You bet, I do the same at home. Bought an old IBM Thinkpad R51 (8 or 9 yes old) on ebay for $80 about a year ago and run Linux as well. You can still get alot out of an old system. I am writing this on this old hunk of junk now.:-).
Just as you line out your work objectives for the year/quarter whatever you should also have a line on expectations in regards to values and ethics. Make your staff accountable for their behaviour with clear consequences for acting against those values and ethics. Does not need to be complicated, it's life skills stuff.
You know, I have been thinking this as well but have never stated it as clearly as you just did. Some of the interface choices in gmail for instance just leave me flabbergasted. I just think to myself.. "funny engineers". I have noticed this with the google analytics interface as well. Lots of the design decisions they make seem convoluted to me although the technology is obviously pretty cool. And I agree on the +1 comment. I would expect their "dislike" button to be != +1 .
Everybody says this. So I install Chrome on Linux and seems ok. I have been running Firefox for years and have never noticed that it is a dog. It seems to work as well as I would expect it to on both my Linux and Windows laptops. Are we talking nanoseconds on page loads, or just the launching of the app? Is it when you have a million tabs open? Does it "dog" down when you install all those addons? (i only run Flashblock, ABP, and a proxy switcher) Maybe I just use my web browser differently then most people, but the speed of Firefox seems much ado about nothing. I have no political hangups about commercial browsers. I just haven't seen much in Chrome that would make me look down on FF.
If he already has a TV it would be easier to connect it to a slingbox. ipad has a slingbox app and he can even watch his regular tv HD on the ipad within his local lan.
I am using sling at my place now and had originally bought it so i could watch my satellite tv over the internet, but 95% of the time I am using it locally in the house or on the porch outside. It has been a truly amazing and inexpensive little device.
I have a three year old son as well and there are many good age appropriate books to read at your library or local book store. I personally find comic books a little too mature for that age. But the important thing is to use your judgment and be ready to put things in context. Whatever comics you read will be better then parking him in front of the TV watching those same comicbook characters. Enjoy the reading, its a great passtime to share with your kid.
I have no problem decrypting Amazon books with http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/hello-world/
Use Calibre to then convert to whatever format you want.
I have a Kobo and always buy my books. But Kobostore sometimes does not have the books I want so I buy them from Amazon and then strip and convert.
Thanks, that clarifies things. I have a hard time believing this does not fall under Rebroadcasting rules. This company aims to profit from streaming content that they have no rights to redistribute. Free OTA content is not public domain. The content is still owned by somebody. I think its a really cool service but I don't see a snowballs chance in hell that Aereo does not get nailed for this in court.
I assume the place shifting thing is a problem. The article mentions you rent antennas from Aero which to me would mean that you could get local area streams no matter where you live. I can already stream my own local area OTA with a Slingbox, not sure if that is also a problem for the Networks. But this seems to take it a bit far. I admit I read this quickly and may be missing something here.
By fed server hugging the first thing I thought of was the fed having easy access to my servers. That would be a real concern for me if using an American cloud hosting provider, as I am not located in the US. Do these companies have any choice but to bend over to the government when they are told?
It will happen. Once all the old farts pack their rolodexes and retire. The new generation of management will change this. Telework is just too much to ask the average dinosaur to grasp.
And the best ones will rise to the top and win. What you describe is only a problem for early adopters that don't mind paying a premium to beta test crappy implementations. I will wait, let others feel the pain and spend their money. When/if I get in, I will be entering a mature market with less surprises. So go ahead, compete away. Bring on the uglies, so we can read the horrendous reviews and all laugh together in the forums as early adopters shout bloody murder about "this piece of crap they bought". Then we can enjoy watching those products die a horrible death and watching the good offerings evolve and improve before jumping on the bandwagon. I am looking forward to buying at the right time.
They get what they give. Case in point, I have Bell for Satellite TV service. On their website I can add channels and packages at will. But once it is added I can only remove channels by calling their 1-800 line and getting caught in phone menu hell. Once I finally talk to somebody, and I mean clear your calendar because this will take a while, I have to put up with the endless questions of why I am removing channels and would I be interested in this or that instead. To the point that you just get irritated and tell them to cancel the channels already. Is it a big deal on the grand scheme of things? Probably not but it is just part of their culture, they are a profit machine and somebody figured out early that the most profit can be generated by treating customers badly. So I am with OP. Screw Bell and anybody who smells like Bell.
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you redistribute 10 year old pc's? you cheap bastards!
Just as you line out your work objectives for the year/quarter whatever you should also have a line on expectations in regards to values and ethics. Make your staff accountable for their behaviour with clear consequences for acting against those values and ethics. Does not need to be complicated, it's life skills stuff.
