There are places in the valley that give people the freedom to work however they want. Where I am currently, we have a very broad mix.
A lot of folks (myself included) tend to get in late and work late. Quite a few others work 9-5.
I've heard people (especially managers) say "go home, enjoy the weekend", or "isn't your wife expecting you?" quite often. Only once or twice have I heard them push to get a specific piece done in a big hurry (usually with very good reason). People do it, but because they choose to.
Of course, the company really does require self-motivated employees. Nobody ever really seems to take advantage of the system. Many places I've contracted would fall apart with a system like this.
The other thing I like is that they have both Management, and Technical advancement tracks that are fully equivalent in terms of company rank and pay. An engineer is NOT forced to go into management to advance, instead they become increasingly responsible for architectural decisions (if promoted). The engineer picks the track they are interested on their own.
SS could be put on a sound basis by not borrowing money from it for other portions of the goverment. The IOU's to SS are nearly as large the national public debt.
This whole practice of borrowing money that can't be paid back because it doesn't look like a tax increase is horrific.
In the following, public debt refers to money owed to external agencies (mostly China for new debt), and intergovenment mostly means IOU's from SS. However, I have not been able to find a detailed break down of which depts are involved in intergovermental stuff to what degree. I would really like to see those numbers.
If this was about regular old pen and paper snail mail letters, there would be no doubt that the letters would belong to the estate.
Um.. is that true? If it took all of my letters and handed them to a friend before I was killed, would my parents have the legal right to demand that my friend return them?
If I left the letters in my desk, my parents would obviously have access to them, but if the email had been saved locally instead of on a remote server, then there would be no question here either.
I'm really fond of Fire. It actually uses Gaim (and other existing libraries), but gives a very Mac native look and feel.
When I switched from windows, it was the best replacement I could find for Trillian Pro. A multi-protocol client was a hard requirement for me, which knocked out iChat and most of the others I looked at.
Can you name a single problem which is undecidable, but which humans can solve? And I mean actually solve, not just come up with an answer which is "good enough".
But academia does follow the money to a certain degree. I had a CS professor who was doing really intereatng work with database theory, and was publishing on a regular basis. Despite the quality of his work, he was denied tenure. He had no grants because what he was doing didn't need any (well, a whiteboard and a notebook).
I've heard that argument before. People choose to match the profile, so it's their fault. Words only spoken by someone that's never matched the profile.
I'm white, very wasp, and I grew up in a medium well-to-do household. I'm not a preppie, but I look like my background, and pretty much always have. I don't get bothered by the police unless I'm speeding. Even then, they are polite and reasonable when dealing with me (and I to them).
In college I got to be good friends with a black guy (large muscular build to make it worse). Whenever he was in the car I'd get pulled over and hassled a LOT over BS reasons, frequently, police would unsnap their holsters and keep their hands on their guns the whole time they spoke to us. The conversations would be fridgedly polite and unreasonable, at best.
I've been pulled over twice inside of 15 minutes while driving from one side of Dallas to the other. Both times we were both pulled out of the car and questioned seperatly, mostly about drugs. It's was frequent enough that it was a sort of punishment, even though no charges are ever brought, and I certainly never went to court.
The difference between being inside the profile and outside is dramatic. But the kinds of choices that put you inside or outside of the profile (having a black friend, for example) aren't the kinds of choices we should have to make to avoid running problems with the law. If your born the wrong color, and don't have the money for nice clothes (or people don't like your taste in clothes), you're just screwed.
Now, I will follow up. My friend and I haven't been pulled over in nearly 10 years. I don't know if times have changed, if it's because we're older, or what. Probably a little of all of the above.
That was my thought. It had never occured to me that dynamic casts would be string based not pointer based. Now I think I might need to go research why.
The terms of service for your cable modem (well most of them, and I presume you as well) also state that you will run "no servers". In fact, they normally go on at length about what qualifies as a server.
And the answer was that EVERYTHING qualifies as a server. You're not allowed to run X Windows even if outside connections are not allowed, according to the written agreement.
On the other hand, I've been through a lot of ISPs (moves, etc) and never had any real trouble with personal stuff like SSH connections, even if I pipe Gigs a day through it (which I normally do).
What do people think of Arch or Subversion in comparison to commercial systems?
In particular, I've been working on a Perforce hosted project. VERY large (about 30 million lines in the depot) with hundreds of developers.
