Finally, someone who agrees that Quake 3 sucked great "hoary hedgehog" balls and is a major blemish on id's record. It seemed more cartoony than previous Quakes and they copied many things that UT had gotten right.
I will probably buy SS-2, but I doubt that I'll buy Quake 4.
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Removing the special jumps is an option to whoever is hosting the match. As to regular jumping, well, get over it. Anyone who runs in a straight line is going to get shot, real soldier or not.
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Level 3 went down at 22:42 pst and was available around 23:50 pst. Verio started having problems right around the same time that Level 3 was coming back up. The Internet Health Report from Keynote showed me what was going on, scary that it was.
You need to slap yourself. 10x users !+ 10x market share. Go slap yourself again.
If they had 400,000 users before, they would now have 4,000,000 users. It says nothing about users of other open source databases. What it means is that it opens the way for even more commercial database users to use MySQL, which will, in turn, increase its market share of open source database users. Its possible (gasp at the thought) that some other open source database users would even migrate.
Regardless of all this, poor math and logic skills included, it is a step forward.
I have 2 lines with Vonage and they were very adament about the 911 deal. They told me up front about the 911 issue, they sent me email, and it was listed beside the line on the web site. I don't know what the Texas AG expects them to do.
I agree with the parent that the entire system needs to be thought out better. If the local 911 call center won't reveal its direct number, then I don't see how Vonage can help it.
I like the GPS idea. It should not be that big of a deal to implement.
Novell was rolling out its directory service and Zen back when Microsoft was trying to get SMS 1.0 working. Back then it required the netware client. It has come a long, long way since then.
At one time, most of the world was using Netware clients. So if most of the world is using Windows file servers now, it can change just like it did before.
Lastly, most Windows admins that I know don't really care for SMS all that much--never have.
I guess it depends on your insurance company. With mine, I started out as a 16 year old with medium priced insurance. Then as I went longer and longer without any claims, my rates have gotten lower and I have larger discounts. When I was in high school, there was an honor roll discount. Now I have a 15 year accident free discount, which is the largest that they offer.
I also have multiple vehicles, and they charge less for the ones that I do not drive as much. I don't drive that much anyway, so I get a different rate for driving less than 5,000 miles per year.
There are always ways to wiggle and adjust your rates if you are a good driver. You just have to be smart enough to find out. Those with drunk driving charges, reckless driving charges, and other serious charges deserve to pay higher rates, and they do.
When I was in high school, girls had cheaper rates then than boys, because studies showed a higher accident rate in boys than girls. I always thought this was because girls tended to drive less then the average boy. Regardless, the gender difference in driving habits has stabilized to the point that both genders are equally bad drivers.
I've often felt the same about literature classes. The lecturer will drone on and on about what the author was saying, trying to say, or meant to say. I generally sit there and wonder what the lecturer was smoking that morning.
While most authors are guilty of a little allegory, some a lot of allegory, most writings are not meant to be that deep. If the reader cannot find the meaning of something in the first reading or two, then the writer did not convey his point very well.
I have read the EarthSea books, and I found them to be fairly simple and straightforward. The abject rape of her plot was worse than I, Robot! That is sad. If a producer ever approaches me or my agent about turning one of my books into a movie, even a TV movie, I am sure that I will certainly say yes, then ask how much. The movie can only promote sales of the book and help you sell future works. I will probably be one of those who gets all morose about what they did to my story and world, but I'll only do that until another offer, if any, comes along. Money puts food on the table, and shirts on my back. Purity of intention makes me happy, but hungry in the end.
The problem with your argument is in the nature of how you actually contract HIV. TB, smallpox, typhoid (I don't recall about polio) are passed via the normal methods such as breathing. They are fairly easy to contract. There is only one method of contracting HIV, and that is exchange of virus-carrying bodily fluids.
So I just don't buy the argument about poor people, AIDS, and other epidemics.
If the couple were totally monogamous, as in from virginity, then the chances of contracting HIV would be so small that I'd lose track of the zeros.
