I just completed a job-related cross-country move (~1000 miles) with two small children. We did the 3-month lease thing while we house hunted and then moved again into a house. It was a huge pain to move twice, but we found a much better house than we could have otherwise. Plus, you'll have no contingencies (other than mortgage) on your bid for a house. 3-month leases can be a pain to find, but they are out there. Try an apartment locator service - they often can do lots of the legwork for you and most are free. Make sure you visit the apartment complex when most people are home from work to make sure the parking situation isn't horrendous and everything seems on the up and up.
Talk to your accountant about which moving costs are and are not tax deductible at the federal and state levels, and be sure you understand how the reimbursement from your company fits into the picture. All of my moving expenses were deductible for the IRS, but only a portion were for the state. Keep your receipts in a labelled folder so you'll have them handy for next year's tax time. Keep your gas receipts and track your mileage if you drive your car.
Try to see if your company will negotiate for one of those relocation companies to buy your old house from you so you don't have to hassle with selling it and pay huge commissions. As far as house hunting, find out if the MLS service or your realtor has a nice website for searching on your own time (so as to be not so dependent on your realtor for weeding things out long-distance). Be realistic about what you want and need. Often, the housing market is so drastically different that you can't decide what you want because you aren't really sure what various things are like. Make sure your realtor is readily accessible via email as well as cell phone (tech-savvy).
Using professional movers will cost you 2-3 times what it costs to do it yourself, assuming you have friends at both ends that can help with the loading/unloading in exchange for pizza and beer. However, moving yourself, especially twice, is a gigantic pain. If you have more money than patience, perhaps pro movers are worth the premium. To me, they weren't.
Watch out for lots of unexpected costs with moving. In my old state, sellers pay for the plat of survey at closing; in my new state buyers do -- ergo we paid for a survey on both ends of our deal. There are lots of little things like that due to differing state rules, and they can add up to quite a bit.
That's because most companies just use stock photos (which almost invariably include Powerbooks with the Apple logo edited out) with their product screenshots pasted onto the screen.
Seriously, it sucks that they dropped Ground - and I understand your outrage over that. But if you are outraged at them shipping GRound when you pay for 3-day select, then welcome to distribution centers running any shipping software written in the last decade. That's the way things work in modern warehouses. UPS has time-in-transit guarantees specifically so businesses can do this.
You can already link directly to a specific version for assignments and bibliographies using the page history, or better yet, the "Permanent Link" link in the "Toolbox" on the left sidebar of every page.
Until GRUB implements the equivalent of LILO's raid-extra-boot, I'll keep using LILO thankyouverymuch.
I don't understand how GRUB can have gone so long without that feature. I know there are ways to do it (we'll call them work-arounds), but I don't want to have to work around the lack of a feature!
Actually, the garbage collectors where I used to leave (suburbs of Chicago) make 80K+/year. It may help that it is heavily unionized there. It is a down and dirty job that nobody wants to do, so it pays well.
This is exactly what modern diesel locomotives do. I'm not sure the reasons for that particular implementation for that application, but it is out there in the real world today, so the idea itself is not without merit.
Precisely! They were provided over and over again as a value-add. Once one studio did it, the value proposition of other studio's offerings were not as attractive to the market, so it became the de facto standard.
I'm talking macro-demand (i.e. there is a demand for it in the market system/economics sense) not micro-demand (e.g. you wrote a letter to a studio demanding that they include special feature X on the DVD).
I will not pay as much for a DVD with lackluster special features (Pirates of the Caribbean comes to mind) when movies like LOTR set a new Gold Standard for what can be had for $25 (6 hours of extras on a 4 hour movie!).
What if, instead of the industry did not merely "become enamoured with how great they were" and "began to brag about how it all worked", the consumer was so interested in how it all worked that they created a "market" for that type of information - and now the industry can hardly get by selling a DVD without it - because the consumer demands it. Perhaps if they lowered their prices, they could get away with providing only movie content, but that is a different story.
I am a glutten for behind-the-scenes demystification featurettes. I also have no trouble suspending my disbelief to enjoy a movie. It also pissed me off as a curious "take-things-apart"-minded kid that magicians guarded their secrets so jealously.
So I see the demystification of movie magic as a value-add. I am still able to enjoy the movies, and yes, I still jump in tense scenes.
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I should also say I'd like to see Dorothy Sayer's proposal implemented, with trade schools and academic higher education for scholars. (What is it with everyone thinking they have to go to college these days? I blame the Catbert HR people.)
I'd also like to see more apprenticeships in *all* pursuits. Enough of this internship crap - lets go back to *real* apprenticeships - starting at a much younger age for skilled craftsmen.
One of my major complaints of education in the United States is that it largely aims to teach facts before teaching logic and reason (critical thinking).
We should be teaching children how to learn first, then feed them various subjects.
