Not sure about Apple's lack of antiglare screens, but as I understand it, the sort of matte-finish antiglare screens always measure lower in contrast than glossy screens. Antireflective coatings that used to be fairly common on CRTs aren't routinely applied to the typically larger LCD screens because they limit viewing angle- colors start to shift when viewed from an angle because of the way AR coatings work. Apple goes to the extra expense of putting in IPS screens with extra wide viewing angles, so thy definitely won't want to screw that up with an AR coating. In the end it's all about specs for contrast and viewing angle, and what looks good in a store where the reflections can be somewhat controlled.
I have a netbook with a glossy screen that's annoying as hell, so I applied an aftermarket AR film and it works beautifully.
I am running Android 2.3.6. and all my applications are up to date. On the Nexus 1 there are no "overlays", just plain Android. If you're getting calendar results from a search I think they are coming from Samsung's overlay on Android or from a third party app you installed and forgot about, not from Android or from a Google authored app. Exhaustive web searches indicate that Google has not produced anything that searches the Google calendar short of opening a web browser and doing it manually.
I discovered this missing feature when I wanted to check on a patient's series of scheduled appointments. I enter the patient's name, I get their contact, I get web search results for the name, instances of the name in notes, ebooks, etc. but no calendar results. I was shocked. Everything else on the phone works so well I just couldn't figure out why the search company could search everything on the phone and everything on the web except the calendar. WTF?
Actually I've looked at it in the past and I'm looking now in case something changed recently, and NO, the calendar does NOT appear in the searchable items list. I have to use searchify (a third-party app as I mentioned) in order to get any calendar results.
In the future, please refrain from responding to my posts. Thank you.
When I got my Nexus 1 back in Jan 2010 I loved everything about it except one thing. Using the search function on the phone did not return results from the calendar. I was trying to manage about 48 patients and frequently needed to be able to look at their appointment schedules going out a year. Before getting the Nexus 1 I had used Palm PDAs for almost 10 years. The search function in Palm OS brought back calendar items from day one. How could it be that a search company's operating system could miss a feature that was standard issue for 10 years in a freakin' Palm PDA?
I can get calendar search results now, but I have to use a third party app to do it. That's weak. What business is going to want to trust an app written by some unknown developer in China or Russia with access to their sensitive calendar data? It's Google's OS, it's google's calendar. Why the f**** can't they search it?
If you get into the 11.x versions you'll suffer a big hit on battery life. There was a power regression in the linux kernel in newer ubuntu releases. Do a search for "linux power regression" for details.
The interface to the iPhone is via iTunes. I tried to put a pdf on my wife's iPhone for her because she couldn't figure out how and I couldn't figure out how to do it via iTunes either. Finally, a friend with an iPhone told me the easiest way to do it is to email it and use the phone to grab the emailed file. Doesn't Apple think that people use their phones for anything but listening to music and looking at photos? Oh yeah, there are all sorts of apps, but how does anyone who works for a living get business related stuff on and off the phone?
The software is still called iTunes ferschissakes. If you're in anything but the music business why would software called iTunes seem to be the right choice? It sounds like something you'd sell to college kids so they could load their phone with pirated music.
I've used VirtualBox installed in Linux to run Win XP in a virtual machine and it has generally been stable. That said, if the drivers are so bad, what is the alternative?
Is VMware Player any better?
I attempted to set up VMware Player a few years ago and found it difficult compared to VirtualBox. Has the setup/user interface improved?
Unfortunately, they've been misled by the 1% to believe that they live in a democracy, even when anyone with eyes that are open can see that they don't. The 1% control what people see on TV and movies, what they eat, drive, think. No, it isn't a conspiracy where they get together and plan everything out for the rest of us. It's just a byproduct of a system that has always favored the wealthy. Over time, acting in their own best interests, they have solidified their control making it nearly impossible to change the system that is tilted so far in their favor. I think it is as natural for them to try to maintain things as it is for the rest of us to want change.
What the 99% don't realize is that they have no power.
