I started taking long vacations and traveling in my mid-40s. 10 years later, I am semi-retired. I think I do enjoy them more than I might whe I am older but, OTOH, I actually worry that I might have started too late at 40s. ;)
Man, would love to be able to do this right now... Just cannot finacially afford to travel.
First major trip was at age 43 to London. Visit London is my equivalent of Disney world.
I started taking long vacations and traveling in my mid-40s. 10 years later, I am semi-retired. I think I do enjoy them more than I might when I am older but, OTOH, I actually worry that I might have started too late at 40s. ;)
I was never much of a vacationer, am looking forward to travel when I
retire - and trying to make sure I can make the most of it.
I thought BeOS came out on dedicated hardware first -- they definitely
had some cool ideas, and in re-reading about it, sounds like the file
system was heads and shoulders above what MS and Apple did at the time.
That's another question I've had - If there's a move to 4-day work week
would that also mean benefits would change? Maybe they'd change it so
that 32 hours per week is considered enough to get benefits.
I thought the idea was 4 10-hour days, making it the same weekly hourly amoun
MIKE POWELL wrote to GAMGEE <=-
Some companies already give employees the option to work 4 10-hour days or 5 8-hour days. If it's going to be 4 10-hour days, I'd rather things just be left as it is and give people the option. But if it's 4 8-hour days, I wouldn't mind that for more work-life balance.
Would you mind the 20% pay cut? Also likely don't get
benefits/insurance with only 32 hours per week...
My guess would be that if a company went to a 32-hr work week, that'd
be considered full time for them... although I can also see some underhanded companies considering all employees part-time in that scenario.
I agree, though, that most are not going to keep paying their employees
a 40-hour wage/salary for only working 32 hours. TNSTAAFL.
Since then I did find a couple of other Disney Worlds, and they are also in Indiana -- The Auburn Museum and the Studebaker Museum. ;)
I thought it was also but after re-reading the OP, I think that they were implying a < 40 hr work week.
Nightfox wrote to nblade <=-
I never saw the Be boxes in stores; I remember happening upon an
article in my high school library that mentioned BeOS and the BeBox (I don't remember how I found that in the library now), and I later
learned they ported BeOS to Intel-compatible PCs, and I decided to buy
a copy to try on one of my PCs.
At least I seem to remember it that way, I could be mistaken. Of course that is around the same time, I would buy Red Hat Linux for the phyical media so I wouldn't have to DL it and burn it to CD (or was it DVD by then??)
There's a great car museum in Blackhawk, CA. They have a collection of 1930s cars, I remember a Mercedes 540k, a Hispano with beech planking and brass rivets, a Duesenberg, then moving up in time, 1950s Porsche racing cars, a dozen Aston Martin racing cars, a 1960s JaG, a Porsche 917, and more... WHen
dozen Aston Martin racing cars, a 1960s JaG, a Porsche 917, and more... WHen realized that all of the Aston Martins were donated from a personal collectio
I liked the UI of the Windows phone, CE felt too much like they wanted the Windows desktop OS on everything, but WP felt optimized for phones. I was surprised Microsoft didn't make WP work better in Microsoft corporate environments (or more accurately, break performance with every other platform to make WP the choice for corporate clients.
In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical disc
Nightfox wrote to nblade <=-
I did that too. In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical
disc (CD-R and DVD-R) and mail it to you for only the cost of the
media, so you wouldn't have to download it yourself.
Mortar M. wrote to Nightfox <=-
I had one of those. It came with Slackware Linux. First distro I ever used. This around '93, I believe. There was no GUI, no real documentation so after fumbling about for...oh, a day, I scraped it. I guess I just wasn't ready for it yet. --- SBBSecho 3.34-Linux
I did that too. In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical
disc (CD-R and DVD-R) and mail it to you for only the cost of the
media, so you wouldn't have to download it yourself.
Nightfox
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I did that too. In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical disc (CD-R and DVD-R) and mail it to you for only the cost of the media, so you wouldn't have to download it yourself.
Walnut Creek? Arent't they the guys who hosted cdrom.com?
I did that too. In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical disc (CD-R and DVD-R) and mail it to you for only the cost of the
media, so you wouldn't have to download it yourself.
Wow, I remember those guys. Never got media from them but I do remember
the Ads for them.
MIKE POWELL wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-
dozen Aston Martin racing cars, a 1960s JaG, a Porsche 917, and more... WHen realized that all of the Aston Martins were donated from a personalollectio
When you realized that, what? Looks like maybe you didn't complete a thought there? ;)
MIKE POWELL wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-
I had a coworker who had a Windows phone. He liked it. I was actually not aware of when they discontinued them but from this conversation I guess they have.
nblade wrote to Nightfox <=-
Wow, I remember those guys. Never got media from them but I do remember the Ads for them.
I suspect a lot of the layoffs we are seeing are due to corporations adjustin to the fact their budgets are very badly balanced and are using the AI excuse for PR purposes for the most part.
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