I got hired by my one of my employer's customers to run their IT department, and my verbal and written communications skills were cited as part of the reason. Does that count?
It wasn't you. I had that happen on a variety of HP Vectra and Kayak desktops and Toshiba laptops. If I smacked CTRL, Windows key and each SHIFT key, and then it was back to normal.
Maybe this will be the one time that your email gets forwarded higher in the chain. I've had my emails read by the CIO and CEO of the company. I'm glad that I took the effort to at least form coherent sentences and paragraphs. (Of course, it doesn't take me much effort; it's a learned skill. I would have to force myself to write without capitalization and punctuation.)
Look at it this way. I worked at an IT job in a warehouse. I got to know many of the people there, and I watched as people in the warehouse were promoted to supervisor or manager. One eventually became a senior manager.
What was a common thread between these minimum wage grunts that managed to move up the ladder? They all were professional in their communications with others. While this is only anecdotal, I can guarantee that you won't make VP if your emails look like an AOL chat room.
And they seem to be right. That would explain why the Toyota Prius has a several-month waiting list, while the Honda Civic hybrid is sitting on the lot. People see value in the Prius, which looks and acts differently than a regular car, whereas the Civic hybrid just looks like a Civic with an optional $3k engine.
There's no "one" source that will work for every city in the world. In a lot of areas in the U.S., solar could provide a good chunk of power--power that doesn't have to be produced by burning gas and coal.
Hell, I'm sitting in an office in a 25,000 square foot building with a big open roof. A bank of solar cells would not only produce a lot of power for this office, but would also provide a "tropical roof", reducing cooling bills in the summer.
In Riverside, CA, they also have a parking lot covered in solar panels, providing shade for the cars parked underneath and enough electricity to power 110 homes. Use hydro in the northwest, solar in the southwest, tidal generators on the coasts, wind generators on the west and in the Rockies, and nuclear or gas in the rest of the country.
If the leftover materials can be used to make a bomb powerful enough to wipe out a city, why can't they also be used in a nuclear reaction to create more electricity?
I had a Philips CD-R drive (2620?) that was defective. We're talking 8 coaster in 10 burns, and it wasn't because of underruns. I took part in the class-action, not expecting anything.
A couple of months after I had forgotten all about it, I got a package in the mail from HP. WTF? I opened it up and found a brand new CDRW drive. I guess class action suits CAN work... once in a while, anyway.
I bought a pair of Bolle sunglasses and had prescription lenses put in them. I broke the arm off after about a year of abuse and threw them in a drawer.
Now, four years later, I found them and decided to see if my eyewear shop could fix them or buy a new arm. They said that the frames were no longer made, but I could send them to Bushnell (Bolle's parent) with a description, and they would call me with an estimate. If they couldn't fix them, I could get them back for a $5.00 shipping charge.
I boxed them up with my name, address and explanation that they were prescription lenses, and to send them back if they weren't repairable.
A week later, I got a box back from them. Brand new next generation frames, my lenses, a note to have my eyewear shop install the lenses, and a bill for $5.00 for return shipping. I popped the lenses in myself and they're great.
There are still companies that believe in customer loyalty out there. Bolle is one example. Johnny Rocket riding wear replaces or fixes broken zippers on their riding wear long after the warranty is up. Lexar has replaced damaged 512MB CF cards, no receipt required.
In a previous company where I worked IT, a manager approached me and asked if there was a way to block web access to the outside world for one of their employees without alerting HR or Corporate IT that they were surfing porn.
I immediately wanted to answer, "Uhh, why don't you try being a manager and tell them to lay off the porn if they want to keep their job?"
Geoworks Ensemble ran beautifully on a 486/25. WYSIWYG VGA interface, TrueType-quality output on a 24-pin dot matrix printer, spreadsheet, a couple of games and AOL.
Much the same is already happening. In the olden days, if you recklessly blew through a red light, a cop would stop you, assess your intent and/or emotional state and make sure you didn't do it again. Nowadays, you can blow through ten lights in a row and get 10 citations in the mail two weeks later. This hardly discourages incorrect behavior.
