It's your master! You don't want a lossy compressed master!... that's insane!
Note how the high-quality lossy jpegs are indistuingishable from the lossless formats...
Of course they are distinguishable, they're "lossy". Blow them up, manipulate them, do whatever you do, yeah, if you just look at them they're indistinguishable, but if you do anything else with them, the smashed-up hard edges, "ringing" artifacts, and all that stuff will quickly cause problems.
Ugh. I hate asking people for photos or clipart for websites because I know they'll do something to it to make it "easier to email".
Cropping, framing, adjusting the contrast and colours for a final image is horrible once somebody's done this to an image.
It sounds good, but this is an area where exactly how you split the hairs makes all the difference in the world.
What if Microsoft sends out a license for 1000 machines with a single master install CD? Would Microsoft consider that a $10 donation? If not, how would the tax refund not be contributing to the shared costs of Microsoft's products?
<conspiracy>They can print software and donate it. I don't know how the accountants sort out the value of the donation though. If it is anything other than cost of production (not estimated costs based on R&D, or wholesale/retail prices etc), then MS has a license to print money and expand their market through tax writeoffs.</conspiracy>
Lots of comp-sci graduates never make it into the programming industry. They're lucky to get a good job in IT.
Honestly, a waiter is a more valuable employee than an entry-level programmer. A waiter provides a valuable service and their work can be trusted. An entry level employee is an investment in an unknown quantity which might just jump ship at the first higher-paying opportunity.
That first year of experience will make or break you. Pick the best company with a reasonable wage... it will be low, but really, don't you think that anyone who graduated alongside you wouldn't want the job?
Most people I knew coming out of school were happy to get a position testing code under the supervision of a developer. At least it was the right field. The good ones quickly moved up, the bad ones quickly moved out.
The airlines could test the markets... "cellular section" and a "no cellular section". Just like "wailing child section" and a "no wailing child section".
Toddlers are the worst. Some f-ing numbnuts came up with the idea that they shouldn't have their own seat. Have you ever seen a person try to hold down a three year old during takeoff? Have you sat next to them? I mean, your ears six inches from the toddler's face? Being spat on and scratched as the toddler tries desparately to escape his mother's grasp?
Then when the meals are served, when you're belted in and trapped under your meal tray as the toddler (with no seat) stands in front of his mother, flailing his arms in the three inches of space, pushing over drinks and slapping the tray.
It's a stupid situation to put the kid, their mother and other passengers in.
On my subsequent flight, I asked if I could be seated away from any toddlers. The person working the seating arrangement just gave me a dirty look then nodded blankly.
I mean even if you had a toddler-section (e.g. designate a set of bulkhead seats...) then somebody who really doesn't want to be around them during a flight, would only have themselves to blame for not arranging their seat well enough ahead of time... unless there are just too many toddlers.
It's also the quality of the jack itself. Internal gold/nickel plating wearing off and leaving thick oxide layers inside, or the metal clips fatigue and lose clear contact.
I generally don't like 1/8" audio jacks. There isn't really much better out there.
If you do have a non-solder joint problem, you can never find a perfect replacement part, so in the past, I've opened up players and soldered cables onto the board, leaving a 1/8" female inline jack dangling from the device with a hardwired cable. Works well though.
I've only had the solder joint problem once... I've had the bad-jack problem on everything from T.V.s to soundcards... and of course portable players.
I think that if, in your leisure, you can construct a clear written argument over three paragraphs, you're probably not suffering.
I currently have 53 "tasks" open on my machine. It's f-ing insane and I'm sick of it. I'd like to be able to shut everything off for an hour and focus on one thing at a time... which generally means 5 or 6 "tasks".
I don't think there is going to be a new super-generation who can have hundreds of tasks open simultaneously, collaborating on multiple subjects with multiple teams, keeping the timelines in their heads about what needs to be done when, and outperforming somebody with rigid time management skills. Just imagine trying to write a program to sort widgets while composing a requirements document for HR and troubleshooting a network problem at the same time, with three different groups who are all sending you IMs at the same time:
"What if we use the word 'this' instead of 'thus' on page 43?
"We got the trace, check timestamp 442.23311"
"The bennefits fit the federal policy document a-63"
"Hey, what's the status on the HR doc?"
"Do you think we should consider what happens if the widgets are blue?"
"Our client's called on the router failure, check our scheds and set up a conference for this afternoon."
As for multitasking... in my experience, people who aren't familiar with computers have trouble with multiple tasks because they haven't really had a need to learn to use the multitasking features of their OS with confidence.
I think Allan Cox has been using a very similar method for a long, long time.
I send you an email
You autorespond "blah, put xx in the password to send me an email. You only need to do this one time to be added to my whitelist". (this verifies my reply-to address was real and that a human is answering)
I respond "hey I said 'xx'!"
