Interesting! This magazine will give corporate users more confidence on Linux. There will be little new technical information in this site. However, people from companies will find it very usefull, in the same way that they find usefull the Oracle or DB2 magazines. It is just corporate support to the products that they are buying. Great!
I hear you, but without useful little pluses, like we got in DEC User magazines, of hand-coloured Zork maps, you probably won't find one anywhere near an actual techie.
Suits love CIO, Datamation and whatnot, which sumarizes what those with ears to the ground knew before the place smelled like buffalo poo.
Pivot tables were originally developed in Lotus Improv
Well, that pretty much cements it, Microsoft is probably fondling a patent on these at this very moment, waiting to spring forth and attack some open source project, only to have prior art slapped in their faces.
I'd really like to know what the hell a pivot table is.
This bugged me a lot back when I used to get requests for them. I always assumed it was a new word Microsoft came up with for something else the world has known about for 30 or more years by a conventional name, like Translation Table. These seemed to be what users were requesting when I gave them CSV or Tab delimited files.
That's what I call a weaver, the ones they like to pull in front of generally are gappers, those who need to have several car lenghts of empty space in front of them, yet insist on being in the 'fast lane'. Granted, it's a little unnerving to be doing 70 with only a car length and a half ahead of you, but when the traffic is only going 25 the really isn't the need for much space, as long as you pay attention.
What gets me, and I've seen happen a couple times in the past week, is some jerk jumps into the left lane, passes, then swerves right immediately to take the exit ramp.
I can't wait for the time when people don't over-break[sic] during a slowdown. It's the #1 cause of a traffic jam.
Usually starts by someone having to hit their brakes at the head of a queue because some dipsh!t is changing lanes to get into a more advantageous lane (like some ass did to me this morning), rubber-neckers looking at the accident/flashing light/unusual litter/whatever or inattentive drivers who should get the fsck out of the lane if they're not going to go the speed of traffic. Cellphoners don't help, either, one hand on phone one hand on wheel, fraction of mind on road which should have 100% of their attention.
Lost in a Thule (pronounced too-lee) fog on the way home (Homer Simpson voice: Damn you Thule Fog!) and ended up lost in Fort Ord (mostly closed military base) down dark streets past shuttered houses (oooEEEEoooEEEEoooo) and finding my way back to the Freeway about 20 minutes later, only to navigate 40 miles home in dark fog (Bad: Rain, Badder: Blizzard, Worse: Fog, Worsetest: Dark and Rain/Blizzard/Fog) My brain was fried from the concentration. Who needs video games, cripes!
For those of us in the LA/SF/SD metro regions we also have way higher than average housing prices and the associated property taxes that accompany those (for the prop. owners).
Ah, but property taxes, for the dollar cost of the property, are very, very low. Since Prop. 13 slashed property taxes the balance of state revenues has had to be shifted elsewhere.
Shouldn't efficient cars be encouraged ?
This proposal will have the opposite effect
It's about devising the method that will generate maximum revenue, who in government is really concerned with fair? Besides, if you can afford a new car you got lotsa money.
It is government measures like this that will continue to drive the traffic to the internet, but of course, the tax man will eventually find his way here, unless...
Little do you know, we're already paying taxes for the internet. Not to our ISP, but to those who run the line. There are creative naming conventions for taxes, such as 'telecommunications fee'
Back when my college couldn't raise tuition and couldn't get enough from taxes, they added ta-da fees! Learning resources fee, high cost (of instruction) fee, and so on. It was really an increase in tuition, just like is happening to taxes.
BTW, we had a slough of tax proposals this Nov. 2 which, all together, would have made our local sales tax ~ 10% (it's 8.25% at the moment, IIRC) Bush or Governator cut income tax? No worries. We'll just pay through another tax system. New fee schedules, you know?
Not nearly enough, from what I see. California is supposed to be one of the most expensive places to live, with housing and taxes, but don't believe all of it.
I judge whether the price of gas is high or not by the number of big-ass trucks and SUV's I see cruising the roads and they're still hot sellers, so the price of gas isn't too high, yet.