Of course, the chances of a couple both being virgins when they first have sex, then staying monogamous, are also equally small that I'd lose track of the zeros.
Gee, most of that sounds suspiciously like both Perl and PHP. And my boss approves of both of those, and Yahoo has standardized on PHP for new development now.
First, although 300 locations with a few users each may sound like a high-volume site, it is not. I don't want to burst any bubbles, but it simple is not high-traffic in today's world. I work with large e-tailing sites that get 200,000 unique visitors per hour.
The first step is to determine the type of load you will receive. Is it call-center type traffic, where they will have dedicated staff accessing the application, or will it be more like Internet traffic that comes in waves when it feels like it? If your application fits the call-center model, then you need to know the maximum number of operator-types that will be online at any given time. If it is more like an Internet site, such as Slashdot, then you need to either project the number of sessions per hour, also called the arrival rate, or examine the web logs to find out.
Concurrent users and arrival rates are not the same--one is the output of the other. In arrival rate mode, the number of concurrent users vary depending on the number of visitors arriving that minute, and the speed of the site. If the site slows down, which is will at a higher rate of visitors, then the sessions will take longer. If the sessions take longer, then visitors continue to come to the site and the number of concurrent users rise. Internet visitors do not know how many users are on the site and certainly won't obey any threshold that you determine.
The second step is to test over the Internet, and from as may remote locations as possible. You said that there were to be 300 remote offices. Are these all in the US, or are any of them International? Testing on a local LAN does not tell you much of anything, because there is no latency and everything runs at the speed of your switch. Very few people have 100 megabit connections to the Internet, so it is not realistic to test that way. Real users have a mix of line speeds, and come from a variety of locations. It is best to test from 5 or more geographically disperse locations, using a distribution of the line speeds that your end users will be using. If each of these 300 site has a T1, and each site has an average of 3 users, then each user should run at 512Kbps, not 1.54Mbps.
Lastly, perform realistic transactions on the site, don't just simply hit the home page. Real users on the site will probably start at the home page and traverse the site, doing various things. You should have an idea of what these actions will be, or you can examine the web logs to determine the top 10 paths through the site. Then write scripts for each path and run them proportionately. You also need to build in think or dwell times into each page. Real users don't go from page to page as fast as possible! They take time to fill out forms. A good load test takes into account how familiar a person is with the site and what the person's patience with the site will be. A person using an SSL connection purchasing something has more patience that someone browsing a catalog. By the same token, an operator-type person does not have any choice about whether they can use the site or not, however their productivity will be directly proportional to the speed of the site.
There are very few open source or free tools that do these things for you. Your options are to 1) wing it as best you can using the SWAG method you described, or 2) seek help. There are various Do-It-Yourself outsourced solutions, such as Test Perspective or some other total outsourced solution. The DIY method will probably get you the best value, but you are subject to your own work, and don't have anyone to blame if things go wrong.
Sorry, but your logic there escapes me. If they guy originally estimated that he only knew 1/100th of the corruption, and now says that he only knows 1/1000th of the corruption, then he makes a solid case that he really does not know that much, and that 999/1000ths of his assertions are speculation, not fact or evidence.
I don't know about you, but a guy claiming to be 999/1000th clueless just does not inspire me--unless its a she and she's blond.
ICRS is the next big thing, and it will probably replace LASIK quickly. However, it is not FDA approved yet, so it is not generally available. If you have the time, wait for it.
I had enhanced LASIC performed about 3 years ago. It was some of the best money ever spent. The only thing is that I do have to wear sunglasses when even in moderate sunlight. Most people that I have spoken with say the same--that your eyes will be more light sensitive than they were before.
I see all these new things, but I am a visual person, and I need pictures man, I need pictures!
Does anyone have any screenshots of the new features or pictures of why I should bother trying this new version over the version that I have installed but don't use now anyway?
Much to my dismay, I use Windows on a daily basis. I have to use Outlook, Visio, SourceSafe, and a few other tools which are not easily duplicated via OSS. I guess I could use cross-over office or something, but that is a little fuzzy for me. I do use OSS such as OOO for word processing, firefox on both windows and linux, thunderbird, etc.
