Outside of spam, dangerous websites with known trojan, and maybe obvious porn. Why would you want to block your employees? I've worked once for a big company like this. I left. A lot of websites were blocked. Even craigslist. Led to workarounds and other hacks. It was also quite counter-productive in many ways.
Honestly if you don't trust your employees don't hire them. If you have employees that aren't productive because they are doing things they shouldn't be doing then let them go.
Honestly I think it's a great strategy to be bold and NOT be afraid to try new things. They are lucky to be in a position to be able to reach many of their customers and experiment. I say try, be bold. You fail, you hopefully learn from your mistakes and customers. Try again. Something will stick and could become successful.
At least Amazon compared to Samsung tries new things they do not copy. It takes courage to try and gamble with large sum of money. My hat off to Amazon even if I don't always like their product. Hell I did sign up for the Echo. I might stay in a drawer after a few weeks who knows but it's a good opportunity to try something very new. A virtual assistant that could listen to you at all time in the future. There is a lot of potential to learn from this.
I am like a lot of people, I really don't like ads. I -hate- those flash annoying ads, animated junks, popup under, whatever... I never click on those.
but... I do admit that google ads have never bothered me.
There are not obtrusive, quick to load, usually straight to the point. I have discovered many interesting websites/products because of those.
I can't believe I am saying that, but I do like google ads, mostly.
For the best performance in Virtualization, buy a Nehalem CPU, a core i7, 4 cores. We are using those at work and the benchmarks are amazing.
If you don't have much money, buy the low end quad core, core i7 920, throw in 8GB of memory and you will have plenty of power and memory to throw in a couple of 1vCPU VMs, the performance is pretty good. If you have money, buy a dual core i7, 8 or 16GB, then you have something that smoke. VMWare esxi is pretty cool. I believe they have in the work a version optimized for Nehalem.
I have seen so much police brutality, lies myself that I don't trust the police anymore and that sucks because not all police officers are corrupted.
So here is my proposal: It should be required by lay that all cops have a camera hooked up to their jacket recording both video of what they are seeing and hearing. The technology has become cheap enough that it would be easily doable, at the end of the day, all recordings to be uploaded to a central server and preserved for a certain amount of time.
No cops testimony should be allowed if they can't be backed up with the recording audio/video. I am sure it would make a lot of cops think twice about what they do... and testify about.
Yeah, I totally agree with that. Apple just doesn't offer enough hardware options to make it attractive. I mean, comeon, either the mac Mini which sucks as soon as you are looking for something that you want expand. The MacPro? Sure, it is a great platform, but very expensive...
I built a hackintosh out of a quadcore Q6600, 4GB of Memory, two 500GB drives and a 512MB geforce card. My cost was less than a thousand dollars and it works great (plus a 30" monitor), even better than my Official Macbook Pro. Apple just does NOT provide that kind of configuration for that price. The equivalent config with a MacPro is $2850...
I have my iphone 3G from an apple store, and I now have a discounted plan as well.
How I did it? I stood in line at the Apple store 5th avenue. I didn't tell them I could have a discounted plan. I just signed up for the iphone 3g. As soon as I came home, I called AT&T to sign up for the corporate discount that my company has.
One thing with corporate discounts is that you don't have to signup for them when you have a new plan. You can signup for your plan then add the discount later by calling or walking by an AT&T location.
I am not in favor of necessary working from home. I advocate a work/life balance in fact... But if you are a little bit ambitious about your job and want to go the extra mile, sometime spending a few minutes here and there will make the big difference against people that do not do it. I rarely check my blackberry from home, but sometimes there are moments I do look at it and answer some things if I can and they don't take up much time. Assuming I have time, I would look at my blackberry once or twice in the evenings and answer if I can/have time/is beneficial/worth enough...
Working from home sometime is not about being important. I have noone at home - I live alone, that I can do whatever I want, and what is good for me and my career. That is one of the differences between being career oriented in a big firm, not being, and being successfull. My bonus at the end of the year is commensurate with my work done/impression made, so that is a reason enough to go the extra-mile especially when it does not really interfere with personal time... makes the difference between a $20K bonus and a $50K one...
10am to 6pm? Damn, that IS relaxed for an IT job.... 24/7 checking email with blackberry doesn't really mean working... maybe the feeling of working? we all have a couple of minutes in our evenings sometimes to answer an email here and there...
