Personally, going to a french restaurant we really like, then have reserved a 1 hr private dance lesson for us for ballroom dancing:)
Figured it was kind of original, plus we'll have fun, it won't be "one of those default v-day gifts", and maybe we'll (me specifically) will learn enough to dance more often at formal events
1) we got screamed at by everyone when we tried to make knock-off drugs 2) we're so broke we can't afford to buy our citizens food let alone software 3) if we try to pirate software, we'll be shunned by the WTO 4) open source software is free!
I always thought that when they asked you whether you had worked that week and had been compensated, that even if the compensation was non-monetary, it counted.
So, receiving stock options (which ARE taxable income), that you are in effect being paid for your services.
I used to live near the Nabisco factory in Rt 1 outside of Philly... when the wind shifts and you smell chocolate chip cookies or 'nill wafers... EVIL I TELL YOU!
is the reason why users have two different profiles because you have an established WORKGROUP that the user must be on to connect to the Exchange server via the Exchange method?
If so, why not create two different profiles, but then alias the mail to one shared PST file r/w by both profiles?
turning the job down also nullifies your benefits. and twelve weeks for a one-day contracting job? HA! that's almost funny. the most they really do for a one day job is a full week.
and no, I'm not unemployed. (see link). I just know lots that are.
when you've been laid off and are unemployed living in/near NYC, that "Contract #189533 for $1,730.39" means 1 month of rent and utilities instead of the weekly $380 of unemployement insurance.
Idealism be damned, reality is that money puts food on the table and a roof over your head.
it's all about the comfort level. Apple is trying to make the users that they're moving feel as if nothing really has changed visually... it's still "their" computer. Once they are visually comforted, they'll start using it, and hopefully notice how things work better/faster...
My apt phone has caller id blocked, and is set to be unlisted. If I call some people's phones using this line, I can't get through, and get a message saying "private calls not accepted by this number"
Now, while this is good in some ways because the phone isn't bothering to answer if the person is trying to conceal their number, at the same time, this was done without the other person's prompting and there doesn't seem to be a way for them to change the situation.
They're losing ground in the server market, have priced themselves out of all competition, and now they're going for the education market?
Hmmm, I think it's a hopeless cause for them.
Getting into the education market is putting them between two highly competitive companies: Apple and Microsoft. Additionally, they're trying to get into the cheap pc market and compete against eMachines, Dell, Gateway, etc.?
Sounds to me like they feel left out and are trying desparately to get their stock price out of the gutter without any original ideas.
call it what you want, but the following is from "www.ircle.com/faq.shtml"
Ircle is shareware. What does that mean exactly? Shareware means that you are allowed to freely copy (without charging for it) Ircle and 'test drive' it for 30 days. If you like the program and want to keep on using it legally, you can register by paying the shareware price (US$20 or equivalent). By registering you will receive a personal serial number to get rid of the startup dialog. Ircle has no features disabled when not registered. For more info on register Ircle, click here.
Come on, the same people that pirate Photoshop also pirate $30 shareware products.
Hell, one of the most requested serial numbers requested (in a mac channel) is the sn# for Ircle, the shareware client most apple users use that has a 30 day limit.
However, the ppl that pirate warez rarely use the products for more than a week (unless it's a game), if in most cases, use them for non-commercial purposes since businesses usually need to be legit.
Personally, I don't see warez as a huge financial problem for *large* software companies. The people that use them are small-time users who would never be able to afford them, they build a userbase of people that use their products for corporations (that pay for lots of licenses), and retain the marketshare of the product (adobe/quark), (office/claris/openoffice), etc.
Story time: I use Qwest for my biz dsl. I like how when I call up, I am often very quickly connected to what I believe is maybe 10 tech support people (i've gotten the same ones numerous times...). Regardless, the customer service is excellent when it comes to getting a human for tech support.
What I DON'T NEED is for when my line goes down, I call up, find that there is a 45 min wait now, and am stuck on hold to find out why. It's at these times that I wish there was an automated voice coming in saying "there is a line problem affecting areas in x, y, z which was discovered at 0:00 and will take approximately this much time to fix."
Why can't companies figure out a nice way of handling tech support with a good combination of AI and human support?
I think many companies that rely on customer support need to do a user survey of their audience to see if the automated systems are efficient in expediting calls from the users, both in answering quick questions with automated responses (not 30 levels deep) as well as quickly routing problem calls to live support.