Of the version control systems I've used it's the best by far, but I've never used a system I really liked. So, I'm wondering what other people have found to work well.
Think big project, many files (many binary resoures as well), to many long lived brances with major cross merging, and hundreds of full time developers.
Do those thieving, monopolizing, overcharging bastards deserve so much of our money?
Again, doesn't matter. If they own the rights, they can do whatever they want as long as they are not violating other laws.
Ah, but the problem is that the definition of those rights keeps changing. And not for the benifit of all parties involved. Copyright law in the US was intended to grant a temporary monopoly over an artists creations in order to give the artist an incentive to create. This seems fair and just to me.
A reasonable analogy would be if a city allowed a private company to collect tolls on a road for five years in exchange for building the road. Reasonable. What's unreasonable is if after four years the company comes back to the city and bribes the city council into giving them another 5 years of tolls because not collecting tolls would hurt their profits.
When the song "Happy Birthday" was written (1800's), the sisters that wrote it expected a maximum of 28 years worth of copyright protection. However, by the time those 28 years were up the rules were changed and the time was extended.
However, the copyright on that song is still valid. Why does the company that now owns those rights deserve to continue collecting royalties? Why was the deal rewritten after the fact?
And not only have Disney the MPAA and RIAA managed to use their money and influence to rewrite the terms of their contracts with the people of this country to extend the durations of their control, they have added all sorts of new wrinkles.
Why should every blank cassette/VHS tape/blank CD/blank DVD sold have an extra tax added that's passed back to the RIAA or MPAA? How did they get that extra right?
And now they are asking that every relevant piece of consumer electronics have extra 'features' added for their benifit. And will they PAY for these extra 'features'? No, they expect the electronics industry (well, it's customers) should pay to protect THEIR licenses.
I do NOT like the term 'intellectual property.' It is nothing but very subtle propoganda that helps to convince people that information is no different from physical goods. By forgetting the real and powerful differences (information can be copied with no loss to the original) we will make our society poorer, even if we make a very few powerful people richer. Nobody can 'own' the rights, only 'hold' them. This change to the older terminology should help to remind us of what copy rights where originally intended for.... a brief period of control to reward those that create, not a mechanism to deprive civilization forever.
No, they really preload. It's a background process started at boot. Some versions of office display in the system tray and some versions don't. You can kill the process or prevent it from loading, and Office takes longer to load. But you also boot faster and have more free RAM when office isn't running.
However, they aren't alone in this at all. Apple Quicktime, Mozilla, Real, and dozens of other packages all try and do the same thing. Fortunatly, the trend has been away from trying to hide this from the user.
Looks really nice, and I might end up using it, but it's not what I was really hoping for.
I was really hoping to find something like the navigation systems that various cars have built in now. "Turn left at the next light", "Merge right", etc.
Is there any linux based mechanism to find automobile routes and give directions based on GPS feedback? I'm willing to buy software and or data, and put time into it.
I'm building up to putting a PC in the car for multiple purposes, and I'd like navigations tools to be one of them. Perferrably something that works just as well as the dedicated systems you can buy.
There are no breaks, but you CAN use it to manuver in any direction that is not 'up wind'.
However it's not as flexible as standard sailboat because there is no sideways resistance to push against (normally proviced by the hull and keel pushing against water). Otherwise it would be able to sail 'up wind' the same way that sail boats can.
I have seen some strange schemes proposed that would allow solar sails to be used to accelerate towards their light source, by dropping a larger sail that reflected light back (as it was accelerating away). See Robert Forward's book 'Dragonfly' for details.
Well, this might not be the best crowd to ask if you want a fair representation of world population.
I (for one) HAVE spent $5,000 on a computer when I was earning less than $40,000. Of course, doing so was one of the many steps that led to my earning much more than 40,000.
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There are places in the valley that give people the freedom to work however they want. Where I am currently, we have a very broad mix.
A lot of folks (myself included) tend to get in late and work late. Quite a few others work 9-5.
I've heard people (especially managers) say "go home, enjoy the weekend", or "isn't your wife expecting you?" quite often. Only once or twice have I heard them push to get a specific piece done in a big hurry (usually with very good reason). People do it, but because they choose to.
Of course, the company really does require self-motivated employees. Nobody ever really seems to take advantage of the system. Many places I've contracted would fall apart with a system like this.
