Meaning 100% of the entire time drunk drivers are driving they are drunk. Whereas the occasional phone call is in fact a random and rare thing for the most part. But the wider issue is cast ye the first phone and all that rot. I was in a car for mere minutes today - as a passenger and in 6 miles we saw one person wander across 4 lanes of traffic no signal. One person slammed on their brakes for zero reason. One person stop dead in the middle of a right turn for no reason. One person drove in the shoulder to pass us. And as far as we could tell no one was holding a phone.
We regularly send 85MB spread sheets in the mail multiple times a day. And a Powerpoint isn't a Powerpoint until it's a hundred pages or more. Anything less is a thumbnail of an outline and will be immediately discarded. In order to justify 3 hr conference calls with 70 people on them you HAVE to have multi multihundred megabyte Powerpoints not including the aformentioned embedded spreadsheets. Anyone who's mail file is less than 2GB isn't doing their job and will be fired.
Corporations focus the most attention on the greatest number of the most trivial problems because more is always better when it comes to management metrics. Whereas the actual problems are turned into projects that linger for lack of funding and political turf. See no one wants a problem they have spend money on and then explain. Better to foist it off on someone else. Whereas getting funding to paint all the switchplates green is a slam dunk because it's easy to do easy to measure, gains turf and has no downside.
IBM has had some newsworthy problems with big contracts of late and ALL of them are government deals. And at that all of them are at the sub-national level; states, provinces and such. Whatever is going badly wrong has to do with the horrendous problems of trying to do business with 'state' governments be it Texas or Indiana or Queensland. For every anecdotal story about the absurd demands placed on contractors by Federal or National governments - states are that and more. The states seem to think they can be even more demanding, cheaper, vague, arbitrary and frankly, insane. Because there's no standardized contract arbitration process at that level of government like there is at the state level. They hold out the carrot of the potential of large long run contracts and then they act like Napoleon screaming contradictory requirements and there's no opportunity for the contractor to appeal the threats.
Having a script blocker is fine, until you discover that every website in the world has 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 LAYERS of Javascript you have to turn on to do anything with. Hell, some webdesigners decided you need to have javascript turned on to VIEW their page. Yeah there's nothing like watching the list of javscript scroll off the page and climb into the 20's or 30's. It's awesome.
Because the network is all and as we all know TW is the greatest most user friendly supportive and easy to deal with company on the planet. But that's nothing compared to the mobile brilliance that is your phone company. As a Sprint customer I fully expect to get dial tone any decade now and data? Well we're getting a data network around the year 2759.
I don't own a reader and haven't purchased a new book other than required textbooks, in over a decade. I pay anywhere from almost nothing to 10% of the cover price.
This will kill them. Why? Javascript is killing the net. We would grit our teeth when we had to turn on 2 layers of script to print or comment. Then it became 3 or 4 or 5 or even 6 layers of "temporarily allow all..". And now there are websites that won't even DISPLAY w.o. Javascript running. And it crushes most laptops because web designers are handed a stack of requirements that tell them to turn on 30 or 40 or more Javascripts.
For once I'm glad my company is so backwards we use v17.
Tear their heads off and stuff them on pikes. Genocide is the only answer. Was THAT the answer you're looking for? Because there's always going to be people who wake up every day looking to go Genghis Khan on some such trivial nonsense no matter what.
Personally? I think the people on the ticket line who are slow and confused and can't make up their mind should be sodomized to death with road flares while their children are thrown off the roof of the theater.
All hiring is based on 'do I like them do I not like them'. Everything else is simply legally defensible filtering criteria to winnow down the pool to that point.
We've just gotten to 6 and nothing works reliably on 7 at all. You wind up running unsupported at your own peril. Current course and speed we'll be off 6 around 2015
As a long time Sprint customer who uses them strictly for their lower prices, I can tell you that Sprint's 'network' is imaginary. It does not exist. There is no data network. In fact it's so pathetic that there are hundreds of blogs and forums dedicated solely to identifying the tiny random pockets of signal in 'rolled out' markets. Here in Raleigh NC for instance not only is there no LTE and they're closing down WiMax, the phone voice service is slowly coming apart as well. If you see someone standing outside their house talking on the phone, the odds are they're a Sprint customer.
The best thing that Sprint can do at this point is to close down their retail operations, stop selling Sprint branded service and become the bulk minutes carrier (there's an acronym for that I forget what it is) for brands like Virgin and Boost. Those brands get BETTER Sprint service than Sprint's own retail subscribers because those brands have negotiated SLAs with Sprint and they get priority over the retail customers.
In fact once they stop fighting over which foreign company gets to buy Sprint, pay off their stockholders and take the firm semi-private that's more than likely what they will do.
It stopped being interesting or funny YEARS ago when Sprint year after year after year after year was the worst of the worst of the phone companies - with 1/10th the feeds and speeds and a quarter of the coverage of anyone else. When you're a Sprint customer you're basically using a ghetto burner phone with a subscriber contract. And data is imaginary. But - the upside is that you never really have to worry about smartphones or apps at all since they're useless and pointless. Just get a free phone a la 2001 flip phone. You can save yourself the $10/month 'surcharge' they assess you for owning a smartphone.
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Meaning 100% of the entire time drunk drivers are driving they are drunk. Whereas the occasional phone call is in fact a random and rare thing for the most part. But the wider issue is cast ye the first phone and all that rot. I was in a car for mere minutes today - as a passenger and in 6 miles we saw one person wander across 4 lanes of traffic no signal. One person slammed on their brakes for zero reason. One person stop dead in the middle of a right turn for no reason. One person drove in the shoulder to pass us. And as far as we could tell no one was holding a phone.