I know so many people in IT that work more, 8 or 9am to 7pm, or more, and often work from home too...
I was approached by Google, got interviewed, and at the end declined because I wasn't technical enough to be the Director of Engineering (or something like that as a tittle). Which is utter bs. There was not a single question about management. It was 100% technical, which is fine, I am very technical and have always been, and in all my reviews at all my jobs was/am always told one of the most technically savy person. Their style of questions was grilling you more and more and going deeper and deeper into the questions and technicalities until you failed. Started as what is TCP and UDP to going down and down and down the stack, syncookies, handshakes, how it works, to how sequence numbers are generated and more to more obscure points... At one point I couldn't answer anymore.
I used to know but not anymore. I told them, and I told them a 2 minute search on google itself will turn up the results so there is no need to know that by heart. In all my previous jobs, and that is my way of thinking, initial knowledge is not what gets the job done. Ability to do research and learn quickly IS the most important thing.
In my opinion people there at google tend to be pretentious and full of themselves. But that is my personal opinion and I am glad I don't work there in fact, sure there are some nice benefits and all, but it isn't everything. I got a few job offers and work for one of the best company around, and in my mind a much better company than Google...
That does not contradict Castro is a dictator, because HE IS. I do not say the system is good there. People go in jail, they know why. I just mean to say that before we criticize other governments and systems we should look at ours and how it is flawed and people go to jail every day for things they should not. Let's clean our own shit before we start cleaning up other's... That is all I say.
Right because in the US you can't be sent to jail for 10 years for having consensual sex with a minor when you are a minor yourself? (see recent case) -> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16862643/
Because in the US you can't wear baggy pants in Louisiana without being fined and/or sent to Jail?
Because in the US you can't be sent to jail for minor possession of Marijuana when you are a Quadriplegic and die there because of poor/no healthcare? -> http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6282
Because in the US you can't be sent to jail because you upload movies online?
Because in the US you can't be sent to jail because you used (valid!!) $2 bills in a bestbuy?
and so many more... Do I _really_ need to say more...
I live in the US, I love the country, but I am sorry, the judicial system and the priorities are fucked up too... even maybe to a greater extend because you do not know WHAT will land you to jail here.
I did watch the movie after I saw that he gave his okay it is fine to download it... I agree it is very controversial and the way some of the things are presented they _are_ presented on their best ways... But then I would say that he is truly mostly right on his analysis of other countries and that he takes stabs on both sides, democrats and republicans. I live/work in New York and have been for a decade. I know the health system of other countries, France in particular very well and it is light years different from here. I am not going to go into the details but one point.. When I take a day off because I am sick here I feel _really_ bad about it, especially watch this policy my previous job had. Only 8 sicks days, but no more than 5 sicknesses in a year. How fucked up is that? In France when I used to work there at least you can be as sick as you want _with_ a caveat that you NEEDED a doctor's note for NOT going to work. That prevents abuses...
As a side, even though I did watch the movie on my computer, I WILL go to the theater and PAY as well as influence friends to go and see it. I think it is an eye opener AND a great way to start a (controversial but needed) conversation.
I don't think so. She is a straight A student, one of the best of her school. Her mother and I are actually pretty strict with her. Her divorced father is very strict too... but teenagers tend to rebels especially when growth hormones start showing up... But then, she has friends at school that are pushing her, like now she has requested to wear make up, she has requested to have her ears pierced at another place. She is very image-conscious and want to stay very thin like her mother who is a very beautiful woman...
We strive very hard to give her freedom while at the same time providing her with the best education and upbringing. But as I said, teenagers are the hardest to control, and no matters how much you talk to them, and we do, a lot, we are trying to be very open and understanding while being strict about certain things, some try to rebel. After that it is a matter of trying to educate and control her. I think she know understood the consequences of lying about her age and posing the way she did... I believe in balance, free/open communication and understanding rather than tight control but sometime it can be abused and more control is needed.
Understanding and acting are two very different things... How many of us know that if you eat too much, or have junk food in excess we will get fat and non-healthy... and yet, 30% of the population in the US is overweight.
