Indeed.
We've done that over 100 times this year.
Fix and clean, install a usable OS, add a printer, and give them to kids who couldn't otherwise afford one.
Doing homework and surfing the web doesn't take the latest and greatest hardware. Usually, maxing out the memory and installing a NON-VIRUS-LADEN OS does the trick.
In other news, Ford now sells cars in colours other than black...
And in related news, Home Depot sells cans of spray paint.
Suddenly, I too can be trendy! Woo Hoo!
That's a seriously idiotic commentary.
Cubes are about minimizing office space costs. They costs are very real and very significant.
Higher up people get offices because as one gets higher in an organization, the company has to give up things to retain those people.
If minimizing costs is significant, why isn't minimizing costs for the boss's office space also significant? Do dollars change value depending on who's spending them? No they don't.
If the "higher up" will move on because he/she doesn't have a fancy enough office, doesn't that just prove my point that the whole thing is about perception of power? Yes it does. And anyone who is more concerned about appearing to be important that he is about actually contributing something in return for his salary should be shown the door. Not the one to his office, either.
Real numbers - MS is what 90%+ of the market? If I wouldn't date them then I would be limiting myself to less than %10 of the available dates?
And about 90% of the available girls in my area are a lot like Microsoft - bloated and overweight, and very high
maintenance.
At $699 a pair for a custom size, they probably aren't even going to need venture funding!
Hey, that's not such a bad deal.
You get two things more than I got with my $699 SCO linux license!
Not quite. I'm comparing unnecessary slavery, for convenience, to unnecessarily eating an animal where there is enough food in the plant kingdom for everyone, for taste (or whatever other trivial reason there may be)
You're just being cowardly.
You'll only eat poor, defenseless plants which can neither
defend themselves nor run away.
Would-be burgers can do both.
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I get them from there :)
Indeed. We've done that over 100 times this year. Fix and clean, install a usable OS, add a printer, and give them to kids who couldn't otherwise afford one.
Doing homework and surfing the web doesn't take the latest and greatest hardware. Usually, maxing out the memory and installing a NON-VIRUS-LADEN OS does the trick.
This article is NOT TRUE!
The entertainment industr" is only using this to get you to buy into their real plan, which is to install coin slots in the ears of every newborn.
It'll cost a quarter (60 cents if you want stereo) whenever you want to hear something. A buck if you want to see it.
Proceeds to benefit the fat bastards in the RIAA and MPAA. The artists will continue to starve as usual.
Method 1 - denial - "He's not dead he's just sleeping!"
Or he's singer William Shatner. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
SCO: there is line by line copying of SCO code in Linux.
IBM: what source code.
SCO: we aren't saying and besides which you deleted the evidence.
You forgot one step:
Dear Mr. "Bates":
Please send next payment.
Regards,
SCO
In other news, Ford now sells cars in colours other than black...
And in related news, Home Depot sells cans of spray paint.
Suddenly, I too can be trendy! Woo Hoo!
Argue all you want, but after hiring more than 250 over the last 10 years I know what I am talking about.
I wouldn't dream of arguing.
I can see that you're much too busy hiring to ever waste time doing your christmas shopping at work.
That's a job for your secretary on her lunch hour.
That's a seriously idiotic commentary. Cubes are about minimizing office space costs. They costs are very real and very significant. Higher up people get offices because as one gets higher in an organization, the company has to give up things to retain those people.
If minimizing costs is significant, why isn't minimizing costs for the boss's office space also significant? Do dollars change value depending on who's spending them? No they don't.
If the "higher up" will move on because he/she doesn't have a fancy enough office, doesn't that just prove my point that the whole thing is about perception of power? Yes it does. And anyone who is more concerned about appearing to be important that he is about actually contributing something in return for his salary should be shown the door. Not the one to his office, either.
It has nothing to do with 'productivity'.
It's designed to constantly remind you of your lack of importance.
You can bet the boss has an office.
Same reason telecommuting isn't popular - it means fewer boot-lickers on display when the PHB's golf-buddies come to visit.
Real numbers - MS is what 90%+ of the market? If I wouldn't date them then I would be limiting myself to less than %10 of the available dates? And about 90% of the available girls in my area are a lot like Microsoft - bloated and overweight, and very high maintenance.
1999 just called - they want their Linux FUD back.
At $699 a pair for a custom size, they probably aren't even going to need venture funding!
Hey, that's not such a bad deal. You get two things more than I got with my $699 SCO linux license!
Not quite. I'm comparing unnecessary slavery, for convenience, to unnecessarily eating an animal where there is enough food in the plant kingdom for everyone, for taste (or whatever other trivial reason there may be) You're just being cowardly. You'll only eat poor, defenseless plants which can neither defend themselves nor run away. Would-be burgers can do both.