Pretty damn soon, my reaction is going to be to stop reading slashdot. I mean, if they can't even be bothered to edit the submissions or pay attention to the articles posted, I just don't see why I should waste my time here. Slashdot editors: that means fewer advertisement views and less revenue for you.
re: consultation fees. Good luck. When we got married, my wife talked to several florists. One of them that she talked to on the phone wanted $50 or something like that as a consultation fee for the conversation that my wife wanted so that she could figure out if this was the right florist. So put yourself in our position: 4 florists to talk to, one wants to charge $50. That's a pretty easy way to pare it down to 3 florists to talk to. Unless everybody's doing it, it's a good way to lose business.
That's funny. I had almost the same experience at a Honda dealership when I was 21. I walked in, and wanted to be shown new Accords and Civics. The saleswoman didn't explicitly say anything, but instead of showing me new cars, she started showing me used cars and wouldn't, no matter what I said, say anything about new cars. So I walked out, went to an Audi dealership and they were very happy to sell me a new A4.
Still doesn't (properly), as far as I can tell. Observe the (sadly re-typed, because the "command" window doesn't support copy-and-paste) following sequence that I just did on my XP machine:
Microsoft(R) Windows DOS (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.
C:\DOCUME~1\NOJOMOFO>cd \
C:\>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is XXXX-XXXX
Directory of C:\
[stuff deleted] 5/24/2005 11:39 AM <DIR> Program Files [stuff deleted]
C:\>cd Program Files Too many parameters - Files
C:\>cd "Program Files" Parameter format not correct - "Program
C:\>cd Progra~1
C:\Progra~1>
sure looks like if I want a shell, I still have to deal with 8 character file/directory names.... Lovely OS.
3M is what it is (a really really big, really really successful company) solely because they hire smart people and turn them loose. They know that. They're not stupid. This wasn't one guy trying to convince a large company that he was right and they were wrong. This was a guy who had a good idea, and when he approached others for help, they went along with it and did what it took to make it successful. But I guess that wouldn't have made such an exciting David-vs-Goliath blurb, would it?
A nit to pick: Java is free. I can download it for free, I can develop with it for free, and I can package a JRE with a product of mine for free. RMS doesn't consider it free. But you know what? He doesn't own the word "free". It's like Monster trying to own the word "monster" or microsoft trying to own the word "windows".
Part of what makes lots of geeks uncomfortable with the whole GNU/fsf thing is this "our way or the highway" attitude. If you're going to criticize people coding open-source alternatives (in free languages) because it's not free enough for you, you're going to get this reaction.
Good point about recruiters and networking. Any tips on finding a good recruiter (particularly in geographic areas where you don't particularly have any contacts)?
You can call truth "mythology" if you like...it's still truth.
How am I supposed to respond to this "it's my or the highway" attitude? You can say that it's truth, but that doesn't make it right. Don't you see that you're trying to impose your worldview on the way that everybody else is going to live their lives?
They don't like calling their unions something other than marriage because they believe what the US Supreme Court has affirmed - separate but equal is NOT equal.
See, now you're bringing your mythology into it. I can't refute you - I don't believe what you say, and nothing that I say is going to change your mind. If we stick with actual human history, this discussion might go somewhere. As it is, you're the typical "I don't like where this discussion is going" shield that christians use: "because God said so".
Now if we're talking about real history: marriage existed before Christianity did. That's just plain irrefutably true. Now I don't see how Christians "own" marriage. They didn't invent it. That's fact.
OT, but I have to say this. Excel has problems. I hate the reviewing toolbar. I just don't use it. It takes up valuable real estate. Whenever I open up a.xls that was saved by somebody who had the reviewing toolbar turned on (which is 98% of the rest of the world), the toolbar appears again, completely overriding my settings until I turn the toolbar off again. Fricking POS.
Apple has placed DRM on iTunes songs. This is not a subsidy. Not a tax. It is a business model. If you don't like it, then don't support it. It's that simple. Nobody is forcing you to listen to music that you have to pay for. You can go and listen to free music. If you don't think it's as good, then maybe there's also something wrong with the business model of "giving stuff away for free".
I'm not saying that I don't want to live in a world where I can download my music for free (legally). But the way to get there isn't to bitch about capitalists trying to earn a living. The way to get there is to do something about it.
What use is there for novels other than "personal use"? Most copyrighted material is intended solely for "personal use". Why does it make sense for copyright not to be valid for "personal use"? Doesn't that circumvent the entire purpose of copyright, if I can copy anything I want to just because I'm going to use it? And my friend, because he's going to use it. And then his friend, because that's personal use, too....
