I know our HR department just keeps documents however long federal law requires they be kept. Operations people keep documents for up to 2 years, but that is at the request of our clients.
As far as worrying about people keeping old email/files on their local PC/laptop, we are very adamant about telling people not to do that. Should something happen to Windows (as often does), and we should reload their system, they could lose a lot of stuff. Most people are pretty good about putting anything they want to keep on network drives, which we backup nightly. Those tapes are only kept for 2 weeks, then the tape is recycled. If their.pst file gets too large, we tell them we're going to burn it to CD and give them a copy for archival purposes. This is after they sort through what they may need to access, and what they just need to keep to satisfy our clients or cover their own butts.
AOL used IE because Microsoft made a deal with them. Use IE, and we'll bundle your software with Windows, which will get your software to just about every new PC buyer. They also made Netscape available, but you had to get online first, and then download it. Even that was after it was free. And back when this happened, AOL hadn't yet bought Netscape. So all of this really should have NO EFFECT on their case.
I wonder if they're doing this because the government already said they were guilty, or because they don't want people to see the price increase they just announced. We're fighting the big bad M$, we had to raise our price 50%, though.
Uhm... Webcomics as a business model? This just sounds funny. Since when does the product become/define the business model? I can understand a web business model, because doing business on the web is different than doing business in a store, or by mail order, or by phone, or by infomercials.
When I read this, my first thought was something stupid about Microsoft. Then I realized there really isn't anything comic about their business model. They're more like a one train thought destruction device. "Must destroy."
I'm not saying I have anything against comics. In fact, I'm desperately in search of Lord Pumpkin. But I don't think naming a business model off of the product is right.
My wife was a big x-files fan before she met me. She eventually confessed it was just to see DD, and the show started to suck after season 3. I've never really had the opportunity to watch the show, with the exception of maybe 10 episodes. I thought they were really weak. I understand the whole voluntary suspension of disbelief you must submit to when being entertained by the boob-tube, but the x-files really made it into just that.... a boob-tube.
When I was in college learning programming, we all started with the same basic assignments. These consisted of, "Type this in. Watch it work." And later, "Modify this by changing X line to read Y." For a long time, I tended to use the same generic variable names. I remember comparing my code to friends in the class, and many times sections of our codes (functions, procedures, etc.) would match word for word, even though we hadn't even discussed the projects among us. I don't think this is going to be taken into account here, and I shudder to think what will happen to the education of young programmers.
I think it is even more interesting that this happened, considering I had started programming about 9 years earlier. The elementary school I was in in 3rd grade started teaching us basic programming on the TI-994A. I miss that hunk of junk. I think I'll go look and see if I can find one, just for nostalgia.
Depriving society of technology, that is. Do you really think they can't make cars last longer? I read a report at least 10 years ago about a procedure where they coat all the engine parts with a very small diamond layer. They believed this would make an engine last 500K miles without an oil change. Why would they not do that? Hmm let's see... everyone buys cars that last much longer, people buy cars less often.... they don't make any money!
I don't think I'd trust Microsoft to record any television I thought important enough to try to record. I'd get to the good part watching it later, and it would crash my TV. Then their help desk would tell me I needed to upgrade my television or something. No, I'll just stick to VHS tapes and my DVD player, thank you.
I crashed it about 10 times a day, and one out of a thousand crashes required installation. So you re-installed every 100 days? That's 3 times a year too many for me. In all my years of windows experience, I've only had it crash twice requiring a re-install (not counting the people's PC's that I work on at work.)
I remember college, I think. It was fun always re-imaging the PC's because of things students had loaded. (Can you see the sarcasm in my text?)
I think they're considering it now. The main problem with that is, even though they're inexpensive, when you order 600 it adds up. Then when we expand, which we doo by about 100 seats every few months, you have to order more. I think they're looking too hard for a technical solution to a management problem.
I'm not sure on the scales involved, but will the robots be small enough that they might rise up with water that is evaporating? Then they could fall with rain in a field in Kansas somewhere, get picked up by some plants that the farmers there are growing, shipped to the grocery store...
Sounds kind of like the fish thing mentioned in an earlier post, but I'd like to see what they would say to it.
