I do receive emails all the time, but, I usually just leave the notification up if it's after hours, and check the morning of work, just to see what I can expect for the day, but don't respond until I'm at work.
At times, as a personal favor to a customer, I will respond. Mostly because I'm actually friends with them.
Nobody actually at work sends me emails after hours, and customers don't *expect* a response, since they know our normal business hours.
Good to hear that this is going forward. Hopefully, this will lead to a brighter future for Africa.
I worry about the health of the participants, but, HIV isn't a death sentence anymore. I would volunteer for the trial, assuming that, in the worst case, they cover my medical expenses and anti-retrovirals to control it.
Well, that's only for commercial software that will see a holiday release.
This article referred to security vulnerabilities... though, it's unknown if it's commercial software, in-house software, etc. that would have such deadlines.
The article's take on it was increased stress due to school starting back, etc. Which would affect more than just IT/Development.
I had an account with Facebook that I proceeded to delete.
When I initially set up the account, I let it scan my yahoo contacts.
After a few months, I wanted to tinker with a facebook game and created a new facebook account, without giving it my Yahoo information.
It asked me to 'friend' a lot of people that were on that list, and others who I have no relation to whatsoever IRL, but had been friends with previously on facebook.
They don't delete the data on you when you delete your account.
This isn't a feature dropped during a major revision overhaul, nor is it a feature that was dropped because it was conflicting with a new feature to be implemented.
It is, however, a feature that was dropped due to fears of something that didn't even come to pass. Dropped prematurely to prevent piracy, but didn't do anything to stop it, nor was it even relevant. (The actual exploit that came out later had little to nothing to do with it.)
When you buy a product, there's a reasonable expectation that, for the lifetime of the product, the features available to you at time of purchase will continue to be available, barring hardware/technical issues.
For example, it is unreasonable for a company to sell, say, a laptop with a DVD burner, then disable your WiFi with a warning that enabling it will disable your DVD burner. It just doesn't make sense, from any angle, that a feature advertised on the box would be disabled in order to keep another feature mentioned on the box. It just boggles the mind that they feel this is an acceptable course of action.
That said... a reasonable expectation may not translate into something actionable in a court of law. At the least, Sony should be shunned (I, for one, haven't purchased another Sony product since the incident, and have no intentions of doing so in the future. My PS3 is collecting dust at the moment, despite titles that intrigue me. I won't fund them directly or indirectly through licensing deals with game companies.) by all customers.
Coping mechanisms are important. A person who is given such extreme stress that they cannot even begin to cope with their current coping mechanisms will turn to anything to relieve the stress. This, inevitably, leads some into a downwards spiral to the only thing they can think of to cope: get rid of the stress by getting rid of themselves.
Especially damaging are 'coping mechanisms' that help you cope, but compound the issue: alcohol, for example, relieves the stress temporarily, but does nothing to help or even hinders you taking care of the underlying stress problems.
That is a bit of a corner case. If someone has forms to fill out, why are they sending them as a document that may or may not be usable by the recipient?
Perhaps "More than sufficient" is a bit of a loaded phrase.
Most people that I have asking me for Microsoft Office just want to write a couple of documents. For these users, they would be better served with Libre or Open Office.
Outside of those users, yes, Excel is a great tool. Word, while bloated, does have some nice features (the user above mentioned labels/mail merge) that are awkward or non-existent in free applications.
Huge agreement on Visual Studio being superior to pretty much any other IDE I've ever encountered, but, I'll disagree with a few other points:
- OpenOffice is, by and large, more than sufficient for most users. Yes, a few things are missing, but, for the average user, they wouldn't miss those features.
- Microsoft would likely prefer that Android didn't exist and that they could corner that market. It's not just the money from sales, it's losing some developers to mobile phones, and not to -Microsoft- mobile phones. This likely doesn't sit well with them, for various reasons.
While I don't think this is a "Post-PC" world, yet, Microsoft would do well to try to innovate and gain market share in the tablet and phone arenas.
Well, yes. For those offering contingency deals, it's best for the editor to reject poor works that aren't salvageable. That's a given.
Amazon could, in fact, hire some editors to skim through and find some of the better works and offer to clean them up for a higher cut of the book sales...
Biggest thing I hate about the ribbon UI is... no text. I have to hover over a dozen similar looking non-intuitive icons to find out what it even does.
There needs to be independent editors that will work for a set fee or on contingency...
And Amazon needs to promote these editors and get them to work with the authors to bring up the quality of the works being sold on there.
A company that made an actual cure to cancer could print their own money off of the patent.
Not to mention having humongous clout and popularity due to that revolutionary breakthrough.
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I do receive emails all the time, but, I usually just leave the notification up if it's after hours, and check the morning of work, just to see what I can expect for the day, but don't respond until I'm at work.
At times, as a personal favor to a customer, I will respond. Mostly because I'm actually friends with them.
Nobody actually at work sends me emails after hours, and customers don't *expect* a response, since they know our normal business hours.
