I actually doubt that will happen. I suspect that M$ will force users to change similar to the Office change to the Office Ribbon a few years ago. The goal is to get developers developers developers to write apps for Metro, and if they give users a way to turn off metro they are basically telling developers not to bother. The metro interface is likely here to stay and will probably get more obnoxious and invasive in future Windows releases.
One problem...FSC cigs (mandated now in all fiddy states) will likely put themselves out before you can flick it at the pump...yep...screwed by uncle sam again...
The way I see it, you willingly accepted the interview. If the potential employer wants to test your ability then they have the right to ask you to demonstrate some basic skills at least. You obviously can refuse but I somehow doubt it will endear you to them as a candidate.
As a small business owner of a tech company I would question the abilities of a candidate who refuses to demonstrate at least a basic proficiency in their craft. This becomes even more relevant if the candidate has a degree/diploma from one of those 6 month - 1 year training programs and little work experience.
Cheaper fiber, thats great. However I expect to see it rolled out in my area (Milwaukee) around... ohhhh I don't know - maybe the day after pigs fly? The sad reality is that the telco's will continue to squeeze every last day out of the existing rotting copper network to increase their profits. Then on the day they just can't get any more blood from the turnip they will jack service prices in the name of "upgrading and expanding their infastructure".
First of all, for you really clueless people out there, this all comes down to paying INCOME tax. SALES tax is a whole other can of worms. As a small business owner myself I think it is perfectly fair to have ebay sales be taxed (at least the higher-volume sellers) like anyone else. Anyone doing higher volume (over 100 sales/yr) is obviously running some sort of business recognized or not and making a profit. There is no reason these people should be exempt from the laws the rest of us have to follow.
By the way, I -do- support cleaning up/simplifying the tax codes!
Funny, I seem to recall the states wanting something similar to this years ago. Granted, this is a reorg not splitting the company, but it sounds somewhat similar to the idea proposed back then. OS/Platform division, business software division, and consumer devices/mobile devices divison. Also, while it is somewhat to speed up Vista development, it is supposed to make the company more agile as a whole at getting any/all products to market. Also, from reading an article on WSJ.com about this they placed Ray Ozzie where they did "to oversee each of three new divisions' shift to more network-based methods of distribution." This could be a good thing.
I charge $75/hr for commercial, $50/hr for residential, and $25/hr for residential referrals. But the residential referrals have to be someone either I know or is a good friend/family member of someone I know.
As I had stated in another comment on an above post, I was in that situation the other day. I had a customer with a HD on its way out (bad sectors). This woman was -convinced- it was her teenage kid that broke the computer. No matter how much I explained it to her she would continue to go back to reaming out the kid at the top of her lungs. I finally had enough and told them I would take it back to the shop, get it fixed and bring it back. I couldn't take the constant arguing and yelling back and forth any more. Dealing with residential customers is most certainly... interesting...
You are exactly right! I had a customer in this boat just the other day. The hard drive was taking a dump. They recognized that it would be cheaper to buy a new system than to pay me to get a HD, install it, sys restore & install apps on it, and then migrate the data. But in the end, the customer had to deal with me because the data on the old drive was important to them.
WindowsNT was not a better product. I have been using NetWare since 3.12 all the way to present. The reasons NetWare lost the battle are simple.
1. Novell has some of the worst marketing in the industry. Their market drones have dropped the ball more times than I care to count.
2. Novell insisted that IPX was the way to go as far as network protocols were concerned while the rest of the world was jumping on the TCP/IP bandwagon. By the time they decided that maybe they should shift their mindset it was too late.
3. NetWare did not have a pretty GUI with fun little icons to click until version 5, and even then it was a slow, stupid, clumsy, useless GUI at best. Clueless admin's, which it seems to me makes up 60-70% of the market, want a warm - fuzzy - feeling from their NOS.
Those are a few of the main reasons (in my view) why Novell went down the drain.
