I don't know if it is really all the much. If I am working hard on something and run into a brick wall (whether ir be work or homework, etc.) I find browsing the web, reading/. etc can sometimes help me get past that. It allows my mind to change gears for a little bit and some times help me to think of something I may not have otherwise. Same goes for any form of recreation. Just because I might spend 30 minutes reading/. at work, doesn't mean 'the economy' just lost 30 minutes of wages and productivity. It means I just took a break and solved a problem quicker than I may have if I had banged my head on my desk for those 30 minutes instead.
I bet he's one of those people that refers to automobile accidents as 'collisions'. It's just a term that has been in use so long that we still use it. I'm sure most people know that nearly all automobile 'accidents' are preventable at some point, just like we all know that a bug is the result of a human error. It's just the origin of the word that made it the way it is today. 'Bug' more defines how it appears from the user's perspective. They are seen as odd quirks, etc. It is notable that most people still know where to place blame for them, most of the time (i.e. blaming Windows for a bug in a particular piece of software running on it).
Haven't worked in retail much have you? I worked at a grocery store when I was 16 (4 years ago), and all credit card information needed was nicely printed on the roll of tape in the register that we had to take out at the end of our shift and give to the accounting folks. All you'd have to do is look at it later when the person leaves. I'm sure 3rd shift gas station attendants have plenty of free time.
Exactly how my bank card # got stolen. I traced it to a clerk in a gas station, I had not used the check card anywhere else previously besides ATM machines, etc. and I visited said gas station the night before. Lucky for me he apparently tried to use it at some lumber supply company for a few thousand dollars to see how much he could get out of it, and they were kind of suspicious when he wanted to use 2 credit cards each with a name different from his own =] I wonder how many places would care enough to catch something like that.
In other news today, Adolf Hitler ate, drank, slept, and wore clothes so everyone is advised to stop doing so immediately. I see them as irrelevant coincidences. Anyone could have told you that TVs are going to get bigger and eventually take up entire walls. Seems like the next logical step. It doesn't mean that we're going to start burning books because of it.
Bill Gates even has something similar to this in his house, I believe, where the walls are screens that can be changed to display whatever is wanted. Or maybe he just wanted them to be. (From The Road Ahead).
A completely foreign bacteria that no one here has probably ever had any exposure and therefore, if it causes disease, we would not have antibodies to fight it. Yeahhhh makes a whole lot of sense. Sure worth the risk involved.
I don't see why it makes more sense to have e-mail linked with your browser. E-mail is a highly used communication device, and especially in a business you are going to use it for sending documents and everything else. For that reason, it should be tied to productivity items, etc. How often do your browser and e-mail client work together? How often do your browser and document editing tools interact? (In fact, with MS Office, word is the default mail editor). I would prefer to see a browser tied up with an office suite instead of my mail tied up with a browser.
Hmm.. maybe IE should be bundled with Office instead of Windows. Aye, shouldn't start a discussion like that. *ducks*
What's the point in playing at 150 fps when your eyes only work at around 60 anyway? Some people might notice a difference up to 70, but beyond that doesn't make much sense to me. Use those cycles for something else, like prettier pictures.
At least to me, having a good mail client is an important part of an Office Suite, but OpenOffice 1.0 is lacking. Is there something that I can use instead of MS Office that is pretty powerful? Also, are there any free/open source clients that interact well with Exchange Servers? (required for work). Thanks.
Yes. Yes. It works. Yes, it is good, but I'm curious, if he can "get his hands on some MS Office CD's" then he's either paying a crapload so you all can have MS Office, which makes your first statement invalid. Or you will have pirated copies of MS Office, in which case, you might as well use pirated copies of MS Windows as well. You're better off getting legal copies of MS products or sticking with some Linux distro + XFree86 + some office product, which there are plenty out there..
And who modded this as offtopic? He is making an inquiry to the feasibility of his company making use of an Office product, I think that's related. Silly Moderators.
Doctors provide free services here in the US at a number of free clinics all over the place. I'm not sure what the prereqs are to visit one, but it's worth noting.
Industry benefits a lot more from research than researchers, I'll give you that. I wonder if the post you replied to would be all for patenting an aids vaccine or something and making a crapload of money off of it rather than giving away 'the source' for free? After all, if you give it away for free, some big drug companies will pick it up and market it and make craploads of money off of it. A whole lot more than you ever will.
I am a solipsist, therefore you are wrong, and the Muppets are merely a figment of my imagination that I created to please another figment of my imagination, mainly, you. This comment is also a figment of my imagination, as well as/. and all related entities. They exist only in my mind. I dare you to prove me wrong.
My thoughts exactly. You can't expect to really get anything done by hiding behind a curtain, someone is bound to stick their sword through it and stab you.
Doesn't any large corporation have internal trouble in decision making processes? Why do you think it takes our government so long to pass bills? It's one big messed up corporation.
I've got the latest Skipjack beta running on my SS50 just fine. Only problem initially was with the video, but I found a helpful person on the XFree86 mailing lists that makes drivers for the SiS chipsets and now for the most part, everything works great. (If I had more time to test the drivers, it would probably work even better, but I hardly get the chance to install his daily releases of them as it is). If you have one of these and want to know where to get the video drivers for X, send me an e-mail. I don't dare post a link to his website for fear of killing it.
