I can't imagine that they could charge for it, what with all the free alternatives out there. And their strategy usually is to give stuff away in order to force the competition out of business.
I think if AOL was just a tad smarter they would not only offer a "shell" akin to Maxthon for IE 6.0x versions that allows access to AOL-only content, but also offer an extension suite for Firefox 1.0 that more or less does the same thing.
I would tend to doubt that AOL users and Firefox users overlap much.
I've voted Libertarian in the last 2 presidential elections. I don't worry that the Libertarian candidate isn't going to win - I want my vote to be counted for him. I want people to know that at least some voters are hoping for a real change.
If you can bust your ass and do your job on only 30 hours a week, rock on
I've been salaried my entire career (over 10 years), and I've never had an employer who felt this way. If the job gets done in 30 hours, I move on to the next job for the last 10 hours.
To get back to the topic, I telecommute full-time. I live in Cary, NC; the home office is in Minneapolis, MN. My employer pays for my broadband, and a phone line in my home office.
I don't think sites like this encourages spam. I think MONEY encourages spam. The problem is that the.0001% of people who actually respond to spam generate enough revenue that the spammers stay at it.
I took in '86 also. But we did our programming on Apple IIe's. I still remember swapping those big 5.25 floppies. Alas, the next year my school got a nice Mac lab. I really liked Pascal, it was my second language after BASIC. The next year in college I had to take FORTRAN, and I couldn't believe how primitive it was compared to Pascal.
Gotta second the vote for the Timex GPS. I love that thing. I just finished my 5th marathon, and I don't know how I would do my training without it anymore. Sure, I used to run without it, but I always had to go measure the route in the car (not too good for trail runs), or just guess at the mileage. Now I can run any route I want, change the route on a whim, and run in strange cities without too much prep.
I don't think the point is to try to integrate multiple different OS's in a single organization. The point is that each organization can standardize on a different OS, so that an attack aimed at a particular OS only affects those organizations which are using that OS, which is ideally a minority of all organizations. The internet is already an integrated network of many different OS types. The only thing needed for interoperation is TCP/IP and XML.
The other day my laptop was connecting to the campus Wi-fi, 12 to 15 miles away, using nothing but the built-in wireless card. Throughput was crappy though.
Yeah, I make good money, and I telecommute fulltime, and I still hate my job.
I'd consider a pay cut for a job I liked better, but I don't know if I could face getting in the car and driving to work again. I've been working from home for 5 years now, and every time I see a morning traffic report on the tv, or I have to drive somewhere at 5pm, I wonder how I would ever commute on a daily basis again.
Anyway, I digress. Its not all about the money. I like the money, no doubt, but I would like even better to be doing something interesting.
With the chips in the car communicating with the chips on the road, it would be easy for the in-car chip to signal the driver, by highlighting the speed limit on the speedometer, for example.
Yep, I got spammed as well. 10 or 12 emails at least. And I actually have the latest version of MS Messenger already, even though I don't use it. I'm a die-hard trillian fan.
Even if companies do follow your suggestion, it is still costing them a lot of money to have to do it. It takes time to drag and drop. Not much, granted (and it would be less time if you didn't have to watch the cutesy papers flying across the progress dialog), but the more resumes they get, the more time they are spending doing the copying. I would guess it takes at least 3 times as long to do the copying as it does to just click the delete button.
The way I see it, the government is imposing a rather large financial burden on employers, just so the government can go have a look when they want to see if the employer is unfairly dicriminating against applicants.
This reminds me of the standard mortgage application. It has a box where you are required to indicate your race. Why should you have to indicate your race on a mortgage app? Only so the government can make sure the lender is not using that information. Not only is the lender required to collect information they aren't legally allowed to consider, the lender is required to guess the applicant's race if the applicant refuses to provide it.
Just another fine example of government stupidity.
I grew up in Memphis, TN, and in Greensboro, NC. My parents were from SC. All my life I've used "Coke" as a generic term for "soft drink". My wife is from CT so now I am becoming accustomed to the term "soda".
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My wife worked at SAIC, and the uncertainty of the job was part of the reason she left. Ironically, she spent the last couple of months there developing the re-bid to keep the project she was working on. She won the re-bid but quit anyway. She liked the employee ownership though. We made some money on our shares when she left. I've got another connection to SAIC: I was in the field artillery in the army and our fire direction control computers were made by SAIC.
Wireless is great for most stuff, but if you have any online gamers in the building, they're gonna want a wire. Wireless doesn't always keep up with the amount of traffic required for a realtime game.
I have a Linksys wireless router in my home office which I'm hardwired to, but my kids' computer upstairs has a wireless NIC. When I'm playing BF1942 with the kids, I get frequent "connection problems" which cause me to crash my Spitfire (unless I have enough altitude to recover once the connection problem goes away).
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I can't imagine that they could charge for it, what with all the free alternatives out there. And their strategy usually is to give stuff away in order to force the competition out of business.
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The imperial system, on the other hand, does have multiple discreet built-in benefits.
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Ahh yes, I remember going to work for a startup. I got options at about $8 per share. The stock is currently worth about 5 cents per share.
