Seriously, go breathe deep into a paper bag or something.
I have an employment contract with my company. I help deliver the most profit available, and they deliver me a paycheck.
We don't do a lot of programming (we're a construction company) but we do buy a lot of steel. A lot of this steel is for temporary works - hold up the wet concrete, hold back the dirt out of the open hole, things like that. We use foreign steel where it is cheaper. If it meets all of the same ASTM specs, a beam is a beam. Why should I pay more to support the US steel industries' bad management? Because he speaks English? Hell no.
As good capitalists, we support those who earn the support. There's your social contract.
"They had motif, intent and opportunity and should be facing the same sanctions as employees caught boosting goods out of the warehouse."
Now, I'm not an expert on the subject, but I didn't think motif was that handy for stealing stuff. Maybe it's some old-school function not in the man page.
OK, I see this whine again and again - what specifically are you not wanting me to do?
Civil Engineers get _no_ training in databases, but by god, we can make Excel sing. Where is the line?
Anyway, here are our two biggest reasons (that I can think of..) that we like Excel: 1) Traceablilty. you can look through the workbook and see the formulas. Most of the time (so long as you don't hide rows and things like that) you can recreate all of the numbers by hand as a check 2) Simplicity. We do a lot of one-off items, and Excel is great for that.
but back to my original question - what are 'database' items that I should avoid in Excel?
Hey, if there are some smart scientists that can dream up a machine that should work, then let's go.
They've already done the advance thinking on fusion.
Besides, if I understand the idea, such a machine would be in space, no? Whole extra set of problems to encounter, like transmitting lots of energy back to earth. We can run power lines to Laurence Liverpool, and can attack one problem at a time.
This is what happens after the thinking. See, the smart people think out a plan... and then... they go and test it.
From where I'm sitting, sustainable fusion should suffer from the inverse of the law of diminishing returns - the gains could be frickin' tremendous, so the effort should be pretty high.
Besides, making this big ungainly beast is an important step towards getting a Mr. Fusion power supply for a DeLorean, a critical part of our future economy.
As for venting the dryer air back into the house -
we did that in college, had a fancy water-bucket filtration system (read: 5-gallon bucket and crapload of ducttape) that my chemical engineer roomie rigged up. Worked great, except for the smell. When you do whites, the dryer exhaust puts a bleach odor back into the house.
I have to use outlook at work, much as I do not like it.
I love the preview pane concept, it makes much more sense with email. I use it with Kmail at home as well. Turning off the preview pane is just treating the symptoms and ignoring the root. Our IT people do a good job of patching and filtering, so I can keep using the preview pane.
OWA sucks to a degree that makes Outlook look good. OK when you are on the road and checking from someone else's computer, but not an acceptable replacement. Once again, a symptom, not a cause.
Well, I've run KDE on my current machine (PII-400, 384MB ram) since KDE 1.0. Funny thing is, it gets snappier almost everytime I upgrade (2.0 not withstanding). 3.0 was worlds faster.
As I understand it, once they get a QT interface they still have to hack it to remove the X deps, much in the same way that KDE had to be hacked to run natively on OSX. So, 2 steps away from working, much further from 'rocks'.
We've got a workstation with agtek on it, digitizer hardware and all that for scanning in 3d topo plots.
Only works with W98 & below, so we've got a P3-450 with Windows 98. Man, that baby crashes _fast_.
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SuSE comes with partitioning tools to install linux beside your windows partition, so you can have both.
Also, it comes with massive amounts of documentation - a quick start guide, a user guide and an administrative guide. These books are great. SuSE also comes with like 7 cds, so there's very little software that you need to download.
YOU (YaST Online Update) gives me security upgrades, free. The biggest complaint that people seem to have about SuSE is that they have to buy it (I know about the FTP's, but that's a little much for a lot of people). Since you don't seem to mind paying a little, it seems like a good fit.
As a SuSE user who has been buying boxed sets since 6.1, I know that I am helping to support KDE, ReiserFS, and so on. SuSE supports full-time KDE developers, so I _am_ paying the programmers. Plus, I really like YaST, so I pay for it.
Also,it's more than "some handbook". It's a frickin' set of doorstops compared to any other reference manuals that I've seen come in a boxed set.
In principle I agree with you, but in practice it gets difficult. The problem with "highest floor of rentable... office space" is that it forgets the mechanical areas; the HVAC, etc.
Now, if the architect finds a cool way to get this volume into a fun shape, I think it should count.
One example, the First National Bank of Omaha Tower . The lit up portion at the top is all mechanical areas, but it is tall and skinny instead of just another floor. The top of the structure should count.
