My dog overrides her urge to urinate on the floor and tells me she needs to go outside because she understands the future consequence of doing so will be getting scolded. She understands I will get angry at her. She more than overrides it. She holds it for a long time while trying to tell someone she needs to go outside.
And yet places like People's Coffee in Berkeley (http://www.peoplesjoint.com/) purposely put an outlet every 2-3 feet, is always crowded almost impossible to find a seat and pretty much every person has an unfinished cup in front of them when I've been there.
>>Starbucks is charging because making it free will only make more people flock there for the wrong reasons.
wait a minute. Starbucks has always been charging for wifi. The whole point of this article is they are now backing off of that and not being so rigorous about charging for wifi.
To all those who are arguing "charge for wifi! or you'll go out of business like the shop down the block from me". Starbucks is saying "we tried what you said on a massive scale and didn't like the results". Before Starbucks saw the err of that way, when you sat down and opened your laptop, you got a screen that wanted a credit card.
parasite? no way. it's symbiotic. And starbucks failure to see that is a shame. I telecommute and work out of coffee shops all around town. I always buy a coffee or something first before sitting down with wifi. I spend hours and hours in multiple coffee shops all around, watching people come and go, coming and going myself and I don't recall seeing anyone just flop down and surf away without patronizing the shop in some way.
>>30-50 years ago, if you went to college, chances are your parents were blue collar people who worked their asses off to save enough money to give you that opportunity
not plural. 30-50 years ago -dad- worked his ass off to blah blah blah. nowadays both mom and dad bring home a salary.
>>Now we have a LOT more people in middle-class office jobs. They don't have to pull double-shifts to get their kids into college.
"shifts"? "double shifts" for office jobs? nowhere that I've ever seen. Maybe 2nd jobs or side work.
MetroFi is pretty good here in PDX. ff adblock also removes the frame they use for ads. And the portland airport's free wifi puts to shame the OAK and SFO airports. I mean shit. You fly to/from the epicenter of the internet, flip open your laptop in one of those airports and get a fucking tmobile pay to play page. Just like starbucks. Laughable.
wha? a flash drive is not flash cache. it -replaces- the drive. And as for sequential vs random access not being important to the end user I totally disagree. I am -always- waiting for my computer to do stuff where it's sitting there, the disk light is thrashing and the CPU usage is hovering around 20%. Guess what? when you're waiting 1 minute for your computer to do something, it's using only 20% of the CPU and the disk is going nuts, you my friend are a victim of random access/disk seek time (and some IO time). A huge amount of that goes away with SSD.
The unfortunate juxtaposition of your url "lazylightning" with your comments about strictly not working outside the office notwithstanding, I guess it's fine to be religious about that. Provided you are equally religious about doing nothing unrelated to work while at the office. Can you say you never check personal email at work? Never peak at a blog or porn or news or whatever? Never take a long lunch?
The fact is for me, being a computer programmer with a more than a slightly creative component to my work, there are times when I am not ready to do work and times when I am super ready to do work. Those times are hard to switch on and off at will. They come and go at night, during the day, whenever. So I don't get religious about the clock on the wall. I get religious about the clock in my head.
I was getting automated calls on my cell phone I didn't want. So I found a website with recordings of operator tone saying "doo doo doo... the number you have reached has been disconnected". I played that back into my voicemail greeting. When calls came in I didn't want, I'd let them go through to voicemail. It got rid of -some- auto dialers.
I don't see how your enumeration of stereotypical IT employee behaviors (valid as they may be) falls under "learning from our past mistakes of the 1990's" in the context of the parent article (Tech sector expansion blunting outsourcing).
Sounds more like your list of pet peeves about local IT workers. Maybe you just don't like tattoos, guys with ponytails or people who do industrial art on the weekends. I'm sure a similar list of stereotypical issues can be cobbled together for outsourced IT workers too.
The fact is it wasn't outsourced IT workers who put in 80+ hour weeks creating the successes (and failures) of the internet in the 90s. Quite the contrary, I think that particular pattern from the 90's should fall under "learning from our past successes."
why don't 1 or 2 of you take a few evenings and port the js/css to work on firefox? put it on your qa server and say see? looky, it works, it doesn't suck and now we can stop being mocked.
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My dog overrides her urge to urinate on the floor and tells me she needs to go outside because she understands the future consequence of doing so will be getting scolded. She understands I will get angry at her. She more than overrides it. She holds it for a long time while trying to tell someone she needs to go outside.
And yet places like People's Coffee in Berkeley (http://www.peoplesjoint.com/) purposely put an outlet every 2-3 feet, is always crowded almost impossible to find a seat and pretty much every person has an unfinished cup in front of them when I've been there.
>>Starbucks is charging because making it free will only make more people flock there for the wrong reasons.
wait a minute. Starbucks has always been charging for wifi. The whole point of this article is they are now backing off of that and not being so rigorous about charging for wifi.
