And while we're about that, can we pleeeeeeease ditch Okular and go back to kpdf and kdvi? Not only is Okular's rendering sucky, but it has no "Print Current Page" option, and the double sidebar takes up waaaaay too much screen real estate.
About time too. Evolution is huge and slow and cumbersome, and insists on loading every folder and subfolder in your IMAP config every time you open it and log in, instead of doing it on demand.
Re:Where did they get the money for research?
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I can't imagine a commercial company spending money on this -- otherwise they would already have done it. Maybe the research was funded by a chocolate company, but breakthroughs in research don't always come from company labs in isolation; it takes partnership with academia where you don't have corporate marketing types breathing down your neck shouting "Is it done yet? Is it done yet?" all day long. The idea that corporate research is in some way "better" than that in universities is a delusion much-loved by American companies.
As someone pointed out above, the 3D is the big deal. This means having a way to solidify the chocolate deposited by one pass before the next pass occurs, otherwise the whole thing becomes one big gloop. I just hope they haven't compromised the quality of the "chocolate" to do this.
Roundabouts are used because they are cheaper than cloverleaf junctions by several orders of magnitude. In densely-populated areas, it may also not be possible to buy out the dozens of homeowners necessary to build a cloverleaf. Cheapass road corporations use them to save on costs and shaft the driver.
If the alternative is supposed to be traffic lights, then the cost is in the same scale as a roundabout, but you have to make a judgment call on the level of driving skills and experience, and on the effect elsewhere in the street network of longer queuing for access under certain circumstances (eg time of day, proximity to public spaces like sports facilities, etc).
And I'm pretty certain I went round the only rotary in Boston in the early 80s, just after you came off the Mass Pike...
I agree that unpaid internships are unreasonable. In my institutional (web) section, we take a full-time student intern each summer, paid at our standard student demonstrator rate — about the same as grad students would get for teaching classes. The people we get are business IT students: bright, eager, and fast learners — but they need to be, as their course leaves them underprepared for the realities of organisation-scale web work. Photoshop, Dreamweaver, WordPress, MS-Office, and VBscript are all very pretty, but we need an understanding of industrial CMSs, LAMP, Javascript, XML, JQuery, CSS, shell scripting, and more, including corporate data management. We teach them, train them, and give them defined tasks: they usually get extremely productive, and we don't like seeing them go. In the past some of them have ended up with real jobs here; unfortunately the ongoing economic mess means we are barred from hiring, so this is the best we can do for now. Companies don't want to pay for negligible skills, but the solution is not unpaid work. Instead, better recruitment practices by the companies and better preparedness by the students would let them agree on a decent rate for the work.
I thought Unity sucked the first time I saw it. It still has defects, but having used it for a couple of months, it works, and it's not too bad.
Synaptic as always worked fine, and doesn't need replacing. But if Canonical is changing it for something else, they need to make sure they don't lose functionality, otherwise they'll lose their best marketing tool — the people who like Ubuntu and proselytise it well.
Unfortunately, Canonical is going the way of so many companies, becoming arrogant and thinking they know best, regardless. They need to develop some humility.
...users shall soon be able to turn to Microsoft when asking questions of Skype's sometimes-spotty service.
Fat lot of use that will be...particularly if you're not using Windows.
The problem is that the only alternative (SIP) sucks little black toads: abysmal audio quality, ludicrous registration procedures, non-existent global directory services, and far too many competing clients.
Don't get me wrong: I'm all in favour of open standards and open source and open competition, but with no-one at the helm, and a standard that is trying to be all things to everyone, SIP is going nowhere very fast.
Clearly the right prepayments have not been made. The music industry and the patent trolls do this all the time and seem to have no problem getting the judges on their side.
Marine archaeologists of the future are going to have a ball examining all these boxes on the seabed.
"We believe that late 20th century humans had a variety of cults, worshipping (among other totems) rubber models of ducks and some strange-looking footwear..."
I was in that position in the early 80s, tech eng support for what was then called a "bureau operation" (online timeshared services). We — and the sales team — were regarded by the clients in exactly the two ways you describe, Our solution was that a tech eng whose effort led to a sale was rewarded by the sales person direct, and the onus and amount were left to the sales person. While this has its risks, it was a relatively small operation (a couple of hundred people in one building), so everyone knew everyone else, and everyone knew who was supporting which client. Tech eng were always involved in the business, from the first call through pre-sales, demo, negotiation, contract, implementation, and post-sales, so the opportunities for doing a bit of biz dev were good, and the sales people appreciated it. It was the first time I had worked closely with sales, and on that occasion it worked well. YMMV.
