Given that the US will be celebrating independence day this week, tux, in a post-911 display of solidarity against terrorism is wearing the stars and bars. Proof of this anti-terrorist stand is the "no Windows" logo on his chest.
I've been with my present employer since Oct. of 1999. Every time we have a meeting where we discuss ways to accomplish some task I waited for an opportunity to say, "I could write a shell script to do that" or "We could do that with a Linux box". Early on it always got a big laugh. Then my technical lead started saying, "We could do that with a shell script." Now they're asking questions about using Linux for server consolidation. Some things take time. Patience my young apprentice.
Sure you are. If you read that far down into the article you had to read about the technical guys who gladly would have installed snort but couldn't get it past the suits because it didn't come from a 'company'. In other words, he could have sold the product as-is. The problem was that so could anyone else. The GUI front end for the phb's, a preloaded box, all that is just differentiation (what makes us better than the other guys).
Given the current heightened security awareness I'm sure the timing for this is just right. Still, the VC money is a gamble. Will they be able to grow the company quick enough to be ready when the vultures start wanting to see the ROI payoff?
...he hopes to launch himself about 35 miles into the air. His launch, originally planned to take place sometime this year, has been delayed for the best of reasons...
On the contrary, 'T' is the third key to the right of 'W'. While certainly it could have been closer, for instance: 'Q', 'S' and 'R' are all immediately adjacent to 'W',I believe that it is certainly possible to mistakenly hit 'W' when intending to hit 'T', and vice versa.
And 'w' is only the fourth key to the left of 'h' on a completely different row...... or did you think 'Two' should have been spelled 'Tho'?
Becomes part of the machine Bad spelin's comin' at you His grammar is obscene Ain't seen nothin' like him In any other website at all That/. wizard sure trys to get any mention of The Who into a headline even if it don't rhyme and messes up the cadence of the song.....
The sunglasses were basically a frame that accepted lenses that attached via little screws on each end of the lens.
Take a look at Performance Bike or Bike Nashbar and check out their sunglasses. Many of them have interchangeable lenses (including some that look like gold) and most just slide in - no screws.
I'd argue that there is an art to that - putting across the company's vision in an aesthetically pleasing way, without sacrificing functionaliy or straying outside the bounds of good website design
If you do the site, it does become part of your portfolio, unless it sucks.
I normally don't respond to AC's, but in the interest of clarity - there is a big difference between making a site part of your portfolio and turning a client's site into your own personal portfolio.
Art, as an end in itself, is about beauty and self expression.
Right. And when doing a corporate website (or a website for anyone other than yourself) the goal is for you to express something of them and not of yourself. It's not the artist's vision that's important, but conveying the company's vision. If an artist wants to freely express themselves they can build their own page or submit pages to an art oriented site.
Nice pics by the way. Have you delved into digital yet?
In order to accomplish this designers may have to constrain their creativity to work within certain parameters.
It could be said that the constraints actually give one an opportunity to exercise their creativity. If an individual can only work a certain way then they are stagnant and not creative at all.
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What's with Tux in the Uncle Sam hat?
Given that the US will be celebrating independence day this week, tux, in a post-911 display of solidarity against terrorism is wearing the stars and bars. Proof of this anti-terrorist stand is the "no Windows" logo on his chest.
I can see the blurb now....
"...portal of portals" - slashdot
I've been with my present employer since Oct. of 1999. Every time we have a meeting where we discuss ways to accomplish some task I waited for an opportunity to say, "I could write a shell script to do that" or "We could do that with a Linux box". Early on it always got a big laugh. Then my technical lead started saying, "We could do that with a shell script." Now they're asking questions about using Linux for server consolidation. Some things take time. Patience my young apprentice.
Unfortunately, it *seems* all too common to *me* that supervisors don't know jack about the people working under them.
/. right now?
You mean like neither of ours know we're cruising around on
Score +5 Insightful you should be.
Yoda?
Nope. He got married.
Hmmm. Came to his senses / lost his senses.... you be the judge.
So, rocketguy, was this marriage thingy an attempt to get your genes into the next generation? You know, just in case....
I'm not slagging the guy
Sure you are. If you read that far down into the article you had to read about the technical guys who gladly would have installed snort but couldn't get it past the suits because it didn't come from a 'company'. In other words, he could have sold the product as-is. The problem was that so could anyone else. The GUI front end for the phb's, a preloaded box, all that is just differentiation (what makes us better than the other guys).
Given the current heightened security awareness I'm sure the timing for this is just right. Still, the VC money is a gamble. Will they be able to grow the company quick enough to be ready when the vultures start wanting to see the ROI payoff?
Clicked on Careers and don't see anything for Linux zealots...
Technical Writer and Marketing Manager don't quite fit the bill.
Hmmm. I take it you've never been in marketing....
I'm sure some of you would prefer the Windows version of Snort
Would that be 'blow'?
Has any of your work been impacted by post-9/11 issues?
I don't think 'impacted' is a good choice of words before launch.
...he hopes to launch himself about 35 miles into the air. His launch, originally planned to take place sometime this year, has been delayed for the best of reasons...
He came to his senses?
See me. Hear me. Spell me.
No, it's
See me.
Feel me.
Touch me.
Speel me.
On the contrary, 'T' is the third key to the right of 'W'. While certainly it could have been closer, for instance: 'Q', 'S' and 'R' are all immediately adjacent to 'W',I believe that it is certainly possible to mistakenly hit 'W' when intending to hit 'T', and vice versa.
And 'w' is only the fourth key to the left of 'h' on a completely different row...... or did you think 'Two' should have been spelled 'Tho'?
why do they always make movies based on books we've all already read?
Probably because they figure that books that nobody reads will translate real well into movies that nobody sees.
Of course, you could just stop reading.
My favorite scene is when Frodo has to evade the Dalek.
Becomes part of the machine /. wizard sure trys to get any mention of The Who into a headline even if it don't rhyme and messes up the cadence of the song.....
Bad spelin's comin' at you
His grammar is obscene
Ain't seen nothin' like him
In any other website at all
That
The sunglasses were basically a frame that accepted lenses that attached via little screws on each end of the lens.
Take a look at Performance Bike or Bike Nashbar and check out their sunglasses. Many of them have interchangeable lenses (including some that look like gold) and most just slide in - no screws.
All you'd need is some transparent aluminum.
I was just talkin' into my mouse about that very thing.
It also has one potentially serious drawback: almost no passenger would have a window.
Why not a glass bottom? Seemed to work for boats. Might be kinda freaky though.
I'd argue that there is an art to that - putting across the company's vision in an aesthetically pleasing way, without sacrificing functionaliy or straying outside the bounds of good website design
No argument here. See my comment on creativity.
I lost 5 karma points over mentioning I had a gf.
Your wife moderating again?
If you do the site, it does become part of your portfolio, unless it sucks.
I normally don't respond to AC's, but in the interest of clarity - there is a big difference between making a site part of your portfolio and turning a client's site into your own personal portfolio.
Art, as an end in itself, is about
beauty and self expression.
Right. And when doing a corporate website (or a website for anyone other than yourself) the goal is for you to express something of them and not of yourself. It's not the artist's vision that's important, but conveying the company's vision. If an artist wants to freely express themselves they can build their own page or submit pages to an art oriented site.
Nice pics by the way. Have you delved into digital yet?
In order to accomplish this designers may have to constrain their creativity to work within certain parameters.
It could be said that the constraints actually give one an opportunity to exercise their creativity. If an individual can only work a certain way then they are stagnant and not creative at all.