That's blatantly discriminatory and bigoted. I'm an older worker, I stay late and have a flexible schedule. I'm tired of being denied job opportunities. I should be paid fairly, but I can't get access to jobs I can do really well.
Please note: Age discrimiation in hiring is illegal.
Go outside of IT to buy a "cheap" laptop, cheaper than the standard model we provide. But without the warranty($), and you bought a cheap consumer model, not a business class model($), and it won't run the software your dept. relies on, and when it blows up because you let your nephew install "better" antivirus software to fix the crapware you loaded, IT has to rebuild it. But we don't have an image for it, so it takes a day or 2, instead of an hour or 2.
Go outside of IT to the cloud for backup, go right ahead and trust business or client data to that web startup. Sure, it's a lot easier than using the corporate VPN, until the data is exposed. Or until you forget your password, and IT can't help you, no matter how much you jump up & down, because you used an outside service.
It's not okay for IT staff to be surly or give bad advice or not listen. But you may want to consider that some of us have a clue, and a better understanding of our company's IT environment than your brother-in-law, and we do care about what you need, and will do our best to help you.
Support from Netgear has been poor. I had to replace my Netgear wireless access point when the old one was stolen. Having a hard time configuring a Netgear USB NIC to see it. Netgear won't support it because the NIC is over 90 days old. I used to like their products, but I won't be buying Netgear again.
It's MY computer. Mine, not AOL's, not Microsoft's. If you want a setting changed, you have to ask. AOL could easily have built in a message box with a yes/no option. It's a bad precedent. AOL is doing what M$ does and assuming they they know better than the customer, and making decisions for them. Messenger Spam is evil, but allowing AOL to make decisions for me is not an improvement.
The only excuse is that AOL must have figured out that only the truly clue-free keep AOL accounts (with apologies to those of you who don't have a better option).
I find the biggest obstacle to technical education for my kid is the lack of technical capability, training and computer access for teachers. Many teachers are technophobes. I was a trainer for a while, and they were the most challenging group I worked with. Many administrators have been really slow to "get it" about the need to adopt technology.
This is the 1st year that my son's high school teachers will be expected to use the email addresses they have had for several years. Not all classrooms and offices have working computers with network access.
And this is in Maine, where the laptop experiment was tried. It was a huge PR sucess for the then-governor. As an education initiative, the money could have been used much more successfully elsewhere.
Maine did this, and it was very expensive, and the success is debatable. Few 7th-graders took laptops home. They were mostly stored in a classroom. So a lot was spent on unneccessary portability.
There's an industry initiative to recycle batteries from laptops, phones and other consumer products. This does not apply to Alkaline batteries, so you'll have to keep discarding those AAs. Spent NiCAD and LiON batteries can be recycled at Home Depot, Target, Radio Shack, Best Buy, Sears or Wal-mart or for more information click here.
Actually, as long as he's asking you about it you can discuss it. Not a bad learning opportunity. As my son barrels through adolescence, I am increasingly tolerant of mildly sexually explicit material, but not pornspam.
What really angers me about explicit pornspam is that it often portrays sexuality in ways that promote underage sex with adults, violent sex, bestiality, etc. It's almost always seriously disrespectful of women.
I hate all Unsolicited Commercial Email, and explicit pornspam is the worst of the worst. Responsible for their actions? They work really hard to avoid filters, which makes it much more difficult to be a responsible parent.
I agree with James Gleick: 1. Forging Internet headers should be made illegal. The system depends on accurate information about senders and servers and relays; no one needs a right to falsify this information.
2. Unsolicited bulk mail should carry a mandatory tag. That alone would put consumers back in control; all the complex technological challenge of identifying the spam would vanish.
Microsoft has been willing to carry MSN.com for quite some time with no profit. They make their profits on their OSes. If they are willing to put their effort towards killing Google, they'll be able to do lots of damage. Netscape was a worthy product, and it's essentially gone; WordPerfect was a better DOS product, and they pretty much killed it, too. (lengthy digression opportunity avoided.)
Google's business model has been pretty low-key. I've never seen a Google ad, yet it is clearly recognized as the search engine. They make a much better product. Faster, more robust, better features, and most of all, better results. They have rolled out advertizing in a way that is straightforward and reasonable. MS would have to go very far to provide a better user experience for me, and based on my experience of MSN, I don't think MSFT can do it.
