Will Intuit learn their lesson and strengthen their servers and network for next year's last minute rush? Given their track record of quality, I seriously doubt it.
Most Quicken users could/should have seen it coming. Any day the Dow changes by a large amount, or the markets are otherwise extremely busy, the servers that Quicken uses for downloading quotes, etc. quit.
Writing code is painful at times when you love it, I can't even imagine what kind of hell it must be like if you don't like it in the first place. And when you don't do it out of love for the art, the product is going to be a living hell for those that have to suffer using it.
Ever worked with someone who doesn't like it in the first place? That's a whole other level of hell. Forget that person's bad feelings, the product, and the users - it drains the other people on the team who do enjoy the work even more. And that just ruins the whole project and product.
I once worked with a "programmer" who told me that if it weren't for the on-call portion of her job requiring the ability to work from home, she wouldn't even own a computer. And it's not like she was fresh out of college looking to cash in during the dot-com days - she'd been with the company at least 15 years at this point and was considered a "senior" developer.
I was in the midst of explaining a 20-line DOS batch file (which just did some file copies and called a couple other scripts) to her when she told me this. I died just a little bit more inside on that day.
If driven off a normal IC engine, the extra fuel consumed to turn the alternator with the headlight load on it is maybe a drop or two a mile.
That's complete and total bullshit. Conservation of energy applies. You can't get something for nothing. Every watt of electricity you use was generated by burning at least 4 joules worth of gasoline, and likely more.
The alternator is constantly being turned by the drive belt. So whether you're using the electricity it can generate or not, you're still consuming the fuel to spin it.
Not irrelevant at all. As the other poster already mentioned, you're already burning that fuel.
If you really want to save "overall" energy by reducing the electricity produced & consumed by cars, how about shutting down the 140 dB, 10-12" subwoofer stereos that are rattling my windows? Those consume a hell of a lot more energy than your head/fog lights. And what about the vehicles that run around w/ their lights on all the time?
They don't use any that comes off the power grid, unless you have a plug-in electric car. If driven off a normal IC engine, the extra fuel consumed to turn the alternator with the headlight load on it is maybe a drop or two a mile.
No kidding. I haven't cooked with anything less than 90% lean ground beef since 1997, and that was when a roommate decided "hey, this 5-pound bulk pack of beef is cheap, who cares if it's 73%?"
Autism & other developmental issues are discoverable long before even pre-school, let alone kindergarten. Technology in kindergarten, while I disagree with the idea of doing it, would not be a factor there.
I think the point he was trying to make though was that the patient shouldn't be going into the doctor's office and saying "hey, I think I need drug X because TV said so, write me a prescription." Rather, the patient should say to his/her doctor "hey, I just heard about this new cholesterol medication, would there be any advantages to me switching away from my current one and onto this new one?"
It needs to be a dialog not "I need this/ok here you go" or "hey doc I think I have the symptoms this drug fixes."
You missed a key difference between Sirius and XM all-music channels.
XM's all-music channels are polluted by advertisements. Those on Sirius are not. Ask me to choose between a DJ cutting in every 20 minutes to take two minutes to tell me about upcoming specials on other Sirius channels and commercials for crap I don't want to buy, I'll take the DJ.
I am seeing more people with some gray and missing hair.
A bit ageist? I'm barely 29, my hair is thinning, my hairline making a hasty retreat (my younger brother is worse off than I though), and what hair I do have is already getting grey. Stress, genetics, and the glow of new parenthood aren't helping me.
Unless you're an IT company, IT is a loss. IT sucks profits from the company.
And having management tell IT that several times a year, reminding them "yeah, you guys are nothing but a money-sink, we'd love to cut all your jobs" is a wonderful way to help IT staff improve their attitude.
Keep telling me I'm worthless to you, see how happy I am to ask "how high?" next time you tell me to jump.
Can you please send the link to an article that indicates that decisions on office UI are made solely by Bill Gates and the head of Office development?
The program manager had to convince Gates that doing so was a good idea. Yes, surveys and tests were done, but ultimately Gates had to approve. There was an article in Newsweek about it in November.
How many companies actually do this training? I know someone must be doing it, since it's referenced so often, but I've never seen it, and no one I know has ever told me about seeing it either.
I've worked at 3 places (one internship, 2 after I graduated college), and never saw any training on MS Office or any of the other "commodity" software we used. The closest I got was an afternoon of instruction on Lotus Notes at one job, as part of their 2-week orientation/new employee training.
But after that point, I never saw Notes training again. Maybe an "upgrade quick reference" pamphlet when we went from 4.5 to 5.0 to 6.0, but that's about it. When the company ended that new employee training program, so ended what little Notes training that existed.
We were lucky if there was formal training for the non-commodity software and even the applications we developed in-house. I'd hear feedback from users on systems that I built that amounted to "but how do you use this thing? I don't even know where to start" and all I could respond with was "well, I suggested we have training or even write a manual and helpfiles, but project sponsors/management said no."
It seems like most places I've seen or heard about either require that you know MS Office to get in the door, assume that you know it, or expect you to figure it out for yourself.
On one hand, there's no guarantee that what people do on their own time affects what they do at work.
Yes, you are quite right. What you do on your own time is your business, and as long as it doesn't bleed into the office, you're free to do it.
