*YOU* might need real facetime with people. I don't.
I've been working remotely full time for nearly six years now, and although I really truly enjoy my time in the office (5-10 weeks per year), I am far more productive from home, and much happier here then I ever was working in an office.
I'm also closer friends with my fellow remote workers then I ever was with anyone in the office, simply because we make the effort to chat. Share a joke, a link, talk about family, whatever, keep the water-cooler chat going and you might accidentally talk about work too.
Some people, maybe even most people, can't hack it, but please don't assume that becayse you need real facetime, all of us do.
You aren't required to either move, nor to voluntarily resign.
Decline, let them either pay out whatever severance is needed, or outright fire you (which usually requires cause, and you can make it difficult on the company fairly easily)
Good for you for being responsible enough to make that decision, everyone that can't work remotely (But still tries) hurts those of us that can and do.
Some people very much need that separation. However, if you can create a dedicated "home office", you can accomplish the same goal.
I went this direction when I first started working remotely, but at this point I have trained myself to stay focused without needing the separate room, and I now use that room for all of my computer related projects, not just $DAYJOB.
I've been working remotely for over five years now, and one of the biggest perks is that I get to use my own equipment.
I don't have to justify a couple 24" monitors to anyone, I just go buy 'em.
I don't have to get a doctor's note just to get an ergonomic keyboard, no one can turn down my request for a high resolution mouse and gaming grade mousepad (and no, I don't game, and yes, it does make a difference when you have 1920x2400 pixels and don't enjoy picking up your mouse and moving it from one end of the pad to the other)
I pay for my new toys using the money I'm not spending on insurance, gas, and car maintenance.
To the TSA's credit, this is actually closer to a success then a failure, since they're at least stopping guns from getting on to planes. Normally the TSA doesn't worry about guns getting through security too much.
I think the biggest issue here, is that police and other criminology people are concerned that if a computer tech stumbles across illegal information on a computer, that since they are not a licensed private investigator, the evidence cannot in any way be used. Even if say, it's for a child-pornography case. "Your evidence was siezed improperly, sorry, but it's excluded, next time do things the right way!"
Shouldn't plumbers be covered under the same legislation? What if a plumber discovers a stack of child-pornography under a sink?
It all depends on what sort of imaging software they use, if they require you to boot their software from their media, it may well handle alternate partitions nicely.
Of course, if your laptop happened to be company owned and properly locked down, and you reasonably didn't have admin access or BIOS access, there might not be much else they could do except make your life more difficult just for giggles.
One of the perks of being Canadian is that we get to go through customs on the Canadian side going both ways, so a US border guard cannot detain me unless I violate a *Canadian* law -- There is even a local police officer in the room and he can and will arrest the US officer, should the US officer attempt to detain you for anything other then a legal Canadian citizen's arrest (which is only valid until the police officer walks over)
I can see why they're stuck on their solution, but I CANNOT understand why they don't understand that extra UI options are critical to a good app. Forcing users to deal with a UI that cannot be configured at all is not the way it goes in todays programming. My guess is that pidgin's developers think they're Apple.
I've been to more Metallica concerts then I can count, the second concert in my life was Metallica (And the first I paid for), I bought each of their albums at least once, and sometimes as many as three times (not counting gifts), right up until the whole anti-filesharing debacle.
Oh, and I was also one of the first to have access to a CDR, so I was perfectly capable of copying their albums when I continued buying 'em.
However, having listened to songs from their last album or two, I think they've already found the solution to file sharing: After hearing a couple songs, I still had no desire to download the music.
Whether this is good or bad, from their point of view, I'm not sure. I'd already sworn off buying any further albums or going to Metallica concerts, so it's not like putting out music I actually wanted to listen to would have put more money in their pockets.
This about-face is probably a result of the realization that pissing off paying customers isn't smart, and pissing off non-paying freeloaders is pointless.
Either that, or their revenues reflect the fact that, despite been one of the greats, their time has gone and they're desperately trying to stick their collective heads in the sand and pretend it isn't so.
