Re:If you really want to work at / very near home.
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Starting your own business is great. . . but don't expect overnight success. I've been working for the last 3 years almost 'non-stop' apart from a change of country and wedding.
Really, it depends on your personality. Do you have sufficent self-motivation, can you whip your own butt into doing work when you'd really rather just laze in front of the TV.
It's a choice - do you want the comfort of a consistant (??) pay cheque but without the freedom of time-choice, or vice-versa.
I recently had the opportunity to telecommute if I was to become an employee of another company, doing almost the same thing I'm doing now - but, then it struck me - the most important thing to me is the ability to do as I please, I'm just exceedingly fortunate that I manage to still make enough sales.
Fortunately, I love my wife for exactly who she is. However, she herself wants to 'lose the weight', trouble is, it's the battle between her two sides. *sigh*.
It's also a slight 'demotivator' that I love her despite her not being of 'pristine model shape' [ her perception ] - hence she has no incentive to make herself 'better' for my sake. Vicious circle!
My wife is also suffering a bit - she's been going to the gym every day [almost] for the last 3 months and trying to cut out a lot of carbs ( Aitkens diet[s] ). Trouble is, it all gets undone when the binge-junk eating hits.
It's actually quite heart-breaking to see it happen. Just how do you tell [and enforce!] your beloved not to eat junk. Chocolate is just soooo enticing.
Be prepared for a lot of sales people to go "Sorry, we cannot allow you to boot that CD".
Kind of ironic that you're not permitted to 'test' the machine you're about to fork out several thousand dollars for.
When I was last searching for a laptop I encountered this brick-wall mentality, consequently I ended up telling them "Oh, in that case, no sale, goodbye" ( Commissions obviously doesn't exist in sales any more ).
As for the reasoning behind the no-fiddle mentality, it's because they're afraid that you'll install some sort of hacker software.
Actually, it was the lava scene out of Ice Age which they shot on location which wiped out most of the ice-cap. - end sarcasm.
Even if the world is 'warming up', the fact is that it's done this in the past and it will do it again in the future. I'm personally more concerned about a switch in the earth's magnetic poles, that's really going to upset my monitors!
However, this also is no reason to be complacent about pumping CO2 (and other such byproducts) into the atmosphere without care. We should still continue to make efforts to reduce our consumption of the resources on this planet.
The problem is that the shuttle doesn't use normal spec '7400' chips, their chips are usually radiation-hardened military spec chips. While your standard 74LS series are still easy to get, the higher spec ones are not.
Well, I don't have moderators points today, so I'll just have to beg to have someone else mod this up.
Great comments.
I ditched working at the office about 3 years ago. I'm now married, working at home, for myself, on the 'borderline' between going bust and living fine (it's always like that) but I manage to save 10% of everything for the future.
Honestly, I could not see how I'd survive going back to the 'office'. Not being able to spend time with my lovely wife as I see fit, nor to be able to take 'breaks' as I want, that would simply kill me.
Oh, my code quality... it's certainly better than when I used to work at the office for a 'boss'.
Perhaps they mean 'loopback'. That way, they can setup a loopback to their own email servers and create an endless spam loop... Gosh, perhaps they'll then get some sence as to how annoying spam is.
Really? Banned? Wow, then why do they have a [LINUX] OS option on their ADSL sign-up procedure.. perhaps it's a way to pick out who to give the line-trouble gremlins to.
Admittingly, I was a bit miffed when I found that by selecting the [LINUX] option my choice to 'self install' was all of a sudden made mute.
A phone call to Telstra and a switch to 'Win98' saved me $199 on the 'professional install' option. Of course, it helped that I threw a bit of "We're a Linux professional company".
Ultimately, it's mostly because the myriad of different distributions out there which prevents a lot of vendors from taking the drive into supporting linux. . . . At least they didn't ban me from using their [Telstra] ADSL or dialup [originally].
Don't say that too loud, else before you know it they'll eliminate the speakers. First step will be to only send digital [encoded of course] data to the 'speakers', then after that they'll come up with some wacked speaker design which builds the decoding circuits right in on the speaker cone... then after that they'll go away from speakers and simply transmit to your brain.
