your general catch all clause falls to the standard tactic of claiming the buyer changed the requirements so that the original time line is void. Any absence on the buyer's part that holds back any part of the project; and believe me they will keep every note about delays from your side they can; give them an out.
The big problem with most of these projects is the people in charge of implementing their chosen solution rarely will stop a project and willingly commit a companies money until its done. Egos don't like being bruised.
I relayed the story awhile back about internet connectivity and one set of relatives. They saw no need for "that internet" let alone even computers for the most part because they never were impacted by it.
Until grandchildren entered the picture and were in pictures. Pictures they could get by having the computer make all that noise connecting to the internet (dial up on the farm, cable will probably never be an option in rural midwest). That sold them on the net, do they use it for much more than pictures, not really.
So I can fully expect to see large parts of the world, even in areas we count at civilized, as not having access the net simply because it has not crossed their lives nor have they been negatively impacted by not having access.
People these days are quick to claim rights to things they want without the realization that its not a right but a want. A want that many other people might not even care about. It makes life easier for those who adapted to it but for others its not going to do squat.
I can cite a hundred examples of how it would make life better for someone to have access to the net on a daily basis but if your just getting by or have fields to take care of, you already have a full day and for many people that is contentment.
I wish I could afford to take as many weeks off to protest as the OWS. Oh thats right, most of them are still living off mommy and daddy.
I agree with Time's naming the protester as their person of the year, I do not agree with lumping the OWS type crowds in the US with them. The real protesters are those of the Arab Spring and possible Russian version.
Over here the only threats they had to face were from each other and the weather. They could all go home knowing that they would not end up in a prison for protesting... yet at the same time the US protesters wanted nothing to do with the real homeless and such, the real people who truly need help, not the iPhone wielding whiners.
Get Google to go offline for day and you might wake people up. I work in a shop with a lot of techies and it has never ceased to amaze me how many never used wikipedia nor care too. As in, they don't need it. So get someone who truly matters to people, get Google to do a day of it.
As for getting for edits, get rid of the sanctimonious editors who revert everything that doesn't fit their political leaning or doesn't fit in their universe where every song by glam bands is important and characters who appeared in some obscure anime get full page treatment.
really, what twit came up with that type of button and its location?
The browser was actually worse than I expected, however I still keep the Fire on the breakfast table for catching up on email. Why? Because it is very one hand friendly. That form factor is great for just holding one handed while eating with another. I know it sounds silly to some, but I like tend to read by holding a paper or such in my left hand it is sized just right to do so. The iPad actually doesn't work so well because of is size.
That said, that browser just sucks. Battery life could be better than they would have been better off with no speakers. To me an ideal seven inch tablet would have a rear facing camera again because the form factor/size is much more ideal than my iPad.
Reading books was fine, getting them was not because again the browser needs help. Use it upside down, it still works and hitting that stupid power button is mostly a non issue then.
Why not fix the horrible languages that have come since? Seems to me the most popular reason for all the new languages is they always suck thereby insuring a new one to take the place.
Here is a hint, solid business languages with built in understanding of currency handling (read decimal positioning) are wonderful things... albeit a bit boring.
Though I really don't mind PHP , lets me expose core business logic that works flawlessly to those services I can't trust
If I put a room five JAVA/C# developers on doing a particular task I am most likely to end up with four if not five different implementations. With the five COBOL (or similar "old school" language) I might end up with two, on the outside three.
I always though the big feature of certain "object oriented" language was their re-usability but even in house far too many roll their own and have a litany of excuses as to why what they did was better than someone else. Don't even get started on libraries. Standards do reign people in but they don't hit at the other problem, just doing simple work with files is no fun compared to the simplicity it is in COBOL or other business languages. Hell, dealing with money, forget it, COBOL and business languages do that very well. I can search for handling decimal positions and such math for other languages and I wince at all the "try this" I get back.
