Seriously just buy a damned blackberry.. I've been using my z10 for three years now and have no real interest in upgrading it. Sure a better camera could be nice but it runs smooth as butter, has amazing battery life, I can side-load most android apps (I don't really need to though), has the best messaging platform (the hub) bar none, the best multi-tasking capabilities out there, and best of all.. I don't have to worry about this constant drumroll of security flaws found in android and iOS.
You have to deliberately grant an app access to the camera at install time. It's nice to have fine-grained access controls. For example, Evernote wants access to my microphone but since that's a future I never use, it gets denied.
As does BB10 OS in not having any of these ridiculous vulnerabilities.
I guess it's true, people really just don't care about security. Every week is an announcement of some massive hole in Androis, iOS, etc, and yet nobody considers moving to a free, secure, and feature-rich platform like BlackBerry.
If big wing sections broke off it suggests the onboard computer was not able to cruise the plane to a gentl landing (or maybe it tried and slammed into a giant wave). Anyways, if the plane broke up then the sonar signature for the jet is probably not what they're looking for and the pieces of the plane could be scattered over a very wide area. I imagine jet wings that are empty of fuel will float around for a while.
Yep, gonna be that annoying SoB and just make note that my BlackBerry z10 has had no ridiculous remote exploit vulnerabilities like this, has the worlds best messaging platform (BlackBerry Hub), awesome battery life, a rock-solid OS that multi-tasks like a dream. And it can run most all Android apps (though they are sandboxed to prevent their many flaws from compromising the rest of the system).
If performance is measured by results then why do you care where I am? It's inept managers (which accounts for a lot of them) who think keeping a specific chair warm is a measure of productivity. Give me a project, I'll give you a time frame, we agree, then you can screw off. I'll tell you if I'm running into trouble or finished early.
Here's what I do.. change your attitude. Every time they call, get out a stop watch. Start it the moment someone starts talking. See how long your can keep them on the phone before they hang up. Keep track. Learn delay strategies. Your credit card is in the other room. Hold on, you need to look up how much you owe. Finally, tell them you need to sign for a package. Mute the phone, put it down, get on with your day.
Or, if you're feeling irritable, string them along for a while and then tell them this is what you do - every day. "Talk to you tomorrow!"
Sounds like your company hires second-rate people. I work from home all the time and I will not rest if anyone is depending on me for anything. It's called professionalism.
So I guess I agree.. if your employees need constant supervision then you need them in eye's reach.
You sound like a middle-manager who needs everyone in the office in order to continue justifying their existence.
You offer no claims for any of your assertions, even hilarious ones like commuting being "a good way to clear your brain." Because because being crammed in subways or stuck in traffic is really most relaxing.
You know what clears my brain? In the afternoons I'll often take a little lie-down after lunch. 20 minutes or so. Maybe watch part of a TV show. Then I get back to my desk feeling rested and ready to tackle the rest of the afternoon at maximum productivity. I'm sure you're just horrified at the thought.
One thing I do not miss about working in an office is all the utterly pointless meetings I had to attend. All too easy for some middle manager to rope the team into a meeting where, as per usual, half the people are typing away on their laptops and paying little attention.
Want Verizon to sit up straight and come around? NYC is the *perfect* place for community access broadband. Enormous population density with probably high 90% subscribership. Even if it's not possible to use Verizon's fiber I wonder if the conduit is fair game by FCC rules.
Heck, I'm willing to bet a good technical plan and an indieGoGo campaign could get things going.
Are there even linux-based switches? I know the router front is doing good with Vyatta, etc, but never heard of linux switches. Doesn't make sense given how (relatively) cheap switches are.
I think I'm going to record an mp3 on my computer that is minutes of:
hold on.. (shouting at someone else) "I'm on an important call!! It's about our credit card debt" Ok, hold on, looking for wallet, think it's in the kitchen.. Pots crashing, cat screesch Wait hang on here it is, ok.. aw crap, I forgot the credit card is buy the computer upstairs, hold on.. How's your day going?
Might wrap it all up with a clown honk and some profanity.
I managed to dick around with those same guys for a solid 15 minutes. I kept making typos, had to reboot my computer, oops, browser crashed. Finally he asked what I did for a living and I said I was unemployed.... which is why my internet connection got cut last month.
Getting pushed around? Not used to having to deal with someone that can bite back? Keep in mind this is the company that has a track record of attacking any and all start-up cable and connector makers.
This is a great read - a small-time cable maker basically telling monster suck it after they sent their default "infringement" claim. http://www.bluejeanscable.com/...
