Exactly. This is why I un-block all Google adds from my add blocking software. I actually find some value in the context based adds and that don't otherwise impact my Web browsing.
Every other source of adds get blocked as they don't add value and/or are a PITA.
TrueCrypt offers this. You can have a volume inside a volume so you can give up the outter key without disclosing what is inside the inner volume or that it even exists.
When forced to provide your password you provide the password for the outter volume and insure that there are enough files in there to convince the attacker that they are all you have. The inner volume with your real data stays encrypted.
..."Mulrooney walked into the bar and ordered up a round. He left his drink to telephone, and Clancy drank it down. Mulrooney said "Who drunk me drink? I'll lay him in his tomb!" Before you could pat the top of your hat, Clancy lowered the boom!"...
From Clancy Lowered The Boom, Author unknown at least to me.
It seems to me that if you believe that alofmp3.com is legit (or are OK with the questions about it) then a USD20 account credit would go a long way for keeping your teanager in MP3s.
These are good points. Some people would not want to do ANYTHING that MS is currently not supporting and for them the product may have value.
But, many more people who would consider purchasing a wifi music player will want to push the wireless aspect of it to the limits and that means allowing consumers to do with it what they will. Limits should not be placed on a device simply because the manf. thinks that some people will not want to use that feature; though I know it is more complex in this case.
The real power of this prodcut will clearly not be seen until its OS is replaced or MS changes its direction. I think I know which one will come first:)
Having worked at a company with very similar structures and values to Google (thought not in the high tech industry) I can say it can be an amazing ride pulling in amazing people to go wonderful work in a great environment. Treating people like people and not 'head count'. That can do really amazing things for a company and can create amazing value for the stakeholders.
The problem is, of course, that there is a very strong pull to devolve to the mean. To become average, normal, or safe. It takes a HUGE amount of effort and skill to stay flat; just a few poor managers at the right level and you can take a flat company that kicks butt to a layered company that can't find its own, well, you know what. Throw in some greed and there you have it.
In just about four years this company went from a place that everyone wanted to work at to a place that has problems attracting even the most average employees. Average sucks. Employees know it and so do customers!
Sounds like we have been in different offices or there have been major improvements in the last ~6 months. I don't doubt your experience at all but mine has been nothing but slow vs. running business type application on my laptop.
I do agree that the hot desking is GREAT. I love the smart card idea and being able to keep all your session data open as you move from desk to desk or even office to office.
It is a great idea but I have seen SunRay's in action at the one place you would expect them to really work at their best and it is not fun!
Boot up is rather fast but application performance goes from slow (low peak times) to get some coffee, take a walk, get in a qucik nap before your StarOffice document loads Slloooowwwwww (peak usage times).
Yes, I am sure you can 'fix' this with bigger and betters servers but if this company can't get it working well then you can't expect the average firm to either, IMO.
So, does that mean the US news channels are bad, non-US news is bad or both?
Personally, it is hard to find ANY broadcast news in the US that is worth watching. Fox, ABC, CNN, etc. can't really cover the news and make money in the US broadcast marketplace. Sad but true. I don't know how much better news is in other parts of the world. Clearly the middle east is not a bastion of free press and even Europe has it challenges.
Come of folks. So the world's largest democratic country with the world's largest population of English speaking citizens has one city bombed and the US is going to rethink its direction to outsource technology workers there? Nope!
In fact, many of the export centers are not in the city center and were unaffected by this event. Knowing many Indians, those that were will be back up and running in no time flat no matter what it takes.
Now, there may be reasons to rethink outsourcing such as low productivity, higher costs, poor quality of work, and customer relation issues but this is not one of them.
The best wishes of many people in the US go out to every Indian and we stand in solidarity with the many many millions of peace loving, free citizens of that nation.
The Glock has one of the most advanced, simple, and proven safety interlocks ever made in a handgun.
Its value comes not only from its ability to keep the firearm from discharging when it is not intended but also from allowing it to be discharged quickly when needed. There are no 'locks' or keys, or levers. A loaded Glock is always locked until the trigger is pulled at which point each interlock is removed as the trigger is pulled back.
They put this system in Jewel stores in the Chicagoland area.
You enroll by providing your personal details and checking account information and fingerprint, of course. Then, when you pay you have to (1) scan your finger (2) key in your phone number (3) sign for the payment. It is then direct debited from your checking account.
WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THIS??? It is no faster than a credit card and you can't earn points/cash back as many credit cards do. You are basically giving up the float and the 1-2% you can get back from a good CC program. Oh, and it only works at Jewel.
