You don't really address it in any verifiable way. You just brush the issue aside with conjecture based on personal opinion. That's the only reason I give you a hard time here.
Looking at the avatars is a good way to judge the sex of the actual user because you're required by law to choose an avatar that matches your sex. Oh wait a minute...
Yes, but as long as police seem to be focused on easily provable violations like speed limits and tags expiring, somewhat nebulous laws like careless driving laws are just not going to be enforced. I'm not saying I agree with that, but it's the truth. If there is a specific law against using Blackberries, that makes for an easy conviction and you might be able to get police to get off their lazy duffs and enforce such a law. God forbid they have to show up in court and say "Yes," when the judge asks if the driver was driving carelessly. They'd much rather ticket something that you're not likely to go to court over.
You really like that word "gosh." We don't do a whole lot of business outside our timezone because one of our strong points is proximity to our clients. That diminishes somewhat when you go farther West. It's not insurmountable. We do have a few clients out as far as California. And we have a few staff members who work west coast hours to accommodate that.
We outsource services to our clients and our clients like to know that we are open when they are. These are generally business that don't like the idea of outsourcing this type of service but just can't beat the cost and efficiency we offer them. If they could do what we can do at the cost we can do it, they'd drop us in a second. We don't need to give them any further excuses.
"Gosh, this is the same mindset as "Hey I use windows and office so no other OS or office suite exists because I and everyone that I work with already have a MS solution.""
No this is quite the opposite. The mindset is more akin to "Hey my clients use Windows and Office so if I want to maintain the closest integration I can with their systems, I better damn well continue to use Windows and Office or they'll find somebody who does."
"Just because you are happy with your forced time change doesn't mean all your neighbors actually like it. I'd get rid of DLS in 5 seconds if it were up to me."
I never stated that I particularly cared who else liked the change. I stated that I did like it and I also stated that the GPs reasoning for DST not mattering was invalid in my case. If you don't like it, take it up with your Congressman. It's of little consequence to me.
No, we don't have many international clients. Most of our clients are in EST in the US and Canada. We do have one or two West Coast clients and a few clients with offices in different US timezones but they are few and far between. We have a representative that operates on west coast time so that west coast clients can talk to someone during their regular business hours. She can call us in if something needs to be done that day.
"IMO all businesses will have to shift to a 24/7 business model to compete globally."
Mostly agreed, but I would modify that to say all business that wish to compete globally will have to shift to a 24/7 business model but I do not think everyone can or should compete globally. For us the cost of competing on a global scale is not worth the gains at this time. When it becomes worth it, we'll consider the switch to 24/7.
"I repeat DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME DOES NOT GIVE US MORE DAYLIGHT."
I think we're all aware of that. It must be nice to work in a business that can adjust business hours on their own without any serious repercussions but a lot of us don't have that luxury. I have to be at work when my clients are at work. That's one of the advantages my clients have to using us over using someone offshore. All of our clients live in an 8-5 world so I too live in an 8-5 world. I'm rather fond of my 8-5 world including more daylight after I get off of work. That's extra usable daylight which is the real pro DST argument as far as I can tell. I don't really think anyone believes that setting clocks a certain way impacts the amount of time the sun spends in the sky daily but nice straw man (a term I really think is overused but is unfortunately most appropriate here).
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You do have to go out and buy the left-handed nunchuck attachment.
Talk about projectile controllers. At that point where you have your arm raised to make ET float and then have to whip it down in about 2 nanoseconds to keep ET from falling back in the pit, there are going to be a lot of Wiimotes thrown. Spielberg was recently telling Roy Scheider about the idea and Schieder said, "You're gonna need a bigger wrist strap."
"...project management, some customer-facing work (technical-ish presentations, demonstrations, training, and the like), helping our marketing people position my team's work, and other things that programmers generally don't like to do."
If you don't like the last two things on your list, you'd be making a big mistake getting into sales. The big question is "Are you a salesman?" That's all that's required to be in sales. I know it sounds simple but it's a very important question. Can you sell the product? Can you go out and find the customers willing to buy the product? It's a hard job and while they may be lazy at other aspects of their job, salesmen work their tails off to sell. I used to train salesmen on the more technical aspects of what my former company sold. As a general rule, salesmen can pick up what they need to know about a product to sell it faster than someone familiar with the product can pick up the sales skills needed to sell it. I'm surprised your company even offers you the opportunity to get into sales.