Read Pepys' Diary for the 17th August 1666, where he quotes a friend describing the King of Siam out hunting, and the European visitors not knowing they should fall on their faces as he passed..."Their druggerman did desire them to fall down, for otherwise he should suffer for their contempt of the King." At the end of the hunt, the dragoman told the King's emissary how much the foreigners liked it, which was quite untrue; but no matter, said the dragoman, "for our King do not live by meat, nor drink, but by having great lyes told him.”
Whatever about the personal feelings of the king about lèse-majesté being thwarted by a traditionalist administration, he needs to get his act together.
There now, I've blown any chance of ever going to Thailand.
Can you do this if you only have a credit card with a European address? Most American companies won't accept a credit card unless you have a US or Canadian billing address (unlike in stores where it seems they don't care).
You can actually get prepaid SIMs in the USA? I thought this was a European thing. You have to pay to receive calls and texts in the USA, don't you?
What's the position with using it again on another trip the following year? I got a UK prepaid Three SIM last year, worked fine for two weeks. Came home, went back to the UK six months later and bought credit I couldn't use because I "hadn't used the phone at least once every month" in the meantime. Does this happen in the USA too?
Unless this is some kind of troll, I'm unclear why you would have picked a platform like Win2008 for a large-scale web server, when a LAMP architecture is easier to manage and more easily portable to the cloud if you do decide to go that way.
Video on Linux is an utter disaster. It used to work fine, but recent changes to Flash mean virtually nothing works any more, and I haven't found any other applications which work with any of the common cameras. I can see other people, but no camera I can find works. I have no idea what the developers have done to the drivers (or more likely, failed to do), but it needs to be fixed.
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the impact at the surface was blocked by an occluding disk
Damn. The alien spacecraft ejected and escaped before impact. Now we'll never find them.
Debian takes 42 years to configure. I need a distro that works out of the box.
Web-based email sucks little black toads. And it has no "Redirect" function. At least with Thunderbird there is a plugin.
And while we're about that, can we pleeeeeeease ditch Okular and go back to kpdf and kdvi? Not only is Okular's rendering sucky, but it has no "Print Current Page" option, and the double sidebar takes up waaaaay too much screen real estate.
About time too. Evolution is huge and slow and cumbersome, and insists on loading every folder and subfolder in your IMAP config every time you open it and log in, instead of doing it on demand.
Yep. Waiting for the synthesizer that will give me Urney's "Two-and-Two" bars They may actually reappear one day: http://www.urneychocolates.com/index.htm
I can't imagine a commercial company spending money on this -- otherwise they would already have done it. Maybe the research was funded by a chocolate company, but breakthroughs in research don't always come from company labs in isolation; it takes partnership with academia where you don't have corporate marketing types breathing down your neck shouting "Is it done yet? Is it done yet?" all day long. The idea that corporate research is in some way "better" than that in universities is a delusion much-loved by American companies.
As someone pointed out above, the 3D is the big deal. This means having a way to solidify the chocolate deposited by one pass before the next pass occurs, otherwise the whole thing becomes one big gloop. I just hope they haven't compromised the quality of the "chocolate" to do this.
Like "Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!"?
I thought at first it said "stimulate a number of typical patent responses and gestures"...like trolling, perhaps?
Roundabouts are used because they are cheaper than cloverleaf junctions by several orders of magnitude. In densely-populated areas, it may also not be possible to buy out the dozens of homeowners necessary to build a cloverleaf. Cheapass road corporations use them to save on costs and shaft the driver.
If the alternative is supposed to be traffic lights, then the cost is in the same scale as a roundabout, but you have to make a judgment call on the level of driving skills and experience, and on the effect elsewhere in the street network of longer queuing for access under certain circumstances (eg time of day, proximity to public spaces like sports facilities, etc).
And I'm pretty certain I went round the only rotary in Boston in the early 80s, just after you came off the Mass Pike...
