That, and most people never really read their hiring agreements or workplace policies.
The part that's worked in my favor is that most HR people don't actually read the hiring agreements that have been signed and submitted; they typically merely check for a signature and file them away. I've had those documents (hiring agreement, non-compete, and non-disclosure) sent to me in Word format, and no one has ever seemed to notice when I've edited them before adding my signature, turning them into PDFs, and sending them back.
I've done things like agree to a two-week non-compete, and have even removed entire sentences I didn't like on principle.
I prefer to pay by giving my email address than by real money.
Then you are a fool. Some people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I generate a new email address on one of my domains for every new interaction with a new vendor. The process requires approximately ten seconds of my time, and that address could vanish just as easily. The net savings outweighs the net cost by a hefty margin.
New phone debuts with cloud capabilities. People buy new phone, use the shit out of it, and also begin utilizing cloud functions. Of course bandwidth use is going to go up.
Indeed, those who use iOS 5 to run standard backups of their phones to iCloud instead of to the local computer, plus asynchronously merge all contacts, calendars, notes, photos, and videos to iCloud are going to routinely suck up more bandwidth than those who've chosen to stick with the iPhone 3G. That's just common sense. Suppositions to be made about the user's behavior with the newer, faster, otherwise more capable machines are secondary, however potentially valid.
I wonder what you were saying when that kid racked up $600 bill on his mom's iPhone playing the Smurfs game?
And I, in turn, wonder how you missed that both of my posts mentioned passcode protection. Actually, no, I don't; I've come up with my own suitable working theory.
There's the fundamental disconnect. From my perspective, I don't accept the premise that your issue with the basic functionality of the device is something that should be considered "broken" per se. In fact, if the default behavior were as you wanted it, I would consider it to be a negative. We simply have differing opinions on how personal such a device should actually be.
Indeed, I do imagine this in the hands of a six-year-old, and that would be a nightmare. Thankfully, it's password-protected, because it's my toy, and no one else's.
"Thank you for your purchase of HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 32GB Refurbished | FB359UAR#ABA. We are processing it to arrive as quickly as possible."
Yep; I managed to snag one while I was doing a bit of work in Photoshop. I can imagine that it might have been very frustrating were I not actually also occupying myself with something else while sitting in front of the computer.
"For the good of the Homeland and Security unto the people under its care..."
"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our Homeland."
And thus, the Gestapo was formed, and there was much rejoicing.
Well I was also referring to the excessive green screening, that made a talented actor like Portman look like some B-movie extra.
It wasn't the green screen that made the talented Portman's portrayal of the character so wooden and mediocre. A better director could have easily extracted a better performance (perhaps even by reworking some of the hackneyed script), but behind-the scenes footage shows that directing humans simply isn't the strong suit of George Lucas.
It seems easier to blame the technology for what is essentially human error, but that won't fix the problem.
Also, recovering data from a tape is unacceptably slow. Many years ago...
Full stop. Yes, tape technology from many years ago was very slow. What does that have to do with the current status? After a ten-year gap, LTO-5 is seven times faster than LTO-1 (140MB/s vs. 20MB/s). LTO-6 will be 270MB/s.
If you are such a fuck up that the military wouldn't take you don't be surprised if no one hires you.
There are certain physical requirements to enlisting in the military that are, let's say, not specifically geek-centric. Further, until very recently, they were notorious for automatically disqualifying approximately 10% of the population based upon... a questionable criterion.
There are plenty of reasons why the military would have rejected otherwise perfectly suitable IT workers.
Only valid under the assumption that the accusations are bogus.
The accusations are... confusing.
"Despite what has happened, the woman who organized the event and had Assange stay at her apartment told Aftonbladet that she never intended that Assange be charged with rape.
XP itself never crashed(BSOD'd) unless you had serious hardware (or later, malware when it became sufficiently virulent) problems.
If you tell that to users of SINE (Aventail Connect VPN client), we'll just laugh and laugh, and then cry after the flashbacks have taken their toll. When I was with IBM, that part of the standard build for our work-issued ThinkPads was the easiest way to routinely crash XP Pro, which is why SINE was phased out in favor of MTS (AT&T Net Client).
That version of Aventail Connect was crap software, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it "malware."
He was not unique. I can attest that all Catholics are indoctrinated this way.
It's not just Catholics. For that matter, it's not just Christians.
"And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth [...] then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine." —Malcolm X
I will always remember Steve for creating the NeXT computer system which first introduced me to Unix on a state of the art system back in high school.
