I'm sorry, but I can't get really bent about that. After Jackson basically chopped the LOTR, I don't give him much credit. If JRR had complained about EA not working with him, then OK, then there is someone who has a valid criticism.
But where does Jackson get the "Only Official way to interpet LOTR" badge? If he wasn't happy with how EA made the game, and didn't want his name attached, he could have easily sent lawyers.
Yep - you owe me Xmas off! And I'm not going to work every weekend either! Oh, and after 12 hours a day, I'm leaving. Yep, such a primadonna!
I worked with an H1B visa - as soon as he was a permanent resisdent he told his old company to kiss off and left for a better deal. I have looked at what they are paying new H1B visas (based on the required postings) compared to new college hires, and they were paid ~20% less.
And I bet you wonder why the number of american kids enrolled in technology and science degree programs keeps dropping. I've got news for you - the kids aren't stupid - they see that there is no real future there. Take a look in the mirror - you get to see one of the causes!
I had a coworker who didn't get it either, so I wrote a simple program that let him select the number of doors, then pick one, and then give him the choice to swap. After he played with it for 10 minutes, he was a beliver that it is better to swap.
Really, I don't understand why people are surprised. Of course the ad execs will use anything to sell. And the more edgy the better.
But I doubt too many US Catholics will get too bent about it. Remember, US Catholics are the "cafateria Catholics", who pick a few desired items from the banquet that is Catholicism. I also don't see too many fundies changing their mind about the PS3 - I don't see too many of them as serious gamers. Otherwise, Doom3, GTA3, and other games would have picked up a lot more outrage. And when was the last time that you played an online FPS against "Blastin 4 Jesus"?
There is one way to go - rely on the HD manufacturers - they have been able to continually improve storage density. Now, the only data I store on optical media is my Ghost files, so that I can rebuild my PC. Everything else is stored on a set of three HDs, which are sync'ed on a pseudo-random basis. One HD is stored away from the home, in case of fire.
I expect in 20 years, everyone will store their data on the internet. In that time, we will trust the internet to hold our data. Why keep local storage, when you would have a fast connection to internet all the time? We will probably be complaining about the evil Google monopoly, which owns the storage on the internet or something.
If you actually don't like the alternative, and decide to go back to Quicken, then you get to re-enter all the data.
I had thought Wine was pretty far along on supporting Quicken. If you already paid for the Quicken License, are pretty much happy with it, and WINE supports it, why bother switching?
The =/== is one of C's most dastardly tricks. It is a great way to make infinite loops too.
That said - I think that C IDEs which perform context sensitive coloring should use two different colors for = and ==. Or maybe put in a macro or something to make it harder for these types of bugs.
Perhaps an interface could get the job done faster, it would completely lack preferences, freedom of choice and any settings even remotely related to changing the way you interacl, and require you to study for more than a few minutes to know how to use it properly?
I think his point that making the computer easy for novices winds up compromising the efficency of experts.
After all, it takes a bit of time to learn how to drive a car - sure a student could simply hop in and go, but then they would probably crash. Cue the people who will beat this analogy to death...
Hide file extensions for known file types. Sorry Bill - you screwed up decades ago, and made file extensions important. They are still important, and you can't ignore them.
I also like focus follows mouse -if I'm pointing at a window, that's the one that I care about. But it can screw up things in windows, so I sometimes have to leave it disabled.
How will we know who is going to destroy the internet now? Now where have the hordes of clueless AOL users gone? Is it possible to make sure they always have "former AOL user" attached to all the user names, just so people know? Maybe some RFID technology, or something? We need a plan to track these people before it's too late! Shouldn't a RFC be going around for that already?
Oh yeah - those poor slimebag weasels aren't being allowed to scam people.
The threat of those 'taxes' (to use your incorrect politically-charged terminolgy) stops the weasels, and anyone else who wants to have the same lame business plan.
This country absolutely, undeniably needs another 49 or so like him. Examples like this, and this,and thisand this should clue you in.
I was wondering about using 2 USB thumbdrives instead of a cd/floppy combo. Simply put one drive in write protect, and store the config on it. The second thumbdrive could be used for logging purposes.
I also wonder what would be a low power (in Watts) video card to use. I couldn't find anything on google in a brief search.
If you want to print something sensitive, perhaps you could create a yellow background for the document... unless the driver is smart enough to do something else in that condition.
Actually, my thought on that sentence - "A company cannot be allowed to profit from deceit.", is that it is actually OK to profit from deceit if you are an Oil company or Wall Street.
Maybe Dvorak's output needs to be remapped to account for the Dvorak keyboard; something like Y->T, P->R, O->S (or is it the orther way around?). He may make a lot more sense in that manner...
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I'm sorry, but I can't get really bent about that. After Jackson basically chopped the LOTR, I don't give him much credit. If JRR had complained about EA not working with him, then OK, then there is someone who has a valid criticism.
But where does Jackson get the "Only Official way to interpet LOTR" badge? If he wasn't happy with how EA made the game, and didn't want his name attached, he could have easily sent lawyers.
Yep - you owe me Xmas off! And I'm not going to work every weekend either! Oh, and after 12 hours a day, I'm leaving. Yep, such a primadonna!