One of the worst companies I've found that has moved to an automated system is SprintPCS. GOD DAMN is it awful. Not only is it awful, but they CHARGE YOU to use their non-automated systems. Talk about passing the cost to the user. $5 just to have someone help you pay your bill. It's free to do it over the phone with the automated assistant and your credit card, or over the internet, but the minute a PERSON is involved, it's $5.
This is kind of sad, but after spending a small fortune and graduating from a great school, I have NEVER had any HR people even comment about the school I attended, nor did they really care at the time. Could I do (x,y,z)? Sure. Did I have professional experience doing (x,y,z)? You betcha. Great. Got the job.
It NEVER had anything to do with my college degree or the pedigree of the school I attended.
That being said, do I regret spending that small fortune on a degree that obviously nobody cares about? Not at all. When I stopped having to deal with HR managers and started my own firm, my alma mater and degree became useful in that clients and potential clients that I would meet at conferences and such WOULD ask and recognize my school and realize that I wasn't just some chump that new a bunch of technologies that were taught in some technical school. I had a brain and new how to use it.
With that in mind, it comes down to what your purpose is for attending these distance learning courses. Forget about HR, they dont really care. But if it's just for yourself, I see no reason why not. BUT, look into how the CE credits are furnished. Who is the university furnishing you with CE credits? What is their reputation? And what do those CE credits count towards?
Example: what is the difference between CE credits offered by Kaplan Online vs. Columbia Univ.? Big prestige difference, but technically, you might learn the same stuff in both.
have you ever tried to design an entire font family from scratch?
and no, i'm not talking about running Times through Fontographer and making stupid little changes and calling it a new font, i'm talking about creating one from scratch.
have you ever seen how many vectors it takes to create just one letter in a font? do you know how long it takes to get all of the vectors just right to get an entire matching font package?
it takes a LONG time. and that's not even getting into baselining, kerning, etc.
why else do you think font houses like emigre charge $95 or more per font family for a license to use the font?
because it's damn hard work with few ways to cut corners (like using code objects)
um, you're usually held liable until you prove that your car was stolen on said day.
hey, it happened to my mom. her car was stolen, and then the person who stole it did a whole lot of damage, ran someone down, and abandoned the car. until she was able to point out that she had called the police and reported it stolen, they were holding her accountable.
i'll admit, it was a flame. dunno how it get to a 5 insightful... hehe
regardless.
"hacking" with their equipment because your musical taste doesn't match the corporate-sponsored (forced) music because you're sick of listening to it is just wrong. I'm sorry, but it's their corporation and you are an employee. It's not your bedroom/apt/car.
Now, if you WROTE the management and laid out advantages for Starbucks Inc by allowing employees to have some say in the music selection, that would be different. Stuff like employee mental health, customer retention through extended music selection, etc. That's called "changing from within". And if they come back and say no, you have your answer (deal with it). But going and modding their hardware (without permission) is very, very childish.
What makes you think you are allowed to change the music? Corporation's marketing dep. says "we want this music to be played all the time in your Starbucks because 1) we have found that it leads to more people drinking more coffee and 2) we want to sell our cd compilations of the music so people can listen at home and pretend they are in Starbucks" Corporation says "behold, it is law"
And then you come along and think, hell, I work here, I wanna hear TMBG all day long and not this crap.
DO YOU THINK YOUR OPINION MATTERS?
Watch how quickly you get fired for tampering with their ordained music selections (which I'm sure is both a corporate perogative as well as the CEO's favorite songs)
This isn't 1999. It doesn't matter if you're happy or not. There will be no pool table in the office lounge. Suck it up. You work at a glorified McDonalds.
I was taking the PATH from Hoboken to 34th Street the other day, and as the train went into the tunnel and underwater, I of course stared off into space at the window across from me. A few seconds later, I started seeing an animated Target ad being played out in the window. I looked around confused for a second... then realized what they had done.
The train goes at a certain speed. Intervals were timed. They had created an animated advertisement, without sound, on the walls of the tunnel by spacing frames along the tracks. As the train passed at the given clip, the scenes animated themselves (optically of course).
I think that was the coolest and most creative advertising medium that I've seen in ages. I've debated getting onto the PATH just to see it again.
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Personally, going to a french restaurant we really like, then have reserved a 1 hr private dance lesson for us for ballroom dancing :)
Figured it was kind of original, plus we'll have fun, it won't be "one of those default v-day gifts", and maybe we'll (me specifically) will learn enough to dance more often at formal events
yea, I can see the South African business logic:
1) we got screamed at by everyone when we tried to make knock-off drugs
2) we're so broke we can't afford to buy our citizens food let alone software
3) if we try to pirate software, we'll be shunned by the WTO
4) open source software is free!