It might be a 750MHz. There's a stupid splash screen instead of showing the mem test and hardware info so I don't see the clock speed every time I turn on the computer. But I do know it's not a Duron.
Wow, you got it to install? I couldn't get that far. If kept crashing in the middle. Fortunately, Debian didn't have such an issue. I was really wanting to get rid of Fedora and move to something using the Debian package system. And while my hardware wasn't spectacular, I expect a 700Mhz Thunderbird with 512MB RAM, 250GB HDD, and Radeon 7500 AGP video card to at least install even if I don't get great performance out of it.
The good news is that my wife really likes Debian's default WM and the packages I've installed in apt so now so she's not harping on me to get a licensed copy of Windows for that computer anymore. It looks like soon we'll be running Linux on our desktops and Windows on our laptops exclusively now.
Riiight. Every time I try to walk into a smaller computer shop, these guys show up, throw me in the back of a van, and toss me out at the nearest CompUSA. Nobody is "taking" potential customers anywhere. Customers shop where they want to shop. If they're shopping at a half-assed CompUSA, what does that say about the alternative? I don't have a CompUSA near by, but if I did they'd probably get first shot at my business since the local shops around here are expensive, unhelpful, and stricter about returns. Most CompUSAs I've been to are only two of those three.
I remember one episode where the Lions took care of the bad guy without forming Voltron at all. I felt so ripped off. Sure you think an early sword would be a good idea but if you lost the prerequisite good guy ass kicking and saw it replaced with crap like story or character development, you'd be sorry.
Historically, American football players didn't "encase themselves in body armour." The rules changes from rugby allowing for distinct downs had a nasty habit killing people, especially with the advent of the flying V formation. If it weren't for the deaths, there would probably be no padding despite the huge number of injuries. Even after a few deaths occurred here and there, American football players resisted any sort of padding for a very long time. It was only after padding became reluctantly common that it morphed into the monstrosity it is today. And there are still serious injuries but it has been a long time since there was a death in the middle of an American football game (though there have been deaths during practice in the meantime).
We don't need your football. You see, we've already got one. It's very nice. And kickers are used though they are not part of every play.
Most Americans* do make some attempt to specify American football when the term football can be ambiguous, but you it'll be a cold, cold day in hell before I start using a word other than "football" to talk about American football to my fellow American-football-watching friends.
* America apparently includes the US, Canada, and Australia from your argument since they all use the term soccer frequently. They already each have their own football and tend to use the term to describe their own version (unless they are in mixed company).
"I guess aiding and abetting law breakers just isn't enough to get the typical US citizen's ire up"
At least someone is getting money from illegal aliens in that scenario. I withdrew my money from BoA after Clark Howard brought to light the man who was jailed after he asked a teller to verify a shady check, she verified it was genuine, and then he was jailed for cashing that check since it was a fake check. But no, I don't particularly care that a bank is profiting from our government's inability to properly enforce immigration laws.
"Wii is trying to be the iPod of consoles but how can you really when the market when your competitors iPods are just/if not more capable and the only difference is the peripherals?"
Have you actually looked at the iPod competitors? Almost all of them pack in more features at a lower cost. I'm not saying Wii will become the iPod of the console world, but most powerful hardware is hardly a prerequisite.
Does this study differentiate between residential broadband and broadband being brought into a business or government entity? It seems to me that broadband is very prevalent in the US where it counts: at work and school. At home it's not. I'm sure that price and availability are factors, but I imagine lack of desire to switch to broadband is just as equal a factor. There are a lot of people who just don't care if AOL is a little bit faster if all they're going to be doing is checking e-mail and using AIM.
But at the same time, when we noticed obvious mistakes back then, we were honest enough to try to straighten them out beforehand instead of taking advantage before anybody notices. The same stupidity costs a lot more now than it did back then.
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Finally Mario will show those capitalist pigs the error of their ways. Eh, comrades?
You don't really address it in any verifiable way. You just brush the issue aside with conjecture based on personal opinion. That's the only reason I give you a hard time here.
C) CowboyNeal made me do it.