Anyway, and if you visit my site you'll see that I say that a lot, my main desktop is a Win2K box. It crashes every day or every other day. The VPN will die, then Outlook will try to freeze most everything. Then, the OS hasn't released the memory so I have 500 megs of physical memory in use and 700 megs of virtual memory in use and I have to reboot. So I am back to almost rebooting daily, just like I did with win98. And yes, this is Win2k, with all the service packs, patches, fixes and prayer that MS can offer.
I will say that XP is a step better than Win2k in stability, but there is a price to pay in speed and memory usage. I am much happier using RedHat ELWS 3.0-1 for my daily desktop needs. It does not crash--ever. It has complained bitterly to me before, but never treated me like windows.
I think this is actually a great idea. If the developers did their work under WINE, and tested their work under WINE, then it would work under regular Windows and WINE too, thus having a wider area of acceptance and less work for the WINE guys to do, fewer corner cases for them to code around.
On top of all this, I'm sure that since WINE is user space, you would not be able to crash your entire OS like you can still do with any Windows OS and messed up software.
For me it seems that the email comes in batches, not just one at a time. I think this is probably a result of some common spam providers doing their runs, which causes me to get 10-12 in a one minute period. So whether I choose to do it in real time, or in "batch" as homework, it is often much the same.
What I am looking for is better integration with some of the popular mail readers, such as evolution, Mozilla-mail or Thunderbird. I know that evolution has a pre-execution filter, but that proved to be really slow with spamassassin. The bayesian filters integrated into Mozilla-mail are not very effective. It only gets about 50% and that is after months of training.
Its nice that some of the anti-spam applications try to be MUA agnostic, but this isn't always the best approach because it causes a lowest common denominator issue. pop3 emulators are cool, but the training integration is a pain. The same thing goes for any other standard protocol emulation, except maybe an IMAP4 emulation layer. That way the training could be accomplished by folders.
To all those with no ambition--stop chasing Microsoft. To all those who have an ambitious bone in their body--Keep chasing Microsoft!.
There was a time when MS Word was not king. It was barely even a noble. You had Wordstar, PCWrite and others. Then Wordperfect became king. The.wpd became a standard for many, the same as.doc is today. Many legal offices (in the US anyway) still use Wordperfect because of all of the "approved" templates that they are required to use.
Where is Wordperfect today? They are still around, but probably have less marketshare than Netscape does. Microsoft beat out Wordperfect, partly because of having a better interface, and making it easier to use. It did not have more features per se, but most things were easier, and their WYSIWYG was better.
So if Microsoft can de-throne a king, why cannot someone de-throne Microsoft? Microsoft did not beat out Wordperfect in a day, month, or even a year. It took a while. The same will go for whoever competes with Microsoft. They better be in it for the long haul.
For what it's worth, I agree that copying Microsoft's menus and interfaces in not a good idea. Even after 8 years or so of Word, I still think its harder to make it do certain things that were easy with Wordperfect. Any competitor needs to keep the easy things simple, and take things that are hard or not well done in Word and make them easy too. Then they might have a chance.
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This is the perfect case for having a regular cell phone and the VoIP line, but no POTS line. You can use your VoIP connection for most of your calls. If you need to call 911, use your cell phone for that. E911 is not totally here yet, but almost all new phones have GPSes in them, which send your coordinates to the emergency services.
If you have a power outage, your VoIP vendor can just route calls to your cell phone automatically. You call your power company with your cell phone and get back to business. Vonage does this already.
On a side note, I think that the Cable nodes should have some sort of power backups like the phone system does--even if it is only good for a few hours. This would break the perception about the usefulness of the Internet during these types of situations.
My wife and I have cell phones, a POTS line for the house, and a Vonage connection. She uses the cell phone more than the house line, providing she actually had the cell phone handy. So far, Vonage has been great. I have not had enough experience with Vonage yet to think about disconnecting the POTS line yet, but eventually we might.
