I'm more annoyed by the fact that when we request a specific profile they always screw up the selection.

>> We didn't send you the CV of the ex NASA lunar lander rocket designer because he didn't have word and excel on his CV. You need a technical profile right? So let me do my job and call this guy who sold his bakery six month ago but he has made his own website and the shape of his C and D indicate that he's a strong team player.

I bought a sennheiser travel headset that filters background noise has an option to enhance voice from background noise and can do bluetooth. It was 150Euros. I'm pretty sure that redesigned without the fancy and the useless extras (bluetooth, blink-blink) it would fit the form factor of an hearing aid and probably isn't technologically very far (in terms of components and dsp used). I can feel a lot of margin in the hearing-aid business.

It's not the solution for everyone but it sure is one for my 5 employees company. Google gives me an email/shared calendar/document sharing and website hosting for a ridiculously low price. We use an hosted CRM, billing and issue tracking software for a a near zero infrastructure cost and the recurring if far below what the local cisco distributor would charge us to even have 10 minute look at our setup. We wouldn't be able to afford self-hosting and maintaining a tenth of the applications we use if we had to do it in house. And most important for us at this point it works for roaming users; google app integrates well with blackberry without the need for a BES. etc.. etc..

Last week i needed to do a quick survey of our customers about a specific point and it took me all of ten minutes to set up a form using google docs; that less than the time it would have taken me to launch emacs remember the syntax for a doctype. Sure google forms sucks for anything more complex than a five bullet points questions but it beats sending excel sheet by mail.

Am I scared to have all my company information on Google's and third party servers, sure. We keep backups. I sometime wonder if it's a mistake but franckly at this point relying on Google to treat my data respectfully or relying on myself to do a decent admin works and fight off "Chinese" attack it more or less the same. The cloud is cheaper (for us).

When the company will have grown (fingers crossed) we'll re-assess the situation and most likely move things back in-house. In the mean time it's a boon for us.

TL;DR: my SMB can't afford to manage everything we use in-house. Google apps and SAAS (aka cloud) is cheaper.

Most likely a shitty automated brokerage system that initiated a fire sale when he calculated the net earning of his NASDAQ stock over the first trimester of 1900... Sheeple panicked, history ensued. And they say the Y2K bug had no impact... Geee.

Even my SUV monstrosity drives fine without steering assistance. At highway speed you barely need to turn the wheel anyway and the effort would on par with holding a glass of water as opposed to driving with the pinkie.

That's what the 50 buttons bluetooth enabled media center controller on the steering wheel is for.

Well.. for baking I like it better when the quantity are given in baker's percentage instead of fixed size whether in cup or grams. Somehow it makes more sense to me to have everything expressed in percentage of the mass of flour, particularly when I need to make more or less dough.

Relax, I don't know what's going on in your life for your first thing on your mind to be about cheating swinging gay porn and whatnot but most of us just want to avoid their close friends, vague relation and coworker to mix it up too much.

We all have pro-email and personal email but I'd bet that the majority of us had to give out the personal one away in a professional context for whatever reason (file size limit, exchange server bogged down, msn/google chat, etc..) and we really don't need our clients and recruiters to know about the boozing festival we had last week end for our childhood friend's birthday. It's not that we're ashamed of it. It just none of their business.

Unfortunately you seem to be in the minority of people who openly recognize they're not some kind of crossbreed of Michael Schumacher and Petter Solberg. My very own poll amongst people I know (take that double blind) gives me 95% of "Those rules are for bad drivers, it should not apply to me because I'm that good". And for "Those rules" I had the same results with any of seatbelt, driving drunk, driving under the influence of marijuana, texting, speed limits, eating, swerving, tailgating etc. Try to reason with them and make them read any scientific document linking behavior X and accident rate and you'll get a blank stare followed by a complete denial. "Then I must be the 99th percentile of people who are perfect drivers even when texting drunk as 200mph and sleep deprived".

I simply do not pickup my phone when driving, there's nothing important enough that anyone may have to tell me worth risking my life. I can't count how many time I had to explain it to decerebrate individuals. "Whaa? Why?? You can't drive and talk at the same time? You're retarded or what?"

Now if the kid doesn't want to comply, first time you tell him why he should, the second time you remove his toy, the third time he'll spend the night in the closet. For adults that 1/ a fine, 2/ drivers license suspension, 3/ jail time.

The first instruction on the test is to read all the other questions.
It's used to quickly and memorably teach kids that at the beginning of a test you should a) read the instruction carefully b) spend a minute looking at all the questions to see where are your strengths and weaknesses. This allows you to find which questions are the easiest for you to answer and to get them out of the way early on. Then you do all the slightly harder questions and finally give a shot at those you're not sure you'll get right. It's really basic time management so that you don't get bogged down on the third problem for half of the time while there's still 20 questions left. If you're still doing your test sequentially that's your problem.

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My point exactly! THANK YOU :)

• When I want to dedent I can press del once, not four times.
• I like my code when the indent size is about 4 space wide, my neighbor likes his code cramped at 2 spaces and some other weird people like it at 8 spaces. With tab and the editor settings we can all get what we want. Without generating a whole file modification changeset each time we decide to disagree on code spacing.
• ~15% in code file size reduction. I know, who cares, but still.. It feels cleaner.
• The key is called "Tab" when I press it I want a \t not random number of spaces. I don't care that VT-XYZ did not support it in 1980.

What are the benefits of using spaces in 2010? The only rational I've heard is that back in the time of computer dinosaurs some editors only knew how to render tab with 8 spaces and that was too much for the people who had 80 columns screens so they decided to type 4 spaces instead of using the tab character. So more code would fit on their screen.

I seriously doubt that GE, IBM, AT&T, Xerox, HP, Apple, MIT, Ford, AT&T (again), Halliburton, Bell, Prudential securities, UK government Department for work and Pensions, Dupont de Nemours and Co., Inc, Merck, USPS and some others deserve or need a /8.

Since it is still widely used I believe the terms unfashionable, outmoded, passé, outdated, out and anachronous would not be better than the term used by the parent poster since they all connote a lack of usage of the format.

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Windows 7 does. It was long overdue but now it's "out of the box".