One team at my friend's shop has a person whose entire job is fixing values in the data base because the "web" guys keep screwing up simple things. His words, not mine. However it still comes to languages which don't provide simple solutions but instead give you so many solutions you actually end up with worse off.
and took the loss to get it off the books. Then perhaps we could have been freed of these shenanigans. I know, I know, yeah it would have tanked the share price and cost other investors money but those investors purchased their shares knowing full well that government had no long term investment need.
Instead we see politics as usual. From having GE (no taxes, many WH meetings) agree to buy a large number of these cars, we have the Toyota witch hunt earlier this year (even NASA's help could not find fault), and we have the battery issue where three batteries caught fire (one three weeks after a wreck, one a week after a simulated wreck, and one hours after a simulated wreck)
We have GM sitting on nearly thirty billion in cash, hell they should buy their shares back. Oh wait, they are sitting on it because there is a fear they won't be able to properly fund the pensions for certain unions.
The reason this battery issue is important is not just to those driving, but to those in the accident with these cars and those responding to the accidents. Whether they are first responders or the wrecker crews. I would have to assume there is a large amount of technical documentation for hazardous waste clean up, hell we freak out over diesel spills can you imagine full penetration of one of these battery packs?
Another Administration and no real change; unless you count whose pockets the money goes in, it always comes out of ours.
and in between those uses its easy to move away. If it makes typing on my iPad easier then its worth it. The problem I faced was having a BT keyboard to make using the device for input easier.
Considering the size this is far better solution if it truly does mitigate the issue some have with typing. Yes, I am a "backer". I have bought a few items from the Kickstarter groups, more aimed towards whimsical than this.
Still haven't figured out if all those that do get funding actually pay themselves a decent rate for their hours. For some projects it really seems that they skip over that part.
I purchased the Fire on the idea it might make a good present for parents to use while camping (free WIFI is almost always found in the campgrounds they visit) for simple email and browsing. It also want to see how it performed versus the iPad for the same.
The experience is certainly not up to the standard set by Apple but I find it very acceptable when one factors in the price point. The price point is important because for me a loss of a $200 device is far easier to take than losing the $500+ iPad. The Fire has already done the bounce test on the carpet, something I hope the iPad never tries.
Web browsing, hands down better on the iPad. The Fire just doesn't have the oomph. So will knock offs have the same problem? It might be related to Amazon's browser but I am not wholly sure on that. Mail reading is fine, it could be better, but it works and I tend to leave the Fire on the counter and one hand hold it while eating so I can check up on mail. Something that the iPad form factor is not good at.
I hope the seven inch size takes off, it really is much more portable without losing too much screen to make it just worth sticking with a phone. There are rumors Apple may head this way too which should push prices down.
I find I can treat a seven inch tablet more like a tablet than the 11 inch iPad, with the iPad I just felt I needed an external keyboard, possibly because after use it certainly loses the feel of portability. You don't one hand an iPad.
One that intelligently skips over commercials, likely showing me my second and third favorite shows or bounces to a favorite news channel.. even weather.
One that record anything at anytime I want and even grab what I missed. Well they might give me that if I succumbed to the advertising.
One that put up whatever scene I wanted when I wanted. One which would integrate with other units seamlessly to follow me through the house... eventually smart enough to support the time lapse lost out of view should I request - go back
The TV I want cannot exist because the problem they seem to be trying to solve is how to prevent me from seeing any show I want when I want unless they can burden me with commercials.
Your choice, if I have to pay to get in my home I want it commercial free and when I want it and what I want, if you PAY me to put here you can decide.
and asking for a fee which will be a around 20% of the settlement. While the number is very large I doubt you or I or much of anyone on this site knows the true costs involved in running a major law firm and maintaining a case over eight years.
So while it is simple to demagogue someone/something/etc because we don't understand it still does not make it right, let alone worthy of being rated insightful on this site. We should not give into our ignorance, let alone jealously, of others simply because of a dollar amount. It cheapen us and the very work we do. I am quite certain you can find any number of people on the street who would be aghast at how much "some" people get paid to work on computers and that attitude has the same founding.
