Kinetic motion watches have been aroud for a long time. They work by having a weighted piece inside the watch act as a pendulum that swings as you turn your wrist in everyday movement. That weighted piece is what winds the watch.
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Christmas Bonuses?
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Here's the thing. If you don't tell people they are getting a bonus, and then you give them one, that's great. However, next year you may not be so financially black (hopefully you are though) so communication is very important. Giving surprise bonuses without prior "warning" can lead to frustration next year when no prior warning is given, and then no bonus is given.
What's worse, is when bonuses are written into contracts and initial hire communications, but then completely dropped around the holiday times (like at my company). Nothing spells plummeting moral like breaking promises, especially when they're promises about money.
I guess what i'm saying, is be careful that you don't end up in a situation where expectation is set through non-communicative means. "Well, we got on last year, and i think we're doing well this year..." is trouble.
Be clear, concise, and honest about bonus policies.
I think a lot of people have a misperception about what is being blocked by the new law.
- Market research, i.e. surveys about what kind of detergent you use, and which health care provider are you a member of...are not covered. - Pledge hunting by non profits, or charities, like Jerry's Kids and the Cancer Society are also not covered. - Political campaign polls (already covered in the MR exemption) and political contribution (i guess already covered by the non profits thing) or any other political call are also exempt. - Calls from a vendor with a pre-existing relationship are also not covered. So... your phone carrier, your credit card company, your car dealership, travel agent, insurance agencie, etc. can still all call you. - Business calls are exempt right from teh steart, so forget about having to dodge the calls from CDW and ever telco vendor aroung. You'll still have to tell then you're just too damn busy to talk to them.
There are some specific regulations about abandone rates, number of seconds after the customer picks up that a call center agent has to be on the phone with you (2), and playing a recorded message if the call center agent isn't available in those 2 seconds. These apply if the company is calling with a predictive dialer.
The mandate to display your ANI for caller ID got delayed until the end of January...Sooooo, if you don't really want to follow the new system, there are a lot of little ways to get out of the regulations (never fill out any of those raffles at the mall - pre-existing relationship, here we come).
The "legitimate" telemarking industry has gone downhill in the last year or two, with a lot of medium size players moving things offshoar. Sadly, the cultural differences are too great most of the time, and it jsut turns out to be rather rediculous to use.
As an aside to that...we had to order a new motherboard for one of our Dell workstations last week, as the keyboard port went bad. We called tech support (guess what - they're now in India!!) only to have the tech on the other end tell us to plug in our keyboard into the mouse port to make sure it wasn't the keyboard (even though we already told them we had switched out the keyboard). It took 5 minutes of insiting for a manager before we were redirected. That was the first bad experience i've ever had with Dell. Three of my other vendors also have their customer support staff in India.
Ministumbler is a CE version of Netstumbler that runs great on my iPaq. You can even have it dynamically hop between the strongest AP's to - it reconfigures your card settings.
I use a PCMCIA card, but i would probably recommend the CF card option, since they use less power.
I see your point about the western theme in a space fantasy movie. I agree, and the theme has been heavly borrowed from, yadda, yadda, yadda.
But what you fail to see about my point, is that there were freakin' chaps, hats and covered wagons in this travesty. I think there were also revolvers too, but my efforts to wipe it from my memory may have gotten the best of me.
I'm seriously not trying to be a troll. But i really don't know what the appeal to this show was? Can somone explain it to me, seriously?!
Like the crappy series wasn't crappy enough, Hollywood is going to blow how many tens of millions on this crappy attempt at camp just because Buffy was a hit show.
Why the hell dont' they make a movie out of Buff..oh, wait, never mind. Now i understand why they're making Firefly.
"From the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer..."
Keep in mind folks, that he's the one that brought us Alien:Resurrection and Titan A.E.
So the fact that nothing runs as expected is supposed to be expected? That makes no sense!
Here's the thing. This isn't a first gen MMORPG. This is what, a third generation game? Have they learned nothing from the past failures? I mean, they limited distribution for the first week/month to avoid having a glut of users trying to get on and crash the servers, and it's not like they can't do a little math to figure out how many users they should expect.
This sort of behaviour has become commonplace, and as a result will never be fixed. The sad thing is, they're only hurting their real fan base with crap like this. I guess somewhere someone said, "Well, these are the hardcore guys that have been waiting three years after 2..3..i forget how many delays. They'll do anything to play this game, so we can do whatever we want the first week. They'll still be there."
