalised the drawing of their borders. Israeli settlements are built on land beyond the recognised borders, so it's apartheid, it's occupation.
I agree with Dan541. I regularly use these digital "encrypted" radios in NSW (not sure about other states), and these are used by all emergency services in the state (not just the police). Each group has its own "talk groups".
What I want to add to this conversation, is that the Pasadena police will most likely be using the Motorola radios sicne these are the most widely used digital radios. These kinds of digital radios also have a central control opcen. Basically, if a radio is stolen, it can be locked out, basically like a stolen mobile phone can be locked out using IMEI.
As another outsider, I don't think Americans are capable of changing their own system not for lack of a desire to do so, but because they seem to have no appreciation for viable, working alternatives.
Americans tend to distrust anything that wasn't invented there, hence all the attacks on European styles of government (and even attacks on candidates who speaks another language!)
take their health budget. They spend nearly double the percentrage of the GDP on health as that of the biggest European countries (UK, Germany, France) and yet, they still can't give universal health coverage to all their citizens!
Any new government styles, ideas that are better than what they currently have is more likely to resemble a "foreign" style and will be rejected outright.
I am still an outsider, so take what I just said with a healthy dose of salt.
I'm not sure it's the two-party system that's failing. It's more the division of power that is failing you.
Most Westminster-system governments are more-or-less two-party systems, but there are many 3rd and 4th parties that "keep the bastards honest" like we say in Australia.
A Westminster system of govenment means that the executive is accountable to the Parliament and is an elected member. Which means they can be replaced at any time and must answer questions in Parliament.
Judging your politics as an outsider, one can't tell who is governing, the President or the Congress. Besides, your parties hardly ever seem (again to an outsider) to vote as parties. Your members of congress seem to be proud of their records of voting against party lines. It's all very confusing.
Just a bit of clarifiction so you don't end up shooting the messenger and the source of the message:
The Interpol is not a "political" body. It is an international liaison body for participating countries police departments.
Essentially, they liaise with each other. If one country issues a warrant and then asks Interpol to distribute it, this is what they do. Nothing to do with politics. That happens in the country issuing the warrant or the country where the warrantee is present!
Actually, this is true for most companies.
At our company, I do not offer the employees iPhones, but if they bring their own, and want to use the company mobile number (instead of carrying two phones) then I let them.
They can do whatever they want on the iPhone, but expect me to protect the company info if need be.
I Stay clear of these things, even if I have to wait an extra 5 minutes in line at a manned checkout.
I do this simply out of principle. I prefer my shopping contribute to a person's pay not just super company's profits.
I do this even when I have only one or two items. It's worth the effort to help one extra teenager keep or get a job.
... between looking for meat machines and metal machines?
One has the extra letter "L"?
s seems typical with this government they don't think through the consequences of their laws (or proposed laws). A good law should:
1) Feel guilty if I break. (not applicable in this case cause it is a proscriptive law)
It's a good point, but not universal. I don't always feel guilty when break the speeding law!
2) Solve a problem.. In this case it will just lead to more off shore services, encryption and obfuscation in existing communications. This will just lift the bar so that a warranted tap will no longer be likely to provide anything useful.
Not all laws are for problem solving, there are regulations, preventions and assigning rights and obligations. I'm not sure where this one would fall though.
3) Hurt the bad guys more than the good guys. This just lifts the cost for everybody and depending on what the ISPs need to do to collect this data then it may effect performance.
Laws are not about "hurting" anyone, or shouldn't be anyway. They are or should spell out consequences of actions.
4) Be technically possible.
This is a quite technically possible solution: Recording source and destination requests into a massive database. Now, wether this is useful info or not, remains to be seen.
I just want to highlight something about legislation creation in Australia (I'm assuming federally is the same as state) but most laws are requested by departments and make their way up to minister then parliament (the exceptions are big ticket items like the new mining tax etc)
The departments would have a need for something, an example, for the police to be able to do some sort of monitoring but current legislations does not support it, go through their head of department (or commissioner) to the minister with a proposal and then the minister will put it before cabinet and then parliament.