With people already upset about genetic engineering in the food supply, this would probably be too much for them. They might faint while eating a pretzel.
I'm in the IT department of a company that handles calls for other companies. With PC's getting smaller and smaller, a problem arises with preventing theft. (I'll try not to rant about people not doing their jobs.) Supervisors are apparently too busy to watch their people who are all sitting on the same 2 rows. The PC's we're using now, are small enough to fit into a large backpack. Security can't search everyone as they leave the building, and metal detectors and such are quite an expense/hassle.
The last center I was at before transferring to Arizona had large towers. There was no way someone was going to walk out with one of these without someone seeing them. The only reason we had large towers, is because the systems were old (166's). From that perspective, I regret that it is more difficult to order large PC's in bulk. Sure we could order the chassis and put all the parts in them ourselves, but that takes a lot of time, too.
I don't think I understood any of this article... at least I hope I didn't.
I have a VCR, and 2 DVD players in my home, connected to TV's which are all cable ready and have cable running directly to them. If I understood this article correctly, Phillips is concerned I might broadcast something via wireless network technology to another TV in my home, when all I have to do is plug it into the cable, or plug a VCR/DVD player in? Or is their concern more for digital cable subscribers or people in areas where you have to have a cable box to descramble the pay channels?
Is this the kind of waste of resources that causes prices to go up?
I was working for a company a few years ago as an intern. My managers were not programmers by any means. I had such a plast at that job, because they would give me a programming task, and then give me a week for every day that it would actually take me to complete it. So for a project that would have taken me 3 days, they gave me 3 weeks. Of course, I always finished my projects early, but I took my time about it. I didn't want to be the one to make things worse for the next guy. I knew it was a short term gig, as it was technically and internship. I was always dead on with how long I thought it would take me, though.
I think when you're programming with something that you're familiar with, and have a pretty good idea of how to go about it, it's pretty easy for you to estimate how long it will take. I think for anyone else who is not as familiar with everything involved it would be harder, though.
A major factor in Afghanistan is that we have been lucky in having the rebels do most of the leg-work for us. They're the ones who have been putting themselves at risk. We haven't even put many of our troops in harms way. It would be a much different picture if there were no ground troops fighting on our side. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, all we can do is speculate as to how it would turn out if all we used was mechanicals.
And for that, if we were fighting a war using mechanicals, and it was our mechanicals against theirs, what would make me want to surrender? I've lost too many droids, I quit? I think a big factor in getting leaders to give up is that they can see their people dying. If they aren't dying, where does the motivation come from? Economic considerations would take over. Then it would be like a Magic CCG. I spent more money on cards, so I win! I spent more on mechanical troops/weapons, I win! I hate to say this, but I think I actually prefer man-to-man combat.
This actually leads into something I've been thinking about reading these posts... If we use a pentium computer to figure trajectories, then launch missiles to change it's path, wouldn't it suck if we knocked into a trajectory that actually did intersect ours?
Hoping to be the first Alien Abductee of the new year?
Why is it the dumbest or biggest rednecks are always the ones getting to fly around in the spaceships? Or get on TV telling what the tornado sounded like? *pout*
Unfortunately, if I take a bunch of these bills to a bank and deposit it, it still won't tell anyone what I did with the money.
It might even be misdetected as laundering. The money went to a bank, and then Bob Terrorist made a withdrawal, got the bill and went to Pete's Explosive Shop... Oh no, the feds are at MY door!
I was looking at the page for the binary wristwatch again and I noticed something odd. Why do they not have an actual picture of the watch? The pictures they have appear to me to be computer generated. Has anyone actually seen one of these in person? If so, I'd love to get one.
Personally, I use Norton Ghost. You can use it to backup to CDR, it compresses the data, and you can make the CD bootable. Put my backup CD in, boot, reload my entire system in about 2 minutes.
Do you actually check to make sure they ARE FDIC insured?
How do you know they didn't just put the sticker in the window, or the logo on their webpage?
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I know our HR department just keeps documents however long federal law requires they be kept. Operations people keep documents for up to 2 years, but that is at the request of our clients.
.pst file gets too large, we tell them we're going to burn it to CD and give them a copy for archival purposes. This is after they sort through what they may need to access, and what they just need to keep to satisfy our clients or cover their own butts.
