I've not used earthlink, nor do I have a desire to. Locally I've heard plenty of complaints about Earthlink so I just grouped them together with MSN/AOL.
Charging for email doesn't make any sense to me. I'm already paying for access to the network and the bandwidth used by them. I only send mail to people I know. Sure, a pay for email system could reduce the amount of spam, but it could have an even more chilling effect on normal email. This would make email an uneffective communication method as the only ones willing to pay to use it would be those that could afford the additional fee or companies that felt they could still make money off of commercial email. Of course the article talks about money not being the only way to make the sender pay, but I think that will be the only route actually taken.
Things like AOL, MSN, and EarthLink have thier uses. They get people on the Interet and for the most part contain them in thier own little communities. As the individuals discover that there is more out there they eventually get fed up with thier provider and move somewhere else. This used to happen much more quickly than it seems to happen now, but I still talk to people that want to get the hell away from AOL even though they were perfectly happy with it at first.
This wouldn't bother me one bit. I don't have any desire to send messages to anyone with any of those addresses. Nor do I wish to recieve email from anyone with those addresses.
The unfortunatly thing would be that I can see the US postal service jumping on board with this. Issuing every US citizen a unique email address and then charging for it's use. Which I also have absolutly no desire to have, or pay for.
I don't limit connections at all on any of the machines I maintain. However, I block badly behaving robots in a similar manner to those that block the download manager. Limiting connections by IP has other issues to consider such as multiple people browsing from the same NATd network etc.
Not all download managers are upfront about the issues of segmenting if I remember correctly, but it's nice that getright at least disables it by default.
It's also nice to hear that you make an effort to be polite to small servers;) Most people don't seem to care one way or the other.
Most web servers allow a max number of connections. If one user is eating up six connections that is potentially five fewer people that can download the files. With the case of ISOs the distributor probably has more bandwidth than the person downloading does. Hence it is more effective to serve as many people with as much bandwidth as possible. It's really a curteousness issue to the server operator to not open six connections when one will do.
Connecting to multiple servers to download a file is great. Getting six connections from one client to one server is a royal pain, and is one of the reasons some admins have taken to blocking download managers. Getting multiple connections from one client can reduce the number of total users that can be served and is the biggest drawback to allowing download managers.
It's not just you. I paid an arm and a leg for the dang thing as well so I was really not happy about it. The first thing I did is exchange it for another Yamaha thinking it was faulty only to find out it was thier choice of motors that was flawed.
I agree. I've had a couple of Plextors, and a couple of Yamahas. The Plextors have been better overall. Also, after the last Yamaha I bought I'll never buy one again. It was one of thier 16x burnders that sounds like a jet engine every time a disc spins up in it.
I can concur. On my wifes iBook 500mhz with 256MB of RAM Chimera opens significantly slower than Safari. On my new 17" PowerBook 1Ghz 1GB of RAM Chimera opens quite fast, but Safari still seems to open faster.
Creating interfaces for business apps that resembled gaming apps would probably only make the problem worse. When a user sits in front of a game there is incentive to learn how the game and the interface works. To do well at the game you have to understand the workings of the game. To become better at the game you have to learn how to quickly and easily use the interface to perform the game functions.
With business applications there is little to no incentive to learn the application like this. The users use what they have and poorly at that. If they can't figure something out they don't pick up the manual they call support.
I think the best example of this is comparing gamers who know the shortcut keys for all of the commands in thier favorite games and business users who rarely know more than how to cut/paste with shortcut keys. For everything else they mouse through a menu which is less efficient because one hand has to leave the keyboard to go to the mouse.
I like to occasionaly walk through the office and see if anyone uses the shortcut keys. 90% of the time one hand is on the keyboard and the other hand is on the mouse and they are fiddling with various menus.
There are still jobs to be had. They may not be the jobs that are in your field, or jobs that you want to do, but they help pay the bills and feed your kids while you are finding a better job.
I read somewhere that "Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it!"
This applies to all legal situations. Most people are badly informed about most legal issues, and that sucks as it leads to increased abuse of the laws by those that know them, and erodosion of our rights because the majority don't even know what our rights are.
