Compensating for reading work emails at home is fair. It's no different to taking a work call at home.
Having said that, what about giving the company a rebate when you aren't working at work? I mean if we are talking about being compensated for every single minute of work you do while not at work? Who hasn't taken a personal call while at work, or checked / replied to a personal email?
I'd also point out that this very idea has been tried several times already, never with much success.
I worked on a project called Fundry, that was exactly this. Developers could add projects and setup paypal etc attached to it, then users could "put their money where their mouth is" so to speak and directly fund features they wanted. The idea being features would pay for themselves and developers wouldn't end up implementing features nobody wanted.
But alas it ended up failing, as the poster above mentioned, we weren't the first to try it, kickstarter beat us to the bunch by about 2 weeks but we continued on hoping we were targetting a different market than kickstarter.
We ended up open sourcing the code in case someone else wanted to run with the idea, I wonder if the new mob used it at all? We'll probably never know.
Loving this idea. I just rebuilt my office to house the treadmill on the wall behind where i work, so anytime i want a break i can just jump on. As I read this I turned to look at it for a minute and yeah, it makes a lot of sense, I could quite easily strap some spare chipboard to the arms of it and sit my laptop on there without a worry. I just wonder if walking at 2mph will affect my typing.
#12. Fewer surprise restarts How about none? Please? The only surprise restart should be a STOP error, and at that point, it's a hardware/driver issue. All other restarts should be optional, like in sane operating systems.
I'm pretty sick of Windows being judged poorly on this. I used a macbook for 5 years and it required just as many "surprise restarts" as windows. Hell it had to restart one day when it updated iTunes. And I've used ubuntu on my laptop for the past 2 years and while there are a lot less, there are still reboots for software updates. I never bother to check what they are, but they definitely happen at least once a month.
In terms of updates in general, ubuntu gets updates just about every day, which is much more annoying than OSX and Windows combined. Sure you don't have to accept them, and you can tweak the frequency but I like to judge things on their defaults, as I am sure there are plenty of things people hate about Windows that can be tweaked in the registry or something the same way you can tweak linux with configs in/etc or whatever.
And then there's the security side of it. People crack it at windows for asking to confirm/allow every time you try and do some admin task. Well, OSX/Linux ask for the root password every single time. Hell OSX once asked me for my password 3 times during the same software update. I know for sure I'd rather just click ALLOW instead of typing my password.
4. People should be able to subscribe to my feed with an RSS reader
AFAIK, all of this is currently impossible in G+. So... it's a downgrade for the moment.
This part is an issue with G+ as a whole, more so than just the reader part. Circles allow me to "push" content out to certain users. They don't allow others to "pull" content. I may post many things to G+, some tech things, some just personal photos and stuff. If you add me to a circle in G+ you get everything I push out to you.
If they solve that problem, then they can solve your RSS problem above, since yours RSS subscribers can just follow your "RSS" tagged stuff on G+ and put it in their "RSS" circle I guess.
I guess you/could/ do it if you are OCD about maintaining your circles. You could maintain your own "RSS" circle and make sure to only post stuff to that circle that you would normally share in your reader. Would be a nightmare to maintain that circle though. Simply tagging a post with some categories should enough other people to only follow certain categories from you.
Out of curiosity, what are people using instead? I was looking to upgrade from the old noise xbox about 2 years ago because it couldn't play 720p, so I went with the ps3. It suffers because it can't play mkv but has some conversion tools, but still I find many avi files it can't play. Would definitely be interested in alternative hardware to install XBMC onto other than my xbox, so long as it doesn't require me assembling it myself or any crazy linux installs trying to get hdmi and 3d cards to play nicely.
The reason you are using a CMS is because your client can't edit HTML to save themselves. So bells and whistles of joomla/wordpress never made sense to me.
That's what I like about CushyCMS, usability is not even a question.
Granted, you can't host it yourself, but whatever, it's free.