As far as worrying about people keeping old email/files on their local PC/laptop, we are very adamant about telling people not to do that. Should something happen to Windows (as often does), and we should reload their system, they could lose a lot of stuff. Most people are pretty good about putting anything they want to keep on network drives, which we backup nightly. Those tapes are only kept for 2 weeks, then the tape is recycled. If their
AOL used IE because Microsoft made a deal with them. Use IE, and we'll bundle your software with Windows, which will get your software to just about every new PC buyer. They also made Netscape available, but you had to get online first, and then download it. Even that was after it was free. And back when this happened, AOL hadn't yet bought Netscape. So all of this really should have NO EFFECT on their case.
Interesting.
I wonder if they're doing this because the government already said they were guilty, or because they don't want people to see the price increase they just announced. We're fighting the big bad M$, we had to raise our price 50%, though.
Geez...
Uhm... Webcomics as a business model? This just sounds funny. Since when does the product become/define the business model? I can understand a web business model, because doing business on the web is different than doing business in a store, or by mail order, or by phone, or by infomercials.
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When I read this, my first thought was something stupid about Microsoft. Then I realized there really isn't anything comic about their business model. They're more like a one train thought destruction device. "Must destroy
I'm not saying I have anything against comics. In fact, I'm desperately in search of Lord Pumpkin. But I don't think naming a business model off of the product is right.
I've seen no sign of talents in relation to DD.
My wife was a big x-files fan before she met me. She eventually confessed it was just to see DD, and the show started to suck after season 3. I've never really had the opportunity to watch the show, with the exception of maybe 10 episodes. I thought they were really weak. I understand the whole voluntary suspension of disbelief you must submit to when being entertained by the boob-tube, but the x-files really made it into just that.... a boob-tube.
When I was in college learning programming, we all started with the same basic assignments. These consisted of, "Type this in. Watch it work." And later, "Modify this by changing X line to read Y." For a long time, I tended to use the same generic variable names. I remember comparing my code to friends in the class, and many times sections of our codes (functions, procedures, etc.) would match word for word, even though we hadn't even discussed the projects among us. I don't think this is going to be taken into account here, and I shudder to think what will happen to the education of young programmers.
I think it is even more interesting that this happened, considering I had started programming about 9 years earlier. The elementary school I was in in 3rd grade started teaching us basic programming on the TI-994A. I miss that hunk of junk. I think I'll go look and see if I can find one, just for nostalgia.
Depriving society of technology, that is. Do you really think they can't make cars last longer? I read a report at least 10 years ago about a procedure where they coat all the engine parts with a very small diamond layer. They believed this would make an engine last 500K miles without an oil change. Why would they not do that? Hmm let's see... everyone buys cars that last much longer, people buy cars less often.... they don't make any money!
I don't think I'd trust Microsoft to record any television I thought important enough to try to record. I'd get to the good part watching it later, and it would crash my TV. Then their help desk would tell me I needed to upgrade my television or something. No, I'll just stick to VHS tapes and my DVD player, thank you.
I crashed it about 10 times a day, and one out of a thousand crashes required installation. So you re-installed every 100 days? That's 3 times a year too many for me. In all my years of windows experience, I've only had it crash twice requiring a re-install (not counting the people's PC's that I work on at work.)
I remember college, I think. It was fun always re-imaging the PC's because of things students had loaded. (Can you see the sarcasm in my text?)
I think they're considering it now. The main problem with that is, even though they're inexpensive, when you order 600 it adds up. Then when we expand, which we doo by about 100 seats every few months, you have to order more. I think they're looking too hard for a technical solution to a management problem.
I'm not sure on the scales involved, but will the robots be small enough that they might rise up with water that is evaporating? Then they could fall with rain in a field in Kansas somewhere, get picked up by some plants that the farmers there are growing, shipped to the grocery store...
Sounds kind of like the fish thing mentioned in an earlier post, but I'd like to see what they would say to it.
With people already upset about genetic engineering in the food supply, this would probably be too much for them. They might faint while eating a pretzel.
