My laptop trackpad functions as my mouse. What
makes this different is that it's the only human
interface device I use on the laptop.
I send the video to a separate widescreen
monitor. I use an old school keyboard connected
via AT-PS2-USB connectors (yes, it works, even
numeric keypad with numlock). The laptop monitor
is turned off, and the case is open wide enough for
me to put my hand in there; but not wide enough
to get in the way of anything else or obstruct the
monitor.
So, I get all the ergonomic advantage of a full-sized
PC with a trackpad. Once you go trackpad in this situation,
you'll wonder why anybody would ever want to slide something
around on a surface. The laptop is heavy enough to keep
the pad still. I guess this might be why you don't see separate
trackpads sold very often. They'd need weight or sticky pads to
keep them in place on your desk, and it's hard to sell dead weight
or a sticky desk to people.
In the past, my laptop saw much service as a truly mobile
device; but recently it's stayed "docked" most of the time. It's
nice to know I can take it about and use it like a regular laptop.
So. Not only do I never want to slide something around my desk
again, I really don't want to go non-mobile again either.
If all they have is a picture of your
license plate, that doesn't prove you were
driving. We should use this ruling as precedent
to get out of automated tickets when there is
no clear picture of your face.
Just read your own post as if it were written
by somebody else. You can tell by the tone
that you want to take the management job. A techie
who is expressing reluctance about "having to keep up"
is not going to be a happy techie.
If you aren't going to be happy doing
it, you won't be successful.
Take the management job. It's plainly what you want.
Line ending was my first thought too. I've used
FTP scripts in Windows to and from *NIX machines
with no trouble at all. I can't vouch for how
well it works for Windows-Windows transfers because
in that case I've always just used shared folders.
That worked fine too. Unless the data is sensitive, there's really no
need for scp or anything fancy.
Message? Entrusting all your money to one guy
is a bad idea. It's the same message they should have received
when people lost all their retirement at Enron. Yes, there were
people who tried to diversify towards the end and got unfairly
shut out; but they should have been diversifying all along.
The Madoff lesson is that you don't just diversify your
investments, you diversify your managers. In other words, one
manager who says the portfolio is diversified is not enough.
You should be employing more than one manager. One of them
should be YOU. You may find out that they aren't any better
than you. In that case, perhaps you should simply cut them
out entirely; although I'm not convinced there aren't at least
some managers who are worth their fees. It's just that I've never
actually met one. It's become a truism over the years that
a basket of stocks meeting certain criteria will beat most managers.
That's why index funds have become so popular.
Of course, this falls under the category of "good problems to
have" since many in the US now have a negative or very small
net worth.
I can't believe we're hearing from that
outsourcing suit again.
Of course most US engineers don't want a
mere vocational education. What Mr. Outsourcer
is looking for is compliant graduates from 2-year
schools who will then go on to be "finished" in whatever
in-house training they offer (almost certainly, they
will be programming Java under Eclipse).
He shouldn't come crying to us when the next
Twitter, Google, Slashdot, etc. is invented by
some dude from America who wrote the whole thing
in Haskell using vi.
...IP addresses that spell things out with the
available characters and number.
When I was messing around with the tunnel brokers
a few years ago to develop some stuff that was supposed
to be IPv6 ready, I saw plenty of addresses that had dead:feed
and of course, the ever popular dead:beef in the logs.
Besides, how often do you put IPs in anyway?
If you absolutely must use an IP, of course you still
need to remember the subnet, but after that it's a blank
slate for your mnemonic license-plate style amusement.
...they take the clerics out of the system. The secular president
is just a puppet of the clerics, even if he is a "reformer". What would
politics be like in this country if all the candidates were hand-picked
by televangelists? That's Iran. Until you fix that, it's pointless.
I wouldn't mess with it. It's fun to void the warranty on your iPhone.
Voiding the warranty on hour house is a different story. Scenario:
House burns down. Fire department investigates and finds nerd kit attached
to phone wires. The investigation is inconclusive. J. Random Hacker, meet
insurance company lawyer.
They sound too "chirpy" and "sharp" to me. It seems like there should be more noise in them. I wonder if this is just because I know
they are synthesized. We need to do a blind comparison to see if it's good enough.
Isn't there some way to use the fissile material in there as non-explosive fuel?
Build a nuke plant in Panama and use specialized electrically powered earth-moving
equipment to dig. Then when you're done you have a clean new canal and a nuke plant
instead of a toxic canal.
