I lived in Yokohama for 6 years and never saw anything like you've described. Even going all the way out to the Sado islands, I never had any problems finding a normal toilet.
The holes in the ground, sure, but even they flushed.
Where were you where "smart toilets" were a myth? They were *everywhere* when I was there.
I've never heard anyone use that phrase to describe public school teachers, honestly. I always hear about what a sacrifice they're making for the good of the children, how underpaid and undervalued they are, and what dedicated individuals they are.
I think that society has a pretty good view of teachers. It's all the bureaucracy and moron *parents* that are screwing everything up.
Several broken Dell units at former job. All of them under warranty. Always had on-site repairs done within 24 hours of the dispatch. Granted, I had to spend an average of 3 hours on the phone with them before they'd do the dispatch, but after that was done and it was determined to be hardware, things went ok.
I recently worked for a company of only 40 people and had absolutely FANTASTIC support from Netscreen (Juniper) - from a senior engineering level, too. Great people to work with.
Keeping them on unitl February? Severance packages?
When I was at Netscape during layoffs in 2001, I TRIED to get myself laid off by crank calling Steve Case and leaving him angry messages about our lack of a working espresso machine. Friend of mine that was laid off got a $25,000 check, continued health coverage, and 3 free months of AOL dialup.
Recent gig (spammers) that laid me off gave me a whopping week and then screwed me out of my accrued vacation time. Bastards.
I *wish* I'd have gotten a package like those at AOL!
They'll still be unemployed, but the severance packages sure help out a lot.:|
Hrm, someone decided this was flamebait. It's not, sorry.
" See all of my previous rants about what a pile of shit Sunbird is.
Even this morning, trying to email a calendar request to another user results in the.ics file opening in their browser, not adding the event to the calendar.
That's a *basic feature* that keeps a LOT of people on Outlook. They WANT the clicky clicky "Let me calender you, Mr Coworker!" crap. It doesn't work in Sunbird.
The calendar just plain sucks. There's a HUGE OPPORTUNITY here to attract a LOT of small business/home office users (at least) but they're totally blowing it by pissing away time arguing about the default theme for the application.
Fix the damn calendar, and they will come. Please."
When you actually have to do a deskside visit to carefully explain to an executive that the big "X" in her email is because her 14 line signature line was actually hotlinking to a remote image on a web server in flippin' Switzerland that no longer had the image.
WHY Outlook lets you do stupid shit like that is beyond me. God, I hate that program...
After all, Outlook automatically corrects your spelling for you as you type.
"patience" is spelled correctly. In context, it's probably the wrong word, but it's still spelled correctly.
I've seen that happen quite a few times - people relying on the Outlook/Word spellchecked and it corrects their email by inserting correctly spelled, but irrelevant words. The CxO drones don't even notice it.
Not to pick on the H1-B types, but I've run across a lot of incomprehensible emails written by foreign employees. Are we just letting them slide by because English isn't their native tongue?
Even worse is seeing people *at work* typing emails like they're typing a text message. The shorthand like "U R l8r" is just awful to see in a corporate email.
See all of my previous rants about what a pile of shit Sunbird is.
Even this morning, trying to email a calendar request to another user results in the.ics file opening in their browser, not adding the event to the calendar.
That's a *basic feature* that keeps a LOT of people on Outlook. They WANT the clicky clicky "Let me calender you, Mr Coworker!" crap. It doesn't work in Sunbird.
The calendar just plain sucks. There's a HUGE OPPORTUNITY here to attract a LOT of small business/home office users (at least) but they're totally blowing it by pissing away time arguing about the default theme for the application.
Fix the damn calendar, and they will come. Please.
Last night's episode of (Insert show here) was fantastic! I am very happy to see that our nation is still one where free speech exists, and entertainment like (Insert show here) is available. God bless America! Keep up the good work, FCC!
Love, Taxpayer
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I think that a few million happy letters to the FCC will counteract these "concerned parent" morons, eh?:)
The City of Pleasant Hill has ensured that all traffic lights turn *red* as you're approaching them. I think that they do that to either taunt oncoming drivers, or so the city can collet revenue from the people that punch it and run through the light.