I dunno about that. I would say that 10.3.5 running on my Pismo G3/500 with 640MB of RAM is pretty equivalent to XP Pro on my Toshiba Tecra PIII/650... though the G3 boots up far more quickly and recovers from sleep mode perfectly every time, whereas the Tecra is quite hit-or-miss and sometimes I have to manually reestablish my WiFi connection. My G3 also hasn't had a hard-crash since 10.1.
Yahoo! PayDirect was the only good alternative I found... until they started charging me $5.00 a month for the mere privilege of having a PayDirect account. Needless to say, I cancelled shortly after that. I just don't do enough business.
Uh, sorry. The buyer disadvantages are NOT bogus. Here's my example.
I bought $82 worth of magazines from a seller in Colorado. Seller never shipped the item. I issued a chargeback request with PayPal, who then said it would take 60 days to 'investigate.'
After about 60 days (right after my chargeback privilege with my issuer expired), they sent me an email stating, "We have found in your favor. However, the seller has a zero balance in their bank account, so we cannot give you your money."
The seller continues to do business through PayPal through the same account, with no further attempts by PayPal to hold the money or withdraw it. I've issued further complaints to PayPal, which have been ignored. Needless to say, I will be claiming my money back through the class action lawsuit already in progress.
I've seen some stock batteries do that as well. Avoid the flooded batteries and stick with AGM or VRLA batteries.
One thing to watch out for is overheating electronics. The cheaper units are especially vulnerable to overheating, since the manufacturer doesn't expect the runtime to be three times what the stock batteries can provide. A extra muffin fan pointed at the power stage can help keep things cool.
Indeed. I have a fresh 10.3 install that was then updated by Software Update to 10.3.5. I have no/Library/StartupItems folder, and/System/Library/StartupItems is owned by root:wheel and has permissions rwxr-xr-x. System installed less than 2 weeks ago.
That was "MTE". I don't think it would do MNP at 300 bps, but it did at 1200+. I used it regularly until I came across a steal (probably literally) of a USR HST 14,400 modem (later upgraded to 16,800. Woot!)
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True. I've installed Firefox a couple dozen times from a USB key I keep on me.
Yeah--the ones where they claim a TCO lower than Linux. :-)
I got hired by my one of my employer's customers to run their IT department, and my verbal and written communications skills were cited as part of the reason. Does that count?
My biggest pet peeve on the forums (mostly Fark, though I've seen it here, too) is when the word 'populous' is used instead of 'populace.'
It wasn't you. I had that happen on a variety of HP Vectra and Kayak desktops and Toshiba laptops. If I smacked CTRL, Windows key and each SHIFT key, and then it was back to normal.
I, for one, welcome our Esperanto-speaking overlords!
Look at it this way. I worked at an IT job in a warehouse. I got to know many of the people there, and I watched as people in the warehouse were promoted to supervisor or manager. One eventually became a senior manager.
What was a common thread between these minimum wage grunts that managed to move up the ladder? They all were professional in their communications with others. While this is only anecdotal, I can guarantee that you won't make VP if your emails look like an AOL chat room.
And they seem to be right. That would explain why the Toyota Prius has a several-month waiting list, while the Honda Civic hybrid is sitting on the lot. People see value in the Prius, which looks and acts differently than a regular car, whereas the Civic hybrid just looks like a Civic with an optional $3k engine.
Hell, I'm sitting in an office in a 25,000 square foot building with a big open roof. A bank of solar cells would not only produce a lot of power for this office, but would also provide a "tropical roof", reducing cooling bills in the summer.
In Riverside, CA, they also have a parking lot covered in solar panels, providing shade for the cars parked underneath and enough electricity to power 110 homes. Use hydro in the northwest, solar in the southwest, tidal generators on the coasts, wind generators on the west and in the Rockies, and nuclear or gas in the rest of the country.
If the leftover materials can be used to make a bomb powerful enough to wipe out a city, why can't they also be used in a nuclear reaction to create more electricity?
