Hmmm... If senior management feels the "pain", you're fired. They don't give a rip about the downlevel slaves. They just make them work overtime to compensate for their painfully slow and/or unstable workstation.
The Free Pascal Compiler is a working command line compiler for the Delphi language, Object Pascal, and a graphical IDE called Lazarus is available to step in for Delphi itself.
Sweet! I knew my resume was missing something. Off to the book store I go!
Interesting. I'm not a proprietor of such an establishment, but if some dumbass wants to give me money to game himself to death, I think Darwin supercedes any need for such laws.
And yes, I think it's assinine that people can sue the tobacco companies for deaths resulting from smoking. Der...
Just wait until someone sends a letter to Intercosmos stating 'lazylightning.org' has false registration information.
B) why should the registrar or ISP get to make additional money on top of the already outrageous costs associated with registering a domain name just to protect my information that shouldn't be required anyway?
Well, that's you're call, but I've seen registrars (in the $10/year range) charge as little as $1/year for this protection. My current registrar charges $8.88/year/domain plus $2.88/year/domain for WHOIS protection. I don't think that's a bad deal.
They are only browsers! A piece of software where you can check out websites with! They are not that important, you see. Dude.
Maybe not for you, but I'd dare to say there are a significant number of web developers here that would disagree. That might be a minority, but using IE helps support the pollution of the web, and creates countless wasted hours in trying support IE's way of doing things.
Yes, it is possible to make a web site that looks good to everyone. But it would be a lot easier if all the major browser manufacturers made their best effort to support standards. Microsoft prefers to implement their own standards.
What's with all the cheesy Google rumors? Why isn't this filed under the "Laugh. It's Funny" category?
I already get ads that disrupt the shows I'm watching with paid cable (and I'm not talking about commercials, I'm talking about those invasive ads in the bottom corner of the screen advertising shows on the channel I'm already watching).
I suppose it's no better than when they plaster a TORNADO WATCH (!!) map over my programs that takes up about 30% of the screen real-estate. They just don't seem to understand the only reason I watch your bloody ads is for the content. Erode my content and I become less eager to watch your stupid, redundant ads.
I guess it helps prevent piracy. No way I'm going to burn a copy of the annoyance-laden series when I can buy or rent the series without said annoyances. Of course, I have to wait much longer for the DVD release:(
While I'm on a rant, why do some commercials show 25 seconds of irrelevant content only to give the punchline in the last 5 seconds of the ad?? I can't count the number of times I've watched ads and said to myself, "ok, neat, so what are you selling?". I blame Nike for starting it all. Thank goodness for Tivo.
That may be true, but most of the places I've worked, the upper management looks highly on those who kiss the rings. Maybe my field is different than yours.
I'd still like to ask: What if his decision blew up in his face? Who do you think would be held accountable? I doubt his superiors would take the heat.
It seems to me CYA is a common motto among today's management.
IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without asking, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Japan IT manager Mark Uemura.
Sounds like a good plan, although I'm wondering if my unemployment check will cover my current quality of living.
Faced with an unreliable network, Uemura went ahead and migrated systems from Windows to OpenBSD on the premise that management would trust his judgement.
"PricewaterhouseCoopers is a Windows shop but we were forced to use open source," he said. "I inherited a real nightmare with servers going up and down. There were e-mail outages and on top of that there was a bad relationship between our users and IT."
Now that's something you want to hear from a financial company.
"My experience is that if something has to be done, just do it - don't ask! They will thank you later," he said.
This guy must be truly good to put his ass on the line instead of his manager's. If the boss doesn't sign off on it, I don't do it.
"So we had to put an OpenBSD firewall in front of Checkpoint," he said. "We saved seven salaries worth over one year. It was so dramatic they gave me a big raise and I was promoted from system administrator to IT manager. And because of the savings we get more productivity out of old hardware."
This guy better stay with this job. I'm not sure most employers would appreciate such a cowboy mentality. He's just lucky it didn't blow up.
"According to your blood test, you have severe anxiety. Take this pill once a day. My receptionist will schedule a revisit in a month to see how you're doing."
I agree. I've had a hard time convincing die-hard IE users to switch to something that more closely follows web standards. What do they care?
I wish people would have the same animosity towards web pollution as they do towards polluting the Earth, but that probably won't happen for a long time, if ever.
I agree. I might now care about what 99.9% of the average blogger has to comment on, but it's when I'm searching for a useful reference that a hit on a blog via Google has come in handy. I can't count the number of times I've searched for something obscure only to find a blog hit via Google that has lead me to what I'm looking for. Most of it may be obscure, but sometimes I'm looking for that.
Microsoft tries to think of new ways to make money by locking customers in. Google tries to think of new ways to make money by bringing customers in (voluntarily, by making stuff people want to use).
I personally think a lot of Google's stuff is overrated (Desktop Search, Gmail, Talk, some features of Maps), but I'm apparently in the minority according to their huge success. Google's web/image search features are still king, though.
---- The file's type becomes true metadata, and is not embedded in the filename,
So you end up breaking every file pre-Vista. Nice.
I wouldn't think it would be too difficult to have a compatibility mode or something that looks to Metadata for file type information, and when absent, it looks to the file extension. That way all new and old files work, until the user and programs eventually evolve to using the metadata type.
They offer POP3 now with their paid service. I would probably actually consider switching from my current mail provider if they offered IMAP. Although I'm getting a pretty sweet deal right now ($24/year for 5 IMAP accounts with 1GB shared), I really like Yahoo's interface.
I usually have to replace a hard drive every five to six months, and often these are still under warranty.