Looking at the avatars is a good way to judge the sex of the actual user because you're required by law to choose an avatar that matches your sex. Oh wait a minute...
"Isn't driving carelessly already illegal?"
Yes, but as long as police seem to be focused on easily provable violations like speed limits and tags expiring, somewhat nebulous laws like careless driving laws are just not going to be enforced. I'm not saying I agree with that, but it's the truth. If there is a specific law against using Blackberries, that makes for an easy conviction and you might be able to get police to get off their lazy duffs and enforce such a law. God forbid they have to show up in court and say "Yes," when the judge asks if the driver was driving carelessly. They'd much rather ticket something that you're not likely to go to court over.
You really like that word "gosh." We don't do a whole lot of business outside our timezone because one of our strong points is proximity to our clients. That diminishes somewhat when you go farther West. It's not insurmountable. We do have a few clients out as far as California. And we have a few staff members who work west coast hours to accommodate that.
We outsource services to our clients and our clients like to know that we are open when they are. These are generally business that don't like the idea of outsourcing this type of service but just can't beat the cost and efficiency we offer them. If they could do what we can do at the cost we can do it, they'd drop us in a second. We don't need to give them any further excuses.
"Gosh, this is the same mindset as "Hey I use windows and office so no other OS or office suite exists because I and everyone that I work with already have a MS solution.""
No this is quite the opposite. The mindset is more akin to "Hey my clients use Windows and Office so if I want to maintain the closest integration I can with their systems, I better damn well continue to use Windows and Office or they'll find somebody who does."
"Just because you are happy with your forced time change doesn't mean all your neighbors actually like it. I'd get rid of DLS in 5 seconds if it were up to me."
I never stated that I particularly cared who else liked the change. I stated that I did like it and I also stated that the GPs reasoning for DST not mattering was invalid in my case. If you don't like it, take it up with your Congressman. It's of little consequence to me.
No, we don't have many international clients. Most of our clients are in EST in the US and Canada. We do have one or two West Coast clients and a few clients with offices in different US timezones but they are few and far between. We have a representative that operates on west coast time so that west coast clients can talk to someone during their regular business hours. She can call us in if something needs to be done that day.
"IMO all businesses will have to shift to a 24/7 business model to compete globally."
Mostly agreed, but I would modify that to say all business that wish to compete globally will have to shift to a 24/7 business model but I do not think everyone can or should compete globally. For us the cost of competing on a global scale is not worth the gains at this time. When it becomes worth it, we'll consider the switch to 24/7.
"I repeat DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME DOES NOT GIVE US MORE DAYLIGHT."
I think we're all aware of that. It must be nice to work in a business that can adjust business hours on their own without any serious repercussions but a lot of us don't have that luxury. I have to be at work when my clients are at work. That's one of the advantages my clients have to using us over using someone offshore. All of our clients live in an 8-5 world so I too live in an 8-5 world. I'm rather fond of my 8-5 world including more daylight after I get off of work. That's extra usable daylight which is the real pro DST argument as far as I can tell. I don't really think anyone believes that setting clocks a certain way impacts the amount of time the sun spends in the sky daily but nice straw man (a term I really think is overused but is unfortunately most appropriate here).
You do have to go out and buy the left-handed nunchuck attachment.
Talk about projectile controllers. At that point where you have your arm raised to make ET float and then have to whip it down in about 2 nanoseconds to keep ET from falling back in the pit, there are going to be a lot of Wiimotes thrown. Spielberg was recently telling Roy Scheider about the idea and Schieder said, "You're gonna need a bigger wrist strap."
"...project management, some customer-facing work (technical-ish presentations, demonstrations, training, and the like), helping our marketing people position my team's work, and other things that programmers generally don't like to do."
If you don't like the last two things on your list, you'd be making a big mistake getting into sales. The big question is "Are you a salesman?" That's all that's required to be in sales. I know it sounds simple but it's a very important question. Can you sell the product? Can you go out and find the customers willing to buy the product? It's a hard job and while they may be lazy at other aspects of their job, salesmen work their tails off to sell. I used to train salesmen on the more technical aspects of what my former company sold. As a general rule, salesmen can pick up what they need to know about a product to sell it faster than someone familiar with the product can pick up the sales skills needed to sell it. I'm surprised your company even offers you the opportunity to get into sales.