In terms of taxes, Californians aren't taxed any more, on average then the rest of the country. Actually, all together taxes are fairly low in the state. Biggest problem is the way it's spent, or more importantly not spent. Schools in Cal, which were once top notch are in the bottom third nationally in terms of funding. Consider that a teacher has to be paid fairly high on average to live here (housing mostly) and you can see there's little left for school upkeep, instruction, programs, etc.
I'm keenly aware of this as I now work for a school district in an area which has some of the richest and poorest of Californians in the same district.
You know what though? I'm not too sure about Dreamworks either. I've got huge respect for Jeffrey Katzenberg. All evidence suggests that his work at Disney in the 80s helped get them making decent movies again.
Dreamworks has had a couple clunkers, but Shrek and Shrek 2 carry some weight to make up for it. Disney hasn't had a decent flik of their own since Lion King.
On The Incredibles, I've barely heard a mention of who's doing the voices. Finding Nemo I recognised 2 as household names.
I could care less about recognizable voices, though the one who has 'appeared' in all Pixar movies is John Ratzenburger. A good fit is all that's really necessary, recognition is distracting.
As for Disney, one problem with the theme parks is what happens as the characters run dry. What happens when the last characters they've got are Belle, Woody and Buzz, and Pixar launch a park where the kids can see their characters?
Disney has been milking Mickey and Donald for decades when neither were in anything original. But it is getting passe, with all the other theme parks out there to compete with them.
Why do you think that Disney movies don't flop due to brand recognition?
I'm afraid Disney films are now flopping, due to name recognition. Disney has laid some real goose-eggs in the past few years:
Need examples? How about "Treasure Planet"? "80 Days"? "The Alamo"? "The Ladykillers"? "Raising Helen"?
Oh, you want animated movies that were flops? There sure were those as well...
Or do you mean the brand recognition of Toy Story, which is probably better than Disney right now?
Pixar doesn't need Disney. Disney needs to keep Pixar, but can't continue to squander resources on fat executive salaries and dumb decisions and still let Pixar keep what they are due.
Maybe Disney will make a direct-to-video movie, like they did for The Lion King, Lilo & Stitch, etc... I rate that as highly likely. They'll make the movie on a budget, it'll suck, test audiences will tell them so, and it'll end up being a big direct-to-DVD money maker for them, but hardly ever see the light of a theater, if at all.
That's my half-assed prediction, anyway. I'm going to do my best to avoid letting my son see any Disney-only Toy Story movie, lest the first two be ruined for him.
Disney will undoubtably produce very a very lackluster TS3. Artwork is only one component, the writing and fresh perspective within Pixar is what has made these films one hit after another.
My major gripe with Disney is all the characters are identifiable, recycled from all their other films. It's tired, so very tired and this is why even the finest animation artists can't save them. Disney needs to clean out their writers and start again. Scary? Certainly, but they're not raking in enough at the box office to afford going in the current direction much longer. Most of their profit is coming from the theme parks. Not ecouraging, considering their considerable assets.
When I went to see Incredibles, I was assaulted with the trailers for the next several Disney films coming up. Not one looked interesting, aside from the trailer from Cars (Pixar's last contractual obligation.)
Dreamworks and Pixar are kicking butt while Disney withers away, afraid to change and dying because of that fear.
Yes, amplifiers are definitely the most important uses of vacuum tubes. I can't think of a single more important use in all of history that I would put down on the article had I written it...
I couldn't agree more, my Ampeg V7 with it's 6550A's is one of my most cherished treasures, now that I've moved beyond CRT's.
One of the things that makes PA so valuable to me is that it shoots from the hip, the heart, and the gut. You guys are perfectly happy being fanboys for games that you love, while skewering those you hate.
Yeah, some are great fun, including the skewer of American Greetings characters (which I still have saved somewhere) which brought legal heat. But I was concerned they unwisely were choosing battles they didn't need to, i.e. wtf does lampooning a greeting card company have to do with game reviews? There's enough material in Jerry/Tycho's words to inspire laying waste to a relevent foe, why endanger it vicariously throwing stones outside the scope (besides just for the heck of it.)
Now that Gabe (Mike Krahulik) is raising his own portable consumer, how's it fitting in with with all the P-A responsibilities? I note a marked decrease in Gabe's contributions, understandable in the circumstances, but what does the future hold for P-A, in terms of adjustments?
