It totally depends on the company or organization culture. Even within Fortune 500 companies, there's a huge variation in how things like laptops are used. I've consulted in large companies where, if you showed up for a meeting and there wasn't a projector and anything less than 80% laptop usage, there was something wrong with the meeting. I've also worked with companies where, if you showed up with a laptop, it's like you just drove up in a Bentley and you can go months without seeing a projector in any meeting.
Good grief, how long are you amortizing these loans? Even without interest, it takes 20 years to pay off $5000 at $20 month. Unless you meant $200/month which is closer to 2-3 years and more likely for a product with a 4 year useful life. 20 years on a car would be like financing a car over 40 years or more. It'd be completely destroyed and useless by the time you finished paying for it.
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I know that a lot of people here and elsewhere in the US can't see past Silicon Valley, but here, too, there are no angel investors, etc. The vast majority of smally businesses in the US start just like you said (including my business).
That's actually the same kinds of terms I have on my bounties for open source PHP scripts. I basically want the results of the bounty to be as free as possible and put me and anyone else who wants to use it on a level playing field and so I prefer a BSD-style license on the stuff I'm paying for.
gets you an extra column in the output with the PID right there. The -o option is listed right in the same list as the -a option you used in your example.
You can't draw diagrams directly on the scr een of an iBook.
Basically, one of the primary appeals of the tablet form factor is to those who spend a great deal of time entering things other than text into a computer. I'm constantly making workflow diagrams, sketches, interface ideas, etc. on paper because I can do them quickly. So, I either end up trying to enter them into something like Visio (ick) which takes forever compared to the quick sketch, or scanning them into an image. Using a tablet you can just drop the sketch directly into a word processing document or turn it straight into an image without having to go back to my desk and scan.
Yeah. I looked at that and then went back to the 3500 lines of Javascript that a single screen in my current project is dictating (and yes, every line is necessary given the requirements) and wondered at the scale that some folks work on.
Oh hush. We all know that Windows stopped advancing in 1996 and that it has no way to do anything useful like lock things down, provide useful commandline utilities, etc.
Apparently, you didn't read the rest of my post. I listed tuition and then added room and board (the place to live and food). The grand TOTAL for year round food, shelter and tuition was $13,000, which is the equiv of a $9/hour fulltime job after taxes.
Actually, if you've seen the Showtime show "Bulls**t" with Penn and Teller, they actually have a whole segment in the first episode about why the show is called what it is. Aside from the fact they like to curse, they say their lawyers told them that it also serves a second purpose in preventing lawsuits.
It's legally preferrable to say "Bulls**t" than to saying "You're lying". So, rather than call the people on the show liars (which would be a legal problem), they, instead call people who are obviously lying, "motherf***ers" and "a**holes".
The state university I graduated from is still only $2300/semester for tuition. For another $2000/semester they'll give you a place to live and food as well. Stay there during the summer and go to summer school and you're up to $13,000 a year for most of your living expenses year round and an education in computer science, accredited business (actually one of the best business programs in the state), etc.
I also attended a community college (while in high school under MN's special program for that), a highly respected private university, so I can compare the education at the 3. The state school was right in the middle, but there's no way the private school was worth 3-4 times as much (which is the price difference).
Actually, until a couple of years ago, Montana had a speed limit on the freeways that was "reasonable and prudent" and on many other roads there was only an after dark speed limit. There was no hard and fast speed limit in many/most places. Had a blast driving to see my mother in law (in Bozeman) back then.
They ended up posting speed limits again in order to get federal highway dollars.
No we're not. We're just adapted for cold. Most of the people who tell me I need to "toughen up" and endure the heat when I travel south freak out at discussion of sustained temperatures below 0F. I don't get comfortable until it drops below about 50F and completly enjoy a good 38F afternoon. At temps like 38F, large parts of the US practically shut down. Here in MN, when it hits 38F in February, there will be dozens of people out jogging in the park in shorts.
Sure, colloquial translation is lacking, but text that is deliberately composed to *be translated*, goes through suprisingly well.
I mean, would you use "out of sight, out of mind" in a conversation with someone who had only a couple of years of English classes without having to explain it? Probably not. Rather, you'd most likely use a smaller vocabulary with fewer long phrases and idioms. If you do that with your text intended for translation, it does pretty well.
The goal of most translation is the ability to communicate and things like Babelfish have allowed me to communicate with users of my software from around the world with little difficulty, each using our own language. Are we going to be collaborating on great literature? No. However if I can get Babelfish level translation done portable and cheap, traveling will be much more enjoyable.
