Did no one else think immediately of The Wild Thonberrys and their commvee when they read this?
Granted, the only reason I know about this (and how to spell it) is that (a) I have 16-month-old twins, and (b) we tend to have the closed-captioning on all the time, as a courtesy to our deaf friend who takes care of the babies frequently.
Or you can do it all in Java, and it doesn't matter what your platform is. Webstart rocks these days.
...unless you're on a slow dialup connection and are not in control of the development effort.
It recently took ~45 minutes to fire up (via Webstart) a Java application that decided it needed the latest version. According to a co-worker who uses that application, "the developers are constantly tweaking that app".
Let's add another important factor to the list of reasons to make parts 2 & 3 at the same time:
- Lessens the chance that an actor in a key role will die before the trilogy is complete
'Twould suck mightily if one of the main characters' face had to be pasted onto a body doulbe because s/he kicked off before the movie was finished. Sure, it would be done digitally (instead of just a cardboard cutout face as was done in at least one scene in Game of Death).
When the phone rings, look at the caller ID. If it's not someone you KNOW or it says, "out of area" or "name unavailable" let the machine take care of it for you.
Sure, works well... most of the time.
We have a deaf friend who calls us via Relay (both TDD and IP) or sends a text message via her pager. In both cases, the Caller ID display shows up as either UNKNOWN CALLER or OUT OF AREA... The only time we know for sure that it's OK to ignore those calls is when she's in the house with us.:)
Oh yeah -- that's what I used to do in my spare time before my twins were born. Activities included (in no particular order)
Kung Fu
Playing the bass
Reading
Playing racquetball
Now the activities include (in no particular order)
Running around after the babies
Playing "let's pick up what the babies have thrown on the floor"
Reading to the babies
...
Mind you, I'm not complaining -- my little proto-humans are pretty damn cool. I did notice the other day that when my daughter talks she sounds just like a Sim...
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Unless you're interviewing exclusively with blind employers, they probably don't have to.
[snip]
Preventing the employer from asking will not prevent them from recognizing your age, sex, etc.
And your age can be inferred from your resume, which is typically what a perspective employer sees before you set foot anywhere near the office.
If you've got 20 years' (paid) experience listed, chances are you're at least in your thirties.
Likewise, if you've only got a few years' experience listed, it's not likely that you're a greybeard, unless you've been living in a cave somewhere.
As for gender, well, that's *usually* pretty easy to spot once you get there, and in many cases from your name, unless you're a Boy Named Sue, or a Girl Named Michael.
They (thinkgeek) are one step ahead of you -- check out the Duct Tape Wallet!...and they cite Z!'s quote equating Duct Tape to the Force. (I worked with Z! circa 1990...)
I have NEVER been contacted by a company who had my "Resume on file" from a previous job application with that company
I received a post card (?!) from a company I interviewed with (and subsequently turned down their offer) in 1998. I simply ignored it, as I figured it was a (relatively) cheap ploy on their part to do some shotgun-style recruiting.
Nope -- not good, for a variety of reasons listed in other posts.
Reminds me of a story by Orson Scott Card called Dogwalker. The protagonist is someone who groks passwords. He ends up caught because he got a password correct on the first try, which the owner never ever did.
Also, the US treasury needs to push $1 coins (and perhaps $2 and $5 coins) because the paper money wears out so much faster and costs more to replace than coinage.
Maybe so, but strippers get mad when you try to stuff a $1 coin into their g-strings. Doubly so if you've been holding it up to the bottom of your ice-cold beer.
I find that it usually gets the word right. I think this system would work better if it was adaptable, learning which words are most common for ME on MY phone.
I think you've hit the nail on the head: it works for the words you are using (and would be better if adaptive). Typically I'm using it for adding appointments to the Calendar function* of my phone, and whaddaya know, the T9 thing just doesn't want to suggest the right [proper noun] when I'm entering "Appointment with Dr. Framis".
*yeah, I know, my Palm Pilot does a better job of that, but I've always got my phone with me, but not necessarily the Palm
Spot on. My cell phone (Samsung A-460h) has a word-completion, um, er, let's be charitable and call it a feature for text entry. The theory being that it will speed things up when spelling common words.
Horse-puckey.
I find it much quicker to cycle through the letters by repeatedly hitting the appropriate number key rather than cycling through the "suggestions".
Slashdot even gets a mention in a couple of chapters as a good source of "unbiased customer experience information" although the authors say that for many blogs "it can take some effort to separate fact from opinion on the blogs, and the signal-to-noise ratio on a given topic can sometimes be low."
Signal?
(Nods toward JB's (or was it Andy's) comment on the state of things on the 'elbows' mailing list somewhere around 1990...)
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As the proud papa of IVF twins born last year
:)
Hey! Me too!
I joke that giving bith to twins didn't hurt me a bit, but the first time I gave my wife an injection, she slapped me because it hurt her.
Congrats on your twins -- I feel incredibly lucky every day to have mine.
Did no one else think immediately of The Wild Thonberrys and their commvee when they read this?
Granted, the only reason I know about this (and how to spell it) is that (a) I have 16-month-old twins, and (b) we tend to have the closed-captioning on all the time, as a courtesy to our deaf friend who takes care of the babies frequently.
Or you can do it all in Java, and it doesn't matter what your platform is. Webstart rocks these days.