We also have 802.11G that I use throughout the house, and I can weakly pick up other 802.11 signals from other houses. However, the WiFi signals are not strong enough, or reliable enough for me to depend on them for phone usage. I cannot even play a good game of WarCraft or UT2004 over the WiFi, because the packets are too jumpy. Perhaps with some of the token handling modifications that were mentioned in the article this might be better, but I'd have to wait and see.
I wish you would have put said 50 random file names here...that would have been funny.
I would take your 50 filenames, paste them into vi, replace all the ^ with "mv " and all the $ with "/tmp_cd". Execute the script.
Alternately, I could do a "cat | xargs..." and paste you entry too, and do it all in a single command. This would much faster than a series of mouse clicks and dragging stuff around. And most importantly, if the directory was full of seemingly random file names, you would have to find and CTRL-Click those 50 names anyway, and I hate having to click anything 50 times, except possibly in Unreal Tournament when I have a good camping spot.
So, sorry, CLI still reigns surpreme. Move along, nothing to see here.
My company has a similar system, but they also enforced performance pruning--where you remove the employees who are marked as unacceptable and rehire those positions. This means that 5% (or in our case 10%) of the company was subject to being laid off for performance reasons every year.
The system is in place to ensure that maangers actually spend time on evaluations and don't give everyone high marks. This is a good ideal, but a very poor method of achieving this goal. I am no HR person and I don't have any earth shattering ideas for solving the problem.
What also bites about this system is when you get an above average, but no excellent performance review, and there are no comments for room for improvement. Your manager says that there is no way you could be better than you are, but you still do not get an excellent review because of the curve.
And they wonder why we have violence in the workplace....
Next thing you know, they'll be suing Click and Clack from CarTalk. They recently dumped Real in favor of Windows Media because of the difficulty in getting the real "Free" Real player, and then all of the pop-ups it had. WMP was just easier and less painful to their customers and their mailbox.
Sometimes MS does get it right, at least a little bit.
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Finally, someone who agrees that Quake 3 sucked great "hoary hedgehog" balls and is a major blemish on id's record. It seemed more cartoony than previous Quakes and they copied many things that UT had gotten right.
I will probably buy SS-2, but I doubt that I'll buy Quake 4.
Removing the special jumps is an option to whoever is hosting the match. As to regular jumping, well, get over it. Anyone who runs in a straight line is going to get shot, real soldier or not.
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Bloody articles. Its actually Internet Health Report.
Fey.
Level 3 went down at 22:42 pst and was available around 23:50 pst. Verio started having problems right around the same time that Level 3 was coming back up. The Internet Health Report from Keynote showed me what was going on, scary that it was.
You need to slap yourself. 10x users !+ 10x market share. Go slap yourself again.
If they had 400,000 users before, they would now have 4,000,000 users. It says nothing about users of other open source databases. What it means is that it opens the way for even more commercial database users to use MySQL, which will, in turn, increase its market share of open source database users. Its possible (gasp at the thought) that some other open source database users would even migrate.
Regardless of all this, poor math and logic skills included, it is a step forward.
I have 2 lines with Vonage and they were very adament about the 911 deal. They told me up front about the 911 issue, they sent me email, and it was listed beside the line on the web site. I don't know what the Texas AG expects them to do.
I agree with the parent that the entire system needs to be thought out better. If the local 911 call center won't reveal its direct number, then I don't see how Vonage can help it.
I like the GPS idea. It should not be that big of a deal to implement.
Are you talking about SMS or Zenworks?
Novell was rolling out its directory service and Zen back when Microsoft was trying to get SMS 1.0 working. Back then it required the netware client. It has come a long, long way since then.
At one time, most of the world was using Netware clients. So if most of the world is using Windows file servers now, it can change just like it did before.
Lastly, most Windows admins that I know don't really care for SMS all that much--never have.
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I guess it depends on your insurance company. With mine, I started out as a 16 year old with medium priced insurance. Then as I went longer and longer without any claims, my rates have gotten lower and I have larger discounts. When I was in high school, there was an honor roll discount. Now I have a 15 year accident free discount, which is the largest that they offer.
