If this paste makes it to the market sometime soon, we'll all surely be thinking about putting it in our boxes.
Sure, for sufficiently small definitions of "all of us." Because as soon as the definition expands to... uh... well, pretty much any of my friends, actually, nobody gives a shit.
So, in the event that the thing drives itself under a tree, or a Martian holding an umbrella, it should shut down and sit there until the tree falls down or the Martian moves? (I know that there aren't trees on Mars. Or in the Atacama, for that matter. Hush.)
A much better solution is for the rover to have an idea of when it's likely to go dark without being able to do anything about it.
It's a public terminal, often with a video camera attached to it and anti-tamper devices, which is considerably more difficult for the average shmuck to mess with than a Windows 98 box sitting in a copy shop.
The company is running yoga classes for its employees. The classes aren't compulsory, to the best of my knowledge. The article didn't say that the classes were being offered in order to cultivate a sense of zen-like bliss in which the employees would fail to notice the shady accounting practices going on. Nor does it say that "sound management policies" and yoga classes are mutually exclusive, something your rant seems to imply.
And as far as paying for the class out of pocket, you should know that your company can likely get a much better deal than you can for a group class. That's what happens when you can deliver thirty people for a class all at once. As the article itself said, "The icing for companies is that meditation programs come cheap."
That said, AOL's decison to use meditation to counteract the effects of working twelve hour days is mind-boggling. Cause dude, lemme tell you, working 12 hour days for extended periods is just brutal.
Most of the discussion so far has revolved around dietary changes. That's only half of the equation - as long as you're not getting enough exercise, you're never going to be "in shape" (whatever that means)
I'm a big proponent of finding a physical activity you genuinely enjoy and doing that whenever possible. For me, it's kung fu, and occasional hiking and bike riding. To that, I add trips to the gym for weight training. The big secret that feww trainers are willing to mention: you can get a good weight workout in less than a half hour, especially if you're willing to hit the gym four or five times a week. (I go six: three to lift, and three for cardio & abs.)
As for equipment: if you're intent on exercising at work, you need something relatively small. Check out kettlebells, which look like a cannonball with a handle. The good news is that you can get an intense full-body workout with them. The bad news: they're cast iron. Lose your grip while swinging one, and it ain't pretty.
If you prefer to go the equipement-less route, do yourself a favor and check out a power yoga class. Advantages: you can get a good full-body workout which not only increases your muscular endurance, but also helps with flexability and balance. Downside - someone walking into your cube while you're doing boat pose, or downward-facing-dog. "Dude. What the hell are you doing?" "Uh... nuttin."
Most important by far: do something you can actually see yourself enjoying, and do it whenever you can. Consistency is the most important thing.
This is a terrible article, one that doesn't stand up to even the mildest level of scruitiny. For example:
Are You a Sharecropper? If you're developing software for the Windows platform, yes. Or for the Apple platform... How Not to be a Sharecropper If you develop server-side software that runs on Unix (by which I mean any platform that runs bash and creates processes with fork(),
So... confused! Brain... melting!
Worse than this obvious contradiction, though, is the underlying premise of the article. Bray implies that there's no point in doing any work on any proprietary system because the owners can always break compatibility with your products. Nevermind similar rows which have broken out between, say, Red Hat & the KDE project. Nevermind that if you're developing under the GPL, there's nothing that prevents someone from forking your project and including it as part of some random desktop environment you've never heard of.
If you're Tim Bray, I can only assume that you also believe that manufacturers of after market car equipment are morons too. After all, they don't own the systems for which they're producing, and there's no telling when a car maker will suddenly decide to make their products obsolete by changing their vehicle design, or unnecessary by selling their cars pre-tricked out. That's just one of the risks of doing busyiness.
Side note about the repeated sequences - the network put a big budget squeeze on the series, which was incredibly expensive to shoot (you try hiring ILM to do special effects for a weekly series, and see what it does to your wallet). So you'd see not only the same launches, but the very same combat sequences, with a Colonial Viper blowing up a Cylon... uh... ship, and flying through the debris, from exactly the same angle, over and over again.
Finally, though Microsoft is not mentioned, people might start to understand what a monoculture of poor quality software enables.
Translation:
Finally, though Microsoft is not mentioned, I felt the need to work some shrill anti-Microsoft propaganda into this post, so Fuck Bill! And Free Kevin!
