Here where it is cold during winter, water meters have to be inside or freezing pipes would be very very bad. Even gas meters have to be carefully located else people clearing snow off the roofs break the meter connections and now you have a gas leak surrounded by a mini avalanche zone.
Physical reads require someone to access the meter to get an actual read. Even radio based meters that broadcast the info require a drive by.
If they cannot get access to the meter or the radio signal, the flag the read for an estimated read.
Suppose you have a water leak during this time, and maybe it takes 3 months before they can get an actual read.
When the read catches up, its going to report a huge upswing, and you're going to play the wonderful game of WTF chasing down the leak, and how to get that actual meter read adjusted.
Shawn Nelson stole the tank. Nelson broke his back and neck after a motorcycle accident. He sued the hospital, case got dismissed. Got addicted to meth, went off the deep end.
Stack crashed his plane into the IRS building killing Vernon Hunter and injuring 13 others.
Consider this is talking about Linux, I'd assume anyone watching it has a wee bit higher reading comprehension than 6th grade. Know your target audience.
Or maybe the speaker is implying that using Linux to do transcription onto YouTube videos is suckage... hadn't thought of that... well played...
People like video because they don't have to actually understand what was said. They can pretend they groked the subject because they listened to a 30 minute video clip. What they are really doing is using the audio as noise distraction while they are doing something else, typically updating their Twitter or FB status that they are learning something or folding laundry.
People like to read because they want the context. They are attempting to engage their brain around the subject matter. And some just want to kill trees. Or read it in the bathroom without feeling perved on cause some dude is talking to you while you drop taco bell.
Sounds like a recruiting firm was hired for these and not internal HR. Recruiting firms are more interested in filling body counts and getting people to interview, and finally placed within the company.
Dunno... I'll like Seattle more when they get an NHL team.
There are 40 year olds who live in their parent's basements and have no idea what they will do.
There are 40 year olds who are very successful, who still don't know what they want to do.
Very few people know precisely what they want to do.
But by the time they are juniors in high school, they should have some set of skills that can help them move forward as opposed to "being a princess". That is a very limited position, with few available openings, and an excessive amount of competition.
Random thought: My rewards card is not tied to me. Strange, but the two major grocery stores here do not require me to turn in my reward cards application form. They have nothing on record for me, other than the unique identifier and my transaction history. I have not registered my email, phone number, mailing address or anything else. If they are linking my rewards card and my credit card, well that's a whole different issue.
An application on the other hand is a whole different issue. At some point that app has to know how to associate your reward card with you, which means handing over some sort of information.
The other places that I have rewards programs have my cell number on record, so I'm screwed anyway. But at that point, I just speak my number, and pull out my credit card, or better, if I have cash. In these cases, the phone only serves me as a unique identifier.
On a personal, more annoying note, as I've gained weight, I'm more inclined to remove my phone from my pockets after I get in the vehicle. And because I'm getting forgetful, I have a tendency to leave it there. Not so with a wallet, it stays put. Granted, if I ever drop the 10 lbs I accumulated, the phone displacement becomes less of an issue.
The origin of the 5th Amendment is not limited to self incrimination, but to extend to the right to be free in thought. It requires that due process be followed.
Courts, when abused, can be used to try people merely on whim. In the old days courts would be abused to go after people of power who were contradictory in opinion to the majority.
In retrospect, the Japanese Internment was a clear violation of the 5th Amendment.What was even more damning was it was upheld by the US Supreme Court. As years and time have passed, there is recognition that a great wrong was committed.
If you need example of how it benefits society now, consider that people are able to be express their 1st Amendment without being locked up for it. If you need more than that, you can go find a Constitutional Lawyer and argue with them.
Methinks you are trolling with your absurd parameters, and verbose diatribe. If you are willing to write that much, maybe you should research and read the equivalent amount.
Something my boss has us do when we estimating projects. She has a certainty factor that we set for each task, simple terms, which equate to a percentage in her calculations. The higher our certainty, the less risk that the task is underestimated. The lower the certainty, the larger the margin that the estimate needs to be factored.
Makes a huge difference in ballparking our estimates.
Good lord, in this day and age, she is still running XP?
While you are trying to save yourself time by not having to train her, you are making it worse on yourself, because you are going to have to enjoy support hell / frustration mode.
Get her a new PC, and teach her. There isn't that much to teach, especially if you automate most everything and hide IE.
I upgraded my dad from XP to Win 7 last year. Didn't take him long to keep doing what he normally does. Well worth the headaches I've had doing XP support for it
Teaching someone who "just wants it to work" a new OS is going to be more maddening than anything.
Preconfigure the laptop. Enable remote admin / support stuff, so that you can do it from wherever. It is amazing what you can do with remote teaching.
I had to remotely help troubleshoot something for my mom, I just used the webcam to show her what to push on the keyboard, problem solved. Video goes a long way for basic stuff.
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Would do wonders for Jersey and New York though...
I troll...
But what about those abroad? And what about those that are here but not citizens?
I'm being silly though...
Accused is not the same as convicted.
However in his case, he admitted to do it, but wormed his way into being allowed to finish out school. First failure of due process.
The second failure was the court deciding to drop the matter because he had already graduated, so nothing they could do about it.
If you are still on 900mhz, and in a broadcast area, then yes.
Here where it is cold during winter, water meters have to be inside or freezing pipes would be very very bad. Even gas meters have to be carefully located else people clearing snow off the roofs break the meter connections and now you have a gas leak surrounded by a mini avalanche zone.
Physical reads require someone to access the meter to get an actual read. Even radio based meters that broadcast the info require a drive by.
If they cannot get access to the meter or the radio signal, the flag the read for an estimated read.
Suppose you have a water leak during this time, and maybe it takes 3 months before they can get an actual read.