I also have multiple vehicles, and they charge less for the ones that I do not drive as much. I don't drive that much anyway, so I get a different rate for driving less than 5,000 miles per year.
There are always ways to wiggle and adjust your rates if you are a good driver. You just have to be smart enough to find out. Those with drunk driving charges, reckless driving charges, and other serious charges deserve to pay higher rates, and they do.
When I was in high school, girls had cheaper rates then than boys, because studies showed a higher accident rate in boys than girls. I always thought this was because girls tended to drive less then the average boy. Regardless, the gender difference in driving habits has stabilized to the point that both genders are equally bad drivers.
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I've often felt the same about literature classes. The lecturer will drone on and on about what the author was saying, trying to say, or meant to say. I generally sit there and wonder what the lecturer was smoking that morning.
While most authors are guilty of a little allegory, some a lot of allegory, most writings are not meant to be that deep. If the reader cannot find the meaning of something in the first reading or two, then the writer did not convey his point very well.
I have read the EarthSea books, and I found them to be fairly simple and straightforward. The abject rape of her plot was worse than I, Robot! That is sad. If a producer ever approaches me or my agent about turning one of my books into a movie, even a TV movie, I am sure that I will certainly say yes, then ask how much. The movie can only promote sales of the book and help you sell future works. I will probably be one of those who gets all morose about what they did to my story and world, but I'll only do that until another offer, if any, comes along. Money puts food on the table, and shirts on my back. Purity of intention makes me happy, but hungry in the end.
The problem with your argument is in the nature of how you actually contract HIV. TB, smallpox, typhoid (I don't recall about polio) are passed via the normal methods such as breathing. They are fairly easy to contract. There is only one method of contracting HIV, and that is exchange of virus-carrying bodily fluids.
So I just don't buy the argument about poor people, AIDS, and other epidemics.
If the couple were totally monogamous, as in from virginity, then the chances of contracting HIV would be so small that I'd lose track of the zeros.
Of course, the chances of a couple both being virgins when they first have sex, then staying monogamous, are also equally small that I'd lose track of the zeros.
Gee, most of that sounds suspiciously like both Perl and PHP. And my boss approves of both of those, and Yahoo has standardized on PHP for new development now.
First, although 300 locations with a few users each may sound like a high-volume site, it is not. I don't want to burst any bubbles, but it simple is not high-traffic in today's world. I work with large e-tailing sites that get 200,000 unique visitors per hour.
The first step is to determine the type of load you will receive. Is it call-center type traffic, where they will have dedicated staff accessing the application, or will it be more like Internet traffic that comes in waves when it feels like it? If your application fits the call-center model, then you need to know the maximum number of operator-types that will be online at any given time. If it is more like an Internet site, such as Slashdot, then you need to either project the number of sessions per hour, also called the arrival rate, or examine the web logs to find out.
Concurrent users and arrival rates are not the same--one is the output of the other. In arrival rate mode, the number of concurrent users vary depending on the number of visitors arriving that minute, and the speed of the site. If the site slows down, which is will at a higher rate of visitors, then the sessions will take longer. If the sessions take longer, then visitors continue to come to the site and the number of concurrent users rise. Internet visitors do not know how many users are on the site and certainly won't obey any threshold that you determine.
The second step is to test over the Internet, and from as may remote locations as possible. You said that there were to be 300 remote offices. Are these all in the US, or are any of them International? Testing on a local LAN does not tell you much of anything, because there is no latency and everything runs at the speed of your switch. Very few people have 100 megabit connections to the Internet, so it is not realistic to test that way. Real users have a mix of line speeds, and come from a variety of locations. It is best to test from 5 or more geographically disperse locations, using a distribution of the line speeds that your end users will be using. If each of these 300 site has a T1, and each site has an average of 3 users, then each user should run at 512Kbps, not 1.54Mbps.
