There's nothing wrong with offering "up to 25 Mbit/s, 5 GB/month" as long as one is not a huge screaming headline and the other is buried deep in the terms of service.
Until recently, T-Mobile US was doing exactly that. They would advertise "Unlimited 4G Internet" in giant letters on all their ads, but mention the 5GB limit ONLY in the fine print of the contract. The only reason they got away with this crap was because the the "internet access" was still technically unlimited, but there was a 5GB limit on 4G speeds (4-6MB/s). After you hit the limit your connection would be throttled to 64KB/s, roughly dialup speed (and roughly useless), for the rest of the month.
Spam filters don't generally filter out 80-90% of total incoming mail though. Most places interview something like 10% of total applicants.
While I agree that using a database is better than judging by resume alone, my main issue with all this is that the database is secret and not open for appeal. you could be falsely blacklisted (different person with same name for example) and never even know you were on the list, and even if you did find out, you couldn't do anything to be removed.
And everyone wonders why there is so much unemployment, and so many unfilled job positions, at the same time. It seems like companies go out of their way to NOT hire people.
In most US corporations, people are promoted based on their ability to suck up to their boss, this mostly consists of things like taking credit for other people's work, and blaming others for their own mistakes.
This leads to the people at the top being very good at making themselves LOOK good, without having any real management skills.
I worked for a large pizza chain, and our district supervisor refused to allow us to stop (or even reduce) delivery during a major snowstorm. She claimed to be at one of the stores delivering pizza in the storm, and if she can do it, so can we.
We found out the next day that she was never at that store, and had actually been sitting at home during the entire storm. One store manager and several assistant managers quit because of this. The district supervisor kept her job of course (and as far as I know, she was never disciplined in any way, for lying to employees or putting drivers at risk)
So you have a secret blacklist, that is never verified, and never open for appeal? is that even legal?
As far as not hiring people who have been arrested, do you have any idea how easy it it to be arrested? one of my friends was put in handcuffs and thrown the the back of a police car, for nothing more serious than crossing the street when it said "don't walk"
If I knew your name and address, I could have you arrested right this minute. The arrest wouldn't stick, and I would be charged with filing a false report (if they caught me) but it would still show up as arrest for your on that precious blacklist, and you would be out of a job.
My old roommate (who was very hot and used to dance at the strip clubs) took a bunch of nude pictures of herself with her Verizon blackberry. When her blackberry died she took out the card and sent the phone back for warranty replacement. When she got the replacement phone and put in the card she couldn't find any of her pictures or anything so she asked me for help.
Turned out she had kept the (completely useless) vodaphone simcard, and left the sdcard full of pictures in the phone. So now some lucky Verizon warehouse tech has an sdcard full of her nudes.
after driving my car though an average minnesota/wisconsin winter, the entire engine, including the top, is covered in a thin layer of salt. all it takes is some water spray (from a car wash or something) to get up there and make salt water on top of the batteries (assuming they are in a open engine bay and not in a sealed trunk)
Saying "the UK allows it, so should the US" is the dumbest justification ever. Many of the US constitutional amendments (especially the 4th amendment) were written SPECIFICALLY to avoid the same kind of abuses of power that the British kingdom was (and still is) famous for.
In my experience the police don't bother to go out and preemptively fight even the easy crimes. They just sit at the station and wait for someone to come in a report a crime, then they spend 20 minutes trying to trick that person into admitting guilt (even if that person hasn't committed any crimes)
On 2 occasions I have gone with people to the police station to report thefts (a stolen car in one case) and after the police listened to the whole story, their first question was "so, you stole a car?" (in the other case it was a stolen helmet, and the first question was "so, you stole a helmet?")
Why bother putting in the effort to investigate existing crimes when you can just invent a reason to arrest the person standing in front of you. As far as the police are concerned, guilt or innocence doesn't matter as long as SOMEONE goes to jail. After that it becomes the court's problem, the police still meet their monthly arrest quota (and they do have a quota, however much they deny it: http://blog.motorists.org/if-you-didnt-believe-ticket-quotas-existed-before-you-will-now/)
If you really want to help those other customers, all you have to do is tell us the name of the company, and let the bad publicity take care of the rest.
I just looked into the 604 patent some more, it was filed in 2004, but was rejected that year and another 8 times over the following years. It wasn't approved until 2011, yet it somehow still has an effective date of 2004.
So it's not that the USPTO grants every apple patent, it's just that if you submit the same patent 10 times over the span of 5 years, they will eventually approve it, even if they shouldn't.
Version 1 of google desktop was released a month BEFORE this patent was even filed. I don't remember if version 1 had unified search, but the later versions definitely did.
Is the US patent office pulling a Velvan Hogan and disregarding prior art just because it doesn't run on the same hardware? Or do they just automatically approve EVERY apple patent without research?
There have been articles recently about Apple possibly buying Nokia, both for the phone hardware and patents, and for the navteq mapping company that nokia owns.
Even if apple didn't buy Nokia outright, it would still make more sense for the next iphone to be made by someone other than their current ally/enemy Samsung, and apple could license the Navteq maps like the stand-alone GPS makers already do.