Exactly. This whole notion that 100 years ago the population was better educated because schools taught Latin, read the classics and generally had rigorous educations is because the average 14 year old wasn't *in* school, but rather working with the rest of the general population. Therefore, the average literacy among the elite was very high, while the average literacy among populations as a whole was abysmal. The elite are still getting the classics pounded into their heads at prep schools and Universities like Oxford just like they always have. It's just that the rest of the population is now getting at least a basic education.
My minor was Linguistics and I took more than my fair share of classes in dialects and if someone tells you they "don't have an accent", they're full of it. While the eh and aboot jokes abound, Canadians are pretty easy to pick out by the "shape" of their vowels in a LOT of places other than "about". Many Canadian vowel pronounciations are further forward and higher in the mouth than their American counterparts. Of course, to say there's only 1 American pronounciation for anything is patently ridiculous as well.
Many Canadians jump to defend their pronounciations, indicating that "not every Canadian" says it that way. Well, of course. Do you think that someone from Minnesota sounds the same as someone from Louisiana? That difference is probably greater than the difference between Minnesota and Manitoba.
However, make sure you don't use any potentially illegal devices in communicating with them. Of course, since pens and pencils can be used to hand copy the latest novel, they're out. And faxes can be used to transmit illegally copied text right out of the country with no one able to see it happen. The internet is just one big copying device, so you're pretty much left with dropping in in person.
Of course, because the only possible reason my account would be hacked into is that I'm a big enough dolt to not notice a discrepency in URL's. Please.
Exactly, I woke up one morning a few years ago to emails from Paypal indicating that the $12,000 "I" tried to send last night didn't go through (really? you mean I don't have that in my personal checking account?), but that they'd try again. And they did. 3 more times. After I notified them of the fraud. Paypal is a complete joke. Though I will say my credit card company and bank did work really well with me including killing all of the account numbers that Paypal was trying to access. That of course prompted more emails from Paypal saying they'd try to complete the transactions again. To this day, if I go near Paypal *my* name gets flagged as fraudulent.
I still think my favorite punishment in all of history is in the Code of Hammurabi (sp?) if I recall (it was a 9:00am ancient history class after 8:00am Latin, so I may be remembering entirely wrong). If someone breaks into your house, he's to be walled up where he came through.
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It totally depends on the company or organization culture. Even within Fortune 500 companies, there's a huge variation in how things like laptops are used. I've consulted in large companies where, if you showed up for a meeting and there wasn't a projector and anything less than 80% laptop usage, there was something wrong with the meeting. I've also worked with companies where, if you showed up with a laptop, it's like you just drove up in a Bentley and you can go months without seeing a projector in any meeting.
20 years on a *computer* not car.
Good grief, how long are you amortizing these loans? Even without interest, it takes 20 years to pay off $5000 at $20 month. Unless you meant $200/month which is closer to 2-3 years and more likely for a product with a 4 year useful life. 20 years on a car would be like financing a car over 40 years or more. It'd be completely destroyed and useless by the time you finished paying for it.
I know that a lot of people here and elsewhere in the US can't see past Silicon Valley, but here, too, there are no angel investors, etc. The vast majority of smally businesses in the US start just like you said (including my business).
That's actually the same kinds of terms I have on my bounties for open source PHP scripts. I basically want the results of the bounty to be as free as possible and put me and anyone else who wants to use it on a level playing field and so I prefer a BSD-style license on the stuff I'm paying for.
netstat -o
gets you an extra column in the output with the PID right there. The -o option is listed right in the same list as the -a option you used in your example.
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Basically, one of the primary appeals of the tablet form factor is to those who spend a great deal of time entering things other than text into a computer. I'm constantly making workflow diagrams, sketches, interface ideas, etc. on paper because I can do them quickly. So, I either end up trying to enter them into something like Visio (ick) which takes forever compared to the quick sketch, or scanning them into an image. Using a tablet you can just drop the sketch directly into a word processing document or turn it straight into an image without having to go back to my desk and scan.
Yeah. I looked at that and then went back to the 3500 lines of Javascript that a single screen in my current project is dictating (and yes, every line is necessary given the requirements) and wondered at the scale that some folks work on.
Oh hush. We all know that Windows stopped advancing in 1996 and that it has no way to do anything useful like lock things down, provide useful commandline utilities, etc.
Apparently, you didn't read the rest of my post. I listed tuition and then added room and board (the place to live and food). The grand TOTAL for year round food, shelter and tuition was $13,000, which is the equiv of a $9/hour fulltime job after taxes.
Actually, if you've seen the Showtime show "Bulls**t" with Penn and Teller, they actually have a whole segment in the first episode about why the show is called what it is. Aside from the fact they like to curse, they say their lawyers told them that it also serves a second purpose in preventing lawsuits.
