Libraries have always been "media centers", and always been "free rental stores". The only difference is that videos and web pages were not an available type of media when the library system was started.
Changing sick/vacation days to PTO reduces the number of last minute call ins. If you seperate the sick days out, a lot of people will see them as vacation days that you are not allowed to give advance notice for.
Yes we should. There is no good reason whatsoever to ban commercial exploitation of the moon. If there are particular parts that make sense to keep pristine for future generations, then make lunar parks to preserve them. Preserving the moon in it's pristine form is only good if there are people their to appreciate it.
Yes. I found it interesting when I was talking to the owner of a cannon at a Civil War recreation event about the legality of his cannon ownership. He explained to me that owning a cannon is perfectly legal as it's lack of rifling meant that it was not classified as a "gun".
Only if you are trying to use the touch screen as a virtual keyboard. Don't do that! Use pencils, but don't poke them in your eye. Play with a basket ball, but don't use it as a suppository. Use a touch screen, but don't try to type on it.
A) That all depends on whether it is a buyer's or seller's market. When they have 20 people lined up to take the job, and every one of them is plenty qualified, No, they don't want to hire you as much as you want to work there.
Some will. Some won't. Employers that will negotiate are like smart hot honest women. They exist. There are lots of them, and we all know some. There are not enough to go around for everyone. Heck, there are not enough jobs to go around even with people succumbing to bad employment contracts. You calling people who end up accepting crappy jobs is like calling guys idiots if they are not dating a PHD supermodel.
OSX is dramatically closer to the market share of Desktop Linux than it is to Windows. OSX has somewhere in the neighborhood of 9-10% more of the market than Linux. This isn't to say that the Linux market is large. It is to say that the OS X market is tiny. As much as Mac fans want to rave about how their platform is a major contender, it really isn't. It is a niche OS that has been marketed well enough that it looks like a major OS.
Before the fanboys come out of the woodwork to accuse me of being a 'Hater'. Please notice that I did not comment on the quality of the OS. Only it's market share.
Complaints about gorilla arm with touch screens come from the same type of people who complain that their wrist gets tired trying to click out a report by using their mouse to click on a virtual keyboard.
Heavy drinking is equated with being tough because ingesting a lot of poison, and living to tell about is is pretty tough. The same could be said for people who can hammer nail with their fist and take shot gun blasts to the face. The question isn't whether heavy drinkers are tough or not. It is a question of whether being tough in that way has any actual value.
That depends on how energy plays out. If the oil doom sayers are correct, then there would be enough political pressure to adjust patent law to free up the tech. It might seem impossible that this could happen, but even 6 years ago, ObamaCare would have seemed just as impossible.
Even if fossil fuel prices don't spike, as global warming gains more and more acceptance, there is more and more political capital in anything that moves us off of oil.
Yeah, I can go with that. They would be the kind of movies that if you saw them as a matinee, you wouldn't be pissed that you spent the money to go and years later, when it popped up on Saturday afternoon TV, you might let it run in the background as you did other stuff. Just not something that you would go out of your way to see.
Has 911 ever used phone tracking to send emergency personnel? Anyone got a link to show that this has ever been done? Every time I have called 911 from a cell phone the operator always insists that I give them an accurate location by voice. This is even when I was on a long dark road without any signs.
I think most people would have thought the 3 prequels were fine movies if they had not been labeled "Star Wars". The problem is that OK movies hit the theaters wearing the name badge of a movie series that really did 'define a generation'.
E.T. was a perfectly fine game for the Atari 2600. The problem wasn't the game. It was the gamers. The novelty of video games at home had worn off. People were demanding more. The Atari 2600 just wasn't able to provide more. Compare E.T. to Space Invaders. E.T. smashed Space Invaders in terms of depth of play and graphics quality. The difference is that Space Invaders came out before people had tired of the 2600. The other problem is that the cartridges were massively over produced for the demand of the time. We now know that you don't expect record sales on an EOL platform, even if it is based on a really popular movie.
I have 2 machines that lock up periodically under Windows7 Opening the case and pointing a box fan into it clears the problem up. I'm pretty sure it isn't a software problem.
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More accuratly, honest people who rarely get sick get punished. Dishonest people just call in sick to go to the beach.
Libraries have always been "media centers", and always been "free rental stores". The only difference is that videos and web pages were not an available type of media when the library system was started.
Changing sick/vacation days to PTO reduces the number of last minute call ins. If you seperate the sick days out, a lot of people will see them as vacation days that you are not allowed to give advance notice for.
