Actually you can cash those CCs, I recently got a $100 one from Verizon for signing up for DirectTV (Fios TV wasn't available in my area, so they push it to DTV) and I was able to go to Bank of America and withdraw (charge) $100 to my card and get the full amount, no fees or anything.
Some companies do something even worse than pay by commission: they punish workers with the lowest sales figures. Now I'm not talking about meeting a certain minimum, it fact it doesn't matter how great your sales were but if you were the worker with the lowest figure that month (per hour) then you get chastised and or written up. I don't know if Best Buy does this greedy practice but you can certainly mark Victoria Secret for being guilty of this. So now, as a customer, you get all the same pressure to buy, but the worker doesn't get a single penny of the sale, and that really pisses me off as they're enslaved to pressure/annoy you with no benefit at all.
Don't worry, the day Norton ports their AV package to the iPhone is the day AT&T will ram it down the user's throat as a 3 month nagware trial. I mean you can afford to run Norton on your 3GS, no sense letting all the ram and speed go to waste!
Warning: I'm standing on a soap box as I type this...
Simple eh? Ask a room of people where mail merge is in Word and I bet 99% people that have used mail merge before have no idea. Is it in the Edit menu, the Formatting menu, or the Data menu (was there even a data menu?) This applies to most features.
Ask any UI expert and they'll tell you the Office Ribbon is the most important UI thing to happens since the GUI. If for any other reason is because the ribbon focused on task based UI instead of technical organization that didn't apply to your average user.
PS: Just because you're use to something and know it well isn't a good reason to invalidate a new mindset.
is that you don't get flashing / talking / music / girls in bikinis / speeding gophers / outright lies in your newspaper or magazine.
Imho online advertising did this to themselves, they were as annoying and eye catching as possible (and I mean that in the worst possible way) that people learned to HATE online advertising. I don't mind Google text ads and such, or even banners, but the flashing, animation and sound is the one spoiled apple that ruins the whole barrel.
I've had the misfortune of having jobs in the past where I made myself a repeating meeting, at noon, to prevent brain dead people from trying to schedule meetings during my lunch. Yes it's absurdly rude but some people just do a "busy search" and schedule away.
Well from the enterprise(y) side of things, if your HD is being ran 50+% of the time (and your home desktop is 1%), then 25% speed improvement is a huge improvement considering a server has times where it's pegged for performance. In small setups where you're on the verge of needing a second server and a load balancer (which adds up to a very pricey upgrade) then merely using SSD could be a life saver. But this is a niche example, despite, in high demand setups SSD is going to be huge success but not until after SSD proves itself on lifespan, as others have mentioned.
Remember, just because it seems better on paper, mother nature might prove otherwise, I'm also in the "when consumer SSDs hit the 5yr mark, then I'll be impressed" camp. But I won't lie, if the price drops continue like they do now, I'll be happy to buy a 160GB SSD for $199 next year and keep my current SATA drive for my big storage (music and video).
I'm pretty sure nobody misses the fact that every man, woman and child use to know how to gut a fish or a deer, mild a cow and churn their own butter. Technology improves, the world changes, map reading is a skill the average person does not need when a GPS device costs a mere $50 via a sale or $99 everyday.
Those that need suc skills (ex: topography experts, employees at the DOT, survival hikers) will go learn it as needed, so no harm no foul. Anyways, is there really a difference between finding a highway on a paper map vs a LCD screen. Given the GPS takes you to it automatically, the act of driving doesn't turn you into a zombie, you take a trip one or two times and you'll have it memorized despite using a paper map or a GPS, it's called memory and you use it either way.
This article is mostly FUD, nothing to see here people.
It's still a bit early to say SSD has better longevity than a traditional HDD, in theory, yes I agree, SDD probably outlasts HDDs, and this will be even more true as they improve, but I'm not about to jump on the SDD boat 100% just yet.
Better safe than sorry, we've had HDDs for decades and they're fairly acceptable albeit not perfect.
>> Eventually, maybe we could tap on the charged layers of atmosphere and drain them to harvest energy.
Sounds like a great idea at first but I strongly recommend we consider the effect of that energy NOT entering the Earth's crust. We all know energy is never destroyed or created, only transferred. When that energy is absorbed into the crust what happens exactly. Will this have any effect on the soil or the bacteria and simple life within it?
Maybe I'm splitting hairs here but when it comes to humanity middle manning something that happens in nature, I tend to lean pessimistic about how any change, no matter how minor, affects the ecosystem. Last I checked humanity's track record is pretty poor in this aspect.
In New York, you can enter the intersection in anticipation of turning, it's legal. Even if the light turns red, the motorist in the intersection has the right of way and will turn. If the newly green lanes enter the intersection and hit the turning person, those cars are to blame, not the turning driver.
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Actually you can cash those CCs, I recently got a $100 one from Verizon for signing up for DirectTV (Fios TV wasn't available in my area, so they push it to DTV) and I was able to go to Bank of America and withdraw (charge) $100 to my card and get the full amount, no fees or anything.
Some companies do something even worse than pay by commission: they punish workers with the lowest sales figures. Now I'm not talking about meeting a certain minimum, it fact it doesn't matter how great your sales were but if you were the worker with the lowest figure that month (per hour) then you get chastised and or written up. I don't know if Best Buy does this greedy practice but you can certainly mark Victoria Secret for being guilty of this. So now, as a customer, you get all the same pressure to buy, but the worker doesn't get a single penny of the sale, and that really pisses me off as they're enslaved to pressure/annoy you with no benefit at all.