Take the new job. Your relationship with the company is a business relationship. They'll only keep you around as long as they feel you're contributing sufficiently to the bottom line. You should evaluate the company the same way. If someone came along and offered to do your job for less pay you'd be on the street in a heartbeat. When someone offers you more money to work for them, take it.
Companies have no loyalty to you, you should have none for them. The old company, and any other, including the new one, would not think twice about throwing your ass out on the street. Maximize your revenues at all times against the day when you have none.
I put bad calls into a single contact called "shit list". In Google Voice I block calls from "shit list". Phone doesn't ring, no voicemail. Only problem is if someone calls the actual phone number and bypasses Google Voice.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet- too lazy to read through the hundreds of responses. Spice was developed at UC Berkeley. It is the basis of dozens of commercial time domain circuit simulator programs. You can get a great one for free from Linear Technology- it used to be called switcherCAD, they now call it LTSpice. Get it here: http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/
If you're more than 4'11" tall and you aren't riding in business or first class you'll still be sitting with your knees under your chin and your neighbors elbows digging into your arms. Higher air pressure and humidity? BFD!
have access to networks of killer drones that we can call upon to protect us as we walk down the street or to get revenge for infractions against us. It's a simple matter of exercising our second amendment right to bear arms. I think it will make us a more polite, respectful society. In such a society no one will risk offending or harming someone else because of the potential for retaliation. We will be free to focus on creative and productive activities. Imagine, no more crime, no more insults, no more dogs pooping on your lawn. The golden age is nigh!
There are too many problems with engineering as a career. I know because I was one for 22 years. Now I am a dentist.
Here's some of what's wrong with engineering:
As you age your pay keeps going up until you hit 40 YO and start to have a life outside work, then they want you to go into management or marketing. Try to stay in engineering and you'll get laid off because you make too much money- after all, they can hire two guys right out of school and work them 80 hours per week for what they pay you... All those years they were giving you pay raises no one ever asked if you'd like to have a few more days off instead of a pay raise and even if you talk to HR people about it, all you'll get is a blank stare.
These days it's nearly impossible to stay at any engineering job for very long. Every time the stock drops a point or two, they start tossing bodies out onto the street. When you go to interviews for new jobs they say "I see you skip around a lot. If I were to hire you why should I believe you'll stay here?". If you did manage to stay at your last job long enough to get a little more vacation time that will reset at your new job.
Part of the problem is that the bigger companies collude to fix benefits and salaries for engineers (and all their other employees) because it makes it hard for any of them to steal people from each other. When I worked for HP, every year at annual pay-raise time they herded all of us engineers into a meeting room then proudly told us about how the HR guys had gotten together will all the other big engineering employers (Motorola, Intel, Cisco, etc., etc.) HR people to decide what the benefits and pay were going to be. Every time I sat through one of those meetings I would talk to coworkers who seemed oblivious to the implications of what they just heard. The essential message was this: "here's what we're going to pay you and don't bother looking for a job elsewhere because you won't get any more pay or better benefits".
The manufacturing jobs are going to third-world, pollution loving toilets. Following right behind them are the engineering jobs. The "good" news is that the way things are going, and if the GOP gets what they want, this country will soon become one of those pollution loving third-world toilets and the manufacturing jobs will start to come back, and maybe engineering jobs, too.
Engineering can be interesting work but it often becomes drudgery. Never take a job that isn't exactly what you want to do because you will get pigeon-holed into whatever the company wants and then it becomes difficult to break out and do something else. Never feel bad about leaving a company in the middle of some project you're working on if it isn't the right work for you. The company doesn't deserve any more loyalty than it would extend to you, and it would extend none.
Find work that is fulfilling. I switched to dentistry after years of sitting in dark rooms running circuit simulations all day then going home and asking myself who benefited from all that work. With dentistry I know exactly who benefits and how. Relieving the pain of a toothache or improving someone's appearance so they have confidence to go to a job interview, or even just to open their mouth in public has a major impact on their lives and is very satisfying for me. I sleep very well at night.
and Microsoft will finally have fixed ALL the bugs and patched ALL the security holes. Networks will configure themselves. IT people will be entirely unnecessary.
