the Better Business Bureau
If I see that a site has purposely and prominently advertised affiliation with the BBB, that usually leads me to suspect that they have something to hide. You almost NEVER see BBB links on most of the big name sites, like Amazon, Google, etc. I was about to put NewEgg, but they DO have a BBB link. But, I can almost guarantee that you will see a BBB link on every single "Only Available on TV" product. Why? Because they are cheap junk that is not worth the money, but they BBB link might make a few more people buy their cheap junk.
I'm not defending fracking, per se, isn't it better to have a bunch of small earthquakes than one big one?BR
I would be inclined to agree, but last year in Oklahoma we had a large number of big quakes for our area. By big I mean 3.0 or higher. We have hundreds per year smaller than that. Anyway, the large number of big quakes was blamed on fracking, including the largest quake we have ever had on record, a 5.6. So it would seem that fracking didn't lead to a larger number of smaller quakes in our case, but a larger number of larger quakes.
I have the unlimited data plan grandfathered on my account. It is $30 per month.
Mine may have been cheaper because I had an old Alltel account, or it may be because I am on a family plan. But it was definitely $20 a month. They said that in order to make a change on my account I would have to pay $10 more for the 2GB plan instead of the unlimited account I am on now. I don't think paying an additional $10 a month is worth having 2/infinity amount of the service.
You're holding it wrong, you want to get lost, these pictures should be that colour, wifi connections should use your wireless bandwidth, battery life is supposed to be that poor if you use it (especially for facebook), those scratches are normal out of the case, this new connector is far better than the old one and adapters are the best you can get. best iPhone ever.
You see, there is no purple lens flare, as an upstanding iphone citizen, you should be wearing your rose colored glasses, and then you won't see that flare at all.
You have to draw the line somewhere. Just like we design a nuclear facility to survive certain level earthquakes, but not a magnitude 9, the same can be said for security. If the nun had been 70 even 75 years old, they would have been able to stop her, but 82? That's asking too much.
I think Verizon charges like $30/month for 2GB, which may seem insane
Yes, that is correct, their 2 GB plan is $30/month, but their unlimited plan, which they no longer offer is only $20/month.
Simple, straightforward, honest thanks for getting the job done, particularly in times of limited resources and increasing demands.
Yes, and the best part is that you can take that "Thank You" down to the supermarket and buy food with it. And when your wife files for divorce because you spend all your time at work, you can tell her "But the boss says 'Thank you'", and when your kids call the cops when you come home because thy don't recognize you, you can tell them "But the boss says 'Thank you'". And when you end up old and alone, and penniless because your company found somebody even cheaper than you to do your job, you can always fall back on the fact that your boss said Thank You. Yeah, Thank You's are the best motivation, plain and simple.
IT: cost center. Didn't contribute to the profit of the company, so no profit sharing bonus for you.
Sales:....
Profit sharing sounds nice in theory, until you see how it is implemented.
But surely your company has told you at some point "we're all in sales"? So therefore, you get a cut of the sales profit.
This is what I don't understand, why is everybody all in sales, but not everybody is in IT, or not everybody is in Development? Why is sales the one part of the company which requires everyone's help to get their job done?
I think that the one thing Sales has going for it is not the ability to sell the product itself, which they can't seem to do well, but to sell Management on the idea that Sales is everybody's job. To put another way, Marketing's job is to convince companies that they need marketing, and they do it very well. Marketing the product itself, not so much.
Assuming a 40 hour workweek, a 3% "above and beyond" incentive *should* mean they only expect an additional hour and 12 minutes out of you every week. In my experience, a comparable pay increase often comes with the expectation that you're going to be putting in another 10-15 hours per week, and then these fools wonder why no one wants to take them up on such a "great deal".
Overtime at most hourly jobs is 1.5 to 2 times or more of the base pay. So 3% translates to less than an hour or maybe as little as less than a half hour of extra work. If an employee performs 3% beyond expectation , they should be rewarded at 4.5% to 6% above base salary. If the company doesn't want to pay that much for overtime, then they could always higher another person at 1X the base salary.