I have never been in favor of spying... I hate that in fact. I am a very strong advocate of free speech and freedom... but I would have to say after an incident that happen in my personal life my view of underage online is different.
My girlfriend's daughter is 11. She opened up a myspace profile with very suggestive photos and a stated age she was.... 16! now imagine the kind of answers and people talking to her. She knew perfectly what she was doing as she was hiding it and showing us a fake 'parent-approved' myspace profile when we were asking her... But we caught her... of course, the second we caught her, we deleted her profile and removed myspace access from home. Now the main issue is that she is not dumb and she may open another profile with another name from outside but hopefully after we lectured her she will not do it and understood the consequence of her behavior.
Now I wish there was a way for a parent to valide a myspace profile of someone under 18. If someone under 18 signs up THEN if should be required to be approved by a VERIFIED parent AND having the parent's profile linked up on myspace or something equivalent. I would support that.
I bet to raise a few questions here on we can't touch it.
Ice/Solid water as we know it under 1 atmosphere is formed at 0C/32F...
Let's say that under 300 atmospheres, Ice/solid water can be formed at 100C/212F
Why can't we have have Ice/Solid water at 30C/86F under atmospheres where is somewhere between 1 and 300? assuming the 300 hypothesis for solid at 100C/212F?
That would allow touching it... assuming the pressure isn't too much... or maybe, that would happen if we suddently release the pressure? from 300atmospheres to 1? Would it 'melts' immediately? or its molecular state changing slowly back? I am curious...
It isn't because someone is not professional that you should act professional.
I hated the guts of my ex-boss when I left a job a year and a half ago. It was for a big company, I was a Manager there. It was toward the end of a project for which I was managing the infrastructure part, I gave 6 weeks notice so I could make sure the project was done on my side and everybody trained to take over from me.
I left with a great reputation. Reputation and work ethic is one of your best asset if you want to build a name and career for yourself. Business world is a small world, your reputation preceeds you and you often run into the same people even in different jobs.
oh, and I left that job with pride AND a smile! Because my part of the project even though I left was the ONLY part that was finished ON TIME and under budget. My boss' part was late and his ass got fired! My reputation is intact & great, his, well...
I realized, it is 3000 total. meaning sent and received. I only typed 3000. But yes it is a lot still! Why do you think my title was "it can be addictive"? I do have a very busy job in fact... I don't drive. I take public transportation. Ferry, bus, etc... I have whole conversations with friends over text messages.
oh and yes... i need another input interface. my thumb is sore!
With my Significant Other we communicate a lot that way... and text messages... all day...
Last month I had over 3000 text messages on my bill. I use that, email and text messages more than phone. Sometime it is very convenient to talk discretely... like in a theater or with some friends/people when we do not want to be heard... I/we use it for everything... It is so convenient. I need directions? I fire up google/google map on it. Check movie times? weather? Hey, it is great on such a small phone!
I have to say that I disagree with this statement.
As a foreigner that has been living in New York for almost a decade now I can feel and see that lawsuits are going left and right... In almost everything you do here you have to keep in mind you may have a risk of a lawsuit. Sidewalk not cleaned, someone may slip? lawsuit! School play, a kid fell from a swing? lawsuit. oh wait... all the swings were removed to avoid those kind of things, the granite ground was replaced with a rubbery ground. The kids are forbidden to throw snowball at each others in school. Are forbidden to play sport games, soccer for example during breaks... Why? I grew up in all of this. Back in my country I rarely heard of frivolous lawsuits. Although they are more now. here, I hear about frivolous lawsuits, or risk of, all the times.
I know of some surgeons here, their insurance premium is through the roof. It is insane in fact. Why? increasing lawsuits and monetary damages possible. One best example of that. I had an injury I did to myself doing sports and had a $15000 surgery. Yesterday I received a letter from my insurance asking me details on how it happened so they could sue and get compensation if a 3rd party was involved. How crazy is that? Maybe not for you, you're a lawyer and you live of it... but for most of us non lawyers, or foreigners it is...
You are a lawyer and are so much into it that you probably don't see it. My wife is a lawyer too with different views. I am extremely interested in the legal system too and am still considering entering the legal field. Although I wish I could be as idealistic as you are in the respect of the laws. I just can't respect their spirit anymore when I see all that is wrong.