Or better yet, build several of the same types of reactors they
use on aircraft carriers, and install them in enormous digging machines. Retired naval
personnel could even be used to run the nuke operations on the diggers. Then when
you're done you have several small reactors and a clean canal.
There's a precedent for English requirement in air traffic control. They
have a limited subset of English that they must understand.
A programmer's version of this should encompass that, and add
some technical terms.
They just write
these laws in California. They don't actually obey them. Nobody stops for pedestrians in a crosswalk, not even the cops. Every other driver is talking on a cel. People let their dogs off the leish in the park all the time, and medical pot? Pullleeeze. (whiny voice)I've got a miiigraine... I need my medicine(/whiny voice).
Even though the tax on transactions is small, people
will find ways to avoid anything that's legally a transaction.
Funds that pay monthly dividends would move to quarterly dividends,
or even annual dividends, which makes life hard on fixed-income
investors.
As another poster pointed out, cash transactions are a problem
here. Either cash transactions would go up, increasing opportunities
for robbery or cash transactions would have to be eliminated.
Trading in options might become more common than trading in shares,
since one option contract controlls 100 shares at a much lower price.
That would actually squeeze small investors who can't afford to deliver
on say, one contract for GOOG.
I'm sure there are some other holes too. The way to experiment with
it would be to put a fixed tax on options trades, and see how it impacts
that market. Everybody hates derivatives traders now, so it'd be politicly
feasible.
Unless you totally eliminate your private car,
you have to pay those costs anyway. Yes, you'd save some
"wear and tear" by taking PT, but you'd still have to pay
insurance, taxes, fees, maintenance, and the biggest expense--the car itself
which many Americans have to amortize over time so there's interest
involved.
PT only makes sense when you live
in an area where you have the ability to give up your car entirely.
I went through that twice. The first time was just after college
and I was in a relatively small town and could get to everything
by bicycle. I took the bus only when it rained, or if I wanted
to go to the mall. The 2nd time was in Washington DC, where the hassle
of parking a car was simply not justified vs. the convenience of being
able to walk to Metro. I joined ZipCar, thinking I might like to take
a car once in a while; but I had done almost every daytrip in the DC area
so I never used it. Then I moved to California, Bay Area which I've heard
has better PT than LA... could I have done it
without a car? Yeah, sure; but I would only have seen the urban stuff
and I would have always been the passenger when dining out.
As for the costs to society as a whole, that's for policy
makers to deal with, not individuals. Yeah, you can be
a bus-riding hero and it might make you feel good; but most
people don't operate that way.
The US has public transportation in some places. In many places that have it
however, you will not "lean back and relax" for a length of time comparable
to what it would take you to drive.
I know somebody with a medical license suspension. For something that the
system is designed to do, it's OK. Downtown San Jose to Mountain View? Not bad.
Suburban San Jose to Half Moon Bay? Yeah, you can do it--in, IIRC, 5 or 6 hours.
That's assuming you catch the transfers. He got part way by PT, and I drove him
over the hills.
Then there are some economic factors that work against it too. Caltrain
from Redwood City to San Francisco? A day pass is $8 (maybe less if you ride
often, but probably not astoundingly less). If two people want to take this
trip, that's $16. Now, if we carpool, the car burned $8 worth of gas, and this
was when gas was $4/gal. By splitting the gas, we've already dropped the round
trip cost to $4 a head.
This is why a car pool wins big vs. PT. You can't really "train pool"... it's
already pooled. A 4-person carpool from Redwood City to SF would cost $2/person
if they split the gas. You have to multiply $4/gal gas by a factor of FOUR to
beat that... $16/gal! Of course, the 2-person carpool breaks even with the
train at $8/gal. Isn't gas in most EU countries about $8/gal? Maybe that's what
you have to do in order to make PT economical. It won't happen in the US, because
it's a political non-starter. The only way for gas to cost that much here is because
oil costs that much, and then in that case the PT system has to raise prices too.
The only way to make PT the better option is to tax the living daylights out of gas,
and use the proceeds to build PT. I don't see that happening unless actual gas
shortages arise, and by then it would have to be hardcore, emergency PT buildouts
just to save towns from isolation--real, dire, WWII style gas rationing.
Slashdot Mirror
You mean like this?
My laptop trackpad functions as my mouse. What makes this different is that it's the only human interface device I use on the laptop.
