But when you have a week when you're not under intense deadlines, give it a chance. I've really learned to like it, and think it does add some clarification to UI that was the definition and punchline of "Bloatware"
Why? It's like getting into a car and finding that the UI you have come to love to hate has changed to something completely different. Gone is the steering wheel as you know it, gone are the foot pedals, and gone are the buttons that operate the comfort controls. In its place you have a foreign interface that will take a few days to get used to for no good reason other than Bill and his head of Office development decided it would be a good idea.
Personally? I hate Office's UI but I'm used to it -- it had a steep learning curve and now that I'm ok with it, I have absolutely no desire to relearn something else so that I'm able to do my job effectively.
If my company decides to upgrade, I will have to stop what I'm doing and relearn something else. The ~7 day loss in productivity will *not* be recouped in enough time by the new UI to make the first work loss worthwhile. I guarantee it.
Have they managed to invent code yet that will actually allow them to insert a new item without it costing them money? Maybe then they'd be able to drop a listing fee for the privilege of serving some a customized HTML page to their visitors.
Just in time for the rate hikes that are going into effect on January 30th, 2007! Thanks Mr. Cobb!
An important part of any business strategy is the regular evaluation of pricing structure. From time to time, we make pricing changes to correct unhealthy dynamics in the eBay marketplace, as was the case last July. Typically, however, we make changes on an annual basis at the beginning of the year.
Today, I'm here to tell you about fee adjustments for eBay.com and eBay Motors which go into effect on January 30, 2007.
Let me say that, while we believe these changes are modest, we consider any changes that may impact our sellers with great care. These adjustments are the result of careful analysis and we believe they're the right thing to do to keep the marketplace strong for our eBay.com and eBay Motors sellers.
Core Listing Fees: Auction-Style & Fixed Price* Fee Type Item Price New Fee Current Fee Insertion Fee Starting Price: $1.00 - $9.99 $0.40 $0.35 Final Value Fee Selling Price: $25.01 - $1000.00 3.25% 3% *Does not impact Store Inventory Listings.
eBay Motors Vehicles Fees The fees listed above will also apply to Parts & Accessories. Fee Type New Fee Current Fee Motorcycles & Powersports Transaction Services Fee $40 $30 Cars & Trucks, Other Vehicles & Trailers Transaction Services Fee $50 $40 Motors Reserve Fee 0.1% of reserve price ($5 minimum, $10 maximum) $5
I went to Las Vegas over Christmas because nothing says Christmas like Vegas... As partof ourpackage deal we had a car rental from Avis. After arrivig, we took the 10 min bus ride to their area and were directed to one of 10 or so kiosks for service.
While this works for the most part with airlines, it blows for people flying in at 11pm. There two real people on duty with a line of about 50. The kiosks wouldn't pull up anyone's info and directed you to go to the counter instead.
After waiting in line for over an hour, I was told that the kiosks are down. Awesome, direct me there when you know full well they don't work.
So, if they can't keep their kiosks running, I can't only imagine what their 3Gwifi will be like.
Maybe if teachers were more educators than prison wardens, kids would love them instead of hating them.
Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
Honestly, if kids weren't a bunch of assholes (and believe me, I was one of those little bastards in school -- and the sole reason I didn't want to become a teacher) and tried to annoy, harm, and kill teachers, we might not be having this discussion.
Do I believe that anything should be censored? No. The teachers should fucking know better.
Google is doing similar things. Pretty soon, however, people are just going to have one account on one giant social networking site.
Yup, Dodgeball (owned by Google) uses your Google Account login to authenticate you. Blogger uses the same authentication whether you are doing a comment or hosting your own blog.
Personally, I would rather see separate accounts for everything but it's not like they can't track just about everything we do already.
had a boss that was verbally abusive. Sometimes he would yell, but mostly he would just quietly berate you.
I did too. My "supervisor" screamed at me I laughed in her face. She broke down in tears, went back to her desk and called her shrink to cry and then her supervisor.
Her supervisor called me for my side of the story of which I replied, "She went off the deep end screaming at me and I laughed in her face. End of story."
