I'm surprised that there have not yet (to my knowledge) been any school lawsuits from pro-vax families. I know many schools have peanut-free areas. Could a family (or group of families) sue to have the school keep all the unvaccinated kids in a separate part of the school, eating at separate lunch areas, playing at separate playgrounds; in order to reduce the risk to the rest of the school?
I still maintain that by not buying a ticket my odds of winning are not significantly reduced.
I just keep my head down and eyes wide open while walking through the parking lot. The odds of buying a winning ticket are so small; I figure the odds of finding a winning ticket that's been dropped in the parking lot are not much less. Saves me money and has the added benefit of shielding me from all that annoying social contact as I walk from my car to my desk.
Most of those are provided by the Pebble. I've been wearing one for almost a year; I bought it as a peripheral for my phone.
Hardware 1. E-Ink display - good daylight visibility, flick your wrist to turn the light on. 2. Not inductive - contacts with a magnetic clip. Haven't seen any corrosion so far. Lasts almost a week on a charge. 3. Water resistant - I wear mine in the pool so I don't have to turn the ringer on my phone up.
Software 1. Time display always visible, depending on the display you load. I use several watch faces - large numbers when I'm driving, full time/date at my desk, analog just because. 2. Caller ID with ringer silence via button press. Probably apps available to accept call to speakerphone or respond with a text; haven't looked for them. 3. Remote control apps for most music players - start/stop/prev/next/volume. Also displays track info.
Hundreds of other apps if you want to get more involved. Price tag ($150) was a little high, but I think it was worth it. Still a lot cheaper then the numbers I've been hearing for some of the new smartwatches on the way.
I lose my bluetooth connectivity about once a week. I have a notification icon on the phone that tells me whether it's connected and there's an app somewhere that will buzz me on the watch when it loses the connection (haven't bothered to find it yet - hasn't been that much of a problem). Battery life has been fine - I charge it once a week. The only features I regularly use, besides the e-mail and SMS notification, is the remote for my music player. I use wired earbuds and it's nice to be able to pause the music without digging my phone out of my pocket.
I've had my Pebble for about 3 months and am very happy with it. I like wearing a watch and this device provides a simple remote notification display and limited-feature remote control for my Android phone. It's waterproof, lasts a week on a charge, and was inexpensive enough that I won't be heartbroken if it gets lost or damaged.
I'm a Pebble user; it's just a lightweight, wearable, waterproof remote display & remote control for my smartphone. I don't need it to be packed with processing power - that's what my phone is for. I need it to be rugged, easy to read at a glance, and cheap enough to replace when I trash it. So far, I've been very happy with its limited functionality, and have had no problems (at least, to my knowledge) with being perceived as rude by discreetly checking incoming texts and emails. It does draw a bit of attention when I use it to display my stored loyalty-card barcode for scanning at the supermarket. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad.
I wonder, however, if there would be a market for a hearing aid in a bluetooth earpiece form factor with a mic optimized for picking up external sounds and using your cell phone's processor for selective frequency boosting.
I've got root to all of our group's developement systems, as well as many production systems. I'm also know for my practical jokes and sometimes abilities to by-pass security systems. Though I've never presented myself as a risk to the company where I work (for almost 16 years, now), when I give notice, I expect to be immediately straitjacketed, put in leg irons, and wheeled to the door on a a hand-truck.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams
For me, it will take this, along with an easy way to rip (bad term for books, I guess) my thousands of paper books to a format I can read on the Kindle.
Every "normal" book reader would pick a paper book without thinking. That's what libraries have, right?
Actually, my local libaray has an e-book lending program. Yeah, it's got DRM, but it hasn't been too limiting. For my fiction reading, I much prefer downloading a copy to my Palm and using an e-reader program: my Palm is much smaller than a dead-tree book, it's always with me, I can read at night without keeping the lights on and disturbing my spouse, and I can get in some surreptitious reading during boring staff meetings by pretending to take notes or check my schedule.
The politicians will be on the second ship, along with the telephone sanitizers, hairdressers, advertising account executives, and other 'essential' personel.
No - #3 will have a short stay at his company, moving on when it becomes obvious that all his management chain cares about is his average handle time, not the quality of his support.
Not all large companies work this way. The trick is to find the niches and sub-organizations that will allow you to work outside of the corporate standards.
I work for a large IT shop and sit in a cube farm surrounded by Windows Java programmers. My small group, however, runs Linux desktops and uses C++, Python, Rebol, and any other useful language we can find. We're exploring immersive 3D environments and use lots of FOSS.
In short - don't discount the large corporations. You may have to work harder to find the right group and/or manager, but it can be done.
I wasn't an eBook fan until my local library started an e-branch. Now I can check out an eBook and put it on my Palm. They expire in 3 weeks, which is plenty of time for me to get through them. No more trips to the library to checkout or return books! The selection is pretty limited now, but is growing weekly. The best things about eBooks on my Palm are:
Accessability - I've always got my Palm with me, so I always have my book.
