Please, do we have to hear this comment every time Java comes up? It was cool to say that in the 1990's, but it's a little out of fashion now.
Yes, perhaps because it is true. Or was in the 90's anyways when processors were a wee bit slower. I had a 700mhz Athlon and was taking some java classes years ago and it was horrendously slow even when making / using the simplest programs. That said, it's better now, but seeing as it was all but useless for anything except perhaps for teaching oop 5 years ago, it might be a while before the stigma dissapears.
Actually, "control+tab switching to different tabs" is built into the common controls library and is pretty much standard, although most people don't use it. IIRC, it worked in Windows 3.1, although that was a really long time ago so I could be wrong.
I agree, "the double click on the border to hide stuff" "feature" isn't really documented anywhere and is confusing as hell if you don't know about it. I'm pretty sure that it has been there since NT 4.0
Perhaps a crazy idea, but I'll put it forth anyways. I'm sure someone can dispell it if it is totally incorrect.
If you go in to the military and are a lardass like many people who spend 12 hours a day in front of a coputer (/me raises his hand), you will begin to lose weight. Not really by choice either. I expect that you will probably lose about 20 kilos in the first month if you are in the upper part of the overweight category of the lower part of the obese category. Once you lose that weight, if you are given a 20 kilo pack, your body really doesn't feel much different.
The muscles of your body are used to carrying the extra 20 kilos, so if you add another 20 kilos there really isn't any net change in weight. Of course, the pack has to fit decently, but most do.
I'm sure the first month will be extra hard, but you probably won't be losing muscle mass during that time;) and once you get over the initial hump, the added weight you had before would of have become an advantage.
Apparantly the fitness test for some smokejumpers (from a field and stream a couple months ago) is to be given a 50 pound pack and told to hike 3 miles in the woods in 45 minutes or less. I can do that, although it will really wear me out. Of course, it will really wear someone out who weighs 140. On the other hand, I have an insane amount of will power and push myself really hard when I do something, muscle pain and stiches be damned.
It was a little bit more than a run for their money.
The Finns also had their fair share of heros and one guy who can arguably claim the title of "Best Sniper Ever".
Granted, there are others, Zaitzev (and Koenig, who uh, lost) and Hathcock (perhaps a tie) that would be in the running, but I honestly don't think they would take first)
If you look up "hard-core motherfucker" in the dictionary, you should see a picture of Simo Häyhä
Simo, after he was shot in the face by an exploding bullet (a wound that took years to recover from) managed to find his rifle and killed the Soviet that had wounded him.
Yes, he should of have quit his job because everyone is looking to hire 50 year olds in Alabama right now. Dunno how it is in BC, but the job market down in the USA (especially Alabama) is really shitty (especially for the 45+ age group) and he was probably making a very nice bundle of money after 20 years of raises in a government job.
I also like how everyone apparantly knows all about the computer policies at the guy's place of work (and are able to comment on them.)
If you've hung around outsourced call centers, you would of have seen this happen in the last 5 years or so. Dell (or whoever) had a contract with a us outsourcer, techs got hired on at $12+ an hour by the outsourced company. Dell begins to get greedy, begins to try to re-negotiate and pay less for the same service.
Outsourcer becomes fed up at some point and tells Dell to piss off.
Dell ships jobs to India, pays $2 an hour. US outsourcer lays off the dell techs. Of course, the highest paid ones get laid off first.
Indian support is so damn bad and generates so many complaints, Dell pulls out of India a bit.
Dell begins to talk to american outsourcers, who have had a ton of empty seats for the last year or so and would be thrilled to get some money and fill the other half of that giant call center they are paying rent on.
Of course, Dell will have to pay less because, well, India is "competition". (Dell will completely ignore the reason that they are deciding to come back)
US outsourcer hires people at $9 an hour.
Dell asks to re-negotiate. Outsourcer remembers how much they lost and is forced into accepting the agreement. Decides to hire new people at $8 an hour to compensate, which really doesn't help, because dell dropped their rates by 20%.
The outsourcers right now apparantly don't care, but in a year or so, Dell will try to re-negotiate and they won't have any wiggle room. Either they will be forced to hire people for minimum wage (Even safeway pays more for their grocery baggers) or close down.
Who gets rich? Dell, the call center folks for a while (although really nobody who actually works on site) Who gets fucked? The consumers, techs, and pretty much everyone else because 500 people in your city of 100,000 don't have jobs anymore.
I've never seen a yellow longer than 3 seconds around where I live, but I suppose it can be different where you live. Here, it is apparantly fashionable (profitable) to stick a traffic light with traffic cameras instead of a stop sign.
wait. I just read someone's post and your response about ticket revenue, etc, pretty much says it all.
It would be nice to know whether that light ahead of you is going to change or not so you can speed up / slow down to compensate. It would probably subdue a ton of Class A personality drivers and make the commute perhaps a bit more enjoyable. In a bunch of cities in Canada, they have a bunch of "If this light is blinking, prepare to stop" lights. Tends to help the traffic flow and mood of the drivers quite a bit.
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a whole 500. Sounds like someone doesn't really have anything, but needs to pump a stock price.
Please, do we have to hear this comment every time Java comes up? It was cool to say that in the 1990's, but it's a little out of fashion now.
Yes, perhaps because it is true. Or was in the 90's anyways when processors were a wee bit slower. I had a 700mhz Athlon and was taking some java classes years ago and it was horrendously slow even when making / using the simplest programs.
That said, it's better now, but seeing as it was all but useless for anything except perhaps for teaching oop 5 years ago, it might be a while before the stigma dissapears.
I think you forgot "hunt down all the goddamn drivers for their 12 year old hardware".
Have you read any of the other replys to the parent? I just ask, because they aren't much more than a sentence or two each.
