But what if your job, albeit a decently paid one, is bringing your spirits down so much that you end up going home sad, depressed and deinterested. Your downbeat mood does not do any service to your children that want to spend some quality time with their parents but instead get a parent that seems far away somewhere mulling his dissatisfaction in life in his head.
Additionally, teaching your kids to be able to depend on themselves for finances (when they are somewhat grown up, of course) is a far better lesson in life than working yourself to the bone so that they don't have to start working until they are 30.
Obviously there is no clear cut answer for the question raised. But I don't think that slaving at a job one hates and a job that is destroying your spirits just so that your kids can buy the latest cell phone is what constitutes providing a good life for them. Having a balance of enough money to be able to eat and clothe oneself, while having a parent who is involved and "present" is a much better situation, and that is accomplished, in part, by having a job that stimulates you and gives you a sense of accomplishment, etc, not simply paying well.
You can live comfortably on a lot less than you think.
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The problem with large paychecks is that the more you make, the larger you live. You take out a larger mortgagte on a bigger home. You buy that luxury car to keep up with the other members of the country club. You eat better. You buy more clothes. The same goes for someone moving from making 30k to 50k. So it might be easy to assume she amassed a great wealth, but you'd probably be surprised how much liquid assets she actually had when she switched tracks.
I'd agree with you on all points except for the value. Whatever the apple product you're looking to purchase, a year from now, you have a good chance of getting a decent resale value for it, as opposed to a Rio Carbon (which is what I have) which can be gotten for $50 on eBay where is cost me $240 retail just last December.
I think that more importantly than this application itself, this development could start a chain of improvements to the web interfaces of many online sites. Online brokerage companies like ScotTrade could provide users with much better interfaces, with live quotes, ability to drag stocks between panes, or the ability to alter different data on the screen (like moving some money here, and getting out of a stock there) to see the effects in real time, with no static HTML, available from anywhere
So even though Outlook might not be your mail client of choice, this should be supported as it could be the start of a good trend.
A massive number of mail administrators don't know how to configure their mailservers thus allowing this to happen.
Yeah, you try explaining to a person that needs to be taught what Excell is how to share their 15 meg PDF via FTP, or a shared folder.
Most of the people I deal with do not understand what happens when a bounce they recieve says "mail quota full". When they see an error that says "mail size exceeded" they'll assume the server is broken and tell you to "please fix ASAP," literally.
You mean titanium covered with paint that would chip off after a few months. At least the thinkpads don't have anything to chip off and drop the resale value by %20.
I'd still rather see another Tex Murphy game. I never got into Sam And Max; too much pixel hunting. I know that there's a bit of it in Tex Murphy, too, but at least there are far fewer options and it seemed t obe more flowing.
Having witnessed the failure of the XBox in Japan, I would reckon that Microsoft, this time around, is making great efforts in creating games Japanese players would play. In fact I believe I read something about MS courting Square-Enix and other Japanese developers by giving them dev systems and software.
As far as the release delay, now the japanese know how the rest of the world feels when it comes to system and game releases. It didn't kill America's desire for Japanese consoles, though.
And at least the console will come out in Japan, albeit just a month later. Manu great Japanese games never made it to US shores.
Why does the media insist on putting a buzzword on everything, especially when it comes to the iPod. Portable players have been around for ages now, and the iPod isn't the only player around. Apple is getting free advertising and PR from apparently every media outlet out there.
Recently, I had a bit of an ear infection in both ears. After it passed, my ears were left clogged. I kinda lived with it for a while, hoping it would fix by itself. After a month or two, I decided to go to a doc and get it cleaned out.
My hearing now is very good. But I do not know whether that is a good thing. Living in NYC, the noise is really getting to me. The trucks outside my window. The audible alarms on old cars worth $4000. The beep of the subway doors being closed five times in a row as some douchebag decides to hold it. The AC system in the datacenter.
Problem with trying out players at various stores is that they mainly have ambient or hiphop music heavy on deep bass, as opposed to rock or metal, which would be better formats to test for the hissing and amplified "S" sounds that I am detecting on my current Rio Carbon.
Does anyone have any experience with sound quality of the iPods versus the Rio?
The odd thing is that I've only recently been bothered by the sound (tried all different equilizer settings to no avail) so I'm not sure if it is just a bad batch of Sony MDR-A44L.
But if you're at work, even using your personal Gmail account would constitute using the company's resources (bandwidth, net access) for personal purposes.
