i was under the uninformed impression that Australia was the only country in the world with IP laws worse than those in the United States. maybe there's a legal snag.
or maybe Steve is just taking revenge for those horrible Crocodile Dundee movies.
All the other comments seem to concentrate on the fact that this employee does not owe his employer the six weeks plus on-call, and they are right; but no one seems to be concentrating on what I see as the major point: the boss is desperate for this employee! My advice is to be really nice to the employer and leverage his needs to the employee's advantage:
"Oh, absolutely, boss, I totally see where you are coming from. Unfortunately my new job starts in two weeks but I can be on call for the next six months. My contract price is $115 and hour with a three hour minimum. Here's my cell number."
Don't forget to turn off the cell phone when you don't want to work for him.
[rolls eyes] we really don't care if most people use Windows, we just want there to be enough Mac users for Apple to turn a profit and continue making superior products that we can enjoy. computers are hardly the only market in which the vast majority of people use a demonstrably inferior product.
yeah, you're sortof right, but people did eventually stop using Netscape 4.6 (thankfully). standards do move forward, and in fact they have a fairly reasonable pace. most people use validating browsers now, for instance, even though most sites still don't validate. but a lot of them do.
agreed. i'd never been to that site before but i not only didn't get any popups, i didn't see any ads there at all. my only ad blocker is a CSS file i found online (a fairly strict one) which i have added to a few times when i've seen an ad that snuck thru.
i have seen some popups (maybe a half dozen) in the past couple weeks though, with Safari on OS X.
to me the obvious answer is to ssh into a CS department computer. i have to assume there are some; my CS dept had several dozen and you could ssh into any of them, or go and sit in front of them yourself.
I use a FingerWorks keyboard which has what you want. I'm a programmer and all the programming symbols are right under my right hand if I do a shift-like modifier gesture with my left hand. It's awesome. Plus, the symbol right under my right index finger is the dash, which is really useful when typing english.
If their website doesn't convince you that this keyboard is sweet, maybe my testimony will. I love this keyboard; it's really god's gift to people who want a better input device. The gestures are easy to learn, well thought out in the default configuration, and it's customizable, too, so it's very extensible. Typing does take some getting used to, but not very much. I now type as fast as I used to on regular keyboards. Don't let the price turn you off, it's well worth it for anyone who spends time in front of of a computer for a living like we do.
All the conditions are there. But does the Mini offer enough to get people to climb out of their boxes of complacency and tolerance, and actually switch?
I hope the Mini does better at that than John Kerry.
I have a Fingerworks keyboard I'm typing this with right now and I love it. If this thing ever breaks I'll buy a new one the same day. I spend a lot of time at my computer, like many of us, and I realized right away that three hundred bucks was a triviality when compared to the utility of this keyboard. It is well worth the money.
The only thing that is difficult about this keyboard is -- and this will sound strange -- typing. Everything else is easy. "Everything else" means the gestures, I guess: the keyboard comes with a vast and well-designed set of pre-programed gestures and alternate key meanings to make OS control easy. I also customized mine with some special gestures to bring up other UI enhancements I have added to my computer, making using my computer very much easier than it was out of the box.
Typing is hard to get used to. First of all, the buttons aren't aligned like a regular keyboard and that takes getting used to. Well, maybe I should say misaligned: regular keyboards are really hard for me to use now -- why do they put the keys all offset like that? Anyway, it is hard to hit every key correctly on this keyboard at first but my typing speed is as fast or maybe faster as before on regular keyboards. I've had this Fingerworks keyboard for a few months now. It is extremely low impact and, surprisingly, I don't miss the 'clickiness' of a regular keyboard at all (as I thought I would).
Mmmm -- also: My wrists hurt before I bought this keyboard and they don't anymore. And something that isn't clear from the website is that the keyboard is very pleasantly small. It fits square on a lap and isn't lopsided. Having the delete key under my left thumb is AWESOME -- all keyboards should be like that. Oh, yes, there are little dots on the home row to feel the home row and keep your hands aligned. I think the keyboard would benefit from vey slight indentations in the center of the keys so that I could get constant tactile a feedback when typing, but really I'm used to it.
