I just cancelled a 10-year Hotmail account and left to Gmail a few days ago because Microsoft thought that it would be cute to splice their own(poorly-implemented, I might add) version of MySpace into my goddamn e-mail account.
It's not like Hotmail is the only one. Yahoo!'s mail did it, too, with their "Connections," but perhaps it's easier to ignore on Yahoo!.
DT
Yes, it does have a slot. I can pursue that avenue if the IR sync doesn't work. Thanks!
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I've got my Clie SJ-22 that I've had for years (my Palm IIIx screen digitizer went out), and I still use it religiously, but now I've found out, horror of horrors, that it no longer syncs to my computer (Sony hardware issue, since I've tried my SO's cradle for nought; she's tried my cradle and it works for her). I can try an IR sync to see if that works. Either way, since the hardware is going, I need to find a place to put all those calendar items that I've been carrying around forever.
Aside from waiting for the Palm Pre, which I haven't heard if there's any way to migrate PalmOS info to, does anybody else have ideas for how and where to put all the Palm info? Extra credit: can't sync with Palm, but rather has to take the computer files. I don't want to buy anything from eBay either.
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I'm no business analyst, but obviously Linux (the netbook market in particular) is severely cutting into the profits of computer giants like Microsoft, Apple, Intel, and IBM. If you needed a sign for the year of Linux, this is it!
Well, I've got a circa-1998 333MHz Pentium II processor with 128 MB of memory running my file server at the house. If it wasn't for Linux, I'd have replaced it a loooong time ago with some of that new fancy-shmancy Intel stuff. Now it sits there for months between reboots and hardly draws any power. And when that goes, I've got an 800MHz beastie waiting in the wings to take over.
Nope, Linux hasn't hurt Intel at all.
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What, Americans make up only 5% of the world population? (10% by body mass)
Yes, but if we don't like something, it suffers because we are the consumers of the world's resources. If it's not good enough for me to buy with my borrowed money off of my maxed-out credit cards, then it's not good enough for anyone else.
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I originally looked at 9/80 and thought to myself, I can see requiring 80 hours a week, but what does the 9 mean?
At one employer, salaried people were expected to put in at least 9 hours per day. One (salaried) guy that did exactly 80 got canned when the boss put out a memo saying that extended weekday hours and a Saturday were required until further notice. When he didn't show up the first Saturday, the boss called it insubordination and thereby got around having to give him unemployment insurance.
Nope, I'm no longer there, and tell everyone about that employer at the drop of a hat.
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During the last bust (are we in a bust yet?), a friend of mine in a small non-startup company that had had enough of the small-company silliness slacked off (i.e., still worked, but demonstrated lack of motivation by only putting in 40 hours a week) so that he was one of the first to get laid off, which also forced him to look for employment which he didn't do while he was with the small company.
He's a happy guy doing Python programming for a big-name managed server company now. Oh yeah, he got a nice raise, too.
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Not having RTFA, I think that the biggest problem is, unless all you're doing is adding entrance ramp traffic lights, is the drivers. If they have to obey some sort of changing speed limit sign or something just as "voluntary," they're going to ignore it. Where I commute, as soon as people get on the highway, they stomp on it even though they know that in a mile and a half they're going to be going 5 mph.
But at least they'll be ahead of that Prius back there. Dang liberals!
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And you may find yourself
Wondering "why, in God's name, am I here?"
Beats working.
DT
That reminds me of my nephew's computer science teacher in high school. The buffoon assigned labs with the following grading structure: if you turned in what satisfied the requirements and it worked and it was commented well, you got a "C" for the lab. You got a higher grade if you added more "stuff." And it was very subjective on what the "stuff" was that would get you a higher grade.
It was all that I could do to keep from marching into that school and tell the teacher that if you add extra "stuff" in your programs in the real world, you get fired.
Sadly that experience pretty much ruined it for him as far as computer science goes. Now he's a lawyer. Pity.
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Actually read some of your posts on skills shortages. Yep, there's nothing like seeing an ad for someone with 2 years of Java experience... oh and also J2EE, JSP, JSF, Struts, JDBC, Oracle, Swing, JavaScript, JavaFX version 1.0, Python, Perl
Translation: we want all those skills, but only want to pay a salary for a person that got their BS two years ago. And if you're awesome enough to have all those skills,
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... I paid market rates which I am sure you would say are low.
Ow. Every time I hear market rates, it means that they want to low-ball me. My impression is that market rates are whatever you want them to be, backed up reflexively by the phrase, "market rates."
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Users could be infected with the Trojan either from a drive-by download,
Depends on what TFAA meant by drive-by download... worst case in my imagination would be that it installs itself without asking mother may I. I believe that there is a little install countdown thingie that at least makes sure that the question stays on the screen long enough so that you can see that something is going on, rather than letting an errant keypress or mouse click install it.
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At that point, telling the truth becomes a very hard decision to make.
No, at that point the question is where is the nearest door.
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"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