Two relatives, mother and daughter on my dad's side, both ran large Post Offices in the Midwest. Both can tell you the same things about what is wrong with the Post Office. First is a the unionized work force who doesn't care. As in, you tell them something, they tell you take a hike. My cousin used to refer to her work as "Debby's Day Care" except all those in her charge were adults. Had an emergency, too bad their going home, you do it or get that new guy to do it, the one with the shitty route. People paid more simply because they were there longer who didn't feel they had to work because she was powerless to do anything. You could write someone up for being drunk and it went no where because it couldn't go anywhere. Fortunately no one was ever hurt but she always wryly remarked, it probably would not have mattered.
The second problem was the incredible waste. Like the convention in Chicago where they stayed at 4 and 5 star hotels (depending on size and importance) where mother and daughter offered to share a room and were told that "they don't do that". Where they were flown in for the convention business class. My Aunt used to scream about the waste of that convention when she needed a new delivery truck and instead had to watch the money poured down the drain so upper PO officials could celebrate themselves.
Then comes the trucks, or should I say the infamous left hand drive Windstars. Which no one on a route wanted because, well they were too large to reach across and such made mail delivery a non-starter. So they became shuttles to smaller post offices or those road side lock box places.
Still the largest controllable costs except it ain't because of union negotiating is the costs of the employees. The actual rules state that negotiations cannot take into account costs when it comes to setting rates for employment.
Go search CATO.ORG to see all the stories on the USPS. I tend to ignore the calls to privatize it, it is a requirement of the US Government to do this. However nothing requires them to do it wrong or inefficiently, that happens because of the unions and Congress. One which protects the pay of the workers and more importantly the union bosses and the second because they want to stay in office.
He ousted two of the originals and was a old school car guy, it was no wonder that nothing that had been created before he arrived would ever satisfy him, nor much of any chance innovation was going to stick.
I remember back in the fun days when I used Netscape, then Microsoft started their shenanigans and there began a period of seeming stupiditulation (my new word, capitulation by stupidity) on the part of the Netscape group where each succeeding revision actually was worse.
Firefox is really getting that bad vibe. I remember good old Firefox on my mac rendering page after page just fine, now I actually beachball in Firefox (the rest of the system works but FF is stuck) when loading some pages. Even on Windows it behaves erratically.
Time for another fork, when Netscape got too far from its roots a new browser came from a similar base and it was very good for a decent amount of time.
I like the idea of taking away stuff till its right, they need some of that
simply regulated the work environment to where the employers are practically given reason to make an unbearable situation, next roll in the unions to protect the abused workers, mandatory union contributions feed back to DNC coffers (my friend pays over 1k a year in dues I think)
with their internet as they have been with their phones....
Look at what the wireless companies are doing with their phones and the fact that people pay for this abuse. $30 data plans... required for smart phones.
So you imagine the crap they will pull on internet if they get their way. I have no problem with usage based pricing provided that the line is separated from the provider. As in, treat it like my gas company. There is one company which gets paid a flat rate to maintain all gas lines in the state. From there providers piggy back on it charging what they think they can for the gas delivered over those lines.
The problem is how to fairly reimburse companies who truly did spend their own money upgrading their networks and how to get places that are not adequately served to similar levels. I can drive five miles from my house and the gas is still the same natural gas with same availability but people I know who live their only have DSL whereas I have opportunity for both cable and dsl (and my cable is 20 down)
from the mundane items like sewage and garbage, maintenance of roads to and from, proving electrical power, educating the children if any of the plant's workers, to providing police and fire protection.
It might be only fifty people in the facility but the support mechanism to allow such a vast process does involve hundreds if not more going forward.
and their upcoming Ivy Bridge chipset will take it even further. Both allow for the use of a small SSD drive as a cache against a larger traditional hard drive.
Per the wiki page on their chipsets, The Z68 also added support for transparently caching hard disk data onto solid-state drives (up to 64GB), a technology called Smart Response Technology
In addition to a good office protocol to include phone conferences and the like having a good personality helps in having people remember you. If your friendly in nature people will remember that and it helps keep you in contact as your more likely to be called/call or communicate in mail or IM.
