At least in the Catholic tradition, which I abandoned eons ago in favour of rationality, ther is absolutely no question that the official position of the church is that Mary was a virgin (i.e. she conceived Jesus without having sexual intercourse with anybody).
If sects of Christianity give this a completely different spin, well, lets say that God was a lousy messanger.
They are getting money from the unobtrusive advertisements that show up while checking email.
Yahoo is trying to charge for an email box as much as Web host providers charge for one year of a full package of services (which normally include a free email account).
They are overcharging and that is the point, not the fact that they are trying to make a buck, which is very legitimate, as long as is not a fast one.
As long as we don't have a scientific poll, we can't say whose opinion is a mojority, mm..okay?
Articles in magazines are written by regular people like anybody else, that doe snot mean they represent a majority.
Try something as easy as display unread messages only (essential when sorting email).
If you have got thousend of emails in a given Inbox the interfaces beamoes a horrible mistake. It has not ben thought through, I wonder if the developpers are Yahoo email users themselves.....
If you have got anecdotal evidence, I have got mine.
Since around they introduced their new version of the email application, I began to receive equal amounts of spam and legitimate messages in my Inbox.
And we are not talking rocket science here, how difficult it is to infer that tons of messages with the subject "From the desk of " are spam? YOu would think that the only spammer left in the world is called Ibrahim Kabila or something like that.
I am in the process of migrating to Google mail where I receive no spam whatsoever.
They did something that broke the filtering for me, and although they always reply to your complaints one can rearely engage in any meaningful technical conversation. Truly frustrating (my Inbox is also broken, in spite of explaining with lots of detail what the problem is they basically told me that I am a nimwit newbie that does not know what he is doing. Nice way to treat somebody that has been with them from very early in the game).
... because any lazy bastard can go and check websites like WHO's, he is actually complementing you because he thinks you are capable of doing this yourself.
SInce you celarly aren't, here it is some information for you:
Just for starters:
Cuba US Life expectancy at birth (m/f) 75/80 75/80 Healthy life expectancy(m/f) 67.1/69.5 67.2/71.3 Child mortality (m/f)/1000 8/7 8/7
Cuba is no paradise (the US and Fidel Castro have made sure of that) but to deny that Cuba's healthcare system is not what it is painted to be is to go against most of informed opinion and objectively collected data.
.... are similar to those of the US and EU (longevity, mortality rates, etc).
A lot of their *proven* success (refer to WHO statistics if your are curious) is dur to put more emphasis in prevention rather than in remediation and cure.
Only because they have got wrong the politicial system does not mean they can't get right their healthcare.
The expenditure in most countries for campaign contributions is capped and normaly corporations can't contribute to political parties.
In the UK for example, all the major parties are normally working in red numbers and the political campaigns cost a fraction of the equivalent in the US.
Honestly, if you don't like the game start your own company and make your own rules, nobody is stopping you.
But big companies make millions, or billions, for a reason: they are more efficient.
You don't like it? Fair enough, but your opinions are not truisms, the organization of the companies may be boring and not that exciting, but it gets many people decent salaries and interesting posibilities out of their working lives.
My little anecdotes: I left my first job when I did not get a pay raise I was promised on time. I left my second job when I requested compensation for too much travelling and it was not given. I left my third job when we became clearly understaffed.
If you don't have the leeway to quit whenever a situation is really bad that means you are not managing your carrer correctly, specially during the last 15 years when highly capable people have been on high demand most of the time.
And you can always say no. If they threaten to replace you, dare them to do it, while circulating your CV and making sure you have enough saving to last 60 months unemployed.
In my experience bosses and companies will not do this with somebody that is clearly showing his worth almost killing himself in the work. Training somebody to pick up an stressful job is not a light task, any reasonable person will avoid such situation like the bubonic pest it really is for a bussiness.
If somebody asks me to work unreasonable amounts of time without proper compensation they will get nothing from me.
Could I be fired? Maybe, I have never been and during most of my carrer I have worked strictly 9 to 5 (with exception of my early years, when I was young and stupid by extension). In many localities (and here I am talking countries and continents) if you are fired for not fullfilling the fantasist expectations of your boss, you bcan build a case for unfair dismissal and have the legal ass of your employer served in a silver plate.
Just say no, there is no excuse if you aren't when the situation merits it.
Because carrying such a knife is not a criminal offense anywhere in Mexico.
If the guy had challenged them to explain which law he was breaking, most likely they would have left him alone, but perhaps his Spanish is not up to scratch?
I have worked in the IT side of things for many years, in industries as diverse as oil, media, software development, education and yes, banking.
I'll give you a clue. Banks pay the higest salaries of them all, in my experience as much as double as what the other industries can afford at any given time.
Look to any other industry. Who are paid the higest salaries? The best matey.