How can I respect the law when something like the anti-gambling law is passed in something completely irrelevant? (attached to H.R. 4954, a bill intended to increase security at U.S. ports!).
How can I respect the legal system when so many _important_ laws are passed in congress at night or when there are the least number of people available to defend them?
How can I respect the judicial system when so many people are forced to settle or admit they are wrong when they may not be but just dont have the money to fight in court? There should be a law then that would say that the burden of the cost should be on the plaintiff if the plaintiff net-worth is more than amount than the defendant. Until defendant is PROVEN wrong.
so yes, I would heartedely disagree with your statement on this (and I read/admire/respect your contributions to Slashdot very often). Not only suing someone every Tuesday is in the tradition, it is also every weekday of the week then the courts are open.
hmmm.... not consistent... only 4 pings if cmd and on windows to it will stop pretty fast!
best thing is ping -t www.riaa.com (from windows) or ping www.riaa.com (from linux)
but... most people would know that anyway.
besides, ICMP pings packets are supposely dropped first in case of network congestion so it may not be efficient... although a good use of their network bandwidth. I would probably increase the packet size though....
I would have to completely agree with that... I have a Sanyo PLV70. The image quality is amazing. I love it. 120" as well, when I have people, friends over, especially I live in Manhattan they are always amazed. The one drawback is that I have to change the bulb about every 6 months, and it is $400 everytime. I have this projector for 5 years already! Costed me over $4000 in bulbs. Also the bulbs are very bright when first purchased, then quickly dim. That is another drawback...
Now because of the ongoing cost, everytime I go to buy a new bulb I swear to myself I will switch and buy a new TV... Every weekends I look at LCDs and Plasma and drool over them in some ways... but then, when I look at the size... I have been spoiled! The size of my display at home is just too big for me to switch yet. Size does matter for me!
I am the same. At home, I have a macbook pro as my main desktop now. I just wish it was faster. I have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse so whenever so whenever the laptop is on the desk it connects automatically. it is great. My last regret is the lack of wireless to connect to my Apple Cinema screen (Apple, do you hear that?!?!)... oh, and wireless USB too would be great. I love this setup. Now my other regret is that I feel that sometime it is lacking in speed.
Well, debating on what to do now... the new macbook pro is real nice, I wish I could upgrade mine to it, I just bought it 3 months ago maxed out! Anyone know if Apple would have an 'upgrade' program in place?
I can attest. I called American Express 2 months ago. First when I got connected I noticed the lag in the phone call... It is obvious the call is not in the US. Second the guy had an accent.
the call went on fairly well I would say, except at the end he asked me if he could tell me and read me about a promotion offer they had. I said no, I had no interest in it (It was for a reward program). He insisted saying it would only take me 2 minutes. I keep on refusing and he became _really_ rude about it. I couldn't believe it...
I also receive a lot of phone calls from recruiters. I would say that 1/3rd of them seem to be coming from India I am sure. First sign is again the lag in the call, _really_ bad phone quality, then someone over the phone with an accent starting invariably with "how are you doing today Sir?". Sometime it is to invite me to job fair, etc, when I refuse, often they get rude saying it will only take so little of my time. Often I am busy and I tell them I have to call them back. They insist very rudely on me giving them a time to call back. i tell them _I_ will call back and come up with plenty of excuses for me to not call back. At the end I always end these calls.
The only thing I would have to say is that I mostly have had either bad or below average experiences in this. I hate when I am connected with a call-center in India. I hate the delay in the phone conversation, the poor quality of the phone call, and often the attitude the cust-rep have on the phone.
Personally I would rather pay a little premium to have a great customer service, support, LOCAL in the us than dealing with this crap of outsourcing call-centers.
I have to say, outsource all of this to rural America, do the call centers in the middle of nowhere. Local people will be very happy, it will bring some money to these areas, labor laws are mostly the same and I have noticed one important thing... People here are SO much nicer and agreable to talk to! It makes it much more of a pleasure to deal with.
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Outside of spam, dangerous websites with known trojan, and maybe obvious porn. Why would you want to block your employees? I've worked once for a big company like this. I left. A lot of websites were blocked. Even craigslist. Led to workarounds and other hacks. It was also quite counter-productive in many ways.
