Turned out my Zone Alarm was blocking the new version by default, but for some reason didn't pop up a message box saying so. Once I checked the program controls the new FireFox worked fine...
My experience hasn't been so positive. I got the notification, installed the update, and presto! Firefox no longer connects to the Internet. IE works fine, and my other net-aware apps are fully functioning, but Firefox isn't hitting any websites. Any advice???
The funniest thing I've seen was some guy on a TV show who recommended that when putting together a sound system, you should plan to spend 10% of your cost on wiring. So for your $2000 worth of equipment you're hooking up, spend $200 on wiring??? YEAH RIGHT!!!
I would check on their rules for using "unsigned" credit cards like yours - while it's indeed less likely that yours might be misused, if it was, you may be liable for the charges.
The "guy who was outraged" was 100% in the wrong - he lambasted the BMV and the front-line employee for doing EXACTLY WHAT THE CREDIT CARD COMPANIES TELL THEM TO. They are only interested in processing transactions, and to do that they need to abide by Visa's rules in this case.
It was absolutely the right thing to do, as another poster noted above. There was a guy in our local paper who wrote an angry letter to the editor, blasting the local BMV for not taking his "SEE ID" credit card. I wrote back the next day and advised him to stop embarassing himself in public...
In other words, they wanted to get value for what they were paying. Shocking!!!
If the employees are getting their paychecks and can quit whenever they like, it isn't slave labor...
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As one of the reporters noted in a radio interview, it's unfortunate, but you don't get the information you need for cases like this from choir boys and Eagle scouts. The details aren't so important here, but the main gist about the rampant use of steroids by a broad portion of baseball players is very believable.
It's amazing that this book would have so many detailed facts that are flat-out incorrect, however. You'd think, given the dangerous topics that are being broached, that the publisher's lawyers would do a thorough fact-checking job. Obviously that got left out.
Your sig says it all - people know which companies are "evil" and which are not, but low prices tend to overrule any other concerns over time. If people actually cared about such things, they'd be willing to pay more - but experience has proved that they don't.
You're right, the comic books-to-movies phenomenon is more driven by a critial mass of 20-40 year olds for whom these comics were part of their childhood, and are instantly recognizable. That's why the Hulk, Spider-Man, X-Men, etc. are getting made into movies instead of more modern titles. It's all about capitalizing on nostalgia.
File this under Strange But True, but I wonder if that happened here where I work.
We have a warehouse that supports two different segments of our business, and each has it's own computer system. There was a one-time case where material from one side was needed to fulfill an order for the other, so an urgent order was entered in the first system, with the same warehouse as supplier and customer.
Sure enough, someone wasn't watching when this hit the shipping area, and this package went out the door for Next Day Air delivery... to the same address. We do wonder if the box at least got to go for a joy ride before it arrived back on our doorstep the next day...
It's more amazing how often those things don't work. I'm involved in an ERP implementation that covers sites in Europe and the US, but the software doesn't properly handle time zones, even though the documentation says it does.
This from a company that markets its software around the world to mid-size enterprises ($100 million+).
I use Windows XP SP2 on a Tablet PC, and get a BSOD at least every couple weeks. XP may be the most stable Windows platform so far, but there is still a ways to go.
A slap on the wrist could be considered an overly harsh assessment. As I recall, they got to make a "donation" of music CD's to schools and libraries to cover part of the damages. This only provided them an opportunity to empty their warehouses of the junk that would never have otherwise left their shelves.
Don't forget also that the key to Dell's performance is it's supply chain performance, which relies on just-in-time deliveries and vendor-managed inventory. It would be a huge operational risk to switch vendors like that, so AMD would have to provide more than just a better processor to win that business.
Remember also that you heard about Checkpoint because California law requires that companies inform customers whose data has been comprimised. If this had happened just about anywhere else, it could easily have been swept under the rug.
My favorite college room mod was done by an old buddy of mine. Instead of a loft for his cramped, three-to-a-room cage, he built the "Anti-Loft". It was a raised floor with room underneath for storage and sleeping for three. Since he and his roommates were all below-average height, they didn't miss the headroom and had considerably more useable space than a typical loft would have afforded.
The best part was that his sleeping area was accessed by a hatch in the floor, with a poster of a mushroom cloud underneath. I guess his Monday mornings weren't depressing enough...
"Significant" cooperation fell well short of the requirement for full cooperation, leaving plenty of room to doubt whether WMD's had been disposed of. That is exactly what Hussein intended, in order to intimidate others in the region from taking advantage of Iraqi weakness.
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Wasn't the 500 first, or at least released at the same time? That's what I had in college...
Not to be a nitpicker, but there was only one "my".
As Gilda Radner used to say on SNL... Never mind.
Turned out my Zone Alarm was blocking the new version by default, but for some reason didn't pop up a message box saying so. Once I checked the program controls the new FireFox worked fine...
