The Chappaquiddick incident happened in 1969, Wiki says that the first car phone was available in Finland in 1971, that's two years too late and 3900 miles away.
In some states in the US you can bypass this law by turning your bar into a smoking club that serves alcohol, I believe the only requirement be that a place to smoke is the primary function of the establishment. I see them popping up here and there since those laws went into effect. For the record, I'm a non smoker and as much as I enjoy being able to eat without having to deal with second hand smoke I do feel that in an entertainment establishment (ie: bar, nightclub) where food is NOT the primary source of income, smoking should be allowed.
Regarding the soon to come mandatory changes to web sites to comply with the ADA, there is NO WAY that a visually impaired user will be able to get 100% functionality from a complex web site such as BestBuy or Walmart. I'm all for allowing the establishment determine how accessible they want to make their web site and deal with the negative impact on sales if the store is boycotted by the blind. Forcing compliance through legislation and allowing a company to be sued because a blind person can't order something online from Target's web site is absurd to me.
Something else to keep in mind, if all commercial sites are mandated to comply, how do you think porn sites are going to look?
I don't know about weak; I'd maybe go for "naive", especially since they were producing a very sandbox-y game. However, it's worth mentioning that it was a completely different development studio, so it's hardly surprising that their design goals would be different. Personally, I think it was laudable of them to actually listen to their fans and provide the functionality they asked for, rather than simply ignoring them as so many studios seem to.
Yes but the ability to play past the conclusion of the primary quest should have been built into a patch instead of requiring the user to pay for DLC just to get the option.
I agree that H-1B seems to be more of an issue than outsourcing in general. There are a LOT of US citizens that are unemployed right now and there are many firms that are still hiring H-1B visa workers. The H-1B program should be cut back in areas where the US workforce has unemployed workers.
If an ISP increases the amount of bandwidth to accomodate Netflix, there is no additional revenue in it for them. Therefore, as the previous poster asked, who pays for the additional bandwidth? I agree that there is no easy answer, but net neutrality and the fact that a handful of bandwidth-hogging services are consuming the bandwidth for everyone are directly linked.
The ISP should NOT be increasing bandwidth to accomodate Netflix, they should be increasing bandwidth because they (the ISP) have been telling consumers to get the fastest plan so they (subscribers) can stream video. Whether the video comes from Netflix isn't or at least shouldn't be relevant. It's time that ISP started backing up their advertising claims.
Not likely, Peter Jackson and I believe the Tolkien estate already got screwed out of millions of dollars from the three LOTR movies because of 'Hollywood Accounting'.
I live in the States and travel to Canada several times a year for a few weeks each. I was pretty pissed off on my last visit when I wasn't able to watch any of the shows I had in my instant queue because I had a canada ip address. I'm up there now and signed up for a separate account just to watch some of the stuff in my US queue and I'm appalled by how much stuff is NOT available in the great white north. The regional restrictions on content due to licensing issues is just absurd. I honestly feel that if I have a US mailing address as well as a credit card on my account that has a US billing address then i should be able to watch my movies when I'm traveling.
If a candybar cost 1 penny in 1910, and now costs about a dollar for the Same candybar, it's obvious the money has been devalued to 1/100th its previous value.
I actually did just read the article and contrary to what many people are posting about, this isn't about data usage and utilization, it's about connectivity utilization and overhead. It seems that similar to opening and closing a database connection there is some overhead in establishing a data connection on a cell phone which is seems is again similar to what happens when you send and SMS. It seems that smart phone development is similar to desktop development in that the application is rarely responsible for creating it's own network connection and instead relies on the OS to handle the network connection. If the phone OS is designed to create and destroy a new data connection for each request then how is that the applications problem. Also, how does a jailbroken iPhone handle data connections differently than a non jailbroken iPhone, the claims made in TFA are just absurd.
I recall reading somewhere that some European carriers use a different methodology that doesn't create such a bottleneck when these connections are opened and closed. So it seems that once again, the US cell carriers are trying to blame the users of their network for causing problems that would (could, and should) be fixed by upgrading the infrastructure. Cell providers make way too much money to complain about not being able to upgrade their networks.
Isn't image rollover part of the HTML standard? I recall seeing this type of functionality in early web sites when browsers were first being used. I really hope that somebody with deep pockets decides to fight this and get the patent invalidated.