The other thing I like is that they have both Management, and Technical advancement tracks that are fully equivalent in terms of company rank and pay. An engineer is NOT forced to go into management to advance, instead they become increasingly responsible for architectural decisions (if promoted). The engineer picks the track they are interested on their own.
SS could be put on a sound basis by not borrowing money from it for other portions of the goverment. The IOU's to SS are nearly as large the national public debt.
This whole practice of borrowing money that can't be paid back because it doesn't look like a tax increase is horrific.
In the following, public debt refers to money owed to external agencies (mostly China for new debt), and intergovenment mostly means IOU's from SS. However, I have not been able to find a detailed break down of which depts are involved in intergovermental stuff to what degree. I would really like to see those numbers.
Current Debt
Hum.... so, how do I get my mail server on the spammer's honeypot list?
If this was about regular old pen and paper snail mail letters, there would be no doubt that the letters would belong to the estate.
Um.. is that true? If it took all of my letters and handed them to a friend before I was killed, would my parents have the legal right to demand that my friend return them?
If I left the letters in my desk, my parents would obviously have access to them, but if the email had been saved locally instead of on a remote server, then there would be no question here either.
I'm really fond of Fire. It actually uses Gaim (and other existing libraries), but gives a very Mac native look and feel.
When I switched from windows, it was the best replacement I could find for Trillian Pro. A multi-protocol client was a hard requirement for me, which knocked out iChat and most of the others I looked at.
You are forgetting the DMCA. It turned a lot of that stuff on it's head, and (at least so far), the Supreme Court has stood for it.
Better yet, try more evil
Can you name a single problem which is undecidable, but which humans can solve? And I mean actually solve, not just come up with an answer which is "good enough".
I'm not trying to argue, I'm really curious.
But academia does follow the money to a certain degree. I had a CS professor who was doing really intereatng work with database theory, and was publishing on a regular basis. Despite the quality of his work, he was denied tenure. He had no grants because what he was doing didn't need any (well, a whiteboard and a notebook).
I've heard that argument before. People choose to match the profile, so it's their fault. Words only spoken by someone that's never matched the profile.
I'm white, very wasp, and I grew up in a medium well-to-do household. I'm not a preppie, but I look like my background, and pretty much always have. I don't get bothered by the police unless I'm speeding. Even then, they are polite and reasonable when dealing with me (and I to them).
In college I got to be good friends with a black guy (large muscular build to make it worse). Whenever he was in the car I'd get pulled over and hassled a LOT over BS reasons, frequently, police would unsnap their holsters and keep their hands on their guns the whole time they spoke to us. The conversations would be fridgedly polite and unreasonable, at best.
I've been pulled over twice inside of 15 minutes while driving from one side of Dallas to the other. Both times we were both pulled out of the car and questioned seperatly, mostly about drugs. It's was frequent enough that it was a sort of punishment, even though no charges are ever brought, and I certainly never went to court.
The difference between being inside the profile and outside is dramatic. But the kinds of choices that put you inside or outside of the profile (having a black friend, for example) aren't the kinds of choices we should have to make to avoid running problems with the law. If your born the wrong color, and don't have the money for nice clothes (or people don't like your taste in clothes), you're just screwed.
Now, I will follow up. My friend and I haven't been pulled over in nearly 10 years. I don't know if times have changed, if it's because we're older, or what. Probably a little of all of the above.
That was my thought. It had never occured to me that dynamic casts would be string based not pointer based. Now I think I might need to go research why.
The terms of service for your cable modem (well most of them, and I presume you as well) also state that you will run "no servers". In fact, they normally go on at length about what qualifies as a server.
And the answer was that EVERYTHING qualifies as a server. You're not allowed to run X Windows even if outside connections are not allowed, according to the written agreement.
On the other hand, I've been through a lot of ISPs (moves, etc) and never had any real trouble with personal stuff like SSH connections, even if I pipe Gigs a day through it (which I normally do).
What do people think of Arch or Subversion in comparison to commercial systems?
In particular, I've been working on a Perforce hosted project. VERY large (about 30 million lines in the depot) with hundreds of developers.
Of the version control systems I've used it's the best by far, but I've never used a system I really liked. So, I'm wondering what other people have found to work well.
Think big project, many files (many binary resoures as well), to many long lived brances with major cross merging, and hundreds of full time developers.
Another similar vendor that I've had good luck with.
