An office manager has had a bad financial year, and has to make a decision to let someone go. The newest workers are Sandra and Jack. Both have performed very well, and the manager likes them both equally. He decides, on a whim, to fire the first person that visits the water cooler on Monday morning.
Monday comes around, and the boss watches from his office. Sandra is the first to go up to the cooler. The manager goes over to her.
"Sandra", he says, "I have a tough decision to make. I have to either lay you or Jack off."
Sandra sighs as she's pouring her water. "Could you jack off?" she replies. "I feel like shit this morning."
So the numbers verify:
If you live in New York City and have AT&T, you have the worst 3G service of any carrier in that city.
Not only that, you have the worst service of any city that AT&T covers.
Not only that, you have the worst service that ANY carrier provides in any city.
Perhaps I'm being naive, but why would anyone sue a company for not hiring them?
Company A interviews 20 people for position B, happens to look at prospect C's Facebook profile in the process, doesn't like what they see and go for candidate D. They tell everyone but D "Sorry, we found someone else". That's just how it goes.
What basis does C have to sue them?
Got to bring you up on that. The process whereby the raw footage of a movie is creatively assembled into a cohesive storyline is, in fact, "editing". So yes, it has been edited. Whether it's the "final cut" is another matter.
A picky point, maybe, but a surprising number of people don't understand what "film editing" actually means (and it doesn't help when a movie DVD proclaims "unedited version!" on the back cover, which actually implies that what you have there is 50 hours of dailies).
Before it was taken down, I managed to download a pair of wool slippers, a Brompton folding bike and a sweet KitchenAid stand mixer. Thanks, piratebay!
The guy's money is his to do as he likes, of course, but how about funding research into diseases that affect people at a young age - heart disease, obesity, depression - instead of keeping people alive longer than nature intends?
Once again a website purporting to serve the city conveniently forgets that the city includes four other boroughs, at least two of which (Queens, Brooklyn) have better, and cheaper, eats than Manhattan.
It's great to see idealism triumphing in the replies to this post, but few of you seem to have any concept of the idea of building web sites for other people for money. I'm talking about people who have regular Joe customers, not just tech-heads whose one criterion for the sites they visit is perfect standards compliance.
When a client comes back to me, angry that some of their customers can't see the site that I designed for them, exactly the way the client wants and specified, Greasemonkey is going to be added to the ever-expanding list of things that I'm going to have to check for.
"Does the customer have images turned off?"
"Do they have JavaScript disabled?"
"Do they have pop-ups blocked?" (and don't hiss at me that pop-ups are Satan's little windows.)
..."Are they running Greasemonkey, by any chance?"
Not all sites are pure delivery of information to be consumed according to the viewer's desire. Some are wholly or mostly presentation. And that's not a bad thing, it's just how it is.
There's actually a punctuation error and missing text in that last quote.
"Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system, will make malicious software (malware) that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge 'a thing of the past'."
should read:
Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system, will make malicious software (malware) that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge. A thing of the past, Windows is expected to be off users' desktops within five years.
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An office manager has had a bad financial year, and has to make a decision to let someone go. The newest workers are Sandra and Jack. Both have performed very well, and the manager likes them both equally. He decides, on a whim, to fire the first person that visits the water cooler on Monday morning.
Monday comes around, and the boss watches from his office. Sandra is the first to go up to the cooler. The manager goes over to her.
"Sandra", he says, "I have a tough decision to make. I have to either lay you or Jack off."
Sandra sighs as she's pouring her water. "Could you jack off?" she replies. "I feel like shit this morning."
So the numbers verify: If you live in New York City and have AT&T, you have the worst 3G service of any carrier in that city.
Not only that, you have the worst service of any city that AT&T covers.
Not only that, you have the worst service that ANY carrier provides in any city.
Screwed.
Perhaps I'm being naive, but why would anyone sue a company for not hiring them? Company A interviews 20 people for position B, happens to look at prospect C's Facebook profile in the process, doesn't like what they see and go for candidate D. They tell everyone but D "Sorry, we found someone else". That's just how it goes. What basis does C have to sue them?
It wasn't edited...
Got to bring you up on that. The process whereby the raw footage of a movie is creatively assembled into a cohesive storyline is, in fact, "editing". So yes, it has been edited. Whether it's the "final cut" is another matter. A picky point, maybe, but a surprising number of people don't understand what "film editing" actually means (and it doesn't help when a movie DVD proclaims "unedited version!" on the back cover, which actually implies that what you have there is 50 hours of dailies).
Before it was taken down, I managed to download a pair of wool slippers, a Brompton folding bike and a sweet KitchenAid stand mixer. Thanks, piratebay!
http://gustavrelief.com/ seems to be one of the good guys, forwarding to the Red Cross.
The guy's money is his to do as he likes, of course, but how about funding research into diseases that affect people at a young age - heart disease, obesity, depression - instead of keeping people alive longer than nature intends?
Once again a website purporting to serve the city conveniently forgets that the city includes four other boroughs, at least two of which (Queens, Brooklyn) have better, and cheaper, eats than Manhattan.
It's all gone Rich Tong! Sorry.
It's great to see idealism triumphing in the replies to this post, but few of you seem to have any concept of the idea of building web sites for other people for money. I'm talking about people who have regular Joe customers, not just tech-heads whose one criterion for the sites they visit is perfect standards compliance.
When a client comes back to me, angry that some of their customers can't see the site that I designed for them, exactly the way the client wants and specified, Greasemonkey is going to be added to the ever-expanding list of things that I'm going to have to check for.
"Does the customer have images turned off?"
"Do they have JavaScript disabled?"
"Do they have pop-ups blocked?" (and don't hiss at me that pop-ups are Satan's little windows.)
..."Are they running Greasemonkey, by any chance?"
Not all sites are pure delivery of information to be consumed according to the viewer's desire. Some are wholly or mostly presentation. And that's not a bad thing, it's just how it is.
The MPAA can kiss my UKTV-torrent-downloading arse.