There's another version of bookr up on Sourceforge that's been modified to have different clock speeds for reading versus loading files. Best of both worlds.
I use bookr on my PSP as well. The major downside is the screen isn't anywhere near as good for books as eInk, and getting the PSP to the point where it does anything except what Sony tells you it does is a pain in the ass. Better than nothing, though, and cranking down the clock speed allows the battery to last a long time.
And, you know, it's no problem whatsoever to shine a laser into the eyes of a pilot who is, let's just say they are only 1,000 feet up or so, and only moving about 100 miles per hours or so. This cop is a liar.
I once showed my green laser pointer to someone at the DOD who attempted to confiscate it as "everyone knows that green lasers are restricted to military weapons use only".
Just government tools getting upset about things they don't understand.
That's a little harsh. Even though they still call GMail beta, they recently added IMAP. That's a pretty big feature enhancement for a web-based mail service. I don't care if they continue to call it beta or not as long as they keep adding useful features.
I'm in a salaried position and have been for the past decade or so. None of the people I've worked for ever acted like they owned me 24x7, and I was always careful to communicate what they could expect from me and what I expected from them.
I find that most of these issues are particular to the culture of a company, rather than that company's policies. For example, where I work it is common for people on vacation to take their laptops, crackberries, etc. with them, sometimes even participating in conference calls. The way I see it, if they can't live without you for a couple weeks, what better time to renegotiate your salary? So I don't do that, and you know what? No one has ever said a word to me about it.
Communication tools can be used to place chains around employee's necks, but in my experience it's mostly the employees putting them on themselves, or perhaps meekly accepting them instead of actually stating a preference. It's perfectly ok to push back in a professional manner.
Of course, this is/., where I once read rants about how Google is evil for giving their employees free meals and commuter wifi access, which encourages them to work more. Of course they are going to encourage you to work more. That doesn't mean you need to take all your meals at your desk, or start debugging code while still on your way to work.
Work-life balance belongs in your hands as much as the company's.
Fidelity is a very common name in financial services. That's because they are one of the largest financial services companies in the US. Anyone you deal with that has "Fidelity" as part of their company's name is probably a subsidiary.
I am ashamed that Congress will pass new copyright laws and try to enforce them on non U.S Soil. More so ashame they will not put that much effort into saving non U.S citizins at George and Dicks Gitmo Torcher camp. (Ok there might be a dozen at most there that are REAL terrorists) The rest some guy turned some poor bastard in for a reward. That's an interesting assumption. You could be right, but it's still a pretty big leap to take, and it's an indefensible position. It sounds like you are just repeating someone else's rhetoric. Obviously we aren't in a position to know how many people are detained in Gitmo, nor are we in a position to judge the merits of their detainment. They could all be "real" terrorists, or none of them could be "real" terrorists. There just isn't any information, period.
Anyway.
Law enforcement cooperation between nations is normal and customary. This idea behind this new agency sucks, but there is nothing really unusual about it other than the fact that it may exist at all. Law enforcement is supposed to serve the public interest, but the only interest served by this agency would be to protect monetary profits.
When my daughter was born just a short time ago we were pressured to have a hep B vaccine administered to her within the first 12 hours of birth, even though both parents had been tested for it within the past six months. After I did my own research, I found out that the risk group in our situation was very small (something like 19,000 mothers per year have hep B but don't know it), yet the hospital staff presented no statistical information to help us make an informed decision.
They did provide information on the risks of administering the vaccine, but they did not provide information on the risks of not administering the vaccine.
I'm generally in favor of vaccinations and my daughter will receive this vaccine along with everything else at 12 weeks, but I do not feel I would have been able to make an informed decision with the information provided.
There might not be price differences but there may be functional differences. For example, some companies have homegrown applications with a GUI that makes your eyes bleed, and it just barely functions, but it also does something critical that can't be lived without. The guy that wrote it was killed by a speeding beer truck three years ago and his workstation with the source code was wiped to turn it into a "Super Wiki Mashup Web 3.0 Second Life" server, because management read somewhere that that's what all the kids are doing now. And it won't work on Vista for some damn reason.
All the ATM manufacturers run WinXP these days, anyway. It'll come off like a troll, but we didn't have these types problems with ATMs back when they all ran OS/2. Fugly but effective.
I just bought one last week and had the choice of Vista or XP. I think the news is probably that they have now have canned SKUs for XP where maybe they didn't before? As in, you could always go on and customize a laptop to have anything you want, but companies buying in large quantities probably just use a canned SKU that has the bundle they want with everything, to save time. Just guessing, though.