She never screamed at me again but she still works there. It never ceases to amaze me.
But it got the RIAA's "war" listed in the media which is worth more to them than anything. As long as it keeps people afraid of downloading music anywhere (yes, even iTS) they are happier.
The more control they can exert over the general population, the better off they think they are.
We had rain all morning in Minnesota and it's now snowing and thus ice. We tried to go out to drink some champagne with a friend but turned back less than 3 miles from home after hitting a curb near someone who had jumped the curb and landed in the treeline.
They were ok and we're safe at home -- no champagne though.
Well, that's why we have Internet2... It's so that the data transmission speeds are faster and better research is possible. So while it seems pointless overall, they have a decent idea.
Why do *they* need to do this? I haven't a clue. I just don't see how VR applications are important enough to the rest of the world to have a separate network just for it.
You can use POP (google cache link, the original seems to be missing) to back up your Gmail mail....Anyone have a alternate method that they use?
I'm the reverse. I have all my mail sent local first and then I sent it on to GMail. That way it's backed up in two places *and* I have easy access to all my e-mail from remote locations that might not have putty or allow me to run something other than the browser.
They'll care about it when it's practical for some of them to take a trip into space or to the Moon.
I'm a beach vacation person. There's no ocean on either and while I'm sure the blast off would be entertaining the rest would be unbelievably boring for me.
Why would you ever think that a trip to Mars would be exciting for most non-nerds? Once the novelty of going to space as a civilian wears off, there's little draw.
There is no such thing as the "iPod Generation". Do not go and make up a name for that group just because you need to use the word iPod a certain number of times per day on the front page.
I certainly couldn't care less about space exploration (and I'm just barely outside of that demographic. I always thought it was a waste of time and energy to do a manned Mars exploration. Let's get the moon and space station finished first -- we've already started afterall.
After that, end the programs and use the money right here.
Because we all know that corporations love to throw out their existing infrastructure and redeploy with newly released software.
Well, the simple fact of the matter is that XP/2000 work just fine for a corporate environment. It's not like Vista will add any more stability over what's already available. When 2000/XP came out they were worlds beyond what 9x offered and a little better than what NT offered.
There's no need to switch when everyone's applications are running w/o too much issue and there are too many questions that need to be answered about how the new OS will operate.
That and I'm not sure people want to have to retrain their staff to use the "ribbons" of Office 2007 that Bill is so excited about.
Then you don't have to bugger about expending energy processing it the stuff into biofuels.
You know, "bugger" shouldn't be used in the same sentence as "expending energy". I certainly don't even want to think about algae in conjunction with it.
You don't have overdraft protection on your checking account? Get with the times. If I overdraw my checking it just pulls $100 from my visa. No problems. I buy everything with my check card. No bounced checks. No fees.
My bank has a "loan" system for overdraft protection (and yes I do have it) but you are charged some minimal interest if it goes over.
In my example above, a disgruntled waitress who didn't appreciate your tip could add a larger sum to your actual tip value than you intended.
In the US, if your charges are under $25 you don't have to sign the receipt (it's becoming more and more common as people are not carrying cash and fast food is allowing charging). They could have made a mistake, not paid attention to it being $205 and you could go over.
What I like about my debit card is that all my transactions appear immediately online.
Except for gas purchases made at the pump -- $1 anyone? But yes, that is a convenient thing about them but even if they appear there as "pending" it could have already hit your account and overdrawn it even if it hasn't hit the actual account (we have experienced that and now have overdraft protection to stop that from happening again for the reasons I listed above).
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But when you have a week when you're not under intense deadlines, give it a chance. I've really learned to like it, and think it does add some clarification to UI that was the definition and punchline of "Bloatware"
Why? It's like getting into a car and finding that the UI you have come to love to hate has changed to something completely different. Gone is the steering wheel as you know it, gone are the foot pedals, and gone are the buttons that operate the comfort controls. In its place you have a foreign interface that will take a few days to get used to for no good reason other than Bill and his head of Office development decided it would be a good idea.
