A lot of the posts here say, "just pay more attention to your penmanship;" if it were that easy he probably would have done it already. What I did to improve my handwriting is decide, one day, that my handwriting sucked and that I should do something about it. What I did was develop a "font" for myself. I looked at the elements of my handwriting at the time that I liked, made them consistent throughout the lettering, and figured out what every letter should look like. As I would write I'd try to make every letter look like it would if I'd drawn a font and was typing in it. After a few months I had developed a very nice, (and unlike those who learn handwriting from a book) very unique style. People complemented me on it, and I could always tell which papers in a stack were mine. If you think of your writing as a presentation instead of the fastest way to get ideas onto paper, and take pride in the result, your handwriting will improve.
Unfortunately the last few years of being out of school have caused my handwriting to diverge from my font. I fear I'll have to once again start watching every letter to get it back to where it was when I was taking pages of notes every day.
AV Software is a market created by the people who write the software. It provides only false security. I have never used antivirus software. Ever. Know how many viruses I've received in the last ten years? None. Here's my patent-pending method to keeping those evil hackers from putting their viruses on my computer.
All of the above posts are spot on, except they leave out the most excruciating part of the books: the "love scenes," wherin the female main character gets it on with every single male in a position of power over her. Offensive in the extreme, uninteresting, and thrown in every few hundred pages to keep the lowest of lowbrow interested in the plot. Awful. I just stopped a few hundred pages from the end because I was tired of enduring that shit.
Frankly, I doubt it. According the article there are, what, 50 million people put out of (mostly) minimum wage jobs by the robots. All of a sudden there are a lot of job openings for maintenance techs, task programmers, robot supervisors, etc. In today's economy any one of those would pay a reasonable wage. But if there's an oversupply of labor (and there will be: it wouldn't make sense to switch to robots if you needed one human tech for every robot), supply and demand says those newly created jobs won't pay well at all. In fact, I'd bet they'll be minimum wage jobs.
Yes, they've lost the battle (in most states) over the existence of a minimum wage. But they have won the war, as for the last 20 years the value of that wage has gone steadily down. And I don't know where you live, but everywhere I've ever lived when there's a campaign to raise the minimum wage, even to keep pace with inflation, the Republicans scream and yell about how it's going to destroy the local economy. They drag out a bunch of restaurant owners who claim they'll go out of business immediately if they were to pay their workers 3 cents more per hour. If the next 20 years is anything like the last, the minimum wage in 2023 will be all but worthless instead of just insultingly small as it is now. Remember, the original point of the minimum wage was to allow people to work a 40 hour work week and raise a family on it.
While I think the article's ideas for how to raise money are ludicrous (ads on the back of $1 bills?), the premise isn't. Straight lassez faire capitalism will not work when 50% of the workforce doesn't have a job. The stock market's going to do great, though.
Hahahhahaha! Thank you! The discussion was so serious before. The idea that big business would allow "our" leaders to raise the minimum wage... priceless!
He knows exactly what this service will do to NTT if it catches on. VoIP for cheap could drive NTT out of business, at which point Softbank becomes a neccessity (like the airlines here in the States) to the country. So if Softbank's business model were to catch up to them, it's bailout time!
1. Offer amazing service for incredibly cheap 2. ???* 3. Drive only alternative for neccessary public service out of business 4. Profit!!! (or Bailout!!!)
*: I'm not sure how they'll hang on for long enough to kill NTT
So because they work for the government, they don't deserve sick time, nor vacation days, nor health insurance, nor a pension?
I'd really like to see some figures about the "exponential" tax growth and the 80% of taxes that are wasted. I imagine the growth in taxes collected is mysteriously tied to population growth, and your 80% is a number you picked out of the air.
Because some of us have more than 10 CDs, and want to be able to carry our music -- all of our music -- with us. Because some of us don't encode all of our CDs to 128 kbps MP3. Because some of us have different needs than you.
Of course, my first thought whenever I see those "BRING OUT TEH VIDEO IPOD!!1!!!" posts is, "What kind of insane moron wants to watch movies on a 3 inch screen?"
I don't have the wobble, but a related problem: my battery isn't flush with the rest of the chassis. It was flush when I pulled it out of the box, but the after the first time I pulled the battery off, it never reseated properly afterwards. Two trips to Apple haven't resolved the problem, so I've learned to accept the millimeter edge around the battery.
That said, I still love this thing. It's my first Mac since the Classic II, and it's an amazing little box. It gets warm, but certainly never 120 degrees F. Also, Apple was amazing getting it back to me both times I sent it in. They not only got it back to me in less than 72 hours (that is, I gave it to Airborne on Monday at 3 pm and got it back Wednesday at 11 am), but fixed several things I didn't complain about (a scratched lcd housing which was my own fault and the latching mechanism which came from the factory withh a little play in it). I'd still spend the $1900 on it without a second thought.
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All (standard) tabs use the same keybinding: control-tab. Ctl-shift-tab moves backwards. This works (almost) everywhere. Gnome, windows, and I'm pretty sure the Mac OS use the same binding.
For example, if lets say I stole a simple 3 line chunk of code that converts a date from one format to another, and threw it in my multi-thousand line project (which is all original except for those 3 lines), would it really be breaking the GPL?
Yes.
And the story referrs to theft on a different level. If someone can tell it's stolen by looking at the binary, the two pieces of code must be very similar.