Not entirely. Yes, one wants to make enough money to get what ever one wants *cough*, however, I tend to find a lot more satisfaction in doing other things in life (which do require money). If I make squillions of bucks fine, but, the point is for me to take over the world and... oh bugger, I've just turned into Bill Gates.
Something must be wrong with my life... I'm a hybrid business developer, so, technically, I'm not making money from OpenSource [ in a strict sense ].
In short, I develop one 'commercial' program, of which the revenues I generate I use to fund my development of the OpenSource projects. These OpenSource projects in turn assist the commercial program because they both [Open and Commercial] share common libraries. These libraries are the most vital core.
By striking this 'balance', I'm able to keep the legal aspects happy, the financial aspects happy (I am my own business) and myself happy.
Whilst I don't make huge amounts of money, that is not the entire point. I do OpenSource because it's 'pleasurable' (most times, I wont expand on the bad times), and my 'commercial' side funds me.
Works for me.
Re:Perl's had it's day - It's become like COBOL
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You have no idea what you're talking about... just look at Windows!;-)
Why do we always have to keep changing regex [and many othe things]. Isn't enough that we have to learn one format for almost every language. Sure, there are perhaps easier ways to express certain logic situations, but over all, do we/need/ another regex format?
Sendmail/DID/ have a bad record... but it barely rates a mention these days. Time to bring yourself into the current day rather than trying to suck the rotten marrow out of last century's carcass.
What I do not understand is why there aren't any similar groups for the OpenSource / non-Darkside avocations.
If MS can fund groups such as these to spill forth what is obviously [then again, not much is obvious it seems to the 90% of the population] utter trash, surely we [ non-MS ] can do the same.
If this group spills out such toxic waste words as these, why does it gain so much attention in the general public?
Is there any reason why we cannot write an article stating "Microsoft Closed source enables Terrorists to easially render 90% of the information market paralized"... (after all, there is far more 'hard' evidence in the form of email-worms etc than there is behind what has been written in this article).
Oh blast. After reading that story, I realised I may as well not produce manuals. Certainly at University we were told [in general] to never make it sound like the blame was to like in the operator (even if it does). Things like "You entered invalid data" are a big no-no, should be "The computer was unable to process the required data".
Now I have to go see if I can find a manual-translator for my LaTeX books.
One factor which tends to be forgotten when it comes to printing is the duty cycle. Most injets are designed to last a certain number of prints then, quite simply, die (of course, you have to consume the mandatory number of cartridge replacements to compensate for the printers initial loss leading sale).
Having worked at a company which purchased a lot of the HP injets, I can certainly attest to them being exceptionally reliable... in breaking down after 1 month. The cause though was in part the people using them. HP6xx printers are not really designed to have 100 pages / day run through them, let alone full colour por^H^H^Hholiday photos. Stick with 5 pages a day and it should last you a year before going pop.
Personally, I still use HP printers, or EPSON. The best in my history books are the EPSON EPL-5200 (fantastic paper path) and HP4P/Plus/M series. These days I'm trying out the HP2200D[uplex]. Surviving well so far.
Oh, on another note, my wife's HP630c just died (11 months, 15 days old). . . time for the Tektronix Phaser.
Couldn't they just wack up something using a FPGA ? Surely for things like mid-range performance there are sufficiently dense FPGA's which can be coded up with [at the very least] basic 3D primatives (At least for testing).
No way! just get your 2400dpi laser printer to print resist onto a copper-clad board, then etch in your coke (don't drink coke afterwards, might taste like PitrCola)... umm.. then jam the chip into a wad of steel-wool [for the interconnects] then get 5min epoxy with some black dye to seal it... then...ummm. Oh bugger it, just drink the coke and wait for someone else to do it.
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Starting your own business is great. . . but don't expect overnight success. I've been working for the last 3 years almost 'non-stop' apart from a change of country and wedding.
Really, it depends on your personality. Do you have sufficent self-motivation, can you whip your own butt into doing work when you'd really rather just laze in front of the TV.