Which means, that while at work, you are prohibited from doing ANYTHING not immediately relating to work, like making sure you have enough money in your checking account for that last check you wrote not to bounce. So keep your nose on the spreadsheet and don't make any waves.
Consumerism? Is that the only word you remembered from your liberal education?
I don't think it was about the product itself. The people putting up the sale did not institute any sort of a line system, so it ended up being a free-for-all. If I stood in line for 4 hours and some young 20-some hotshot jerkoff tried to roll in front of me, you're damn sure I'd be pissed! What would you expect the people to do. Step aside and look for a rent-a-cop to air their grievance?
There was no system for keeping order and basic human nature and competition took over.
> Too bad, all that developer talent could have gone into making Linux better suited for the desktop.
Every annum for the past 6 years, headlines claimed that it was the year of "desktop Linux." Yet nothing came of it save for a bunch of Windows-esque clones with no innovation. Then Apple came along and revolutionized the desktop experience. So maybe it is time for someone else to give it a go.
Many of your arguments can be applied to Linux/BSD in general as far as package management and software updates go.
But bad documentation? How about having to deal with outdated How-TO's from 1998, and having to fall back on echos and snippets of posts on deja.com for what is the most "official" documentation. FreeBSD has extensive and detailed documentation on the official website. So even though it can be very long and detailed -- like building world -- once you read it over, you can skim off a lot of the stuff. General unix xperience allows you to recognize what is important and what isn't. But that detail will help you greatly when something goes wrong, or something unexpected and uncommon happens.
Additionally, finding help on the web is easier, because there aren't literally hundreds of different patches and distributions that others use.
Obviously, like anyone on/., I used Linux and FreeBSD, and would have to say that Linux is the one that falls short with documentation.
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But what if your job, albeit a decently paid one, is bringing your spirits down so much that you end up going home sad, depressed and deinterested. Your downbeat mood does not do any service to your children that want to spend some quality time with their parents but instead get a parent that seems far away somewhere mulling his dissatisfaction in life in his head.
Additionally, teaching your kids to be able to depend on themselves for finances (when they are somewhat grown up, of course) is a far better lesson in life than working yourself to the bone so that they don't have to start working until they are 30.
Obviously there is no clear cut answer for the question raised. But I don't think that slaving at a job one hates and a job that is destroying your spirits just so that your kids can buy the latest cell phone is what constitutes providing a good life for them. Having a balance of enough money to be able to eat and clothe oneself, while having a parent who is involved and "present" is a much better situation, and that is accomplished, in part, by having a job that stimulates you and gives you a sense of accomplishment, etc, not simply paying well.
You can live comfortably on a lot less than you think.
The problem with large paychecks is that the more you make, the larger you live. You take out a larger mortgagte on a bigger home. You buy that luxury car to keep up with the other members of the country club. You eat better. You buy more clothes. The same goes for someone moving from making 30k to 50k. So it might be easy to assume she amassed a great wealth, but you'd probably be surprised how much liquid assets she actually had when she switched tracks.
I'd agree with you on all points except for the value. Whatever the apple product you're looking to purchase, a year from now, you have a good chance of getting a decent resale value for it, as opposed to a Rio Carbon (which is what I have) which can be gotten for $50 on eBay where is cost me $240 retail just last December.
I think that more importantly than this application itself, this development could start a chain of improvements to the web interfaces of many online sites. Online brokerage companies like ScotTrade could provide users with much better interfaces, with live quotes, ability to drag stocks between panes, or the ability to alter different data on the screen (like moving some money here, and getting out of a stock there) to see the effects in real time, with no static HTML, available from anywhere
So even though Outlook might not be your mail client of choice, this should be supported as it could be the start of a good trend.
A massive number of mail administrators don't know how to configure their mailservers thus allowing this to happen.
Yeah, you try explaining to a person that needs to be taught what Excell is how to share their 15 meg PDF via FTP, or a shared folder.
Most of the people I deal with do not understand what happens when a bounce they recieve says "mail quota full". When they see an error that says "mail size exceeded" they'll assume the server is broken and tell you to "please fix ASAP," literally.
You mean titanium covered with paint that would chip off after a few months. At least the thinkpads don't have anything to chip off and drop the resale value by %20.
I get knocked down
I get knocked down again
You're never gonna knock me down.
[...]
I take a whisky drink,
I take a chocolate drink,
And when I have to pee,
I use the kitchen sink.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluste.... oh, no, that would be just down right dangerous.
I'd still rather see another Tex Murphy game. I never got into Sam And Max; too much pixel hunting. I know that there's a bit of it in Tex Murphy, too, but at least there are far fewer options and it seemed t obe more flowing.
