Flaw: The employer who cuts down on staffing below tenable levels is not (exclusively) doing so because he wants to - he is (usually) forced to, to meet competitors' price-levels after they have reduced their costs through various means.
The real a**holes are the general public, who wants stuff cheaply, and don't care if 1 person has to do the work of 5 to meet that price, quality of product and the life of the worker be damned.
Vote with your wallet, and convince a couple of billion others to do the same: buy products produced locally by humans under proper conditions.
UI seems easy to get for me? Click a name, got your message window, click 'call', calling them. Is that really stupider?
lots of ads (in the corporate, paid-for version)
I really only ever see it cycle through one or two ads and they're not even that noticeable... But if you really don't like them... Tools -> options -> Notifications -> Alerts & messages -> uncheck promotions
Unless they fix the bloat in Skype
What bloat?
I'll add details: * Starting Skype seems to take a while (just tried) ** 25 seconds until any window comes up ** 35 seconds until logged in * Skype seems to use quite a bit of memory ** 69 megs physical and growing despite not using the program (just started it, 1 minute ago) ** 110 megs virtual *** Trillian running for the last several hours is using 12/65 megs, with connection to several networks * Switch view (e.g. to contacts) takes 1-2 seconds.. doesnt feel instantaneous like in other clients * Ads on windows version (might be able to turn off) are getting in the way ** Ads that have been closed reopen spontaneously, moving things around ** Ads in corporate version is just plain wrong * UI is a lot larger than any other Chat/IM tools I've used - "softer" and wasting screen space ** Large buttons (specially in windows version) ** Can be turned into just contact list, but then getting a chat-window opening results in same over-kill UI *** 80+ px to show name of the person you're chatting with is too much
Overall, between it (Skype) and all other IM and most VoIP programs I've used, it _feels_ slower and the UI is less sleek => I get impression of bloat.
Note: I'm not expecting to use the more fancy options Skype might have. We have separate tool for sharing apps/screens, we have real VoIP phones and generally don't use camera-based calls. In this context, I'm looking at Skype purely for chatting, and it is not the fastest and sleekest option there is.
Actually, reporting one-self as being "Anonymous Coward" on/. would probably make the law-enforcement officers regret having to follow your post preeeetty quickly.
I understand that the EU does it that way - which is why everyone is whining that they are being too cruel to companies with the billion-dollars fines.
Yeah, I mainly deal with Tier-1s, and I've occasionally seen some forget to include stuff in their bids or not manage to hit projected price-reductions. Scares me a bit, since these are my customers. Would still like to see suppliers tell OEMs to go somewhere else when they try to squeeze them too much, but doubt it'll happen.
Note: European OEMs tend to be pretty OK in dealing with their suppliers (Opel has impressed me a few times, despite being "GM-E"), generally. Don't have too much experience with Japanese ones, though.
On the notion of asking about margin and health, I notice in SCM (and other areas) that bids include statements on overall company health, requested in the RFP. So appears (to me) to be a lesson companies have learned about not letting your suppliers go belly-up:)
OEMs go to the suppliers yearly, demanding a (often contractual) reduction in price by 1-2%... whether the suppliers are able to supply the parts at the lower cost is irrelevant, and most will gladly bend over in fear of not loosing the next deal (which they'll likely also lose money on).
I think the judge should consider throwing the UK lead for Apple in jail until the message is displayed correctly, and demand to see proof that the legal-team counseled against the chosen "evasions" or have the lead-counsel for Apple UK join in the jail-time.
From FF15 to current FF18, I've not seen any but a few esoteric plugins and extensions break.
WebEx, Sharepoint, that kind of half-arsed plugins can break, most others work nicely (Flash is usually crapping out, nothing new there) Cooliris and Grafxbot are only extensions not working on current FF18, and only one of these even make sense running.
As for memory, then I can observe that after 2 days of having FF open, my mac is slow-as-frozen-shit. Stopping and starting FF resolves that. Might be one of the extensions (Adblock? NoScript? SuspendBackgroundTabs? Perhaps FlagFox..), but it IS an issue.
Depends on spec - I'd try to avoid same batch-number on all drives in a RAID, but as will accept them all being from a single supplier.
For me this came up due to bad batches from IBM, but it apparently was "standard" in some businesses before that.
My customers, who need very high uptimes, and tend to, uhm, be insufficient on the whole redundancy and backup thing, seeming are happy to by 4 drives from the same batch, so perhaps it is just me that is paranoid. (No, I've actually not laughed on the few occassions their setups come crashing down)
You're "about" four times safer driving on road than biking.
Where is this statistic from? What kind of road? What country/state?
And athletes commute by car, because: 1) they can 2) if they are not bike-riders, the body would be adjust to a workout that might conflict with their sport (biking != running != playing tennis != swimming)
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How to opt out of the daily calls from peoplethat only speaks french and wants to sell wine/cheese/kitchens/furniture/other-crap ?
THOSE are the ones that are driving me mad, and no, they don't honor anything.
Flaw: The employer who cuts down on staffing below tenable levels is not (exclusively) doing so because he wants to - he is (usually) forced to, to meet competitors' price-levels after they have reduced their costs through various means.
The real a**holes are the general public, who wants stuff cheaply, and don't care if 1 person has to do the work of 5 to meet that price, quality of product and the life of the worker be damned.
Vote with your wallet, and convince a couple of billion others to do the same: buy products produced locally by humans under proper conditions.
Disclaimer: I, too, tend to buy cheap crap.
Use the GPU for heavy compression of bitmap data? :)
How?