You display a stunning lack of understanding of what he is said. He didn't say don't feed the hungry. He didn't say we are wasting resources. He said that the ever increasing consumption of those resources cannot go on forever, maybe not even more than a couple hundred more years at the current rate of increase. This is based on the amount of energy received by the earth from the sun and laws of thermodynamics. There's no changing or getting around either.
to create the loopholes that will allow them to continue as they have, dodging the intent while complying with the letter of the law for many years. SUV are not cars, they are "light trucks", so their crappy mileage wasn't factored into their car fleet mileage ratings under the old law.
Now the auto makers have until 2025 to convince people to drive heavy trucks or some other not yet invented classification of vehicle whose poor fuel economy ratings will fall outside this agreement/law defining fleet mileage to include cars and light trucks. I predict that by 2025 most people will be driving something other than the "cars" and "light trucks" defined under this new law.
You're right. As I recall (about 10 years ago) I exercised a portion of the options to buy the stock at a very low price and then held the stock. IRS AMT rules require that you pay tax on the difference in value between the price you paid and the market value of the shares at close of market on the last day of the year. At least, those were the rules at the time as I recall. Note that I did not have to sell the stock in order to be charged the tax, and in fact would also be charged capital gains tax if I had later sold the stock at a profit.
In the end, the nearly worthless stock was sold at a loss (yes, even below what I paid) and over the next few years I was able to recover some of the tax money using captial loss carryovers, but it was a dreadful experience.
Stock options, as they are granted to engineers, are essentially worthless. Don't consider them when comparing compensation at different job offers. They are a very shiny lie.
In the ensuing years I have wised-up and changed careers. Now I am a dentist. No more engineering abuse for me.
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Not sure about Apple's lack of antiglare screens, but as I understand it, the sort of matte-finish antiglare screens always measure lower in contrast than glossy screens. Antireflective coatings that used to be fairly common on CRTs aren't routinely applied to the typically larger LCD screens because they limit viewing angle- colors start to shift when viewed from an angle because of the way AR coatings work. Apple goes to the extra expense of putting in IPS screens with extra wide viewing angles, so thy definitely won't want to screw that up with an AR coating. In the end it's all about specs for contrast and viewing angle, and what looks good in a store where the reflections can be somewhat controlled.
I have a netbook with a glossy screen that's annoying as hell, so I applied an aftermarket AR film and it works beautifully.
A single avalanche biased zener diode junction will produce all the random noise ever needed. See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1338337/pdf/jeabehav00162-0045.pdf
Much simpler than messing with CCDs and radioactive materials.
I am running Android 2.3.6. and all my applications are up to date. On the Nexus 1 there are no "overlays", just plain Android. If you're getting calendar results from a search I think they are coming from Samsung's overlay on Android or from a third party app you installed and forgot about, not from Android or from a Google authored app. Exhaustive web searches indicate that Google has not produced anything that searches the Google calendar short of opening a web browser and doing it manually.
I discovered this missing feature when I wanted to check on a patient's series of scheduled appointments. I enter the patient's name, I get their contact, I get web search results for the name, instances of the name in notes, ebooks, etc. but no calendar results. I was shocked. Everything else on the phone works so well I just couldn't figure out why the search company could search everything on the phone and everything on the web except the calendar. WTF?
Actually I've looked at it in the past and I'm looking now in case something changed recently, and NO, the calendar does NOT appear in the searchable items list. I have to use searchify (a third-party app as I mentioned) in order to get any calendar results.
In the future, please refrain from responding to my posts. Thank you.
When I got my Nexus 1 back in Jan 2010 I loved everything about it except one thing. Using the search function on the phone did not return results from the calendar. I was trying to manage about 48 patients and frequently needed to be able to look at their appointment schedules going out a year. Before getting the Nexus 1 I had used Palm PDAs for almost 10 years. The search function in Palm OS brought back calendar items from day one. How could it be that a search company's operating system could miss a feature that was standard issue for 10 years in a freakin' Palm PDA?