The fans on the SS50 are not very loud at all. Even when they speed up they are fairly quiet, not much worse than my other PC. I suppose if it wasn't sitting next to my monitor and under my desk, I'd probably hear it even less =]
No kidding! Although the reflection the blue LED makes on my wall at night is pretty impressive sometimes =]
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I've got one of these and it isn't very loud at all. My CPU stays a cool 40 C most of the time, so the fan is able to stay at 2400 RPMs, even when the fan has to speed up when the CPU heats up (which is customizable in the BIOS), it isn't too incredibly loud. My laptop overpowers this thing by a quite a bit. Maybe they just put a noisy hard drive in =]
I worked in a factory last year, and while many many people would consider those to be dead end jobs, there is a lot they look forward to. (This was a UAW shop, so I'm sure that affected some things). Anyway, with senority comes the opportunity to get a better job on the line, or move days off, whatever. It pays good, but to them, dead end job or not, it really doesn't matter. It's what you're doing with the money you make at your job. These people aren't their jobs, they're what they are when they aren't at their job.
I would guess that a fair number of us getting ready to enter the job market, or are in at the moment have parents in jobs like these. My father works in what many of you would consider a dead end job (he's an electrician at a factory), but he enjoys his job. He never complains about actually doing his job (but who doesn't complain about having to work at all). I think anyone complaining about a dead job end needs to change their perspective on life. You can do two (or more) things:
1. Love your job. Your job becomes your life and you do it because you like. You see the $$ as a good side effect.
2. Work because you have to. Sure it's a dead end job, but it doesn't matter, because it's just a job. It's a source of income that allows to do everything else you want to do.
Your job should not be the most rewarding part of your life.
I would guess more of them couldn't hack it and switched majors than got a high paying job pre-graduation. Although it does happen. You'd have to give me a pretty fancy offer to convince me that working for you is more important than another year or two in school. That or pay for my BS =]
I bet that Fox is pretty close to that. Even when TV shows are in season, we see reruns half the time anyway. And I really enjoy the Andy Richter show, so why can't they play something other than 2 episodes for once!
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I don't know if it is really all the much. If I am working hard on something and run into a brick wall (whether ir be work or homework, etc.) I find browsing the web, reading /. etc can sometimes help me get past that. It allows my mind to change gears for a little bit and some times help me to think of something I may not have otherwise. Same goes for any form of recreation. Just because I might spend 30 minutes reading /. at work, doesn't mean 'the economy' just lost 30 minutes of wages and productivity. It means I just took a break and solved a problem quicker than I may have if I had banged my head on my desk for those 30 minutes instead.
I bet he's one of those people that refers to automobile accidents as 'collisions'. It's just a term that has been in use so long that we still use it. I'm sure most people know that nearly all automobile 'accidents' are preventable at some point, just like we all know that a bug is the result of a human error. It's just the origin of the word that made it the way it is today. 'Bug' more defines how it appears from the user's perspective. They are seen as odd quirks, etc. It is notable that most people still know where to place blame for them, most of the time (i.e. blaming Windows for a bug in a particular piece of software running on it).
You can upgrade certain parts of the OS without destroying others. Sort of like 95a->95b->98->98SE same OS the whole way through.
Haven't worked in retail much have you? I worked at a grocery store when I was 16 (4 years ago), and all credit card information needed was nicely printed on the roll of tape in the register that we had to take out at the end of our shift and give to the accounting folks. All you'd have to do is look at it later when the person leaves. I'm sure 3rd shift gas station attendants have plenty of free time.
Exactly how my bank card # got stolen. I traced it to a clerk in a gas station, I had not used the check card anywhere else previously besides ATM machines, etc. and I visited said gas station the night before. Lucky for me he apparently tried to use it at some lumber supply company for a few thousand dollars to see how much he could get out of it, and they were kind of suspicious when he wanted to use 2 credit cards each with a name different from his own =] I wonder how many places would care enough to catch something like that.
In other news today, Adolf Hitler ate, drank, slept, and wore clothes so everyone is advised to stop doing so immediately. I see them as irrelevant coincidences. Anyone could have told you that TVs are going to get bigger and eventually take up entire walls. Seems like the next logical step. It doesn't mean that we're going to start burning books because of it.
Bill Gates even has something similar to this in his house, I believe, where the walls are screens that can be changed to display whatever is wanted. Or maybe he just wanted them to be. (From The Road Ahead).
A completely foreign bacteria that no one here has probably ever had any exposure and therefore, if it causes disease, we would not have antibodies to fight it. Yeahhhh makes a whole lot of sense. Sure worth the risk involved.
There was a post 4 minutes before yours that gave the very obvious EFF donation link, hrm.
I don't see why it makes more sense to have e-mail linked with your browser. E-mail is a highly used communication device, and especially in a business you are going to use it for sending documents and everything else. For that reason, it should be tied to productivity items, etc. How often do your browser and e-mail client work together? How often do your browser and document editing tools interact? (In fact, with MS Office, word is the default mail editor). I would prefer to see a browser tied up with an office suite instead of my mail tied up with a browser.
