I didn't even know this existed. Ironically, I've actually sent Casio feedback on their website that they should release a scientific calculator watch!
Happy New Year, and nice comment.:^) Over here in Jaxland we are using an iMac G5 (with nary a hiccup, 'cept for the pickiness of the DVD-R drive when reading scratched audio CDs), and the old tank of a Powerbook G4 550 MHz. The paint is starting to come off it in little spots here and there (mostly around the magnetic latch), but otherwise it has been a trouper. The hard drive died back in mid-'04 during HEAVY use (read: near constant use by multiple people) during finals week. The humorous part was that the HD waited to die until that Friday night when finals were all done. Replaced with a Hitachi (yes, I know, evil blood sibling of IBM) 7K60, put a new battery in it (a few months earlier) and its been running smooth ever since. The new battery was made to give 1 GHz Powerbooks 4 hours of life, so it gave my 550 MHz up to 7 hours if I turned the screen brightness down! I have a strange feeling you already know all of this, but this is Slashdot and there are potentially a 900,000+ other readers reading this very post.:^)
Anyway, give me a call me sometime (Ken, not the rest of you 900k+ users! Heh), or look me up on MySpace sometime.:^)
This happened to me a few months ago -- I had a couple visits to the physical therapist and then started receiving bills for numerous drugs that I had no clue about. I had to call, write letters and complain to the hospital billing department for six months for them to fix it. The crazy part is that they didn't know how it happened, they just claimed that it was fixed...
Do you know anything more about this sort of medical identify theft? If so, please reply to this or email me at i_love_junk_email@yahoo.com.
Don't forget that they are capable of regenerating now also. So when they crash into the ground, they will regenerate all of the limbs and tissues that broke.
First, the aluminum foil helmet study folks tell us we can't wear our helmets anymore, and now this news comes out as a trap... I think we're being followed!
Although rootkits on TV seem improbable, the thought of Goatse man as a copy protection measure seems plausible though... Would you copy a DVD that showed Goatse man at random times during the movie?
Hehe, yeah... I bet the reverb alone would mess pretty hard with the algorithms. Brew is actually on iTunes for 99 cents... Not bad for over 25 minutes of music!:^)
Same here. Starting using Linux in late '95, never looked back until late '01 when I switched to a Powerbook G4. I have used DOS, Win31, 95, NT, 2K, XP, BeOS, FreeBSD and MacOS7-9 in the past, none of which were as smooth/nice/problem-free as OS X.
Yes, but society at large doesn't really care about the "Made in China" thing anymore. If we did, nobody would be buying the stuff. I think people would begin to care if the following chain of events occurred however:
The credit bureaus have changed their rules recently so that if you contact just one to post a fraud alert on your credit file, they will automatically notify the other two. I recently tried this and it works.
I've already given both my arms and legs (I type with my nose now), offered my first born son and my soul to read the NYTimes articles. What else could they possibly want?
My point is that the previous poster's assumption that 4% is greater than the cost of living is inaccurate.
Since we're talking about IT people only here... even if the average raise in IT was 4%, and inflation is 4%, then you have to wonder, has the average IT person actually produced anything more this year over last year to earn a bigger raise? I mean, are there some big reasons why IT people are more productive all of a sudden? Does the average (including new guys out of college, less the old guys who just retired) Joe IT guy produce more now? I doubt it.
What I am suggesting is that exactly that -- raises should be tied to performance, not to inflation. Starting salaries should be tied to an expected level of performance. Performance in my book means ROI, with all of the other things being non-performance metrics. Employees need to be able to justify how their actions are saving the company money (or making money) year after year. I would be more than willing to give employees financial training and additional assistance from the finance department so that they would have every opportunity to create their ROI analysis. I would then have a group performance review which critiques the ROI and determines a raise (or cut) from it. If you aren't saving or making money for the company of at least what your salary is, you are milking the company fair and square. Those sorts of people, if given the chance to run their own business, would not succeed. There is no reason to support employees who don't support back.
Keep in mind that the core CPI excludes gas and food prices, which are more volatile than other basket goods. The Fed prefers the Core CPI to the overall CPI as an inflation guage. Because gas prices have risen so much lately though, and because unleaded gasoline futures are expecting the price to remain about the same over the next 2 years, it is reasonable to expect that the overall CPI will increase moderately as well in the same time period.
This image shows the CPI over the last century. Note how the annual change has been between 2 and 5% over the last 20 years. It is true that 4% is slightly more than cost of living, but only for that time frame. During the 70s such raises would have been useless given the extreme inflation occurring year after year.
One day I was talking to a good friend of mine... Mid-sentence we both heard a "beeeeep" sound (probably 800-1000 Hz). After a few seconds of silence from both of us, I asked, "Was that you?" My friend replied "Nooooo..... Was that you?" To which I replied "Noooo..." So we both hung up and called each other again. No beep after that. To this day we joke about it, but we still wonder if we said something that caught "their" attention.
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I didn't even know this existed. Ironically, I've actually sent Casio feedback on their website that they should release a scientific calculator watch!
