Re: No Internet for You
Internet Terms Of Service? Is there one? Asking because I honestly don't know, but I don't know how legal or enforceable such a document would be.
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Exactly. Everytime we were forced into a migration, we saw it as an opportunity to see if there was a better system to migrate to. Our healthcare systems vendor (McKesson) put us in just such a position. We ended up moving on to a new vendor's (Cerner) software.
I wouldn't have chosen either, but IT's recommendation was over ruled. After two years they're migrating on to yet another system.
This seems to be a common theme: crowdfunding/selling kit in advance, multiple delays, poor product pushed out the door or no product ever delivered, communication goes unanswered, bankruptcy.
As someone mentioned above, I might be interested if I was a hobbyist but in that case I'd go the do-it-yourself relay route - otherwise I don't see the benefit.
Question: Can the BBC actually tell the party what to do? It seems that this ad would fall under what I believe is called "Fair Use" in the US. I realise that the content would have been only an extract, but if it is what was actually said over the public airways for public consumption.....
I think for both companies the problem is that people just don't require hard copies much anymore.
Merging both companies is a little bit like a buggy whip manufacturer buying a horseshoe manufacturer to address the sales lost because people are buying cars.
I've been through a couple of these as both stockholder and employee, and I agree.
Oddly enough, in both cases it was a smaller company buying, and the merged company management was inferior to the original.
*Anheuser-Busch by InBev, the other I can't discuss.
The people at HP may not want it. But stockholders may - if the offer is high enough, they could see it as a way to exit a struggling company with a nice chunk of cash in hand. I imagine they'll want a better offer: more cash and less or no stock.
"I would imagine that a lot of the laws Trump passed would also get thrown out."
Trump has not passed any laws. Those are written and passed by congress. Trump can sign or veto a bill - a 2/3 majority is required to over-ride a presidential veto.
If Trump was impeached and removed from office, VP Pence would be the replacement.
Today's Wall Street Journal has an article on how the IT workforce is skewed toward younger workers.
Not too bad of a tech article for the WSJ, but in addition to focusing on the hiring of younger workers, they could have addressed companies like IBM who are actively targeting older workers for layoffs.
Were in a classroom for a monthly meeting, lights turned down for a PowerPoint presentation. Saw a friend falling asleep, did a net send saying "Wake Up" as a joke.
Every PC in the room dinged, everyone snapped awake and looked around guiltily.
Oh God, I'd sent it to everyone in the room! Then panic: I'd sent it to everyone in the company!
Thank God there were only classrooms on the router, and ours was the only one in use.
This is the part that would make me think twice: Xerox is offering $22 per share, $5 of which is in Xerox stock and $17 in cash. That Xerox stock is going to be in a highly leveraged company if the buyout goes through. HP stock is currently around $19. I would want a higher premium on the HP stock.
There aren't really any US laws on "jay walking". I believe most those are set by the municipality, maybe some states.
I never cross at an intersection when I can avoid it: there I have to watch for traffic coming from four directions, and drivers that don't watch for pedestrians and habitually blow through marked crossings.
Maybe it's better in other locations - NYC, Chicago, etc - but here it's safer to assume that you're potential roadkill and act accordingly.
Here in Nashville, and with our provider, we also have electronic access to our records.
I like the fact that I can walk into one of their satellite clinics out in the sticks, be seen within 15 minutes, have an XRay taken which is reviewed by a Dr in Nashville while I wait.
That's an example of how useful/efficient electronic records can be. Working in IT in the health care industry, I've also seen how badly things can go wrong too.
I like pen and paper as an available option - that should work regardless of the condition causing the outage, including natural disasters where power is lost.
Some hospitals going through the same thing in the US basically shut down for the duration I believe, transferring patients elsewhere. That won't work if they are all hit by the same hurricane, earthquake, etc.
IIRC, an example when you're talking about a database write: the code is supposed to write a record which contains multiple columns. If the code cannot make entries for each column in the record, it won't do the write - a complete entry or nothing, ensuring you don't write crap records.