Even better, download the Real player from the BBC. They have a deal with Real so that the version you get via their web site is stripped of pretty much all the crap. Note - I haven't tested this download recently, but it was true 6 months ago when I downloaded from there.
"To me the most demoralizing aspect of the traditional office is that you're supposed to be there at certain times. There are usually a few people in a company who really have to, but the reason most employees work fixed hours is that the company can't measure their productivity.
"The basic idea behind office hours is that if you can't make people work, you can at least prevent them from having fun. If employees have to be in the building a certain number of hours a day, and are forbidden to do non-work things while there, then they must be working. In theory. In practice they spend a lot of their time in a no-man's land, where they're neither working nor having fun.
"If you could measure how much work people did, many companies wouldn't need any fixed workday. You could just say: this is what you have to do. Do it whenever you like, wherever you like. If your work requires you to talk to other people in the company, then you may need to be here a certain amount. Otherwise we don't care."
...have you noticed that they make it hard for you to pay by credit card - ie, they ask you if you're really sure and that you won't get "PayPal Protection" (sic)?
Every wondered why?
If you use your credit card and the transaction screws up, your CC company will reverse the transaction and PayPal are left to deal with the shit.
If you use your bank account, PayPal arbitrates - heavily in favor of the vendor (especially if a high volume $$ vendor).
Bear that in mind when making a transaction with an untrusted party...
Allowing parents to know if sexual predators live in their neighborhood is probably a good thing.
I got news for you buddy, there are sexual predators in your neighborhood - wherever you live. Yes, let's replace good parenting with a fucking list.
And I would love to know exactly what parents can get out of this except for more paranoia? Are you more likely to let your kind visit the strange man on the corner if he's not in the database
What is this? The Slashdot Dichotomy? We hate Big Brother - except when he's looking after us? FFS.
I think you need to readup on what the CGI actually is.
Your statement is as wrong as if you'd said that HTTP was dead when IE claimed the browser market.
PHP, ASP, Perl, Bash - and many other languages - can use the CGI to talk to web clients over HTTP.
I think what you were trying to say is that CGI scripting in Perl is stupid and dead. I'd even disagree with that to a degree, but that's probabl;y closer to what you meant.
Are you going to give credit to Alexander Graham Bell for inventing the telephone he used to call the police too?
No, but I would credit Antonio Meucci for inventing the telephone, and ask the police to arrest Bell for stealing his patent - well, if he was around today I would:)
Slashdot Mirror
Even better, download the Real player from the BBC. They have a deal with Real so that the version you get via their web site is stripped of pretty much all the crap. Note - I haven't tested this download recently, but it was true 6 months ago when I downloaded from there.
cLive ;-)
Laptops are not "non-PC"
Well, hang on a second. I guess that depends on whether or not they come with a hard core pr0n screensaver pre-installed.
Sorry, I should have explained context - he was talking about developers, but it can apply to many other roles. Just not *all* roles.
Paul Graham had something interesting to say about that at OSCON this year. Here's a snippet:
"To me the most demoralizing aspect of the traditional office is that you're supposed to be there at certain times. There are usually a few people in a company who really have to, but the reason most employees work fixed hours is that the company can't measure their productivity."The basic idea behind office hours is that if you can't make people work, you can at least prevent them from having fun. If employees have to be in the building a certain number of hours a day, and are forbidden to do non-work things while there, then they must be working. In theory. In practice they spend a lot of their time in a no-man's land, where they're neither working nor having fun.
"If you could measure how much work people did, many companies wouldn't need any fixed workday. You could just say: this is what you have to do. Do it whenever you like, wherever you like. If your work requires you to talk to other people in the company, then you may need to be here a certain amount. Otherwise we don't care."
I think you need to look up the word sarcasm in a dictionary :)
budget overview pdf.
Indeed
cLive ;-)
My first powerpoint article. Or was I the only one sat there, hung over, wondering why my scroll wheen was broken?
...have you noticed that they make it hard for you to pay by credit card - ie, they ask you if you're really sure and that you won't get "PayPal Protection" (sic)?
Every wondered why?
If you use your credit card and the transaction screws up, your CC company will reverse the transaction and PayPal are left to deal with the shit.
If you use your bank account, PayPal arbitrates - heavily in favor of the vendor (especially if a high volume $$ vendor).
Bear that in mind when making a transaction with an untrusted party...
Allowing parents to know if sexual predators live in their neighborhood is probably a good thing.
I got news for you buddy, there are sexual predators in your neighborhood - wherever you live. Yes, let's replace good parenting with a fucking list.
And I would love to know exactly what parents can get out of this except for more paranoia? Are you more likely to let your kind visit the strange man on the corner if he's not in the database
What is this? The Slashdot Dichotomy? We hate Big Brother - except when he's looking after us? FFS.
cLive ;-)
Nail, meet hammer. Perfect.
CGI may be stupid and dead...
I think you need to readup on what the CGI actually is.
Your statement is as wrong as if you'd said that HTTP was dead when IE claimed the browser market.
PHP, ASP, Perl, Bash - and many other languages - can use the CGI to talk to web clients over HTTP.
I think what you were trying to say is that CGI scripting in Perl is stupid and dead. I'd even disagree with that to a degree, but that's probabl;y closer to what you meant.
cLive ;-)
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/images/pr%2 0images/Get_Perpendicular.swf
;-)
Please, take drugs b4 - I only had beer, but hey, it nearly worked. I recommend mushrooms.
cLive
Errr, troll. Hello mods?
I thought the answer was a shit editor, but google throws up:
grass with long cylindrical spikes frown in northern United States and Europe for hay
Somehow appears ... appropriate.
cLive ;-)
... so I can take the karma hit of being a Grammar Nazi asshole.
So, is that meant to be a sample that is a few minutes long, or are their several tiny (minute) samples?
FFS, *somebody* buy the slashdot editors a copy of StyleWriter.
cLive ;-)
Are you going to give credit to Alexander Graham Bell for inventing the telephone he used to call the police too?
No, but I would credit Antonio Meucci for inventing the telephone, and ask the police to arrest Bell for stealing his patent - well, if he was around today I would :)
cLive ;-)
I see what you were saying now :)
OK, mine works if you never use < in your JS.
:)
cLive ;-)
Assuming, of course that your x?html is valid - at least in Perl anyway:
cLive ;-)
Horse, meet whip. Horse? Are you OK Horse?
;-)
Medic!
cLive
They're looking for someone experience in PEARL
cLive ;-)
I always thought AD&D was just D&D for people with a short attention span.
cLive ;-)
...that this has to be the most confusing summary ever. Here's my guess on timothy's brain processes.
... wave-like ... femtosecond ... maxima ... minima ... interference pattern ... Oooo shiny (click's approve).
;-)
double-slit
Or am I the only one who knows absolutely nothing about this subject or the significance of the experiment?
How about some *editing* timothy?
cLive
Well, sort of :)
cLive ;-)
Who could resist a film about Elvis travelling through time with a Brussel Sprout called Barry?!!!
cLive; -)