Thanks, it's very easy to drive without insurance. It's not really harder than driving with insurance, actually. Now, getting pulled over without insurance, that's a different story.
Many states require insurance to register the vehicle. If you cancel the insurance, the company will notify the state, and you'll get snared eventually - at the very least, you won't be able to renew your registration when it's due next, and an expired registration is usually very obvious to a cop as he drives by you.
Unfortunately, document retention policies often conflict with other policies. At my company, all employees have a 100MB limit on their inboxes - it's a soft limit, but the warnings get nastier the longer you linger over 100MB, until an admin will eventually come and make you clean things up.
So how can I retain my email while staying under the cap? For a while, I archived everything to my network directory. Then I got slapped for using too much space on the server, we're not supposed to keep large amounts of "personal" documents on the network (apparently, my 350MB work-only email archive counts as a large amount or personal documents). So now it's archived to my local hard drive. If those emails are ever needed...no one but me will know they exist.
I'm told that before we were acquired by another company, our C*Os deleted everything from their email as soon as they were done with it. Less than 2MB used at any given time. Given how those guys acted "in the interests of the company" I'm sure they didn't want any of their email brought to light.
And what do you propose we use for the 10+ years it will take to get local gov't to do anything with public transit?
For some of us, public transit is impossible until we get high-speed rail (speed on par w/ the TGV and Japanese bullet trains) that's affordable for daily commuter use.
Trucks (I assume you mean pickups, which many SUVs are still based upon) handle snow a lot worse than many SUVs. With no weight to speak of over the rear wheels, traction does become a problem.
We use Verizon at work for sending SMS messages to phones for system/on-call notifications. We have had a few occasions where messages have been delayed by anywhere from 15 minutes to a few hours. We've also had complete outages (average one day/year).
Depending on how urgently you need to know you've got mail, this may not be acceptable to you.
Ask him what he does for backups of his digital photos. I just got married a couple months ago and when we spoke to the photographer, I specifically asked him about offsite backups. He works out of his home. Seemed a reasonable question - these are pretty important photos we're talking about.
At first, he looked at me like I had 3 heads. Then he explained to me that he's never lost a file, never had any reason to fear losing a file, and he's been in the business for 15 years and keeps all his film negatives, etc. on-site as well, and doesn't worry about that. So why bother with backups when you have to swap tapes, keep track of it all...Basically, blew off my concerns.
Then I got a nasty look from my fiancee and dropped it. This guy is a friend of the family so the only way I could say no to him doing the work is if I had a non-geek-related objection.
Back to the question at hand. This guy's being a little unreasonable, and I think it's because his main line of work is not weddings and similar events. I don't think he's being mean about the situation - he just doesn't know better. I think I can get a CD of all our photos from our photographer a few months after he's turned our proofs and album over to us (might have a cost associated with it); at that point, 90% of requests for duplicates/reprints will have come and gone, so we won't be taking business away from him that way. And let's be realistic - how the hell can I sell photos of my own wedding? The idea is ludicrous.
Do NOT pick a photographer because he's a geek. Pick a photographer because he knows what he's doing. Make sure he does good work. Talk to previous clients. Ask him how he manages taking pictures during the ceremony. Will he be blocking your guests' view? Will he interfere with the videographer (if any)? Will he be flexible in taking the post-ceremony photos, and not say "you must do this pose. Now you must do this pose." - basically, someone who will work WITH you, not someone who's going to make you feel like a hired model.
PS: Not machine learning, but the sole requirement by me for a browser (dunno if its done in firefox now as hvent used it for a long time): Open new tab as a default rather than a new window, or at least provide the option.
Both the TabBrowser Extensions and TabBrowser Preferences Firefox extensions give you this.
I wish one of the companies we "partner" with would get on the ball here. 2 1/2 years ago I hounded them about not supporting Netscape 6 as our site does support it and we have clients using it - they'd be SOL using the partner's site. They stalled for a while, claimed it was "too hard" or "too much work" and eventually said they'd put it on the to-do list. We delayed a rollout of our the link-up between our site and theirs for months while we fought over just getting that.
2 weeks ago, we got an email from a client using this system asking when we'd upgrade so that he can use Netscape 7. This company still does not support Netscape > 4.x or any other browser. We had to tell him (and CC'd the person responsible for the relationship with this "partner" that it wasn't our site, it was this 3rd party's site, and we've been trying for a long time to get them on track.
I wonder if chat rooms (or other technology interaction) would help. Sounds silly (I can't imagine teaching my 100 year old grandfather how to sign onto a computer. And his vision would be an obstacle). But I bet when you and I are 90, we'll have some other options for communication besides face-to-face.
Lots of obstacles. Older people tend to have more trouble with their hands too, so typing could be real tough. The loss of multiple senses used w/ the computer will make it hard as well. For example, my grandmother has Macular Degeneration and it's pretty far along (I don't think she has a clue what my wife & I even look like - I went 10 years without seeing her, so any mental image she has of me is when I was a teenager) and her hearing is also failing. So, not only would she have a very hard time reading the screen, she might not even hear the computer chime that she has a new message unless the volume is exceedingly high. A screenreader would essentially require she wear headphones constantly.
