I'm talking MS word. I'd love to run KOffice, but until it's windows capable, I'm using MS at work. If it's a document that goes out as PDF, I use OO.o, otherwise word.
Oh, no I can't run Linux - AutoCAD and RISA3D (structural engineering software) only work on Windows.
As for styles, Word has them, but they don't work well, IMO. (yes, the sidebar helps a lot.)
Example: I write more technical-type documents instead of prose. That is, with headers, lists, bullet points, stuff that should summarize into a table of contents nicely. If I am typing along and want to insert a list, I can hit either the button on the toolbar or select the style that's something like 'Normal, Numbered.' All of a sudden, the entire damn document gets numbered, not just creating an indented 1) where the cursor is. If i hit CRTL-Z, it then behaves normally. Does this every time on any of the computers over the last five years or so. The style functions are borked so badly that I actually write all of my big reports in OO.o.
Very frustrating, and is my most occurring 'I hate Microsoft' moment.
'm pretty certain that there isn't much call for the lost art of wagon wheel making thanks to Mr Ford..
First off, most of Mr. Ford's (and Mr. Benz's, and Mr. Olds') original vehicles had wheels with wooden spokes. They moved to steel rims with the technology that became available.
Right now, I'm involved with making movable bridges. Big gears, horribly complicated stress-distributing girders, the like.
What do I like to do for a hobby? Woodwork. Working in the more primitive medium teaches you things. How stresses effect things, the ways structures move, and so on. Many parallels to be made. I'm self-tought in the finer arts of woodwork, and count my joinery technique as a invaluable experience and teaching tool. Engineering school teaches me how things should react, but there's nothing like sawdust on the floor to drive it home.
That's a little different. Chicago Power Tools is a 'store-branding' of Chicago Pneumatic, a maker of some very good air tools. I would go so far to say that I'll only buy CP breakers and rivet guns, and their impact wrenches give IR a run for the money.
CP was bought by Atlas Copco, a Swedish company.
Besides, if you buy anything at Harbor Freight anticipating a serious tool purchase, you deserve to be duped by misleading names.
You are correct, I only addressed one of the privacy issues. I see two (largely generalized) issues: 1) Google's internal use of your information, basically for advertising. 2) The external use of your information, whether it be third parties, the government, competitors, whoever. This is basically defined by the terms of use.
As to #1 (internal use): Personally, most of my work email is very mundane and has lots of attachments. I'm an engineer, working offsite. Lots of large attachments with drawings and calculation packages. (Yes, we've got an FTP site for the big stuff, but a dozen 2-meg emails a day add up in a hurry.) If Google thinks they can profit from selling ads based on my co-worker's ALL CAPS emails on the finer points on contract management and gear meshing, more power to them.
As to #2 (external use): the gmail policy specifies that they only sell aggregate data, not personally identifying. Not particularly problematic, at least to me. That is, I don't own a tin foil hat.
To each their own. Oh, data retention does look kind of shaky. However, I kind of like the idea of being able to categorically say 'not my problem'.
Yeah, nothing is more professional than handing over your business email to google with their unlimited data retention policy
Have the Enron trials taught us nothing? No corporate email is truly private. (possible exception for encrypted stuff. how many 'regular' businesses do that anyway?) If the government wants to read your mail, they'll subpoena it and get it anyway. If a competitor (I work in construction, a non-IT business) wants to read your mail, well, they're out of luck either way, unless they get a court order - at which point, it doesn't matter whose servers the mail is on.
Hell, by passing the buck to Google, it might save you some hassle on the Sarbanes-Oxley data retention stuff.
When that happens, the new 'Numbered Swiss Bank Account' will be the currency from one of the countries that refuses to tag their currency. You won't ever be able to stop the currency exchange.
Really the only good way to dig a hole, actually. I don't know what the number is in canada, but 800-dig-safe gets you to a office where the utilities will mark out your property. Works great and it's the law.
