I love the layout of my Toshiba notebook, part of the keyboard looks like this: [Enter ] [shift][PgUp ] [up ][PgDwn] [spacebar][ins][del][alt][left][down][right]
It makes sooo much sense, all the juicy keys are right in one tight bunch.
If you haven't already, get yourself a laser printer, preferably the kind that prints on both sides. I agree and myself rarely read more than 10 pages online, but I have no problem finding 20, 50, 100, 300, 1000 page manuals (huzzah for.pdf, I don't know why people poo-poo it so much) and printing them out. Then I close the notebook, curl up in my favorite reading chair, and spend hours of time offline.
Whatever. A woman at my work was named Sonia Butt. She got married to some guy and took his last name, and became Sonia Luck. They recently divorced. Just to spite him she changed her name to Sonia Butt Luck. True story. No really.
In an infinite universe, anything that can happen, not only will happen but will happen an infinite amount of times. Or so Paul Davis would have us believe;-)
True. But with those IBM ones, you wouldn't even need a docking station.
I can't justify the $280 that it would cost me for a docking station at the moment.
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Most ATMs are designed to go balls-up at the first sign of trouble and shut themselves down after sending detailed error messages to their owners via leased lines. Out of paper? Error message, shut down. Out of money? Error message, shut down. OS Crash? Error message, shut down. Damage to the ATM Case? Error message, shut down.
So you're saying they should be easy to shut down? Good enough for me.
Because when you're working at a desk (and not on your lap), it's nice when the keyboard isn't 2 inches away from the screen. It's also nice when the screen isn't at the same height as your nipples (applies to all sexes).
I use my notebook as a desktop and wouldn't have it any other way, but to currently overcome the above limitations, I am forced to use a 17inch screen on a stand. By doing so the keyboard is nolonger right at the screen since I'm looking at a different screen. I don't bother using a second keyboard since I am rather fond of the tight layout of my notebook's keyboard.
Those convertible notebooks seem to overcome these issues, without having to have extra peripherals. Now you CAN take it with you.
Hehe, reminds me of the dialogue at the beginning of a Butthole Surfers song....
(Kids in car, singing "I don't give a fuck about the fbi, I don't give a fuck about the cia..."...cop siren goes off, car pulls over and cop starts talking:
All a certification does is remove any excuse for not knowing what you're supposed to. I like to take my employees certs, roll them up, and beat them with it when they get something wrong. Well, I would if I had any employees.
I was a bit dubious to your military claims since the linked article only makes reference to an attempt to make a synthetic rubber. However, a bit of research on sillyputty.com shows not only that you are correct, but also lists the ingredients (boric acid and silicone oil) required to manufacture it. Read on for an excerpt:
1940In the midst of World War II, the Japanese contine to invade rubber producing countries in the Far East, cutting off supply to the United States. This begins to hamper war production efforts, especially for truck tires and boots. As a result, the government's War Production Board asks American industry to attempt to develop a synthetic rubber compound.
1943James Wright, a Scottish engineer working for General Electric's New Haven, Conn., laboratory, combines boric acid and silicone oil in a test tube. The compound becomes "polymerized." Wright removes the goeey substance from the test tube and in his exuberance tosses some on the floor. Bouncing putty is born.
<pedantic>Do you mean 100% alcohol, or 100 proof? Proof is a number that represents twice the percentage by volume of alcohol present. So 100 proof is only 50% alcohol.</pedantic>
Thanks for the great link. Now I know that I'm being paid $8,000 less than the average person in my trade. And I am definitely an above average developer. I think its time to ask for a raise.
Downloading copyrighted material IS illegal, and I doubt you'll catch any higher ups doing it
I know someone who's father is the president for a very very very large IT corporation, and he's got 30gigs of mp3s available for anyone to sift through at all hours of the day. Although his father might care about this, he certainly doesn't.
Higher ups tend to have more money to spend.
Yes, but they can be just as lazy as those who aren't as rich, and it's a hell of a lot easier downloading the latest single off Kazaa than it is to walk into the store and buy the album. And did it ever occure to you that rich people might be rich because they don't like to throw money away, are thrifty, or know a good deal when they see one?
Higher ups probably don't have the knowledge to get on a P2P network, or don't care enough,
Only a fool would think someone richer is either dumber or more ignorant than they are. <sarcasm>Yeah, they probably don't even know what the internet is and still send birthday wishes via telegram.</sarcasm>
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Why doesn't my fountain pen have a scroll lock?
I love the layout of my Toshiba notebook, part of the keyboard looks like this:
[Enter ]
[shift][PgUp ]
[up ][PgDwn]
[spacebar][ins][del][alt][left][down][right]
It makes sooo much sense, all the juicy keys are right in one tight bunch.
You can't leave a $9/hr job? Is there some hidden $15/hr loyalty premium you failed to mention before?
As an andendum to my previous post...I also strongly advise in getting some sort of binding machine, if you can't exploit one from your work.
If you haven't already, get yourself a laser printer, preferably the kind that prints on both sides. I agree and myself rarely read more than 10 pages online, but I have no problem finding 20, 50, 100, 300, 1000 page manuals (huzzah for .pdf, I don't know why people poo-poo it so much) and printing them out. Then I close the notebook, curl up in my favorite reading chair, and spend hours of time offline.
