I had never read this article before, but it's going to be permanently in my bookmarks, now. This informative article could have saved me much time and aggravation over the last couple years.
How and when to take your customer service problems to upper management in a way that will actually bring solutions. I might use it with Bell Canada tomorrow.
I remember that when I was in Singapore a few years ago, the national media there was full of articles talking about how their students had shown high ratings in maths and sciences, but low ratings in things related to creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship . The advantage of a culture of control is that Singapore is clean, organized and a great place to head the Pacific region branches of multinationals. The problem is that innovation and growth will always come from elsewhere.
Innovation, lack of strict governmental control, and freedom to think differently are intimately connected.
I was thinking something similar. I'm a Canadian, and my back was merged with another, and sent all of their Mastercard clients to Citibank. I really have to cancel my account because I don't want to have any of my financial information in the U.S. at this point in time.
Also, why is Opera going beyond the W3C standards before it has properly implemented current W3C standards like bi-directional override? What is the path you are planning on taking to both catch up on implementing current standards while paving a path forward?
I completely agree. I keep thinking that there should be a login box there. And that can be the area where messages like "Have you metamoderated lately?" and "You have # new messages" could go.
Any word on whether this vulnerability is a risk for those using x11 within osx? TFA mentioned that the X windowing system shipped with OS X without stating what level of risk exists.
My understanding was that Microsoft's party line is that the enterprise version would be ready in November, but that the consumer version wouldn't be ready until January, anyhow. I wouldn't expect that many businesses worry about Christmas gifts.
You do know that Opera's free, right? It has been for months. I personally use Firefox, but I'd encourage you to try Opera. It's been fine with Cold Fusion since v6
This is really disturbing - Safari renders it as html instead of text as well. Good thing I use Firefox for unknown sites. I need to mention this to other Mac users. Everyone I know has been told about the inherent unsafety of IE, but most people think Safari is safe.
Here in Canada, Cadbury pulled a whole bunch of eggs about a month ago, because plastic was found in some. I don't know whether that happened in other countries as well, but we've had a significant shortage of eggs here (the factories weren't able to manufacture enough eggs in time for Easter). Luckily, I prefer the mini-eggs, and they've been available everywhere.
Part of it is that Canada has signed Kyoto, and we're being blasted by ads every day to join the "one tonne challenge" and decrease each individual's greenhouse gas emissions by one tonne. The government also has put a number of financial incentives in place (home retrofit grants, free vehicle inspection clinics) to encourage people to reduce their greenhouse gases.
I don't know that it will work - there are a lot of cultural and socioeconomic factors that haven't been addressed. Also, right now the legislation governing corporate pollution is ludicrous. But, Canada doesn't get mentioned in these things because we look like the "good guys" because we signed Kyoto.
I'm very excited about Kexi. We've needed an open standards equivalent to Access/Filemaker Pro for businesses who want something small and don't want to hire a database programmer for MySQL or something.
Not so excited about KPlato. Most project management software is inherently broken - not in terms of the technology, but in terms of the essential vocabulary of projects and project management. It's one of those times that I wish the Linux world felt more comfortable about innovating. Thank goodness there's basecamp, at least.
If you're interested in these build tools, I feel pretty confident in saying that Ubuntu is not for you.
It really is designed to be a distro for newbies, and it is pretty good at that. If I had a classroom of kids and wanted to teach them basic computer skills, Ubuntu would make sense. Cheaper than buying Macs, easier than supporting Windows, easier to learn and support than many other Linux distros.
Check out the press release. They're using Flash 8 encoding to prevent it from being downloaded. Available Windows & Mac.
Episodes will be available at two resolutions, the better being 700x394 pixels at 700 kbps. I might have to start watching one of these shows just to support the effort.
The company sells a firewire interface that won't be needed using his approach. So, while more Linux users might buy the HD24 product, none of them will buy the add-on FirePort.
So, they might say that those Linux users would have bought the HD24 and Fireport to use with a PC or Mac, if his driver was not available.
I'm a nurse and part-time sysadmin for the nonprofit I work for (I know, I know, I agree it's a bad idea, but no one more qualified has volunteered to come and do it for free). I've been using the Backpack ToDo list. I have a Thunderbird template on each computer that has the email for a backpack page and TODO in the subject line. In the body, the submitter has to put their computer ID, the problem, and either "urgent" or "annoying". Backpack is set up to SMS me when messages come in, and then I can categorize the ToDo's and set up a time to deal with it in my calendar.