Honestly if you don't trust your employees don't hire them. If you have employees that aren't productive because they are doing things they shouldn't be doing then let them go.
I wouldn't work for you.
Honestly I think it's a great strategy to be bold and NOT be afraid to try new things. They are lucky to be in a position to be able to reach many of their customers and experiment. I say try, be bold. You fail, you hopefully learn from your mistakes and customers. Try again. Something will stick and could become successful.
At least Amazon compared to Samsung tries new things they do not copy. It takes courage to try and gamble with large sum of money. My hat off to Amazon even if I don't always like their product. Hell I did sign up for the Echo. I might stay in a drawer after a few weeks who knows but it's a good opportunity to try something very new. A virtual assistant that could listen to you at all time in the future. There is a lot of potential to learn from this.
I am like a lot of people, I really don't like ads. I -hate- those flash annoying ads, animated junks, popup under, whatever... I never click on those.
but... I do admit that google ads have never bothered me.
There are not obtrusive, quick to load, usually straight to the point. I have discovered many interesting websites/products because of those.
I can't believe I am saying that, but I do like google ads, mostly.
For the best performance in Virtualization, buy a Nehalem CPU, a core i7, 4 cores. We are using those at work and the benchmarks are amazing.
If you don't have much money, buy the low end quad core, core i7 920, throw in 8GB of memory and you will have plenty of power and memory to throw in a couple of 1vCPU VMs, the performance is pretty good. If you have money, buy a dual core i7, 8 or 16GB, then you have something that smoke. VMWare esxi is pretty cool. I believe they have in the work a version optimized for Nehalem.
I have seen so much police brutality, lies myself that I don't trust the police anymore and that sucks because not all police officers are corrupted.
So here is my proposal: It should be required by lay that all cops have a camera hooked up to their jacket recording both video of what they are seeing and hearing. The technology has become cheap enough that it would be easily doable, at the end of the day, all recordings to be uploaded to a central server and preserved for a certain amount of time.
No cops testimony should be allowed if they can't be backed up with the recording audio/video. I am sure it would make a lot of cops think twice about what they do... and testify about.
Yeah, I totally agree with that. Apple just doesn't offer enough hardware options to make it attractive. I mean, comeon, either the mac Mini which sucks as soon as you are looking for something that you want expand. The MacPro? Sure, it is a great platform, but very expensive...
I built a hackintosh out of a quadcore Q6600, 4GB of Memory, two 500GB drives and a 512MB geforce card. My cost was less than a thousand dollars and it works great (plus a 30" monitor), even better than my Official Macbook Pro. Apple just does NOT provide that kind of configuration for that price. The equivalent config with a MacPro is $2850...
I have my iphone 3G from an apple store, and I now have a discounted plan as well.
How I did it? I stood in line at the Apple store 5th avenue. I didn't tell them I could have a discounted plan. I just signed up for the iphone 3g. As soon as I came home, I called AT&T to sign up for the corporate discount that my company has.
One thing with corporate discounts is that you don't have to signup for them when you have a new plan. You can signup for your plan then add the discount later by calling or walking by an AT&T location.
As a matter of fact I did not sign their NDA. I am not bound to any secrecy.
I am not in favor of necessary working from home. I advocate a work/life balance in fact... But if you are a little bit ambitious about your job and want to go the extra mile, sometime spending a few minutes here and there will make the big difference against people that do not do it. I rarely check my blackberry from home, but sometimes there are moments I do look at it and answer some things if I can and they don't take up much time. Assuming I have time, I would look at my blackberry once or twice in the evenings and answer if I can/have time/is beneficial/worth enough...
Working from home sometime is not about being important. I have noone at home - I live alone, that I can do whatever I want, and what is good for me and my career. That is one of the differences between being career oriented in a big firm, not being, and being successfull. My bonus at the end of the year is commensurate with my work done/impression made, so that is a reason enough to go the extra-mile especially when it does not really interfere with personal time... makes the difference between a $20K bonus and a $50K one...
10am to 6pm? Damn, that IS relaxed for an IT job.... 24/7 checking email with blackberry doesn't really mean working... maybe the feeling of working? we all have a couple of minutes in our evenings sometimes to answer an email here and there...
I know so many people in IT that work more, 8 or 9am to 7pm, or more, and often work from home too...
