I'd say it's up to the person. I'm permanently on the "can telecommute" list, meaning whenever I want/need to, I can telecommute. I don't need any special circumstances; we use IM exclusively as it is (nobody ignores IMs, it just doesn't happen), I have to FTP my changes or commit to SVN via HTTP anyway, and people know that if they want me to answer a question IM is the best anyway so I can manage multiple conversations. Not only that, but the ability to configure my home computer, which is more powerful than my work computer anyway, makes me more efficient. I have my home PC setup up just how I like it, with everything designed for me to be able to do whatever I'm doing fast. This applies in work. Also, at work, I don't have the kind of supplies I have here. I quite enjoy 4 monitors, with multiple workspaces. I just can't get them to get me 4 monitors at work (2, _maybe_ 3 in time). I have a good work ethic, and at my home there's not much else to do but my computer anyway, so it's not a matter of distraction. I actually take a shorter lunch, sometimes just working as I eat. Food is less expensive than eating out, gas is nothing. I can sit in my pajamas all day and sit in my really comfortable chair. My apartment is the temperature I choose, not what everybody else wants.
Overall, all these factors make me more comfortable in my home than at work. I also have the kind of worth ethic that allows me to easily focus on work when need be. For this reason, those days that I telecommute (usually when I'm feeling sick, or just overly tired) I feel that I am either as productive, or moreso, than any other day.
The problem is that with more traffic you get degrading roads faster, meaning more mining is required. The numbers and particulars are certainly important in this equation, because there's far too much to just guess at.
Just use GreaseMonkey and rework the google results page in a manner you like. Then you get the best of both worlds: a solid, reliable, good search engine, and you can also tickle your "I want something new and exciting for no reason at all" desire.
Core 2 Duo E8400 2GB 800MHz DDR2 All SATA drives 7900 GS KO
In Ubuntu, I have compiz + beryl and every single sweet looking plugin you can imagine. My windows literally burst into flames when I close them, and everything has a neat little animation. I've got more apps that I can count on both hands running, and those are just the ones with the GUI representations. I have 4 workspaces, dual monitor each, and all 4 constantly have ZERO desktop showing. I regularly overlay a video, lowering opacity and using the ghost plugin to pass clicks through to windows underneath, while using eclipse and firefox with many many tabs. I never get a hiccup.
In Vista, I can run Aero, yes, but it hiccups occasionally. Not only that, but while opening programs, the entire system locks up quite regularly. Games in Vista vs. games in XP, XP smokes it. Playing media files (in WMP) puts significant stress on the processor (more than a couple percentages is significant, on my machine).
I'm not just saying windows sucks, because I can do about 70% of what I can do in Ubuntu in XP. Vista is absolutely terrible.
I don't have bleeding edge, but my hardware should be more than adequate in describing "modern hardware". Given that, relative to every other OS, Vista still runs like shit.
And before Opera quite a few of the features were being done in other browsers.
Get over it, products are just ripoffs of other products. The key thing to note about each product is how well they rip the other product off.
Firefox has innovated quite a few things, however, so don't act like it's an exact clone of Opera. Plus it has that whole "render the web as the developer designed it" thing. I swear if I had to support Opera in my web designing I'd go insane. Everything associated with lists and quite a bit of CSS is screwed up in Opera.
I could never deal with the slowness that is javascript apps. Not merely loading times, but it's extremely difficult to make the UI even remotely as responsive as it is on a desktop application. No thanks, not until they figure that out. As far as web apps go, this is nice, but it's still a web app, and it's still very slow.
It doesn't FORCE you to click anything...I don't see how it's bad. http://d/ brings up a few websites, m then filters it down, and s drops all the remaining extra crap leaving only the domain I wanted. Not hard.
The file permissions aren't crippled, that I remember, but I do know that it has a hard time with sharing (you can only share something if you put it in Shared Documents, and even then the permissions are globally read-only).
I don't know any of the specifics, but I would figure that with those digital -> analog converters that they're selling for the 2009 switch would easily allow you to hook your digital box/cable up to your analog tuner card and have an unencrypted source of TV.
Even if this statement is true, which I'm certainly not saying it is, in my experience women are also far more likely to clash with each other. We used to have a single woman programmer in our development department, and everything went smooth. She would make her points, most of the men would usually gang up on her and explain the opposite, it'd be one big fun-fest. About 20 minutes later, a major breakthrough would be achieved where both parties are happy.
Another woman works here now. IF they finish arguing in an hour, it's not because they've come to a conclusion, it's because their throats are sore. They still can't even decide on some simple coding standards that the rest of us have already just been sort of using.
Women together generally makes for a bad experience.
These are just things I've noted, nothing sexist about it.
Similar to how us Americans don't actually elect our president. The common idiot is outraged that his vote doesn't actually matter, but then the intelligent community recognizes that a president who is just the popular vote, and not really a good candidate, won't get the votes from the delegates who matter.
In my first class in college, we learned about logical fallacies. One such fallacy is the "if there's no perfect solution, do nothing" fallacy. I swear, if you had only posted this a few years ago so that I might be able to use it for an example I might have gotten a better grade in that class.