You get the email and all is good in the world.
My mail is so bad now, I'm probably going to set up such a method. I just can't deal with it anymore. My email is utterly useless now.
That doesn't sound too bad. I didn't mean to put it down or anything, I had no idea how a field like that could work.
I was thinking that maybe it was like a degree in IT architecture... while somewhat generalized and complex, the field would change on a monthly basis. Too "bleeding edge" for academia... more appropriate for a professional designation which must be maintained... like an accountant, where their degree would be in something only slightly related to their occupation.
You would be able to see if a document mimics proper structure through the mis-application of local properties, or if it is infact structured properly by looking at the underlying XML.
E.g. did some boob use tabs and dots in a paragraph to append to a coworker's bulleted list? or did they preserve the document structure and style?
Also, it would be nice to be able to strip the styles and cut/copy/paste raw XML into the document... so that stylistic artifacts from the old document don't stick around (e.g. fonts, table colours etc)
"Corrupted" documents could be manually debugged, including auto-generated ones. Automation relying on document structure could be troubleshooted.
The current Openoffice format is a zipped collection of XML files. You'd probably only want to look at "content.xml"
I felt the same way until OpenOffice draw was released.
Appropriately, I couldn't find a way to import my old CorelDraw files... even newer versions of CorelDraw couldn't open them.
Of course the media for my old CorelDraw 3 for Win3.1 was corrupt and there were no import filters anywhere.
This just strengthened my resolve to learn OpenOffice Draw. Great program, does everything I ever needed CorelDraw to do, and nobody will treat me like an idiot when I try to open up the files ten years from now.
Corel is... well... very late getting into this. Creating OpenOffice import filters, support and documentation for Wordperfect and Corel Draw users to migrate might help... they could even package the filters as stand-alone binaries, and sell them and the documentation for cash.
Maybe they can polish up the UI on OpenOffice Writer, something is not quite right about that app... it wastes too much screen real-estate and never quite lines up properly on the screen... just like MS Word. 1.1 is a little better, but I can't put my finger on what's wrong with it. It's annoying. On the other hand, Wordperfect was excellent for screen usage, Corel's help could be used here.
Just a thought, but with an XML-based file format, maybe tossing in a reveal-codes like feature could have a new potency. If Corel could get together with Sun to make it only commercially available in StarOffice... StarOffice might sell a few copies.
In my experience, managers begin to keep people around specifically because they're bad (although not unacceptable) performers. You need them to assign them their low ratings. Juggle their rankings each evaluation so that they don't get fired, and occasionally trade them from department to department. When layoffs appear, shed them first... but don't shed them before then, because, just as there are quotas for evaluations, there are quotas for layoffs.
It's true by omission. It doesn't say it has to be public. Why would it? How would you define "public"? and why would it matter? The first recipeint could publish it, and the GPL does prevent you from introducing clauses which would prevent that customer from publishing it.
The average citizen, and even the substantially above average citizen is a pawn. For them to say "we" is foolish. The U.S. government has the U.S. military. "They" have the bombs. "They" use them against people "they" don't like. If "they" don't like you, citizen or not, you will be subject to "their" will. All you can hope for is to be able to exert some almost imeasurably small influence on whether or not one of two particular nutjob politicians have power... and whether or not that is true is debatable.
(back on topic... if the WTO is going to try to override the will of the elected government in regard to controlling a regulated and dangerous revenue stream, the WTO is partaking of the moderator's crack.)
Don't forget the sleepless nights as the stock spiked into the 20's, not knowing if you would need to sell your home to cover your position because Slashdot didn't mention putting in stops...
Of course if you put in reasonable stops, then you would be out right now... and you would have lost money.
Slashdot Mirror
The what?
Guh-new Image Manipulation program?
Guh-what?
Guh-new, G.N.U.
WTF?
Guh-new's not Unix
What's Unix?
An Operating system, don't worry about it, it's the Guh-new Image Manipulation Program.
That's stupid.
No, it's great, check out www.gimp.org
Haha. Nice try, that's a hardcore porn site right? I don't think I want to hang around with you anymore.
I'm serious, it's a graphic program, it's great, it's written by free software devlopers. It's licensed under the GPL.
The GPL?
The Guh-new public license
You're frightening me.
Try the GIMP, it's not very good on Windows though, you should try it on Linux.
I think I'll stick to Photoshop. There's a new version coming out. Check out this glossy book I picked up.
I don't have to pay for my documentation.
Where is it?
www.gimp.org
Ooooh Kaaay. I've got work to do now, please leave.
To save diskspace, perhaps?
It's your master! You don't want a lossy compressed master!... that's insane!