Although, I'm much more scared about his globby welding. Yikes.
There's a company in Illinois that sells desks with glass tops, so you look down through the desk at the screen. Very comfortable to use. I'd think that a coffee table with a glass top like that might work better
This American Life is on the list.. Sat 3.00 EST from WAMU. publicradiofan.org is your friend, since the NPR station I'm a member of (the mostly excellent WNYC) doesn't play all the shows I'm looking for, or play them in conflict with each other (they have AM and FM streams).
Exactly. I use Audio Hijack Pro, and record 8 hours of NPR every weekend (used to be 10, but Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me and On The Media went to full-show free podcasts).
I'm officially a huge public radio nerd, and the internet is the best thing that happened to that.
I'm surprised we don't see more call centers in the rural midwest (not the redneck hick accent portions of course
There are plenty. My brother lives in Omaha, and works for Ameritrade as a broker. All over the phone. Most of the major chain hotel reservations are made in Omaha. I'm down in north Alabama now, and the group of folks I've been hanging out with work at the Walgreens nationwide call center. "yall havin' troubles with yer prescriptions?" No, really. It's hilarious.
I also find your '2000' business owner interviews number suspicious. You would have to be interviewing 1-2 business owners every day of the week, every day of the year, with no exceptions. Even if you are a reporter, I'm not sure I buy your information
Have you noticed how often he posts to Slashdot? Coincidence?
Americans conveniently overlook the fact that Europeans have chosen to be a bit more socialist in their economic policies in order to build kinder and gentler societies. Just compare the crime rates between the USA and Europe. The Europeans have largely succeeded.
Keep talking like that, and I'm gonna have to open up a Texas-sized can of whoopass!
My powerbook's power adapter failed this summer, 6 months or so after purchase. The guy diagnosed it and give me a new one right away. I had an ipod power charger that fried the ipod. new one (charger and ipod) right away.
Both of these were at the Tice's Corner store in NJ, but YMMV.
n the end, the best way to prevent hearing damage is probably "in-ear phones" or "canalphones". See etymotic, shure, sony, sharp. They are just earphones that go deep inside the earcanal and use a material (usually silicone or foam) to make a seal with the earcanal to prevent any external noise from "leaking" in. Thus, you dont have to turn up the volume to allow you to hear your music over cars, computer fans, tvs, etc... Thus, your music is at a lower volume and your hearing is happier
Exactly. I've had an ipod for about a year now, and used to keep the volume between 80%-100% when I was out and about, because that level was requred to drouwn out the surrounding sound with the stock earbuds. I bought a set of Shure E2C's about two months ago, and find myself listening in the 20%-40% range, and having to take the earbud out for things like talking to clerks at stores more often. I use the foam inserts with mine, and they work great.
Actually, I've got an appointment with an audiologist tomorrow to get my hearing checked. It'll be interesting to hear what she says.
However, the organized crime is, in and of itself, a monopoly on that "grey market," hindering true competition, and brings about real bullets and the bloody crime.
Here's another bonus to that: MS responds to market & industry pressure, not regulation and government. Example: Firefox driving IE future upgrades and development. MS needs to have a product that is 'good enough' to maintain their market share. MS obviously does not respond to government; see the antitrust thing.
Organized crime stifles market forces, preventing overall economic progress. It is conquered through government intervention.
Me, I'm going to bet with the markets over the government long term.
While the decline of the music contributes to this, it's probably more due to the homogenization of the airwaves a la Clear Channel and the reduction in playlist depth.
When there are fewer songs overall being played, it makes sense that the number of songs per artist or album being played will also go down.
Slashdot Mirror
Deep breaths, there.
I'm talking MS word. I'd love to run KOffice, but until it's windows capable, I'm using MS at work. If it's a document that goes out as PDF, I use OO.o, otherwise word.
Oh, no I can't run Linux - AutoCAD and RISA3D (structural engineering software) only work on Windows.