They can tell you no for things that are not classified as a gun.
Yes we should. There is no good reason whatsoever to ban commercial exploitation of the moon. If there are particular parts that make sense to keep pristine for future generations, then make lunar parks to preserve them. Preserving the moon in it's pristine form is only good if there are people their to appreciate it.
Yes. I found it interesting when I was talking to the owner of a cannon at a Civil War recreation event about the legality of his cannon ownership. He explained to me that owning a cannon is perfectly legal as it's lack of rifling meant that it was not classified as a "gun".
Well, think of it from his point of view. You wanted to shit INSIDE your house.
Figure out a way to make one of those fumigation tents into a microwave blocker, and blast the inside of houses with it.
Only if you are trying to use the touch screen as a virtual keyboard. Don't do that! Use pencils, but don't poke them in your eye. Play with a basket ball, but don't use it as a suppository. Use a touch screen, but don't try to type on it.
A) That all depends on whether it is a buyer's or seller's market. When they have 20 people lined up to take the job, and every one of them is plenty qualified, No, they don't want to hire you as much as you want to work there.
Some will. Some won't. Employers that will negotiate are like smart hot honest women. They exist. There are lots of them, and we all know some. There are not enough to go around for everyone. Heck, there are not enough jobs to go around even with people succumbing to bad employment contracts. You calling people who end up accepting crappy jobs is like calling guys idiots if they are not dating a PHD supermodel.
That is simply wrong. Why would you think something like that?
OSX is dramatically closer to the market share of Desktop Linux than it is to Windows. OSX has somewhere in the neighborhood of 9-10% more of the market than Linux. This isn't to say that the Linux market is large. It is to say that the OS X market is tiny. As much as Mac fans want to rave about how their platform is a major contender, it really isn't. It is a niche OS that has been marketed well enough that it looks like a major OS.
Before the fanboys come out of the woodwork to accuse me of being a 'Hater'. Please notice that I did not comment on the quality of the OS. Only it's market share.
My son's AMD A10 laptop beats my i5 laptop easily. They cost us about the same.
Stupid and tough are not mutually exclusive. In fact being stopped trend to lead to situation where one needs to become tougher.
Complaints about gorilla arm with touch screens come from the same type of people who complain that their wrist gets tired trying to click out a report by using their mouse to click on a virtual keyboard.
Heavy drinking is equated with being tough because ingesting a lot of poison, and living to tell about is is pretty tough. The same could be said for people who can hammer nail with their fist and take shot gun blasts to the face. The question isn't whether heavy drinkers are tough or not. It is a question of whether being tough in that way has any actual value.
That depends on how energy plays out. If the oil doom sayers are correct, then there would be enough political pressure to adjust patent law to free up the tech. It might seem impossible that this could happen, but even 6 years ago, ObamaCare would have seemed just as impossible.
Even if fossil fuel prices don't spike, as global warming gains more and more acceptance, there is more and more political capital in anything that moves us off of oil.
Yeah, I can go with that. They would be the kind of movies that if you saw them as a matinee, you wouldn't be pissed that you spent the money to go and years later, when it popped up on Saturday afternoon TV, you might let it run in the background as you did other stuff. Just not something that you would go out of your way to see.
Of course they didn't say mice. Mice come from mars.
Not to mention that asbestos, and as any Whole Foods shopper can tell you, if it is natural, it is good for you.
Has 911 ever used phone tracking to send emergency personnel? Anyone got a link to show that this has ever been done? Every time I have called 911 from a cell phone the operator always insists that I give them an accurate location by voice. This is even when I was on a long dark road without any signs.
I think most people would have thought the 3 prequels were fine movies if they had not been labeled "Star Wars". The problem is that OK movies hit the theaters wearing the name badge of a movie series that really did 'define a generation'.
E.T. was a perfectly fine game for the Atari 2600. The problem wasn't the game. It was the gamers. The novelty of video games at home had worn off. People were demanding more. The Atari 2600 just wasn't able to provide more. Compare E.T. to Space Invaders. E.T. smashed Space Invaders in terms of depth of play and graphics quality. The difference is that Space Invaders came out before people had tired of the 2600. The other problem is that the cartridges were massively over produced for the demand of the time. We now know that you don't expect record sales on an EOL platform, even if it is based on a really popular movie.
I have 2 machines that lock up periodically under Windows7 Opening the case and pointing a box fan into it clears the problem up. I'm pretty sure it isn't a software problem.