Adobe reader? Phht! Windows is crying out for native support for disc images. It's frustrating that it has no support for directly mounting ISO images, even though MSDN has been distributing them on and off for years.
it adds a fourth sense to the meaning of 'the current version of Firefox'
No it doesn't, most of us aren't testers. If you want to use the latest development build, alpha build, beta build or release candidate, do so, but don't pretend it's a release. That's just hyperbole at best. Me? I'll wait for the next release, and thanks to all you folks who are prepared to run intermediate builds in the form of mass QA.
I wonder if this is the same concept as the decoding delay in video, where there's a difference between decode time and presentation time, perhaps due to re-ordering of frames? Sometimes you can get higher quality doing this, but latency is obviously undesirable in an interactive application like telephony.
In my experience, long emails don't cut it either. It seems that some people don't read or comprehend beyond four lines, and this seems to be especially bad amongst Americans. I don't know if it's cultural, an attention span issue, or trying to work via a mobile phone whilst doing something else.
I can find out in a few minutes of conversation (even faster than via IM) whether and what somebody understands or not, which is way faster than writing a detailed email that might be superfluous or not cover the areas the other person(s) requires. This holds true even with my Chinese colleagues and all of the cultural and language barriers that we have. I always follow-up a phone conversation with meeting notes, just to be sure. Ultimately you need a balance of both, and quite often, ineffective meetings can be avoided with proper preparation and an advance agenda.
As the other responder has suggested, time zones can kill a schedule when you're only relying on email. If there's a problem or more information required, you lose a day instantly. It doesn't matter how well your emails are written.
Ahhhh, never ending email threads where things don't get solved quickly, especially if priorities aren't clear. It doesn't beat live communications, especially if you want to get your job done.
As somebody who's been doing this for over a decade, let me emphasise the importance of this. You will need a good travel budget, and you will need to be willing to make sacrifices in your personal life, in addition to ensuring other good and regular communication commitments.
I've just got off our weekly engineering call that went for the last two hours (10pm California, 6am London and 1pm Shanghai). Yawn. Somebody always gets the arsehole timeslot with this many timezones. We've managed to keep it down to one of these a week, with some extra duplicated two time zone meetings in between. Any less and things noticeably fall between the cracks quickly.
I worked from home in Toronto for 10 years. Nearest colleagues were three timezones away. I reached my limit... now I live in London. I save thousands of pounds by cycling to work:) No matter what N. American's think, the weather's better here too! If I ever have to move out of London (highly likely with the property prices), I might just choose to emigrate again... I don't think I could handle that commute you speak of.
I'm much happier being in an office again: not only is there more contact with people in general, I find my job so much easier being around the people I work with (go figure), and I pick up way more information about "the bigger picture". There's way more opportunity for career development too - I felt working from home that my career was either going in slow motion, or completely on-hold. I might consider working at home again if I left London, for the right the company, if I had kids, and my home was big enough I could ring-fence the job off.
BTW, aren't their capital gains to pay when you sell a home you've been working from in this country? Tax regimes vary... I did quite enjoy get $1,500-2,000 back from the government in Canada just for the privilege of having an office area in my home.
Our predecessors had an average life expectancy approaching 80 years did they? That's right: if I keel over with a stress induced heart attack or stroke at 40 years old, I've still lived longer than the stress free peoples you're talking about. What's your point?
The Post Office doesn't do mail redirection overseas either? Seems wise to do that anyway in case something else important that you forgot or weren't expecting gets sent to your old address:
If you don't pay your last bill, will it be on your credit file if/when you return?
I have one of their home hub phones. It worked for me when I used their service. I still use it for the phone service even though I've switch DSL provider. At this point, the bit about the hub that is really annoying is that there is no way to turn off the 802.11 wireless. I live in a converted 100 year old town house in London (i.e. lots of flats above, below and all along the street) so I see about 15-20 WAPs at any one time... it would be nice to turn it off to reduce interference. In the end I just changed the SSID so now it says: "BT-are-shite-use-BeThereCoUk":)
And when is that going to be available? Before Virgin's 100mbs/10mbs service? BT are targeting 40% coverage by summer 2012, so it doesn't seem like I'll be seeing it any time soon. It will still be slower than Virgin.
Maybe they could use this to fund a proper broadband service. As of last year (which is when I switched to Be There), their upstream sync rate was 448kbs, irrespective of line capabilities - anybody know if it's changed? Totally pathetic. They had the cheek to tell me when I asked for the Migration Access Code for my switch to BE that I was wrong and that BE had mislead me when they claimed I would get higher speeds with them. Of course, my line is syncing three times faster upstream now as BE offer up to the full 2.5mbs of ADSL2+. Why are people still wasting their time with BT? Now if only Ofcom would force BT to allow data without voice service instead of forcing one to pay for that too.../rant
Most of the PDFs I use are specs, some of them thousands of pages long, and accessed via a Sharepoint server. Don't make it hard for me by automatically having the browser handle them thanks.
