Yes, and in NZ the Case Law is based on a case a woman took about her washing machine where the motor failed after 2 years. In that decision the adjudicator ruled "A person should expect a washing machine to last 4 years without requiring significant repair".
As a side note , a contract limiting this is against the law and instantly nullified. Making those "extended warranty" things pointless. A rort is a kind term.
Bill gates would probably never got a job at MS.
The interviews by Macgregor and Ballmer were strict. And one favorite was questions such the High-low number puzzle.
Bill himself failed this test when asked by a reporter one day.
.
Ballmer said(of these types of questions), you could assess the "smartness" of someone.
Ref: Hard Drive. Wallace & Erickson. 1992
Linden Labs attitude recently, especially with moves to this Adult grid has to be very aggressive with account banning.
Usually a ban comes from a person on the "G-Team", which appears to be fairly ad-hoc, being non comprimising when a user does something silly, and this is backed up by flame wars outside of SecondLife between G-Team members and users.
Given a new user could be a soldier unused to the 3D way of things, let alone the foibles of Second Life, I wonder how LL handles that users ability to tow the party line. Or is the user somehow confined to base, in a virtual sense.
Because I am not sure any contact with the Linden Lab G-Team would be that positive for the soldier.
I watched this video and felt ill. All i could image was a car t'boning that bike at an intersection. I bike myself, but would never take a child on one. Sorry.
If texting is a crime due to choices made(like drunk driving) then many parents at work are doing the same every as they drive their kids to work then recount stories of their behavior and the parents attempt to control it.
The second a parent looks back at their kids, should they get 15 years?
Have you ever needed to insert terrible code to make something work at the last minute?
Jesus, every fucking day. Sole IT/Everything guy here.
Yesterday it was enabling the personal IIS service on an XP desktop to get a demo going of an OCR scanner server for a board member meeting, because the scanner on loan would not talk to samba shares. Today I commented out some PHP code that read's a database for a web page and instead pasted in an excel page the admin girl had done. Next year that data will not update automaticaly. I will wait for the inquiry as to why and fix it then. Tomorrow i will FTP the javascript code snippet to our intranet web page that is IE 5.5+ only because thats our work environment....except for the graphics dept....but there is only 4 of them.
For some people, the odd incident are cute, amusing anecdotes. For me, it is everyday in the trenches.
A friend of mine has been doing business as a foreign company in china for a few years.
He is very matter of fact about it. You build into your budget, the kickback amounts.
I have thought about this a bit, and the attutide is somewhat akin to the tipping/no tipping cultures. I spent time in the US and once I accepted tipping I saw it was a better system.
Without kickbacks/bribes you just cannot operate as a foreign company. A kickback is almost regarded as a tip in China.
Yes, I am on a neigborhood watch committee. Police issue guidelines(Protect Your Home) done for our use include a recommendation all Utility type workers are asked for ID to protect against just this situation.
My account in second life was terminated due to billing issue.
That email states:
"What happens to your Second Life account holdings?
When terminating Second Life accounts, we remove all associated holdings. There will be no refunds or exchanges for any unused time on your subscription, Island purchases, Linden Dollars, or inworld objects, items, or content."
The slightly longer explanation is was that my CC expired, which in turn forced me to "basic" membership with virtually no support rights.
If i'd owned virtual land then hundreds if not thousands could have been lost. I know of one direct example. 6 sims x $195/month. Gone bill to billing dispute, and people see the tier(land tax) quickly exceed their saleable land value so just walk away.
I consider this article the definitive summary of how things can turn to custard very quickly.
Being a pioneer in a 3d world is risky and unfeasible.
Yes quite right, I had in my mind to ignore proportions below 3%...IE5 is 2.5%, and IE8 2.5%.
The rest are scrapers. They rip out the genetic data and breeding data for beef herds.
My mothers cat was a companion to her beyond something on 4 legs that just wanted food.
Highlighted by the animal's actions previous to my mother suddenly passing away. For several weeks the cat would never leave her side, as she became ill. Then mom passed away suddenly in her sleep. The autopsy revealed a ruptured cyst around a cancerous growth on the large intestine. For a couple weeks previous to her death, she had complained the cat was licking the area just under her ribcage. The doctors were confused as to the raw area of skin on her belly area. The cat knew, and I believe was an effort to heal my mother the only way a cat knows how.
I did my BSc in Information Systems 9 years ago. A strong part of the practical in the final year was Oracle DBMS with SQL but along with theory about object oriented dababase and modeling.
I doubted back then that OO in databases would see the broad use light of day.
I still think its years away. Its all very good for a few visionaries who are clever with coding wish to see their better mouse trap take control of data. But in the real world when an agile business needs to step up to the plate on a monthly basis to adapt to some crap board decision that you have no control over then DBMS's allow one to respond to their decisions.
Who will ever know? What we do know is Enigma knew that the target was codeword "Korn". At the time they did not realise Korn = Coventry. They did however know Korn was not London.