I find it mildly ironic how often git is used as a centralized rcs given that it was built and marketed as decentralized.
I only work in a team of 4-5 people and even we use it centralized, pushing your changes to a git server when you are done. I can't imagine working in a team where you had to constantly tell people you'd made a change and they needed to pull it.
And don't even mention deployment, stuff like capistrano or something along those lines has to pull changes from somewhere. I'd rather have deployment mechanism pulling from a central server than the repo of whoever it was doing the deploying.
Time Warner have also been having big issues with routing to certain Blizzard WoW servers. I wonder how many customers they are losing because of routing issues over the past month.
Out of curiosity, who is to blame when a big company like Time Warner has those routing issues, and ISPs from other countries use those some routes within the US, hence affecting services for them as well? The customer in the other country can't deal with their ISP, it's not their fault, and it's hardly the fault of the company providing the service.
To test it, I had found an artist that had just one track, changed the info so that it was part of a compilation and then checked my list of all artists to see if that artist was still there, which it was. So I thought they had removed this feature.
Turns out, you need to reload iTunes for the all artists list to be updated. So it would seem there is a bug in their bug^Wfeature.
Has anyone discovered an official changelog somewhere?
They seem to have gotten rid of the "feature" where you would see a "compilations" artist at the top of your "All Artists" list (if you have "Show Browser" enabled). In the list of tracks by the "Compilation" artist would be all tracks that have the "Compilation" field set in the iTunes info.
This is all well and good, the problem is if you have a track by artist Foo, and only one track, which happens to be part of a compilation, then artist Foo did not used to show up in the All Artists list, because iTunes filed it under the compilations artist. I mean, if you knew you wanted to hear the track by artist Foo, and scrolled through your All Artists list to try and find Foo, it wouldn't be there. You would be forced to try and remember that it was on a compilation album and find it through there, or do a search for it.
For this reason, I did not like this "feature" at all. I gather a lot of other people also didn't like it, because it seems to have been removed in the new version. But like I said at the begining of this post, I would like to see some sort of official changelog so that I can verify this.
Sure it sounds like a lot of processing power, but have a serious think about how much rendering is involved here. The article says at least 1200 special effects shots, I'd say way more than that. The animators probably want to draw each scene more than once.
So although it seems like a lot of power, I'd still be wanting more. But then who wouldn't?:)
The article states that it would be great for diabetics because it makes testing pain free.
I'm thinking that most diabetics are probably used to it? I can't say, as I'm not diabetic, but maybe some diabetics out there can speak of their pain from the needles? Do the finger pricks still hurt or are you immune to the pain after so long now?
It also isn't totally pain free in that you still need a needle for the insulin itself. That and the fact that you have to get the initial tattoo, which is probably going to be a fiar bit of pain compared to a finger prick:)
For the military, the Emerald means soldiers in the field could easily sterilize drinking water.
Typical russians, they find invent a machine with healing purposes, that can cure lots of things, then manage to think of a way to use it against other countries:)
This is way cool. I took my roomate's Dave Matthews DVD, popped it through this program, and out came a burned CD in either DTS-CD, DD5.1, or regular CD. Way cool, and perfectly legal as far as I'm concerned. I'm making a backup and/or transfering the media to a different format.
I'm curious as to how it can be legal when you have made a backup of a dvd for your personal use, and the original was not owned by you? That doesn't sound legal to me:)
DVD+R (DVD+Recordable) is defined as a subset of DVD+RW. Using dedicated DVD+R write once discs, which will be substantially cheaper than DVD+RW discs, users can record material in the same way as with DVD+RW discs without the ability to erase the disc or re-record onto them. DVD+R discs can be recorded by any DVD+RW PC drive or video recorder, except for the first generation of DVD+RW PC drives (manufactured before April 2002). First generation DVD+RW video recorders need a simple firmware upgrade. DVD+R shares most of the characteristics of DVD+RW, such as the same storage capacity of 4.7 GB and the same usage applications, combined with an ever higher level of compatibility due to a higher reflectivity factor of the disc. DVD-R was originally mainly targeted at authoring applications, and was not optimized for consumer usage. Therefore, various formats ('General' and 'Authoring'), sizes (3.95 GB and 4.7 GB) and versions (1.0, 1.9, 2.0) of DVD-R exist. As with DVD+RW, there will only be one format of DVD+R discs, which are usable in both video recording and data applications.