Note how the high-quality lossy jpegs are indistuingishable from the lossless formats...
Of course they are distinguishable, they're "lossy". Blow them up, manipulate them, do whatever you do, yeah, if you just look at them they're indistinguishable, but if you do anything else with them, the smashed-up hard edges, "ringing" artifacts, and all that stuff will quickly cause problems.
Ugh. I hate asking people for photos or clipart for websites because I know they'll do something to it to make it "easier to email".
Cropping, framing, adjusting the contrast and colours for a final image is horrible once somebody's done this to an image.
No, once the patent is issued, it's considered public, and it can't be hidden.
But if you delay the issuing of your patent... then you can do some very evil things...
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SubmarinePatent
"...twice it's cost basis..."
It sounds good, but this is an area where exactly how you split the hairs makes all the difference in the world.
What if Microsoft sends out a license for 1000 machines with a single master install CD? Would Microsoft consider that a $10 donation? If not, how would the tax refund not be contributing to the shared costs of Microsoft's products?
<conspiracy>They can print software and donate it. I don't know how the accountants sort out the value of the donation though. If it is anything other than cost of production (not estimated costs based on R&D, or wholesale/retail prices etc), then MS has a license to print money and expand their market through tax writeoffs.</conspiracy>
I don't know what's worse... that you tried... or that somebody other than me tried.
Lots of comp-sci graduates never make it into the programming industry. They're lucky to get a good job in IT.
Honestly, a waiter is a more valuable employee than an entry-level programmer. A waiter provides a valuable service and their work can be trusted. An entry level employee is an investment in an unknown quantity which might just jump ship at the first higher-paying opportunity.
That first year of experience will make or break you. Pick the best company with a reasonable wage... it will be low, but really, don't you think that anyone who graduated alongside you wouldn't want the job?
Most people I knew coming out of school were happy to get a position testing code under the supervision of a developer. At least it was the right field. The good ones quickly moved up, the bad ones quickly moved out.
The airlines could test the markets... "cellular section" and a "no cellular section". Just like "wailing child section" and a "no wailing child section".
Toddlers are the worst. Some f-ing numbnuts came up with the idea that they shouldn't have their own seat. Have you ever seen a person try to hold down a three year old during takeoff? Have you sat next to them? I mean, your ears six inches from the toddler's face? Being spat on and scratched as the toddler tries desparately to escape his mother's grasp?
Then when the meals are served, when you're belted in and trapped under your meal tray as the toddler (with no seat) stands in front of his mother, flailing his arms in the three inches of space, pushing over drinks and slapping the tray.
It's a stupid situation to put the kid, their mother and other passengers in.
On my subsequent flight, I asked if I could be seated away from any toddlers. The person working the seating arrangement just gave me a dirty look then nodded blankly.
I mean even if you had a toddler-section (e.g. designate a set of bulkhead seats...) then somebody who really doesn't want to be around them during a flight, would only have themselves to blame for not arranging their seat well enough ahead of time... unless there are just too many toddlers.
That once you've bought a DVD of a show, you don't seem to care whether or not it is on anymore?
... worse, you tend not to watch it because you can always watch it "some other time?"
T.V. sucks and it doesn't have to.
Yeah, give up T.V. and take up drinking :-)
Little did Schilling know this would some day lead to him giving up two home runs to Glanville in a giant airplane hanger in Arizona. But it's true.
I think it is a little tounge in cheek about the true importance of baseball... they're both just games.
It's also the quality of the jack itself. Internal gold/nickel plating wearing off and leaving thick oxide layers inside, or the metal clips fatigue and lose clear contact.
I generally don't like 1/8" audio jacks. There isn't really much better out there.
If you do have a non-solder joint problem, you can never find a perfect replacement part, so in the past, I've opened up players and soldered cables onto the board, leaving a 1/8" female inline jack dangling from the device with a hardwired cable. Works well though.
I've only had the solder joint problem once... I've had the bad-jack problem on everything from T.V.s to soundcards... and of course portable players.
I think that if, in your leisure, you can construct a clear written argument over three paragraphs, you're probably not suffering.
I currently have 53 "tasks" open on my machine. It's f-ing insane and I'm sick of it. I'd like to be able to shut everything off for an hour and focus on one thing at a time... which generally means 5 or 6 "tasks".
I don't think there is going to be a new super-generation who can have hundreds of tasks open simultaneously, collaborating on multiple subjects with multiple teams, keeping the timelines in their heads about what needs to be done when, and outperforming somebody with rigid time management skills. Just imagine trying to write a program to sort widgets while composing a requirements document for HR and troubleshooting a network problem at the same time, with three different groups who are all sending you IMs at the same time:
As for multitasking... in my experience, people who aren't familiar with computers have trouble with multiple tasks because they haven't really had a need to learn to use the multitasking features of their OS with confidence.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P TO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnu m.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20030009698'.PGNR.&OS=DN/2 0030009698&RS=DN/20030009698
Better stop innovating, it could get costly.