...is CoolEdit. About a month ago, I tried every Linux sound editor I could find, and nothing that comes close to CoolEdit's functionality exists. The real killer is CoolEdit's really nice multitracking; Audacity comes close, but crashes far too often and lacks sound grouping. Broadcast 2000 looked promising, but is buggy and no longer being developed. Unfortunately, I think it might take another year or so of development before any Free replacement for CoolEdit (or SoundForge or whatever) is ready.
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I thought they bought the government a couple years back.
Unfortunately the last few years of being out of school have caused my handwriting to diverge from my font. I fear I'll have to once again start watching every letter to get it back to where it was when I was taking pages of notes every day.
Hooray!
All of the above posts are spot on, except they leave out the most excruciating part of the books: the "love scenes," wherin the female main character gets it on with every single male in a position of power over her. Offensive in the extreme, uninteresting, and thrown in every few hundred pages to keep the lowest of lowbrow interested in the plot. Awful. I just stopped a few hundred pages from the end because I was tired of enduring that shit.
Hope I get an update before 2038....
[ryan][~][15:152B][0] perl 2038.pl
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[ryan][~][15:152B][0] uname -rs
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Frankly, I doubt it. According the article there are, what, 50 million people put out of (mostly) minimum wage jobs by the robots. All of a sudden there are a lot of job openings for maintenance techs, task programmers, robot supervisors, etc. In today's economy any one of those would pay a reasonable wage. But if there's an oversupply of labor (and there will be: it wouldn't make sense to switch to robots if you needed one human tech for every robot), supply and demand says those newly created jobs won't pay well at all. In fact, I'd bet they'll be minimum wage jobs.
Yes, they've lost the battle (in most states) over the existence of a minimum wage. But they have won the war, as for the last 20 years the value of that wage has gone steadily down. And I don't know where you live, but everywhere I've ever lived when there's a campaign to raise the minimum wage, even to keep pace with inflation, the Republicans scream and yell about how it's going to destroy the local economy. They drag out a bunch of restaurant owners who claim they'll go out of business immediately if they were to pay their workers 3 cents more per hour. If the next 20 years is anything like the last, the minimum wage in 2023 will be all but worthless instead of just insultingly small as it is now. Remember, the original point of the minimum wage was to allow people to work a 40 hour work week and raise a family on it.
While I think the article's ideas for how to raise money are ludicrous (ads on the back of $1 bills?), the premise isn't. Straight lassez faire capitalism will not work when 50% of the workforce doesn't have a job. The stock market's going to do great, though.
He knows exactly what this service will do to NTT if it catches on. VoIP for cheap could drive NTT out of business, at which point Softbank becomes a neccessity (like the airlines here in the States) to the country. So if Softbank's business model were to catch up to them, it's bailout time!
1. Offer amazing service for incredibly cheap
2. ???*
3. Drive only alternative for neccessary public service out of business
4. Profit!!! (or Bailout!!!)
*: I'm not sure how they'll hang on for long enough to kill NTT
So because they work for the government, they don't deserve sick time, nor vacation days, nor health insurance, nor a pension?
I'd really like to see some figures about the "exponential" tax growth and the 80% of taxes that are wasted. I imagine the growth in taxes collected is mysteriously tied to population growth, and your 80% is a number you picked out of the air.
Because some of us have more than 10 CDs, and want to be able to carry our music -- all of our music -- with us. Because some of us don't encode all of our CDs to 128 kbps MP3. Because some of us have different needs than you.
Of course, my first thought whenever I see those "BRING OUT TEH VIDEO IPOD!!1!!!" posts is, "What kind of insane moron wants to watch movies on a 3 inch screen?"
I don't have the wobble, but a related problem: my battery isn't flush with the rest of the chassis. It was flush when I pulled it out of the box, but the after the first time I pulled the battery off, it never reseated properly afterwards. Two trips to Apple haven't resolved the problem, so I've learned to accept the millimeter edge around the battery.
That said, I still love this thing. It's my first Mac since the Classic II, and it's an amazing little box. It gets warm, but certainly never 120 degrees F. Also, Apple was amazing getting it back to me both times I sent it in. They not only got it back to me in less than 72 hours (that is, I gave it to Airborne on Monday at 3 pm and got it back Wednesday at 11 am), but fixed several things I didn't complain about (a scratched lcd housing which was my own fault and the latching mechanism which came from the factory withh a little play in it). I'd still spend the $1900 on it without a second thought.
All (standard) tabs use the same keybinding: control-tab. Ctl-shift-tab moves backwards. This works (almost) everywhere. Gnome, windows, and I'm pretty sure the Mac OS use the same binding.
Yes.
And the story referrs to theft on a different level. If someone can tell it's stolen by looking at the binary, the two pieces of code must be very similar.
Nautilus already does this.
Open a Nautilus window. Open the preferences. Select Desktop & Trash from the menu, then check Use your home folder as your desktop.
MAGIC!
...is CoolEdit. About a month ago, I tried every Linux sound editor I could find, and nothing that comes close to CoolEdit's functionality exists. The real killer is CoolEdit's really nice multitracking; Audacity comes close, but crashes far too often and lacks sound grouping. Broadcast 2000 looked promising, but is buggy and no longer being developed. Unfortunately, I think it might take another year or so of development before any Free replacement for CoolEdit (or SoundForge or whatever) is ready.