Surely the feds could quite easily gain some sort of access to put packet sniffers on an isp's network and read anyones email, without the need to ask the ISP's or Telco's.
The article does state slashback which does trigger my mind to believe that, yes genius it has been posted before, and we don't need you to tell us this.
The article also mentions the word update which, if you read this link you will see that it is implied that this is not new information!
Are you guys actually paying for this stuff?
Don't even go down the whole paying/subscriptions on/. that's a whole other story that has been commented on by all of us already...
I would see this as a bad thing, because I could easily confuse this "community" of related pages theory.
In fact I see a lot of pages on the web that would break this. A lot of people make their own sort of "bookmarks" page that they can get to from anywhere on the web, then use that to click links and go to their favorite web pages. These pages may not be related at all. E.g. I could have slashdot and my favorite porn page on the same bookmark page, not really related, but doing a search for slashdot would find my page, then see a porn page as being related?
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Compensating for reading work emails at home is fair. It's no different to taking a work call at home.
Having said that, what about giving the company a rebate when you aren't working at work? I mean if we are talking about being compensated for every single minute of work you do while not at work? Who hasn't taken a personal call while at work, or checked / replied to a personal email?
I'd also point out that this very idea has been tried several times already, never with much success.
I worked on a project called Fundry, that was exactly this. Developers could add projects and setup paypal etc attached to it, then users could "put their money where their mouth is" so to speak and directly fund features they wanted. The idea being features would pay for themselves and developers wouldn't end up implementing features nobody wanted.
But alas it ended up failing, as the poster above mentioned, we weren't the first to try it, kickstarter beat us to the bunch by about 2 weeks but we continued on hoping we were targetting a different market than kickstarter.
We ended up open sourcing the code in case someone else wanted to run with the idea, I wonder if the new mob used it at all? We'll probably never know.
Loving this idea. I just rebuilt my office to house the treadmill on the wall behind where i work, so anytime i want a break i can just jump on. As I read this I turned to look at it for a minute and yeah, it makes a lot of sense, I could quite easily strap some spare chipboard to the arms of it and sit my laptop on there without a worry. I just wonder if walking at 2mph will affect my typing.
#12. Fewer surprise restarts
How about none? Please? The only surprise restart should be a STOP error, and at that point, it's a hardware/driver issue. All other restarts should be optional, like in sane operating systems.
I'm pretty sick of Windows being judged poorly on this. I used a macbook for 5 years and it required just as many "surprise restarts" as windows. Hell it had to restart one day when it updated iTunes. And I've used ubuntu on my laptop for the past 2 years and while there are a lot less, there are still reboots for software updates. I never bother to check what they are, but they definitely happen at least once a month.
In terms of updates in general, ubuntu gets updates just about every day, which is much more annoying than OSX and Windows combined. Sure you don't have to accept them, and you can tweak the frequency but I like to judge things on their defaults, as I am sure there are plenty of things people hate about Windows that can be tweaked in the registry or something the same way you can tweak linux with configs in /etc or whatever.
And then there's the security side of it. People crack it at windows for asking to confirm/allow every time you try and do some admin task. Well, OSX/Linux ask for the root password every single time. Hell OSX once asked me for my password 3 times during the same software update. I know for sure I'd rather just click ALLOW instead of typing my password.
4. People should be able to subscribe to my feed with an RSS reader
AFAIK, all of this is currently impossible in G+. So... it's a downgrade for the moment.
