the post mentions "crocodiles" and "pythons" as dangerous pets - granted, we all know that crocodiles and alligators are different, but nonetheless, I couldn't help being reminded of this tasty tidbit of recent news - nice photo too.....
I thought of the same scene when reading this post, I'm glad to find that the true answer to the riddle is so simple - I really enjoyed that movie when I was younger - it features an attractive young Jennifer Connelly and one of my favorite musicians, David Bowie, in a pair of extremely tight trousers that feature a rather intimidating bulge
you think you've got it rough? I'm using a minimac, which has 2 USB and 1 firewire - do the math: keyboard, mouse, ipod... my black-and-white screened ipod died about 6 weeks ago (the second one this year!) and apple lost my replacement, they graciously offered to upgrade me to the video model (when I talked to them last week they said they were going to get me the color 20GB, then yesterday I find out it's "a little on backorder" so either they screwed up or they were just stalling long enough to get me the new model) and I was super excited (that's right, I'm the first kid on the block with the new toy - told all my nano-waving friends to go to hell already) but now I realize I need to buy a USB hub, play the cable-swaparoo game or hook this thing up to my PC instead... way to go apple - I was with you all the way, now I'm fucked - is this what I get for supporting your stuff? from a clamshell ibook, to a minimac, 2 ipods and this is how I get treated? thanks a lot.... -w
forget playback, forget the imperfections in the equipment, just think of this in purely theoretical terms for a moment....
when you have a sine wave it is continuous and smooth - now picture a digital representation of that (for this example, we'll talk CD-quality - 16-bit, 44.1KHz) - in the digital representation, you don't have a smooth curve, you have a stair step (I'm not sure if you've taken calc, but think of all those 'area under the curve' problems) - the sine wave gets samples 44,100 times every second which causes the stair step, as the sampling rate increases, the stair steps get smaller and as the limit (of the sampling rate) approaches infinity, the steps get infinitely small, but there will always be a stair-step/jaggy effect - this is the nature of the beast....
in theory, you can get the stair-steps small enough that "no one" call tell the difference, but the poster is right on, digital is "lossy" in this respect as you can never fully 100% represent an analogue curve. the poster is not talking about long-time signal degredation, but rather the raw mathematical concepts involved in digital simulations of "real world" concepts....
I've heard people complaining about this for years and I think the issue does not exist - I remember people whining about this when CD burners were becoming more and more common on computers (about 8 years ago) the "2 second gap" from the CD burning software is typically configurable on every application I've tried in years -- as for "the ipod" inserting a "couple of seconds" of silence between every track - ??? what ipod do you have? mine sure doesn't do that (and I've had three of them) - when there are tracks that blend into each other (like the tail end of Abbey Road or on a live record) you get a slight gap between the two tracks which is only noticeable because otherwise the two tracks would be seamless - on albums that have silence between songs anyway, it's not noticeable -- someone nerdier than me can probably verify/correct this, but I remember hearing once that this was just the way that mp3s are encoded - the mp3 has to be an integer number of seconds long, meaning that if the song is 2.5 seconds long, the encoder rounds it up to 3 seconds with a.5 second "gap" - if this is true, then your "couple of seconds" (if in fact you are talking about the mp3 encoding and not an ipod playback issue) is more like an "always less than 1 second" gap... I'm not sure if this is true with AAC or other formats as, for some reason, all my tunes are in mp3 format.... I think that's because I'm an ex-winamp guy who is afraid of letting go of the past.... but then again, my whole post may be way off as you might be talking about some completely other issue that I don't know about, but again, my mp3s have that little pause in them and it's not due to the ipod (they do the same thing in winamp, wmp, itunes, ipod, etc...)
So, I work as a software engineer and I'm in that 50,000 - 60,000 a year bracket - we just recently took on 2 consultants from a consulting firms - these ninjas make over $100/hour! which, at 40 hours/week for a 6 month contract (26 weeks) is twice what I make in a year in half the time! Plus since these crackers have a consulting firm placing them into big companies, they're pretty much guaranteed work (yeah yeah, nothing is guaranteed, but....)
