Lets get real. A $200 phone in a contract is a ripoff. By the time you have finished the contact, in reality you might have paid for your phone between $1000 to $2000. Better buy a new one without a fixed contract and use it with a cheap operator/plan.
You are so right. Bringing down transit performance levels and making it costly to park anywhere in the city. Some areas you know you dont pay, but then you are back to the basic problem of leaving the car there, and getting in the underground.
Back in here, they already managed to close *effectively* 2 or 3 main access points to the city, and are jacking up the prices of parking.
The thing I do for family is telling them if they want to be better off just using facebook and skype, is to buy an iPad. Better take care of this issues.
I only reboot for kernels upgrades and nothing else. I have a couple of really old servers with I only reboot on our yearly weekend electric maintenance day, and even day just for precaution.
Same argument, put other way for the gentleman with the reading comprehension of a 6 year old: What I am found wearing the family ring from my great-grandfather? Am I 120 years old?
I find it dangerous to be doing this assumptions. After all, artefacts are passed down by generations, even harpoons. So if I lost my military compass in a boat that I inherited from my father, and that must be now around 60 years old, and a whale eats it, the whale would be given an age of 60 years old?
I have changed numbers in the last two years, maybe 3 or 4 times. In my last number change, I also switched operators too. My wife owns at least 4 different active numbers. My sister and my bother-in-law, between them have 4 mobile numbers... So between the 4 of us, we already own 12 numbers... It is pretty common people carrying two numbers to shave costs calling between operators, or then carrying the professional and the personal phone. So correlating numbers and customers is pretty dumb, or very convenient.
marketing, HR, quality control... yeah. Actually I had a gf in the HR resources, back around 2005 and she told me they often killed their time hearing radio and calling in for stupid contests (they are/were plenty...like guess how many items we have in our purse). Sad.
Have you noticed many businesses use AWS and on despite that, they still have IT people? The point is really IT is seen by many only as a cost center, just because often they do not keep tabs on what value they bring to the organisation. "Billing" other departments could be an interesting exercise. IT also boils down to your size, if you are a middle to large organisation, it is not wise to go without your own IT services.
Start billing other departments. No seriously, track projects and maintenance tasks to a bare minimum so you are able to do some mock calculations how much you would cost if you were outsourced. That is the only language they understand.
No, they dont. Either because they are disenchanted or out of touch with their culture, or they lived everywhere and a lit bit elsewhere, or are old and want a newer spouse from some places where this is more culturally accepted, or are not happy with the physical norm of a country (for instance lots of fat people), there are lot of foreigners who marry other races/nationalities. I was an interchange international student, was also an expat many years, and live currently with a Filipina (which is one year older than me). Alas, I also dont eat most of my native food too. That said, there are also the other flip side of the coin, that many foreigners marry their own kind because it is what they grow into, and it is safer, and their comfort zone - and a way to try to defend yourself of marrying someone who only is marrying you either because of a visa or money.
First, when this guys talk about x americans, they are extrapolating from a few families they are studying. My family was a couple of decades ago a study "family". All of the families chosen where from friends of friends, which meant the majority would be of a certain background and economic group. Besides, we often left the TV on or inputed that a certain member of the family was watching when none was, just to look good in the stats and continue to be part of the program. We werent the only ones.
They refuse to budge because they behave like we need films to eat and most importantly because they are backed by very powerful people and have Washington in their pockets.
Price my ass. It is because we dont care anymore about physical media. And all the threads that tried to convey this valid viewpoint were conveniently modded down.
A friend of mine, a former pilot, told me an interesting theory. There is no interest whatsoever in "finding" the plane, just for the reason that if not found, there are no compensations due to the family of the victims...
Yes, now that you talk, there are whole sections in our FNAC stores dedicated to housing the darn plastic things, but most of the time they are rather empty. I think they have noticed it too, because they are now placed in strategic places where you are certain to walk by to enter or leave the store.
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Lets get real. A $200 phone in a contract is a ripoff. By the time you have finished the contact, in reality you might have paid for your phone between $1000 to $2000. Better buy a new one without a fixed contract and use it with a cheap operator/plan.
