One-on-one meetings in a comfortable and somewhat informal manner. Make it regular (twice a week or so?) and find some way to give them advanced notice indirectly, like doing it at the same time every week or passing by their office/cubes a few minutes before jumping in to ask for the informal report. If you startle them, leave and come back in a few minutes (really!). Their desks should be oriented in a manner that makes it hard to sneak up on them; if that's not the case, buy a mirror for their monitor.
Wait, is this still about the glowing red ass thing ?
The only proper specs I've ever seen were RFCs (not all RFCs, but some of them).
Some of the most entertaining ones to use when implementing something where from the CCITT (now ITUT). The fact that they all started with "working group 'blah', 1985, Seychelles" made me hate them even more.
Well, in every business I've been in, the problems of the business come from ignoring things everybody knew to be true. They did things they knew in principle to be bad, they failed to do things that they knew in principle they had to do. Why? Expediency. And the driver of expediency is cash.
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Doing the right thing isn't as easy as it sounds.
Even though it sounds quite plain, this fairly well sums up my own experience in the corporate world, including my stints as an entrepreneur.
Once the company gets running, most of your time is spent (in a typical company) running after cash. So although you might have some killer products on the back burner that you *know* would make a killing... you indeed end up releasing crappy ones because they tie in with some other random crap you've already paid to make for $randomClient (and sometimes somebody else in your industry gets lucky and releases one of those pet projects of yours that you'd love to be able to be able to afford to work on and it makes a killing and you hate them forever because of it *sigh*).
Anyway I'm glad I'm an artist now and I can live on spring water and sunshine (right).
How is taking down a single hospital the work of a Weapon of Mass Destruction?
It could be a massive hospital in Massachusetts ?
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We are going to bomb no one; therefor they are NOT WMDs. Any sane person who thinks they are WMDs should be fired or put in jail. Because they are inciting the use of Nukes on the nation attacking the US. Tim S
Most botnets *are* Wired Malfeasant Desktops. I don't see what your issue is. Bombing all of them wouldn't be very easy though.
I find it rather strange that numerous $randomSlashDotPosters can figure this out and that almost none of the game companies can.
Don't they hire, like, market dudes or something ? Or are we specially gifted around here ?
What's wrong with all those companies that keep on acting like divas all the time... "waaah, I've been obnoxious and painted myself in a corner, it's all the fault of my nasty customers, of p2p, of unmetered access, of sunspots, of the falling market, of terrorism..."
Naturally, it will be a slow transition, considering most IT departments are not too comfortable with the idea of switching all of their computer network to a Linux-based one (and with good reason).
Good IT departments are not too comfortable with the idea of switching all of their computer network to a Windows-based one (and with good reason).
Mostly, good IT departments are not too comfortable with the idea of switching all of their computer network to anything other than what they have already coaxed into working, usually at great pains. If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
Judging from the demo video, the display is in levels of grey, not in colour:( And not all that flexible (it would have to be quite large to be rolled). But quite resilient, which is still fairly good compared to what we've got nowadays.
It looks like this is only the color filtering aspect of a display and not the light source. Still have to hold it up to a flashlight while you try to use it or hang it from your window. In these cases, it would be easier if it were not so flexible.
If it were to be fairly transparent when blanked, it could be permanently affixed to window panes and it wouldn't be an issue. The rest of the time you could use it to have interesting displays on your windows (or just blanking).
It does have the good side of hampering those people's attempts at reproducing which can be seen as beneficial since any offspring would probably have been infected by the parent's stupidity.
After a few years in business 80% of my income comes from 4 clients that provide me with a steady stream of work, billed at an hourly rate. Those clients started off as fixed bid projects that grew and grew until I was an important enough part of their business that they had to keep me around. And I don't know about you, but I would rather have a steady stream of work from known clients I trust than be making cold calls or spending money advertising to find new work. Which reminds me, the other 20% of my work comes from referrals from those 4 clients.
This matches my experience and what I've seen, with ratios going from 50/50 to 90/10 (usually around 60 or 70/40-30). It's indeed the best situation to end up with, letting you know what kind of income you can expect, which is always a big variable when freelancing.
As an aside, I've never really had a problem with the contract. I use it to specify the scope of the intervention and/or to specify my rates. Just so everybody agrees on everything when we get started. But then it's in Europe where people may be used to more formal paperwork.
But I'd recommend trying to find a Cowon iAudio instead (possibly by ordering it online). Less bugs in the Ogg Vorbis support plus support for Ogg FLAC.
Seconded. Cowon or iRiver have always been good to me:)
The Cowon D2 is currently a pretty good multimedia player if you also want video.