Catching red light runners around here is *very* easy.:P
I recently worked for a company that changed its focus to "email advertising" - everything was scripted to where they could hop domains & IPs and everything with the flip of a script.
SPF records, reverse DNS, the whole enchilada. It all matched up and looked 100% legit, but it was full on junk mail.
I recently worked for a company that was turning into nothing but spammers - they were registering 50~100 new domains *per WEEK* to use for bulk email.
Just because there are X domains registered doesn't mean that they're actually being used for anything useful.
I've itched about this before as well - Thunderbird very well could blow away Outlook in many organizations, but the CALENDAR *SUCKS* - Sorry, Sunbird sucks more ass than anything that has even sucked ass before. The last time I tried it, it was incapable of recognizing its own calendar files, instead they were opening as plain old text in Mozilla.
Here's my idea: Ditch flippin Chatzilla. Put a lot of effort towards the calendar.
The Calendar is one of the big reasons (that I have found) that people stick with Microsoft Outlook.
It doesn't even have to be the whiz-bang calendar like Outlook has, but it'd be nice if it would actually work worth a crap.
Well, yeah, I'm sure. heh. You mentioned what I was talking about.;)
I saw a news bit the other day about lawyers dealing with patents/etc are being outsourced. Basically anything legal that could go along with an engineering or science degree could be (and sometimes is) outsourced. Anything that doesn't actually require a presence in a courtroom, that is.
I'm not too happy about radiologists being outsourced, but.. *shrug*
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Unless it's the actual AIM network (toc/oscar) that's taken a huge crap.
:-)
If the backend is down, your AIM client is totally irrelevant anyway.
Hah. Hardly. One trip to the local BBQ joint and the toilet would just say: :)
"I apologize - please don't ever assult me like that again.."
I lived in Yokohama for 6 years and never saw anything like you've described. Even going all the way out to the Sado islands, I never had any problems finding a normal toilet.
The holes in the ground, sure, but even they flushed.
Where were you where "smart toilets" were a myth? They were *everywhere* when I was there.
I've never heard anyone use that phrase to describe public school teachers, honestly. I always hear about what a sacrifice they're making for the good of the children, how underpaid and undervalued they are, and what dedicated individuals they are.
I think that society has a pretty good view of teachers.
It's all the bureaucracy and moron *parents* that are screwing everything up.
In other news, shutting off the mail server forever will reduce spam by %100! No false positives at all!
:P
Not having sex will prevent unwanted pregnancies too!
I'd file this submission under the "no-shit-sherlock-dept"
This is quite possibly the most useless thing I've ever seen here - I can't wait for the dup.
Several broken Dell units at former job. All of them under warranty. Always had on-site repairs done within 24 hours of the dispatch.
Granted, I had to spend an average of 3 hours on the phone with them before they'd do the dispatch, but after that was done and it was determined to be hardware, things went ok.
I recently worked for a company of only 40 people and had absolutely FANTASTIC support from Netscreen (Juniper) - from a senior engineering level, too. Great people to work with.
Probably because nobody wants to hear the truth 'round here. :|
Keeping them on unitl February? Severance packages?
:|
When I was at Netscape during layoffs in 2001, I TRIED to get myself laid off by crank calling Steve Case and leaving him angry messages about our lack of a working espresso machine.
Friend of mine that was laid off got a $25,000 check, continued health coverage, and 3 free months of AOL dialup.
Recent gig (spammers) that laid me off gave me a whopping week and then screwed me out of my accrued vacation time. Bastards.
I *wish* I'd have gotten a package like those at AOL!
They'll still be unemployed, but the severance packages sure help out a lot.
Hrm, someone decided this was flamebait. It's not, sorry.
.ics file opening in their browser, not adding the event to the calendar.
" See all of my previous rants about what a pile of shit Sunbird is.
Even this morning, trying to email a calendar request to another user results in the
That's a *basic feature* that keeps a LOT of people on Outlook. They WANT the clicky clicky "Let me calender you, Mr Coworker!" crap. It doesn't work in Sunbird.
The calendar just plain sucks. There's a HUGE OPPORTUNITY here to attract a LOT of small business/home office users (at least) but they're totally blowing it by pissing away time arguing about the default theme for the application.