I did well in my private school through eigth grade - definitely top 5 of my class. I did fairly well in public high school, too, finishing in three years by taking summer school and full course loads - with little effort expended. I learned basically one thing: how to be lazy. I developed an excellent work ethic over the years, but this took some effort on my part. I am just now going back to college as an adult, and the things I am learning about learning itself and critical thought are so basic that I wonder exactly what exactly I accomplished during the last 12 years of education except a smattering of random facts. With the proper learning skills developed, I could probably learn all those facts in just a few short years now. Why drag it out so long?
2) Vastly increase the hurdles to getting and maintaining a patent. This would include exponentially increasing fees per year to maintain a patent (proceeds from this being directed back into the patent office to afford better review of the patent applications).
How does this help the current situation? Wouldn't this just serve to price the "little guy" out of the patent market entirely, leaving patents solely in the hands of the likes of Amazon.com et al?
Last but not least for all Macs (x86 and PPC) an easy integration with Active Directory or AFS for user login. Currently both methods require work on Mac OS X.
On Panther and Tiger, I was able to authenticate against Active Directory for user login after a brief Google on the Apple site and a few clicks in some preference screens. What work is required?
Google is a company, they exist to make profit for their shareholders. Microsoft is a company, they exist to make profit for their shareholders.
They may use different strategies to make the profit, but to think otherwise is being naive IMO.
I don't think it is naive in the least bit to think otherwise. Who requires companies to funnel profits back to shareholders? Well, the shareholders do through elections of board members who will represent shareholder interests in setting policy and direction for the company. In Google's case, the top three at the company have a controlling share of the votes, and thus control of the board. If they have different goals than profit, then the other 47% of the votes be damned! There is no reason to think that they absolutely must be profit driven simply because they have shareholders.
It certainly doesn't have a very large frequency range.
I think you are confusing electrical power (watts) with acoustic power (also watts) or sound pressure level or a menagerie of other units of measure...
The other (and related) issue is that administering an Oracle server can be a daunting task, and there's not a great deal of (free) literature available for it.
Daunting, yes. But on the contrary, I find Oracle to be one of the best documented databases on the market. There is an entire library of documentation you can download for free, search online, or get on CD with each release. In addition to that, there are forums on Metalink for paying customers, and the invaluable http://asktom.oracle.com/ website (free)! Most of the documentation includes relevant examples in addition to just technical reference.
Rarely have I been confronted with an Oracle issue that is not easily resolved by a combination of those reasources.
I agree about their Java tools. Anyone who uses Oracle should have some Quest tools laying around...
For the record, I wish DST were in effect all year long. I'd especially like it in the winter when the days are too short as it is. Give me an extra hour at the end of the workday, I could care less whether or not I drive to work in the dark.
I concur. Then you can do away with the DST moniker completely and simply have:
When enough people have them, it'll be just as helpful to have the devices communicate with each other and work out amongst themselves where you're trying to go. Especially when you figure in the possibility of triangulating with cell towers.
Except when there is no cell coverage (which is far from "full coverage") or where there aren't very many other people (tramping/geocaching through remote areas or national parks). Not to mention that would require all those devices to transmit as well as receive, increasing their power requirements significantly.
With ad blocking becoming ever more popular among users, why do you block ads?
I don't block all ads. Mostly just graphical ones that pop up or under. I actually find useful things with targeted ads a la Google. The rest are annoying because 1) they cause the pages to load much more slowly, 2) they are often inappopriate (in my mind) for work viewing, even if the web page would otherwise not be (see Dilbert comic with True ads), 3) they are distracting. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing - they're *flashing* and they're *beeping*. I can't stand it anymore! They're *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*! Why doesn't somebody pull the plug!
Ahem.. where was I? Oh yes, they are just plain annoying.
Do you view internet ads as different from say, TV ads?
Not really. I'd block those too if ReplayTV's commercial skipping feature didn't get sued into oblivion. Now, pre-movie ads in the theater are really terrible. Movies are not supposed to be (blatently) ad supported without some sort of reduction in the ticket price.
What about in a magazine? Do you not buy a magazine because it has too many?
I'd much rather pay more for a smaller magazine with less ads. There are very few magazines I can stand to read any more. The advertising industry is a runaway propoganda machine. What's sad is that we are susceptible to the propoganda - otherwise it wouldn't be worth it for them.
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I just completed a job-related cross-country move (~1000 miles) with two small children. We did the 3-month lease thing while we house hunted and then moved again into a house. It was a huge pain to move twice, but we found a much better house than we could have otherwise. Plus, you'll have no contingencies (other than mortgage) on your bid for a house. 3-month leases can be a pain to find, but they are out there. Try an apartment locator service - they often can do lots of the legwork for you and most are free. Make sure you visit the apartment complex when most people are home from work to make sure the parking situation isn't horrendous and everything seems on the up and up.
