The problem is...if it is doing it all for you from the data the BANK gives you...how is it any different than simply NOT balancing your checkbook?
How will you ever know if yuor checkbook doesnt match your bank statement if you havnt done the figures yourself. It's great that the data is available...I use gnucash and my accounts never add up until I go online and look at my bank records and realize I lost the reciept from chipotle and thats why my checking account is $8.05 short...but I want to be in control. If I go to see why they dont match and realize that the restaurant typed in the wrong number for the tip to be charged then it is possible for me to fix the situation where they charged me $12.50 instead of $1.25 while I would not have noticed it at all if I was just using the data the bank feeds me (same goes for errors actually made by the bank).
Simply importing the data to quicken rather than actually tracking your checking account is no different than not keeping track and simply opening your statement every month and agreeing with it.
I would like to point out that he never said he could drive just fine after 5 beers he simply stated a pretty well rounded fact: Some cars are better than others...some are so bad that they cant cope with speeds that most people find sensible.
It's true, I'd rather be in traffic tahts going 80 if the people around me are driving well built cars that can cope with speed safely (not even fancy cars, just ones that meet decent safety requirments and havnt been grandfathered into existance)
Thats also drinking to.08 which while still being enough to be influenced is the very minimum at which you could be to be in trouble. Another 20 minutes and you would be legal to drive and there are certainly people who can preform better at.08 than others can at the same ammount (though the same can be said for phones, like the fps gamers who have almost no preformance loss because they are used to multitasking and voicechat).
The comparison shoudl probobly made with a wider range of drunkenness such as some of the old legal limits
I think it would be the other way around...I am sure tons have kids have made kill bush icons (for gods sake there are flash advertisments out there where you are supposted to nuke bush or something like that) and I doubt the secret service would even bat an eye (provided of course they werent already investigating you for some reason...if they already thought you might try to kill the president, they might care)
its a fricking buddy icon. If this kid had a diciplinary record or an obvious and open reason to severely dislike the teacher, then it might be a problem but suspending him for the entire semester (usually we call this being expelled...) for writing what was obviously a joke in a format that is impossible to take seriously...thats excessive
It's because before best buy bought their name, Geek Squad was a very reputable computer task force based in minneapolis along with best buy (they are still around and doing good work here and in other cities but they are tarnished by the BB takeover). Most of what Geek Squad did was targeted at business users. They would show up at your place and fix things on any OS (try to show the BB kids somethign with linux) but they also charged what they were worth. A few hours at their hourly rate could certainly fix most problems but the price would scare away anyone who wasnt computer savvy so you ended up with business users who didnt have time to fix the problems or people with seriously hosed systems. Trying to market them to grandma means yuo have to lower the price significantly as well as be willign to deal with the grandma-assosiated problems which gets you the kids making $7 an hour instead of the professional techs who were making a decent living from it.
The sad thing is that I know my shit better than any of those people actually working for the BB geek squad tech (though I am in minneapolis where the real geek squad still exists and those guys certainly knwo their shit) yet when I applied at a best buy for one of those positions, they never got back to me after my interview. I certainly kicked their questions asses until they got to stuff way deeper than any geeksquad tech woudl go before taking the reformat/reinstall bailout (and its not that I have a high opinion of myself, I have done perfectly well on similar tests to get jobs such as the one for my university that covered 3 OS's in even more detail) so it really cant be that I'm not qualified.
They probobly wouldnt get enough billable hours out of me since I would be able to actually fix the things quickly and properly unlike the other kids there (notice how none of the kids who actually work there seem to post on slashdot, jsut people who say they have applied or the such).
What I did find very interesting is that they would make you work on the sales floor for a little bit before they put you on the actual geek squad assignment. Guess all they care about is selling you the extra repairs and stuff, not about properly fixing it (who cares how pushy the guy doing the actual repairs is, look at auto mechanics, if they had to sell you the car first they would proboly not do so well but taht doesnt matter since you are coming to them and telling them to fix it...they have nothing to sell)
yeah, we were forced to pay a ridiculous amount for a 4 to 6 pin firewire cable once. This was about 4-5 years ago and that sort of cable was rather rare. We needed it immediately to pull video from a camera into imovie for a school project with an impending due date so we rather had to pay what they wanted (the other big boxes would have been the same and the cable was too rare for the cheap places).
We ended up I think spending $50 on a cable. Sure it had a clear cover so you could see the pretty silver shielding but you know that the identical cable that came with my creative mp3 player a year or so later had the exact same shielding inside of its black cover and you also know that if the cost of the cable was anywhere near $50, they wouldnt put it in the box.
In the end it just starts to work out like it does in other industries (its car analogy time).