Right, you can't ask if they are a US citizen (unless that job requires it) but you can ask and require that they have the permanent legal right to work in the US.
If they don't you don't have to interview or hire them. It is up to your company if they want to interview H1Bs for a specific job or not.
"If I was legally permitted to ask whether a potential employee was on an H-1B I would never hire another such worker ever again."
My guess is you don't do any hiring or you would know that no company has to hire a worker with an H1B visa. A company decided which jobs (if any) it is willing allow H1B applicants for. If you don't want to hire any you just don't.
That said, many first do choose to claim that can't find a US worker with the needed skills and hire H1B visa holders.
Citrix, TS, and other similar products produce an end user experience that is much less positive* than native application execution for the majority of business applications.
Performance is slower, access is more complex, network issues and congestion cause additional delay, and environments are often not configured as each specific user might want/need.
Just ask any of the millions of 'off shore' users of software housed in the US.
*There are some very limited cases where something like Citrix is BETTER than native execution but they are few and far between.
Finally, to the person who modded me Troll, please read and understand both the reply you are modding, the context it was posted in, and have some knowledge of the topic in general before wasting a moderation point.
I recall just a short time ago when India based direct hire developers were 1/10th the cost of a US developer. Churn was high, analysis skills low to non existent, and it took at least 3-5 India developers to do the job of one good US hire. But, you could hire ~8 or so (with telcom and travel costs eating up the rest) for one US person so it saved money. Most of the time.
Times, for highly educated Indian's, are a chang'n! Wage rates are WAY up with 15%-25% increases expected per year and automatic increases after travel to the US, EU, etc.
If the the best BoA can do is 1/2 the labor rate of US hires they are going to be taken to the cleaners in short order. Soon you will see the consultants mucking through the BoA exec. offices offering to 'fix' all the issues and cost over-runs, bring in new staff (at much higher rates than their current US direct employees), and otherwise continue to clean them out.
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Exactly. This is why I un-block all Google adds from my add blocking software. I actually find some value in the context based adds and that don't otherwise impact my Web browsing.
Every other source of adds get blocked as they don't add value and/or are a PITA.
-D
TrueCrypt offers this. You can have a volume inside a volume so you can give up the outter key without disclosing what is inside the inner volume or that it even exists.
When forced to provide your password you provide the password for the outter volume and insure that there are enough files in there to convince the attacker that they are all you have. The inner volume with your real data stays encrypted.
-D
..."Mulrooney walked into the bar and ordered up a round. He left his drink to telephone, and Clancy drank it down. Mulrooney said "Who drunk me drink? I'll lay him in his tomb!" Before you could pat the top of your hat, Clancy lowered the boom!"... From Clancy Lowered The Boom, Author unknown at least to me.
"It doesn't run Linux!"
:)
Give it a few days
I like this line from TFA: "You pay only EUR2/month to start receiving calls for free."
It seems to me that if you believe that alofmp3.com is legit (or are OK with the questions about it) then a USD20 account credit would go a long way for keeping your teanager in MP3s.
These are good points. Some people would not want to do ANYTHING that MS is currently not supporting and for them the product may have value.
:)
But, many more people who would consider purchasing a wifi music player will want to push the wireless aspect of it to the limits and that means allowing consumers to do with it what they will. Limits should not be placed on a device simply because the manf. thinks that some people will not want to use that feature; though I know it is more complex in this case.
The real power of this prodcut will clearly not be seen until its OS is replaced or MS changes its direction. I think I know which one will come first
Having worked at a company with very similar structures and values to Google (thought not in the high tech industry) I can say it can be an amazing ride pulling in amazing people to go wonderful work in a great environment. Treating people like people and not 'head count'. That can do really amazing things for a company and can create amazing value for the stakeholders.
The problem is, of course, that there is a very strong pull to devolve to the mean. To become average, normal, or safe. It takes a HUGE amount of effort and skill to stay flat; just a few poor managers at the right level and you can take a flat company that kicks butt to a layered company that can't find its own, well, you know what. Throw in some greed and there you have it.
In just about four years this company went from a place that everyone wanted to work at to a place that has problems attracting even the most average employees. Average sucks. Employees know it and so do customers!
Sounds like we have been in different offices or there have been major improvements in the last ~6 months. I don't doubt your experience at all but mine has been nothing but slow vs. running business type application on my laptop.
