Then have your lawyer send it, and have him present when you check it. No attorney is going to risk disbarment for misreporting a FICO score in a letter to an employer.
One compromise may be to give them a notarized letter stating your FICO score. Check out MyFico.com or other sources to get this cheaply. This will satisfy their question of good vs bad credit WITHOUT giving them the details of your credit history. For those not familiar with FICO scoring, it's a single number representing your credit risk ranging from 200 to 850 or something like that. Seems to be a good way to satisfy their intentions (if they have communicated them truthfully) and your privacy.
Barring that, I agree with another poster who suggests meeting in a room for a limited period of time with a printout of your credit report that you bring and take away from the meeting.
" SuSE and Red Hat are aiming Linux for developers and for employees using computers for limited functions, such as entering information onto a back-end system or fielding calls from customers placing orders by phone calls."
Even if an employee's job description shows limited computer use, employees also use computers for Internet browsing on breaks, checking their email, reading company memos in the company's standardized file format (likely Office), stock trading in off-time, pr0n, whatever.
In order to be successful, the group will hopefully make it clear that an OSS desktop can do whatever their MS desktop can do (and more), and cite examples from an overall workday of how something done in Windows is done in Linux.
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When the jobs moved out of the cities, the cities still survived. Likewise the US will still survive.
I think those who are threatened have to either get more competetive (i.e. work cheaper) or move overseas to get contracts. That way you have a competative advantage in the language department for those great American companies that insist on screwing the trough and hiring cheaper labor from overseas.
Arts majors are more subjective, while engineering degrees are objective.
If an English major answers a test question on an interpretation of some poem, it's going to get a high grade because it's based on opinion and ther eis no "right" or "wrong" answer.
If an engineering major gets a formula wrong, it is wrong and that's that... no gray area.
They're probably embedding DRM to break into the handheld / portable music player market. It won't take long before Sony and others, who create hardware as well as have RIAA-linked music divisions, begin to streamline their products on DRM.
I wouldn't panic because Transmeta has a miniscule market share. When Intel announces they will incorporate DRM into all current and future Intel chips and AMD follows suit, THEN panic.
If there isn't a current working emulator for the N64, there will be (just like everything else). ROMs aren't a problem to dump, so it will actaulyl be EASIER to pirate those than to duplicate the special small GameCube titles. Not sure why Ninetnedo wants to go this route...
Actaully, given reports of their diminishing profitability, I'm not sure why they don't flood China with GameBoys instead. Or maybe that's what "old hardware" meant...
I remember finally getting Bossk, and all the other neighborhood kids just bowed before me.
And the Action Figure Survival Kit with the umpteen guns, especially the ones with the straps? I was the frickin ARSENAL!
I, too, was hopping pissed that my Boba Fett missle didn't actually shoot... as pissed as I was that my Battlestar Gallactica Cylon fighters and Vipers didn't actually shoot.
The audit issue is the first thing I thought of when I heard this. I guess the solution may be to print your final return out to an Acrobat PDF (electronic and reprintable), though I guess you have to own Adobe Acrobat for that solution unless there are any OSS PDF printers I'm not aware of.
I use TaxCut myself, but I feel for the TurboTax users who are going through this.
And it's coming to the PS2 early next year too. Hopefully the expansion pack problem won't affect PS2 users, but it's still the same set of issues... things you have to kill that infrequently respawn, other guilds dicking you over, etc.
Wouldn't MS have to scrap/shelve JBuilder under its agreements/court-ordered restrictions in the Sun case?
I'm sure if Borland was entertaining an MS offer, other companies would consider buying it knowing that it was up for sale. Oracle, Sun, and IBM are obvious choices, but there are others. I don't think Larry Ellison would mind a true merge of their Java tools, and what better way to stick it to MS than to outdo their.Net development offerings?
Another area not discussed in the article is vicarious experience, that is, experience and knowledge you have because some cause and effect relationship existed with someone or something else.
For example, the computer's tactile interface has to touch the oven and say 110 deg C, as opposed to taking as fact "I heard a human mention that Unit 5 already did that and it was 110 deg C, so I accept it as fact that it is 110 deg C".
I know I'll get modded down for this, but I wonder what the limits of questioning the computer / human participants was? (Article said they quized participants to see if they could tell who was human and who was a machine). Like, could they ask "What number am I thinking of?" The machine would blank out and the human would stupidly blurt out "69 dude!"
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I'm glad a municipality has caught onto hitting eBay for quality used equipment, as Largo did according to the article. OSS, plus cheaper (and SLIGHTLY) older equipment can add up to huge cost savings. Hell, any.com that dies probably has enough server and networking hardware to outfit any small company. Municipalities need to make it easier for their IT managers to purchase items used (like from eBay) and quit limiting themsleves to purchasing contracts.
Lawn darts and Merlin! How could they ? Actually they should have thrown in the Atari 2600 (Christmas 1977) in the 1970-1980 archive. Where would we be without the 2600?
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Then have your lawyer send it, and have him present when you check it. No attorney is going to risk disbarment for misreporting a FICO score in a letter to an employer.
One compromise may be to give them a notarized letter stating your FICO score. Check out MyFico.com or other sources to get this cheaply. This will satisfy their question of good vs bad credit WITHOUT giving them the details of your credit history. For those not familiar with FICO scoring, it's a single number representing your credit risk ranging from 200 to 850 or something like that. Seems to be a good way to satisfy their intentions (if they have communicated them truthfully) and your privacy.
Barring that, I agree with another poster who suggests meeting in a room for a limited period of time with a printout of your credit report that you bring and take away from the meeting.