As for styles, Word has them, but they don't work well, IMO. (yes, the sidebar helps a lot.)
Example: I write more technical-type documents instead of prose. That is, with headers, lists, bullet points, stuff that should summarize into a table of contents nicely.
If I am typing along and want to insert a list, I can hit either the button on the toolbar or select the style that's something like 'Normal, Numbered.' All of a sudden, the entire damn document gets numbered, not just creating an indented 1) where the cursor is. If i hit CRTL-Z, it then behaves normally. Does this every time on any of the computers over the last five years or so. The style functions are borked so badly that I actually write all of my big reports in OO.o.
Very frustrating, and is my most occurring 'I hate Microsoft' moment.
'm pretty certain that there isn't much call for the lost art of wagon wheel making thanks to Mr Ford..
First off, most of Mr. Ford's (and Mr. Benz's, and Mr. Olds') original vehicles had wheels with wooden spokes. They moved to steel rims with the technology that became available.
Right now, I'm involved with making movable bridges. Big gears, horribly complicated stress-distributing girders, the like.
What do I like to do for a hobby? Woodwork.
Working in the more primitive medium teaches you things. How stresses effect things, the ways structures move, and so on. Many parallels to be made. I'm self-tought in the finer arts of woodwork, and count my joinery technique as a invaluable experience and teaching tool. Engineering school teaches me how things should react, but there's nothing like sawdust on the floor to drive it home.
That's a little different.
Chicago Power Tools is a 'store-branding' of Chicago Pneumatic, a maker of some very good air tools. I would go so far to say that I'll only buy CP breakers and rivet guns, and their impact wrenches give IR a run for the money.
CP was bought by Atlas Copco, a Swedish company.
Besides, if you buy anything at Harbor Freight anticipating a serious tool purchase, you deserve to be duped by misleading names.
You are correct, I only addressed one of the privacy issues.
I see two (largely generalized) issues:
1) Google's internal use of your information, basically for advertising.
2) The external use of your information, whether it be third parties, the government, competitors, whoever.
This is basically defined by the terms of use.
As to #1 (internal use): Personally, most of my work email is very mundane and has lots of attachments. I'm an engineer, working offsite. Lots of large attachments with drawings and calculation packages. (Yes, we've got an FTP site for the big stuff, but a dozen 2-meg emails a day add up in a hurry.) If Google thinks they can profit from selling ads based on my co-worker's ALL CAPS emails on the finer points on contract management and gear meshing, more power to them.
As to #2 (external use): the gmail policy specifies that they only sell aggregate data, not personally identifying. Not particularly problematic, at least to me. That is, I don't own a tin foil hat.
To each their own.
Oh, data retention does look kind of shaky. However, I kind of like the idea of being able to categorically say 'not my problem'.
Yeah, nothing is more professional than handing over your business email to google with their unlimited data retention policy
Have the Enron trials taught us nothing?
No corporate email is truly private. (possible exception for encrypted stuff. how many 'regular' businesses do that anyway?) If the government wants to read your mail, they'll subpoena it and get it anyway. If a competitor (I work in construction, a non-IT business) wants to read your mail, well, they're out of luck either way, unless they get a court order - at which point, it doesn't matter whose servers the mail is on.
Hell, by passing the buck to Google, it might save you some hassle on the Sarbanes-Oxley data retention stuff.
Just try to live without Visa or MC
Easy.
I use American Express.
When that happens, the new 'Numbered Swiss Bank Account' will be the currency from one of the countries that refuses to tag their currency.
You won't ever be able to stop the currency exchange.
Really the only good way to dig a hole, actually.
I don't know what the number is in canada, but 800-dig-safe gets you to a office where the utilities will mark out your property. Works great and it's the law.
Although, I'm much more scared about his globby welding.
Yikes.
There's a company in Illinois that sells desks with glass tops, so you look down through the desk at the screen. Very comfortable to use. I'd think that a coffee table with a glass top like that might work better
That shit's old.