Well in theory, that's not really "bandwidth," it's just a number of bytes. The bandwidth would be the maximum sustained throughput.
Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn't, hoss. I'd say that it qualifies as the bandwidth of the channel if you specify that the data is just really really bursty.
On the other hand, there's the time spent taking those tapes and loading them into tape drives to account for as well, something you wouldn't have to deal with using trasnfers via network.
She often has this weird half-smile on her face, and her head is tilted down with determination. She reminded me of Haley Joel Osment from AI in some ways.
Mark it down: this is the first time I've ever heard anyone use "like AI in some ways" as a reason to go see a movie.
3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result
And again, this time from/usr/bin/dict...
2: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
Using that definition - guy quits racing for safety reasons and immediately has a racing-related accident. I'd say that falls into the bounds of irony pretty nicely.
It doesn't strike me as surprising that some random guy on Slashdot would post that smoking "wouldn't be allowed on a submarine," despite the fact that this study in 1996 was intended to estimate the effects of secondhand smoke on submarine crews, and this Navy News update from 1993 notes that sub captains were tasked with designating smoking areas for their crews while on board.
Ironically, I think the guy is (badly) cribbing from Douglas Adams. Adams had a similar line in the Hitchhiker's Guide, something to the effect that the odds against life existing anywhere within the universe were so infinitesimal that anyone you happen to meet is just a figment of your imagination.
Apple's stuff is indeed droolworthy, but their support for their flat panel displays is less than stellar. If you take a look at a competitor's page, you'll see that Apple won't accept a panel as defective unless there are ten dead pixels in the display, an unnacceptably high number in my opinion. Furthermore, their displays aren't supported (to my knowledge - haven't checked their site) for longer than a year.
The obvious solution: get the dream system, but buy your two displays from Formac (or other manufacturer of your choice) instead.
Apple already reported that over half the songs sold so far on the iTMS were in album format.
Apple also reported that they sold over one million songs in the first week. Let's say that 40% of those sales were digital singles: that means that a good 400K singles were sold out of the iTunes store in a week. That's pretty significant, no matter how you slice it.
You make a good point about the single-or-nothing approach, though. My wife, bless her heart, asked me to purchase two Christina Aguilera songs and a Johnny Mathis tune for her. The odds of my actually walking into a store and buying those albums? Pretty slim. Shelling out three bucks and pegging our DSL bandwidth utilization for about a minute to make my wife happy? No problem.
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There are a lot of related versions of this type of discrimination. One woman I know who works in IT has been constantly passed up for promotion in her place of business in favor of less talented male coworkers. Additionally, she is often asked to work double shifts and come in extra days because she doesn't have kids - certainly a kind of discrimination in and of itself, complicated by the fact that she has severe health problems which prevent her from bearing kids.
Sophos Anti-Virus is a pretty nifty product, but it has a couple of annoyances that bug me:
Updating. SAV's update process is sucky, and anyone telling you differently is selling something. Of particular annoyance: pushing out client updates when you're running a mixed XP client / Samba server setup. Bleah.
No on-access scanning in Mac OS X. I have no idea why - Intercheck (or icheckd, as it's called in its UNIX verison) appears to be dependent on libc, and runs dandy on Linux and Solaris. For some reason, they don't support it under OS X, which bites.
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A couple useful docs on that page, thanks for the link.
Side note - I've had my TiBook for about a month, now. When I launched Ethereal for the first time at work, there was a moment of awe among my coworkers.
Plus, all the graphics guys I know went crazy. "Wow! A real computer geek - who has a Mac? That's fantastic!" Apparently, their experience with Mac users has been an "you're either a designer or Nick Burns" kind of thing.
Doh. Props to you and turgid on this one. I should have remembered this from hearing the Well-Tempered Clavier for the first time and asking what it meant. (Turns out it doesn't necessarily mean the same thing, but that's a whole other story.)
I'd hesitate to say it's a "bright scale" in and of itself. The intervals between tones are the same in F# as in C#, which is why the whole circle-of-fifths thing works in the first place. The brightness or moodiness of the scale is entirely dependent on the range and tonal qualities of the instrument on which it's played - try it on a piano, and one doesn't really sound brighter than the other.
You have to wonder about the what kind of "disasters" will befall the residence of the Sim Playboy Mansion. In the Sims, all you really had to worry about was starting a cooking fire, but I can see all kinds of possibilites for this game:
Look out! Nadia showed up to a photo shoot utterly wasted on blow!