Personally? I hate Office's UI but I'm used to it -- it had a steep learning curve and now that I'm ok with it, I have absolutely no desire to relearn something else so that I'm able to do my job effectively.
If my company decides to upgrade, I will have to stop what I'm doing and relearn something else. The ~7 day loss in productivity will *not* be recouped in enough time by the new UI to make the first work loss worthwhile. I guarantee it.
Have they managed to invent code yet that will actually allow them to insert a new item without it costing them money? Maybe then they'd be able to drop a listing fee for the privilege of serving some a customized HTML page to their visitors.
Just in time for the rate hikes that are going into effect on January 30th, 2007! Thanks Mr. Cobb!
An important part of any business strategy is the regular evaluation of pricing structure. From time to time, we make pricing changes to correct unhealthy dynamics in the eBay marketplace, as was the case last July. Typically, however, we make changes on an annual basis at the beginning of the year.
Today, I'm here to tell you about fee adjustments for eBay.com and eBay Motors which go into effect on January 30, 2007.
Let me say that, while we believe these changes are modest, we consider any changes that may impact our sellers with great care. These adjustments are the result of careful analysis and we believe they're the right thing to do to keep the marketplace strong for our eBay.com and eBay Motors sellers.
Core Listing Fees: Auction-Style & Fixed Price*
Fee Type Item Price New Fee Current Fee
Insertion Fee Starting Price:
$1.00 - $9.99 $0.40 $0.35
Final Value Fee Selling Price:
$25.01 - $1000.00 3.25% 3%
*Does not impact Store Inventory Listings.
eBay Motors Vehicles Fees
The fees listed above will also apply to Parts & Accessories.
Fee Type New Fee Current Fee
Motorcycles & Powersports
Transaction Services Fee $40 $30
Cars & Trucks, Other
Vehicles & Trailers
Transaction Services Fee $50 $40
Motors Reserve Fee 0.1% of reserve price
($5 minimum,
$10 maximum) $5
I went to Las Vegas over Christmas because nothing says Christmas like Vegas... As partof ourpackage deal we had a car rental from Avis. After arrivig, we took the 10 min bus ride to their area and were directed to one of 10 or so kiosks for service.
While this works for the most part with airlines, it blows for people flying in at 11pm. There two real people on duty with a line of about 50. The kiosks wouldn't pull up anyone's info and directed you to go to the counter instead.
After waiting in line for over an hour, I was told that the kiosks are down. Awesome, direct me there when you know full well they don't work.
So, if they can't keep their kiosks running, I can't only imagine what their 3Gwifi will be like.
Maybe if teachers were more educators than prison wardens, kids would love them instead of hating them.
Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
Honestly, if kids weren't a bunch of assholes (and believe me, I was one of those little bastards in school -- and the sole reason I didn't want to become a teacher) and tried to annoy, harm, and kill teachers, we might not be having this discussion.
Do I believe that anything should be censored? No. The teachers should fucking know better.
That would then be like vacationing in Bayonne, NJ or Scranton, PA and no one wants to do that.
Google is doing similar things. Pretty soon, however, people are just going to have one account on one giant social networking site.
Yup, Dodgeball (owned by Google) uses your Google Account login to authenticate you. Blogger uses the same authentication whether you are doing a comment or hosting your own blog.
Personally, I would rather see separate accounts for everything but it's not like they can't track just about everything we do already.
While I don't remember the one about HDDs, I do remember the one about mobile phones (there may be more but this is the first one I found).
had a boss that was verbally abusive. Sometimes he would yell, but mostly he would just quietly berate you.
I did too. My "supervisor" screamed at me I laughed in her face. She broke down in tears, went back to her desk and called her shrink to cry and then her supervisor.
Her supervisor called me for my side of the story of which I replied, "She went off the deep end screaming at me and I laughed in her face. End of story."
She never screamed at me again but she still works there. It never ceases to amaze me.
But it got the RIAA's "war" listed in the media which is worth more to them than anything. As long as it keeps people afraid of downloading music anywhere (yes, even iTS) they are happier.
The more control they can exert over the general population, the better off they think they are.