I was approached by Google, got interviewed, and at the end declined because I wasn't technical enough to be the Director of Engineering (or something like that as a tittle). Which is utter bs. There was not a single question about management. It was 100% technical, which is fine, I am very technical and have always been, and in all my reviews at all my jobs was/am always told one of the most technically savy person. Their style of questions was grilling you more and more and going deeper and deeper into the questions and technicalities until you failed. Started as what is TCP and UDP to going down and down and down the stack, syncookies, handshakes, how it works, to how sequence numbers are generated and more to more obscure points... At one point I couldn't answer anymore.
I used to know but not anymore. I told them, and I told them a 2 minute search on google itself will turn up the results so there is no need to know that by heart. In all my previous jobs, and that is my way of thinking, initial knowledge is not what gets the job done. Ability to do research and learn quickly IS the most important thing.
In my opinion people there at google tend to be pretentious and full of themselves. But that is my personal opinion and I am glad I don't work there in fact, sure there are some nice benefits and all, but it isn't everything. I got a few job offers and work for one of the best company around, and in my mind a much better company than Google...
That does not contradict Castro is a dictator, because HE IS. I do not say the system is good there. People go in jail, they know why. I just mean to say that before we criticize other governments and systems we should look at ours and how it is flawed and people go to jail every day for things they should not. Let's clean our own shit before we start cleaning up other's... That is all I say.
Right because in the US you can't be sent to jail for 10 years for having consensual sex with a minor when you are a minor yourself? (see recent case)
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Because in the US you can't wear baggy pants in Louisiana without being fined and/or sent to Jail?
Because in the US you can't be sent to jail for minor possession of Marijuana when you are a Quadriplegic and die there because of poor/no healthcare?
-> http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6282
Because in the US you can't be sent to jail because you upload movies online?
Because in the US you can't be sent to jail because you used (valid!!) $2 bills in a bestbuy?
Because in the US you can't record police officers on public property without being sentenced to Jail?
-> http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id
Because you can't be jailed for life for a $2 robbery, then be controlled with Marijuana in your possession?
-> http://www.mankatofreepress.com/webextra/local_st
and so many more... Do I _really_ need to say more...
I live in the US, I love the country, but I am sorry, the judicial system and the priorities are fucked up too... even maybe to a greater extend because you do not know WHAT will land you to jail here.
I did watch the movie after I saw that he gave his okay it is fine to download it... I agree it is very controversial and the way some of the things are presented they _are_ presented on their best ways... But then I would say that he is truly mostly right on his analysis of other countries and that he takes stabs on both sides, democrats and republicans. I live/work in New York and have been for a decade. I know the health system of other countries, France in particular very well and it is light years different from here. I am not going to go into the details but one point.. When I take a day off because I am sick here I feel _really_ bad about it, especially watch this policy my previous job had. Only 8 sicks days, but no more than 5 sicknesses in a year. How fucked up is that? In France when I used to work there at least you can be as sick as you want _with_ a caveat that you NEEDED a doctor's note for NOT going to work. That prevents abuses...
As a side, even though I did watch the movie on my computer, I WILL go to the theater and PAY as well as influence friends to go and see it. I think it is an eye opener AND a great way to start a (controversial but needed) conversation.
I don't think so. She is a straight A student, one of the best of her school. Her mother and I are actually pretty strict with her. Her divorced father is very strict too... but teenagers tend to rebels especially when growth hormones start showing up... But then, she has friends at school that are pushing her, like now she has requested to wear make up, she has requested to have her ears pierced at another place. She is very image-conscious and want to stay very thin like her mother who is a very beautiful woman...
We strive very hard to give her freedom while at the same time providing her with the best education and upbringing. But as I said, teenagers are the hardest to control, and no matters how much you talk to them, and we do, a lot, we are trying to be very open and understanding while being strict about certain things, some try to rebel. After that it is a matter of trying to educate and control her. I think she know understood the consequences of lying about her age and posing the way she did... I believe in balance, free/open communication and understanding rather than tight control but sometime it can be abused and more control is needed.
Understanding and acting are two very different things... How many of us know that if you eat too much, or have junk food in excess we will get fat and non-healthy... and yet, 30% of the population in the US is overweight.