And a money-collector primarily for the people at the top.
My employer just got bought by a larger company. We went public 5 years before this merger. The company was managed into a state of "get bought or fire everyone to stay afloat or curl up and die" rather aggressively. Management paid lip service to "increasing the value of the company" and "ROE" but then they cut funding for everything that might actually grow the company. Cut staff so far (9 days before Xmas, I might add) one year that those remaining simply could not cover all the work that had to get done, helping the "that project isn't going to happen" problems. Annual raises were put on hold. Bonuses got smaller. While cost of living kept going up.
The top-level execs are walking away with their stock cashed out, $10-million-plus bonuses, plenty of other perks. Until 2 weeks ago, many of us didn't even know if we'd still have jobs.
It's called CallerID. Every cell plan I've seen has it included free. Know it, use it, love it. If you see it's work calling, let it roll to voicemail, just like if they called your home and you were out.
only way to secure the network against this is to actually ban the devices from entry
Or your desktops are configured such that removeable storage devices can't be used with them. Someone can always find a way to get the device in the door.
You'd also see it deployed into places where support staff aren't ready yet. Example:
Small office, 20-30 users. They don't do the "bulk" licensing w/ MS, they just buy off the shelf as they need software. A month after XP SP2 comes out, they get a new employee and pick up Office at CompUSA, and it comes w/ the service pack compulsory. XP SP2 hasn't been installed on the rest of the systems, but now this new person's PC has it, the PC acts a lot different from the rest of the office, and no one, including Skippy, the office manager's kid who takes care of the computers, can figure out why. Now what?
Subscription scheme? I bought Quicken 2002 Deluxe a couple years ago and I don't think I use 3/4 of its features. I used to buy every 2 years but I don't see myself needing anything "extra" so I'll just keep using 2002. No one is forcing any upgrade.
I had digital cable for 2 years, after having standard for the 3 before. At first I marveled at how many more channels I got - 5 Discovery channels, sports out the yin-yang, all that.
Then I realized it was just more crap to have to flip through to find anything worth watching. I wasn't watching "more" TV than before - in fact, I was watching less.
I'm back on standard cable now and the only thing I really miss is the on-screen channel guide.
They also depend on what gas you put in the car. Some cars do drive better on supreme.
You can get better mileage on the same grade just by going to a different station. Different brands, different additives. I saw on a Corvette-fan website a while ago that for best results, you should change brands every 5000 miles (even if you just flip between 2 different ones) Each brand uses their own additives and switching will help clean out deposits left by the other brand.
There's even such a thing as a "bad tank" where you get water, sediment or other bad stuff and it will ruin your mileage for a week or so. Never fill up on the same day the station refills their tanks.
My employer plays commercials when you're on-hold. Commercials for products, for our website, almost anything related to the company. Really, really bad commercials.
Even when you're on-hold from within the company. So I know they can't do better. Maybe our new owners can.
Quiet is good, but make sure it's loud enough that I can put it on my speakerphone and still hear. I can't stand having to keep the phone held to my ear for 10 minutes on hold. I'd rather put it on speaker, low enough for me to hear but no one else, and get things done.
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and stop calling them "sights" unless they're tourist attractions to be looked at and photographed.
people stop writing WEB when it's not an acronym or abbreviation.
If they're so busy saving money by not upgrading their PCs, why do my medical costs increase so much every year?
Unfortunately, document retention policies often conflict with other policies. At my company, all employees have a 100MB limit on their inboxes - it's a soft limit, but the warnings get nastier the longer you linger over 100MB, until an admin will eventually come and make you clean things up.
So how can I retain my email while staying under the cap? For a while, I archived everything to my network directory. Then I got slapped for using too much space on the server, we're not supposed to keep large amounts of "personal" documents on the network (apparently, my 350MB work-only email archive counts as a large amount or personal documents). So now it's archived to my local hard drive. If those emails are ever needed...no one but me will know they exist.
I'm told that before we were acquired by another company, our C*Os deleted everything from their email as soon as they were done with it. Less than 2MB used at any given time. Given how those guys acted "in the interests of the company" I'm sure they didn't want any of their email brought to light.
And what do you propose we use for the 10+ years it will take to get local gov't to do anything with public transit?
For some of us, public transit is impossible until we get high-speed rail (speed on par w/ the TGV and Japanese bullet trains) that's affordable for daily commuter use.
Trucks (I assume you mean pickups, which many SUVs are still based upon) handle snow a lot worse than many SUVs. With no weight to speak of over the rear wheels, traction does become a problem.
Yahoo? You mean the guys who run my fantasy football stuff? They do other things?
Katie T may not even know it's going on, may not care either. This reeks of opportunistic corporation & lawyer.
But I haven't RTFM yet, so I could be wrong. She might just be trying to get herself in the public eye with this stunt.
We use Verizon at work for sending SMS messages to phones for system/on-call notifications. We have had a few occasions where messages have been delayed by anywhere from 15 minutes to a few hours. We've also had complete outages (average one day/year).