I think if AOL was just a tad smarter they would not only offer a "shell" akin to Maxthon for IE 6.0x versions that allows access to AOL-only content, but also offer an extension suite for Firefox 1.0 that more or less does the same thing.
I would tend to doubt that AOL users and Firefox users overlap much.
I've voted Libertarian in the last 2 presidential elections. I don't worry that the Libertarian candidate isn't going to win - I want my vote to be counted for him. I want people to know that at least some voters are hoping for a real change.
If you can bust your ass and do your job on only 30 hours a week, rock on
I've been salaried my entire career (over 10 years), and I've never had an employer who felt this way. If the job gets done in 30 hours, I move on to the next job for the last 10 hours.
To get back to the topic, I telecommute full-time. I live in Cary, NC; the home office is in Minneapolis, MN. My employer pays for my broadband, and a phone line in my home office.
You sound bitter. But I think you're really just a realist.
I don't think sites like this encourages spam. I think MONEY encourages spam. The problem is that the .0001% of people who actually respond to spam generate enough revenue that the spammers stay at it.
I took in '86 also. But we did our programming on Apple IIe's. I still remember swapping those big 5.25 floppies. Alas, the next year my school got a nice Mac lab.
I really liked Pascal, it was my second language after BASIC. The next year in college I had to take FORTRAN, and I couldn't believe how primitive it was compared to Pascal.
Gotta second the vote for the Timex GPS. I love that thing. I just finished my 5th marathon, and I don't know how I would do my training without it anymore.
Sure, I used to run without it, but I always had to go measure the route in the car (not too good for trail runs), or just guess at the mileage. Now I can run any route I want, change the route on a whim, and run in strange cities without too much prep.
I don't think the point is to try to integrate multiple different OS's in a single organization. The point is that each organization can standardize on a different OS, so that an attack aimed at a particular OS only affects those organizations which are using that OS, which is ideally a minority of all organizations. The internet is already an integrated network of many different OS types. The only thing needed for interoperation is TCP/IP and XML.
The other day my laptop was connecting to the campus Wi-fi, 12 to 15 miles away, using nothing but the built-in wireless card. Throughput was crappy though.
I disagree, I have been using Firebird for months and I feel fine!
Amen brother! Why anyone would still be using a browser that doesn't block popups is beyond me.
Yeah, I make good money, and I telecommute fulltime, and I still hate my job.
I'd consider a pay cut for a job I liked better, but I don't know if I could face getting in the car and driving to work again. I've been working from home for 5 years now, and every time I see a morning traffic report on the tv, or I have to drive somewhere at 5pm, I wonder how I would ever commute on a daily basis again.
Anyway, I digress. Its not all about the money. I like the money, no doubt, but I would like even better to be doing something interesting.
With the chips in the car communicating with the chips on the road, it would be easy for the in-car chip to signal the driver, by highlighting the speed limit on the speedometer, for example.
Yep, I got spammed as well. 10 or 12 emails at least. And I actually have the latest version of MS Messenger already, even though I don't use it. I'm a die-hard trillian fan.
I just hope that they don't make it a politically correct POS.
Heh, good one. Its coming out of Hollywood, you know. Not much chance of it being anything but politically correct.
What do you mean, bring him back? Haven't you seen the 10-10-220 ads? I don't know who is worse, Alf or Hulk Hogan.
Even if companies do follow your suggestion, it is still costing them a lot of money to have to do it. It takes time to drag and drop. Not much, granted (and it would be less time if you didn't have to watch the cutesy papers flying across the progress dialog), but the more resumes they get, the more time they are spending doing the copying. I would guess it takes at least 3 times as long to do the copying as it does to just click the delete button.
The way I see it, the government is imposing a rather large financial burden on employers, just so the government can go have a look when they want to see if the employer is unfairly dicriminating against applicants.
This reminds me of the standard mortgage application. It has a box where you are required to indicate your race. Why should you have to indicate your race on a mortgage app? Only so the government can make sure the lender is not using that information. Not only is the lender required to collect information they aren't legally allowed to consider, the lender is required to guess the applicant's race if the applicant refuses to provide it.
Just another fine example of government stupidity.
Here is a book that lets you get real up close and personal with Einstein's brain.
I grew up in Memphis, TN, and in Greensboro, NC. My parents were from SC. All my life I've used "Coke" as a generic term for "soft drink".
My wife is from CT so now I am becoming accustomed to the term "soda".
My wife worked at SAIC, and the uncertainty of the job was part of the reason she left. Ironically, she spent the last couple of months there developing the re-bid to keep the project she was working on. She won the re-bid but quit anyway.
She liked the employee ownership though. We made some money on our shares when she left.
I've got another connection to SAIC: I was in the field artillery in the army and our fire direction control computers were made by SAIC.
Go wireless!
Wireless is great for most stuff, but if you have any online gamers in the building, they're gonna want a wire. Wireless doesn't always keep up with the amount of traffic required for a realtime game.
I have a Linksys wireless router in my home office which I'm hardwired to, but my kids' computer upstairs has a wireless NIC. When I'm playing BF1942 with the kids, I get frequent "connection problems" which cause me to crash my Spitfire (unless I have enough altitude to recover once the connection problem goes away).
When you post to any site, the words represent you ideas.
Dude, proofread your rant about proofreading!