My company has a revolving door of constultants and the ones that are good get their contracts extended.
If I had to do it over again, I'd team up with Patni, or AppLabs or Tek Systems and get the same job I have now for 4x the money.
I work for an extremely successful software company (Google is one of our clients) - I work in a cubicle - The office is in Chicago's Merchandise Mart - for those of you about to rock, I salute you, but for those of you who don't know, the MM takes up two entire city blocks (which in Chicago means it's 1/8 mile x 1/4 mile), has its own zip code and is the largest commercial building in the world - Only 5% of the people who work in the building are fortunate enough to have an office on an exterior wall of the building (with a window!) - where the hell are they going to put everybody else? build offices out of the whole scenario? Perhaps I'm a sucker, but I'd rather work with my headphones on (like I would anyway) and have the company's money go toward the huge bonus I'll get at the end of every year for working hard than toward them re-modeling the interior of this building - work is just where I work to get money to do the things I do when I'm not at work - the cubicle (or "office" as I like to call it) is the least of my issues I rate this article a 2 out of 5 - if the kid hadn't put his graduation year in the article, I still would have been able to guess his age just from his idealistic rant with little real substance - "don't work for a manager that's an idiot" - Brilliant advice, captain underpants! yes, it's true that it's difficult to work for someone you don't respect, but in the real world (aka, not in your high school honors class) you're going to work with people who are of different levels of intelligence, people with different types of analytical skills, etc. Calling everybody stupid just because you're, as mentioned in the article, 'disillusioned' is what we call (in the grown up world) "being a fucking baby" - which we normally follow with "grow up"
So I work for a large tech company that has a lot of Indian people on staff (lots of Russians too) and it always cracks me when people (usually stupid Americans) bitch about the Indian people's names being hard to pronounce. So, to you Mr. or Mrs. or Ms. backslashdot, here's a little clue: every language but English is phonetic. No other language has stupid rules where Y is 'sometimes' a vowel - where C is sometimes K - where "tongue" is pronounced "tung"
Don't be afraid of a name that is longer than "Bill Smith." Just because it has *gasp* more than 3 syllables, doesn't mean it's completely out of your league. You're probably just too stupid to try rather than too stupid to actually pronounce it.
So, here's this guy's name as you quoted it:
Anjanappa, Muniswamappa
Here it is phonetically: An-Ja-nap-pa, Mu-ni-swa-map-pa
Yes, a bit of familiarity with the languages in question will help you with the emphasis, but, in general, if you just say it one syllable at a time 2 or 3 times, the emphasis will present itself for you.
well, sparky - I called your bluff and found this on wikipedia under "halloween"....
"The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European pagan traditions, until it was appropriated by Christian missionaries (along with Christmas and Easter, two other traditional northern European pagan holidays) and given a Christian reinterpretation."
Halloween is a pagan holiday that was absorbed by Christians - next time you post a source, read it first, jack ass
OK - seriously, y'all have to help me out here - how did this escalate? the reason I ask is because I don't even understand the sentences let alone the tone of the messages - maybe to brits or aussies this makes sense? (I'm not dissing you guys, I'm being totally serious) for example....
"The kitchen was not doing dinner last night, so obviously...."
'kitche not doing dinner' - what the hell does that mean?
then, where did the whole "I'm not blonde" thing come from? no one said she was blonde, the first girl obviously left her lunch in the wrong fridge, is an idiot and her retort to the other girl calling her on it is: "I'm not blonde" - what the fuck? she deserves to be fired.....
oh yeah, and the second girl should be fired for dissing the first girl for having "so many guys" and currently being with 5
yes, personal e-mail should be used for personal business but.... I have to ask - does this stray the line? according to the rule we've both agreed on (personal e-mail/personal business) and the assumption that her lunch is considered personal business (despite the fact that she is allow to keep it in her "official company refrigerator" - as opposed to the "personal refrigerator" for her "personal lunch") she _should_ have... found out the "personal" e-mail address of all of the 'colleagues' to whom she wanted to address and then used her personal e-mail account to ask them if they had seen the "personal" lunch that was taken from her "official company refrigerator"....