When the read catches up, its going to report a huge upswing, and you're going to play the wonderful game of WTF chasing down the leak, and how to get that actual meter read adjusted.
Without knowing anything about him, I'm guess he has delusions of grandiose and persecutory.
Shawn Nelson stole the tank. Nelson broke his back and neck after a motorcycle accident. He sued the hospital, case got dismissed. Got addicted to meth, went off the deep end.
Stack crashed his plane into the IRS building killing Vernon Hunter and injuring 13 others.
Consider this is talking about Linux, I'd assume anyone watching it has a wee bit higher reading comprehension than 6th grade. Know your target audience.
Or maybe the speaker is implying that using Linux to do transcription onto YouTube videos is suckage... hadn't thought of that... well played...
People like video because they don't have to actually understand what was said. They can pretend they groked the subject because they listened to a 30 minute video clip. What they are really doing is using the audio as noise distraction while they are doing something else, typically updating their Twitter or FB status that they are learning something or folding laundry.
People like to read because they want the context. They are attempting to engage their brain around the subject matter. And some just want to kill trees. Or read it in the bathroom without feeling perved on cause some dude is talking to you while you drop taco bell.
Documentation? We don't do no stinkin' documentation!!!
Sounds like a recruiting firm was hired for these and not internal HR. Recruiting firms are more interested in filling body counts and getting people to interview, and finally placed within the company.
Dunno... I'll like Seattle more when they get an NHL team.
Over analyzing the idea.
There are 40 year olds who live in their parent's basements and have no idea what they will do.
There are 40 year olds who are very successful, who still don't know what they want to do.
Very few people know precisely what they want to do.
But by the time they are juniors in high school, they should have some set of skills that can help them move forward as opposed to "being a princess". That is a very limited position, with few available openings, and an excessive amount of competition.
In other words: The odds are good that goods are odd...
Hmmm... just had a ponderous moment, but wouldn't it be great if you could NFC your ICE info to your phone...
Was just pondering emergency contact bracelet info... a friend was showed me the ones she is ordering for a road trip.
Random thought: My rewards card is not tied to me. Strange, but the two major grocery stores here do not require me to turn in my reward cards application form. They have nothing on record for me, other than the unique identifier and my transaction history. I have not registered my email, phone number, mailing address or anything else. If they are linking my rewards card and my credit card, well that's a whole different issue.
An application on the other hand is a whole different issue. At some point that app has to know how to associate your reward card with you, which means handing over some sort of information.
The other places that I have rewards programs have my cell number on record, so I'm screwed anyway. But at that point, I just speak my number, and pull out my credit card, or better, if I have cash. In these cases, the phone only serves me as a unique identifier.
On a personal, more annoying note, as I've gained weight, I'm more inclined to remove my phone from my pockets after I get in the vehicle. And because I'm getting forgetful, I have a tendency to leave it there. Not so with a wallet, it stays put. Granted, if I ever drop the 10 lbs I accumulated, the phone displacement becomes less of an issue.
Agreed thought all the people that shopped at Target late last year...
Define accounts. A bank savings account is one thing. The money in your account is loaned back out, so banks have a desire to get as much cash.
Payment processing is a whole different issue. Small merchants don't always use the big banks' processor because the cost can be significantly higher.
A merchant might shop around, find a processor that matches their needs.
Welp what happens when the processor is instructed to not take payments for this merchant? Merchant scrambles to find another, and so forth.
In Post Freedom Amerika, cell phone butt dials you?
But if you put the numbers in units that people can relate to, it becomes something they can comprehend and make educated decisions.
The origin of the 5th Amendment is not limited to self incrimination, but to extend to the right to be free in thought. It requires that due process be followed.
Courts, when abused, can be used to try people merely on whim. In the old days courts would be abused to go after people of power who were contradictory in opinion to the majority.
In retrospect, the Japanese Internment was a clear violation of the 5th Amendment .What was even more damning was it was upheld by the US Supreme Court. As years and time have passed, there is recognition that a great wrong was committed.
If you need example of how it benefits society now, consider that people are able to be express their 1st Amendment without being locked up for it. If you need more than that, you can go find a Constitutional Lawyer and argue with them.
Methinks you are trolling with your absurd parameters, and verbose diatribe. If you are willing to write that much, maybe you should research and read the equivalent amount.
I assume it is just a shell on top of their existing code base, and not a "strip the crap of dead code out".
My point being its a patch, or worse a kludge.
How many security holes and bugs will this create, and how many will it leave behind for Win 9 development team to fix later?
Something my boss has us do when we estimating projects. She has a certainty factor that we set for each task, simple terms, which equate to a percentage in her calculations. The higher our certainty, the less risk that the task is underestimated. The lower the certainty, the larger the margin that the estimate needs to be factored.
Makes a huge difference in ballparking our estimates.
Its not just about making it look like XP, but running Winblowz stupid app type things.
For non-techie people, teaching them how to do this takes more time than he has stated.
Good lord, in this day and age, she is still running XP?
While you are trying to save yourself time by not having to train her, you are making it worse on yourself, because you are going to have to enjoy support hell / frustration mode.
Get her a new PC, and teach her. There isn't that much to teach, especially if you automate most everything and hide IE.
I upgraded my dad from XP to Win 7 last year. Didn't take him long to keep doing what he normally does. Well worth the headaches I've had doing XP support for it
Teaching someone who "just wants it to work" a new OS is going to be more maddening than anything.
Preconfigure the laptop. Enable remote admin / support stuff, so that you can do it from wherever. It is amazing what you can do with remote teaching.
I had to remotely help troubleshoot something for my mom, I just used the webcam to show her what to push on the keyboard, problem solved. Video goes a long way for basic stuff.
Government projects = lowest bidder
Lowest bidder > we don't need no stinkin security