Talk to your accountant about which moving costs are and are not tax deductible at the federal and state levels, and be sure you understand how the reimbursement from your company fits into the picture. All of my moving expenses were deductible for the IRS, but only a portion were for the state. Keep your receipts in a labelled folder so you'll have them handy for next year's tax time. Keep your gas receipts and track your mileage if you drive your car.
Try to see if your company will negotiate for one of those relocation companies to buy your old house from you so you don't have to hassle with selling it and pay huge commissions. As far as house hunting, find out if the MLS service or your realtor has a nice website for searching on your own time (so as to be not so dependent on your realtor for weeding things out long-distance). Be realistic about what you want and need. Often, the housing market is so drastically different that you can't decide what you want because you aren't really sure what various things are like. Make sure your realtor is readily accessible via email as well as cell phone (tech-savvy).
Using professional movers will cost you 2-3 times what it costs to do it yourself, assuming you have friends at both ends that can help with the loading/unloading in exchange for pizza and beer. However, moving yourself, especially twice, is a gigantic pain. If you have more money than patience, perhaps pro movers are worth the premium. To me, they weren't.
Watch out for lots of unexpected costs with moving. In my old state, sellers pay for the plat of survey at closing; in my new state buyers do -- ergo we paid for a survey on both ends of our deal. There are lots of little things like that due to differing state rules, and they can add up to quite a bit.
That's because most companies just use stock photos (which almost invariably include Powerbooks with the Apple logo edited out) with their product screenshots pasted onto the screen.
Yes, you are.
Seriously, it sucks that they dropped Ground - and I understand your outrage over that. But if you are outraged at them shipping GRound when you pay for 3-day select, then welcome to distribution centers running any shipping software written in the last decade. That's the way things work in modern warehouses. UPS has time-in-transit guarantees specifically so businesses can do this.
The headline, "Apple Launches 1 GB Nano, Slashes Shuffle", makes it sound like Apple has stopped selling the Shuffle, especially considering the recent coverage of all the reasons Apple has for cancelling the Shuffle.
You can already link directly to a specific version for assignments and bibliographies using the page history, or better yet, the "Permanent Link" link in the "Toolbox" on the left sidebar of every page.
Until GRUB implements the equivalent of LILO's raid-extra-boot, I'll keep using LILO thankyouverymuch.
I don't understand how GRUB can have gone so long without that feature. I know there are ways to do it (we'll call them work-arounds), but I don't want to have to work around the lack of a feature!
Actually, the garbage collectors where I used to leave (suburbs of Chicago) make 80K+/year. It may help that it is heavily unionized there. It is a down and dirty job that nobody wants to do, so it pays well.
Your point is valid, though.
gasoline->motion->electricty->motion
This is exactly what modern diesel locomotives do. I'm not sure the reasons for that particular implementation for that application, but it is out there in the real world today, so the idea itself is not without merit.
Precisely! They were provided over and over again as a value-add. Once one studio did it, the value proposition of other studio's offerings were not as attractive to the market, so it became the de facto standard.
I'm talking macro-demand (i.e. there is a demand for it in the market system/economics sense) not micro-demand (e.g. you wrote a letter to a studio demanding that they include special feature X on the DVD).
I will not pay as much for a DVD with lackluster special features (Pirates of the Caribbean comes to mind) when movies like LOTR set a new Gold Standard for what can be had for $25 (6 hours of extras on a 4 hour movie!).
What if, instead of the industry did not merely "become enamoured with how great they were" and "began to brag about how it all worked", the consumer was so interested in how it all worked that they created a "market" for that type of information - and now the industry can hardly get by selling a DVD without it - because the consumer demands it. Perhaps if they lowered their prices, they could get away with providing only movie content, but that is a different story.
I am a glutten for behind-the-scenes demystification featurettes. I also have no trouble suspending my disbelief to enjoy a movie. It also pissed me off as a curious "take-things-apart"-minded kid that magicians guarded their secrets so jealously.
So I see the demystification of movie magic as a value-add. I am still able to enjoy the movies, and yes, I still jump in tense scenes.
WETA Workshop did props and mock-ups.
;-)
The buildings are attached, so it's close.
I should also say I'd like to see Dorothy Sayer's proposal implemented, with trade schools and academic higher education for scholars. (What is it with everyone thinking they have to go to college these days? I blame the Catbert HR people.)
I'd also like to see more apprenticeships in *all* pursuits. Enough of this internship crap - lets go back to *real* apprenticeships - starting at a much younger age for skilled craftsmen.
One of my major complaints of education in the United States is that it largely aims to teach facts before teaching logic and reason (critical thinking).
See Dorothy Sayer's The Lost Tools of Learning.
We should be teaching children how to learn first, then feed them various subjects.
