I signed up online when I heard it was available, probably about 2 years ago. Since then, I've gotten maybe 2 telemarketer calls.
This list really does work. My company has to maintain our do not call list from several sources in addition to people telling us straight out. Companies have to take this very seriously or risk the fines, and they hate losing money for stupid reasons.
A "modular" WinXP Embedded. Fine. What does this prove that's relevant to the desktop & server OSes? Is someone trying to pull a fast one on the judge, hoping that as long as "modular" and "Windows XP" are in close proximity, it won't be noticed that this isn't the OS that everyone's up in arms about?
As others have posted, the best way to do it is just cut off anything that doesn't serve an education-related purpose.
Back when Napster was hot, we had a sort-of-high-level person at our company call the helpdesk complaining that he couldn't swap files on it, and felt this was a problem that needed to be "fixed". I don't know what was said directly back to him (probably something like "it's not supposed to work"), but the call was just pushed aside by the IT staff. No complaints since.
It's over a year away. If you're a regular employee of the company, you'll be getting paid vacation time to use for it. If you're a contractor, you can make arrangements as the time approaches.
I wouldn't worry about it until about 6 months before the trip begins.
How much time are you going to need out of the office for the trip in the first place?
At my company, we've had two contractors return home to India (one did it twice) for a month at a stretch to get married. Neither told us when they started, but gave us the appropriate amount of advance notice such that they weren't critical to a project in that timeframe, and we had enough coverage and people picking up the "slack" in their absence. Turned out to be No Big Deal for us.
Let's face it, everyone wants to see the results now and get their work "done" - if that means having to scrap and rewrite a system 2 years from now, they don't want to hear it. We'll deal with it when that time comes in 2 years. And in 2 years, we'll again build a throw-away, far-from-good solution and start all over again.
And with the people controlling the money not listening to the whys and hows that get them into the predicament (and forgetting what they decided last WEEK, let alone last YEAR, that put them there), you're pretty much stuck dealing with the cheap route all the time.
About 2 years ago, I was working on my first major project and the project manager called me one day out of nowhere to ask where my progress was (normally we covered this in a weekly meeting). I started giving him percentage estimates based on feature completeness, structure completeness, etc.
So then he asks "how many lines of code do you have?" I tell him that I don't use that as a gauge, I use what I just told him for my progress. Also told him that I don't count lines. He persisted, so I came up with a rough count. He says "so if you say you're at 60%, and have X lines of code written, then you'll have Y lines when you're done, right?"
I had to reiterate (for the third time in that phone call) that LOC means nothing - it may very well be that I only had 100 lines left to put together, but it would tie up the remaining functionality needed (by gluing all my pieces together).
But he just kept coming back and harping on that LOC number, no matter how I tried to persuade him that it was meaningless. He was convinced that this was how he would know how much work went into the project. I guess the 3 weeks of writing very little code and charting out the logic of the app didn't mean much to him. He was taken aback when I told him "I don't just start writing code on day 1, I plan things out"
A guy who started at the same time I started my job majored in something business related and minored in Spanish. He's now our main web developer for everything related to our international (mostly Central/South American & the Carribean) business.
He came to the company with HTML and JavaScript knowledge, focused on the stuff his major was in, and picked up what he needed to do more development.
Damn, took my comment. I'd take 400 lines of clean, clear, easy to manage/understand code over 100 lines that came from the Obfuscated C Contest anyday.
A separation of church and state is not defined in the Constitution, nor in the ammendments. It's slightly implied, but not really stated clearly. Rather, it was an idea put forth by Thomas Jefferson and people have taken it to heart as he was one of the largest players in the development of the US in those early years.
I can't speak for everyone, but my RoadRunner news server is absolutely terrible when it comes to large and multi-part files. And they don't seem to have much interest in making things better. If this became the "regular" way to get kernels, it would really suck.
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Yep, I can see all the little kids lining up at Toys R Us for their Hannibal Lecter action figures, complete with muzzle and fava beans.
I signed up online when I heard it was available, probably about 2 years ago. Since then, I've gotten maybe 2 telemarketer calls.
This list really does work. My company has to maintain our do not call list from several sources in addition to people telling us straight out. Companies have to take this very seriously or risk the fines, and they hate losing money for stupid reasons.
Yet the 5.0 we had in upstate NY last month went unposted on /. We shook for almost 30 seconds.
5.0 is a big deal around here, and anything much stronger will start doing serious damage to our non-quake-ready buildings.
