way too much VERTICAL white space = please tighten up the vertical spacing by at least 50%
the left sidebar is way too sterile and unattractive = needs better hover / highlighting and styling - please put on your thinking cap, visit the web-i-verse and derive something logically beautiful; that can be my only hint.
everything else is awesome = much faster 'web 2... OH!' experience.
Let's see... very wealthy customer receives NDA covered financial document over a recent lunch and decides to violate the NDA he/she signed and publicly disclose it.
I can't imagine it will be very hard for Facebook to track down this customer and use their $500 million profits from this year to sue this customer out of their 'very wealthy' status, perhaps permanently and or sue Goldman Sachs for disclosing the information publicly.
IF that does not happen, I would be very suspicious of the validity of the document for both the lack of details (how the money was spent) and lack of lawsuit.
I am going with the latter option. Sounds like a planted document, if you ask me.
While you are largely correct at this point in time, I suspect a combination of OpenOffice 'Base' the Access equivalent (recently acquired by Oracle) and MySQL Workbench, a consolidation of several open source MySQL tools from Sun which has, since acquisition, been on a solid 2 week release schedule. Gee, I wonder if Oracle management had anything to do with that.. I suspect both Base and Workbench to be continually developed and marketed to fill the open source, whiz-bang Access gap to further erode M$.
And then Look Out, because we'll have an order of magnitude more crazy DB driven apps that 'just work' developed by Ubuntu outfitted mom-and-pops and non-profits the world wide. And that's good business for me, because it will be a hell of a lot easier to optimize those apps given it's MySQL underpinnings than any Access abomination.
That scene with Deckard dissecting the photograph on his weird-ass computer and literally changing the angle and viewpoint arbitrarily always bugged me.
Now, not so much. It must have had an embedded holographic layer that took several angles.
I was just visiting a friend in New Mexico and she was quite upset by the census form she was sent and even showed me some of the questions. For the record it was definitely not same US Census form I am holding in my hands right now that only asks name, age, race, etc. for each resident. I realize the Census Bureau has plainly stated there will be no Long Form this year, so I have no idea what the heck she was showing me, I didn't take the time to scrutinize it. Could it have been a state Census form?
Her form was a plainly a 10+ page booklet with a leading 3-4 pages that asked all sorts of questions like her income, residential status (apt, building etc.) Sections had various background colors ( light blue, pink and green. )
As a matter of fact, I am going to email her now and see if she remembers any details as I think she's already sent it in...
I am 99% sure the reason the show had 'VERY bad numbers' was because this show was spun out with no firm timeslot. Affiliates were allowed to show this a la Andromeda - whenever they felt like it. Which here, in Portland, Maine was 1 AM Saturday morning. Plus, it didn't even get the proper set up of the pilot episode. I mean, really guys, at least show the first episode first.
I think its obvious the only reason Andromeda survived and Firefly died is everyone knew who Kevin Sorbo and Gene Rodenberry were, whereas barely anyone had a clue who Joss Whedon was and the relatively unheard of cast, except Buffy and Angel fanatics, who I am sure weren't crazy about a Sci-Fi Western considering Joss' previous projects.
Because that, my fine under-roos wearin' friend, is BOOOORING as HELL. I'd much rather grief a pimply 15 year-old who doesnt have the nads to return a shirt that's too big then fly around in stretchy tights.
Or better yet, how about we ban all EA news posts? I am sick of seeing daily, hourly and soon to be news ticker updates on this disheartening, soul-sucking company. What, do you all have stock in this poor excuse for a 'software development' conglomerate?
Read what makes you happy and things that make you go 'Hmm...' Don't be afraid to say 'Enough of this' and chuck the book, magazine or whatever. Life is too short, and people are far more interesting.
"And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is wearisome to the flesh." - Eccl 12:12
I once read an expose article from Casco Bay Weekly sometime back, I want to say about 8 years or more, about the recycling effort in Portland, Maine. Essentially the reporter discovered if there was more than 10% of 'unclean' recycleables in a batch collected from the public bins, they were put on a barge and trucked 50 miles out to sea and dumped. i.e. if people weren't properly sorting their recylcleables, or putting unacceptable materials for recycling the batch was just disposed of in the most convenient fashion.
The city stopped utilizing public recycling bins about 5 years ago, and are now doing curbside collection so I am not sure if thats still the procedure for 'dirty' batch collections, but I wouldn't put it past them.
I do know that (usually) if there is unacceptable recycleables in our bin, they are left in the bin for us to dispose of. If they are unsorted or excessively dirty, they dont collect at all and sometimes leave a note why.
What I wanna know is where the heck am I supposed to bring my depleted batteries? I called all over the city a year ago trying to find a public recycling bin for batteries since it is technically against the law to dispose of them in the general trash. Absolutely none of the waste disposal or city management departments knew of a place where residents could properly dispose of batteries and consistently deferred me to another city department or waste management facility.
