Personally I can say that I view problems differently depending on what language I am thinking in. So, I have always though language effects how you approach things. Hell my daughter even tells me that I can sing better in German( she says I can match pitch in German and not in English ). So, I think it even effects perception not just thought.
But, I think this article misses the boat by saying certain constructs don't exist in English or Germany - because they do. I think it is more about popular use, so how do you make that sort of statement accurately about any number of languages. Still an interesting read though.
Yes, for now. I'm trying to way my options, wondering if the devil I know is better than the devil I don't know. I will not give my business to AT&T because of the whole telco immunity fiasco, and I want a GSM carrier so that does not leave me many options. Of course T-Mobile might be a part of AT&T soon anyway. This all happened Friday, my wife is due any second, after the baby is born I will have some time at home to find a new phone company.
They tried really hard to pin it on me and told me I changed something on my phone and that by using their data service I was agreeing to pay it. They lied and said they added nothing on my plan, but there was a new "by the mb data" service on my plan. After I called and complained, for 40 minutes and up the management chain, they put a new service on my plan "block on demand data" both of those items had never been on my plan before - but I changed something on my phone - Yea right!!! Asshats. So I can choose between cellular carriers that illegally send all of my data to the government and get retroactive immunity from prosecution or one with bad billing practices. Oh wait T-Mobile is getting bought by one of the law breakers, never mind I have no choice!
It can turn off data over cellular. Funny thing is that also turns off non text parts of MMS messages.
Since I specified a plan with no data component and even asked them if I could accidentally access the Internet and incur data charges and they said no I was really surprised when per MB data was added to my plan and I was charged. I know at least 5 people that were effected in the same way, it's just really unethical as a business practice to lie to your customers.
T-Mobile added a per MB data plan to my service when I specifically set up my plan 2 years ago to have no data component. I told them that I did not what my phone to be able to access the Internet and surprise me with charges. Everything was fine until me last bill, when I had $40 of data charges. They had added an on demand data plan to my service and like any good smart phone when it couldn't get wifi it went ahead and used the mobile carrier, and racked up a big bill. I think that is their way of upping revenue.
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I worked at a company that shipped hardware, as a part of the contract the customer agreed not to open that hardware. Inside every shipped system there was a rubber chicken, if anyone ever called the support line and asked about the rubber chicken you knew they opened the box.
In fairness to the reviewer - starting to drive without power brakes is a lot different then having the power breaks cut out on you. One could result in a performance change that causes an accident, the other it just continues to perform as it is supposed to.
I would ask my employer for a raise - explain why you are worth it and see what happens. I would not tell them about the other offer, ever. They won't view your asking for a raise in the same way if they know about the other offer and they will not trust you in the same way again. Particularly if it is a tight nit group the way you described it.
People always seem to call acquaintances friends. A friend is someone who will drive 1200 miles overnight to bail you out of a jail in Mississippi, or give you the pillow treatment when your family won't let them disconnect the feeding tube. So, I might have 200 FB friends but, in the end really only 3 or 4 that would pass the friendship test in the previous sentence;-)
I really don't think it's fair to say every other country has figured this out. I grew up in Germany and moved to the US. People in the US think that the Germany system is so ideal because kids get paid to go to College. But, they don't look beyond that. In order for the government to make that work they do things that would not be acceptable in the US.
Around 7th grade some standardized tests determine if you will go on to 9th grade and then trade school or an apprenticeship, or if you will get to finish high school and do all 13 grades. Then people get stipends to go to collage, but only in fields where they are needed and only if they test well enough. So, government works with the private sector to figure out what skills are needed and then those people get in and get stipends. So, what happens if you are a late bloomer? You are screwed unless your parents can send you so school somewhere else or pay.
Most of Europe works the same way, and Americans would think it was completely unfair and complain, the same people that hold those systems up as a model would be crying foul if they were told, yes we will pay for your sisters chemistry degree - but sorry we don't need any art history majors right now.
It's not that they don't deserve it. It's that it doesn't actually help to educate. My college professors didn't have that sort of equipment to teach college level mathematics and computer science courses. Tell me why you need to wast that money for 1-8 graders. Spend the money on Teachers instead!!!
