International trade is good for overall productivity, whether we're talking about commodities or services.
-jcr
In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs
Has anyone considered that the excessively long voicemail introductions used by almost every cell carrier amount to conspired gouging? We pay airtime when we are leaving a voicemail, right? When you get voicemail on my cell you get my brief away message, followed by the phone company's useless 20-second blather. For example:
ring... ring... ring... (me):"Hello, I'm not here right now, please leave a message" (sprint): "To leave a voice message press 1, or just wait for the tone. To send a numeric page press 2 now. At the tone please leave a voice message. When you are finished recording, you may hang up, or press pound for more options"
Several gripes here. 1) 20 seconds of instructions doesn't sound like that much on its own. But if that pushes your phone call to roll one minute longer it's a minute of possible airtime charge the phone company gets. You start paying the minute the call is answered, even leaving voicemail.
2) A typical voicemail message is probably 2 minutes or less. The phone company's instructional message here is taking up a significant portion of that airtime.
3) These instructions are ridiculous and seem to be there only to draw out the duration of the call. They couldn't be phrased more verbosely. Oh, I can hang up when the message is done? I didn't know that. I can press pound for more options? How about you tell me about those AFTER I've left a message.
4) The features are really ridiculous, too, and I suspect some 1% even use them. Send a numeric page? Why the hell should I do that? Cellphones have caller ID already. Send a FAX?? Please Slashdotters tell me who has sent a FAX over a cellphone. Do you have to make the modem sounds with your voice? If anyone DOES use these features they probably don't need the help message to remember what button to press to initiate their cellphone fax.
5) There is no option to turn these messages off. They probably also require you to add your own greeting. Resulting in a totally redundant 30-second prelude to leaving any voicemail.
6) Every mobile company I know of has these messages, some worse than others. Is this an unspoken or conspired arrangement between the mobile carriers? Sprint doesn't necessarily make money when someone has to listen to their God-awful pre-message, but they might. They certainly will make money when my Sprint phone is waiting on Verizon's equally obnoxious introduction, or T-mobile's, etc...
7) The worst part of this, in my perspective, isn't that I might pay, if I totally screw up, 50c or 5 bucks some month because a few extra minutes were incurred waiting to leave my friends voicemail - or dropping coffee on the bus trying to press 1 to bypass the spiel. The worst part is I leave a moderate amount of voicemail messages, and this amounts to Minutes, Hours, or God knows, even Days of my life eventually wasted listening to a robot tell me how to leave a voicemail and that it's ok to hang up. It's robbery, I tell you!
From Kerry's Blog: http://www.johnkerry.com/blog JK: "A good healthy discussion was interrupted" by Rick Albertson on September 18th, 2007
Senator Kerry made the following statement in response to the arrest of a student at the University of Florida:
In 37 years of public appearances, through wars, protests and highly emotional events, I have never had a dialogue end this way.
I believe I could have handled the situation without interruption, but again I do not know what warnings or other exchanges transpired between the young man and the police prior to his barging to the front of the line and their intervention.
I asked the police to allow me to answer the question and was in the process of answering him when he was taken into custody.
I was not aware that a taser was used until after I left the building. I hope that neither the student nor any of the police were injured.
I regret enormously that a good healthy discussion was interrupted.
To further support this data, I'd like to see the cirrhosis rate in a heavily caffinated area - like here in Seattle say, to that of the South, where the coffee is God-awful and undrinkable.
I'm sure we have less up here, even though we drink tons of strong beer too.
Strong beer + strong coffee = healthy, wealthy and wise
Give or take a billion... before the sun exhausts its supply of hydrogen and becomes a Red Giant, bringing Earth's temperature to Fahrenheit 2,000 and perhaps even engulfing us. Earth either evaporates, or at best turns into a hot version of Mercury. I'd like to be on Titan or Neptune by that time, thanks.
Given that we've only evolved from bacteria to humans in as much time, I'd say we better start working on the problem, as it's unlikely we'll evolve our way to other planets.
decompressed into a directory named 'install' (stupid name, not very original)
run./install from install run./setup from install after dat
setup gives a real nice gui (complete with special effects even_) but never told me what to run after installing the thing.
the actual binaries get put in user's homedir, a directory called 'OpenOffice.org1.0' by default ugly again. and it's not been entered in my path.
the executable i ran was called 'soffice' (hmm whered they get that name?)
oh yeah and it didn't put a menu-entry on my Blackbox or Enlightenment menus:( (did it make one on KDE or Gnome?? I don't know why would i use those???)
but hey thats a standard linux package for ya.... I like it even...
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What a fantastic official response. If only managers in America would openly admit to being the dickheads they are...
Do the words "Smoot-Hawley" mean anything to you?
International trade is good for overall productivity, whether we're talking about commodities or services.
