My CEO went through two toughbooks in three years and he doesn't even take it onto industrial sites. He can kill any electrical device by simply using it as normal. We've given up on spending twice as much for these toughbooks. We just make sure we've got a good three year warranty these days and get him a normal notebook.
You did everything I would have done except for one thing. You forgot to write a virus set to strike in 2 weeks. If they let you fulfill your two weeks then you disable it. If they blacklist you, well...
As has been pointed out the Giant Squid would probably not survive a surfacing. But as the article points out, even the severed tentacle was able to latch onto things. Perhaps the squid was dead but still wouldn't let go for a period of time.
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Spot on. Exactly the same reason why Australia found itself down the list as well.
A more applicable analogy to Fred would be to bike. And better still, biking to work is more realistic. I ride just over 9kms to work which takes me anywhere from 21 - 24 minutes depending on the wind and how I feel.
If I were to try and run the 9kms it would take at a guess a bit over an hour and would wear me out too much doing it five days a week.
One of the only things keeping me at my present place of employment is the fact that I can ride to and from work.
As far as I understand it, backwards compatibility was not sacrificed, perhaps given a couple of slaps in the face but most php4 sites should be able to run in a php5 environment.
As far as a development environment goes I have found that a big open space is ideal. It facilitates discussion and collaboration and generally enhances teamwork.
But for me, the mark of a good office is determined by the softness of the toilet paper. If the company goes tight-ass on your own ass' comfort then they don't value you.
First of all, I agree, the joke was clever but in poor taste. But will shutting down private space exploration set humanity back an untold amount of years. Are we getting just a little bit too dramatic.
If we take humanity to mean all of human kind (fair enough I think), which in turn is comprised of all living humans, how are the 80+% of humans, who live under the poverty line, going to be further disadvantaged because the 0.5% of the world's population are going to have to wait an extra 20 years till they can by a ticket to the moon.
Why do you think that I have not yet tried to push it onto my less technical friends? I did likewise with OpenOffice, waited until it was 1.0 and then presented it to my friends.
Though you say that your products are not release ready, people actually USE them as if they were.
And who's fault is this? They tell you that their product is not release ready yet you use it as if it is. Are they suppose to magically make it release ready just because you use it as such?
Surely you knew what you were getting yourself into when you switched to a sub 1.0 program. It was a decision you made so don't blame the developers for your poorly thought out choice.
BTW you promised to start your rant with kudos for the Mozilla developers but I don't see you praising them at all.
who cares? there will always be at least one branch of java whose raison d'etre will be to be cross-platform. that's the one that will see the most development, will get the "Java" label, and will continue in the same role that it exists in today. so what if there are specialty branches of the language for other narrow purposes?
You and I may not but Sun may, and they are the current keepers of the code.
But as I understand it I can compile my java code under gcj, kaffee, jikes, javac and it will work. But what if someone, let's say Microsoft, comes along and uses their monopoly within let's say the OS market to push their own version of the java language and call it... um... J++. So people are out the writing J++ compaitable programs that won't run on anything but Windows. But they think they are writing in java cause it looks just the same.
To make my point clearer, depending on the OS lisence they use, forks may arise. Now there will always be the main Java project which would probably remain the most popular. But forks in a project that aims for complete cross platform standardisation can effect the original projects aim. It could be the old J++ all over again, only legally this time and no courtroom could squash it.
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I'd mod you informative instead of funny.
My CEO went through two toughbooks in three years and he doesn't even take it onto industrial sites. He can kill any electrical device by simply using it as normal. We've given up on spending twice as much for these toughbooks. We just make sure we've got a good three year warranty these days and get him a normal notebook.
You did everything I would have done except for one thing. You forgot to write a virus set to strike in 2 weeks. If they let you fulfill your two weeks then you disable it. If they blacklist you, well ...
AstLinux is part of the solution and digium hardware is the rest.
Yeah we switched from Fahrenheit to Celsius years ago but I still don't know when to wear a jumper.