Roam the wastelands of post-atomic earth and fight monsters while trying to recover stolen parts to the puritron(?) that will help clean up the radiation.
Sounds like Fallout 3. Just goes to show you that even in video games there are no really new ideas!
I'm all for shutting down marketing firms that depend solely on text messages. In the US, we pay for each text message that we receive (or it counts towards a monthly allotment). Imagine if your ISP allowed only 100 emails per month, unsolicited email would not be tolerated.
I Agree, if ebooks are cheaper to produce then they should cost a fraction of what paper books cost. I should not have to pay 7.99 for an ebook when the physical book costs 3.99 at the book store.
Q. Amazon, can you pay some taxes here?
A. No way, we don't want to operate this way.
Q. Amazon, what should be we do about the spending problem and the deficit?
A. Cut your services.
Q. Amazon, we are going to cut the services, happy?
A. NOOOOOO!
The USPS is funded solely by the sale of postage, not tax dollars and thus has NO impact on the deficit. .
Pedestrians do not have absolute right of way, they are expected to use due care and in many areas it is illegal for a pedestrian to unnecessarily stop or delay traffic even if they are within a marked or unmarked cross walk.
In the Netherlands, you can add a clause to any contract basically stating that when they are going on training, they will repay 100% if they leave in one year, 66% in 2, 33% in 3 and 0% after that (or any other declining rate that will hold up in court - 100% in 10 years will not hold up).
I'm surprised this isn't a standard clause in the USA as well, because it solves most of the issues in this area.
This actually is how it's done at some places. I'm a contractor and have worked at some rather large companies in the Boston and Hartford areas. Based on conversations I've had with employees and on discussions related to being hired as an FTW at companies that DO pay for you to learn, for credit type classes you are reimbursed full tuition if the degree is job related but only if you keep a certain GPA. Part of the reimbursement contract stipulates that you will pay the company back is you leave the company voluntarily a certain percentage based on time after reimbursement. For companies that do not reimburse or pay for certificate classes, I find that most of the companies I've worked at very rarely have employees that are up to date with current technology.
Having never personally worked for a company that did not pay for certification classes I would have to agree with the above posters that these companies would have a tough time keeping employees that are getting certificates on their own.
As the OP can tell by the number of responses that actually answer the questions asked, there are numerous ways to accomplish what was asked. They are all different and all will provide most of what was asked.
What your asking for is no different than how most computer systems are configured in the corporate world. The primary difference is that most businesses have full time people to deal with issues. IMHO, if you're interested in having the computers run some flavor of windows is to use group policies to control restrictions. The downside to using any solution is that given enough time, one of your kids will either figure out how to bypass the security or one of their friends will show them how. All the windows restrictions in the world won't matter once your kid gets a copy of ERD Commander or it's newer incarnation; Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit.
The correct thing to do, and this was mentioned quite a few times, is to monitor what's being done on the computers. Set some guide lines and make sure that your children AGREE to the guide lines before they are allowed to use the computer. If they cross a line then you punish them. What's the sense in locking down all your desktop and laptops when the kids can use their iPod touch to hop on the neighbors open WiFi connection?
I'm not sure you understood the article or what the investigation is for. The justice department is investigation whether or not top IT companies have agreements to NOT hire each others employees.
Insurance companies are comparing their individual company profits to the TOTAL amount spent on healthcare. This is totally absurd!
To answer the OP's question, you have several options. The first is to stay employed for health care. The second is the take advantage of COBRA benefits until you find another job that will provide benefits. The third is to join a local small business association that offers group plans to small businesses. Fourth is to try to get an individual plan to cover your family.
In most cases, the last option will be cost prohibitive and as others have pointed out already, even with the threat of a lasting recession hanging over our heads and record unemployment, some insurance companies are regularly increasing rates by 15 - 30 percent when your contract renews.
I've used an HP Tablet PC for years as my main 'away from my work desk' PC. The cursor moved if the pen is placed close enough to the screen and would cause a mouse hover event to fire if the pen was not pressed down on the screen.
I do agree that it would be nice on non Windows touch interfaces to have the functionality to mimic this as described above.
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The Chappaquiddick incident happened in 1969, Wiki says that the first car phone was available in Finland in 1971, that's two years too late and 3900 miles away.