We regularly send 85MB spread sheets in the mail multiple times a day. And a Powerpoint isn't a Powerpoint until it's a hundred pages or more. Anything less is a thumbnail of an outline and will be immediately discarded. In order to justify 3 hr conference calls with 70 people on them you HAVE to have multi multihundred megabyte Powerpoints not including the aformentioned embedded spreadsheets. Anyone who's mail file is less than 2GB isn't doing their job and will be fired.
Corporations focus the most attention on the greatest number of the most trivial problems because more is always better when it comes to management metrics. Whereas the actual problems are turned into projects that linger for lack of funding and political turf. See no one wants a problem they have spend money on and then explain. Better to foist it off on someone else. Whereas getting funding to paint all the switchplates green is a slam dunk because it's easy to do easy to measure, gains turf and has no downside.
So they're fine. It's not as if more than 1% of those copies are legit anyway.
Why not a vegan tranny black lesbian Muslim in a wheelchair?
IBM has had some newsworthy problems with big contracts of late and ALL of them are government deals. And at that all of them are at the sub-national level; states, provinces and such. Whatever is going badly wrong has to do with the horrendous problems of trying to do business with 'state' governments be it Texas or Indiana or Queensland. For every anecdotal story about the absurd demands placed on contractors by Federal or National governments - states are that and more. The states seem to think they can be even more demanding, cheaper, vague, arbitrary and frankly, insane. Because there's no standardized contract arbitration process at that level of government like there is at the state level. They hold out the carrot of the potential of large long run contracts and then they act like Napoleon screaming contradictory requirements and there's no opportunity for the contractor to appeal the threats.
And swatting people with manilla folders.
Dentist is a paranoid narcissist
Dentist is a drug addict
Dentist launders money
Walmart? Kelly Temps?
Just toss it over the wall to ADP. People have been running payroll systems for 60 years.
Having a script blocker is fine, until you discover that every website in the world has 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 LAYERS of Javascript you have to turn on to do anything with. Hell, some webdesigners decided you need to have javascript turned on to VIEW their page. Yeah there's nothing like watching the list of javscript scroll off the page and climb into the 20's or 30's. It's awesome.
Because the network is all and as we all know TW is the greatest most user friendly supportive and easy to deal with company on the planet. But that's nothing compared to the mobile brilliance that is your phone company. As a Sprint customer I fully expect to get dial tone any decade now and data? Well we're getting a data network around the year 2759.
Their fevered defense of all things Redmond is looking even more like something out of PK Dick than before.
I don't own a reader and haven't purchased a new book other than required textbooks, in over a decade. I pay anywhere from almost nothing to 10% of the cover price.
In a 2 year old technology, willing to work for $9/hr 100 hrs a week.
This will kill them. Why? Javascript is killing the net. We would grit our teeth when we had to turn on 2 layers of script to print or comment. Then it became 3 or 4 or 5 or even 6 layers of "temporarily allow all..". And now there are websites that won't even DISPLAY w.o. Javascript running. And it crushes most laptops because web designers are handed a stack of requirements that tell them to turn on 30 or 40 or more Javascripts.
For once I'm glad my company is so backwards we use v17.
Tear their heads off and stuff them on pikes. Genocide is the only answer. Was THAT the answer you're looking for? Because there's always going to be people who wake up every day looking to go Genghis Khan on some such trivial nonsense no matter what.
Personally? I think the people on the ticket line who are slow and confused and can't make up their mind should be sodomized to death with road flares while their children are thrown off the roof of the theater.
And they don't die, that's simply 'dissent'?
And Iran are the same place.
All hiring is based on 'do I like them do I not like them'. Everything else is simply legally defensible filtering criteria to winnow down the pool to that point.
They mean failing to bribe the government to overlook it.
He's determined that Sandia and Livermore's new strategic direction is Muslim outreach! Problem solved.
The UN has already blamed the Jews.
We've just gotten to 6 and nothing works reliably on 7 at all. You wind up running unsupported at your own peril. Current course and speed we'll be off 6 around 2015
As a long time Sprint customer who uses them strictly for their lower prices, I can tell you that Sprint's 'network' is imaginary. It does not exist. There is no data network. In fact it's so pathetic that there are hundreds of blogs and forums dedicated solely to identifying the tiny random pockets of signal in 'rolled out' markets. Here in Raleigh NC for instance not only is there no LTE and they're closing down WiMax, the phone voice service is slowly coming apart as well. If you see someone standing outside their house talking on the phone, the odds are they're a Sprint customer.
The best thing that Sprint can do at this point is to close down their retail operations, stop selling Sprint branded service and become the bulk minutes carrier (there's an acronym for that I forget what it is) for brands like Virgin and Boost. Those brands get BETTER Sprint service than Sprint's own retail subscribers because those brands have negotiated SLAs with Sprint and they get priority over the retail customers.
In fact once they stop fighting over which foreign company gets to buy Sprint, pay off their stockholders and take the firm semi-private that's more than likely what they will do.
It stopped being interesting or funny YEARS ago when Sprint year after year after year after year was the worst of the worst of the phone companies - with 1/10th the feeds and speeds and a quarter of the coverage of anyone else. When you're a Sprint customer you're basically using a ghetto burner phone with a subscriber contract. And data is imaginary. But - the upside is that you never really have to worry about smartphones or apps at all since they're useless and pointless. Just get a free phone a la 2001 flip phone. You can save yourself the $10/month 'surcharge' they assess you for owning a smartphone.