I read City in high school for a Sci Fi class I was taking. I found a copy of City a few years ago and re-read it. It didn't seem to hold up as well almost 20 years later. I still have the copy and might donate it to the library.
When you enter an area that has a wifi SSID you've used before, the 3/4G data shuts off and you get data via wifi. Even though you're now on wifi you won't have access to the Internet until you've opened a browser window and confirm you've accepted the terms of service.
Starbucks already has a mobile payment system for smartphones that uses a barcode. I haven't had to carry my starbucks card in my wallet for months. That makes is slightly more secure since my wallet can be stolen while my Android phone can be remotely wiped and is PIN-locked.
As soon as you enter a Starbucks, you're in a wifi area (attwifi) that you have to click-through before you get Internet access. If most Starbucks customers are like me, they use it. So the instant you walk into a store, there's no way for the phone to communicate to the store that you've entered, since the internet connection is being blocked by the clickthrough. This isn't a problem for the existing smartphone app since it already knows your card number and can generate the barcode. The balance and ability to reload won't work, but that may not be necessary for the transaction.
And yes, I like Starbucks. Their decaf is one of the few drinkable varieties.
Before Al Gore got involved, there was little to no commercial traffic over the Internet (you couldn't sell anything). This was back when the NSF(?) was involved. Afterwards, you could start selling and interest in the Internet increased rapidly.
Did Al Gore create the Internet? No. Was he one of the people primarily responsible for making it what it is today? Yes.
You should spend your time during the interview figuring out what kind of boss I am. Remember, we're interviewing each other - I'm trying to get you to want this job, and you're trying to get me to want you for the job. The balance can shift depending on if you're unemployed or really unhappy about your current position, or if I've had a position open for a year and haven't found the right person.
You may be a manager, and you might want feedback when people leave, but you aren't the one getting the information, some HR person is getting the feedback during the exit interview.
Yes and no. In the cases where people left, I was not part of the exit interview, and HR declined to give me the feedback that was part of it. I did have conversations with people who left, both when they told me they were leaving and shortly before their departure date.
If you hear any of the feedback (and you usually won't), it will be first filtered through both HR management and your own manager (telephone game style) and recorded for posterity for any of your future performance reviews. Still think you want people to give their feedback to HR in exit interviews? Yeah...
Yes. Filtered or not, it's still out there.
FWIW, a "good" manager from an employee's point of view isn't necessarily the same as a "good" manager from upper management's point of view. Good managers from an employee's point of view don't need to beg their employees for feedback, and if they do get feedback they hopefully are people-oriented enough to read between the lines. If they can't even read their direct reports, they probably have no idea how to read the upper management very well either and that isn't gonna be very good for their direct reports in the long-run (and then they by definition won't be very good managers from the employee's point of view even if upper management loves them). Of course it's possible to be a "good" (or "bad") from both points of view, but from my experience, they generally are independent variables that aren't correlated at all. Just my opinion...
As a Linux user for almost 20 years, I don't have a lot of interpersonal experience:) Okay, maybe some, but I don't have formal management training. Given the way my upper management operates, I don't get much feedback from them either on the projects my group works on, nor do I get much feedback from those under me until annual review time. I encourage them to fill out the longer form with questions like "what do you like about your job/what would you like to see improved". They all do and the answers are generally what I expect them to be.
Tell the boss how good they are even tho they are the worst type of asshole in the universe
Thanks the co-workers for their generous help and guidance even tho they are clumsy back-stabbers
Give great praises the company even tho they are giving you the pink slip
That will make them happy, and happy people (often) do not find time to do more harm to you, leaving you plenty of peaceful time to look for new jobs
As a manager of highly technical staff (and highly technical myself) no.
Granted, I've only been doing this for a few years, but I really do want feedback, and not just when you leave. I can't answer every problem you bring to me, but I can at least hear you out and make suggestions or see what I can do on your behalf. Telling me I'm the greatest person you ever worked for is the worst thing to say if it's not true - it makes me think I'm doing a good job when I'm not. I realize not all managers are like me, but I have to imagine that many of us want feedback, be it good or bad. I want to make sure that you as an employee succeed at whatever it is you want to do. If that means you feel like you have a better opportunity elsewhere then that's my loss. I'll still be a reference if I think you deserve it.
If this is the same video floating about elsewhere, I saw one person with a large bread knife, and another person using his collar stay.
It's not really rocket science to open these things up, and any idiot who does this often should at least have a pair of scissors (or a leatherman) on hand in case they need it.
I've seen all sorts of packaging, and if slicing through two pieces of tape is the hardest time they've had, they probably shouldn't be in the business of reviewing packages. Open it off camera, then review it.
The last time I went to the ER (my insurance company doesn't cover urgent care facilities otherwise I would have gone there) I think I was still scribbling my signature on a form when they were bringing me in. Scratched cornea, wasn't there for more than an hour. I spent more time at the opthalmologist a few weeks later for the followup appointment.
Wall Street can't look beyond the current fiscal quarter (or year if you're lucky). Government can't look beyond the next election. There's no incentive to look at long term issues like employment, education, or health care.
Reminds me of the Zip drive click of death. You got a voucher for $10 off any future Iomega purchase at their web site. By then I had no desire to ever purchase any of their products.
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Ahh, Java developers. *ducks*
There's a two volume set of Asimov's short stories. There's a bunch of his mysteries in there.
I read City in high school for a Sci Fi class I was taking. I found a copy of City a few years ago and re-read it. It didn't seem to hold up as well almost 20 years later. I still have the copy and might donate it to the library.
Possible. Doesn't work that way now.
You must not use a smartphone.
