I've been to conferences where the speakers have bragged about running their client sites on Win2000 betas 6 months or more before RTM, and.NET-based websites close to a year before the official release.
Because the US didn't commission/write the study, of course!
Any sane, logical-thinking person would agree that the study should probably be, for the most part, applicable to the US as well as the EU, but this is Congress proposing this, so all bets are off.
Carriers do use steam, and their catapaults require constant maintenance/repair. Magnets have been considered, and likely will show up at some point, but the Navy is still building with steam because they know it works, and they know how to fix it.
5 was causing IE to crash every time I closed an IE window that had a PDF in it.
I removed 5 at work and 6 at home, installed 7 in both locations, and have been much happier. It's far more responsive and seems to work better overall.
Just make sure you do the Custom install so you don't get the junk you don't want.
We purchased an eMachines Athlon64 laptop about 6 months ago with no internet access contract even offered...just went in, picked the machine out, paid for it and that was it.
I have a friend who moved from the US to Canada (to marry a Canadian citizen) and has had I think 2 different contracting jobs since he's been there (voluntary switch) - about 6 years I think.
Now, already married (not to a Canadian citizen), moving to.ca, that may be a different story.
If you want to come back to North America, give Canada a look. No, seriously. Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, etc. are close enough to the border to make a quick jaunt into Bush's Kingdom possible, but they're still not US territory (yet).
The biggest annoyance isn't even the ad - it's Flash Player. Flash player will NOT let you disable *any* flash animation that is embedded in a webpage. *Some* flash animations seem to allow you to stop them (by right-clicking, and toggling the 'Play' menu option), but it appears to be something that webpages can disable. This is something that has always made me royally angry with Macromedia. It's *my* computer, I should have the final control over it, not the person embedding flash content on the page. I should *always* have the option of stopping the flash animation.
I would just get rid of flash, but unfortunately, too many sites use it for critical parts of their webpages. *sigh*.
Get the Flashblock extension for FireFox/Mozilla. It'll let you choose which Flash animations to play, and which sit there idle.
Why? What harm does it do? I have no problems with a site putting up a techincal barrier to deep links (and you can do it without that info). It is doing nothing and saying to people, you can't link becuase we say so.
It sounds like this would also stop bookmarks from working. If your site doesn't let me bookmark a page for future reference, I won't be coming back because I refuse to have to dig through a site every time to get to the reference article I need.
Sorry, but the BBB has no teeth. I filed a complaint with them a year ago, they acknowledged that it was received, they said they asked the company for their take on it, and that was the end of it. I got zero satisfaction. It wasn't worth the time I spent submitting the complaint.
Last summer, I tried ordering from Pizza Hut and they refused delivery because I A) only had a cellphone and B) had a non-local area code (I acquired the number in a neighboring area code, intentionally). They cited "security reasons" for the refusal, then happily accepted my phone number for a pick-up order.
It should be noted with a drive of less than 30 minutes, you can be in my cell phone's area code, while the restaurant's area code stretches as much as 4 hours away from their location. Had I given them a cell # that was purchased at that remote location, they would have happily accepted.
Then I asked my brother, who was a shift manager at another Hut at the time, and company policy was "You take the order for delivery. Lots of people have cell phones instead of landlines now." His district manager was going to talk to the DM for our area...my brother no longer works for the Hut, so I don't know what came of that.
I find that having a "home" phone area code that doesn't match my employer's office area code is very useful in keeping people from work from calling me at home.
Even after several disasters and a huge extra spend they keep going. They are scared to admit their mistake and have to manage/take control.
That's the key. Most management is still stuck in decades past. They can't admit they were wrong, because they believe that doing so would doom their careers. They believe that management must be infallible and if it ever falters or admits to a mistake, disaster will ensue.
My employer, until it was bought out last year, consistently gave 2%-3% per year, for at least 18-20 years. If I happened to get a promotion at the same time as my annual salary review, it would end up being more like 7-8% total.
We got stiffed in 2004. First management said "we'll hold off on doing that until the merger is done, since the new company will likely want input", then they said "forget it, we're just not going to do it at all. Oh, and that annual performance-based bonus? That'll be half of what you're used to, if we do it (I think they did it, I don't recall now)."
I realize that the company may not be obligated to give anything, but when you see the same increase every year for 20 years, to start to expect it'll always be there. Then to dangle a carrot in front of us, only to rip it away like that, is just absurd. Can't wait till I'm out of there.