Uh oh! Buffy and Zora both need to use the bathroom to get ready, but Patricia is hogging it with one of her bulimic epi - I mean, fixing her hair!
Francesca's boob implants had a catastrophic blowout, and now the conversation pit is ruined!
Seriously! Where the fuck do you people get off listening to your fancy shmancy music? You should take the Avril Lavigne and Shakira we give you and be grateful for it, you elitist bastard!
By "artsy," I assume the poster meant, "The one chick looks like she's naked! And the other guy, you can see his junk through his spandex!"
Grow up. In the mean time, if anyone massaged me with the pressure those things are likely capable of, I'd ask them togive up and try walking on my back instead.
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So, in the event that the thing drives itself under a tree, or a Martian holding an umbrella, it should shut down and sit there until the tree falls down or the Martian moves? (I know that there aren't trees on Mars. Or in the Atacama, for that matter. Hush.)
A much better solution is for the rover to have an idea of when it's likely to go dark without being able to do anything about it.
It's a public terminal, often with a video camera attached to it and anti-tamper devices, which is considerably more difficult for the average shmuck to mess with than a Windows 98 box sitting in a copy shop.
What the fuck?
The company is running yoga classes for its employees. The classes aren't compulsory, to the best of my knowledge. The article didn't say that the classes were being offered in order to cultivate a sense of zen-like bliss in which the employees would fail to notice the shady accounting practices going on. Nor does it say that "sound management policies" and yoga classes are mutually exclusive, something your rant seems to imply.
And as far as paying for the class out of pocket, you should know that your company can likely get a much better deal than you can for a group class. That's what happens when you can deliver thirty people for a class all at once. As the article itself said, "The icing for companies is that meditation programs come cheap."
That said, AOL's decison to use meditation to counteract the effects of working twelve hour days is mind-boggling. Cause dude, lemme tell you, working 12 hour days for extended periods is just brutal.
Most of the discussion so far has revolved around dietary changes. That's only half of the equation - as long as you're not getting enough exercise, you're never going to be "in shape" (whatever that means)
I'm a big proponent of finding a physical activity you genuinely enjoy and doing that whenever possible. For me, it's kung fu, and occasional hiking and bike riding. To that, I add trips to the gym for weight training. The big secret that feww trainers are willing to mention: you can get a good weight workout in less than a half hour, especially if you're willing to hit the gym four or five times a week. (I go six: three to lift, and three for cardio & abs.)
As for equipment: if you're intent on exercising at work, you need something relatively small. Check out kettlebells, which look like a cannonball with a handle. The good news is that you can get an intense full-body workout with them. The bad news: they're cast iron. Lose your grip while swinging one, and it ain't pretty.
If you prefer to go the equipement-less route, do yourself a favor and check out a power yoga class. Advantages: you can get a good full-body workout which not only increases your muscular endurance, but also helps with flexability and balance. Downside - someone walking into your cube while you're doing boat pose, or downward-facing-dog. "Dude. What the hell are you doing?" "Uh... nuttin."
Most important by far: do something you can actually see yourself enjoying, and do it whenever you can. Consistency is the most important thing.
This is a terrible article, one that doesn't stand up to even the mildest level of scruitiny. For example:
So... confused! Brain... melting!
Worse than this obvious contradiction, though, is the underlying premise of the article. Bray implies that there's no point in doing any work on any proprietary system because the owners can always break compatibility with your products. Nevermind similar rows which have broken out between, say, Red Hat & the KDE project. Nevermind that if you're developing under the GPL, there's nothing that prevents someone from forking your project and including it as part of some random desktop environment you've never heard of.
If you're Tim Bray, I can only assume that you also believe that manufacturers of after market car equipment are morons too. After all, they don't own the systems for which they're producing, and there's no telling when a car maker will suddenly decide to make their products obsolete by changing their vehicle design, or unnecessary by selling their cars pre-tricked out. That's just one of the risks of doing busyiness.
Well - technically, Sweet Dreams was done by The Eurythmics. Annie Lennox provided the vocals.
The phrase that I recall is "Just a senton!"
Side note about the repeated sequences - the network put a big budget squeeze on the series, which was incredibly expensive to shoot (you try hiring ILM to do special effects for a weekly series, and see what it does to your wallet). So you'd see not only the same launches, but the very same combat sequences, with a Colonial Viper blowing up a Cylon... uh... ship, and flying through the debris, from exactly the same angle, over and over again.