I think it went back to Gabe after the pikmin eviscerated Tycho. I was secretly hoping today's strip would lead into the gutting-egg planting and watch snatching, but it probably won't change pencil thin arms for several months yet.
I'd like to see a return to the set of Too Damn Late as I could always identify with that in my games-before-all-else period. ("whoa, my legs are dead, my back is sore, my eyes are bloodshot and burning, but at least I finally collected all the rings on that level! Guess I should get an hour of sleep before getting up and going to school.")
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I'd hardly call HTML a programming language...
I'd recommend C, which any decent *nix install should include, then move to perl.
but then I love C...
My favorite Perl book was the first one, published by O'Reilly, back in the 90's, by Randal. They've all seemed so dry since. :-\
I hear you, but without useful little pluses, like we got in DEC User magazines, of hand-coloured Zork maps, you probably won't find one anywhere near an actual techie.
Suits love CIO, Datamation and whatnot, which sumarizes what those with ears to the ground knew before the place smelled like buffalo poo.
Reads better with rose-coloured glasses.
Well, that pretty much cements it, Microsoft is probably fondling a patent on these at this very moment, waiting to spring forth and attack some open source project, only to have prior art slapped in their faces.
This bugged me a lot back when I used to get requests for them. I always assumed it was a new word Microsoft came up with for something else the world has known about for 30 or more years by a conventional name, like Translation Table. These seemed to be what users were requesting when I gave them CSV or Tab delimited files.
Back in 95-96 and 96-97, I paid about the same in property taxes on a $92,000 house in a small city in rural Michigan.
There's a reason why I mostly read books now. TV is utterly awful and movies aren't worth it, except for the odd indi and Pixar flicks.
What gets me, and I've seen happen a couple times in the past week, is some jerk jumps into the left lane, passes, then swerves right immediately to take the exit ramp.
It helps to be making the right sandwich
Usually starts by someone having to hit their brakes at the head of a queue because some dipsh!t is changing lanes to get into a more advantageous lane (like some ass did to me this morning), rubber-neckers looking at the accident/flashing light/unusual litter/whatever or inattentive drivers who should get the fsck out of the lane if they're not going to go the speed of traffic. Cellphoners don't help, either, one hand on phone one hand on wheel, fraction of mind on road which should have 100% of their attention.
Lost in a Thule (pronounced too-lee) fog on the way home (Homer Simpson voice: Damn you Thule Fog!) and ended up lost in Fort Ord (mostly closed military base) down dark streets past shuttered houses (oooEEEEoooEEEEoooo) and finding my way back to the Freeway about 20 minutes later, only to navigate 40 miles home in dark fog (Bad: Rain, Badder: Blizzard, Worse: Fog, Worsetest: Dark and Rain/Blizzard/Fog) My brain was fried from the concentration. Who needs video games, cripes!
Ah, but property taxes, for the dollar cost of the property, are very, very low. Since Prop. 13 slashed property taxes the balance of state revenues has had to be shifted elsewhere.
It's about devising the method that will generate maximum revenue, who in government is really concerned with fair? Besides, if you can afford a new car you got lotsa money.
Little do you know, we're already paying taxes for the internet. Not to our ISP, but to those who run the line. There are creative naming conventions for taxes, such as 'telecommunications fee'
Back when my college couldn't raise tuition and couldn't get enough from taxes, they added ta-da fees! Learning resources fee, high cost (of instruction) fee, and so on. It was really an increase in tuition, just like is happening to taxes.
BTW, we had a slough of tax proposals this Nov. 2 which, all together, would have made our local sales tax ~ 10% (it's 8.25% at the moment, IIRC) Bush or Governator cut income tax? No worries. We'll just pay through another tax system. New fee schedules, you know?
Not nearly enough, from what I see. California is supposed to be one of the most expensive places to live, with housing and taxes, but don't believe all of it.
I judge whether the price of gas is high or not by the number of big-ass trucks and SUV's I see cruising the roads and they're still hot sellers, so the price of gas isn't too high, yet.
In terms of taxes, Californians aren't taxed any more, on average then the rest of the country. Actually, all together taxes are fairly low in the state. Biggest problem is the way it's spent, or more importantly not spent. Schools in Cal, which were once top notch are in the bottom third nationally in terms of funding. Consider that a teacher has to be paid fairly high on average to live here (housing mostly) and you can see there's little left for school upkeep, instruction, programs, etc.