Something I have learned over time that was not listed in the article is to pay visits to your customers periodically. Yes, it is somewhat of a fishing trip but at the same time, they get a feel-good visit from you and it often ends up resulting in a few "oh, while you are here..." requests. Regardless of whether you charge for those or not, it all helps the "warm & fuzzy factor".
The Patriot Act had nothing to do with my vote for pres, however, I live in WI and Russ Feingold is up for re-election. I do support him, especially after he had the balls to stand up against the Patriot Act. We need more independent senators like Feingold that can think for themselves and not give in to peer pressure. Thankfully they just announced that Feingold has been declared the winner in his race.
Say I have this device attached to my car and on the weekend go out to a dragstrip or road course to race. How will I prove that the time/speed entries showing high speeds were done on a dragstrip and not public highways? I would presume that if I remove the device for the afternoon while I am racing then there will be a gap in the logs that will be questionable. And please don't say "oh you just send them your timeslips and they will adjust your discount" because thats just rediculous.
"for the purpose of developing new vaccines."...or for use as a new biological warfare weapon against whomever we get a fart crooked towards next week...
People have been "chipping" their cars for several years now. In fact, there are several different types of chips, some only replace values of certain addresses while others replace large portions of the computer program.
Some car mfr's and divisions are more willing to allow chipping - such as Fords SVT division.
Yep, it does, but rather than setting a date - why not advertise the product as coming soon? In my mind that would allow the advertiser to promote the product without tying it to a specific make or break date.
Agreed, it is their strategy. But would you feel better if they gave you a release date - one that they probably won't hit? Or even worse - they hit the date - but the game sucks because they focused on getting the game shipped by the relase date.
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...which means mass-production of said battery will never see the light of day...
I actually doubt that will happen. I suspect that M$ will force users to change similar to the Office change to the Office Ribbon a few years ago. The goal is to get developers developers developers to write apps for Metro, and if they give users a way to turn off metro they are basically telling developers not to bother. The metro interface is likely here to stay and will probably get more obnoxious and invasive in future Windows releases.
One problem...FSC cigs (mandated now in all fiddy states) will likely put themselves out before you can flick it at the pump...yep...screwed by uncle sam again...
The way I see it, you willingly accepted the interview. If the potential employer wants to test your ability then they have the right to ask you to demonstrate some basic skills at least. You obviously can refuse but I somehow doubt it will endear you to them as a candidate.
As a small business owner of a tech company I would question the abilities of a candidate who refuses to demonstrate at least a basic proficiency in their craft. This becomes even more relevant if the candidate has a degree/diploma from one of those 6 month - 1 year training programs and little work experience.
He is still having a better day than this guy.
Had you have read TFA you would know that it doesn't ban political robocalls.
Cheaper fiber, thats great. However I expect to see it rolled out in my area (Milwaukee) around ... ohhhh I don't know - maybe the day after pigs fly? The sad reality is that the telco's will continue to squeeze every last day out of the existing rotting copper network to increase their profits. Then on the day they just can't get any more blood from the turnip they will jack service prices in the name of "upgrading and expanding their infastructure".
First of all, for you really clueless people out there, this all comes down to paying INCOME tax. SALES tax is a whole other can of worms. As a small business owner myself I think it is perfectly fair to have ebay sales be taxed (at least the higher-volume sellers) like anyone else. Anyone doing higher volume (over 100 sales/yr) is obviously running some sort of business recognized or not and making a profit. There is no reason these people should be exempt from the laws the rest of us have to follow.
By the way, I -do- support cleaning up/simplifying the tax codes!
Funny, I seem to recall the states wanting something similar to this years ago. Granted, this is a reorg not splitting the company, but it sounds somewhat similar to the idea proposed back then. OS/Platform division, business software division, and consumer devices/mobile devices divison. Also, while it is somewhat to speed up Vista development, it is supposed to make the company more agile as a whole at getting any/all products to market. Also, from reading an article on WSJ.com about this they placed Ray Ozzie where they did "to oversee each of three new divisions' shift to more network-based methods of distribution." This could be a good thing.
