Easy! Put together a detailed schedule of what you do. You know something is gonna take you a week to do - put it in there. Another thing takes 3 days - put it in there, too. Talk to your manager, adjust priorities. If you do these two things saying "no" becomes much easier. Basically someone comes to your office and asks you to do something - you point a finger to your schedule and say "I have no time for this right now, let's go talk to my manager to adjust my schedule". Your manager will have to either drop stuff from your plate or deny the request - it's "mechanical".
Buy GHS or Dean Markley or Elixir. 5 years ago Ernie Ball strings were decent, these days they're just not up to par. I stopped using them a couple of years ago.
Be prepared to spend cash on lenses. I've tried quite a few, and all I can say crop factor really makes very good lenses mandatory with this camera. I've bought 24-70L and I'm going to buy 70-200L f/2.8 IS. That makes it about $2600 for the lenses alone. The body cost me $1500. Nice big chunk of cash.
And I prefer windows remote desktop. The only kind of GUI remoting that allows me to work using a frikkin 14 kbps modem and help out people on the other end of the globe by joining their UI session! Try that with your stinkin' X.
Is because their rulers were all psychically unstable bone-headed morons from Stalin onward. I sometimes wonder how it lasted so long under such a poor guidance.
to stop Russian Satan and Topol ballistic missiles. So far there's no way. This means there's at least one country in the world that can fuck up the US any minute if they need to. It only takes about 9 minutes for those missiles to deliver their multiple-payload warheads over here. I've also heard they've developed some pretty bizarre schemes to cause maximum destruction, like creating a giant tsunami-like wave in Missisipi river by detonating warheads one after another upstream or something like that.
So the point is, arms race is not won and it will never be.
When Americans firs flew a man to space they've discovered that ball pens don't work in zero gravity. NASA received a $100M grant to develop a pen which would work there. Ten years and hundred million dollars later such a pen was developed and it worked just fine. Russians just used pencils.:0)
Sure as heck they want to get a better price down the road. Thus they chose ATI which also has better image quality and cooler-running chips to boot. If they can also sell them for cheaper, so much the better.
Why the heck should GNOME button (and any other UI element) onccupy 2 times more screen real estate than Windows one? I'd rather have this space used to display the actual data I'm working with.
There are some 50 million hotmail users out there, and most of them are using OE for Hotmail access. Works like a charm. Hotmail is simply the best free email service I've ever used. What do I have to do now?
Commercial results are biased up even though they're not marked as paid. Try a search for anything whatsoever (except open source) and you'll get your first 3 pages filled with online stores.
Tell that to your fiancee... :0)
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And programmers typically live above the powerty level. Yet overwhelming majority of free software is developed by US and European programmers. Weird, huh?:0) Simply because you earn enough money to buy decent food (and that may make you "middle class" in countries like India) doesn't mean you're well off. You've got to buy a house for your family, a car and put your kids through the college (while financially supporting them, because there's no way in hell a bank would give them a loan). This doesn't leave you much money or time to spend on free software, even though you look insanely rich when compared to a farmer from a redneck town.
They have one small disadvantage - they barely make a living there. And when you don't have enough money to feed your family the last thing you'd do is work for free so that some american (or german) company sells your software for profit. Open Source works when it's subsidized by your salary (or time stolen from your employer). If your salary doesn't leave much room for subsidizing anything - you go somewhere and find an evening job.
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They've never enforced any software patents.
Let's watch Microsoft shoot his company in the head, mutilate its dead body then let it rot and then burn its carcass - all using the US legal system.
At last, a Microsoft lawsuit the whole family (both pro- and anti-Micrsoft folks) can enjoy.
Easy! Put together a detailed schedule of what you do. You know something is gonna take you a week to do - put it in there. Another thing takes 3 days - put it in there, too. Talk to your manager, adjust priorities. If you do these two things saying "no" becomes much easier. Basically someone comes to your office and asks you to do something - you point a finger to your schedule and say "I have no time for this right now, let's go talk to my manager to adjust my schedule". Your manager will have to either drop stuff from your plate or deny the request - it's "mechanical".
I fail to see how this is different from any other linux desktop out there. What's their selling point?
I think kids will write all kinds of "bad" words just to hear her say they're bad!
I don't like ham, but I have nothing against Canadian Bacon.
It's as simple as that. Why the heck should I pay taxes TWICE on the same thing?
See, the software must be free!
Buy GHS or Dean Markley or Elixir. 5 years ago Ernie Ball strings were decent, these days they're just not up to par. I stopped using them a couple of years ago.
Wait till they find out about mrcranky.com!
Be prepared to spend cash on lenses. I've tried quite a few, and all I can say crop factor really makes very good lenses mandatory with this camera. I've bought 24-70L and I'm going to buy 70-200L f/2.8 IS. That makes it about $2600 for the lenses alone. The body cost me $1500. Nice big chunk of cash.
From there on next 10 years linux community will be playig catch-up as they still do with Windows 95.
And I prefer windows remote desktop. The only kind of GUI remoting that allows me to work using a frikkin 14 kbps modem and help out people on the other end of the globe by joining their UI session! Try that with your stinkin' X.
I've saved so much money on ebay, you wouldn't believe! In fact, even if 50% of my purchases were from fraudulent sellers, I'd STILL save money.
Is because their rulers were all psychically unstable bone-headed morons from Stalin onward. I sometimes wonder how it lasted so long under such a poor guidance.
to stop Russian Satan and Topol ballistic missiles. So far there's no way. This means there's at least one country in the world that can fuck up the US any minute if they need to. It only takes about 9 minutes for those missiles to deliver their multiple-payload warheads over here. I've also heard they've developed some pretty bizarre schemes to cause maximum destruction, like creating a giant tsunami-like wave in Missisipi river by detonating warheads one after another upstream or something like that.
So the point is, arms race is not won and it will never be.
When Americans firs flew a man to space they've discovered that ball pens don't work in zero gravity. NASA received a $100M grant to develop a pen which would work there. Ten years and hundred million dollars later such a pen was developed and it worked just fine. Russians just used pencils. :0)
This will produce a truly random signal (white noise) which is completely unpredictable. $0.05 solution + $2-5 in external components is all you need.
Sure as heck they want to get a better price down the road. Thus they chose ATI which also has better image quality and cooler-running chips to boot. If they can also sell them for cheaper, so much the better.
Why the heck should GNOME button (and any other UI element) onccupy 2 times more screen real estate than Windows one? I'd rather have this space used to display the actual data I'm working with.
There are some 50 million hotmail users out there, and most of them are using OE for Hotmail access. Works like a charm. Hotmail is simply the best free email service I've ever used. What do I have to do now?
Commercial results are biased up even though they're not marked as paid. Try a search for anything whatsoever (except open source) and you'll get your first 3 pages filled with online stores.
And be ready to suffer the consequences.
And programmers typically live above the powerty level. Yet overwhelming majority of free software is developed by US and European programmers. Weird, huh? :0) Simply because you earn enough money to buy decent food (and that may make you "middle class" in countries like India) doesn't mean you're well off. You've got to buy a house for your family, a car and put your kids through the college (while financially supporting them, because there's no way in hell a bank would give them a loan). This doesn't leave you much money or time to spend on free software, even though you look insanely rich when compared to a farmer from a redneck town.
They have one small disadvantage - they barely make a living there. And when you don't have enough money to feed your family the last thing you'd do is work for free so that some american (or german) company sells your software for profit. Open Source works when it's subsidized by your salary (or time stolen from your employer). If your salary doesn't leave much room for subsidizing anything - you go somewhere and find an evening job.