Lastly, perform realistic transactions on the site, don't just simply hit the home page. Real users on the site will probably start at the home page and traverse the site, doing various things. You should have an idea of what these actions will be, or you can examine the web logs to determine the top 10 paths through the site. Then write scripts for each path and run them proportionately. You also need to build in think or dwell times into each page. Real users don't go from page to page as fast as possible! They take time to fill out forms. A good load test takes into account how familiar a person is with the site and what the person's patience with the site will be. A person using an SSL connection purchasing something has more patience that someone browsing a catalog. By the same token, an operator-type person does not have any choice about whether they can use the site or not, however their productivity will be directly proportional to the speed of the site.
There are very few open source or free tools that do these things for you. Your options are to 1) wing it as best you can using the SWAG method you described, or 2) seek help. There are various Do-It-Yourself outsourced solutions, such as Test Perspective or some other total outsourced solution. The DIY method will probably get you the best value, but you are subject to your own work, and don't have anyone to blame if things go wrong.
Sorry, but your logic there escapes me. If they guy originally estimated that he only knew 1/100th of the corruption, and now says that he only knows 1/1000th of the corruption, then he makes a solid case that he really does not know that much, and that 999/1000ths of his assertions are speculation, not fact or evidence.
I don't know about you, but a guy claiming to be 999/1000th clueless just does not inspire me--unless its a she and she's blond.
ICRS is the next big thing, and it will probably replace LASIK quickly. However, it is not FDA approved yet, so it is not generally available. If you have the time, wait for it.
I had enhanced LASIC performed about 3 years ago. It was some of the best money ever spent. The only thing is that I do have to wear sunglasses when even in moderate sunlight. Most people that I have spoken with say the same--that your eyes will be more light sensitive than they were before.
I see all these new things, but I am a visual person, and I need pictures man, I need pictures!
Does anyone have any screenshots of the new features or pictures of why I should bother trying this new version over the version that I have installed but don't use now anyway?
DFossmeister
Much to my dismay, I use Windows on a daily basis. I have to use Outlook, Visio, SourceSafe, and a few other tools which are not easily duplicated via OSS. I guess I could use cross-over office or something, but that is a little fuzzy for me. I do use OSS such as OOO for word processing, firefox on both windows and linux, thunderbird, etc.
Anyway, and if you visit my site you'll see that I say that a lot, my main desktop is a Win2K box. It crashes every day or every other day. The VPN will die, then Outlook will try to freeze most everything. Then, the OS hasn't released the memory so I have 500 megs of physical memory in use and 700 megs of virtual memory in use and I have to reboot. So I am back to almost rebooting daily, just like I did with win98. And yes, this is Win2k, with all the service packs, patches, fixes and prayer that MS can offer.
I will say that XP is a step better than Win2k in stability, but there is a price to pay in speed and memory usage. I am much happier using RedHat ELWS 3.0-1 for my daily desktop needs. It does not crash--ever. It has complained bitterly to me before, but never treated me like windows.
I think this is actually a great idea. If the developers did their work under WINE, and tested their work under WINE, then it would work under regular Windows and WINE too, thus having a wider area of acceptance and less work for the WINE guys to do, fewer corner cases for them to code around.
On top of all this, I'm sure that since WINE is user space, you would not be able to crash your entire OS like you can still do with any Windows OS and messed up software.
For me it seems that the email comes in batches, not just one at a time. I think this is probably a result of some common spam providers doing their runs, which causes me to get 10-12 in a one minute period. So whether I choose to do it in real time, or in "batch" as homework, it is often much the same.
What I am looking for is better integration with some of the popular mail readers, such as evolution, Mozilla-mail or Thunderbird. I know that evolution has a pre-execution filter, but that proved to be really slow with spamassassin. The bayesian filters integrated into Mozilla-mail are not very effective. It only gets about 50% and that is after months of training.
Its nice that some of the anti-spam applications try to be MUA agnostic, but this isn't always the best approach because it causes a lowest common denominator issue. pop3 emulators are cool, but the training integration is a pain. The same thing goes for any other standard protocol emulation, except maybe an IMAP4 emulation layer. That way the training could be accomplished by folders.
