I would start by making sure I had documentation of all of the hours I had worked and was suing for. I'm not sure how you would prove it otherwise.
Also, if you are working in an exempt position, you're probably screwed since bonuses & comp time aren't typically legally required by the company. Good luck though.
I'm sure someone probably tried. It sounds like most of the hacks were done by script kiddies, so if Reuters has a decent IT staff they were probably fine.
developed software that can be used by automated dialing equipment to bypass a TeleZapper, or similar SIT generators, and get through to your phone no matter what.
I would think that this would do far more to hurt the industry than help them, especially as far as the government deciding whether or not to regulate do not call lists.
I mean, they do have the Student Edition but when you go into the workforce, they're going to have the Enterprise Architect Edition.
I bought the standard version of VS.net, not even the student one to learn with. Stupid POS will only let you connect to Access and MSDE data sources. If you try to connect to any others, it gives you this wonderful little message about how you aren't licensed to connect to anything other than Access or MSDE. That REALLY pissed me off when I got that.
So what did I do about it? I did what most people would have done... I went to Kazaa Lite and downloaded the Enterprise Architect version.
Actually, Mercedes has something similar. It sends out a radar ahead of you, and if it detects another car that you're coming up on, it will ease up on the gas, apply some brakes, or sound an alarm if you're about to hit them. The first generation of these cruise control systems were known to drive cheap radar detecters nuts. The new ones don't bother the detecters any more though.
Volvo Safety Concept Car - Volvo is owned by Ford
Saab 9-3 - Saab is owned by General Motors
Honda Civic GX - I'm pretty sure that Honda has a design studio in California
Honda FCX - See above
Cadillac XLR - Owned by General Motors
Audi A8
Mercedes-Benz SL500
Fiat Stilo
Chevrolet Trailblazer - Owned by General Motors
Toyota Prius
So, in review four of the 10 cars are American, and two of them were probably designed in America. That's not bad considering that most of the "high end" cars that you would expect to see on a list like this such as Mercedes, Audi, Lexus etc... aren't American.
I have a 4.5" telescope (I need to clarify that the 4.5" is my telescope, I know how you/.ers think!) that is good. I can see the planets very good, and a lot of the Messier objects. An 8" or 10" telescope would be nice, but it certainly isn't required, especially for a beginner who is just learning.
I forgot to add in my earlier post, but avoid at all costs any telescope that has advertised on its box that is has x amount of magnification. You don't measure a telescope based on its magnification powers, it is measured on it's light gathering ability. A good rule of thumb is that a telescope will only be able to get 50x magnification under perfect viewing conditions for evey inch of aperature. For example, a 4.5" telescope would only be able to magnify up to 225x, and an 8" would be able to magnify up to 400x. You can easily change the magnification of any scope by changing its eyepiece.
A telescope that is selling itself based solely on it magnification is more than likely an extremely cheap item, and will likely not be able to reach any level near the magnification that it is advertising.
Get the largest aperature you can afford. Both Meade & Celestron make models with an 8" apperature with auto goto in the price range you suggest. You can easily hook either of them up to a laptop by using a webcam. Sample photos from a webcam of Jupiter can be found here.
Use a Philips webcam (Forget the name of it, but it is mentioned on the web page listed above) because it has the most sensitive CCD of the webcams, and takes the best photos. You can also get an adapter for around $20 to hook up the webcam to your computer, or you can easily make one.
Also, if you don't absolutely need the auto goto, you can get a good Dobsonian mounted telescope pretty cheap. Check out Orion Telescopes for some good Dobsonian mounted scopes, and some good Newtonian reflectors in the price range you wanted.
And oh yeah... $1,500 is by no means an ultra expensive telescope! A high quality mirror alone can cost several thousand dollars.
screw sized projectiles at maybe 1500 miles an hour
Actually, I had read somewhere that manmade space junk orbits at around 22,000 miles per hour, while natural space junk orbits at around twice that speed. So depending on the direction of your orbit, and the space junk's orbit, you could theoretically be coming up against some space junk at around 88,000 miles per hour.