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I'd say it's up to the person. I'm permanently on the "can telecommute" list, meaning whenever I want/need to, I can telecommute. I don't need any special circumstances; we use IM exclusively as it is (nobody ignores IMs, it just doesn't happen), I have to FTP my changes or commit to SVN via HTTP anyway, and people know that if they want me to answer a question IM is the best anyway so I can manage multiple conversations. Not only that, but the ability to configure my home computer, which is more powerful than my work computer anyway, makes me more efficient. I have my home PC setup up just how I like it, with everything designed for me to be able to do whatever I'm doing fast. This applies in work. Also, at work, I don't have the kind of supplies I have here. I quite enjoy 4 monitors, with multiple workspaces. I just can't get them to get me 4 monitors at work (2, _maybe_ 3 in time). I have a good work ethic, and at my home there's not much else to do but my computer anyway, so it's not a matter of distraction. I actually take a shorter lunch, sometimes just working as I eat. Food is less expensive than eating out, gas is nothing. I can sit in my pajamas all day and sit in my really comfortable chair. My apartment is the temperature I choose, not what everybody else wants. Overall, all these factors make me more comfortable in my home than at work. I also have the kind of worth ethic that allows me to easily focus on work when need be. For this reason, those days that I telecommute (usually when I'm feeling sick, or just overly tired) I feel that I am either as productive, or moreso, than any other day.
Did somebody get up from the keyboard mid-post, and somebody else sit down? How is "there's often not dozens, hardly even one dozen" the future?
The problem is that with more traffic you get degrading roads faster, meaning more mining is required. The numbers and particulars are certainly important in this equation, because there's far too much to just guess at.
Not that we should necessarily _rely_ on it, but http://archive.org/ exists for such a purpose.
Just use GreaseMonkey and rework the google results page in a manner you like. Then you get the best of both worlds: a solid, reliable, good search engine, and you can also tickle your "I want something new and exciting for no reason at all" desire.
Ubuntu 7.10 vs Vista
Core 2 Duo E8400
2GB 800MHz DDR2
All SATA drives
7900 GS KO
In Ubuntu, I have compiz + beryl and every single sweet looking plugin you can imagine. My windows literally burst into flames when I close them, and everything has a neat little animation. I've got more apps that I can count on both hands running, and those are just the ones with the GUI representations. I have 4 workspaces, dual monitor each, and all 4 constantly have ZERO desktop showing. I regularly overlay a video, lowering opacity and using the ghost plugin to pass clicks through to windows underneath, while using eclipse and firefox with many many tabs. I never get a hiccup.
In Vista, I can run Aero, yes, but it hiccups occasionally. Not only that, but while opening programs, the entire system locks up quite regularly. Games in Vista vs. games in XP, XP smokes it. Playing media files (in WMP) puts significant stress on the processor (more than a couple percentages is significant, on my machine).
I'm not just saying windows sucks, because I can do about 70% of what I can do in Ubuntu in XP. Vista is absolutely terrible.
I don't have bleeding edge, but my hardware should be more than adequate in describing "modern hardware". Given that, relative to every other OS, Vista still runs like shit.
And before Opera quite a few of the features were being done in other browsers.
Get over it, products are just ripoffs of other products. The key thing to note about each product is how well they rip the other product off.
Firefox has innovated quite a few things, however, so don't act like it's an exact clone of Opera. Plus it has that whole "render the web as the developer designed it" thing. I swear if I had to support Opera in my web designing I'd go insane. Everything associated with lists and quite a bit of CSS is screwed up in Opera.
He meant downgrade to Opera or upgrade from Opera...one of the two.
Just because you can get it to run doesn't mean it's not headache-inducing, and it doesn't mean you should have to.
Personally I prefer pie.
Obviously cables aren't frequenters to /. because if they were, that would be both false and offensive.
Switzerland != Sweden.
I could never deal with the slowness that is javascript apps. Not merely loading times, but it's extremely difficult to make the UI even remotely as responsive as it is on a desktop application. No thanks, not until they figure that out. As far as web apps go, this is nice, but it's still a web app, and it's still very slow.
No. Two pieces of crap for the price of two. And in both pieces of crap, you're overpaying.
It doesn't FORCE you to click anything...I don't see how it's bad. http://d/ brings up a few websites, m then filters it down, and s drops all the remaining extra crap leaving only the domain I wanted. Not hard.
The file permissions aren't crippled, that I remember, but I do know that it has a hard time with sharing (you can only share something if you put it in Shared Documents, and even then the permissions are globally read-only).
I don't know any of the specifics, but I would figure that with those digital -> analog converters that they're selling for the 2009 switch would easily allow you to hook your digital box/cable up to your analog tuner card and have an unencrypted source of TV.
Am I thinking about this correctly?
Even if this statement is true, which I'm certainly not saying it is, in my experience women are also far more likely to clash with each other. We used to have a single woman programmer in our development department, and everything went smooth. She would make her points, most of the men would usually gang up on her and explain the opposite, it'd be one big fun-fest. About 20 minutes later, a major breakthrough would be achieved where both parties are happy.
Another woman works here now. IF they finish arguing in an hour, it's not because they've come to a conclusion, it's because their throats are sore. They still can't even decide on some simple coding standards that the rest of us have already just been sort of using.
Women together generally makes for a bad experience.
These are just things I've noted, nothing sexist about it.
Duke Nukem Forever is surely soon to follow!
DOD wipe them before selling them, and you don't need to worry.
eBay seems like the best idea.
You sir, are an absolute genius.
Somebody mod parent +10 brilliant.
My computer loads pages before IT even requests them. Then it DELETES them before I even know I want them. Top that!
Similar to how us Americans don't actually elect our president. The common idiot is outraged that his vote doesn't actually matter, but then the intelligent community recognizes that a president who is just the popular vote, and not really a good candidate, won't get the votes from the delegates who matter.
In my first class in college, we learned about logical fallacies. One such fallacy is the "if there's no perfect solution, do nothing" fallacy. I swear, if you had only posted this a few years ago so that I might be able to use it for an example I might have gotten a better grade in that class.