I have not had dealings with police, or other legislations, but in the emergency service I'm involved in, I've had input into proposed laws that were then sent to our relevant minister, which after about a year became law. These were initiated by us, and not by the minister.
The intro to this article came from the "industry reps" who were in on the meetings. This means that the relevant department is still in the consultation process. This is quite routine. It may or may not turn political. This remains to be seen.
Here you go: http://xn--4gbrim.xn----rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/ar/default.aspx
This is equivalent to http://mcit.gov.eg/ except it directs you to the English webpages instead of the Arabic webpages.
Notice teh directory structure after the last slash.
one thing to notice in the TLD above, which is in Arabic, is that the TLD happens to be 3 letters the arabic equivalent of MSR (which is egypt)
The other TLDs mentioned in the ICANN blog are much longer:
Egypt: (Egypt)
Saudi Arabia: (AlSaudiah)
United Arab Emirates: (Emarat)
I was wondering why they arrived at this decision and then I read this document: http://arabic-domains.org/docs/NIC-docs/SupportingArabicDomainNmaes.pdf which seems to explain the logic behind the choice.
It is still a lot to type though, so if i have the choice, I'll use latin domain names.
The most recent offshore well "gusher" happened last year:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/24/2664927.htm
and
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aXeZj2cxULVU
This spill was just as big as the current Gulf spill in the US.
It took a couple of months to stop the flow.
I run XP SP3 in my corporate environment, and also run McAfee. We were not affected! It must be a special set of circumstances that caused the agent to go beserk.
I haven't heard from our international offices if anyone's been affected.
I have a similar situation at my employers:
You get a choice of Nokia E series or Windows Mobile phones (usually HTC). The reason being they both support MS Exchange email.
The company pays for the plan, and the phone can be used for personal calls becuase we're on a hight corporate plan, and unless you're a heavy user (we have people racking thousands $ in monthly bills because of roaming) then your bill will be reasonable.
This is the reason why when I joined the company, I signed over my phone number to the company so I don't have to carry two phones. The company has no qualms about signing over the number again if you decide to leave (seen that with other employees who have left)
You should stop using the degauss button on your monitor.
I'll start with a disclaimer: I am not a Muslim, but I will correct some of your and the parent's perceptions.
Religion has in the past played a role in discrediting science. This is a true statement.
Religion has in the past played a role in fostering science. This is a true statement.
The fact that at one time Religion (either christian, or muslim or any other in the past) played a role to discredit or foster science is completely lost on some people. Most slashdotters seem to focus on what religion did to destroy science forgetting that they also fostered it as well.
Islam: Once they had settled their empire expansion, in about the 7th or 8th cebntury AD, they went on to start the most advanced research endowment ever and both gathered and generated science all the way from India to Andalusia. (heard of algebra)
They seem to have lost the plot when the empire started crumbling. They haven't recovered because their cultures are still not in a stable state. Give them time.
Christianity: throughout the centuries, Christians, both ordained (priests, monks whatever) and lay were instrumental in many fields of science (heard of Euler, Descartes, Pascal?) The sciences were both attacked and fostered as the status of Empire changes in Europe opver the centuries with the dark ages as the best example of "darkness" but even then the Church was quite involved in on of the main sciences: medicine
Both Christian churches and Muslim mosques were centres of education, and many current famous universities were established by religious orders: Cambridge, Al Azhar etc
It is not religion that is discrediting science but rather the focus of the people in power, whatever religion (or non-religion) they hail from.
I agree. I think uniforms (or rather badged shirts) make my life much easier. At my place of work (an engineering company) I am the only IT guy, and I don't interact with customers, so I rarely wear a dress shirt to work.
The other staff can wear anything as long as it is "professional", and at times they do wear the company badged shirts.
I would say, don't worry about it and enjoy it.