Google is already a profitable company, and may not need to go public to raise cash. Take a look at Google's Corporate Information. As long as they stick to their way of doing business, I'll be using Google. I just hope that Microsoft doesn't beat them up too badly in the process.
I'd also be interested in an effort like this. My company donates retired equipment. There's a few of us that rehab it for non-profit groups. You can respond to mbdoh-four-one-oh-oneatyahoo. change the letters into numbers.
It's just possible that this was set up by RR admins who are trying to follow established guidelines. Roadrunner really does a crummy job of providing, to say nothing of supporting, newsgroups. It's unlikely that any corporate decision was made about promoting the company by using the Organization: header. It's too obvious that there is absolutely no concern from the powers that be about Usenet. Except that they'd probably like to drop it entirely, to save $.
This is not a Redmond slam. This is. Microsoft is pushing business customers hard to go to plans that are basically software leases. At least it's having the effect of making our CTO reconsider his indifference to Linux.
I use VPN on an occasional basis when I'm on call and have to resolve some problem. Just as I use my phone to make more that a few business related calls. That doesn't make me a business customer, and I am using rather less bandwidth than my teenager uses for gaming (or downloading pr0n).
disclaimer: IANAL
Most indiviual taxpayers (that's us) need a receipt to get a tax deduction. Well worth it to keep spare $$ from the government.
Most businesses will have already expensed the equipment, and don't usually need to worry about receipts for business equipment that is discarded (unless it is sold).
Keep it out of the waste stream if you can; it's pretty toxic to dispose of, and nice for somebody to get useful eqiuipment to learn on and use.
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That's blatantly discriminatory and bigoted. I'm an older worker, I stay late and have a flexible schedule. I'm tired of being denied job opportunities. I should be paid fairly, but I can't get access to jobs I can do really well.
Please note: Age discrimiation in hiring is illegal.
water is wet.
Go outside of IT to buy a "cheap" laptop, cheaper than the standard model we provide. But without the warranty($), and you bought a cheap consumer model, not a business class model($), and it won't run the software your dept. relies on, and when it blows up because you let your nephew install "better" antivirus software to fix the crapware you loaded, IT has to rebuild it. But we don't have an image for it, so it takes a day or 2, instead of an hour or 2.
Go outside of IT to the cloud for backup, go right ahead and trust business or client data to that web startup. Sure, it's a lot easier than using the corporate VPN, until the data is exposed. Or until you forget your password, and IT can't help you, no matter how much you jump up & down, because you used an outside service.
It's not okay for IT staff to be surly or give bad advice or not listen. But you may want to consider that some of us have a clue, and a better understanding of our company's IT environment than your brother-in-law, and we do care about what you need, and will do our best to help you.
Why in the world would a microscope be gender-specific?
Ludacris is a rapper. I refuse to take anyone seriously who confuses Ludacris and ludicrous.
One of my favorite books, by a great author. highly recommended.
Support from Netgear has been poor. I had to replace my Netgear wireless access point when the old one was stolen. Having a hard time configuring a Netgear USB NIC to see it. Netgear won't support it because the NIC is over 90 days old. I used to like their products, but I won't be buying Netgear again.
In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
The BOFH has made sure the helpdesk never runs out of excuses: "The Bastard Operator From Hell"-style excuse server.
It's MY computer. Mine, not AOL's, not Microsoft's. If you want a setting changed, you have to ask. AOL could easily have built in a message box with a yes/no option. It's a bad precedent. AOL is doing what M$ does and assuming they they know better than the customer, and making decisions for them. Messenger Spam is evil, but allowing AOL to make decisions for me is not an improvement.
The only excuse is that AOL must have figured out that only the truly clue-free keep AOL accounts (with apologies to those of you who don't have a better option).
I find the biggest obstacle to technical education for my kid is the lack of technical capability, training and computer access for teachers. Many teachers are technophobes. I was a trainer for a while, and they were the most challenging group I worked with. Many administrators have been really slow to "get it" about the need to adopt technology.
This is the 1st year that my son's high school teachers will be expected to use the email addresses they have had for several years. Not all classrooms and offices have working computers with network access.