This is Google's "thing", they buy or build a service, it's the darling child for a few months, then it gets left to rot. People stay because they're too stupid to go elsewhere, or because they get stuck using a specific provider's name and can't easily change.
The chip is custom designed with one purpose in mind: AES.
As long as it can perform it's encryption/decryption tasks at least as fast as the drive's own read/write rates, it will not cause a performance problem at all.
Implementing anything in software will have the potential to impact any CPU-bound process which happens to be processing while IO is occurring.
Your version implies that you can keep using the car until the car dies, that isn't the case (that would be like saying "you can keep using the files until the files break")
Maybe something like "you can keep driving the car, until your garage door breaks" would be better?
Invoices can be sent via snail mail, but this isn't always done, and thankfully more and more companies are noticing there are online alternatives to dead tree accounting practices -- In eBay.com's case, invoices are available through the "Seller Account" link from "My eBay"
If you're logged in, this link will take you where you need to go, although you may need to adjust the URL for the appropriate country (or you may not, eBay tends to have semi-intelligent redirects)
Then you're probably not paying attention. Normally eBay requires a credit card, associated PayPal account, or some form of prepaid account before allowing you to sell.
ebay.com's pricing table gives you a breakdown, if you're not clear. Rules may vary depending on country, I'm from Canada, the fees are slightly different, but similar.
That's the second time you've said that (at least). I take it that you're a seller, not a buyer. I'm (mostly) a buyer. So that makes me a non-customer of eBay?
I'm also a buyer. But in short, no buyers aren't customers. If you'd like to confirm, check your credit card statement and see how much you pay eBay, then go look at a seller's eBay invoice to understand the difference.
For me, as a buyer, the only significant question I've got is - can I use my PayPal sterling account to pay in euros?
You aren't serious, are you? Yes. Yes. Yes. Paypal will convert the balances as needed.
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*YOU* might need real facetime with people. I don't.
I've been working remotely full time for nearly six years now, and although I really truly enjoy my time in the office (5-10 weeks per year), I am far more productive from home, and much happier here then I ever was working in an office.
I'm also closer friends with my fellow remote workers then I ever was with anyone in the office, simply because we make the effort to chat. Share a joke, a link, talk about family, whatever, keep the water-cooler chat going and you might accidentally talk about work too.
Some people, maybe even most people, can't hack it, but please don't assume that becayse you need real facetime, all of us do.
You aren't required to either move, nor to voluntarily resign.
Decline, let them either pay out whatever severance is needed, or outright fire you (which usually requires cause, and you can make it difficult on the company fairly easily)
Good for you for being responsible enough to make that decision, everyone that can't work remotely (But still tries) hurts those of us that can and do.
Some people very much need that separation. However, if you can create a dedicated "home office", you can accomplish the same goal.
I went this direction when I first started working remotely, but at this point I have trained myself to stay focused without needing the separate room, and I now use that room for all of my computer related projects, not just $DAYJOB.
I've been working remotely for over five years now, and one of the biggest perks is that I get to use my own equipment.
I don't have to justify a couple 24" monitors to anyone, I just go buy 'em.
I don't have to get a doctor's note just to get an ergonomic keyboard, no one can turn down my request for a high resolution mouse and gaming grade mousepad (and no, I don't game, and yes, it does make a difference when you have 1920x2400 pixels and don't enjoy picking up your mouse and moving it from one end of the pad to the other)
I pay for my new toys using the money I'm not spending on insurance, gas, and car maintenance.
Not if they're not allowed to fly they don't.
To the TSA's credit, this is actually closer to a success then a failure, since they're at least stopping guns from getting on to planes. Normally the TSA doesn't worry about guns getting through security too much.
I think the biggest issue here, is that police and other criminology people are concerned that if a computer tech stumbles across illegal information on a computer, that since they are not a licensed private investigator, the evidence cannot in any way be used. Even if say, it's for a child-pornography case. "Your evidence was siezed improperly, sorry, but it's excluded, next time do things the right way!"