Backlight - I can read in bed without disturbing the spouse. She's started reading eBooks now for the same reasons, and is hooked.
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I'm surprised that there have not yet (to my knowledge) been any school lawsuits from pro-vax families. I know many schools have peanut-free areas. Could a family (or group of families) sue to have the school keep all the unvaccinated kids in a separate part of the school, eating at separate lunch areas, playing at separate playgrounds; in order to reduce the risk to the rest of the school?
I still maintain that by not buying a ticket my odds of winning are not significantly reduced.
I just keep my head down and eyes wide open while walking through the parking lot. The odds of buying a winning ticket are so small; I figure the odds of finding a winning ticket that's been dropped in the parking lot are not much less. Saves me money and has the added benefit of shielding me from all that annoying social contact as I walk from my car to my desk.
Most of those are provided by the Pebble. I've been wearing one for almost a year; I bought it as a peripheral for my phone.
Hardware
1. E-Ink display - good daylight visibility, flick your wrist to turn the light on.
2. Not inductive - contacts with a magnetic clip. Haven't seen any corrosion so far. Lasts almost a week on a charge.
3. Water resistant - I wear mine in the pool so I don't have to turn the ringer on my phone up.
Software
1. Time display always visible, depending on the display you load. I use several watch faces - large numbers when I'm driving, full time/date at my desk, analog just because.
2. Caller ID with ringer silence via button press. Probably apps available to accept call to speakerphone or respond with a text; haven't looked for them.
3. Remote control apps for most music players - start/stop/prev/next/volume. Also displays track info.
Hundreds of other apps if you want to get more involved. Price tag ($150) was a little high, but I think it was worth it. Still a lot cheaper then the numbers I've been hearing for some of the new smartwatches on the way.
I lose my bluetooth connectivity about once a week. I have a notification icon on the phone that tells me whether it's connected and there's an app somewhere that will buzz me on the watch when it loses the connection (haven't bothered to find it yet - hasn't been that much of a problem). Battery life has been fine - I charge it once a week. The only features I regularly use, besides the e-mail and SMS notification, is the remote for my music player. I use wired earbuds and it's nice to be able to pause the music without digging my phone out of my pocket.
I've had my Pebble for about 3 months and am very happy with it. I like wearing a watch and this device provides a simple remote notification display and limited-feature remote control for my Android phone. It's waterproof, lasts a week on a charge, and was inexpensive enough that I won't be heartbroken if it gets lost or damaged.
I'm a Pebble user; it's just a lightweight, wearable, waterproof remote display & remote control for my smartphone. I don't need it to be packed with processing power - that's what my phone is for. I need it to be rugged, easy to read at a glance, and cheap enough to replace when I trash it. So far, I've been very happy with its limited functionality, and have had no problems (at least, to my knowledge) with being perceived as rude by discreetly checking incoming texts and emails. It does draw a bit of attention when I use it to display my stored loyalty-card barcode for scanning at the supermarket. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad.
I wonder, however, if there would be a market for a hearing aid in a bluetooth earpiece form factor with a mic optimized for picking up external sounds and using your cell phone's processor for selective frequency boosting.
I've got root to all of our group's developement systems, as well as many production systems. I'm also know for my practical jokes and sometimes abilities to by-pass security systems. Though I've never presented myself as a risk to the company where I work (for almost 16 years, now), when I give notice, I expect to be immediately straitjacketed, put in leg irons, and wheeled to the door on a a hand-truck.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams
For me, it will take this, along with an easy way to rip (bad term for books, I guess) my thousands of paper books to a format I can read on the Kindle.
Actually, my local libaray has an e-book lending program. Yeah, it's got DRM, but it hasn't been too limiting. For my fiction reading, I much prefer downloading a copy to my Palm and using an e-reader program: my Palm is much smaller than a dead-tree book, it's always with me, I can read at night without keeping the lights on and disturbing my spouse, and I can get in some surreptitious reading during boring staff meetings by pretending to take notes or check my schedule.
The politicians will be on the second ship, along with the telephone sanitizers, hairdressers, advertising account executives, and other 'essential' personel.
No - #3 will have a short stay at his company, moving on when it becomes obvious that all his management chain cares about is his average handle time, not the quality of his support.
Not all large companies work this way. The trick is to find the niches and sub-organizations that will allow you to work outside of the corporate standards.
I work for a large IT shop and sit in a cube farm surrounded by Windows Java programmers. My small group, however, runs Linux desktops and uses C++, Python, Rebol, and any other useful language we can find. We're exploring immersive 3D environments and use lots of FOSS.
In short - don't discount the large corporations. You may have to work harder to find the right group and/or manager, but it can be done.