Actually thats not a bad idea - have a contest to see how much spam you can ATTRACT with a fresh email account in a given time period. My Verizon account would win hands down. (And to you spammers out there - no, my email address is NOT CrazyTalk@verizon.net)
Actually, yes we should. Its a crime how eager we are to burry and/or tear down our history in this country. Just think if the Romans decided to tear down the Colleseum when they were finished with it, like so many demolished stadiums in the US (including some architecturally significant ones, like Mellon (formerly civic) arena in Pittsburgh, destined to become a parking lot.
Just two quick examples of the COST of the change, due to lost productivity - I live in the Eastern US, and someone in Ireland missed a conference call with us because everyone on both sides of the Atlantic thought that Ireland was always 5 hours ahead (for some reason, people found it impossible to fathom that this wasnt the case if we changes our clock and they didn't, but whatever). Example number two - a contractor in brazil was going to take down our servers at 5:00 EDST but actually took them down at 4:00 since they didnt know about the time change.
Who the Star Wars series was about kept changing over time. I bought the original Star Trek novelization in the 70s, and the subtitle on it was "From the adventures of Luke Skywalker". During the original trilogy time, Lucas went on record as saying the robots were the only characters that would be in all 9 (yes, 9) films, and the story was really about them. Now with the second trilogy, Lucas changed his stand once again and said the story was really about Anakin Skywalker. GL is the master of revisionist history.
RTFA. They said they didnt want to just encrust the thing in diamonds to make it expensive for the sake of being expensive; the diamond that they do use has a purpose, and other aspects of the design also add to the cost.
Reminds me of my first day on the job a long, long time ago. I wanted to copy the contents of a floppy disk to the hard drive on an HP minicomputer. Unfortunatly, the HP "Copy" command really meant "Replace", so the entire computer hard drive was reformatted as a 5 1/4" floppy.
Some are. I was in a meeting recently that was basically a brainstorming session on how to improve the performance of an application. We had developers, DBAs, project managers, etc. present. If someone had an idea ("lets add an index to the database") the DBA was there to provide input. If a developer had an idea ("Lets eliminate that piece of the code, it doesnt do anything anyway") we had business people present to give their yay or nay. This way, we were able to come up with a list of viable possibilties in a short amount of time, rather than going back and forth for weeks over emails, etc.
Ahh, memories of Ma Bell. When I was in college (before the breakup) I remember having to stand in line on campus to rent a phone to use for my dorm (since you couldnt just buy a telephone). I remember my roomate and I getting all belligerent and demanding to speak to Ma.
Except, if Wikipedia asipres to be a "real" enyclopedia, having advertising would adversely affect the objectivity (or percieved objectivity) of the site.
An article about why Wikipedia is failing...that is posted in Wikipedia? So if Wikipedia is not accurate, that means that the article that says it is not accurate is not accurate, which means that it is accurate, which means......Oww, my head is going to explode!
OK I don't know who that is (But see that it was modded as funny). Anyway, I bought "99 Luftballoons" on iTunes and ended up getting some crappy version I have never heard before instead of the 80s classic by Nena. Would have returned it if I could.
Thats funny, MY Mac (iBook G4) came with IE pre-installed (as well as Safari, of course). Usually I use Safari, but ocassionally have to break out IE for stubborn web sites that insist on it.
You don't have to give any notice to quit, and your employer doesnt have to give you any notice to fire you. Thats what's called "Employment at Will. Most people who quit give 2 weeks notice at a "courtesy" but more often than not the employer will then escort you out the door - so be prepared!
Vista isnt even on our radar - heck, we are still running SQL Server 2000 and developing VB6 Apps. I'm sure we won't move to Vista until we have to because XP is no longer supported. I have a feeling that a lot of companies will plan their release schedule that way.