BTW, the schools in the poor neighborhoods have a bigger budget per pupil than the ones in the rich neighborhoods, at least in the metro area where I live. The kids who get screwed on spending are the rural kids where there is less local property tax.
Well I don't think that is true. I mean maybe in government, but if you are the CEO of a company you are probably not making line item adjustments to some middle managers budget.
If I ran a school I would not want some politician line item vetoing parts of my budget. Let me propose my budget, if it needs to be cut then cut it, but let me manage my school and how I allocate the budget. If I don't provide results then fire me.
Actually maybe hiring more teachers. I constantly look at the bad technology purchases made by our school system and then have to listen to how they don't have enough money to hire teachers and keep class sizes down. Here is just another example. Right now the elementary school where my kids went has a $15k networked whiteboard in every room. They are really cool, but they don't teach and hardly ever get used. For all of the bad tech expenditures that are done they could probably drop class sizes by 20%.
Not to mention the free advertisement for Apple, although I hope they were able to get a good deal on the iPads since they are really doing Apple a favor.
Because most of the things I end up doing in software don't seem like novel inventions to me so I never think of patents. You do the work and you logically think through the problems and you write the code to solve them. I don't sit around thinking if everything I am coding is patentable. Actually the only patent application I was ever a part of was driven by the business, and by the time the lawyers got done with it they made it so generic that the part I actually thought was clever got lost in the process.
It's not that novel. I'm pretty sure that in in the 20 years that I have been doing software I have done this same thing 3 times at 3 different companies that all pre-date the patent application. It's just the obvious solution for some types of problems. It's to bad that most of us just solve problems and work, because if any one of us had written a little magazine article about this there would be obvious prior art!!
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so that we can track their killing sprees, but not let enough medication be produced for law abiding citizens. Smart move.
Is this some sort of joke?
Personally I can say that I view problems differently depending on what language I am thinking in. So, I have always though language effects how you approach things. Hell my daughter even tells me that I can sing better in German( she says I can match pitch in German and not in English ). So, I think it even effects perception not just thought.
But, I think this article misses the boat by saying certain constructs don't exist in English or Germany - because they do. I think it is more about popular use, so how do you make that sort of statement accurately about any number of languages. Still an interesting read though.
In most states you can create an S or C corp for under $200. Your secretary of state's web site probably has the forms online.
universe, can't create a good random number generator????? That's downright funny!
Yes, for now. I'm trying to way my options, wondering if the devil I know is better than the devil I don't know. I will not give my business to AT&T because of the whole telco immunity fiasco, and I want a GSM carrier so that does not leave me many options. Of course T-Mobile might be a part of AT&T soon anyway. This all happened Friday, my wife is due any second, after the baby is born I will have some time at home to find a new phone company.
They tried really hard to pin it on me and told me I changed something on my phone and that by using their data service I was agreeing to pay it. They lied and said they added nothing on my plan, but there was a new "by the mb data" service on my plan. After I called and complained, for 40 minutes and up the management chain, they put a new service on my plan "block on demand data" both of those items had never been on my plan before - but I changed something on my phone - Yea right!!! Asshats. So I can choose between cellular carriers that illegally send all of my data to the government and get retroactive immunity from prosecution or one with bad billing practices. Oh wait T-Mobile is getting bought by one of the law breakers, never mind I have no choice!
It can turn off data over cellular. Funny thing is that also turns off non text parts of MMS messages.
Since I specified a plan with no data component and even asked them if I could accidentally access the Internet and incur data charges and they said no I was really surprised when per MB data was added to my plan and I was charged. I know at least 5 people that were effected in the same way, it's just really unethical as a business practice to lie to your customers.
T-Mobile added a per MB data plan to my service when I specifically set up my plan 2 years ago to have no data component. I told them that I did not what my phone to be able to access the Internet and surprise me with charges. Everything was fine until me last bill, when I had $40 of data charges. They had added an on demand data plan to my service and like any good smart phone when it couldn't get wifi it went ahead and used the mobile carrier, and racked up a big bill. I think that is their way of upping revenue.
