Any major city, excepting Detroit, has a pretty nice immediate downtown and a ring of shitty stuff out of that. It's the non-gentrified areas around essentially the business districts and bar districts downtown. Chicago, Atlanta, NY, LA and most of other cities I've been to or lived in follow that model.
I know that this is more of an American/Canadian term, but does "chilling effects" ring any bells? If the government can't* do this to journalists but can and will do it to their families and friends, they have to see how that would affect journalist behavior? It's pretty classic operant conditioning AND probably a case of collective punishment as well.
* We know they will, but just for the sake of argument
Did anyone else do a double take on that headline? I thought it read Build an Open-Source Electric Chair In About One Hour.
That would have been an interesting thread.
I'd just leave in at my desk in a drawer most likely. If I actually worked for a company that tried to implement that, you can guarantee my resume would be going at either at EOD or lunchtime. If your company is suffering because of lack of productivity, the problem might lie with the workers. It probably lies with their boss. Either way, micromanaging 98% of workers* is counterproductive. Much more effective to hire competent, motivated people in the first place and/or replace the people managing them.
* I can see this being useful in a low-skill job with extremely high turnover, but that's about it
Just be thankful you weren't in the market for a new machine when Vista came out. I looked around and the best deal in my price range was a C2D, 1 GB HP laptop. Should have upped the RAM to 2 GB, but didn't have the cash at the time. Vista itself ran all right performance-wise, but it was the drivers crashing, updates that hosed the OS, and a few other things that made me pull my hair out. Turned off windows update and manually installed the troublesome drivers (wifi, sound, video) and never looked back until SP1 came out. Couldn't nuke and pave quick enough when I got access to the Win 7 RTM through school.
Like some of the other commenters, I would really, really think about it before you went down that road. Doing stuff for free is rarely a good idea long term, even if it's "simple" like being the family tech support.
If you do go down that path, troll around on craigslist for a cheap C2D SFF desktop. I don't know where you are, but you can find them for around $50 here in Chicago. Maybe throw in a larger HD or some more RAM but that is plenty to run all the development stuff you want. You're not going to get the fastest build times, but it's plenty powerful enough to do what you need. It's also going to be small enough to stick next to or on top of your current workstation. Getting a KVM is probably a good idea as well.
FTA: Or more commonly, for travellers who want to measure their radiation dose as they fly, since those taking frequent polar air routes between north America and Europe receive a significantly higher dose than others.
Man am I glad smartphones are finally getting out and about in public. This is the year of the smartphone! Hopefully we'll be able to use them to sense the ambient air pressure while in our submersibles soon.
TFA: ""I think this list of reasons to upgrade misses the larger point in providing software for other people: You do not get to tell your users what to do.... Maybe those users don’t have sufficient control over their working environments to install a new version of Python.... Maybe those users rely on certain APIs only available in older versions of Python and don’t wish to take an indeterminate amount of time to rewrite (retest, recertify, etc. etc.) their software.... Maybe those users are just rationally lazy and don’t want to deal with downloading, configuring, and installing a new version of Python, plus dealing with inevitable fallout, when the old version has worked Just Fine for everything else."
I'm just going to mirror what this guy said. There's a reason why IE6 was still around *years* after it should have been taken out back and shot. There's a lot of money dumped into these project and applications. I'd make every effort to encourage a transition, but those cost money and time.
Cisco got paid a bunch of money for something that may or may not sell well and basically gave up on developing. Solid win for them.
Caveat: I meant to type Belkin. I was just inadvertently correct
Only reason I retired mine a few months ago is because it was intermittently interfering with my Tivo and broadband connectivity. It didn't seem to play too well with the MoCA adapter needed to get the secondary TIVO box connectivity. Tried swapping out multiple cable modems, tivo units, and cycled through the three DD-WRT routers I had. Only constant was the WRT54G. Switched over to a crappy netgear I bought for cheap and everything started working with no hiccups.
At some point you'll really want the upgraded speed. If I hadn't gotten and loved Tivo, I doubt I would have switched over either. I think the uptime on the old router was, excluding being powered off for an apartment move, around 20 months or so.