I have never been in favor of spying... I hate that in fact. I am a very strong advocate of free speech and freedom... but I would have to say after an incident that happen in my personal life my view of underage online is different.
.... 16! now imagine the kind of answers and people talking to her. She knew perfectly what she was doing as she was hiding it and showing us a fake 'parent-approved' myspace profile when we were asking her... But we caught her... of course, the second we caught her, we deleted her profile and removed myspace access from home. Now the main issue is that she is not dumb and she may open another profile with another name from outside but hopefully after we lectured her she will not do it and understood the consequence of her behavior.
My girlfriend's daughter is 11. She opened up a myspace profile with very suggestive photos and a stated age she was
Now I wish there was a way for a parent to valide a myspace profile of someone under 18. If someone under 18 signs up THEN if should be required to be approved by a VERIFIED parent AND having the parent's profile linked up on myspace or something equivalent. I would support that.
I bet to raise a few questions here on we can't touch it.
Ice/Solid water as we know it under 1 atmosphere is formed at 0C/32F...
Let's say that under 300 atmospheres, Ice/solid water can be formed at 100C/212F
Why can't we have have Ice/Solid water at 30C/86F under atmospheres where is somewhere between 1 and 300? assuming the 300 hypothesis for solid at 100C/212F?
That would allow touching it... assuming the pressure isn't too much... or maybe, that would happen if we suddently release the pressure? from 300atmospheres to 1? Would it 'melts' immediately? or its molecular state changing slowly back? I am curious...
It isn't because someone is not professional that you should act professional.
I hated the guts of my ex-boss when I left a job a year and a half ago. It was for a big company, I was a Manager there. It was toward the end of a project for which I was managing the infrastructure part, I gave 6 weeks notice so I could make sure the project was done on my side and everybody trained to take over from me.
I left with a great reputation. Reputation and work ethic is one of your best asset if you want to build a name and career for yourself. Business world is a small world, your reputation preceeds you and you often run into the same people even in different jobs.
oh, and I left that job with pride AND a smile! Because my part of the project even though I left was the ONLY part that was finished ON TIME and under budget. My boss' part was late and his ass got fired! My reputation is intact & great, his, well...
I realized, it is 3000 total. meaning sent and received. I only typed 3000. But yes it is a lot still! Why do you think my title was "it can be addictive"? I do have a very busy job in fact... I don't drive. I take public transportation. Ferry, bus, etc... I have whole conversations with friends over text messages.
oh and yes... i need another input interface. my thumb is sore!
I would be curious to know other people's usage!
With my Significant Other we communicate a lot that way... and text messages... all day...
Last month I had over 3000 text messages on my bill. I use that, email and text messages more than phone. Sometime it is very convenient to talk discretely... like in a theater or with some friends/people when we do not want to be heard... I/we use it for everything... It is so convenient. I need directions? I fire up google/google map on it. Check movie times? weather? Hey, it is great on such a small phone!
I have to say that I disagree with this statement.
As a foreigner that has been living in New York for almost a decade now I can feel and see that lawsuits are going left and right... In almost everything you do here you have to keep in mind you may have a risk of a lawsuit. Sidewalk not cleaned, someone may slip? lawsuit! School play, a kid fell from a swing? lawsuit. oh wait... all the swings were removed to avoid those kind of things, the granite ground was replaced with a rubbery ground. The kids are forbidden to throw snowball at each others in school. Are forbidden to play sport games, soccer for example during breaks... Why? I grew up in all of this. Back in my country I rarely heard of frivolous lawsuits. Although they are more now. here, I hear about frivolous lawsuits, or risk of, all the times.
I know of some surgeons here, their insurance premium is through the roof. It is insane in fact. Why? increasing lawsuits and monetary damages possible. One best example of that. I had an injury I did to myself doing sports and had a $15000 surgery. Yesterday I received a letter from my insurance asking me details on how it happened so they could sue and get compensation if a 3rd party was involved. How crazy is that? Maybe not for you, you're a lawyer and you live of it... but for most of us non lawyers, or foreigners it is...
You are a lawyer and are so much into it that you probably don't see it. My wife is a lawyer too with different views. I am extremely interested in the legal system too and am still considering entering the legal field. Although I wish I could be as idealistic as you are in the respect of the laws. I just can't respect their spirit anymore when I see all that is wrong.
