The Year 1908
(An anecdote for those who complain about today’s world. . . )
The year is 1908.
One hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!
Here are some
statistics for the Year 1908 :
The average life
expectancy was 47 years.
Only 14 percent of the
homes had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the
homes had a telephone.
There were only 8,000
cars and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed
limit in most cities was 10 mph. The tallest structure in the world was the
Eiffel Tower!
The average wage in
was 22 cents per hour.
The average worker
made between $200 and $400 per year .
A competent accountant
could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian
between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000
per year.
More than 95 percent
of all births took place at HOME .
Ninety percent of all
doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION!
Instead, they attended
so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press AND the
government as "substandard."
Sugar cost four cents
a pound.
Eggs were fourteen
cents a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen
cents a pound.
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Office Hours: How Bill Gates Uses
Office
Written by William (Bill) H. Gates,
chairman of Microsoft Corporation.
Reprinted with permission from Microsoft Office.
If you visit my office, you will probably notice
right away that I have three large flat screen
displays that sit together and are synchronized
so they work like a single very wide display.
The large display area enables me to work very
efficiently. I keep my Outlook 2007 Inbox open
on the screen to the left so I can see new
messages as they come in. I usually have the
message or document that I'm currently reading
or writing in the center screen. The screen on
the right is where I have room to open up a
browser or look at a document that someone has
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I spend the majority of my time communicating with
colleagues, customers, and partners. As a result,
Outlook is the application that I use the most. I
receive about 100 e-mail messages per day from Microsoft
employees, and many more from customers and partners.
It's very important that I hear what people think about
our products and our company. Yet I need to balance that
against the very real risk of information overload from
all the e-mail that I receive. The advances we made in
Outlook 2007 for filtering, rules, and search folders
have made it much easier to manage my e-mail than
before, especially because so much happens automatically
once I've set everything up.
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Guess Who Could Turn You In?
IT
staffs gone bad
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How
do the software police find out if you are running
illegal copies of software? One of the more popular
methods is notification from your former employees. Yep.
If someone knows your hard drives better than you do,
and they don’t have fond memories of the days on your
payroll, you have the makings of a visit from a software
compliance cop. Congratulations.
Software
piracy is illegal and risky. There may be severe
penalties to an organization that knowingly or
unknowingly obtains, uses, or possesses software
illegally. The penalty for civil copyright infringement
is a fine up to $100,000 per title. Criminal violation
carries fines up to $250,000 per title and up to five
years imprisonment.
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attention?
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Do You Need to Turn Off Your PC at Night?
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For many years now, I've been shutting off my computer at
night. But I'm now convinced you can leave your computer on
at night and still conserve as much energy.
If you're a Windows user (Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME), just set up
your PC to "hibernate" overnight. "Hibernate" powers down your monitor to about
5 watts of energy and your PC to 2.3 watts -- virtually the same as turning your
PC off (your monitor uses zero watts when turned off; more on this below).
Either way, you save as much as $90 a year in power costs compared to a PC left
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"Well, duh. Welcome back from the Disco Era," many of you are thinking. You
already knew all this.
Maybe so, but the question keeps coming up, year after year: Should you shut
your computer down at night or leave it running? Some time ago I essentially
passed on the recommendation of the good folks at Energy Star, a
product-labeling program sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
that "if you are going home for the day, turn it off."
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How to Make a Wi-Fi Connection
(Almost) Anywhere
The promise of a free
wireless Internet connection enticed Lynn Fox into booking a room at
the Holiday Inn Express in Madison, Wis. Who could blame her?
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Fox, a community relations professional
from Iowa City, Iowa, relished the
thought of no more wires. No more clunky
dial-up connections. No more phone
bills. When she checked in, she thought
she was home free.
But even though the signal
showed up loud and clear on her laptop, Fox couldn't find her way
online. "The technician I spoke with diagnosed it as problem with my
firewall. He said I should disable it and try connecting again," she
remembers. "I said, 'Forget it.'"
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Not being able to get a
Wi-Fi connection when you're counting on it is costly to
small-business pros like Fox. A 2004 survey by the Omni Consulting
Group found that the use of mobile data services such as Wi-Fi led
to an average productivity gain of 13.7% per employee.
Take away wireless access
and you could be losing productivity and profitability. In a recent
article, I offered four tips for hitting hotspots. But there's much
more on this subject to tell you about.
Now, back to the task at
hand. How do you get a Wi-Fi connection from anywhere?
Here are five additional
tips.
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The reason a dog has more friends
is that he wags his tail instead
of his tongue.
-Anonymous
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How Bill Gates Uses