No, but having a supported browser is a model that I would love to have. If I could pay $30/seat/year for Mozilla and have technical support available, I'd pay it in a heartbeat. Our entire systems rely on quality browsers (internal use), which is currently limited to Firefox. . Sure, we can donate cash to the foundation, but that doesn't give us anything directly in return, and doesn't satisfy questions like "Why not use Internet Explorer? At least it has a huge corporation behind it...".
(Opera works, but users don't like Opera rendering. Safari works, but doesn't give enough control for our needs (about:config has a lot of useful options for the enterprise). Firefox is currently our only choice, obscure things like printer.save_print_settings which block users from accidentally changing printer margins.)
In response to 1., why? Why must the government support for-profit companies with grants? Shouldn't they only support non-profit entities? Companies can be non-profit and still pay their employees (aka, our citizens) nice salaries. The share holders should be the population in general and the employees, not some big wig sitting on a 70th floor window office in New York City.
And if pharmaceutical companies always remain profitable, why do they receive grants? To me, it would make more sense if a company receives a grant, the US taxpayers own a portion of anything derived from that grant, with any earned money being directly re-invested in health care in the form of new grants, new hospitals, new insurance options, etc, thus lowering the tax burden from the rest of the system. It could go a long way to making the health care industry/grant system self-sufficient while creating more research, and thus increasing the demand for highly educated, highly paid citizens.
It depends entirely on your local Blockbuster and on your movie tastes. If you like harder-to-find titles, most Blockbusters aren't the way to go. The ones around here are awful in that respect. Any major movie buff will quickly run out of quality titles at a Blockbuster. Their online service might be better -- but at that point, why bother with them over Netflix?
Not all of them have annual fees. Check around, Amex has multiple card types now. They used all have fees, but that has disappeared for the most part as other cards drop fees, too.
Just have to put in my two cents (which would buy you 2 MB/month storage or 21 MB of outbound traffic) in professing my love for NFS. I don't think I've had a bill over 50 since I went with them.
This is why I use Amex exclusively and do not shop at stores that do not accept Amex. I have, unfortunately, had to use the Amex privilege several times to get merchants to cooperate. Amex has always been grand -- on one horrible purchase that a merchant refused to refund, Amex credited the charge but didn't void the transaction, so the merchant got paid. The merchant subseuquently refunded my purchase, and even after I alerted Amex that they had given me a few hundred bucks for free, the service rep told me it was all taken care of and it was my lucky day. That's pretty damn sweet considering most credit card companies are the root of all evil.
I know the logistics might be a bit hard, but next time can different sized shirts be included -- pretty please? XL is a tad much, even in a shrinkable cotton shirt. Trying to make a size Small out of an XL is a tad hard, even for the fabrically-inclined.
How do you figure? My own site has been doing it Since the late 90's (using error documents to redirect/search, but the actual implementation doesn't matter). php.net has been doing it for almost as long.
And the proper way to do this is to isolate only the information needed for the web (forum) servers to work. Replicate one way, and only replicate the precise columns and tables you need, running a database on an isolated system. You could even implement a private miniature API to do remote authentication so you don't have to store password (properly hashed and salted, of course) data twice.
Not all of the fonts are intended for all purposes. We use Cambria on some printed materials and it looks nice. Constantia is great printed, too.
Segoe UI, also part of Vista, is also a great UI font in my opinion. We use it on our Intranet and continue to get compliments from the older staff. Arial and the other standard web fonts just aren't that usable for short, concise bits of text you find in user interfaces.
Only because Pirates get better recognition. I live in Tampa, which happens to have a pirate celebration every year. I get to dress up as a pirate and I'm not seen as 'weird', I'm seen as 'cool'. Try that with a Ninja costume and you'll get maced, beaten, and jailed after a cop plants drugs on you (also called 'Saturday Night' if you're from Detroit).
Climate change, even that not created by man, has the potential to cause more strife than oil ever could. It would be hard, but people can live without oil. People can't live without water or food. Small changes in climate can cause dramatic and rapid changes in local climates.
Depends on the state. Florida, for instance, is an at-will state. I can fire my staff for no reason at all other than I felt like firing them. Sure, they could collect unemployment. Or I could find some minor detail, for instance, them using too many sick days. Employment agreements/handbooks are a mile thick now, detailing a hundred different things that lead to termination. Other states make it harder.
I do this and it's great. While not on a set schedule, I randomly re-image drives after hours. I back up the drive first because there is inevitibly some file someone misplaced where they shouldn't have. They love me for getting a "brand new" computer. And then buy me free lunch when I painstakingly [read: easily] type a few cp commands to pull their file off the backup. It takes hours of my time [read: about 30 seconds] to rescue that Powerpoint file they just HAVE to have.
There's no reason they need to see anything on your person or belongings as you are exiting a store. They are free to look, but not forcibly invade. The worst they should ever be able to do is ban you from the store. That's it. End of story.
If they want to actually prevent shop lifting, there are numerous other methods to employ other than a rent-a-cop and the local police (cameras, ink tags, alarm tags, environment such as lighting and obstructed views, etc). Besides, a significant portion of retail theft is by employees, not paying customers.
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No, but having a supported browser is a model that I would love to have. If I could pay $30/seat/year for Mozilla and have technical support available, I'd pay it in a heartbeat. Our entire systems rely on quality browsers (internal use), which is currently limited to Firefox. . Sure, we can donate cash to the foundation, but that doesn't give us anything directly in return, and doesn't satisfy questions like "Why not use Internet Explorer? At least it has a huge corporation behind it...".
(Opera works, but users don't like Opera rendering. Safari works, but doesn't give enough control for our needs (about:config has a lot of useful options for the enterprise). Firefox is currently our only choice, obscure things like printer.save_print_settings which block users from accidentally changing printer margins.)
