Recharging may be less convenient if the only device you own is an iPod. If you own all kind of gadgets (PDA, cameras, CD player, remote controls, etc) it is plain selfish and self serving of the companies to force us to use incompatible chargers for their mostly incompatible batteries. It would be so easy if all the devices used AA or AAA batteries, then one could have always a few freshly charged ready to replace batterie in any gadget.
They could agree at least to use an standard plug to hook up the gadget to an external standard charger (for which you could switch to the appropriate Vdc output). But that would be too much to ask of course.
Instead I have 5 or 6 different chargers that make a pretty mess of cables to the side of the mess my not yet unwired desktop already is.
Do not dare to mention using a propietary battery and charger is clever. It is only clever if you consider it as an additional source of revenue for propietary stuff, it is not as a solution to a legitimate consumer problem.
That is on reason I do not intend to own an iPod, there are several players out there that accept solid state memory and standard batteries.
SCO would claim that the guy who discovered that 2+2=4 is in copyright violation, patent infringement, etc. in prejudice of the guy that discovered that 3+1=4.
Big companies are and continued to deploy Linux. Recent moves by Sun, Red Hat and IBM show that.
Linux current and potential users may be holding up due to the extreme stupidity of the US legal system, but they know SCO claims lack any reasonable fundament. The lawyers and managers worried about this come to people that read/. for their point of view. Give the suits some credit, most serious companies would not make up their minds solely based in PR propaganda.
If you are a social outcast that has nothing to do with telecommuting.
Do I ever want to continue wasting 3 hours of my time every day to go to an office where bureacuracty reigns? No thanks.
I work 9:00 to 17:00, take regular breaks, cook my own lucnh, sit on my garden when the weather is nice. No stress.
Before 9:00 I can go for a swim or run a few kilometers to keep in good shape, after 17:00 I have time to be early wherever I want to join all kind of social pursuits in the town where I live without worrying about geeting back home too late.
Frankly to rent an office defeats the whole purpose of working from home.
If you need human interaction and socializing, join a club, go down to the pub, leanr to grow bonsai or play chess in metspace.
Why would you like to socialize with people whose only connecion with you is that they work in the same place?
In many ocassions we have introduced by mistake species completely alien to certain environments that have devastated full habitats, or species.
Who can claim that knows with 100% certainity what will happen when more and more of these species are left in the wild?
It is bad enough to deal with what nature is throwing at us all the time. Our vaccines may become useless in one generation, most insecticides used to control pests may become useles very soon. Do we need new species released for which we can't even think about the consequences?
Your position will remain unfilled, not because there is no talented people out there, but because your method of selecting talented people just sucks.
Have it downed on you that maybe the problem you are using takes less than 15 minutes to solve only to you? May it not be that your test is competely useless?
Been there, when I find such an incompetent interviewer I cut the interview short as soon as possible because I am wasting my time, anybody evaluating the capabilities of a technical person based on a narrow test should learn a bit about profiling and interviewing techniques.
... so thick one more skill in favour of machines.
When there is enough software for machines to be good at any skills and draw from that expertise, then what genious? Who is going to care if they use brute force methods to play chess, vacuum clean your carpet, be good pets, or become governors of California?
If something quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and looks like a duck is a fscking eagle, right?
Slashdot Mirror
Now shut up.
.... of private companies trying to make a buck out of OSS.
It still holds true, doesn't it?
Well, maybe not the space, but frankly I don't need a portable HD when all what I need is a music player.
Recharging may be less convenient if the only device you own is an iPod. If you own all kind of gadgets (PDA, cameras, CD player, remote controls, etc) it is plain selfish and self serving of the companies to force us to use incompatible chargers for their mostly incompatible batteries. It would be so easy if all the devices used AA or AAA batteries, then one could have always a few freshly charged ready to replace batterie in any gadget.
They could agree at least to use an standard plug to hook up the gadget to an external standard charger (for which you could switch to the appropriate Vdc output). But that would be too much to ask of course.
Instead I have 5 or 6 different chargers that make a pretty mess of cables to the side of the mess my not yet unwired desktop already is.
Do not dare to mention using a propietary battery and charger is clever. It is only clever if you consider it as an additional source of revenue for propietary stuff, it is not as a solution to a legitimate consumer problem.
That is on reason I do not intend to own an iPod, there are several players out there that accept solid state memory and standard batteries.
What is "intellectually dishonest" with saying "hey, there is a better, safer browser that comes packaged with a good email program as well!".