As far as I know, there is no way built into Outlook to do this.
I spent some time searching on how to do this a while ago, and the only way I know of is to use a COM add in. It doesn't work through the rules wizard, you have to go into your advanced email settings and register the DLL before it will work. Search Google, and you'll find the answer. A word of warning though... The one I found a while ago made Outlook painfully slow, so I ended up uninstalling it.
It is a huge pain the way Outlook has it set up. You can't set up a rule that strips the HTML, you can't set your email to automatically convert HTML mail to plain text, and you can't even use the VBA scripting language built in to automatically strip the HTML. What a pain...
JavaScript on web pages that won't allow you to right click. Very stupid "security", and highly annoying too! Not to mention that it is super easy to get around...
You have good points, but try explaining that to a very non-technical executive who is afraid that everyone is out to steal their content. I've seen many companies that will do their entire website in Flash just so the content can't be "stolen".
Personally, I refuse to install the Flash plugin, so if I come to one of these pages looking to do business, oh well. I'll just go somewhere else. The higher up people in companies that make all Flash sites don't seem to realize that Flash is annoying to a lot of people.
I don't understand how this is different from a drug screening test. Most employers require it. How's that different from a background check?
The problem isn't with the background check - It's with the credit check. Having good credit in no way means that you're a better employee than someone with bad credit.
There is also a big difference between using drugs and having bad credit when it comes to things like safety, operating machinery, etc...
They also read your email and monitor your surfing habits... them's the dregs. But it's their company, their rules, they're hiring you. If you don't like it, vote with your feet and walk away. Right?
Agreed. You're on their time while you're doing this, so that should be legal. I don't really care for the company monitoring personal emails between my wife and I, but that should be their right since I'm on their time. I don't agree with them doing it though.
Yeah, online stores typically have better selection. But you can't actually see what you are buying. When you go to a store, if you want to buy something, you can pick out one whose package is in good shape, etc... You can also touch the item, and decide if you really like it or not. You can inspect it to make sure it is really what you are looking for. When you buy something online, unless it is from a huge retailer, are you ever 100% sure that you weren't just scammed? Most importantly, you can take it home right then. No waiting for the mailman. You can't do any of that online. And that makes you want to have to pay more for online sales???
This year, my wife is having surgery on Valentines Day, so nothing special this year. Last year however, we went to dinner at a really nice restraunt in downtown LA, then to the LA Philharmonic. It wasn't too expensive (Except for the dinner! $12 for a f'ing dinner salad or cup of soup!), and it was pretty romantic.
"I was taking pictures at the exact time it started to break up, but I won't release them to the public..."
Sounds like a publicity stunt by someone seeking 15 minutes of fame. Hopefully it isn't that, and the guy has morals and won't release the images to the media, but will release them to NASA.
I've used Priceline.com for some reservations for my wife & I. We have been very happy with them (We got a great deal on a room in Downtown San Francisco during a holiday weekend - Our price was nearly $300 less than the asking price for the rooms, and a great deal on a resort suite in Palm Springs). I wouldn't use them for your honeymoon though.
If you do use an online travel agent, I would recommend using one where you know EXACTLY what you're getting before you pay, especially for your honeymoon.
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Didn't the Sims Online do this by including a McDonald's kiosk? By eating at the McDonalds, your happiness goes up, or something like that.
As I recall, having the advertising in the game certainly didn't make it any cheaper. Having the movies full of advertisements doesn't make them any cheaper for me to see either.
So while this might not really be a bad thing, I don't see how it could be that good of a thing either.
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I would start by making sure I had documentation of all of the hours I had worked and was suing for. I'm not sure how you would prove it otherwise.
Also, if you are working in an exempt position, you're probably screwed since bonuses & comp time aren't typically legally required by the company. Good luck though.
I'm sure someone probably tried. It sounds like most of the hacks were done by script kiddies, so if Reuters has a decent IT staff they were probably fine.
After inventing the Internet, he will now invent the Macintosh, and thus the GUI, user-friendly computing, and so on...
