Qt could have been the key to retain developers. Also, partnering with MS is a sure-fire way to get fucked in the butt. Finally, firing your in-house developers and outsourcing it to India is a sure-fire way to fuck yourself in the butt.
Yes, there's more to it than you think: the device in question is a coherent absorber (just as a laser would coherently emit electromagnetic radiations), so it's fundamentally different from a black body, which abides to Planck's law of blackbody radiation.
As far as I know, Libre Office is based mostly (entirely?) on Novell's Go-oo. So this review compares OpenOffice with the much extended and improved Go-oo, which has better multilanguage support, a larger clip-art collection and better MS Office filters. Yes, this kind of article should have been written a long time ago, way before Libre Office appeared, because Go-oo deserved more exposure.
I worked with Stephen Elop back in the Macromedia days, starting with him being my boss^2, in the late 90's. I've always found him a fascinating exec to watch. In the four years or so I saw him at Macromedia, I watched him: 1. Come into IT, get the existing CIO kicked out, become the CIO, and fuck IT up[0]; so they promoted him and 2. He came into the Andromedia purchase, ran that business group for about a week which was long enough to fuck it up; so they promoted him and 3. He started a brand new business group (Internal name... Whirlwind, I think?) for about three months which was long enough to fuck it up; so they promoted him...
This is exactly what corporate psychopaths do! It doesn't matter whether they are successful or not (they aren't as they don't have any actual business talent), they know how to manipulate people and will get promoted or get a better job. Even if they leave their previous company in tatters, they will find another job of equivalent level. And how do you recognize a psychopath? He/she leaves a trail of destruction after him/her.
I wish the world would wake up to the fact that corporate psychopaths are running most of the publicly traded companies.
Ballmer seems more concerned with a "scorched-earth" competition ethos than to actually compete. He seems to sincerely believe in destroying the competition to own the market.
That's not specifically Ballmer's ethos, as much as it is Microsoft's. That way of thinking is so very deeply rooted in Microsoft as a whole, that whoever replaces Ballmer and/or the upper management at MS, they will be people who wholeheartedly embrace such ethos. After all, it worked for them so well in the past, and there is still no clear proof that it wouldn't work in the future as well.
Changing a huge company's mentality is very tough, especially if it isn't crystal clear that such mentality is counterproductive.
That army stepping in was before Erdogan came to power. His Islamist rhetoric is poisoning Turksih relations with the West, his party has reversed various secular policies already, and the trend is bound to continue, as Erdogan is unopposed. As I said, Turkey has no free media to challenge the current dictatorship.
And before someone says "Turkey", they aren't a Muslim state, they are a secular state with a predominantly Muslim population.
Turkey, right. A country where all independent media has been shut down (with "tax irregularities" excuses), Youtube was banned up until recently, Islamist demagogy is on the rise and mentioning the Armenian genocide will get you arrested.
And yes, if you want to know, I am not sure "pirates" are evil. A decade ago I was rather clearly against software, music and video "piracy". Not anymore.
Not only do I dislike this shit, but I am repulsed by the new design. If I cannot switch to the classic view, I won't be coming to/. very often anymore. It just disagrees with me too much.
Sorry, I didn't find any comment that describes how to actually remove the sidebar, and I shudder at the thought that there actually isn't one (a way to do it).
So, in the hope that there is a way to remove that annoying thing... how would I go about it?
What if these images are used by some dating site? That could have a whole lot of unpleasant consequences. And I don't even mean anything nasty, just some eHarmony or match.com kind of site. They totally do need some fresh faces for their web ads, and they cannot use their customers for this (unless they pay them - and Facebook faces will probably be very competitive).
I remember when videos used to ship with an "FBI WARNING" that scared people (except when you actually read it,
I think this FBI warning is still present on DVDs. I haven't purchased a DVD in the last 1-2 years, true, but I have not heard that the practice had ceased in the meantime. But the more interesting question is: why on Earth does the FBI allow for their "brand" to be abused in such a way? Maybe I should put on my door something to the effect "If you try to break in, the KGB will poison you with Polonium".
Well, I needed it for a grad course, but it's past tense now. However, I would like to have the Shereshefsky article, as my institution doesn't have access to older Nature articles, so unless you send it to me, I don't know when will I satisfy my curiosity to see it. My e-mail address is howdilydoo at gmail
...but fuck you. Will you make your oldest articles available for download? I still can't get over that 1928 article on capillary effect that is STILL BEHIND A PAYWALL! Nature embodies all that is wrong with scientific journals. Not the worst, but definitely emblematic.
I don't need my stories handed to me on a silver platter, but the level of alternate meaning you're suggesting would require far more obvious clues to be believable for me.
The paranormal abilities of Neo in the purportedly "real" world (the "non-Matrix") should be a very clear and explicit clue. But for some reason, most of the audience just seems to have rejected that clue. Maybe because Matrix 1 created a universe which was very consistent, and the audience just can't switch away from that.
Actually, there is experimental evidence that supports the OP's claim that, having a way out makes the "trip" less stressful. Volunteers have been subjected to a series of gradually increasing electrical shocks. One group could stop the experiment at any time with a switch they could activate themselves, the other could not. The former resisted MUCH higher shocks than the latter (the one "without a way out").
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Qt could have been the key to retain developers. Also, partnering with MS is a sure-fire way to get fucked in the butt. Finally, firing your in-house developers and outsourcing it to India is a sure-fire way to fuck yourself in the butt.
Yes, there's more to it than you think: the device in question is a coherent absorber (just as a laser would coherently emit electromagnetic radiations), so it's fundamentally different from a black body, which abides to Planck's law of blackbody radiation.