If there is any other language available that provides this capability - except maybe Delphi - please let me know
At the risk of repeating myself, Cocoa. And it's backed by a well-designed language (actually 2, since you can use Objective C or Java). All for the small, small price of switching to a better OS.
As much as I detest the VB language (don't get me started...), it always did have the buest GUI builder.
Then you haven't tried Cocoa programming for Mac OS X. You can have a nice, robust, good-looking GUI (and your model and controller code will be in Objective C, rather than VB) very easily.
I was working through that, too. A number 2 ^ n is certainly not going to have > n digits in decimal. This is given that the minimum value of an n digit integer is 10 ^ (n - 1). One can safely assume that 2 ^ n is smaller than 10 ^ (n - 1) for any integer n > 1.
Does anybody else think that this behavior sounds like Microsoft? The "standards be damned, we're going to do something cool our way". Now granted, it's not their browser, so they're stuck with what browsers can do, but it does suck that this isn't truly cross-platform.
You know, it's funny that you're talking about Office for OS X and not bitching. I tried the 30-day free trial that came on my computer, and ran a quick test. I took a simple word doc (no particularly special formatting, no tables) and saved it as a word.doc in: TextEdit, NeoOffice, and Word. I then transferred the resulting files to my work windows box, and opened all 3. Two files opened fine and were properly formatted, one didn't open - word couldn't figure out what the character set was and mangled it badly. Guess which that was?
Word. Word for windows couldn't open the word for Mac file. Both textedit and NeoOffice created perfectly readable files for word for windows, but Microsoft couldn't manage to do that....
So, once Word manages to support the same file definition across multiple platforms and does so without falling apart, I'll consider Word to be a piece of software worth considering. Until then, I'll certainly use one of the free alternatives that works better for me.
Uhhh, I bet that even in Europe, your health insurer gets access to lots of your medical data right now, for billing information. They don't get your charts, but they know about any procedures, visits and prescriptions that they're paying for. They don't just sign blank checks....
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Pretty damn soon, my reaction is going to be to stop reading slashdot. I mean, if they can't even be bothered to edit the submissions or pay attention to the articles posted, I just don't see why I should waste my time here. Slashdot editors: that means fewer advertisement views and less revenue for you.
re: consultation fees. Good luck. When we got married, my wife talked to several florists. One of them that she talked to on the phone wanted $50 or something like that as a consultation fee for the conversation that my wife wanted so that she could figure out if this was the right florist. So put yourself in our position: 4 florists to talk to, one wants to charge $50. That's a pretty easy way to pare it down to 3 florists to talk to. Unless everybody's doing it, it's a good way to lose business.
I hate Microsoft.... Let's not upgrade the shell program, let's create an entirely new one and shaft the people who don't know about it.
That's funny. I had almost the same experience at a Honda dealership when I was 21. I walked in, and wanted to be shown new Accords and Civics. The saleswoman didn't explicitly say anything, but instead of showing me new cars, she started showing me used cars and wouldn't, no matter what I said, say anything about new cars. So I walked out, went to an Audi dealership and they were very happy to sell me a new A4.
Still doesn't (properly), as far as I can tell. Observe the (sadly re-typed, because the "command" window doesn't support copy-and-paste) following sequence that I just did on my XP machine:
Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.
C:\DOCUME~1\NOJOMOFO>cd \
C:\>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is XXXX-XXXX
Directory of C:\
[stuff deleted]
5/24/2005 11:39 AM <DIR> Program Files
[stuff deleted]
C:\>cd Program Files
Too many parameters - Files
C:\>cd "Program Files"
Parameter format not correct - "Program
C:\>cd Progra~1
C:\Progra~1>
sure looks like if I want a shell, I still have to deal with 8 character file/directory names.... Lovely OS.
Eek. Don't work anywhere where the policy is to change your password every month!
This part really bothers me:
3M is what it is (a really really big, really really successful company) solely because they hire smart people and turn them loose. They know that. They're not stupid. This wasn't one guy trying to convince a large company that he was right and they were wrong. This was a guy who had a good idea, and when he approached others for help, they went along with it and did what it took to make it successful. But I guess that wouldn't have made such an exciting David-vs-Goliath blurb, would it?
Java is not Free.
A nit to pick: Java is free. I can download it for free, I can develop with it for free, and I can package a JRE with a product of mine for free. RMS doesn't consider it free. But you know what? He doesn't own the word "free". It's like Monster trying to own the word "monster" or microsoft trying to own the word "windows".