You've got your facts all mixed up. He didn't invent the Macintosh & the GUI, he invented the GUI while working for Xerox!
It is just a number of tidbits about a number of stories that have already been posted before, kind of like an update.
I like to think of it more as a multiple double post.
developed software that can be used by automated dialing equipment to bypass a TeleZapper, or similar SIT generators, and get through to your phone no matter what.
I would think that this would do far more to hurt the industry than help them, especially as far as the government deciding whether or not to regulate do not call lists.
I mean, they do have the Student Edition but when you go into the workforce, they're going to have the Enterprise Architect Edition.
I bought the standard version of VS.net, not even the student one to learn with. Stupid POS will only let you connect to Access and MSDE data sources. If you try to connect to any others, it gives you this wonderful little message about how you aren't licensed to connect to anything other than Access or MSDE. That REALLY pissed me off when I got that.
So what did I do about it? I did what most people would have done... I went to Kazaa Lite and downloaded the Enterprise Architect version.
Actually, Mercedes has something similar. It sends out a radar ahead of you, and if it detects another car that you're coming up on, it will ease up on the gas, apply some brakes, or sound an alarm if you're about to hit them. The first generation of these cruise control systems were known to drive cheap radar detecters nuts. The new ones don't bother the detecters any more though.
Volvo Safety Concept Car - Volvo is owned by Ford
Saab 9-3 - Saab is owned by General Motors
Honda Civic GX - I'm pretty sure that Honda has a design studio in California
Honda FCX - See above
Cadillac XLR - Owned by General Motors
Audi A8
Mercedes-Benz SL500
Fiat Stilo
Chevrolet Trailblazer - Owned by General Motors
Toyota Prius
So, in review four of the 10 cars are American, and two of them were probably designed in America. That's not bad considering that most of the "high end" cars that you would expect to see on a list like this such as Mercedes, Audi, Lexus etc... aren't American.
I have a 4.5" telescope (I need to clarify that the 4.5" is my telescope, I know how you /.ers think!) that is good. I can see the planets very good, and a lot of the Messier objects. An 8" or 10" telescope would be nice, but it certainly isn't required, especially for a beginner who is just learning.
I forgot to add in my earlier post, but avoid at all costs any telescope that has advertised on its box that is has x amount of magnification. You don't measure a telescope based on its magnification powers, it is measured on it's light gathering ability. A good rule of thumb is that a telescope will only be able to get 50x magnification under perfect viewing conditions for evey inch of aperature. For example, a 4.5" telescope would only be able to magnify up to 225x, and an 8" would be able to magnify up to 400x. You can easily change the magnification of any scope by changing its eyepiece.
A telescope that is selling itself based solely on it magnification is more than likely an extremely cheap item, and will likely not be able to reach any level near the magnification that it is advertising.
Get the largest aperature you can afford. Both Meade & Celestron make models with an 8" apperature with auto goto in the price range you suggest. You can easily hook either of them up to a laptop by using a webcam. Sample photos from a webcam of Jupiter can be found here.
Use a Philips webcam (Forget the name of it, but it is mentioned on the web page listed above) because it has the most sensitive CCD of the webcams, and takes the best photos. You can also get an adapter for around $20 to hook up the webcam to your computer, or you can easily make one.
Also, if you don't absolutely need the auto goto, you can get a good Dobsonian mounted telescope pretty cheap. Check out Orion Telescopes for some good Dobsonian mounted scopes, and some good Newtonian reflectors in the price range you wanted.
And oh yeah... $1,500 is by no means an ultra expensive telescope! A high quality mirror alone can cost several thousand dollars.
Go to lunch.
Or do what I do.
Surf the web until they get back, inform them that they broke the build, and then go to lunch.
screw sized projectiles at maybe 1500 miles an hour
Actually, I had read somewhere that manmade space junk orbits at around 22,000 miles per hour, while natural space junk orbits at around twice that speed. So depending on the direction of your orbit, and the space junk's orbit, you could theoretically be coming up against some space junk at around 88,000 miles per hour.
