Same here. On a laptop a thingy in a USB port is very unhandy because if you use the computer on the couch or in bed there is a chance that it will be forced to bend due to folds in the upholstery or the sheets. This can cost you your motherboard. I don't want to risk that.
Not true. I think the screen of my MacBook Pro is crap, considering I paid about 2500 euros for the machine. And more on topic, the Mighty Mouse I got with my iMac disappeared into the bux with unused hardware just a day after I got it. For an Apple mouse it's quite good, but for a vanilla mouse it's utter crap.
CVs are also 'some ASCII and some picture.' But seriously, I never found pictures of my employees in 'uncomfortable circumstances' on the 'net. I guess it also depends on the environment you work in and the people who are drawn to that environment, if you know what I mean.
Anyone who has ever hired someone has googled him/her. It's almost inevitable not to land on a person's social networking page, if this person uses her own name online. It will be very hard to totally ignore the information you found there. Even if you don't intend to you will unconciously or conciously use it during the job interview.
More and more governments finally realize they have been lured into the Microsoft trap, and are now freeing themselves by madating the use of open standards for documents. Hopefully they also understand that OOXML is not an open standard and they will use ODF in the future. If MS doesn't incorporate ODF very fast in their products they will lose a significant part of the market in the coming years.
Hm, I see your point and can imagine your anger. I must say that for me it works well. I like the way it adds older stories to the page when I scroll down. But I have an almost 3 year old Macbook Pro. I can imagine that on slower computers it doesn't work so well.
Calling people names usually will not make them more cooperative. The fact that you were modded Insightful says more about todays/. crowd than about your intelligence. Please rephrase your question in a civilized way and add a compelling argument for going back to the old Slashdot layout to try to convince the editors.
I always knew corruption is legal in America, but now it seems it's also legal here in Europe. How else can normal thinking people come up with this? No one but the likes of the RIAA/MPAA benefit from this.
I have a theory that every government has a cellar full of lockers somewhere for the politicians to leave their brains before entering parliament.
My brother's GF was a representative for a pharma company for a few years. She is quite good-looking, which helps in achieving your targets of course. She always had a trunk full of expensive gifts like coffee machines and other stuff to give to doctors to promote medicines. When I told her that in normal Dutch this is called bribery she was mad at me and told her the doctors actually have to do a lot to get those things. They have to give the company data on how the patients react to the drugs, something that the secretary can get out of her computer with a few keystrokes. Hard work indeed, for the doctor. Those doctors were also often invited to a tropical paradise to see presentations about new medicines. Of course they didn't have to pay for those trips.
From the article: I particularly noticed the Ubuntu difference when I put the operating system to the test by simultaneously launching and using multiple applications, listening to music and more while using my spare CPU cycles in the background to encode high-definition video with Mencoder. Ubuntu still felt very fast--even with traditionally sluggy pieces of software like OpenOffice.org.
Isn't it strange that people are still surprised that their computers are fast? Computers have gotten ridiculously fast compared during the last 20 years, and still they seem slow to many of us. Is that just the result of crappy programming, or is there more to it?
I hardly dare think about how long it would take, how much it will cost and how it will be organized eventually when Europe decides to go to the moon. Look at the way the Airbus A380 is built...
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The average user is not an idiot but just ignorant.
Yep, they have many Coca cola Light breaks every day when he's riding his mowing steed.
Wow what an amazing feat of Photoshopping.
I guess they couldn't get OOXML working properly and decided to give in and use ODF instead.
Here in NL people have been calling it Mexican Flu for a while now. Works fine.
It seems like something a serial killer might think.
Same here. On a laptop a thingy in a USB port is very unhandy because if you use the computer on the couch or in bed there is a chance that it will be forced to bend due to folds in the upholstery or the sheets. This can cost you your motherboard. I don't want to risk that.
Not true. I think the screen of my MacBook Pro is crap, considering I paid about 2500 euros for the machine. And more on topic, the Mighty Mouse I got with my iMac disappeared into the bux with unused hardware just a day after I got it. For an Apple mouse it's quite good, but for a vanilla mouse it's utter crap.
CVs are also 'some ASCII and some picture.' But seriously, I never found pictures of my employees in 'uncomfortable circumstances' on the 'net. I guess it also depends on the environment you work in and the people who are drawn to that environment, if you know what I mean.
Why is it bad to google people? Privacy arguments do not apply here. If people want privacy they shouldn't put their info on the 'net.
You are totally right. Sorry about the mistake.
I don't understand anything of what you are trying to say here, and how it relates to my post.
Anyone who has ever hired someone has googled him/her. It's almost inevitable not to land on a person's social networking page, if this person uses her own name online. It will be very hard to totally ignore the information you found there. Even if you don't intend to you will unconciously or conciously use it during the job interview.
Does TomTom get its money back when the patents are invalidated?
More and more governments finally realize they have been lured into the Microsoft trap, and are now freeing themselves by madating the use of open standards for documents. Hopefully they also understand that OOXML is not an open standard and they will use ODF in the future. If MS doesn't incorporate ODF very fast in their products they will lose a significant part of the market in the coming years.
Hm, I see your point and can imagine your anger. I must say that for me it works well. I like the way it adds older stories to the page when I scroll down. But I have an almost 3 year old Macbook Pro. I can imagine that on slower computers it doesn't work so well.
But if the internet went down you would have been without mail regardless of how your email was organized, right? Google had nothing to do with it.
Calling people names usually will not make them more cooperative. The fact that you were modded Insightful says more about todays /. crowd than about your intelligence. Please rephrase your question in a civilized way and add a compelling argument for going back to the old Slashdot layout to try to convince the editors.
If you need to be constantly bathing the material with UV light just to keep it dark, there is not much storage going on, IMO.
That's why you have to make sunglasses out of the stuff.
From the fine article: Composers already enjoy copyright protection for 70 years after their death.
Does that mean composers have even more fun in heaven, or the fire in hell is turned down a bit for them?
I always knew corruption is legal in America, but now it seems it's also legal here in Europe. How else can normal thinking people come up with this? No one but the likes of the RIAA/MPAA benefit from this.
I have a theory that every government has a cellar full of lockers somewhere for the politicians to leave their brains before entering parliament.
My brother's GF was a representative for a pharma company for a few years. She is quite good-looking, which helps in achieving your targets of course. She always had a trunk full of expensive gifts like coffee machines and other stuff to give to doctors to promote medicines. When I told her that in normal Dutch this is called bribery she was mad at me and told her the doctors actually have to do a lot to get those things. They have to give the company data on how the patients react to the drugs, something that the secretary can get out of her computer with a few keystrokes. Hard work indeed, for the doctor. Those doctors were also often invited to a tropical paradise to see presentations about new medicines. Of course they didn't have to pay for those trips.
This is not news of course. Neither is it really nerd stuff. It's simple economics. What's this doing on Slashdot?
From the article: I particularly noticed the Ubuntu difference when I put the operating system to the test by simultaneously launching and using multiple applications, listening to music and more while using my spare CPU cycles in the background to encode high-definition video with Mencoder. Ubuntu still felt very fast--even with traditionally sluggy pieces of software like OpenOffice.org.
Isn't it strange that people are still surprised that their computers are fast? Computers have gotten ridiculously fast compared during the last 20 years, and still they seem slow to many of us. Is that just the result of crappy programming, or is there more to it?
I hardly dare think about how long it would take, how much it will cost and how it will be organized eventually when Europe decides to go to the moon. Look at the way the Airbus A380 is built...