It's a good product. Buy it. I say that without reserve.
right you are: an overzealous spam filter may be worse than no spam filter at all; but my spam filter (again, the spam filter built into Apple's Mail) gives almost no false positives. i routinely glance thru my spam box before i trash it all and i haven't had a false positive in most if a year. during the first few months of using the program, i got a very small number, but now none at all. have you tried Apple's Mail? if not, try it -- i don't know how it works, but it works. that's all i'm saying: spam is in fact not a problem to everyone, only to those who use insufficient software.
that's not to say that a better solution would be to have no spam at all. certainly a spamless world is the best solution.
i did solve my spam problem. about half the emails which are sent to my email address are spam, but i see maybe one actual spam message per week in my inbox because of my email client's filtering (Apple's Mail program). are there people out there who are still bothered by spam? how silly of you all! (though it would be nice to get that last one-per-week spam.)
as an aside, i heard someone complain about popup windows in web pages and i asked them why their client software is so bad as to allow that. i haven't seen a popup since, what, 1999 or so, and it's not like i'm using super-secret software. same with OS crashes. same with macro viruses. if your software allows annoying content thru, use better software.
I"ve had the same 'problem' in the past. Since most ram chips have a little hole in the corner, I've used the chips as cool keychains. I try to do this with dead memory, but if the memory has no value to you, and you need a keychain fob....
if they don't understand the reason for your decisions, you are either writing inadequately clear code or you are writing insufficient comments. good code can be easily understood.
good to hear the problem might not be universal, or even very common at all. the problem was reported, after all, on a java developers' list, so the reporters were more likely to have funny things installed with their java.
if you want to double check, make sure you've restarted and type 'java -version' at a terminal (Terminal) prompt. if you get a version string, all is well; reportedly, that command produced a segmentation fault.
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Oh, well, I feel like I live in the third world
Didn't you say you live in Italy? Not exactly Taiwan or New York...
i was under the uninformed impression that Australia was the only country in the world with IP laws worse than those in the United States. maybe there's a legal snag.
or maybe Steve is just taking revenge for those horrible Crocodile Dundee movies.
All the other comments seem to concentrate on the fact that this employee does not owe his employer the six weeks plus on-call, and they are right; but no one seems to be concentrating on what I see as the major point: the boss is desperate for this employee! My advice is to be really nice to the employer and leverage his needs to the employee's advantage:
"Oh, absolutely, boss, I totally see where you are coming from. Unfortunately my new job starts in two weeks but I can be on call for the next six months. My contract price is $115 and hour with a three hour minimum. Here's my cell number."
Don't forget to turn off the cell phone when you don't want to work for him.
[rolls eyes] we really don't care if most people use Windows, we just want there to be enough Mac users for Apple to turn a profit and continue making superior products that we can enjoy. computers are hardly the only market in which the vast majority of people use a demonstrably inferior product.
what will you do when they stop selling CDs and only sell DVDAs?
(what will you do when they judge the GPL unenforceable?)
yes.
wasn't there something recently about Apple being the world's most valuable brand? maybe i have my details wrong. here i'll google for it: here we go.
i need to watch more tv because i have no idea what you guys are talking about
Hardware accelerated PVR systems are missing from the Mac platform? You must not be familiar with EyeTV
yeah, you're sortof right, but people did eventually stop using Netscape 4.6 (thankfully). standards do move forward, and in fact they have a fairly reasonable pace. most people use validating browsers now, for instance, even though most sites still don't validate. but a lot of them do.
agreed. i'd never been to that site before but i not only didn't get any popups, i didn't see any ads there at all. my only ad blocker is a CSS file i found online (a fairly strict one) which i have added to a few times when i've seen an ad that snuck thru.
i have seen some popups (maybe a half dozen) in the past couple weeks though, with Safari on OS X.
power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely
to me the obvious answer is to ssh into a CS department computer. i have to assume there are some; my CS dept had several dozen and you could ssh into any of them, or go and sit in front of them yourself.
what am i missing? the answer is so obvious.
I use a FingerWorks keyboard which has what you want. I'm a programmer and all the programming symbols are right under my right hand if I do a shift-like modifier gesture with my left hand. It's awesome. Plus, the symbol right under my right index finger is the dash, which is really useful when typing english.
Here's a link.