seriously, if some unclefucker stole my damn lunch from a refrigerator where I work, I would somehow (possibly using a strongly-worded flyer that I would have designed on my "official work" computer and, of course, used the "official company" printer to print rather than via my "official company e-mail" account) try to figure out what had happened to my lunch - is this "personal" business? yes, but the fact is, her lunch went missing in her office (perhaps she did put it on another floor, but still) so approaching her colleagues via "company" e-mail does not seem unreasonable to me
the way this escalated is immature but that's what you can expect from stupid bimbo secretaries (I am kidding)
I was thinking about this last night - let's say today you have a "national tragedy" (or some bullshit like that) so the red cross needs to get people there NOW which costs money, so they hold a fund-raiser with mike myers and a black rapper who thinks bush is racist raise a lot of money, then go out and hire people, but all new trucks and then go help... wrong.... I would assume the red cross's "bank roll" is a revolving door type of thing, they probably collected a shitload of money after some chucklefucker told his buddies to drive some planes into some buildings, and probably saved some of it and the next time there was a tragedy, they spent some of that money and raised some more and on the next tragedy, well, they spend (immediately) what they got in donations last time and ask for more money so they can be prepared for next time.... again, that's just an assumption but it seems to make sense since their whole "business model" is getting the cavalry into town on mad short notice....
you're right, humans are screwing things up and making things worse (consumption of meat is very wasteful when it comes to resources, global warming, emissions, drugs, alcohol, consumerism, over-packaging, land-fills - we love fucking with our bodies and environments) but before humans there were things like "the big bang" (which probably would've killed all of us had we been there) and the "ice age" (also a show-stopper for lots of living things) - and just think 'outside the box' for a while and think, not just about how volatile and unsafe earth is, but remember that earth is just one little fleck floating around in the biggest space mountain ride you've ever seen - leave the earth and you're almost guaranteed to die (obviously astronauts have made it there-and-back-again hobbit style a couple of times, but very dangerous and very short missions) - so, yes, things are getting worse, but the guy is right on - it's a dangerous planet we live on.....honestly none of us (not even the smartest geologists and earthologists and waterologists) have a clue what's really going on, we've been collecting evidence, like someone earlier said, for at most a few hundred (or at the very extreme most thousand) years and the planet's way older than that - maybe global warming has nothing to do with us, maybe we're speeding it up, maybe we're slowing it down (probably not, but we don't really know) - there's a picture here so big, your 8 megapixel brain is not going to handle it
It's impossible to hit their Enter key without moving your right hand off the home row./blockquote
I'm not sure what kind of keyboard you have, or how gigantic your hands are, but I can very easily touch the enter key with my right pinky with my other 8 digits on the (proper places in the) home row... I can even keep my wittew fums on da space baw....
I would suggest getting larger hands if you really have this problem
... that this has anything to do with freedom to blog - anybody can write in their stupid blog as if anyway out there cares - the issue seems to me, more along the lines that these people at apple had a confidentiality agreement and they broke it - breaking a contract is against the law, that's why we have contracts - you can blog all day long, just don't break the law while you're doing it.... or something
I had a similar scenario - a few relatives asked me to come over and fix their computers - I re-installed windows (it's what they know) and made firefox the default browser, I haven't had to go back to un-spyware any of them yet....
interesting point in that article - 80% of computers are infected with spyware, and 80% of computers are windows - coincidence? I think not - headless mac, here I come!
5 fingers. 5 buttons. When this is setup nicely, it can be VERY eronomic - for example, I use the "extra" 2 buttons as Enter and Escape which means, I don't have to move my right hand to dismiss dialog boxes (unless it's Yes, No, Cancel in which case I use ol' lefty). I use mostly keyboard shortcuts as well, but some activities require my hand to hang out in mouse-land and I hate for it to be slowed-down there.
A 1-button mouse is ergonomically superior only for hooved animals.
This is the first I've heard of this guy and I have to say I'm glad I live in Chicago now - I'm definitely checking it out - I can't help but think of the movie Free Enterprise where William Shatner has the idea to do a musical Julius Caeser where he plays every role (except Calphunia who would be played by Sharon Stone) - absolutely brilliant....