The MCP beat you to it.
This American Life is on the list.. Sat 3.00 EST from WAMU.
publicradiofan.org is your friend, since the NPR station I'm a member of (the mostly excellent WNYC) doesn't play all the shows I'm looking for, or play them in conflict with each other (they have AM and FM streams).
Exactly. I use Audio Hijack Pro, and record 8 hours of NPR every weekend (used to be 10, but Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me and On The Media went to full-show free podcasts).
I'm officially a huge public radio nerd, and the internet is the best thing that happened to that.
I just googled it. :)
Serious growth potential,, that is.
I'm surprised we don't see more call centers in the rural midwest (not the redneck hick accent portions of course
There are plenty.
My brother lives in Omaha, and works for Ameritrade as a broker. All over the phone. Most of the major chain hotel reservations are made in Omaha.
I'm down in north Alabama now, and the group of folks I've been hanging out with work at the Walgreens nationwide call center. "yall havin' troubles with yer prescriptions?" No, really. It's hilarious.
I also find your '2000' business owner interviews number suspicious. You would have to be interviewing 1-2 business owners every day of the week, every day of the year, with no exceptions. Even if you are a reporter, I'm not sure I buy your information
Have you noticed how often he posts to Slashdot? Coincidence?
Hell, he just interviewed you right now!
Americans conveniently overlook the fact that Europeans have chosen to be a bit more socialist in their economic policies in order to build kinder and gentler societies. Just compare the crime rates between the USA and Europe. The Europeans have largely succeeded.
Keep talking like that, and I'm gonna have to open up a Texas-sized can of whoopass!
"But knowing people who actually do music for a living, I think 96% of them are offended by people stealing ideas without credit"
And nobody's ever used any of Bach's melodies, either.
Deep down, all music is inspired from something else heard.
Actually, it's SuperKaramba.
Desktop widgets, and it's been out for years.
My powerbook's power adapter failed this summer, 6 months or so after purchase. The guy diagnosed it and give me a new one right away.
I had an ipod power charger that fried the ipod. new one (charger and ipod) right away.
Both of these were at the Tice's Corner store in NJ, but YMMV.
n the end, the best way to prevent hearing damage is probably "in-ear phones" or "canalphones". See etymotic, shure, sony, sharp. They are just earphones that go deep inside the earcanal and use a material (usually silicone or foam) to make a seal with the earcanal to prevent any external noise from "leaking" in. Thus, you dont have to turn up the volume to allow you to hear your music over cars, computer fans, tvs, etc... Thus, your music is at a lower volume and your hearing is happier
Exactly.
I've had an ipod for about a year now, and used to keep the volume between 80%-100% when I was out and about, because that level was requred to drouwn out the surrounding sound with the stock earbuds.
I bought a set of Shure E2C's about two months ago, and find myself listening in the 20%-40% range, and having to take the earbud out for things like talking to clerks at stores more often. I use the foam inserts with mine, and they work great.
Actually, I've got an appointment with an audiologist tomorrow to get my hearing checked. It'll be interesting to hear what she says.
Very true.
However, the organized crime is, in and of itself, a monopoly on that "grey market," hindering true competition, and brings about real bullets and the bloody crime.
I'll take the other kind any day.
That, and health insurance.
Here's another bonus to that:
MS responds to market & industry pressure, not regulation and government. Example: Firefox driving IE future upgrades and development. MS needs to have a product that is 'good enough' to maintain their market share.
MS obviously does not respond to government; see the antitrust thing.
Organized crime stifles market forces, preventing overall economic progress. It is conquered through government intervention.
Me, I'm going to bet with the markets over the government long term.
While the decline of the music contributes to this, it's probably more due to the homogenization of the airwaves a la Clear Channel and the reduction in playlist depth.
When there are fewer songs overall being played, it makes sense that the number of songs per artist or album being played will also go down.
Yes. Exactly.
Perfect example of greed killing the golden goose.