Fix the damn calendar, and they will come. Please."
When you actually have to do a deskside visit to carefully explain to an executive that the big "X" in her email is because her 14 line signature line was actually hotlinking to a remote image on a web server in flippin' Switzerland that no longer had the image.
WHY Outlook lets you do stupid shit like that is beyond me.
God, I hate that program...
After all, Outlook automatically corrects your spelling for you as you type.
"patience" is spelled correctly. In context, it's probably the wrong word, but it's still spelled correctly.
I've seen that happen quite a few times - people relying on the Outlook/Word spellchecked and it corrects their email by inserting correctly spelled, but irrelevant words.
The CxO drones don't even notice it.
Not to pick on the H1-B types, but I've run across a lot of incomprehensible emails written by foreign employees. Are we just letting them slide by because English isn't their native tongue?
Even worse is seeing people *at work* typing emails like they're typing a text message. The shorthand like "U R l8r" is just awful to see in a corporate email.
See all of my previous rants about what a pile of shit Sunbird is.
.ics file opening in their browser, not adding the event to the calendar.
Even this morning, trying to email a calendar request to another user results in the
That's a *basic feature* that keeps a LOT of people on Outlook. They WANT the clicky clicky "Let me calender you, Mr Coworker!" crap. It doesn't work in Sunbird.
The calendar just plain sucks. There's a HUGE OPPORTUNITY here to attract a LOT of small business/home office users (at least) but they're totally blowing it by pissing away time arguing about the default theme for the application.
Fix the damn calendar, and they will come. Please.
Dear FCC,
:)
Last night's episode of (Insert show here) was fantastic! I am very happy to see that our nation is still one where free speech exists, and entertainment like (Insert show here) is available. God bless America! Keep up the good work, FCC!
Love,
Taxpayer
---
I think that a few million happy letters to the FCC will counteract these "concerned parent" morons, eh?
The City of Pleasant Hill has ensured that all traffic lights turn *red* as you're approaching them. I think that they do that to either taunt oncoming drivers, or so the city can collet revenue from the people that punch it and run through the light.
:P
Catching red light runners around here is *very* easy.
try a few thousand..
I recently worked for a company that changed its focus to "email advertising" - everything was scripted to where they could hop domains & IPs and everything with the flip of a script.
SPF records, reverse DNS, the whole enchilada. It all matched up and looked 100% legit, but it was full on junk mail.
I think that you're thinking of propylene glycol, commonly used in de-icing/antifreeze fluids.
I have the feeling that they're just blaming the lack of sales on internet piracy instead of just admitting that a lot of this stuff just sucks ass.
ONe of the GSM plans was a $99/mo, unlimited airtime plan.
I don't think that it exists anymore.. it was a promo plan.
I recently worked for a company that was turning into nothing but spammers - they were registering 50~100 new domains *per WEEK* to use for bulk email.
Just because there are X domains registered doesn't mean that they're actually being used for anything useful.
I've itched about this before as well - Thunderbird very well could blow away Outlook in many organizations, but the CALENDAR *SUCKS* - Sorry, Sunbird sucks more ass than anything that has even sucked ass before. The last time I tried it, it was incapable of recognizing its own calendar files, instead they were opening as plain old text in Mozilla.
Here's my idea: Ditch flippin Chatzilla. Put a lot of effort towards the calendar.
The Calendar is one of the big reasons (that I have found) that people stick with Microsoft Outlook.
It doesn't even have to be the whiz-bang calendar like Outlook has, but it'd be nice if it would actually work worth a crap.
The guy that had like -$2300 and never made into Final Jeopardy.
He was on what will probably be the most memorable Jeopardy episode ever, and he got totally creamed.
Well, yeah, I'm sure. heh. You mentioned what I was talking about. ;)
I saw a news bit the other day about lawyers dealing with patents/etc are being outsourced. Basically anything legal that could go along with an engineering or science degree could be (and sometimes is) outsourced. Anything that doesn't actually require a presence in a courtroom, that is.
I'm not too happy about radiologists being outsourced, but.. *shrug*
Don't forget that a lot of medical & lawyer jobs have been outsourced to India, too.
I'm not kidding about that. Lawyers being outsourced. It *IS* happening.