I, and many others, had the same feelings when the Ribbon debuted for MS Office.
Yeah, me too, and years later I still have the same feelings. The Ribbon sucks. It is less efficient, hides the menus, and makes the user have to do an additional click for every single function.
The Metro desktop theme has similar problems. There is no need to have a unified GUI across operating systems. The Metro style theme on handheld devices happens to work well for handheld devices. Point and click happens to work well on desktops and laptops. Why can't we use the most efficient method appropriate for each device? It's like using the same transmission for a vehicle, whether it is a golf cart, a family car, or a truck.
Worldwide, the digital warehouses use about 30 billion watts of electricity,
But, but, electricity is GOOD! Electricity spontaneously generates itself from pure fairy dust inside your wall. Unlike Fossil fuels which come from torturing cute baby dinosaurs until oil comes out.
These people seem to be fine that our tax dollars go to farmers to grow To Much Corn, so that they can be sold below actual cost and keep the price of feed down for our industrial livestock production.
Well, that is to make up for the government putting corn oil in gasoline, which pushes the price up.
I find it funny that the number one ingredient in most gummy bears is high fructose CORN syrup.
Yes, and my pastor was speaking on nutrition this Sunday and pointed out that most lemonade does not contain any real lemon, but furniture polish does.
How come when something like 25,000 people die of malnutrition every day [poverty.com], food likely fit for human consumption is going to cattle?
Corn is not terribly nutritious for humans. We don't process it well. However, run it through a cow first, and it can provide more nutrition PLUS it tastes better.
So, millions of years, including the time to produce the fuel. Electric cars could easily be competitive if there was agreement on a battery swap standard, and swap stations were as abundant as fuel refueling stations (probably not going to happen).
I guess the millions of years also applies to the electric vehicles since most electricity, at least in the U.S., still comes from fossil fuels. Or does the electricity that runs electric vehicles all come from fairy farts or something?
The major problem here is getting unit costs down to where the cars become acceptable from a pricing POV.
Don't hold your breath. They make millions of gas powered cars a year and they are not acceptable from a pricing POV.
Our ancestors tried electric cars in the 19th century and they sucked. They still suck. The only thing that will stop them sucking is a massive improvement in battery technology.
If only they could find some sort of energy storage medium that was more dense than batteries, and perhaps was in some kind of liquid form so it was easy to dispense, and maybe even weighed less as the energy was extracted.
I never understood why they couldn't hitch up a trailer carrying a gasoline generator. BAMF, instant hybrid that could travel interstate.
Presumably because they are trying to be efficient, and pulling a trailer to charge the batteries to turn the wheels is less efficient than running an engine to turn the wheels.
If you could create a class of electric vehicle optimized for the morning commute, selling at, say, $5k
They actually had vehicles like this before the green movement. They were glorified golf carts and cost about $5k. However, when the green movement started, suddenly the price shot up by $30,000.
The whole think would inspire in me a certain sympathy for libertarian arguments about how the government wastes money on idiotic stuff, except that this is precisely the way germany has kept an edge technologically for so many decades: by subsidizing its heavy industry in this indirect way.
That is also the way that the United States advanced technologically through the 50s and 60s and early 70s. The last time we did anything really amazing was during the era when the government invested heavily in research. Unfortunately, we no longer do that, so our country is stagnating.
I got my license over 10 years ago. I know the forms that I filled out didn't allow them to use my likeness for facial recognition. And I doubt the government is smart enough to say "by signing this agreement, you agree to let us change it whenever we want to for whatever purpose, as if we are a cell phone company or an internet service provider or something".
Actually there are closer to 7 billion people without iOS features. The amount of people that could possibly care about the new Maps lack of features is a statistical anomaly compared to the population of Earth. While I don't normally defend Apple, I call sensationalism on the author of this article. Less than half of 1% of humans would even be affected, and far fewer will care. I don't know what the percentage of iphone users is that uses Maps, but even if it is 100%, the overall statistic is "nobody cares".