You are so right. Bringing down transit performance levels and making it costly to park anywhere in the city. Some areas you know you dont pay, but then you are back to the basic problem of leaving the car there, and getting in the underground. Back in here, they already managed to close *effectively* 2 or 3 main access points to the city, and are jacking up the prices of parking.
The thing I do for family is telling them if they want to be better off just using facebook and skype, is to buy an iPad. Better take care of this issues.
For sure that is the problem. They are scared shitless people doesnt care about TV any more, and dont want to unbundle the service. This is not news.
I only reboot for kernels upgrades and nothing else. I have a couple of really old servers with I only reboot on our yearly weekend electric maintenance day, and even day just for precaution.
Same argument, put other way for the gentleman with the reading comprehension of a 6 year old: What I am found wearing the family ring from my great-grandfather? Am I 120 years old?
I find it dangerous to be doing this assumptions. After all, artefacts are passed down by generations, even harpoons. So if I lost my military compass in a boat that I inherited from my father, and that must be now around 60 years old, and a whale eats it, the whale would be given an age of 60 years old?
I have changed numbers in the last two years, maybe 3 or 4 times. In my last number change, I also switched operators too. My wife owns at least 4 different active numbers. My sister and my bother-in-law, between them have 4 mobile numbers... So between the 4 of us, we already own 12 numbers... It is pretty common people carrying two numbers to shave costs calling between operators, or then carrying the professional and the personal phone. So correlating numbers and customers is pretty dumb, or very convenient.
I hate to break it to you, but people slacked off before there was Internet.
marketing, HR, quality control... yeah. Actually I had a gf in the HR resources, back around 2005 and she told me they often killed their time hearing radio and calling in for stupid contests (they are/were plenty...like guess how many items we have in our purse). Sad.
Better comment I read today. i think this project is a scam.
Have you noticed many businesses use AWS and on despite that, they still have IT people? The point is really IT is seen by many only as a cost center, just because often they do not keep tabs on what value they bring to the organisation. "Billing" other departments could be an interesting exercise. IT also boils down to your size, if you are a middle to large organisation, it is not wise to go without your own IT services.
Start billing other departments. No seriously, track projects and maintenance tasks to a bare minimum so you are able to do some mock calculations how much you would cost if you were outsourced. That is the only language they understand.
Well then, if money doesnt change hands, and each alternate week someone brings his car, is it an illegal taxi operation too?
Do you drive a cab? By your rant it seems you do.
No, they dont. Either because they are disenchanted or out of touch with their culture, or they lived everywhere and a lit bit elsewhere, or are old and want a newer spouse from some places where this is more culturally accepted, or are not happy with the physical norm of a country (for instance lots of fat people), there are lot of foreigners who marry other races/nationalities. I was an interchange international student, was also an expat many years, and live currently with a Filipina (which is one year older than me). Alas, I also dont eat most of my native food too. That said, there are also the other flip side of the coin, that many foreigners marry their own kind because it is what they grow into, and it is safer, and their comfort zone - and a way to try to defend yourself of marrying someone who only is marrying you either because of a visa or money.
First, when this guys talk about x americans, they are extrapolating from a few families they are studying. My family was a couple of decades ago a study "family". All of the families chosen where from friends of friends, which meant the majority would be of a certain background and economic group. Besides, we often left the TV on or inputed that a certain member of the family was watching when none was, just to look good in the stats and continue to be part of the program. We werent the only ones.
It is fairly obvious people are reverting to anonymous to say whatever they want and not burn karma.
They refuse to budge because they behave like we need films to eat and most importantly because they are backed by very powerful people and have Washington in their pockets.
Price my ass. It is because we dont care anymore about physical media. And all the threads that tried to convey this valid viewpoint were conveniently modded down.
Meh...Just grow a pair and dont buy them.
Have you noticed we where downmoded by shills? Slashdot just isnt what it used to be...
A friend of mine, a former pilot, told me an interesting theory. There is no interest whatsoever in "finding" the plane, just for the reason that if not found, there are no compensations due to the family of the victims...
Yes, now that you talk, there are whole sections in our FNAC stores dedicated to housing the darn plastic things, but most of the time they are rather empty. I think they have noticed it too, because they are now placed in strategic places where you are certain to walk by to enter or leave the store.
Obama is a terrorist threat too, and no one does anything about it. This is not fair.