There are a number of great producers in western australia that are starting to get some notice (Howard Park is really good). Ask your wine guy to introduce you to some the next time you go shopping.
But, as the original poster mentions in a follow-up, it's hard to beat a $5 bottle that tastes like it should cost $35.
Try the new free Enemy Territoy test. It's available from the good folks at splash damage, et al. You can go to the main site here and grab the ~100 MB files from any number of mirrors, in both Win32 and Linux flavors.
It's not a whole lot different from CS or other FPS, except that it has a skills system that lets you rack up experience points and get promotions that enable better weapon handling or stamina, for example.
It's still a teset now, but runs very smoothly - in native Linux as well as Win32. Best of all, you don't need Return to Castle Wolfenstein to run it, and, did i mention, IT'S FREE!!!
back in the day, there was no engagement ring. Well, there was, but it was the wedding band. You would pick out your wedding bands, and then your fiance would wear the band on the ring finger on her right hand until the wedding day, when it was moved to the left hand.
If your fiance balks at not getting an engagement ring, tell her you're following in your (hopefully) German heritage. It'll probably be a good conversation starter, and sounds better than, "We decided not to get an engagement ring." Which, BTW, translates into, "My stupid fiance is too cheap to buy be a frikken ring!"
S/A has always been a bit of a farce. It can be circumnavigated (no pun intended) if you use Differential GPS.
Basically, you set one GPS receiver up at a known, surveyed location and program that location into the unit. Then when the receiver trilaterates its position based on the information the satellites provide, it does on-the-fly corrections (You say i'm here, but i know i'm here). It can then use that correction algorithm to correct the positions of other receivers.
Of course doing that part on-the-fly is a bit more difficult (read expensive) because now you have to invest in radio communications back and forth between the two or more receivers - but it's often done. There are even services that have base stations set up across the country that sell a subscription-based service for that purpose.
Most times, survey firms just log the data and correct after-the-fact back in the office from the base station (the differentiator) located in the same area.
All in all, S/A only imposes the error to systems that don't have the capability == money to do DGPS.
Yeah, i can see it now. My mother calls tech support at [major manufacturer].
She thinks she's using Windows because it looks like the last computer she used.
She's calling tech support because she her copy of Office doesn't install for some reason - yes, she can see the install disk in Explorer, Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs is there, but alas, she can't install it.
Why on Earth would we want to increase the confusion AND admit that Windows is the de facto desktop?!
So I was wondering. If there is, in fact, water on mars. And if because of that, there was life on mars - microbiotic. What would we do?
Aside from all of the theoligical implications, what would our response be? Would we collect it to near extinction ala early biologists (let's kill it, stuff it, and put it under glass) or would we just leave it alone? Would we bring it back here (unlikely) and if so, where would we put it?
I always kind of assumed that if we found life, it would be more simple than science fiction has postured, but i never really thought of the implications of that simplicity.
I beg to differ. Consider that the (arguably) most popular online multiplayer game (Counter-Strike) was created in a "small shop" - what was it, one guy?
Also, there are a ton of good games chugged out by small shops - consider Serious Sam.
Granted that small shop wasn't located in the US, but those are but two examples without blinking. I'm sure you can come up with your own short list of successful games produced by small companies.
I was watching a story on TechTV (guilty pleasure) about a guy that came up with a novel implementation of an AI that played Tetris.
This guy had a webpage that showed how he did it, which got slashdotted when everyone tried to vist. As if that wasn't bad enough, the next month he got a $7000 bill from Earthlink because he exceeded his bandwidth limit.
Who would be responsible for that? It's not like he submitted the story to Slashdot...
Apparently they were able to pass both the oil and water through an new Irish web browser. The 4-fold increase in speed of all of the particles is what allowed the mixing.
Slashdot Mirror
Kinetic motion watches have been aroud for a long time. They work by having a weighted piece inside the watch act as a pendulum that swings as you turn your wrist in everyday movement. That weighted piece is what winds the watch.
Here's the thing. If you don't tell people they are getting a bonus, and then you give them one, that's great. However, next year you may not be so financially black (hopefully you are though) so communication is very important. Giving surprise bonuses without prior "warning" can lead to frustration next year when no prior warning is given, and then no bonus is given.
