I know that experience, however it's typical of the phone company too where I live (Embarq). On several occasions I've had lightining strike out the phone lines and Sprint / Embarq take over a week to get a service man out.
Umm... if your staff is just so stupidly incompetant that they use software by "memorising clicks" then perhaps it's time to invest in a new set of employess despite their "contacts." If you don't understand what you are doing at your job you do not deserve to keep your job. Perhaps these people would make better department store greeters or burger flippers because seriously, if they do not care enough to learn to understand then they should not have that job.
This may sound cruel but why throw money away on training when you can hire a competent staff that is able to figure out for themselves that OpenOffice is not MS Office and when they get stuck to use help files or whatever to figure out how to do X (not the OpenOffice is hard to learn). It's just good business.
Actually I use a VHS tape (since I do not have Tivo) to record the shows I watch then fast forward through commercials unless I see something that catches my intrest or curiosity. Otherwise I ignore the static and watch only the programing I desire. If a commerical is too loud and I'm not recording it (eg, live TV) I mute the tele. But ever since I discovered the News Hour on PBS I haven't been doing much muting.
You see, Google has success as an advertiser because they are nonobtrusive and their ads don't eat up bandwidth or steal focus from what you are looking up. Where as other ads say "LOOK AT ME!!!" google says in a nice little side note "this product may interest you." People prefer the later to the former simply because it is less distracting.
What I think would be cool is if the cable companies merged Internet and television to bring us (sorry for the made up buzzword) TV-2.0. Imagine watching TV and at the bottom in a small pane could be some links and a "taskbar" which could have a button on it to bring up articles related to what you are watching. For example if you are watching a documentary on the Science Channel you could bring up articles and information on cetain topics mentioned to get a more detailed look into the topic. It would be awesome!
And Tivo could be used to used to record either just the audio / video content of the show of the whole bundle. In addition companies like Google could use this taskbar to scroll unobtrusive text links at the bottom of the sceen on its live showing instead of all the time wasting in-show commercials. Now, for that I would gladly pay $50 a month to DirecTV or Comcast. We have the technology right now to make better service options like this, so why not? In this case we all win -- ad companies get to show their ads, and we can watch our shows at the live showing with them or choose to watch them later with the ads and extra content clipped out.
I prefer the bread anology. The universe is a lot like dough put into an oven to make bread. As the dough heats up in the over aer bubbles inside build up cause the bread to expand into puffy goodness. This makes more since because the bread seen as the universe in the metaphor is not what is expanding. What is expanding is the space inside the bread while the dough itself walls in these tiny aer pockets.
The Government does not regulate one's rights and no matter what anyone says or does can change that. Indeed, Government create that perception through many means including punnishing those who demand, execute, or support those Rights. This is because these Rights are sacred and are inherited by every person from the greatest of Divinties. For a Government to infringe on one's liberties is a sin greater than murder because it leads to forcing it's citizens to live lives worse than death, for those who are not executed or tortured by the government it is a life of constant fear. Verily, just as no sane man would never vernture to wish such a fate upon his brethren that no just Government ever create such bleak dystopiæ.
Goverment has a duty to both protect its citizens and to submit to them in service. For a Goverment to remove the very Rights which all are born with is a stark violation of being a service to its citizens. Such a goverment should never be tolerated and as such should be removed by its citizens. Those who submit to a tyranic Goverment may live, but to those who wish to be free--those who desire those most the Divine inheretance--false security is not worth the the risks involved in losing their liberties.
I believe a great patriot once said: "Live free or die." But to the free spirit Tyranny is death. Blessed be.
All the government needs to do is provide the ILLUSION of democracy (yes, I know we are a constitutional republic but i'm not going there with that and most people probably could not tell you the difference between a constiution republic and a democracy. point aside.) As long as the people have that illusion they will be happy. Even if a few of us can see through it, there is no problem becuase we become the "wackos," "conspiracy theorists," "communists," "extremist liberals," etc. The fact of the matter is that the government provides enough to keep the people happy. We have out jobs and reality television and most people are content with that. The real problem is educating the people and getting to care about what is really important -- yeah, good with that one.
