Your problem is that you suggested spending money to save money. Sometimes there's NO MONEY.

What you needed to do was show that they could FIRE an employee, and use the savings to upgrade the computer and get the same amount of work done with the remaining employees. Save money, then spend money.

Yes, not enough of the commenters seem to understand that most of the things that people want progress bars involve not only guessing how long each task will require, but ALSO having no idea what specific set of tasks are required.

"Primitive" tasks might be easy (e.g. copy File A), but as you build up a sequence of these tasks in becomes impossible. (e.g. Copy Disk A; Copy All Media on PC X; Copy All Media on the LAN)

Throw in a few tasks that are really slow, but are difficult to predict if they will need to occur or not...

I'm sorry, perhaps you didn't know about this feature called 'toolbars' ? I could have half a dozen toolbars up in the space that the ribbon takes up and it was easier to control the set of tools I like to work with together.

Comcast's outgoing spam filtering is crap.

I send little email, and when I do it often gets rejected by comcast because it is something like a "todo" list or a list of URLs for future reading that I am sending from my home email to my office email.

Inevitably, to get the email to send I have to make it look MORE like spam by inserting some useless text like: "Hi me, this is that information you were sending to yourself, hope you like it!"

and here I thought it was because most PCs that ship with Windows X barely can (or is that can't?) run Windows X + 1

See, you need to get a financial education. Neither defined benefit, nor defined contribution plan distributions are taxed via capital gains. It's all ordinary income. That's one of the trade-offs for tax free growth pre-distribution phase.

Also, in case the abstract thinking is too much, A society in which one day you have 100% employment and X production, is no more productive the day after 20% of the workers are laid off. Sure, an individual company may be, but the society... no. Not unless those workers actual get another job. Idle workers are not productive, whether they are on someone's payroll, receiving unemployment, or begging in the streets.

Meanwhile, based upon my interactions with actual companies, I'd say that their 'products' (physical or non-physical) have lower quality due to their lack of employees, so their production value has probably gone down in real terms.

When I do use Hulu, I get a screen that says "Sorry, we're unable to load a message from our sponsors."

Which is much better than the experience I had the other day on ADC (I think?) where I was tormented with 4 sets of 3 back-to-back copies of Microsoft's PC + Xbox360 back to school ad.

And no numbers that could be letter substitutes.
So no 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 or 9 is allowed. You must include numbers not in this set. (Also please remember that NaN is not a number and thus does not satisfy the numeric requirement).

Is this a generic fix? There are miscellaneous FF navigation controls that stop working when one of the (background) tabs is open to certain plugins (PDF is one, YouTube/Flash is another)

To fill your prescription at one of the participating Network retail pharmacies, ... you pay only the appropriate coinsurance or copayment amount.

coinsurance = % appropriate = it varies based on the drug category

which really means the more expensive the drug, the higher percentage of the higher price you will need to pay

To file a claim for reimbursement from an out-of-network pharmacy: When your claim is processed, you will be reimbursed up to 55% of the drug's Average Wholesale Price (AWP) for covered medicines and supplies purchased at an out-of-network pharmacy.

Where AWP is code for, "determined however the insurance company feels like", much like Reasonable and Customary is.

It's more complex even than you have stated. The cost is going to depend upon which drugstore you go to, what your insurance company has negotiated with that drugstore (considered a trade secret BTW).

It's a nightmare.

And anyone who claims that Americans are not cost conscious when it comes to medical expenses is being willfully obtuse. They system is designed to make it impossible to comparison shop. You have a procedure done and you don't even know how many different entities are going to send you a bill.

I bet there are thousands of people who would be willing to subscribe to HBO.... if they didn't have to spend $80+ to be eligible to subscribe.

Witchblade is on Netflix streaming. Watch it everywhere.

The dismantling of AT&T in the 80s.