I'm keenly aware of this as I now work for a school district in an area which has some of the richest and poorest of Californians in the same district.
I'm pretty sure the MPAA would sue over that, as the practice is undoubtably their intellectual property.
next on news 10, more sh!t than usual with your internet connection...
Dreamworks has had a couple clunkers, but Shrek and Shrek 2 carry some weight to make up for it. Disney hasn't had a decent flik of their own since Lion King.
On The Incredibles, I've barely heard a mention of who's doing the voices. Finding Nemo I recognised 2 as household names.
I could care less about recognizable voices, though the one who has 'appeared' in all Pixar movies is John Ratzenburger. A good fit is all that's really necessary, recognition is distracting.
As for Disney, one problem with the theme parks is what happens as the characters run dry. What happens when the last characters they've got are Belle, Woody and Buzz, and Pixar launch a park where the kids can see their characters?
Disney has been milking Mickey and Donald for decades when neither were in anything original. But it is getting passe, with all the other theme parks out there to compete with them.
I'm afraid Disney films are now flopping, due to name recognition. Disney has laid some real goose-eggs in the past few years:
Need examples? How about "Treasure Planet"? "80 Days"? "The Alamo"? "The Ladykillers"? "Raising Helen"?
Oh, you want animated movies that were flops? There sure were those as well...
Or do you mean the brand recognition of Toy Story, which is probably better than Disney right now?
Pixar doesn't need Disney. Disney needs to keep Pixar, but can't continue to squander resources on fat executive salaries and dumb decisions and still let Pixar keep what they are due.
Maybe Disney will make a direct-to-video movie, like they did for The Lion King, Lilo & Stitch, etc... I rate that as highly likely. They'll make the movie on a budget, it'll suck, test audiences will tell them so, and it'll end up being a big direct-to-DVD money maker for them, but hardly ever see the light of a theater, if at all.
That's my half-assed prediction, anyway. I'm going to do my best to avoid letting my son see any Disney-only Toy Story movie, lest the first two be ruined for him.
Disney will undoubtably produce very a very lackluster TS3. Artwork is only one component, the writing and fresh perspective within Pixar is what has made these films one hit after another.
My major gripe with Disney is all the characters are identifiable, recycled from all their other films. It's tired, so very tired and this is why even the finest animation artists can't save them. Disney needs to clean out their writers and start again. Scary? Certainly, but they're not raking in enough at the box office to afford going in the current direction much longer. Most of their profit is coming from the theme parks. Not ecouraging, considering their considerable assets.
When I went to see Incredibles, I was assaulted with the trailers for the next several Disney films coming up. Not one looked interesting, aside from the trailer from Cars (Pixar's last contractual obligation.)
Dreamworks and Pixar are kicking butt while Disney withers away, afraid to change and dying because of that fear.
Thermionic Valves, or Valves for short, for our British cousins across the pond.
I couldn't agree more, my Ampeg V7 with it's 6550A's is one of my most cherished treasures, now that I've moved beyond CRT's.
Yeah, some are great fun, including the skewer of American Greetings characters (which I still have saved somewhere) which brought legal heat. But I was concerned they unwisely were choosing battles they didn't need to, i.e. wtf does lampooning a greeting card company have to do with game reviews? There's enough material in Jerry/Tycho's words to inspire laying waste to a relevent foe, why endanger it vicariously throwing stones outside the scope (besides just for the heck of it.)
Now that Gabe (Mike Krahulik) is raising his own portable consumer, how's it fitting in with with all the P-A responsibilities? I note a marked decrease in Gabe's contributions, understandable in the circumstances, but what does the future hold for P-A, in terms of adjustments?
I think it went back to Gabe after the pikmin eviscerated Tycho. I was secretly hoping today's strip would lead into the gutting-egg planting and watch snatching, but it probably won't change pencil thin arms for several months yet.
I'd like to see a return to the set of Too Damn Late as I could always identify with that in my games-before-all-else period. ("whoa, my legs are dead, my back is sore, my eyes are bloodshot and burning, but at least I finally collected all the rings on that level! Guess I should get an hour of sleep before getting up and going to school.")