there was on summer job last year where they did provide us with clothes to work in. Well not really clothes, but coveralls, shirts, gym shorts, sweat pants, steel toed boots, gloves, hardhats, eye protection and molded ear protetion. Something about the clothing being a certain type of cloth to protect our skin from chemical burns from the cement. (yes it does burn, i lots a LOT of arm hair that summer.)
What was I doing? Pouring cement. A dirty job, so that is why they bought all the gear for us. They washed it, took care of it, mended it if it ripped, bought us a new size if it got small/bigger.
Sure the job was union, and paid damn well, but those added benifits would easily make me come back. And union fees for me were about $10.00CND a month.
Trying to save customers, but honestly, with a sleak, sexy UI of GMail, without those SUPER ANNOYING banners. 2GB of free space, or even unlimited wouldn't be enough to bring me over since those HUGE and OBNOXCIOUS banners are still there.
They have to Googleize, and learn that small, relavent banners produce more then spaming me with flashy popups that install spyware, and that Mozilla/GoogleToolbar will block.
Sure it may only hold 100 years of information right now (a guess on years) but give it another 100 to 200 years our great great great grandchildren will want to see our first computers.
It's easier to save the hardware now instead of trying to find it in the next 100 years.
Pfft!
Miles are over rated! Now furlongs! If I can get 260 Furlongs to a Gallon doesn't that make my car more economical? Why on earth would I go to Liter/re's and Kilometer/re's and get less to a tank!
That is why we must help new users and uneducated public and inform them of the good news about alternative, free and stable software.
I sound like a bible salesman.
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there was on summer job last year where they did provide us with clothes to work in. Well not really clothes, but coveralls, shirts, gym shorts, sweat pants, steel toed boots, gloves, hardhats, eye protection and molded ear protetion. Something about the clothing being a certain type of cloth to protect our skin from chemical burns from the cement. (yes it does burn, i lots a LOT of arm hair that summer.)
What was I doing? Pouring cement. A dirty job, so that is why they bought all the gear for us. They washed it, took care of it, mended it if it ripped, bought us a new size if it got small/bigger.
Sure the job was union, and paid damn well, but those added benifits would easily make me come back. And union fees for me were about $10.00CND a month.
Trying to save customers, but honestly, with a sleak, sexy UI of GMail, without those SUPER ANNOYING banners. 2GB of free space, or even unlimited wouldn't be enough to bring me over since those HUGE and OBNOXCIOUS banners are still there.
They have to Googleize, and learn that small, relavent banners produce more then spaming me with flashy popups that install spyware, and that Mozilla/GoogleToolbar will block.
But it is a step in the right direction.
To keep this museum alive.
Sure it may only hold 100 years of information right now (a guess on years) but give it another 100 to 200 years our great great great grandchildren will want to see our first computers.
It's easier to save the hardware now instead of trying to find it in the next 100 years.
Pfft!
Miles are over rated! Now furlongs! If I can get 260 Furlongs to a Gallon doesn't that make my car more economical? Why on earth would I go to Liter/re's and Kilometer/re's and get less to a tank!
If you use the Mozilla TB spam filter with your ISP filter its near 99% accurate.
:D
I have gone from a wopping 200 spam messages a day (a very old e-mail address) to the occational spam message once a week.
Leme do the math. 200*7 = 1400. 1399/1400 = 0.9992857 accruaccy. Not TOO bad
he isn't working on Doom 3!
maybe they should search the google cache?
That is why we must help new users and uneducated public and inform them of the good news about alternative, free and stable software. I sound like a bible salesman.
It will be down to $150 when the 10GB model comes out.
No, we here at slashdot enjoy small typos of acronyms to see how much flaming we can get.