Not really. They may look to be "off" at first glance, but they're actually balanced around the center.
A "modular" WinXP Embedded. Fine. What does this prove that's relevant to the desktop & server OSes? Is someone trying to pull a fast one on the judge, hoping that as long as "modular" and "Windows XP" are in close proximity, it won't be noticed that this isn't the OS that everyone's up in arms about?
As others have posted, the best way to do it is just cut off anything that doesn't serve an education-related purpose.
Back when Napster was hot, we had a sort-of-high-level person at our company call the helpdesk complaining that he couldn't swap files on it, and felt this was a problem that needed to be "fixed". I don't know what was said directly back to him (probably something like "it's not supposed to work"), but the call was just pushed aside by the IT staff. No complaints since.
It's only running P2/266s (in this setup). Not too much to worry about.
On some monitors, I can't stand lower than 80Hz refresh. Some I can get by at 75Hz.
Message rules are very easy to set up and manage. No agents.
We could use the symbols for the parties in the US, but most don't know what they mean.
It's over a year away. If you're a regular employee of the company, you'll be getting paid vacation time to use for it. If you're a contractor, you can make arrangements as the time approaches.
I wouldn't worry about it until about 6 months before the trip begins.
How much time are you going to need out of the office for the trip in the first place?
At my company, we've had two contractors return home to India (one did it twice) for a month at a stretch to get married. Neither told us when they started, but gave us the appropriate amount of advance notice such that they weren't critical to a project in that timeframe, and we had enough coverage and people picking up the "slack" in their absence. Turned out to be No Big Deal for us.
Let's face it, everyone wants to see the results now and get their work "done" - if that means having to scrap and rewrite a system 2 years from now, they don't want to hear it. We'll deal with it when that time comes in 2 years. And in 2 years, we'll again build a throw-away, far-from-good solution and start all over again.
And with the people controlling the money not listening to the whys and hows that get them into the predicament (and forgetting what they decided last WEEK, let alone last YEAR, that put them there), you're pretty much stuck dealing with the cheap route all the time.
Fortunately, he's no longer with the company. At the time, I hadn't yet read TMM-M.
About 2 years ago, I was working on my first major project and the project manager called me one day out of nowhere to ask where my progress was (normally we covered this in a weekly meeting). I started giving him percentage estimates based on feature completeness, structure completeness, etc.
So then he asks "how many lines of code do you have?" I tell him that I don't use that as a gauge, I use what I just told him for my progress. Also told him that I don't count lines. He persisted, so I came up with a rough count. He says "so if you say you're at 60%, and have X lines of code written, then you'll have Y lines when you're done, right?"
I had to reiterate (for the third time in that phone call) that LOC means nothing - it may very well be that I only had 100 lines left to put together, but it would tie up the remaining functionality needed (by gluing all my pieces together).
But he just kept coming back and harping on that LOC number, no matter how I tried to persuade him that it was meaningless. He was convinced that this was how he would know how much work went into the project. I guess the 3 weeks of writing very little code and charting out the logic of the app didn't mean much to him. He was taken aback when I told him "I don't just start writing code on day 1, I plan things out"
New stadiums for the Yankees and Mets, along with moving the Jets and maybe the Giants back to NY where they belong, if it hasn't happened by then.
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A guy who started at the same time I started my job majored in something business related and minored in Spanish. He's now our main web developer for everything related to our international (mostly Central/South American & the Carribean) business.
He came to the company with HTML and JavaScript knowledge, focused on the stuff his major was in, and picked up what he needed to do more development.
Damn, took my comment. I'd take 400 lines of clean, clear, easy to manage/understand code over 100 lines that came from the Obfuscated C Contest anyday.
If the engine's been replaced, other parts have probably been abused as well.
A contract which they have renewed at least once since purchasing Netscape
A separation of church and state is not defined in the Constitution, nor in the ammendments. It's slightly implied, but not really stated clearly. Rather, it was an idea put forth by Thomas Jefferson and people have taken it to heart as he was one of the largest players in the development of the US in those early years.
I can't speak for everyone, but my RoadRunner news server is absolutely terrible when it comes to large and multi-part files. And they don't seem to have much interest in making things better. If this became the "regular" way to get kernels, it would really suck.
Yes, they stopped doing it. I've not seen a Win2000 with SP1 or SP2 come through my MSDN subscription yet.
The MQSeries Client installs components that can be invoked directly from anything that supports COM - ASP, other COM objects, etc.
You're not required to use Passport for .NET services. MS just makes it real easy to do so.