I agree that unpaid internships are unreasonable. In my institutional (web) section, we take a full-time student intern each summer, paid at our standard student demonstrator rate — about the same as grad students would get for teaching classes. The people we get are business IT students: bright, eager, and fast learners — but they need to be, as their course leaves them underprepared for the realities of organisation-scale web work. Photoshop, Dreamweaver, WordPress, MS-Office, and VBscript are all very pretty, but we need an understanding of industrial CMSs, LAMP, Javascript, XML, JQuery, CSS, shell scripting, and more, including corporate data management. We teach them, train them, and give them defined tasks: they usually get extremely productive, and we don't like seeing them go. In the past some of them have ended up with real jobs here; unfortunately the ongoing economic mess means we are barred from hiring, so this is the best we can do for now. Companies don't want to pay for negligible skills, but the solution is not unpaid work. Instead, better recruitment practices by the companies and better preparedness by the students would let them agree on a decent rate for the work.
Was the unpopularity of Linux to blame?
No, it's just the people still want to use installed software. Despite popular belief, there is more to using a computer than the Web.
I thought Unity sucked the first time I saw it. It still has defects, but having used it for a couple of months, it works, and it's not too bad.
Synaptic as always worked fine, and doesn't need replacing. But if Canonical is changing it for something else, they need to make sure they don't lose functionality, otherwise they'll lose their best marketing tool — the people who like Ubuntu and proselytise it well.
Unfortunately, Canonical is going the way of so many companies, becoming arrogant and thinking they know best, regardless. They need to develop some humility.
Fat lot of use that will be...particularly if you're not using Windows.
The problem is that the only alternative (SIP) sucks little black toads: abysmal audio quality, ludicrous registration procedures, non-existent global directory services, and far too many competing clients.
Don't get me wrong: I'm all in favour of open standards and open source and open competition, but with no-one at the helm, and a standard that is trying to be all things to everyone, SIP is going nowhere very fast.
Clearly the right prepayments have not been made. The music industry and the patent trolls do this all the time and seem to have no problem getting the judges on their side.
There is a limit to the number of engineers prepared to work for peanuts in insecure jobs.
"We believe that late 20th century humans had a variety of cults, worshipping (among other totems) rubber models of ducks and some strange-looking footwear..."
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Of the 26,000, 18,500 are singletons.
I was in that position in the early 80s, tech eng support for what was then called a "bureau operation" (online timeshared services). We — and the sales team — were regarded by the clients in exactly the two ways you describe, Our solution was that a tech eng whose effort led to a sale was rewarded by the sales person direct, and the onus and amount were left to the sales person. While this has its risks, it was a relatively small operation (a couple of hundred people in one building), so everyone knew everyone else, and everyone knew who was supporting which client. Tech eng were always involved in the business, from the first call through pre-sales, demo, negotiation, contract, implementation, and post-sales, so the opportunities for doing a bit of biz dev were good, and the sales people appreciated it. It was the first time I had worked closely with sales, and on that occasion it worked well. YMMV.
Read Pepys' Diary for the 17th August 1666, where he quotes a friend describing the King of Siam out hunting, and the European visitors not knowing they should fall on their faces as he passed..."Their druggerman did desire them to fall down, for otherwise he should suffer for their contempt of the King." At the end of the hunt, the dragoman told the King's emissary how much the foreigners liked it, which was quite untrue; but no matter, said the dragoman, "for our King do not live by meat, nor drink, but by having great lyes told him.”
Whatever about the personal feelings of the king about lèse-majesté being thwarted by a traditionalist administration, he needs to get his act together.
There now, I've blown any chance of ever going to Thailand.
Can you do this if you only have a credit card with a European address? Most American companies won't accept a credit card unless you have a US or Canadian billing address (unlike in stores where it seems they don't care).
You can actually get prepaid SIMs in the USA? I thought this was a European thing. You have to pay to receive calls and texts in the USA, don't you? What's the position with using it again on another trip the following year? I got a UK prepaid Three SIM last year, worked fine for two weeks. Came home, went back to the UK six months later and bought credit I couldn't use because I "hadn't used the phone at least once every month" in the meantime. Does this happen in the USA too?
Time is money
Except that it's not. Money is a renewable resource: time isn't.
Unless this is some kind of troll, I'm unclear why you would have picked a platform like Win2008 for a large-scale web server, when a LAMP architecture is easier to manage and more easily portable to the cloud if you do decide to go that way.
Video on Linux is an utter disaster. It used to work fine, but recent changes to Flash mean virtually nothing works any more, and I haven't found any other applications which work with any of the common cameras. I can see other people, but no camera I can find works. I have no idea what the developers have done to the drivers (or more likely, failed to do), but it needs to be fixed.