So, it's purely at my own volition.
Yes. Perhaps I should have been more specific - since the trial is being conducted, any infectees would receive care.
In Africa, or other poor countries, it is still a death sentence.
Good to hear that this is going forward. Hopefully, this will lead to a brighter future for Africa.
I worry about the health of the participants, but, HIV isn't a death sentence anymore. I would volunteer for the trial, assuming that, in the worst case, they cover my medical expenses and anti-retrovirals to control it.
It would be worth it.
Well, that's only for commercial software that will see a holiday release.
This article referred to security vulnerabilities... though, it's unknown if it's commercial software, in-house software, etc. that would have such deadlines.
The article's take on it was increased stress due to school starting back, etc. Which would affect more than just IT/Development.
Are there other jobs that have their job performance drop considerably during these two months?
If not, what can be used to explain this anomaly? Bogus study? Something unique to programmers?
Is it consistent throughout IT? Are there more reliability issues that can be traced to those months?
I had an account with Facebook that I proceeded to delete.
When I initially set up the account, I let it scan my yahoo contacts.
After a few months, I wanted to tinker with a facebook game and created a new facebook account, without giving it my Yahoo information.
It asked me to 'friend' a lot of people that were on that list, and others who I have no relation to whatsoever IRL, but had been friends with previously on facebook.
They don't delete the data on you when you delete your account.
This isn't a feature dropped during a major revision overhaul, nor is it a feature that was dropped because it was conflicting with a new feature to be implemented.
It is, however, a feature that was dropped due to fears of something that didn't even come to pass. Dropped prematurely to prevent piracy, but didn't do anything to stop it, nor was it even relevant. (The actual exploit that came out later had little to nothing to do with it.)
So... I'm not sure what you're getting at?
When you buy a product, there's a reasonable expectation that, for the lifetime of the product, the features available to you at time of purchase will continue to be available, barring hardware/technical issues.
For example, it is unreasonable for a company to sell, say, a laptop with a DVD burner, then disable your WiFi with a warning that enabling it will disable your DVD burner. It just doesn't make sense, from any angle, that a feature advertised on the box would be disabled in order to keep another feature mentioned on the box. It just boggles the mind that they feel this is an acceptable course of action.
That said... a reasonable expectation may not translate into something actionable in a court of law. At the least, Sony should be shunned (I, for one, haven't purchased another Sony product since the incident, and have no intentions of doing so in the future. My PS3 is collecting dust at the moment, despite titles that intrigue me. I won't fund them directly or indirectly through licensing deals with game companies.) by all customers.
But, what happens when one breaks down?
Even if they get Sony to service it, it comes back with a useless firmware on it that locks them out of using it for their purpose.
Coping mechanisms are important. A person who is given such extreme stress that they cannot even begin to cope with their current coping mechanisms will turn to anything to relieve the stress. This, inevitably, leads some into a downwards spiral to the only thing they can think of to cope: get rid of the stress by getting rid of themselves.
Especially damaging are 'coping mechanisms' that help you cope, but compound the issue: alcohol, for example, relieves the stress temporarily, but does nothing to help or even hinders you taking care of the underlying stress problems.
That is a bit of a corner case. If someone has forms to fill out, why are they sending them as a document that may or may not be usable by the recipient?
Perhaps "More than sufficient" is a bit of a loaded phrase.
Most people that I have asking me for Microsoft Office just want to write a couple of documents. For these users, they would be better served with Libre or Open Office.
Outside of those users, yes, Excel is a great tool. Word, while bloated, does have some nice features (the user above mentioned labels/mail merge) that are awkward or non-existent in free applications.
Argh, why did my post remove the formatting? Do I need to use html tags to create line breaks or something?
Huge agreement on Visual Studio being superior to pretty much any other IDE I've ever encountered, but, I'll disagree with a few other points: - OpenOffice is, by and large, more than sufficient for most users. Yes, a few things are missing, but, for the average user, they wouldn't miss those features. - Microsoft would likely prefer that Android didn't exist and that they could corner that market. It's not just the money from sales, it's losing some developers to mobile phones, and not to -Microsoft- mobile phones. This likely doesn't sit well with them, for various reasons. While I don't think this is a "Post-PC" world, yet, Microsoft would do well to try to innovate and gain market share in the tablet and phone arenas.
Well, yes. For those offering contingency deals, it's best for the editor to reject poor works that aren't salvageable. That's a given. Amazon could, in fact, hire some editors to skim through and find some of the better works and offer to clean them up for a higher cut of the book sales...
Biggest thing I hate about the ribbon UI is... no text. I have to hover over a dozen similar looking non-intuitive icons to find out what it even does.
There needs to be independent editors that will work for a set fee or on contingency... And Amazon needs to promote these editors and get them to work with the authors to bring up the quality of the works being sold on there.
A company that made an actual cure to cancer could print their own money off of the patent. Not to mention having humongous clout and popularity due to that revolutionary breakthrough.