UI seems easy to get for me? Click a name, got your message window, click 'call', calling them. Is that really stupider?
I really only ever see it cycle through one or two ads and they're not even that noticeable... But if you really don't like them... Tools -> options -> Notifications -> Alerts & messages -> uncheck promotions
What bloat?
I'll add details: .. doesnt feel instantaneous like in other clients
* Starting Skype seems to take a while (just tried)
** 25 seconds until any window comes up
** 35 seconds until logged in
* Skype seems to use quite a bit of memory
** 69 megs physical and growing despite not using the program (just started it, 1 minute ago)
** 110 megs virtual
*** Trillian running for the last several hours is using 12/65 megs, with connection to several networks
* Switch view (e.g. to contacts) takes 1-2 seconds
* Ads on windows version (might be able to turn off) are getting in the way
** Ads that have been closed reopen spontaneously, moving things around
** Ads in corporate version is just plain wrong
* UI is a lot larger than any other Chat/IM tools I've used - "softer" and wasting screen space
** Large buttons (specially in windows version)
** Can be turned into just contact list, but then getting a chat-window opening results in same over-kill UI
*** 80+ px to show name of the person you're chatting with is too much
Overall, between it (Skype) and all other IM and most VoIP programs I've used, it _feels_ slower and the UI is less sleek => I get impression of bloat.
Note: I'm not expecting to use the more fancy options Skype might have. We have separate tool for sharing apps/screens, we have real VoIP phones and generally don't use camera-based calls. In this context, I'm looking at Skype purely for chatting, and it is not the fastest and sleekest option there is.
Oh buhu - let us all pick on the non-natively English around here, and make fun of them in a demeaning manner instead of being helpful and decent.
WUHU!
That foul-tasting things going extinct will be one of the best things to happen.
Now we just need to teach people to be a bit more civilized and enjoy a nice cup of thee.
The PS3 allowed you to install linux when it first came out. People obvious abused it in bucket loads to play pirated games. .
Where is "-1 Painfully wrong" ?
1-hour shows in the US are generally ~44 minutes when the ad-blocks are removed.
Actually, reporting one-self as being "Anonymous Coward" on /. would probably make the law-enforcement officers regret having to follow your post preeeetty quickly.
I understand that the EU does it that way - which is why everyone is whining that they are being too cruel to companies with the billion-dollars fines.
My impression:
MSN is pretty fast, stupid UI, lots of ads
Skype is pretty bloated, stupider UI, lots of ads (in the corporate, paid-for version)
Unless they fix the bloat in Skype, it'll be a turn for the worse.
These look pretty low-tech and simple ... I should post my mess of a home-theater setup >:)
Previous post said nothing about "mobile"
however my brother in law by accident
How did that happen??
Yeah, I mainly deal with Tier-1s, and I've occasionally seen some forget to include stuff in their bids or not manage to hit projected price-reductions. Scares me a bit, since these are my customers.
Would still like to see suppliers tell OEMs to go somewhere else when they try to squeeze them too much, but doubt it'll happen.
Note: European OEMs tend to be pretty OK in dealing with their suppliers (Opel has impressed me a few times, despite being "GM-E"), generally. Don't have too much experience with Japanese ones, though.
On the notion of asking about margin and health, I notice in SCM (and other areas) that bids include statements on overall company health, requested in the RFP. So appears (to me) to be a lesson companies have learned about not letting your suppliers go belly-up :)
I'd love to see that in the Automotive sector.
OEMs go to the suppliers yearly, demanding a (often contractual) reduction in price by 1-2% ... whether the suppliers are able to supply the parts at the lower cost is irrelevant, and most will gladly bend over in fear of not loosing the next deal (which they'll likely also lose money on).
I think the judge should consider throwing the UK lead for Apple in jail until the message is displayed correctly, and demand to see proof that the legal-team counseled against the chosen "evasions" or have the lead-counsel for Apple UK join in the jail-time.
Should send a clear-enough message all around.
From FF15 to current FF18, I've not seen any but a few esoteric plugins and extensions break.
WebEx, Sharepoint, that kind of half-arsed plugins can break, most others work nicely (Flash is usually crapping out, nothing new there)
Cooliris and Grafxbot are only extensions not working on current FF18, and only one of these even make sense running.
As for memory, then I can observe that after 2 days of having FF open, my mac is slow-as-frozen-shit. Stopping and starting FF resolves that. Might be one of the extensions (Adblock? NoScript? SuspendBackgroundTabs? Perhaps FlagFox..), but it IS an issue.
New York subway is, at least partially ... I wonder what that is looking like these days...
I smell an amendment to copyright law...
Am thinking that it should be trivial to rotate the viewport/camera in the opposite directing, to mostly counter-act the tilting of the world.
well played, sir, well played!
Its a war on planetoids!
Depends on spec - I'd try to avoid same batch-number on all drives in a RAID, but as will accept them all being from a single supplier.
For me this came up due to bad batches from IBM, but it apparently was "standard" in some businesses before that.
My customers, who need very high uptimes, and tend to, uhm, be insufficient on the whole redundancy and backup thing, seeming are happy to by 4 drives from the same batch, so perhaps it is just me that is paranoid.
(No, I've actually not laughed on the few occassions their setups come crashing down)
You're "about" four times safer driving on road than biking.
Where is this statistic from? What kind of road? What country/state?
And athletes commute by car, because:
1) they can
2) if they are not bike-riders, the body would be adjust to a workout that might conflict with their sport (biking != running != playing tennis != swimming)