Ditto that. When I was in high school (which had the Mac Plus in my drafting and architecture class), I was an intern at a civil engineering company, at which we had a NeXTstation Turbo. I'm not sure which changed my life more— the internship itself, or my time at that NeXT keyboard.
These days, my own NeXT Cube sits on a shelf in my home office above an original Macintosh.
I have their evidence. Prior to the announcement of the merger, T-mobile offered a number of no contract plans that were slightly cheaper than 2-year contractual obligation plans, thus allowing the customer more freedom to pick a carrier that suited their needs based on changing lifestyles and habits over a two year period.
T-Mobile: "We need the customers."
After the proposed merger was announced, all of the no-contract plans were eliminated...
T-Mobile: "Okay, we're good now. We're getting bought out."
Let's take a look at this part of their 2011 Q2 financial statement. "Net customer losses of 50,000, an improvement from 99,000 net customer losses in the first quarter of 2011 and 93,000 net customer losses in the second quarter of 2010."
Really, your story doesn't seem so much like evidence of anti-competitive effects as it was a plea for new customers (or for existing customers to maintain service), followed by relief that they were being acquired. My bank did very much the same thing. When National City's future became questionable, they began to offer very attractive— but seemingly unsustainable— rates on certificates of deposit. With interest rates dropping everywhere else, I jumped on it, dumping the bulk of my money market savings accounts into two 48-month CDs at 5% and 5.25% APR. When they were to be acquired by PNC, they dropped the rates on back down to normal.
Competition is indeed good for the consumers, but so is the failure of a business. See also: the HP TouchPad fire sale.
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That, and most people never really read their hiring agreements or workplace policies.
The part that's worked in my favor is that most HR people don't actually read the hiring agreements that have been signed and submitted; they typically merely check for a signature and file them away. I've had those documents (hiring agreement, non-compete, and non-disclosure) sent to me in Word format, and no one has ever seemed to notice when I've edited them before adding my signature, turning them into PDFs, and sending them back.
I've done things like agree to a two-week non-compete, and have even removed entire sentences I didn't like on principle.
I don't know anyone who used the start menu for anything but search and shut down.
This statement is significant because, of course, the plural form of "anecdote" is "data."
Then you are a fool. Some people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I generate a new email address on one of my domains for every new interaction with a new vendor. The process requires approximately ten seconds of my time, and that address could vanish just as easily. The net savings outweighs the net cost by a hefty margin.
So which principles are we talking about? The racism that brought forth segregation and Jom Crow laws?
You forget your history, son. Jim Crow laws were quite specifically a product of southern Democrats.
Who looks back on Bush as enlightened?
Score another one for The Onion .
Can't it be configured to only sync large files (music, photos and videos) over Wi-Fi?
It can be configured in a number of different ways. Whether or not it's configured to do so is entirely up to the end user.
New phone debuts with cloud capabilities. People buy new phone, use the shit out of it, and also begin utilizing cloud functions. Of course bandwidth use is going to go up.
Indeed, those who use iOS 5 to run standard backups of their phones to iCloud instead of to the local computer, plus asynchronously merge all contacts, calendars, notes, photos, and videos to iCloud are going to routinely suck up more bandwidth than those who've chosen to stick with the iPhone 3G. That's just common sense. Suppositions to be made about the user's behavior with the newer, faster, otherwise more capable machines are secondary, however potentially valid.
I wonder what you were saying when that kid racked up $600 bill on his mom's iPhone playing the Smurfs game?
And I, in turn, wonder how you missed that both of my posts mentioned passcode protection. Actually, no, I don't; I've come up with my own suitable working theory.
All this can be fixed with software
There's the fundamental disconnect. From my perspective, I don't accept the premise that your issue with the basic functionality of the device is something that should be considered "broken" per se. In fact, if the default behavior were as you wanted it, I would consider it to be a negative. We simply have differing opinions on how personal such a device should actually be.
Indeed, I do imagine this in the hands of a six-year-old, and that would be a nightmare. Thankfully, it's password-protected, because it's my toy, and no one else's.
"There is no privacy on the device; a spouse or child who picks it up will instantly know everything you have been doing."
I don't know the situation for the complainers, but my Kindle Fire has a passcode enabled.
Settings > Security > Lock Screen Password
Did anyone get one of the tablets?
"Thank you for your purchase of HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 32GB Refurbished | FB359UAR#ABA. We are processing it to arrive as quickly as possible."
Yep; I managed to snag one while I was doing a bit of work in Photoshop. I can imagine that it might have been very frustrating were I not actually also occupying myself with something else while sitting in front of the computer.