Don't worry, the day Norton ports their AV package to the iPhone is the day AT&T will ram it down the user's throat as a 3 month nagware trial. I mean you can afford to run Norton on your 3GS, no sense letting all the ram and speed go to waste!
Warning: I'm standing on a soap box as I type this...
Simple eh? Ask a room of people where mail merge is in Word and I bet 99% people that have used mail merge before have no idea. Is it in the Edit menu, the Formatting menu, or the Data menu (was there even a data menu?) This applies to most features.
Ask any UI expert and they'll tell you the Office Ribbon is the most important UI thing to happens since the GUI. If for any other reason is because the ribbon focused on task based UI instead of technical organization that didn't apply to your average user.
PS: Just because you're use to something and know it well isn't a good reason to invalidate a new mindset.
is that you don't get flashing / talking / music / girls in bikinis / speeding gophers / outright lies in your newspaper or magazine.
Imho online advertising did this to themselves, they were as annoying and eye catching as possible (and I mean that in the worst possible way) that people learned to HATE online advertising. I don't mind Google text ads and such, or even banners, but the flashing, animation and sound is the one spoiled apple that ruins the whole barrel.
I've had the misfortune of having jobs in the past where I made myself a repeating meeting, at noon, to prevent brain dead people from trying to schedule meetings during my lunch. Yes it's absurdly rude but some people just do a "busy search" and schedule away.
Well from the enterprise(y) side of things, if your HD is being ran 50+% of the time (and your home desktop is 1%), then 25% speed improvement is a huge improvement considering a server has times where it's pegged for performance. In small setups where you're on the verge of needing a second server and a load balancer (which adds up to a very pricey upgrade) then merely using SSD could be a life saver. But this is a niche example, despite, in high demand setups SSD is going to be huge success but not until after SSD proves itself on lifespan, as others have mentioned.
Remember, just because it seems better on paper, mother nature might prove otherwise, I'm also in the "when consumer SSDs hit the 5yr mark, then I'll be impressed" camp. But I won't lie, if the price drops continue like they do now, I'll be happy to buy a 160GB SSD for $199 next year and keep my current SATA drive for my big storage (music and video).
I've been trying to reach her but I keep getting "email account does not exist" from her Governor account.
I'm pretty sure nobody misses the fact that every man, woman and child use to know how to gut a fish or a deer, mild a cow and churn their own butter. Technology improves, the world changes, map reading is a skill the average person does not need when a GPS device costs a mere $50 via a sale or $99 everyday.
Those that need suc skills (ex: topography experts, employees at the DOT, survival hikers) will go learn it as needed, so no harm no foul. Anyways, is there really a difference between finding a highway on a paper map vs a LCD screen. Given the GPS takes you to it automatically, the act of driving doesn't turn you into a zombie, you take a trip one or two times and you'll have it memorized despite using a paper map or a GPS, it's called memory and you use it either way.
This article is mostly FUD, nothing to see here people.
I'd vote you up simply because of your use/invention of the backwards car analogy, I've never seen it before and I'm in awe!
Unless they bought a SSD, and the content isn't spinning in circles, it's getting dusty in a little box.
Nerds I'd Love to F#!K
It's still a bit early to say SSD has better longevity than a traditional HDD, in theory, yes I agree, SDD probably outlasts HDDs, and this will be even more true as they improve, but I'm not about to jump on the SDD boat 100% just yet.
Better safe than sorry, we've had HDDs for decades and they're fairly acceptable albeit not perfect.
porn is overrated.
Ah ha, there really are women on /.
I sure hope you already had yourself on mute when you said that, because if she heard you there will be hell to pay.
on my TV remote for past few decades!
Wow, that must look gorgeous in HD, who needs a window anyway!
You had me yawning during your whole list until I read "hot green alien nymphomaniac bikini chicks".
Wow, technology is wonderful!
I'm into polygamy, you insensitive clod!
I surf with my monitor in page layout (aka pivoted) you insensitive clod! I can't afford to give up any pixel width!
Ok it's only been 8yrs not 10, but yes, XP is pretty old now and most people still view it as "good enough".
The DLC that comes out May 5th changes the cap from lv20 to lv30. That's a pretty big increase and should make all the fanatics happy.
Also that new DLC also allows you to keep exploring the world after you finish the game, ala Oblivion.
>> Eventually, maybe we could tap on the charged layers of atmosphere and drain them to harvest energy.
Sounds like a great idea at first but I strongly recommend we consider the effect of that energy NOT entering the Earth's crust. We all know energy is never destroyed or created, only transferred. When that energy is absorbed into the crust what happens exactly. Will this have any effect on the soil or the bacteria and simple life within it?
Maybe I'm splitting hairs here but when it comes to humanity middle manning something that happens in nature, I tend to lean pessimistic about how any change, no matter how minor, affects the ecosystem. Last I checked humanity's track record is pretty poor in this aspect.
The most important issue people overlook when they say how much they like these keyboards is:
a. you are more likely to get carpal tunnel on a click keyboard
b. the carpal tunnel you do get will be more severe than the type you would get on today's traditional keyboards
The further and harder you have to push the keys, the more stress is being done to your knuckles and wrist.
Ergonomics 101 people, seriously
In New York, you can enter the intersection in anticipation of turning, it's legal. Even if the light turns red, the motorist in the intersection has the right of way and will turn. If the newly green lanes enter the intersection and hit the turning person, those cars are to blame, not the turning driver.