I always thought that when they asked you whether you had worked that week and had been compensated, that even if the compensation was non-monetary, it counted.
So, receiving stock options (which ARE taxable income), that you are in effect being paid for your services.
Very true.
I used to live near the Nabisco factory in Rt 1 outside of Philly... when the wind shifts and you smell chocolate chip cookies or 'nill wafers... EVIL I TELL YOU!
I kept looking for Visa's website, but for some reason always ended up at evisa.com's site... which isn't quite what I was looking for.
Oh well. I finally found it at www.visa.com
is the reason why users have two different profiles because you have an established WORKGROUP that the user must be on to connect to the Exchange server via the Exchange method?
If so, why not create two different profiles, but then alias the mail to one shared PST file r/w by both profiles?
turning the job down also nullifies your benefits. and twelve weeks for a one-day contracting job? HA! that's almost funny. the most they really do for a one day job is a full week.
and no, I'm not unemployed. (see link). I just know lots that are.
when you've been laid off and are unemployed living in/near NYC, that "Contract #189533 for $1,730.39" means 1 month of rent and utilities instead of the weekly $380 of unemployement insurance.
Idealism be damned, reality is that money puts food on the table and a roof over your head.
Best text editor: BBedit
"It doesn't suck"
it's all about the comfort level. Apple is trying to make the users that they're moving feel as if nothing really has changed visually... it's still "their" computer. Once they are visually comforted, they'll start using it, and hopefully notice how things work better/faster...
makes complete sense to me
I think this is what you're talking about...
My apt phone has caller id blocked, and is set to be unlisted. If I call some people's phones using this line, I can't get through, and get a message saying "private calls not accepted by this number"
Now, while this is good in some ways because the phone isn't bothering to answer if the person is trying to conceal their number, at the same time, this was done without the other person's prompting and there doesn't seem to be a way for them to change the situation.
They're losing ground in the server market, have priced themselves out of all competition, and now they're going for the education market?
Hmmm, I think it's a hopeless cause for them.
Getting into the education market is putting them between two highly competitive companies: Apple and Microsoft. Additionally, they're trying to get into the cheap pc market and compete against eMachines, Dell, Gateway, etc.?
Sounds to me like they feel left out and are trying desparately to get their stock price out of the gutter without any original ideas.
it seems like people aren't buying CD's or Happy Meals at McD's sucky economy all around it seems.
call it what you want, but the following is from "www.ircle.com/faq.shtml"
Ircle is shareware. What does that mean exactly?
Shareware means that you are allowed to freely copy (without charging for it) Ircle and 'test drive' it for 30 days. If you like the program and want to keep on using it legally, you can register by paying the shareware price (US$20 or equivalent). By registering you will receive a personal serial number to get rid of the startup dialog. Ircle has no features disabled when not registered. For more info on register Ircle, click here.
Come on, the same people that pirate Photoshop also pirate $30 shareware products.
Hell, one of the most requested serial numbers requested (in a mac channel) is the sn# for Ircle, the shareware client most apple users use that has a 30 day limit.
However, the ppl that pirate warez rarely use the products for more than a week (unless it's a game), if in most cases, use them for non-commercial purposes since businesses usually need to be legit.
Personally, I don't see warez as a huge financial problem for *large* software companies. The people that use them are small-time users who would never be able to afford them, they build a userbase of people that use their products for corporations (that pay for lots of licenses), and retain the marketshare of the product (adobe/quark), (office/claris/openoffice), etc.
Hell yea!
Story time: I use Qwest for my biz dsl. I like how when I call up, I am often very quickly connected to what I believe is maybe 10 tech support people (i've gotten the same ones numerous times...). Regardless, the customer service is excellent when it comes to getting a human for tech support.
What I DON'T NEED is for when my line goes down, I call up, find that there is a 45 min wait now, and am stuck on hold to find out why. It's at these times that I wish there was an automated voice coming in saying "there is a line problem affecting areas in x, y, z which was discovered at 0:00 and will take approximately this much time to fix."
Why can't companies figure out a nice way of handling tech support with a good combination of AI and human support?
I think many companies that rely on customer support need to do a user survey of their audience to see if the automated systems are efficient in expediting calls from the users, both in answering quick questions with automated responses (not 30 levels deep) as well as quickly routing problem calls to live support.