Actually, "control+tab switching to different tabs" is built into the common controls library and is pretty much standard, although most people don't use it. IIRC, it worked in Windows 3.1, although that was a really long time ago so I could be wrong.
I agree, "the double click on the border to hide stuff" "feature" isn't really documented anywhere and is confusing as hell if you don't know about it. I'm pretty sure that it has been there since NT 4.0
Perhaps a crazy idea, but I'll put it forth anyways. I'm sure someone can dispell it if it is totally incorrect.
;) and once you get over the initial hump, the added weight you had before would of have become an advantage.
If you go in to the military and are a lardass like many people who spend 12 hours a day in front of a coputer (/me raises his hand), you will begin to lose weight. Not really by choice either. I expect that you will probably lose about 20 kilos in the first month if you are in the upper part of the overweight category of the lower part of the obese category.
Once you lose that weight, if you are given a 20 kilo pack, your body really doesn't feel much different.
The muscles of your body are used to carrying the extra 20 kilos, so if you add another 20 kilos there really isn't any net change in weight. Of course, the pack has to fit decently, but most do.
I'm sure the first month will be extra hard, but
you probably won't be losing muscle mass during that time
Apparantly the fitness test for some smokejumpers (from a field and stream a couple months ago) is to be given a 50 pound pack and told to hike 3 miles in the woods in 45 minutes or less. I can do that, although it will really wear me out. Of course, it will really wear someone out who weighs 140.
On the other hand, I have an insane amount of will power and push myself really hard when I do something, muscle pain and stiches be damned.
The Finns also had their fair share of heros and one guy who can arguably claim the title of "Best Sniper Ever".
Granted, there are others, Zaitzev (and Koenig, who uh, lost) and Hathcock (perhaps a tie) that would be in the running, but I honestly don't think they would take first)
If you look up "hard-core motherfucker" in the dictionary, you should see a picture of Simo Häyhä
Simo, after he was shot in the face by an exploding bullet (a wound that took years to recover from) managed to find his rifle and killed the Soviet that had wounded him.
More info here.
I admit I had to chuckle, but at least you got the answer.
Control tab would also switch between the invisible "tabs"
realplayer?
I'm not trying to be a troll, but I hear the new version is bundled with a ton of shit and uses a lot of resources on startup.
Yes, he should of have quit his job because everyone is looking to hire 50 year olds in Alabama right now .
Dunno how it is in BC, but the job market down in the USA (especially Alabama) is really shitty (especially for the 45+ age group) and he was probably making a very nice bundle of money after 20 years of raises in a government job.
I also like how everyone apparantly knows all about the computer policies at the guy's place of work (and are able to comment on them.)
You haven't been to a goverment facility lately, have you? /hooray for the motivated people at the dmv
Perhaps we need a player designed by Satan
It's called the Rio 600.
deer ;)
Come now, most of your politicans didn't even read the bill before they rubber stamped it.
Like I said, Dell isn't the only one. Everyone is doing it and driving down the wages of tech support here.
Safeway has theirs piped in via satelite.
Fortunately, I only had to work there 2 weeks.
If you've hung around outsourced call centers, you would of have seen this happen in the last 5 years or so.
Dell (or whoever) had a contract with a us outsourcer, techs got hired on at $12+ an hour by the outsourced company.
Dell begins to get greedy, begins to try to re-negotiate and pay less for the same service.
Outsourcer becomes fed up at some point and tells Dell to piss off.
Dell ships jobs to India, pays $2 an hour.
US outsourcer lays off the dell techs. Of course, the highest paid ones get laid off first.
Indian support is so damn bad and generates so many complaints, Dell pulls out of India a bit.
Dell begins to talk to american outsourcers, who have had a ton of empty seats for the last year or so and would be thrilled to get some money and fill the other half of that giant call center they are paying rent on.
Of course, Dell will have to pay less because, well, India is "competition". (Dell will completely ignore the reason that they are deciding to come back)
US outsourcer hires people at $9 an hour.
Dell asks to re-negotiate. Outsourcer remembers how much they lost and is forced into accepting the agreement. Decides to hire new people at $8 an hour to compensate, which really doesn't help, because dell dropped their rates by 20%.
The outsourcers right now apparantly don't care, but in a year or so, Dell will try to re-negotiate and they won't have any wiggle room. Either they will be forced to hire people for minimum wage (Even safeway pays more for their grocery baggers) or close down.
Who gets rich? Dell, the call center folks for a while (although really nobody who actually works on site)
Who gets fucked? The consumers, techs, and pretty much everyone else because 500 people in your city of 100,000 don't have jobs anymore.
I've never seen a yellow longer than 3 seconds around where I live, but I suppose it can be different where you live. Here, it is apparantly fashionable (profitable) to stick a traffic light with traffic cameras instead of a stop sign.
wait. I just read someone's post and your response about ticket revenue, etc, pretty much says it all.
Those 3 fucking seconds help with traffic flow so much.
It would be nice to know whether that light ahead of you is going to change or not so you can speed up / slow down to compensate. It would probably subdue a ton of Class A personality drivers and make the commute perhaps a bit more enjoyable.
In a bunch of cities in Canada, they have a bunch of "If this light is blinking, prepare to stop" lights. Tends to help the traffic flow and mood of the drivers quite a bit.
Or maybe he didn't want to get raped by the oem / system builder. Their RAM prices tend to be a bit above what you can expect to pay retail.
All these responses involve feeding people to dogs, not sure why.
The only real difference is that Carly and Michael got nice bonuses. So did their friends on the boards.
I fucking hate you. /jealous.
If the airport screeners actually found the gun, he would be breaking rocks in a federal pen.
Come now, we all know that they book hotel reservations.