Quality certainly does cost money and there are people who are willing to pay that money since they wont settle for something that isnt high-quality but there are also people willing to take whatever shit gets thrown at them as long as the price is right.
Even without much of a price differential (or even with none), there are people who still want to buy the stuff with poor quality (compare the quality control of chevy with that of honda/vw/toyota). We will just end up with studios that are known for pushing out good things like valve and ID that will start to be known as the "luxury brands" where you can be sure you get a high quality product for your money but you pay more (compare the sticker price of halflife2 or doom 3 to the bargain bin which has new games for $15).
I think you hit it right on the head of the nail there
they are covering themselves from people saying bad things about problems with the camp but much more so, they know exactly what goes on at the camp. They probobly know that some parents also know what goes on and dont care but there are parents who would care if they knew and would at the least not send their children there and at the most, take legal action against the camp. I'm not sure exactly what is going on at these camps but if its not bad enough for the camp to actually do anything about it then its probobly not bad enough that the kids with overprotective parents cant experiance it.
and its not that she is expected too after the dinner and the movie (and...was she lying about her age since you have to be 16 to interact with strangers on myspace?) its that after the dinner and the movie when she agrees to go back to her place. There is a stigma attatched to that (unfortunately...since there are many other things that could happen) that it will lead to some sort of sexual exchange. It's not that she is obligated to, its that she sent a signal saying she might be interested.
Aerogel is pretty fricking sweet though. (and for other reasons than the fact that it can float and carry things)
its a great insulator and there are some (carbon?) aeogel's that are conductive of electricity...pretty cool stuff, quite expensive though
almost every girl that I know doesnt carry her phone on her person. They dont seem to like cramming them It's either in a purse where it gets set down when she arrives somewhere and doesnt move unless it rings until she leaves or it's in the pocket of some guy she convinced to carry it (thats assuming she brought it and didnt leave it sitting on her desk at home). Mobile phone tracking is nowhere near as effective as gps implants (and maybe gps implants would help people with directions)
and what if they wanted that extra hour because they werent drinking and instead needed to take someone home who was. From the tracking standpoint, this would look terrible. First they are not where you expect them to be, they appear to be at a party, and then suddenly they are driving, and not driving back to your house...and since you thought they were at a party...
Havnt you people seen the episode of Hogan Knows Best where he tracks his kid??? (ok so, it was under a rare circumstance that I saw it so I wont assume anyone else has time for such a bad show) They install a gps tracker in one of his cars...guess what...its a bad idea to spy on your kids. Let them know that they can actually tell you if there is something bad. If you know that they can do this, even if you dont know where they are or what they are up to at least you can know they are fine since its ok to call you if something's not alright. What are you going to do when they go to college? Keep tracking them in some other city where you dont know what the tracking data even means? If you REALLY want to know...you had better be willing to actually follow them around and be willing to deal with their anger when you get caught because that is essentially what you are doing.
Same here, top school, lots of smart people, lots of facebook and while I havnt met anyone who admits to doing this, there certainly have to be people who check facebook for companies (hell, offer me enough money and I will do it...or even better, I'll sell you the use of one of my extra emails to make an account and check on people yourself...$1000 shoudl buy enough textbooks to make it worth my while while it is nothing compared to waht you will pay these people if you hire them)
While there are definately people who do things that employers might not like but can then switch and become great workers (they made it to this school somehow), the ones who do a lot of stupid (and illegal) things and put them clearly visible on facebook kind of deserve what tehy get. It just shows your prospective employer that you lack the common sense to keep some things private. They arent going to care when they see pictures of you drinking and having fun wtih people (they probobly expect it, its college after all and its a good sign that you get along with people) but they might not like the pictures of you using famous statues to smoke pot or lighting property on fire in public parks...
cheating off some aderoled-up kid in front of you is one thing but your girlfriend neglecting to tell you that she has a dick...now that's academic dishonesty.
I also would have thought that they would do better than that but if you google around, you will find that the average lawyer wages are not really are that great considering that the summer student pay that the big firms tend to offer would be about 100k a year if the students didnt even have to go back to school to actually get their degree...
unless those figures are based on something different like...crappy lawyers or assitants or something...
My entire university's campus is wireless (university of chicago). It works, but at b-speeds, it has nowhere near the capabilities as the gigabit ethernet that almost the entire campus is set up for and certainly doesnt have the consistancy and reliability of the wired network.
It's great for being able to check your email when you are out and about but when you want to be consistantly on (or when you are on a desktop...such as many people in an office environment), you cant beat wired
and, you dont have to EVER worry about interferance issues with wired. In my building, that 1 AP for 15 people certainly doesnt apply. It is a new building and the amount of metal turns it into a big faraday cage.