Slashdot Mirror
the Better Business Bureau
If I see that a site has purposely and prominently advertised affiliation with the BBB, that usually leads me to suspect that they have something to hide. You almost NEVER see BBB links on most of the big name sites, like Amazon, Google, etc. I was about to put NewEgg, but they DO have a BBB link. But, I can almost guarantee that you will see a BBB link on every single "Only Available on TV" product. Why? Because they are cheap junk that is not worth the money, but they BBB link might make a few more people buy their cheap junk.
I'm not defending fracking, per se, isn't it better to have a bunch of small earthquakes than one big one?BR I would be inclined to agree, but last year in Oklahoma we had a large number of big quakes for our area. By big I mean 3.0 or higher. We have hundreds per year smaller than that. Anyway, the large number of big quakes was blamed on fracking, including the largest quake we have ever had on record, a 5.6. So it would seem that fracking didn't lead to a larger number of smaller quakes in our case, but a larger number of larger quakes.
I have the unlimited data plan grandfathered on my account. It is $30 per month.
Mine may have been cheaper because I had an old Alltel account, or it may be because I am on a family plan. But it was definitely $20 a month. They said that in order to make a change on my account I would have to pay $10 more for the 2GB plan instead of the unlimited account I am on now. I don't think paying an additional $10 a month is worth having 2/infinity amount of the service.
You're holding it wrong, you want to get lost, these pictures should be that colour, wifi connections should use your wireless bandwidth, battery life is supposed to be that poor if you use it (especially for facebook), those scratches are normal out of the case, this new connector is far better than the old one and adapters are the best you can get. best iPhone ever.
You see, there is no purple lens flare, as an upstanding iphone citizen, you should be wearing your rose colored glasses, and then you won't see that flare at all.
You have to draw the line somewhere. Just like we design a nuclear facility to survive certain level earthquakes, but not a magnitude 9, the same can be said for security. If the nun had been 70 even 75 years old, they would have been able to stop her, but 82? That's asking too much.
I think Verizon charges like $30/month for 2GB, which may seem insane
Yes, that is correct, their 2 GB plan is $30/month, but their unlimited plan, which they no longer offer is only $20/month.
Simple, straightforward, honest thanks for getting the job done, particularly in times of limited resources and increasing demands.
Yes, and the best part is that you can take that "Thank You" down to the supermarket and buy food with it. And when your wife files for divorce because you spend all your time at work, you can tell her "But the boss says 'Thank you'", and when your kids call the cops when you come home because thy don't recognize you, you can tell them "But the boss says 'Thank you'". And when you end up old and alone, and penniless because your company found somebody even cheaper than you to do your job, you can always fall back on the fact that your boss said Thank You. Yeah, Thank You's are the best motivation, plain and simple.
IT: cost center. Didn't contribute to the profit of the company, so no profit sharing bonus for you. ....
Sales:
Profit sharing sounds nice in theory, until you see how it is implemented. But surely your company has told you at some point "we're all in sales"? So therefore, you get a cut of the sales profit.
This is what I don't understand, why is everybody all in sales, but not everybody is in IT, or not everybody is in Development? Why is sales the one part of the company which requires everyone's help to get their job done?
I think that the one thing Sales has going for it is not the ability to sell the product itself, which they can't seem to do well, but to sell Management on the idea that Sales is everybody's job. To put another way, Marketing's job is to convince companies that they need marketing, and they do it very well. Marketing the product itself, not so much.
Assuming a 40 hour workweek, a 3% "above and beyond" incentive *should* mean they only expect an additional hour and 12 minutes out of you every week. In my experience, a comparable pay increase often comes with the expectation that you're going to be putting in another 10-15 hours per week, and then these fools wonder why no one wants to take them up on such a "great deal".
Overtime at most hourly jobs is 1.5 to 2 times or more of the base pay. So 3% translates to less than an hour or maybe as little as less than a half hour of extra work. If an employee performs 3% beyond expectation , they should be rewarded at 4.5% to 6% above base salary. If the company doesn't want to pay that much for overtime, then they could always higher another person at 1X the base salary.
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I, and many others, had the same feelings when the Ribbon debuted for MS Office.