As has been pointed out the Giant Squid would probably not survive a surfacing. But as the article points out, even the severed tentacle was able to latch onto things. Perhaps the squid was dead but still wouldn't let go for a period of time.
Spot on. Exactly the same reason why Australia found itself down the list as well.
The penis pump allegations have been blown right out of proportion.
We'll have to do it Wayne's World style - all dental procedures to be performed at a Kenny G concert.
"The Edge". What kind of name is that anyway?
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A more applicable analogy to Fred would be to bike. And better still, biking to work is more realistic. I ride just over 9kms to work which takes me anywhere from 21 - 24 minutes depending on the wind and how I feel.
If I were to try and run the 9kms it would take at a guess a bit over an hour and would wear me out too much doing it five days a week.
One of the only things keeping me at my present place of employment is the fact that I can ride to and from work.
How comfortable are you in knowing that your web hosting service uses Plesk, a closed source application?
As far as I understand it, backwards compatibility was not sacrificed, perhaps given a couple of slaps in the face but most php4 sites should be able to run in a php5 environment.
I got fired as a customer from Best Buys and sued them for unlawful dismisal.
Gentoo changed it's numbering to relfect the number of hours to emerge -world.
As far as a development environment goes I have found that a big open space is ideal. It facilitates discussion and collaboration and generally enhances teamwork.
But for me, the mark of a good office is determined by the softness of the toilet paper. If the company goes tight-ass on your own ass' comfort then they don't value you.
First of all, I agree, the joke was clever but in poor taste. But will shutting down private space exploration set humanity back an untold amount of years. Are we getting just a little bit too dramatic.
If we take humanity to mean all of human kind (fair enough I think), which in turn is comprised of all living humans, how are the 80+% of humans, who live under the poverty line, going to be further disadvantaged because the 0.5% of the world's population are going to have to wait an extra 20 years till they can by a ticket to the moon.
Type in about:config and scroll down to the settings, double click and type in true. The difference is quite noticable.
it does feel a lot faster than 1.5. The /. bug still exists though. Installation was rather painless, totally painless actually.
And remember kiddies, always set:
network.http.pipelining = true;
network.http.pipelining.firstrequest = true;
network.http.proxy.pipelining = true;
Why do you think that I have not yet tried to push it onto my less technical friends? I did likewise with OpenOffice, waited until it was 1.0 and then presented it to my friends.
Though you say that your products are not release ready, people actually USE them as if they were.
And who's fault is this? They tell you that their product is not release ready yet you use it as if it is. Are they suppose to magically make it release ready just because you use it as such?
Surely you knew what you were getting yourself into when you switched to a sub 1.0 program. It was a decision you made so don't blame the developers for your poorly thought out choice.
BTW you promised to start your rant with kudos for the Mozilla developers but I don't see you praising them at all.
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who cares? there will always be at least one branch of java whose raison d'etre will be to be cross-platform. that's the one that will see the most development, will get the "Java" label, and will continue in the same role that it exists in today. so what if there are specialty branches of the language for other narrow purposes?
You and I may not but Sun may, and they are the current keepers of the code.
But as I understand it I can compile my java code under gcj, kaffee, jikes, javac and it will work. But what if someone, let's say Microsoft, comes along and uses their monopoly within let's say the OS market to push their own version of the java language and call it ... um ... J++. So people are out the writing J++ compaitable programs that won't run on anything but Windows. But they think they are writing in java cause it looks just the same.
This is not what Sun wants.
I'm not so worried about this. Sun has proven with OpenOffice that they can coordinate a large OSS project quite well.
I think the nasty taste of J++ and the possibilty of legitimate forks is what is concerning Sun.
No peawee, you speak from the mouth :)
To make my point clearer, depending on the OS lisence they use, forks may arise. Now there will always be the main Java project which would probably remain the most popular. But forks in a project that aims for complete cross platform standardisation can effect the original projects aim. It could be the old J++ all over again, only legally this time and no courtroom could squash it.