Having witnessed the failure of the XBox in Japan, I would reckon that Microsoft, this time around, is making great efforts in creating games Japanese players would play. In fact I believe I read something about MS courting Square-Enix and other Japanese developers by giving them dev systems and software.
As far as the release delay, now the japanese know how the rest of the world feels when it comes to system and game releases. It didn't kill America's desire for Japanese consoles, though.
And at least the console will come out in Japan, albeit just a month later. Manu great Japanese games never made it to US shores.
Why does the media insist on putting a buzzword on everything, especially when it comes to the iPod. Portable players have been around for ages now, and the iPod isn't the only player around. Apple is getting free advertising and PR from apparently every media outlet out there.
Recently, I had a bit of an ear infection in both ears. After it passed, my ears were left clogged. I kinda lived with it for a while, hoping it would fix by itself. After a month or two, I decided to go to a doc and get it cleaned out.
My hearing now is very good. But I do not know whether that is a good thing. Living in NYC, the noise is really getting to me. The trucks outside my window. The audible alarms on old cars worth $4000. The beep of the subway doors being closed five times in a row as some douchebag decides to hold it. The AC system in the datacenter.
Being deaf might very well be a blessing!
Mike? Mike Tyson? That you?
they'll probably make you go get them, hand write special cards, wear goofy costume and hand them out to everyone
The closest this guy is getting to the iPods is making photocopies of the receipt for the company's records.
Problem with trying out players at various stores is that they mainly have ambient or hiphop music heavy on deep bass, as opposed to rock or metal, which would be better formats to test for the hissing and amplified "S" sounds that I am detecting on my current Rio Carbon.
Does anyone have any experience with sound quality of the iPods versus the Rio?
The odd thing is that I've only recently been bothered by the sound (tried all different equilizer settings to no avail) so I'm not sure if it is just a bad batch of Sony MDR-A44L.
But if you're at work, even using your personal Gmail account would constitute using the company's resources (bandwidth, net access) for personal purposes.
Which means, that while at work, you are prohibited from doing ANYTHING not immediately relating to work, like making sure you have enough money in your checking account for that last check you wrote not to bounce. So keep your nose on the spreadsheet and don't make any waves.
I was thinking of putting OSX on my ThinkPad. I don't suppose that OSx86 supports wireless cards? How about hibernate and sleep?
Ooops, forgot to mention emergency home phone number of your chiropractor. :P
Consumerism? Is that the only word you remembered from your liberal education?
I don't think it was about the product itself. The people putting up the sale did not institute any sort of a line system, so it ended up being a free-for-all. If I stood in line for 4 hours and some young 20-some hotshot jerkoff tried to roll in front of me, you're damn sure I'd be pissed! What would you expect the people to do. Step aside and look for a rent-a-cop to air their grievance?
There was no system for keeping order and basic human nature and competition took over.
Let's wake up whatever is fast asleep under that cover of ice.
Have we not learned from cartoons, and sci-fi and horror movies about Mars?
Between 50 Celsios, and 50 Fahrenheit, I think that I, and any other warm blooded organism on the planet, would prefer 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
And you don't need a beefy and expensive computer to run it well, which is probably a big selling point in Asia.
> Too bad, all that developer talent could have gone into making Linux better suited for the desktop.
Every annum for the past 6 years, headlines claimed that it was the year of "desktop Linux." Yet nothing came of it save for a bunch of Windows-esque clones with no innovation. Then Apple came along and revolutionized the desktop experience. So maybe it is time for someone else to give it a go.
Many of your arguments can be applied to Linux/BSD in general as far as package management and software updates go.
/., I used Linux and FreeBSD, and would have to say that Linux is the one that falls short with documentation.
But bad documentation? How about having to deal with outdated How-TO's from 1998, and having to fall back on echos and snippets of posts on deja.com for what is the most "official" documentation. FreeBSD has extensive and detailed documentation on the official website. So even though it can be very long and detailed -- like building world -- once you read it over, you can skim off a lot of the stuff. General unix xperience allows you to recognize what is important and what isn't. But that detail will help you greatly when something goes wrong, or something unexpected and uncommon happens.
Additionally, finding help on the web is easier, because there aren't literally hundreds of different patches and distributions that others use.
Obviously, like anyone on
Well, if they have box cutters now, while everyone else has nothing, when everyone else has guns, what whill they be carrying?
That Bugs Bunny cartoon where two characters alternately continue to pull out ever bigger weapons comes to mind here.