1) The double locking deadbolt was installed immediately after the first incident. The second occured when my wife failed to lock it ("You mean, it doesn't lock itself when you close the door?") 2) Both incidents occured while I was at work. (And I assure you, you don't know what helpless frustration is until you get a call from your wife telling you in panic mode that the baby is missing -- and you're an hour away from home!) 3) All those people saying "bad parenting" have obviously never been responsible for watching small children 24/7. They're also obviously not familiar with my child! She is extremely agile and athletic, and could cover a couple blocks in less than a minute (I've already taken her out running for about 2 miles. Her run == my fast walk). My wife works nights as a nurse, and has to shower, go to the bathroom, clean house, cook, and do laundry all while watching the baby. I myself tend to not do anything else while watching her, so she gets into far less trouble on my watch. I have also taken pains to make introduce her to everyone in the neighborhood and make sure they know where she lives, so that they can return her. 4) Humans as a species have survived for millions of years despite not making a full-time job out of watching the kids -- perhaps most kids are better at taking care of themselves than we give them credit for.
As the proud parent of a 2.5 year old who has just learned how to steal her mom's keys and unlock the deadbolt on the front door so she can wonder off through the neighborhood without permission, I'd have to say that tracking devices are not such a bad idea. Especially since that deadbolt was installed after her slipping out twice, once to be found several blocks away, and once after playing in the neighbor's water feature in 45 degree weather. There are times when you REALLY want to know exactly where your kid is!
There could be a gas BUTTON on the steering wheel. Breaks could likewise be accessable via a lever.
You've just described an adaptive vehicle, as used by handicapped persons. There are thousands of them. Why? Because they work much better than a standard car for their intended customer. Now, tell me again what's wrong with customing your OS?
So, everytime I wear my Kmart shirt to go shopping at Kmart, I get charged for it Again??? You're forgetting that these RFID tags don't get disabled the moment you walk out of the store. What if I'm in a mall, and carrying purchases from the other stores?
Google responses are so slow that you have to email them -- but then clicking on the links in the email ISN'T to slow? Pretty half-fast solution, isn't it?
At least Linux is customer neutral. I get the distinct impression that there are a huge number of marketing droids up in Redmond that are laughing at me behind my back!
Germany is in recession... Best way to come out of that recession is to spend money locally, rather than sending it to Redmond, no? This isn't just anti-Microsoft sentiment, it's anti-American sentiment.
They ended up spending millions of dollars more over the Microsoft package.
Spending more today. And saving millions of dollars over the next 10-20 years, by not having to spend anything to upgrade. Once the hardware upgrade, user retraining, and custom software rewriting costs are ammortized, then Linux in a heck of a lot cheaper -- all Munich will pay is annual support fees.
Costs estimates failed to take into consideration the costs in lost productivity due to having solitaire installed on every desktop! Yep, my corporate installed Windows XP box has the productivity enhancing suite of FreeCell, Hearts, Solitaire, Pinball, Internet Backgammon, etc. What that hell were they thinking when they decided to give games to every employee?
That's $21/month only until Softbank goes bankrupt and discontinues the service... read the rest of the article. There still using the dot com strategy of losing money on every customer, but making it up in volume.
Since the RIAA always insists that every person that downloads a song would have been a paying customer if the download wasn't available, then we should also see a 15% increase in CD sales during that time period?
Disney and Microsoft have gotten rich using the same business model: rip off other people's intellectual property, and then jealously guard it as your own.
Sorry, but I got terminated from my last position for having the gall to actually attempt to improve the product (without getting permission from all my coworkers who were out on Christmas vacation first). My take is that most managers would rather have developers that at least pretend to do what they're told, no more, no less.
...what percentage of the mobile phones out there have InfraRed ports? None of mine have ever had this feature! Yes, there's a chance that some of them might have bluetooth, but I don't think that has significant market penetration yet either.
If US companies are too silly to ship to your country, why not start your own e-commerce site? Lease a warehouse in the US, have them ship to that, and then fly it over daily and fulfill your own orders...
Relax. IBM strung along to DoJ for twelve years... how long do you think they can keep SCO in court? In fact, keeping the trial going while doing everything possible to increase SCO's burn rate until they go bankrupt may be IBM's strategy.
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1) The double locking deadbolt was installed immediately after the first incident. The second occured when my wife failed to lock it ("You mean, it doesn't lock itself when you close the door?")
2) Both incidents occured while I was at work. (And I assure you, you don't know what helpless frustration is until you get a call from your wife telling you in panic mode that the baby is missing -- and you're an hour away from home!)