Agreed. This is why I didn't switch to Chrome: I couldn't figure out how to get it to cleanly pass PDFs off to the standalone Adobe Reader (it seemed I'd end up with a browser tab that wouldn't redraw itself until the Adobe Reader process terminated). Adobe's browser plugin just isn't as nice to use. Let me keep using the external app and I'll be happy.
Oh, the reason I tried to switch to Chrome in the first place? Separate processes per tab. Come on Mozilla, step in to the 21st century! There's a reason why all of your serious competition has done this. Go on: throw off this ancient and bad Netscape habit of trying to build monolithic processes.
The question is: is Apple still taking more than 50% of the revenues of the smartphone market with less than 5% marketshare, as they were a few months ago? This story becomes interesting when Android starts taking significant revenue, although I doubt any individual manufacturer will be as profitable as Apple is at the moment.
Ugh... Oxford Circus is already bad enough at the best of times. The entrances are even closed or partially closed during peak times. Wouldn't your suggestion warrant an upgrade to it and the connecting lines? I bet that would cost more than the billion quid they're spending on Tottenham Court Road station for the Cross Rail project.
Removable bollards. In fact one of the streets on that map, just around the corner from me, is pedestrianised after mid-morning. Somebody from the council comes by and sets up bollards at that point.
I'd like to see something done about the taxis around here too. They seem to be the some of the worst for pumping distasteful fumes in to the air when I'm cycling in to work, and there are a large number of them on the roads. Maybe stricter MOT rules should be applied to them.
It's actually fairly straightforward. Thank goodness for ImgBurn. I'm running Win7 x64 on my 3+ year old MBP, with more than the official 4GB max specified RAM thanks to OWC.
What are you waffling on about? I recently opened up my 3+ year old MBP. There are no intakes where you claim. There is a cover beneath the keyboard and speakers to it's sides inside the case, which prevents dust and other crap getting in.
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To be clear: Eschede was not a British disaster, but a German one.
And what's your point? It's a developing nation's version of the US' space programme and trying to get to moon.. but probably has more benefits.
Adobe reader? Phht! Windows is crying out for native support for disc images. It's frustrating that it has no support for directly mounting ISO images, even though MSDN has been distributing them on and off for years.
No it doesn't, most of us aren't testers. If you want to use the latest development build, alpha build, beta build or release candidate, do so, but don't pretend it's a release. That's just hyperbole at best. Me? I'll wait for the next release, and thanks to all you folks who are prepared to run intermediate builds in the form of mass QA.
I wonder if this is the same concept as the decoding delay in video, where there's a difference between decode time and presentation time, perhaps due to re-ordering of frames? Sometimes you can get higher quality doing this, but latency is obviously undesirable in an interactive application like telephony.
In my experience, long emails don't cut it either. It seems that some people don't read or comprehend beyond four lines, and this seems to be especially bad amongst Americans. I don't know if it's cultural, an attention span issue, or trying to work via a mobile phone whilst doing something else.
I can find out in a few minutes of conversation (even faster than via IM) whether and what somebody understands or not, which is way faster than writing a detailed email that might be superfluous or not cover the areas the other person(s) requires. This holds true even with my Chinese colleagues and all of the cultural and language barriers that we have. I always follow-up a phone conversation with meeting notes, just to be sure. Ultimately you need a balance of both, and quite often, ineffective meetings can be avoided with proper preparation and an advance agenda.
As the other responder has suggested, time zones can kill a schedule when you're only relying on email. If there's a problem or more information required, you lose a day instantly. It doesn't matter how well your emails are written.
Ahhhh, never ending email threads where things don't get solved quickly, especially if priorities aren't clear. It doesn't beat live communications, especially if you want to get your job done.
As somebody who's been doing this for over a decade, let me emphasise the importance of this. You will need a good travel budget, and you will need to be willing to make sacrifices in your personal life, in addition to ensuring other good and regular communication commitments.
I've just got off our weekly engineering call that went for the last two hours (10pm California, 6am London and 1pm Shanghai). Yawn. Somebody always gets the arsehole timeslot with this many timezones. We've managed to keep it down to one of these a week, with some extra duplicated two time zone meetings in between. Any less and things noticeably fall between the cracks quickly.
Except the majority of people whose native refresh rate is 25 or 50 fps. What are you going to do with the audio?
Next you'll be asking for it to be x2*1000/1001 faster, and make it interlaced... you can keep your Never The Same Colo(u)r system thanks!