Part of what makes lots of geeks uncomfortable with the whole GNU/fsf thing is this "our way or the highway" attitude. If you're going to criticize people coding open-source alternatives (in free languages) because it's not free enough for you, you're going to get this reaction.
Good point about recruiters and networking. Any tips on finding a good recruiter (particularly in geographic areas where you don't particularly have any contacts)?
You can call truth "mythology" if you like...it's still truth.
How am I supposed to respond to this "it's my or the highway" attitude? You can say that it's truth, but that doesn't make it right. Don't you see that you're trying to impose your worldview on the way that everybody else is going to live their lives?
They don't like calling their unions something other than marriage because they believe what the US Supreme Court has affirmed - separate but equal is NOT equal.
See, now you're bringing your mythology into it. I can't refute you - I don't believe what you say, and nothing that I say is going to change your mind. If we stick with actual human history, this discussion might go somewhere. As it is, you're the typical "I don't like where this discussion is going" shield that christians use: "because God said so".
Now if we're talking about real history: marriage existed before Christianity did. That's just plain irrefutably true. Now I don't see how Christians "own" marriage. They didn't invent it. That's fact.
What about me? I'm atheist, and I got married in a Christian church. Does that bother you?
Do you eat shrimp? According to the bible, that's http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/dt/14.html forbidden
OT, but I have to say this. Excel has problems. I hate the reviewing toolbar. I just don't use it. It takes up valuable real estate. Whenever I open up a .xls that was saved by somebody who had the reviewing toolbar turned on (which is 98% of the rest of the world), the toolbar appears again, completely overriding my settings until I turn the toolbar off again. Fricking POS.
Apple has placed DRM on iTunes songs. This is not a subsidy. Not a tax. It is a business model. If you don't like it, then don't support it. It's that simple. Nobody is forcing you to listen to music that you have to pay for. You can go and listen to free music. If you don't think it's as good, then maybe there's also something wrong with the business model of "giving stuff away for free".
I'm not saying that I don't want to live in a world where I can download my music for free (legally). But the way to get there isn't to bitch about capitalists trying to earn a living. The way to get there is to do something about it.
So would be an attempt to create a legal loophole for P2P? Pretty thinly veiled.
What use is there for novels other than "personal use"? Most copyrighted material is intended solely for "personal use". Why does it make sense for copyright not to be valid for "personal use"? Doesn't that circumvent the entire purpose of copyright, if I can copy anything I want to just because I'm going to use it? And my friend, because he's going to use it. And then his friend, because that's personal use, too....
If there is any other language available that provides this capability - except maybe Delphi - please let me know
At the risk of repeating myself, Cocoa. And it's backed by a well-designed language (actually 2, since you can use Objective C or Java). All for the small, small price of switching to a better OS.
As much as I detest the VB language (don't get me started...), it always did have the buest GUI builder.
Then you haven't tried Cocoa programming for Mac OS X. You can have a nice, robust, good-looking GUI (and your model and controller code will be in Objective C, rather than VB) very easily.
Back in my day, we used Mosaic, and we liked it!
Well, no. I do know some math. But I suspect that 2 ^ 2 has 1 decimal digit, not .60206. And 2 ^ 4 has 2 decimal digits, not 1.20412.
I was working through that, too. A number 2 ^ n is certainly not going to have > n digits in decimal. This is given that the minimum value of an n digit integer is 10 ^ (n - 1). One can safely assume that 2 ^ n is smaller than 10 ^ (n - 1) for any integer n > 1.
Does anybody else think that this behavior sounds like Microsoft? The "standards be damned, we're going to do something cool our way". Now granted, it's not their browser, so they're stuck with what browsers can do, but it does suck that this isn't truly cross-platform.
You know, it's funny that you're talking about Office for OS X and not bitching. I tried the 30-day free trial that came on my computer, and ran a quick test. I took a simple word doc (no particularly special formatting, no tables) and saved it as a word .doc in: TextEdit, NeoOffice, and Word. I then transferred the resulting files to my work windows box, and opened all 3. Two files opened fine and were properly formatted, one didn't open - word couldn't figure out what the character set was and mangled it badly. Guess which that was?
Word. Word for windows couldn't open the word for Mac file. Both textedit and NeoOffice created perfectly readable files for word for windows, but Microsoft couldn't manage to do that....
So, once Word manages to support the same file definition across multiple platforms and does so without falling apart, I'll consider Word to be a piece of software worth considering. Until then, I'll certainly use one of the free alternatives that works better for me.
Uhhh, I bet that even in Europe, your health insurer gets access to lots of your medical data right now, for billing information. They don't get your charts, but they know about any procedures, visits and prescriptions that they're paying for. They don't just sign blank checks....