Are we really going to have this kind of joke every time a firefox version is released? I'm mean, it's getting a bit repetitive. I've seen about about 10 times in the last 10 minutes!
No, I'd rather use zathura. Windows users can use SumatraPDF. Why do people keep assuming that Adobe is the only PDF reader there is, there's dozens out there.
I prefer firefox not to have a PDF reader, so when I click on a link to a PDF I'm prompted to download it, instead of having to wait for it to load and be rendered with JS before downloading it.
Power comes from the PSU, while data goes to the motherboard. If a single connector carried everything, then power would have to flow through the motherboard. That's a lot of power if you've 8 disks connected to it. Power that would heat up lots of circuits, etc.
How about "I need it because my life goes on after I leave work". Most days I see some friends, or go to collage after work. It would suck if I had to travel home to pick up my cell phone, and loose about an hour a day, because my employer is scared I'll photograph his secrets (while I could simply email them to my personal email).
I've a 15year old [female] friend. If she finds herself out late past sundown, she can call her dad to pick her up, instead of walking home alone at night. Phones do help children/minors a lot.
What happened to giving them your work place number like you know, your parents did? Children were just as safe before smart phones...
I can quite clearly remember not being able to reach my parents when I was sick at school (about 20 years ago). I'm sure as hell that my 4year old sister doesn't have the same issue.
not to mention the tools with which we coordinate the rest of our lives
I don't agree with this at all. 10+ years ago we didn't use smart phones and we coordinated the rest of our lives just fine.
Times change. 10 years ago, you'd loose contact with people who moved a lot. You'd never be able to see that always-busy friend that happened to be free that afternoon the the last minute.
The problems are solvable and worth solving. That management favors solutions that are simply a matter of writing policy, is in their nature, so don't sit in the dark and bitch, fix the bulb.
I think management just wants you to do your job and not have you sit there browsing facebook on your phone, texting your friends or calling for appointments while you are getting paid.
In places where desktops are locked down for software install, with choice of images as the only way to get software, trying to support devs usually isn't even on the radar. There's always some tool or utility specific to one dev's preferences that really will make him more productive.
In places where desktops aren' locked down, any decent dev will have root anyhow, soon as he gets around to it. Although, giving Linux devs Windows dev machines would be a particularly evil way to delay the inevitable.
I'm in a similar scenario. We each got our own iMac. Mine had ArchLinux about 48hs later, my coworker had Ubuntu, etc, etc. Devs will just plug in a USB drive and install their prefered OS, there's nothing you can do about it. Especially *nix devs, which tend to be more tech-savvy
Plenty of cities have awful traffic, and buses are no faster than cars. In my particular case, I get to work faster by foot that bus/taxi. So I walk to work everyday. So does a great deal of people.
Don't be so sure. There's tons of places where you're not allowed to bring in various personal items (backpacks, food, etc.), and they have security that even checks to make sure you're not bringing that stuff in. However, if you have it, they're not going to give you a place to store it while you're inside the building; it's either throw it in the trash or don't go in.
You really expect employers to have enough consideration to give employees a place to check and store (securely) their personal belongings like smartphones? I think that's asking too much, at least in America.
I'm suprised how that sort of employers manage to keep employees around really. I'd be out the door in no time if they expect me to put up with that sort of crap.
The burden of proof is on the employer to show that no other mitigating measure can address the risks.
My current employer has banned all personal cellphones and personal laptops for some time. It is really not that hard to get around, and the burden is not on them to prove anything. You are paid to work and presumably want your job. If not having your pacifier with you at all times makes you that uncomfortable, find a different job. Or you can give out your work number for emergencies or set your cell phone to automatically forward calls during business hours to your desk phone. If you need to make a personal call that you do not want to/cant make from your desk line, go out to your car during lunch and make it.
You're payed to do your job, not cut all ties with the outside world during those six hours. Also, forwarding calls usually has a cost (for me, the receiver), while receiving calls does not. Plus, plenty of people don't have their own work phone. And cars? No one at my work (software development) has cars.
Sometimes my GF will come to pick me up after work, and she'll ring me when she's close by. That means I can get some extra job done while I wait. If my employer forced me not to use the phone, I'd [have to] be though the door at 16:00, not a second later.