One of the worst companies I've found that has moved to an automated system is SprintPCS. GOD DAMN is it awful. Not only is it awful, but they CHARGE YOU to use their non-automated systems. Talk about passing the cost to the user. $5 just to have someone help you pay your bill. It's free to do it over the phone with the automated assistant and your credit card, or over the internet, but the minute a PERSON is involved, it's $5.
This is kind of sad, but after spending a small fortune and graduating from a great school, I have NEVER had any HR people even comment about the school I attended, nor did they really care at the time. Could I do (x,y,z)? Sure. Did I have professional experience doing (x,y,z)? You betcha. Great. Got the job.
It NEVER had anything to do with my college degree or the pedigree of the school I attended.
That being said, do I regret spending that small fortune on a degree that obviously nobody cares about? Not at all. When I stopped having to deal with HR managers and started my own firm, my alma mater and degree became useful in that clients and potential clients that I would meet at conferences and such WOULD ask and recognize my school and realize that I wasn't just some chump that new a bunch of technologies that were taught in some technical school. I had a brain and new how to use it.
With that in mind, it comes down to what your purpose is for attending these distance learning courses. Forget about HR, they dont really care. But if it's just for yourself, I see no reason why not. BUT, look into how the CE credits are furnished. Who is the university furnishing you with CE credits? What is their reputation? And what do those CE credits count towards?
Example: what is the difference between CE credits offered by Kaplan Online vs. Columbia Univ.? Big prestige difference, but technically, you might learn the same stuff in both.
Just some food for thought
have you ever tried to design an entire font family from scratch?
and no, i'm not talking about running Times through Fontographer and making stupid little changes and calling it a new font, i'm talking about creating one from scratch.
have you ever seen how many vectors it takes to create just one letter in a font? do you know how long it takes to get all of the vectors just right to get an entire matching font package?
it takes a LONG time. and that's not even getting into baselining, kerning, etc.
why else do you think font houses like emigre charge $95 or more per font family for a license to use the font?
because it's damn hard work with few ways to cut corners (like using code objects)
www.superpages.com by verizon.
;)
even has reverse lookup... for those times when you have the girl's phone number but forget her name
God bless 'em and their new security conscious souls.
This must be a new thing for Apple... releasing security updates wasn't really something they ever had to do much of in the past.
um, you're usually held liable until you prove that your car was stolen on said day.
hey, it happened to my mom. her car was stolen, and then the person who stole it did a whole lot of damage, ran someone down, and abandoned the car. until she was able to point out that she had called the police and reported it stolen, they were holding her accountable.
kinda like /. editors....
i'll admit, it was a flame. dunno how it get to a 5 insightful... hehe
regardless.
"hacking" with their equipment because your musical taste doesn't match the corporate-sponsored (forced) music because you're sick of listening to it is just wrong. I'm sorry, but it's their corporation and you are an employee. It's not your bedroom/apt/car.
Now, if you WROTE the management and laid out advantages for Starbucks Inc by allowing employees to have some say in the music selection, that would be different. Stuff like employee mental health, customer retention through extended music selection, etc. That's called "changing from within". And if they come back and say no, you have your answer (deal with it). But going and modding their hardware (without permission) is very, very childish.
What makes you think you are allowed to change the music? Corporation's marketing dep. says "we want this music to be played all the time in your Starbucks because 1) we have found that it leads to more people drinking more coffee and 2) we want to sell our cd compilations of the music so people can listen at home and pretend they are in Starbucks" Corporation says "behold, it is law"
And then you come along and think, hell, I work here, I wanna hear TMBG all day long and not this crap.
DO YOU THINK YOUR OPINION MATTERS?
Watch how quickly you get fired for tampering with their ordained music selections (which I'm sure is both a corporate perogative as well as the CEO's favorite songs)
This isn't 1999. It doesn't matter if you're happy or not. There will be no pool table in the office lounge. Suck it up. You work at a glorified McDonalds.
I was taking the PATH from Hoboken to 34th Street the other day, and as the train went into the tunnel and underwater, I of course stared off into space at the window across from me. A few seconds later, I started seeing an animated Target ad being played out in the window. I looked around confused for a second... then realized what they had done.
The train goes at a certain speed. Intervals were timed. They had created an animated advertisement, without sound, on the walls of the tunnel by spacing frames along the tracks. As the train passed at the given clip, the scenes animated themselves (optically of course).
I think that was the coolest and most creative advertising medium that I've seen in ages. I've debated getting onto the PATH just to see it again.