When you enter an area that has a wifi SSID you've used before, the 3/4G data shuts off and you get data via wifi. Even though you're now on wifi you won't have access to the Internet until you've opened a browser window and confirm you've accepted the terms of service.
Starbucks already has a mobile payment system for smartphones that uses a barcode. I haven't had to carry my starbucks card in my wallet for months. That makes is slightly more secure since my wallet can be stolen while my Android phone can be remotely wiped and is PIN-locked.
As soon as you enter a Starbucks, you're in a wifi area (attwifi) that you have to click-through before you get Internet access. If most Starbucks customers are like me, they use it. So the instant you walk into a store, there's no way for the phone to communicate to the store that you've entered, since the internet connection is being blocked by the clickthrough. This isn't a problem for the existing smartphone app since it already knows your card number and can generate the barcode. The balance and ability to reload won't work, but that may not be necessary for the transaction.
And yes, I like Starbucks. Their decaf is one of the few drinkable varieties.
Before Al Gore got involved, there was little to no commercial traffic over the Internet (you couldn't sell anything). This was back when the NSF(?) was involved. Afterwards, you could start selling and interest in the Internet increased rapidly.
Did Al Gore create the Internet? No. Was he one of the people primarily responsible for making it what it is today? Yes.
You should spend your time during the interview figuring out what kind of boss I am. Remember, we're interviewing each other - I'm trying to get you to want this job, and you're trying to get me to want you for the job. The balance can shift depending on if you're unemployed or really unhappy about your current position, or if I've had a position open for a year and haven't found the right person.
You may be a manager, and you might want feedback when people leave, but you aren't the one getting the information, some HR person is getting the feedback during the exit interview.
Yes and no. In the cases where people left, I was not part of the exit interview, and HR declined to give me the feedback that was part of it. I did have conversations with people who left, both when they told me they were leaving and shortly before their departure date.
If you hear any of the feedback (and you usually won't), it will be first filtered through both HR management and your own manager (telephone game style) and recorded for posterity for any of your future performance reviews. Still think you want people to give their feedback to HR in exit interviews? Yeah...
Yes. Filtered or not, it's still out there.
FWIW, a "good" manager from an employee's point of view isn't necessarily the same as a "good" manager from upper management's point of view. Good managers from an employee's point of view don't need to beg their employees for feedback, and if they do get feedback they hopefully are people-oriented enough to read between the lines. If they can't even read their direct reports, they probably have no idea how to read the upper management very well either and that isn't gonna be very good for their direct reports in the long-run (and then they by definition won't be very good managers from the employee's point of view even if upper management loves them). Of course it's possible to be a "good" (or "bad") from both points of view, but from my experience, they generally are independent variables that aren't correlated at all. Just my opinion...
As a Linux user for almost 20 years, I don't have a lot of interpersonal experience :) Okay, maybe some, but I don't have formal management training. Given the way my upper management operates, I don't get much feedback from them either on the projects my group works on, nor do I get much feedback from those under me until annual review time. I encourage them to fill out the longer form with questions like "what do you like about your job/what would you like to see improved". They all do and the answers are generally what I expect them to be.
Say nothing but good things -
Tell the boss how good they are even tho they are the worst type of asshole in the universe
Thanks the co-workers for their generous help and guidance even tho they are clumsy back-stabbers
Give great praises the company even tho they are giving you the pink slip
That will make them happy, and happy people (often) do not find time to do more harm to you, leaving you plenty of peaceful time to look for new jobs
As a manager of highly technical staff (and highly technical myself) no.
Granted, I've only been doing this for a few years, but I really do want feedback, and not just when you leave. I can't answer every problem you bring to me, but I can at least hear you out and make suggestions or see what I can do on your behalf. Telling me I'm the greatest person you ever worked for is the worst thing to say if it's not true - it makes me think I'm doing a good job when I'm not. I realize not all managers are like me, but I have to imagine that many of us want feedback, be it good or bad. I want to make sure that you as an employee succeed at whatever it is you want to do. If that means you feel like you have a better opportunity elsewhere then that's my loss. I'll still be a reference if I think you deserve it.
Anyone want to work for me?
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If this is the same video floating about elsewhere, I saw one person with a large bread knife, and another person using his collar stay.
It's not really rocket science to open these things up, and any idiot who does this often should at least have a pair of scissors (or a leatherman) on hand in case they need it.
I've seen all sorts of packaging, and if slicing through two pieces of tape is the hardest time they've had, they probably shouldn't be in the business of reviewing packages. Open it off camera, then review it.
And Google has been offering $25 in Google Play credit.
If I read the page correctly, it reduces the vulnerability to BEAST with the problem being that the full fix is on the client side.
The free market would then say you shouldn't do business with that FFL in the future.
It's obvious as soon as you start MS Office.
My first thought was from The KLF. But that's just me.
Inflammable means flammable? What a country.
The last time I went to the ER (my insurance company doesn't cover urgent care facilities otherwise I would have gone there) I think I was still scribbling my signature on a form when they were bringing me in. Scratched cornea, wasn't there for more than an hour. I spent more time at the opthalmologist a few weeks later for the followup appointment.
"What the bloody hell is wrong with you!?".
Wall Street can't look beyond the current fiscal quarter (or year if you're lucky). Government can't look beyond the next election. There's no incentive to look at long term issues like employment, education, or health care.
Then ISPs shouldn't be advertising unlimited Internet service.
We had a group of people that insisted on using the phrase "Freedom Fries", so I don't think the US is one to talk about what's silly or not.
Reminds me of the Zip drive click of death. You got a voucher for $10 off any future Iomega purchase at their web site. By then I had no desire to ever purchase any of their products.
Give it a look. It ties into shoutcast and can do things on a periodic basis.
It was Pixar, and it's still characters from the original Toy Story.