I see a problem with your plan. You would need an internet connection to get the proper settings to set up your internet connection. And while another connection could be found, say at work, to get said settings, most people aren't willing to wait a whole day to go get the information that *might* work. They'd rather just run the.exe and save themselves the hassle.
My company uses SAP R/3. When it was first implemented, we were using a GUI around version 4.xx or so. I can't remember specifically. For those unfamiliar with the old GUI or SAP, every screen was accessible through either the pull down file menu or what is known as a fast path, a four or five character name for a particular function. With a few exceptions, you never really had to use a mouse. Then came the millennium upgrades. The GUI for versions 6.xx was redone such that everything was accessible through a tree instead of the pull down menu. The rest of the GUI was prettied up with animations and other features to help those less computer savvy. The fast paths were still there, but I disliked them for other reasons. The tree was usable with just the keyboard. But it was made such that mouse manipulation was preferable. You could still revert back to the old pull down menu through a tedious process that involved opening and closing screens in a particular way and order. But it was wasteful as in the time it would take to revert, you could already be running the query/function. It was hardly convenient if you had to move from workstation to workstation or log in repeatedly. Add the point, hunt and peck, click, point, hunt and peck, click method many use for data entry and you have greatly reduced efficiency. I tend to have a hot or cold approach to such things. Either make it uniformly difficult so the user has to actually learn what it is they are doing. Or make it mind numbingly simple with giant letters and iconified buttons where all they have to do is point and click. I've always thought mice were for games anyway.
I think it would be best to call out all the lawyers first. You get more hits on that query than Republican fanboys, crooked politicians (redundant of course), or words that begin with a letter.
And Allofmp3 is the lynch pin keeping Russia out. Remember when Russia was the enemy? And we had classic cliche's based on them? Meeeemmoorriiiiiieeesssss!!!!
That doesn't take into account billing cycles. I get my cable bill around the seventh of each month. around the 25th I get a late notice. A few days later I get an automated phone call asking that I call back to an 800 number. On the first of the next month my payment goes out. They're smart enough not to charge me a late fee for 21 days of non-payment.
But this is typical of any company. They want to be paid on a shorter cycle than they themselves make their payments. It increases their available cash flow.
I agree that if someone doesn't pay their bill, cut them off. If their outstanding ledger begins to negatively affect their ability to do business, lower the cut off limit. If that causes customers to drop and in turn causes bottom line issues, raise it back up. I'm sure some bean counter has worked all this out.
But I figure with the amount of harassment I get, paying the bill just late enough and convenient to my bottom line, the situation is sufficiently optimal for me to keep the service.
I was informed by a coworker that I might get into trouble over the finger. So I erased just the finger. But that hasn't stopped others from adding penises or hats or other features to my mooninite.
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I haven't heard anyone talk about THEM in ages. What ever happened to THEM?
I see a problem with your plan. You would need an internet connection to get the proper settings to set up your internet connection. And while another connection could be found, say at work, to get said settings, most people aren't willing to wait a whole day to go get the information that *might* work. They'd rather just run the .exe and save themselves the hassle.
My company uses SAP R/3. When it was first implemented, we were using a GUI around version 4.xx or so. I can't remember specifically. For those unfamiliar with the old GUI or SAP, every screen was accessible through either the pull down file menu or what is known as a fast path, a four or five character name for a particular function. With a few exceptions, you never really had to use a mouse. Then came the millennium upgrades. The GUI for versions 6.xx was redone such that everything was accessible through a tree instead of the pull down menu. The rest of the GUI was prettied up with animations and other features to help those less computer savvy. The fast paths were still there, but I disliked them for other reasons. The tree was usable with just the keyboard. But it was made such that mouse manipulation was preferable. You could still revert back to the old pull down menu through a tedious process that involved opening and closing screens in a particular way and order. But it was wasteful as in the time it would take to revert, you could already be running the query/function. It was hardly convenient if you had to move from workstation to workstation or log in repeatedly. Add the point, hunt and peck, click, point, hunt and peck, click method many use for data entry and you have greatly reduced efficiency. I tend to have a hot or cold approach to such things. Either make it uniformly difficult so the user has to actually learn what it is they are doing. Or make it mind numbingly simple with giant letters and iconified buttons where all they have to do is point and click. I've always thought mice were for games anyway.
In fascist America, the RIAA rips you.
I think it would be best to call out all the lawyers first. You get more hits on that query than Republican fanboys, crooked politicians (redundant of course), or words that begin with a letter.
Right after the lawyers of course.
And Allofmp3 is the lynch pin keeping Russia out.
Remember when Russia was the enemy? And we had classic cliche's based on them? Meeeemmoorriiiiiieeesssss!!!!
Coke is it.
That doesn't take into account billing cycles. I get my cable bill around the seventh of each month. around the 25th I get a late notice. A few days later I get an automated phone call asking that I call back to an 800 number. On the first of the next month my payment goes out. They're smart enough not to charge me a late fee for 21 days of non-payment.
But this is typical of any company. They want to be paid on a shorter cycle than they themselves make their payments. It increases their available cash flow.
I agree that if someone doesn't pay their bill, cut them off. If their outstanding ledger begins to negatively affect their ability to do business, lower the cut off limit. If that causes customers to drop and in turn causes bottom line issues, raise it back up. I'm sure some bean counter has worked all this out.
But I figure with the amount of harassment I get, paying the bill just late enough and convenient to my bottom line, the situation is sufficiently optimal for me to keep the service.
Send in dog slobber as yours.
Some would argue the recently killed and revived immigration reform bill falls into this category.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/09/052620 1
They don't cover it because there is no pill.
Will cracked versions feature a pasty white buttocks of the nerd that cracked it?
I'm in ur faxes, usin up ur tonerz.
I haven't played with faxes in a while. But couldn't you just set the baud rate at 300?
Ah, the joys of double entendre.
Try a PIII 667MHz with 256MB of PC-133 RAM running Windows XP Pro, Outlook, Symantec AV, various corporate spyware, SAP and FF.
"I'll call your father and have him pick up a pack of spare panels from Walmart on his way home from work."
is like OJ saying he didn't do it.
The nightstand obviously. You should try it. Put your junk in a drawer and slam it shut.
I'm only obsessed with my own penis. Excepting of course penises girls keep in their nightstands. And that excepting only the hot ones.
I was informed by a coworker that I might get into trouble over the finger. So I erased just the finger. But that hasn't stopped others from adding penises or hats or other features to my mooninite.
Not to mention such a federation would marginalize individual super powers in the UN.
So it's really just a faux democracy then, isn't it?