...unless you're on a slow dialup connection and are not in control of the development effort.
It recently took ~45 minutes to fire up (via Webstart) a Java application that decided it needed the latest version. According to a co-worker who uses that application, "the developers are constantly tweaking that app".
Let's add another important factor to the list of reasons to make parts 2 & 3 at the same time:
- Lessens the chance that an actor in a key role will die before the trilogy is complete
'Twould suck mightily if one of the main characters' face had to be pasted onto a body doulbe because s/he kicked off before the movie was finished. Sure, it would be done digitally (instead of just a cardboard cutout face as was done in at least one scene in Game of Death).
I remember when all the newspapers began to publish their work on the internet. Everyone said that none would buy the paper version anymore
Nonsense.
Would you buy fish and chips wrapped in a CRT? Oh, wait...
When the phone rings, look at the caller ID.
:)
If it's not someone you KNOW or it says, "out of area" or "name unavailable" let the machine take care of it for you.
Sure, works well... most of the time.
We have a deaf friend who calls us via Relay (both TDD and IP) or sends a text message via her pager. In both cases, the Caller ID display shows up as either UNKNOWN CALLER or OUT OF AREA... The only time we know for sure that it's OK to ignore those calls is when she's in the house with us.
Nice Bombs You Got There...
Be a shame if sumpin' were to happen to 'em...
Oh, wait...
Now the activities include (in no particular order)
Mind you, I'm not complaining -- my little proto-humans are pretty damn cool. I did notice the other day that when my daughter talks she sounds just like a Sim...
Unless you're interviewing exclusively with blind employers, they probably don't have to.
[snip]
Preventing the employer from asking will not prevent them from recognizing your age, sex, etc.
And your age can be inferred from your resume, which is typically what a perspective employer sees before you set foot anywhere near the office.
If you've got 20 years' (paid) experience listed, chances are you're at least in your thirties.
Likewise, if you've only got a few years' experience listed, it's not likely that you're a greybeard, unless you've been living in a cave somewhere.
As for gender, well, that's *usually* pretty easy to spot once you get there, and in many cases from your name, unless you're a Boy Named Sue, or a Girl Named Michael.
Did anyone else (who bothered to RTFA) get the feeling that the interviewer was more interested in Steve Jobs than he was about Woz?
Kinda like a guy chatting up a girl only in order to find out about her roommate...
Guy: So, what's your major?
Girl: Philosophy.
Guy: That's cool... So, is your roommate seeing anyone?
They (thinkgeek) are one step ahead of you -- check out the Duct Tape Wallet! ...and they cite Z!'s quote equating Duct Tape to the Force. (I worked with Z! circa 1990...)
I have NEVER been contacted by a company who had my "Resume on file" from a previous job application with that company
I received a post card (?!) from a company I interviewed with (and subsequently turned down their offer) in 1998. I simply ignored it, as I figured it was a (relatively) cheap ploy on their part to do some shotgun-style recruiting.
Oh, wait...
Nope -- not good, for a variety of reasons listed in other posts.
Reminds me of a story by Orson Scott Card called Dogwalker . The protagonist is someone who groks passwords. He ends up caught because he got a password correct on the first try, which the owner never ever did.
And of course, now it seems to be working just fine.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Oh, wait...
Also, the US treasury needs to push $1 coins (and perhaps $2 and $5 coins) because the paper money wears out so much faster and costs more to replace than coinage.
Maybe so, but strippers get mad when you try to stuff a $1 coin into their g-strings. Doubly so if you've been holding it up to the bottom of your ice-cold beer.
I find that it usually gets the word right. I think this system would work better if it was adaptable, learning which words are most common for ME on MY phone.
I think you've hit the nail on the head: it works for the words you are using (and would be better if adaptive). Typically I'm using it for adding appointments to the Calendar function* of my phone, and whaddaya know, the T9 thing just doesn't want to suggest the right [proper noun] when I'm entering "Appointment with Dr. Framis".
*yeah, I know, my Palm Pilot does a better job of that, but I've always got my phone with me, but not necessarily the Palm
Spot on. My cell phone (Samsung A-460h) has a word-completion, um, er, let's be charitable and call it a feature for text entry. The theory being that it will speed things up when spelling common words.
Horse-puckey.
I find it much quicker to cycle through the letters by repeatedly hitting the appropriate number key rather than cycling through the "suggestions".
The only reliable backup media is punch cards. Just don't store them near liquids.
...or termites.
Your piss is flammable?
Might I suggest a visit to a good urologist?
The Department of Oxymoronic Mandarins must be well funded this year.
*bing* *bing* *bing*
Bonus points to PD for using the word Mandarin in a sentence not referring to an orange!
Good show!
Slashdot even gets a mention in a couple of chapters as a good source of "unbiased customer experience information" although the authors say that for many blogs "it can take some effort to separate fact from opinion on the blogs, and the signal-to-noise ratio on a given topic can sometimes be low."
Signal?
(Nods toward JB's (or was it Andy's) comment on the state of things on the 'elbows' mailing list somewhere around 1990...)
...and in Opera, type "g item of interest" in the location bar, and *poof* there's your Google search results.
Sweeeeeet.
The icon is for Sun; the category is YRO... Similarly, the A Slightly-Softer Microsoft Shared Source License story has a Microsoft logo.