Job titles indicate to you, and especially other people outside your group, what your position in the company is and your perceived value to the company.
Job roles & responsibilities may change over time, but if your title never evolves, you will be seen by those who don't interact with you personally as the same resource you were when you were given that job title. When headcount-reduction time comes along, it could hurt a lot.
There were pagers before cell networks were widespread. Later pagers may have worked with cell networks, but there were (are?) pager networks which were much stronger & reliable than anything the cell networks provide.
I knew a number of people who carried a pager for on-call duties (and this is just 5 years ago) because while cell phones didn't work inside their houses, pagers did.
If you must take a computer with you, get a Netbook on a Black Friday sale deal and just take that. Don't risk your expensive laptop with lots of personal data on it.
I don't see a need to take one at all, aside from backing up photos from your camera, watching movies, and maybe checking in with family back home. You're on vacation - unplug!
By even suggesting that a smoker should get up and leave their own house to do what they enjoy because it offends you is ridiculous
I know lots of people whose spouses force them to smoke outside.
Plus, if you're ever going to sell your house, taking it outside is a good idea. Buyers can smell it, and you can't get that smell out without replacing every soft surface (carpets, etc.) and fresh paint in every room.
They're going to attempt to find some way to hook revenue generation into this. I guarantee it. The state's trying to find every possible way to make a buck.
Right now they're trying to force new license plates on everyone (and the design is hideous - '70s-'80s design crossed with an older Alaska plate) at $25 per car. Our current plates work perfectly fine, they're just trying to scrape together money.
Most Firefox memory issues since 3.x are due to bad extensions, not the core browser. Firefox is doing well with memory nowadays. I've had 2 windows, one of which has anywhere from 2 to 20 tabs in it, running all week on XP SP3, and haven't noticed any slowdowns.
The panel-clearing brush was considered. Then discarded. They didn't intend for the rovers to last more than 90 days, and determined there wouldn't be a significant dust build-up in that time, so they used the weight & space for items more valuable to the mission.
Private companies aren't bound by the Constitution (it's only meant to protect us from the government itself. Insert boilerplate argument about erosion of Constitutional protections over the last X decades here). That helps a lot.
If carriers are going to make termination fees proportional, why not just itemize the subsidy as a "handset finance payment" on the bill?
Because then the masses (well, the ones that read their bill every month) would realize they're getting hosed more easily. The cell companies don't want to give you any information that makes it easy to understand how badly you're getting screwed. It would hurt their business model.
Keychain is pretty limited. 1Password integrates with Safari & Firefox seamlessly and lets you store a lot more than just passwords for filling forms - things like credit card info, addresses, etc. It's fairly smart about figuring out what fields on a web form need what information; smarter than anything else I've seen. It also gives you a good way to export/back up your passwords even to a printed file to keep in a secure location. Version 3 also has an area for storing software licensing info (keys, receipts, etc.)
I originally got it for free as part of a MacHeist or something, but I've paid for the upgrade.
On my Mac, I live & die by 1Password. I resisted putting all my passwords into a single store like it, but once I started, I was blown away by the program.
For my PC at work, TrueCrypt with a spreadsheet inside.
Finally two fun facts: an ADSL2 modem with 4000-8000' loop lengths can easily provide up to 18 Mb of service. ADSL2+ can pair bond and provide up to 40 Mb of service. Almost every drop in the U.S. has more than two pairs in it.
You're assuming that the owners of the copper can be bothered in the first place. There's a Verizon building less than 2000 feet from my house, and the best they offer is 7.1 Mbps up / 768 Kbps down on DSL - not even half of what it should "easily provide". And no FiOS at all.
The local monopolies aren't granted by your congressman, not even your state legislator. It's on a more local level, and usually done by people who have even less information than a congressman would have.
Even if this were viable, it'd take years to oust TW, open things up, and then get another ISP in town. My house is 1/4 mile from a Verizon building (I presume the main switching station for the town), and I can't get any high-speed offering from them - no DSL, no FiOS, nothing. My options are between TW and buying a land-line (which I don't presently have) and then setting up dial-up - significant extra cost for a massive step backwards in service.
Satellite is out too, mostly because of the trees, hill & house on top of the hill in my backyard. I'd have to put a 20 foot mast on top of my house.
Does it matter? The fact that this even left a lawyer's office in an attempt exact some type of punishment is ridiculous. Shoot first, ask questions later - do they even bother attempting to learn the truth before taking action?
5 months out of the year, there's a foot of snow on my roof. How will these hold up against ice dams? Has anyone factored in to the equation that they won't be generating a single watt of electricity for almost half the year?
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Job titles indicate to you, and especially other people outside your group, what your position in the company is and your perceived value to the company.
Job roles & responsibilities may change over time, but if your title never evolves, you will be seen by those who don't interact with you personally as the same resource you were when you were given that job title. When headcount-reduction time comes along, it could hurt a lot.