Obviously there's some subjectivity there, but if an adult woman was in the same pose with her genitals only just hidden by a photoshop trick, I expect that many people would agree that it is a "sexual pose". So whatever you think of the moral argument here, they seem to be within the letter of the law.
An adult woman in the same setting would be seen as being in a "sexual", or rather, possibly, slightly suggestive pose, because she's potentially a mate for half the population. Whereas a 10 year old girl isn't (only to a tiny fringe).
By your reasoning a "naked" sheep shouldn't appear either because it would be seen as sexually stimulating by the few zoophiles.
The bottom of it is rather that some people are getting hysterical with the whole children thing and should go take a shower instead of spending ages looking for useless stuff to censor.
On the other hand you have to remember that this is also for the kind of users that sometimes manage to miss the button on their single button mouse (actually told to me by an adamant Mac user some years ago defending the 1 button mouse as already complicated enough - needless to say I could do nothing but agree with him at that point...). Some Mac users can be pretty weird.
As the number of domains that point to the same IP address increases, so does the number of pointless DNS requests.
I see that I'm not the only one that has set his DNS to try to resolve host.domain.$TLD for each and every $TLD in existence. Then it just picks an address at random and returns it.
It makes the network much more interesting. So they are *not* pointless requests.
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It depends whether the locals suspect the fire in Palin's church was suspiciously suspicious. Then maybe both events could be linked.
Aren't they covered by warranty ? Get them to replace them.
One-on-one meetings in a comfortable and somewhat informal manner. Make it regular (twice a week or so?) and find some way to give them advanced notice indirectly, like doing it at the same time every week or passing by their office/cubes a few minutes before jumping in to ask for the informal report. If you startle them, leave and come back in a few minutes (really!). Their desks should be oriented in a manner that makes it hard to sneak up on them; if that's not the case, buy a mirror for their monitor.
Wait, is this still about the glowing red ass thing ?
The only proper specs I've ever seen were RFCs (not all RFCs, but some of them).
Some of the most entertaining ones to use when implementing something where from the CCITT (now ITUT). The fact that they all started with "working group 'blah', 1985, Seychelles" made me hate them even more.
[mutates and goes into chaotic rage upon reading the word "irregardless"]
Some dictionaries appear to say you can use it unregardless of what people think.
Those dictionaries should be burned.
Great, now we're going to have people texting with their arms outside the window.
Just dictate your message to your friend hanging on to the roof with his cell phone.
Well, in every business I've been in, the problems of the business come from ignoring things everybody knew to be true. They did things they knew in principle to be bad, they failed to do things that they knew in principle they had to do.
Why?
Expediency. And the driver of expediency is cash.
[ ... ]
Doing the right thing isn't as easy as it sounds.
Even though it sounds quite plain, this fairly well sums up my own experience in the corporate world, including my stints as an entrepreneur.
Once the company gets running, most of your time is spent (in a typical company) running after cash. So although you might have some killer products on the back burner that you *know* would make a killing... you indeed end up releasing crappy ones because they tie in with some other random crap you've already paid to make for $randomClient (and sometimes somebody else in your industry gets lucky and releases one of those pet projects of yours that you'd love to be able to be able to afford to work on and it makes a killing and you hate them forever because of it *sigh*).
Anyway I'm glad I'm an artist now and I can live on spring water and sunshine (right).
How is taking down a single hospital the work of a Weapon of Mass Destruction?
It could be a massive hospital in Massachusetts ?
We are going to bomb no one; therefor they are NOT WMDs. Any sane person who thinks they are WMDs should be fired or put in jail. Because they are inciting the use of Nukes on the nation attacking the US. Tim S
Most botnets *are* Wired Malfeasant Desktops. I don't see what your issue is.
Bombing all of them wouldn't be very easy though.
I find it rather strange that numerous $randomSlashDotPosters can figure this out and that almost none of the game companies can.
Don't they hire, like, market dudes or something ? Or are we specially gifted around here ?
What's wrong with all those companies that keep on acting like divas all the time... "waaah, I've been obnoxious and painted myself in a corner, it's all the fault of my nasty customers, of p2p, of unmetered access, of sunspots, of the falling market, of terrorism..."
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Naturally, it will be a slow transition, considering most IT departments are not too comfortable with the idea of switching all of their computer network to a Linux-based one (and with good reason).
Good IT departments are not too comfortable with the idea of switching all of their computer network to a Windows-based one (and with good reason).