Here's something interesting from the article:
" SuSE and Red Hat are aiming Linux for developers and for employees using computers for limited functions, such as entering information onto a back-end system or fielding calls from customers placing orders by phone calls."
Even if an employee's job description shows limited computer use, employees also use computers for Internet browsing on breaks, checking their email, reading company memos in the company's standardized file format (likely Office), stock trading in off-time, pr0n, whatever.
In order to be successful, the group will hopefully make it clear that an OSS desktop can do whatever their MS desktop can do (and more), and cite examples from an overall workday of how something done in Windows is done in Linux.
When the jobs moved out of the cities, the cities still survived. Likewise the US will still survive.
I think those who are threatened have to either get more competetive (i.e. work cheaper) or move overseas to get contracts. That way you have a competative advantage in the language department for those great American companies that insist on screwing the trough and hiring cheaper labor from overseas.
If it works for Nike and K-Mart, why not for IT?
Arts majors are more subjective, while engineering degrees are objective.
If an English major answers a test question on an interpretation of some poem, it's going to get a high grade because it's based on opinion and ther eis no "right" or "wrong" answer.
If an engineering major gets a formula wrong, it is wrong and that's that... no gray area.
They're probably embedding DRM to break into the handheld / portable music player market. It won't take long before Sony and others, who create hardware as well as have RIAA-linked music divisions, begin to streamline their products on DRM.
I wouldn't panic because Transmeta has a miniscule market share. When Intel announces they will incorporate DRM into all current and future Intel chips and AMD follows suit, THEN panic.
If there isn't a current working emulator for the N64, there will be (just like everything else). ROMs aren't a problem to dump, so it will actaulyl be EASIER to pirate those than to duplicate the special small GameCube titles. Not sure why Ninetnedo wants to go this route...
Actaully, given reports of their diminishing profitability, I'm not sure why they don't flood China with GameBoys instead. Or maybe that's what "old hardware" meant...
you were very fat as a kid huh?
Nope, just in a neighborhood of intellectuals.
I remember finally getting Bossk, and all the other neighborhood kids just bowed before me.
And the Action Figure Survival Kit with the umpteen guns, especially the ones with the straps? I was the frickin ARSENAL!
I, too, was hopping pissed that my Boba Fett missle didn't actually shoot... as pissed as I was that my Battlestar Gallactica Cylon fighters and Vipers didn't actually shoot.
The audit issue is the first thing I thought of when I heard this. I guess the solution may be to print your final return out to an Acrobat PDF (electronic and reprintable), though I guess you have to own Adobe Acrobat for that solution unless there are any OSS PDF printers I'm not aware of.
I use TaxCut myself, but I feel for the TurboTax users who are going through this.
"This new game console will do one million cagillion ... billion calculations per second!"
Now you can watch your hard drive space count down to nothing in real time!
US Wireless has been experimenting with this for a while now, helped out by a few Universities:
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http://www.uswcorp.com/USWCMainPages/PressRel/p
And it's coming to the PS2 early next year too. Hopefully the expansion pack problem won't affect PS2 users, but it's still the same set of issues... things you have to kill that infrequently respawn, other guilds dicking you over, etc.
I guess you should stay and dance with the girl you brought to the prom!
They'll just sue all the web sites reporting it as violating electronic copyright, just liek Wal-Mart did with Black Friday sales.
Now we'll be able to fit entire genres of music, rather than entire band catalogs of MP3's on one disc.
If they include David Bowie on the same list?
Maybe they'll make the next Red Hat codename "Ziggy" in honor of the list!
I remember not to long ago where OptimumOnline ran TV ads touting the ability to grab music from the Net
Right... cutting off the upstream means you can't UPLOAD music... you can still download all you want.
I guess equal than, lesser than symbols don't get posted. Let me rephrase from Pascal to Java:
For some reason != US goes in a different technological direction than == US. It's usually equivilent, but parallel advances.
For some reason US goes in a different technological direction and =US. It's usually equivilent, but parallel advances.
Wouldn't MS have to scrap/shelve JBuilder under its agreements/court-ordered restrictions in the Sun case?
.Net development offerings?
I'm sure if Borland was entertaining an MS offer, other companies would consider buying it knowing that it was up for sale. Oracle, Sun, and IBM are obvious choices, but there are others. I don't think Larry Ellison would mind a true merge of their Java tools, and what better way to stick it to MS than to outdo their
Another area not discussed in the article is vicarious experience, that is, experience and knowledge you have because some cause and effect relationship existed with someone or something else.
For example, the computer's tactile interface has to touch the oven and say 110 deg C, as opposed to taking as fact "I heard a human mention that Unit 5 already did that and it was 110 deg C, so I accept it as fact that it is 110 deg C".
I know I'll get modded down for this, but I wonder what the limits of questioning the computer / human participants was? (Article said they quized participants to see if they could tell who was human and who was a machine). Like, could they ask "What number am I thinking of?" The machine would blank out and the human would stupidly blurt out "69 dude!"
I'm glad a municipality has caught onto hitting eBay for quality used equipment, as Largo did according to the article. OSS, plus cheaper (and SLIGHTLY) older equipment can add up to huge cost savings. Hell, any .com that dies probably has enough server and networking hardware to outfit any small company. Municipalities need to make it easier for their IT managers to purchase items used (like from eBay) and quit limiting themsleves to purchasing contracts.
Lawn darts and Merlin! How could they ? Actually they should have thrown in the Atari 2600 (Christmas 1977) in the 1970-1980 archive. Where would we be without the 2600?