Because I'm sick and tired of managers trying to sell another cost reduction as a good thing. It may be that open workspaces wouldn't work well for your company culture and what you do for a living. It works very well in other environments, and it's not just management trying to polish a turd. It would be a bad for people that are in the office M-F, 8-5, but that doesn't describe a lot of the folks at Intel or Cisco.
If there are separate rooms, then it's often claimed by people as an area for meetings. The way I've seen it implemented where I work, we have small hard offices. They are just big enough to get some work done without being interrupted, but small enough that two people would be claustrophobic, so they don't get used for meetings. The one issue is that on some days when there are a lot of people in the office, they quiet rooms get snagged quickly and folks generally camp in them all day.
Cisco probably hasn't gotten to that point yet, but I guarantee their employees already hate it. And eventually, it'll become intolerable and everybody will be clamoring for the days of cubes again. No, not really. With a mobile sales workforce (approx. 1/3 of Cisco's staff worldwide is sales), it makes a lot of sense, especially when you have more people than cubicles. Many times there are no workspaces available for visitors, even though most of the office is full of empty cubicles.
I doubt the folks in engineering or management, who do work in the office quite a bit more, will lose their dedicated workspaces.
I work for one of the companies referenced above, and it really sucked when someone else moved all their personal items into my workspace without even asking if I was still using it (I'm only in the office once a month or so). I left it as a nice, clean workspace with my contact information clearly displayed, when I came back it was filled with what appears to be a lifetime collection of cubicle crap. You know, photos of kittens with captions like "Hang in there!", bad photos of kids with birthday cake all over their face, a Far Side calendar, etc.
I can't wait until our office remodel when we will have open workspaces.
Gitmo is so inhumane, it is the worst atrocity of our generation. We have many worse atrocities than Gitmo. Just ask the folks from the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, the Kurds, the NYC Fire Department, the parents of the kids in the Oklahoma City Federal Building day care center, the spouses of those killed in the Pentagon, the families of people on planes who were flown into buildings, etc. Gitmo isn't anywhere close to the top of that list, and that's just off the top of my head. No personal mail? No exercise? You just described most of/. readers.
Gitmo sucks, it's the worst version of ourselves to present to the world, but it pales in comparison.
How many innocent people are in Guantanamo Bay? The answer is somewhere between "none of them are innocent" and "all of them are innocent". Come to think of it, that's the same answer for all prisons.
The problem isn't that we are imprisoning people in Gitmo. The problem is that they are imprisoned based solely on the belief of their guilt by the US federal government, instead of on the belief of guilt by twelve average idiots. You know, the type of folks that let O.J. go. That's partially because good citizens routinely do everything they can to avoid serving on a jury, and lawyers routinely try to get the dumbest, most malleable jury possible.
Personally, I think Gitmo is an admission by the federal government that our existing judicial process is too fucked up to adequately process suspected criminals.
I think you meant "no longer have to carry a little laminate card" instead of "no longer have to abide..."
No offense, but your statement seems to be reading a bit more into the document than it actually says.
Anyway, if you believe Gitmo is evil, the document will support your belief. If you do not believe Gitmo is evil, nothing in the document will change your mind. Frankly, I think the entire article is a troll.
The problem is that the English language sucks. In the context of your comments, no argument from me on that point. It's a difficult language. My wife's second language is English and she still thinks "the" is a stupid word with incomprehensible usage rules.
To support my point, there is a clear degradation of the grammar and spelling skills of the current 20-somethings versus those of a generation prior. The English language hasn't changed that much, school funding hasn't changed that much, but the teaching method did. Other countries (Cuba and Israel are two examples) have switched to whole language and subsequently switched back to phonics when they encountered similar difficulties, so it's not unique to the English language.
You make a good point about needing to memorize every word in the English language, but as this is clearly not practical, if even possible, you need a tool to handle unfamiliar words. Phonics can't help you in every situation where you see a word you don't know, but it's better than nothing at all.
There is now a prevailing attitude that everyone is entitled to happiness and it's the government's job to provide it. It's the pursuit of happiness, you gotta chase it and earn it, and even then you don't always get it.
Our education system got a bit worse and our kids got a bit dumber. The reason Johnny can't spell for shit is due to a shift from phonics to whole language, and you can thank the 60's generation for that.