My bosses all have access to the page, so they can confirm that I'm doing the work within a reasonable timeframe, and I can check on requests from anywhere.
I checked snopes, and the story's been verified for NO PLATE, NOTAG, UNKNOWN and VOID. What makes me laugh is that the same thing has happened four times with similar types of vanity plates, ranging from 1979 to 2004, without the DMV creating a set of standards for vanity plates.
I was feeling the same was as you, until I read the last line in the article:
"Even the World Health Organization in its international review says it doesn't have a great deal of concern but it admits the information is not 100 per cent."
What? If he's waiting for 100% certainty about any potential carcinogen, then he doesn't understand health research. I, personally, feel some reassurance when the WHO does an international review on something and say that there is not much concern.
The sad thing is that he's a zoologist, so I would have expected better understanding from him.
1996 called, and promises that all sorts of things have changed in a decade.
I'm in the process of changing over a workplace where 5/14 are computer illiterate. We specifically are changing over the illiterates first (from Win98 to Ubuntu). These are people who have difficulty knowing the difference between click and double click, and they are so far finding Linux less confusing and than the Windows boxes that they had been using for about 7 years.
Yes, installing and setting up Linux isn't easy, but this project is for municipalities and universities with IT departments. If the typical use pattern is: check email, surf web, write papers, and use a few specialty software programs, then many modern Linux distributions are well up to the task.
I think Korea is looking at this as more significant than just a "we can save money on MS licenses" project. From TFA:
``In order to become a genuine software powerhouse, Korea has no choice but to secure source technologies. We cannot achieve the goal under the command of dominant closed-source programs,'' said Ko Hyun-jin, president at the state-backed agency.
They are hoping to get more people using, developing, perhaps even vending OSS programs. Exciting potential partnerships for OSS developers in the rest of the world.
I know it's unfashionable to RTFA, but it says that they will be accepting applications from municipalities and universities that are interested in being the project test sites, and that a lot of people have shown interest.
So, yes, if they put in an application to be the test site for open-source software, and are chosen, they will be forced to live up to their commitments. Actually, sounds pretty congruent with OSS values to me.
Orson Scott Card didn't like the most recently released script, and is now saying "Fine, I'll just write it myself." Who know if it will ever be actually filmed? There was even a brief moment where it seemed like he wanted Joss Whedon to get involved (after Serenity was released). I loved Ender's Game, but I'm not hopeful that it will be released in 2008.
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I had never read this article before, but it's going to be permanently in my bookmarks, now. This informative article could have saved me much time and aggravation over the last couple years.
How and when to take your customer service problems to upper management in a way that will actually bring solutions. I might use it with Bell Canada tomorrow.
I remember that when I was in Singapore a few years ago, the national media there was full of articles talking about how their students had shown high ratings in maths and sciences, but low ratings in things related to creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship . The advantage of a culture of control is that Singapore is clean, organized and a great place to head the Pacific region branches of multinationals. The problem is that innovation and growth will always come from elsewhere.
Innovation, lack of strict governmental control, and freedom to think differently are intimately connected.
I was thinking something similar. I'm a Canadian, and my back was merged with another, and sent all of their Mastercard clients to Citibank. I really have to cancel my account because I don't want to have any of my financial information in the U.S. at this point in time.
Also, why is Opera going beyond the W3C standards before it has properly implemented current W3C standards like bi-directional override? What is the path you are planning on taking to both catch up on implementing current standards while paving a path forward?
I completely agree. I keep thinking that there should be a login box there. And that can be the area where messages like "Have you metamoderated lately?" and "You have # new messages" could go.
Thanks!
Any word on whether this vulnerability is a risk for those using x11 within osx? TFA mentioned that the X windowing system shipped with OS X without stating what level of risk exists.
My understanding was that Microsoft's party line is that the enterprise version would be ready in November, but that the consumer version wouldn't be ready until January, anyhow. I wouldn't expect that many businesses worry about Christmas gifts.
That already exists - read receipts. I always refuse them because I find them annoying.
Both of my Macs are Panther, not Tiger. So it was version 1.3.2.