"For the good of the Homeland and Security unto the people under its care..."
"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our Homeland."
And thus, the Gestapo was formed, and there was much rejoicing.
Well I was also referring to the excessive green screening, that made a talented actor like Portman look like some B-movie extra.
It wasn't the green screen that made the talented Portman's portrayal of the character so wooden and mediocre. A better director could have easily extracted a better performance (perhaps even by reworking some of the hackneyed script), but behind-the scenes footage shows that directing humans simply isn't the strong suit of George Lucas.
It seems easier to blame the technology for what is essentially human error, but that won't fix the problem.
Was it Khrushchev who said the west would sell it the rope to hang us with?
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." -Lenin
Also, recovering data from a tape is unacceptably slow. Many years ago...
Full stop. Yes, tape technology from many years ago was very slow. What does that have to do with the current status? After a ten-year gap, LTO-5 is seven times faster than LTO-1 (140MB/s vs. 20MB/s). LTO-6 will be 270MB/s.
Most industries don't need that kind of historical data. What kind of data do you need from 5 years ago that isn't on your most recent backups?
Ah, yes, that was often a common sentiment before the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
If you are such a fuck up that the military wouldn't take you don't be surprised if no one hires you.
There are certain physical requirements to enlisting in the military that are, let's say, not specifically geek-centric. Further, until very recently, they were notorious for automatically disqualifying approximately 10% of the population based upon... a questionable criterion.
There are plenty of reasons why the military would have rejected otherwise perfectly suitable IT workers.
Only valid under the assumption that the accusations are bogus.
The accusations are... confusing.
"Despite what has happened, the woman who organized the event and had Assange stay at her apartment told Aftonbladet that she never intended that Assange be charged with rape.
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/02/sex-by-surprise-at-heart-of-assange-criminal-probe/
XP itself never crashed(BSOD'd) unless you had serious hardware (or later, malware when it became sufficiently virulent) problems.
If you tell that to users of SINE (Aventail Connect VPN client), we'll just laugh and laugh, and then cry after the flashbacks have taken their toll. When I was with IBM, that part of the standard build for our work-issued ThinkPads was the easiest way to routinely crash XP Pro, which is why SINE was phased out in favor of MTS (AT&T Net Client).
That version of Aventail Connect was crap software, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it "malware."
This only proves that they fundamentally influence the conditions of an otherwise known state simply by observing it.
Now why does that seem familiar?
He was not unique. I can attest that all Catholics are indoctrinated this way.
It's not just Catholics. For that matter, it's not just Christians.
"And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth [...] then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine." —Malcolm X
I will always remember Steve for creating the NeXT computer system which first introduced me to Unix on a state of the art system back in high school.
Ditto that. When I was in high school (which had the Mac Plus in my drafting and architecture class), I was an intern at a civil engineering company, at which we had a NeXTstation Turbo. I'm not sure which changed my life more— the internship itself, or my time at that NeXT keyboard.
These days, my own NeXT Cube sits on a shelf in my home office above an original Macintosh.
Is there anyone who incorporates Java into a major desktop application and (in terms of performance) does it well?
The Java version of the [now-Symantec] Veritas NetBackup administration console is a reasonably responsive implementation.
Since we're really all just living in a simulation anyway, my first thought was of our glorious Master Control Program.
All hail the MCP, under pain of deresolution.
I have their evidence. Prior to the announcement of the merger, T-mobile offered a number of no contract plans that were slightly cheaper than 2-year contractual obligation plans, thus allowing the customer more freedom to pick a carrier that suited their needs based on changing lifestyles and habits over a two year period.
T-Mobile: "We need the customers."
After the proposed merger was announced, all of the no-contract plans were eliminated...
T-Mobile: "Okay, we're good now. We're getting bought out."
Let's take a look at this part of their 2011 Q2 financial statement. "Net customer losses of 50,000, an improvement from 99,000 net customer losses in the first quarter of 2011 and 93,000 net customer losses in the second quarter of 2010."
Really, your story doesn't seem so much like evidence of anti-competitive effects as it was a plea for new customers (or for existing customers to maintain service), followed by relief that they were being acquired. My bank did very much the same thing. When National City's future became questionable, they began to offer very attractive— but seemingly unsustainable— rates on certificates of deposit. With interest rates dropping everywhere else, I jumped on it, dumping the bulk of my money market savings accounts into two 48-month CDs at 5% and 5.25% APR. When they were to be acquired by PNC, they dropped the rates on back down to normal.
Competition is indeed good for the consumers, but so is the failure of a business. See also: the HP TouchPad fire sale.