Voter ignorance has exceeded voter apathy. I wish fewer, but better-informed, people voted, and I wish they paid attention to their other representatives as much as the President. But like the man said, wish in one hand and shit in the other, see which gets full first.
The 60s generation had the poorest understanding of human nature than any previous generation in the US. They had a lot of ideas that look great on paper but failed to take into account the human element.
Going back to TFA and an earlier post I saw, just as you can't fight consumers and must learn to work with their needs, you can't fight human nature and must learn to work within its constricts.
Yeah, but damn near every review on the Amazon site is written by someone who doesn't own one and thinks the review system is good for expressing an opinion about something they know nothing more about than I do. It's hard to find reviews from actual owners, but the ones I've found are mostly positive.
I know it's counter to/. culture, but I would accept DRM as a trade-off if it were just a bit less expensive, came with an integrated book light, and wasn't so goddamn ugly.
Although it was otherwise an unremarkable game, True Crime: Streets of LA (a GTA ripoff) did a great job with this issue. They came up with a system where, as you drive around the city, areas outside of specific distance from where you are were unloaded from memory at the same time loading areas coming into your area.
The net effect was that you could drive from one end of Los Angeles to the other at full speed without any level load pauses.
The downside would be that any changes to the environment would only be temporary in nature, which won't work well for many FPS-style games.
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There's another version of bookr up on Sourceforge that's been modified to have different clock speeds for reading versus loading files. Best of both worlds.
I use bookr on my PSP as well. The major downside is the screen isn't anywhere near as good for books as eInk, and getting the PSP to the point where it does anything except what Sony tells you it does is a pain in the ass. Better than nothing, though, and cranking down the clock speed allows the battery to last a long time.
SM is an IMAP web front-end, but it provides no IMAP services in and of itself.
And, you know, it's no problem whatsoever to shine a laser into the eyes of a pilot who is, let's just say they are only 1,000 feet up or so, and only moving about 100 miles per hours or so. This cop is a liar.
I once showed my green laser pointer to someone at the DOD who attempted to confiscate it as "everyone knows that green lasers are restricted to military weapons use only".
Just government tools getting upset about things they don't understand.
That's a little harsh. Even though they still call GMail beta, they recently added IMAP. That's a pretty big feature enhancement for a web-based mail service. I don't care if they continue to call it beta or not as long as they keep adding useful features.
I'm in a salaried position and have been for the past decade or so. None of the people I've worked for ever acted like they owned me 24x7, and I was always careful to communicate what they could expect from me and what I expected from them.
/., where I once read rants about how Google is evil for giving their employees free meals and commuter wifi access, which encourages them to work more. Of course they are going to encourage you to work more. That doesn't mean you need to take all your meals at your desk, or start debugging code while still on your way to work.
I find that most of these issues are particular to the culture of a company, rather than that company's policies. For example, where I work it is common for people on vacation to take their laptops, crackberries, etc. with them, sometimes even participating in conference calls. The way I see it, if they can't live without you for a couple weeks, what better time to renegotiate your salary? So I don't do that, and you know what? No one has ever said a word to me about it.
Communication tools can be used to place chains around employee's necks, but in my experience it's mostly the employees putting them on themselves, or perhaps meekly accepting them instead of actually stating a preference. It's perfectly ok to push back in a professional manner.
Of course, this is
Work-life balance belongs in your hands as much as the company's.
That's not a universally implemented security mechanism, even within the DoD.
Anyway.
Law enforcement cooperation between nations is normal and customary. This idea behind this new agency sucks, but there is nothing really unusual about it other than the fact that it may exist at all. Law enforcement is supposed to serve the public interest, but the only interest served by this agency would be to protect monetary profits.
When my daughter was born just a short time ago we were pressured to have a hep B vaccine administered to her within the first 12 hours of birth, even though both parents had been tested for it within the past six months. After I did my own research, I found out that the risk group in our situation was very small (something like 19,000 mothers per year have hep B but don't know it), yet the hospital staff presented no statistical information to help us make an informed decision.
They did provide information on the risks of administering the vaccine, but they did not provide information on the risks of not administering the vaccine.
I'm generally in favor of vaccinations and my daughter will receive this vaccine along with everything else at 12 weeks, but I do not feel I would have been able to make an informed decision with the information provided.
There might not be price differences but there may be functional differences. For example, some companies have homegrown applications with a GUI that makes your eyes bleed, and it just barely functions, but it also does something critical that can't be lived without. The guy that wrote it was killed by a speeding beer truck three years ago and his workstation with the source code was wiped to turn it into a "Super Wiki Mashup Web 3.0 Second Life" server, because management read somewhere that that's what all the kids are doing now. And it won't work on Vista for some damn reason.