Frankly some people nit pick to nauseating detail.
The excuses of the lazy that can't be bothered to at least try to speak his mother tongue properly.
.... it makes language more complex and thus less usable?
Tere are some neologisms that are ugly an plain annoying, that become exception to gramatical rules. Example: viri, worst example: virii.
By chosing your neologisms wisely you can enhance your language in a manner that makes it scalable.
I would have thought that a geek would be in favour of that...
SCO would claim that the guy who discovered that 2+2=4 is in copyright violation, patent infringement, etc. in prejudice of the guy that discovered that 3+1=4.
I would also like to point out that 0+4=4.
Big companies are and continued to deploy Linux. Recent moves by Sun, Red Hat and IBM show that.
/. for their point of view. Give the suits some credit, most serious companies would not make up their minds solely based in PR propaganda.
Linux current and potential users may be holding up due to the extreme stupidity of the US legal system, but they know SCO claims lack any reasonable fundament. The lawyers and managers worried about this come to people that read
If you are a social outcast that has nothing to do with telecommuting.
Do I ever want to continue wasting 3 hours of my time every day to go to an office where bureacuracty reigns? No thanks.
I work 9:00 to 17:00, take regular breaks, cook my own lucnh, sit on my garden when the weather is nice. No stress.
Before 9:00 I can go for a swim or run a few kilometers to keep in good shape, after 17:00 I have time to be early wherever I want to join all kind of social pursuits in the town where I live without worrying about geeting back home too late.
Frankly to rent an office defeats the whole purpose of working from home.
If you need human interaction and socializing, join a club, go down to the pub, leanr to grow bonsai or play chess in metspace.
Why would you like to socialize with people whose only connecion with you is that they work in the same place?
Why is that gamers have to validate their hobby in one way or another?
How many "are games art" articles have we seen here?
And no the new meme is "games are sport"!
What is next?
And is terribly boring.
Show me where they are claiming to be a "reputable news source"?
Wiil we ever learn?
In many ocassions we have introduced by mistake species completely alien to certain environments that have devastated full habitats, or species.
Who can claim that knows with 100% certainity what will happen when more and more of these species are left in the wild?
It is bad enough to deal with what nature is throwing at us all the time. Our vaccines may become useless in one generation, most insecticides used to control pests may become useles very soon. Do we need new species released for which we can't even think about the consequences?
When computers became popular nobody had to mess around with their autoexec.bat and config.sys files.
Or the win.ini file and related gremilins.
... it is no longer funny.
Your position will remain unfilled, not because there is no talented people out there, but because your method of selecting talented people just sucks.
Have it downed on you that maybe the problem you are using takes less than 15 minutes to solve only to you? May it not be that your test is competely useless?
Been there, when I find such an incompetent interviewer I cut the interview short as soon as possible because I am wasting my time, anybody evaluating the capabilities of a technical person based on a narrow test should learn a bit about profiling and interviewing techniques.
When did he inform the police?
Or is he lying about this one as well?
... so thick one more skill in favour of machines.
When there is enough software for machines to be good at any skills and draw from that expertise, then what genious? Who is going to care if they use brute force methods to play chess, vacuum clean your carpet, be good pets, or become governors of California?
If something quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and looks like a duck is a fscking eagle, right?
... is not an spectator sport.
Well, it is not unless you are an expert and can reach orgasmic heights watching the notation of a given famous game.
... you can tie a game.... No please, do not thank me.
I also feel terribly deficient when I compare my time running 100m against the Ferrari of my neghbour.
http://www.sco.com/partners/dist/uk.html
Arc Technology Distribution Ltd
Eastlands Court
St Peters Road
Rugby
Warwickshire CV21 3QP
Tel: 01788 550000
Fax: 01788 551129
Web: http://www.arctech.co.uk
OpenPSL Ltd
Nepshaw Lane South
Gildersome
Leeds LS27 7JQ
Tel: 0871 230 4800
Fax: 0871 230 4848
Web: http://www.openpsl.com
Sphinx
Woodside House
Sherwood Park
Osier Drive
Nottingham NG15 ODS
Tel: 0870 850 7007
Fax: 0870 850 6006
Web: http://www.sphinxcst.co.uk/
Sphinx Ireland
Tel: +353 1 462 2630
And a plane, a bicycle, my legs, a skateboard and a burro serve the same purpose as a car.
With such wide statement *any* software product would compete with the lames sproutings of SCO....