Patents aren't worth THAT much hassle, and it's far cheaper for them to just use contract manufacturers as they always have. If they really wanted in-house factories, there are plenty of no-brand contract manufacturers (such as Foxconn and their ilk) they could buy instead.
Apple's main contractor (foxconn) has to put up safety nets to keep the employees from killing themselves, and Apple's other contractor (samsung) is currently fighting them in quite a few lawsuits.
Unless nokia has been farming out all their manufacturing to foxconn as well, then nokia has at least some manufacturing capacity to offer to apple, and unlike samsung and HTC, they aren't currently trying to sue each other to death.
Every so often I look at the TV listings and I just can't figure out why someone would sit and watch 10 back-to-back episodes of 'ghost hunters' or 'american choppers' every day. Day-time TV is nothing but marathons of reruns, and night time (when they used to do re-run marathons) is now nothing but back-to-back infomercials.
It almost makes me miss the days of the test pattern, when they would at least have the decency to turn off the transmitter when they had nothing of value to transmit, instead of 24 hours of crap that nobody wanted to watch the first time it aired, let alone the 10th time.
There have been articles recently about Apple possibly buying Nokia, both for the phone hardware and patents, and for the navteq mapping company that nokia owns.
Even if apple didn't buy Nokia outright, it would still make more sense for the next iphone to be made by someone other than their current ally/enemy Samsung, and apple could license the Navteq maps like the stand-alone GPS makers already do.
ABB, while being one of the biggest automation suppliers in the world, still manages to makes some of the unreliable automation products.
The ABB robots at the Chrysler factory in Belvedere, IL are notorious for overheating and shutting down even in mild summer temperatures, leaving dozens of workers just standing around for hours waiting for a robot to be fixed (which usually fixed itself once the control cabinet cooled off) before the line could be restarted
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those 50% don't have the SAME talent. 100% of the students have a talent of some sort, it's only 50% that have downplayed it
"more than 90% of the 1,000 11-16 year-olds surveyed said they had been bullied or seen someone bullied"
Yes, but they should be paying for 200 pounds of wood, not 200 pounds of apple
A better analogy would be selling 800 pounds of pure gold, in a 200 pound lead box, but charging for 1000 pounds of gold
There's nothing wrong with offering "up to 25 Mbit/s, 5 GB/month" as long as one is not a huge screaming headline and the other is buried deep in the terms of service.
Until recently, T-Mobile US was doing exactly that. They would advertise "Unlimited 4G Internet" in giant letters on all their ads, but mention the 5GB limit ONLY in the fine print of the contract. The only reason they got away with this crap was because the the "internet access" was still technically unlimited, but there was a 5GB limit on 4G speeds (4-6MB/s). After you hit the limit your connection would be throttled to 64KB/s, roughly dialup speed (and roughly useless), for the rest of the month.
Except that you don't have to move to a different town (or state) to drive a different car.
In most locations in the US, you only have one or two choices for ISP.
It's only because at&t bought-out the ISPs that were rated #6 to #21.
He should call up Mike Quinn over at Cisco. I heard Mike has a new hobby that he could use some help with. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/cisco-vp-memo-leaker-finding-you-now-my-hobby
Spam filters don't generally filter out 80-90% of total incoming mail though. Most places interview something like 10% of total applicants.
While I agree that using a database is better than judging by resume alone, my main issue with all this is that the database is secret and not open for appeal. you could be falsely blacklisted (different person with same name for example) and never even know you were on the list, and even if you did find out, you couldn't do anything to be removed.
And everyone wonders why there is so much unemployment, and so many unfilled job positions, at the same time. It seems like companies go out of their way to NOT hire people.
In most US corporations, people are promoted based on their ability to suck up to their boss, this mostly consists of things like taking credit for other people's work, and blaming others for their own mistakes.
This leads to the people at the top being very good at making themselves LOOK good, without having any real management skills.
I worked for a large pizza chain, and our district supervisor refused to allow us to stop (or even reduce) delivery during a major snowstorm. She claimed to be at one of the stores delivering pizza in the storm, and if she can do it, so can we.
We found out the next day that she was never at that store, and had actually been sitting at home during the entire storm. One store manager and several assistant managers quit because of this. The district supervisor kept her job of course (and as far as I know, she was never disciplined in any way, for lying to employees or putting drivers at risk)
So you have a secret blacklist, that is never verified, and never open for appeal? is that even legal?
As far as not hiring people who have been arrested, do you have any idea how easy it it to be arrested? one of my friends was put in handcuffs and thrown the the back of a police car, for nothing more serious than crossing the street when it said "don't walk"
If I knew your name and address, I could have you arrested right this minute. The arrest wouldn't stick, and I would be charged with filing a false report (if they caught me) but it would still show up as arrest for your on that precious blacklist, and you would be out of a job.
My old roommate (who was very hot and used to dance at the strip clubs) took a bunch of nude pictures of herself with her Verizon blackberry. When her blackberry died she took out the card and sent the phone back for warranty replacement. When she got the replacement phone and put in the card she couldn't find any of her pictures or anything so she asked me for help.