I did well in my private school through eigth grade - definitely top 5 of my class. I did fairly well in public high school, too, finishing in three years by taking summer school and full course loads - with little effort expended. I learned basically one thing: how to be lazy. I developed an excellent work ethic over the years, but this took some effort on my part. I am just now going back to college as an adult, and the things I am learning about learning itself and critical thought are so basic that I wonder exactly what exactly I accomplished during the last 12 years of education except a smattering of random facts. With the proper learning skills developed, I could probably learn all those facts in just a few short years now. Why drag it out so long?
2) Vastly increase the hurdles to getting and maintaining a patent. This would include exponentially increasing fees per year to maintain a patent (proceeds from this being directed back into the patent office to afford better review of the patent applications).
How does this help the current situation? Wouldn't this just serve to price the "little guy" out of the patent market entirely, leaving patents solely in the hands of the likes of Amazon.com et al?
You miss the mechanical carriage return you say? Wait no more!
http://www.multipledigression.com/type/
Last but not least for all Macs (x86 and PPC) an easy integration with Active Directory or AFS for user login. Currently both methods require work on Mac OS X.
On Panther and Tiger, I was able to authenticate against Active Directory for user login after a brief Google on the Apple site and a few clicks in some preference screens. What work is required?
Google is a company, they exist to make profit for their shareholders.
Microsoft is a company, they exist to make profit for their shareholders.
They may use different strategies to make the profit, but to think otherwise is being naive IMO.
I don't think it is naive in the least bit to think otherwise. Who requires companies to funnel profits back to shareholders? Well, the shareholders do through elections of board members who will represent shareholder interests in setting policy and direction for the company. In Google's case, the top three at the company have a controlling share of the votes, and thus control of the board. If they have different goals than profit, then the other 47% of the votes be damned! There is no reason to think that they absolutely must be profit driven simply because they have shareholders.
It certainly doesn't have a very large frequency range.
I think you are confusing electrical power (watts) with acoustic power (also watts) or sound pressure level or a menagerie of other units of measure...
The other (and related) issue is that administering an Oracle server can be a daunting task, and there's not a great deal of (free) literature available for it.
Daunting, yes. But on the contrary, I find Oracle to be one of the best documented databases on the market. There is an entire library of documentation you can download for free, search online, or get on CD with each release. In addition to that, there are forums on Metalink for paying customers, and the invaluable http://asktom.oracle.com/ website (free)! Most of the documentation includes relevant examples in addition to just technical reference.
Rarely have I been confronted with an Oracle issue that is not easily resolved by a combination of those reasources.
I agree about their Java tools. Anyone who uses Oracle should have some Quest tools laying around...
Take it with whatever size grain of salt you want, but it is interesting food for thought for those in your position.
For the record, I wish DST were in effect all year long. I'd especially like it in the winter when the days are too short as it is. Give me an extra hour at the end of the workday, I could care less whether or not I drive to work in the dark.
I concur. Then you can do away with the DST moniker completely and simply have:
EST = UTC-04:00
CST = UTC-05:00
MST = UTC-06:00
PST = UTC-07:00
When enough people have them, it'll be just as helpful to have the devices communicate with each other and work out amongst themselves where you're trying to go. Especially when you figure in the possibility of triangulating with cell towers.
Except when there is no cell coverage (which is far from "full coverage") or where there aren't very many other people (tramping/geocaching through remote areas or national parks). Not to mention that would require all those devices to transmit as well as receive, increasing their power requirements significantly.
No thanks.
With ad blocking becoming ever more popular among users, why do you block ads?
I don't block all ads. Mostly just graphical ones that pop up or under. I actually find useful things with targeted ads a la Google. The rest are annoying because 1) they cause the pages to load much more slowly, 2) they are often inappopriate (in my mind) for work viewing, even if the web page would otherwise not be (see Dilbert comic with True ads), 3) they are distracting. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing - they're *flashing* and they're *beeping*. I can't stand it anymore! They're *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*! Why doesn't somebody pull the plug!
Ahem.. where was I? Oh yes, they are just plain annoying.
Do you view internet ads as different from say, TV ads?
Not really. I'd block those too if ReplayTV's commercial skipping feature didn't get sued into oblivion. Now, pre-movie ads in the theater are really terrible. Movies are not supposed to be (blatently) ad supported without some sort of reduction in the ticket price.
What about in a magazine? Do you not buy a magazine because it has too many?
I'd much rather pay more for a smaller magazine with less ads. There are very few magazines I can stand to read any more. The advertising industry is a runaway propoganda machine. What's sad is that we are susceptible to the propoganda - otherwise it wouldn't be worth it for them.
Ho hum. It looks like the NPR offerings are the same as in the iTMS Podcast Directory.
Let me know when they offer A Prarie Home Companion in a Podcast.