FFS, set up a separate page you give to potential employers.
Exactly. I consider this a "moron filter" - if you're applying for a web developer position, you should expect that someone will be looking at any URL that you put on your resume. This is not a first impression you want to make. It's akin to telling a story that starts with "I was soooo wasted" right in the interview.
They don't even need myspace. A few years ago we were weeding through resumes of college kids who wanted to interview with us, and many had URLs for their university webspace on them. We checked a couple out, and one of them had drunken pictures of the "candidate" front & center.
You're forgetting the flip-side of that statement: in a country that allows gun ownership, you're expected to be the police. The United States is a country where people are trying to have their cake and eat it too; they want to own a gun, but they often want it as a penis extender, not to use it to secure public safety and promote domestic tranquility.
I'm not sure that it's so much the people who want to have their cake (own guns) and eat it too (have the police protecting them) as it is the police and other government agents not allowing the people to "be the police" as you suggest.
That whole "the police aren't obligated to protect you, but you can't take the law into your own hands either" thing.
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Why should we expect any less from Turbotax?
Glad I filed early...with TaxCut.
Even at the state level?
Find some state legislators from districts that are out in rural areas, you can probably get 2 or 3 of them for that price.
Funeral processions get the same treatment.
I once worked with a "programmer" who told me that if it weren't for the on-call portion of her job requiring the ability to work from home, she wouldn't even own a computer. And it's not like she was fresh out of college looking to cash in during the dot-com days - she'd been with the company at least 15 years at this point and was considered a "senior" developer.
I was in the midst of explaining a 20-line DOS batch file (which just did some file copies and called a couple other scripts) to her when she told me this. I died just a little bit more inside on that day.
SciTe runs on Windows too.
Not irrelevant at all. As the other poster already mentioned, you're already burning that fuel.
If you really want to save "overall" energy by reducing the electricity produced & consumed by cars, how about shutting down the 140 dB, 10-12" subwoofer stereos that are rattling my windows? Those consume a hell of a lot more energy than your head/fog lights. And what about the vehicles that run around w/ their lights on all the time?
They don't use any that comes off the power grid, unless you have a plug-in electric car. If driven off a normal IC engine, the extra fuel consumed to turn the alternator with the headlight load on it is maybe a drop or two a mile.
No kidding. I haven't cooked with anything less than 90% lean ground beef since 1997, and that was when a roommate decided "hey, this 5-pound bulk pack of beef is cheap, who cares if it's 73%?"
Autism & other developmental issues are discoverable long before even pre-school, let alone kindergarten. Technology in kindergarten, while I disagree with the idea of doing it, would not be a factor there.
What, exactly, is the educational value of MySpace?
Compared to the risk it puts the school at, is it greater than or less than?
In the fridge on the Wal-Mart checkout line, it's $1.25.
In the vending machine by the door, it's $1.00
I think the point he was trying to make though was that the patient shouldn't be going into the doctor's office and saying "hey, I think I need drug X because TV said so, write me a prescription." Rather, the patient should say to his/her doctor "hey, I just heard about this new cholesterol medication, would there be any advantages to me switching away from my current one and onto this new one?"
It needs to be a dialog not "I need this/ok here you go" or "hey doc I think I have the symptoms this drug fixes."
You missed a key difference between Sirius and XM all-music channels.
XM's all-music channels are polluted by advertisements. Those on Sirius are not. Ask me to choose between a DJ cutting in every 20 minutes to take two minutes to tell me about upcoming specials on other Sirius channels and commercials for crap I don't want to buy, I'll take the DJ.
Keep telling me I'm worthless to you, see how happy I am to ask "how high?" next time you tell me to jump.
If how the message looks is that important, use a PDF. Anything else, you get no guarantees.
How many companies actually do this training? I know someone must be doing it, since it's referenced so often, but I've never seen it, and no one I know has ever told me about seeing it either.
I've worked at 3 places (one internship, 2 after I graduated college), and never saw any training on MS Office or any of the other "commodity" software we used. The closest I got was an afternoon of instruction on Lotus Notes at one job, as part of their 2-week orientation/new employee training.
But after that point, I never saw Notes training again. Maybe an "upgrade quick reference" pamphlet when we went from 4.5 to 5.0 to 6.0, but that's about it. When the company ended that new employee training program, so ended what little Notes training that existed.
We were lucky if there was formal training for the non-commodity software and even the applications we developed in-house. I'd hear feedback from users on systems that I built that amounted to "but how do you use this thing? I don't even know where to start" and all I could respond with was "well, I suggested we have training or even write a manual and helpfiles, but project sponsors/management said no."
It seems like most places I've seen or heard about either require that you know MS Office to get in the door, assume that you know it, or expect you to figure it out for yourself.
The movies were set in the 1930s, not the forties.
They don't even need myspace. A few years ago we were weeding through resumes of college kids who wanted to interview with us, and many had URLs for their university webspace on them. We checked a couple out, and one of them had drunken pictures of the "candidate" front & center.
Helped us narrow things pretty easily.
These "robo-deer" have been out for several years now. I recall one poacher in Michigan getting caught hunting these things not once but twice.
I've seen a few on the side of highways.
That whole "the police aren't obligated to protect you, but you can't take the law into your own hands either" thing.