I did this once, for a bit more than a month. Every day 12~15hours. It kills you. It really does. In my opinion, work like programming, cannot be done in that style every day. And what does that mean "until we are profitable". Once that starts you will never stop. Suddenly it is normal for you to work 10~11 hours a day.
Netbooks are slow as shit and are at the end just a PC again, with all the problems a PC has. and iPad is not an PC, so I wouldn't compare an iPad to it.
Saint Nicholas has absolutely nothing to do with Santa Claus, at least in my original country. The day for him (IIRC now) is on the 6th of December, where you get some chocolates, peanuts, etc. Actually my grandfather my a Saint Nicolas figure, for just that (you could open it and put something inside). I learned in school, that he gave half his red cape to a poor beggar, and that's why he is important.
The christmas presents are brought by the "Christkindl", which is a blond haired woman. When I was a kid I had no idea what Santa Claus is. Only much much later I learned of "Santa Claus", but is still just an american thing for me.
It is still not the status bar. When you hover over a link it is now shown next to the url, as the window is so small, you see actually less than when it was in the status bar.
On the other hand, I guess a lot of people lever looked down there anyway.
And Chrome didn't get rid of the status bar, it is still there, only shows when it is needed.
Sure, will work out awesome. I would say that any subway system around the world gets tons of people every weekday in the morning rush hour. Any kind of security would completely useless.
Erm, free? I think he really means Google Apps, where you pay for the account. And you get Calendar and docs and the other stuff.
In my company we just switched to google apps, and are almost complete with the global switchover. Finally everybody can work together. Away from 1001 mail server solutions. Google Mail was the only answer to this problem.
But if he has already win7 + exchange and just one location or at least the same in every location, any switch away from this would completely stupid. And probably get him fired.
If you can only read that much, you won't be able to do much here. I admit that the younger they get, the less or different Kanji they use in their mail conversation, but what gets written in Newspapers, Literature, etc uses the full set of them. Trust me, they can read them.
But they might not be able to write them, because they mostly use mobile phones or PC write. And it also depends on their work and what they do and how educated they are.
Some people user the direct hirgana input mode, which is why all japanese keyboards have the hiragana on the keys, which, if you know where they keys are can speed up your input a lot. Instead of typing 7 letters for the word Nihongo, you type just three (Ni Ho N Go). Mobile phone input is done that way.
Still, this is not efficient for programming languages.
We are just switching our mail services over to google. We are a huge worldwide company and there were a lot Exchange servers in the network. Alas no more.
Most fun multiplayer games are co-op games. I remember playing Doom with 3 of my friends, that was real fun. That was real fun. Same with Diablo and Diablo 2.
a) you are unbelievable lucky b) you bought your first computer last year
Because in my live time of computer usage I have had a lot of bad drives. So many that no critical data is on a single drive. They are all RAID, backuped and backuped up again. Even crappy data. Sadly I need a lot of disk space, so SSDs are a no for me, but I hope, that one day they came in big size and affordable.
Actually I feel it is the opposite. At home I used Safari (which has the same silly memory hunger FF has) and it used 1.5~1.8GB memory.
Since I switched to Chrome, I never come close to that, because when I close a tab, it actually frees up the memory. So once you are done browsing your image heavy page and close it the memory is reclaimed.
Right now besides Chrome (can't test IE9, have no Win7 here) there is no other browser that does proper memory management.
iOS is a mobile device interface. For touch screens.
OS X is an operation system for Mac PCs.
iOS will never be OS X nor does it want to be.
I see the App store for OS X a quite nice thing for joe average to find and easy install software. You have no idea how many people don't know how to copy an application from the DMG file to the application folder. This will just help a lot. A lock down OS X will never happen.
OOCalc does the same. I hate this, especially because URL detection is so broken. often you get only http://www./ and the rest is just normal. I still try to turn it off because the MOST annoying part is, that you CAN NOT edit this anymore. It is like a fixed block. So horrible. So really really horrible.
That is not even the biggest problem. Much bigger is it when you have data NOT in the standard encoding that Excel expects. eg you get japanese EUC or something like this. With OOo you can choose the text file encoding while importing it. With Excel you can't...
1) It is that way because original the whole thing is application centric and not like it should be for virtual desktops centered around the window. I am glad there is something like spaces, but I hate it that I cannot pin a single window to a screen and only an application. But this will probably never change.
3) I agree and I HATE it. Just today in chrome, I had to upload a file, but then I forgot where I was (couldn't see the page itself) and wanted to go to the next tab to check, but you can't even do this. The most horrible thing is, not all applications are like that. eg FF with the JS alert box is connected to the top border where in chrome it is floating. This is really annoying...
4) Sort of agree but I rather have no borders that take precious space.
5) I never ever use that, but it would be great if that could be built in. But then again it would be application bound and not window bound which would make it kind of useless
They were not backwards, not at all. They had a very high literate rate compared to other countries at that time and a pretty good road system.
They only difference was that they completely shut themselves out of any outside influence (besides some ports where some countries where allowed to trade).
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I did this once, for a bit more than a month. Every day 12~15hours. It kills you. It really does. In my opinion, work like programming, cannot be done in that style every day. And what does that mean "until we are profitable". Once that starts you will never stop. Suddenly it is normal for you to work 10~11 hours a day.
Don't do it.