Please.. there are a small number of companies behind these robo calls and the FCC seizes their assets when they finally get around to doing something. Their budget is over $300 million for fuck's sake.
You must be employed there. Nobody else thinks they're remotely competent. Go look at the thousands of people complaining online about being robo dialled despite being on the DoNotCall list.
Because none of the other robo-callers do and the FCC does FUCK ALL about them. I've been getting robo dialled at least twice a day now for months. Credit card rate lowering services, free cruises, free shit for seniors, etc. I'm on the DoNotCall list, and I have to answer unknown numbers due to my work. I've filed dozens of complaints on their website and nothing changes.
What could be an easier crime to track down? Electronic record of phone call? Solicitation of a financial transaction? Hundreds if not thousands of complaints per offender.
Unless you're hiring someone for a specific development role (in which case you know exactly what you need) there's really no right answer to this question. But evaluating someone's ability to learn and do on their own is paramount in my experience. I'm a sysadmin and don't code much but I have written my own python scripts that interact with databases including scripts with classes and modules as well as multi-threaded scripts. It was what was necessary to fix the problem at hand. Just don't ask me to sit down and write it during the interview, I will likely need a day or two to buff the rust off my knowledge.
While some international sales have taken a hit, keep in mind that there are plenty of domestic companies serving the anti-terror space that have sprung up and are employing Americans. http://rectasecurity.com/ as an example.
And who really cares where the money goes.. Charity Navigator won't even rank them due to their "atypical business model." It's a slush fund for the Clintons to doll out favors to their political toadies. Nevermind Hillary's absurd "I can't carry two devices" excuse for hosting a private mail server in her house to conduct State Department business.
What you saw was girls being silly little girls. It's curious, immature pack behaviour ridiculing the guy because one didn't get what she wanted and the other didn't want to be asked out. He's better off not having ended up going out with either of them.
But yes, to your point, I agree there is every bit as much of a confusion of femininity as is there is masculinity.
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Seriously just buy a damned blackberry.. I've been using my z10 for three years now and have no real interest in upgrading it. Sure a better camera could be nice but it runs smooth as butter, has amazing battery life, I can side-load most android apps (I don't really need to though), has the best messaging platform (the hub) bar none, the best multi-tasking capabilities out there, and best of all.. I don't have to worry about this constant drumroll of security flaws found in android and iOS.
You have to deliberately grant an app access to the camera at install time. It's nice to have fine-grained access controls. For example, Evernote wants access to my microphone but since that's a future I never use, it gets denied.
Right.. which is why pretty much every head of state uses a BlackBerry.. because nobody will bother trying to hack that platform.
As does BB10 OS in not having any of these ridiculous vulnerabilities.
I guess it's true, people really just don't care about security. Every week is an announcement of some massive hole in Androis, iOS, etc, and yet nobody considers moving to a free, secure, and feature-rich platform like BlackBerry.
If big wing sections broke off it suggests the onboard computer was not able to cruise the plane to a gentl landing (or maybe it tried and slammed into a giant wave). Anyways, if the plane broke up then the sonar signature for the jet is probably not what they're looking for and the pieces of the plane could be scattered over a very wide area. I imagine jet wings that are empty of fuel will float around for a while.
Yep, gonna be that annoying SoB and just make note that my BlackBerry z10 has had no ridiculous remote exploit vulnerabilities like this, has the worlds best messaging platform (BlackBerry Hub), awesome battery life, a rock-solid OS that multi-tasks like a dream. And it can run most all Android apps (though they are sandboxed to prevent their many flaws from compromising the rest of the system).
Now bring on the BB bashing!
If performance is measured by results then why do you care where I am? It's inept managers (which accounts for a lot of them) who think keeping a specific chair warm is a measure of productivity. Give me a project, I'll give you a time frame, we agree, then you can screw off. I'll tell you if I'm running into trouble or finished early.
Here's what I do.. change your attitude. Every time they call, get out a stop watch. Start it the moment someone starts talking. See how long your can keep them on the phone before they hang up. Keep track. Learn delay strategies. Your credit card is in the other room. Hold on, you need to look up how much you owe. Finally, tell them you need to sign for a package. Mute the phone, put it down, get on with your day.
Or, if you're feeling irritable, string them along for a while and then tell them this is what you do - every day. "Talk to you tomorrow!"
Oh, and fuck you FCC for being so damned useless.
Sounds like your company hires second-rate people. I work from home all the time and I will not rest if anyone is depending on me for anything. It's called professionalism.
So I guess I agree.. if your employees need constant supervision then you need them in eye's reach.
You sound like a middle-manager who needs everyone in the office in order to continue justifying their existence.
