I'm not saying don't use VPN. I'm saying you don't need the VPN all the time. If you've got all the material you need to write a report in Word, then you don't need to be on VPN the entire time you are typing.
Sure you need to be on the VPN to see your e-mail (that notorious destroyer of productivity), but there's a lot of stuff you can be doing offline (or at least off the VPN) that is still productive work. For example, if I'm writing code, it's not always the case that I have to be on the company network to do it.
Also, my VPN software seems to be the only common element in the rare blue-screen crashes I get on my work laptop - so it's usually a lot less frustrating to leave it off.
In fact, if I am goofing off, I'm much more likely to log into the VPN and open my e-mail so that others can see that I'm "online" and working. I like to sit my laptop next to my gaming desktop while I do this!
Again...it depends on how much you value your time. Doing something "easy" saves time, whether or not the time saved over the lifetime of the product adds up to $200 - $600 depends on your situation.
Really, the natives were the real villains here. They had no concept of how anybody could "own" land and yet the happily took 60 guilders of some poor Dutch traders anyway.
He wasn't. He was buried at a chapel. A chapel that was later knocked down and replaced with a house. A house that was later bought by the council, knocked down and replaced with a car park.
there's also the fact that hiring the advertising media is far cheaper than hiring patent lawyers.
And that's it. Remember a lot of politicians are/were lawyers. But seriously, the only downside is that it might encourage companies to keep things as trade secret so that they don't have to publicize it.
It is not the patent holders responsibility to publicize their patents. It is the responsibility of any inventor to do a patent search first to understand the patent landscape and determine where they have freedom to operate.
Ignorance is not a defense in the eyes of the law.
Thanks. I tried it, but it didn't really seem to work for me. By default it chews up webpages. Even as I systematically re-enabled each request, it still never got back to being readable.
Yeah, I have that too. Are they really that hard to mentally block out? Only if they the cause the page to lag, or auto start some obnoxious video is it really a problem for me.
I do wonder about how badly it will screw up the layout of a website to pull whole chunks of it out. At work, our corporate overlords block Facebook, but I often find that without Facebook, the space that it should have been place it grows to accommodate the scolding message from our IT department about how Facebook is blocked, covering part of the content of the damn page! I even added Facebook to my hosts file, but now I just have a giant 404 iframe that again covers part of the content.
The Huffington Post, in particular, is REALLY bad for this. I actually have to start up Firebug and delete the offending iframe so I can actually read some of the stories.
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No need to check your DNS history to tell you haven't visited OhNowIGetTheJoke.net
Don't they have a right to an opinion.
Everybody has a right to their own opinion. What they don't have is a right to their own facts.
It's a figure of speech. But please, don't stop being a pedantic asshole.
Also, there's Julia (http://julialang.org/), and I recently came across at least one IDE for it (although I haven't tried it yet): Julia Studio.
Well, I guess it voluntary.
a) I wasn't trying to. (b) it was a joke.
I'm not saying don't use VPN. I'm saying you don't need the VPN all the time. If you've got all the material you need to write a report in Word, then you don't need to be on VPN the entire time you are typing.
Sure you need to be on the VPN to see your e-mail (that notorious destroyer of productivity), but there's a lot of stuff you can be doing offline (or at least off the VPN) that is still productive work. For example, if I'm writing code, it's not always the case that I have to be on the company network to do it.
Also, my VPN software seems to be the only common element in the rare blue-screen crashes I get on my work laptop - so it's usually a lot less frustrating to leave it off.
In fact, if I am goofing off, I'm much more likely to log into the VPN and open my e-mail so that others can see that I'm "online" and working. I like to sit my laptop next to my gaming desktop while I do this!
Yeah, sure is a pain when you add new device, especially since it's completely ineffective at keeping anybody out.
And if you want to do iOS apps, you need a Mac to even get started.
Again...it depends on how much you value your time. Doing something "easy" saves time, whether or not the time saved over the lifetime of the product adds up to $200 - $600 depends on your situation.
Some people attach a value to their time, you apparently do not.
According to one report I read, he had a particularly rare mutation in his mitochondrial DNA. So no, there aren't too many people who share it.
Really, the natives were the real villains here. They had no concept of how anybody could "own" land and yet the happily took 60 guilders of some poor Dutch traders anyway.
They didn't have Google Maps then.
Also, it seems unlikely that the current or future government of England will actively try and erase him from history again.
He wasn't. He was buried at a chapel. A chapel that was later knocked down and replaced with a house. A house that was later bought by the council, knocked down and replaced with a car park.
Leicester Cathedral. Which I'm assuming they are not likely to lose track of.
Somebody clearly hasn't seen Black Adder.
Can anyone think of a downside?
One...
there's also the fact that hiring the advertising media is far cheaper than hiring patent lawyers.
And that's it. Remember a lot of politicians are/were lawyers. But seriously, the only downside is that it might encourage companies to keep things as trade secret so that they don't have to publicize it.
It is the patent holders responsibility to defend their patent.
And that would appear to be what they are doing. Also, patents aren't trademarks. You don't lose them if you don't sue.
It is not the patent holders responsibility to publicize their patents. It is the responsibility of any inventor to do a patent search first to understand the patent landscape and determine where they have freedom to operate.
Ignorance is not a defense in the eyes of the law.
See also: any IBM software (rapsody, clearcase, clearquest, ..) and SAP
How you can list terrible IBM software and NOT mention Lotus Notes is, frankly, shocking.
Thanks. I tried it, but it didn't really seem to work for me. By default it chews up webpages. Even as I systematically re-enabled each request, it still never got back to being readable.
Yeah, I have that too. Are they really that hard to mentally block out? Only if they the cause the page to lag, or auto start some obnoxious video is it really a problem for me.
I do wonder about how badly it will screw up the layout of a website to pull whole chunks of it out. At work, our corporate overlords block Facebook, but I often find that without Facebook, the space that it should have been place it grows to accommodate the scolding message from our IT department about how Facebook is blocked, covering part of the content of the damn page! I even added Facebook to my hosts file, but now I just have a giant 404 iframe that again covers part of the content.
The Huffington Post, in particular, is REALLY bad for this. I actually have to start up Firebug and delete the offending iframe so I can actually read some of the stories.