That management favors solutions that are simply a matter of writing policy, is in their nature, so don't sit in the dark and bitch, fix the bulb.
So if a concern is the microphone on the phone you have no problem filling that with epoxy?
For the record, plenty of other things can have hidden microphones. Like ties, or buttons. I don't think most employers need to worry about this sort of things.
Fragmentation is related to the filesystem, not the underlaying hardware.
Fragmentation is not relative to size, but rather to useage: creating/deleting files (the space left between them is too small for new files and can't be used, for example). In any case, fragmentation is not an issue in most OS, it was only a real issue on DOS. I've no idea about windows though.
It really depends, you can still encrypt the hidden message, hence, it'd be almost impossible to tell if it's just plain old silence, or an encrypted message.
I belive switching to metric system actually implies "completely drop the imperial system". As a side comment, I've seen products imported from USA with only imperial measures on them, and a label on top with metric data.
Once it's not in the file anymore it's out of your attention span. Leaving the code there for a revision or two allow anyone looking into the file to be instantly aware that something has happened very recently, which is usually what the person is looking for.
If this is your goal, then you should just practice code-review of every commit and that'll achieve the same goal.
Indeed, version control is the only real solution. We use git at work, and some coworkers insist on "commenting out" code that's no longer needed. I insist that we should delete it. Should we ever need it again, we have version control; and with proper commit messages, old code is easier to find too.
Not everything in the world is about money. Being able to communicate with people from other countries easily is important too, especially for people who travel or move abroad.
But you need to change the speed display on cars as well, or people won't honestly know if they're over the limit or not. (Don't expect average joe to multiply while driving, please, don't be THAT naive!)
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Are we really going to have this kind of joke every time a firefox version is released? I'm mean, it's getting a bit repetitive. I've seen about about 10 times in the last 10 minutes!
No, I'd rather use zathura. Windows users can use SumatraPDF.
Why do people keep assuming that Adobe is the only PDF reader there is, there's dozens out there.
I prefer firefox not to have a PDF reader, so when I click on a link to a PDF I'm prompted to download it, instead of having to wait for it to load and be rendered with JS before downloading it.
Wasn't the video original posted online and then deleted? If so, it wasn't obtained illegally.
Power comes from the PSU, while data goes to the motherboard.
If a single connector carried everything, then power would have to flow through the motherboard. That's a lot of power if you've 8 disks connected to it. Power that would heat up lots of circuits, etc.
I'm pretty sure he can.
So, what you're saying is a get payed to not-care about my kids and family during six hours a day?
How about "I need it because my life goes on after I leave work".
Most days I see some friends, or go to collage after work. It would suck if I had to travel home to pick up my cell phone, and loose about an hour a day, because my employer is scared I'll photograph his secrets (while I could simply email them to my personal email).
I've a 15year old [female] friend. If she finds herself out late past sundown, she can call her dad to pick her up, instead of walking home alone at night. Phones do help children/minors a lot.
Summarily banning child protecting, emergency-aleviating technology
What happened to giving them your work place number like you know, your parents did? Children were just as safe before smart phones...
I can quite clearly remember not being able to reach my parents when I was sick at school (about 20 years ago). I'm sure as hell that my 4year old sister doesn't have the same issue.
not to mention the tools with which we coordinate the rest of our lives
I don't agree with this at all. 10+ years ago we didn't use smart phones and we coordinated the rest of our lives just fine.
Times change. 10 years ago, you'd loose contact with people who moved a lot. You'd never be able to see that always-busy friend that happened to be free that afternoon the the last minute.
The problems are solvable and worth solving. That management favors solutions that are simply a matter of writing policy, is in their nature, so don't sit in the dark and bitch, fix the bulb.
I think management just wants you to do your job and not have you sit there browsing facebook on your phone, texting your friends or calling for appointments while you are getting paid.
Fine; I'll just facebook on my desktop.
In places where desktops are locked down for software install, with choice of images as the only way to get software, trying to support devs usually isn't even on the radar. There's always some tool or utility specific to one dev's preferences that really will make him more productive.