The money isn't an issue. It's a question of whether or not I should even bother. The old laptop isn't going to exceed the capacities of my newish router and it's going to suck up power like it's going out of style because it's an old laptop. I'd be better off refurbishing a net top to do what you're thinking, and even then the money would be enough that I'd just buy the dedicated router like I was thinking about in the first place.
Part of me really wants it. Then part of me questions why I would need a $300 router for a 1 BR apartment.
Then the other part of me says "Shut up and take my money."
I think Cisco is going to win out even though I just retired my old WRT54G 6 months ago and have no need for a new router. The one I got is fine but I can't put DD-WRT or Open-WRT on it, and it's a pretty low-spec model.
Goethe did it pretty well as did Twain. I don't think Shakespeare did it too poorly either. Granted those are some of the most talented writers ever, but the point still stands. For someone trying to portray NYC and how an aimless, wanna drifter of a team would interact it with it, Salinger got it half right. The environment is perfect. Holden just encountered far too much of it to be believable, especially at that period in time.
The atmosphere is interesting. The main character is intolerable. The books vacillates between 80 different scenarios in just over 200 pages. It's not fast-paced. It's just a short book. Whiny, ennui filled teenager/adolescent has been done before, obviously, and it's been done far better than Salinger did it.
Most of it revolves around Holden and his portrayal. At some point, an angst filled teenager as a complex character has to hit a limit. Salinger went far beyond that to the point of alienating the reader, and I say that as someone who made that judgment as the angst-filled, isolated 14 year I was.
It might be a great book, but it doesn't mean it's worth reading. When I read it as a 14 year old, I found Holden worthless and like many teenagers, I was fairly disaffected and whiny myself. Frankly its message isn't for most people, and those who identify with it can spend their time reading better books with more likable characters.
Ah the Art of War, totally forgot that one. Great catch. Not sure I'd recommend Critique of Pure Reason for most people. I had to read it in German in college, so that probably affected it a bit but I didn't get much out of it.
Which would be applicable if they hadn't also destroyed his ACTUAL FLUTES. Those weren't raw materials. They didn't destroy the rest of his luggage, so it clearly wasn't a pest/sanitation issue.
It's possible to test and fumigate the flutes without destroying them, but that would be too hard. I'm fine with them destroying the raw bamboo if it didn't pass muster. I doubt that carved, sealed flutes wouldn't. Kind of hard for bugs or larvae to live in sealed wood.
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Any major city, excepting Detroit, has a pretty nice immediate downtown and a ring of shitty stuff out of that. It's the non-gentrified areas around essentially the business districts and bar districts downtown. Chicago, Atlanta, NY, LA and most of other cities I've been to or lived in follow that model.
I know that this is more of an American/Canadian term, but does "chilling effects" ring any bells? If the government can't* do this to journalists but can and will do it to their families and friends, they have to see how that would affect journalist behavior? It's pretty classic operant conditioning AND probably a case of collective punishment as well. * We know they will, but just for the sake of argument
Sounds like the non-idiot consultant was decidedly an idiot. Should have incorporated to shield his personal assets.
Did anyone else do a double take on that headline? I thought it read Build an Open-Source Electric Chair In About One Hour.
That would have been an interesting thread.
I'd just leave in at my desk in a drawer most likely. If I actually worked for a company that tried to implement that, you can guarantee my resume would be going at either at EOD or lunchtime. If your company is suffering because of lack of productivity, the problem might lie with the workers. It probably lies with their boss. Either way, micromanaging 98% of workers* is counterproductive. Much more effective to hire competent, motivated people in the first place and/or replace the people managing them.
* I can see this being useful in a low-skill job with extremely high turnover, but that's about it
Still works on my 8.1
Might be just your machine. I've used several different flash drives to copy multi-GB images on Windows 8.
Just be thankful you weren't in the market for a new machine when Vista came out. I looked around and the best deal in my price range was a C2D, 1 GB HP laptop. Should have upped the RAM to 2 GB, but didn't have the cash at the time. Vista itself ran all right performance-wise, but it was the drivers crashing, updates that hosed the OS, and a few other things that made me pull my hair out. Turned off windows update and manually installed the troublesome drivers (wifi, sound, video) and never looked back until SP1 came out. Couldn't nuke and pave quick enough when I got access to the Win 7 RTM through school.