There are many cues people pick up from even the simplest of communication, it does not hurt to ask people why they don't acknowledge your items if it corrects a problem.
on why they permit sales outside of the country followed quickly by asking yourself this, why do we expect to hold a corporation to a standard that we do not expect to hold our government too?
By that I mean, it sure is SAFE and EASY to go after a company to uphold values you hold dear but damn if anyone wants to stand up to their own government when it maintains relationships one way or another with the same regimes.
Then top it off with multinationals, to whom are they beholden. If you have offices in the US, Germany, Russia, and China, whose laws take precedence? What if your further incorporated on some tiny island for tax purposes?
Yes its a bad thing what these countries do, but guess what, they always have and will, hoping to limit the damage by limiting the software available won't get much relief to the oppressed. That change happens at home by getting the right people in government who actually stand behind the words they use on the campaign trail.
As in, too many look for the big pay day instead of what a) they like and could enjoy or b) what fields are hiring.
Then there is that all not so significant number who spend money on a degree without any real purpose other than having it and then wondering why they aren't satisfied with the outcome.
can't wait to see the all seeing eye, can only be around the corner.
Who would have thought that the US Government was Sauron? The same monster which consumes over four trillion dollars of our work certainly is a monster of epic proportion. No wonder that they now even feel the need to take mythic names for what they do.
Who needs Skynet when we have all sorts of fantasy names to assign the latest abuse of our rights by our government. The US defeated (or outlasted) communism of the Soviet Union for what, a Soviet Union style government masquerading as a Republic. From control exerted over industry to health care its nearly complete, we even get the same choice in our elections, which is to say none. Vote for whomever the government has approved from these two sides of the same coin.
Oh, ignore the guy behind the curtain; in your bedroom.
Occupy Wall Street was too many miles North of where it should been, and targeting the wrong foe. Just as the Tea Party figured out and OWS was only hinting at, the real problem in the US isn't the rich and corporations but the politicians who use their position to empower the rich and corporations all the while securing themselves their position
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I love how one can pick out an image that isn't there, but an Angel is what I saw... just not a happy one....
your general catch all clause falls to the standard tactic of claiming the buyer changed the requirements so that the original time line is void. Any absence on the buyer's part that holds back any part of the project; and believe me they will keep every note about delays from your side they can; give them an out.
The big problem with most of these projects is the people in charge of implementing their chosen solution rarely will stop a project and willingly commit a companies money until its done. Egos don't like being bruised.
I relayed the story awhile back about internet connectivity and one set of relatives. They saw no need for "that internet" let alone even computers for the most part because they never were impacted by it.
Until grandchildren entered the picture and were in pictures. Pictures they could get by having the computer make all that noise connecting to the internet (dial up on the farm, cable will probably never be an option in rural midwest). That sold them on the net, do they use it for much more than pictures, not really.
So I can fully expect to see large parts of the world, even in areas we count at civilized, as not having access the net simply because it has not crossed their lives nor have they been negatively impacted by not having access.
People these days are quick to claim rights to things they want without the realization that its not a right but a want. A want that many other people might not even care about. It makes life easier for those who adapted to it but for others its not going to do squat.
I can cite a hundred examples of how it would make life better for someone to have access to the net on a daily basis but if your just getting by or have fields to take care of, you already have a full day and for many people that is contentment.
I wish I could afford to take as many weeks off to protest as the OWS. Oh thats right, most of them are still living off mommy and daddy.
I agree with Time's naming the protester as their person of the year, I do not agree with lumping the OWS type crowds in the US with them. The real protesters are those of the Arab Spring and possible Russian version.
Over here the only threats they had to face were from each other and the weather. They could all go home knowing that they would not end up in a prison for protesting... yet at the same time the US protesters wanted nothing to do with the real homeless and such, the real people who truly need help, not the iPhone wielding whiners.
Get Google to go offline for day and you might wake people up. I work in a shop with a lot of techies and it has never ceased to amaze me how many never used wikipedia nor care too. As in, they don't need it. So get someone who truly matters to people, get Google to do a day of it.
As for getting for edits, get rid of the sanctimonious editors who revert everything that doesn't fit their political leaning or doesn't fit in their universe where every song by glam bands is important and characters who appeared in some obscure anime get full page treatment.
really, what twit came up with that type of button and its location?