The fact is that too many people do not care and wouldn't understand even if they tried. As long as they have the illusion then they are happy. It is both a blessing and a curse to be smart enough to understand politics and government in this day and age. Then again isn't it always. I believe it is the old Chinese curse: "May thou live during interesting times."
You joke but I think Richard Stallman would make a better president the current Fürer. I mean seriously, take a look at the guy's website! He knows his issues if anything.
ummm... I thought the exact quote was in ABBA form: "It is not who votes that counts. It is who counts the votes."
I forgot what these are called but it a common oratory and poetic device. Other popular phrases include: "It is not what your country can do for you. It is what you can do for your country."
Either way could possibly be right though since the quote is translated out of Russian.
But I am paying for the war. Paying an arm and a leg everytime I fill up the tank with petro. But there are things even more important than money. Things that money cannot buy that I have sacraficed. I am paying for the war because my fellow citizens have determined that their perceived safety is more important than their freedom. I am paying for the loss of friends and family members who have not come back from Iraq. Those are the things that connot be bought back and can never be returned to us.
Why not just do local or regional. Along with working with Apple. Make the CDs yourself and sell them at fleamarks and local bazaars. Where I live (Tallahassee, FL) there is plenty of places like the Farmers Market on Saturdays and many local bars that will gladly help serve to local artists. Sure you may not sell a million records or get a Grammy or CMA award but if you can sell 1000 CDs you burned at 50 to 75 cents a CD for $7 that's a heck of a lot more than I make in a year and surely most people. America is all about innovation and independence. If you feel that you deserve better than the RIAA then work hard and do everything you can to perpetuate your music.
I'd buy local artist's music if they sold it on CD-R's at the local bazaar if it was good and I know many others who would do the same. In fact there is even a local radio station 88.9 or 89.9 or something that plays only requested songs and a lot of it is works from LOCAL artists. There is more money in "small time" distrubution than people think. If you sound good and know how to market then why go through the RIAA outlets if you could possibly make more money doing it independently. Is fame really worth that cost? I certainly think not.
I don't know if this works for pineapples but for mangos, peaches, plums, and pretty much every other fruit I buy as ripe as I can get because I don't buy many and I want them to be ripe. If I do plan on stocking up and get fruit that is not ripe yet I place the fruit that I want ripened fastest in a brown paper bag, fold the top closed and then place it in a cabinet or some place with little light and is relatively cool. This causes the fruit to ripen at an extremely fast rate. Check the fruit daily to make sure it doesn't rot and whatever you do, do not forgot about it (that's really nasty). So if you can't determine the ripeness of fruit this is a really good meathod. buy all your fruit underripe andjust do this.
Ever wonder why it takes Congess 160-odd pages to create a law that in essence could easily by phrased in one, maybe two or three pages if you wish to get really detailed? It's freaking rediculous and our taxes go to support this. It's freaking rediculous. There should really be an amendment to the Constitution to ban riders, force our leaders to actually read the bills they propose and debate, accurately title the bill, and be consice when writing the bill. It's funny that even as long as it is it is still pretty vague and that's a sign there is definately something wrong with the way our government functions.
This would be great. The sad fact is that I can think of so many commericals I'd jump at the chance to moderate out of existience. The most annoying being one that repeats the phrase "HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD" like ten times. Really annoying. But I have a sure-fire way to kick these companies where it hurts them the most by not buying they product no matter how good it may be. If they wanted me to buy their product they would not have came up with such an abomination and raised the volume 6 dB.
The psychological aspect seems to be more important and worrisome, IMHO. The things developing children interact with are known to cause a long-standing effect on their psychological development - particularly creativity, analytical skills and imagination. Most people (and geeks) including me can relate to how Legos had a +ve impact on their mental development as kids and how the newer "specialized lego sets" hamper this development by being too restrictive. The same can be said for many other articles/games that kids are exposed to in their developing ears.