You offer no claims for any of your assertions, even hilarious ones like commuting being "a good way to clear your brain." Because because being crammed in subways or stuck in traffic is really most relaxing.
You know what clears my brain? In the afternoons I'll often take a little lie-down after lunch. 20 minutes or so. Maybe watch part of a TV show. Then I get back to my desk feeling rested and ready to tackle the rest of the afternoon at maximum productivity. I'm sure you're just horrified at the thought.
One thing I do not miss about working in an office is all the utterly pointless meetings I had to attend. All too easy for some middle manager to rope the team into a meeting where, as per usual, half the people are typing away on their laptops and paying little attention.
Want Verizon to sit up straight and come around? NYC is the *perfect* place for community access broadband. Enormous population density with probably high 90% subscribership. Even if it's not possible to use Verizon's fiber I wonder if the conduit is fair game by FCC rules.
Heck, I'm willing to bet a good technical plan and an indieGoGo campaign could get things going.
Are there even linux-based switches? I know the router front is doing good with Vyatta, etc, but never heard of linux switches. Doesn't make sense given how (relatively) cheap switches are.
First, congrats to all LGBT and to America as a whole.
Second, to Justice Scalia, in Nelson Munt's voice - HAW HAW. Your dissent was entertainingly shrill and dubious.
I think I'm going to record an mp3 on my computer that is minutes of:
hold on.. (shouting at someone else) "I'm on an important call!! It's about our credit card debt"
Ok, hold on, looking for wallet, think it's in the kitchen..
Pots crashing, cat screesch
Wait hang on here it is, ok.. aw crap, I forgot the credit card is buy the computer upstairs, hold on.. How's your day going?
Might wrap it all up with a clown honk and some profanity.
I managed to dick around with those same guys for a solid 15 minutes. I kept making typos, had to reboot my computer, oops, browser crashed. Finally he asked what I did for a living and I said I was unemployed.... which is why my internet connection got cut last month.
Getting pushed around? Not used to having to deal with someone that can bite back? Keep in mind this is the company that has a track record of attacking any and all start-up cable and connector makers.
This is a great read - a small-time cable maker basically telling monster suck it after they sent their default "infringement" claim. http://www.bluejeanscable.com/...
Hard or not, it's *their job*. And they suck at it. And behind corporations are people.. that can go to jail. Y'know, deterrence and all that.
Please.. there are a small number of companies behind these robo calls and the FCC seizes their assets when they finally get around to doing something. Their budget is over $300 million for fuck's sake.
You must be employed there. Nobody else thinks they're remotely competent. Go look at the thousands of people complaining online about being robo dialled despite being on the DoNotCall list.
Because none of the other robo-callers do and the FCC does FUCK ALL about them. I've been getting robo dialled at least twice a day now for months. Credit card rate lowering services, free cruises, free shit for seniors, etc. I'm on the DoNotCall list, and I have to answer unknown numbers due to my work. I've filed dozens of complaints on their website and nothing changes.
What could be an easier crime to track down? Electronic record of phone call? Solicitation of a financial transaction? Hundreds if not thousands of complaints per offender.
Worthless, useless federal bureaucracy.
Unless you're hiring someone for a specific development role (in which case you know exactly what you need) there's really no right answer to this question. But evaluating someone's ability to learn and do on their own is paramount in my experience. I'm a sysadmin and don't code much but I have written my own python scripts that interact with databases including scripts with classes and modules as well as multi-threaded scripts. It was what was necessary to fix the problem at hand. Just don't ask me to sit down and write it during the interview, I will likely need a day or two to buff the rust off my knowledge.
Yeah we "survived" alright.. Nothing like a little mass starvation to thin the herd. Now try to imagine how that would play out in today's world.
While some international sales have taken a hit, keep in mind that there are plenty of domestic companies serving the anti-terror space that have sprung up and are employing Americans. http://rectasecurity.com/ as an example.
The Clinton Corrupt Slush Fund for Easy Policy Change..
Need some weapons deals pushed through? Donate millions to the foundation! http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton...
And who really cares where the money goes.. Charity Navigator won't even rank them due to their "atypical business model." It's a slush fund for the Clintons to doll out favors to their political toadies. Nevermind Hillary's absurd "I can't carry two devices" excuse for hosting a private mail server in her house to conduct State Department business.
What you saw was girls being silly little girls. It's curious, immature pack behaviour ridiculing the guy because one didn't get what she wanted and the other didn't want to be asked out. He's better off not having ended up going out with either of them.
But yes, to your point, I agree there is every bit as much of a confusion of femininity as is there is masculinity.