In order (for some reason I'm not seeing numbered bullets on my OL here)
Peace & quiet
Easy access to my co-workers, but the ability to go into "hermit" mode if need be
A comfortable desk & chair
Walls where I can hang whiteboards, a corkboard, and a dartboard
Windows so I can get real sunlight
Non-crappy artificial lighting
N+1 displays where N is the number I presently have. No matter how many displays I have, I always seem to need one more. (I will accept a switch to Leopard so I can use Spaces, thus reducing my physical monitor requirements to 2-3).
If more bands are able to bootstrap themselves into a position where they are not selling their souls to the recording companies to get their names out
The trouble is that the only bands that can pull that off are the big, well-established bands. Which means they have to go through the soul-selling years, hope they make it, and then be big enough that the record company will loosen the leash some because they've "proven" themselves.
The whole "we only download it because it's crap" argument doesn't hold water for me. If it's so bad, then why are people downloading it in the first place?
I downloaded Metallica's St. Anger to find out if it was as bad as the reviews I'd heard.
It's going to keep happening. This sort of sloppy data handling is going to continue until there's proper incentive to protect data. And that means (IMHO) crippling penalties for those involved. Penalties so immense that the business nearly goes under. Penalties for the individuals who allowed unencrypted data to be put at risk - not just the peons swapping tapes, but the executives who didn't mandate/allow proper procedures. All the way up the food chain.
This stuff has to be taken seriously, but right now - no one does.
I saw it last summer. We took a vacation to CT with our E85-capable van and saw 22-23 MPG on the highway with the gas we bought in NY. The stuff we put in the tank in CT (E10) got 18 MPG - a roughly 20% drop, with similar driving.
And that gas was more expensive than what we'd bought in NY. Next time we go to CT, I'm going to fill up before crossing the border and squeeze every drop I can to get back out of the state before refilling.
I was pointing out the fallacy of the AC's post. He claimed that the Shuttle has failed more because a larger percentage of the vehicles have failed, not the number of missions.
True, but if IBM's consultants start showing up at client offices with MacBook Pros instead of Thinkpads, the clients will notice, and start thinking "hey, if it works for IBM, maybe we should look at using Macs too"
If your last employer was a public company in the US, your IM wasn't blocked because the IT department was bing a bunch of jerks. They blocked it because they're required to log all electronic communication for discovery in case of legal action, and since they can't log IM, they have to block it.
OO.o Base is far from a "copy of MS Access." I tried to use it once and couldn't figure out how to put together a simple form for adding records to a table.
As far as I recall, asbestos is really only dangerous to human lungs because, when "disturbed" in an open air environment, it disperses into rather tiny particles that annoy your lungs rather severely.
And no other air-breathing creature faces this same risk?
The really dangerous people are the ones doing 5 MPH under the limit while everyone else is doing 5 over.
Or the idiots who are doing 5 over and slam on the brakes when they see that patrol car in the median. THAT will cause an accident real quick.
News flash: On 90% of interstates, the police won't bat an eye at you doing 70 in a 65. On I-90 in NY, it's been pretty well established that as long as you're under 80 (limit is 65), you're in the clear as long as it's not the end of the month and the troopers are short on quota.
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I find highlighting the row under the cursor is more helpful than making the whole table a zebra.
Or a combination - zebra-stripe the table, then make the "hovered" row a 3rd color
Turns out that it wasn't. It was far, far worse.
Well, she is wearing the world's shortiest skirt.
rsync?
whoooooooooooosh
Hear that? That's the sound of a joke flying over your head.
How does Vannevar Bush feel about it?
Didn't they learn their lesson after St. Anger?
The Black Album is the last one I can listen to, and even then it's nowhere near as good as the previous 4.
Cliff Burton may not have gotten a lot of writing credit, but they went downhill fast after he died.
And yet they were still able to fuck it up beautifully.
It's going to keep happening. This sort of sloppy data handling is going to continue until there's proper incentive to protect data. And that means (IMHO) crippling penalties for those involved. Penalties so immense that the business nearly goes under. Penalties for the individuals who allowed unencrypted data to be put at risk - not just the peons swapping tapes, but the executives who didn't mandate/allow proper procedures. All the way up the food chain.
This stuff has to be taken seriously, but right now - no one does.
I saw it last summer. We took a vacation to CT with our E85-capable van and saw 22-23 MPG on the highway with the gas we bought in NY. The stuff we put in the tank in CT (E10) got 18 MPG - a roughly 20% drop, with similar driving.
And that gas was more expensive than what we'd bought in NY. Next time we go to CT, I'm going to fill up before crossing the border and squeeze every drop I can to get back out of the state before refilling.
I was pointing out the fallacy of the AC's post. He claimed that the Shuttle has failed more because a larger percentage of the vehicles have failed, not the number of missions.
Bookmarks? Who bookmarks a site like Dilbert? Just subscribe to the RSS. No ads, no messing with the site, all you get is the strip.
20% of Soyuz missions have resulted in failure.
Fewer than 2% of Space Shuttle missions have done the same.
True, but if IBM's consultants start showing up at client offices with MacBook Pros instead of Thinkpads, the clients will notice, and start thinking "hey, if it works for IBM, maybe we should look at using Macs too"
If your last employer was a public company in the US, your IM wasn't blocked because the IT department was bing a bunch of jerks. They blocked it because they're required to log all electronic communication for discovery in case of legal action, and since they can't log IM, they have to block it.
OO.o Base is far from a "copy of MS Access." I tried to use it once and couldn't figure out how to put together a simple form for adding records to a table.
NY has this requirement as well. I don't know anyone who tallies up all the mail-order purchases they make to report on their state taxes.
Snotty Flocked me twice last night...it was wonderful.
he was primarily responsible for the arrangement of seating devices on the decks of a certain White Star oceanliner.
As I was watching the various "video obituaries" on all the news programs, I couldn't help but see Troy McClure in all of Heston's roles.
The really dangerous people are the ones doing 5 MPH under the limit while everyone else is doing 5 over.
Or the idiots who are doing 5 over and slam on the brakes when they see that patrol car in the median. THAT will cause an accident real quick.
News flash: On 90% of interstates, the police won't bat an eye at you doing 70 in a 65. On I-90 in NY, it's been pretty well established that as long as you're under 80 (limit is 65), you're in the clear as long as it's not the end of the month and the troopers are short on quota.