All the ATM manufacturers run WinXP these days, anyway. It'll come off like a troll, but we didn't have these types problems with ATMs back when they all ran OS/2. Fugly but effective.
I just bought one last week and had the choice of Vista or XP. I think the news is probably that they have now have canned SKUs for XP where maybe they didn't before? As in, you could always go on and customize a laptop to have anything you want, but companies buying in large quantities probably just use a canned SKU that has the bundle they want with everything, to save time. Just guessing, though.
That was my first thought when I saw the title. I can't think of what I want to do with one, but I know I want to do something.
I doubt the folks in engineering or management, who do work in the office quite a bit more, will lose their dedicated workspaces.
I work for one of the companies referenced above, and it really sucked when someone else moved all their personal items into my workspace without even asking if I was still using it (I'm only in the office once a month or so). I left it as a nice, clean workspace with my contact information clearly displayed, when I came back it was filled with what appears to be a lifetime collection of cubicle crap. You know, photos of kittens with captions like "Hang in there!", bad photos of kids with birthday cake all over their face, a Far Side calendar, etc.
I can't wait until our office remodel when we will have open workspaces.
Gitmo sucks, it's the worst version of ourselves to present to the world, but it pales in comparison.
The problem isn't that we are imprisoning people in Gitmo. The problem is that they are imprisoned based solely on the belief of their guilt by the US federal government, instead of on the belief of guilt by twelve average idiots. You know, the type of folks that let O.J. go. That's partially because good citizens routinely do everything they can to avoid serving on a jury, and lawyers routinely try to get the dumbest, most malleable jury possible.
Personally, I think Gitmo is an admission by the federal government that our existing judicial process is too fucked up to adequately process suspected criminals.
I think you meant "no longer have to carry a little laminate card" instead of "no longer have to abide..."
No offense, but your statement seems to be reading a bit more into the document than it actually says.
Anyway, if you believe Gitmo is evil, the document will support your belief. If you do not believe Gitmo is evil, nothing in the document will change your mind. Frankly, I think the entire article is a troll.
To support my point, there is a clear degradation of the grammar and spelling skills of the current 20-somethings versus those of a generation prior. The English language hasn't changed that much, school funding hasn't changed that much, but the teaching method did. Other countries (Cuba and Israel are two examples) have switched to whole language and subsequently switched back to phonics when they encountered similar difficulties, so it's not unique to the English language.
You make a good point about needing to memorize every word in the English language, but as this is clearly not practical, if even possible, you need a tool to handle unfamiliar words. Phonics can't help you in every situation where you see a word you don't know, but it's better than nothing at all.
A few other things have changed.
There is now a prevailing attitude that everyone is entitled to happiness and it's the government's job to provide it. It's the pursuit of happiness, you gotta chase it and earn it, and even then you don't always get it.
Our education system got a bit worse and our kids got a bit dumber. The reason Johnny can't spell for shit is due to a shift from phonics to whole language, and you can thank the 60's generation for that.
Voter ignorance has exceeded voter apathy. I wish fewer, but better-informed, people voted, and I wish they paid attention to their other representatives as much as the President. But like the man said, wish in one hand and shit in the other, see which gets full first.
The 60s generation had the poorest understanding of human nature than any previous generation in the US. They had a lot of ideas that look great on paper but failed to take into account the human element.
Going back to TFA and an earlier post I saw, just as you can't fight consumers and must learn to work with their needs, you can't fight human nature and must learn to work within its constricts.
Yeah, but damn near every review on the Amazon site is written by someone who doesn't own one and thinks the review system is good for expressing an opinion about something they know nothing more about than I do. It's hard to find reviews from actual owners, but the ones I've found are mostly positive.
/. culture, but I would accept DRM as a trade-off if it were just a bit less expensive, came with an integrated book light, and wasn't so goddamn ugly.
I know it's counter to
Although it was otherwise an unremarkable game, True Crime: Streets of LA (a GTA ripoff) did a great job with this issue. They came up with a system where, as you drive around the city, areas outside of specific distance from where you are were unloaded from memory at the same time loading areas coming into your area.
The net effect was that you could drive from one end of Los Angeles to the other at full speed without any level load pauses.
The downside would be that any changes to the environment would only be temporary in nature, which won't work well for many FPS-style games.