Can I turn off HTML email in Outlook?
As far as I know, there is no way built into Outlook to do this.
I spent some time searching on how to do this a while ago, and the only way I know of is to use a COM add in. It doesn't work through the rules wizard, you have to go into your advanced email settings and register the DLL before it will work. Search Google, and you'll find the answer. A word of warning though... The one I found a while ago made Outlook painfully slow, so I ended up uninstalling it.
It is a huge pain the way Outlook has it set up. You can't set up a rule that strips the HTML, you can't set your email to automatically convert HTML mail to plain text, and you can't even use the VBA scripting language built in to automatically strip the HTML. What a pain...
JavaScript on web pages that won't allow you to right click. Very stupid "security", and highly annoying too! Not to mention that it is super easy to get around...
You have good points, but try explaining that to a very non-technical executive who is afraid that everyone is out to steal their content. I've seen many companies that will do their entire website in Flash just so the content can't be "stolen".
Personally, I refuse to install the Flash plugin, so if I come to one of these pages looking to do business, oh well. I'll just go somewhere else. The higher up people in companies that make all Flash sites don't seem to realize that Flash is annoying to a lot of people.
Actually, this was the original name of the classic Iron Butterfly tune.
No, the real name of the song is In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Thats what made it so hillarious.
I don't understand how this is different from a drug screening test. Most employers require it. How's that different from a background check?
The problem isn't with the background check - It's with the credit check. Having good credit in no way means that you're a better employee than someone with bad credit.
There is also a big difference between using drugs and having bad credit when it comes to things like safety, operating machinery, etc...
They also read your email and monitor your surfing habits... them's the dregs. But it's their company, their rules, they're hiring you. If you don't like it, vote with your feet and walk away. Right?
Agreed. You're on their time while you're doing this, so that should be legal. I don't really care for the company monitoring personal emails between my wife and I, but that should be their right since I'm on their time. I don't agree with them doing it though.
That sheep looks like the ballchinian from Men in Black 2.
Are you a troll, or just ignorant?
Yeah, online stores typically have better selection. But you can't actually see what you are buying. When you go to a store, if you want to buy something, you can pick out one whose package is in good shape, etc... You can also touch the item, and decide if you really like it or not. You can inspect it to make sure it is really what you are looking for. When you buy something online, unless it is from a huge retailer, are you ever 100% sure that you weren't just scammed? Most importantly, you can take it home right then. No waiting for the mailman. You can't do any of that online. And that makes you want to have to pay more for online sales???
...and left the Clinton/Gore approach of "fund the Internet to build it up...
Don't you know that Gore invented the internet? Of course he wanted to help it along. That way it would look better on his resume.
This year, my wife is having surgery on Valentines Day, so nothing special this year. Last year however, we went to dinner at a really nice restraunt in downtown LA, then to the LA Philharmonic. It wasn't too expensive (Except for the dinner! $12 for a f'ing dinner salad or cup of soup!), and it was pretty romantic.
"I was taking pictures at the exact time it started to break up, but I won't release them to the public..."
Sounds like a publicity stunt by someone seeking 15 minutes of fame. Hopefully it isn't that, and the guy has morals and won't release the images to the media, but will release them to NASA.
I've used Priceline.com for some reservations for my wife & I. We have been very happy with them (We got a great deal on a room in Downtown San Francisco during a holiday weekend - Our price was nearly $300 less than the asking price for the rooms, and a great deal on a resort suite in Palm Springs). I wouldn't use them for your honeymoon though.
If you do use an online travel agent, I would recommend using one where you know EXACTLY what you're getting before you pay, especially for your honeymoon.
Didn't the Sims Online do this by including a McDonald's kiosk? By eating at the McDonalds, your happiness goes up, or something like that.
As I recall, having the advertising in the game certainly didn't make it any cheaper. Having the movies full of advertisements doesn't make them any cheaper for me to see either.
So while this might not really be a bad thing, I don't see how it could be that good of a thing either.