Taco might note also that the only way we can judge him is by what he writes. If he posts illiterate garbage, many will judge him to be an illiterate, and undeserving of respect.
Wouldn't the labels be better applied to the users who submitted said text?
Indeed, maybe you aren't. But assuming you want to join a successful company that will be around next year, you won't be able to avoid it.
I agree. When I first started working at a start-up, meetings were few and far between. As time marched on and the staffing grew, it slowly got harder to get anything done - until we had regular meetings.
Most meetings are status updates and "here's what we're looking at doing in the future"-types. Most of the others (that I'm in) are "how does business process X work, how is it changing, and how do I have to change code so it will work for everyone?". Status meetings scale pretty easily, the latter type of meeting scale a bit worse... it can be alot tougher when it's a large change and multiple people have a stake in the outcome. (Accounting, fulfilment, management, sales, tech,...).
All in all, we don't have what I consider to be "too many" meetings (I'm in ~2 x 1hr/wk), and I'd much rather have them than not.
The whole beginning of the book is how someone predicting doom wanted to make an encyclopedia of all knowledge to speed up the coming of the next great civilization.
I've only just had my logic board replaced, but since I bought my laptop in Feb 2003, it won't be covered in just a few weeks.
The store rep said I'd get a 90 day warranty on the part from the day it was replaced. I'm going to call Apple HQ and see what I can do about that, though... 90 days will take it to about a month over the 3-years it would be covered anyway!
With regard to your enquiry, please be advised that the release of Nokia mobile phones are market, country and region dependent. As such, kindly be informed that the Nokia 770 is not scheduled for release within the Asia Pacific region.
Out of curiosity, what was the diluting "white" area that made you think no one would mind?
Probably that the serial numbers weren't copyrighted, patented, trademarked, or trade secrets.
Instead of asking what makes it legal, ask what makes it illegal
(in this case, it'd be aiding and abetting the use of software when the original purchaser of the software committed copyright infringement - so, helping someone who probably committed a civil offence, oh my;-)
What other Open Source projects that have "brand name" recognition among end-users are huge, bloated monstrosities written in multiple programming languages, are commented in multiple spoken languages, were developed with "cathedral" style methods and are notoriously difficult to compile from scratch? Please name them (so that I know what to avoid!)
I would have no problem with using this technology to light up a warning light on the dashboard or something, but directly affecting the control of the vehicle sounds like a VERY bad idea to me. As long as we still trust humans to operate the steering wheel, we need to trust them to operate the gas as well.
Damn, I'd pay for that. Using the "speed alert" thing the car has is a pain (you have to change it fairly regularly to keep it at the "correct" limit), it's just too much effort for the gain.
An automatic alerting system, bring it on.
(PS. When I say "I'd pay", I mean "I'd pay a fair price", not "I want to pay AUD$500+")
The biggest bummer for some advertisers is that I doubt that it'll work for callers behind a phone system and without a direct number. The callback number will just go to a receptionist or to IVR (auto-attendant) greeting. There goes much of B2B market.
Great, so we need PH#v6 to get true P2P phone systems...
In old days they used to have a person devoted to operanting an elevator, now there isn't one.
I was in a department store just yesterday that had an elevator operator.
Given the age of the elevator, I'm guessing it's cheaper to hire someone to push buttons than worry about lawsuits of people not understanding how to use the (very very old) elevator and hurting themselves.
I think WiFi on my Dell notebook is about the best example that I can come up with off the top of my head. it's a dual band 802.11a/b/g card for which Linux drivers just don't exist. So I have to wrap them in an NDIS wrapper, and hope that they work that way. Then there's the annoyance of having X not like using 1920x1200 straight away as a desktop res (the LCD's native res). Then I have issues with sound (alsa isn't the be all and end all), then there's always something else to fix.
In all fairness, that's as much about the laptop as the OS. I bought a 12" iBook, and ran OSX on it for a year. I switched to Linux on it (Debian no less!) and had a nice speed and productivity boost. (I was doing dev work and OSX was getting in the way at times).
It didn't take long to get it set up (dualbooting OSX too). I can't use the modem (I have ADSL anyway), nor the TV-Out (if I really want it I can boot to OSX). Other than that, the thing works fine, and has done for another two-and-a-half-years since. There are a couple of minor irritations, but nothing that dissuades me from using Linux as my primary OS on it.
