There is nobody, in any party, who I see on the horizon that I'm excited to vote for.
Can't give the electorate something to run from - got to give 'em something to run to. And I haven't seen it yet.
Mood pareant down for poro spleeling.11!!!
Good point - I stand corrected.
No. Really, no.
VW owners with a VAG-COM can do a number of tunes, mods and adaptations with just the software and the cable.
Modern cars run a CAN BUS (Car Area Network) and you can probably do a great deal on a number of vehicles. Certainly VW and Audi, but I can't imagine the rest of the industry is sitting still.
A VAG-COM is just about standard equipment for a VW owner who does his/her own repairs. Wouldn't think of doing more than regular maintenance without it. And for some of that (flushing brake fluid, f.e.), it's still necessary.
I was actually in Junior High at Williamsburg JHS at the time - 8th grade. The "Dialcom" name is familiar - I could be wrong about it being a CDC machine.
Our math teachers were pretty baffled, but trying to put a brave face on kicking off our computer education. There was a lot of "hope I don't break this thing" hesitation. There were a few hardy souls there who really helped us get started.
It appalled me when I got to college in '77 that I had to go backwards to punch cards and JCL for Fortran. Ugh.
I spent a lot of time on the "Career Center" time shared HP (IIRC) in high school at Yorktown, via an ADM-3A glass tube terminal, and on their HP 9830A "Calculator" (really, a low-end mini/microcomputer). Loved that 32-character dot-matrix display!
I learned my first line-number BASIC (*ptui!*) on an ASR-33 teletype via time-sharing on a Control Data system in public school in Arlington, VA in 1975.
I wrote dumb exponentiation loop programs about Ben, and how his rats would take over the city.
If you don't need other training or certification classes, and actually are learning from your conferences, have your manager use her education budget to send you.
If she doesn't have an education budget, why the hell not? Their investment in you is probably large enough to warrant it, and they'd BETTER be budgeting for it, vs. throwing the occasional wad of cash out there. You're cheaper to train up to a new internal position than to find someone new and start from scratch.
Provided you're not going to the Shriner's convention for the water balloons and the little cars (unless you're in the water balloon or little car industry) education and conferences are normal, expected business expenses.
If you're in the US and the company won't send you, you can deduct your own purchase of the conference and associated costs from your taxes as "unreimbursed business expense" - BUT NOTE that there's a threshold that has to be met: I forget the number, but I think you can only deduct unreimbursed bix expense greater than 7% of your salary. So if you are $5 higher than that 7% mark, you deduct $5.00.
The begging thing might make your taxes complicated...
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I still wouldn't trust any company not to hand over my information to the government. Lavabit was one hell of an exception, and one geeks the world over should be proud of.
Neither would I trust that email content I didn't personally encrypt with my own keys couldn't be seen by others.
Apple doesn't have to be relaying email for others in order for Apple to be able to see the contents of all SMTP traffic that transits or terminates at their mail servers. SSL for SMTP means nothing if the mail server is pwned or intentionally logging stuff due to a business mandate or government subpoena or pressure.
So Tim Cook didn't tell that particular lie. Good. But "We don't read your email" is an assertion, and one generally impossible to prove true (though more easily possible to prove false, given a certain amount of evidence).
Since when is anyone's SMTP email secure in transit, when is anyone running a mailserver unable to read the mail?
Since when is any company immune from subpoena or contempt of court?
God, I love my BarcaLounger Craftsman II. It's beautiful and comfy. Probably awful for my back, but as a chair to flop with a laptop, wonderful.
The tall-ish wooden arms make it crap for noodling on a guitar, and the arms slope, so no good for a place to put a soda. You'll want a side table. You`ll have to improvise a place for an outlet strip, but hell, if it's a laptop, you need to exercise the battery for maximum working life anyway, right? Or attach the outlet to the side table and leave your georgeous chair unscathed.
There are knockoffs of this chair, that look just like it, but aren't nearly as comfy. I know: I wanted to buy a knockoff 'cuz it was convenient, would ship with the rest of our furniture, but no, had to go back for the real thing, haven't regretted it for a minute.
If the family ever comes apart, we'll negotiate for most everything in the house, but not this chair. it's coming with me.
It's part of the "Woodland Reserve" collection in "Vintage Reserve" on BarcaLounger's very 1990s-looking web site, http://www.barcalounger.com/
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
That's the awful piece of crap I called out below. It's cheap but sounds like boiled shit. 60Hz hum, loud enough to obscure conversation, hiss, level match problems, AWFUL!
Buy the JK Audio QuickTap if you need something like this that works.
I do stakeholder and user interviews, and may not be able to predict what telephony equipment I'll find at a site.
I realize you're asking for a smartphone or VOIP app, but what I've come to rely on is the JK Audio QuickTap: http://www.jkaudio.com/quickta... - it can record both sides from virtually ANY corded-handset phone. Sounds great, it's a passive device, so no batteries, no AC, it's little and comes with the adapters you need for a pocket recorder (like the Olympus recorder I use, but works with a PC/Mac input as well...).
This works nearly anyplace, and sounds great. Whatever you do, DO NOT try the Radio Shack device for cheap cheap that claims to do the same thing. The Radio Shack device has a little switch on it. Position 1 is "Suck", and Position 2 is "Suck Differently". You buy this thing and you've hosed yourself.
Full disc: I don't sell these, have no ownership, employment or other stake with JK Audio: they just make tools that work when I desperately need 'em to, and I love 'em.
...is what the ad revenue looks like on RuminantBook.
Cisco has been working hard to productize video conferencing, and has hardware and software solutions for it, from telepresence suites down to desk phones with screens, as well as applications.
Don't know all about the fit and price, but probably worth a look: might beat a duct-taped solution where no onsite maintenance is required.
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