I'm in the IT department of a company that handles calls for other companies. With PC's getting smaller and smaller, a problem arises with preventing theft. (I'll try not to rant about people not doing their jobs.) Supervisors are apparently too busy to watch their people who are all sitting on the same 2 rows. The PC's we're using now, are small enough to fit into a large backpack. Security can't search everyone as they leave the building, and metal detectors and such are quite an expense/hassle.
The last center I was at before transferring to Arizona had large towers. There was no way someone was going to walk out with one of these without someone seeing them. The only reason we had large towers, is because the systems were old (166's). From that perspective, I regret that it is more difficult to order large PC's in bulk. Sure we could order the chassis and put all the parts in them ourselves, but that takes a lot of time, too.
You'll take Democracy over Capitalism? Those are two separate things. One is a form of government, the other is an economic system.
I don't think I understood any of this article... at least I hope I didn't.
I have a VCR, and 2 DVD players in my home, connected to TV's which are all cable ready and have cable running directly to them. If I understood this article correctly, Phillips is concerned I might broadcast something via wireless network technology to another TV in my home, when all I have to do is plug it into the cable, or plug a VCR/DVD player in? Or is their concern more for digital cable subscribers or people in areas where you have to have a cable box to descramble the pay channels?
Is this the kind of waste of resources that causes prices to go up?
I was working for a company a few years ago as an intern. My managers were not programmers by any means. I had such a plast at that job, because they would give me a programming task, and then give me a week for every day that it would actually take me to complete it. So for a project that would have taken me 3 days, they gave me 3 weeks. Of course, I always finished my projects early, but I took my time about it. I didn't want to be the one to make things worse for the next guy. I knew it was a short term gig, as it was technically and internship. I was always dead on with how long I thought it would take me, though.
I think when you're programming with something that you're familiar with, and have a pretty good idea of how to go about it, it's pretty easy for you to estimate how long it will take. I think for anyone else who is not as familiar with everything involved it would be harder, though.
A major factor in Afghanistan is that we have been lucky in having the rebels do most of the leg-work for us. They're the ones who have been putting themselves at risk. We haven't even put many of our troops in harms way. It would be a much different picture if there were no ground troops fighting on our side. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, all we can do is speculate as to how it would turn out if all we used was mechanicals.
And for that, if we were fighting a war using mechanicals, and it was our mechanicals against theirs, what would make me want to surrender? I've lost too many droids, I quit? I think a big factor in getting leaders to give up is that they can see their people dying. If they aren't dying, where does the motivation come from? Economic considerations would take over. Then it would be like a Magic CCG. I spent more money on cards, so I win! I spent more on mechanical troops/weapons, I win! I hate to say this, but I think I actually prefer man-to-man combat.
This actually leads into something I've been thinking about reading these posts... If we use a pentium computer to figure trajectories, then launch missiles to change it's path, wouldn't it suck if we knocked into a trajectory that actually did intersect ours?
I see this a lot, and it always bothers me. If it was a near miss, doesn't that mean it was a hit?
Whew, it nearly missed us.
Hoping to be the first Alien Abductee of the new year?
Why is it the dumbest or biggest rednecks are always the ones getting to fly around in the spaceships? Or get on TV telling what the tornado sounded like? *pout*
So no putting cash in your daughter's piggy bank.
Stupid code making me wait to send this because it took less than 20 seconds to type. *pout*
Unfortunately, if I take a bunch of these bills to a bank and deposit it, it still won't tell anyone what I did with the money.
It might even be misdetected as laundering. The money went to a bank, and then Bob Terrorist made a withdrawal, got the bill and went to Pete's Explosive Shop...
Oh no, the feds are at MY door!
Even if it is torn apart, as long as you have 51% of the bill intact, it retains face value.
I was looking at the page for the binary wristwatch again and I noticed something odd. Why do they not have an actual picture of the watch? The pictures they have appear to me to be computer generated. Has anyone actually seen one of these in person? If so, I'd love to get one.
Personally, I use Norton Ghost. You can use it to backup to CDR, it compresses the data, and you can make the CD bootable. Put my backup CD in, boot, reload my entire system in about 2 minutes.
Do you actually check to make sure they ARE FDIC insured?
How do you know they didn't just put the sticker in the window, or the logo on their webpage?