Somehow I think it just doesn't much matter. From Robert Wright's opinion piece in the NYT on March 9 (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/toyotas-are-safe-enough/):...if you drive one of the Toyotas recalled for acceleration problems and don't bother to comply with the recall, your chances of being involved in a fatal accident over the next two years because of the unfixed problem are a bit worse than one in a million -- 2.8 in a million, to be more exact. Meanwhile, your chances of being killed in a car accident during the next two years just by virtue of being an American are one in 5,244.
Hmm. My 2009 Prius consistently gets 80-100% better mileage than my 2002 Saturn SL 4 door 5-speed. And in the stop and go traffic I often have to drive in, I'll take the automatic any day.
Since I often need to remote control my computer from home, I have to leave it on overnight. We have VPN, but my home computer is a Mac and isn't recognized as a VPN-capable machine by our network management people. So I use Citrix to take over my work machine when I need to work from home.
We did several times at my former employer. A couple we got solutions on, and one was acknowledged as an Outlook bug that we discovered in Outlook XP and hadn't been fixed in Outlook 2003 (something to do with updating recurring events...I didn't handle the problem). The level of service, including followup, were excellent, and we didn't have to pay for the incident that resulted in the Outlook bug discovery.
Yeah, but when Outlook first came out there were few, if any, web apps out there, and few of the companies I've worked for had the expertise to develop them. Once you've been using a version or two of Outlook, people get hooked on it and want to continue to use it.
I now work for a Fortune 100 company running Windows (XP/2003), Exchange and Office 2003 throughout the enterprise, and we do the shared calendar/reserve conference rooms thing all the time without a hitch that I've seen.
I spent 7 months looking for a new job last year and no one wanted my resume in PDF. Whatever software people are using to scan documents into applicant databases needed Word formatted documents. The places I applied (in the Seattle area, which may explain it) included hospitals, universities, tech companies (other than Microsoft), state, city and county government, job search sites, and others I can't even remember (three or more job contacts per week for seven months is a LOT of resumes).
Umm, well, my mother and my father-in-law are actually still alive, and they prefer to have me help them out when their machines are in a pinch. I figure they've given my wife and me quite a bit over the years, so "I" do feel a "need" to "support" them...not that it comes close to any kind of repayment.
Not long before I lost my job (for other reasons) about two and a half months ago, I was starting to get rotational wrist pain in my mousing hand. If I rotated the wrist to the left, it hurt like heck after very few degrees; rotating right had a lot more give before hurting. I used a laptop in a dock with a symmetical trackball device (not Kensington, but I don't remember which one), so most work mousing was done with the trackball and most home mousing with the laptop's trackpad.
I've been using my Dell laptop a lot at home with just the trackpad. I've cut back on trackpad use (which seemed to be just as painful) by about a third by using keyboard shortcuts, and I've been able to use my left hand a lot more, and the pain has been greatly reduced.
Now, however, I have another problem...the tip of my mousing finger is getting quite sensitive, since I no longer use any externally attached mouse. I just can't win...
When I was in grade 6 the Commodore VIC 20 had just come out.
Let's see...that would be 1980 (I was 25...a few years out of college, where the closest I came to computer was helping my girlfriend, a CE student, punch some cards for her mainframe programming class back in 1976).
By grade 11 the first programmable calculators came out. What a joke.
ExCUSE me? 1985? I had a programmable calculator back in 1976, and they weren't new then. Where DID you grow up?
I got a C=64 in 1984 and learned a little BASIC and a little 6502 ASM.
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Somehow I think it just doesn't much matter. From Robert Wright's opinion piece in the NYT on March 9 (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/toyotas-are-safe-enough/): ...if you drive one of the Toyotas recalled for acceleration problems and don't bother to comply with the recall, your chances of being involved in a fatal accident over the next two years because of the unfixed problem are a bit worse than one in a million -- 2.8 in a million, to be more exact. Meanwhile, your chances of being killed in a car accident during the next two years just by virtue of being an American are one in 5,244.
Hmm. My 2009 Prius consistently gets 80-100% better mileage than my 2002 Saturn SL 4 door 5-speed. And in the stop and go traffic I often have to drive in, I'll take the automatic any day.
Since I often need to remote control my computer from home, I have to leave it on overnight. We have VPN, but my home computer is a Mac and isn't recognized as a VPN-capable machine by our network management people. So I use Citrix to take over my work machine when I need to work from home.
We did several times at my former employer. A couple we got solutions on, and one was acknowledged as an Outlook bug that we discovered in Outlook XP and hadn't been fixed in Outlook 2003 (something to do with updating recurring events...I didn't handle the problem). The level of service, including followup, were excellent, and we didn't have to pay for the incident that resulted in the Outlook bug discovery.
Yeah, but when Outlook first came out there were few, if any, web apps out there, and few of the companies I've worked for had the expertise to develop them. Once you've been using a version or two of Outlook, people get hooked on it and want to continue to use it.
I now work for a Fortune 100 company running Windows (XP/2003), Exchange and Office 2003 throughout the enterprise, and we do the shared calendar/reserve conference rooms thing all the time without a hitch that I've seen.
I spent 7 months looking for a new job last year and no one wanted my resume in PDF. Whatever software people are using to scan documents into applicant databases needed Word formatted documents. The places I applied (in the Seattle area, which may explain it) included hospitals, universities, tech companies (other than Microsoft), state, city and county government, job search sites, and others I can't even remember (three or more job contacts per week for seven months is a LOT of resumes).
Umm, well, my mother and my father-in-law are actually still alive, and they prefer to have me help them out when their machines are in a pinch. I figure they've given my wife and me quite a bit over the years, so "I" do feel a "need" to "support" them...not that it comes close to any kind of repayment.
Not long before I lost my job (for other reasons) about two and a half months ago, I was starting to get rotational wrist pain in my mousing hand. If I rotated the wrist to the left, it hurt like heck after very few degrees; rotating right had a lot more give before hurting. I used a laptop in a dock with a symmetical trackball device (not Kensington, but I don't remember which one), so most work mousing was done with the trackball and most home mousing with the laptop's trackpad.
I've been using my Dell laptop a lot at home with just the trackpad. I've cut back on trackpad use (which seemed to be just as painful) by about a third by using keyboard shortcuts, and I've been able to use my left hand a lot more, and the pain has been greatly reduced.
Now, however, I have another problem...the tip of my mousing finger is getting quite sensitive, since I no longer use any externally attached mouse. I just can't win...
When I was in grade 6 the Commodore VIC 20 had just come out.
Let's see...that would be 1980 (I was 25...a few years out of college, where the closest I came to computer was helping my girlfriend, a CE student, punch some cards for her mainframe programming class back in 1976).
By grade 11 the first programmable calculators came out. What a joke.
ExCUSE me? 1985? I had a programmable calculator back in 1976, and they weren't new then. Where DID you grow up?
I got a C=64 in 1984 and learned a little BASIC and a little 6502 ASM.