You do know that Opera's free, right? It has been for months. I personally use Firefox, but I'd encourage you to try Opera. It's been fine with Cold Fusion since v6
This is really disturbing - Safari renders it as html instead of text as well. Good thing I use Firefox for unknown sites. I need to mention this to other Mac users. Everyone I know has been told about the inherent unsafety of IE, but most people think Safari is safe.
Has anyone tried Konqueror on this site?
Here in Canada, Cadbury pulled a whole bunch of eggs about a month ago, because plastic was found in some. I don't know whether that happened in other countries as well, but we've had a significant shortage of eggs here (the factories weren't able to manufacture enough eggs in time for Easter). Luckily, I prefer the mini-eggs, and they've been available everywhere.
I don't know that it will work - there are a lot of cultural and socioeconomic factors that haven't been addressed. Also, right now the legislation governing corporate pollution is ludicrous. But, Canada doesn't get mentioned in these things because we look like the "good guys" because we signed Kyoto.
I'm very excited about Kexi. We've needed an open standards equivalent to Access/Filemaker Pro for businesses who want something small and don't want to hire a database programmer for MySQL or something. Not so excited about KPlato. Most project management software is inherently broken - not in terms of the technology, but in terms of the essential vocabulary of projects and project management. It's one of those times that I wish the Linux world felt more comfortable about innovating. Thank goodness there's basecamp, at least.
If you're interested in these build tools, I feel pretty confident in saying that Ubuntu is not for you.
It really is designed to be a distro for newbies, and it is pretty good at that. If I had a classroom of kids and wanted to teach them basic computer skills, Ubuntu would make sense. Cheaper than buying Macs, easier than supporting Windows, easier to learn and support than many other Linux distros.
Check out the press release. They're using Flash 8 encoding to prevent it from being downloaded. Available Windows & Mac.
Episodes will be available at two resolutions, the better being 700x394 pixels at 700 kbps. I might have to start watching one of these shows just to support the effort.
The company sells a firewire interface that won't be needed using his approach. So, while more Linux users might buy the HD24 product, none of them will buy the add-on FirePort.
So, they might say that those Linux users would have bought the HD24 and Fireport to use with a PC or Mac, if his driver was not available.
I'm a nurse and part-time sysadmin for the nonprofit I work for (I know, I know, I agree it's a bad idea, but no one more qualified has volunteered to come and do it for free). I've been using the Backpack ToDo list. I have a Thunderbird template on each computer that has the email for a backpack page and TODO in the subject line. In the body, the submitter has to put their computer ID, the problem, and either "urgent" or "annoying". Backpack is set up to SMS me when messages come in, and then I can categorize the ToDo's and set up a time to deal with it in my calendar.
My bosses all have access to the page, so they can confirm that I'm doing the work within a reasonable timeframe, and I can check on requests from anywhere.
I checked snopes, and the story's been verified for NO PLATE, NOTAG, UNKNOWN and VOID. What makes me laugh is that the same thing has happened four times with similar types of vanity plates, ranging from 1979 to 2004, without the DMV creating a set of standards for vanity plates.
What? If he's waiting for 100% certainty about any potential carcinogen, then he doesn't understand health research. I, personally, feel some reassurance when the WHO does an international review on something and say that there is not much concern.
The sad thing is that he's a zoologist, so I would have expected better understanding from him.
1996 called, and promises that all sorts of things have changed in a decade.
I'm in the process of changing over a workplace where 5/14 are computer illiterate. We specifically are changing over the illiterates first (from Win98 to Ubuntu). These are people who have difficulty knowing the difference between click and double click, and they are so far finding Linux less confusing and than the Windows boxes that they had been using for about 7 years.
Yes, installing and setting up Linux isn't easy, but this project is for municipalities and universities with IT departments. If the typical use pattern is: check email, surf web, write papers, and use a few specialty software programs, then many modern Linux distributions are well up to the task.
I know it's unfashionable to RTFA, but it says that they will be accepting applications from municipalities and universities that are interested in being the project test sites, and that a lot of people have shown interest. So, yes, if they put in an application to be the test site for open-source software, and are chosen, they will be forced to live up to their commitments. Actually, sounds pretty congruent with OSS values to me.
Orson Scott Card didn't like the most recently released script, and is now saying "Fine, I'll just write it myself." Who know if it will ever be actually filmed? There was even a brief moment where it seemed like he wanted Joss Whedon to get involved (after Serenity was released). I loved Ender's Game, but I'm not hopeful that it will be released in 2008.