3) All those people saying "bad parenting" have obviously never been responsible for watching small children 24/7. They're also obviously not familiar with my child! She is extremely agile and athletic, and could cover a couple blocks in less than a minute (I've already taken her out running for about 2 miles. Her run == my fast walk). My wife works nights as a nurse, and has to shower, go to the bathroom, clean house, cook, and do laundry all while watching the baby. I myself tend to not do anything else while watching her, so she gets into far less trouble on my watch. I have also taken pains to make introduce her to everyone in the neighborhood and make sure they know where she lives, so that they can return her.
4) Humans as a species have survived for millions of years despite not making a full-time job out of watching the kids -- perhaps most kids are better at taking care of themselves than we give them credit for.
As the proud parent of a 2.5 year old who has just learned how to steal her mom's keys and unlock the deadbolt on the front door so she can wonder off through the neighborhood without permission, I'd have to say that tracking devices are not such a bad idea. Especially since that deadbolt was installed after her slipping out twice, once to be found several blocks away, and once after playing in the neighbor's water feature in 45 degree weather. There are times when you REALLY want to know exactly where your kid is!
You've just described an adaptive vehicle, as used by handicapped persons. There are thousands of them. Why? Because they work much better than a standard car for their intended customer. Now, tell me again what's wrong with customing your OS?
So, everytime I wear my Kmart shirt to go shopping at Kmart, I get charged for it Again??? You're forgetting that these RFID tags don't get disabled the moment you walk out of the store. What if I'm in a mall, and carrying purchases from the other stores?
Google responses are so slow that you have to email them -- but then clicking on the links in the email ISN'T to slow? Pretty half-fast solution, isn't it?
Non-sequitir yes, contradiction no.
At least Linux is customer neutral. I get the distinct impression that there are a huge number of marketing droids up in Redmond that are laughing at me behind my back!
Actually, he said "If I did kill Nicole, it would have been because I loved her so much."
In other news, RIAA says sound is IP!
Germany is in recession... Best way to come out of that recession is to spend money locally, rather than sending it to Redmond, no? This isn't just anti-Microsoft sentiment, it's anti-American sentiment.
Spending more today. And saving millions of dollars over the next 10-20 years, by not having to spend anything to upgrade. Once the hardware upgrade, user retraining, and custom software rewriting costs are ammortized, then Linux in a heck of a lot cheaper -- all Munich will pay is annual support fees.
Costs estimates failed to take into consideration the costs in lost productivity due to having solitaire installed on every desktop! Yep, my corporate installed Windows XP box has the productivity enhancing suite of FreeCell, Hearts, Solitaire, Pinball, Internet Backgammon, etc. What that hell were they thinking when they decided to give games to every employee?
That's $21/month only until Softbank goes bankrupt and discontinues the service... read the rest of the article. There still using the dot com strategy of losing money on every customer, but making it up in volume.
I tried to file a complaint with the EEOC; they told me they couldn't do anything for me because they only have jurisdiction over employees.
I think you got a typo there. I beleive you meant: Congress does what people pay it to. Either that, or you're really, really naive...
Since the RIAA always insists that every person that downloads a song would have been a paying customer if the download wasn't available, then we should also see a 15% increase in CD sales during that time period?
That's "copy without permission", not "pirate"! ;-)
Isn't that sorta like modifying your 350ZX to make it look just like a '57 Edsel?
Disney and Microsoft have gotten rich using the same business model: rip off other people's intellectual property, and then jealously guard it as your own.
They tried that -- it didn't work. Remember the Soviet Union?
Sorry, but I got terminated from my last position for having the gall to actually attempt to improve the product (without getting permission from all my coworkers who were out on Christmas vacation first). My take is that most managers would rather have developers that at least pretend to do what they're told, no more, no less.
...what percentage of the mobile phones out there have InfraRed ports? None of mine have ever had this feature! Yes, there's a chance that some of them might have bluetooth, but I don't think that has significant market penetration yet either.
If US companies are too silly to ship to your country, why not start your own e-commerce site? Lease a warehouse in the US, have them ship to that, and then fly it over daily and fulfill your own orders...
Relax. IBM strung along to DoJ for twelve years... how long do you think they can keep SCO in court? In fact, keeping the trial going while doing everything possible to increase SCO's burn rate until they go bankrupt may be IBM's strategy.
The stock has gone from $0.60/share to $12/share... I'd sure as hell be selling too, if I owned shares!