I worked at a company that shipped hardware, as a part of the contract the customer agreed not to open that hardware. Inside every shipped system there was a rubber chicken, if anyone ever called the support line and asked about the rubber chicken you knew they opened the box.
In fairness to the reviewer - starting to drive without power brakes is a lot different then having the power breaks cut out on you. One could result in a performance change that causes an accident, the other it just continues to perform as it is supposed to.
And who uses that now?
Sorry the parent post is mine, I just somehow wasn't logged in and didn't notice.
I would ask my employer for a raise - explain why you are worth it and see what happens. I would not tell them about the other offer, ever. They won't view your asking for a raise in the same way if they know about the other offer and they will not trust you in the same way again. Particularly if it is a tight nit group the way you described it.
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People always seem to call acquaintances friends. A friend is someone who will drive 1200 miles overnight to bail you out of a jail in Mississippi, or give you the pillow treatment when your family won't let them disconnect the feeding tube. So, I might have 200 FB friends but, in the end really only 3 or 4 that would pass the friendship test in the previous sentence ;-)
I really don't think it's fair to say every other country has figured this out. I grew up in Germany and moved to the US. People in the US think that the Germany system is so ideal because kids get paid to go to College. But, they don't look beyond that. In order for the government to make that work they do things that would not be acceptable in the US.
Around 7th grade some standardized tests determine if you will go on to 9th grade and then trade school or an apprenticeship, or if you will get to finish high school and do all 13 grades. Then people get stipends to go to collage, but only in fields where they are needed and only if they test well enough. So, government works with the private sector to figure out what skills are needed and then those people get in and get stipends. So, what happens if you are a late bloomer? You are screwed unless your parents can send you so school somewhere else or pay.
Most of Europe works the same way, and Americans would think it was completely unfair and complain, the same people that hold those systems up as a model would be crying foul if they were told, yes we will pay for your sisters chemistry degree - but sorry we don't need any art history majors right now.
It's not that they don't deserve it. It's that it doesn't actually help to educate. My college professors didn't have that sort of equipment to teach college level mathematics and computer science courses. Tell me why you need to wast that money for 1-8 graders. Spend the money on Teachers instead!!!
BTW, the schools in the poor neighborhoods have a bigger budget per pupil than the ones in the rich neighborhoods, at least in the metro area where I live. The kids who get screwed on spending are the rural kids where there is less local property tax.
Well I don't think that is true. I mean maybe in government, but if you are the CEO of a company you are probably not making line item adjustments to some middle managers budget.
If I ran a school I would not want some politician line item vetoing parts of my budget. Let me propose my budget, if it needs to be cut then cut it, but let me manage my school and how I allocate the budget. If I don't provide results then fire me.
Sorry the parent post was mine. Didn't try to do the Anonymous Coward thing!!
Actually maybe hiring more teachers. I constantly look at the bad technology purchases made by our school system and then have to listen to how they don't have enough money to hire teachers and keep class sizes down. Here is just another example. Right now the elementary school where my kids went has a $15k networked whiteboard in every room. They are really cool, but they don't teach and hardly ever get used. For all of the bad tech expenditures that are done they could probably drop class sizes by 20%.
Not to mention the free advertisement for Apple, although I hope they were able to get a good deal on the iPads since they are really doing Apple a favor.
Because most of the things I end up doing in software don't seem like novel inventions to me so I never think of patents. You do the work and you logically think through the problems and you write the code to solve them. I don't sit around thinking if everything I am coding is patentable. Actually the only patent application I was ever a part of was driven by the business, and by the time the lawyers got done with it they made it so generic that the part I actually thought was clever got lost in the process.
It's not that novel. I'm pretty sure that in in the 20 years that I have been doing software I have done this same thing 3 times at 3 different companies that all pre-date the patent application. It's just the obvious solution for some types of problems. It's to bad that most of us just solve problems and work, because if any one of us had written a little magazine article about this there would be obvious prior art!!
And now it will be AT & T-Mobile, so so sad!
The story of their being hacked and how it was done has probably done more for systems security than they as a company ever have......