From the earlier post of the bare boards (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/402) the holes are there for the micro-usb, and the project has been geared towards clumsy hands plugging and unplugging the ports a lot so I'd expect a robust connection.
It's a saloon in the wild west. There's a poker game on. Texas Hold 'Em. There's five cards on the table. The first player is from Utah.
He says "I got Ace High. I win the hand." The second player. They call him the Finn. He's got lots of friends, says "Show me your cards then." Utah says "No, just hand over your cash. You don't need to see my cards."
Then the third player, Bluebeard pipes up: "Well I got a flush. So I beat ya anyway." Utah says "Show me *your* cards then." Bluebeard replies "Nope. I'm gonna wait to see your lame ass ace." Utah smiles nervously "Did I say ace high? I meant four aces. Yeah. Four aces."
Now the silent fourth player, Berkeley pipes up "Well I got a Royal Flush and I've had it since the flop." But Utah has turned to Joe at the bar and says "Well, you owe me $32 for this game." Joe looks puzzled "But I ain't even playing the game."
Utah gets a mean look now and starts sweating. He pulls his guns and shouts "Look, just give me your money now. No questions. I MEAN IT!" Suddenly Utah is surround by a whole boatload of guns.
There's Joe Public, he has no guns, but good fists, Linus the Finn and his friends have guns, but they rarely use them, they're rumoured to be really quick on the draw. Berkeley is calmest of all, he's won a gunfight just like this one already.
Finally Utah turns to Bluebeard. He has a shotgun. Bluebeard smiles, and pulls the trigger. And that's the legend of how old SCO died.
I'm hearing a lot of the same complaints here, and the bottom line is it's easy to be a bad manager.
I'd recommend reading Peopleware and asking your manager/team/direct reports to read it too.
It's not a magic bullet for making good managers, but it helps gradually improve things in the workplace, and makes people aware of what works and what doesn't in software development.
Also read the excellent www.joelonsoftware.com for more excellent tips on making software development a fun place to be. Plans, Spec, Schedules and a good bug tracking system...s'all you need:-)
Hang on. I thought the basis of libel was that you'd said something untrue about someone, and claimed it was factual, and it DOES count if it's verbal. The difference is that no-one can stop you saying what you *think*.
Saying "Bill Clinton is a woman." is libellous, as he isn't a woman.
Saying "I think Bill Clinton is a woman." is not libellous, as it's your opinion, and your opinion, and your right to voice it, is protected.
Now this dude sounds like he posted comments like ""So-and-so teacher is a drunk." when they might not be. That's libellous, and angry or-not angry, is breaking the law.
First off, you can say that any kind of large project, that's aiming to be a good one, that can go far in the market, will need the greatest diversity of talents and differing styles, working well as a team to a common goal.
You could say that a female mind might bring a slice of that cake to the party, but there's enough diversity in the minds of people working on a project anyway that a female mind might not be the greatest "point of difference" you might think it is.
Without having read the article in-depth, I'd say this is another call for an UI/GFX/semantics person working on some of the open soruce teams, where interface is paramount to it's use, GNOME/KDE to hit the biggies...
The maturing of the www in general, and the wealth of moderated, intelligent discussion forums available through HTML (looking at nowhere in particular *cough*), combined with the Spam that covers Usenet, means that it looks like a pretty messy medium to work with, for the bulk of people who want information. The lowest common denominator do seems do drive where the focus of net traffic is...
Slashdot Mirror
From the earlier post of the bare boards (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/402) the holes are there for the micro-usb, and the project has been geared towards clumsy hands plugging and unplugging the ports a lot so I'd expect a robust connection.
It looks like import duty is currently 0% on laptops in the EU:
Portable digital automatic data-processing machines
On the downside you *still* have to pay VAT @ 17.5% and that is added to the cost of the item + duty, not the base cost of the item alone.
Normally delivery would be considered for the sum as well, but since you're not charging yourself to delivery it.
It's a saloon in the wild west.
There's a poker game on. Texas Hold 'Em.
There's five cards on the table.
The first player is from Utah.
He says "I got Ace High. I win the hand."
The second player. They call him the Finn.
He's got lots of friends, says "Show me your cards then."
Utah says "No, just hand over your cash. You don't need to see my cards."
Then the third player, Bluebeard pipes up: "Well I got a flush. So I beat ya anyway."