Shouldn't plumbers be covered under the same legislation? What if a plumber discovers a stack of child-pornography under a sink?
Right click, restore previous versions, pick the right date, problem solved.
Don't forget the "It's a specially designed gun that only goes off when it's pointed at someone, regardless of who"
It all depends on what sort of imaging software they use, if they require you to boot their software from their media, it may well handle alternate partitions nicely.
Of course, if your laptop happened to be company owned and properly locked down, and you reasonably didn't have admin access or BIOS access, there might not be much else they could do except make your life more difficult just for giggles.
One of the perks of being Canadian is that we get to go through customs on the Canadian side going both ways, so a US border guard cannot detain me unless I violate a *Canadian* law -- There is even a local police officer in the room and he can and will arrest the US officer, should the US officer attempt to detain you for anything other then a legal Canadian citizen's arrest (which is only valid until the police officer walks over)
I'd settle for an apology, and some good music. Since, at least as far as I can tell, they haven't put out either, I'll pass.
My guess is that they ran out of money and talent at the same time.
Amen.
I've been to more Metallica concerts then I can count, the second concert in my life was Metallica (And the first I paid for), I bought each of their albums at least once, and sometimes as many as three times (not counting gifts), right up until the whole anti-filesharing debacle.
Oh, and I was also one of the first to have access to a CDR, so I was perfectly capable of copying their albums when I continued buying 'em.
However, having listened to songs from their last album or two, I think they've already found the solution to file sharing: After hearing a couple songs, I still had no desire to download the music.
Whether this is good or bad, from their point of view, I'm not sure. I'd already sworn off buying any further albums or going to Metallica concerts, so it's not like putting out music I actually wanted to listen to would have put more money in their pockets.
This about-face is probably a result of the realization that pissing off paying customers isn't smart, and pissing off non-paying freeloaders is pointless.
Either that, or their revenues reflect the fact that, despite been one of the greats, their time has gone and they're desperately trying to stick their collective heads in the sand and pretend it isn't so.
This is Google's "thing", they buy or build a service, it's the darling child for a few months, then it gets left to rot. People stay because they're too stupid to go elsewhere, or because they get stuck using a specific provider's name and can't easily change.
The chip is custom designed with one purpose in mind: AES.
As long as it can perform it's encryption/decryption tasks at least as fast as the drive's own read/write rates, it will not cause a performance problem at all.
Implementing anything in software will have the potential to impact any CPU-bound process which happens to be processing while IO is occurring.
Neither analogy is quite right...
Your version implies that you can keep using the car until the car dies, that isn't the case (that would be like saying "you can keep using the files until the files break")
Maybe something like "you can keep driving the car, until your garage door breaks" would be better?
Invoices can be sent via snail mail, but this isn't always done, and thankfully more and more companies are noticing there are online alternatives to dead tree accounting practices -- In eBay.com's case, invoices are available through the "Seller Account" link from "My eBay"
If you're logged in, this link will take you where you need to go, although you may need to adjust the URL for the appropriate country (or you may not, eBay tends to have semi-intelligent redirects)
Who said anything about getting snail mail?
Then you're probably not paying attention. Normally eBay requires a credit card, associated PayPal account, or some form of prepaid account before allowing you to sell.
ebay.com's pricing table gives you a breakdown, if you're not clear. Rules may vary depending on country, I'm from Canada, the fees are slightly different, but similar.
I'm also a buyer. But in short, no buyers aren't customers. If you'd like to confirm, check your credit card statement and see how much you pay eBay, then go look at a seller's eBay invoice to understand the difference.
You aren't serious, are you? Yes. Yes. Yes. Paypal will convert the balances as needed.
It's connecting to a webmail interface, it wouldn't be tough to send the message through that same webmail interface rather then SMTP.
(In other words, regardless of what this program DOES do, it COULD do what it does relatively silently)
It looks like they're trying to compete directly with the iPhone, image library buffer overruns and all! Sweet.
So what you're saying is that this behaviour, having access to as large a range as possible, was an intentional design decision?
Please don't let facts get in the way of a Microsoft bash...