This part is an issue with G+ as a whole, more so than just the reader part. Circles allow me to "push" content out to certain users. They don't allow others to "pull" content. I may post many things to G+, some tech things, some just personal photos and stuff. If you add me to a circle in G+ you get everything I push out to you.
If they solve that problem, then they can solve your RSS problem above, since yours RSS subscribers can just follow your "RSS" tagged stuff on G+ and put it in their "RSS" circle I guess.
I guess you /could/ do it if you are OCD about maintaining your circles. You could maintain your own "RSS" circle and make sure to only post stuff to that circle that you would normally share in your reader. Would be a nightmare to maintain that circle though. Simply tagging a post with some categories should enough other people to only follow certain categories from you.
Are people dumb enough not to be using Amazon for music?
Given 90% of Amazon music can't be downloaded from Australia, you just called all Australians dumb. Congrats.
Out of curiosity, what are people using instead? I was looking to upgrade from the old noise xbox about 2 years ago because it couldn't play 720p, so I went with the ps3. It suffers because it can't play mkv but has some conversion tools, but still I find many avi files it can't play. Would definitely be interested in alternative hardware to install XBMC onto other than my xbox, so long as it doesn't require me assembling it myself or any crazy linux installs trying to get hdmi and 3d cards to play nicely.
Except it isn't released yet. On hold due to a bug in install process that doesn't detect dual boot set ups properly...
Wow. It's not like slashdotters to be premature!
The reason you are using a CMS is because your client can't edit HTML to save themselves. So bells and whistles of joomla/wordpress never made sense to me.
That's what I like about CushyCMS, usability is not even a question.
Granted, you can't host it yourself, but whatever, it's free.
I find it mildly ironic how often git is used as a centralized rcs given that it was built and marketed as decentralized.
I only work in a team of 4-5 people and even we use it centralized, pushing your changes to a git server when you are done. I can't imagine working in a team where you had to constantly tell people you'd made a change and they needed to pull it.
And don't even mention deployment, stuff like capistrano or something along those lines has to pull changes from somewhere. I'd rather have deployment mechanism pulling from a central server than the repo of whoever it was doing the deploying.
Adium does both. You can resize the text input to as many lines as you want. If you type more than that, it auto-resizes. It seems logical to me!?
Time Warner have also been having big issues with routing to certain Blizzard WoW servers. I wonder how many customers they are losing because of routing issues over the past month.
Out of curiosity, who is to blame when a big company like Time Warner has those routing issues, and ISPs from other countries use those some routes within the US, hence affecting services for them as well? The customer in the other country can't deal with their ISP, it's not their fault, and it's hardly the fault of the company providing the service.
Thank you!!!
Now, how do you map F-keys to an apple script without any sort of third-party software like Youpi... surely OSX has that functionality built in?
My bad, this feature still exists.
To test it, I had found an artist that had just one track, changed the info so that it was part of a compilation and then checked my list of all artists to see if that artist was still there, which it was. So I thought they had removed this feature.
Turns out, you need to reload iTunes for the all artists list to be updated. So it would seem there is a bug in their bug^Wfeature.
Has anyone discovered an official changelog somewhere?
They seem to have gotten rid of the "feature" where you would see a "compilations" artist at the top of your "All Artists" list (if you have "Show Browser" enabled). In the list of tracks by the "Compilation" artist would be all tracks that have the "Compilation" field set in the iTunes info.
This is all well and good, the problem is if you have a track by artist Foo, and only one track, which happens to be part of a compilation, then artist Foo did not used to show up in the All Artists list, because iTunes filed it under the compilations artist. I mean, if you knew you wanted to hear the track by artist Foo, and scrolled through your All Artists list to try and find Foo, it wouldn't be there. You would be forced to try and remember that it was on a compilation album and find it through there, or do a search for it.