The browser was actually worse than I expected, however I still keep the Fire on the breakfast table for catching up on email. Why? Because it is very one hand friendly. That form factor is great for just holding one handed while eating with another. I know it sounds silly to some, but I like tend to read by holding a paper or such in my left hand it is sized just right to do so. The iPad actually doesn't work so well because of is size.
That said, that browser just sucks. Battery life could be better than they would have been better off with no speakers. To me an ideal seven inch tablet would have a rear facing camera again because the form factor/size is much more ideal than my iPad.
Reading books was fine, getting them was not because again the browser needs help. Use it upside down, it still works and hitting that stupid power button is mostly a non issue then.
language.
Why not fix the horrible languages that have come since? Seems to me the most popular reason for all the new languages is they always suck thereby insuring a new one to take the place.
Here is a hint, solid business languages with built in understanding of currency handling (read decimal positioning) are wonderful things... albeit a bit boring.
Though I really don't mind PHP , lets me expose core business logic that works flawlessly to those services I can't trust
If I put a room five JAVA/C# developers on doing a particular task I am most likely to end up with four if not five different implementations. With the five COBOL (or similar "old school" language) I might end up with two, on the outside three.
I always though the big feature of certain "object oriented" language was their re-usability but even in house far too many roll their own and have a litany of excuses as to why what they did was better than someone else. Don't even get started on libraries. Standards do reign people in but they don't hit at the other problem, just doing simple work with files is no fun compared to the simplicity it is in COBOL or other business languages. Hell, dealing with money, forget it, COBOL and business languages do that very well. I can search for handling decimal positions and such math for other languages and I wince at all the "try this" I get back.
One team at my friend's shop has a person whose entire job is fixing values in the data base because the "web" guys keep screwing up simple things. His words, not mine. However it still comes to languages which don't provide simple solutions but instead give you so many solutions you actually end up with worse off.
I would be more enthused if they would take the action of not allowing any trade with repressive regimes. No aid, no trade, nothing.
The problem is, some repressive regimes are excused based on their status in the world either financially or militarily
and took the loss to get it off the books. Then perhaps we could have been freed of these shenanigans. I know, I know, yeah it would have tanked the share price and cost other investors money but those investors purchased their shares knowing full well that government had no long term investment need.
Instead we see politics as usual. From having GE (no taxes, many WH meetings) agree to buy a large number of these cars, we have the Toyota witch hunt earlier this year (even NASA's help could not find fault), and we have the battery issue where three batteries caught fire (one three weeks after a wreck, one a week after a simulated wreck, and one hours after a simulated wreck)
We have GM sitting on nearly thirty billion in cash, hell they should buy their shares back. Oh wait, they are sitting on it because there is a fear they won't be able to properly fund the pensions for certain unions.
The reason this battery issue is important is not just to those driving, but to those in the accident with these cars and those responding to the accidents. Whether they are first responders or the wrecker crews. I would have to assume there is a large amount of technical documentation for hazardous waste clean up, hell we freak out over diesel spills can you imagine full penetration of one of these battery packs?
Another Administration and no real change; unless you count whose pockets the money goes in, it always comes out of ours.
and in between those uses its easy to move away. If it makes typing on my iPad easier then its worth it. The problem I faced was having a BT keyboard to make using the device for input easier.
Considering the size this is far better solution if it truly does mitigate the issue some have with typing. Yes, I am a "backer". I have bought a few items from the Kickstarter groups, more aimed towards whimsical than this.
Still haven't figured out if all those that do get funding actually pay themselves a decent rate for their hours. For some projects it really seems that they skip over that part.
I purchased the Fire on the idea it might make a good present for parents to use while camping (free WIFI is almost always found in the campgrounds they visit) for simple email and browsing. It also want to see how it performed versus the iPad for the same.
The experience is certainly not up to the standard set by Apple but I find it very acceptable when one factors in the price point. The price point is important because for me a loss of a $200 device is far easier to take than losing the $500+ iPad. The Fire has already done the bounce test on the carpet, something I hope the iPad never tries.