I worked from home in Toronto for 10 years. Nearest colleagues were three timezones away. I reached my limit... now I live in London. I save thousands of pounds by cycling to work :) No matter what N. American's think, the weather's better here too! If I ever have to move out of London (highly likely with the property prices), I might just choose to emigrate again... I don't think I could handle that commute you speak of.
I'm much happier being in an office again: not only is there more contact with people in general, I find my job so much easier being around the people I work with (go figure), and I pick up way more information about "the bigger picture". There's way more opportunity for career development too - I felt working from home that my career was either going in slow motion, or completely on-hold. I might consider working at home again if I left London, for the right the company, if I had kids, and my home was big enough I could ring-fence the job off.
BTW, aren't their capital gains to pay when you sell a home you've been working from in this country? Tax regimes vary... I did quite enjoy get $1,500-2,000 back from the government in Canada just for the privilege of having an office area in my home.
Our predecessors had an average life expectancy approaching 80 years did they? That's right: if I keel over with a stress induced heart attack or stroke at 40 years old, I've still lived longer than the stress free peoples you're talking about. What's your point?
The Post Office doesn't do mail redirection overseas either? Seems wise to do that anyway in case something else important that you forgot or weren't expecting gets sent to your old address:
If you don't pay your last bill, will it be on your credit file if/when you return?
I have one of their home hub phones. It worked for me when I used their service. I still use it for the phone service even though I've switch DSL provider. At this point, the bit about the hub that is really annoying is that there is no way to turn off the 802.11 wireless. I live in a converted 100 year old town house in London (i.e. lots of flats above, below and all along the street) so I see about 15-20 WAPs at any one time... it would be nice to turn it off to reduce interference. In the end I just changed the SSID so now it says: "BT-are-shite-use-BeThereCoUk" :)
And when is that going to be available? Before Virgin's 100mbs/10mbs service? BT are targeting 40% coverage by summer 2012, so it doesn't seem like I'll be seeing it any time soon. It will still be slower than Virgin.
Does the leaking water only carry iodine out of the plant? If so, why isn't it carrying anything else, like caesium?
Maybe they could use this to fund a proper broadband service. As of last year (which is when I switched to Be There), their upstream sync rate was 448kbs, irrespective of line capabilities - anybody know if it's changed? Totally pathetic. They had the cheek to tell me when I asked for the Migration Access Code for my switch to BE that I was wrong and that BE had mislead me when they claimed I would get higher speeds with them. Of course, my line is syncing three times faster upstream now as BE offer up to the full 2.5mbs of ADSL2+. Why are people still wasting their time with BT? Now if only Ofcom would force BT to allow data without voice service instead of forcing one to pay for that too... /rant
Most of the PDFs I use are specs, some of them thousands of pages long, and accessed via a Sharepoint server. Don't make it hard for me by automatically having the browser handle them thanks.
Agreed. This is why I didn't switch to Chrome: I couldn't figure out how to get it to cleanly pass PDFs off to the standalone Adobe Reader (it seemed I'd end up with a browser tab that wouldn't redraw itself until the Adobe Reader process terminated). Adobe's browser plugin just isn't as nice to use. Let me keep using the external app and I'll be happy.
Oh, the reason I tried to switch to Chrome in the first place? Separate processes per tab. Come on Mozilla, step in to the 21st century! There's a reason why all of your serious competition has done this. Go on: throw off this ancient and bad Netscape habit of trying to build monolithic processes.
The question is: is Apple still taking more than 50% of the revenues of the smartphone market with less than 5% marketshare, as they were a few months ago? This story becomes interesting when Android starts taking significant revenue, although I doubt any individual manufacturer will be as profitable as Apple is at the moment.
Is that way Germany, one of the bigger economies in the world, consistently has a trade surplus?
Ugh... Oxford Circus is already bad enough at the best of times. The entrances are even closed or partially closed during peak times. Wouldn't your suggestion warrant an upgrade to it and the connecting lines? I bet that would cost more than the billion quid they're spending on Tottenham Court Road station for the Cross Rail project.
Removable bollards. In fact one of the streets on that map, just around the corner from me, is pedestrianised after mid-morning. Somebody from the council comes by and sets up bollards at that point.
I'd like to see something done about the taxis around here too. They seem to be the some of the worst for pumping distasteful fumes in to the air when I'm cycling in to work, and there are a large number of them on the roads. Maybe stricter MOT rules should be applied to them.
It's actually fairly straightforward. Thank goodness for ImgBurn. I'm running Win7 x64 on my 3+ year old MBP, with more than the official 4GB max specified RAM thanks to OWC.
What are you waffling on about? I recently opened up my 3+ year old MBP. There are no intakes where you claim. There is a cover beneath the keyboard and speakers to it's sides inside the case, which prevents dust and other crap getting in.