The people working in banks are some of the most talented people working in one of the most pressure intensive environments. I have seen people troubleshooting a problem while they have people screaming at them claiming the company was losing $ 1 million per hour of downtime and getting the job done.
Will yo find people that are not up to scratch? Hell yes, but they are a minority.
And frankly I don't know which banks you have to deal with, I have dealt with many and the picture you describe is completely false.
The fact that you can modify and inspect the source code has many specfic benefits for any company.
I have seen how a problem that used to exist with Solaris was easily dealt with once it became open, since the user itself had the resources to investigate the issue that Sun did not have.
Not only that, but when any company offering services to a more less standarized, open platform, you are no longer captive to your provider. You become, as you shoul always have been, the master of your decisions in regards to IT infrastructure.
If that means a higher TCO I can afford I would gladly pay it, because that could bring higer margins to my organization in the future. TCO is not an end by itself you know, it is just a very unscientific measure to try to appease the bean counters.
If paying for cheaper infrastructure will hand your ass to a company whose interests will take precedence over yours every time you need new products or licenses, I would question how wise it is to do so based only in TCO.
We get enough feedback from the Windows SAs and there is one truth: Windows do not scale. Period.
Secondly, we have seen our Intranets collapse under the weight of WIndows only virus or worm tha manges to evade our outher defenses.
I all the years I have been a UNIX SA I have never seen this with a UNIX (or Apple, VAX or many others for that matter) based machines.
I personally have been sympathetic to WIndows based solutions on occasions, just to be brought down to earth by people that knew better and that demonstrated to me why it was a bad idea.
Windows has its place (for now) on the desktop and on the groupware arena. ANywhere else it is a bloody liability waiting to bit you in the ass.
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At least in the Catholic tradition, which I abandoned eons ago in favour of rationality, ther is absolutely no question that the official position of the church is that Mary was a virgin (i.e. she conceived Jesus without having sexual intercourse with anybody).
If sects of Christianity give this a completely different spin, well, lets say that God was a lousy messanger.
They are getting money from the unobtrusive advertisements that show up while checking email.
Yahoo is trying to charge for an email box as much as Web host providers charge for one year of a full package of services (which normally include a free email account).
They are overcharging and that is the point, not the fact that they are trying to make a buck, which is very legitimate, as long as is not a fast one.
There is no legitimate reason to send messages completely out of date, so they should be disposed off in an intelligent way.
As long as we don't have a scientific poll, we can't say whose opinion is a mojority, mm..okay?
Articles in magazines are written by regular people like anybody else, that doe snot mean they represent a majority.
Try something as easy as display unread messages only (essential when sorting email).
If you have got thousend of emails in a given Inbox the interfaces beamoes a horrible mistake. It has not ben thought through, I wonder if the developpers are Yahoo email users themselves.....
If you have got anecdotal evidence, I have got mine.
Since around they introduced their new version of the email application, I began to receive equal amounts of spam and legitimate messages in my Inbox.
And we are not talking rocket science here, how difficult it is to infer that tons of messages with the subject "From the desk of " are spam? YOu would think that the only spammer left in the world is called Ibrahim Kabila or something like that.
I am in the process of migrating to Google mail where I receive no spam whatsoever.
They did something that broke the filtering for me, and although they always reply to your complaints one can rearely engage in any meaningful technical conversation. Truly frustrating (my Inbox is also broken, in spite of explaining with lots of detail what the problem is they basically told me that I am a nimwit newbie that does not know what he is doing. Nice way to treat somebody that has been with them from very early in the game).
.... I want to tell that you are a complete moron.
Have a good day.
That is the marketing so sell it to you.
After reading your post one has to give it to the RIAA and other labels: the trick worked to the point that people miss the marketing.
.... last time I assisted to a performance by the London Philarmonic, Eugenny Kisin, Placido Domingo of Murray Perahia.
I will pay more attention the next time.
... because any lazy bastard can go and check websites like WHO's, he is actually complementing you because he thinks you are capable of doing this yourself.
SInce you celarly aren't, here it is some information for you:
Just for starters:
Cuba US
Life expectancy at birth (m/f) 75/80 75/80
Healthy life expectancy(m/f) 67.1/69.5 67.2/71.3
Child mortality (m/f)/1000 8/7 8/7
and so on.
Here:
http://www.who.int/countries/cub/en/
http://www.who.int/countries/usa/en/
Happy now?
Cuba is no paradise (the US and Fidel Castro have made sure of that) but to deny that Cuba's healthcare system is not what it is painted to be is to go against most of informed opinion and objectively collected data.
.... are similar to those of the US and EU (longevity, mortality rates, etc).
A lot of their *proven* success (refer to WHO statistics if your are curious) is dur to put more emphasis in prevention rather than in remediation and cure.
Only because they have got wrong the politicial system does not mean they can't get right their healthcare.