"This is simultaneously the best and worst movie I've ever seen" - Justin during Free Enterprise
true dat - and for any kind of multimedia production 2 monitors is almost a necessity these days... the whole point is to see everything you need to by only moving your eyes - not some fancy linux nerd keystroke that switches to another desktop... I hate wasting time by switching between different items in an application - like in nuendo, I'd love to be able to see my mixer window, my tracklist AND my video preview all at once.... it makes life easier... of course, in most of the examples here folk mention their IM client which I don't feel really plays in - we are talking about being more productive after all (and, if you use trillian, it sits in your little system tray guy out of the way always)....
it's funny to hear someone thinking of the NS10 as sounding good... they're pretty terrible speakers, but they have a unique quality of sounding like a fairly crappy sound system, but if you can make your mix sound good on them, it will sound good on just about anything else due to their exceptional accuracy.... if you're a serious producer on a tight budget, you might want to check out something like an Event TR5 or a KRK Rok6... you can get a pair of either of these for 300 bucks and they sound really good, plus, unlike the NS10, they're not only powered, but bi-amped, so you get more wattage running to the woofer than you do to the horn (which, because of the physics of sound reproduction, allows each component to get its desired power and you don't end up with an overpowered horn or an underpowered speaker) which ends up giving you way better articulation than you can hope to get with a post-amplifier crossover (like that of the NS10)... the other good thing about investing in a speaker like that is, after you get going for a while, save up some more cash and hook up with something a bit more heavy duty (maybe even a mackie HR864) and keep these as your near-field monitors, because you can never mix on enough systems.... or something...
I wouldn't blame it on CS - by the time I was finished with school, the last thing I wanted to do was participate in anything relating to the school... once I got into the "real-world" and starting working on non-textbook projects, it got a lot better... you may just be sick of education....
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I agree, I don't think the US is going to nuke anybody... after losing this many "innocent people" it would be so hyprocritical to do something like that that ever OUR government wouldn't do it....
.... sometimes my sentences are compound in ways that worry me....
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the post mentions "crocodiles" and "pythons" as dangerous pets - granted, we all know that crocodiles and alligators are different, but nonetheless, I couldn't help being reminded of this tasty tidbit of recent news - nice photo too.....
I thought of the same scene when reading this post, I'm glad to find that the true answer to the riddle is so simple - I really enjoyed that movie when I was younger - it features an attractive young Jennifer Connelly and one of my favorite musicians, David Bowie, in a pair of extremely tight trousers that feature a rather intimidating bulge
cause myspace went down
you think you've got it rough? I'm using a minimac, which has 2 USB and 1 firewire - do the math: keyboard, mouse, ipod ... my black-and-white screened ipod died about 6 weeks ago (the second one this year!) and apple lost my replacement, they graciously offered to upgrade me to the video model (when I talked to them last week they said they were going to get me the color 20GB, then yesterday I find out it's "a little on backorder" so either they screwed up or they were just stalling long enough to get me the new model) and I was super excited (that's right, I'm the first kid on the block with the new toy - told all my nano-waving friends to go to hell already) but now I realize I need to buy a USB hub, play the cable-swaparoo game or hook this thing up to my PC instead ... way to go apple - I was with you all the way, now I'm fucked - is this what I get for supporting your stuff? from a clamshell ibook, to a minimac, 2 ipods and this is how I get treated? thanks a lot....
-w
forget playback, forget the imperfections in the equipment, just think of this in purely theoretical terms for a moment....
when you have a sine wave it is continuous and smooth - now picture a digital representation of that (for this example, we'll talk CD-quality - 16-bit, 44.1KHz) - in the digital representation, you don't have a smooth curve, you have a stair step (I'm not sure if you've taken calc, but think of all those 'area under the curve' problems) - the sine wave gets samples 44,100 times every second which causes the stair step, as the sampling rate increases, the stair steps get smaller and as the limit (of the sampling rate) approaches infinity, the steps get infinitely small, but there will always be a stair-step/jaggy effect - this is the nature of the beast....
in theory, you can get the stair-steps small enough that "no one" call tell the difference, but the poster is right on, digital is "lossy" in this respect as you can never fully 100% represent an analogue curve. the poster is not talking about long-time signal degredation, but rather the raw mathematical concepts involved in digital simulations of "real world" concepts....