Like some of the other commenters, I would really, really think about it before you went down that road. Doing stuff for free is rarely a good idea long term, even if it's "simple" like being the family tech support. If you do go down that path, troll around on craigslist for a cheap C2D SFF desktop. I don't know where you are, but you can find them for around $50 here in Chicago. Maybe throw in a larger HD or some more RAM but that is plenty to run all the development stuff you want. You're not going to get the fastest build times, but it's plenty powerful enough to do what you need. It's also going to be small enough to stick next to or on top of your current workstation. Getting a KVM is probably a good idea as well.
Chromecast is awesome and the 'cast desktop' is a beta feature IIRC. However the native apps for Netflix, HBOGO and Hulu pretty much rock.
Man am I glad smartphones are finally getting out and about in public. This is the year of the smartphone! Hopefully we'll be able to use them to sense the ambient air pressure while in our submersibles soon.
I'm just going to mirror what this guy said. There's a reason why IE6 was still around *years* after it should have been taken out back and shot. There's a lot of money dumped into these project and applications. I'd make every effort to encourage a transition, but those cost money and time.
GIMP probably.
Cisco got paid a bunch of money for something that may or may not sell well and basically gave up on developing. Solid win for them. Caveat: I meant to type Belkin. I was just inadvertently correct
Only reason I retired mine a few months ago is because it was intermittently interfering with my Tivo and broadband connectivity. It didn't seem to play too well with the MoCA adapter needed to get the secondary TIVO box connectivity. Tried swapping out multiple cable modems, tivo units, and cycled through the three DD-WRT routers I had. Only constant was the WRT54G. Switched over to a crappy netgear I bought for cheap and everything started working with no hiccups. At some point you'll really want the upgraded speed. If I hadn't gotten and loved Tivo, I doubt I would have switched over either. I think the uptime on the old router was, excluding being powered off for an apartment move, around 20 months or so.
The money isn't an issue. It's a question of whether or not I should even bother. The old laptop isn't going to exceed the capacities of my newish router and it's going to suck up power like it's going out of style because it's an old laptop. I'd be better off refurbishing a net top to do what you're thinking, and even then the money would be enough that I'd just buy the dedicated router like I was thinking about in the first place.
Then the other part of me says "Shut up and take my money."
I think Cisco is going to win out even though I just retired my old WRT54G 6 months ago and have no need for a new router. The one I got is fine but I can't put DD-WRT or Open-WRT on it, and it's a pretty low-spec model.
It's overreach
Goethe did it pretty well as did Twain. I don't think Shakespeare did it too poorly either. Granted those are some of the most talented writers ever, but the point still stands. For someone trying to portray NYC and how an aimless, wanna drifter of a team would interact it with it, Salinger got it half right. The environment is perfect. Holden just encountered far too much of it to be believable, especially at that period in time.
The atmosphere is interesting. The main character is intolerable. The books vacillates between 80 different scenarios in just over 200 pages. It's not fast-paced. It's just a short book. Whiny, ennui filled teenager/adolescent has been done before, obviously, and it's been done far better than Salinger did it. Most of it revolves around Holden and his portrayal. At some point, an angst filled teenager as a complex character has to hit a limit. Salinger went far beyond that to the point of alienating the reader, and I say that as someone who made that judgment as the angst-filled, isolated 14 year I was.
It might be a great book, but it doesn't mean it's worth reading. When I read it as a 14 year old, I found Holden worthless and like many teenagers, I was fairly disaffected and whiny myself. Frankly its message isn't for most people, and those who identify with it can spend their time reading better books with more likable characters.
Ah the Art of War, totally forgot that one. Great catch. Not sure I'd recommend Critique of Pure Reason for most people. I had to read it in German in college, so that probably affected it a bit but I didn't get much out of it.
Which would be applicable if they hadn't also destroyed his ACTUAL FLUTES. Those weren't raw materials. They didn't destroy the rest of his luggage, so it clearly wasn't a pest/sanitation issue.
It's possible to test and fumigate the flutes without destroying them, but that would be too hard. I'm fine with them destroying the raw bamboo if it didn't pass muster. I doubt that carved, sealed flutes wouldn't. Kind of hard for bugs or larvae to live in sealed wood.
The instruments were definitely cured and dried. The rest of the stuff, who knows.