I will also follow up and say that gallery2 is great. You can have seperate users so they cant touch each others albums and it works great once you get it set up (the install was a little trying the last time I had to do it manually). Luckily, now that I am with Dreamhost (note, referral link that gives you $7 back), they have gallery2 (or 1) as one of their automatically installable items. It will be installed, set up and ready to go. They have recently removed ALL cpu-time limits so you have no worries about having a large amount of users on the lowest plan.
Gallery2 is heavily worked on and it's always been a joy to use.
I hate that tool...it seems like it is the only update that gets pulled down regularily. It pulls itself down and gets installed when I finally relent to it (since I am in no hurry to update it, even though updates come out all of the time) but then it wants me to restart. That's all fine and dandy, I'll let it do its business the next time I feel like restarting.
Oh, whats this? It pops up every 10 minutes asking me to reboot and gives me no option like "remind me tomorrow"
Come on microsoft...dont force me to sit through this shit on nonessential updates
Your stock photos seem lovely but considering how much chicago is on there, you certainly dont have any photos of the university of chicago (and no, gleacher doesnt count).
The fall is coming again (and...its sunny now if you want it green), you should send someone down and get some pictures of the many lovely buildings on campus. Cobb Hall just had its scafolding pulled off and is looking just great, and there is always Rockefellar chapel, the frank lloyd wright robie house--even the new business school. While you are at it, might as well grab some photos of the museum of science and industry and the historical building on prominatory point. Could make a lot of good additions in one afternoon.
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How will you ever know if yuor checkbook doesnt match your bank statement if you havnt done the figures yourself. It's great that the data is available...I use gnucash and my accounts never add up until I go online and look at my bank records and realize I lost the reciept from chipotle and thats why my checking account is $8.05 short...but I want to be in control. If I go to see why they dont match and realize that the restaurant typed in the wrong number for the tip to be charged then it is possible for me to fix the situation where they charged me $12.50 instead of $1.25 while I would not have noticed it at all if I was just using the data the bank feeds me (same goes for errors actually made by the bank).
Simply importing the data to quicken rather than actually tracking your checking account is no different than not keeping track and simply opening your statement every month and agreeing with it.
It's true, I'd rather be in traffic tahts going 80 if the people around me are driving well built cars that can cope with speed safely (not even fancy cars, just ones that meet decent safety requirments and havnt been grandfathered into existance)
The comparison shoudl probobly made with a wider range of drunkenness such as some of the old legal limits
I think it would be the other way around...I am sure tons have kids have made kill bush icons (for gods sake there are flash advertisments out there where you are supposted to nuke bush or something like that) and I doubt the secret service would even bat an eye (provided of course they werent already investigating you for some reason...if they already thought you might try to kill the president, they might care) its a fricking buddy icon. If this kid had a diciplinary record or an obvious and open reason to severely dislike the teacher, then it might be a problem but suspending him for the entire semester (usually we call this being expelled...) for writing what was obviously a joke in a format that is impossible to take seriously...thats excessive
It's because before best buy bought their name, Geek Squad was a very reputable computer task force based in minneapolis along with best buy (they are still around and doing good work here and in other cities but they are tarnished by the BB takeover). Most of what Geek Squad did was targeted at business users. They would show up at your place and fix things on any OS (try to show the BB kids somethign with linux) but they also charged what they were worth. A few hours at their hourly rate could certainly fix most problems but the price would scare away anyone who wasnt computer savvy so you ended up with business users who didnt have time to fix the problems or people with seriously hosed systems. Trying to market them to grandma means yuo have to lower the price significantly as well as be willign to deal with the grandma-assosiated problems which gets you the kids making $7 an hour instead of the professional techs who were making a decent living from it.
They probobly wouldnt get enough billable hours out of me since I would be able to actually fix the things quickly and properly unlike the other kids there (notice how none of the kids who actually work there seem to post on slashdot, jsut people who say they have applied or the such).
What I did find very interesting is that they would make you work on the sales floor for a little bit before they put you on the actual geek squad assignment. Guess all they care about is selling you the extra repairs and stuff, not about properly fixing it (who cares how pushy the guy doing the actual repairs is, look at auto mechanics, if they had to sell you the car first they would proboly not do so well but taht doesnt matter since you are coming to them and telling them to fix it...they have nothing to sell)
We ended up I think spending $50 on a cable. Sure it had a clear cover so you could see the pretty silver shielding but you know that the identical cable that came with my creative mp3 player a year or so later had the exact same shielding inside of its black cover and you also know that if the cost of the cable was anywhere near $50, they wouldnt put it in the box.
