Hey! Where I work, everybody does their timesheets on Excel, then e-mail them to the receptionist, who prints them, and keys them into a **HUGE** **MORONICALLY DONE** filemaker database. It is so much of a pain in the ass to maintain that soon, I`m gonna code a web-based PHP+SQL timesheet program on my own frigging` time.
Reminds me of that ch1x0r we have here, at the office. She would need to trace (with Autocad!!!) a picture she finds on a web page. So she prints out the web page, then scans the paper, then imports the BMP into Autocad.
Since I showed her how to save a webpage picture (right-click, save image as...), she practically worships me. Too bad she`s a dog.
Draft copies are the biggest reason there will never be a paperless office. If you have a 15 page draft and distribute it to 20 people for comments, trying to organize and incorporate the comments is damn near impossible.
Not if you use NNTP. What you describe is being done zillions of times daily on USENET...
Paper is about the most reliable form of interoffice communication there is. You can take it with you anywhere, you can read it anytime you want. It's lightweight, and neatly folds up into a smaller space.
You can`t grep dead trees.
(Actually, that`s a misnomer. Bond paper is actually mostly made out of old rags).
I walked out of a CD store because of similar "strip search" policy.
Right on! Each time I`m asked to leave my stuff in the counter, I just say no. If they insist, I ask why.
Inevitably they say it`s `store policy`. I counter with `Well, if you assume I`m gonna steal from you, I guess I don`t deal with people who assume I`m gonna rip`em off. Since you don`t trust me, why should I trust you?`. All very loudly, of course.
And then I finish off with `What would you say if the Tax Department would aks you to give them all the money you make every day, and they`ll give you back what was not owed in taxes, just to make sure you don`t cheat on your taxes?`. They look pretty stupid. But, again, they`re not used to have their customers criticize them...
It was supposed to be a Soviet fashon show - a stocky older woman walked up and down a catwalk wearing the same overalls while a Russian-accented announcer said "Is Eveningwear"
Yeah, I remember that one. For the beach wear, the "model" had a beach ball, and for the evening wear, she had a flashlight...
I'm currently 13 years old and am an active part of the Mozilla project. ...
Also, and perhaps more importantly, how do the child labor laws which were created to protect kids from being chained to looms for hours making rugs or soccer balls apply today in the real world.
When you'll be 30 years old, you'll understand why.
You're 13. Enjoy your childhood; don't try to act like an adult, 'cause when you'll finally be an adult, you'll awfully regret having skipped over your childhood.
I am a lawyer, but what I'm about to say is not legal advice. I would need to look at specific statutes and case law to come up with a specific answer -- this is just off the top of my head.
Not bound to fine print eh.. does that mean he could do whatever he wanted with purchased software, ignoring EULAs since he's not bound?! perfect! reverse engineering and hacking for everybody!
So, then, why was that norvegian kid hauled in jail because of DeCSS????
Start by the way writing started: Transforming the oral tradition to print. That is, "How do you do X? What happens when Y goes wrong? What's the quirks in the Z process?". It's very much like interviews or oral history - having someone talk with the Engineers, and put down what they say.
Looks like a job for NNTP. Hmmm. I guess I'll try setting up a NNTP server where I work, just for that...
Can you imagine the court reporter, trying to type out the 'leet-speak?
"1 0wn j00, y0 h0noR!!! m3 w1ll h4x0r joo and l3gAl 5y5t3mz!!!"
Actually, stenotype machines used by court reporters, solely work phonetically, and by using a reduced character set; the net output looks quite like hax0r except that there are only letters...
Now, after the Noisy candy unwrappers , Loud pop-corn chewers , we'll have the Loud laptop keyboarders and the Loud mouse clickers to ruin your moviegoing experience.
Not to mention those annoying "Robotz" system beeps.
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Hey! Where I work, everybody does their timesheets on Excel, then e-mail them to the receptionist, who prints them, and keys them into a **HUGE** **MORONICALLY DONE** filemaker database. It is so much of a pain in the ass to maintain that soon, I`m gonna code a web-based PHP+SQL timesheet program on my own frigging` time.
Since I showed her how to save a webpage picture (right-click, save image as...), she practically worships me. Too bad she`s a dog.
(Actually, that`s a misnomer. Bond paper is actually mostly made out of old rags).
Inevitably they say it`s `store policy`. I counter with `Well, if you assume I`m gonna steal from you, I guess I don`t deal with people who assume I`m gonna rip`em off. Since you don`t trust me, why should I trust you?`. All very loudly, of course.
And then I finish off with `What would you say if the Tax Department would aks you to give them all the money you make every day, and they`ll give you back what was not owed in taxes, just to make sure you don`t cheat on your taxes?`. They look pretty stupid. But, again, they`re not used to have their customers criticize them...
That's what deep thought was all about, no?
You're 13. Enjoy your childhood; don't try to act like an adult, 'cause when you'll finally be an adult, you'll awfully regret having skipped over your childhood.
Trust my experience.
That very argument was used by pinochet (remember the CIA puppet in Chile?) to justify his fascist regime.
... 'cuz, if I'd see my monopoly on space flights threatened, I guess, I'd try to, er, "innovate", and, why not, "embrace & extend"...
Mudd, as in Mudd's Women???
... who's Bubba, anyway????
Not to mention those annoying "Robotz" system beeps.
Here are the same files, closer than Poland.
... Embrace-and-extend?
E3fs? Reiserfs?
It is now named Urectum.