Utah says "Show me *your* cards then."
Bluebeard replies "Nope. I'm gonna wait to see your lame ass ace."
Utah smiles nervously "Did I say ace high? I meant four aces. Yeah. Four aces."
Now the silent fourth player, Berkeley pipes up
"Well I got a Royal Flush and I've had it since the flop."
But Utah has turned to Joe at the bar and says
"Well, you owe me $32 for this game."
Joe looks puzzled "But I ain't even playing the game."
Utah gets a mean look now and starts sweating.
He pulls his guns and shouts "Look, just give me your money now. No questions. I MEAN IT!"
Suddenly Utah is surround by a whole boatload of guns.
There's Joe Public, he has no guns, but good fists,
Linus the Finn and his friends have guns, but they rarely use them,
they're rumoured to be really quick on the draw.
Berkeley is calmest of all, he's won a gunfight just like this one already.
Finally Utah turns to Bluebeard. He has a shotgun.
Bluebeard smiles, and pulls the trigger.
And that's the legend of how old SCO died.
The Current SCO Situation...via the medium of song
:-)
;-)
Please mirror and spread if you agree with the sentiment (if not the singing
The Asshat Song [2.73MB MP3]
To the tune of You're So Vain by Carly Simon
The Current SCO Situation...via the medium of song
:-)
Please mirror and spread if you agree with the sentiment (if not the singing
The Asshat Song [heypod.co.uk] [2.73MB MP3]
The Current SCO Situation...via the medium of song
:-)
Please mirror and spread if you agree with the sentiment (if not the singing
The Asshat Song [2.73MB MP3]
I'm hearing a lot of the same complaints here, and the bottom line is it's easy to be a bad manager.
:-)
I'd recommend reading Peopleware
and asking your manager/team/direct reports to read it too.
It's not a magic bullet for making good managers, but it helps gradually improve things in the workplace, and makes people aware of what works and what doesn't in software development.
Also read the excellent www.joelonsoftware.com for more excellent tips on making software development a fun place to be. Plans, Spec, Schedules and a good bug tracking system...s'all you need
Hang on. I thought the basis of libel was that you'd said something untrue about someone, and claimed it was factual, and it DOES count if it's verbal. The difference is that no-one can stop you saying what you *think*.
Saying "Bill Clinton is a woman." is libellous, as he isn't a woman.
Saying "I think Bill Clinton is a woman." is not libellous, as it's your opinion, and your opinion, and your right to voice it, is protected.
Now this dude sounds like he posted comments like ""So-and-so teacher is a drunk." when they might not be. That's libellous, and angry or-not angry, is breaking the law.
Safer to say "I think so-and-so is a drunk."
I could be wrong though...
First off, you can say that any kind of large project, that's aiming to be a good one, that can go far in the market, will need the greatest diversity of talents and differing styles, working well as a team to a common goal.
You could say that a female mind might bring a slice of that cake to the party, but there's enough diversity in the minds of people working on a project anyway that a female mind might not be the greatest "point of difference" you might think it is.
Without having read the article in-depth, I'd say this is another call for an UI/GFX/semantics person working on some of the open soruce teams, where interface is paramount to it's use, GNOME/KDE to hit the biggies...
The maturing of the www in general, and the wealth of moderated, intelligent discussion forums available through HTML (looking at nowhere in particular *cough*), combined with the Spam that covers Usenet, means that it looks like a pretty messy medium to work with, for the bulk of people who want information. The lowest common denominator do seems do drive where the focus of net traffic is...
I would be sceptical about getting one of these t-shirts.
Are they just Red-Hat promo shirts with LinuxOne overprinted on them?
Do they claim to have "Never before seen holes, for new cutting edge limbs." perchance?
They could make a mint selling these shirts to the community though.
In fact they'd probably be the most profitable Linux IPO based on the sales of that T-shirt alone.
Plug-in/Compatibility issues between browsers have always been legion.
So:IE: Supports full set of smells, but runs like a dog, so smells are only faint. Smell of money usually overpowers...
Netscape: Claims to support full set of smells. Crashes on more complex smells leaving faint smell of methane...
AOL: Most smells end up smelling just like fresh bread after filtering. People using it think the technology is great due to this.
LYNX: Still only supports text. Smells like computer.