We had rain all morning in Minnesota and it's now snowing and thus ice. We tried to go out to drink some champagne with a friend but turned back less than 3 miles from home after hitting a curb near someone who had jumped the curb and landed in the treeline.
They were ok and we're safe at home -- no champagne though.
Well, that's why we have Internet2... It's so that the data transmission speeds are faster and better research is possible. So while it seems pointless overall, they have a decent idea.
Why do *they* need to do this? I haven't a clue. I just don't see how VR applications are important enough to the rest of the world to have a separate network just for it.
You can use POP (google cache link, the original seems to be missing) to back up your Gmail mail....Anyone have a alternate method that they use?
I'm the reverse. I have all my mail sent local first and then I sent it on to GMail. That way it's backed up in two places *and* I have easy access to all my e-mail from remote locations that might not have putty or allow me to run something other than the browser.
They'll care about it when it's practical for some of them to take a trip into space or to the Moon.
I'm a beach vacation person. There's no ocean on either and while I'm sure the blast off would be entertaining the rest would be unbelievably boring for me.
Why would you ever think that a trip to Mars would be exciting for most non-nerds? Once the novelty of going to space as a civilian wears off, there's little draw.
There is no such thing as the "iPod Generation". Do not go and make up a name for that group just because you need to use the word iPod a certain number of times per day on the front page.
I certainly couldn't care less about space exploration (and I'm just barely outside of that demographic. I always thought it was a waste of time and energy to do a manned Mars exploration. Let's get the moon and space station finished first -- we've already started afterall.
After that, end the programs and use the money right here.
There's no way in hell this tag will be supported by enough browsers to actually be useful.
Huh? It only needs to be supported by two. Even if it's just supported by one it's cornered most of the market.
Because we all know that corporations love to throw out their existing infrastructure and redeploy with newly released software.
Well, the simple fact of the matter is that XP/2000 work just fine for a corporate environment. It's not like Vista will add any more stability over what's already available. When 2000/XP came out they were worlds beyond what 9x offered and a little better than what NT offered.
There's no need to switch when everyone's applications are running w/o too much issue and there are too many questions that need to be answered about how the new OS will operate.
That and I'm not sure people want to have to retrain their staff to use the "ribbons" of Office 2007 that Bill is so excited about.
You don't see Yahoo putting up links to itself, Google Maps, and Mapquest when you search for a zip code like when you do it on Google.
If *that* is what he's really concerned with as the #1 reason why he shouldn't "trust" them, then he's fucking retarded.
Seriously, that's the least of the world's problems if Google decides to actually "do evil".
The research focused on great tits in ten major European cities, including London, Paris, Amsterdam and Prague, and compared them to forest-dwellers.
I'd be singing faster rap style songs too rather than longer melodies if it attracted mates with great tits.
I don't need any psychoanalytical reason why, I simply play video games because they are fun to play.
It's the same reason I'm involved with geocaching and post "articles" and photos to my website...
Slow news day.
Then you don't have to bugger about expending energy processing it the stuff into biofuels.
You know, "bugger" shouldn't be used in the same sentence as "expending energy". I certainly don't even want to think about algae in conjunction with it.
You don't have overdraft protection on your checking account? Get with the times. If I overdraw my checking it just pulls $100 from my visa. No problems. I buy everything with my check card. No bounced checks. No fees.
My bank has a "loan" system for overdraft protection (and yes I do have it) but you are charged some minimal interest if it goes over.
In my example above, a disgruntled waitress who didn't appreciate your tip could add a larger sum to your actual tip value than you intended.
In the US, if your charges are under $25 you don't have to sign the receipt (it's becoming more and more common as people are not carrying cash and fast food is allowing charging). They could have made a mistake, not paid attention to it being $205 and you could go over.
Ad nauseum.
Daily max for my debit card is $3000.
What I like about my debit card is that all my transactions appear immediately online.
Except for gas purchases made at the pump -- $1 anyone? But yes, that is a convenient thing about them but even if they appear there as "pending" it could have already hit your account and overdrawn it even if it hasn't hit the actual account (we have experienced that and now have overdraft protection to stop that from happening again for the reasons I listed above).