Can you even get those bulk sets of Legos anymore. I remember seeing sets of 250, 500, and even 1000+ in K-Mart when I was a kid. I still like to build stuff using Legos, especually if it's big and complex. The fact remains that these newer Lego sets while they look cool are a real shame. I guess it's all a part of the dumbing down of America and I blame smarttoys, poor parenting, and those new schooling techniques like no child left behind.
I'm glad though that India did reject this program, but not because I'm a luddite. I would like to see proof done on a sample first to verify it's effectiveness. It really would be a shame if we were to spend all this money on such a well meaning program only for it to fail. Not to mention the humiliation factor involved. I'm all for it if it helps but if it does not I'd rather see the program scraped for something that did prove effective.
A freind of mine once wrote a message with a much lower refresh rate... he planted trees. Somewhere in northeastern Washington, aliens (or pilots) may be startled to see a certain naughty word beginning with "f" spelled out over a couple acres.
Actually in Germany there is a giant swastika in the Black Forests the was crreated by the Nazis during the 1930s. It's a very interesting concept.
As a Linux user I really want to see this means that ATI will either open up their specs or make better drivers. I am forced to use a ATI Radeon 9600 which runs four times faster under Windows than it does under Linux. This is just money down the drain and it's ashame to see such a beautiful piece of hardware to be given such craptacular support. I bought the card so they should provide the service of at least letting me take full advantage of its features in the OS of my choice. I don't care if they release binary-only and lock up the source code, if it come to that then just don't include it in the kernel--keep it a separate download so the FOSS advicates don't have a cow. But my point in case, it can't be that much trouble for them to write decent drivers for Linux.
On the other hand, I think that partnering up with AMD would be a good move. I prefer them over Intel, and contrary to popular belief gamers aren't the only people who prefer the power AMD provides. If AMD and ATI were to merge their technologies they could create faster and better systems that could top any Intel setup. And with the proper drivers were made for Linux systems. I would gladly use one of those bad boys.
But for many others like me who choose Linux this option would not be viable if AMD and ATI don't release the proper drivers to make the system work decenty. In essence, as long as AMD does not force us into using tech then graphics intensive users will choose NVidia because their drivers are par on performance wise on all their supported OSes. And that is how it should be.
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I know that experience, however it's typical of the phone company too where I live (Embarq). On several occasions I've had lightining strike out the phone lines and Sprint / Embarq take over a week to get a service man out.
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Umm... if your staff is just so stupidly incompetant that they use software by "memorising clicks" then perhaps it's time to invest in a new set of employess despite their "contacts." If you don't understand what you are doing at your job you do not deserve to keep your job. Perhaps these people would make better department store greeters or burger flippers because seriously, if they do not care enough to learn to understand then they should not have that job.
This may sound cruel but why throw money away on training when you can hire a competent staff that is able to figure out for themselves that OpenOffice is not MS Office and when they get stuck to use help files or whatever to figure out how to do X (not the OpenOffice is hard to learn). It's just good business.
Actually I use a VHS tape (since I do not have Tivo) to record the shows I watch then fast forward through commercials unless I see something that catches my intrest or curiosity. Otherwise I ignore the static and watch only the programing I desire. If a commerical is too loud and I'm not recording it (eg, live TV) I mute the tele. But ever since I discovered the News Hour on PBS I haven't been doing much muting.
You see, Google has success as an advertiser because they are nonobtrusive and their ads don't eat up bandwidth or steal focus from what you are looking up. Where as other ads say "LOOK AT ME!!!" google says in a nice little side note "this product may interest you." People prefer the later to the former simply because it is less distracting.
What I think would be cool is if the cable companies merged Internet and television to bring us (sorry for the made up buzzword) TV-2.0. Imagine watching TV and at the bottom in a small pane could be some links and a "taskbar" which could have a button on it to bring up articles related to what you are watching. For example if you are watching a documentary on the Science Channel you could bring up articles and information on cetain topics mentioned to get a more detailed look into the topic. It would be awesome!