That is what happens when you are not parsing tags when you read
Or something like that :-)
The expenditure in most countries for campaign contributions is capped and normaly corporations can't contribute to political parties.
In the UK for example, all the major parties are normally working in red numbers and the political campaigns cost a fraction of the equivalent in the US.
And report my superior through appropriate channels.
In Western civilized countries that is not suppossed to be happening (Abu Mussa, may he rest in peace).
I am ready to compete in skills for now, and in price when necessary (I don't need 3 computers, 3 MP3 players, expensive hollidays abroad, etc).
Bring it on, I will not try to stup economics by willing economic realities to go away.
You can do lots of IT without having an eye on profits, but clearly the topic of the article is about the situations in a bussiness environment.
:-P
SO I declare your post, and by extension mine, off topic
Honestly, if you don't like the game start your own company and make your own rules, nobody is stopping you.
But big companies make millions, or billions, for a reason: they are more efficient.
You don't like it? Fair enough, but your opinions are not truisms, the organization of the companies may be boring and not that exciting, but it gets many people decent salaries and interesting posibilities out of their working lives.
People, even your boss :-) , can learn from their mistakes, there could be many untangibles to a job that makes it worth keeping it....
Or where else do you get those friends?
My little anecdotes: I left my first job when I did not get a pay raise I was promised on time. I left my second job when I requested compensation for too much travelling and it was not given. I left my third job when we became clearly understaffed.
If you don't have the leeway to quit whenever a situation is really bad that means you are not managing your carrer correctly, specially during the last 15 years when highly capable people have been on high demand most of the time.
And you can always say no. If they threaten to replace you, dare them to do it, while circulating your CV and making sure you have enough saving to last 60 months unemployed.
In my experience bosses and companies will not do this with somebody that is clearly showing his worth almost killing himself in the work. Training somebody to pick up an stressful job is not a light task, any reasonable person will avoid such situation like the bubonic pest it really is for a bussiness.
If somebody asks me to work unreasonable amounts of time without proper compensation they will get nothing from me.
Could I be fired? Maybe, I have never been and during most of my carrer I have worked strictly 9 to 5 (with exception of my early years, when I was young and stupid by extension). In many localities (and here I am talking countries and continents) if you are fired for not fullfilling the fantasist expectations of your boss, you bcan build a case for unfair dismissal and have the legal ass of your employer served in a silver plate.
Just say no, there is no excuse if you aren't when the situation merits it.
I Got lost also there. I asked the very friendly people around how to go back to my hotel.
....
You make it sound like it is a patch of wilderness
Because carrying such a knife is not a criminal offense anywhere in Mexico.
If the guy had challenged them to explain which law he was breaking, most likely they would have left him alone, but perhaps his Spanish is not up to scratch?
I have worked in the IT side of things for many years, in industries as diverse as oil, media, software development, education and yes, banking.
I'll give you a clue. Banks pay the higest salaries of them all, in my experience as much as double as what the other industries can afford at any given time.
Look to any other industry. Who are paid the higest salaries? The best matey.
The people working in banks are some of the most talented people working in one of the most pressure intensive environments. I have seen people troubleshooting a problem while they have people screaming at them claiming the company was losing $ 1 million per hour of downtime and getting the job done.
Will yo find people that are not up to scratch? Hell yes, but they are a minority.
And frankly I don't know which banks you have to deal with, I have dealt with many and the picture you describe is completely false.
And this is no in a hippie kind of way.
The fact that you can modify and inspect the source code has many specfic benefits for any company.
I have seen how a problem that used to exist with Solaris was easily dealt with once it became open, since the user itself had the resources to investigate the issue that Sun did not have.
Not only that, but when any company offering services to a more less standarized, open platform, you are no longer captive to your provider. You become, as you shoul always have been, the master of your decisions in regards to IT infrastructure.
If that means a higher TCO I can afford I would gladly pay it, because that could bring higer margins to my organization in the future. TCO is not an end by itself you know, it is just a very unscientific measure to try to appease the bean counters.
If paying for cheaper infrastructure will hand your ass to a company whose interests will take precedence over yours every time you need new products or licenses, I would question how wise it is to do so based only in TCO.
We get enough feedback from the Windows SAs and there is one truth: Windows do not scale. Period.
Secondly, we have seen our Intranets collapse under the weight of WIndows only virus or worm tha manges to evade our outher defenses.
I all the years I have been a UNIX SA I have never seen this with a UNIX (or Apple, VAX or many others for that matter) based machines.
I personally have been sympathetic to WIndows based solutions on occasions, just to be brought down to earth by people that knew better and that demonstrated to me why it was a bad idea.
Windows has its place (for now) on the desktop and on the groupware arena. ANywhere else it is a bloody liability waiting to bit you in the ass.