Web browsing, hands down better on the iPad. The Fire just doesn't have the oomph. So will knock offs have the same problem? It might be related to Amazon's browser but I am not wholly sure on that. Mail reading is fine, it could be better, but it works and I tend to leave the Fire on the counter and one hand hold it while eating so I can check up on mail. Something that the iPad form factor is not good at.
I hope the seven inch size takes off, it really is much more portable without losing too much screen to make it just worth sticking with a phone. There are rumors Apple may head this way too which should push prices down.
I find I can treat a seven inch tablet more like a tablet than the 11 inch iPad, with the iPad I just felt I needed an external keyboard, possibly because after use it certainly loses the feel of portability. You don't one hand an iPad.
One that intelligently skips over commercials, likely showing me my second and third favorite shows or bounces to a favorite news channel.. even weather.
One that record anything at anytime I want and even grab what I missed. Well they might give me that if I succumbed to the advertising.
One that put up whatever scene I wanted when I wanted. One which would integrate with other units seamlessly to follow me through the house... eventually smart enough to support the time lapse lost out of view should I request - go back
The TV I want cannot exist because the problem they seem to be trying to solve is how to prevent me from seeing any show I want when I want unless they can burden me with commercials.
Your choice, if I have to pay to get in my home I want it commercial free and when I want it and what I want, if you PAY me to put here you can decide.
and asking for a fee which will be a around 20% of the settlement. While the number is very large I doubt you or I or much of anyone on this site knows the true costs involved in running a major law firm and maintaining a case over eight years.
So while it is simple to demagogue someone/something/etc because we don't understand it still does not make it right, let alone worthy of being rated insightful on this site. We should not give into our ignorance, let alone jealously, of others simply because of a dollar amount. It cheapen us and the very work we do. I am quite certain you can find any number of people on the street who would be aghast at how much "some" people get paid to work on computers and that attitude has the same founding.
Two relatives, mother and daughter on my dad's side, both ran large Post Offices in the Midwest. Both can tell you the same things about what is wrong with the Post Office. First is a the unionized work force who doesn't care. As in, you tell them something, they tell you take a hike. My cousin used to refer to her work as "Debby's Day Care" except all those in her charge were adults. Had an emergency, too bad their going home, you do it or get that new guy to do it, the one with the shitty route. People paid more simply because they were there longer who didn't feel they had to work because she was powerless to do anything. You could write someone up for being drunk and it went no where because it couldn't go anywhere. Fortunately no one was ever hurt but she always wryly remarked, it probably would not have mattered.
The second problem was the incredible waste. Like the convention in Chicago where they stayed at 4 and 5 star hotels (depending on size and importance) where mother and daughter offered to share a room and were told that "they don't do that". Where they were flown in for the convention business class. My Aunt used to scream about the waste of that convention when she needed a new delivery truck and instead had to watch the money poured down the drain so upper PO officials could celebrate themselves.
Then comes the trucks, or should I say the infamous left hand drive Windstars. Which no one on a route wanted because, well they were too large to reach across and such made mail delivery a non-starter. So they became shuttles to smaller post offices or those road side lock box places.
Still the largest controllable costs except it ain't because of union negotiating is the costs of the employees. The actual rules state that negotiations cannot take into account costs when it comes to setting rates for employment.
Go search CATO.ORG to see all the stories on the USPS. I tend to ignore the calls to privatize it, it is a requirement of the US Government to do this. However nothing requires them to do it wrong or inefficiently, that happens because of the unions and Congress. One which protects the pay of the workers and more importantly the union bosses and the second because they want to stay in office.
He ousted two of the originals and was a old school car guy, it was no wonder that nothing that had been created before he arrived would ever satisfy him, nor much of any chance innovation was going to stick.
I remember back in the fun days when I used Netscape, then Microsoft started their shenanigans and there began a period of seeming stupiditulation (my new word, capitulation by stupidity) on the part of the Netscape group where each succeeding revision actually was worse.