I do agree that the hot desking is GREAT. I love the smart card idea and being able to keep all your session data open as you move from desk to desk or even office to office.
It is a great idea but I have seen SunRay's in action at the one place you would expect them to really work at their best and it is not fun!
Boot up is rather fast but application performance goes from slow (low peak times) to get some coffee, take a walk, get in a qucik nap before your StarOffice document loads Slloooowwwwww (peak usage times).
Yes, I am sure you can 'fix' this with bigger and betters servers but if this company can't get it working well then you can't expect the average firm to either, IMO.
So, does that mean the US news channels are bad, non-US news is bad or both? Personally, it is hard to find ANY broadcast news in the US that is worth watching. Fox, ABC, CNN, etc. can't really cover the news and make money in the US broadcast marketplace. Sad but true. I don't know how much better news is in other parts of the world. Clearly the middle east is not a bastion of free press and even Europe has it challenges.
Dell's Complete Care with that car?
Come of folks. So the world's largest democratic country with the world's largest population of English speaking citizens has one city bombed and the US is going to rethink its direction to outsource technology workers there? Nope!
In fact, many of the export centers are not in the city center and were unaffected by this event. Knowing many Indians, those that were will be back up and running in no time flat no matter what it takes.
Now, there may be reasons to rethink outsourcing such as low productivity, higher costs, poor quality of work, and customer relation issues but this is not one of them.
The best wishes of many people in the US go out to every Indian and we stand in solidarity with the many many millions of peace loving, free citizens of that nation.
DVR user wants to disable ABC.
Last I checked Google software was not open source.
That is just one of 61 dishes :)
The Glock has one of the most advanced, simple, and proven safety interlocks ever made in a handgun.
Its value comes not only from its ability to keep the firearm from discharging when it is not intended but also from allowing it to be discharged quickly when needed. There are no 'locks' or keys, or levers. A loaded Glock is always locked until the trigger is pulled at which point each interlock is removed as the trigger is pulled back.
They put this system in Jewel stores in the Chicagoland area.
You enroll by providing your personal details and checking account information and fingerprint, of course. Then, when you pay you have to (1) scan your finger (2) key in your phone number (3) sign for the payment. It is then direct debited from your checking account.
WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THIS??? It is no faster than a credit card and you can't earn points/cash back as many credit cards do. You are basically giving up the float and the 1-2% you can get back from a good CC program. Oh, and it only works at Jewel.
Right, you can't ask if they are a US citizen (unless that job requires it) but you can ask and require that they have the permanent legal right to work in the US.
If they don't you don't have to interview or hire them. It is up to your company if they want to interview H1Bs for a specific job or not.
"If I was legally permitted to ask whether a potential employee was on an H-1B I would never hire another such worker ever again."
My guess is you don't do any hiring or you would know that no company has to hire a worker with an H1B visa. A company decided which jobs (if any) it is willing allow H1B applicants for. If you don't want to hire any you just don't.
That said, many first do choose to claim that can't find a US worker with the needed skills and hire H1B visa holders.
Citrix, TS, and other similar products produce an end user experience that is much less positive* than native application execution for the majority of business applications.
Performance is slower, access is more complex, network issues and congestion cause additional delay, and environments are often not configured as each specific user might want/need.
Just ask any of the millions of 'off shore' users of software housed in the US.
*There are some very limited cases where something like Citrix is BETTER than native execution but they are few and far between.
Finally, to the person who modded me Troll, please read and understand both the reply you are modding, the context it was posted in, and have some knowledge of the topic in general before wasting a moderation point.
Did you optician also happen to sell glasses :)
For the same reason that the entire world does not use SunRays or Citrix clients.
Mailblocks got the shaft some time ago when they were purchased by AOL. It was a good service with a good team of developers that.
-D
I recall just a short time ago when India based direct hire developers were 1/10th the cost of a US developer. Churn was high, analysis skills low to non existent, and it took at least 3-5 India developers to do the job of one good US hire. But, you could hire ~8 or so (with telcom and travel costs eating up the rest) for one US person so it saved money. Most of the time.
Times, for highly educated Indian's, are a chang'n! Wage rates are WAY up with 15%-25% increases expected per year and automatic increases after travel to the US, EU, etc.
If the the best BoA can do is 1/2 the labor rate of US hires they are going to be taken to the cleaners in short order. Soon you will see the consultants mucking through the BoA exec. offices offering to 'fix' all the issues and cost over-runs, bring in new staff (at much higher rates than their current US direct employees), and otherwise continue to clean them out.