It's a choice - do you want the comfort of a consistant (??) pay cheque but without the freedom of time-choice, or vice-versa.
I recently had the opportunity to telecommute if I was to become an employee of another company, doing almost the same thing I'm doing now - but, then it struck me - the most important thing to me is the ability to do as I please, I'm just exceedingly fortunate that I manage to still make enough sales.
Regards.
Blammo on the stress/depression - precisely on the mark. I myself don't have any diet problem - I tend to ignore most junk most of the time.
I'll be glad once we move to a home and am at least 20mins from the nearest junk-food depot.
Fortunately, I love my wife for exactly who she is. However, she herself wants to 'lose the weight', trouble is, it's the battle between her two sides. *sigh*.
It's also a slight 'demotivator' that I love her despite her not being of 'pristine model shape' [ her perception ] - hence she has no incentive to make herself 'better' for my sake. Vicious circle!
Too right, amen.
My wife is also suffering a bit - she's been going to the gym every day [almost] for the last 3 months and trying to cut out a lot of carbs ( Aitkens diet[s] ). Trouble is, it all gets undone when the binge-junk eating hits.
It's actually quite heart-breaking to see it happen. Just how do you tell [and enforce!] your beloved not to eat junk. Chocolate is just soooo enticing.
Be prepared for a lot of sales people to go "Sorry, we cannot allow you to boot that CD".
Kind of ironic that you're not permitted to 'test' the machine you're about to fork out several thousand dollars for.
When I was last searching for a laptop I encountered this brick-wall mentality, consequently I ended up telling them "Oh, in that case, no sale, goodbye" ( Commissions obviously doesn't exist in sales any more ).
As for the reasoning behind the no-fiddle mentality, it's because they're afraid that you'll install some sort of hacker software.
Of course, you could always go down to South Africa where there's plenty of snow to be found in Winter in several places.
Actually, it was the lava scene out of Ice Age which they shot on location which wiped out most of the ice-cap. - end sarcasm.
Even if the world is 'warming up', the fact is that it's done this in the past and it will do it again in the future. I'm personally more concerned about a switch in the earth's magnetic poles, that's really going to upset my monitors!
However, this also is no reason to be complacent about pumping CO2 (and other such byproducts) into the atmosphere without care. We should still continue to make efforts to reduce our consumption of the resources on this planet.
Does this mean that the higher-quality ones have plots, where's the standard ones just have lots of explosions, crying, shooting, sex or other such ?
The problem is that the shuttle doesn't use normal spec '7400' chips, their chips are usually radiation-hardened military spec chips. While your standard 74LS series are still easy to get, the higher spec ones are not.
Well, I don't have moderators points today, so I'll just have to beg to have someone else mod this up.
Great comments.
I ditched working at the office about 3 years ago. I'm now married, working at home, for myself, on the 'borderline' between going bust and living fine (it's always like that) but I manage to save 10% of everything for the future.
Honestly, I could not see how I'd survive going back to the 'office'. Not being able to spend time with my lovely wife as I see fit, nor to be able to take 'breaks' as I want, that would simply kill me.
Oh, my code quality... it's certainly better than when I used to work at the office for a 'boss'.
Have a good life.
Perhaps they mean 'loopback'. That way, they can setup a loopback to their own email servers and create an endless spam loop... Gosh, perhaps they'll then get some sence as to how annoying spam is.
Really? Banned? Wow, then why do they have a [LINUX] OS option on their ADSL sign-up procedure.. perhaps it's a way to pick out who to give the line-trouble gremlins to.
Admittingly, I was a bit miffed when I found that by selecting the [LINUX] option my choice to 'self install' was all of a sudden made mute.
A phone call to Telstra and a switch to 'Win98' saved me $199 on the 'professional install' option. Of course, it helped that I threw a bit of "We're a Linux professional company".
Ultimately, it's mostly because the myriad of different distributions out there which prevents a lot of vendors from taking the drive into supporting linux. . . . At least they didn't ban me from using their [Telstra] ADSL or dialup [originally].
