Remove the browser icon from your desktop - make sure you can't just do a quick twitch to your favorite distraction.
Play loud, repetitive music through wired headphones. This cuts distractions, gives you something to do during compiles, and tethers you to your desk all at once. I'm partial to Philip Glass and VNV Nation.
It's going to be five (or more) years until the next major Windows upgrade? Well, that explains why they were pushing so hard to get corporate clients to sign up for subscription pricing for Windows. MS will be getting steady income for the next five years for minor point releases.
So we're in a world where ADCs have been set up to detect watermarked material and suppress it. Think how much fun you can have with this!
Envision a small device that emits a fairly low level of white noise with the watermark in it. Perhaps it's just an MP3 player looping a watermarked recording of John Cage's 4'33".
Bring one of these to a political debate or a religious...uh... performance. Turn it on. At the very least all the outbound broadcast feeds die; if you're lucky and the hall has a digital sound system all the microphones just stop working.
Walk into a bank carrying a running DVD player. Say! What happened to all the security cameras?
I wonder how much of that cash is committed over time to buying shares at market price to cover their outstanding employee incentive options. I'm with Alan Greenspan on this one; those options need to be covered in the financials.
Figure out just how far you sit from the monitor. Ask your ophthamologist to write you a prescription for glasses optimized for that distance. Explain exactly what you're using them for; he may have a better idea of what to use.
If you're having problems with chromatic aberation, which shows up as red, green, and blue colored bands around letters, get a monochrome monitor. It isn't enough to set your software to display in black and white; this has to be done in hardware.
Get a big monitor. You may want to run it at a lower resolution than it's rated for. This is especially true if you have a hard time seeing thin lines. Many programs will insist on using one-pixel thick lines; it helps if the pixels themselves are larger.
When I was 12 -- that would be around 1973 -- My dad brought home a ruby for me. It was a cylinder around 8 cm. long and 1.5 cm in diameter. It was a an artificial ruby intended for use in a laser, but it wasn't quite optically perfect. It was a beautiful, pure red and worth about as much as a silicon wafer with a few too many impurities to make ICs on.
By now they ought to be able to make optically flawed rubies at least as big as a baby's arm holding an apple.
This would be a slightly better analogy. It's still an analogy and so false to fact, but it captures quantum entanglement a little better.
You have a sack with two balls in it, one weighing 10kg, one 100kg. You and your friend each weigh 100kg. You and your friend each take a ball without looking at it or noticing its weight. (Don't ask how, just do it.) You walk to opposite ends of the room, each passing over a scale that rings an alarm if 175kg passes over it. Neither alarm rings. You open the bags and find one 10kg weight and one 100kg weight.
Until you open the bags and check the weights, the bags contain an odd, entangled combination of the two weights.
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Now do the validation suite for it. That's really the hard part.
Pay in cash whenever practical. It's amazing how many databases this will keep you out of.
Two girls / one squirrel, anyone?
Remove the browser icon from your desktop - make sure you can't just do a quick twitch to your favorite distraction.
Play loud, repetitive music through wired headphones. This cuts distractions, gives you something to do during compiles, and tethers you to your desk all at once. I'm partial to Philip Glass and VNV Nation.
I haven't found any research on it, but I have found two things that help me with eyestrain:
Set your monitor's color temperature low. I like it around 6000.
Set your background color to off-white. #FCFCF9 works well for me. A minor change here makes a very big difference.
THIS is a root kit!
So will people who do too well be brought in for questioning?
That's what linoleum is for.
Good grief! I wouldn't be running Linux in the first place if I didn't want to fiddle around with things I don't understand.
What kind of horror stories will we see? Amusing, instructional ones.
--Andy Hickmott
It's going to be five (or more) years until the next major Windows upgrade? Well, that explains why they were pushing so hard to get corporate clients to sign up for subscription pricing for Windows. MS will be getting steady income for the next five years for minor point releases.
--Andy Hickmott
So we're in a world where ADCs have been set up to detect watermarked material and suppress it. Think how much fun you can have with this!
...uh... performance. Turn it on. At the very least all the outbound broadcast feeds die; if you're lucky and the hall has a digital sound system all the microphones just stop working.
Envision a small device that emits a fairly low level of white noise with the watermark in it. Perhaps it's just an MP3 player looping a watermarked recording of John Cage's 4'33".
Bring one of these to a political debate or a religious
Walk into a bank carrying a running DVD player. Say! What happened to all the security cameras?
The possibilities are endless.
--Andy Hickmott
Now if only he could come up with an version that did APL, too.
I wonder how much of that cash is committed over time to buying shares at market price to cover their outstanding employee incentive options. I'm with Alan Greenspan on this one; those options need to be covered in the financials.
--Andy Hickmott
There are three basic things to try:
Figure out just how far you sit from the monitor. Ask your ophthamologist to write you a prescription for glasses optimized for that distance. Explain exactly what you're using them for; he may have a better idea of what to use.
If you're having problems with chromatic aberation, which shows up as red, green, and blue colored bands around letters, get a monochrome monitor. It isn't enough to set your software to display in black and white; this has to be done in hardware.
Get a big monitor. You may want to run it at a lower resolution than it's rated for. This is especially true if you have a hard time seeing thin lines. Many programs will insist on using one-pixel thick lines; it helps if the pixels themselves are larger.
Good luck!
--Andy Hickmott
We tried to deploy it but it kept eating our RFC1149 packets.
--hickmott
When I was 12 -- that would be around 1973 -- My dad brought home a ruby for me. It was a cylinder around 8 cm. long and 1.5 cm in diameter. It was a an artificial ruby intended for use in a laser, but it wasn't quite optically perfect. It was a beautiful, pure red and worth about as much as a silicon wafer with a few too many impurities to make ICs on.
By now they ought to be able to make optically flawed rubies at least as big as a baby's arm holding an apple.
--Andy Hickmott
This would be a slightly better analogy. It's still an analogy and so false to fact, but it captures quantum entanglement a little better.
You have a sack with two balls in it, one weighing 10kg, one 100kg. You and your friend each weigh 100kg. You and your friend each take a ball without looking at it or noticing its weight. (Don't ask how, just do it.) You walk to opposite ends of the room, each passing over a scale that rings an alarm if 175kg passes over it. Neither alarm rings. You open the bags and find one 10kg weight and one 100kg weight.
Until you open the bags and check the weights, the bags contain an odd, entangled combination of the two weights.