Hey, I'm wearing a cheap, almost disposable LCD watch from the '80s, you insensitive clod! Casio Databank wearers unite!
Hey Ken,
:^) Over here in Jaxland we are using an iMac G5 (with nary a hiccup, 'cept for the pickiness of the DVD-R drive when reading scratched audio CDs), and the old tank of a Powerbook G4 550 MHz. The paint is starting to come off it in little spots here and there (mostly around the magnetic latch), but otherwise it has been a trouper. The hard drive died back in mid-'04 during HEAVY use (read: near constant use by multiple people) during finals week. The humorous part was that the HD waited to die until that Friday night when finals were all done. Replaced with a Hitachi (yes, I know, evil blood sibling of IBM) 7K60, put a new battery in it (a few months earlier) and its been running smooth ever since. The new battery was made to give 1 GHz Powerbooks 4 hours of life, so it gave my 550 MHz up to 7 hours if I turned the screen brightness down! I have a strange feeling you already know all of this, but this is Slashdot and there are potentially a 900,000+ other readers reading this very post. :^)
:^)
Happy New Year, and nice comment.
Anyway, give me a call me sometime (Ken, not the rest of you 900k+ users! Heh), or look me up on MySpace sometime.
Cheers,
Jon
This happened to me a few months ago -- I had a couple visits to the physical therapist and then started receiving bills for numerous drugs that I had no clue about. I had to call, write letters and complain to the hospital billing department for six months for them to fix it. The crazy part is that they didn't know how it happened, they just claimed that it was fixed...
Do you know anything more about this sort of medical identify theft? If so, please reply to this or email me at i_love_junk_email@yahoo.com.
Bingo. Good post.
Don't forget that they are capable of regenerating now also. So when they crash into the ground, they will regenerate all of the limbs and tissues that broke.
First, the aluminum foil helmet study folks tell us we can't wear our helmets anymore, and now this news comes out as a trap... I think we're being followed!
Although rootkits on TV seem improbable, the thought of Goatse man as a copy protection measure seems plausible though... Would you copy a DVD that showed Goatse man at random times during the movie?
Hehe, yeah... I bet the reverb alone would mess pretty hard with the algorithms. Brew is actually on iTunes for 99 cents... Not bad for over 25 minutes of music! :^)
Same here. Starting using Linux in late '95, never looked back until late '01 when I switched to a Powerbook G4. I have used DOS, Win31, 95, NT, 2K, XP, BeOS, FreeBSD and MacOS7-9 in the past, none of which were as smooth/nice/problem-free as OS X.
Right on, excellent comment.
I suppose the U.S. could cancel their debts to China in retaliation, but that could spark a wholly different mess.
Pace: Grueling
Rations: Meager
Temperature: Hot
Sally has fever. Lost 3 days.
You are at the Snake river. Do you want to hire a ferryman or attempt to ford the river on your own?
The credit bureaus have changed their rules recently so that if you contact just one to post a fraud alert on your credit file, they will automatically notify the other two. I recently tried this and it works.
One testicle sounds reasonable. Do you know what mailing address I should use?
I've done this before by searching for the article title, with limited success... I will try the URL method in the future. Thanks!
I've already given both my arms and legs (I type with my nose now), offered my first born son and my soul to read the NYTimes articles. What else could they possibly want?
Ramen!
What I am suggesting is that exactly that -- raises should be tied to performance, not to inflation. Starting salaries should be tied to an expected level of performance. Performance in my book means ROI, with all of the other things being non-performance metrics. Employees need to be able to justify how their actions are saving the company money (or making money) year after year. I would be more than willing to give employees financial training and additional assistance from the finance department so that they would have every opportunity to create their ROI analysis. I would then have a group performance review which critiques the ROI and determines a raise (or cut) from it. If you aren't saving or making money for the company of at least what your salary is, you are milking the company fair and square. Those sorts of people, if given the chance to run their own business, would not succeed. There is no reason to support employees who don't support back.
Keep in mind that the core CPI excludes gas and food prices, which are more volatile than other basket goods. The Fed prefers the Core CPI to the overall CPI as an inflation guage. Because gas prices have risen so much lately though, and because unleaded gasoline futures are expecting the price to remain about the same over the next 2 years, it is reasonable to expect that the overall CPI will increase moderately as well in the same time period.
This image shows the CPI over the last century. Note how the annual change has been between 2 and 5% over the last 20 years. It is true that 4% is slightly more than cost of living, but only for that time frame. During the 70s such raises would have been useless given the extreme inflation occurring year after year.
You're so lucky... A 386 *and* a 56K modem? Your parents must be rich.
Something made a beep... Don't know what though.
One day I was talking to a good friend of mine... Mid-sentence we both heard a "beeeeep" sound (probably 800-1000 Hz). After a few seconds of silence from both of us, I asked, "Was that you?" My friend replied "Nooooo..... Was that you?" To which I replied "Noooo..." So we both hung up and called each other again. No beep after that. To this day we joke about it, but we still wonder if we said something that caught "their" attention.
Google is offering its services through the municipality of SF. That still makes it municipal wifi.
It's still municipal wifi if it's privatized or not...