My experience hasn't been so positive. I got the notification, installed the update, and presto! Firefox no longer connects to the Internet. IE works fine, and my other net-aware apps are fully functioning, but Firefox isn't hitting any websites. Any advice???
The funniest thing I've seen was some guy on a TV show who recommended that when putting together a sound system, you should plan to spend 10% of your cost on wiring. So for your $2000 worth of equipment you're hooking up, spend $200 on wiring??? YEAH RIGHT!!!
I would check on their rules for using "unsigned" credit cards like yours - while it's indeed less likely that yours might be misused, if it was, you may be liable for the charges.
The "guy who was outraged" was 100% in the wrong - he lambasted the BMV and the front-line employee for doing EXACTLY WHAT THE CREDIT CARD COMPANIES TELL THEM TO. They are only interested in processing transactions, and to do that they need to abide by Visa's rules in this case.
It was absolutely the right thing to do, as another poster noted above. There was a guy in our local paper who wrote an angry letter to the editor, blasting the local BMV for not taking his "SEE ID" credit card. I wrote back the next day and advised him to stop embarassing himself in public...
Au contraire - goofing off at work can be a high art form. But part of the thrill is the risk of trouble for getting caught....
In other words, they wanted to get value for what they were paying. Shocking!!!
If the employees are getting their paychecks and can quit whenever they like, it isn't slave labor...
As one of the reporters noted in a radio interview, it's unfortunate, but you don't get the information you need for cases like this from choir boys and Eagle scouts. The details aren't so important here, but the main gist about the rampant use of steroids by a broad portion of baseball players is very believable.
It's amazing that this book would have so many detailed facts that are flat-out incorrect, however. You'd think, given the dangerous topics that are being broached, that the publisher's lawyers would do a thorough fact-checking job. Obviously that got left out.
And in addition, feel free to click on my home URL as well...
Please tell me you're being sarcastic, and not just using the Microsoft-is-evil stamp to portray this in the same fashion as the whole DOJ episode.
The comparison is nonsense...
Your sig says it all - people know which companies are "evil" and which are not, but low prices tend to overrule any other concerns over time. If people actually cared about such things, they'd be willing to pay more - but experience has proved that they don't.
You're right, the comic books-to-movies phenomenon is more driven by a critial mass of 20-40 year olds for whom these comics were part of their childhood, and are instantly recognizable. That's why the Hulk, Spider-Man, X-Men, etc. are getting made into movies instead of more modern titles. It's all about capitalizing on nostalgia.
File this under Strange But True, but I wonder if that happened here where I work.
We have a warehouse that supports two different segments of our business, and each has it's own computer system. There was a one-time case where material from one side was needed to fulfill an order for the other, so an urgent order was entered in the first system, with the same warehouse as supplier and customer.
Sure enough, someone wasn't watching when this hit the shipping area, and this package went out the door for Next Day Air delivery... to the same address. We do wonder if the box at least got to go for a joy ride before it arrived back on our doorstep the next day...
Worse yet, how does a comment like that get modded "Insightful"? What insight could there possibly be hiddin within that post?
It's more amazing how often those things don't work. I'm involved in an ERP implementation that covers sites in Europe and the US, but the software doesn't properly handle time zones, even though the documentation says it does.
This from a company that markets its software around the world to mid-size enterprises ($100 million+).
I use Windows XP SP2 on a Tablet PC, and get a BSOD at least every couple weeks. XP may be the most stable Windows platform so far, but there is still a ways to go.
Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids! When will it end?
In many houses the TV has been performing that job for a long time already...
A slap on the wrist could be considered an overly harsh assessment. As I recall, they got to make a "donation" of music CD's to schools and libraries to cover part of the damages. This only provided them an opportunity to empty their warehouses of the junk that would never have otherwise left their shelves.
Don't forget also that the key to Dell's performance is it's supply chain performance, which relies on just-in-time deliveries and vendor-managed inventory. It would be a huge operational risk to switch vendors like that, so AMD would have to provide more than just a better processor to win that business.
Remember also that you heard about Checkpoint because California law requires that companies inform customers whose data has been comprimised. If this had happened just about anywhere else, it could easily have been swept under the rug.
My favorite college room mod was done by an old buddy of mine. Instead of a loft for his cramped, three-to-a-room cage, he built the "Anti-Loft". It was a raised floor with room underneath for storage and sleeping for three. Since he and his roommates were all below-average height, they didn't miss the headroom and had considerably more useable space than a typical loft would have afforded.
The best part was that his sleeping area was accessed by a hatch in the floor, with a poster of a mushroom cloud underneath. I guess his Monday mornings weren't depressing enough...
"Significant" cooperation fell well short of the requirement for full cooperation, leaving plenty of room to doubt whether WMD's had been disposed of. That is exactly what Hussein intended, in order to intimidate others in the region from taking advantage of Iraqi weakness.
Hmmm... maybe SCO could use some help!