Another example is One Worldwide Plaza. the pyramid at the top is the mechanical space. Sure, it is taller than the equivalent square mechanical space, but it should count. Now, the very top part of the cone is purely architectural. Should it not count, since it is technically a spire?
I make calculations in pencil, documents in black, and mark-up drawings in red and green.
When I leave my desk, I take my Rotring - pencil, black, blue, red. (OK, no green, but blue works in a pinch.) Also, it looks nice and I don't need a pocket protector.
The commonwealth is not declaring MS's _products_ to be a common good, but it's information. Galt didn't care if his engine ran on Taggart rails, or any other. In fact, making his engine working in all trains increases the number that can be sold, making more money for HIM.
The commonwealth, a purveyor of information (among other things), wants the highest and most effective distribution. Open standards let them do this in the most effective way- proprietary standards are like incompatable rail networks, while _implementations_ are like Galt's engine. Think of it like this: if Linus' new electric engine is to be competitive with (and rightfully take market share away from) MS's old coal engines, he must be able to use the tracks.
As for steel tarrifs; yes, not so good for economics, great for defense.
Agricultural policy enables us to sucessfully manage the needs of the Industry and the Food (and one of the biggest reasons the Euro might fail in the long run, BTW)
Fine, fine calculator. Maybe not the best for programmers, what with it not having any binary/hex/whatever/decimal converters, but for us pencil-pushing civil engineers it is the best thing, period. It's a good rule of thumb around the office that if you can't solve it with a pencil and a 32SII you need to fire up the computer and build a FEM model.
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Now that's a fork.
Are you for frickin' real?
Seriously, go breathe deep into a paper bag or something.
I have an employment contract with my company. I help deliver the most profit available, and they deliver me a paycheck.
We don't do a lot of programming (we're a construction company) but we do buy a lot of steel. A lot of this steel is for temporary works - hold up the wet concrete, hold back the dirt out of the open hole, things like that. We use foreign steel where it is cheaper. If it meets all of the same ASTM specs, a beam is a beam. Why should I pay more to support the US steel industries' bad management? Because he speaks English? Hell no.
As good capitalists, we support those who earn the support.
There's your social contract.
"They had motif, intent and opportunity and should be facing the same sanctions as employees caught boosting goods out of the warehouse."
Now, I'm not an expert on the subject, but I didn't think motif was that handy for stealing stuff. Maybe it's some old-school function not in the man page.
OK, I see this whine again and again - what specifically are you not wanting me to do?
Civil Engineers get _no_ training in databases, but by god, we can make Excel sing. Where is the line?
Anyway, here are our two biggest reasons (that I can think of..) that we like Excel:
1) Traceablilty. you can look through the workbook and see the formulas. Most of the time (so long as you don't hide rows and things like that) you can recreate all of the numbers by hand as a check
2) Simplicity. We do a lot of one-off items, and Excel is great for that.
but back to my original question - what are 'database' items that I should avoid in Excel?
I'm a civil engineer, I build bridges.
I've never learned to program , and I've used Linux since 1999.
Hey, if there are some smart scientists that can dream up a machine that should work, then let's go.
They've already done the advance thinking on fusion.
Besides, if I understand the idea, such a machine would be in space, no?
Whole extra set of problems to encounter, like transmitting lots of energy back to earth. We can run power lines to Laurence Liverpool, and can attack one problem at a time.
This is what happens after the thinking. ... and then ... they go and test it.
See, the smart people think out a plan
From where I'm sitting, sustainable fusion should suffer from the inverse of the law of diminishing returns - the gains could be frickin' tremendous, so the effort should be pretty high.
Besides, making this big ungainly beast is an important step towards getting a Mr. Fusion power supply for a DeLorean, a critical part of our future economy.
As for venting the dryer air back into the house -
we did that in college, had a fancy water-bucket filtration system (read: 5-gallon bucket and crapload of ducttape) that my chemical engineer roomie rigged up. Worked great, except for the smell.
When you do whites, the dryer exhaust puts a bleach odor back into the house.
a. and b. are not acceptable answers.
I have to use outlook at work, much as I do not like it.
I love the preview pane concept, it makes much more sense with email. I use it with Kmail at home as well. Turning off the preview pane is just treating the symptoms and ignoring the root. Our IT people do a good job of patching and filtering, so I can keep using the preview pane.
OWA sucks to a degree that makes Outlook look good. OK when you are on the road and checking from someone else's computer, but not an acceptable replacement. Once again, a symptom, not a cause.