I can get calendar search results now, but I have to use a third party app to do it. That's weak. What business is going to want to trust an app written by some unknown developer in China or Russia with access to their sensitive calendar data? It's Google's OS, it's google's calendar. Why the f**** can't they search it?
If you get into the 11.x versions you'll suffer a big hit on battery life. There was a power regression in the linux kernel in newer ubuntu releases. Do a search for "linux power regression" for details.
The interface to the iPhone is via iTunes. I tried to put a pdf on my wife's iPhone for her because she couldn't figure out how and I couldn't figure out how to do it via iTunes either. Finally, a friend with an iPhone told me the easiest way to do it is to email it and use the phone to grab the emailed file. Doesn't Apple think that people use their phones for anything but listening to music and looking at photos? Oh yeah, there are all sorts of apps, but how does anyone who works for a living get business related stuff on and off the phone?
The software is still called iTunes ferschissakes. If you're in anything but the music business why would software called iTunes seem to be the right choice? It sounds like something you'd sell to college kids so they could load their phone with pirated music.
I've used VirtualBox installed in Linux to run Win XP in a virtual machine and it has generally been stable. That said, if the drivers are so bad, what is the alternative?
Is VMware Player any better?
I attempted to set up VMware Player a few years ago and found it difficult compared to VirtualBox. Has the setup/user interface improved?
Unfortunately, they've been misled by the 1% to believe that they live in a democracy, even when anyone with eyes that are open can see that they don't. The 1% control what people see on TV and movies, what they eat, drive, think. No, it isn't a conspiracy where they get together and plan everything out for the rest of us. It's just a byproduct of a system that has always favored the wealthy. Over time, acting in their own best interests, they have solidified their control making it nearly impossible to change the system that is tilted so far in their favor. I think it is as natural for them to try to maintain things as it is for the rest of us to want change.
What the 99% don't realize is that they have no power.
Take the new job. Your relationship with the company is a business relationship. They'll only keep you around as long as they feel you're contributing sufficiently to the bottom line. You should evaluate the company the same way. If someone came along and offered to do your job for less pay you'd be on the street in a heartbeat. When someone offers you more money to work for them, take it.
Companies have no loyalty to you, you should have none for them. The old company, and any other, including the new one, would not think twice about throwing your ass out on the street. Maximize your revenues at all times against the day when you have none.
I put bad calls into a single contact called "shit list". In Google Voice I block calls from "shit list". Phone doesn't ring, no voicemail.
Only problem is if someone calls the actual phone number and bypasses Google Voice.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet- too lazy to read through the hundreds of responses.
Spice was developed at UC Berkeley. It is the basis of dozens of commercial time domain circuit simulator programs.
You can get a great one for free from Linear Technology- it used to be called switcherCAD, they now call it LTSpice.
Get it here: http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/
If you're more than 4'11" tall and you aren't riding in business or first class you'll still be sitting with your knees under your chin and your neighbors elbows digging into your arms. Higher air pressure and humidity? BFD!
have access to networks of killer drones that we can call upon to protect us as we walk down the street or to get revenge for infractions against us. It's a simple matter of exercising our second amendment right to bear arms. I think it will make us a more polite, respectful society. In such a society no one will risk offending or harming someone else because of the potential for retaliation. We will be free to focus on creative and productive activities. Imagine, no more crime, no more insults, no more dogs pooping on your lawn. The golden age is nigh!
There are too many problems with engineering as a career. I know because I was one for 22 years. Now I am a dentist.
Here's some of what's wrong with engineering:
As you age your pay keeps going up until you hit 40 YO and start to have a life outside work, then they want you to go into management or marketing. Try to stay in engineering and you'll get laid off because you make too much money- after all, they can hire two guys right out of school and work them 80 hours per week for what they pay you... All those years they were giving you pay raises no one ever asked if you'd like to have a few more days off instead of a pay raise and even if you talk to HR people about it, all you'll get is a blank stare.