What's worse, is when bonuses are written into contracts and initial hire communications, but then completely dropped around the holiday times (like at my company). Nothing spells plummeting moral like breaking promises, especially when they're promises about money.
I guess what i'm saying, is be careful that you don't end up in a situation where expectation is set through non-communicative means. "Well, we got on last year, and i think we're doing well this year..." is trouble.
Be clear, concise, and honest about bonus policies.
I think a lot of people have a misperception about what is being blocked by the new law.
- Market research, i.e. surveys about what kind of detergent you use, and which health care provider are you a member of...are not covered.
- Pledge hunting by non profits, or charities, like Jerry's Kids and the Cancer Society are also not covered.
- Political campaign polls (already covered in the MR exemption) and political contribution (i guess already covered by the non profits thing) or any other political call are also exempt.
- Calls from a vendor with a pre-existing relationship are also not covered. So... your phone carrier, your credit card company, your car dealership, travel agent, insurance agencie, etc. can still all call you.
- Business calls are exempt right from teh steart, so forget about having to dodge the calls from CDW and ever telco vendor aroung. You'll still have to tell then you're just too damn busy to talk to them.
There are some specific regulations about abandone rates, number of seconds after the customer picks up that a call center agent has to be on the phone with you (2), and playing a recorded message if the call center agent isn't available in those 2 seconds. These apply if the company is calling with a predictive dialer.
The mandate to display your ANI for caller ID got delayed until the end of January...Sooooo, if you don't really want to follow the new system, there are a lot of little ways to get out of the regulations (never fill out any of those raffles at the mall - pre-existing relationship, here we come).
The "legitimate" telemarking industry has gone downhill in the last year or two, with a lot of medium size players moving things offshoar. Sadly, the cultural differences are too great most of the time, and it jsut turns out to be rather rediculous to use.
As an aside to that...we had to order a new motherboard for one of our Dell workstations last week, as the keyboard port went bad. We called tech support (guess what - they're now in India!!) only to have the tech on the other end tell us to plug in our keyboard into the mouse port to make sure it wasn't the keyboard (even though we already told them we had switched out the keyboard). It took 5 minutes of insiting for a manager before we were redirected. That was the first bad experience i've ever had with Dell. Three of my other vendors also have their customer support staff in India.
It sucks.
Ministumbler is a CE version of Netstumbler that runs great on my iPaq. You can even have it dynamically hop between the strongest AP's to - it reconfigures your card settings.
I use a PCMCIA card, but i would probably recommend the CF card option, since they use less power.
I see your point about the western theme in a space fantasy movie. I agree, and the theme has been heavly borrowed from, yadda, yadda, yadda.
But what you fail to see about my point, is that there were freakin' chaps, hats and covered wagons in this travesty. I think there were also revolvers too, but my efforts to wipe it from my memory may have gotten the best of me.
I'm seriously not trying to be a troll. But i really don't know what the appeal to this show was? Can somone explain it to me, seriously?!
C'mon - you actually liked that clap trap? It was like the campiest screenplay he could make was found by some exec who thought it would play well.
What the hell is a western and space fantasy doing on the same page?!
Like the crappy series wasn't crappy enough, Hollywood is going to blow how many tens of millions on this crappy attempt at camp just because Buffy was a hit show.
Why the hell dont' they make a movie out of Buff..oh, wait, never mind. Now i understand why they're making Firefly.
"From the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer..."
Keep in mind folks, that he's the one that brought us Alien:Resurrection and Titan A.E.
Ibm had this at least 3-4 years ago with their Scrollpoint Mouse. It's gone through a bunch of iterations, but it's always had that functionality.
Good thing SCO didn't have this first...or did they?
It's a lot easier to be a jackass if you don't have to remember to keep ordering drinks.
So the fact that nothing runs as expected is supposed to be expected? That makes no sense!
Here's the thing. This isn't a first gen MMORPG. This is what, a third generation game? Have they learned nothing from the past failures? I mean, they limited distribution for the first week/month to avoid having a glut of users trying to get on and crash the servers, and it's not like they can't do a little math to figure out how many users they should expect.
This sort of behaviour has become commonplace, and as a result will never be fixed. The sad thing is, they're only hurting their real fan base with crap like this. I guess somewhere someone said, "Well, these are the hardcore guys that have been waiting three years after 2..3..i forget how many delays. They'll do anything to play this game, so we can do whatever we want the first week. They'll still be there."