I've seen some swish demos of OSX 10.3/10.4, and apparently it runs much faster, but I really can't justify the upgrade cost - it'd be better spent on RAM.
Thanks for saying it! Slashdot has always been my soapbox. It was my soapbox before any of you read it. And it still is. I just choose not to use it as often today as I did 8 years ago. But I felt that this was important enough to talk about.
I enjoy reading soapboxy editorial-type stuff like this. I think it'd be nice if you did it more often!
(Incidentally, I'm also a Rob M, *and* we share a birthday:)
Also, there are fairly significant differences in feel.... Still, I recognise that Wine is never going to be able to change the behavior of Windows apps to emulate Gtk+, even in the unlikely event that it can emulate the look of Gtk+.
It is entirely possible to wrap enough of Win32 around chunks of Gtk to make it look native - Like what the latest Java Swing does. It won't be able to change the "feel", no, but for 90% of apps it's "close enough" that 90% of users won't notice.
Perfect or not, it would be an improvement (IMHO) and I'm looking forward to it.
Most definately. I use it under Windows, Linux, and OSX. (Under Linux I'm more likely to fire up MPlayer, but that's due to it dealing better with my slow hardware).
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Taco might note also that the only way we can judge him is by what he writes. If he posts illiterate garbage, many will judge him to be an illiterate, and undeserving of respect.
Wouldn't the labels be better applied to the users who submitted said text?
You just had to go make me curious ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panavision
Indeed, maybe you aren't. But assuming you want to join a successful company that will be around next year, you won't be able to avoid it.
...).
I agree. When I first started working at a start-up, meetings were few and far between. As time marched on and the staffing grew, it slowly got harder to get anything done - until we had regular meetings.
Most meetings are status updates and "here's what we're looking at doing in the future"-types. Most of the others (that I'm in) are "how does business process X work, how is it changing, and how do I have to change code so it will work for everyone?". Status meetings scale pretty easily, the latter type of meeting scale a bit worse... it can be alot tougher when it's a large change and multiple people have a stake in the outcome. (Accounting, fulfilment, management, sales, tech,
All in all, we don't have what I consider to be "too many" meetings (I'm in ~2 x 1hr/wk), and I'd much rather have them than not.
Asimov's "Foundation".
;)
The whole beginning of the book is how someone predicting doom wanted to make an encyclopedia of all knowledge to speed up the coming of the next great civilization.
(Or so he said
I'm still unhappy about the time, to be honest.
I've only just had my logic board replaced, but since I bought my laptop in Feb 2003, it won't be covered in just a few weeks.
The store rep said I'd get a 90 day warranty on the part from the day it was replaced. I'm going to call Apple HQ and see what I can do about that, though... 90 days will take it to about a month over the 3-years it would be covered anyway!
I'm in Australia:
With regard to your enquiry, please be advised that the release of Nokia mobile phones are market, country and region dependent. As such, kindly be informed that the Nokia 770 is not scheduled for release within the Asia Pacific region.
C.a.r.b.o.n. It's called Carbon.
I'd much rather Cocoa.
Out of curiosity, what was the diluting "white" area that made you think no one would mind?
;-)
Probably that the serial numbers weren't copyrighted, patented, trademarked, or trade secrets.
Instead of asking what makes it legal, ask what makes it illegal
(in this case, it'd be aiding and abetting the use of software when the original purchaser of the software committed copyright infringement - so, helping someone who probably committed a civil offence, oh my
What other Open Source projects that have "brand name" recognition among end-users are huge, bloated monstrosities written in multiple programming languages, are commented in multiple spoken languages, were developed with "cathedral" style methods and are notoriously difficult to compile from scratch? Please name them (so that I know what to avoid!)
:)
Mozilla?
I don't suppose you have any links to your earlier posts on /.?
I would have no problem with using this technology to light up a warning light on the dashboard or something, but directly affecting the control of the vehicle sounds like a VERY bad idea to me. As long as we still trust humans to operate the steering wheel, we need to trust them to operate the gas as well.
Damn, I'd pay for that. Using the "speed alert" thing the car has is a pain (you have to change it fairly regularly to keep it at the "correct" limit), it's just too much effort for the gain.
An automatic alerting system, bring it on.
