No, the problem isn't racism. The problem is most of the people manning off shore help desks - especially tier one support - are completely incompetent.
Well, at least there is a better chance of the person on the other end of the phone being able to speak in complete sentences. US English grammer seems to be lost on low end employees such as those found working these off shore help desks.
IANAL but as I understand it, a new law would need to be passed to make the owner of the vehicle (or at least the ezpass subscriber) responsible for any speeding tickets incurred by anyone who drives the vehicle. As it stands now, at least here in NJ, a speeding ticket is issued to an individual and not to a vehicle. Therefore if I receive a summons in the mail for speeding that was detected using this ezpass method I can claim I was not driving the vehicle at that time and the ticket is thrown out. Same argument applies for Ka band photo radar.
Interesting. I just heard on NPR (here in the States) yesterday that Tony Blair is trying to increase tuition fees there as well. Apparantly tuition was free in Britain as well prior to six years ago when Mr. Blair took over as PM. These increases could possibly triple what British students now pay, up to about US $5000 per hear. In the report students could be heard chanting that they wanted a "fair education", which they defined as a "free education".
By US standards US $5000 per year for school is extremely inexpensive. One can only get the most basic education for that money, and room and board would almost certainly not be included in that price, and most likely neither would books. For a good education here in the US try something more in the line of US $20,000 per year.
Mr. Blair's point is a good one though. If students can expect to obtain a better paying job by attending and completing studies at University, they should also bear part of the financial burden. At least it makes sense from this side of the pond.
I was disappointed when I saw this card started in '96. I was hoping for some talk of the Millenium and Millenium II, Hurcules, Number 9's, and other true "classic" cards, not just the start of the 3d revolution. Oh well, good article anyhow.
I cringed a bit when I heard this myself, and I'm US born (and raised, and lived here all my 33 years). Truth is, I thought SuSE was a well run company with a solid product as it was. I hope Novell doesn't muck it up. That goes for Ximian as well.
Funny. It took me $20 (ebay) to find out SuSE (8.1) rules. I've never looked back and happily plunked down my $80 for a full version of 8.2 when it was released. I had been a (completely disgruntled) Mandrake (7.0-8.something) user previously, and a RedHat (4.2-5.2) user prior to that. Prior to that I was an OS/2'er!;)
How soon we forget. Anyone remember how useless the Internet was on 11 September 2001? Internet communication still uses shared bandwidth and is typically a one to one communication. Each user opens a connection to a web server over a relatively small pipe and requests data. With radio the data is always there - just turn on the receiver. No bandwidth constraints, no waiting for requests to be processed, no/. effect, and most of the time it's backhoe-proof. Can't say that for most websites or the Internet infrastructure in general.
I was going to bring this up myself. Granted, the post mentioned using radio to promote artists isn't a good solution any more, but as a news source or for emergency communications it's still number one. Let's not forget that!
Well, if you figure on a 20 year compensation package, that would make an average 240 lb programmer worth about $55k US per year at today's gold rates. Yeah, I'll agree with that.
I buy all my hardware from Worthington Distribution (www.worthdist.com). They supply electricians and electrical supply houses mostly, but the X10 selection is second to none. Excellent pricing as well. As for software, I go with HomeSeer even though it's a Windows app.
Some are free, some aren't. Such is life. I've left out utilities like AV software on purpose and stuck with "real apps". I also focused more on Windows since who cares about Linux "must haves" when just about everything is free anyway?
OpenOffice Firebird/Thunderbird Boxer (text editor) CuteFTP Pro PuTTY/psftp/puttygen/etc WinZip VNC (arguably a utility) PaintShop Pro (sorry, never tried WinGimp) Gaim (I gave up on Trillian, but it's decent as well) Acrobat Reader
Who really cares how long it takes to boot Linux? Considering I reboot my machines - laptop excepted - about twice a year, the current startup time is fine for me. I like that I have time to watch messages as they scroll by to determine if something is going wrong during the boot process. I'm not against progress, but it's not like the Windows desktop world where many machines are booted once a week or even more often.
Whether it's buying some IBM product or choosing to use some IBM technology over their competition in some manner. IBM is supporting Linux and the GPL, so those of us that choose to rely on Linux should help out any way we can! Show IBM we appreciate the effort and expense!