NO! I am from Vienna. I am all for the Weisswurst Equator!
Southern Germany and all of Austria. Or easy to say, everyone that speaks german inside the "Weisswurst border" :D
Netbooks are slow as shit and are at the end just a PC again, with all the problems a PC has. and iPad is not an PC, so I wouldn't compare an iPad to it.
Saint Nicholas has absolutely nothing to do with Santa Claus, at least in my original country. The day for him (IIRC now) is on the 6th of December, where you get some chocolates, peanuts, etc. Actually my grandfather my a Saint Nicolas figure, for just that (you could open it and put something inside). I learned in school, that he gave half his red cape to a poor beggar, and that's why he is important.
The christmas presents are brought by the "Christkindl", which is a blond haired woman. When I was a kid I had no idea what Santa Claus is. Only much much later I learned of "Santa Claus", but is still just an american thing for me.
It is still not the status bar. When you hover over a link it is now shown next to the url, as the window is so small, you see actually less than when it was in the status bar.
On the other hand, I guess a lot of people lever looked down there anyway.
And Chrome didn't get rid of the status bar, it is still there, only shows when it is needed.
Sounds more like Kindergarden than office. Would hate to work at such a place.
Sin City did the same, but they put the other actors into the place afterwards and it never looks cold or distant.
Sure, will work out awesome. I would say that any subway system around the world gets tons of people every weekday in the morning rush hour. Any kind of security would completely useless.
Erm, free? I think he really means Google Apps, where you pay for the account. And you get Calendar and docs and the other stuff.
In my company we just switched to google apps, and are almost complete with the global switchover. Finally everybody can work together. Away from 1001 mail server solutions. Google Mail was the only answer to this problem.
But if he has already win7 + exchange and just one location or at least the same in every location, any switch away from this would completely stupid. And probably get him fired.
I am all to aware of this. Can be *very* frustrating.
If you can only read that much, you won't be able to do much here. I admit that the younger they get, the less or different Kanji they use in their mail conversation, but what gets written in Newspapers, Literature, etc uses the full set of them. Trust me, they can read them.
But they might not be able to write them, because they mostly use mobile phones or PC write. And it also depends on their work and what they do and how educated they are.
Yeah, but Rammstein lyrics, especially the older ones, had wonderful double meaning. I am not sure you can translate them very well.
Some people user the direct hirgana input mode, which is why all japanese keyboards have the hiragana on the keys, which, if you know where they keys are can speed up your input a lot. Instead of typing 7 letters for the word Nihongo, you type just three (Ni Ho N Go). Mobile phone input is done that way.
Still, this is not efficient for programming languages.
We are just switching our mail services over to google. We are a huge worldwide company and there were a lot Exchange servers in the network. Alas no more.
Most fun multiplayer games are co-op games. I remember playing Doom with 3 of my friends, that was real fun. That was real fun. Same with Diablo and Diablo 2.
a) you are unbelievable lucky
b) you bought your first computer last year
Because in my live time of computer usage I have had a lot of bad drives. So many that no critical data is on a single drive. They are all RAID, backuped and backuped up again. Even crappy data. Sadly I need a lot of disk space, so SSDs are a no for me, but I hope, that one day they came in big size and affordable.
Actually I feel it is the opposite. At home I used Safari (which has the same silly memory hunger FF has) and it used 1.5~1.8GB memory.
Since I switched to Chrome, I never come close to that, because when I close a tab, it actually frees up the memory. So once you are done browsing your image heavy page and close it the memory is reclaimed.
Right now besides Chrome (can't test IE9, have no Win7 here) there is no other browser that does proper memory management.
iOS is a mobile device interface. For touch screens.
OS X is an operation system for Mac PCs.
iOS will never be OS X nor does it want to be.
I see the App store for OS X a quite nice thing for joe average to find and easy install software. You have no idea how many people don't know how to copy an application from the DMG file to the application folder. This will just help a lot.
A lock down OS X will never happen.
OOCalc does the same. I hate this, especially because URL detection is so broken. often you get only http://www./ and the rest is just normal. I still try to turn it off because the MOST annoying part is, that you CAN NOT edit this anymore. It is like a fixed block. So horrible. So really really horrible.
That is not even the biggest problem. Much bigger is it when you have data NOT in the standard encoding that Excel expects. eg you get japanese EUC or something like this. With OOo you can choose the text file encoding while importing it. With Excel you can't ...
1) It is that way because original the whole thing is application centric and not like it should be for virtual desktops centered around the window. I am glad there is something like spaces, but I hate it that I cannot pin a single window to a screen and only an application. But this will probably never change.
3) I agree and I HATE it. Just today in chrome, I had to upload a file, but then I forgot where I was (couldn't see the page itself) and wanted to go to the next tab to check, but you can't even do this. The most horrible thing is, not all applications are like that. eg FF with the JS alert box is connected to the top border where in chrome it is floating. This is really annoying ...
4) Sort of agree but I rather have no borders that take precious space.
5) I never ever use that, but it would be great if that could be built in. But then again it would be application bound and not window bound which would make it kind of useless
Probably this game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_game
Write in japanese and suddenly you can write a whole novel in 140 characters.
They were not backwards, not at all. They had a very high literate rate compared to other countries at that time and a pretty good road system.
They only difference was that they completely shut themselves out of any outside influence (besides some ports where some countries where allowed to trade).