I've heard people complaining about this for years and I think the issue does not exist - I remember people whining about this when CD burners were becoming more and more common on computers (about 8 years ago) the "2 second gap" from the CD burning software is typically configurable on every application I've tried in years -- as for "the ipod" inserting a "couple of seconds" of silence between every track - ??? what ipod do you have? mine sure doesn't do that (and I've had three of them) - when there are tracks that blend into each other (like the tail end of Abbey Road or on a live record) you get a slight gap between the two tracks which is only noticeable because otherwise the two tracks would be seamless - on albums that have silence between songs anyway, it's not noticeable -- someone nerdier than me can probably verify/correct this, but I remember hearing once that this was just the way that mp3s are encoded - the mp3 has to be an integer number of seconds long, meaning that if the song is 2.5 seconds long, the encoder rounds it up to 3 seconds with a .5 second "gap" - if this is true, then your "couple of seconds" (if in fact you are talking about the mp3 encoding and not an ipod playback issue) is more like an "always less than 1 second" gap ... I'm not sure if this is true with AAC or other formats as, for some reason, all my tunes are in mp3 format .... I think that's because I'm an ex-winamp guy who is afraid of letting go of the past ....
but then again, my whole post may be way off as you might be talking about some completely other issue that I don't know about, but again, my mp3s have that little pause in them and it's not due to the ipod (they do the same thing in winamp, wmp, itunes, ipod, etc...)
So, I work as a software engineer and I'm in that 50,000 - 60,000 a year bracket - we just recently took on 2 consultants from a consulting firms - these ninjas make over $100/hour! which, at 40 hours/week for a 6 month contract (26 weeks) is twice what I make in a year in half the time! Plus since these crackers have a consulting firm placing them into big companies, they're pretty much guaranteed work (yeah yeah, nothing is guaranteed, but....)
My company has a revolving door of constultants and the ones that are good get their contracts extended.
If I had to do it over again, I'd team up with Patni, or AppLabs or Tek Systems and get the same job I have now for 4x the money.
I work for an extremely successful software company (Google is one of our clients) - I work in a cubicle - The office is in Chicago's Merchandise Mart - for those of you about to rock, I salute you, but for those of you who don't know, the MM takes up two entire city blocks (which in Chicago means it's 1/8 mile x 1/4 mile), has its own zip code and is the largest commercial building in the world - Only 5% of the people who work in the building are fortunate enough to have an office on an exterior wall of the building (with a window!) - where the hell are they going to put everybody else? build offices out of the whole scenario? Perhaps I'm a sucker, but I'd rather work with my headphones on (like I would anyway) and have the company's money go toward the huge bonus I'll get at the end of every year for working hard than toward them re-modeling the interior of this building - work is just where I work to get money to do the things I do when I'm not at work - the cubicle (or "office" as I like to call it) is the least of my issues
I rate this article a 2 out of 5 - if the kid hadn't put his graduation year in the article, I still would have been able to guess his age just from his idealistic rant with little real substance - "don't work for a manager that's an idiot" - Brilliant advice, captain underpants! yes, it's true that it's difficult to work for someone you don't respect, but in the real world (aka, not in your high school honors class) you're going to work with people who are of different levels of intelligence, people with different types of analytical skills, etc. Calling everybody stupid just because you're, as mentioned in the article, 'disillusioned' is what we call (in the grown up world) "being a fucking baby" - which we normally follow with "grow up"
So I work for a large tech company that has a lot of Indian people on staff (lots of Russians too) and it always cracks me when people (usually stupid Americans) bitch about the Indian people's names being hard to pronounce. So, to you Mr. or Mrs. or Ms. backslashdot, here's a little clue: every language but English is phonetic. No other language has stupid rules where Y is 'sometimes' a vowel - where C is sometimes K - where "tongue" is pronounced "tung"
Don't be afraid of a name that is longer than "Bill Smith." Just because it has *gasp* more than 3 syllables, doesn't mean it's completely out of your league. You're probably just too stupid to try rather than too stupid to actually pronounce it.