Translation:
Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn't, hoss. I'd say that it qualifies as the bandwidth of the channel if you specify that the data is just really really bursty.
On the other hand, there's the time spent taking those tapes and loading them into tape drives to account for as well, something you wouldn't have to deal with using trasnfers via network.
Mark it down: this is the first time I've ever heard anyone use "like AI in some ways" as a reason to go see a movie.
And again, this time from
Using that definition - guy quits racing for safety reasons and immediately has a racing-related accident. I'd say that falls into the bounds of irony pretty nicely.
It doesn't strike me as surprising that some random guy on Slashdot would post that smoking "wouldn't be allowed on a submarine," despite the fact that this study in 1996 was intended to estimate the effects of secondhand smoke on submarine crews, and this Navy News update from 1993 notes that sub captains were tasked with designating smoking areas for their crews while on board.
Depressing, but not surprising.
Ironically, I think the guy is (badly) cribbing from Douglas Adams. Adams had a similar line in the Hitchhiker's Guide, something to the effect that the odds against life existing anywhere within the universe were so infinitesimal that anyone you happen to meet is just a figment of your imagination.
Apple's stuff is indeed droolworthy, but their support for their flat panel displays is less than stellar. If you take a look at a competitor's page, you'll see that Apple won't accept a panel as defective unless there are ten dead pixels in the display, an unnacceptably high number in my opinion. Furthermore, their displays aren't supported (to my knowledge - haven't checked their site) for longer than a year.
The obvious solution: get the dream system, but buy your two displays from Formac (or other manufacturer of your choice) instead.
Apple also reported that they sold over one million songs in the first week. Let's say that 40% of those sales were digital singles: that means that a good 400K singles were sold out of the iTunes store in a week. That's pretty significant, no matter how you slice it.
You make a good point about the single-or-nothing approach, though. My wife, bless her heart, asked me to purchase two Christina Aguilera songs and a Johnny Mathis tune for her. The odds of my actually walking into a store and buying those albums? Pretty slim. Shelling out three bucks and pegging our DSL bandwidth utilization for about a minute to make my wife happy? No problem.
There are a lot of related versions of this type of discrimination. One woman I know who works in IT has been constantly passed up for promotion in her place of business in favor of less talented male coworkers. Additionally, she is often asked to work double shifts and come in extra days because she doesn't have kids - certainly a kind of discrimination in and of itself, complicated by the fact that she has severe health problems which prevent her from bearing kids.
It sucks all over.
Sophos Anti-Virus is a pretty nifty product, but it has a couple of annoyances that bug me:
A couple useful docs on that page, thanks for the link.
Side note - I've had my TiBook for about a month, now. When I launched Ethereal for the first time at work, there was a moment of awe among my coworkers.
Plus, all the graphics guys I know went crazy. "Wow! A real computer geek - who has a Mac? That's fantastic!" Apparently, their experience with Mac users has been an "you're either a designer or Nick Burns" kind of thing.
All that needs to happen for Slashdot to become Fark is to have posted this story under the heading "Boobies."
Doh. Props to you and turgid on this one. I should have remembered this from hearing the Well-Tempered Clavier for the first time and asking what it meant. (Turns out it doesn't necessarily mean the same thing, but that's a whole other story.)
I'd hesitate to say it's a "bright scale" in and of itself. The intervals between tones are the same in F# as in C#, which is why the whole circle-of-fifths thing works in the first place. The brightness or moodiness of the scale is entirely dependent on the range and tonal qualities of the instrument on which it's played - try it on a piano, and one doesn't really sound brighter than the other.
And besides, everyone knows that D minor is the saddest of all keys.
You have to wonder about the what kind of "disasters" will befall the residence of the Sim Playboy Mansion. In the Sims, all you really had to worry about was starting a cooking fire, but I can see all kinds of possibilites for this game:
The possibilities boggle the mind.
Seriously! Where the fuck do you people get off listening to your fancy shmancy music? You should take the Avril Lavigne and Shakira we give you and be grateful for it, you elitist bastard!
By "artsy," I assume the poster meant, "The one chick looks like she's naked! And the other guy, you can see his junk through his spandex!"
Grow up. In the mean time, if anyone massaged me with the pressure those things are likely capable of, I'd ask them togive up and try walking on my back instead.