Finally a good reason to pay the extra $5 a month for BBCA, DIY, Fine Living, and all those alternate Discovery channels. Actually, all those were reason enough, but I was PO'd at the cable company for taking them away from me when I didn't want to pay another $5 a month. Now I just may have to bite.
We're around 3000 or so now. Deleted 800 this am at around 10, by 3 pm there was another 100 to be deleted.
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I didn't find that difficult to comprehend, although not being a sat fan I didn't necessarily understand everything. I guess being a ham has some value - in understanding Slashdot posts!
I've tried this, and I haven't been able to get published calendars to synch yet. Although I was able to publish to an IIS server. Who knew IIS was Moz-Cal friendly?
Well, they rolled cassette prices back to 1988, but CD's were still in the $14-$16 range then. CDs were still a "new thing" back then, and quite honestly the quality of a lot of them sucked. I'd say this is probably the cheapest CD's have ever been, although I don't really follow the market.
Any consultant or consulting firm worth their salt knows that you don't recommend platforms in general. Instead, find the product that best suits the need of the client. This includes usability, learning curve, cost, features, etc. The fact of the matter is that rarely does one come across an area other than graphic design and multimedia where Apple offers the "best" solution. If a typical environment consists of 20 PC's and a couple of servers, I'm not going to recommend my client dump their investment in Intel hardware and buy a bunch of Apple machines, even if I'm looking for a graphic/multimedia system and regardless of how cool I think OS X is. Instead, I'll find something that doesn't require the user's learning a new platform (Mac OS X) and doesn't require as large an investment in new hardware.
''The Galeon web browser. They chose January6 [mozdev.org] instead. Not that its a bad browser, it just feels ike netscape 2 and that the name is a bad choice''
God, that DOES look like mid-90's era Netscape. Ugh. Guess that's why I'm a KDE user.;) (ducking)
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No, the problem isn't racism. The problem is most of the people manning off shore help desks - especially tier one support - are completely incompetent.
Well, at least there is a better chance of the person on the other end of the phone being able to speak in complete sentences. US English grammer seems to be lost on low end employees such as those found working these off shore help desks.
I saw this and the first thing I thought of was that someone was reviving Beagle Bros, the awesome Apple II software company from the 80's.
ISP - now there's a business I want to jump into these days. Not!
IANAL but as I understand it, a new law would need to be passed to make the owner of the vehicle (or at least the ezpass subscriber) responsible for any speeding tickets incurred by anyone who drives the vehicle. As it stands now, at least here in NJ, a speeding ticket is issued to an individual and not to a vehicle. Therefore if I receive a summons in the mail for speeding that was detected using this ezpass method I can claim I was not driving the vehicle at that time and the ticket is thrown out. Same argument applies for Ka band photo radar.
Interesting. I just heard on NPR (here in the States) yesterday that Tony Blair is trying to increase tuition fees there as well. Apparantly tuition was free in Britain as well prior to six years ago when Mr. Blair took over as PM. These increases could possibly triple what British students now pay, up to about US $5000 per hear. In the report students could be heard chanting that they wanted a "fair education", which they defined as a "free education".
By US standards US $5000 per year for school is extremely inexpensive. One can only get the most basic education for that money, and room and board would almost certainly not be included in that price, and most likely neither would books. For a good education here in the US try something more in the line of US $20,000 per year.
Mr. Blair's point is a good one though. If students can expect to obtain a better paying job by attending and completing studies at University, they should also bear part of the financial burden. At least it makes sense from this side of the pond.
I was disappointed when I saw this card started in '96. I was hoping for some talk of the Millenium and Millenium II, Hurcules, Number 9's, and other true "classic" cards, not just the start of the 3d revolution. Oh well, good article anyhow.
I cringed a bit when I heard this myself, and I'm US born (and raised, and lived here all my 33 years). Truth is, I thought SuSE was a well run company with a solid product as it was. I hope Novell doesn't muck it up. That goes for Ximian as well.