Yeah, we got that.
It's called ICANN.
You can make up your own mind how well it's working.
Well, I've run KDE on my current machine (PII-400, 384MB ram) since KDE 1.0. Funny thing is, it gets snappier almost everytime I upgrade (2.0 not withstanding). 3.0 was worlds faster.
Paint under bridges with this? No.
:)
Bridges are very complicated shapes, and you'd still need to sandblast
From Unicast's site:
"This format breaks-through the shackles imposed by pixel-constrained and technology-led units, giving creatives a full and blank canvas to work from and with"
Finally. Smooth CRT graphics. These people should get a Nobel or something.
As I understand it, once they get a QT interface they still have to hack it to remove the X deps, much in the same way that KDE had to be hacked to run natively on OSX. So, 2 steps away from working, much further from 'rocks'.
Yet another troll.
Even a 3-year old reposting from a October 2000 review of Koffice in KDE 2. A for style, F for brains.
There are KDE 3.1.4 packages built with forte.
Apparently, it's getting better.
Then ignore the other options, and go on about your way.
Very important fact: Having choice does not mean having to choose.
KDE works out of the box, so if you don't want to change anything, don't. however, if you do you want to change things, you can.
See, you also just want a window manager. I want an enviroment, something that lets me do more than move some folders.
Simmilar boat here.
We've got a workstation with agtek on it, digitizer hardware and all that for scanning in 3d topo plots.
Only works with W98 & below, so we've got a P3-450 with Windows 98. Man, that baby crashes _fast_.
SuSE comes with partitioning tools to install linux beside your windows partition, so you can have both.
Also, it comes with massive amounts of documentation - a quick start guide, a user guide and an administrative guide. These books are great. SuSE also comes with like 7 cds, so there's very little software that you need to download.
I'm feeling pretty good about SuSE right now.
YOU (YaST Online Update) gives me security upgrades, free.
The biggest complaint that people seem to have about SuSE is that they have to buy it (I know about the FTP's, but that's a little much for a lot of people). Since you don't seem to mind paying a little, it seems like a good fit.
Bzzzzt. Try again.
As a SuSE user who has been buying boxed sets since 6.1, I know that I am helping to support KDE, ReiserFS, and so on. SuSE supports full-time KDE developers, so I _am_ paying the programmers.
Plus, I really like YaST, so I pay for it.
Also,it's more than "some handbook". It's a frickin' set of doorstops compared to any other reference manuals that I've seen come in a boxed set.
In principle I agree with you, but in practice it gets difficult. ... office space" is that it forgets the mechanical areas; the HVAC, etc.
The problem with "highest floor of rentable
Now, if the architect finds a cool way to get this volume into a fun shape, I think it should count.
One example, the First National Bank of Omaha Tower . The lit up portion at the top is all mechanical areas, but it is tall and skinny instead of just another floor. The top of the structure should count.
Another example is One Worldwide Plaza. the pyramid at the top is the mechanical space. Sure, it is taller than the equivalent square mechanical space, but it should count.
Now, the very top part of the cone is purely architectural. Should it not count, since it is technically a spire?
My problem is one of colors.
I make calculations in pencil, documents in black, and mark-up drawings in red and green.
When I leave my desk, I take my Rotring - pencil, black, blue, red. (OK, no green, but blue works in a pinch.) Also, it looks nice and I don't need a pocket protector.
Oh come on.
The commonwealth is not declaring MS's _products_ to be a common good, but it's information. Galt didn't care if his engine ran on Taggart rails, or any other. In fact, making his engine working in all trains increases the number that can be sold, making more money for HIM.
The commonwealth, a purveyor of information (among other things), wants the highest and most effective distribution. Open standards let them do this in the most effective way- proprietary standards are like incompatable rail networks, while _implementations_ are like Galt's engine. Think of it like this: if Linus' new electric engine is to be competitive with (and rightfully take market share away from) MS's old coal engines, he must be able to use the tracks.
As for steel tarrifs; yes, not so good for economics, great for defense.
Agricultural policy enables us to sucessfully manage the needs of the Industry and the Food (and one of the biggest reasons the Euro might fail in the long run, BTW)
Public education? wtf? why not?
32SII not so nice to use? Whaa?
Fine, fine calculator. Maybe not the best for programmers, what with it not having any binary/hex/whatever/decimal converters, but for us pencil-pushing civil engineers it is the best thing, period. It's a good rule of thumb around the office that if you can't solve it with a pencil and a 32SII you need to fire up the computer and build a FEM model.