So, here's this guy's name as you quoted it:
Anjanappa, Muniswamappa
Here it is phonetically:
An-Ja-nap-pa, Mu-ni-swa-map-pa
Yes, a bit of familiarity with the languages in question will help you with the emphasis, but, in general, if you just say it one syllable at a time 2 or 3 times, the emphasis will present itself for you.
Good luck you goddamn chucklehead
am I the only one who read in the article that this thing was seen in september of 2004? why is this news a year later? was the boat really slow?
well, sparky - I called your bluff and found this on wikipedia under "halloween"....
"The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European pagan traditions, until it was appropriated by Christian missionaries (along with Christmas and Easter, two other traditional northern European pagan holidays) and given a Christian reinterpretation."
Halloween is a pagan holiday that was absorbed by Christians - next time you post a source, read it first, jack ass
OK - seriously, y'all have to help me out here - how did this escalate? the reason I ask is because I don't even understand the sentences let alone the tone of the messages - maybe to brits or aussies this makes sense? (I'm not dissing you guys, I'm being totally serious) for example....
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"The kitchen was not doing dinner last night, so obviously
'kitche not doing dinner' - what the hell does that mean?
then, where did the whole "I'm not blonde" thing come from? no one said she was blonde, the first girl obviously left her lunch in the wrong fridge, is an idiot and her retort to the other girl calling her on it is: "I'm not blonde" - what the fuck? she deserves to be fired.....
oh yeah, and the second girl should be fired for dissing the first girl for having "so many guys" and currently being with 5
fucking amateurs, dude
yes, personal e-mail should be used for personal business but.... I have to ask - does this stray the line? according to the rule we've both agreed on (personal e-mail/personal business) and the assumption that her lunch is considered personal business (despite the fact that she is allow to keep it in her "official company refrigerator" - as opposed to the "personal refrigerator" for her "personal lunch") she _should_ have... found out the "personal" e-mail address of all of the 'colleagues' to whom she wanted to address and then used her personal e-mail account to ask them if they had seen the "personal" lunch that was taken from her "official company refrigerator" ....
seriously, if some unclefucker stole my damn lunch from a refrigerator where I work, I would somehow (possibly using a strongly-worded flyer that I would have designed on my "official work" computer and, of course, used the "official company" printer to print rather than via my "official company e-mail" account) try to figure out what had happened to my lunch - is this "personal" business? yes, but the fact is, her lunch went missing in her office (perhaps she did put it on another floor, but still) so approaching her colleagues via "company" e-mail does not seem unreasonable to me
the way this escalated is immature but that's what you can expect from stupid bimbo secretaries (I am kidding)
I was thinking about this last night - let's say today you have a "national tragedy" (or some bullshit like that) so the red cross needs to get people there NOW which costs money, so they hold a fund-raiser with mike myers and a black rapper who thinks bush is racist raise a lot of money, then go out and hire people, but all new trucks and then go help... wrong.... I would assume the red cross's "bank roll" is a revolving door type of thing, they probably collected a shitload of money after some chucklefucker told his buddies to drive some planes into some buildings, and probably saved some of it and the next time there was a tragedy, they spent some of that money and raised some more and on the next tragedy, well, they spend (immediately) what they got in donations last time and ask for more money so they can be prepared for next time .... again, that's just an assumption but it seems to make sense since their whole "business model" is getting the cavalry into town on mad short notice....