And this is in Maine, where the laptop experiment was tried. It was a huge PR sucess for the then-governor. As an education initiative, the money could have been used much more successfully elsewhere.
Maine did this, and it was very expensive, and the success is debatable. Few 7th-graders took laptops home. They were mostly stored in a classroom. So a lot was spent on unneccessary portability.
There's an industry initiative to recycle batteries from laptops, phones and other consumer products. This does not apply to Alkaline batteries, so you'll have to keep discarding those AAs. Spent NiCAD and LiON batteries can be recycled at Home Depot, Target, Radio Shack, Best Buy, Sears or Wal-mart or for more information click here.
Nicely put. Thanks.
Actually, as long as he's asking you about it you can discuss it. Not a bad learning opportunity. As my son barrels through adolescence, I am increasingly tolerant of mildly sexually explicit material, but not pornspam.
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What really angers me about explicit pornspam is that it often portrays sexuality in ways that promote underage sex with adults, violent sex, bestiality, etc. It's almost always seriously disrespectful of women.
I hate all Unsolicited Commercial Email, and explicit pornspam is the worst of the worst. Responsible for their actions? They work really hard to avoid filters, which makes it much more difficult to be a responsible parent.
I agree with James Gleick
1. Forging Internet headers should be made illegal. The system depends on accurate information about senders and servers and relays; no one needs a right to falsify this information.
2. Unsolicited bulk mail should carry a mandatory tag. That alone would put consumers back in control; all the complex technological challenge of identifying the spam would vanish.
I googled for Kaleidoscope java and found some very cool toys plus the one I wanted.
Consider teaching them how to search for their own interests, a la "teach a man to fish..."
This thread is full of way too much fun to be restricted to kids.
Microsoft has been willing to carry MSN.com for quite some time with no profit. They make their profits on their OSes. If they are willing to put their effort towards killing Google, they'll be able to do lots of damage. Netscape was a worthy product, and it's essentially gone; WordPerfect was a better DOS product, and they pretty much killed it, too. (lengthy digression opportunity avoided.)
Google's business model has been pretty low-key. I've never seen a Google ad, yet it is clearly recognized as the search engine. They make a much better product. Faster, more robust, better features, and most of all, better results. They have rolled out advertizing in a way that is straightforward and reasonable. MS would have to go very far to provide a better user experience for me, and based on my experience of MSN, I don't think MSFT can do it.
Google is already a profitable company, and may not need to go public to raise cash. Take a look at Google's Corporate Information. As long as they stick to their way of doing business, I'll be using Google. I just hope that Microsoft doesn't beat them up too badly in the process.
So, they are more concerned about RIAA coming after them than about distributing pornographic picture of children. Time to reconsider priorities.
Archie McPhee. And if not, you'll have fun shopping.
I'd also be interested in an effort like this. My company donates retired equipment. There's a few of us that rehab it for non-profit groups. You can respond to mbdoh-four-one-oh-oneatyahoo. change the letters into numbers.
It's just possible that this was set up by RR admins who are trying to follow established guidelines. Roadrunner really does a crummy job of providing, to say nothing of supporting, newsgroups. It's unlikely that any corporate decision was made about promoting the company by using the Organization: header. It's too obvious that there is absolutely no concern from the powers that be about Usenet. Except that they'd probably like to drop it entirely, to save $.
This is not a Redmond slam. This is. Microsoft is pushing business customers hard to go to plans that are basically software leases. At least it's having the effect of making our CTO reconsider his indifference to Linux.
I use VPN on an occasional basis when I'm on call and have to resolve some problem. Just as I use my phone to make more that a few business related calls. That doesn't make me a business customer, and I am using rather less bandwidth than my teenager uses for gaming (or downloading pr0n).
Gee thanks. Love the homophobia.
Why isn't there a corrosive, dripping sarcasm font?
disclaimer: IANAL
Most indiviual taxpayers (that's us) need a receipt to get a tax deduction. Well worth it to keep spare $$ from the government.
Most businesses will have already expensed the equipment, and don't usually need to worry about receipts for business equipment that is discarded (unless it is sold).
Keep it out of the waste stream if you can; it's pretty toxic to dispose of, and nice for somebody to get useful eqiuipment to learn on and use.