Turned out she had kept the (completely useless) vodaphone simcard, and left the sdcard full of pictures in the phone. So now some lucky Verizon warehouse tech has an sdcard full of her nudes.
after driving my car though an average minnesota/wisconsin winter, the entire engine, including the top, is covered in a thin layer of salt. all it takes is some water spray (from a car wash or something) to get up there and make salt water on top of the batteries (assuming they are in a open engine bay and not in a sealed trunk)
Saying "the UK allows it, so should the US" is the dumbest justification ever. Many of the US constitutional amendments (especially the 4th amendment) were written SPECIFICALLY to avoid the same kind of abuses of power that the British kingdom was (and still is) famous for.
In my experience the police don't bother to go out and preemptively fight even the easy crimes. They just sit at the station and wait for someone to come in a report a crime, then they spend 20 minutes trying to trick that person into admitting guilt (even if that person hasn't committed any crimes)
On 2 occasions I have gone with people to the police station to report thefts (a stolen car in one case) and after the police listened to the whole story, their first question was "so, you stole a car?" (in the other case it was a stolen helmet, and the first question was "so, you stole a helmet?")
Why bother putting in the effort to investigate existing crimes when you can just invent a reason to arrest the person standing in front of you. As far as the police are concerned, guilt or innocence doesn't matter as long as SOMEONE goes to jail. After that it becomes the court's problem, the police still meet their monthly arrest quota (and they do have a quota, however much they deny it: http://blog.motorists.org/if-you-didnt-believe-ticket-quotas-existed-before-you-will-now/)
If you really want to help those other customers, all you have to do is tell us the name of the company, and let the bad publicity take care of the rest.
I just looked into the 604 patent some more, it was filed in 2004, but was rejected that year and another 8 times over the following years. It wasn't approved until 2011, yet it somehow still has an effective date of 2004.
So it's not that the USPTO grants every apple patent, it's just that if you submit the same patent 10 times over the span of 5 years, they will eventually approve it, even if they shouldn't.
Last year, both Apple and Samsung (and Google) spent more on legal fees than R&D.
http://gizmodo.com/5949909/apple-and-google-spent-more-money-on-legal-fees-than-rd-last-year-and-google-apparently-thinks-apple-wants-it-that-way
Version 1 of google desktop was released a month BEFORE this patent was even filed. I don't remember if version 1 had unified search, but the later versions definitely did.
Is the US patent office pulling a Velvan Hogan and disregarding prior art just because it doesn't run on the same hardware? Or do they just automatically approve EVERY apple patent without research?
They ran a test pattern right before turning off the transmitter. it was a figure of speech.
There have been articles recently about Apple possibly buying Nokia, both for the phone hardware and patents, and for the navteq mapping company that nokia owns.
http://www.tnl.net/blog/2012/10/06/why-apple-should-acquire-nokia/
Even if apple didn't buy Nokia outright, it would still make more sense for the next iphone to be made by someone other than their current ally/enemy Samsung, and apple could license the Navteq maps like the stand-alone GPS makers already do.
Patents aren't worth THAT much hassle, and it's far cheaper for them to just use contract manufacturers as they always have. If they really wanted in-house factories, there are plenty of no-brand contract manufacturers (such as Foxconn and their ilk) they could buy instead.
Apple's main contractor (foxconn) has to put up safety nets to keep the employees from killing themselves, and Apple's other contractor (samsung) is currently fighting them in quite a few lawsuits.
Unless nokia has been farming out all their manufacturing to foxconn as well, then nokia has at least some manufacturing capacity to offer to apple, and unlike samsung and HTC, they aren't currently trying to sue each other to death.
People still watch live TV?
Every so often I look at the TV listings and I just can't figure out why someone would sit and watch 10 back-to-back episodes of 'ghost hunters' or 'american choppers' every day. Day-time TV is nothing but marathons of reruns, and night time (when they used to do re-run marathons) is now nothing but back-to-back infomercials.
It almost makes me miss the days of the test pattern, when they would at least have the decency to turn off the transmitter when they had nothing of value to transmit, instead of 24 hours of crap that nobody wanted to watch the first time it aired, let alone the 10th time.
And it doesn't help that Chicago feels like it owns Lake Michigan, and can grant permits for companies to dump waste into it.
There have been articles recently about Apple possibly buying Nokia, both for the phone hardware and patents, and for the navteq mapping company that nokia owns.
http://www.tnl.net/blog/2012/10/06/why-apple-should-acquire-nokia/
Even if apple didn't buy Nokia outright, it would still make more sense for the next iphone to be made by someone other than their current ally/enemy Samsung, and apple could license the Navteq maps like the stand-alone GPS makers already do.
ABB, while being one of the biggest automation suppliers in the world, still manages to makes some of the unreliable automation products.
The ABB robots at the Chrysler factory in Belvedere, IL are notorious for overheating and shutting down even in mild summer temperatures, leaving dozens of workers just standing around for hours waiting for a robot to be fixed (which usually fixed itself once the control cabinet cooled off) before the line could be restarted