It's legally preferrable to say "Bulls**t" than to saying "You're lying". So, rather than call the people on the show liars (which would be a legal problem), they, instead call people who are obviously lying, "motherf***ers" and "a**holes".
The state university I graduated from is still only $2300/semester for tuition. For another $2000/semester they'll give you a place to live and food as well. Stay there during the summer and go to summer school and you're up to $13,000 a year for most of your living expenses year round and an education in computer science, accredited business (actually one of the best business programs in the state), etc.
I also attended a community college (while in high school under MN's special program for that), a highly respected private university, so I can compare the education at the 3. The state school was right in the middle, but there's no way the private school was worth 3-4 times as much (which is the price difference).
Actually, until a couple of years ago, Montana had a speed limit on the freeways that was "reasonable and prudent" and on many other roads there was only an after dark speed limit. There was no hard and fast speed limit in many/most places. Had a blast driving to see my mother in law (in Bozeman) back then.
They ended up posting speed limits again in order to get federal highway dollars.
"us northerners are wimps"
No we're not. We're just adapted for cold. Most of the people who tell me I need to "toughen up" and endure the heat when I travel south freak out at discussion of sustained temperatures below 0F. I don't get comfortable until it drops below about 50F and completly enjoy a good 38F afternoon. At temps like 38F, large parts of the US practically shut down. Here in MN, when it hits 38F in February, there will be dozens of people out jogging in the park in shorts.
"Slashdot pundit who doesn't know what he's talking about".
Isn't that America's favorite game show?
Sure, colloquial translation is lacking, but text that is deliberately composed to *be translated*, goes through suprisingly well.
I mean, would you use "out of sight, out of mind" in a conversation with someone who had only a couple of years of English classes without having to explain it? Probably not. Rather, you'd most likely use a smaller vocabulary with fewer long phrases and idioms. If you do that with your text intended for translation, it does pretty well.
The goal of most translation is the ability to communicate and things like Babelfish have allowed me to communicate with users of my software from around the world with little difficulty, each using our own language. Are we going to be collaborating on great literature? No. However if I can get Babelfish level translation done portable and cheap, traveling will be much more enjoyable.
Exactly. This whole notion that 100 years ago the population was better educated because schools taught Latin, read the classics and generally had rigorous educations is because the average 14 year old wasn't *in* school, but rather working with the rest of the general population. Therefore, the average literacy among the elite was very high, while the average literacy among populations as a whole was abysmal. The elite are still getting the classics pounded into their heads at prep schools and Universities like Oxford just like they always have. It's just that the rest of the population is now getting at least a basic education.
My minor was Linguistics and I took more than my fair share of classes in dialects and if someone tells you they "don't have an accent", they're full of it. While the eh and aboot jokes abound, Canadians are pretty easy to pick out by the "shape" of their vowels in a LOT of places other than "about". Many Canadian vowel pronounciations are further forward and higher in the mouth than their American counterparts. Of course, to say there's only 1 American pronounciation for anything is patently ridiculous as well.
Many Canadians jump to defend their pronounciations, indicating that "not every Canadian" says it that way. Well, of course. Do you think that someone from Minnesota sounds the same as someone from Louisiana? That difference is probably greater than the difference between Minnesota and Manitoba.
Keeping in mind that both sides of my family are Dutch as far back as anyone cares to look...
Q: How was copper wire invented?
A: Two Dutchmen fighting over a penny.
Not to nitpick, but that's the point of GPL, not necessarily Open Source. GPL requires sharing and GPL is Open Source, but Open Source isn't GPL.
However, make sure you don't use any potentially illegal devices in communicating with them. Of course, since pens and pencils can be used to hand copy the latest novel, they're out. And faxes can be used to transmit illegally copied text right out of the country with no one able to see it happen. The internet is just one big copying device, so you're pretty much left with dropping in in person.
Of course, because the only possible reason my account would be hacked into is that I'm a big enough dolt to not notice a discrepency in URL's. Please.
Exactly. No escrow service would ship a product blind. Part of the fees they charge include verifiable delivery of product.
Exactly, I woke up one morning a few years ago to emails from Paypal indicating that the $12,000 "I" tried to send last night didn't go through (really? you mean I don't have that in my personal checking account?), but that they'd try again. And they did. 3 more times. After I notified them of the fraud. Paypal is a complete joke. Though I will say my credit card company and bank did work really well with me including killing all of the account numbers that Paypal was trying to access. That of course prompted more emails from Paypal saying they'd try to complete the transactions again. To this day, if I go near Paypal *my* name gets flagged as fraudulent.
I still think my favorite punishment in all of history is in the Code of Hammurabi (sp?) if I recall (it was a 9:00am ancient history class after 8:00am Latin, so I may be remembering entirely wrong). If someone breaks into your house, he's to be walled up where he came through.