Piss poor.
There are a number of great producers in western australia that are starting to get some notice (Howard Park is really good). Ask your wine guy to introduce you to some the next time you go shopping.
But, as the original poster mentions in a follow-up, it's hard to beat a $5 bottle that tastes like it should cost $35.
Step 1. Assemble disfunctional Crew
Step 2. Fight off aliens
Setp 3. Profit!!!
Yipee!!
It's cool - check it out.
Try the new free Enemy Territoy test. It's available from the good folks at splash damage, et al. You can go to the main site here and grab the ~100 MB files from any number of mirrors, in both Win32 and Linux flavors.
It's not a whole lot different from CS or other FPS, except that it has a skills system that lets you rack up experience points and get promotions that enable better weapon handling or stamina, for example.
It's still a teset now, but runs very smoothly - in native Linux as well as Win32. Best of all, you don't need Return to Castle Wolfenstein to run it, and, did i mention, IT'S FREE!!!
Gotta love it.
back in the day, there was no engagement ring. Well, there was, but it was the wedding band. You would pick out your wedding bands, and then your fiance would wear the band on the ring finger on her right hand until the wedding day, when it was moved to the left hand.
If your fiance balks at not getting an engagement ring, tell her you're following in your (hopefully) German heritage. It'll probably be a good conversation starter, and sounds better than, "We decided not to get an engagement ring." Which, BTW, translates into, "My stupid fiance is too cheap to buy be a frikken ring!"
Just a thought.
S/A has always been a bit of a farce. It can be circumnavigated (no pun intended) if you use Differential GPS.
Basically, you set one GPS receiver up at a known, surveyed location and program that location into the unit. Then when the receiver trilaterates its position based on the information the satellites provide, it does on-the-fly corrections (You say i'm here, but i know i'm here). It can then use that correction algorithm to correct the positions of other receivers.
Of course doing that part on-the-fly is a bit more difficult (read expensive) because now you have to invest in radio communications back and forth between the two or more receivers - but it's often done. There are even services that have base stations set up across the country that sell a subscription-based service for that purpose.
Most times, survey firms just log the data and correct after-the-fact back in the office from the base station (the differentiator) located in the same area.
All in all, S/A only imposes the error to systems that don't have the capability == money to do DGPS.
Yeah, i can see it now. My mother calls tech support at [major manufacturer].
She thinks she's using Windows because it looks like the last computer she used.
She's calling tech support because she her copy of Office doesn't install for some reason - yes, she can see the install disk in Explorer, Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs is there, but alas, she can't install it.
Why on Earth would we want to increase the confusion AND admit that Windows is the de facto desktop?!
So I was wondering. If there is, in fact, water on mars. And if because of that, there was life on mars - microbiotic. What would we do?
Aside from all of the theoligical implications, what would our response be? Would we collect it to near extinction ala early biologists (let's kill it, stuff it, and put it under glass) or would we just leave it alone? Would we bring it back here (unlikely) and if so, where would we put it?
I always kind of assumed that if we found life, it would be more simple than science fiction has postured, but i never really thought of the implications of that simplicity.
I beg to differ. Consider that the (arguably) most popular online multiplayer game (Counter-Strike) was created in a "small shop" - what was it, one guy?
Also, there are a ton of good games chugged out by small shops - consider Serious Sam.
Granted that small shop wasn't located in the US, but those are but two examples without blinking. I'm sure you can come up with your own short list of successful games produced by small companies.
It's not a duplicate - it's a RAID 1 mirror of the previous story.
I was watching a story on TechTV (guilty pleasure) about a guy that came up with a novel implementation of an AI that played Tetris.
This guy had a webpage that showed how he did it, which got slashdotted when everyone tried to vist. As if that wasn't bad enough, the next month he got a $7000 bill from Earthlink because he exceeded his bandwidth limit.
Who would be responsible for that? It's not like he submitted the story to Slashdot...
makin' bacon...into fuel.
For the method and process of submitting idiotic patents?
or is anyone else sick of having to describe a Mac like this:
"It's a G3. Not a beige G3, but the Blue one. The first of the cool looking ones."
Or, "It's a G4. No, not the grey one, the silver one. Yeah, well silver and the one with the mirrored drive doors."
Apparently they were able to pass both the oil and water through an new Irish web browser. The 4-fold increase in speed of all of the particles is what allowed the mixing.