Trying being a diabetic with an insulin pump. The security people aren't big fans of people with tubes coming out of them strapped to little computers
Or carrying any diabetes-related supplies. My father gets crap just about everywhere because he carries his "emergency pack" with him anytime he goes on a plane, to a sporting event, etc. Last time we went to Shea Stadium, I thought for sure they'd confiscate the bag or otherwise cause a problem for us.
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I've been to conferences where the speakers have bragged about running their client sites on Win2000 betas 6 months or more before RTM, and .NET-based websites close to a year before the official release.
You could have stopped between "well" and "with".
Remember kids, if you don't bring 9/11 into the discussion, no matter how irrelevant..the terrorists have won.
Because the US didn't commission/write the study, of course!
Any sane, logical-thinking person would agree that the study should probably be, for the most part, applicable to the US as well as the EU, but this is Congress proposing this, so all bets are off.
I'll take dropped calls over what I get now - calls that never come in.
I'll be sitting in my cube and then my Verizon phone starts chiming that I have a new voicemail, but no indication that I ever missed a call.
Carriers do use steam, and their catapaults require constant maintenance/repair. Magnets have been considered, and likely will show up at some point, but the Navy is still building with steam because they know it works, and they know how to fix it.
Or maybe they could use an HTML tag to help.
Oh, wait...there already is one!
6 was/is garbage.
5 was causing IE to crash every time I closed an IE window that had a PDF in it.
I removed 5 at work and 6 at home, installed 7 in both locations, and have been much happier. It's far more responsive and seems to work better overall.
Just make sure you do the Custom install so you don't get the junk you don't want.
We use Ask Jeeves for all our internal sites (we purchased their JeevesOne product) and it works fairly well.
Well, now you have.
We purchased an eMachines Athlon64 laptop about 6 months ago with no internet access contract even offered...just went in, picked the machine out, paid for it and that was it.
My "low flow" toilet requires 2 flushes (or more) 80% of the time it's used for anything but liquid waste.
Low flow is fine for #1, but for #2, there's no substitute for pure power.
I have a friend who moved from the US to Canada (to marry a Canadian citizen) and has had I think 2 different contracting jobs since he's been there (voluntary switch) - about 6 years I think.
.ca, that may be a different story.
Now, already married (not to a Canadian citizen), moving to
If you want to come back to North America, give Canada a look. No, seriously. Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, etc. are close enough to the border to make a quick jaunt into Bush's Kingdom possible, but they're still not US territory (yet).
Sorry, but the BBB has no teeth. I filed a complaint with them a year ago, they acknowledged that it was received, they said they asked the company for their take on it, and that was the end of it. I got zero satisfaction. It wasn't worth the time I spent submitting the complaint.
Last summer, I tried ordering from Pizza Hut and they refused delivery because I A) only had a cellphone and B) had a non-local area code (I acquired the number in a neighboring area code, intentionally). They cited "security reasons" for the refusal, then happily accepted my phone number for a pick-up order.
It should be noted with a drive of less than 30 minutes, you can be in my cell phone's area code, while the restaurant's area code stretches as much as 4 hours away from their location. Had I given them a cell # that was purchased at that remote location, they would have happily accepted.
Then I asked my brother, who was a shift manager at another Hut at the time, and company policy was "You take the order for delivery. Lots of people have cell phones instead of landlines now." His district manager was going to talk to the DM for our area...my brother no longer works for the Hut, so I don't know what came of that.
I find that having a "home" phone area code that doesn't match my employer's office area code is very useful in keeping people from work from calling me at home.
So you're saying that one should expect this annually, regardless of the company's financial condition & other events?
Interesting. I really want to agree with that.
My employer, until it was bought out last year, consistently gave 2%-3% per year, for at least 18-20 years. If I happened to get a promotion at the same time as my annual salary review, it would end up being more like 7-8% total.
We got stiffed in 2004. First management said "we'll hold off on doing that until the merger is done, since the new company will likely want input", then they said "forget it, we're just not going to do it at all. Oh, and that annual performance-based bonus? That'll be half of what you're used to, if we do it (I think they did it, I don't recall now)."
I realize that the company may not be obligated to give anything, but when you see the same increase every year for 20 years, to start to expect it'll always be there. Then to dangle a carrot in front of us, only to rip it away like that, is just absurd. Can't wait till I'm out of there.
That's barely long enough to count as a press release!