Whatever. A woman at my work was named Sonia Butt. She got married to some guy and took his last name, and became Sonia Luck. They recently divorced. Just to spite him she changed her name to Sonia Butt Luck. True story. No really.
In an infinite universe, anything that can happen, not only will happen but will happen an infinite amount of times. Or so Paul Davis would have us believe ;-)
Shouldn't it be LotR...why does of get to be uppercased when the isn't?
I can't justify the $280 that it would cost me for a docking station at the moment.
Most ATMs are designed to go balls-up at the first sign of trouble and shut themselves down after sending detailed error messages to their owners via leased lines. Out of paper? Error message, shut down. Out of money? Error message, shut down. OS Crash? Error message, shut down. Damage to the ATM Case? Error message, shut down.
So you're saying they should be easy to shut down? Good enough for me.
Why on earth would a 70 year old lady want to have the screen down by her knees?
Let me add some emphasis to my previous comment:
It's also nice when the screen isn't at the same height as your nipples (applies to all sexes).
I liked the sagging eyesight part, funny :-)
Because when you're working at a desk (and not on your lap), it's nice when the keyboard isn't 2 inches away from the screen. It's also nice when the screen isn't at the same height as your nipples (applies to all sexes).
I use my notebook as a desktop and wouldn't have it any other way, but to currently overcome the above limitations, I am forced to use a 17inch screen on a stand. By doing so the keyboard is nolonger right at the screen since I'm looking at a different screen. I don't bother using a second keyboard since I am rather fond of the tight layout of my notebook's keyboard.
Those convertible notebooks seem to overcome these issues, without having to have extra peripherals. Now you CAN take it with you.
Hehe, reminds me of the dialogue at the beginning of a Butthole Surfers song....
(Kids in car, singing "I don't give a fuck about the fbi, I don't give a fuck about the cia..."...cop siren goes off, car pulls over and cop starts talking:
- Whatch'a doing?
- Chewing chocolate.
- Where's you find it?
- Mmh, doggy dropped it?
- (pause)...move along.
It will be water cooled. And too keep the water cool in such a short circulatory path, there will be a garden hose attachment on the side.
Information isn't alive, it can't "want" anything.
Everyone either forgets, ignores, or is oblivious to the next line of that famous quote.
"Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive."
That comes from Stewart Brand's 1987 The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT.
All a certification does is remove any excuse for not knowing what you're supposed to. I like to take my employees certs, roll them up, and beat them with it when they get something wrong. Well, I would if I had any employees.
I was a bit dubious to your military claims since the linked article only makes reference to an attempt to make a synthetic rubber. However, a bit of research on sillyputty.com shows not only that you are correct, but also lists the ingredients (boric acid and silicone oil) required to manufacture it. Read on for an excerpt:
1940 In the midst of World War II, the Japanese contine to invade rubber producing countries in the Far East, cutting off supply to the United States. This begins to hamper war production efforts, especially for truck tires and boots. As a result, the government's War Production Board asks American industry to attempt to develop a synthetic rubber compound.
1943 James Wright, a Scottish engineer working for General Electric's New Haven, Conn., laboratory, combines boric acid and silicone oil in a test tube. The compound becomes "polymerized." Wright removes the goeey substance from the test tube and in his exuberance tosses some on the floor. Bouncing putty is born.
Kid, I like you moxy.
probably only if it's 100% proof, though.
<pedantic>Do you mean 100% alcohol, or 100 proof? Proof is a number that represents twice the percentage by volume of alcohol present. So 100 proof is only 50% alcohol.</pedantic>
Now that's scary. We wrote a db to db interface around JAXM, but higher-ups got nervous about using SOAP, so it was shelved for the time being.
I hope Sun's decision is a temporary one, because JAXM sure takes all the work out of SOAP, and like you said, it appears to work as stated.
Thanks for the great link. Now I know that I'm being paid $8,000 less than the average person in my trade. And I am definitely an above average developer. I think its time to ask for a raise.
Downloading copyrighted material IS illegal, and I doubt you'll catch any higher ups doing it
I know someone who's father is the president for a very very very large IT corporation, and he's got 30gigs of mp3s available for anyone to sift through at all hours of the day. Although his father might care about this, he certainly doesn't.
Higher ups tend to have more money to spend.
Yes, but they can be just as lazy as those who aren't as rich, and it's a hell of a lot easier downloading the latest single off Kazaa than it is to walk into the store and buy the album. And did it ever occure to you that rich people might be rich because they don't like to throw money away, are thrifty, or know a good deal when they see one?
Higher ups probably don't have the knowledge to get on a P2P network, or don't care enough,
Only a fool would think someone richer is either dumber or more ignorant than they are. <sarcasm>Yeah, they probably don't even know what the internet is and still send birthday wishes via telegram.</sarcasm>
Yeah, I was still thumping out essays using GEOS and a 9pin dot matrix until the mid 90s. Like the old Commodore 128 ad says, "Thanks for the memory".
I had to reboot no less than 4 times to bring a Windows 2000 machine up to snuff last friday.
Uh, that was a comment, not a tag.