Losing that Staples tech support is a real show stopper for me.
So like beer goggles without the beer? Google-Goggles
I suspect most people will think an @facebook email is the best thing since sliced bread.
Step 2: Narcissistic and psychopathic tendancies ..keep it rolling people, we can establish a framework here.
mod this shit up. this is the answer right here.
You are so lame AC. That is all.
You know, I have been thinking this as well but have never stated it as clearly as you just did. Some of the interface choices in gmail for instance just leave me flabbergasted. I just think to myself.. "funny engineers". I have noticed this with the google analytics interface as well. Lots of the design decisions they make seem convoluted to me although the technology is obviously pretty cool. And I agree on the +1 comment. I would expect their "dislike" button to be != +1 .
Everybody says this. So I install Chrome on Linux and seems ok. I have been running Firefox for years and have never noticed that it is a dog. It seems to work as well as I would expect it to on both my Linux and Windows laptops. Are we talking nanoseconds on page loads, or just the launching of the app? Is it when you have a million tabs open? Does it "dog" down when you install all those addons? (i only run Flashblock, ABP, and a proxy switcher) Maybe I just use my web browser differently then most people, but the speed of Firefox seems much ado about nothing. I have no political hangups about commercial browsers. I just haven't seen much in Chrome that would make me look down on FF.
If he already has a TV it would be easier to connect it to a slingbox. ipad has a slingbox app and he can even watch his regular tv HD on the ipad within his local lan. I am using sling at my place now and had originally bought it so i could watch my satellite tv over the internet, but 95% of the time I am using it locally in the house or on the porch outside. It has been a truly amazing and inexpensive little device.
I have a three year old son as well and there are many good age appropriate books to read at your library or local book store. I personally find comic books a little too mature for that age. But the important thing is to use your judgment and be ready to put things in context. Whatever comics you read will be better then parking him in front of the TV watching those same comicbook characters. Enjoy the reading, its a great passtime to share with your kid.
I have no problem decrypting Amazon books with http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/hello-world/ Use Calibre to then convert to whatever format you want. I have a Kobo and always buy my books. But Kobostore sometimes does not have the books I want so I buy them from Amazon and then strip and convert.
Thanks, that clarifies things. I have a hard time believing this does not fall under Rebroadcasting rules. This company aims to profit from streaming content that they have no rights to redistribute. Free OTA content is not public domain. The content is still owned by somebody. I think its a really cool service but I don't see a snowballs chance in hell that Aereo does not get nailed for this in court.
I assume the place shifting thing is a problem. The article mentions you rent antennas from Aero which to me would mean that you could get local area streams no matter where you live. I can already stream my own local area OTA with a Slingbox, not sure if that is also a problem for the Networks. But this seems to take it a bit far. I admit I read this quickly and may be missing something here.
I just run a cheap VPS and tunnel through SSH. its like $10 a month. You can get VPS in any country you need to originate from.
Anybody who gets this upset about a browser has got serious issues. Really man, breath.....
By fed server hugging the first thing I thought of was the fed having easy access to my servers. That would be a real concern for me if using an American cloud hosting provider, as I am not located in the US. Do these companies have any choice but to bend over to the government when they are told?
It will happen. Once all the old farts pack their rolodexes and retire. The new generation of management will change this. Telework is just too much to ask the average dinosaur to grasp.
And the best ones will rise to the top and win. What you describe is only a problem for early adopters that don't mind paying a premium to beta test crappy implementations. I will wait, let others feel the pain and spend their money. When/if I get in, I will be entering a mature market with less surprises. So go ahead, compete away. Bring on the uglies, so we can read the horrendous reviews and all laugh together in the forums as early adopters shout bloody murder about "this piece of crap they bought". Then we can enjoy watching those products die a horrible death and watching the good offerings evolve and improve before jumping on the bandwagon. I am looking forward to buying at the right time.
Now remember son... "“No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.” - Homer J Simpson.
They get what they give. Case in point, I have Bell for Satellite TV service. On their website I can add channels and packages at will. But once it is added I can only remove channels by calling their 1-800 line and getting caught in phone menu hell. Once I finally talk to somebody, and I mean clear your calendar because this will take a while, I have to put up with the endless questions of why I am removing channels and would I be interested in this or that instead. To the point that you just get irritated and tell them to cancel the channels already. Is it a big deal on the grand scheme of things? Probably not but it is just part of their culture, they are a profit machine and somebody figured out early that the most profit can be generated by treating customers badly. So I am with OP. Screw Bell and anybody who smells like Bell.
Are you from Timmins?
Isn't the free market a bitch sometimes.