So I still toss them in the trash, like everyone else.
Yay, America! We're gonna be living in a Stinking Pile in 50 years. Congratulations, Capitalism.
Someone already mentioned a Detroit Linux Users Group, there are hundreds throughout the US and the World. Do a search on Google with your state and locality and LUG in the search bar and you will likely come up with something. I found the one here in Maine to be very professional, enlightening and friendly with zero troll factor and some excellent monthly meeting topics and presentations (even though I have yet to hit a meeting, I've read the ace notes posted online)
This guy was an unsung master of the written word. I have read Clarke, Heinlein, Asimov, Pohl, Vinge, Bain and many more and have enjoyed them all. But there is just something brilliantly thought evoking about Mr. Daley's use of language and topics.
His now out-of-print SF series The adventures of Alacrity Fitzhugh and Hobart Floyt are probably more aligned with Space Opera and were very adventurous indeed. They were laced with all the good stuff that fills a James Clavell novel - family fortunes, love, betrayal, duels-to-the-death, redemption - and much more. Add a dash of grand and subtle humor that few will grasp and a rich history and universe populated with many believable characters (well, believable for SF anyway) and you have a trilogy masterpiece fit for re-reading many times.
His newer, posthumously published series GammaLAW is just as good, if not better, but not so lighthearted. GammaLAW is a grim depiction of conflict on a throwback waterworld lightyears from civilization - its rife with military action, slang and all the good stuff mentioned above. A lot darker but, still engrossing with a common thread of mysteries-of-the-universe-yet-to-be-solved.
And that I think would have to be the KEY to a good SF novel. An grand unsolvable mystery that the protaganist and his cronies are destined to reveal even just a smidge of. Plus all the other good stuff (love, betrayal, death, etc.) If you're missing any of these elements, you're not going to keep my attention for long. I've slogged through novels by Vinge and Bova and god were they painful. Miles of reading rhetoric and mind numbing prose only to have the 'good stuff' happen in a sentence or too, leaving the reader to conject 'wha?!?' Sure the science is great but not terribly fun to read.
I had the privilege to maintain a brief friendship with Brian shortly before his death in 1996. He was a fantastic person with profound insights on the world we live in and worlds beyond and an unmeasured palate for words. The open letter I received from him shortly after he passed is one I will keep to the end of my days.
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way too much VERTICAL white space = please tighten up the vertical spacing by at least 50%
the left sidebar is way too sterile and unattractive = needs better hover / highlighting and styling - please put on your thinking cap, visit the web-i-verse and derive something logically beautiful; that can be my only hint.
everything else is awesome = much faster 'web 2 ... OH!' experience.
Let's see... very wealthy customer receives NDA covered financial document over a recent lunch and decides to violate the NDA he/she signed and publicly disclose it.
I can't imagine it will be very hard for Facebook to track down this customer and use their $500 million profits from this year to sue this customer out of their 'very wealthy' status, perhaps permanently and or sue Goldman Sachs for disclosing the information publicly.
IF that does not happen, I would be very suspicious of the validity of the document for both the lack of details (how the money was spent) and lack of lawsuit.
I am going with the latter option. Sounds like a planted document, if you ask me.
While you are largely correct at this point in time, I suspect a combination of OpenOffice 'Base' the Access equivalent (recently acquired by Oracle) and MySQL Workbench, a consolidation of several open source MySQL tools from Sun which has, since acquisition, been on a solid 2 week release schedule. Gee, I wonder if Oracle management had anything to do with that.. I suspect both Base and Workbench to be continually developed and marketed to fill the open source, whiz-bang Access gap to further erode M$.
And then Look Out, because we'll have an order of magnitude more crazy DB driven apps that 'just work' developed by Ubuntu outfitted mom-and-pops and non-profits the world wide. And that's good business for me, because it will be a hell of a lot easier to optimize those apps given it's MySQL underpinnings than any Access abomination.
That scene with Deckard dissecting the photograph on his weird-ass computer and literally changing the angle and viewpoint arbitrarily always bugged me.
Now, not so much. It must have had an embedded holographic layer that took several angles.
Yeah, that's it.
I was just visiting a friend in New Mexico and she was quite upset by the census form she was sent and even showed me some of the questions. For the record it was definitely not same US Census form I am holding in my hands right now that only asks name, age, race, etc. for each resident. I realize the Census Bureau has plainly stated there will be no Long Form this year, so I have no idea what the heck she was showing me, I didn't take the time to scrutinize it. Could it have been a state Census form?
Her form was a plainly a 10+ page booklet with a leading 3-4 pages that asked all sorts of questions like her income, residential status (apt, building etc.) Sections had various background colors ( light blue, pink and green. )
As a matter of fact, I am going to email her now and see if she remembers any details as I think she's already sent it in...