A couple of months after I had forgotten all about it, I got a package in the mail from HP. WTF? I opened it up and found a brand new CDRW drive. I guess class action suits CAN work... once in a while, anyway.
Now, four years later, I found them and decided to see if my eyewear shop could fix them or buy a new arm. They said that the frames were no longer made, but I could send them to Bushnell (Bolle's parent) with a description, and they would call me with an estimate. If they couldn't fix them, I could get them back for a $5.00 shipping charge.
I boxed them up with my name, address and explanation that they were prescription lenses, and to send them back if they weren't repairable.
A week later, I got a box back from them. Brand new next generation frames, my lenses, a note to have my eyewear shop install the lenses, and a bill for $5.00 for return shipping. I popped the lenses in myself and they're great.
There are still companies that believe in customer loyalty out there. Bolle is one example. Johnny Rocket riding wear replaces or fixes broken zippers on their riding wear long after the warranty is up. Lexar has replaced damaged 512MB CF cards, no receipt required.
I immediately wanted to answer, "Uhh, why don't you try being a manager and tell them to lay off the porn if they want to keep their job?"
Exactly. A criminal can cover up his plate and drive with impugnity--something that doesn't happen if it's a real cop and not a camera.
Geoworks Ensemble ran beautifully on a 486/25. WYSIWYG VGA interface, TrueType-quality output on a 24-pin dot matrix printer, spreadsheet, a couple of games and AOL.
Much the same is already happening. In the olden days, if you recklessly blew through a red light, a cop would stop you, assess your intent and/or emotional state and make sure you didn't do it again. Nowadays, you can blow through ten lights in a row and get 10 citations in the mail two weeks later. This hardly discourages incorrect behavior.
I dunno about that. I would say that 10.3.5 running on my Pismo G3/500 with 640MB of RAM is pretty equivalent to XP Pro on my Toshiba Tecra PIII/650... though the G3 boots up far more quickly and recovers from sleep mode perfectly every time, whereas the Tecra is quite hit-or-miss and sometimes I have to manually reestablish my WiFi connection. My G3 also hasn't had a hard-crash since 10.1.
Yahoo! PayDirect was the only good alternative I found... until they started charging me $5.00 a month for the mere privilege of having a PayDirect account. Needless to say, I cancelled shortly after that. I just don't do enough business.
I bought $82 worth of magazines from a seller in Colorado. Seller never shipped the item. I issued a chargeback request with PayPal, who then said it would take 60 days to 'investigate.'
After about 60 days (right after my chargeback privilege with my issuer expired), they sent me an email stating, "We have found in your favor. However, the seller has a zero balance in their bank account, so we cannot give you your money."
The seller continues to do business through PayPal through the same account, with no further attempts by PayPal to hold the money or withdraw it. I've issued further complaints to PayPal, which have been ignored. Needless to say, I will be claiming my money back through the class action lawsuit already in progress.
One thing to watch out for is overheating electronics. The cheaper units are especially vulnerable to overheating, since the manufacturer doesn't expect the runtime to be three times what the stock batteries can provide. A extra muffin fan pointed at the power stage can help keep things cool.
Indeed. I have a fresh 10.3 install that was then updated by Software Update to 10.3.5. I have no /Library/StartupItems folder, and /System/Library/StartupItems is owned by root:wheel and has permissions rwxr-xr-x. System installed less than 2 weeks ago.
That was "MTE". I don't think it would do MNP at 300 bps, but it did at 1200+. I used it regularly until I came across a steal (probably literally) of a USR HST 14,400 modem (later upgraded to 16,800. Woot!)
I'd like an old Tandy 4.77MHz (or 4.77/8MHz switchable) laptop so I can play Starflight the way God intended... at 8088 speeds!
They make litterbox liners that are essentially very heavy-gauge plastic garbage bags. They're in the litter aisle, and they're worth every penny.
Pre-existing. Pre-planning. Prescreening. Know what I tell these people? "Pre-suck my genital situation!"