I worked with an H1B visa - as soon as he was a permanent resisdent he told his old company to kiss off and left for a better deal. I have looked at what they are paying new H1B visas (based on the required postings) compared to new college hires, and they were paid ~20% less.
And I bet you wonder why the number of american kids enrolled in technology and science degree programs keeps dropping. I've got news for you - the kids aren't stupid - they see that there is no real future there. Take a look in the mirror - you get to see one of the causes!
I had a coworker who didn't get it either, so I wrote a simple program that let him select the number of doors, then pick one, and then give him the choice to swap. After he played with it for 10 minutes, he was a beliver that it is better to swap.
Sorry - my english to 1337 autofilter was hosed - that should have been "B!a5t1n 4 {j3535}"
Really, I don't understand why people are surprised. Of course the ad execs will use anything to sell. And the more edgy the better.
But I doubt too many US Catholics will get too bent about it. Remember, US Catholics are the "cafateria Catholics", who pick a few desired items from the banquet that is Catholicism. I also don't see too many fundies changing their mind about the PS3 - I don't see too many of them as serious gamers. Otherwise, Doom3, GTA3, and other games would have picked up a lot more outrage. And when was the last time that you played an online FPS against "Blastin 4 Jesus"?
There is one way to go - rely on the HD manufacturers - they have been able to continually improve storage density. Now, the only data I store on optical media is my Ghost files, so that I can rebuild my PC. Everything else is stored on a set of three HDs, which are sync'ed on a pseudo-random basis. One HD is stored away from the home, in case of fire.
I expect in 20 years, everyone will store their data on the internet. In that time, we will trust the internet to hold our data. Why keep local storage, when you would have a fast connection to internet all the time? We will probably be complaining about the evil Google monopoly, which owns the storage on the internet or something.
If you actually don't like the alternative, and decide to go back to Quicken, then you get to re-enter all the data.
I had thought Wine was pretty far along on supporting Quicken. If you already paid for the Quicken License, are pretty much happy with it, and WINE supports it, why bother switching?
The =/== is one of C's most dastardly tricks. It is a great way to make infinite loops too.
That said - I think that C IDEs which perform context sensitive coloring should use two different colors for = and ==. Or maybe put in a macro or something to make it harder for these types of bugs.
You do know that DDT kills insects, not mammals, right? In case you missed biology in High School, insects have 6 legs and mammals have 4 legs*.
*: Excluding whales, and mammals that lost a limb in some accident. Other restrictions may apply. Not applicable in Kansas.
While they may be great ideas, so was HG Wells' "The Time Machine". Just don't think that any of the ideas in the Core are science, ok?
Did anyone else find this a crappy layout for an article? If you have larger text, it all scrolls over the pictures. Pretty, but also pretty lame...
Perhaps an interface could get the job done faster, it would completely lack preferences, freedom of choice and any settings even remotely related to changing the way you interacl, and require you to study for more than a few minutes to know how to use it properly?
I think his point that making the computer easy for novices winds up compromising the efficency of experts.
After all, it takes a bit of time to learn how to drive a car - sure a student could simply hop in and go, but then they would probably crash. Cue the people who will beat this analogy to death...
Menus that change - I agree with you completely.
Hide file extensions for known file types. Sorry Bill - you screwed up decades ago, and made file extensions important. They are still important, and you can't ignore them.
I also like focus follows mouse -if I'm pointing at a window, that's the one that I care about. But it can screw up things in windows, so I sometimes have to leave it disabled.
How will we know who is going to destroy the internet now? Now where have the hordes of clueless AOL users gone? Is it possible to make sure they always have "former AOL user" attached to all the user names, just so people know? Maybe some RFID technology, or something? We need a plan to track these people before it's too late! Shouldn't a RFC be going around for that already?
Oh yeah - those poor slimebag weasels aren't being allowed to scam people.
The threat of those 'taxes' (to use your incorrect politically-charged terminolgy) stops the weasels, and anyone else who wants to have the same lame business plan.
This country absolutely, undeniably needs another 49 or so like him. Examples like this, and this,and this and this should clue you in.
I keep thinking I need this book just to secure my own PCs and also help out friends...
You have to love the windows environment.
Well - I think that if the election binaries were regulated as closely as the slot machine binaries in Vegas, I would trust it...
I was wondering about using 2 USB thumbdrives instead of a cd/floppy combo. Simply put one drive in write protect, and store the config on it. The second thumbdrive could be used for logging purposes.
I also wonder what would be a low power (in Watts) video card to use. I couldn't find anything on google in a brief search.
If you want to print something sensitive, perhaps you could create a yellow background for the document... unless the driver is smart enough to do something else in that condition.
Yes, but wasn't Microsoft giving out free SP2 patch disks a while back? Couldn't you use that?
Actually, my thought on that sentence - "A company cannot be allowed to profit from deceit.", is that it is actually OK to profit from deceit if you are an Oil company or Wall Street.
Maybe Dvorak's output needs to be remapped to account for the Dvorak keyboard; something like Y->T, P->R, O->S (or is it the orther way around?). He may make a lot more sense in that manner...
Later that afternoon, the Mainframe admin got a horrific case of E.Coli poisoning from the handle of the urinal.
I tried using a directional antenna and kept finding these.
I think you mean Isaac Asimov's "The Feeling of Power"