As far as I know, Libre Office is based mostly (entirely?) on Novell's Go-oo. So this review compares OpenOffice with the much extended and improved Go-oo, which has better multilanguage support, a larger clip-art collection and better MS Office filters. Yes, this kind of article should have been written a long time ago, way before Libre Office appeared, because Go-oo deserved more exposure.
Better late than never.
I worked with Stephen Elop back in the Macromedia days, starting with him being my boss^2, in the late 90's. I've always found him a fascinating exec to watch. In the four years or so I saw him at Macromedia, I watched him: ... Whirlwind, I think?) for about three months which was long enough to fuck it up; so they promoted him ...
1. Come into IT, get the existing CIO kicked out, become the CIO, and fuck IT up[0]; so they promoted him and
2. He came into the Andromedia purchase, ran that business group for about a week which was long enough to fuck it up; so they promoted him and
3. He started a brand new business group (Internal name
This is exactly what corporate psychopaths do! It doesn't matter whether they are successful or not (they aren't as they don't have any actual business talent), they know how to manipulate people and will get promoted or get a better job. Even if they leave their previous company in tatters, they will find another job of equivalent level. And how do you recognize a psychopath? He/she leaves a trail of destruction after him/her.
I wish the world would wake up to the fact that corporate psychopaths are running most of the publicly traded companies.
Ballmer seems more concerned with a "scorched-earth" competition ethos than to actually compete. He seems to sincerely believe in destroying the competition to own the market.
That's not specifically Ballmer's ethos, as much as it is Microsoft's. That way of thinking is so very deeply rooted in Microsoft as a whole, that whoever replaces Ballmer and/or the upper management at MS, they will be people who wholeheartedly embrace such ethos. After all, it worked for them so well in the past, and there is still no clear proof that it wouldn't work in the future as well.
Changing a huge company's mentality is very tough, especially if it isn't crystal clear that such mentality is counterproductive.
That army stepping in was before Erdogan came to power. His Islamist rhetoric is poisoning Turksih relations with the West, his party has reversed various secular policies already, and the trend is bound to continue, as Erdogan is unopposed. As I said, Turkey has no free media to challenge the current dictatorship.
And before someone says "Turkey", they aren't a Muslim state, they are a secular state with a predominantly Muslim population.
Turkey, right. A country where all independent media has been shut down (with "tax irregularities" excuses), Youtube was banned up until recently, Islamist demagogy is on the rise and mentioning the Armenian genocide will get you arrested.
And yes, if you want to know, I am not sure "pirates" are evil. A decade ago I was rather clearly against software, music and video "piracy". Not anymore.
I have that selected, but it just doesn't look like the classic view anymore. It seems like there's no going back.
Not only do I dislike this shit, but I am repulsed by the new design. If I cannot switch to the classic view, I won't be coming to /. very often anymore. It just disagrees with me too much.
Sorry, I didn't find any comment that describes how to actually remove the sidebar, and I shudder at the thought that there actually isn't one (a way to do it).
So, in the hope that there is a way to remove that annoying thing... how would I go about it?
More precisely, it's a conflict between western values and Islamism.
What if these images are used by some dating site? That could have a whole lot of unpleasant consequences. And I don't even mean anything nasty, just some eHarmony or match.com kind of site. They totally do need some fresh faces for their web ads, and they cannot use their customers for this (unless they pay them - and Facebook faces will probably be very competitive).
I remember when videos used to ship with an "FBI WARNING" that scared people (except when you actually read it,
I think this FBI warning is still present on DVDs. I haven't purchased a DVD in the last 1-2 years, true, but I have not heard that the practice had ceased in the meantime. But the more interesting question is: why on Earth does the FBI allow for their "brand" to be abused in such a way? Maybe I should put on my door something to the effect "If you try to break in, the KGB will poison you with Polonium".
Or...since people usually call MS-Office simply 'Office', we could call ours 'THE Office' or somethin' just to mess with them.
I fully support this, though I'm not sure how it would go down if challenged trademark-wise. But it would be oh so sweet.
My understanding was that Nature had its dirty fingers deep in the PRISM initiative. So it's not better or worse - Nature is a supporter of the same.
Well, I needed it for a grad course, but it's past tense now. However, I would like to have the Shereshefsky article, as my institution doesn't have access to older Nature articles, so unless you send it to me, I don't know when will I satisfy my curiosity to see it. My e-mail address is howdilydoo at gmail
...but fuck you. Will you make your oldest articles available for download? I still can't get over that 1928 article on capillary effect that is STILL BEHIND A PAYWALL! Nature embodies all that is wrong with scientific journals. Not the worst, but definitely emblematic.
Thank you. I love people that aren't inflexible in their thinking.
This is an ethnic issue between Russia and North Caucasus.
More precisely, it's a conflict between western values and Islamism.
This is an ethnic issue between Russia and North Caucasus.
Close. More precisely, it's a conflict between western values and Islamism (note: did not say "Islam").
I don't need my stories handed to me on a silver platter, but the level of alternate meaning you're suggesting would require far more obvious clues to be believable for me.
The paranormal abilities of Neo in the purportedly "real" world (the "non-Matrix") should be a very clear and explicit clue. But for some reason, most of the audience just seems to have rejected that clue. Maybe because Matrix 1 created a universe which was very consistent, and the audience just can't switch away from that.
Actually, there is experimental evidence that supports the OP's claim that, having a way out makes the "trip" less stressful. Volunteers have been subjected to a series of gradually increasing electrical shocks. One group could stop the experiment at any time with a switch they could activate themselves, the other could not. The former resisted MUCH higher shocks than the latter (the one "without a way out").
Dumb fucks....
"iPad + Macintosh Plus =..." The jokes just write themselves. I won't even try, it's just too easy.