I send the video to a separate widescreen monitor. I use an old school keyboard connected via AT-PS2-USB connectors (yes, it works, even numeric keypad with numlock). The laptop monitor is turned off, and the case is open wide enough for me to put my hand in there; but not wide enough to get in the way of anything else or obstruct the monitor.
So, I get all the ergonomic advantage of a full-sized PC with a trackpad. Once you go trackpad in this situation, you'll wonder why anybody would ever want to slide something around on a surface. The laptop is heavy enough to keep the pad still. I guess this might be why you don't see separate trackpads sold very often. They'd need weight or sticky pads to keep them in place on your desk, and it's hard to sell dead weight or a sticky desk to people.
In the past, my laptop saw much service as a truly mobile device; but recently it's stayed "docked" most of the time. It's nice to know I can take it about and use it like a regular laptop. So. Not only do I never want to slide something around my desk again, I really don't want to go non-mobile again either.
I am 192.168.0.1
That's the IP of my gateway. I am the keymaster are you the gatekeeper?
If all they have is a picture of your license plate, that doesn't prove you were driving. We should use this ruling as precedent to get out of automated tickets when there is no clear picture of your face.
Just read your own post as if it were written by somebody else. You can tell by the tone that you want to take the management job. A techie who is expressing reluctance about "having to keep up" is not going to be a happy techie.
If you aren't going to be happy doing it, you won't be successful.
Take the management job. It's plainly what you want.
Yeah, and they could just use pencils in space instead of designing zero-gravity pens; but where's the taxpayer funded windfall in that?
Line ending was my first thought too. I've used FTP scripts in Windows to and from *NIX machines with no trouble at all. I can't vouch for how well it works for Windows-Windows transfers because in that case I've always just used shared folders. That worked fine too. Unless the data is sensitive, there's really no need for scp or anything fancy.
...it will send a message to investors.
Message? Entrusting all your money to one guy is a bad idea. It's the same message they should have received when people lost all their retirement at Enron. Yes, there were people who tried to diversify towards the end and got unfairly shut out; but they should have been diversifying all along.
The Madoff lesson is that you don't just diversify your investments, you diversify your managers. In other words, one manager who says the portfolio is diversified is not enough. You should be employing more than one manager. One of them should be YOU. You may find out that they aren't any better than you. In that case, perhaps you should simply cut them out entirely; although I'm not convinced there aren't at least some managers who are worth their fees. It's just that I've never actually met one. It's become a truism over the years that a basket of stocks meeting certain criteria will beat most managers. That's why index funds have become so popular.
Of course, this falls under the category of "good problems to have" since many in the US now have a negative or very small net worth.
I can't believe we're hearing from that outsourcing suit again.
Of course most US engineers don't want a mere vocational education. What Mr. Outsourcer is looking for is compliant graduates from 2-year schools who will then go on to be "finished" in whatever in-house training they offer (almost certainly, they will be programming Java under Eclipse).
He shouldn't come crying to us when the next Twitter, Google, Slashdot, etc. is invented by some dude from America who wrote the whole thing in Haskell using vi.
...IP addresses that spell things out with the available characters and number.
When I was messing around with the tunnel brokers a few years ago to develop some stuff that was supposed to be IPv6 ready, I saw plenty of addresses that had dead:feed and of course, the ever popular dead:beef in the logs.
Besides, how often do you put IPs in anyway?
If you absolutely must use an IP, of course you still need to remember the subnet, but after that it's a blank slate for your mnemonic license-plate style amusement.
Pies. As in "pie in the sky". That would be the joke there. I guess it failed because I have to explain it.
I heard the kites were shaped like pies.
Just have the Federal Reserve keep the rate of the Universe's expansion artificially low for a few years.
...they take the clerics out of the system. The secular president is just a puppet of the clerics, even if he is a "reformer". What would politics be like in this country if all the candidates were hand-picked by televangelists? That's Iran. Until you fix that, it's pointless.
Doesn't this make the blimp an obvious target for anybody who really wants to do mischief?
640 light years? That ought to be enough for anybody.
I wouldn't mess with it. It's fun to void the warranty on your iPhone. Voiding the warranty on hour house is a different story. Scenario: House burns down. Fire department investigates and finds nerd kit attached to phone wires. The investigation is inconclusive. J. Random Hacker, meet insurance company lawyer.
They sound too "chirpy" and "sharp" to me. It seems like there should be more noise in them. I wonder if this is just because I know they are synthesized. We need to do a blind comparison to see if it's good enough.