For this reason, I did not like this "feature" at all. I gather a lot of other people also didn't like it, because it seems to have been removed in the new version. But like I said at the begining of this post, I would like to see some sort of official changelog so that I can verify this.
Sure it sounds like a lot of processing power, but have a serious think about how much rendering is involved here. The article says at least 1200 special effects shots, I'd say way more than that. The animators probably want to draw each scene more than once.
:)
So although it seems like a lot of power, I'd still be wanting more. But then who wouldn't?
If you want some modern stuff, you can't go past Diana Krall, however, if you want some classic jazz, try John Coltrane or Peggy Lee
The article states that it would be great for diabetics because it makes testing pain free.
:)
I'm thinking that most diabetics are probably used to it? I can't say, as I'm not diabetic, but maybe some diabetics out there can speak of their pain from the needles? Do the finger pricks still hurt or are you immune to the pain after so long now?
It also isn't totally pain free in that you still need a needle for the insulin itself. That and the fact that you have to get the initial tattoo, which is probably going to be a fiar bit of pain compared to a finger prick
From the article:
:)
For the military, the Emerald means soldiers in the field could easily sterilize drinking water.
Typical russians, they find invent a machine with healing purposes, that can cure lots of things, then manage to think of a way to use it against other countries
This is way cool. I took my roomate's Dave Matthews DVD, popped it through this program, and out came a burned CD in either DTS-CD, DD5.1, or regular CD. Way cool, and perfectly legal as far as I'm concerned. I'm making a backup and/or transfering the media to a different format.
:)
I'm curious as to how it can be legal when you have made a backup of a dvd for your personal use, and the original was not owned by you? That doesn't sound legal to me
I don't mean to troll, but have you ever heard of google? :)
Try the FAQ on dvdplusrw.org
DVD+R (DVD+Recordable) is defined as a subset of DVD+RW. Using dedicated DVD+R write once discs, which will be substantially cheaper than DVD+RW discs, users can record material in the same way as with DVD+RW discs without the ability to erase the disc or re-record onto them. DVD+R discs can be recorded by any DVD+RW PC drive or video recorder, except for the first generation of DVD+RW PC drives (manufactured before April 2002). First generation DVD+RW video recorders need a simple firmware upgrade. DVD+R shares most of the characteristics of DVD+RW, such as the same storage capacity of 4.7 GB and the same usage applications, combined with an ever higher level of compatibility due to a higher reflectivity factor of the disc. DVD-R was originally mainly targeted at authoring applications, and was not optimized for consumer usage. Therefore, various formats ('General' and 'Authoring'), sizes (3.95 GB and 4.7 GB) and versions (1.0, 1.9, 2.0) of DVD-R exist. As with DVD+RW, there will only be one format of DVD+R discs, which are usable in both video recording and data applications.
Q: ARAB SHEIKH CAMELS
A: The wise man told the brothers to jump on the other guys camel instead of their own. That way if you win the race, you win the money.
Surely the feds could quite easily gain some sort of access to put packet sniffers on an isp's network and read anyones email, without the need to ask the ISP's or Telco's.
If they can't I'd be very surprised.
All these stories have been posted before!
/. that's a whole other story that has been commented on by all of us already...
The article does state slashback which does trigger my mind to believe that, yes genius it has been posted before, and we don't need you to tell us this.
The article also mentions the word update which, if you read this link you will see that it is implied that this is not new information!
Are you guys actually paying for this stuff?
Don't even go down the whole paying/subscriptions on
I would see this as a bad thing, because I could easily confuse this "community" of related pages theory.
:)
In fact I see a lot of pages on the web that would break this. A lot of people make their own sort of "bookmarks" page that they can get to from anywhere on the web, then use that to click links and go to their favorite web pages. These pages may not be related at all. E.g. I could have slashdot and my favorite porn page on the same bookmark page, not really related, but doing a search for slashdot would find my page, then see a porn page as being related?
Sounds about right