In some states in the US you can bypass this law by turning your bar into a smoking club that serves alcohol, I believe the only requirement be that a place to smoke is the primary function of the establishment. I see them popping up here and there since those laws went into effect. For the record, I'm a non smoker and as much as I enjoy being able to eat without having to deal with second hand smoke I do feel that in an entertainment establishment (ie: bar, nightclub) where food is NOT the primary source of income, smoking should be allowed.
Regarding the soon to come mandatory changes to web sites to comply with the ADA, there is NO WAY that a visually impaired user will be able to get 100% functionality from a complex web site such as BestBuy or Walmart. I'm all for allowing the establishment determine how accessible they want to make their web site and deal with the negative impact on sales if the store is boycotted by the blind. Forcing compliance through legislation and allowing a company to be sued because a blind person can't order something online from Target's web site is absurd to me.
Something else to keep in mind, if all commercial sites are mandated to comply, how do you think porn sites are going to look?
I don't know about weak; I'd maybe go for "naive", especially since they were producing a very sandbox-y game. However, it's worth mentioning that it was a completely different development studio, so it's hardly surprising that their design goals would be different. Personally, I think it was laudable of them to actually listen to their fans and provide the functionality they asked for, rather than simply ignoring them as so many studios seem to.
Yes but the ability to play past the conclusion of the primary quest should have been built into a patch instead of requiring the user to pay for DLC just to get the option.
I agree that H-1B seems to be more of an issue than outsourcing in general. There are a LOT of US citizens that are unemployed right now and there are many firms that are still hiring H-1B visa workers. The H-1B program should be cut back in areas where the US workforce has unemployed workers.
If an ISP increases the amount of bandwidth to accomodate Netflix, there is no additional revenue in it for them. Therefore, as the previous poster asked, who pays for the additional bandwidth? I agree that there is no easy answer, but net neutrality and the fact that a handful of bandwidth-hogging services are consuming the bandwidth for everyone are directly linked.
The ISP should NOT be increasing bandwidth to accomodate Netflix, they should be increasing bandwidth because they (the ISP) have been telling consumers to get the fastest plan so they (subscribers) can stream video. Whether the video comes from Netflix isn't or at least shouldn't be relevant. It's time that ISP started backing up their advertising claims.
Not likely, Peter Jackson and I believe the Tolkien estate already got screwed out of millions of dollars from the three LOTR movies because of 'Hollywood Accounting'.
I live in the States and travel to Canada several times a year for a few weeks each. I was pretty pissed off on my last visit when I wasn't able to watch any of the shows I had in my instant queue because I had a canada ip address. I'm up there now and signed up for a separate account just to watch some of the stuff in my US queue and I'm appalled by how much stuff is NOT available in the great white north. The regional restrictions on content due to licensing issues is just absurd. I honestly feel that if I have a US mailing address as well as a credit card on my account that has a US billing address then i should be able to watch my movies when I'm traveling.
If a candybar cost 1 penny in 1910, and now costs about a dollar for the Same candybar, it's obvious the money has been devalued to 1/100th its previous value.
You're confusing devaluation with inflation.
I actually did just read the article and contrary to what many people are posting about, this isn't about data usage and utilization, it's about connectivity utilization and overhead. It seems that similar to opening and closing a database connection there is some overhead in establishing a data connection on a cell phone which is seems is again similar to what happens when you send and SMS. It seems that smart phone development is similar to desktop development in that the application is rarely responsible for creating it's own network connection and instead relies on the OS to handle the network connection. If the phone OS is designed to create and destroy a new data connection for each request then how is that the applications problem. Also, how does a jailbroken iPhone handle data connections differently than a non jailbroken iPhone, the claims made in TFA are just absurd.
I recall reading somewhere that some European carriers use a different methodology that doesn't create such a bottleneck when these connections are opened and closed. So it seems that once again, the US cell carriers are trying to blame the users of their network for causing problems that would (could, and should) be fixed by upgrading the infrastructure. Cell providers make way too much money to complain about not being able to upgrade their networks.
Isn't image rollover part of the HTML standard? I recall seeing this type of functionality in early web sites when browsers were first being used. I really hope that somebody with deep pockets decides to fight this and get the patent invalidated.
I honestly can't think of anything more useless than an OS that will not work if you don't have an internet connection.
Roam the wastelands of post-atomic earth and fight monsters while trying to recover stolen parts to the puritron(?) that will help clean up the radiation.