Quality certainly does cost money and there are people who are willing to pay that money since they wont settle for something that isnt high-quality but there are also people willing to take whatever shit gets thrown at them as long as the price is right.
Even without much of a price differential (or even with none), there are people who still want to buy the stuff with poor quality (compare the quality control of chevy with that of honda/vw/toyota). We will just end up with studios that are known for pushing out good things like valve and ID that will start to be known as the "luxury brands" where you can be sure you get a high quality product for your money but you pay more (compare the sticker price of halflife2 or doom 3 to the bargain bin which has new games for $15).
they are covering themselves from people saying bad things about problems with the camp but much more so, they know exactly what goes on at the camp. They probobly know that some parents also know what goes on and dont care but there are parents who would care if they knew and would at the least not send their children there and at the most, take legal action against the camp. I'm not sure exactly what is going on at these camps but if its not bad enough for the camp to actually do anything about it then its probobly not bad enough that the kids with overprotective parents cant experiance it.
and its not that she is expected too after the dinner and the movie (and...was she lying about her age since you have to be 16 to interact with strangers on myspace?) its that after the dinner and the movie when she agrees to go back to her place. There is a stigma attatched to that (unfortunately...since there are many other things that could happen) that it will lead to some sort of sexual exchange. It's not that she is obligated to, its that she sent a signal saying she might be interested.
Aerogel is pretty fricking sweet though. (and for other reasons than the fact that it can float and carry things)
its a great insulator and there are some (carbon?) aeogel's that are conductive of electricity...pretty cool stuff, quite expensive though
almost every girl that I know doesnt carry her phone on her person. They dont seem to like cramming them It's either in a purse where it gets set down when she arrives somewhere and doesnt move unless it rings until she leaves or it's in the pocket of some guy she convinced to carry it (thats assuming she brought it and didnt leave it sitting on her desk at home). Mobile phone tracking is nowhere near as effective as gps implants (and maybe gps implants would help people with directions)
Havnt you people seen the episode of Hogan Knows Best where he tracks his kid??? (ok so, it was under a rare circumstance that I saw it so I wont assume anyone else has time for such a bad show) They install a gps tracker in one of his cars...guess what...its a bad idea to spy on your kids. Let them know that they can actually tell you if there is something bad. If you know that they can do this, even if you dont know where they are or what they are up to at least you can know they are fine since its ok to call you if something's not alright. What are you going to do when they go to college? Keep tracking them in some other city where you dont know what the tracking data even means? If you REALLY want to know...you had better be willing to actually follow them around and be willing to deal with their anger when you get caught because that is essentially what you are doing.
While there are definately people who do things that employers might not like but can then switch and become great workers (they made it to this school somehow), the ones who do a lot of stupid (and illegal) things and put them clearly visible on facebook kind of deserve what tehy get. It just shows your prospective employer that you lack the common sense to keep some things private. They arent going to care when they see pictures of you drinking and having fun wtih people (they probobly expect it, its college after all and its a good sign that you get along with people) but they might not like the pictures of you using famous statues to smoke pot or lighting property on fire in public parks...
cheating off some aderoled-up kid in front of you is one thing but your girlfriend neglecting to tell you that she has a dick...now that's academic dishonesty.
unless those figures are based on something different like...crappy lawyers or assitants or something...
It's great for being able to check your email when you are out and about but when you want to be consistantly on (or when you are on a desktop...such as many people in an office environment), you cant beat wired
and, you dont have to EVER worry about interferance issues with wired. In my building, that 1 AP for 15 people certainly doesnt apply. It is a new building and the amount of metal turns it into a big faraday cage.
Hot Coffee from coffee machine == good
Hot Coffee from microwave == bad
He gave them their chance...now just let the authorities deal with it.
Gallery2 is heavily worked on and it's always been a joy to use.
Oh, whats this? It pops up every 10 minutes asking me to reboot and gives me no option like "remind me tomorrow"
Come on microsoft...dont force me to sit through this shit on nonessential updates
Except that you cant get numbered swiss bank accounts anymore.
Now, unless you actually start crashing the server with faulty scripts, you are in the clear.
Well, we all knew that the Lenovo branding would eventually lead to bad thigns happening. The T60 is good, the no-linux is bad.
The fall is coming again (and...its sunny now if you want it green), you should send someone down and get some pictures of the many lovely buildings on campus. Cobb Hall just had its scafolding pulled off and is looking just great, and there is always Rockefellar chapel, the frank lloyd wright robie house--even the new business school. While you are at it, might as well grab some photos of the museum of science and industry and the historical building on prominatory point. Could make a lot of good additions in one afternoon.