Mostly, good IT departments are not too comfortable with the idea of switching all of their computer network to anything other than what they have already coaxed into working, usually at great pains. If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
They mapped their milestones with photographs & videos:
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Judging from the demo video, the display is in levels of grey, not in colour :(
And not all that flexible (it would have to be quite large to be rolled). But quite resilient, which is still fairly good compared to what we've got nowadays.
My fiancée works in a research lab where they are creating photoelectric polymers with salmon dna which is oddly enough as good a conductor as copper.
Why would salmon DNA, specifically, would be a better conductor than trout DNA or even snail DNA for that matter ?
(just wondering, the molecules themselves are similar, seen as a whole)
It looks like this is only the color filtering aspect of a display and not the light source. Still have to hold it up to a flashlight while you try to use it or hang it from your window. In these cases, it would be easier if it were not so flexible.
If it were to be fairly transparent when blanked, it could be permanently affixed to window panes and it wouldn't be an issue. The rest of the time you could use it to have interesting displays on your windows (or just blanking).
Engadget is reporting that HP and Arizona State University's cooperation has given birth to a new prototype flexible display.
Just imagine giving birth to a CRT. Ouch.
And as usual the father is a SAILor. Those guys ought to take more responsibility.
It does have the good side of hampering those people's attempts at reproducing which can be seen as beneficial since any offspring would probably have been infected by the parent's stupidity.
After a few years in business 80% of my income comes from 4 clients that provide me with a steady stream of work, billed at an hourly rate. Those clients started off as fixed bid projects that grew and grew until I was an important enough part of their business that they had to keep me around. And I don't know about you, but I would rather have a steady stream of work from known clients I trust than be making cold calls or spending money advertising to find new work. Which reminds me, the other 20% of my work comes from referrals from those 4 clients.
This matches my experience and what I've seen, with ratios going from 50/50 to 90/10 (usually around 60 or 70 /40-30). It's indeed the best situation to end up with, letting you know what kind of income you can expect, which is always a big variable when freelancing.
As an aside, I've never really had a problem with the contract. I use it to specify the scope of the intervention and/or to specify my rates. Just so everybody agrees on everything when we get started.
But then it's in Europe where people may be used to more formal paperwork.
But I'd recommend trying to find a Cowon iAudio instead (possibly by ordering it online). Less bugs in the Ogg Vorbis support plus support for Ogg FLAC.
Seconded. Cowon or iRiver have always been good to me :)
The Cowon D2 is currently a pretty good multimedia player if you also want video.
Obviously there's some subjectivity there, but if an adult woman was in the same pose with her genitals only just hidden by a photoshop trick, I expect that many people would agree that it is a "sexual pose". So whatever you think of the moral argument here, they seem to be within the letter of the law.
An adult woman in the same setting would be seen as being in a "sexual", or rather, possibly, slightly suggestive pose, because she's potentially a mate for half the population. Whereas a 10 year old girl isn't (only to a tiny fringe).
By your reasoning a "naked" sheep shouldn't appear either because it would be seen as sexually stimulating by the few zoophiles.
The bottom of it is rather that some people are getting hysterical with the whole children thing and should go take a shower instead of spending ages looking for useless stuff to censor.
It wouldn't surprise me if the /. servers are still running Linux Kernel 2.2.x
I would have sworn they were merely a few "door" programs on a DOS BBS...
You have départments, which are essentially the same thing.
Maybe. Although I'm mostly saying this because I'm not sure what counties are :)
Departments (départements) were supposedly originally designed so they were 1 day*horse wide. There's a bit over 90 of them in mainland France but there are a few that are further away. Of course with those you presumably *could* push the horse more and try and get it to swim a bit. If it can hang on to a cluster of coconuts (it could grip it by the husk), it might even make it to the next department.
Yeah. Other counties! Haven't you heard of them? ;) ;)
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Are you French or American?
I don't know about France, but here in America we celebrate a diverse selection of counties.
Here in France we have no counties whatsoever. I think the Swiss have some though.
On the other hand you have to remember that this is also for the kind of users that sometimes manage to miss the button on their single button mouse (actually told to me by an adamant Mac user some years ago defending the 1 button mouse as already complicated enough - needless to say I could do nothing but agree with him at that point...). Some Mac users can be pretty weird.
It'll be like "Dallas" or "Knot's Landing", but with spaceships? Wow!
This should be awesome. I hope it has musical acts ! A musical SciFi series would be an unforgettable experience. Especially with tap-dancing.
As the number of domains that point to the same IP address increases, so does the number of pointless DNS requests.
I see that I'm not the only one that has set his DNS to try to resolve host.domain.$TLD for each and every $TLD in existence. Then it just picks an address at random and returns it.
It makes the network much more interesting. So they are *not* pointless requests.