I charge $75/hr for commercial, $50/hr for residential, and $25/hr for residential referrals. But the residential referrals have to be someone either I know or is a good friend/family member of someone I know.
As I had stated in another comment on an above post, I was in that situation the other day. I had a customer with a HD on its way out (bad sectors). This woman was -convinced- it was her teenage kid that broke the computer. No matter how much I explained it to her she would continue to go back to reaming out the kid at the top of her lungs. I finally had enough and told them I would take it back to the shop, get it fixed and bring it back. I couldn't take the constant arguing and yelling back and forth any more. Dealing with residential customers is most certainly ... interesting ...
You are exactly right! I had a customer in this boat just the other day. The hard drive was taking a dump. They recognized that it would be cheaper to buy a new system than to pay me to get a HD, install it, sys restore & install apps on it, and then migrate the data. But in the end, the customer had to deal with me because the data on the old drive was important to them.
WindowsNT was not a better product. I have been using NetWare since 3.12 all the way to present. The reasons NetWare lost the battle are simple.
1. Novell has some of the worst marketing in the industry. Their market drones have dropped the ball more times than I care to count.
2. Novell insisted that IPX was the way to go as far as network protocols were concerned while the rest of the world was jumping on the TCP/IP bandwagon. By the time they decided that maybe they should shift their mindset it was too late.
3. NetWare did not have a pretty GUI with fun little icons to click until version 5, and even then it was a slow, stupid, clumsy, useless GUI at best. Clueless admin's, which it seems to me makes up 60-70% of the market, want a warm - fuzzy - feeling from their NOS.
Those are a few of the main reasons (in my view) why Novell went down the drain.
Something I have learned over time that was not listed in the article is to pay visits to your customers periodically. Yes, it is somewhat of a fishing trip but at the same time, they get a feel-good visit from you and it often ends up resulting in a few "oh, while you are here..." requests. Regardless of whether you charge for those or not, it all helps the "warm & fuzzy factor".
Oh come now! There will be lots of continuity once Lucas finishes bastardizing ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h fixing the original trilogy!
The Patriot Act had nothing to do with my vote for pres, however, I live in WI and Russ Feingold is up for re-election. I do support him, especially after he had the balls to stand up against the Patriot Act. We need more independent senators like Feingold that can think for themselves and not give in to peer pressure. Thankfully they just announced that Feingold has been declared the winner in his race.
Say I have this device attached to my car and on the weekend go out to a dragstrip or road course to race. How will I prove that the time/speed entries showing high speeds were done on a dragstrip and not public highways? I would presume that if I remove the device for the afternoon while I am racing then there will be a gap in the logs that will be questionable. And please don't say "oh you just send them your timeslips and they will adjust your discount" because thats just rediculous.
"for the purpose of developing new vaccines." ...or for use as a new biological warfare weapon against whomever we get a fart crooked towards next week...
1. If I upgrade my house from standard 100 amp service to say 200 amp service does it double the speed of my inet connect?
2. If I grab the black wire in the outlet can I download/upload www data to my noggin directly?
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I would agree with that to a point. Slackware 9.1 is really ready, 9.0 is kinda sorta ready.
So you are reading /. on an Altair? What is that like anyway?
I just upgraded 2 slackware 9 boxes to 2.6 It was easy. You must be using some odd hardware or are a newbie.
People have been "chipping" their cars for several years now. In fact, there are several different types of chips, some only replace values of certain addresses while others replace large portions of the computer program.
Some car mfr's and divisions are more willing to allow chipping - such as Fords SVT division.
"It takes time to build an ad campaign."
Yep, it does, but rather than setting a date - why not advertise the product as coming soon? In my mind that would allow the advertiser to promote the product without tying it to a specific make or break date.
Agreed, it is their strategy. But would you feel better if they gave you a release date - one that they probably won't hit? Or even worse - they hit the date - but the game sucks because they focused on getting the game shipped by the relase date.