"Taking a page from the PAX playbook..."
Cool, they're going to offer "Diagnosis Murder" and "Touched by an Angel" for the PS3! I can't wait.
Just the System dialog in Windows 98 Control Panel but that was a LONG time ago.
It might be a 750MHz. There's a stupid splash screen instead of showing the mem test and hardware info so I don't see the clock speed every time I turn on the computer. But I do know it's not a Duron.
Wow, you got it to install? I couldn't get that far. If kept crashing in the middle. Fortunately, Debian didn't have such an issue. I was really wanting to get rid of Fedora and move to something using the Debian package system. And while my hardware wasn't spectacular, I expect a 700Mhz Thunderbird with 512MB RAM, 250GB HDD, and Radeon 7500 AGP video card to at least install even if I don't get great performance out of it.
The good news is that my wife really likes Debian's default WM and the packages I've installed in apt so now so she's not harping on me to get a licensed copy of Windows for that computer anymore. It looks like soon we'll be running Linux on our desktops and Windows on our laptops exclusively now.
"First the take potentional Customers away."
Riiight. Every time I try to walk into a smaller computer shop, these guys show up, throw me in the back of a van, and toss me out at the nearest CompUSA. Nobody is "taking" potential customers anywhere. Customers shop where they want to shop. If they're shopping at a half-assed CompUSA, what does that say about the alternative? I don't have a CompUSA near by, but if I did they'd probably get first shot at my business since the local shops around here are expensive, unhelpful, and stricter about returns. Most CompUSAs I've been to are only two of those three.
I hope we only end up working together with the good planets of the solar system.
I remember one episode where the Lions took care of the bad guy without forming Voltron at all. I felt so ripped off. Sure you think an early sword would be a good idea but if you lost the prerequisite good guy ass kicking and saw it replaced with crap like story or character development, you'd be sorry.
Historically, American football players didn't "encase themselves in body armour." The rules changes from rugby allowing for distinct downs had a nasty habit killing people, especially with the advent of the flying V formation. If it weren't for the deaths, there would probably be no padding despite the huge number of injuries. Even after a few deaths occurred here and there, American football players resisted any sort of padding for a very long time. It was only after padding became reluctantly common that it morphed into the monstrosity it is today. And there are still serious injuries but it has been a long time since there was a death in the middle of an American football game (though there have been deaths during practice in the meantime).
We don't need your football. You see, we've already got one. It's very nice. And kickers are used though they are not part of every play.
Most Americans* do make some attempt to specify American football when the term football can be ambiguous, but you it'll be a cold, cold day in hell before I start using a word other than "football" to talk about American football to my fellow American-football-watching friends.
* America apparently includes the US, Canada, and Australia from your argument since they all use the term soccer frequently. They already each have their own football and tend to use the term to describe their own version (unless they are in mixed company).
"I guess aiding and abetting law breakers just isn't enough to get the typical US citizen's ire up"
At least someone is getting money from illegal aliens in that scenario. I withdrew my money from BoA after Clark Howard brought to light the man who was jailed after he asked a teller to verify a shady check, she verified it was genuine, and then he was jailed for cashing that check since it was a fake check. But no, I don't particularly care that a bank is profiting from our government's inability to properly enforce immigration laws.
China?! Looking at the headline my first thought was Eastern US like Atlanta or Philly.
"Wii is trying to be the iPod of consoles but how can you really when the market when your competitors iPods are just/if not more capable and the only difference is the peripherals?"
Have you actually looked at the iPod competitors? Almost all of them pack in more features at a lower cost. I'm not saying Wii will become the iPod of the console world, but most powerful hardware is hardly a prerequisite.
Does this study differentiate between residential broadband and broadband being brought into a business or government entity? It seems to me that broadband is very prevalent in the US where it counts: at work and school. At home it's not. I'm sure that price and availability are factors, but I imagine lack of desire to switch to broadband is just as equal a factor. There are a lot of people who just don't care if AOL is a little bit faster if all they're going to be doing is checking e-mail and using AIM.
"we used to call this the price of stupidity."
But at the same time, when we noticed obvious mistakes back then, we were honest enough to try to straighten them out beforehand instead of taking advantage before anybody notices. The same stupidity costs a lot more now than it did back then.