He should have formalized it as an options contract. Over-the counter derivatives. The real new business model for music.
Isn't there some way to use the fissile material in there as non-explosive fuel? Build a nuke plant in Panama and use specialized electrically powered earth-moving equipment to dig. Then when you're done you have a clean new canal and a nuke plant instead of a toxic canal.
Or better yet, build several of the same types of reactors they use on aircraft carriers, and install them in enormous digging machines. Retired naval personnel could even be used to run the nuke operations on the diggers. Then when you're done you have several small reactors and a clean canal.
There's a precedent for English requirement in air traffic control. They have a limited subset of English that they must understand. A programmer's version of this should encompass that, and add some technical terms.
They just write these laws in California. They don't actually obey them. Nobody stops for pedestrians in a crosswalk, not even the cops. Every other driver is talking on a cel. People let their dogs off the leish in the park all the time, and medical pot? Pullleeeze. (whiny voice)I've got a miiigraine... I need my medicine(/whiny voice).
Even though the tax on transactions is small, people will find ways to avoid anything that's legally a transaction. Funds that pay monthly dividends would move to quarterly dividends, or even annual dividends, which makes life hard on fixed-income investors.
As another poster pointed out, cash transactions are a problem here. Either cash transactions would go up, increasing opportunities for robbery or cash transactions would have to be eliminated.
Trading in options might become more common than trading in shares, since one option contract controlls 100 shares at a much lower price. That would actually squeeze small investors who can't afford to deliver on say, one contract for GOOG.
I'm sure there are some other holes too. The way to experiment with it would be to put a fixed tax on options trades, and see how it impacts that market. Everybody hates derivatives traders now, so it'd be politicly feasible.
Unless you totally eliminate your private car, you have to pay those costs anyway. Yes, you'd save some "wear and tear" by taking PT, but you'd still have to pay insurance, taxes, fees, maintenance, and the biggest expense--the car itself which many Americans have to amortize over time so there's interest involved.
PT only makes sense when you live in an area where you have the ability to give up your car entirely. I went through that twice. The first time was just after college and I was in a relatively small town and could get to everything by bicycle. I took the bus only when it rained, or if I wanted to go to the mall. The 2nd time was in Washington DC, where the hassle of parking a car was simply not justified vs. the convenience of being able to walk to Metro. I joined ZipCar, thinking I might like to take a car once in a while; but I had done almost every daytrip in the DC area so I never used it. Then I moved to California, Bay Area which I've heard has better PT than LA... could I have done it without a car? Yeah, sure; but I would only have seen the urban stuff and I would have always been the passenger when dining out.
As for the costs to society as a whole, that's for policy makers to deal with, not individuals. Yeah, you can be a bus-riding hero and it might make you feel good; but most people don't operate that way.
The US has public transportation in some places. In many places that have it however, you will not "lean back and relax" for a length of time comparable to what it would take you to drive.
I know somebody with a medical license suspension. For something that the system is designed to do, it's OK. Downtown San Jose to Mountain View? Not bad. Suburban San Jose to Half Moon Bay? Yeah, you can do it--in, IIRC, 5 or 6 hours. That's assuming you catch the transfers. He got part way by PT, and I drove him over the hills.
Then there are some economic factors that work against it too. Caltrain from Redwood City to San Francisco? A day pass is $8 (maybe less if you ride often, but probably not astoundingly less). If two people want to take this trip, that's $16. Now, if we carpool, the car burned $8 worth of gas, and this was when gas was $4/gal. By splitting the gas, we've already dropped the round trip cost to $4 a head.
This is why a car pool wins big vs. PT. You can't really "train pool"... it's already pooled. A 4-person carpool from Redwood City to SF would cost $2/person if they split the gas. You have to multiply $4/gal gas by a factor of FOUR to beat that... $16/gal! Of course, the 2-person carpool breaks even with the train at $8/gal. Isn't gas in most EU countries about $8/gal? Maybe that's what you have to do in order to make PT economical. It won't happen in the US, because it's a political non-starter. The only way for gas to cost that much here is because oil costs that much, and then in that case the PT system has to raise prices too. The only way to make PT the better option is to tax the living daylights out of gas, and use the proceeds to build PT. I don't see that happening unless actual gas shortages arise, and by then it would have to be hardcore, emergency PT buildouts just to save towns from isolation--real, dire, WWII style gas rationing.