So before we had these huge pharmaceutical companies and drug patents, we didn't have any medical research, right?
Older generations had car gas tanks that explode on fender benders.
Future generations will have cars that fold in on themselves on fender benders.
I don't really see the problem here.
In response to 1., why? Why must the government support for-profit companies with grants? Shouldn't they only support non-profit entities? Companies can be non-profit and still pay their employees (aka, our citizens) nice salaries. The share holders should be the population in general and the employees, not some big wig sitting on a 70th floor window office in New York City.
And if pharmaceutical companies always remain profitable, why do they receive grants? To me, it would make more sense if a company receives a grant, the US taxpayers own a portion of anything derived from that grant, with any earned money being directly re-invested in health care in the form of new grants, new hospitals, new insurance options, etc, thus lowering the tax burden from the rest of the system. It could go a long way to making the health care industry/grant system self-sufficient while creating more research, and thus increasing the demand for highly educated, highly paid citizens.
It depends entirely on your local Blockbuster and on your movie tastes. If you like harder-to-find titles, most Blockbusters aren't the way to go. The ones around here are awful in that respect. Any major movie buff will quickly run out of quality titles at a Blockbuster. Their online service might be better -- but at that point, why bother with them over Netflix?
More like welcome to patents-bought-and-buried-by-US-automotive-land.
Oh, sorry. That was me buying my annual supply causing artificial inflation for the current quarter. Sorry.
Only to be fixed when you view a TIF online. Unfortunately, the only working TIF exploit happens to be a certain distended fellow.
You mean other staff can start writing their own documents, wikis, etc and don't need me to re-install Microsoft Office three times a year? Thank God!
Not all of them have annual fees. Check around, Amex has multiple card types now. They used all have fees, but that has disappeared for the most part as other cards drop fees, too.
Just have to put in my two cents (which would buy you 2 MB/month storage or 21 MB of outbound traffic) in professing my love for NFS. I don't think I've had a bill over 50 since I went with them.
This is why I use Amex exclusively and do not shop at stores that do not accept Amex. I have, unfortunately, had to use the Amex privilege several times to get merchants to cooperate. Amex has always been grand -- on one horrible purchase that a merchant refused to refund, Amex credited the charge but didn't void the transaction, so the merchant got paid. The merchant subseuquently refunded my purchase, and even after I alerted Amex that they had given me a few hundred bucks for free, the service rep told me it was all taken care of and it was my lucky day. That's pretty damn sweet considering most credit card companies are the root of all evil.
I know the logistics might be a bit hard, but next time can different sized shirts be included -- pretty please? XL is a tad much, even in a shrinkable cotton shirt. Trying to make a size Small out of an XL is a tad hard, even for the fabrically-inclined.
When looking at $0 profit for failing to be able to sell in game shops or $XXX profit for selling online, there is only one obvious choice.
They could always purchase from overseas, too, if they must.
How do you figure? My own site has been doing it Since the late 90's (using error documents to redirect/search, but the actual implementation doesn't matter). php.net has been doing it for almost as long.
And the proper way to do this is to isolate only the information needed for the web (forum) servers to work. Replicate one way, and only replicate the precise columns and tables you need, running a database on an isolated system. You could even implement a private miniature API to do remote authentication so you don't have to store password (properly hashed and salted, of course) data twice.
Not all of the fonts are intended for all purposes. We use Cambria on some printed materials and it looks nice. Constantia is great printed, too.
Segoe UI, also part of Vista, is also a great UI font in my opinion. We use it on our Intranet and continue to get compliments from the older staff. Arial and the other standard web fonts just aren't that usable for short, concise bits of text you find in user interfaces.
Only because Pirates get better recognition. I live in Tampa, which happens to have a pirate celebration every year. I get to dress up as a pirate and I'm not seen as 'weird', I'm seen as 'cool'. Try that with a Ninja costume and you'll get maced, beaten, and jailed after a cop plants drugs on you (also called 'Saturday Night' if you're from Detroit).
Climate change, even that not created by man, has the potential to cause more strife than oil ever could. It would be hard, but people can live without oil. People can't live without water or food. Small changes in climate can cause dramatic and rapid changes in local climates.
Depends on the state. Florida, for instance, is an at-will state. I can fire my staff for no reason at all other than I felt like firing them. Sure, they could collect unemployment. Or I could find some minor detail, for instance, them using too many sick days. Employment agreements/handbooks are a mile thick now, detailing a hundred different things that lead to termination. Other states make it harder.
Don't forget about alimony, child support, and any number of other ways women can screw men, and not in the good way.
In the words of Stewie Griffin, "Wouldn't it be marvelous if I turned out to be a homosexual?"
At least it includes Florida. We can't even count pieces of paper right.
I do this and it's great. While not on a set schedule, I randomly re-image drives after hours. I back up the drive first because there is inevitibly some file someone misplaced where they shouldn't have. They love me for getting a "brand new" computer. And then buy me free lunch when I painstakingly [read: easily] type a few cp commands to pull their file off the backup. It takes hours of my time [read: about 30 seconds] to rescue that Powerpoint file they just HAVE to have.
Or, you know, you could just be better then your competition and actually actively prevent forking by listening to what your users want.
There's no reason they need to see anything on your person or belongings as you are exiting a store. They are free to look, but not forcibly invade. The worst they should ever be able to do is ban you from the store. That's it. End of story.
If they want to actually prevent shop lifting, there are numerous other methods to employ other than a rent-a-cop and the local police (cameras, ink tags, alarm tags, environment such as lighting and obstructed views, etc). Besides, a significant portion of retail theft is by employees, not paying customers.