I am 99% sure the reason the show had 'VERY bad numbers' was because this show was spun out with no firm timeslot. Affiliates were allowed to show this a la Andromeda - whenever they felt like it. Which here, in Portland, Maine was 1 AM Saturday morning. Plus, it didn't even get the proper set up of the pilot episode. I mean, really guys, at least show the first episode first.
I think its obvious the only reason Andromeda survived and Firefly died is everyone knew who Kevin Sorbo and Gene Rodenberry were, whereas barely anyone had a clue who Joss Whedon was and the relatively unheard of cast, except Buffy and Angel fanatics, who I am sure weren't crazy about a Sci-Fi Western considering Joss' previous projects.
Because that, my fine under-roos wearin' friend, is BOOOORING as HELL. I'd much rather grief a pimply 15 year-old who doesnt have the nads to return a shirt that's too big then fly around in stretchy tights.
Or better yet, how about we ban all EA news posts? I am sick of seeing daily, hourly and soon to be news ticker updates on this disheartening, soul-sucking company. What, do you all have stock in this poor excuse for a 'software development' conglomerate?
Read what makes you happy and things that make you go 'Hmm...' Don't be afraid to say 'Enough of this' and chuck the book, magazine or whatever. Life is too short, and people are far more interesting.
"And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is wearisome to the flesh." - Eccl 12:12
I once read an expose article from Casco Bay Weekly sometime back, I want to say about 8 years or more, about the recycling effort in Portland, Maine. Essentially the reporter discovered if there was more than 10% of 'unclean' recycleables in a batch collected from the public bins, they were put on a barge and trucked 50 miles out to sea and dumped. i.e. if people weren't properly sorting their recylcleables, or putting unacceptable materials for recycling the batch was just disposed of in the most convenient fashion.
The city stopped utilizing public recycling bins about 5 years ago, and are now doing curbside collection so I am not sure if thats still the procedure for 'dirty' batch collections, but I wouldn't put it past them.
I do know that (usually) if there is unacceptable recycleables in our bin, they are left in the bin for us to dispose of. If they are unsorted or excessively dirty, they dont collect at all and sometimes leave a note why.
What I wanna know is where the heck am I supposed to bring my depleted batteries? I called all over the city a year ago trying to find a public recycling bin for batteries since it is technically against the law to dispose of them in the general trash. Absolutely none of the waste disposal or city management departments knew of a place where residents could properly dispose of batteries and consistently deferred me to another city department or waste management facility.
So I still toss them in the trash, like everyone else.
Yay, America! We're gonna be living in a Stinking Pile in 50 years. Congratulations, Capitalism.
Someone already mentioned a Detroit Linux Users Group, there are hundreds throughout the US and the World. Do a search on Google with your state and locality and LUG in the search bar and you will likely come up with something. I found the one here in Maine to be very professional, enlightening and friendly with zero troll factor and some excellent monthly meeting topics and presentations (even though I have yet to hit a meeting, I've read the ace notes posted online)
Here's a starter link: Linux User Groups listing at Linux.org
This guy was an unsung master of the written word. I have read Clarke, Heinlein, Asimov, Pohl, Vinge, Bain and many more and have enjoyed them all. But there is just something brilliantly thought evoking about Mr. Daley's use of language and topics.
His now out-of-print SF series The adventures of Alacrity Fitzhugh and Hobart Floyt are probably more aligned with Space Opera and were very adventurous indeed. They were laced with all the good stuff that fills a James Clavell novel - family fortunes, love, betrayal, duels-to-the-death, redemption - and much more. Add a dash of grand and subtle humor that few will grasp and a rich history and universe populated with many believable characters (well, believable for SF anyway) and you have a trilogy masterpiece fit for re-reading many times.
His newer, posthumously published series GammaLAW is just as good, if not better, but not so lighthearted. GammaLAW is a grim depiction of conflict on a throwback waterworld lightyears from civilization - its rife with military action, slang and all the good stuff mentioned above. A lot darker but, still engrossing with a common thread of mysteries-of-the-universe-yet-to-be-solved.
And that I think would have to be the KEY to a good SF novel. An grand unsolvable mystery that the protaganist and his cronies are destined to reveal even just a smidge of. Plus all the other good stuff (love, betrayal, death, etc.) If you're missing any of these elements, you're not going to keep my attention for long. I've slogged through novels by Vinge and Bova and god were they painful. Miles of reading rhetoric and mind numbing prose only to have the 'good stuff' happen in a sentence or too, leaving the reader to conject 'wha?!?' Sure the science is great but not terribly fun to read.
I had the privilege to maintain a brief friendship with Brian shortly before his death in 1996. He was a fantastic person with profound insights on the world we live in and worlds beyond and an unmeasured palate for words. The open letter I received from him shortly after he passed is one I will keep to the end of my days.
Cheers, Brian!
jt