These days it's nearly impossible to stay at any engineering job for very long. Every time the stock drops a point or two, they start tossing bodies out onto the street. When you go to interviews for new jobs they say "I see you skip around a lot. If I were to hire you why should I believe you'll stay here?". If you did manage to stay at your last job long enough to get a little more vacation time that will reset at your new job.
Part of the problem is that the bigger companies collude to fix benefits and salaries for engineers (and all their other employees) because it makes it hard for any of them to steal people from each other. When I worked for HP, every year at annual pay-raise time they herded all of us engineers into a meeting room then proudly told us about how the HR guys had gotten together will all the other big engineering employers (Motorola, Intel, Cisco, etc., etc.) HR people to decide what the benefits and pay were going to be. Every time I sat through one of those meetings I would talk to coworkers who seemed oblivious to the implications of what they just heard. The essential message was this: "here's what we're going to pay you and don't bother looking for a job elsewhere because you won't get any more pay or better benefits".
The manufacturing jobs are going to third-world, pollution loving toilets. Following right behind them are the engineering jobs. The "good" news is that the way things are going, and if the GOP gets what they want, this country will soon become one of those pollution loving third-world toilets and the manufacturing jobs will start to come back, and maybe engineering jobs, too.
Engineering can be interesting work but it often becomes drudgery. Never take a job that isn't exactly what you want to do because you will get pigeon-holed into whatever the company wants and then it becomes difficult to break out and do something else. Never feel bad about leaving a company in the middle of some project you're working on if it isn't the right work for you. The company doesn't deserve any more loyalty than it would extend to you, and it would extend none.
Find work that is fulfilling. I switched to dentistry after years of sitting in dark rooms running circuit simulations all day then going home and asking myself who benefited from all that work. With dentistry I know exactly who benefits and how. Relieving the pain of a toothache or improving someone's appearance so they have confidence to go to a job interview, or even just to open their mouth in public has a major impact on their lives and is very satisfying for me. I sleep very well at night.
and Microsoft will finally have fixed ALL the bugs and patched ALL the security holes. Networks will configure themselves. IT people will be entirely unnecessary.
LSD come from a "rust" on grain? Hmmmm.....
You display a stunning lack of understanding of what he is said. He didn't say don't feed the hungry. He didn't say we are wasting resources. He said that the ever increasing consumption of those resources cannot go on forever, maybe not even more than a couple hundred more years at the current rate of increase. This is based on the amount of energy received by the earth from the sun and laws of thermodynamics. There's no changing or getting around either.
to create the loopholes that will allow them to continue as they have, dodging the intent while complying with the letter of the law for many years.
SUV are not cars, they are "light trucks", so their crappy mileage wasn't factored into their car fleet mileage ratings under the old law.
Now the auto makers have until 2025 to convince people to drive heavy trucks or some other not yet invented classification of vehicle whose poor fuel economy ratings will fall outside this agreement/law defining fleet mileage to include cars and light trucks. I predict that by 2025 most people will be driving something other than the "cars" and "light trucks" defined under this new law.
If it only takes 10% of the population to believe in it, why wasn't weed legalized years ago?
and the small print taketh away.
It's also been suggested (and believed by many with soft minds) that ancient aliens built the pyramids.
Video or it didn't happen.
You're right. As I recall (about 10 years ago) I exercised a portion of the options to buy the stock at a very low price and then held the stock. IRS AMT rules require that you pay tax on the difference in value between the price you paid and the market value of the shares at close of market on the last day of the year. At least, those were the rules at the time as I recall. Note that I did not have to sell the stock in order to be charged the tax, and in fact would also be charged capital gains tax if I had later sold the stock at a profit.
In the end, the nearly worthless stock was sold at a loss (yes, even below what I paid) and over the next few years I was able to recover some of the tax money using captial loss carryovers, but it was a dreadful experience.
Stock options, as they are granted to engineers, are essentially worthless. Don't consider them when comparing compensation at different job offers. They are a very shiny lie.
In the ensuing years I have wised-up and changed careers. Now I am a dentist. No more engineering abuse for me.
It's called alternative minimum tax. Yes, unbelieveable. You have been warned.
it'll tell you where the "beautiful people" are.