That night Churchill cancelled his scheduled trip out of london and remained in the city....
This seems to mirror the spiel before cameras were put up in the central city park called "the square" here in a medium city in New Zealand. The Square had problems with violence at nights, and really did become a place not to walk thru at night. It was intended cameras would be put in The Square and the police would monitor them at trouble times at night, and the city council would pay(hence it needed selling to the ratepayers).
The ratepayers fell into line very quickly and funding was given, helped by the robbery of an employee leaving working at just 6:30pm.
The first camera was installed at an intersection well away from The Square, not in it. The next camera was similar. More were installed. Then there was a headline, drunk drivers were being caught. It turns out they were turning the cameras to the streets surrounding The Square and watching up to 400m down side streets for patrons to leave taverns and pubs and directing police cars if "staggering patrons got into a car".
When asked 6 months later why crime wasn't being reduced in the square the council said "oh, the ones there do not work, they havent been wired up."
If I'm over here with a straw and come allllll the way over here to your horse and insert a straw into it....and then....go back here and draw strongly on the straw....I kill your horse! I suck him up!
I worked some years back for a non-profit organization that provided aspects of community support serices. I implemented a crm/database. I was with them for 3 years
I left with some perspectives. Some broad ones were:
- When managers apply for funding for projects, success is often based on the political points attached to the project.
- Funding for cars for managers were approached with diligance while other applications stalled.
- Managers use staff and volunteer time to promote the visibility of the org. An example is a fundraiser beating the streets. These can bring in a tiny amount per man-hour, while one funding application can trounce all that volunteer time.
- Financial accountability: for governemt agencies, the mere fact of accepting a project funding proposal, and doling out the money meets their KPI.
- I also made an audit system tracking support worker time against client facing time for people with disabilites(the org recieved per hour funding). The project collapsed and failed. Once implement the system revealed that while contracted support time was 1100 hours per month, the actual was 19.
Slashdot Mirror
What is better than those ice cream trucks!
Everyone loves them, and when you hear them you become alert and look around.
Pedestrian crossing accidents will plummet!
Yes, and in NZ the Case Law is based on a case a woman took about her washing machine where the motor failed after 2 years. In that decision the adjudicator ruled "A person should expect a washing machine to last 4 years without requiring significant repair".
As a side note , a contract limiting this is against the law and instantly nullified. Making those "extended warranty" things pointless. A rort is a kind term.
Bill gates would probably never got a job at MS.
The interviews by Macgregor and Ballmer were strict. And one favorite was questions such the High-low number puzzle.
Bill himself failed this test when asked by a reporter one day.
. Ballmer said(of these types of questions), you could assess the "smartness" of someone. Ref: Hard Drive. Wallace & Erickson. 1992
Linden Labs attitude recently, especially with moves to this Adult grid has to be very aggressive with account banning.
Usually a ban comes from a person on the "G-Team", which appears to be fairly ad-hoc, being non comprimising when a user does something silly, and this is backed up by flame wars outside of SecondLife between G-Team members and users.
Given a new user could be a soldier unused to the 3D way of things, let alone the foibles of Second Life, I wonder how LL handles that users ability to tow the party line. Or is the user somehow confined to base, in a virtual sense.
Because I am not sure any contact with the Linden Lab G-Team would be that positive for the soldier.
I watched this video and felt ill. All i could image was a car t'boning that bike at an intersection. I bike myself, but would never take a child on one. Sorry.
....and methodists?
Methodists are bad
"I can only hope it gets the Spore treatment from the public."
A No.1 seller and recieved positively?
If texting is a crime due to choices made(like drunk driving) then many parents at work are doing the same every as they drive their kids to work then recount stories of their behavior and the parents attempt to control it.
The second a parent looks back at their kids, should they get 15 years?
Have you ever needed to insert terrible code to make something work at the last minute?
Jesus, every fucking day. Sole IT/Everything guy here.
Yesterday it was enabling the personal IIS service on an XP desktop to get a demo going of an OCR scanner server for a board member meeting, because the scanner on loan would not talk to samba shares. Today I commented out some PHP code that read's a database for a web page and instead pasted in an excel page the admin girl had done. Next year that data will not update automaticaly. I will wait for the inquiry as to why and fix it then. Tomorrow i will FTP the javascript code snippet to our intranet web page that is IE 5.5+ only because thats our work environment....except for the graphics dept....but there is only 4 of them.
For some people, the odd incident are cute, amusing anecdotes. For me, it is everyday in the trenches.
A friend of mine has been doing business as a foreign company in china for a few years.
He is very matter of fact about it. You build into your budget, the kickback amounts.
I have thought about this a bit, and the attutide is somewhat akin to the tipping/no tipping cultures. I spent time in the US and once I accepted tipping I saw it was a better system. Without kickbacks/bribes you just cannot operate as a foreign company. A kickback is almost regarded as a tip in China.