Yeah, me too, and years later I still have the same feelings. The Ribbon sucks. It is less efficient, hides the menus, and makes the user have to do an additional click for every single function.
The Metro desktop theme has similar problems. There is no need to have a unified GUI across operating systems. The Metro style theme on handheld devices happens to work well for handheld devices. Point and click happens to work well on desktops and laptops. Why can't we use the most efficient method appropriate for each device? It's like using the same transmission for a vehicle, whether it is a golf cart, a family car, or a truck.
Worldwide, the digital warehouses use about 30 billion watts of electricity,
But, but, electricity is GOOD! Electricity spontaneously generates itself from pure fairy dust inside your wall. Unlike Fossil fuels which come from torturing cute baby dinosaurs until oil comes out.
These people seem to be fine that our tax dollars go to farmers to grow To Much Corn, so that they can be sold below actual cost and keep the price of feed down for our industrial livestock production.
Well, that is to make up for the government putting corn oil in gasoline, which pushes the price up.
I find it funny that the number one ingredient in most gummy bears is high fructose CORN syrup.
Yes, and my pastor was speaking on nutrition this Sunday and pointed out that most lemonade does not contain any real lemon, but furniture polish does.
How come when something like 25,000 people die of malnutrition every day [poverty.com], food likely fit for human consumption is going to cattle?
Corn is not terribly nutritious for humans. We don't process it well. However, run it through a cow first, and it can provide more nutrition PLUS it tastes better.
So, don't swat the flies, because then the ones that don't get swatted will reproduce flies more capable of avoiding swatting?
So, millions of years, including the time to produce the fuel. Electric cars could easily be competitive if there was agreement on a battery swap standard, and swap stations were as abundant as fuel refueling stations (probably not going to happen).
I guess the millions of years also applies to the electric vehicles since most electricity, at least in the U.S., still comes from fossil fuels. Or does the electricity that runs electric vehicles all come from fairy farts or something?
The major problem here is getting unit costs down to where the cars become acceptable from a pricing POV.
Don't hold your breath. They make millions of gas powered cars a year and they are not acceptable from a pricing POV.
Our ancestors tried electric cars in the 19th century and they sucked. They still suck. The only thing that will stop them sucking is a massive improvement in battery technology.
If only they could find some sort of energy storage medium that was more dense than batteries, and perhaps was in some kind of liquid form so it was easy to dispense, and maybe even weighed less as the energy was extracted.
I never understood why they couldn't hitch up a trailer carrying a gasoline generator. BAMF, instant hybrid that could travel interstate.
Presumably because they are trying to be efficient, and pulling a trailer to charge the batteries to turn the wheels is less efficient than running an engine to turn the wheels.
If you could create a class of electric vehicle optimized for the morning commute, selling at, say, $5k
They actually had vehicles like this before the green movement. They were glorified golf carts and cost about $5k. However, when the green movement started, suddenly the price shot up by $30,000.
The whole think would inspire in me a certain sympathy for libertarian arguments about how the government wastes money on idiotic stuff, except that this is precisely the way germany has kept an edge technologically for so many decades: by subsidizing its heavy industry in this indirect way.
That is also the way that the United States advanced technologically through the 50s and 60s and early 70s. The last time we did anything really amazing was during the era when the government invested heavily in research. Unfortunately, we no longer do that, so our country is stagnating.
I got my license over 10 years ago. I know the forms that I filled out didn't allow them to use my likeness for facial recognition. And I doubt the government is smart enough to say "by signing this agreement, you agree to let us change it whenever we want to for whatever purpose, as if we are a cell phone company or an internet service provider or something".
Well, who says they can use my driver's license photo to do facial recognition on? I didn't sign up for that.
Actually there are closer to 7 billion people without iOS features. The amount of people that could possibly care about the new Maps lack of features is a statistical anomaly compared to the population of Earth. While I don't normally defend Apple, I call sensationalism on the author of this article. Less than half of 1% of humans would even be affected, and far fewer will care. I don't know what the percentage of iphone users is that uses Maps, but even if it is 100%, the overall statistic is "nobody cares".