Sounds like Fallout 3. Just goes to show you that even in video games there are no really new ideas!
From what I've been told time and time again by lawyers, law trumps contract.
I'm all for shutting down marketing firms that depend solely on text messages. In the US, we pay for each text message that we receive (or it counts towards a monthly allotment). Imagine if your ISP allowed only 100 emails per month, unsolicited email would not be tolerated.
I Agree, if ebooks are cheaper to produce then they should cost a fraction of what paper books cost. I should not have to pay 7.99 for an ebook when the physical book costs 3.99 at the book store.
Shouldn't Apple have done the testing BEFORE they released it?
Q. Amazon, can you pay some taxes here? A. No way, we don't want to operate this way. Q. Amazon, what should be we do about the spending problem and the deficit? A. Cut your services. Q. Amazon, we are going to cut the services, happy? A. NOOOOOO!
The USPS is funded solely by the sale of postage, not tax dollars and thus has NO impact on the deficit. .
Pedestrians do not have absolute right of way, they are expected to use due care and in many areas it is illegal for a pedestrian to unnecessarily stop or delay traffic even if they are within a marked or unmarked cross walk.
On the page with the directions, if you click on the bicycling icon you get different directions that avoid that road.
In the Netherlands, you can add a clause to any contract basically stating that when they are going on training, they will repay 100% if they leave in one year, 66% in 2, 33% in 3 and 0% after that (or any other declining rate that will hold up in court - 100% in 10 years will not hold up).
I'm surprised this isn't a standard clause in the USA as well, because it solves most of the issues in this area.
This actually is how it's done at some places. I'm a contractor and have worked at some rather large companies in the Boston and Hartford areas. Based on conversations I've had with employees and on discussions related to being hired as an FTW at companies that DO pay for you to learn, for credit type classes you are reimbursed full tuition if the degree is job related but only if you keep a certain GPA. Part of the reimbursement contract stipulates that you will pay the company back is you leave the company voluntarily a certain percentage based on time after reimbursement.
For companies that do not reimburse or pay for certificate classes, I find that most of the companies I've worked at very rarely have employees that are up to date with current technology.
Having never personally worked for a company that did not pay for certification classes I would have to agree with the above posters that these companies would have a tough time keeping employees that are getting certificates on their own.
As the OP can tell by the number of responses that actually answer the questions asked, there are numerous ways to accomplish what was asked. They are all different and all will provide most of what was asked.
What your asking for is no different than how most computer systems are configured in the corporate world. The primary difference is that most businesses have full time people to deal with issues. IMHO, if you're interested in having the computers run some flavor of windows is to use group policies to control restrictions. The downside to using any solution is that given enough time, one of your kids will either figure out how to bypass the security or one of their friends will show them how. All the windows restrictions in the world won't matter once your kid gets a copy of ERD Commander or it's newer incarnation; Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit.
The correct thing to do, and this was mentioned quite a few times, is to monitor what's being done on the computers. Set some guide lines and make sure that your children AGREE to the guide lines before they are allowed to use the computer. If they cross a line then you punish them. What's the sense in locking down all your desktop and laptops when the kids can use their iPod touch to hop on the neighbors open WiFi connection?
In quite a few states, blanket non competes are not enforceable.
I'm not sure you understood the article or what the investigation is for. The justice department is investigation whether or not top IT companies have agreements to NOT hire each others employees.
In the US the insurance profits aren't actually all that much money.
Here is the problem with that statement (from ABC News):
Also, here is a nice link explaining the same thing
Insurance companies are comparing their individual company profits to the TOTAL amount spent on healthcare. This is totally absurd!
To answer the OP's question, you have several options. The first is to stay employed for health care.
The second is the take advantage of COBRA benefits until you find another job that will provide benefits.
The third is to join a local small business association that offers group plans to small businesses.
Fourth is to try to get an individual plan to cover your family.
In most cases, the last option will be cost prohibitive and as others have pointed out already, even with the threat of a lasting recession hanging over our heads and record unemployment, some insurance companies are regularly increasing rates by 15 - 30 percent when your contract renews.
I've used an HP Tablet PC for years as my main 'away from my work desk' PC. The cursor moved if the pen is placed close enough to the screen and would cause a mouse hover event to fire if the pen was not pressed down on the screen.
I do agree that it would be nice on non Windows touch interfaces to have the functionality to mimic this as described above.