And Tivo could be used to used to record either just the audio / video content of the show of the whole bundle. In addition companies like Google could use this taskbar to scroll unobtrusive text links at the bottom of the sceen on its live showing instead of all the time wasting in-show commercials. Now, for that I would gladly pay $50 a month to DirecTV or Comcast. We have the technology right now to make better service options like this, so why not? In this case we all win -- ad companies get to show their ads, and we can watch our shows at the live showing with them or choose to watch them later with the ads and extra content clipped out.
I prefer the bread anology. The universe is a lot like dough put into an oven to make bread. As the dough heats up in the over aer bubbles inside build up cause the bread to expand into puffy goodness. This makes more since because the bread seen as the universe in the metaphor is not what is expanding. What is expanding is the space inside the bread while the dough itself walls in these tiny aer pockets.
yum... bread.
The Government does not regulate one's rights and no matter what anyone says or does can change that. Indeed, Government create that perception through many means including punnishing those who demand, execute, or support those Rights. This is because these Rights are sacred and are inherited by every person from the greatest of Divinties. For a Government to infringe on one's liberties is a sin greater than murder because it leads to forcing it's citizens to live lives worse than death, for those who are not executed or tortured by the government it is a life of constant fear. Verily, just as no sane man would never vernture to wish such a fate upon his brethren that no just Government ever create such bleak dystopiæ.
Goverment has a duty to both protect its citizens and to submit to them in service. For a Goverment to remove the very Rights which all are born with is a stark violation of being a service to its citizens. Such a goverment should never be tolerated and as such should be removed by its citizens. Those who submit to a tyranic Goverment may live, but to those who wish to be free--those who desire those most the Divine inheretance--false security is not worth the the risks involved in losing their liberties.
I believe a great patriot once said: "Live free or die." But to the free spirit Tyranny is death.
Blessed be.
All the government needs to do is provide the ILLUSION of democracy (yes, I know we are a constitutional republic but i'm not going there with that and most people probably could not tell you the difference between a constiution republic and a democracy. point aside.) As long as the people have that illusion they will be happy. Even if a few of us can see through it, there is no problem becuase we become the "wackos," "conspiracy theorists," "communists," "extremist liberals," etc. The fact of the matter is that the government provides enough to keep the people happy. We have out jobs and reality television and most people are content with that. The real problem is educating the people and getting to care about what is really important -- yeah, good with that one.
The fact is that too many people do not care and wouldn't understand even if they tried. As long as they have the illusion then they are happy. It is both a blessing and a curse to be smart enough to understand politics and government in this day and age. Then again isn't it always. I believe it is the old Chinese curse: "May thou live during interesting times."
You joke but I think Richard Stallman would make a better president the current Fürer. I mean seriously, take a look at the guy's website! He knows his issues if anything.
ummm... I thought the exact quote was in ABBA form:
"It is not who votes that counts. It is who counts the votes."
I forgot what these are called but it a common oratory and poetic device. Other popular phrases include:
"It is not what your country can do for you. It is what you can do for your country."
Either way could possibly be right though since the quote is translated out of Russian.
But I am paying for the war. Paying an arm and a leg everytime I fill up the tank with petro. But there are things even more important than money. Things that money cannot buy that I have sacraficed. I am paying for the war because my fellow citizens have determined that their perceived safety is more important than their freedom.
I am paying for the loss of friends and family members who have not come back from Iraq. Those are the things that connot be bought back and can never be returned to us.
Why not just do local or regional. Along with working with Apple. Make the CDs yourself and sell them at fleamarks and local bazaars. Where I live (Tallahassee, FL) there is plenty of places like the Farmers Market on Saturdays and many local bars that will gladly help serve to local artists. Sure you may not sell a million records or get a Grammy or CMA award but if you can sell 1000 CDs you burned at 50 to 75 cents a CD for $7 that's a heck of a lot more than I make in a year and surely most people. America is all about innovation and independence. If you feel that you deserve better than the RIAA then work hard and do everything you can to perpetuate your music.