I think Allan Cox has been using a very similar method for a long, long time.
My mail is so bad now, I'm probably going to set up such a method. I just can't deal with it anymore. My email is utterly useless now.
Greed is a little tough to apply...
It might be greed which prevents the production from offering more money. Or it might be fear of people asking for more after that.
Nothing is really altruistic, and anything which isn't altrustic could be called selfish, which in turn could be attributed to greed.
Ultimately these people are willing to risk their jobs to get a raise. It's unfortunate that it affects their coworkers jobs, but that's life.
That doesn't sound too bad. I didn't mean to put it down or anything, I had no idea how a field like that could work.
I was thinking that maybe it was like a degree in IT architecture... while somewhat generalized and complex, the field would change on a monthly basis. Too "bleeding edge" for academia... more appropriate for a professional designation which must be maintained... like an accountant, where their degree would be in something only slightly related to their occupation.
You would be able to see if a document mimics proper structure through the mis-application of local properties, or if it is infact structured properly by looking at the underlying XML.
E.g. did some boob use tabs and dots in a paragraph to append to a coworker's bulleted list? or did they preserve the document structure and style?
Also, it would be nice to be able to strip the styles and cut/copy/paste raw XML into the document... so that stylistic artifacts from the old document don't stick around (e.g. fonts, table colours etc)
"Corrupted" documents could be manually debugged, including auto-generated ones. Automation relying on document structure could be troubleshooted.
The current Openoffice format is a zipped collection of XML files. You'd probably only want to look at "content.xml"
They're offering master's degrees in IS?
How do you prevent that from becoming rapidly dated?
I felt the same way until OpenOffice draw was released.
Appropriately, I couldn't find a way to import my old CorelDraw files... even newer versions of CorelDraw couldn't open them.
Of course the media for my old CorelDraw 3 for Win3.1 was corrupt and there were no import filters anywhere.
This just strengthened my resolve to learn OpenOffice Draw. Great program, does everything I ever needed CorelDraw to do, and nobody will treat me like an idiot when I try to open up the files ten years from now.
Corel is... well... very late getting into this. Creating OpenOffice import filters, support and documentation for Wordperfect and Corel Draw users to migrate might help... they could even package the filters as stand-alone binaries, and sell them and the documentation for cash.
Maybe they can polish up the UI on OpenOffice Writer, something is not quite right about that app... it wastes too much screen real-estate and never quite lines up properly on the screen... just like MS Word. 1.1 is a little better, but I can't put my finger on what's wrong with it. It's annoying. On the other hand, Wordperfect was excellent for screen usage, Corel's help could be used here.
Just a thought, but with an XML-based file format, maybe tossing in a reveal-codes like feature could have a new potency. If Corel could get together with Sun to make it only commercially available in StarOffice... StarOffice might sell a few copies.
In my experience, managers begin to keep people around specifically because they're bad (although not unacceptable) performers. You need them to assign them their low ratings. Juggle their rankings each evaluation so that they don't get fired, and occasionally trade them from department to department. When layoffs appear, shed them first... but don't shed them before then, because, just as there are quotas for evaluations, there are quotas for layoffs.
It's a stupid game.
It's true by omission. It doesn't say it has to be public. Why would it? How would you define "public"? and why would it matter? The first recipeint could publish it, and the GPL does prevent you from introducing clauses which would prevent that customer from publishing it.
"We"?
The average citizen, and even the substantially above average citizen is a pawn. For them to say "we" is foolish. The U.S. government has the U.S. military. "They" have the bombs. "They" use them against people "they" don't like. If "they" don't like you, citizen or not, you will be subject to "their" will. All you can hope for is to be able to exert some almost imeasurably small influence on whether or not one of two particular nutjob politicians have power... and whether or not that is true is debatable.
(back on topic... if the WTO is going to try to override the will of the elected government in regard to controlling a regulated and dangerous revenue stream, the WTO is partaking of the moderator's crack.)
Because, if the worst comes to the worst you can do the DiCaprio, and choose to let go.
Hey, I didn't see that movie!
Don't forget the sleepless nights as the stock spiked into the 20's, not knowing if you would need to sell your home to cover your position because Slashdot didn't mention putting in stops...
Of course if you put in reasonable stops, then you would be out right now... and you would have lost money.
...and they only need to send it to people who they've sent the binary, so it doesn't even need to be "public."
(Although any of their customers can take that source and put it up on a website.)