Federal law requires that they provide you with a copy of the credit report within a certain amount of time if you request it. The company in question should have notified him that they did request a credit report and explained that he could obtain a copy of that report by following x procedure.
Actually the law is involved as there are fairly strict guidlines as to how a credit check can be used. Some states also have specific guidelines covering credit checks.
First I would consult with a lawyer. Then if I couldn't get them to drop that portion of the job requirement I would tell them to take the job and shove it. These types of requirments are just as good of an indicator into the character of the company as a criminal background investigation is into the character of a prospective employee. If the requirment makes you uncomfortable, don't expect to enjoy working there.
What the heck are you talking about? There are plenty of Sony CDs on the crippled disc list.
http://www.fatchucks.com/z3.cd.html
Philips on the other hand is attempting to protect us (or thier name) from crippled cds by disallowing the use of the cd logos on cds that break from the standard.
Yup, I'm a speakeasy customer and even though it's a damn expensive connection it has been very reliable and I can do pretty much whatever the hell I want;)
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I know, I was just making a poor attempt at sarcasm;)
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And here I thought it was a reference to the last line of the first Back to the Future movie.
Your friend is obviously not representative of the average consumer. He will probably continue to have floppies laying around long after the typical consumer stops using them completly. Business decisions are made based on the largest percentage of the market, not the smallest.
Most of the new chassis I've looked at have places to connect one or more USB adapters on the front top or bottom of the chassis. This makes it no more inconvenient than putting a floppy into the drive. Of course if you are like me and recycle your old chassis over and over again you are stuck either reaching around the back or creating your own usb ports in the front of the chassis.
Also, I 'm sure since Dell is going to be removing the floppy in favor of USB pen drive they have already considered this issue and plan on putting front accessable ports in the chassis.
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I didn't play it either. I did watch a friend play it for about two minutes before I fell asleep and that was more than enough for me.
Cut the defense budget by half and give that money to NASA. That's an idea I would support. Though I seriously doubt my representatives would go for it at all.
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I've not used earthlink, nor do I have a desire to. Locally I've heard plenty of complaints about Earthlink so I just grouped them together with MSN/AOL.
Charging for email doesn't make any sense to me. I'm already paying for access to the network and the bandwidth used by them. I only send mail to people I know. Sure, a pay for email system could reduce the amount of spam, but it could have an even more chilling effect on normal email. This would make email an uneffective communication method as the only ones willing to pay to use it would be those that could afford the additional fee or companies that felt they could still make money off of commercial email. Of course the article talks about money not being the only way to make the sender pay, but I think that will be the only route actually taken.
Things like AOL, MSN, and EarthLink have thier uses. They get people on the Interet and for the most part contain them in thier own little communities. As the individuals discover that there is more out there they eventually get fed up with thier provider and move somewhere else. This used to happen much more quickly than it seems to happen now, but I still talk to people that want to get the hell away from AOL even though they were perfectly happy with it at first.
This wouldn't bother me one bit. I don't have any desire to send messages to anyone with any of those addresses. Nor do I wish to recieve email from anyone with those addresses.
The unfortunatly thing would be that I can see the US postal service jumping on board with this. Issuing every US citizen a unique email address and then charging for it's use. Which I also have absolutly no desire to have, or pay for.
That has got to be the funniest thing I have read in a LONG time!
I don't limit connections at all on any of the machines I maintain. However, I block badly behaving robots in a similar manner to those that block the download manager. Limiting connections by IP has other issues to consider such as multiple people browsing from the same NATd network etc.
;) Most people don't seem to care one way or the other.
Not all download managers are upfront about the issues of segmenting if I remember correctly, but it's nice that getright at least disables it by default.
It's also nice to hear that you make an effort to be polite to small servers
Most web servers allow a max number of connections. If one user is eating up six connections that is potentially five fewer people that can download the files. With the case of ISOs the distributor probably has more bandwidth than the person downloading does. Hence it is more effective to serve as many people with as much bandwidth as possible. It's really a curteousness issue to the server operator to not open six connections when one will do.
Connecting to multiple servers to download a file is great. Getting six connections from one client to one server is a royal pain, and is one of the reasons some admins have taken to blocking download managers. Getting multiple connections from one client can reduce the number of total users that can be served and is the biggest drawback to allowing download managers.