Funny. It took me $20 (ebay) to find out SuSE (8.1) rules. I've never looked back and happily plunked down my $80 for a full version of 8.2 when it was released. I had been a (completely disgruntled) Mandrake (7.0-8.something) user previously, and a RedHat (4.2-5.2) user prior to that. Prior to that I was an OS/2'er! ;)
How soon we forget. Anyone remember how useless the Internet was on 11 September 2001? Internet communication still uses shared bandwidth and is typically a one to one communication. Each user opens a connection to a web server over a relatively small pipe and requests data. With radio the data is always there - just turn on the receiver. No bandwidth constraints, no waiting for requests to be processed, no /. effect, and most of the time it's backhoe-proof. Can't say that for most websites or the Internet infrastructure in general.
I was going to bring this up myself. Granted, the post mentioned using radio to promote artists isn't a good solution any more, but as a news source or for emergency communications it's still number one. Let's not forget that!
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Well, if you figure on a 20 year compensation package, that would make an average 240 lb programmer worth about $55k US per year at today's gold rates. Yeah, I'll agree with that.
I buy all my hardware from Worthington Distribution (www.worthdist.com). They supply electricians and electrical supply houses mostly, but the X10 selection is second to none. Excellent pricing as well. As for software, I go with HomeSeer even though it's a Windows app.
...Bluetooth isn't dead after all.
Some are free, some aren't. Such is life. I've left out utilities like AV software on purpose and stuck with "real apps". I also focused more on Windows since who cares about Linux "must haves" when just about everything is free anyway?
OpenOffice
Firebird/Thunderbird
Boxer (text editor)
CuteFTP Pro
PuTTY/psftp/puttygen/etc
WinZip
VNC (arguably a utility)
PaintShop Pro (sorry, never tried WinGimp)
Gaim (I gave up on Trillian, but it's decent as well)
Acrobat Reader
Who really cares how long it takes to boot Linux? Considering I reboot my machines - laptop excepted - about twice a year, the current startup time is fine for me. I like that I have time to watch messages as they scroll by to determine if something is going wrong during the boot process. I'm not against progress, but it's not like the Windows desktop world where many machines are booted once a week or even more often.
Whether it's buying some IBM product or choosing to use some IBM technology over their competition in some manner. IBM is supporting Linux and the GPL, so those of us that choose to rely on Linux should help out any way we can! Show IBM we appreciate the effort and expense!
Finally a good reason to pay the extra $5 a month for BBCA, DIY, Fine Living, and all those alternate Discovery channels. Actually, all those were reason enough, but I was PO'd at the cable company for taking them away from me when I didn't want to pay another $5 a month. Now I just may have to bite.
We're around 3000 or so now. Deleted 800 this am at around 10, by 3 pm there was another 100 to be deleted.
I didn't find that difficult to comprehend, although not being a sat fan I didn't necessarily understand everything. I guess being a ham has some value - in understanding Slashdot posts!
DE KC2KTH
I've tried this, and I haven't been able to get published calendars to synch yet. Although I was able to publish to an IIS server. Who knew IIS was Moz-Cal friendly?
Well, they rolled cassette prices back to 1988, but CD's were still in the $14-$16 range then. CDs were still a "new thing" back then, and quite honestly the quality of a lot of them sucked. I'd say this is probably the cheapest CD's have ever been, although I don't really follow the market.
...just how out of date I am running 2.0.10.
Any consultant or consulting firm worth their salt knows that you don't recommend platforms in general. Instead, find the product that best suits the need of the client. This includes usability, learning curve, cost, features, etc. The fact of the matter is that rarely does one come across an area other than graphic design and multimedia where Apple offers the "best" solution. If a typical environment consists of 20 PC's and a couple of servers, I'm not going to recommend my client dump their investment in Intel hardware and buy a bunch of Apple machines, even if I'm looking for a graphic/multimedia system and regardless of how cool I think OS X is. Instead, I'll find something that doesn't require the user's learning a new platform (Mac OS X) and doesn't require as large an investment in new hardware.
''The Galeon web browser. They chose January6 [mozdev.org] instead. Not that its a bad browser, it just feels ike netscape 2 and that the name is a bad choice''
;) (ducking)
God, that DOES look like mid-90's era Netscape. Ugh. Guess that's why I'm a KDE user.