Firefox is really getting that bad vibe. I remember good old Firefox on my mac rendering page after page just fine, now I actually beachball in Firefox (the rest of the system works but FF is stuck) when loading some pages. Even on Windows it behaves erratically.
Time for another fork, when Netscape got too far from its roots a new browser came from a similar base and it was very good for a decent amount of time.
I like the idea of taking away stuff till its right, they need some of that
simply regulated the work environment to where the employers are practically given reason to make an unbearable situation, next roll in the unions to protect the abused workers, mandatory union contributions feed back to DNC coffers (my friend pays over 1k a year in dues I think)
So win win for them
with their internet as they have been with their phones....
Look at what the wireless companies are doing with their phones and the fact that people pay for this abuse. $30 data plans... required for smart phones.
So you imagine the crap they will pull on internet if they get their way. I have no problem with usage based pricing provided that the line is separated from the provider. As in, treat it like my gas company. There is one company which gets paid a flat rate to maintain all gas lines in the state. From there providers piggy back on it charging what they think they can for the gas delivered over those lines.
The problem is how to fairly reimburse companies who truly did spend their own money upgrading their networks and how to get places that are not adequately served to similar levels. I can drive five miles from my house and the gas is still the same natural gas with same availability but people I know who live their only have DSL whereas I have opportunity for both cable and dsl (and my cable is 20 down)
from the mundane items like sewage and garbage, maintenance of roads to and from, proving electrical power, educating the children if any of the plant's workers, to providing police and fire protection.
It might be only fifty people in the facility but the support mechanism to allow such a vast process does involve hundreds if not more going forward.
and their upcoming Ivy Bridge chipset will take it even further. Both allow for the use of a small SSD drive as a cache against a larger traditional hard drive.
Per the wiki page on their chipsets, The Z68 also added support for transparently caching hard disk data onto solid-state drives (up to 64GB), a technology called Smart Response Technology
SRT link is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Response_Technology
In addition to a good office protocol to include phone conferences and the like having a good personality helps in having people remember you. If your friendly in nature people will remember that and it helps keep you in contact as your more likely to be called/call or communicate in mail or IM.
There are many cues people pick up from even the simplest of communication, it does not hurt to ask people why they don't acknowledge your items if it corrects a problem.
on why they permit sales outside of the country followed quickly by asking yourself this, why do we expect to hold a corporation to a standard that we do not expect to hold our government too?
By that I mean, it sure is SAFE and EASY to go after a company to uphold values you hold dear but damn if anyone wants to stand up to their own government when it maintains relationships one way or another with the same regimes.
Then top it off with multinationals, to whom are they beholden. If you have offices in the US, Germany, Russia, and China, whose laws take precedence? What if your further incorporated on some tiny island for tax purposes?
Yes its a bad thing what these countries do, but guess what, they always have and will, hoping to limit the damage by limiting the software available won't get much relief to the oppressed. That change happens at home by getting the right people in government who actually stand behind the words they use on the campaign trail.
As in, too many look for the big pay day instead of what a) they like and could enjoy or b) what fields are hiring.
Then there is that all not so significant number who spend money on a degree without any real purpose other than having it and then wondering why they aren't satisfied with the outcome.
can't wait to see the all seeing eye, can only be around the corner.
Who would have thought that the US Government was Sauron? The same monster which consumes over four trillion dollars of our work certainly is a monster of epic proportion. No wonder that they now even feel the need to take mythic names for what they do.
Who needs Skynet when we have all sorts of fantasy names to assign the latest abuse of our rights by our government. The US defeated (or outlasted) communism of the Soviet Union for what, a Soviet Union style government masquerading as a Republic. From control exerted over industry to health care its nearly complete, we even get the same choice in our elections, which is to say none. Vote for whomever the government has approved from these two sides of the same coin.
Oh, ignore the guy behind the curtain; in your bedroom.
Occupy Wall Street was too many miles North of where it should been, and targeting the wrong foe. Just as the Tea Party figured out and OWS was only hinting at, the real problem in the US isn't the rich and corporations but the politicians who use their position to empower the rich and corporations all the while securing themselves their position