Depending on how urgently you need to know you've got mail, this may not be acceptable to you.
But verbing weirds words
Ask him what he does for backups of his digital photos. I just got married a couple months ago and when we spoke to the photographer, I specifically asked him about offsite backups. He works out of his home. Seemed a reasonable question - these are pretty important photos we're talking about.
At first, he looked at me like I had 3 heads. Then he explained to me that he's never lost a file, never had any reason to fear losing a file, and he's been in the business for 15 years and keeps all his film negatives, etc. on-site as well, and doesn't worry about that. So why bother with backups when you have to swap tapes, keep track of it all...Basically, blew off my concerns.
Then I got a nasty look from my fiancee and dropped it. This guy is a friend of the family so the only way I could say no to him doing the work is if I had a non-geek-related objection.
Back to the question at hand. This guy's being a little unreasonable, and I think it's because his main line of work is not weddings and similar events. I don't think he's being mean about the situation - he just doesn't know better. I think I can get a CD of all our photos from our photographer a few months after he's turned our proofs and album over to us (might have a cost associated with it); at that point, 90% of requests for duplicates/reprints will have come and gone, so we won't be taking business away from him that way. And let's be realistic - how the hell can I sell photos of my own wedding? The idea is ludicrous.
Do NOT pick a photographer because he's a geek. Pick a photographer because he knows what he's doing. Make sure he does good work. Talk to previous clients. Ask him how he manages taking pictures during the ceremony. Will he be blocking your guests' view? Will he interfere with the videographer (if any)? Will he be flexible in taking the post-ceremony photos, and not say "you must do this pose. Now you must do this pose." - basically, someone who will work WITH you, not someone who's going to make you feel like a hired model.
I wish one of the companies we "partner" with would get on the ball here. 2 1/2 years ago I hounded them about not supporting Netscape 6 as our site does support it and we have clients using it - they'd be SOL using the partner's site. They stalled for a while, claimed it was "too hard" or "too much work" and eventually said they'd put it on the to-do list. We delayed a rollout of our the link-up between our site and theirs for months while we fought over just getting that.
2 weeks ago, we got an email from a client using this system asking when we'd upgrade so that he can use Netscape 7. This company still does not support Netscape > 4.x or any other browser. We had to tell him (and CC'd the person responsible for the relationship with this "partner" that it wasn't our site, it was this 3rd party's site, and we've been trying for a long time to get them on track.
And a money-collector primarily for the people at the top.
My employer just got bought by a larger company. We went public 5 years before this merger. The company was managed into a state of "get bought or fire everyone to stay afloat or curl up and die" rather aggressively. Management paid lip service to "increasing the value of the company" and "ROE" but then they cut funding for everything that might actually grow the company. Cut staff so far (9 days before Xmas, I might add) one year that those remaining simply could not cover all the work that had to get done, helping the "that project isn't going to happen" problems. Annual raises were put on hold. Bonuses got smaller. While cost of living kept going up.
The top-level execs are walking away with their stock cashed out, $10-million-plus bonuses, plenty of other perks. Until 2 weeks ago, many of us didn't even know if we'd still have jobs.
It's called CallerID. Every cell plan I've seen has it included free. Know it, use it, love it. If you see it's work calling, let it roll to voicemail, just like if they called your home and you were out.
You'd also see it deployed into places where support staff aren't ready yet. Example:
Small office, 20-30 users. They don't do the "bulk" licensing w/ MS, they just buy off the shelf as they need software. A month after XP SP2 comes out, they get a new employee and pick up Office at CompUSA, and it comes w/ the service pack compulsory. XP SP2 hasn't been installed on the rest of the systems, but now this new person's PC has it, the PC acts a lot different from the rest of the office, and no one, including Skippy, the office manager's kid who takes care of the computers, can figure out why. Now what?
Subscription scheme? I bought Quicken 2002 Deluxe a couple years ago and I don't think I use 3/4 of its features. I used to buy every 2 years but I don't see myself needing anything "extra" so I'll just keep using 2002. No one is forcing any upgrade.
57 channels and nothin' on.
I had digital cable for 2 years, after having standard for the 3 before. At first I marveled at how many more channels I got - 5 Discovery channels, sports out the yin-yang, all that.
Then I realized it was just more crap to have to flip through to find anything worth watching. I wasn't watching "more" TV than before - in fact, I was watching less.
I'm back on standard cable now and the only thing I really miss is the on-screen channel guide.
There's even such a thing as a "bad tank" where you get water, sediment or other bad stuff and it will ruin your mileage for a week or so. Never fill up on the same day the station refills their tanks.
I've had on-hold music so quiet I could barely hear it, even after turning my phone all the way up.
My employer plays commercials when you're on-hold. Commercials for products, for our website, almost anything related to the company. Really, really bad commercials.
Even when you're on-hold from within the company. So I know they can't do better. Maybe our new owners can.
Quiet is good, but make sure it's loud enough that I can put it on my speakerphone and still hear. I can't stand having to keep the phone held to my ear for 10 minutes on hold. I'd rather put it on speaker, low enough for me to hear but no one else, and get things done.