you're right, humans are screwing things up and making things worse (consumption of meat is very wasteful when it comes to resources, global warming, emissions, drugs, alcohol, consumerism, over-packaging, land-fills - we love fucking with our bodies and environments) but before humans there were things like "the big bang" (which probably would've killed all of us had we been there) and the "ice age" (also a show-stopper for lots of living things) - and just think 'outside the box' for a while and think, not just about how volatile and unsafe earth is, but remember that earth is just one little fleck floating around in the biggest space mountain ride you've ever seen - leave the earth and you're almost guaranteed to die (obviously astronauts have made it there-and-back-again hobbit style a couple of times, but very dangerous and very short missions) - so, yes, things are getting worse, but the guy is right on - it's a dangerous planet we live on.....honestly none of us (not even the smartest geologists and earthologists and waterologists) have a clue what's really going on, we've been collecting evidence, like someone earlier said, for at most a few hundred (or at the very extreme most thousand) years and the planet's way older than that - maybe global warming has nothing to do with us, maybe we're speeding it up, maybe we're slowing it down (probably not, but we don't really know) - there's a picture here so big, your 8 megapixel brain is not going to handle it
... that this has anything to do with freedom to blog - anybody can write in their stupid blog as if anyway out there cares - the issue seems to me, more along the lines that these people at apple had a confidentiality agreement and they broke it - breaking a contract is against the law, that's why we have contracts - you can blog all day long, just don't break the law while you're doing it .... or something
The second rule of adsense is you do not talk about adsense.
I had a similar scenario - a few relatives asked me to come over and fix their computers - I re-installed windows (it's what they know) and made firefox the default browser, I haven't had to go back to un-spyware any of them yet ....
interesting point in that article - 80% of computers are infected with spyware, and 80% of computers are windows - coincidence? I think not - headless mac, here I come!
5 fingers. 5 buttons. When this is setup nicely, it can be VERY eronomic - for example, I use the "extra" 2 buttons as Enter and Escape which means, I don't have to move my right hand to dismiss dialog boxes (unless it's Yes, No, Cancel in which case I use ol' lefty). I use mostly keyboard shortcuts as well, but some activities require my hand to hang out in mouse-land and I hate for it to be slowed-down there.
A 1-button mouse is ergonomically superior only for hooved animals.
This is the first I've heard of this guy and I have to say I'm glad I live in Chicago now - I'm definitely checking it out - I can't help but think of the movie Free Enterprise where William Shatner has the idea to do a musical Julius Caeser where he plays every role (except Calphunia who would be played by Sharon Stone) - absolutely brilliant ....
"This is simultaneously the best and worst movie I've ever seen" - Justin during Free Enterprise
true dat - and for any kind of multimedia production 2 monitors is almost a necessity these days ... the whole point is to see everything you need to by only moving your eyes - not some fancy linux nerd keystroke that switches to another desktop ... I hate wasting time by switching between different items in an application - like in nuendo, I'd love to be able to see my mixer window, my tracklist AND my video preview all at once .... it makes life easier ... of course, in most of the examples here folk mention their IM client which I don't feel really plays in - we are talking about being more productive after all (and, if you use trillian, it sits in your little system tray guy out of the way always) ....
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it's funny to hear someone thinking of the NS10 as sounding good ... they're pretty terrible speakers, but they have a unique quality of sounding like a fairly crappy sound system, but if you can make your mix sound good on them, it will sound good on just about anything else due to their exceptional accuracy .... if you're a serious producer on a tight budget, you might want to check out something like an Event TR5 or a KRK Rok6 ... you can get a pair of either of these for 300 bucks and they sound really good, plus, unlike the NS10, they're not only powered, but bi-amped, so you get more wattage running to the woofer than you do to the horn (which, because of the physics of sound reproduction, allows each component to get its desired power and you don't end up with an overpowered horn or an underpowered speaker) which ends up giving you way better articulation than you can hope to get with a post-amplifier crossover (like that of the NS10) ... the other good thing about investing in a speaker like that is, after you get going for a while, save up some more cash and hook up with something a bit more heavy duty (maybe even a mackie HR864) and keep these as your near-field monitors, because you can never mix on enough systems .... or something ...
I wouldn't blame it on CS - by the time I was finished with school, the last thing I wanted to do was participate in anything relating to the school ... once I got into the "real-world" and starting working on non-textbook projects, it got a lot better ... you may just be sick of education ....
I agree, I don't think the US is going to nuke anybody ... after losing this many "innocent people" it would be so hyprocritical to do something like that that ever OUR government wouldn't do it ....
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