(Not that I've had bad luck with the mini-itx site).
They did this in San Jose a few months ago going North and South on 101. I just assumed it had hit slashdot then and I'd missed the article.
I saw the billboard and decided to solve it. Went googling for a list of pre-computed primes and found the answer already solved instead.
Do those thieving, monopolizing, overcharging bastards deserve so much of our money?
Again, doesn't matter. If they own the rights, they can do whatever they want as long as they are not violating other laws.
Ah, but the problem is that the definition of those rights keeps changing. And not for the benifit of all parties involved. Copyright law in the US was intended to grant a temporary monopoly over an artists creations in order to give the artist an incentive to create. This seems fair and just to me.
A reasonable analogy would be if a city allowed a private company to collect tolls on a road for five years in exchange for building the road. Reasonable. What's unreasonable is if after four years the company comes back to the city and bribes the city council into giving them another 5 years of tolls because not collecting tolls would hurt their profits.
When the song "Happy Birthday" was written (1800's), the sisters that wrote it expected a maximum of 28 years worth of copyright protection. However, by the time those 28 years were up the rules were changed and the time was extended.
However, the copyright on that song is still valid. Why does the company that now owns those rights deserve to continue collecting royalties? Why was the deal rewritten after the fact?
And not only have Disney the MPAA and RIAA managed to use their money and influence to rewrite the terms of their contracts with the people of this country to extend the durations of their control, they have added all sorts of new wrinkles.
Why should every blank cassette/VHS tape/blank CD/blank DVD sold have an extra tax added that's passed back to the RIAA or MPAA? How did they get that extra right?
And now they are asking that every relevant piece of consumer electronics have extra 'features' added for their benifit. And will they PAY for these extra 'features'? No, they expect the electronics industry (well, it's customers) should pay to protect THEIR licenses.
I do NOT like the term 'intellectual property.' It is nothing but very subtle propoganda that helps to convince people that information is no different from physical goods. By forgetting the real and powerful differences (information can be copied with no loss to the original) we will make our society poorer, even if we make a very few powerful people richer. Nobody can 'own' the rights, only 'hold' them. This change to the older terminology should help to remind us of what copy rights where originally intended for.... a brief period of control to reward those that create, not a mechanism to deprive civilization forever.
End Of Rant
No, they really preload. It's a background process started at boot. Some versions of office display in the system tray and some versions don't. You can kill the process or prevent it from loading, and Office takes longer to load. But you also boot faster and have more free RAM when office isn't running.
However, they aren't alone in this at all. Apple Quicktime, Mozilla, Real, and dozens of other packages all try and do the same thing. Fortunatly, the trend has been away from trying to hide this from the user.
They picked me once when I didn't have a TV at all. I really wanted to be part of the ratings (0 hours total). For some reason, they wouldn't let me.
Looks really nice, and I might end up using it, but it's not what I was really hoping for.
I was really hoping to find something like the navigation systems that various cars have built in now. "Turn left at the next light", "Merge right", etc.
Nevermind, just read the non-Japanese article.
Remote controlled. Cool, but not as cool as I'd hoped.
Are they radio controled like most of the western 'robot' combats, or are they the real thing?
This is slightly OT, but....
Is there any linux based mechanism to find automobile routes and give directions based on GPS feedback? I'm willing to buy software and or data, and put time into it.
I'm building up to putting a PC in the car for multiple purposes, and I'd like navigations tools to be one of them. Perferrably something that works just as well as the dedicated systems you can buy.
Clever! It does impose some restrictions, but they don't seem like a problem.
For example, if you have reached solar escape velocity, it doesn't seem like there would be anything you could do to prevent escape.
There are no breaks, but you CAN use it to manuver in any direction that is not 'up wind'.
However it's not as flexible as standard sailboat because there is no sideways resistance to push against (normally proviced by the hull and keel pushing against water). Otherwise it would be able to sail 'up wind' the same way that sail boats can.
I have seen some strange schemes proposed that would allow solar sails to be used to accelerate towards their light source, by dropping a larger sail that reflected light back (as it was accelerating away). See Robert Forward's book 'Dragonfly' for details.
Well, this might not be the best crowd to ask if you want a fair representation of world population.
I (for one) HAVE spent $5,000 on a computer when I was earning less than $40,000. Of course, doing so was one of the many steps that led to my earning much more than 40,000.