Amen to that. As a telecommuter I can honestly say that I feel more compelled to work even harder than if I was in the office. I know full well that working from home leaves opportunity for someone to claim that the work isn't getting done, not because I'm over-worked, but because I work from home. When I was in the office until the wee hours of the morning, I didn't mind leaving because when someone says "where is yaqub0r" someone else would say..."he stayed the night and left an hour ago." When the same thing happens from home, and I'm not available or I sound sleepy in the middle of the day the answer just might be "oh...he slacks off from home".
Now, when I'm not working...I'm home! I have a list nearly a hundred other things that are not work related that I need to take care of. It's not like I'm sitting in an office environment with nothing to do looking for a way to kill time. Filling out a survey is right above just above catching an incurable STD on my list of things to do. I don't even feel compelled to fill out the paid surveys that get handed to me.
On the other hand...if you are just a general slacker I can see working from home facilitating that. I think checks need to be put in place to prevent slacking in general though, whether you work in the office or from home.
Absolutely correct. But, I can't help but wonder how many people who find this game "despicable" find the games where we kill other influencial political figures, like the all time favorite Hitler, or more recently Sadaam Husain, despicable.
Don't give me the "but they were the bad guys" propaganda either. Whether they are bad guys or not, all of your reasons still hold. In addition to that, believe it or not, there were people who did not like JFK. Also, perhaps and even harder pill to swallow, there are people who like the previously mentioned political figures.
I know for certain it isn't going to be halaal (kosher for muslims). Even though the technology didn't exist, Islamic authorities have already dealt with this topic.
After getting 404's for over 24 hours, I tried something different.
/whois juandoe juandoe is ~Unknown@255-255-255-255-somesubdomain.telebrasili a.net.br * Unknown
[11:31] are you connecting from brazil? [11:33] yes [11:34] can you do me a favor and see if you can connect to this site: [11:34] http://listen4ever.com/ [11:35] connected [11:36] not a problem [11:36] great thanks.
Not this one. Take my example. Like most programmers I game and program on the same machine (at work of course). I bought an Asus AGP-V6600 so that I could do some serious gaming. I've also found that the joy of programming increases when you add a second monitor. Code on one monitor, documentation, run-time, etc. on the other. Since the best gaming cards out there aren't dual-head, that limits you immediately.
Add a third monitor and you can do tons of stuff at the same time. Code, troll the net, read docs, IRC, buildworld, watch what packets are coming through your firewall at 3am...etc, and never have to worry about "what window was that again?" Everything is right there in front of you.
Since I do different things, they are all at different resolutions. My primary/gaming monitor (which is the largest) is in the middle (21" 1280x1024) Then (2) 19" monitors on either side. The one I keep things on that I will keep refering to, such as docs is at 1600x1200. The one that I usually keep my remote connection windows on is sometimes at 800x600, sometime at 1024x768, depending on how many machines I am connected to at one time. If I want to play a movie while coding/reading docs I set that third monitor at 640x480.
As far as I know the only way to achieve this setup is with 1 agp card and 2 pci cards. I don't think the Matrox's dual head, which I have on another machine, can do it because it assumes that the two monitors are next to each other, with nothing in the middle. Someone else should confirm that though. The G400 also doesn't support individual monitor resolutions on some os's. (cough...nt...cough)
I use all three of my monitors everyday, and have found it very enjoyable. To the extent that I won't even put a machine in my home because I can't afford more than one monitor. When I get on a machine w/ one monitor I feel like I'm in a box. If I had the room on my desk I would totally add a fourth 15" monitor dedicated to watching the logs that come in from the machines on my network. There must be people out there that do it. So, even then, unless you have a quad-head, you would require at least 2 dual-heads.
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Amen to that. As a telecommuter I can honestly say that I feel more compelled to work even harder than if I was in the office. I know full well that working from home leaves opportunity for someone to claim that the work isn't getting done, not because I'm over-worked, but because I work from home. When I was in the office until the wee hours of the morning, I didn't mind leaving because when someone says "where is yaqub0r" someone else would say..."he stayed the night and left an hour ago." When the same thing happens from home, and I'm not available or I sound sleepy in the middle of the day the answer just might be "oh...he slacks off from home".
Now, when I'm not working...I'm home! I have a list nearly a hundred other things that are not work related that I need to take care of. It's not like I'm sitting in an office environment with nothing to do looking for a way to kill time. Filling out a survey is right above just above catching an incurable STD on my list of things to do. I don't even feel compelled to fill out the paid surveys that get handed to me.
On the other hand...if you are just a general slacker I can see working from home facilitating that. I think checks need to be put in place to prevent slacking in general though, whether you work in the office or from home.
Absolutely correct. But, I can't help but wonder how many people who find this game "despicable" find the games where we kill other influencial political figures, like the all time favorite Hitler, or more recently Sadaam Husain, despicable.
Don't give me the "but they were the bad guys" propaganda either. Whether they are bad guys or not, all of your reasons still hold. In addition to that, believe it or not, there were people who did not like JFK. Also, perhaps and even harder pill to swallow, there are people who like the previously mentioned political figures.
IANAJ, but as far as I know...No.
I know for certain it isn't going to be halaal (kosher for muslims). Even though the technology didn't exist, Islamic authorities have already dealt with this topic.
After getting 404's for over 24 hours, I tried something different.
/whois juandoei a.net.br * Unknown
juandoe is ~Unknown@255-255-255-255-somesubdomain.telebrasil
[11:31] are you connecting from brazil?
[11:33] yes
[11:34] can you do me a favor and see if you can connect to this site:
[11:34] http://listen4ever.com/
[11:35] connected
[11:36] not a problem
[11:36] great thanks.
Add a third monitor and you can do tons of stuff at the same time. Code, troll the net, read docs, IRC, buildworld, watch what packets are coming through your firewall at 3am...etc, and never have to worry about "what window was that again?" Everything is right there in front of you.
Since I do different things, they are all at different resolutions. My primary/gaming monitor (which is the largest) is in the middle (21" 1280x1024) Then (2) 19" monitors on either side. The one I keep things on that I will keep refering to, such as docs is at 1600x1200. The one that I usually keep my remote connection windows on is sometimes at 800x600, sometime at 1024x768, depending on how many machines I am connected to at one time. If I want to play a movie while coding/reading docs I set that third monitor at 640x480.
As far as I know the only way to achieve this setup is with 1 agp card and 2 pci cards. I don't think the Matrox's dual head, which I have on another machine, can do it because it assumes that the two monitors are next to each other, with nothing in the middle. Someone else should confirm that though. The G400 also doesn't support individual monitor resolutions on some os's. (cough...nt...cough)
I use all three of my monitors everyday, and have found it very enjoyable. To the extent that I won't even put a machine in my home because I can't afford more than one monitor. When I get on a machine w/ one monitor I feel like I'm in a box. If I had the room on my desk I would totally add a fourth 15" monitor dedicated to watching the logs that come in from the machines on my network. There must be people out there that do it. So, even then, unless you have a quad-head, you would require at least 2 dual-heads.
The point is...Fix the bug!