LibreOffice works good if you are not concerned with formatting, such as publishing papers in a particular format. I thought it would work good for a PowerPoint alternative but LibreOffice removed all of the nice backgrounds and font colors the provider of the PowerPoint did everything in and half of the slides were unreadable.
Never really worked out that way. Ever contract I've had for the past five years I've had to either be trained in the new position or take extra time to learn it myself. Though the company I'm contracting for is not hiring replacements when people retire and loosing their knowledge base, rather than cutting regular employees lose.
This should be good for government contractors. You know, the companies that are required by the US government to lock down all of their networks so they can guarantee none of the outgoing data is illegal exports of sensitive data?
Except from the pictures, the only intersection types where this is being allowed is when bikes wont be traveling into cross traffic. In a lot of places in the US, a car can proceed on red when other traffic is not present. At least in my state, you can turn right on red in all intersections and turn left on red onto a 1 way, unless otherwise posted.
In the case of crossing roads, traffic is not allowed to proceed on a red light where I live. I don't see why bikes should be allowed to do this as they take longer to cross an intersection than a car does. Thus putting them at greater risk of an unseen car entering the intersection at high speed.
Funny, that's the way I drive. So far after a bit over 15 years of driving I've had 3 accidents, one my fault where I failed to notice a stop sign in an unfamiliar city (minor damage but woke me up to doing better active scanning) and two others where I got rear ended after I was fully stopped and hadn't stopped all that fast.
I can't count the number of times I've had to avoid accidents during that time.
This is why I hate traffic lights on 55MPH roads. If the yellow catches me at the right point I have to stop a lot faster than I like as otherwise the light would be red before I reach the intersection.
Yeah, at this rate all of the nuclear accident deaths (~40k up to ~300k depending on who you trust) will catch up with pollution deaths (7 million a year) in a few hundred years if we were to use nuclear power for everything.
I've worked on new projects using Ada code as recently as 2013. I've moved off the embedded software at the moment but I'm pretty sure it is still active in new avionics projects.
I've watched a few TV series I never saw when they originally came out (just got caught up on Hell on Wheels on Netflix). I really like the streaming for this as I might try a show I wouldn't take time to order a DVD for otherwise. Though I agree it is becoming harder to find anything the longer I have the service. If it all becomes original Netflix programming on the other hand (all due respect to Marco Polo) I'll probably just drop streaming and go DVD only.
As if millions of birds suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly burned to a crisp.
Unfortunately most of them ran into windows and cats before they got there. A few managed to land on a live wire, get hit by a car or eat some poisoned plants first. One amazing bird managed to successfully fly through a wind turbine to reach its destination of concentrated solar power.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
I considered iOS devices at one point but I kind of like having a file system. As a result I've stuck to Windows based like Surface and transformer laptops (Lenovo Yoga Thinkpad is nice).
I've got a yoga thinkpad that can be taken apart to change the hard drive (put a spare SSD in mine), upgrade the memory or (gasp) replace the battery so the device isn't worthless in a couple years. The yoga thinkpad is only available in sizes up to 15.6" but for me 18" is too large (had an ASUS 17.3" lap monster at one point, awesome machine but never again)
I had bought an Android tablet four years ago for teaching. I like the low profile device for keeping notes without ruffling a bunch of papers around. Now the battery is so fried it only last a short time and Android updates appear to have overwhelmed the device. So I've moved to flex laptops that can do everything a tablet can, plus everything a laptop can, are still upgradeable and MS at least doesn't kill older hardware with newer OSes (at least as badly as Android seems to).
I try not to put my hand on the mouse as much as possible. Use keyboard shortcuts in place of mouse clicks, then the number pad is a lot closer and more effective.
Just between firefox and a couple of visual studio instances I've fried off a couple gigs of memory. Supporting programs use up a couple more plus a touch extra overhead. So I'm over 4.5G just in my most basic development environment. At home I prefer a minimum of 16G but work doesn't want to go over 8 it seems (and I've used 8 up a couple times).
For me a voice mail tends to be slow. The same thing said in a normal conversation always seems to go faster. Plus if it is important enough to be stored, store it in a method that is easier to edit or forward.
Some messages are better in voicemail but where I would use voicemail is usually technical discussions where we want documentation. Usually better not to have a lot of emotion fed through that.
Sequence of questions that will probably need additional clarification? call.
Negative. That's what chat or series of 1-line emails are for. You can't refer back to a call when you're working on that project later, mistakes will be made, and it will turn into a stupid finger-pointing match that eats up far more time than you saved using voice instead of text.
I've found with technical discussions that a bunch of chats often take too long to convey the same information. Phone calls just work better, going to said person's desk and looking at the same thing on the monitor is even better.
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LibreOffice works good if you are not concerned with formatting, such as publishing papers in a particular format. I thought it would work good for a PowerPoint alternative but LibreOffice removed all of the nice backgrounds and font colors the provider of the PowerPoint did everything in and half of the slides were unreadable.
Never really worked out that way. Ever contract I've had for the past five years I've had to either be trained in the new position or take extra time to learn it myself. Though the company I'm contracting for is not hiring replacements when people retire and loosing their knowledge base, rather than cutting regular employees lose.