How can I respect the law when something like the anti-gambling law is passed in something completely irrelevant? (attached to H.R. 4954, a bill intended to increase security at U.S. ports!).
How can I respect the legal system when so many _important_ laws are passed in congress at night or when there are the least number of people available to defend them?
How can I respect the judicial system when so many people are forced to settle or admit they are wrong when they may not be but just dont have the money to fight in court? There should be a law then that would say that the burden of the cost should be on the plaintiff if the plaintiff net-worth is more than amount than the defendant. Until defendant is PROVEN wrong.
so yes, I would heartedely disagree with your statement on this (and I read/admire/respect your contributions to Slashdot very often). Not only suing someone every Tuesday is in the tradition, it is also every weekday of the week then the courts are open.
I would dare to say that the problem would be more than bandwidth... You would need the find the right kind of skilled people to operate this.
I for one much rather live in NYC. You would have to pay me so much MORE to make me move to North Dakota? But maybe I am alone in this case?
hmmm.... not consistent... only 4 pings if cmd and on windows to it will stop pretty fast!
best thing is
ping -t www.riaa.com (from windows)
or
ping www.riaa.com (from linux)
but... most people would know that anyway.
besides, ICMP pings packets are supposely dropped first in case of network congestion so it may not be efficient... although a good use of their network bandwidth. I would probably increase the packet size though....
I would have to completely agree with that... I have a Sanyo PLV70. The image quality is amazing. I love it. 120" as well, when I have people, friends over, especially I live in Manhattan they are always amazed. The one drawback is that I have to change the bulb about every 6 months, and it is $400 everytime. I have this projector for 5 years already! Costed me over $4000 in bulbs. Also the bulbs are very bright when first purchased, then quickly dim. That is another drawback...
Now because of the ongoing cost, everytime I go to buy a new bulb I swear to myself I will switch and buy a new TV... Every weekends I look at LCDs and Plasma and drool over them in some ways... but then, when I look at the size... I have been spoiled! The size of my display at home is just too big for me to switch yet. Size does matter for me!
I totally agree with that...
I am the same. At home, I have a macbook pro as my main desktop now. I just wish it was faster. I have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse so whenever so whenever the laptop is on the desk it connects automatically. it is great. My last regret is the lack of wireless to connect to my Apple Cinema screen (Apple, do you hear that?!?!)... oh, and wireless USB too would be great. I love this setup. Now my other regret is that I feel that sometime it is lacking in speed.
Well, debating on what to do now... the new macbook pro is real nice, I wish I could upgrade mine to it, I just bought it 3 months ago maxed out! Anyone know if Apple would have an 'upgrade' program in place?
I can attest. I called American Express 2 months ago. First when I got connected I noticed the lag in the phone call... It is obvious the call is not in the US. Second the guy had an accent.
the call went on fairly well I would say, except at the end he asked me if he could tell me and read me about a promotion offer they had. I said no, I had no interest in it (It was for a reward program). He insisted saying it would only take me 2 minutes. I keep on refusing and he became _really_ rude about it. I couldn't believe it...
I also receive a lot of phone calls from recruiters. I would say that 1/3rd of them seem to be coming from India I am sure. First sign is again the lag in the call, _really_ bad phone quality, then someone over the phone with an accent starting invariably with "how are you doing today Sir?". Sometime it is to invite me to job fair, etc, when I refuse, often they get rude saying it will only take so little of my time. Often I am busy and I tell them I have to call them back. They insist very rudely on me giving them a time to call back. i tell them _I_ will call back and come up with plenty of excuses for me to not call back. At the end I always end these calls.
The only thing I would have to say is that I mostly have had either bad or below average experiences in this. I hate when I am connected with a call-center in India. I hate the delay in the phone conversation, the poor quality of the phone call, and often the attitude the cust-rep have on the phone.
Personally I would rather pay a little premium to have a great customer service, support, LOCAL in the us than dealing with this crap of outsourcing call-centers.
I have to say, outsource all of this to rural America, do the call centers in the middle of nowhere. Local people will be very happy, it will bring some money to these areas, labor laws are mostly the same and I have noticed one important thing... People here are SO much nicer and agreable to talk to! It makes it much more of a pleasure to deal with.