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Actually thats not a bad idea - have a contest to see how much spam you can ATTRACT with a fresh email account in a given time period. My Verizon account would win hands down. (And to you spammers out there - no, my email address is NOT CrazyTalk@verizon.net)
Actually, yes we should. Its a crime how eager we are to burry and/or tear down our history in this country. Just think if the Romans decided to tear down the Colleseum when they were finished with it, like so many demolished stadiums in the US (including some architecturally significant ones, like Mellon (formerly civic) arena in Pittsburgh, destined to become a parking lot.
RTFA dude. RTFA.
Actually no, but I hire IT consultants, and those are the ones that screwed up (in spite of being told of the time change)
Just two quick examples of the COST of the change, due to lost productivity - I live in the Eastern US, and someone in Ireland missed a conference call with us because everyone on both sides of the Atlantic thought that Ireland was always 5 hours ahead (for some reason, people found it impossible to fathom that this wasnt the case if we changes our clock and they didn't, but whatever). Example number two - a contractor in brazil was going to take down our servers at 5:00 EDST but actually took them down at 4:00 since they didnt know about the time change.
Who the Star Wars series was about kept changing over time. I bought the original Star Trek novelization in the 70s, and the subtitle on it was "From the adventures of Luke Skywalker". During the original trilogy time, Lucas went on record as saying the robots were the only characters that would be in all 9 (yes, 9) films, and the story was really about them. Now with the second trilogy, Lucas changed his stand once again and said the story was really about Anakin Skywalker. GL is the master of revisionist history.
...Insanity Later.
RTFA. They said they didnt want to just encrust the thing in diamonds to make it expensive for the sake of being expensive; the diamond that they do use has a purpose, and other aspects of the design also add to the cost.
what about post-it attached to underside of keyboard? That same security system (spare key left under doormat) had been in use for generations.
Reminds me of my first day on the job a long, long time ago. I wanted to copy the contents of a floppy disk to the hard drive on an HP minicomputer. Unfortunatly, the HP "Copy" command really meant "Replace", so the entire computer hard drive was reformatted as a 5 1/4" floppy.
They should have tried running it with 640K RAM - after all, no one would need more memory than that.
Well, I "annonymized" it so as to not reveal the real issues - those weren't the real suggestions.
Not all meetings are bad.
Ahh, memories of Ma Bell. When I was in college (before the breakup) I remember having to stand in line on campus to rent a phone to use for my dorm (since you couldnt just buy a telephone). I remember my roomate and I getting all belligerent and demanding to speak to Ma.
Yes, that 5 cents a day really adds up!
Except, if Wikipedia asipres to be a "real" enyclopedia, having advertising would adversely affect the objectivity (or percieved objectivity) of the site.
An article about why Wikipedia is failing...that is posted in Wikipedia? So if Wikipedia is not accurate, that means that the article that says it is not accurate is not accurate, which means that it is accurate, which means......Oww, my head is going to explode!
Yep, you are right - I learned my lesson there!
OK I don't know who that is (But see that it was modded as funny). Anyway, I bought "99 Luftballoons" on iTunes and ended up getting some crappy version I have never heard before instead of the 80s classic by Nena. Would have returned it if I could.
Thats funny, MY Mac (iBook G4) came with IE pre-installed (as well as Safari, of course). Usually I use Safari, but ocassionally have to break out IE for stubborn web sites that insist on it.
A better analogy I heard was that all the money spend in Iraq could have fully funded Social Security for 75 years.
You don't have to give any notice to quit, and your employer doesnt have to give you any notice to fire you. Thats what's called "Employment at Will. Most people who quit give 2 weeks notice at a "courtesy" but more often than not the employer will then escort you out the door - so be prepared!
You hit the nail on the head. One way ISN'T better or worse than the other, since they both work and thats what counts for the average user.
Vista isnt even on our radar - heck, we are still running SQL Server 2000 and developing VB6 Apps. I'm sure we won't move to Vista until we have to because XP is no longer supported. I have a feeling that a lot of companies will plan their release schedule that way.
True - but I've never made enough money to have to worry about that :-)