-jcr
In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs
Has anyone considered that the excessively long voicemail introductions used by almost every cell carrier amount to conspired gouging? We pay airtime when we are leaving a voicemail, right? When you get voicemail on my cell you get my brief away message, followed by the phone company's useless 20-second blather. For example:
ring... ring... ring... (me):"Hello, I'm not here right now, please leave a message" (sprint): "To leave a voice message press 1, or just wait for the tone. To send a numeric page press 2 now. At the tone please leave a voice message. When you are finished recording, you may hang up, or press pound for more options"
Several gripes here.
1) 20 seconds of instructions doesn't sound like that much on its own. But if that pushes your phone call to roll one minute longer it's a minute of possible airtime charge the phone company gets. You start paying the minute the call is answered, even leaving voicemail.
2) A typical voicemail message is probably 2 minutes or less. The phone company's instructional message here is taking up a significant portion of that airtime.
3) These instructions are ridiculous and seem to be there only to draw out the duration of the call. They couldn't be phrased more verbosely. Oh, I can hang up when the message is done? I didn't know that. I can press pound for more options? How about you tell me about those AFTER I've left a message.
4) The features are really ridiculous, too, and I suspect some 1% even use them. Send a numeric page? Why the hell should I do that? Cellphones have caller ID already. Send a FAX?? Please Slashdotters tell me who has sent a FAX over a cellphone. Do you have to make the modem sounds with your voice? If anyone DOES use these features they probably don't need the help message to remember what button to press to initiate their cellphone fax.
5) There is no option to turn these messages off. They probably also require you to add your own greeting. Resulting in a totally redundant 30-second prelude to leaving any voicemail.
6) Every mobile company I know of has these messages, some worse than others. Is this an unspoken or conspired arrangement between the mobile carriers? Sprint doesn't necessarily make money when someone has to listen to their God-awful pre-message, but they might. They certainly will make money when my Sprint phone is waiting on Verizon's equally obnoxious introduction, or T-mobile's, etc...
7) The worst part of this, in my perspective, isn't that I might pay, if I totally screw up, 50c or 5 bucks some month because a few extra minutes were incurred waiting to leave my friends voicemail - or dropping coffee on the bus trying to press 1 to bypass the spiel. The worst part is I leave a moderate amount of voicemail messages, and this amounts to Minutes, Hours, or God knows, even Days of my life eventually wasted listening to a robot tell me how to leave a voicemail and that it's ok to hang up. It's robbery, I tell you!
From Kerry's Blog: http://www.johnkerry.com/blog
JK: "A good healthy discussion was interrupted"
by Rick Albertson on September 18th, 2007
Senator Kerry made the following statement in response to the arrest of a student at the University of Florida:
In 37 years of public appearances, through wars, protests and highly emotional events, I have never had a dialogue end this way.
I believe I could have handled the situation without interruption, but again I do not know what warnings or other exchanges transpired between the young man and the police prior to his barging to the front of the line and their intervention.
I asked the police to allow me to answer the question and was in the process of answering him when he was taken into custody.
I was not aware that a taser was used until after I left the building. I hope that neither the student nor any of the police were injured.
I regret enormously that a good healthy discussion was interrupted.
To further support this data, I'd like to see the cirrhosis rate in a heavily caffinated area - like here in Seattle say, to that of the South, where the coffee is God-awful and undrinkable.
I'm sure we have less up here, even though we drink tons of strong beer too.
Strong beer + strong coffee = healthy, wealthy and wise
Hawking must have just watched Al Gore's movie!
Give or take a billion... before the sun exhausts its supply of hydrogen and becomes a Red Giant, bringing Earth's temperature to Fahrenheit 2,000 and perhaps even engulfing us. Earth either evaporates, or at best turns into a hot version of Mercury. I'd like to be on Titan or Neptune by that time, thanks.
Given that we've only evolved from bacteria to humans in as much time, I'd say we better start working on the problem, as it's unlikely we'll evolve our way to other planets.
Do you think the number of linux-related jobs are growing significantly, and where especially?
;)
Can you find me one?
Wellllp
;)
./install from install ./setup from install after dat
:( (did it make one on KDE or Gnome?? I don't know why would i use those???)
I run mdk8.1 just installed it fine
not exactly intuitive though
tar -xvvzf'd the tar'ball,
decompressed into a directory named 'install'
(stupid name, not very original)
run
run
setup gives a real nice gui (complete with special effects even_) but never told me what to run after installing the thing.
the actual binaries get put in user's homedir, a directory called 'OpenOffice.org1.0' by default ugly again. and it's not been entered in my path.
the executable i ran was called 'soffice' (hmm whered they get that name?)
oh yeah and it didn't put a menu-entry on my Blackbox or Enlightenment menus
but hey thats a standard linux package for ya.... I like it even...
The windows geek sitting next to me emailed me a pretty gnarly word document, overall looks pretty good.
;)
Yeah, but the audio/mp3 OLE doesn't work, he sneers!
aiyee... i wouldn't reccommend OpenOffice as a web browser either