To all those with no ambition--stop chasing Microsoft. To all those who have an ambitious bone in their body--Keep chasing Microsoft!.
.wpd became a standard for many, the same as .doc is today. Many legal offices (in the US anyway) still use Wordperfect because of all of the "approved" templates that they are required to use.
There was a time when MS Word was not king. It was barely even a noble. You had Wordstar, PCWrite and others. Then Wordperfect became king. The
Where is Wordperfect today? They are still around, but probably have less marketshare than Netscape does. Microsoft beat out Wordperfect, partly because of having a better interface, and making it easier to use. It did not have more features per se, but most things were easier, and their WYSIWYG was better.
So if Microsoft can de-throne a king, why cannot someone de-throne Microsoft? Microsoft did not beat out Wordperfect in a day, month, or even a year. It took a while. The same will go for whoever competes with Microsoft. They better be in it for the long haul.
For what it's worth, I agree that copying Microsoft's menus and interfaces in not a good idea. Even after 8 years or so of Word, I still think its harder to make it do certain things that were easy with Wordperfect. Any competitor needs to keep the easy things simple, and take things that are hard or not well done in Word and make them easy too. Then they might have a chance.
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This is the perfect case for having a regular cell phone and the VoIP line, but no POTS line. You can use your VoIP connection for most of your calls. If you need to call 911, use your cell phone for that. E911 is not totally here yet, but almost all new phones have GPSes in them, which send your coordinates to the emergency services.
If you have a power outage, your VoIP vendor can just route calls to your cell phone automatically. You call your power company with your cell phone and get back to business. Vonage does this already.
On a side note, I think that the Cable nodes should have some sort of power backups like the phone system does--even if it is only good for a few hours. This would break the perception about the usefulness of the Internet during these types of situations.
My wife and I have cell phones, a POTS line for the house, and a Vonage connection. She uses the cell phone more than the house line, providing she actually had the cell phone handy. So far, Vonage has been great. I have not had enough experience with Vonage yet to think about disconnecting the POTS line yet, but eventually we might.
We also have 802.11G that I use throughout the house, and I can weakly pick up other 802.11 signals from other houses. However, the WiFi signals are not strong enough, or reliable enough for me to depend on them for phone usage. I cannot even play a good game of WarCraft or UT2004 over the WiFi, because the packets are too jumpy. Perhaps with some of the token handling modifications that were mentioned in the article this might be better, but I'd have to wait and see.
I wish you would have put said 50 random file names here...that would have been funny.
/tmp_cd". Execute the script.
..." and paste you entry too, and do it all in a single command. This would much faster than a series of mouse clicks and dragging stuff around. And most importantly, if the directory was full of seemingly random file names, you would have to find and CTRL-Click those 50 names anyway, and I hate having to click anything 50 times, except possibly in Unreal Tournament when I have a good camping spot.
I would take your 50 filenames, paste them into vi, replace all the ^ with "mv " and all the $ with "
Alternately, I could do a "cat | xargs
So, sorry, CLI still reigns surpreme. Move along, nothing to see here.
My company has a similar system, but they also enforced performance pruning--where you remove the employees who are marked as unacceptable and rehire those positions. This means that 5% (or in our case 10%) of the company was subject to being laid off for performance reasons every year.
The system is in place to ensure that maangers actually spend time on evaluations and don't give everyone high marks. This is a good ideal, but a very poor method of achieving this goal. I am no HR person and I don't have any earth shattering ideas for solving the problem.
What also bites about this system is when you get an above average, but no excellent performance review, and there are no comments for room for improvement. Your manager says that there is no way you could be better than you are, but you still do not get an excellent review because of the curve.
And they wonder why we have violence in the workplace....
Next thing you know, they'll be suing Click and Clack from CarTalk. They recently dumped Real in favor of Windows Media because of the difficulty in getting the real "Free" Real player, and then all of the pop-ups it had. WMP was just easier and less painful to their customers and their mailbox.
Sometimes MS does get it right, at least a little bit.