Yes, I am on a neigborhood watch committee. Police issue guidelines(Protect Your Home) done for our use include a recommendation all Utility type workers are asked for ID to protect against just this situation.
My account in second life was terminated due to billing issue.
That email states:
"What happens to your Second Life account holdings? When terminating Second Life accounts, we remove all associated holdings. There will be no refunds or exchanges for any unused time on your subscription, Island purchases, Linden Dollars, or inworld objects, items, or content."
The slightly longer explanation is was that my CC expired, which in turn forced me to "basic" membership with virtually no support rights.
If i'd owned virtual land then hundreds if not thousands could have been lost.
I know of one direct example. 6 sims x $195/month. Gone bill to billing dispute, and people see the tier(land tax) quickly exceed their saleable land value so just walk away.
I consider this article the definitive summary of how things can turn to custard very quickly.
Being a pioneer in a 3d world is risky and unfeasible.
Yes quite right, I had in my mind to ignore proportions below 3%...IE5 is 2.5%, and IE8 2.5%. The rest are scrapers. They rip out the genetic data and breeding data for beef herds.
I am a webmaster for a company that primarily serves agriculteral sector websites.
We have 60 sites and proportion is
1. 54.14% - Internet Explorer 7.0
2. 8.14% - Internet Explorer 6.0
3. 7.90% - Firefox 3.0
My mothers cat was a companion to her beyond something on 4 legs that just wanted food.
Highlighted by the animal's actions previous to my mother suddenly passing away. For several weeks the cat would never leave her side, as she became ill. Then mom passed away suddenly in her sleep. The autopsy revealed a ruptured cyst around a cancerous growth on the large intestine. For a couple weeks previous to her death, she had complained the cat was licking the area just under her ribcage. The doctors were confused as to the raw area of skin on her belly area. The cat knew, and I believe was an effort to heal my mother the only way a cat knows how.
I did my BSc in Information Systems 9 years ago. A strong part of the practical in the final year was Oracle DBMS with SQL but along with theory about object oriented dababase and modeling.
I doubted back then that OO in databases would see the broad use light of day.
I still think its years away. Its all very good for a few visionaries who are clever with coding wish to see their better mouse trap take control of data. But in the real world when an agile business needs to step up to the plate on a monthly basis to adapt to some crap board decision that you have no control over then DBMS's allow one to respond to their decisions.
Who will ever know? What we do know is Enigma knew that the target was codeword "Korn". At the time they did not realise Korn = Coventry. They did however know Korn was not London.
That night Churchill cancelled his scheduled trip out of london and remained in the city....
This seems to mirror the spiel before cameras were put up in the central city park called "the square" here in a medium city in New Zealand. The Square had problems with violence at nights, and really did become a place not to walk thru at night. It was intended cameras would be put in The Square and the police would monitor them at trouble times at night, and the city council would pay(hence it needed selling to the ratepayers).
The ratepayers fell into line very quickly and funding was given, helped by the robbery of an employee leaving working at just 6:30pm.
The first camera was installed at an intersection well away from The Square, not in it. The next camera was similar. More were installed. Then there was a headline, drunk drivers were being caught. It turns out they were turning the cameras to the streets surrounding The Square and watching up to 400m down side streets for patrons to leave taverns and pubs and directing police cars if "staggering patrons got into a car". When asked 6 months later why crime wasn't being reduced in the square the council said "oh, the ones there do not work, they havent been wired up."
A real snow job
If I'm over here with a straw and come allllll the way over here to your horse and insert a straw into it....and then....go back here and draw strongly on the straw....I kill your horse! I suck him up!
wow, i just had a look at doing an order, and to new zealand mini-itx.com wanted US$77.00 for shipping a case no bigger that 1 litre in volume.
How many striking workers has Ballmer had killed by Pinkerton thugs?
36 by last count.
I worked some years back for a non-profit organization that provided aspects of community support serices. I implemented a crm/database. I was with them for 3 years
I left with some perspectives. Some broad ones were:
- When managers apply for funding for projects, success is often based on the political points attached to the project.
- Funding for cars for managers were approached with diligance while other applications stalled.
- Managers use staff and volunteer time to promote the visibility of the org. An example is a fundraiser beating the streets. These can bring in a tiny amount per man-hour, while one funding application can trounce all that volunteer time.
- Financial accountability: for governemt agencies, the mere fact of accepting a project funding proposal, and doling out the money meets their KPI.
- I also made an audit system tracking support worker time against client facing time for people with disabilites(the org recieved per hour funding). The project collapsed and failed. Once implement the system revealed that while contracted support time was 1100 hours per month, the actual was 19.
# ?
Haha, That typer must be *really* frustrated/sarcastic.
Oh Lordy, i can imagine if the aussies find alien life first...
"You call that a ruby dye laser? Now *this* is a ruby dye laser!"
This is a knife!
Fear not, I for one automatically saw your point. THere must be a few out there.