To all those who are arguing "charge for wifi! or you'll go out of business like the shop down the block from me". Starbucks is saying "we tried what you said on a massive scale and didn't like the results". Before Starbucks saw the err of that way, when you sat down and opened your laptop, you got a screen that wanted a credit card.
parasite? no way. it's symbiotic. And starbucks failure to see that is a shame. I telecommute and work out of coffee shops all around town. I always buy a coffee or something first before sitting down with wifi. I spend hours and hours in multiple coffee shops all around, watching people come and go, coming and going myself and I don't recall seeing anyone just flop down and surf away without patronizing the shop in some way.
>>>I just love the ambiance...
Sorry to correct your spelling: it's "Ambulance"
>>>thus the theories Intelligent Design provides are not necessary to "fill in the gaps"
you're a god of the gaps adherent?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps#The_.22God-of-the-gaps_argument.22_in_modern_usage
15 years later that child in therapy...
"Every time a movie trailer comes on or I go past a theater, I have to go shopping. I can't figure it... my credit cards are maxed..."
>>30-50 years ago, if you went to college, chances are your parents were blue collar people who worked their asses off to save enough money to give you that opportunity
not plural. 30-50 years ago -dad- worked his ass off to blah blah blah. nowadays both mom and dad bring home a salary.
>>Now we have a LOT more people in middle-class office jobs. They don't have to pull double-shifts to get their kids into college.
"shifts"? "double shifts" for office jobs? nowhere that I've ever seen. Maybe 2nd jobs or side work.
just do what linus does. make the digital movie freely available and let internet maintain your backups...
Ok. The OS now costs 10.000 EU
now you can have the free interface spec.
Awful hard to cover up a plane crash?
Pfftt..
Not it's not: http://www.madcowprod.com/10092007.html
He "passed away"?? You mean he died, right?
>>>I grind my own mirrors
ENTRY LEVEL ASTRONOMY, DUDE.
MetroFi is pretty good here in PDX. ff adblock also removes the frame they use for ads. And the portland airport's free wifi puts to shame the OAK and SFO airports. I mean shit. You fly to/from the epicenter of the internet, flip open your laptop in one of those airports and get a fucking tmobile pay to play page. Just like starbucks. Laughable.
wha? a flash drive is not flash cache. it -replaces- the drive. And as for sequential vs random access not being important to the end user I totally disagree. I am -always- waiting for my computer to do stuff where it's sitting there, the disk light is thrashing and the CPU usage is hovering around 20%. Guess what? when you're waiting 1 minute for your computer to do something, it's using only 20% of the CPU and the disk is going nuts, you my friend are a victim of random access/disk seek time (and some IO time). A huge amount of that goes away with SSD.
urban legend. fuck off asshole
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The unfortunate juxtaposition of your url "lazylightning" with your comments about strictly not working outside the office notwithstanding, I guess it's fine to be religious about that. Provided you are equally religious about doing nothing unrelated to work while at the office. Can you say you never check personal email at work? Never peak at a blog or porn or news or whatever? Never take a long lunch?
The fact is for me, being a computer programmer with a more than a slightly creative component to my work, there are times when I am not ready to do work and times when I am super ready to do work. Those times are hard to switch on and off at will. They come and go at night, during the day, whenever. So I don't get religious about the clock on the wall. I get religious about the clock in my head.
I was getting automated calls on my cell phone I didn't want. So I found a website with recordings of operator tone saying "doo doo doo... the number you have reached has been disconnected". I played that back into my voicemail greeting. When calls came in I didn't want, I'd let them go through to voicemail. It got rid of -some- auto dialers.
Ask if you can email them back... get their home and work email.
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I think there are 2 factors which determine how economical (and environmental) your transportation is:
1) What you drive
2) How you drive
"How much you drive" is not relevant to how economical and environmental you are while you're driving.
"How much you drive" is related to how environmental you are overall.
this is true. In the US (California at least), you -cannot- be fired for refusing to do something illegal.
Start wearing a wire.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gizmodo-exclusive/exclu sive-pics-of-the-vudu-+-video-store-in-a-box-25604 4.php
I don't see how your enumeration of stereotypical IT employee behaviors (valid as they may be) falls under "learning from our past mistakes of the 1990's" in the context of the parent article (Tech sector expansion blunting outsourcing).
Sounds more like your list of pet peeves about local IT workers. Maybe you just don't like tattoos, guys with ponytails or people who do industrial art on the weekends. I'm sure a similar list of stereotypical issues can be cobbled together for outsourced IT workers too.
The fact is it wasn't outsourced IT workers who put in 80+ hour weeks creating the successes (and failures) of the internet in the 90s. Quite the contrary, I think that particular pattern from the 90's should fall under "learning from our past successes."
And also, is your boss is really that flippant about %31.8 of users (Firefox market share)? http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.a sp
why don't 1 or 2 of you take a few evenings and port the js/css to work on firefox? put it on your qa server and say see? looky, it works, it doesn't suck and now we can stop being mocked.