I'm not trying to troll, I'm just curious what you do with these drives. I've had drives that have provided below-expectation life spans, but the average for IDE drives is far above what you site. That's not to say you don't hammer your drives more than I do by any means, I'm just curious.
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Hmmm... If senior management feels the "pain", you're fired. They don't give a rip about the downlevel slaves. They just make them work overtime to compensate for their painfully slow and/or unstable workstation.
Sweet! I knew my resume was missing something. Off to the book store I go!
Interesting. I'm not a proprietor of such an establishment, but if some dumbass wants to give me money to game himself to death, I think Darwin supercedes any need for such laws.
And yes, I think it's assinine that people can sue the tobacco companies for deaths resulting from smoking. Der...
Just wait until someone sends a letter to Intercosmos stating 'lazylightning.org' has false registration information.
Well, that's you're call, but I've seen registrars (in the $10/year range) charge as little as $1/year for this protection. My current registrar charges $8.88/year/domain plus $2.88/year/domain for WHOIS protection. I don't think that's a bad deal.
Maybe not for you, but I'd dare to say there are a significant number of web developers here that would disagree. That might be a minority, but using IE helps support the pollution of the web, and creates countless wasted hours in trying support IE's way of doing things.
Yes, it is possible to make a web site that looks good to everyone. But it would be a lot easier if all the major browser manufacturers made their best effort to support standards. Microsoft prefers to implement their own standards.
What's with all the cheesy Google rumors? Why isn't this filed under the "Laugh. It's Funny" category?
:(
I already get ads that disrupt the shows I'm watching with paid cable (and I'm not talking about commercials, I'm talking about those invasive ads in the bottom corner of the screen advertising shows on the channel I'm already watching).
I suppose it's no better than when they plaster a TORNADO WATCH (!!) map over my programs that takes up about 30% of the screen real-estate. They just don't seem to understand the only reason I watch your bloody ads is for the content. Erode my content and I become less eager to watch your stupid, redundant ads.
I guess it helps prevent piracy. No way I'm going to burn a copy of the annoyance-laden series when I can buy or rent the series without said annoyances. Of course, I have to wait much longer for the DVD release
While I'm on a rant, why do some commercials show 25 seconds of irrelevant content only to give the punchline in the last 5 seconds of the ad?? I can't count the number of times I've watched ads and said to myself, "ok, neat, so what are you selling?". I blame Nike for starting it all. Thank goodness for Tivo.
That may be true, but most of the places I've worked, the upper management looks highly on those who kiss the rings. Maybe my field is different than yours.
I'd still like to ask: What if his decision blew up in his face? Who do you think would be held accountable? I doubt his superiors would take the heat.
It seems to me CYA is a common motto among today's management.
Sounds like a good plan, although I'm wondering if my unemployment check will cover my current quality of living.
Is this guy fresh out of school, or what? I direct him to this useful resource.
Now that's something you want to hear from a financial company.
This guy must be truly good to put his ass on the line instead of his manager's. If the boss doesn't sign off on it, I don't do it.
This guy better stay with this job. I'm not sure most employers would appreciate such a cowboy mentality. He's just lucky it didn't blow up.
And yet an entire school district of adults couldn't figure out that using a generic password over a public medium would pose a risk.
This isn't brain science. What do you think would happen if your ATM card had a default password that you never changed?
From the article: "A lot of users need to be at Internet Explorer (IE) 5.5 or above or equivalent to take advantage of these features."
Wouldn't such a test make you less relevant?
"According to your blood test, you have severe anxiety. Take this pill once a day. My receptionist will schedule a revisit in a month to see how you're doing."
Just curious./not a doctor
Agreed, U.N. control will surely resolve this...
I agree. I've had a hard time convincing die-hard IE users to switch to something that more closely follows web standards. What do they care?
I wish people would have the same animosity towards web pollution as they do towards polluting the Earth, but that probably won't happen for a long time, if ever.
I agree. I might now care about what 99.9% of the average blogger has to comment on, but it's when I'm searching for a useful reference that a hit on a blog via Google has come in handy. I can't count the number of times I've searched for something obscure only to find a blog hit via Google that has lead me to what I'm looking for. Most of it may be obscure, but sometimes I'm looking for that.
Microsoft tries to think of new ways to make money by locking customers in.
Google tries to think of new ways to make money by bringing customers in (voluntarily, by making stuff people want to use).
I personally think a lot of Google's stuff is overrated (Desktop Search, Gmail, Talk, some features of Maps), but I'm apparently in the minority according to their huge success. Google's web/image search features are still king, though.
http://palmtops.about.com/cs/productreviews/tp/Pal m_RSS.htm
That's what the robots said about John Connor.
I wouldn't think it would be too difficult to have a compatibility mode or something that looks to Metadata for file type information, and when absent, it looks to the file extension. That way all new and old files work, until the user and programs eventually evolve to using the metadata type.
We're still recovering from Lotus Notes.
It can't hurt to have individuals who are tech savvy and sympathetic to IBM in many schools, either.
They offer POP3 now with their paid service. I would probably actually consider switching from my current mail provider if they offered IMAP. Although I'm getting a pretty sweet deal right now ($24/year for 5 IMAP accounts with 1GB shared), I really like Yahoo's interface.
POP3 is soooo last century.
I'm not trying to troll, I'm just curious what you do with these drives. I've had drives that have provided below-expectation life spans, but the average for IDE drives is far above what you site. That's not to say you don't hammer your drives more than I do by any means, I'm just curious.
I recommend switching your cell phone provider. Pronto.
I'm confused. Do you never freely admit to spell checking, or do you freely admit that you never spell check?
This is the first insightful comment I've read on this thread. Too bad I don't have mod points.