In places where desktops aren' locked down, any decent dev will have root anyhow, soon as he gets around to it. Although, giving Linux devs Windows dev machines would be a particularly evil way to delay the inevitable.
I'm in a similar scenario. We each got our own iMac. Mine had ArchLinux about 48hs later, my coworker had Ubuntu, etc, etc. Devs will just plug in a USB drive and install their prefered OS, there's nothing you can do about it. Especially *nix devs, which tend to be more tech-savvy
Plenty of cities have awful traffic, and buses are no faster than cars.
In my particular case, I get to work faster by foot that bus/taxi. So I walk to work everyday. So does a great deal of people.
Don't be so sure. There's tons of places where you're not allowed to bring in various personal items (backpacks, food, etc.), and they have security that even checks to make sure you're not bringing that stuff in. However, if you have it, they're not going to give you a place to store it while you're inside the building; it's either throw it in the trash or don't go in.
You really expect employers to have enough consideration to give employees a place to check and store (securely) their personal belongings like smartphones? I think that's asking too much, at least in America.
I'm suprised how that sort of employers manage to keep employees around really. I'd be out the door in no time if they expect me to put up with that sort of crap.
The burden of proof is on the employer to show that no other mitigating measure can address the risks.
My current employer has banned all personal cellphones and personal laptops for some time. It is really not that hard to get around, and the burden is not on them to prove anything. You are paid to work and presumably want your job. If not having your pacifier with you at all times makes you that uncomfortable, find a different job. Or you can give out your work number for emergencies or set your cell phone to automatically forward calls during business hours to your desk phone. If you need to make a personal call that you do not want to/cant make from your desk line, go out to your car during lunch and make it.
You're payed to do your job, not cut all ties with the outside world during those six hours.
Also, forwarding calls usually has a cost (for me, the receiver), while receiving calls does not. Plus, plenty of people don't have their own work phone.
And cars? No one at my work (software development) has cars.
Sometimes my GF will come to pick me up after work, and she'll ring me when she's close by. That means I can get some extra job done while I wait. If my employer forced me not to use the phone, I'd [have to] be though the door at 16:00, not a second later.
That management favors solutions that are simply a matter of writing policy, is in their nature, so don't sit in the dark and bitch, fix the bulb.
So if a concern is the microphone on the phone you have no problem filling that with epoxy?
For the record, plenty of other things can have hidden microphones. Like ties, or buttons. I don't think most employers need to worry about this sort of things.
Fragmentation is related to the filesystem, not the underlaying hardware.
Fragmentation is not relative to size, but rather to useage: creating/deleting files (the space left between them is too small for new files and can't be used, for example).
In any case, fragmentation is not an issue in most OS, it was only a real issue on DOS. I've no idea about windows though.
It really depends, you can still encrypt the hidden message, hence, it'd be almost impossible to tell if it's just plain old silence, or an encrypted message.
There's no legacy compatibility story to begin with
There is for open source software and for developers.
I belive switching to metric system actually implies "completely drop the imperial system".
As a side comment, I've seen products imported from USA with only imperial measures on them, and a label on top with metric data.
Ah, thanks, this is quite informative for those of us outside USA. :)
What does negative heat mean to you?
"You metreage may vary" is an expresion, there are no related numbers!
Once it's not in the file anymore it's out of your attention span. Leaving the code there for a revision or two allow anyone looking into the file to be instantly aware that something has happened very recently, which is usually what the person is looking for.
If this is your goal, then you should just practice code-review of every commit and that'll achieve the same goal.
Indeed, version control is the only real solution.
We use git at work, and some coworkers insist on "commenting out" code that's no longer needed. I insist that we should delete it. Should we ever need it again, we have version control; and with proper commit messages, old code is easier to find too.
No network access as far as I can see:
the vulnerability allows a remote attacker with a valid domain account to gain super-user access
You need an account on the machine to log into it first.
Not everything in the world is about money.
Being able to communicate with people from other countries easily is important too, especially for people who travel or move abroad.
But you need to change the speed display on cars as well, or people won't honestly know if they're over the limit or not.
(Don't expect average joe to multiply while driving, please, don't be THAT naive!)