(PS. When I say "I'd pay", I mean "I'd pay a fair price", not "I want to pay AUD$500+")
I can't find a person who has anything but utter distaste for X Win GUIs.
I choose to use it because I like it. I get utterly miffed when I'm using XP (or whatever) and can't do select-paste as drag-click.
Almost all of the apps I use have consistent scrollbar and textfield behaviour. In fact, the only real exception I can think of is GVim!
The biggest bummer for some advertisers is that I doubt that it'll work for callers behind a phone system and without a direct number. The callback number will just go to a receptionist or to IVR (auto-attendant) greeting. There goes much of B2B market.
Great, so we need PH#v6 to get true P2P phone systems...
4) There have been p2p networks with similar premises in the past. One was GNUtella
Gnutella is still alive and kicking - and still effectively impossible to shut down.
In old days they used to have a person devoted to operanting an elevator, now there isn't one.
I was in a department store just yesterday that had an elevator operator.
Given the age of the elevator, I'm guessing it's cheaper to hire someone to push buttons than worry about lawsuits of people not understanding how to use the (very very old) elevator and hurting themselves.
Kalc? Konqueror? Alsa? Lirc, jelo, toast, x-this, g-that, k-something-or-other... .NET?
Excel? Access? Exchange? Visual Studio? Windows? Outlook? PowerPoint? Visio? Xbox?
I think WiFi on my Dell notebook is about the best example that I can come up with off the top of my head. it's a dual band 802.11a/b/g card for which Linux drivers just don't exist. So I have to wrap them in an NDIS wrapper, and hope that they work that way. Then there's the annoyance of having X not like using 1920x1200 straight away as a desktop res (the LCD's native res). Then I have issues with sound (alsa isn't the be all and end all), then there's always something else to fix.
In all fairness, that's as much about the laptop as the OS. I bought a 12" iBook, and ran OSX on it for a year. I switched to Linux on it (Debian no less!) and had a nice speed and productivity boost. (I was doing dev work and OSX was getting in the way at times).
It didn't take long to get it set up (dualbooting OSX too). I can't use the modem (I have ADSL anyway), nor the TV-Out (if I really want it I can boot to OSX). Other than that, the thing works fine, and has done for another two-and-a-half-years since. There are a couple of minor irritations, but nothing that dissuades me from using Linux as my primary OS on it.
I've seen some swish demos of OSX 10.3/10.4, and apparently it runs much faster, but I really can't justify the upgrade cost - it'd be better spent on RAM.
what's a shift key/
i'd love to be able to get past the drm on my cds1
Shoulda started with Perl. Everyone knows Perl is the best language for learning quality programming skills.
He wanted to learn to code, not to emulate a serial modem.
Thanks for saying it! Slashdot has always been my soapbox. It was my soapbox before any of you read it. And it still is. I just choose not to use it as often today as I did 8 years ago. But I felt that this was important enough to talk about.
:)
I enjoy reading soapboxy editorial-type stuff like this. I think it'd be nice if you did it more often!
(Incidentally, I'm also a Rob M, *and* we share a birthday
Also, there are fairly significant differences in feel. ...
Still, I recognise that Wine is never going to be able to change the behavior of Windows apps to emulate Gtk+, even in the unlikely event that it can emulate the look of Gtk+.
It is entirely possible to wrap enough of Win32 around chunks of Gtk to make it look native - Like what the latest Java Swing does. It won't be able to change the "feel", no, but for 90% of apps it's "close enough" that 90% of users won't notice.
Perfect or not, it would be an improvement (IMHO) and I'm looking forward to it.
I had this problem twice, both time my emails went unanswered.
The IP they quoted was actually the ISP's transparent proxy, so totally unavoidable without changing ISPs.
Has anyone seen a pointy eared hippy in San Fransisco. And are any sperm whales missing ?
I don't know, but I've heard plenty of people use colourful metaphors today...
VLC is a great, cross platform media player.
Most definately. I use it under Windows, Linux, and OSX. (Under Linux I'm more likely to fire up MPlayer, but that's due to it dealing better with my slow hardware).
I just remembered I had milk in the office fridge from 03/05. I guess that was the Longhorn countdown milk. Here's hoping OO.o can do better!
:)
That's not 03/05, it's 03105 - 1100 years from now!