It's not just you. I paid an arm and a leg for the dang thing as well so I was really not happy about it. The first thing I did is exchange it for another Yamaha thinking it was faulty only to find out it was thier choice of motors that was flawed.
I agree. I've had a couple of Plextors, and a couple of Yamahas. The Plextors have been better overall. Also, after the last Yamaha I bought I'll never buy one again. It was one of thier 16x burnders that sounds like a jet engine every time a disc spins up in it.
That's because it cost $50 bucks to play for any reasonable amount of time and accomplish anything in the game. Though I did really enjoy the game ;)
I can concur. On my wifes iBook 500mhz with 256MB of RAM Chimera opens significantly slower than Safari. On my new 17" PowerBook 1Ghz 1GB of RAM Chimera opens quite fast, but Safari still seems to open faster.
Creating interfaces for business apps that resembled gaming apps would probably only make the problem worse. When a user sits in front of a game there is incentive to learn how the game and the interface works. To do well at the game you have to understand the workings of the game. To become better at the game you have to learn how to quickly and easily use the interface to perform the game functions.
With business applications there is little to no incentive to learn the application like this. The users use what they have and poorly at that. If they can't figure something out they don't pick up the manual they call support.
I think the best example of this is comparing gamers who know the shortcut keys for all of the commands in thier favorite games and business users who rarely know more than how to cut/paste with shortcut keys. For everything else they mouse through a menu which is less efficient because one hand has to leave the keyboard to go to the mouse.
I like to occasionaly walk through the office and see if anyone uses the shortcut keys. 90% of the time one hand is on the keyboard and the other hand is on the mouse and they are fiddling with various menus.
There are still jobs to be had. They may not be the jobs that are in your field, or jobs that you want to do, but they help pay the bills and feed your kids while you are finding a better job.
I read somewhere that "Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it!"
This applies to all legal situations. Most people are badly informed about most legal issues, and that sucks as it leads to increased abuse of the laws by those that know them, and erodosion of our rights because the majority don't even know what our rights are.
Federal law requires that they provide you with a copy of the credit report within a certain amount of time if you request it. The company in question should have notified him that they did request a credit report and explained that he could obtain a copy of that report by following x procedure.
Actually the law is involved as there are fairly strict guidlines as to how a credit check can be used. Some states also have specific guidelines covering credit checks.
First I would consult with a lawyer. Then if I couldn't get them to drop that portion of the job requirement I would tell them to take the job and shove it. These types of requirments are just as good of an indicator into the character of the company as a criminal background investigation is into the character of a prospective employee. If the requirment makes you uncomfortable, don't expect to enjoy working there.
Opera already can masquerade as any browser you want it to. That's been a feature of Opera for as long as I can remember.
What the heck are you talking about? There are plenty of Sony CDs on the crippled disc list.
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http://www.fatchucks.com/z3.cd.html
Philips on the other hand is attempting to protect us (or thier name) from crippled cds by disallowing the use of the cd logos on cds that break from the standard.
http://www.licensing.philips.com/information/cd
Yup, I'm a speakeasy customer and even though it's a damn expensive connection it has been very reliable and I can do pretty much whatever the hell I want ;)
I know, I was just making a poor attempt at sarcasm ;)
And here I thought it was a reference to the last line of the first Back to the Future movie.
Your friend is obviously not representative of the average consumer. He will probably continue to have floppies laying around long after the typical consumer stops using them completly. Business decisions are made based on the largest percentage of the market, not the smallest.
Most of the new chassis I've looked at have places to connect one or more USB adapters on the front top or bottom of the chassis. This makes it no more inconvenient than putting a floppy into the drive. Of course if you are like me and recycle your old chassis over and over again you are stuck either reaching around the back or creating your own usb ports in the front of the chassis.
Also, I 'm sure since Dell is going to be removing the floppy in favor of USB pen drive they have already considered this issue and plan on putting front accessable ports in the chassis.
I didn't play it either. I did watch a friend play it for about two minutes before I fell asleep and that was more than enough for me.
Cut the defense budget by half and give that money to NASA. That's an idea I would support. Though I seriously doubt my representatives would go for it at all.