Hmm.. maybe IE should be bundled with Office instead of Windows. Aye, shouldn't start a discussion like that. *ducks*
What's the point in playing at 150 fps when your eyes only work at around 60 anyway? Some people might notice a difference up to 70, but beyond that doesn't make much sense to me. Use those cycles for something else, like prettier pictures.
At least to me, having a good mail client is an important part of an Office Suite, but OpenOffice 1.0 is lacking. Is there something that I can use instead of MS Office that is pretty powerful? Also, are there any free/open source clients that interact well with Exchange Servers? (required for work). Thanks.
Yes.
Yes.
It works.
Yes, it is good, but I'm curious, if he can "get his hands on some MS Office CD's" then he's either paying a crapload so you all can have MS Office, which makes your first statement invalid. Or you will have pirated copies of MS Office, in which case, you might as well use pirated copies of MS Windows as well. You're better off getting legal copies of MS products or sticking with some Linux distro + XFree86 + some office product, which there are plenty out there..
And who modded this as offtopic? He is making an inquiry to the feasibility of his company making use of an Office product, I think that's related. Silly Moderators.
Doctors provide free services here in the US at a number of free clinics all over the place. I'm not sure what the prereqs are to visit one, but it's worth noting.
Industry benefits a lot more from research than researchers, I'll give you that. I wonder if the post you replied to would be all for patenting an aids vaccine or something and making a crapload of money off of it rather than giving away 'the source' for free? After all, if you give it away for free, some big drug companies will pick it up and market it and make craploads of money off of it. A whole lot more than you ever will.
I am a solipsist, therefore you are wrong, and the Muppets are merely a figment of my imagination that I created to please another figment of my imagination, mainly, you. This comment is also a figment of my imagination, as well as /. and all related entities. They exist only in my mind. I dare you to prove me wrong.
the client SHOULD send LIST, not 'ls -l'. It's the servers job to figure out what to do with that command on its end.
Also, a good FTP client will recognize the server it is connected to and act accordingly.
My thoughts exactly. You can't expect to really get anything done by hiding behind a curtain, someone is bound to stick their sword through it and stab you.
Doesn't any large corporation have internal trouble in decision making processes? Why do you think it takes our government so long to pass bills? It's one big messed up corporation.
I've got the latest Skipjack beta running on my SS50 just fine. Only problem initially was with the video, but I found a helpful person on the XFree86 mailing lists that makes drivers for the SiS chipsets and now for the most part, everything works great. (If I had more time to test the drivers, it would probably work even better, but I hardly get the chance to install his daily releases of them as it is). If you have one of these and want to know where to get the video drivers for X, send me an e-mail. I don't dare post a link to his website for fear of killing it.
The fans on the SS50 are not very loud at all. Even when they speed up they are fairly quiet, not much worse than my other PC. I suppose if it wasn't sitting next to my monitor and under my desk, I'd probably hear it even less =]
No kidding! Although the reflection the blue LED makes on my wall at night is pretty impressive sometimes =]
I've got one of these and it isn't very loud at all. My CPU stays a cool 40 C most of the time, so the fan is able to stay at 2400 RPMs, even when the fan has to speed up when the CPU heats up (which is customizable in the BIOS), it isn't too incredibly loud. My laptop overpowers this thing by a quite a bit. Maybe they just put a noisy hard drive in =]
I worked in a factory last year, and while many many people would consider those to be dead end jobs, there is a lot they look forward to. (This was a UAW shop, so I'm sure that affected some things). Anyway, with senority comes the opportunity to get a better job on the line, or move days off, whatever. It pays good, but to them, dead end job or not, it really doesn't matter. It's what you're doing with the money you make at your job. These people aren't their jobs, they're what they are when they aren't at their job.
I would guess that a fair number of us getting ready to enter the job market, or are in at the moment have parents in jobs like these. My father works in what many of you would consider a dead end job (he's an electrician at a factory), but he enjoys his job. He never complains about actually doing his job (but who doesn't complain about having to work at all). I think anyone complaining about a dead job end needs to change their perspective on life. You can do two (or more) things:
1. Love your job. Your job becomes your life and you do it because you like. You see the $$ as a good side effect.
2. Work because you have to. Sure it's a dead end job, but it doesn't matter, because it's just a job. It's a source of income that allows to do everything else you want to do.
Your job should not be the most rewarding part of your life.
I would guess more of them couldn't hack it and switched majors than got a high paying job pre-graduation. Although it does happen. You'd have to give me a pretty fancy offer to convince me that working for you is more important than another year or two in school. That or pay for my BS =]
FreeBSD locks up during install because I have USB devices. Otherwise, I would!!!!!!!!!!! Oh well, Red Hat isn't all that bad =]
I bet that Fox is pretty close to that. Even when TV shows are in season, we see reruns half the time anyway. And I really enjoy the Andy Richter show, so why can't they play something other than 2 episodes for once!