If their website doesn't convince you that this keyboard is sweet, maybe my testimony will. I love this keyboard; it's really god's gift to people who want a better input device. The gestures are easy to learn, well thought out in the default configuration, and it's customizable, too, so it's very extensible. Typing does take some getting used to, but not very much. I now type as fast as I used to on regular keyboards. Don't let the price turn you off, it's well worth it for anyone who spends time in front of of a computer for a living like we do.
i vote for this question
there are colleges which don't require their students to have computers? seriously? in 2005? in the united states?
my alma mater has been requiring personal computers since the eighties.
All the conditions are there. But does the Mini offer enough to get people to climb out of their boxes of complacency and tolerance, and actually switch?
I hope the Mini does better at that than John Kerry.
My uncle built a new (huge) workshop with water-pipe heated flooring.
He only told you it was a water pipe. It's really a bong.
I have a Fingerworks keyboard I'm typing this with right now and I love it. If this thing ever breaks I'll buy a new one the same day. I spend a lot of time at my computer, like many of us, and I realized right away that three hundred bucks was a triviality when compared to the utility of this keyboard. It is well worth the money.
The only thing that is difficult about this keyboard is -- and this will sound strange -- typing. Everything else is easy. "Everything else" means the gestures, I guess: the keyboard comes with a vast and well-designed set of pre-programed gestures and alternate key meanings to make OS control easy. I also customized mine with some special gestures to bring up other UI enhancements I have added to my computer, making using my computer very much easier than it was out of the box.
Typing is hard to get used to. First of all, the buttons aren't aligned like a regular keyboard and that takes getting used to. Well, maybe I should say misaligned: regular keyboards are really hard for me to use now -- why do they put the keys all offset like that? Anyway, it is hard to hit every key correctly on this keyboard at first but my typing speed is as fast or maybe faster as before on regular keyboards. I've had this Fingerworks keyboard for a few months now. It is extremely low impact and, surprisingly, I don't miss the 'clickiness' of a regular keyboard at all (as I thought I would).
Mmmm -- also: My wrists hurt before I bought this keyboard and they don't anymore. And something that isn't clear from the website is that the keyboard is very pleasantly small. It fits square on a lap and isn't lopsided. Having the delete key under my left thumb is AWESOME -- all keyboards should be like that. Oh, yes, there are little dots on the home row to feel the home row and keep your hands aligned. I think the keyboard would benefit from vey slight indentations in the center of the keys so that I could get constant tactile a feedback when typing, but really I'm used to it.
It's a good product. Buy it. I say that without reserve.
right you are: an overzealous spam filter may be worse than no spam filter at all; but my spam filter (again, the spam filter built into Apple's Mail) gives almost no false positives. i routinely glance thru my spam box before i trash it all and i haven't had a false positive in most if a year. during the first few months of using the program, i got a very small number, but now none at all. have you tried Apple's Mail? if not, try it -- i don't know how it works, but it works. that's all i'm saying: spam is in fact not a problem to everyone, only to those who use insufficient software.
that's not to say that a better solution would be to have no spam at all. certainly a spamless world is the best solution.
i did solve my spam problem. about half the emails which are sent to my email address are spam, but i see maybe one actual spam message per week in my inbox because of my email client's filtering (Apple's Mail program). are there people out there who are still bothered by spam? how silly of you all! (though it would be nice to get that last one-per-week spam.)
as an aside, i heard someone complain about popup windows in web pages and i asked them why their client software is so bad as to allow that. i haven't seen a popup since, what, 1999 or so, and it's not like i'm using super-secret software. same with OS crashes. same with macro viruses. if your software allows annoying content thru, use better software.
I"ve had the same 'problem' in the past. Since most ram chips have a little hole in the corner, I've used the chips as cool keychains. I try to do this with dead memory, but if the memory has no value to you, and you need a keychain fob....
For me, a more powerful question to ask is "I wonder what I see that Hipparchos didn't?"
if they don't understand the reason for your decisions, you are either writing inadequately clear code or you are writing insufficient comments. good code can be easily understood.
good to hear the problem might not be universal, or even very common at all. the problem was reported, after all, on a java developers' list, so the reporters were more likely to have funny things installed with their java.
if you want to double check, make sure you've restarted and type 'java -version' at a terminal (Terminal) prompt. if you get a version string, all is well; reportedly, that command produced a segmentation fault.