Both my Win 10 and Win 8.1 laptops blue screened this weekend after updates. Coincidence?
This should be good for government contractors. You know, the companies that are required by the US government to lock down all of their networks so they can guarantee none of the outgoing data is illegal exports of sensitive data?
Except from the pictures, the only intersection types where this is being allowed is when bikes wont be traveling into cross traffic. In a lot of places in the US, a car can proceed on red when other traffic is not present. At least in my state, you can turn right on red in all intersections and turn left on red onto a 1 way, unless otherwise posted.
In the case of crossing roads, traffic is not allowed to proceed on a red light where I live. I don't see why bikes should be allowed to do this as they take longer to cross an intersection than a car does. Thus putting them at greater risk of an unseen car entering the intersection at high speed.
Funny, that's the way I drive. So far after a bit over 15 years of driving I've had 3 accidents, one my fault where I failed to notice a stop sign in an unfamiliar city (minor damage but woke me up to doing better active scanning) and two others where I got rear ended after I was fully stopped and hadn't stopped all that fast.
I can't count the number of times I've had to avoid accidents during that time.
This is why I hate traffic lights on 55MPH roads. If the yellow catches me at the right point I have to stop a lot faster than I like as otherwise the light would be red before I reach the intersection.
I'm just pointing out a generous acceptance of the numbers still produces far less deaths than polluting power sources.
Yeah, at this rate all of the nuclear accident deaths (~40k up to ~300k depending on who you trust) will catch up with pollution deaths (7 million a year) in a few hundred years if we were to use nuclear power for everything.
So if we just call them a fundamental global cooling device we may get people to agree to a nuclear winter bombing?
So, what you're saying is that dropping from 1000 frames per second, to 950 FPS is all it takes to die?
My dad had a saying, I think it applies here: "A poor workman blames his tools"
And a good workman doesn't use a screw driver to hammer nails.
I've worked on new projects using Ada code as recently as 2013. I've moved off the embedded software at the moment but I'm pretty sure it is still active in new avionics projects.
I've watched a few TV series I never saw when they originally came out (just got caught up on Hell on Wheels on Netflix). I really like the streaming for this as I might try a show I wouldn't take time to order a DVD for otherwise. Though I agree it is becoming harder to find anything the longer I have the service. If it all becomes original Netflix programming on the other hand (all due respect to Marco Polo) I'll probably just drop streaming and go DVD only.
And doesn't go out of date when Apple iOS 99.2512.53.123 is released.
As if millions of birds suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly burned to a crisp.
Unfortunately most of them ran into windows and cats before they got there. A few managed to land on a live wire, get hit by a car or eat some poisoned plants first. One amazing bird managed to successfully fly through a wind turbine to reach its destination of concentrated solar power. http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
In other words, good management should be smart enough to take everything into account. Without that, the company is rather screwed.
Commies == Bad!
Make that a wireless remote screen that connects to my desktop PC at home for less cost than a normal tablet and let's talk.
I considered iOS devices at one point but I kind of like having a file system. As a result I've stuck to Windows based like Surface and transformer laptops (Lenovo Yoga Thinkpad is nice).
Waaaaaay ahead of you: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/l...
I've got a yoga thinkpad that can be taken apart to change the hard drive (put a spare SSD in mine), upgrade the memory or (gasp) replace the battery so the device isn't worthless in a couple years. The yoga thinkpad is only available in sizes up to 15.6" but for me 18" is too large (had an ASUS 17.3" lap monster at one point, awesome machine but never again)
I had bought an Android tablet four years ago for teaching. I like the low profile device for keeping notes without ruffling a bunch of papers around. Now the battery is so fried it only last a short time and Android updates appear to have overwhelmed the device. So I've moved to flex laptops that can do everything a tablet can, plus everything a laptop can, are still upgradeable and MS at least doesn't kill older hardware with newer OSes (at least as badly as Android seems to).
I try not to put my hand on the mouse as much as possible. Use keyboard shortcuts in place of mouse clicks, then the number pad is a lot closer and more effective.
Yep, I think it is time to switch to prepay service once my contract ends.
Just between firefox and a couple of visual studio instances I've fried off a couple gigs of memory. Supporting programs use up a couple more plus a touch extra overhead. So I'm over 4.5G just in my most basic development environment. At home I prefer a minimum of 16G but work doesn't want to go over 8 it seems (and I've used 8 up a couple times).
For me a voice mail tends to be slow. The same thing said in a normal conversation always seems to go faster. Plus if it is important enough to be stored, store it in a method that is easier to edit or forward.
Some messages are better in voicemail but where I would use voicemail is usually technical discussions where we want documentation. Usually better not to have a lot of emotion fed through that.
Sequence of questions that will probably need additional clarification? call.
Negative. That's what chat or series of 1-line emails are for. You can't refer back to a call when you're working on that project later, mistakes will be made, and it will turn into a stupid finger-pointing match that eats up far more time than you saved using voice instead of text.
I've found with technical discussions that a bunch of chats often take too long to convey the same information. Phone calls just work better, going to said person's desk and looking at the same thing on the monitor is even better.