I'd buy local artist's music if they sold it on CD-R's at the local bazaar if it was good and I know many others who would do the same. In fact there is even a local radio station 88.9 or 89.9 or something that plays only requested songs and a lot of it is works from LOCAL artists. There is more money in "small time" distrubution than people think. If you sound good and know how to market then why go through the RIAA outlets if you could possibly make more money doing it independently. Is fame really worth that cost? I certainly think not.
I don't know if this works for pineapples but for mangos, peaches, plums, and pretty much every other fruit I buy as ripe as I can get because I don't buy many and I want them to be ripe. If I do plan on stocking up and get fruit that is not ripe yet I place the fruit that I want ripened fastest in a brown paper bag, fold the top closed and then place it in a cabinet or some place with little light and is relatively cool. This causes the fruit to ripen at an extremely fast rate. Check the fruit daily to make sure it doesn't rot and whatever you do, do not forgot about it (that's really nasty).
So if you can't determine the ripeness of fruit this is a really good meathod. buy all your fruit underripe andjust do this.
Ever wonder why it takes Congess 160-odd pages to create a law that in essence could easily by phrased in one, maybe two or three pages if you wish to get really detailed? It's freaking rediculous and our taxes go to support this. It's freaking rediculous. There should really be an amendment to the Constitution to ban riders, force our leaders to actually read the bills they propose and debate, accurately title the bill, and be consice when writing the bill. It's funny that even as long as it is it is still pretty vague and that's a sign there is definately something wrong with the way our government functions.
This would be great. The sad fact is that I can think of so many commericals I'd jump at the chance to moderate out of existience. The most annoying being one that repeats the phrase "HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD" like ten times. Really annoying. But I have a sure-fire way to kick these companies where it hurts them the most by not buying they product no matter how good it may be. If they wanted me to buy their product they would not have came up with such an abomination and raised the volume 6 dB.
Case in point: If you are watching "Battlestar Galactica" why would you need birth control?
Can you even get those bulk sets of Legos anymore. I remember seeing sets of 250, 500, and even 1000+ in K-Mart when I was a kid. I still like to build stuff using Legos, especually if it's big and complex. The fact remains that these newer Lego sets while they look cool are a real shame. I guess it's all a part of the dumbing down of America and I blame smarttoys, poor parenting, and those new schooling techniques like no child left behind.
I'm glad though that India did reject this program, but not because I'm a luddite. I would like to see proof done on a sample first to verify it's effectiveness. It really would be a shame if we were to spend all this money on such a well meaning program only for it to fail. Not to mention the humiliation factor involved. I'm all for it if it helps but if it does not I'd rather see the program scraped for something that did prove effective.
Actually in Germany there is a giant swastika in the Black Forests the was crreated by the Nazis during the 1930s. It's a very interesting concept.
As a Linux user I really want to see this means that ATI will either open up their specs or make better drivers. I am forced to use a ATI Radeon 9600 which runs four times faster under Windows than it does under Linux. This is just money down the drain and it's ashame to see such a beautiful piece of hardware to be given such craptacular support. I bought the card so they should provide the service of at least letting me take full advantage of its features in the OS of my choice. I don't care if they release binary-only and lock up the source code, if it come to that then just don't include it in the kernel--keep it a separate download so the FOSS advicates don't have a cow. But my point in case, it can't be that much trouble for them to write decent drivers for Linux.
On the other hand, I think that partnering up with AMD would be a good move. I prefer them over Intel, and contrary to popular belief gamers aren't the only people who prefer the power AMD provides. If AMD and ATI were to merge their technologies they could create faster and better systems that could top any Intel setup. And with the proper drivers were made for Linux systems. I would gladly use one of those bad boys.
But for many others like me who choose Linux this option would not be viable if AMD and ATI don't release the proper drivers to make the system work decenty. In essence, as long as AMD does not force us into using tech then graphics intensive users will choose NVidia because their drivers are par on performance wise on all their supported OSes. And that is how it should be.
not an endless loop of pain:
"A whole new spectrum of pain, like a rainbow!" ~Random Barbarian from "Korgoth of Barbaria"