There were pagers before cell networks were widespread. Later pagers may have worked with cell networks, but there were (are?) pager networks which were much stronger & reliable than anything the cell networks provide.
I knew a number of people who carried a pager for on-call duties (and this is just 5 years ago) because while cell phones didn't work inside their houses, pagers did.
If you must take a computer with you, get a Netbook on a Black Friday sale deal and just take that. Don't risk your expensive laptop with lots of personal data on it.
I don't see a need to take one at all, aside from backing up photos from your camera, watching movies, and maybe checking in with family back home. You're on vacation - unplug!
I know lots of people whose spouses force them to smoke outside.
Plus, if you're ever going to sell your house, taking it outside is a good idea. Buyers can smell it, and you can't get that smell out without replacing every soft surface (carpets, etc.) and fresh paint in every room.
They're going to attempt to find some way to hook revenue generation into this. I guarantee it. The state's trying to find every possible way to make a buck.
Right now they're trying to force new license plates on everyone (and the design is hideous - '70s-'80s design crossed with an older Alaska plate) at $25 per car. Our current plates work perfectly fine, they're just trying to scrape together money.
Similar here, I've had 2 windows and a lot of tabs open, running all week.
Links?
Most Firefox memory issues since 3.x are due to bad extensions, not the core browser. Firefox is doing well with memory nowadays. I've had 2 windows, one of which has anywhere from 2 to 20 tabs in it, running all week on XP SP3, and haven't noticed any slowdowns.
The panel-clearing brush was considered. Then discarded. They didn't intend for the rovers to last more than 90 days, and determined there wouldn't be a significant dust build-up in that time, so they used the weight & space for items more valuable to the mission.
Private companies aren't bound by the Constitution (it's only meant to protect us from the government itself. Insert boilerplate argument about erosion of Constitutional protections over the last X decades here). That helps a lot.
Actually, Madoff never expected to make it as long as he did. He was surprised it took them so long to catch him.
The credit-reporting agencies are not government entities.
Because then the masses (well, the ones that read their bill every month) would realize they're getting hosed more easily. The cell companies don't want to give you any information that makes it easy to understand how badly you're getting screwed. It would hurt their business model.
Once you've tried 1Password (and made full use of its features), you'll see how limited Keychain really is.
It gets the job it was intended to do done, but 1Password is so, so much more.
Keychain is pretty limited. 1Password integrates with Safari & Firefox seamlessly and lets you store a lot more than just passwords for filling forms - things like credit card info, addresses, etc. It's fairly smart about figuring out what fields on a web form need what information; smarter than anything else I've seen. It also gives you a good way to export/back up your passwords even to a printed file to keep in a secure location. Version 3 also has an area for storing software licensing info (keys, receipts, etc.)
I originally got it for free as part of a MacHeist or something, but I've paid for the upgrade.
On my Mac, I live & die by 1Password. I resisted putting all my passwords into a single store like it, but once I started, I was blown away by the program.
For my PC at work, TrueCrypt with a spreadsheet inside.
You're assuming that the owners of the copper can be bothered in the first place. There's a Verizon building less than 2000 feet from my house, and the best they offer is 7.1 Mbps up / 768 Kbps down on DSL - not even half of what it should "easily provide". And no FiOS at all.
The local monopolies aren't granted by your congressman, not even your state legislator. It's on a more local level, and usually done by people who have even less information than a congressman would have.
Even if this were viable, it'd take years to oust TW, open things up, and then get another ISP in town. My house is 1/4 mile from a Verizon building (I presume the main switching station for the town), and I can't get any high-speed offering from them - no DSL, no FiOS, nothing. My options are between TW and buying a land-line (which I don't presently have) and then setting up dial-up - significant extra cost for a massive step backwards in service.
Satellite is out too, mostly because of the trees, hill & house on top of the hill in my backyard. I'd have to put a 20 foot mast on top of my house.
Does it matter? The fact that this even left a lawyer's office in an attempt exact some type of punishment is ridiculous. Shoot first, ask questions later - do they even bother attempting to learn the truth before taking action?
Make sure you tell their corporate overlords. Nicely.
And those don't require that they program during their off time.
Music.. Art. Photography. Lock picking. Woodworking. Rock climbing. All are creative and/or problem-solving endeavors.
Except he's not. The head of FBI isn't an expert in all facets of the FBI's daily activities. It's impossible. He's just "in charge".
Your CEO doesn't know how to do everything in IT, from Help Desk up to Senior UNIX Admin, does he?
5 months out of the year, there's a foot of snow on my roof. How will these hold up against ice dams? Has anyone factored in to the equation that they won't be generating a single watt of electricity for almost half the year?
and they want to build a bullet train? Which, if it's actually completed, will not even come close to the promises made.
Priorities!
Actually, Lotus Notes sullies the good name of crap.