Don't say that too loud, else before you know it they'll eliminate the speakers. First step will be to only send digital [encoded of course] data to the 'speakers', then after that they'll come up with some wacked speaker design which builds the decoding circuits right in on the speaker cone... then after that they'll go away from speakers and simply transmit to your brain.
Not entirely. Yes, one wants to make enough money to get what ever one wants *cough*, however, I tend to find a lot more satisfaction in doing other things in life (which do require money). If I make squillions of bucks fine, but, the point is for me to take over the world and ... oh bugger, I've just turned into Bill Gates.
Something must be wrong with my life... I'm a hybrid business developer, so, technically, I'm not making money from OpenSource [ in a strict sense ].
In short, I develop one 'commercial' program, of which the revenues I generate I use to fund my development of the OpenSource projects. These OpenSource projects in turn assist the commercial program because they both [Open and Commercial] share common libraries. These libraries are the most vital core.
By striking this 'balance', I'm able to keep the legal aspects happy, the financial aspects happy (I am my own business) and myself happy.
Whilst I don't make huge amounts of money, that is not the entire point. I do OpenSource because it's 'pleasurable' (most times, I wont expand on the bad times), and my 'commercial' side funds me.
Works for me.
You have no idea what you're talking about... just look at Windows! ;-)
Why do we always have to keep changing regex [and many othe things]. Isn't enough that we have to learn one format for almost every language. Sure, there are perhaps easier ways to express certain logic situations, but over all, do we /need/ another regex format?
Alas, that's not always true :\ Dare I bring up the VHS/Beta scenario... or the OS/2-Windows... DR-DOS/MS-DOS, anyhow, you get my point.
The key with markets is more than just the product. . . it's to do with the perception of the product.
Sendmail /DID/ have a bad record... but it barely rates a mention these days. Time to bring yourself into the current day rather than trying to suck the rotten marrow out of last century's carcass.
What I do not understand is why there aren't any similar groups for the OpenSource / non-Darkside avocations.
If MS can fund groups such as these to spill forth what is obviously [then again, not much is obvious it seems to the 90% of the population] utter trash, surely we [ non-MS ] can do the same.
If this group spills out such toxic waste words as these, why does it gain so much attention in the general public?
Is there any reason why we cannot write an article stating "Microsoft Closed source enables Terrorists to easially render 90% of the information market paralized"... (after all, there is far more 'hard' evidence in the form of email-worms etc than there is behind what has been written in this article).
Oh blast. After reading that story, I realised I may as well not produce manuals. Certainly at University we were told [in general] to never make it sound like the blame was to like in the operator (even if it does). Things like "You entered invalid data" are a big no-no, should be "The computer was unable to process the required data".
Now I have to go see if I can find a manual-translator for my LaTeX books.
Having worked at a company which purchased a lot of the HP injets, I can certainly attest to them being exceptionally reliable... in breaking down after 1 month. The cause though was in part the people using them. HP6xx printers are not really designed to have 100 pages / day run through them, let alone full colour por^H^H^Hholiday photos. Stick with 5 pages a day and it should last you a year before going pop.
Personally, I still use HP printers, or EPSON. The best in my history books are the EPSON EPL-5200 (fantastic paper path) and HP4P/Plus/M series. These days I'm trying out the HP2200D[uplex]. Surviving well so far.
Oh, on another note, my wife's HP630c just died (11 months, 15 days old). . . time for the Tektronix Phaser.
-doh- it was done on a FPGA ...
Couldn't they just wack up something using a FPGA ? Surely for things like mid-range performance there are sufficiently dense FPGA's which can be coded up with [at the very least] basic 3D primatives (At least for testing).
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Else we could go for a million LEGO Mindstorms.
No way! just get your 2400dpi laser printer to print resist onto a copper-clad board, then etch in your coke (don't drink coke afterwards, might taste like PitrCola) ... umm.. then jam the chip into a wad of steel-wool [for the interconnects] then get 5min epoxy with some black dye to seal it... then...ummm. Oh bugger it, just drink the coke and wait for someone else to do it.